Some looked at Zhao Yingmei's naked, lecherous gaze with distaste. Lin Zaozao quickly pulled Ruo Qiu behind her bulky body, attempting to use herself to block Zhao Yingmei's line of sight.
Unfortunately, while she was wide enough, she wasn't tall enough. She blocked Ruo Qiu's body, but not his head.
Seeing Zhao Yingmei's increasingly unbridled gaze, Lin Zaozao was furious. She strode forward and bellowed into Zhao Yingmei's ear.
"Zhao Yingmei!!!"
"Lin Xiaohua, you fool, get out of the way! You're blocking my view!"
As she spoke, Zhao Yingmei unceremoniously pushed Lin Zaozao aside, a smug smile on her face as she walked towards Ruo Qiu.
This silly woman's husband was truly capturing her fancy! Compared to the twelve husbands in her wing, he was simply outstanding. If she could spend a passionate night with this exquisite man tonight...
Seeing the old woman's lascivious gaze, Ruo Qiu's eyes turned cold.
Except for Lin Zaozao, no one had ever dared to look at him in such a brazen manner!
This old woman will die!
As the thought crossed his mind, Ruo Qiu gathered his inner energy into his palm. With one strike to the old woman's body, she would certainly die without anyone realizing what had happened.
But before Ruo Qiu could act, the incensed Lin Zaozao, irritated by Zhao Yingmei's gaze, pulled Ruo Qiu back further. Sticking out her plump belly, she shoved her face right up to Zhao Yingmei's.
"Old woman! If you won't look at me, why are you ogling my husband so shamelessly?"
"I'm looking at your little husband! What can you do about it?"
Seeing Zhao Yingmei's arrogant and unbridled manner, and the nonchalant expressions of the men behind her, Lin Zaozao understood that Zhao Yingmei was relying on her numerical advantage to bully them.
Meeting Lin Zaozao's furious gaze, the men merely glanced at her indifferently. Realizing they wouldn't step in, Lin Zaozao knew she had to handle this herself.
"Zhao Yingmei, if you dare to look at my husband again, I'll gouge out your eyeballs right now!"
"Ha! Just the two of you? You want to fight all of us? We could crush you easily with just a finger each!"
Seeing Zhao Yingmei's finger poking into her forehead, Lin Zaozao's eyes glinted. Grabbing her hand, Lin Zaozao grinned before biting down hard on the finger.
"Ahhhh!!! Lin Xiaohua, you fool! Let me go, let go! It hurts!"
Feeling the excruciating pain in her finger, Zhao Yingmei clawed at Lin Zaozao's face.
Seeing the incoming hand, Lin Zaozao thrust out her belly, shoving Zhao Yingmei back a step. But as her finger was still clamped tightly in Lin Zaozao's mouth, she stumbled forward again.
Stubbornly biting the finger in her mouth, Lin Zaozao saw Zhao Yingmei's head poke towards her. Reaching out, she grabbed a fistful of Zhao Yingmei's hair and wrestled her to the ground, sitting on her stomach as she continued gnawing on her finger.
"Oww, oww! Lin Xiaohua, you fool—!"
Not letting her finish, Lin Zaozao delivered a resounding slap. Hit with such force, Zhao Yingmei no longer had the strength to curse.
Seeing their mistress being bullied, Zhao Yingmei's husbands exchanged glances before approaching Lin Zaozao. Although they couldn't hit a woman, the law didn't forbid them from supporting their own wife in a brawl.
But before they had taken two steps, they tumbled to the ground in a messy pile, stacked on top of each other.
In the midst of slapping Zhao Yingmei back and forth, Lin Zaozao noticed the pile of fallen men. Looking at Ruo Qiu standing to the side with a faint smile, she understood what had happened.
Her amazing Ruo Qiu had handled those useless louts without her even noticing!
Feeling she had slapped Zhao Yingmei enough, Lin Zaozao grabbed her collar and snarled, "Zhao Yingmei, will you still dare to flirt with my husband again?"
"Lin Xiaohua, you actually hit me! I'm finding the village chief right now. I'll have you driven out of Luoshui Village!"
Covering her battered face, Zhao Yingmei wailed loudly.
"Go ahead and cry! If you dare banish me from Luoshui Village, I'll slaughter you this instant!" Lin Zaozao bellowed.
"After all, I'm much younger than you. Even if I kill you, the authorities will spare me because I'm a woman and a fool."
Having said her piece, Lin Zaozao ripped out the hairpin from Zhao Yingmei's head and held it against her neck.
Zhao Yingmei had been bawling loudly, but seeing the hairpin at her throat, she immediately fell silent, not daring to shed another tear.
"What's wrong? Not yelling anymore?"
Faced with Lin Zaozao's fierce questioning, Zhao Yingmei didn't dare fart, afraid that one wrong word would make this fool stab the pin into her neck.
Seeing Zhao Yingmei's obedience, Lin Zaozao wickedly wiggled her bottom on Zhao Yingmei’s stomach.
Sitting down forcefully, Lin Zaozao accidentally caused Zhao Yingmei to roll her eyes back and faint.
Whoops! She better not have killed the old woman, or else she really might get embroiled in legal troubles. After all, her only wish was to live in peace. She didn't want to stir up any trouble over a mere scuffle.
So Lin Zaozao swiftly flipped off of Zhao Yingmei’s body. But before she could react, one of Zhao Yingmei’s husbands scrambled over, grabbing Lin Zaozao by the collar and flinging her aside before crawling to Zhao Yingmei’s motionless body.
Coincidentally, he had torn open Lin Zaozao’s collar in the process, revealing half of her plump, snow-white shoulder.
Everyone gawked dumbfounded at the exposed shoulder.
"Lin Xiaohua, I didn't mean to..."
After peeking at Lin Zaozao's shoulder, the embarrassed man turned his head aside. "That was an accident," he mumbled awkwardly.
"Oh, so it was no accident? You did that on purpose?"
Lin Zaozao slapped Ruo Qiu's hand away as he tried to cover her up again. Squinting at the man, she said, "What are you looking at? Never seen a beauty like me before?"
"No... Lin Xiaohua, could you put your clothes back on first?" The man kept his head lowered as he muttered.
"No way. This is evidence! When I find the village chief, I'll say that Zhao Yingmei took advantage of her numbers to molest me and Ruo Qiu!" Lin Zaozao declared loudly.
"Let's see whether the village chief exiles you rotten mongrels damaging our village morality, or kicks us out instead!"
Hearing Lin Zaozao's words, Zhao Yingmei, her swollen face covered in bruises, crawled up from the ground, glaring at Lin Zaozao in disbelief.
Could it be... this fat woman was no longer an idiot? How else could she argue so articulately?
"Zhao Yingmei, why are you staring? Never seen someone as devastatingly gorgeous as me before?"
"Lin Xiaohua... you're no longer foolish now?" Zhao Yingmei mumbled dumbfounded.
"You're the fool here! With a melon-sized head like mine, my brain capacity is at least two taels bigger than yours! Your whole family's IQs combined can't compare to my intelligence!"
"But on your wedding day, other than the official matchmaker, everyone in the village called you an idiot. I was there too, and your expression did seem rather dumb."
"They were just blind. They were jealous of my captivating beauty and five fairy-like husbands. So they splashed dirty water on me just like you!"
Only now did Zhao Yingmei notice Lin Zaozao's clean-scrubbed face, absent of the dark blotches from before.
"Lin Xiaohua, what happened to the spots on your face?!"
Zhao Yingmei stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
"I healed myself. Zhao Yingmei, old lady here is a great immortal. I deliberately made my face so ugly to conceal my divine powers originally."
"You must be a charlatan! And immortal! Just big talk without actual skills, how can you brazenly make up stories. Even if the dark spots on your face are gone, you are still an ugly freak now.
You should also pat your belly. It's even bigger than a woman who has been pregnant for nine months. You are as round as a ball, yet you still dare to call yourself a great immortal. Old lady has never seen such a fat great immortal like you." Zhao Yingmei covered her face and said disgustedly.
"Damn! How do you even know the term charlatan?"
As she spoke, Lin Zaozao winked at Zhao Yingmei and mouthed the word "crossover".
"Lin Xiaohua, are your eyes twitching? And you became mute? Just say directly whatever you want to say, why make faces at old lady?
Let old lady make this clear, old lady is a decent woman. Old lady doesn't have any interest in you, fatso."
Zhao Yingmei's words made Lin Zaozao's face fall. She immediately dismissed her own speculation.
She was out of her mind just now to think that a lustful person like Zhao Yingmei could have crossed over.
Was she winking at her just now?
She was trying to get confirmation from her.
Sighing slightly, Lin Zaozao grabbed Zhao Yingmei's collar fiercely and warned her,
"Zhao Yingmei, you were in the wrong today. If you dare to flirt with my husband again in the future, old lady will beat you every time we meet. Understand?"
After saying that, Lin Zaozao pulled up her own collar to cover her plump shoulders. She got up from the ground, ready to leave with Ruo Qiu.
But before she could take a step, her pants were grabbed by Zhao Yingmei.
"Lin Xiaohua, are you really an immortal?"
"Yeah! Why do you ask?" Lin Zaozao asked puzzledly.
"Lin Xiaohua, if you are really an immortal, then calculate for me why I can't have children?"
"What? You can't conceive?"
Lin Zaozao let go of Ruo Qiu's hand and squatted down beside Zhao Yingmei to look at her belly.
"Zhao Yingmei, you already married twelve husbands, yet you don't have any children?"
"Why would I want kids if I have so many husbands to feed?"
Zhao Yingmei's words made the faces of her husbands standing behind her look bad.
Lin Zaozao glanced at Zhao Yingmei's husbands, then looked at her belly again. She asked puzzledly,
"Zhao Yingmei, what does you having children have anything to do with marrying so many husbands?"
"Of course it does! Because those things are useless. I married them but not a single one could make me pregnant. They are all infertile things. I am showing them mercy by not abandoning them. That shows I, Zhao Yingmei, have conscience."
"But Zhao Yingmei, have you ever thought that the infertile one could be..."
Seeing Zhao Yingmei's eyes widen in shock, Lin Zaozao quickly swallowed back the words she was about to say.
Let it go. In this world, women are more precious than men. So when a woman can't conceive, they would subconsciously push the responsibility onto the man.
Just like in her original world, some infertile men would push responsibility onto their wives when finding out they can't make their wives pregnant.
Thinking of this, Lin Zaozao didn't explain further.
Because once she elaborates with her mouth, she would be seen as abnormal by others. She was not here to say silly words about gender equality to Zhao Yingmei like some saintess.
