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Chapter 264: Chapter 264 Family Secrets
"Si Chen, there’s no need to feel embarrassed, everyone in the village uses this." More precisely, it’s generally used in rural areas.
Especially on rainy or snowy days, using the bathroom becomes inconvenient, so villagers choose to use a chamber pot in the house, emptying it out in the morning.
"..." Tong Yao was nearly biting her tongue in shock. Just the thought of using the bathroom in front of Si Chen turned her flushed red. She vigorously shook her head, saying, "I don’t want to use this, take it out! What if I accidentally knock it over? The whole room would stink."
Si Chen raised his brow, "Have you forgotten about nearly falling into the pit while using the bathroom last night?" 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓹𝓾𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
Tong Yao: How could I forget? The snow was so slippery, the bathroom was pitch dark, and I nearly stepped on poop, it was quite traumatizing.
But using a chamber pot...
After a fierce inner struggle, Tong Yao eventually yielded to reality. She had been lucky last night avoiding the poop, but she had no idea if her luck would hold next time. A clean chamber pot was indeed more hygienic than the pit at the back of the house.
She gritted her teeth, making up her mind, "Fine! Just put it by the wall, so we don’t knock it over in the middle of the night."
That night, like always, Tong Yao slept soundly, resting her head on Si Chen’s arm, until she was abruptly awakened by soft sobbing. Following this, she could hear the voice of Lin Fengying from the living room.
"Xiaochen, come and see quickly, Boyi and Lijuan seem to be quarreling."
Si Chen frowned, noticing that Tong Yao had been woken up as well. He whispered, "I’ll go see, you go back to sleep." He then put on his clothes, turned on the light and exited the room.
How could the newlyweds be fighting on their wedding night?
Tong Yao found it strange and also put on her clothes to take a look.
In the living room, Lin Feng Ying listened to Zhang Lijuan’s sobs, anxiously knocking on Si Boyi’s door, "Boyi, open the door quickly, what happened between you and Lijuan?" Lijuan’s family lives next door, don’t bully their girl, or else Chen Jinlan will come and cause trouble, and we won’t be able to spend a peaceful year then."
"Mom, wait a moment." From inside the room came Si Boyi’s slightly embarrassed voice. Soon after, he came out wearing only his underwear, his upper body bare and his face flushed with embarrassment. He seemed to have dressed in a hurry, wearing his underwear backward.
Tong Yao stepped out of the room only to be greeted with this sight. Before she could take an extra glance, Si Chen covered her eyes and pushed her back into the room.
"It’s cold outside, continue sleeping."
After saying this, he immediately closed the door.
Tong Yao: ....
It’s indeed inappropriate for me to go out given the way my brother-in-law is dressed.
However, Lin Fengying didn’t find her younger son’s attire inappropriate. During the summer, her elder son would often walk around bare-bodied; she’s gotten used to it.
"Boyi, what happened between you and Lijuan?" She was anxious and wanted to go in to see the situation but Si Boyi was blocking the entrance and not letting her in.
"Mom, w-we didn’t..." Si Boyi glanced at Lin Fengying and then at Si Chen standing in the middle of the hall, his face so flushed that it looked like blood might drip from it.
Seeing this, Si Chen frowned as if he understood something and then went back to his room.
"What exactly happened? Will you tell me or not?" Lin Fengying was still unsure of what exactly happened and was getting anxious.
Si Boyi, cornered and with no other options left, stuttered out, "Mom, I...we...accidentally hurt Lijuan..."
It took Lin Fengying a moment to realize what was going on. Even though she was experienced herself, she was still quite embarrassed by this situation. She pursed her lips, shot a glaring look at Si Boyi, and whispered, "Didn’t you know to be gentle? It’s late at night, and I thought you were fighting with Lijuan. It’s alright now, go back into your room and comfort Lijuan, and don’t catch a cold."
Earlier, she rushed out, hearing Lijuna’s cries. She had totally forgotten it was the couple’s wedding night and embarrassingly caused a commotion, even waking up her eldest son and daughter-in-law.
It’s a good thing only family members were around, otherwise, this would have become a laughing matter in the village.
Sigh!
She also felt guilty for not having thought of this earlier. Lijuan spent some time in the city earlier, and she assumed that the couple...
Seeing Si Boyi close the door, Zhang Lijuan cries even more pitifully, covering her face and sobbing.
"It’s all your fault I lost face. I don’t have the courage to meet people anymore."
Baffled and mortified by this unprecedented situation, Si Boyi took full responsibility. He had no prior experience. After several unsuccessful attempts in the middle of the night, they finally succeeded, only for Zhang Lijuan to end up crying and causing commotion, alerting both his mom and his elder brother and sister-in-law. Luckily, Xiaohui was not home tonight.
After all, Xiaohui is still an unmarried girl.
Now that Zhang Lijuan was blaming him, Si Boyi felt both self-reproach and pity. He sat next to her on the bed, awkwardly comforting her, "Lijuan, you stop crying, it’s all my fault, I ... I didn’t know how to do it properly for the first time, and I didn’t manage my strength correctly. If you don’t want me to touch you, I absolutely won’t touch you again..."
"It’s all your fault, all your fault..." Zhang Lijuan pounded Si Boyi’s chest, sobbing even more loudly as though she had suffered a great injustice.
Si Boyi let Zhang Lijuan hit him, saying uncomfortably, "Lijuan, hit me all you like, just make less noise. Our room is not soundproof. If you continue crying like this, mom and elder brother and sister-in-law won’t be able to sleep."
Zhang Lijuan looked up at Si Boyi with tears in her eyes and sobbed, "I don’t care if people can sleep or not, if I feel wronged can’t I cry?"
Seeing Zhang Lijuan crying into a puddle, Si Boyi felt as though his heart was being squeezed, "Okay, okay, you cry, you cry. It’s all my fault."
"It’s all your fault, all your fault. You’ve made me lose all my face, how will I ever meet people tomorrow!"
Zhang Lijuan continued to hit Si Boyi’s chest unrestrained. If it was at any other time, Si Boyi would definitely have lectured Zhang Lijuan seriously or even rebuked her behavior.
But tonight was the couple’s wedding night, a time of intimacy. After tasting a bit of sweetness, Si Boyi found Zhang Lijuan’s crying face adorable. He almost wished he could make her cry again like he did earlier, but that was just a thought. He knew he had to be gentle with his wife.
In reality, Si Boyi did hurt Zhang Lijuan a bit earlier, but it wasn’t enough pain for her to cry. She cried because her mother told her to.
A day before their wedding, Chen Jinlan specifically went to Zhang Lijuan’s room and talked with her till late into the night, persistently asking whether anything had happened between Zhang Lijuan and Si Boyi. After confirming nothing had, Chen Jinlan then said,
"Whether something happened or not, on your wedding night, you must cry, cry until the whole family wakes up. Remember this, you must cry. Let everyone know that you were still a pure girl before you married Si Boyi. So that Lin Fengying won’t look down on you in the future, thinking you lacked control and had relations with her son before being married."
"If you don’t want to be in a lower position when you quarrel with Tong Yao, if you don’t want to give others the chance to use it against you, you must cry on your wedding night. Let them all know that you were still pure when you got married."
