Rebirth: My Dear Little Wife Is So Scheming

Chapter 108 - 108 108 Bastard

?Chapter 108: Chapter 108 Bastard Chapter 108: Chapter 108 Bastard An Zhiyuan grabbed the fire poker from the corner of the wall. The poker was as thick as an arm, which scared Li Dashan out of his wits. He feared he was about to be beaten with it.

If he were hit with that thing, his arms and legs would surely break.

In a panic, he shrank back, “You, you are… You can’t just hit people at will, I… I… don’t come any closer… don’t come any closer…”

He couldn’t finish his sentence. What could he possibly do to the other person?

Bai Xiao looked at An Zhiyuan in disbelief; An Zhiyuan didn’t seem like the impulsive type. Wasn’t this kind of thing something she should be doing herself? If An Zhiyuan went through with this, they might actually get taken to court by Li Dashan’s family. Then an accusation of bullying the common people would be unavoidable. Soon they would have to deal with An Zhiyuan, she never meant to get An Zhiyuan so much as to lose his job.

The three main rules of discipline and the eight points for attention were not a joke.

She took a step forward. An Zhiyuan, holding the poker, walked up to Bai Xiao and handed her the fire poker, “Hold it with both hands!”

Bai Xiao picked up the fire poker and suddenly understood what An Zhiyuan intended to do.

With a swift kick, the fire poker snapped in two. Bai Xiao threw the two pieces onto the ground, landing them right in front of Li Dashan, who shrank back in fright. He looked at the cleanly broken ends and worriedly glanced at the spot where An Zhiyuan had kicked him before, fearing whether he might die from it.

An Zhiyuan fetched a stone slab from the courtyard, which had likely been collected from the nearby stone pits, and handed it to Bai Xiao.

Bai Xiao, with a smile, took it; by now, how could she not understand?

An Zhiyuan was really quite adorable.

Again, An Zhiyuan kicked.

With a beam that could outshine the spring sun, Bai Xiao held the stone slab, now broken into pieces, “Instructor An, you’re really incredible. Just one kick, and it shattered like this. How many years have you been practicing?”

“This was just so-so. The conditions here don’t allow for much, so I just practice casually. With a kick like that, if I want to, I could knock down a two-hundred-pound man and make sure he can’t get up,” said An Zhiyuan, prompting Li Dashan to curse internally—he certainly didn’t weigh two hundred pounds.

“I can’t stand to see a man hitting a woman. As soon as I see it, I can’t keep my temper in check. Brother-in-law, I didn’t hurt you, did I?”

“No, no, how could you? I’m perfectly fine!” Li Dashan was a bully at home, but when he met someone tougher, he instantly cowered.

“I’m going to borrow money!” Bai Yue stood up, and seeing that Li Dashan had now gone limp, unable to get up, she couldn’t care less; her son urgently needed saving.

Before she could leave, her two sons returned. The elder was sixteen, the younger fourteen, and the smallest twelve. Seeing their mother covered in injuries, they hurriedly checked, “Mom, did Dad hit you again? Didn’t I tell you, if he hits you again, you should fight back? You can’t let him beat you to death. Look at the state you are in!”

“I’m fine, I need to go out. This is your aunt and her friend. Look after them while I go and borrow money for your brother!” Bai Yue was frantic, her own son burning up with fever over there.

Li Haiping, the eldest, stopped Bai Yue, “Mom, why don’t you ask Grandma for money? Our family money has all been taken by Grandma. Now that it’s needed, shouldn’t we ask her? I figured it out, over the years, Grandma has siphoned off a total of seven hundred eighty-five yuan and five jiao. That’s enough for brother’s treatment. I will go and ask Grandma for the money.” He didn’t understand why his own mother would go to borrow money.

Their family, honestly speaking, wasn’t without money; it’s just that the money was frequently taken by Grandma, always claiming that she feared her mother had to subsidize her natal family, so she would keep it safe, to be used when they grew up for building houses and marrying wives. Now they didn’t need to build houses or marry wives, just needed money for their brother’s treatment, so Grandma should indeed take it out.

“I asked your father to ask for the money, but he wouldn’t do it. You don’t know your grandma as I do. If I ask for the money, she will definitely think I’m making up excuses to give it to my natal family. How could she give it to me? Your brother is burning up with fever; he can’t wait. Rather than argue with your grandma, it’s better to borrow money and save your brother first,” Bai Yue wished she could, but she couldn’t get the money.

The old lady guarded it as if guarding against a thief; Bai Yue couldn’t get a single cent in her hands, and it would only result in a beating and scolding. It was more appropriate to borrow money. Bai Yue glanced at her son lying on the kang, never imagining that Li Dashan could be so heartless even towards his own son.

“Big sister, matters like asking for money should naturally be taken care of by the brother-in-law. The men in the house should stand tall as pillars, isn’t that right, brother-in-law? Besides, this is your youngest son, don’t you care at all?” Bai Xiao also tried to persuade. Even if Bai Yue went to borrow money now, it wouldn’t be the best solution. The household was a complete mess and Li Dashan was simply not acting like a man. If things were handled this way once, next time it would probably be even less likely for Grandma to give her any money, for she would assume you had a way out—that’s the inertia of thinking.

She sat in front of the third son, Li Haishun, wiping the child’s sweat with a towel, constantly soaking it in cold water to cool down the boy. In reality, she had just taken the opportunity to use her special ability on Li Haishun, who was already much better, but she controlled it to not let the special ability completely heal Li Haishun directly. She did this to see just how this Li family, Li Dashan, and his mother would haggle over her big sister, to truly understand the situation before plotting the next move.

So far, Bai Xiao had not seen any sign of Li Dashan being a man, assuming the responsibilities that come with manhood. Apart from violence, he showed not even a trace of warmth toward his elder sister and her children in the household, which Bai Xiao found very odd. How could the parents of Bai’s elder sister have been so blind to match their precious daughter with such a bastard? Could it be that Li Dashan had been pretending all along, fooling the elder Bai couple?

It was indeed possible, and if that were the case, Bai Xiao would help her sister, but it would depend on Bai Yue’s own will. Regardless of who she was helping, even if it was her own family, she had no right to make decisions for others. She understood the principle that one man’s meat is another man’s poison.

To help her sister and brother, she could do anything within her power, but she would never arrogantly assume that she could decide on another’s life. The life was for others to live; she had no right to deprive anyone of their feelings.

Right now, all she wanted was to clearly understand her big sister’s thoughts, as well as the thoughts of every single member of this family! That would make it easier to think of a solution later on.

“Why should I be the one to ask for the money?” Li Dashan was no longer compliant. He was afraid of An Zhiyuan, but he wasn’t afraid of Bai Xiao, just an eighteen-year-old girl; she couldn’t possibly consume him.

“Because you’re his biological father. If you don’t go, are you prepared to watch your son die?” Bai Xiao couldn’t understand it; Li Dashan appeared completely indifferent towards his third son, making one doubt whether he was truly the boy’s biological father.

“Get lost, I don’t even know if the third brat is the illegitimate child of my sister and some random man, and you want to pin it on me. You think I’m a fool? I won’t spend my money on a bastard. Better that he dies—it saves me worry. Then I won’t be the laughingstock every day. He should have died a long time ago.” Li Dashan’s words stunned Bai Xiao, Bai Yue didn’t seem like a woman who would stray from her marital vows.