The Kindhearted Girl Gets a Wife 31

Chapter 31

Another midnight, Pei Yunle was woken up by thirst and went downstairs to drink water.

The warmth was gone now, and it was even a little cold when the wind blew at night. It was probably autumn.

The ice water went down her throat, and Pei Yunle felt refreshed. The next second, she had to tighten her outer shirt, goosebumps quietly rising under the fabric.

The sleepiness was also frozen away. She stood on the first floor, looking at the starry sky outside the door, and unconsciously walked into the courtyard.

At this time, all the lights in the houses were out. The dark courtyard was only lit in one place.

Pei Yunle looked up. The light was coming from their house. She had come out in a hurry and hadn’t turned on the light. Grandma couldn’t possibly be awake. The light on the second floor could only be coming from Chen Qingtang’s room.

She didn’t know why this person was still awake at three or four in the morning, or if she had fallen asleep without turning off the light.

Pei Yunle, priding herself on her concept of saving electricity and money, quietly walked to Chen Qingtang’s door.

The light seeped out from the crack in the door, making it seem like there was another world behind this door.

Pei Yunle curled her knuckles and knocked on the wooden door three times. The sound of a chair leg scraping against the floor came from inside, extremely jarring.

With the sound of heavy and light footsteps, the door opened again.

Perhaps because she had stayed up late, Chen Qingtang’s eyes lacked their usual sparkle, and there was an undeniable fatigue in them. Even her eyelids were half-closed.

Pei Yunle was familiar with this expression. It was the look she had when she stayed up all night studying for final exams.

However, Chen Qingtang didn’t need to, so she was even more curious.

“Why aren’t you asleep yet?”

Because her eyes were dry and her reactions were slow from being sleepy, Chen Qingtang blinked twice slowly, which made Pei Yunle unable to resist pinching her cheek.

Chen Qingtang tilted her chin at the person who had asked the question, as if throwing the question back at Pei Yunle.

Pei Yunle couldn’t help but yawn, her eyes filling with tears, and even the other person’s appearance melted in the water.

She consciously entered the room and lay down on Chen Qingtang’s bed. The bed board creaked in protest under the weight.

The chandelier on the ceiling emitted a dazzling light, forcing Pei Yunle to close her eyes. As soon as she closed them, sleepiness welled up with the tears.

Her voice was lazy. “I just went downstairs to drink water and saw that your light was still on. I was wondering if you had deliberately left it on to lure me up here.”

Chen Qingtang snorted and sat on the edge of the bed.

Pei Yunle rolled over. She fought off the sleepiness, playing with Chen Qingtang’s fingers, and then slowly intertwined her ten fingers with hers. Finally, her index finger slid up Chen Qingtang’s arm.

This slight itch was a little unbearable for Chen Qingtang. She slapped away Pei Yunle’s hand. This person’s hands were always so restless.

Seeing her hand being slapped away and hanging limply by the side of the bed, Pei Yunle playfully leaned closer to Chen Qingtang.

“Okay, actually, you’re luring me even with the lights off.”

Hearing this, Chen Qingtang frowned slightly. It wasn’t that she didn’t like Pei Yunle’s words, but she was uncomfortable from being sleepy.

“You’re luring me even when you frown.” Pei Yunle raised her hand, her fingertips slowly smoothing the furrow between her brows.

Then she said with a grin, “And when you don’t frown too.”

Pei Yunle looked at that fair arm, always wanting to take a bite, a shallow one. When she was close to Chen Qingtang, she always wanted to bite her, her earlobes, her neck, her arms, her legs… but not to break her, but because she liked her, especially liked her. She felt that everything about this person was alluring to her. To release a little of the restlessness in her heart, she wanted to restrain herself and take a shallow, light bite.

She took a strand of Chen Qingtang’s hair with her fingertips and slowly played with it. “So why aren’t you asleep? You’re not really thinking of me so much that you can’t sleep, are you?”

Chen Qingtang shook her head like a rattle drum. She made a gesture with three fingers of one hand.

Pei Yunle understood at a glance.

“Money, we’ll have it. We’ll earn it if we work hard together.”

Chen Qingtang shook her head again. She was probably really sleepy. For the first time, she buried her head in Pei Yunle’s body, eager to draw some warmth from that person.

Pei Yunle lay flat on her back, their breaths and heartbeats seemingly in sync.

“The limitations of this town are too great. I told you I wanted to collect scrap before, but you didn’t agree. Maybe you’d be the wife of a recycling station owner now. A double income would be great.”

At her words, Chen Qingtang lowered her head and saw Pei Yunle’s firm and beautiful waistline exposed as she lifted the corner of her shirt. She unceremoniously took a hard bite.

Pei Yunle immediately bent over like a cooked shrimp. “Hey, hey, I was just kidding. If you don’t want to, then don’t.”

“The convenience store has no attraction for adults. Other than daily necessities like tea, rice, soy sauce, and vinegar, they won’t spend extra money on anything else. But, we can make some money from the children. Don’t look down on the children’s money. As long as it’s more than the current fixed income, it’s a profit. Besides, isn’t there a middle school in town? We can make even more money from them.”

Chen Qingtang listened to the rise and fall of the other person’s abdominal muscles.

“There’s an elementary school next door. We can make money from the first to the sixth grade. Don’t you know that chasing stars is not limited by age? Elementary school students can also pay for their sisters. Anyway, I saw it with my own eyes when I was in elementary school, and I was even forced by them to buy some merchandise to boost sales.”

Chen Qingtang sat up from her. She only knew that some people would buy merchandise, but she didn’t expect students to have purchasing power.

“When I was in school, the convenience stores outside the school would sell some merchandise of various celebrities. Anyway, I think they made a lot of money. Why don’t we do that? For the younger ones, or the slightly older ones, we can sell some other fun things.”

Chen Qingtang tilted her head.

“Have you ever heard of a dreamcatcher?”

Pei Yunle’s voice was gentle, as if she were just telling Chen Qingtang a bedtime story.

“It’s a handicraft from Native American culture. You first make a basic round frame with willow branches, then weave a net with some fibers. Later, you can decorate it with feathers and beads. Of course, you can also use leather, colored thread, and the like to make it look prettier and richer.”

“At that time, the teacher introduced that this kind of dreamcatcher, when placed at the head of a child’s bed, can catch nightmares and keep good dreams. As for whether it’s effective, I don’t know. Anyway, after I finished making it with that teacher, I went to bed too late that night, so I didn’t have time to dream.”

“So, maybe you can also sell it to mothers. It’s not a loss to buy a little peace of mind for a little money, right?”

Chen Qingtang blinked again. This time, she was no longer slow to react because of sleepiness. Instead, she showed a strong desire for knowledge, as if Pei Yunle were her teacher at this moment.

“I don’t know if they sell it online, but to reduce costs, you can also make it yourself. It’s not difficult. You can just wholesale some raw materials then.”

Pei Yunle straightened the only pillow on the bed, pulled the quilt over herself, and patted the bed at Chen Qingtang.

“It’s okay, I’ll make it for you then, or we can make it together. Then I’ll show you how to get these goods at the lowest price. Although my friends are not very good, as long as they can make my money, they will definitely be very willing to ‘help’ me. Anyway, it’s cheaper than outside, right?”

“Go to sleep. It seems that this ten-yuan-salary worker of mine is still quite useful. Where else will you find a black-market worker like me in the future? You’d better hurry up and hug my thigh.”

Chen Qingtang’s lips trembled, as if she were about to cry.

Seeing this, Pei Yunle thought she had said something wrong and quickly climbed up from the bed. “What’s wrong?”

Chen Qingtang shook her green hair, then opened her arms and hugged Pei Yunle. She refused to turn her face away.

“Aiyo, you’re so touched. Forget it, don’t hug my thigh tonight. Just hug my waist and sleep.”

The two of them lay on one pillow. Usually, being so close would definitely make them sweat, but the temperature had dropped recently, and the quilt was filled with warmth and fragrance. It was very comfortable to be in it.

Pei Yunle was thinking about the specific steps of making a dreamcatcher. She was thinking that making it with branches might be easy to break, or it would be better to use a metal ring, so she wouldn’t even have to correct the shape herself.

Just as she thought of this, her eyelids became heavier and heavier. She rested her forehead against Chen Qingtang’s, and the two of them fell asleep in a daze.

Although there was no dreamcatcher at the head of the bed, she still had a good dream.

As soon as it was light, Chen Qingtang was ready to go to the wholesale factory to have a look first. Pei Yunle told her that her friend had not yet replied.

Chen Qingtang stubbornly told her a principle: acquaintances kill acquaintances.

Pei Yunle couldn’t help but laugh. Of course she knew this principle, but seeing that Chen Qingtang refused to agree, she had no choice but to let Chen Qingtang go by herself.

She had wanted to go with her, afraid that Chen Qingtang would be cheated. But Chen Qingtang had been running the convenience store for so many years. Even if the business was small, she was not stupid. Besides, she had to go to work and didn’t dare to take leave casually. So she had to obediently go to the clinic to pass the time.

In just two days, Chen Qingtang had prepared the raw materials. Thinking that children liked colorful and bright things, she specially bought some colored thread and glass beads.

As for the merchandise, Pei Yunle found a way to get some goods. Of course, they were not official goods like small cards or badges, but some self-printed patterns or picture albums. Even the paper was still very rough, but there would always be people who would buy them.

It had taken the two of them a week to gather enough goods. Several large cardboard boxes were piled in a corner of Chen Qingtang’s room.

Pei Yunle picked out a metal coil and then neatly arranged the remaining materials on the table.

“This circle is the most basic frame. It’s already a finished product, so we don’t need to touch it anymore. The next step is to tie colored thread to the circle and then cross it in a regular pattern to form a net…”

Pei Yunle had to work two night shifts a week, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. If there were patients, she might have to stay even longer. But no matter what shift it was, she would definitely squeeze out the already limited time to make them with Chen Qingtang.

One was that there were too many materials and it was time-consuming. She didn’t want Chen Qingtang to be too tired alone. The other was that she was doing all this for Chen Qingtang. As long as she worked a little harder, she could shorten this hellish period.

Since the last time she had slept in the same bed with Chen Qingtang, she had to go back to her own room no matter how late she stayed in her room. She thought about reading a book for the ten or so minutes she was soaking her feet. The state of being half-understanding was too difficult to bear, and it was also very irresponsible to the patients.

Sometimes Pei Yunle was so tired that she couldn’t even open her eyes when she lay in bed. She felt that the recent period was comparable to the college entrance examination. No, it was even more tiring than the college entrance examination. The college entrance examination was mentally and intellectually tiring. This was not only mentally and intellectually tiring, but also physically exhausting.

The hard life that Lin Zilan had punished her with, she was finally living it on her own initiative.

Pei Yunle propped up her eyelids, which were almost glued shut with 502 glue, closed her book, and threw herself onto the bed. But she didn’t feel bitter at all. She called this fulfillment. As long as she got through it, it would be a good life.

In the fairy tale books she had read as a child, the princess also had to go through difficulties to get happiness. Pei Yunle thought in a daze which princess in the book they fit.

After thinking about it, she didn’t feel that anyone fit. Pei Yunle lifted her finger. Forget it, what was the point of using someone else’s story? She would write a fairy tale that belonged to the two of them with her own pen then.