The Road to Doting Wife

Chapter 43 He is as fierce as a wolf (1)
Is Zhao Chen treating himself well?
Ah Ju couldn't tell.

Before today, she only hated him, hated him for coercing and threatening, and hated him for bullying others. Even if he saved her last night, her gratitude dissipated because of his subsequent violation.But today, although he satirized her and teased her again and again, he really treated her well, just like the last time he helped the doe with dystocia, it was not a verbal empty promise, but a real act of his identity. Impossible things, things only done for her.

Can she say that he treats her badly?
The thoughtfulness with which he gave her the steps in the cave, the steadyness with which he walked with her on his back, the tenderness with which he bent down and spread his robe on the sand, the patience with which he helped her remove the scorched fish skin bit by bit, and just now, He almost fell from that height just to pick flowers for her.

marry him?

Looking at the orchid in front of him, Ah Ju finally shook his head.She didn't know how to refuse him, so she could only turn around and walk forward.

She is not hard-hearted.No man has ever treated her like this. Maybe Meng Zhongjing wanted to treat her like this before, but he was honest and polite, and he never expected or had the opportunity to be too close to her.Now that Zhao Chen has done so much for her, it is impossible for her to be completely indifferent.

It's just that being tempted doesn't mean marrying him.

She and Meng Zhongjing were childhood sweethearts, and she thought she knew him well, but what happened?As for Zhao Chen, she only knew that he came from a wealthy family, knew that he was good at doing business, knew that he was aggressive when he was cold, and uncontrollably flustered when he was gentle, and also knew that he had a good mother.But she didn't know Zhao Chen well. Even Meng Zhongjing could abandon her for a woman she had only known for half a month. How could she ensure that this richer and better man would always treat her well?

Ah Ju didn't dare to trust any man easily anymore, she just felt that ordinary men would always be less entangled than wealthy sons.In the villages near and far, people like Meng Zhongjing are special cases after all, and most of the villagers have been husband and wife for decades.As for the wealthy families in the towns and cities, if the men have a little money, they will take in a house to raise concubines, but uncles like that are rare.Aju is not greedy for money, since she was a child she wanted to marry an honest farmer, without Meng Zhongjing, and other things, maybe she wouldn't like him too much, but she would live a very stable life, and Aju didn't believe that she would always So unlucky, every fiancé was snatched away halfway.

No matter what, Zhao Chen is not suitable for her, in fact Zhao Chen doesn't know her well either, he insists on wanting to marry her and still likes her appearance after all, after a few years when she gets old and he meets a more beautiful woman, he will naturally change his mind, He will even pester each other like he is doing to her now.

Ah Ju couldn't afford to gamble.Maybe she will never like anyone as much as she liked Meng Zhongjing at the beginning, and she won't be too sad when she is hurt, but she doesn't want to experience another betrayal.Therefore, she dare not marry someone like Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen frowned at Ah Ju's back.

The first two times when he begged her to marry him, she refused, and he didn't say much, but after getting along with him by the river, he could see that she didn't dislike him so much, even she just saw him. God, why still refuse to marry?
He didn't understand.

"Ah Ju." Zhao Chen chased after him again.

Ah Ju lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him, Zhao Chen looked at himself, first put the orchid on the ground, quickly put on his clothes and tidied up, and chased after him again with the flower.She still refused to look at him, Zhao Chen became angry, and pulled him into his arms with a flower in one hand, "Aju, tell me, why do you refuse to marry me? Don't say whether you are worthy or not, in my eyes Those are nothing, I just want to know why you refuse to marry me."

He tightened his grip so tightly that Ah Ju couldn't break free, so she turned her head and scolded him: "Let go of me, you promised not to pester me again last night!"

"If you don't make it clear, I won't let you go." Zhao Chen raised her chin and looked directly into her eyes: "Could it be that I'm not good enough for you? Just now I almost fell to my death and wanted to take the risk of picking your favorite orchids, and I wanted you How can you believe that I will treat you well?"

There was raging anger in his eyes, which made her dare not look at her. Ah Ju lowered her eyes, "Mr. Zhao, thank you for being so kind to me. It's just that you and I are really not suitable. There is no other reason. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. , I can only tell you that I don't want to marry you, please let me go?"

no reason...

Zhao Chen looked down at her, "You mean, no matter how good I am to you, you won't marry, even if I almost die for you, you won't?"

His voice was very calm, no emotion could be heard, but it was so cold that it made people feel chills. Ah Ju didn't dare to look at his expression, and said yes in a low voice.

When she spoke, her eyelids drooped and her eyelashes did not tremble, it could be seen that she was not duplicity.Zhao Chen sneered, let go of her, and strode forward. After two or three steps, he raised his hand, and the cluster of orchids was thrown into the grass by him, scattered in a mess, desolate and decadent.

The mountain wind seemed to be colder than before, drying the sweat on her body.

Ah Ju looked at the man striding away.

When he was in a good mood, he went to pick the flowers desperately, but now he was angry, he threw the flowers away.If he treats orchids like this, will he treat women the same way?Hold it in the palm of your hand when you like it, and throw it away like a shoe when you don't like it.

Ah Ju turned her head, and there was only a clump of green orchid leaves left on the cliff. If the orchid hadn't been picked off, those inconspicuous slender leaves would have been guarding it.Ah Ju just wants to marry an ordinary man. He doesn't need to be very good-looking, rich, or even know those sweet words. As long as he is willing to stay by her side all the time, she will be satisfied. That is the life she wants to live .

The man in front had already walked a long way, Ah Ju took one last look at the orchids in the grass, and heeled up.

She didn't chase Zhao Chen, she just followed from a distance so as not to get lost.

The two of them walked back and forth like this. As they walked, Ah Ju gradually felt something was wrong. She couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north in the forest, but Zhao Chen turned a corner from time to time. It turned out that he was deliberately delaying the time to go down the mountain.

Is it because of anger?

Ah Ju wiped the sweat from her brow, it was only natural for him to want to torment her, but she really couldn't walk anymore.

Just when she was hesitating whether to ask him or not, Zhao Chen suddenly turned around and walked towards her.

Ah Ju didn't dare to look into his eyes, and slightly lowered his head to look at his feet. When the two were more than ten steps away, Ah Ju couldn't help asking him: "Are we going down the mountain soon?"

Zhao Chen continued to approach her, "Hurry up, but I deliberately took you around just now, did you see it?"

Ah Ju frowned, looked up at him: "What do you mean?"

Zhao Chen smiled at her, "Ah Ju, I told you that I was determined to marry you, and I also kindly warned you not to give me a chance. Unfortunately, you were taken away by those villains this time. I was the first to find the clues. , so I went into the mountain overnight to look for people, and before I came up, I specifically asked Chen Ping to bring my uncle and the others to the foot of the mountain at noon today, and if my predictions are correct, they are about to enter the mountain at this time."

Ah Ju should be happy that her father is coming, but the deep meaning in the man's words scared her, so she asked him tremblingly as she stepped back, "Why..."

"Why didn't you inform Uncle yesterday?" Zhao Chen continued to approach, and Ah Ju retreated faster and faster, but he was never in a hurry, and his voice was as calm as chatting: "I came up first, of course I want to spend more time with you , I think if I treat you well, you will definitely be willing to marry me. But if you don’t want to, then I have to find another way. Ah Ju, you said, if I carry you down the mountain and my uncle and the others bump into me, you can only marry me Me?"

Although she was asking, her gaze was like a wolf's, and Ah Ju felt cold all over her body, and felt that her gratitude before was like a joke.She is too stupid, how can someone who can intimidate and offend a girl who has only met a few times be really nice to a person?Everything he did was carefully calculated to make her marry him willingly, and even shamelessly tricked her into sleeping with him for one night.

Knowing that he couldn't outrun him, Ah Ju retreated to an old tree, and warned him with a pale face: "Don't come over, if you take another step, I'll hit you head-on, I'd rather die than marry you!"

Zhao Chen seemed to have never heard of it, and only stopped five steps away, looking at her expressionlessly: "Then you die, if you don't want to see your parents, your younger brothers and sisters, if you If you want the old white-haired person to send the black-haired person, if you want your younger siblings to blame themselves for not being at home with you and causing you an accident, if you are willing to make them sad, you can die. You are dead, I I will still carry you down the mountain, and I will tell my uncle that you fell into the hands of the wicked and committed suicide because of the humiliation, how about preserving your reputation for you?"

Ah Ju was already sobbing.

She didn't want to die, she didn't want to upset her family, she wanted to be with them.

"Why, you don't want to die anymore?" Taking advantage of her loss of consciousness, Zhao Chen strode forward to grab her and push her against the tree trunk.

Ah Ju struggled, unable to break free, she hated him to the bone, "I won't die, it's not worth dying for you! You can do whatever you want, even if you force me down the mountain, I will still take this Tell my father everything, I would rather not marry for the rest of my life, and I would rather become a nun than marry a beast like you!"

Zhao Chen smiled lowly, and covered her face with his right hand.Aju turned her head to hide, he held her chin to prevent her from hiding, then lowered his head, his forehead almost touched her, and murmured like a talisman from hell: "Aju, do you know what life is better than death? Today I Carrying you down the mountain, you will run into two uncles and the servants of Zhao and Zhou. You promise to marry me, and this matter will not be spread. Otherwise, before dark, you will be taken away by thieves and you will be alone in the cave with me The story of one night will be widely spread in the villages and towns. Even if you don’t care about it, even if you can become a monk to hide in peace, what about your parents, the gentle and beautiful eldest daughter will end up like this, will they feel better? Your sister, Elder sister's reputation is ruined, what kind of good husband's family do you think she can find? And Xiao Jiu, one of the two sisters is a monk and the other is not married, which good family will marry their daughter? Tell me, is life better than death? ?”

He seemed to be used to this kind of thing, and there was a kind of bewitchment in his voice, which drew Ah Ju's thoughts.She seemed to see her parents crying and persuading her not to become a monk, seeing her charming younger sister trapped at home crying and sighing, seeing the girl her younger brother liked was arranged by her parents to marry someone else...

Ah Ju was trembling all over, if the man hadn't lifted her, she would have lost strength and fell down.She couldn't die, and she was suffering while alive. What should she do?
Ah Ju didn't want to beg Zhao Chen, but she was desperate, she cried and begged him: "Master Zhao, I beg you, please let me go..."

She was crying so heartbroken, hopeless and helpless, Zhao Chen just watched quietly.

He flattered her in every possible way, but she was hard-hearted and refused to accept it, so don't blame him for letting her know about these tricks earlier.In the future, the husband and wife will be one, and he will try his best to take good care of her and protect her. But in that kind of place, no matter whether he strives for the upper hand at the beginning or he will be the ultimate minister in the future, she must grow up slowly, at least to be able to protect herself. Now he Just teach her ahead of time.

He stretched out his hand to wipe her tears, and his tone was softer: "Ah Ju, in fact, I have done so much just to marry you. As long as you promise to marry me, Uncle and the others can live a good life. In other words, I can let you go." Your family will never let you go, it depends on how you choose now. Death is better than life, marry me happily, these three paths, no matter which one you choose, I will accompany you well. "

In a gentle voice, speak the cruelest words.

Ah Ju closed her eyes, did she have a choice?

Zhao Chen looked at her, didn't ask any more questions, took her hand, turned around and squatted down, and pulled her onto his back.Ah Ju instinctively resisted, Zhao Chen suddenly increased his strength, she fell on him helplessly, and was lifted up skillfully and steadily by him, no matter whether she cried, scolded, grabbed or beat her, he didn't care , step by step forward.

(End of this chapter)