My domineering ex-husband is living off his wife in ancient times.

Chapter 65 Flattering Her Stinky Feet

Li was right.

After Si Dalang led Xia Shi and her mother away from the dilapidated temple, Xia Shi refused to leave Hulu Village no matter what.

She gestured wildly, asking Si Dalang to take her to see Doctor Hu for treatment.

When Xia was acupunctured, she fainted and thought that she and Granny Xia were unable to speak because they had been beaten by Cheng Ruoan's brother-in-law.

She was frantic when she was in the dilapidated temple, watching Cheng Ruoan's family and that ungrateful Da Hua slander the Xia family, but she couldn't utter a single sound.

But Xia was quite satisfied that Si Dalang would rather give up Zhao Shi and the child than not take her and her mother out with him.

The reason she didn't struggle or throw a tantrum to stay away was because she wanted to get out so she could find a doctor to treat her injuries!

Only then can I recover my voice and go back to confront Cheng Ruoan and that brat!

But yesterday, Si Dalang didn't understand the gestures she made. He thought she was asking him not to leave the village for the time being, and that she wanted him to help her find Xia Shoucai and Old Man Xia in the village.

Si Dalang told Xia and her daughter to settle down temporarily in a small shed at the foot of the desolate mountain behind the dilapidated temple, while he went to the village alone to look for people.

They searched from dawn till dusk, but couldn't find anyone who had seen the Xia family.

Si Dalang also felt that since they had stolen so many goods and a donkey cart, they must have run as far away as possible.

But Xia gestured that the person was in the village and asked him to look for them, so he continued to look.

After dark, Si Dalang hunted two wild rabbits around the foot of the mountain and then returned to his thatched hut.

He cleaned the rabbit, lit a fire, and roasted it for Xia Shi and Xia Pozi to tear apart and eat first. Only after they finished eating did he go and suck on the bones that still had bits of meat left.

"Wife, Mother, it's hard to find them when it's dark. Let's rest first, and I'll continue looking for my brother-in-law and father when it's light tomorrow."

Xia looked at him speechlessly, then patted her equally mute mother, and finally could only go to sleep fully clothed together.

As dawn broke, Si Dalang continued his search, but he couldn't find the person. However, he heard that Hulu Village was under lockdown.

Because the main road outside is crowded with people suffering from the plague, no one is allowed to enter or leave Hulu Village now.

Si Dalang panicked instantly, grabbing the man and asking him questions incessantly. But when the man saw that he was such a big guy, yet so simple-minded and indecisive, he thought that sending him to work at "Huludi" would be just right!

With a combination of deception and trickery, they managed to fool Si Dalang.

“If you insist on leaving the village, I can take you out, but the outside is full of plague patients. If you take your wife and mother-in-law out, you will die.”

Upon hearing this, Si Dalang shook his head vigorously, saying, "No, we're not going out."

“But the village doesn’t allow outsiders, and you’re not like your brother and sister-in-law who can come up with so much money to bribe the old village chief.”

Si Dalang looked distressed: "Brother, can't we just hide quietly in the mountains around your village? You're surrounded by mountains, and nobody lives there, right?"

"Who said that? There are villagers in these mountains around our village. If you get caught, you're finished."

Here's what I'll do: I'll help you find some work in the village. Anyway, you and your wife are looking for the person who went missing around here, right?

"If you work in the village and register as temporary residents, it will make it easier for you to find people in the surrounding area, won't it?"

Upon hearing this, Si Dalang realized that it was indeed a good idea.

In short, their family won't allow them to go back now, so they might as well stay here with their wife and mother-in-law to earn some money for finding the missing person and for travel expenses to return to Qingshan County.

"Okay, I'll go with you to do the work!"

Si Dalang was tricked into leaving, taking Xia Shi and Xia's wife with him.

But when Si Dalang arrived at the remote mountains where he was to work, he realized that he had been tricked into coming to mine coal!

When Xia Shi and her wife saw the bottomless mine, their legs went weak. Seeing that Si Dalang was beaten black and blue for resisting going down into the mine, and was eventually forced down, Xia Shi immediately gave in.

She stopped making a fuss about leaving and said she would stay in the family area around the mine and watch her husband work.

But outsiders don't have such an easy life.

They arranged for her and Old Lady Xia to live in a thatched hut next to the pigsty. Xia, who was pampered like a young mistress by Si Dalang in the Si family, couldn't stand it at all.

He had an idea when he saw the junior manager at the mine.

Although she couldn't speak, she still had the ability to manipulate men's hearts.

In less than half an hour, he had lured the steward into bed.

She wasn't afraid at all that the young steward's wife from the mountainside would come looking for her.

And that's why Cheng Ruoan's reputation points in the space were deducted.

Not only did she commit adultery, but she also seduced a married man. She knowingly became a mistress, which is extremely immoral.

When Da Hu and Da Niu came out to look for Si Dalang and his two companions, they actually missed them. Si Dalang and his companions were being tricked into doing work.

This one missed opportunity left none of them knowing that Si Dalang had been tricked into going to the mine.

At noon, Doctor Hu arrived at the dilapidated temple as promised.

Also traveling with them were Boss Qian and the village chief of Hulu Village, whose surname was Wang.

Cheng Ruoan and his group had previously thought they would stay in the dilapidated temple for a while until the refugees outside dispersed, so they needed Boss Qian to help mediate and get the village chief to agree to give them some money to rent the dilapidated temple.

However, things didn't go as planned. The message that Si Shaoheng and Shao Yang brought back was that they had to leave Bachuan Prefecture as soon as possible and go to other cities with garrison troops.

So now that they're sitting down to eat together, Si Shaoheng has to deal with Boss Qian and the village chief.

Cheng Ruoan was left to face Doctor Hu alone.

The separation of men and women in the Great Xia Dynasty wasn't that strict, and Doctor Hu was already nearing seventy. Just sitting at the dinner table and talking with Cheng Ruoan wouldn't have any impact.

The Cheng family members, Si family women, and children who were eating at the other two tables were extremely surprised.

"Incredible! My third sister-in-law is truly different now. She can even discuss medical principles with doctors!" Li's expression was exaggerated, but it was not enough to express even a tenth of the shock she felt.

Si Erlang was extremely jealous: "She only went to the mountain stronghold that night, picked up a medical book, learned some pharmacology and prescriptions, and then chatted with a doctor in the city because of buying some ointments and wound medicines."

That's why they seem to know more about medical matters than we do.

What's so amazing about that?

"If I had been the one who went to the mountain stronghold that night, I could be chatting with Doctor Hu about medicine today."

Cheng Ruotong rolled her eyes at him: "Then why didn't you go that night?"

Even Shao Yang chimed in, "Si Erlang, you still owe Xiaomei money. She's practically your boss now. You're being ungrateful for saying that."

Si Silang seconded, "Second brother, don't do this. Our Si family has never produced such a spineless man."

Even Madam Li nodded, "Husband, didn't you tell me not to argue with my third sister-in-law and to listen to her arrangements? How come you're saying you're involved with her yourself?"

Sijiro:......

He says one thing, and these people can say more than ten things in return!

He shouldn't have opened his mouth.

Once we reach the north, we'll have the Si family clan members step in and put Cheng Ruo'an, that shrew, in check. Then we'll make her hand over the silver and recipe she smuggled from the mountain stronghold.

She also has her family's recipe for making tofu.

Once all of these are in the hands of the Si family, let's see if Cheng Ruoan will still be so arrogant.

Let's see if these people still dare to fawn over her!