Era: Seven money-losing girls? They're trying to trick me into having a daughter again!

As evening fell, the sound of bicycle bells jingling echoed along the dirt road in Laotang Village.

Fang Wei rode Fang Zhi's old bicycle, with Fang Yunxue sitting on the front crossbar and Fang Chunyang on the back seat.

As the bicycle turned into the courtyard, Wu Shaoli had just turned over the half-dried radish strips when she heard the bicycle bell. Turning her head, she saw Fang Wei pushing a large item into the courtyard.

She paused for a moment, wiped her hands, and walked over, circling the bicycle twice.

"Whose bicycle is this?"

"you guess."

Fang Wei kicked down the bicycle ladder, and the bicycle landed steadily in the center of the yard.

Fang Chunyang and Fang Yunxue jumped out of the car at the same time, carrying their schoolbags and running into the house, shouting as they ran, "Sanya, Siya, Wuya! Come and see our new textbooks!!!"

A string of little girls rushed out of the house, chattering excitedly around them.

Wu Shaoli didn't even bother to look at her daughters' new textbooks; she was still circling around the bicycle.

She first ran her finger along the shiny chrome plating on the handlebars, then bent down to examine the chain before tentatively asking, "Did you buy this?"

"You guessed wrong, I didn't buy it."

Fang Wei pressed the bicycle bell in his hand again, the crisp ringing echoing in the yard. "My second brother lent it to me."

"Second Brother?"

Wu Shaoli's eyes widened suddenly. "Local chronicles?"

"Um."

Fang Wei briefly recounted what had happened that day, concluding with, "But in another five or six days, our family will have our own bicycle!"

As Wu Shaoli listened, the surprise in her eyes gradually turned into an unconcealable joy.

"Second brother really..."

She subconsciously raised her hand and touched her left eyebrow.

There is a very faint old scar there, which was accidentally injured when Fang Wei was harassing his second sister-in-law and was scratched and his face was covered in blood. She was trying to break up the fight.

"That's not all."

Fang Wei walked over and gently pressed on Wu Shaoli's lower back, laughing, "Second Brother even said he wanted Chunyang and Yunxue to stay at his place!"

Wu Shaoli stiffened slightly as he pressed her down, and immediately glared at Fang Wei, but her gaze was as soft as melted syrup, without any threat whatsoever.

"You're still pressing the button! The children are all here..."

Fang Wei chuckled softly and withdrew his hand.

After dinner, it gradually got dark.

The old hen in the yard had already gone into its coop, and the firewood in the kitchen had gone out, leaving only a faint smell of wood ash in the yard.

In the village's threshing ground, several children were playing hide-and-seek in a far corner, their shrill cries drifting in the night breeze.

Apart from that, the entire threshing ground was empty.

Fang Wei pushed his bicycle, with Wu Shaoli following beside him, and the two of them walked one after the other onto the threshing ground.

"What are you doing here with your cart?"

Wu Shaoli looked at the empty threshing ground, feeling somewhat bewildered.

Fang Wei pushed his bicycle to the center of the threshing ground, put one foot on the pedal, glanced back at her, and gave her a slight smirk.

"Get on, I'll teach you how to ride a bike."

"ah?!"

Wu Shaoli took a half step back, waving her hands repeatedly, "I...I can't learn it! Dawei, don't be silly, I'm clumsy, I definitely can't learn it!"

"Besides, this car belongs to my second brother. What if it gets damaged? I can't afford to pay for it!"

"It won't break!"

Fang Wei grabbed Wu Shaoli's wrist and pulled her to the bicycle. "Get on quickly."

Wu Shaoli stumbled as he pulled her, her body bumping into his chest. When she looked up, she saw her man's handsome face.

"You... let go..."

She blushed and struggled for a moment, twisting her wrist in Fang Wei's palm, but the force was like a kitten tickling her.

Fang Wei's palms were hot and rough, and his five fingers gripped her slender wrist tightly.

Fang Wei didn't let go, but held onto the bicycle seat with his other hand, gesturing for her to get on: "Honey, just listen to me, you're so smart, you'll definitely be able to learn!"

"You, you really are something!"

Wu Shaoli couldn't refuse him, so she blushed and climbed onto the car seat.

The moment her hands gripped the handlebars, the bike lurched to the left, startling her so much that she planted both legs on the ground, her body stiffening as she stammered, "I...I can't! Dawei, I really can't!"

"You can do it."

Fang Wei went around to the back of the bike, grabbed the metal frame of the back seat with both hands, and coaxed, "Wife, hold the handlebars steady first, then put your feet on the pedals and push forward."

"..."

Wu Shaoli glanced back at him, remained silent for a few seconds, then turned her head back, took a deep breath, and stepped on the ground.

She had only pedaled half a turn when the bike veered to the left again, startling her so much that she gasped and immediately closed her eyes.

But the car didn't fall over.

Fang Wei, firmly supporting himself behind, looked at Wu Shaoli's frightened face and laughed, "Don't close your eyes, look at the road ahead. Don't look at your front wheel, look further ahead, the more you look, the more crooked the wheel will become!"

Wu Shaoli bit her lower lip, frowned, and looked at him pitifully, pleading, "Dawei, can't I not learn?"

"no."

Fang Wei refused outright, saying domineeringly, "Our daughters don't live at school. If I don't have time to take them to and from school one day, then we'll have to rely on you."

"...Okay."

Wu Shaoli muttered helplessly and could only start pedaling again, the bicycle wobbling forward on the threshing ground.

"Yes, that's it. Step slowly, don't rush."

Fang Wei gripped the back seat and jogged behind the car.

His voice was right behind Wu Shaoli, less than a foot away, each breath carrying a warm breath that brushed against the back of her neck.

Wu Shaoli's neck slowly turned red and hot, and she said embarrassedly, "You...you should stay away..."

"If you fall further away, who will help you up?"

Instead of moving back, Fang Wei lifted his arm that was gripping the back seat, raising the seat and Wu Shaoli's buttocks.

Wu Shaoli swayed forward, her buttocks instinctively shifting back, bumping right into the back of her husband's hand that was gripping the back seat.

Fang Wei's hand was bumped by two soft fleshy halves, and the bicycle frame in his palm almost slipped out of his hand.

"You...you did this on purpose, didn't you?!"

Wu Shaoli's ears turned bright red. She bit her lip tightly and whispered, "Let go!"

"If I loosen my grip, you'll fall."

Fang Wei chuckled mischievously, gripped the back seat tightly again, and pushed forward once more. The bicycle wobbled and pedaled forward half a circle on the threshing ground.

Wu Shaoli's fear was slowly replaced by another kind of tension.

She could feel Fang Wei's hand less than an inch behind her, the taut muscles on his arm occasionally brushing against her lower back.

Soon, Wu Shaoli's pedaling movements became more fluid, one rotation, two rotations, three rotations...

"Dawei! I... I can ride it now!"