bigabreads Chapter 20: She had just tied on her red bellyband when the fifth brother burst in, spitting blood a
Chapter 20: She had just tied on her red bellyband when the fifth brother burst in, spitting blood a
The construction was quite noisy, and the Qin family's courtyard was filled with the clanging sound of chisels all day long.
While the men toiled outside, sweating profusely, Su Wan hid in a relatively quiet side room, fiddling with the newly purchased fabrics.
We took their measurements at the fabric shop beforehand. Although the Qin brothers are clumsy and can't embroider, they can still cut the fabric into shape.
After several days of sewing, the new outfit was finally finished.
Of course, what made Su Wan blush and her heart race the most was the bright red mandarin duck-patterned bellyband that Qin Yue, the fourth son, insisted on buying.
"This is...too embarrassing!" Su Wan held the palm-sized red cloth, her face burning hot enough to fry an egg.
The fabric is the finest silk, smooth and slippery, red like blood, red like fire.
The mandarin ducks embroidered on it are so lifelike, and their placement... is just right...
She gritted her teeth and glanced at the tightly closed door.
The bolt on this broken wooden door is a bit loose (I don't know who tampered with it), but it's broad daylight and the guys are all out working, so it should be fine, right?
Never mind, let's try it on to see if it fits!
With her back to the door, Su Wan unbuttoned her faded old undergarment.
Her clothes slipped off. The girl's delicate body, which had become even more perfect under the nourishment of the spiritual spring water, was exposed to the air without reservation.
Her back is extremely beautiful.
Her spinal groove was deep, and her shoulder blades seemed ready to take flight. Her skin was dazzlingly white, like a freshly peeled lychee, gleaming with a lustrous sheen.
Su Wan picked up the red undergarment and held it against her body. Red and white. An extreme visual contrast!
She reached her hands behind her back, pinching the two thin red ropes, preparing to tie a knot. Because of the movement, her arms stretched backward, covering her pert breasts, but the breathtaking curve of her side was faintly visible.
Just as the rope was tied into a knot, before he even had a chance to put on his coat—
"Bang--!!!"
The already flimsy, broken wooden door was suddenly smashed open from the outside!
"Sister-in-law! Look at the nails I hammered in! Aren't they hard enough?!"
Qin Feng, the fifth brother, rushed in like a whirlwind.
He had just forged a batch of top-quality iron nails in the blacksmith's shed, and in his excitement, he forgot all about the rule of "knocking on the door before entering" and only wanted to show off his treasure to his sister-in-law as soon as possible (seeking praise).
However, as soon as he rushed into the house, his feet seemed to be frozen in place by a spell!
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
The iron nails in Qin Feng's hand clattered to the ground. But he couldn't hear them at all.
His pupils contracted sharply, his gaze fixed on the scene before him, a scene he would remember for a lifetime.
In the dimly lit room, his sister-in-law stood with her back to him. The vast expanse of white was so striking it made him dizzy. And the thin, bright red rope was tied in a knot around her slender waist, where her spine met.
That touch of red, against the snow-white skin, was dazzlingly bright and alluringly deadly!
boom--!!!
Qin Feng felt as if a volcano had exploded in his mind.
A surge of scalding heat rushed up his spine and straight to the top of his head, instantly burning away all his reason.
This...this is my sister-in-law? This is the sister-in-law who usually covers herself up so tightly? So...under those clothes, there's actually such...such a stunning view hidden?!
"ah--!!!"
Hearing the noise, Su Wan was terrified. Instinctively, she grabbed the quilt from the bed and wrapped it around herself, turning around in a panic. Her pretty face was flushed red, and her eyes were filled with tears of shame and anger: "Fifth Brother! You...you get out! Who let you in?!"
Su Wan's turn, though it concealed her body, still delivered a devastating blow to Qin Feng with her reddened peach blossom eyes and the glimpse of her pink neck peeking out from under the blanket.
"I...I..." Qin Feng opened his mouth, like a fool, making "hehe" sounds in his throat, unable to utter a single word.
He wanted to explain, apologize, and run away. But his legs were too weak to move.
His mind was filled with that white and that red from before, an image that wouldn't go away, burning into his retina like a branding iron.
Just then.
Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
Two warm drops of liquid unexpectedly flowed from Qin Feng's nostrils, dripping down his chin onto his open vest. Then, like a faucet turned on, two streams of blood gushed from his nose!
"Blood...I'm bleeding?" Qin Feng dazedly wiped his nose, looking at his hands covered in bright red blood, still not understanding what had happened.
"Qin Feng!!!" The eldest brother, Qin Lie, roared furiously from the courtyard, "What are you doing in the house?! Get out here!!!"
This shout finally brought half of Qin Feng's soul back to his senses.
"Sister-in-law... I was wrong! I didn't see anything! Really! I was blind!" Qin Feng covered his bleeding nose and turned to run away.
He ran too fast, and his legs were weak, so with a "bang," his forehead slammed hard against the door frame, raising a big bump.
But he couldn't feel any pain at all.
He scrambled out of the house like a wild boar on fire, plunging headfirst into the snowdrift in the yard, desperately burying snow in his face in an attempt to cool down his throbbing brain.
……
It was dinnertime. The atmosphere at the Qin family home was extremely strange.
At the dinner table, seven men sat in a circle. Su Wan had already changed into her newly made cotton dress, wrapping herself up like a dumpling, and silently ate her rice with her head down, not daring to lift her head, her ears as red as if dripping blood.
Sitting opposite her was Qin Feng, the fifth brother, with two cotton balls still oozing blood stuffed in his nose and a large bruise on his forehead.
He didn't feel any pain at all; instead, he held his rice bowl, shoveling rice into his mouth while grinning foolishly.
"Hehe..." "So white..." "Hehehe..."
This stalker-like attitude, as if to say "I may have gotten beaten up, but I still made a killing," completely enraged the other brothers.
Qin Yun, the sixth brother, sat next to him, his chopsticks almost breaking in his hand.
That was his own brother, born of the same mother! Why?! Why, even though they were twins, could the fifth brother see such a view while he was stuck outside forging iron?! He stared intently at the fifth brother's smug face, wishing he could shove those two cotton balls into his mouth.
The eldest brother, Qin Lie, sat in the main seat, his face as black as the bottom of a pot.
Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, just looking at Lao Wu's demeanor and thinking about Su Wan's newly made red bellyband... He was an experienced man (although he hadn't actually done it), and he knew with his toes what Lao Wu had seen!
"Fifth Brother." Qin Lie put down his bowl, his voice icy cold. "Go to the back mountain tomorrow and bring me back a thousand catties of stones. If you're missing even one, you're not getting dinner."
"Huh?" Qin Feng snapped out of his daze, looking completely bewildered. "Big brother, a thousand jin? Wouldn't that kill you?"
"It's better to die from exhaustion than from boredom." Fourth brother Qin Yue added sarcastically, fanning himself, "Fifth brother's temper is too hot. He's already bleeding a pound of blood from his nose. If he doesn't let off some steam, he might set the bridal chamber on fire tonight."
As he spoke, his gaze drifted wistfully towards Su Wan.
The red bellyband... He picked it out. He should have seen it first... How could this silly boy steal it! I'm so angry! I want to gouge out Lao Wu's eyes and put them in my own!
Hearing the veiled meaning in their words, Su Wan lowered her face even further. These men... were terrifying.
[Beep! Heart rate exceeding threshold detected for everyone!]
[Qin Feng (reminiscing): My heart is pounding at 180!]
[Qin Yue (driven by jealousy): Heart rate 170!]
[Qin Lie (Irritable and possessive of food): Heart rate 160!]
[The rest of the group (unaware of the situation but also joining in the jealousy): Heart rate 150!]
[Congratulations, host! Your Heart Farm has undergone an explosive upgrade!]
[System space is vibrating...]
Unlock the ultimate leisure facility: the Lingquan Grand Bath (Deluxe Edition)!
[Features: This bath can accommodate multiple people, and the spring water has both aphrodisiac and calming effects.]
[System notification: Host, since they're so angry, how about... you invite them for a bath?]
Su Wan stared at the steaming, pink-curtained bathtub on the system panel, then at the seven men on the table, their eyes blazing with fury. Multiple people…bathing together? System, are you playing with fire? If they went in, would she even survive?