Chapter 36: Chapter 36

“Then I won’t go sell today? So you don’t have to worry.” Xu Qi smiled and approached.

But Ye Lan was still earnestly cutting vegetables, even pushing her away with his elbow.

“Don’t bother me here, I’m cooking.” Ye Lan said without looking up.

After being pushed away, Xu Qi was still a bit confused, but after a while, she smiled again. He resisted! How cute.

It’s okay, although he rejected her, she could just approach him on her own.

“Then am I bothering you?” Xu Qi hugged Ye Lan’s waist and swayed back and forth, tilting her head to look at him as if she was acting spoiled.

Ye Lan’s heart softened, his face turned red, and he stammered, “You, you’re not really bothering me, I also like it, so, you can stay.”

After saying this, he seemed to have used up all his courage, and he didn’t dare to look up at Xu Qi again.

Xu Qi hugged him from behind, pecking his little face repeatedly. She sighed in her heart that the little baby’s words changed too quickly, and Ye Lan shyly pushed Xu Qi away.

After a while, breakfast was finally prepared amidst this pushing and pulling.

When they finished eating, Ye Lan looked at Xu Qi and asked, “Wife, are you really not taking me with you?”

Xu Qi paused, frowned, and looked at Ye Lan, “You got cold last time you went out, the doctor told you to take care of yourself, how dare you go out again?”

Ye Lan poked at the porridge in his bowl with his chopsticks, “Last time, I clearly didn’t catch a cold when I went out, it was clearly…clearly…”

He was embarrassed to say, his face turning red.

Xu Qi was also embarrassed by what he said, and her face turned red too.

“Then, am I afraid that you’ll catch another cold if you stay here?”

“If I stay here and worry all the time, I’ll really get sick.”

With Ye Lan’s words, Xu Qi remembered the few women who came begging for food before, and she became nervous.

“Then, should I put on more clothes for you?”

Xu Qi asked.

“Mmm!” Ye Lan immediately agreed, and this matter was considered resolved perfectly.

As soon as Ye Lan came up with a new solution, he couldn’t wait to snuggle up to Xu Qi from the other side, squeezing into her arms, and then obediently eating his porridge.

After finishing their meal, Xu Qi put on the warmest clothes at home for Ye Lan, draped a cloak over him, and even took out a small stove and handed it to Ye Lan to hold for warmth.

Ye Lan followed behind Xu Qi in small steps. When they sat in the donkey cart, Xu Qi reached out to block the wind for Ye Lan and pressed him straight into her arms.

“Are you cold?” Xu Qi rubbed his long hair and asked with concern.

“Not cold.” Ye Lan pushed away the hand holding him and looked up at Xu Qi’s chin.

“Is wife cold?” A pair of shiny black eyes looked mischievous.

Xu Qi smiled, “Yes, I’m so cold, I’ve been looking after you since we came out.”

Ye Lan pursed his lips, feeling a bit conflicted, then as if he remembered something, he pulled the cloak he was wearing around Xu Qi’s body and hugged her tightly from behind, “Are you still cold?”

He snuggled in Xu Qi’s arms, “As long as I’m holding you, I’m not cold!”

Talking to himself.

Xu Qi smiled and even echoed him, “Yes, when you’re holding me, I’m not cold.”

Ye Lan smiled secretly.

He felt like he must have done something very good in his past life to have such a good wife and live such a good life in this life!

In the first twenty-eight years, he had never smiled happily, but now with his wife, everything was different.

Xu Qi set up her stall. They arrived a bit later that day, and there were already people distributing porridge.

She looked up and saw a crowd of people, their clothes almost clean.

Xu Qi looked at them and then looked away, until a woman walked over, her eyes shining as she looked at her.

Xu Qi felt a little scared by her gaze, frowned, and took two steps back.@@novelbin@@

The woman in front of her had a dirty face, and she was holding a bowl of porridge she had just received.

“May I ask who you are…”

In a polite manner, Xu Qi took the initiative to inquire.

Unexpectedly, the other party wasn’t here for her at all.

“Lan’er, Lan’er, is that you? Why are you here, Lan’er? Don’t you remember me? I’m your wife!”

As the other person spoke, they tried to move forward again, but Xu Qi reacted in time and blocked them.

She frowned at the woman in front of her, “This is my husband. Please don’t spread rumors in public. Otherwise, believe it or not, I’ll report you to the authorities and have you arrested!”

The other person seemed visibly frightened at the mention of reporting to the authorities, but then seemed to remember something and immediately became stubborn.

“Fine, let’s go to the magistrate! Ye Lan is my partner. I want to see if there’s any justice left for you people!”

“Heh, your husband? Do you have any evidence?”

Now the woman named Lin couldn’t say anything. She didn’t have much evidence to begin with. When she sold Ye Lan, she sold him along with the contract. She didn’t even provide a marriage certificate when she wanted him back. Thinking about it, Lin felt a bit hesitant.

However, Xu Qi didn’t give her a chance to back out. Taking advantage of the presence of soldiers patrolling nearby, she immediately shouted, “Sir, someone is causing a disturbance in the market!”

“Who, who’s so bold!”

A group of soldiers rushed over and without hesitation, they took Lin away.

Xu Qi was known for selling meat in their town, and those soldiers all knew her. None of them thought she would cause trouble. Instead, they thought the beggar standing in front of someone else’s stall with a fierce look might be the one causing trouble, so they took him away first!

After the people left, Xu Qi turned to look at Ye Lan, only to find that he had been scared pale long ago, almost unable to stand, and had to lean on something to stabilize himself.

“Ah Lan, Ah Lan, what’s wrong with you?”

Xu Qi quickly walked over and, as if she knew why, hugged Ye Lan tightly into her arms. “It’s okay, it’s okay, the bad people have been taken away. I’m here, don’t be afraid, be good, don’t be afraid.”

There were people around who witnessed everything and wanted to ask out of curiosity, but Xu Qi drove them away angrily.

Fortunately, after a while, Ye Lan regained his senses. He held onto Xu Qi tightly and said softly, but with a nervous and uneasy tone, “Wife, don’t, don’t leave me.”

He said softly, but his tone was tense and uneasy.

Ye Lan responded seriously, “I will never leave you!”

In this world, there was only Ah Lan. Those who knew her were familiar with her, but others only knew the original owner. Only Ah Lan was the same lonely companion who could rely on her, and she would never leave him.

“Ye Lan, brother!”

An annoying voice sounded.

Xu Qi turned her head while holding Ye Lan and found it was Lin Yu whom they met yesterday.

“It’s you who brought her here, isn’t it?”

Ye Lan was extremely exhausted, his voice seemed to have no strength left, just seeing Lin made him feel like he had relived the hardships of his past life. At this moment, he could only softly collapse in Xu Qi’s arms.

Fortunately, Xu Qi also supported him, always carefully holding him.

“What are you talking about, Ye Lan brother? How could it be me? As a man showing up in public like this, of course you’ll be recognized by old friends. Why are you blaming me again?”

“Then why did you come here?”

Ye Lan didn’t want to see him, not even a bit!

Lin Yu blushed and twisted her body, “I came here…”

“Get lost, or you’ll end up like the person who was taken away just now! That person was taken away by the authorities, you know. You should just stand over there.”

Xu Qi pointed to the corner she glanced at just now. “If you don’t leave, I’ll call someone.”

She was rarely this angry, but she didn’t expect it to be because of a white lotus.

Modern women had a special ability to judge bad women, but these ancient women were like modern men, lacking this ability, which is why they were deceived by people like this.

“Hey, what’s wrong with you…”

Lin Yu knew what Lin had ended up with, and even encouraged her to go find Xu Qi for this purpose, because he already had a new place to go.

He was just waiting for her to be caught. Either Xu Qi would change her mind and take him back, kicking Ye Lan out, or he would go with another woman. Who knew this person wouldn’t budge! Even Ye Lan, with his sickly body, was liked!