Fortunate Wife

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"You?" Angry, Lianhua glared at her.

The village head also became angry. "What are you squabbling about? Chunni, whether or not you said anything, go to the goddess and tell her yourself."

"Village Head." Chunni was dumbfounded. She was an unmarried maiden. How could she enter the shrine? "No, I won't go."

Xing-niang wasn't scared anymore. If someone else was being sent there with her, it was much better than enduring the hardships by herself.

In a fit of anger, Chunni rushed over and yanked Xing-niang's hair and shoved her back onto the ground.

Xing-niang wasn't a meek person either. She immediately fought back.

What an unsightly scene. With his eyebrows raised disapprovingly and holding Li Man's hand, Li Mo said to his younger siblings, "Let's go home."

They were deciding to not get involved and just leave? Chunni felt envious hatred, especially as she saw Li Hua walking by Li Man's side like a bodyguard, who's mission was to protect a flower. No longer caring about her struggle with Xing-niang, she abruptly rushed over, pushed Li Hua aside, and pulled Li Man's sleeve.

Because she had used so much force, half of Li Man's sleeve was ripped away, and a snow-white, beautiful arm was exposed. There was an especially conspicuous cinnabar dot on her arm.

(T/N: The most famous, mythical method of virgin detection was the gecko cinnabar mark. Supposedly, if a woman had a cinnabar dot on her arm from powdered dried gecko that had been fed cinnabar, it meant that she was still a virgin.)

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Fortunate Wife Chapter 37

T/N: Added my schedule for February on the sidebar ^^.

Chapter 37 – Believing

Frightened by this sudden and unexpected attack, Li Man shrieked and hid herself in Li Mo's arms.

Li Mo tightly hugged her, and Li Hua quickly took off his outer robe and covered her with it.

Even so, everyone had seen her beautiful, snow-white arm, especially that cinnabar dot. It had dazzled their eyes. Everyone clearly understood what that dot symbolized, ah.

Even if there hadn't been a life contract, the cinnabar dot by itself would be enough to prove Li Man's virginal status and that she definitely couldn't have come from a brothel.

This also proved that Xing-niang had been speaking without thinking. How could she have said that Li Man used her feminine wiles on the Li brothers?

Chunni suddenly felt somewhat gratified. Didn't this prove that nothing had happened between Li Man and older brother Hua?

Li Mo icily glared at Chunni for a moment, then he picked up Li Man and started to walk towards the entrance in large strides.

Li Shu and Little Five followed after him. Li Hua had originally been planning on leaving immediately too, but he decided to bid farewell to the village head first, "Village Head, excuse us for troubling you. As for your family letter, I finished writing it. If there's any problem with it, you can come to my home, and I'll fix any errors. I've also finished everyone else's letters as well. If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving first."

"Stay here and eat lunch with us before leaving," the village head courteously said. This child had come here early in the morning and had been here since then. He hadn't even had a drink of water.

Lianhua also hurriedly went forward and tried to persuade him. "Older brother Hua, eat lunch with us before going. My mom already prepared the food."

"No thanks. I'll be taking my leave first," Li Hua politely refused. He turned around and started walking out.