A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] chapter 29

It was such a sensitive question that made Wu Pinglang kept his silence, but then he opened his mouth and said, “The fact is, Dahu is already married and gets a wedded husband. This definitely won’t work.”

Seeing that Wu Pinglang wasn’t trapped by his tricks, Xiang Tiange got his expression a bit sullen, and then continued to say, “Well, it doesn’t matter. Since he can marry, he can divorce.Furthermore, you should know the characteristic of his current husband.”

Wu Pinglang looked at him in surprise, thought for a moment, and then shook his head and said, “This is the domestic affair of Dahu’s own. We being outsiders have no rights to impede. He can deal with it by his own.”

Hearing that, Xiang Tiange finally could understand why Mei Xilin would be that kind of capricious. The hypocrisy on his countenance happened to crack.

What a rotten dumbass Wu Pinglang was! How was he able to take office and became the head villager himself being that dumb and fool?

Just as the matter was come to a deadlock, Mei Xilin suddenly came out and greeted Xiang Tiange. Then he slowly said to Wu Pinglang, “Dear, I think we should step in the affair of Dahu!

Wu Pinglang frowned slightly, but still kept his manner, saying, “We are negotiating right away! You shouldn’t come out at the moment, just go inside!”

Mei Xilin continued to utter ignoring Wu Pinglang, saying, “See? Dahu was born under such an environment. Let’s make it straight, he didn’t get a good education and doesn’t know the etiquette at all. We being the seniors in the village have the rights and responsibilities to educate him. You should step in earlier, so that Dahu wouldn’t get himself down and indulged in such consequence. If we dig it deep, you should bear the most responsibility for that.”

Xiang Tiange was stunned hearing what Mei Xilin said, it seemed that what he had just said was without any logic but was still quite shocking.

He was shocked by that, let alone Wu Pinglang, the one who had no such complex thoughts in mind.

Wu Pinglang squinted his eyebrows with his pupils getting twitched violently. It seemed that he had heard completely the words and digested them.

“Is that my fault? Brother Xiang, do you really think so?” asked Wu Pinglang, as he was hesitated to do so.

Xiang Tiange regained his attention from his dumbness and then nodded, saying in a serious way, “True dat! But I don’t even know how to say that to you as a peer and brother. It probably will make you upset. I have to say that Xilin is quite a rational one.”

Wu Pinglang took a glance at Xiang Tiange and then looked at Mei Xilin, indulging himself into a self-suspicion, he said in hesitation, “Then… then how can I compensate that?”

Xiang Tiange caught the sight when Mei Xilin tipped him the wink, coughing slightly, and saying, “Of course you should correct him from his origin, since he got a great change because of that witch using witchcraft works. If that witch disappears and Dahu marries my son and later he can attend the military skill competition, everything will surely back on track. At that time, he will regain his bright future ahead of him.”

“Moreover…” Xiang Tiange continued to utter and took a glance at Wu Pinglang, “It will be such a great honor to your village if Dahu becomes the No.1 Scholar in the future. Brother Wu, think about it, at that time you will surely get yourself famous cultivating such a prodigy.”

Wu Pinglang wasn’t reacting excitingly hearing the words, but he sank into a thought for a while, and then frowned, saying, “I’ve never heard that Dahu’s husband had done something wrong before, it will be impossible if I force Dahu to get divorce with him without reasons!”

Mei Xilin got his eyes widened and made a gesture around his belly, saying as if he was about to expose a crime, “Huh? Isn’t he so wrong carrying a big belly? That is totally a man of ‘EASY VIRTUE’, how can Dahu keep him stayed?”

Wu Pinglang answered with suspicion, “But he never hide himself about that and is honest to Dahu. As long as Dahu was willing to marry him, of course he has showed his acceptance for the upcoming baby. We are being so mean judging them according to this.”

Anger fulfilled in Xiang Tiange’s mind all of a sudden, he rolled his eyes and kept his silence.

Mei Xilin’s eyes shifted and he suddenly asked, “Then… what if Dahu’s husband did something wrong and out of morality standard, will you step in?”

Wu Pinglang took a thought for a moment, and nodded, saying, “If he really had done something beyond the morality standard, I will of course convince Dahu.”

Mei Xilin and Xiang Tiange looked at each other, both of them were nursing full of devil ideas in their minds.

Xiang Tiange coughed slightly and then bid farewell to the two, saying, “I got bunch of domestic affairs to deal with and I am not supposed to stay long here. If you got times you can visit me either in my place. My husband misses you guys!”

Wu Pinglang nodded, answering, “Alright, we will surely visit you when we got times. Take care home!”

Since Xiang Tiange left the mansion, he didn’t rush back home but went to the town for others.

In the other side, Song Qinghan didn’t have any ideas that he had been targeted by someone. After he reached home together with Wu Dahu, he began worrying about the fact that they had infuriated Mei Xilin, which would probably cause an unexpected consequence. He couldn’t help but ask, “Do you think he will accuse us of nothing, and distort the truth whispering to the head villager?”

Wu Dahu gave him a smile and said in a confirm tone, “Don’t worry about that. Our head villager isn’t a man of seeming irresolute. There’s no way for him to listen nonsense from his husband. If he was that kind of man, I would have been banished from this village!”

A confusion erupted in Song Qinghan’s mind all of a sudden hearing what Wu Dahu said, he felt somehow strange but asked, “Well so, it’s quite strange that if the head villager is that kind of a wise and decisive man. How would he be willing to marry such a guy of miser and scrooge?”

Wu Dahu then indulged himself into memories, explaining, “It is said that they were engaged since they were still children, decision managed by their parents. Later on, the family of the head villager went bankrupt, that wasn’t accepted by the family of Mei Xilin. But he insisted marrying the head villager and even suffered himself a hunger pain for a protest. With his strive, they finally gained the blessings from both family. Since then, the head villager had always treated him good, letting him be capricious within a principle.”

Song Qinghan nodded with a look of stun, the penny dropped, everything became clear to him.

As long as the head villager is a man standing aside with justice, he shouldn’t worry too much about the fact that they had somehow infuriated his husband.

After dinner, the two went to bed together as usual.

“Tomorrow…” Wu Dahu broke the silence.

But then he didn’t say something for a moment, Song Qinghan thought it was just a hallucination and was ready to sleep. Wu Dahu continued to say, “Come with me to burn incense sticks for my dad tomorrow. Will you?”

It could tell that Wu Dahu had tried his best to keep his calm when he said that with his voice trembling, it seemed that this man was striving to restrain the feelings deep in his mind.

Song Qinghan seemed to find out what the date was tomorrow. He promised Wu Dahu and then said, “Sleep now, we’ll see tomorrow!”

Seeing that he was calm, Wu Dahu gradually became released and nodded. Later, both of them came to their own dreams.

Early the next day, the two cooked a piece of meat, poured a pot of sugar wine, and walked towards back mountain with incense and joss paper.

The way to the back mountain today was not the same route as usual, they picked another way to.

Wu Dahu walked while he held Song Qinghan, explaining, “My dad loved this route, it is difficult to walk but quite peaceful. That’s the one reason why I buried him here.”

Walking on the rather uneven route under, Song Qinghan should be quite careful minding the road on his feet, but he didn’t show any impatience or complaint, saying, “It’s good to be peaceful. I like somewhere peaceful too.”

After about one hour of the long journey, a tomb in a tiny size appeared in front of these two.

Song Qinghan looked at the tombstone erupting there, the one with a plain look yet showed the attentiveness of Wu Dahu, saying, “Did you make this tombstone?”

Wu Dahu nodded but then a trace of groom flashed in his eyes, he said, “My father was illiterate, but he showed a great admiration to those who were wise and had attended school. It happened to me that although I did attended school before, I only learnt little. I was never able to finish his dream to be a man of knowledge.”

Song Qinghan glanced at him and said, “Hey, no one can be a perfect one in the world. For instance, the emperor nowadays, he might be good at the national governance but he is utterly ignorant of farming. Isn’t he?”

Wu Dahu subconsciously looked around and said in a caution, “Stop! We’re not allowed to gossip about the Majesty, it is such a crime if we keep talking about him. No more gossips about him, especially in front of an outsider!”

Song Qinghan retorted, “You’re not an outsider. And I am not that kind of stupid chirping around…”

Noticing his reaction, Wu Dahu came to a release, consoling, “OK, it’s me being over nervous. I know how smart you are. Anyway, thanks for your kind words!”

It happened to Song Qinghan became blushed hearing the words of Wu Dahu, he then got his ears red-rimmed. Rubbing the joss paper apart, he started to burn them slowly.

Wu Dahu poured the wine in front of the tome, covering the meat soup as follow, speaking to the tomb, “Dad, I’m married now. See, this is my husband Song Qinghan. Don’t you ever worry about me anymore. You just take care of yourself over there in the heaven, and I will take care of myself here.”

After that, he burned the joss incense sticks and inserted them in front of the tomb, kneeing and kowtowing three times showing his respect to his father.

Song Qinghan held the incense, bowed a bit and inserted the incense sticks on his hands into the soil, imitating the action of Wu Dahu, saying, “Dearest father, you don’t have to worry ’cause I will always be by Dahu’s side, I promise you that I will take good care of him. I wish you can bless over the little thing in my belly, bless him to be a good one and be healthy.”

He didn’t kowtowed since he got a physical inconvenience, he just crossed his fingers and nodded himself three times in front of the tomb.

Wu Dahu glanced at his belly with a trace of affection in his eyes, saying in a confirm tone, “Don’t worry, Father will bless you and our baby.”

After that, they came back home. Settling Song Qinghan in the room, Wu Dahu spoke to him, saying, “I will go to the woods for checking, will come back before lunch.”

Song Qinghan was stunned but he did not ask the reason, nodding and saying, “Just be careful.”

One thing suddenly occurred to Song Qinghan in his mind, he remembered that Wu Dahu once said that he would go to the woods for the peace if he wanted a tranquility. Song Qinghan indulged himself into a confusion.

But not long before the door was just shut, an urgent and harsh sound of knocking burst in the yard.

Song Qinghan frowned with anger, he thought it would be Lin Dafu again, sneering, “Are you deaf or something? Did I tell you not to come over again?!”

The person outside seemed to be stunned but immediately explained, “Doctor Song, I am here for my illness. Please open the door, I’m dying!”

Song Qinghan hesitated for a moment. Obviously, from the voice of the man outside the door, it didn’t seem that he got a bad illness or injured or something, Song Qinghan then asked in a doubt, “Where did you get yourself hurt? If you get a serious one, go find Doctor Luo in town. I am not that kind of a doctor knowing and curing everything. And yet, I am not a so-called doctor!”