Chapter 73 p2
It was already early summer now, but Xizhi still didn’t have many summer clothes. The old, tattered ones had long since been thrown away, and she was still wearing the slightly thin clothes from spring, which didn’t look very breathable. She felt that it wouldn’t do.
But she hadn’t expected to be glared at coquettishly. “You just know how to spend money! I already have enough clothes! When everything at home is settled, we can just save up the money. What if we need it in the future?”
“Then we have to dress you up first before we can save money. I can’t wrong you. If I even wrong my wife, am I still human?”
Song Yugui was clearly not listening.
Shen Xizhi couldn’t win against her. She always had a bunch of crooked reasons to spend money. She was so angry she twisted her body and even arched her small bottom at her, trying to push her away, which was very cute.
Song Yugui narrowed her eyes, her heart filled with joy. She was different from her own stingy wife. She was very magnanimous. No matter how angry her wife was with her, she was as steady as a mountain.
She lay down and went closer to Xizhi.
Xizhi pressed her lips together unhappily and went to arch her again, but was held in her arms and had her shoulders rubbed. “You’re angry with me just because I bought you something? You’re really a little heartless.”
Although she had her back to her wife, Song Yugui was able to accurately find her wife’s nose and pinch it.
Shen Xizhi first pouted unhappily, then realized she couldn’t see and fell silent.
After a moment, she kicked her with her bare jade feet. “It’s clearly you! You’re the one who doesn’t know how to live!”
She wanted to save a lot of money, but her wife felt that as long as they had enough money, life should be a little better, a little more prosperous. Aiya.
But she was used to being poor. She didn’t feel at ease without money in her heart.
Seeing her wife full of sorrow, Song Yugui finally leaned over and said in a soft and gentle voice, “Alright, I’ll definitely save a little more money. I won’t let my little Zhier have no money to spend, okay?”
She softened her tone. How could Shen Xizhi continue to be angry with her without giving her face? Naturally, she went along with it.
She turned over in the quilt and buried her head in her chest.
Her voice came out muffled from inside. “Mmm, didn’t you say before that you wanted to open a pig farm? That would require buying a very large piece of land.”
“That’s right. It’s still up in the air. We don’t have the money. I might have to wait until I’m old to open one.”
Shen Xizhi pressed her lips together. “Then you’re still wasting money.”
Song Yugui: …
Wait, how did it get back to this again?
She didn’t want to talk about this topic anymore and quickly held her in her arms, patting her on the back as if she were coaxing a child. “Alright, alright, good Zhier. Let’s sleep, let’s sleep. We won’t talk anymore. Let’s go to sleep first. I’m so sleepy.”
She had been busy tidying up the new house these past few days and was very tired.
Seeing that her eyelids couldn’t hold up and were closing, Shen Xizhi didn’t say anything more to her. She nodded slightly and held her wife to sleep with her.
The next day, she resumed her life of going to town to sell meat with her wife.
She hadn’t been to town with her in a long time. Some of the customers who bought meat hadn’t seen her in a long time. When they suddenly saw her today, they couldn’t help but be a little surprised. “Ya, it’s Mrs. Song.”
This was their teasing form of address. They would often call her Mrs. Song so they could appreciate the sight of a beautiful woman being shy.
Song Yugui felt the most sorry for her own wife. The moment she saw someone teasing her, she quickly pulled her behind her and said with a helpless smile, “You’re bullying her. She’ll be angry with me when we get back.”
Can’t bully, can’t bully.
The others smiled kindly and left after buying two catties of meat.
Shen Xizhi was too embarrassed to speak and only hooked her wife’s little finger with her own when no one was around, clingy and unwilling to be separated from her.
After selling meat for a while, the sky brightened. Chi Xiangyue called out to them from a long way off. “Yugui, Xizhi.”
Her clothes fluttered as she strode over, her words a string of pearls, at an extremely fast speed. “Your house has just been built. Logically, you should invite your relatives and friends over for a meal to celebrate. Tangtang has even prepared the dishes for you. There are fish and shrimp from Jiangnan, and also food from the capital. I’ve also prepared good wine. Let’s have a good drink tonight!”
Chu Wantang followed behind Chi Xiangyue, just quietly looking at her cousin. Occasionally, her gaze would fall on others, and there would be a hint of condescending pride.
“Mmm, then we’ll go back and prepare after we’re done selling.”
“Alright, I’ll go and get some pastries first. I’ll go back with you in a little while.”
She had specially gotten up early the other day to eat the pastries from Baoyue Pavilion but still hadn’t been able to buy them. After her cousin heard about it, she had directly gone to Baoyue Pavilion to get a portion for her and had said that in the future, as long as she went, she wouldn’t have to queue and would always have pastries. Only then did she know that Baoyue Pavilion was actually her cousin’s asset!
Her cousin had even complained to her a lot about this.
“I only know that my cousin might be in Lin’an County. I don’t know anything else. I begged my father to tell me, but he refused. It took me a lot of effort to see my cousin. Cousin, don’t send me back again.”
The young woman’s words were filled with a frail and easily bullied quality. How could Chi Xiangyue bear to send her back? What if she was bullied the moment she went back?
My uncle is also too much. It’s one thing for the illegitimate son to be older than the legitimate daughter, but now he’s raising the illegitimate son more and more and ignoring the legitimate daughter. From what Tangtang said, my uncle even wants the legitimate daughter to pave the way for the illegitimate son! Don’t even think about it! As long as I’m here for a day, Tangtang’s marriage is not for others to decide! Not even her own father.
Therefore, Chu Wantang really did stay in Songjia Village. The room was gradually filled with many young women’s things. Their room was no longer just a cold place to stay, but had a more magnificent dressing table, and the bed had also been changed from a convenient wooden plank bed to the most comfortable and expensive canopy bed, with a pink pearl curtain hanging on it. The pearls were actually a mixture of pearls and glass, extremely expensive, and completely out of place with this ordinary country hut.
Ever since his niece had come, Chi Jingming had no longer entered his daughter’s room and therefore did not know about the earth-shattering changes there. The only thing he could see with his naked eye was… a curtain had been installed inside the dilapidated wooden window. Every time the weather was stuffy, the wooden window would be opened, and the curtain would be blown by the wind, the beautiful pearls hitting each other and making a crisp sound.
Chi Xiangyue took her cousin to Baoyue Pavilion to get some pastries and didn’t even have to pay. She just took them away.
She felt more and more that her cousin was amazing, surpassing many people in business, which made her admire her greatly.
The two of them returned to Song Yugui’s pork stall. She still had some meat left to sell. Chi Xiangyue sat on the side, waiting for her to finish selling. But Chu Wantang took out a pouch from her waist. “I’ll buy all the meat you have left. Can we go back now?”
Song Yugui, Shen Xizhi: …
“Miss Chu, this is not good. You should take it back.”
The pouch Chu Wantang handed out was not taken by anyone. She didn’t know what was wrong with this couple, rejecting her one after another. Why didn’t they want her money?
She was giving it willingly. What could be wrong with taking it?
The great young lady was high and mighty and didn’t care about the little bit of money from selling meat. As long as she was willing, she could raise a whole house of friends with good food and drink.
It was just a pity that these two good friends were unwilling to accept her kindness.
Her cousin also quickly stuffed her wallet into her embrace and told her she couldn’t be like this.
Chu Wantang pressed her lips together unhappily and had no choice but to accompany them to sell meat, holding her nose.
She had never sold pork in her life and just felt that the raw meat looked greasy and a little nauseating. In a short while, she had buried her small face in her cousin’s embrace.
Chi Xiangyue subconsciously reached out and held her, just holding her and waiting.
Shen Xizhi’s eyes opened slightly. Wait, don’t they think there’s anything wrong with this?
A regular customer came to the stall to buy meat and said with a laugh as they bought, “There’s even tenderloin today. You can weigh it. Aiya, are these two your friends? Are they also lesbians? I can tell at a glance.”
Hearing this, Chi Xiangyue looked up blankly. More lesbians? Where, where?
It wasn’t until she saw the other’s gaze fixed on her that she suddenly realized what she had heard.
Someone said my cousin and I are lesbians?! Shocked!
She was just about to explain that she was not a lesbian, lest she tarnish her little cousin’s innocent reputation, when she suddenly heard a cry of pain from her embrace, making her forget everything else and quickly lower her head to look. “What’s wrong, what’s wrong?”
Her little cousin’s willow-like brows were slightly furrowed, as if she were enduring pain. “I… I think I just stepped on something. It’s so hard, it’s hurting me.”
The young woman said coquettishly. Chi Xiangyue quickly carried her to a stool and sat her down. When she looked back, she saw a not-so-small stone where she had been standing. She had probably stepped on it by accident, but if she hadn’t pressed down hard on the stone, it shouldn’t have hurt so much.
But Chi Xiangyue didn’t think for too long and just thought it must be because her cousin’s skin was exceptionally delicate.
“Then you can sit for a while. I’ll carry you back later?”
Chu Wantang shook her head. “Liuzheng will come and get us in a carriage. You can just carry me to the carriage.”
“Mmm, I’ll take a look for you when we get back. Maybe the skin is broken.”
Song Yugui, who had witnessed the whole process: …
She looked at her wife, and they both saw the helplessness in each other’s eyes toward the fool.
Can this stone break the skin? Hilarious.
But Chi Xiangyue didn’t think there was a problem, and they wouldn’t take the initiative to say anything. They would just see when she would be taken down by her little cousin.
It wasn’t that they wanted to watch their good friend be deceived. It was just that they had already seen how much she doted on her own cousin. Even if they said her cousin was faking it, would Chi Xiangyue believe them and not her cousin?
Wasn’t that nonsense?
It was more comfortable to just watch the show quietly.
By the time Chi Xiangyue wanted to explain again, the passing customer had long since disappeared.
She thought it wasn’t a big deal. It was just a passerby. A misunderstanding was a misunderstanding. As long as she and her cousin were clear in their hearts, it was fine.
By the time the meat was sold, Liuzheng had arrived with the carriage in a short while. She had been helping her master manage the pastry shop these past few days and was living in town.
Chi Xiangyue carried her little cousin onto the carriage, her precious and careful manner as if she were afraid her little cousin would suffer the slightest bump.
She was truly doted on to the core.
Song Yugui held her wife’s fingers tightly, thinking, I’ve been outdone. But I’m not as strong as Miss Chi. Damn it.
As if sensing something, Shen Xizhi stood outside the carriage and turned her head back, showing her a soft smile. “Hurry up and get on.”
After she had gotten on and was standing firm, her wife went closer to her and said in a voice as faint as a mosquito’s buzz, “I don’t want a hug. You can just kiss me when you have time.”