Reborn as a Tough Army Wife

Fang Pingying detected the pampering in his tone, and her heart felt sweet, but she feigned a glare at him, "So what you mean is, with my fiery temper, it's rather abnormal that I married you?"

Luo Zhiyong blinked with a smile and raised an eyebrow, "Yes, only I would dare to marry you. If it had been someone else, who knows, you might have bullied them to death."

Fang Pingying gave a sidelong glance and said with a half-smile, "Hmph, if you think I'm not good enough, go marry someone else. There are plenty of people hovering around you, like childhood sweethearts and children of high-ranking officials. You still have time to regret."

These words were true. The childhood sweetheart was Xu He, and the child of high-ranking officials was Bai Jing; weren't these two always around him?

Luo Zhiyong, of course, knew that Fang Pingying's words had a deeper meaning. Smiling, he glared back at her and pulled her into his embrace, determined to properly punish her.

But he hadn't even started when Zhou Yunmei, as if endowed with clairvoyance, knocked on the door with a not-so-pleasant tone, "Zhiyong, what are you doing in there? Come out, I have something to tell you."

This move by Zhou Yunmei solidified Luo Zhiyong's resolve to return to the provincial city earlier.

As he walked towards the door, he turned back and instructed Fang Pingying, "Pack up our things, I'm going to tell my parents that we're leaving tomorrow."

Fang Pingying nodded, feeling that Zhou Yunmei's timing was actually quite perfect.

But this time, Zhou Yunmei wasn't there specifically to supervise them; she had serious matters to discuss with Luo Zhiyong.

After calling him out, her expression turned grave as she looked at Luo Zhiyong and asked, "Did you two lie to us?"

Luo Zhiyong was unclear about what she meant and his eyebrows furrowed slightly, "What did we lie to you about?"

Zhou Yunmei scoffed, "Still not admitting it? Just now at your uncle's place, I heard Yu Fen talking about the hospital fees for your uncle, saying it was your wife who provided the money, right?"

Fang Pingying had talked to Luo Zhiyong about this, and Luo Zhiyong had guessed that Zhou Yunmei would eventually find out.

Hearing her ask, he straightforwardly admitted, "Indeed, the money did come from us."

As soon as Luo Zhiyong finished his sentence, Zhou Yunmei started pointing at him and shouting loudly, "Oh, Luo Zhiyong, you're really something, getting married and forgetting your mother so thoroughly. Now you're teaming up with your wife to deceive me."

"What have we hidden from you?" Luo Zhiyong, seeing Zhou Yunmei causing trouble again after just a few days, replied with extreme impatience, "Aren't you aware of Pingying working at the shop?"

"Hmph, what partnership? I bet it's just your wife who owns it, otherwise, how could she earn so much money?" Zhou Yunmei had really thought through the matter; she was very precise in her analysis.

"The medical bills for your uncle this time weren't small, several hundred yuan all at once. Your wife could give out that much money without even blinking; do you think I'm foolish enough to believe she could earn so much by working for others?"

Luo Zhiyong is a soldier, and he won't lie with his eyes open.

Seeing that Zhou Yunmei already knew, he admitted directly, "Mom, what are you trying to say? Even if my wife has opened her own shop, do you need to get this worked up over it?"

"Since the medical fees were paid by her, why didn't she say anything when she came back, creating daily disputes at home? I almost died drinking pesticide." The memory of herself almost dying from drinking pesticide filled Zhou Yunmei with loathing for Fang Pingying, her teeth clenched with hatred,

"Thank goodness I didn't die. If I had, I would have become a ghost just to strangle her."

Luo Zhiyong didn't like her cursing Fang Pingying, and he raised his voice at her, "Are you even reasonable? You argue a bit with my dad and then you threaten to drink pesticide, you're just trying to scare him."

As mother and son were arguing, Luo Dashan just happened to return from outside.

He saw the two of them arguing so fiercely their faces were flushed and their veins were popping, and immediately stepped in, shouting to stop them, "What's happened, what's happened? Why are you arguing again?"

When Zhou Yunmei saw Luo Dashan, she grabbed him and pointed at Luo Zhiyong, "Old man, you tell me about your unfilial son, saying that last time I drank pesticide just to scare you. Is he trying to force me to really die before he believes I'm not just scaring people?" The fu.ll% s+er@i-e*s liv^e$s- on My Virtu$al L$i!br!ar@y- Empire- (M|!V|L0EM*PYR)..@

Luo Dashan didn't ask Luo Zhiyong; in his eyes, if Luo Zhiyong and Zhou Yunmei were having a conflict, it was definitively Zhou Yunmei being unreasonable.

He just looked at Zhou Yunmei and asked, "Tell me what's going on? What's all this commotion about?"

Zhou Yunmei glared at Luo Zhiyong, then asked Luo Dashan, "Do you know that it was your son's wife who paid for your second son's medical expenses?"

Luo Dashan roughly understood what they were squabbling about; he pursed his lips, stepped back, and replied, "I know, Pingying told me, and she also said that money would never be brought up again, haven't I never asked you to take out money to repay it?"

"Well, you dead old man, you also deceive me, you..." Zhou Yunmei felt that at this moment the whole family was ganging up to deceive her, and the instigator was Fang Pingying. In anger, she shouted into the house, "Fang Pingying, come out! Today I must have a proper talk with you about this matter."

Fang Pingying, naturally hearing Zhou Yunmei's commotion in the courtyard, had originally no intention of paying it any mind.

Moreover, she knew that this matter would sooner or later be exposed.

Presumably, Yu Fen must have realized today that there was no hope left for getting Cheng Fei to go to the city for work, hence she maliciously told Zhou Yunmei, letting Zhou Yunmei come back to cause a scene with her.

A scene? Fang Pingying really wasn't afraid of her now.

She had started her own little shop, honest and legitimate, and was tired of hiding and sneaking around.

She believed that she, as daughter-in-law to Luo Zhiyong, had already done quite well for the family.

Even if she said that the remittance was a little less than before last year, she had managed to send ten yuan every month, plus several hundred yuan for the New Year. If Zhou Yunmei hadn't been hanging around Luo Zhiming, would their lives be so hard?

And regarding the second uncle's medical expenses, she had already paid but never asked for reimbursement; what more did they want from her?

So, Fang Pingying stepped straight out the door and into the courtyard, looking directly at Zhou Yunmei, "Mom, I opened that shop myself, and I earn some money every month, what do you plan to do?"

"You..." Zhou Yunmei didn't expect Fang Pingying to come out with such a stance, not in the least bit guilt-ridden, and instead, it was as if she was the one who had done something wrong. She was stumped by the question.

Without waiting for Zhou Yunmei to reply, Fang Pingying continued, "Don't say I kept it from you; with the way you behave, could I not keep it hidden? You just found out and the house is already in a mess, if you knew earlier what chaos would you have caused all the way to the provincial city?"

Zhou Yunmei was cornered by the question and couldn't reply for a long while.

After thinking for quite some time, she finally came up with a reason and glared at Fang Pingying, "Since you can make money, why do you only give us so little each month? Are you trying to starve us to death?"

Fang Pingying let out a derisive laugh, "Have you starved to death? Aren't you still giving quite a bit of money to Zhiming every month?" (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets, and your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)