The Daily Life Of Mei Furen Doting On Her Husband - Chapter 75

The burning wood chips did not go out when they fell into the water. Instead, they burned quietly in the water until they were completely burned out.

Taoist Shuangjiang’s gaze changed after the piece of wood started to burn. First, he was stunned, then he felt pain, and finally, when he saw the wood burn out, he seemed unable to bear looking at it anymore. He glanced to the side, his expression like someone who had watched a treasure being ruined in front of him but couldn’t stop it, and he tried hard to suppress his grief.

Mei Zhuyu didn’t look at him, but it was as if he had eyes on the back of his head and could see his expression. He shook the bowl of water and said, “Don’t be lazy. Practice hard. Sooner or later, you will be able to draw a talisman to ward off evil with raw peach wood.”

Shuangjiang: I might be able to do it in thirty years.

Seeing that Taoist Shuangjiang agreed, Wu Zhen looked at him twice more. Taoist Shuangjiang was always very cold and arrogant, but why was he so well-behaved at the moment? His usual arrogant expression was gone. Wu Zhen felt that he seemed to be a little afraid of her husband, which felt a bit strange.

In her opinion, although her husband was not gentle, he was also a good person to get along with. Was he afraid of him?

As she was thinking about it, a bowl of black water appeared in front of her. It was the bowl of rootless water that Mei Zhuyu had burned the talisman on.

“Drink this, and you’ll feel better.” Mei Zhuyu put the bowl close to Wu Zhen’s cat head.

Wu Zhen looked at what he had made. Although she didn’t quite believe it, she still licked it for the sake of face, considering that the young man had made himself bleed. At that moment, a bitter taste filled her entire mouth. The taste was really indescribable and absolutely impossible to swallow.

Wu Zhen had swallowed the Plague God’s plague gas, and although she felt very uncomfortable, she would not die. After a while, the plague gas in her stomach would be digested, and she would be fine. She was used to swallowing these things randomly, and she had felt uncomfortable more than once or twice. It would be better for her to feel uncomfortable for a year or two than to drink that kind of thing.

Wu Zhen apologized in her heart, stood up, and wanted to run away, but Mei Zhuyu discovered her intention and grabbed her.

“Don’t be afraid, it will be alright soon.” Mei Zhuyu’s voice was low and gentle, but his movements were not. He was very strong, and Wu Zhen was in a desperate situation. She was forced to drink the talisman water, and by the time her husband poured the bowl of black liquid into her stomach, she had already lost half her life. In Mei Zhuyu’s hands, she became a cat cake that was worse than death.

Putting down the bowl, Mei Zhuyu stroked the cat’s head and comforted her, “It’s okay.”

It’s not okay! If he wasn’t her husband, Wu Zhen would have cursed him out.

She only felt a bitter taste in her mouth, and the tearing pain in her stomach gradually subsided, but something began to wriggle inside.

The tabby cat rubbed its claws irritably, then opened its mouth and made a retching sound. As she continued to vomit, black balls of fur came out of her mouth. These balls of fur were formed by the plague absorbed by the talisman water in her stomach. Wu Zhen vomited out a small pile of black fur balls in one breath, and her bloated belly deflated visibly.

Mei Zhuyu’s sleeves were scratched by the cat’s claws, and there was a hole in them. But he didn’t care. He stared at the tabby cat and touched her belly from time to time. After finding that the plague was slowly being expelled, he relaxed a lot.

However, after the tabby cat vomited out the fur balls, its fur stood up immediately. She jumped onto the table and smashed the bowl to the ground, then jumped out of the window and ran away.

Mei Zhuyu: ……

“…Lady?”

Mei Zhuyu looked at the window, then turned back to look at Shuangjiang, with a confused look on his face, “What’s wrong?”

After watching his junior uncle abuse the cat, Shuangjiang pointed at a tuft of cat hair between Mei Zhuyu’s fingers. In order to force the cat to drink the water, his powerful junior uncle had almost plucked the cat’s hair off her head.

However, Mei Zhuyu was not aware of it at all. When he found the hair in his hand, he was very surprised and worried. He frowned and asked, “Why did the hair fall off? Was it caused by the plague?”

 Shuangjiang: No, Junior Master-Uncle, it’s your fault.

“Is she angry?”

When he heard his junior uncle’s question, Taoist Shuangjiang wanted to explain that he was a serious Taoist who had never looked at girls on the street. Moreover, from the founder to the young disciples sweeping the floor at the entrance of the temple, none of them had ever married. He himself was even more chaste and regarded beautiful women as nothing, so he really didn’t know how to answer such questions about women’s minds.

However, the Junior Uncle’s prestige was very high, so Taoist Shuangjiang did not dare to speak directly. Moreover, he was watching from the sidelines and felt that his junior uncle’s confused and bewildered look at his wife running away was pitiful, so he could only reluctantly respond, “It may be because Junior Uncle’s strength was too great when he fed the talisman water.”

Mei Zhuyu: “Isn’t it because the talisman water was too hard to drink?”

Shuangjiang thought about it calmly and gave a sincere answer, “According to my guess, it shouldn’t be. All talisman water tastes like this.” 

There was no such thing as bitter or not bitter.

Mei Zhuyu picked up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, bandaged the wound on his hand, stood up, and said, “You’ve been traveling all the way. Take a good rest. I’ll go find her.”

Looking at the back of his junior uncle as he left, Taoist Shuangjiang suddenly felt sad. Men become so pitiful after getting married. As expected, being a Taoist Priest was the best. He wanted to be a Taoist priest all his life.

Ever since she was fed with the water, vomited a bunch of fur balls, and jumped out of the window to run away in anger, the cat had not appeared for two days. Mei Zhuyu had been searching for her outside for two days, but unfortunately, he found nothing. Unable to find her anywhere, Mei Zhuyu asked the people who knew her, starting with his cousin Mei Si.

“Ah, Sister Zhen? Come to think of it, I haven’t seen Sister Zhen for several days. She was with you, my eldest cousin, right?” Mei Si asked.

Mei Zhuyu could only nod to cover up, “Yes.”

Mei Si looked a little resentful. “You two have been staying at home lately and not going out to play. Don’t you feel bored? It would be great if we could play together.”

Mei Zhuyu made up an excuse, “She’s not feeling well and is resting at home.”

Mei Si: “Ah? Sister Zhen is sick? I’ll go visit her.”

Mei Zhuyu refused, “No, she’s just a little tired and is resting.”

Mei Si was stunned for a moment, and then the look in his eyes when he looked at his eldest cousin changed significantly.