Repudiating a Good Wife Is Out of the Question

6. Meeting Father-in-law

Translator: Sissy That Walk

“I don’t care, a clean hand wants no washing, if they want to talk, go ahead. There’s nothing to talk, we are a married couple!” Cao Mo sulked, “I’m carrying you on my back now, I’m waiting for you to carry me when we get old.”

Xiao Yi felt so touched, he had never received such warmth and kindness, “Sure! I will carry you when I get better!”

The two bantered for a while, Cao Mo thought life treated him well after all.

“Get out of my way, get out of my way!” suddenly someone charged towards them in a flash.

It was too late to dodge when Cao Mo saw there came someone, with a bang, Xiao Yi and Cao Mo fell down on the snow ground.

Cao Mo protected Xiao Yi’s arms before they both fell over, he also shouted, “Yi, don’t move around, just lie on my back!”

Xiao Yi raised his head only to find the intruder was Xiao Jin.

Xiao Jin was fifteen years old, but he always put on airs, he pointed at Xiao Yi in a domineering way, “You two! That’s an offence against decency! Where are your manners?”

“It’s none of your business!” Cao Mo picked himself up from the ground, he didn’t fall hard thanks to the snow as a cushion.

“You are in no postilion to judgemental in my life!” Xiao Yi retorted, then he turned around to wipe the snow on Cao Mo’s clothes, “How are you feeling, did you fall hard?”

“I’m fine, I’m wearing a lot of layers.” Cao Mo replied gently, then he asked, “Who is that boy? Why is he so rude?”

“He is my younger brother Xiao Jin, son of Lady Lu. Unlike me, he’s got his mother’s protection.” explained Xiao Yi lifelessly.

“That’s okay, unlike you, he doesn’t have my protection.” answered Cao Mo.

Hearing that, Xiao Yi beamed, “You~”

Getting the silent treatment, Xiao Jin who tried to stir up some trouble now was in a rage, he squeezed Cao Mo on his cheek, “So you are my brother-in-law? Not too bad, not too bad, quite good-looking.”

Cao Mo grabbed hold of Xiao Jin’s wrist and pulled a back suplex on him when Xiao Yi was about to tell Xiao Jin off.

Xiao Jin was caught off guard, he fell down on the ground, hard.

Xiao Jin was utterly discomfited, he picked himself up from the ground and screamed, How dare you!”

“How dare you to touch my face? Oh wait, you are double faced, so you didn’t touch your own face because you were confused and you don’t know which face of yours to touch?” Cao Mo ridiculed Xiao Jin.

Xiao Jin stamped his feet, “It’s your honor that I find you good-looking. Soon you will become a widow, you know that?”

Xiao Yi’s face darkened, “How dare you to molest your brother-in-law?”

Xiao Jin rolled his eyes at Xiao Yi, “What’s the big deal? I will molest him good after you die!”

“What a scoundrel!”

There came a reproach from Xiao Jin’s back.

It was Marquis Valour Xiao Yugui who was sitting in a sedan chair.

‘No wonder Mo provoked this silly bastard Xiao Jin to say again, he knows Marquis Valour is passing by,” thought Cao Mo.

“Greetings, father.” Xiao Yi dragged Cao Mo and bowed to Xiao Yugui, Xiao Jin who realized he was set up by Xiao Yi was now glaring at Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yugui’s sedan chair was parked three steps away from, he slightly lifted the curtain on the sedan revealing an officer hat, and a serious face leaves people in awe.

He was staring at Xiao Jin, “You are stirring trouble again, aren’t you?”

Xiao Yugui signaled his servant to support Xiao Yi to rise.

Xiao Jin felt so wronged, he shot Xiao Yi an evil glare and defended himself, “Father, I was not. Brother is asking brother-in-law to carry him on the back, I was trying to ask them to stop, but brother-in-law knocked me down on the ground, I still cannot move.”

Xiao Yi pressed his forehead, what a calculating bastard, it looked like he had met his match today!

Xiao Yugui looked at Cao Mo, “I know you and Yi are newly-weds, but it’s not proper.”

Xiao Yi soon took the blame, “Father, it was me who got carried away, please punish me!”

Cao Mo murmured, “what’s the big fuss?”

Xiao Yi caught hold of Cao Mo’s sleeve and signaled him to keep quiet.

Xiao Yugui frowned, little did he expect his son-in-law was actually a rebel, he explained, “You need to learn some basic disciplines now that you and Yi are married, you need to behave yourself, always protect Yi and our family’s good name. Today I will let you go considering you are new to the family, but it won’t be this easy next time.”

“Your Lordship, I knocked him down for a reason!” Cao Mo retorted.

Xiao Yi grabbed Cao Mo’s hand and kowtowed to Xiao Yugui, “Father, please forgive him, I will discipline him!”

“Brother-in-law surely could use some disciplines, Mammy Wang told mother that he had broken the mirror that bestowed by His Majesty, he even… he even molested Bailu, my brother’s maid.” chimed in Xiao Jin in high spirit.

“Is that so?” Xiao Yugui looked at Cao Mo and Xiao Yi, looking for an answer.

Cao Mo was mad Xiao Jin just defamed him like this, “That’s not the case. I didn’t molest the maid, the mirror was broken by the maid, not me! The maid cook the book, she had been mooching over fifty taels of silver per month for the past decade!”

Xiao Yugui stroked his beard, “Do you have any evidence?”

“I do, Your Lordship. The account books are in my room right now, please have a look. The maid made up expense in Yi’s name, it’s ridiculous! Ten years, that’s about six thousand taels!”

Xiao Yugui asked Xiao Yi, “Why haven’t you mentioned anything, for ten years?”

Xiao Yi kowtowed to his father, “Father attends to numerous affairs in court every day, Lady Lu is overburdened with domestic issues too, I… I don’t have the heart to bother neither of you. Plus who would expect a maid would have the guts to mooch over such a large amount?”