Sorry, My Beloved Is The Motherland - Chapter 20.3 - To Dedicate One's Self To The Country

Most people are willing to go to public bathhouses for a shower because boiling water at home is really troublesome and wasteful of firewood. Therefore, to take a bath, one has to spend a good half of the day waiting in line.

Young intellectuals generally bathe in the public bathhouse of their dormitory, which is actually just a small mud house in the courtyard where they heat water themselves and simply wash up and consider it a bath.

Because they were temporarily living together with Ning Fu at the young intellectuals’ dormitory, the two of them went to the bathhouse to wash today.

They ran into Erwazi on the road.

These past couple of days, he has enjoyed coming to hang out with the young intellectuals. Although no one really pays attention to him, he remains undeterred, mostly squatting in the young intellectuals’ courtyard playing with ants, occasionally looking around, appearing quite alert.

Everyone has gotten used to his behavior—who knows who he is pretending to play house with in his mind, or which spy-catching game he is playing?

Erwazi smiled mischievously at Ning Fu and Xu Cuicui.

Xu Cuicui scolded him: “Go play somewhere else! If I see you lingering around here, I’ll tell your mother to make you eat broom-fried butt meat!”

Erwazi, scared of her, ran a few steps away but stubbornly squatted down again.

Ning Fu raised an eyebrow.

She suddenly asked: “How many others in the village are like Erwazi?”

Xu Cuicui thought she had become obsessed with literacy work, shook her head, and said, “He’s not capable; he just doesn’t get it at all, he’s just a fool!”

As she spoke, she pointed at her head, saying, “He’s the only fool in the entire village. Others may be simple-minded, but Erwazi —he’s really foolish! Over twenty years old, and he still puts mud in his mouth when he plays!”

Ning Fu let out a soft ‘oh.’

Then… this is Ning Fu’s husband from the original book.

Ning Fu married him because the whole village knew that the fool saw her bathing.

Actually, the fool didn’t peek.

He was being bullied and chased, so he escaped to the young intellectuals’ courtyard. Seeing that the door of the bathhouse was open, he hid inside.

The kids who bullied him couldn’t find him and dispersed, while Erwazi hid behind the rack for clothes in the bathhouse and fell asleep.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a completely naked girl.

Although Erwazi has the intellect of a five-year-old, he really has the body of a man in his twenties.

No one had ever talked to him about those things, yet he still felt a heat all over his body.

He pounced on the original owner, scared and shouting, “I’m sick! I’m sick!”

The original owner was terrified to death and also started screaming, and the two of them ended up in a tangled struggle. Meanwhile, the door of the bathhouse was locked.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd that had come, Ning Fu, who was naked, was knocked to the ground by Erwa, who had the strength of a fool.

This event happened after the college entrance examination. The male lead, Gao Han, returned to the city, and Liang Huixue was admitted to university.

The original owner’s psychological state was already unstable; after experiencing this incident, she completely collapsed.

She has gone crazy.

People have come to the house three times; once, they asked her why she didn’t return to the city and interrupted her wedding.

Erwazi’s eldest brother stood in for him at the ceremony.

She was in a daze and knew nothing when asked; all the answers were provided on her behalf by her in-laws.

The second time was her father’s aide, who said her father was ill and wanted her to go back to visit.

Erwazi’s family was afraid that once she went, she wouldn’t come back, so they used a manure fork to drive the aide and his group away. In the village, how could they watch someone’s daughter-in-law be taken away? Everyone joined together to block them.

She was pregnant and had a miscarriage.

She couldn’t leave, and then she never again left.

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Ning Fu was like a butterfly stirring up a hurricane, having already changed everything’s appearance.

Even those children who might have bullied Erwazi are now being kept by the adults in literacy classes and won’t appear at all.

But Erwazi still appeared in the youth’s courtyard, and was squatting at the door of the bathing area.

“You go wash up first; I’ll go in a little while,” Ning Fu said to Xu Cuicui.

This is a suspicion that cannot be expressed clearly to others, and it is even just her guess.

She had to be cautious, yet she couldn’t unjustly accuse a ‘child’ with an intelligence of only four or five years.

Xu Cuicui felt confused but didn’t ask further and went in first.

Erwazi was squatting on the ground when he suddenly saw a fairy waving at him!

He suddenly broke into a grin and ran toward Ning Fu.

But others ran faster than he did!

Of course, using ‘people’ to describe them might be a bit inappropriate.

Because it was a dog.

At the edge of the village, there was a big yellow dog, raised by the transport station. It was very skinny but extremely clever and fierce.

The big yellow dog was a free dog, and usually had no tasks for guarding. He just went to the transport station’s yard at regular times to eat leftover food. If there were no leftovers, he would dig for food himself.

He doesn’t listen to anyone’s words, but is reasonable; every day he lies at the village entrance and barks wildly at unkind people.

The children are a bit afraid of the big yellow dog. Although no one has been bitten by it, their parents say that it is actually a wolf transformed into a dog, and it eats people!

Erwazi naturally felt scared, too.

He looked at Ning Fu and the dog with a gaze mixed with reverence and fear.

She saw the fairy gently pat the big yellow dog’s head, and the dog, like a docile sheep, licked her hand, wagging its tail continuously and even nodded!

Erwazi cautiously leaned a bit closer and asked, “You, you, what are you doing?”

Ning Fu smiled and patted the dog’s head, saying, “I’m talking to the big yellow dog.”

Erwazi: !!!

He asked again, “What are you talking to him about?”

“I told him to guard the door here for a while, and if any bad people come, to bark three times first, then bite. The big yellow dog has already agreed.”

Erwazi was taken aback and turned to meet the big yellow dog’s pair of dark brown, shining eyes. He shrank back a bit and quickly defended himself, saying, “I-I’m not a bad person!”

He strained to think and retorted to Ning Fu, “You, You’re just playing tricks on me! How could a dog talk?”

Ning Fu still wore a smile, patiently saying, “The big yellow dog can’t speak human language, but I can speak dog language.”

Erwazi was stunned once again.

Ning Fu smiled as she patted the big yellow dog and turned to enter the bathroom.

Current Title: Animal Whisperer (Already Worn)

T/N: Sorry for the late update. I fell ill and it took quite a few days to recover. I’ll compensate this and next week!
Edit-Nov 1 – Guys, I’ve relapsed and am still recovering, sorry, will continue the translation as soon as I get better!