If she pressed any further, Quynh knew someone would be writing her eulogy tomorrow. She took three more deep breaths:
"Then think about it, what kind of wife do you want to marry? And you can't say 'someone like me'!"
Dai looked at Quynh again with a wronged expression, feeling so aggrieved he wanted to cry:
"I haven't thought about anyone else. I just thought about having a wife, and then you fell from the sky. I only think that from now on, I only need you to be my wife!"
"Alright! I'll be direct. I will do my best to earn money to get you a wife, a wife who will satisfy you. How does that sound?"
"When?"
What?
Would this man die if he went one day without a woman? Look at that eager face of his, what a lecher!
"How about one year?"
Dai shook his head, full of grievance again: "That's too long!"
Too long?
You've gone twenty-five years without a wife and you didn't die. Would waiting one more year kill you?
Quynh was about to lose her composure: "Then you tell me, how long is acceptable?"
Dai scratched his head. If it were really up to him, not even a single day would be acceptable!
But he knew if he said that, his little wife would surely hit someone.
He wasn't afraid of her hitting him, only that her hand would get tired.
After a long moment, Dai finally spoke: "Wife, how about ten days?"
Ten days for her to earn sixty quan and marry him a wife?
Why didn't he just tell her to marry a woman for him today so he could bed her to death?
If she could earn sixty quan in ten days, would she still be sitting here negotiating with this big oaf?
Instantly, Quynh saw stars. She asked through gritted teeth:
"Dai! One year. I said one year. If you dare disagree again, I'll bite you to death!"
One year?
That was too long!
Dai would rather let his wife bite him to death than go a year without one. He held out his arm: "Wife, if you really want to bite, then go ahead and bite!"
Quynh was so furious she wanted to bang her head against the wall. She looked up to the sky and screamed:
"Oh, Heavens! You won't even give me a way out! If you wanted me dead, why waste the effort to throw me into this godforsaken place? Are you that bored? Or did you have an affair and get caught by the Queen Mother, so now you're taking your anger out on me?"
Seeing his wife so angry, Dai had no choice but to lower his condition: "Wife, don't be angry. How about I give you twenty days?"
This statement made Quynh jump up in a rage, kicking Dai and sending him tumbling onto the bed.
"Why don't you just say twenty-one days? After all, 'three times seven is twenty-one' has a nice ring to it!"
Getting kicked only made Dai happy. He rushed forward: "Wife, oh wife, kick me again! Just don't be angry anymore!"
"…"
"Wife, go on and kick!"
So she had run into a pervert!
Quynh sat up: "Sit still. One year. If you dare disagree again, I'll hang myself tonight!"
"Wife, oh wife, don't die! I agree, I agree, I'll give you one year, but you also have to agree to something. Before the new wife arrives, you have to be my wife first. If so, I'll agree. Alright?"
"No! I'm not a prostitute! On what grounds should I let you defile me for a whole year?"
"Then I don't agree either!"
You don't agree? As if I'd allow you to disagree?
"You damned oaf, are you deliberately going against me?"
In Dai's heart, all he wanted was a wife.
After living for twenty-five years, he had finally married a young wife to bear him children, and now she was saying she wanted to get him another wife, and that he had to wait a whole year?
How could that be possible?
Anything else was negotiable, but this was not!
He could indulge his wife in anything she wanted, but on this matter, he absolutely would not!
"Wife, in any case, before you find me a new wife, you still have to be my wife! I won't change my mind on this!"
So this was the big oaf's plan, to pin me down for a whole year?
Quynh flared up instantly: "Have you no sense of keeping your word? Fine, I can be your wife, but you are not allowed to touch me!"
Once again, his voice was as firm and unyielding:
"That won't do! My wife, why can't I be close to her? In what family is a husband not allowed to sleep with his wife? If you don't believe me, go and ask everyone in this village!"
"Ah!"
Good heavens! So it turned out this big oaf didn't want a wife, he just saw her as a milk cow?