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She waved her hand, âGet lost quickly, youâre annoying just to look at!â
Xiao Yuchuan looked at her aggrievedly, âWife, if you donât say you canât bear to part with me, I wonât leave.â
âI canât bear to part with you, okay.â She was helpless, âHurry up.â
âAlright.â Xiao Yuchuan grinned with a mouthful of bright white teeth, picked up the carrying pole, and walked away.
Once they all left, Su Qingyue went into the secondary bedroom without asking Xiao Qinghe, skillfully took the toilet bucket from his room to the latrine in the backyard, fetched water to clean the bucket, and finally put it back to its original position in the bedroom.
Xiao Qinghe watched her movements silently, with a faint trace of tears in his eyes.
He had wronged his wife.
Being a useless disabled man, he couldnât take care of her, let alone ask her to do this kind of work.
Su Qingyue didnât say anything, leaving the room and going to the low storage room next to the master bedroom. She rummaged through it, hoping to find a back basket or something. There wasnât one, but she found a bamboo basket instead.
The bamboo basket was used for picking vegetables and was covered in dust, showing it hadnât been used in a long time.
She walked to the fence and shook the dust from the basket, fetched some water and rinsed it, then used a rag to wipe it dry. The basket was now clean, âQinghe, Iâm going to the mountain to see if I can pick anything useful.â
She then went back to the kitchen, picked up the big bowl of rice Xiao Yuchuan had left, and brought it to the secondary bedroom with chopsticks, âI might not come back for lunch, so help me eat this. It will be too hot in the evening, and Iâm afraid it will taste bad. Donât waste it.â
â He shook his head, âThis was meant for you to eat.â
âEating it, whether you or me, doesnât it all end up the same?â
âItâs not the same.â His voice was light, âSecond brother and third brother donât eat lunch. Qingyue, this rice is meant for you, you donât have to worry about me.â
âI didnât know you were so stubborn.â She feigned a troubled expression, âI donât like eating rotten riceâ¦â Pointing to the rotten rice still drying on the corner stones of the yard, âLook, thatâs a waste.â n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
âYou can take it with you and eat at noon.â
Seeing he insisted on not helping her eat, she put the rice bowl into the basket to avoid wasting it, âThen Iâm leaving.â
âQingyueâ¦â He became anxious when he heard her mention leaving but didnât dare to ask further.
Understanding the young manâs thoughts, she didnât turn back, only leaving one sentence, âXiao Qinghe, Iâve decided to stay in the Xiao Family.â
She wasnât leaving! His heart, which had been hanging, finally settled. His joy was indescribable. But when he thought of her entering the mountains, he became worried again. He didnât tell her to be careful in the mountains or not to go too far since it could be dangerousâ¦
His heart, which he had just let go of, rose again.
Looking at the gradually warming sun outside, he began to hope the sun would set quickly so she would return. But the sun had just risenâ¦
Su Qingyue didnât go far from the house, looked around in four directions, and chose a nearby mountain to walk to.
She planned to collect medicinal herbs to treat the pus sores on her face. It would have been more convenient to follow second brother, but he would go hunting deep into the mountains. Although her health had recovered, her body was still weak and it wasnât suitable for her to get too tired. So she decided to look around closer places firstâ¦
She reached the foot of the mountain after a short walk and followed the winding mountain road uphill. The trees on the mountain were lush and dense, with occasionally neat bamboo poles mixed among them.