Bringing Good Luck to your Husband in the 70s - Chapter 36

Chapter 36: Surviving Bad Luck 2

The weather had been very nice the next day, and Su Yue had been at work. In the middle of the morning, she had suddenly run back with the excuse of feeling uncomfortable in her stomach and had run to Han’s house.

Why had she come here at this time? Because this had been the golden time for women in the village to wash clothes. Most people would carry basins to the river to wash clothes at this time. The scene she had seen in her dream yesterday had seemed to show a clothes basin and a mallet by the river. It should have been that Wang Yaru had been washing clothes by the river and had happened to meet Han Aiguo, who had been passing by the river, so she had come up with a plan.

This time Su Yue had not intended to avoid bad luck like last time but had planned to take the initiative. Only by taking the initiative to break Wang Yaru’s game could she completely defeat her and prevent her from using the same tactics next time to deal with Han Aiguo. She had already thought about it; she would wait for Wang Yaru to take the initiative to follow Han Aiguo to the river, and then she would take action when Wang Yaru took action.

Su Yue had hurried to Han’s house, but there had been no sign of Han Aiguo in the kitchen. There had only been Hehua and Taohua lighting the fire, and Old Lady Han had been busy making cakes on the stove.

Seeing Su Yue’s sudden appearance, Old Lady Han had been surprised. “Yueyue, why are you here at this time?”

Su Yue had glanced at other places and really hadn’t seen Han Aiguo, so she couldn’t help but ask, “Auntie, where is Brother Han? Why didn’t he help you to make pastries?”

Old Lady Han’s eyes had immediately become meaningful when she had looked at Su Yue. Could it be that this girl had missed her eldest and had rushed back from the fields just to take a look at her eldest? Ouch, these young people really couldn’t be separated for a while.

Old Lady Han had laughed and said with a smile, “The fence of the vegetable garden at home was damaged for some reason. The eldest just went to the river to get some branches and came back to repair the fence. You wait here. He’ll be back soon.”

What? Went to the river?

Su Yue had been shocked. Could it have been today? Then it had been too late to have this dream. It had just been last night, and it would happen today. How could she continue to think of ways to stop it?

“Auntie, how long has Brother Han been gone?”

“Not long; he just left for a while. What happened?”

Su Yue had turned around and rushed out the door, praying in her heart that Han Aiguo would walk slower and not arrive quickly. If he met Wang Yaru so soon by the river, it would be over.

To be honest, Su Yue had never been good at running, but now she had discovered that she could run so fast! Her two thin legs had been almost like phantoms.

Hurrying, Su Yue had finally arrived at the small river and had run directly to the place where women in the village often washed clothes. Before she had reached the place, she had heard a huge splash of water, as if something had fallen into the water.

Su Yue’s heart had skipped a beat; would it start so soon?

“Help, help me—” came a voice from a frightened girl.

Sure enough, it had started, and Su Yue was right.

Su Yue sped up again and rushed over. As soon as she approached the actual departure point, she saw Han Aiguo’s figure in the distance. He was holding a sickle in his hand and happened to see someone falling into the water.

He dropped his sickle and prepared to save the person.

At this critical moment, Su Yue had yelled, “Let me do it—”

Hearing Su Yue’s voice, Han Aiguo subconsciously stopped and looked towards her. Su Yue had taken advantage of his pause and suddenly rushed past him and jumped into the water with a “pop.”

“Su Yue!” Han Aiguo had been so shocked that his heart had almost stopped. He ran quickly to the river to save Su Yue. But Su Yue showed her head from the water and waved her hands to him desperately, “Just let me save her. You are not allowed to come down, or I will be angry.”

Han Aiguo paused in his diving action, and for a moment he had really been angry. He didn’t known whether to listen to her or not.

At this time, Su Yue had swum to Wang Yaru’s body, lifted her out of the water by her armpits, and then swum towards the riverbank.

Su Yue had been very lucky that her parents had hired swimming coaches to practice her swimming skills since she had been a child; otherwise, she would not have been able to help today.

Su Yue had brought her to the shore very neatly, and then Han Aiguo had hurriedly taken off his coat and wrapped it around Su Yue, stroking her hair anxiously, “Are you okay?”

Su Yue had shaken her head and had given him a big smile. “I’m okay; she’s the one who’s in trouble.”

Wang Yaru, who had been pointed at by Su Yue, had indeed been in trouble at this time. Due to Su Yue’s obstruction, Han Aiguo had had no time to jump down to save her immediately, and Su Yue had a conversation with Han Aiguo after jumping down. Such a delay had caused Wang Yaru to choke on a lot of water and become semi-conscious.

Su Yue had pulled down the clothes Han Aiguo had given her and had covered Wang Yaru’s body. She had no choice but to do so. Wang Yaru was a ruthless person. She had probably loosened the waistband of her pants before diving, and her pants had been washed away as soon as she had entered the water. She had just been wearing short shorts, which had been too eye-catching. She didn’t want Han Aiguo to see other women’s legs.

Although Su Yue hated this Wang Yaru, she would not just have watched her die. After covering her legs, she folded her hands, pressed her chest and performed cardiac resuscitation on her because she had fallen into the water not long ago. She had been unconscious for a long time, so she spat out a big mouthful of saliva within a few clicks. Then she regained consciousness, her eyelashes trembled, and she gradually woke up.

At this time, there had already been several people around them. They all had been people who had just heard the noise and rushed over. They had been two young men and a middle-aged woman. They were the members of the same family. Su Yue knew the middle-aged woman, as she had sold her fish before. For her, her man’s surname was Sun, so Su Yue called her Aunt Sun.

Aunt Sun had just witnessed the process of Su Yue rescuing Wang Yaru. Seeing that Wang Yaru was fine, she asked, “What’s going on? Why did she fall into the water?”

When Su Yue had seen this, her eyes had rolled. While retreating behind Han Aiguo without leaving a trace, she had replied, “I don’t know either. I had just passed by here and heard her shouting for help in the water, so I went down to save her. I don’t know how she lost her well-washed clothes. It’s gone into the water.”

As she had spoken, Wang Yaru opened her eyes completely and saw Han Aiguo standing next to her. Then she  lowered her head and looked at Han Aiguo’s clothes on her lap. She had been so happy that she couldn’t think about it; without even looking at the people around her, she immediately collected it.

She huddled up pitifully, wrapped herself tightly in clothes, and then had started to cry. While crying, she murmured, “Don’t look, don’t look.”

Aunt Sun’s two sons had turned away to avoid suspicion. Han Aiguo hadn’t looked at her at all. He had kept looking at Su Yue with worries in his eyes. “Go back and change clothes quickly. Be careful of catching a cold.”

The purpose of the meeting had been achieved, so naturally she had not stayed there any longer. The water was still very cold in this season, so she had to quickly go and cover herself under the quilt to avoid getting sick.

Su Yue then said to Aunt Sun, “Aunt Sun, could you please call her family to take her back? She must have been shocked.”

Aunt Sun knew that Su Yue was going back to change clothes, so she hurriedly said, “Go ahead, don’t catch a cold, I’ll call her family over.”

Su Yue took Han Aiguo and left without looking back.

The Han family house was close, so Han Aiguo had taken Su Yue back to the Han family. When he had entered the door, he had said to Old Lady Han, “Mother, please quickly bring some clean clothes for Yue’er to change.”

Old Lady Han had looked at Su Yue, whose whole body had been wet, and she was startled. She quickly pulled Su Yue to the room to cover herself with the quilt. “What’s wrong? What happened?”

Su Yue had taken off her wet clothes, covered herself with the quilt, and then explained what had just happened.

When Old Lady Han heard that it had been a girl from the Wang family, she frowned and muttered, “How had she tied her clothes so that they had fallen into the water? She was so careless.”

Su Yue smiled and said nothing, because Old Lady Han would know after a while if she was careless or not.

While Su Yue had been changing clothes, Han Aiguo had quickly cooked a bowl of ginger syrup and brought it over. “Drink it while it’s hot to prevent illness.”

Su Yue wrinkled her nose as she smelled the spicy smell of ginger.

Seeing this, Han Aiguo pinched her nose and said, “Don’t dislike it. Drink it while it’s hot to expel the cold air.”

Su Yue shook her head and then shook her body, blinking at him with big eyes and acting coquettishly. “It’s hot; I don’t want to drink it by myself. You feed me, and I will drink.”

Han Aiguo was melted by her coquettish tone. At this time, he could not refuse anything she had said. “Okay, I will feed you.”

He then took a spoonful to feed her.

Su Yue smiled and looked at him while drinking.

When she had been almost done with drinking, Han Aiguo began to scold Su Yue. “Do you know how dangerous it is to go into the water in this weather? There is so much water in the river. Why did you, a girl, go out to save people without even thinking about it? What should I have done if anything had happened to you?” God had known his heart had been about to beat out when he saw her jumping into the river. He had never been so scared before.

Su Yue had pouted, “I’m very good at swimming, so I wouldn’t be in danger.”

“What if you had accidentally gotten leg cramps, or if someone had fallen into the water and had clung to you to prevent you from swimming? Did you know that there may have been danger?”

Han Aiguo had treated her so fiercely for the first time. She pouted, unconvinced, “But weren’t you ready to save me? Wouldn’t you have saved me?”

“I am a man. I’m in good health and strong, so I’ll be fine, but what about you? If the person you save is stronger than you and entangles you, do you know that it’s not easy to get out?”

Su Yue knew that he was right, but unless the situation had been special, in particular, she would not have rashly gone to save people. Su Yue glared at him. “If it had been you, I would definitely have gone down and saved you. You can’t just watch people drown. But that’s a woman. If you, a grown man, had saved her, what if people had said you ruined her? What would you have done if her innocence had depended on you?”

Han Aiguo was dumbfounded by what she had said. He shook his head and said, “No, I was just saving people, not being a hooligan. And… the girl you just saved, before…”

Han Aiguo had been a little hesitant when he said this, and after a while he said slowly, “That girl had been engaged to me before, but then my leg had been injured, and the engagement had been broken off. If she doesn’t like me, how can she rely on me? Don’t think too much.”

Su Yue really wanted to say that he thought of people too well, and he didn’t known that some people were just shameless; they don’t deserved any kindness.

Su Yue felt that Han Aiguo would be slapped in the face soon.

Sure enough, the slap in the face came quickly.

Less than an hour before rescuing her at the river, a large number of people had suddenly rushed into the Han family, led by Wang Yaru’s mother, followed by Wang Yaru, who had cried until her eyes had been swollen like walnuts, and then the seven eldest aunts of the Wang family, brothers, cousins, etc., who had looked like they had come to cause trouble.

As soon as Wang Yaru’s mother, Zhang Cui’e, had come in, she shouted at the top of her voice, “Where is Han Aiguo? Han Aiguo, come out quickly. You must give an explanation to our Yaru.”

Seeing this formation, Old Lady Han frowned fiercely and immediately gone to Zhang Cui’e and spat back, “Why did you bring so many people to my house? What did my eldest have to say to you? Don’t spray shit on my property!”

Su Yue silently praised the old lady’s fighting ability.

Zhang Cui’e put her hands on her hips and raised her body as a dominatrix. “Your Han Aiguo ruined my daughter’s innocence, and you have to explain it to us? You must give us a satisfactory explanation for this matter; otherwise, we will not be polite!”

“Bah, since when had our family’s eldest ruined your daughter’s innocence? You are so shameless; you have the nerve to say anything!”

”I’m not talking nonsense. My daughter had just fallen into the water by the river, and her pants had been washed away. Your Han Aiguo had seen it clearly, and he had even given his clothes to my Yaru to wear. Look at these clothes. I haven’t falsely accused your Han Aiguo, right? Do you think these clothes are your Han Aiguo’s?”

Zhang Cui’e had said, taking the coat that Han Aiguo had just put on Su Yue and showing it to the village members who had come to watch the excitement.

The clothes had indeed been Han Aiguo’s. Many people had seen them and couldn’t pass them up, but that didn’t mean that giving the clothes would ruin their innocence.

Old Lady Han’s face turned red with anger. “My eldest hadn’t saved your daughter; whoever had seen it say, had it been Han Aiguo who had rescued her? You haven’t even asked for details before you came here to make false accusations. What? What are you trying to do?”

“Hadn’t it been enough that my daughter had seen it in person? He rescued my daughter from the water. He had seen what he shouldn’t have seen. He had touched what shouldn’t have been touched. Your family is irresponsible. How could my daughter get married after this?”

As soon as Zhang Cui’e had finished speaking, Wang Yaru, who had been shrinking behind her, had started to cry. Everyone had looked at her with sympathy and affection. “Brother Han… I’ve shown you my body, and I’m willing to serve you for the rest of my life.”

Su Yue felt a chill and had gotten goosebumps. This woman must not have seen clearly who had saved her. She had thought it had been Han Aiguo who had saved her. She had really been shameless to come here and force him now. Fortunately, this time she had known in advance; otherwise, Han Aiguo would really have been in trouble because of this woman.

Old Lady Han had also known that it had been Su Yue who had gone into the water to save her. After hearing what Wang Yaru and her mother had said, there had been nothing she hadn’t understood. These mother and daughter had simply wanted to rely on her family’s eldest. Innocence?? All that had been excuses, and she didn’t known if falling into the water had also been intentional.

Old Lady Han was so disgusted that she had “poofed” when she had caught the mother and daughter. “You Wang family are really shameless. Not to mention that my son hasn’t saved your daughter; even if he had, it had been because he had saved her. He had been the benefactor of your family, but now you are making him take responsibility. You are so evil! If your family encounters difficulties in the future, no one will dare to help you!”

Everyone watching the excitement had nodded. Agreeing with Old Lady Han’s words, they had felt that the Wang family had repaid kindness in an evil way, and the way they looked at them turned suspicious.

The Wang family had also known that they had been in the wrong, and they also felt guilty when everyone looked at them, but when they thought that Han Aiguo’s leg had been healed and he could develop in the army in the future, they had regretted breaking off their engagement with Han Aiguo before.

After all, which village in those ten miles had had any young guys as capable as Han Aiguo? Before, they had thought that his leg could not be cured. Of course, they could not have let their daughter marry a cripple. But who had known that a crippled leg could be restored?

Wang Yaru originally really liked Han Aiguo and really wanted to marry him. She couldn’t tell how happy she had been to be able to marry him, but Han Aiguo injured his leg. The doctor said it couldn’t be cured and he would be disabled from now on. She didn’t dare to marry such a person. She didn’t have the courage, so she obeyed her parents and broke off the engagement with Han Aiguo.

But she didn’t know that Han Aiguo’s legs could still be healed and that he still had a bright future, so she regretted that she had broken off the engagement so quickly. If she had waited a little longer, such a thing would not have happened.

She really regretted it and couldn’t help but cry at home every day. She also begged her parents to come to the Han family to make peace and reconcile the two of them. However, the two families were at odds because of the break-up of the engagement. Her parents were too embarrassed to come and talk about this again.

Seeing that her parents were unwilling, she decided to find a way on her own. Just when she was washing clothes by the river, she saw Han Aiguo walking over alone. She suddenly thought of the method of deliberately falling into the water. As long as he saved her, it would be easy to see if she exposes her body and he will have to be responsible for her.

And she did succeed. He saved her. As long as he agreed to marry her, she would live a good life with him and be a good wife.