Chapter 62 Don't Be Foolish Enough to Get Fooled Again

Ma Zhiming had recovered over the past few days, and his vigor had returned with it. Last night, he had even fooled around with Liu Caixia for a while—it felt beyond amazing.

The thought of securing a spot to return to the city meant he still had to get through Su Wanwan; he had to trick her into his hands at all costs.

Before the morning shift started, he waited along the usual path she took to gather pigweed.

Finally, she appeared.

He put on a flattering smile and said, "Su Wanwan, the medicine your brother got me last time actually worked pretty well."

Seeing that Su Wanwan ignored him, he pressed on, "Have you remembered that you used to be my girl?"

Ma Zhiming’s eyes fixed intently on the person in front of him. Su Wanwan was truly growing more and more exquisitely charming, with a full, voluptuous chest.

Her figure made his whole body burn with heat; she felt infinitely more alluring than Liu Caixia.

How could she possibly be even prettier than Liu Caixia? Why hadn't he noticed it before?

Su Wanwan stopped in her tracks and turned to look at Ma Zhiming beside her.

This man still refused to give up. Of course she knew what kind of scheme he was cooking up in his mind.

The lecherous look in his eyes as he appraised her instantly made her skin crawl.

How dare he look at her with such a filthy gaze.

In that case, she wouldn't be polite.

She was just about to reach into her pocket to grab the anti-wolf spray from her dimensional space.

At that moment, Xie Beishen signaled Su Heng to look ahead.

Su Heng finally looked forward and saw Ma Zhiming standing next to his younger sister with a wicked smile. His anger flared up instantly.

He sprinted forward, delivered a fierce kick straight at Ma Zhiming, and stepped in front of his sister, shouting furiously, "What do you think you're doing to my sister?"

"Ah!" Ma Zhiming let out a miserable scream as he tumbled into the ditch beside the path. "Ouch, my back!"

He looked up at the few people standing before him. "I... what could I possibly be doing in broad daylight? I was just passing by and chatting with Su Wanwan."

As he finished speaking, his gaze involuntarily drifted toward Xie Beishen. The man's dark eyes were incomparably piercing, almost palpable, instantly sending a chill of sheer terror down his spine.

Xie Beishen’s voice was as cold as cracking ice: "So you mean you can't do anything in the daytime, but you can do it at night, is that it?"

Su Wanwan turned her gaze toward Xie Beishen. His entire being seemed wrapped in a chilling, formidable aura.

He was standing up for her. Her eyes shone brightly as she looked at him.

Oh my, why did he have to be so handsome?

Her second brother standing up for her was pretty handsome too.

Su Heng’s chest heaved as he fought to keep his temper in check. "Sis, what did he try to do to you just now?"

Su Wanwan instantly withdrew her gaze from Xie Beishen and pouted. "Second Brother, he was spreading rumors about me again, saying I'm his woman, and he was sizing me up with those creepy, lecherous eyes."

Xie Beishen clenched his fists so hard the veins bulged on the back of his hands. The warnings he had given this guy previously hadn't sunk in at all.

Hearing this, without waiting for Ma Zhiming to explain, Su Heng lunged at him and began raining blows down upon him.

"You bastard! I'll let you look..." Su Heng roared as he beat him. "I'll beat you to death! How dare you bully my sister..."

His fists punched through the air with ferocious force.

Su Heng felt as though his entire body was filled with an endless reservoir of strength.

Ma Zhiming’s cries for mercy and wails quickly drew the surrounding villagers who were heading to the fields.

Xie Beishen forcibly suppressed the turbulent emotions rising in his chest. Now was not the time to step in for her; if this spread to others' ears, it would damage her reputation.

Lin Yu watched as Su Heng gave Ma Zhiming a brutal thrashing. This guy really had a death wish.

To dare covet the woman his Brother Shen had set his sights on—this fellow had certainly forgotten Brother Shen's warning from last time rather quickly.

Su Wanwan worried that her second brother might actually beat the man to death, which would land him in prison.

She hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her second brother's arm. "Enough, enough! Don't beat him to death, Second Brother, it's not worth it."

Fearing he might accidentally strike his sister, Su Heng stopped throwing punches.

At that moment, someone in the crowd shouted, "What's going on? Why are you guys fighting? What's this about?"

Su Heng fixed a murderous glare on the man on the ground, a look that clearly meant: *Utter a single word and I'll kill you.*

Seeing this, Lin Yu waved his hand toward the crowd. "Everyone disperse, disperse! Just two friends messing around."

Someone in the crowd muttered, "That guy's beaten to a pulp. What kind of messed-up game is that?"

Another person said, "The Su family boy must be acting wild because his dad isn't home."

A third chimed in, "Who knows what trouble the production brigade leader got into? He still hasn't returned. We better hurry up and hold an election for a new brigade leader."

Su Heng couldn't be bothered to engage with these gossips. Once his father returned today, these rumors would collapse on their own.

"Let's go, time to work," Su Heng said, looking at his sister.

Su Wanwan promptly followed behind him.

Seeing that they were about to reach the fork in the road where their paths separated, Su Heng reminded his sister that it was hot out, so she should earn a couple of work points and head home early.

Su Wanwan nodded. "Okay."

After they parted ways, Xie Beishen walked at the very back. He glanced at Lin Yu and said, "You go on ahead to the fields with Su Heng, I need to use the latrine."

With that, he turned and walked back.

Xie Beishen quickened his pace to catch up with Su Wanwan.

Seeing Xie Beishen, Su Wanwan paused slightly and stopped walking.

Xie Beishen pulled two bottles of soda from his pocket and handed them into Su Wanwan's arms. "It's hot out, drink these. I've got more where that came from, so stop being so foolish and letting yourself get tricked by others." Having said that, he turned and walked back the way he came.

Su Wanwan: "!!!"

She stared at Xie Beishen's retreating back, then looked down at the bottles of soda in her hands.

What was Xie Beishen playing at? Who was being foolish?

Was he talking about her?

That was the original owner, alright? She would never let herself be tricked by Ma Zhiming again.

She tucked the soda bottles into her back basket as a cover and used her mind to transfer them directly into her dimensional space.

Because she had candies to motivate herself, she earned her work points in no time at all.

Back home, she went into her space to take a bath before finally opening one of the sodas Xie Beishen had given her and taking a sip.

Lying on the sofa inside her space while sipping soda felt pretty awesome, hehe~

Why on earth did Xie Beishen bring her soda? What was his game anyway?

How come she felt like he was acting a little strange?

Meanwhile, Xie Beishen was picking up small pebbles from the fields and slipping them into his pocket.

This exact scene happened to be caught by Su Heng walking beside him, who asked out of curiosity, "What are you picking up small stones for?"

Xie Beishen picked up a few more and tucked them into his pocket, glancing in the direction where Ma Zhiming was working.

"Didn't you say you wanted to see Ma Zhiming lift a stone only to drop it on his own feet?"

"Huh?" Su Heng said. "I wanted to see it, sure, but what does that have to do with you picking up stones?"

Lin Yu smiled and explained, "Brother Shen never misses when he throws pebbles. We often get to eat game meat from the mountains simply because Brother Shen picks up stones on his way up the mountain for a bath."

Hearing this, Su Heng asked, "Really?"

Xie Beishen gripped a small pebble tightly in his palm, waiting for Ma Zhiming to lift that stone.

Su Heng looked over toward Ma Zhiming. As luck would have it, the people clearing the wasteland were currently carrying away the large stones from the ground.

With so many eyes watching, when it was Ma Zhiming's turn to carry one, naturally he couldn't slack off. He wrapped his arms around a large boulder and began to walk.

Inside, he was cursing Su Heng for ruining his good thing today. Ever since he failed to sleep with Su Wanwan last time, nothing seemed to be going right for him.

His newly healed handsome face was sporting bruises again—simply everything was going against him.

Just as he was thinking this, the back of his hand was suddenly struck by something, a wave of sharp pain shooting up his entire arm.

The large boulder in his arms slipped from his grip and smashed heavily down onto his foot.

"Ah..." Ma Zhiming shrieked in agony as he collapsed to the ground. "Ouch, my foot!"

The surrounding people instantly crowded around Ma Zhiming.

"How could you be so clumsy?"