The Domineering Love: The Little Wife of the Expensive CEO

Sure enough, before dawn, old man Chen Hua knocked on every door and asked them to get up quickly and go up the mountain to chop firewood.

The winter solstice has just passed, and it is the coldest time of the year. The custom in the village is to smoke bacon at this time every year. The pickled pork is dried for two days, and then placed in the yard, and smoked with firewood and husks.

Chen Yixue had already marinated the pork before leaving, and the next step was to start smoking. Since Chen Yixue was not at home, the task of chopping wood in the mountains had to be left to these outsiders at home.

Old man Chen Huan was not polite and handed each of them a hemp rope, a backpack and an axe.

"Cut some more back."

"Old man, you really treat us like fools."

Richard couldn't help but complain, but got a cold eye from the old man.

"You guys insisted on staying at my house and I couldn't drive you away. So what's wrong with me asking you to do some work while you're eating and drinking for free at my house?"

"Grandpa Chen, there shouldn't be any wild animals on the mountain..." Nie Zheng was a little scared.

"You city people are so busy." Old man Chen Hua was unhappy again and threw the axe directly to the ground, "Can you go or not? If you can't go, just give me a straight answer."

Chong Jianzhi picked up the axe and said calmly, "You can go."

"What can I go and return the ink?"

The few of them hadn't had breakfast yet, so they quickly washed up and went up the mountain in a daze.

The mountain road was not rugged, because the villagers often went up the mountain, and the places where there were no roads before had been trampled out. Several people climbed up along the road and soon came to a forest.

Nie Zheng and Chong Jianzhi both grew up in the city. Only Richard lived in the village with his grandparents when he was a child. He has been doing things like making fire and chopping wood since he was a child. Although he hasn't done it for more than ten years and is a little rusty, he still has the experience.

So he turned into a teacher and began to teach the other two how to chop wood.

Nie Zheng was fine, but Chong Jianzhi was a bit embarrassed. He had never thought that there would be an activity like going up the mountain to chop wood on this trip. He didn't bring any hiking shoes at all, only two pairs of leather shoes that he usually wore. When he stepped on the muddy dirt road, his originally clean clothes were all splashed with mud spots, and his shoes became horrible. When he was chopping wood, he slipped and sat directly on the ground.

"Brother...be careful..."

When had they ever seen Chong Jianzhi in such an embarrassing state? The scene was so shocking that Nie Zheng and Richard wanted to laugh, but for the sake of President Chongda's face, they had to try their best to hold back.

Richard pulled Chong Jianzhi up from the ground. Chong Jianzhi looked down at his miserable state, his temples throbbing twice. He said to the two people in front of him, "Laugh if you want to. Don't hold it back."

……

It was almost noon, and the three of them had almost finished chopping the firewood, so they found an open space to sit down and began to eat the dry food they brought in the morning.

Nie Zheng looked up at the sky while holding a biscuit and found that it was particularly sunny today.

"Have you noticed that the sky here is much lower than that in Ningjiang? It seems that you can reach it with your hands." At this point, Nie Zheng couldn't help but stretch out his hand to reach up to the sky, "The air is also better than that in Ningjiang."

Chong Jianzhi hummed: "I remember you said before that you wanted to live in a place with good air and beautiful scenery. What do you think of this place?"

Nie Zheng's mind was blank, and she asked Chong Jianzhi: "Did I say that?"

"I did." Chong Jianzhi answered confidently.

Nie Zheng retracted her gaze and looked back at the man who was looking at her seriously: "That should have happened a long time ago, right? How come you still remember it, brother?"

Chong Jianzhi just thought it was natural. He nodded to Nie Zheng and said, "Of course I remember."

The atmosphere between the two was somewhat ambiguous. Richard felt that he was particularly redundant at this moment and hated himself for not being a piece of wood.

"Well, I'm going to the bathroom in the woods behind. You two wait for me for a while."

As soon as Richard left, Chong Jianzhi and Nie Zheng didn't know what to say. The atmosphere between the two of them had been like this lately, like high school students having a campus romance, but they were more blatant when there were outsiders around, and once they were alone, they actually started to become shy.

Picking up the axe and continuing to work, Nie Zheng turned around and found that Chong Jianzhi was missing.

"elder brother?"

After calling out but hearing no response, Nie Zheng looked around and found nothing but trees all around. Her call brought out waves of echoes, and the birds perched on the trees were startled and flew up, flapping their wings, circling low and then rising, which scared her.

Nie Zheng instinctively took a few steps back. The leaves behind her were piled up, and her feet were soft. She lost her balance and fell backwards.

What I was thinking at that moment was, what kind of magic is this mountain? Does everyone who comes to the mountain have to fall down?

The expected pain did not come. Nie Zheng had already closed her eyes tightly, but she opened them a little. The light above her head was mostly blocked, and she saw Chong Jianzhi's handsome face that infuriated both humans and gods.

"Be careful."

Nie Zheng tightly grasped Chong Jianzhi's arm, blinked twice, and was stunned and unable to utter a word.

Although she was with Chong Jianzhi every day and had become accustomed to his superior face, at certain moments - such as now, Nie Zheng would still be stunned. She would ignore the fact that they had known each other for more than ten years and be fascinated by Chong Jianzhi's handsome face.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Chong Jianzhi let go of Nie Zheng, reached out to brush away the dust on her cheek, his eyes full of doting.

"Where were you just now?"

Chong Jianzhi's face flashed with a hint of shyness that was barely noticeable. Yes, shyness. He thought for a few seconds, and then, like a magician, a bunch of white and yellow wild flowers appeared from behind him.

“I saw this.”

Chong Jianzhi handed the flower to Nie Zheng. The flower had just been picked, and the petals were still covered with dew and mud spots that had been splashed on them at some point, making them look extremely fresh.

Nie Zheng took the flower and put it to her nose and sniffed it. A light fragrance mixed with the strong smell of the soil in the countryside stimulated her nerves. She couldn't help but shudder all over.

"Thank you, I like it very much..."

Chong Jianzhi knew that Nie Zheng didn't like the expensive roses grown in greenhouses. She just liked these fresh, unadorned colors. He was rich, so the things that could be bought with money were not precious, and the best things he could give her were the ones that couldn't be bought with money. As long as she liked it, he was willing to do stupid things.

Richard also came back at this time. It was getting late and it was always dark in winter. They calculated the time and headed back down the mountain.

It is easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down. The mountain road is not flat. Due to inertia, one may not be able to stop when going down the mountain if one walks too fast. Nie Zheng almost fell down several times. Fortunately, there were people blocking her in front and behind. Chong Jianzhi always held her arm so that she could have a hand to hold on to when she lost her balance and would not fall on her back.

After a steep road, the road finally became flat, but Chong Jianzhi still didn't let go of his hand.

The village in the distance became clearer and clearer, and the sun was about to set. Nie Zheng's eyesight was not good at night, so the others quickened their pace. When passing through a messy bush, Nie Zheng suddenly felt a sharp pain in his ankle, as if he had been stung by a needle.

"what!"

Hearing Nie Zheng's scream, Chong Jianzhi immediately turned around and found that Nie Zheng had squatted down and covered her wound, with an expression of pain that she was trying hard to endure.

"what happened?"

"I seem to have been bitten by something."

Richard had some experience and hurried forward to check.

"This... looks like a snake bite!"