Chapter 7
Lin Zaozao gritted her teeth and struggled to get up from the ground. She wanted to rub her aching back, but her excess fat prevented her from reaching it.
With a resentful bite, Lin Zaozao forcefully pulled aside the thin mattress on the bed frame and took out the two broken bed boards.
She turned her head and glanced at the door. Walking up to it, she gave it a strong pull, causing the already dilapidated door panel to come off directly and land on the bed.
She pressed it with her hand, hmm! It shouldn't collapse under her weight.
As for the fear of intruders, Lin Zaozao had no worries at all. With her weight, any bad person who dared to come in would be crushed by her buttocks. If her five husbands came in...
Hehehe...
That would be even better.
She couldn't ask for more.
So, carrying her dreams, Lin Zaozao lay down on the bed. In just a moment, she had already entered a sweet dreamland.
Tomorrow, she would continue to work hard to become a super beautiful woman and pursue a happy life.
However, she couldn't wait until dawn. Lin Zaozao, who was sleeping in the middle of the night, was suddenly awakened by a nauseating smell.
Lin Zaozao struggled to open her eyes and found herself covered in sticky sweat. Because of a lack of resources, her shabby house didn't even have a candle.
So in this dark room, she couldn't see anything.
With her eyes closed, Lin Zaozao felt her plump body and understood. This foul smell must be coming from her own body.
The reason? It must be the three drops of marrow-cleansing and beauty-enhancing elixir she had drunk, which had expelled the toxins and fat from her body.
However, the odor of detoxification was just too strong.
Ugh! It was suffocating her.
Originally, Lin Zaozao wanted to wake up one of her husbands to help her fetch some water for washing up.
But when she thought of her five husbands, who were as beautiful as flowers but had cold and distant faces, Lin Zaozao wisely kept her mouth shut. Dragging her heavy body, she walked toward the door.
It was already midnight, so it was pitch black outside. She assumed her five husbands must be asleep.
Lin Zaozao looked at the only remaining door and intended to walk out silently without making a sound.
Unfortunately, she overestimated her own physique. As she sidestepped, her ten-month-pregnant belly bumped into the other door, making a creaking sound.
She squeezed her large belly forcefully, and Lin Zaozao was once again speechless.
When would this huge chunk of fat disappear forever?
Stepping outside, she looked up at the sky.
Because it was an overcast day, there wasn't even a crescent moon in the night sky.
Having been accustomed to the dazzling lights of the big city at night, Lin Zaozao let her eyes adjust to the darkness and walked towards the back of the house, following her memory.
A few days ago, she had observed the thatched house where she lived. Behind her house, there was a shallow stream.
Usually, people in the village would wash vegetables and clothes in the stream. It was late at night, and it was certain that there would be no one by the small river. So, Lin Zaozao gathered her courage and slowly groped her way to the riverside in the darkness.
Being afraid of the dark and highly nervous, Lin Zaozao didn't notice at all that there were two figures following her when she opened the door and walked into the yard.
Feeling her way in the dark, Lin Zaozao reached the edge of the small river. She used her hand to touch the water. Hmm! It was somewhat cold.
But it was midsummer now, so even though the river water was slightly cool at night, it was still within Lin Zaozao's tolerance.
She took off her coarse clothes and put them into the river, rubbing them a couple of times. Since she didn't bring anything with her when she came out, she could only wash her dirty nightgown in the dark, relying on her sense of touch.
When she felt that the clothes were washed well enough, Lin Zaozao's body had also adapted to the slightly cold water.
Thinking that there would be no one by the riverside in the middle of the night, she directly took off her undergarments and slowly immersed her plump body in the water.
Two young men had been following Lin Zaozao closely, carefully observing her every move.
When they saw Lin Zaozao's naked body, they felt a bit embarrassed and turned their heads, walking back the way they came.
Although this foolish woman was unattractive, they couldn't just peep at her while she was bathing!
The most important thing was that this fat woman's figure wasn't really appealing.
Meanwhile, Lin Zaozao, who was engrossed in bathing, didn't notice at all that there had been two people following her from her house all the way to the riverside.
It was as if the swaying grass by the river was merely brushed by the night breeze.
After finishing her bathing task, she felt exhausted to the point of gasping for breath.
Oh my goodness! She really needed to lose weight quickly. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to do anything with over two hundred pounds of flesh dragging her down!
Returning to the riverside, Lin Zaozao touched her still damp nightgown and directly put it back on.
What if she didn't wear it? Could she walk back naked?
Wearing the damp nightgown, Lin Zaozao walked back in the darkness, one step at a time.
On her way back, Lin Zaozao made up her mind. Once she had shed some of the excess fat from her body, the first thing she would do was to earn money and buy herself some new clothes.
Otherwise, wearing wet clothes was really uncomfortable.
Back in the yard, afraid of waking up her sleeping husbands, Lin Zaozao quietly tiptoed back to her room, gently closed the only remaining door, and went to sleep.
Taking off her wet clothes and casually draping them on the door, Lin Zaozao crawled back into her quilt. At that moment, she had no idea that four out of her five husbands were wide awake, listening to the sounds inside her room.
And among the four husbands, Ruo Qiu, who couldn't hear any sound, was standing straight behind Lin Zaozao's house, observing the activity inside.
They all went to sleep and returned to their respective rooms only when they heard the loud and prolonged snoring coming from inside Lin Zaozao's house.
The night once again fell into silence.
Due to bathing late last night, Lin Zaozao didn't get up until the sun was high up in the sky, dragging her heavy body slowly out of bed.
Despite being an ugly and overweight woman weighing two hundred and eighty jin, no one blind would mistake her for having a "beautiful as a flower" figure.
So Lin Zaozao casually pulled the blanket over herself, took the already dried clothes directly from the door panel, and put them on.
But when she finished washing up and walked into the dining room for breakfast, her five good husbands had already finished eating.
And after they finished their meals, they each went about their own business.
"Five disabled men, day after day, who knows what they're busy with?" Lin Zaozao silently complained.
Lin Zaozao looked at the clean dishes and opened the pot to find it empty, not even a grain of rice left for her.
Originally, Lin Zaozao had planned to continue shifting the pain and illness of these five men today, but at this moment, she no longer had the mood for it.
Damn it, she knew they didn't like her, despised her for being fat and ugly. But did they have to be so heartless about it?
They wouldn't even leave her a single grain of rice after a meal.
It had been four days since their marriage, and in these four days, all she had was a bowl of rice porridge that allowed her to see her reflection, and then nothing else.
Even if they wanted her to lose weight, they should do it gradually, right? Just starving her like this, they might as well starve her to death!
Those five guys really had good looks but no brains, just a bunch of stupid fools.