Chapter 83: After Marriage (1)
Director Chen’s drama started filming in the spring of the following year.
It had been three months since Cheng Yang and Xu Xun’s wedding.
Xu Xun had turned down all her announcements and had spent two months on her honeymoon with Cheng Yang. She was going to join the crew tomorrow.
In the kitchen, Cheng Yang was stir-frying vegetables in a wok and couldn’t help but mumble.
“It’s been less than three months since the wedding. How come you have to join the crew so soon? I haven’t even had the chance to enjoy our time together. Director Chen is really something. She even attended our wedding…”
Xu Xun was cutting vegetables on the side. Hearing Cheng Yang’s self-talk, she said with a smile, “You’re so old, yet you’re still angry with the director over such a small matter. Don’t be ridiculous.”
Cheng Yang bit her lower lip, aggrieved and unwilling. “Oh.”
The corners of Xu Xun’s lips curled up as she fed a piece of pineapple she had just cut to Cheng Yang’s mouth.
“Alright, calm down. You can come with me tomorrow.”
The night before she joined the crew, Cheng Yang served Xu Xun with all her heart, feeding her from top to bottom.
“…”
Xu Xun lowered her eyes and gently wiped the sweat from the corner of Cheng Yang’s forehead.
“It’s almost midnight. I have to leave tomorrow morning. You should stop now.”
Cheng Yang looked up, her wet nose rubbing against her, her lips sparkling.
She bit her lower lip, her tongue licking the corner of her lips, and showed a triumphant smile.
“Is it comfortable?”
Xu Xun pressed her knee against her chin, forcing the Alpha to lift her head.
“Nonsense.”
Cheng Yang began to act coquettishly like a rogue. “I don’t care. Anyway, you can’t sleep. I’m just going to eat.”
Xu Xun’s lips curled up, and she smiled helplessly. “Mmm… then I’ll go to sleep first.”
After saying this, she pulled out the pillow under her waist, casually threw it to the side, and prepared to turn on her side to continue sleeping.
Cheng Yang followed closely behind. She rested her head on the pillow that had been warmed by Xu Xun’s body temperature, and stretched out her arm to pull the person into her embrace.
“Wifey, don’t be so cold to me.”
Ever since the two of them had had their wedding, Xu Xun had found that Cheng Yang had become more and more “flirtatious and coquettish,” and even her coquettish tricks had gone up a level.
During this period of time, Xu Xun had hardly refused her anything.
But now, she had to go to sleep. She had to join the crew early tomorrow to set an example for the other actors.
And, Director Chen was relatively strict and could not tolerate being late or leaving early.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yang obediently lay back down, held Xu Xun’s waist from behind, and pressed her lips against her ear.
A faint scent of white Night-blooming Cereus filled the air, and Cheng Yang slowly closed her eyes.
“Hurry up and sleep. I won’t bully you anymore.”
Xu Xun couldn’t help but laugh.
She knew that Cheng Yang had had a little to drink at night, which was why she was drunk and making some unreasonable requests.
Hearing the slow and long breathing behind her, Xu Xun knew that Cheng Yang was asleep.
It had been less than a minute. It seemed that she was really exhausted.
Xu Xun closed her eyes and also fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, the sun shone in through the window and on Cheng Yang’s face.
Little Lamb and the tuxedo cat, one was squatting on her chest, and the other was lying on her stomach. The two little black dogs were biting her feet respectively.
“…”
Cheng Yang hummed and subconsciously reached for the side with her hand but did not feel the familiar touch.
The next second, she snapped her eyes open.
Looking at the time again, it was already ten-thirty in the morning.
Cheng Yang held her chest, which was sore from being pressed down, and sat up from the bed. She put on her slippers and got out of bed with a look of annoyance. The two cats and two dogs followed closely behind, playing by her feet.
“Go, go, go. Go out and play.”
She was brushing her teeth. She squatted on the floor and held the back of the little black dog’s neck, and said fiercely, “It was you who bit my foot just now, right?”
The little black dog hummed twice and covered its face with its black paws.
Cheng Yang threw both the cat and the dog out.
She stood in front of the mirror and turned around, looking at her perfect profile, and swayed her chin left and right, checking for any imperfections.
After brushing her teeth and washing her face, Cheng Yang went out without any makeup.
She hadn’t expected to have drunk a little yesterday and had slept until now.
She had clearly set her alarm for six in the morning, but she hadn’t expected Xu Xun to not have woken her up when she had woken up.
Cheng Yang had breakfast for lunch. After quickly finishing it, she began to be busy in the kitchen.
Jiang Huimei was helping her stir-fry vegetables and stew meat.
Cheng Yang couldn’t help but say, “Auntie Jiang, why didn’t you call me when A-Xun was leaving? I said yesterday that I was going to see her off to the crew.”
Jiang Huimei: “Miss said not to wake you up and to let you have a good sleep, so that you wouldn’t have a headache from getting up early.”
During the break from stewing the meat, Cheng Yang sent a message to Xu Xun.
She wanted to call but was afraid of disturbing Xu Xun’s opening ceremony.
Sure enough, Xu Xun was busy and didn’t have time to look at her phone.
Cheng Yang knew that she was working hard, and she was not sad even if Xu Xun did not reply to her message.
She took out the insulated lunch box she usually used to bring food to Xu Xun, filled it with plum pork ribs and braised chicken wings, and then filled the gaps with stir-fried green vegetables.
As Cheng Yang was packing, she said with righteous indignation, “You have to eat more meat.”
Jiang Huimei saw the overflowing soup and couldn’t help but sigh in her heart.
Is she trying to coax Xu Xun like a little pig?
The lunch box is so small, yet it’s so full.
After packing the love bento box, Cheng Yang put on a sun hat, put on a thin jacket, and went out without even putting on any makeup.
She had already retired from the circle now. To attend in full dress would be to steal the show. It was better to be a little low-key.
Cheng Yang was wearing a mask. She drove the SUV out.
The scenery in western Hunan was indeed not bad. As far as the eye could see, it was lush and green. When you looked up, you could see the green mountains and the endless river.
In order to make Xu Xun and the crew live comfortably, Cheng Yang had directly bought a mountain villa here.
In fact, she was mainly worried that Xu Xun would not be used to living in a local villager’s house, and that not eating well and not sleeping well would affect her mood.
And she saw that Xu Xun liked this kind of natural landscape very much. In the future, when she was free, she could come here for a vacation.
After bringing the cats, dogs, and nannies from home, Cheng Yang had also been living here for about half a month and was very familiar with the surrounding roads.
The mountain road was a little narrow. Cheng Yang drove slowly and arrived at the crew in twenty minutes.
She was wearing a hat and a mask, and was fully armed, standing behind the staff. No one had noticed her presence.
However, her presence could not escape Xu Xun’s eyes.
In the dense crowd, Xu Xun still saw Cheng Yang at a glance.
The two of them’s eyes met. Cheng Yang curved her eyes, held up the lunch box in her hand, and signaled that she had made her lunch.
Xu Xun nodded and continued to listen to the director’s explanation.
Cheng Yang randomly found a shady spot to sit down and stared straight at Xu Xun’s attire.
Xu Xun was wearing a dark green linen dress, a bamboo hat on her head, and a hoe on her shoulder. She was barefoot, ready to go down to the fields.
Cheng Yang smiled. She had never seen such a Xu Xun before.
Xu Xun’s scene was filmed until two-thirty in the afternoon.
Cheng Yang just sat there and watched for several hours.
She watched as Xu Xun walked straight towards her through the crowd.
Cheng Yang stood up and stared at Xu Xun’s no-makeup face with a smile.
“Natural beauty is the best. Were you tired just now?”
Xu Xun smiled. “It was fine. It was just acting. But I haven’t done any farm work for a long time. I’m a little rusty with the hoe.”
Cheng Yang helped Xu Xun sit down and wiped her hands with a wet wipe.
“I’ve invested so much money in it. How come the crew still looks so old?”
After wiping her left hand, Xu Xun took the initiative to hand her right hand to Cheng Yang.
“After all, what we’re filming is the rural life in the 1980s and 1990s. If we don’t make it look old, it won’t have that feeling.”
After wiping her hands, Xu Xun took the lunch box that Cheng Yang had brought over and was about to open it with a smile.
But at this moment, a female Alpha came over, holding two lunch boxes in her hand.
She didn’t recognize Cheng Yang and directly ignored her presence.
“Sister Xun, I made this myself. I made too much and couldn’t finish it, so I packed two portions.”
Xu Xun turned to look at Cheng Yang, saw that the other had taken off her mask, and curved her lips slightly at this Alpha.
The lunch box was opened, and inside was scrambled eggs with green peppers and braised beef.
Cheng Yang took the lunch box and said on behalf of Xu Xun with a smile, “Thank you.”
The moment the Alpha saw Cheng Yang, she was stunned.
Her gaze had been on Xu Xun just now, and she had not noticed that the main character was sitting beside Xu Xun.
The Alpha’s face grew hot. “That… is that Teacher Cheng Yang? I’m sorry, I didn’t see you.”
She bowed to Cheng Yang, turned her head, and ran away.
Cheng Yang looked at the other’s embarrassing back of running away and couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Hearing this, Xu Xun couldn’t help but ask, “What are you laughing at? You’re not jealous? It’s rare for you to be so generous.”
Cheng Yang placed the lunch that the female Alpha had sent on the small table.
“Of course I’m jealous.”
Seeing that Cheng Yang was eating the braised beef so happily, Xu Xun couldn’t help but be puzzled.
“Then why are you still eating so heartily? She made this.”
Cheng Yang took a bite of the scrambled eggs with green peppers and said with a smile, “The taste is not bad. Although I’m jealous, food can’t be wasted. And what she made is quite delicious, much better than my skills.”
Xu Xun knew that the last sentence that Cheng Yang had said was actually just to get her to praise her like crazy.
Xu Xun fiercely satisfied Cheng Yang’s wish.
After she had finished eating and had had a sip of herbal tea, she saw that Cheng Yang was actively starting to clean up the tableware.
“I’m going to stay until you’re done filming and go home with you.”
Xu Xun smiled, thinking to herself, she’s still jealous.
“Alright, alright. You can stay as long as you want. But there are a lot of mosquitoes here, and their bites are poisonous.”
Cheng Yang took out a bottle of mosquito repellent spray from her bag. “I knew it long ago. I was just afraid you’d be bitten by mosquitoes. I prepared a lot of things for you to bring yesterday, but who knew you didn’t take them.”
After finally finishing filming at night, Xu Xun took off her costume and saw that her ankles were covered with a dense patch of mosquito bites.
In the car, Cheng Yang took a look and her brow furrowed tightly.
“How did you get so many bites? The mosquito repellent is useless.”
Xu Xun scratched her hand a few times and was so itchy that she bit Cheng Yang’s wrist.
“There’s nothing I can do. It swells up with a single bite. I’m already considered fine. My co-star’s eyelids were even swollen from the bites.”
She couldn’t help but scratch her hand again and was pressed against the car door by Cheng Yang.
“Don’t scratch. It will break the skin. I’ll apply some ointment for you when we get back.”
After saying this, she helped Xu Xun fasten her seatbelt.
Just as the car had driven out, Cheng Yang saw from the corner of her eye that Xu Xun was secretly scratching.
“…”
“You’re not listening, are you?”
Cheng Yang parked the car on the side of the road and turned to stare straight at the caught Xu Xun.
“Still scratching? Endure it. We’ll be back soon.”
Xu Xun bit her lower lip. She unbuckled both their seatbelts, and after confirming that there was no one around, she held Cheng Yang’s wrist with her hand and slowly pressed it against her own thigh.
“My thigh was also bitten. It’s very itchy.”
If Cheng Yang remembered correctly, Xu Xun’s pants were very thick. How could her thigh be bitten? Could the mosquito’s mouth be made of a steel needle?
The two of them exchanged a look, and Cheng Yang finally reacted.
Her fingertips tapped twice on the root of Xu Xun’s thigh.
“Is it itchy on the inside or the outside?”
The corners of Xu Xun’s lips curled up as she directly pounced on Cheng Yang.
“Both are itchy. Hurry up and cure me.”
