Chapter Forty-Eight: A Warm Night
"It's not too early, is it possible to go up the mountain to hunt animals now," Su Qing shook his head, "It's too dangerous to go up the mountain at night, it's not too late to go back tomorrow." ”
He was bent on going up the mountain, but he didn't know that Xie Wanjun didn't mean that. Who said you have to go up the mountain to have small animals, there are other places too!
"You go find a rat trap, let's catch the rat and try it." She pushed him out of the house.
Su Qing suddenly realized that there were a lot of mice in the house before, and fortunately, they went out at night, so it was not difficult to catch one.
With this in mind, he walked briskly towards the utility room.
Looking for a mouse trap in the middle of the night for fear of alarming Uncle Su and the old lady, Su Qing had to slow down, but fortunately, the sundries in this room were all placed by himself, and it was easy to find it now.
When he saw him carrying a palm-sized utensil back to the house, Xie Wanjun was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.
"You can find it out so quickly." She praised again and again, and took the mouse trap from his hand before her clothes were properly put on.
Su Qing raised her hand and touched the back of her head, "You girl has a lot of ideas, when you're ready, go with me and put things away." He stretched out his hand to put on a coat for her.
The two of them put the mouse clip in the corner of the hall together, and threw half a steamed bun on the side by the way, hoping that with this food, the mouse would be clamped quickly.
After getting ready, Su Qing pulled her back to the house.
The candles in the house were still lit, and the red candle wax was piled up high like a hill, so as not to attract attention, Xie Wanjun deliberately picked a wick out, and the room was a lot darker.
"Sleep, it's almost dawn if you don't sleep now." Su Qing urged her and pulled the quilt over to cover her.
She nodded obediently, and as soon as she closed her eyes, she opened them again, "I always feel that I haven't put the mouse trap yet, so I might as well take a look at it again." After saying that, she wanted to get up.
After tossing for most of the night, Su Qing was already too tired to do anything, and he just wanted to sleep well at this time.
"Good lady, don't worry, I used the mouse clip, that's how it was placed, the mouse smells the fragrance of steamed buns, and it will naturally be clipped, don't worry." He leaned sideways and pressed her against the bed, snorting.
Xie Wanjun couldn't resist him, so she had to sleep.
The breathing sound of the people on the kang gradually became even, the red candle next to the kang flickered with a faint light, and the whole room was silent for a moment, and I don't know how long it took, and suddenly there was a sound of rustling outside.
Women are always more alert than men, Xie Wanjun opened her eyes and slowly got off the kang.
I just wanted to see if the clip was caught with a mouse, but I didn't expect to step on Su Qing's shirt, and when I reacted, Su Qing was already awake, and his eyes were staring at him.
"I ...... I'll take a look. Xie Wanjun bluntly said her thoughts and smiled slightly embarrassed. I woke people up in the middle of the night, and I couldn't help it.
"Okay, okay, I'll go with you to have a look." Su Qing simply didn't sleep at all, and took his daughter-in-law and walked outside.
I saw that there was a black thing on the metal clip, and when the two of them got closer, they were both overjoyed. The black thing was a chubby rat with a round belly, and it seemed that it had eaten a lot.
"I didn't expect to be caught so quickly!" Xie Wanjun smiled happily, picked up the half of the steamed bun, and fed the mouse little by little.
Su Qing saw that it was not early, and said, "If you feed it like this, it won't be able to eat mushrooms." ”
She stopped her hand movements, laughed twice, and led the mouse trap into the room, intending to go with him to pick some mushrooms in the courtyard again, so as to verify whether the mushrooms were poisonous or not.
"Su Qing, is there a cage at home? If you don't have a cage, you can find me a basket. ”
Su Qing found her a relatively finely woven basket, carried the mouse trap and put it on top of the basket, glanced at Xie Wanjun, Xie Wanjun nodded to indicate that she was ready, Su Qing quickly turned on the switch of the mouse trap, and the mouse fell into the basket and scurried.
"Wanjun, hurry."
Xie Wanjun immediately buckled the lid on, and Su Qing touched Xie Wanjun's head appreciatively, "I'll take the cage, you go find the rope, and I'll take this to the yard first." ”
"Okay." Xie Wanjun went to the house to find a rope, and then went to the shed where the mushrooms were grown in the yard, and carefully used two small wooden sticks to clamp the mushrooms and pull them out.
Su Qing couldn't help but laugh when he saw it, "Even if this mushroom is poisonous, it will only be poisoned if you eat it in your stomach, and you will be poisoned if you touch it with your hands, this mushroom was planted by you yourself with your hands, aren't you alive and well now?" ”
"That makes sense, so what, I'm going to use a stick, huh."
Su Qing saw that Xie Wanjun was rarely childish, her cheeks on both sides were slightly bulging, and her cherry lips were slightly pursed, Xie Wanjun's skin as a yoga instructor in the new century was naturally very good, and she was very bright, and Su Qing was really itchy when she saw it.
took the mushrooms picked by Xie Wanjun, "Let's come with me, if you accidentally get bitten by the rats inside, it's not good, but you have to suffer." As he spoke, he gently lifted the lid and shoved the mushrooms in and closed the lid tightly. Bring the rope, I'm tying it around. ”
Xie Wanjun helped him press the lid and asked Su Qing to tie the rope well.
"That's pretty much it, Wanjun, let's go back to the house."
Xie Wanjun was still not very relieved, so she moved a stone and pressed it on the lid to make sure that the ground was stable, so she was relieved to go back to the house with Su Qing.
Xie Wanjun did not go back to the house immediately, but went to boil hot water first. After taking the hot water in a basin and adjusting the temperature to make sure that it would not be hot, he came to Mrs. Su's house with the basin. "Mother, I'm here to get hot water for you, I tell you, it's good for your body to soak your feet in hot water often, and I'll give you hot water every day in the future, and it will be better if you have a big herb suitable for foot soaking in the future."
"Wanjun, Qing'er marrying your daughter-in-law is really a blessing for our whole family, capable and filial, and she is so smart." Mrs. Su went to the bedside with Xie Wanjun's support, and Xie Wanjun took off her shoes and socks for her and put her feet in the water.
"Is the water hot? Mother. ”
"It's not hot, it's not hot, the water temperature is just right." Hearing Mrs. Su say that it was not hot, she soaked the old lady's two feet in the water, and gently rubbed the acupuncture points on the soles of her feet with her hands.
Mrs. Su pulled the broken hair from Xie Wanjun's ear behind her ear. "You have to eat more in the future, you eat for nothing and fat, you see that you are so thin, you will have to suffer when you have children in the future."
Hearing Mrs. Su mention giving birth to a child, Xie Wanjun's ears turned red with shame, and only she and Su Qing knew that they hadn't had a round house yet. "Mother, I usually eat a lot of food, but in fact, I just look thin, and the flesh on my body is firm." Although in ancient times, she still did not allow her figure to be out of shape, and often secretly practiced yoga in bed when no one was around.
After washing Mrs. Su's feet, she returned to the house and saw that Su Qing had already washed herself.
"Wanjun, where did you go just now?" He just saw that Xie Wanjun hadn't come back for so long, so he went to the kitchen to look for her, and saw that the hot water had been boiled but the person was gone, knowing that a person as big as Xie Wanjun would not lose it, not to mention that this was at home, so he took hot water to wash himself. He was a little worried when he didn't see his little wife come back after he had been washed for a while, and he was thinking about looking in other rooms when he saw Xie Wanjun coming back.
"I just brought hot water to my mother's house to soak her feet, I was very worried about the sudden aggravation of my mother's condition two days ago, although I am not a miracle doctor and can't help my mother cure the disease, but I can still boil some hot water, often soak my feet can invigorate blood and dispel blood stasis, and so on to earn some money in the future, you can go to the market to buy some medicinal herbs and cook them together to soak your feet."
Xie Wanjun washed up again and explained to Su Qing. "Oh yes, I suddenly remembered that ginger can also be used to soak feet, I forgot about it just now, and then I will buy some safflower, and use that foot soak to treat backache or something, but let Dad soak more."
Su Qing walked behind Xie Wanjun and gently hugged her waist, "Wanjun, it's so good to have you, what a good wife and mother, I don't think I'm worthy of you, but you don't usually have to work too hard, tell me some work directly, let me do it, I am your husband, and I should do some rough work." ”
Xie Wanjun was a little surprised that Su Qing was unusually close to her today, but she didn't think much about it, and patted away the hand that was about to be held, "Get up, I'm going out to pour water." ”
Su Qing immediately took the basin and took the initiative to go out to pour water, Xie Wanjun did not forget to instruct, "When we come back with some water, we will both soak our feet." ”
After a while, Su Qing came in with a large basin of hot water and put it next to the bed to greet Xie Wanjun, "Come on, come on, let's soak together today, it's too troublesome to bring two basins." ”
Xie Wanjun had no choice but to walk over and take off his shoes and socks next to Su Qing, Su Qing's feet had already been put in, his feet were big and occupied the basin, Xie Wanjun had to put his feet on Su Qing's instep, fortunately, there was enough water. Xie Wanjun's soft and tender soles stepped on Su Qing's instep, comfortably itching Su Qing's heart.
After washing her feet, Su Qing first helped Xie Wanjun wipe her feet and let her go to bed directly to the quilt to warm up, and he went to pour out the water before coming back to bed. Su Qing got into the quilt, and the bodies of the two of them were next to each other, which made Su Qing's heart throb again.
"Wanjun?" Su Qing asked tentatively.
"Huh?" Xie Wanjun is almost asleep, a little tired today, and now she is very tired.
"Can I sleep with you in my arms today?"
Xie Wanjun thought about it and felt that they were husband and wife, and it was nothing to hug. "Yes, hug, hug."
Su Qing breathed a sigh of relief and gently hugged Xie Wanjun's waist. He only dared to put his hands on his waist, and he didn't dare to touch anything else, for fear that Xie Wanjun would hate him if he got angry. But now Xie Wanjun's whole person is a huge temptation for him, and he can't stop touching it. There was an idea that he struggled with for a long time, and finally couldn't help but ask.
"Wanjun, I want to ...... Is our round house good? ”
Xie Wanjun was already half-asleep, and when she heard this, she immediately woke up, and she didn't know how to answer Su Qing, but she didn't want to think about the matter of the round house now, so she could only make an excuse casually.
"I'm so sleepy now, I'm a little tired during the day today, this is next time." Then he pretended to be too sleepy and fell asleep.
Su Qing saw that Xie Wanjun was so sleepy, so she had to give up.
Xie Wanjun naturally couldn't fall asleep so quickly, after all, she was "frightened" just now. She is still a little unprepared for the round house, but she can feel that she doesn't hate Su Qing, and even likes it, and she doesn't reject doing this kind of thing with him, but she still needs to prepare again.
Thinking about it, I fell asleep again.