Infected

"It's getting dark, so drive slowly."

As they parted on the path, Taishi Zheng waved enthusiastically. Unexpectedly, Yu Yuelan responded for the first time, "It's cold outside. You two should go back too. Don't forget the important things your mother has given you—"

When it comes to the word "zhengshi", emphasize the tone.

Zheng looked at Yu Yuelan's half-smile before she turned around, and asked Cui Zhijun in confusion, "Business? The Second House's affairs are over, and we don't have to worry about them anymore. What business is there? Erlang, what do you think mother-in-law means?"

Cui Zhijun withdrew his gaze and lowered his eyes to look at Tai Shi Zheng in front of him.

The woman before him had eyes that shone brightly, brighter than the moon in the sky. Cui Zhijun reached out and touched her head. He didn't know if Taishi Zheng was truly heartless or if she preferred to play dumb. "You just agreed to it yesterday, and you've already forgotten? Before spring..."

Cui Zhijun lowered his arms, assuming that Taishi Zheng understood. Unexpectedly, Zheng stammered, "Before spring?"

Cui Zhijun felt both amused and helpless when he saw her like this.

So what he promised yesterday was for him alone and had nothing to do with her?

Looking back, there was no one around, only a few dead branches hanging in the sky. Cui Zhijun silently put his hands behind his back and took a few steps towards Tai Shi Zheng. Tai Shi Zheng was so frightened that she took several steps back. But when she reacted, she immediately stretched out her hands and pressed against Cui Zhijun's broad chest.

"Cui Jilang, what are you doing?"

Cui Zhijun didn't dodge or answer. A fierceness he had never seen before gleamed in his eyes.

The taste of the marrow has become more palatable. Last night's ambiguity completely stripped away Cui Zhijun's aloof and self-respecting exterior. He wished to give her all the indulgences of this life. He wished not to be a saint in front of her, but simply to be the "self-degrading" fool.

Cui Zhijun fixed his gaze on her profile, and with just one sentence, he made Taishi Zheng blush.

"Xiao Zheng, I have to go in before spring."

Otherwise, how can we accomplish anything?

Cui Zhijun said it calmly.

Zheng was in a panic, and she immediately reached out to cover Cui Zhijun's lips that were talking nonsense, as well as his eyes that were looking at her.

But suddenly, Cui Zhichou popped up from nowhere, stretched his neck, stepped forward, and asked quietly, "Second brother, where are you going?"

His plan failed in a second, and Cui Zhijun was left outside the garden in humiliation.

This private conversation, which only the young couple could understand, was spoken out so openly. It made the two of them extremely ashamed, and Zheng was stunned where she stood.

Cui Zhichou looked at each other in confusion. He was even more puzzled when he saw Taishi Zheng's hand resting on Cui Zhijun's cheek. He pointed left and right and asked, "Sister-in-law, your finger seems to have accidentally hooked my second brother's nose..."

"Second brother, aren't you feeling uncomfortable?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Cui Zhijun turned around, grabbed Taishi Zheng's wrist, and hit Cui Zhichou, the tactless man, on the head.

Seeing that his punch was not light, Cui Zhichou covered his head and complained repeatedly, "Second brother, how come you are now like the eldest brother? Vulgar! Disrespectful to the gentleman——"

Cui Zhijun doesn't care about these things.

He finally understood why Cui Zhichou always got beaten up...

But Cui Zhichou felt wronged, so he turned around and ran to Song Mingyue, who was walking slowly behind him, and asked for comfort, "Sixth son, Cui Erlang hit someone."

Song Mingyue curled her lips and said, "I'm the second brother, and I hit you too. The couple is flirting with each other, and you're going to come forward? Cui Laosan, just be thankful that the person across from you is not the eldest brother. Otherwise, I would have to call someone to carry you right now."

Song Mingyue said this and walked forward without looking back.

Cui Zhichou pretended to be angry and punched twice behind her, but when Song Mingyue turned her head, he immediately smiled apologetically.

"What are you standing there for? Let's go." Song Mingyue said. Cui Zhichou silently followed his wife back to Taishi Zheng and Cui Zhijun.

As soon as Zheng saw Song Mingyue, she asked, "Mingyue, it's so late, what are you doing? Taking a walk?"

Song Mingyue shook her head. "No, I heard the county lady arrested that annoying Zou family member as soon as she returned. So, I deliberately left the old ladies in the house with the third child and ran out to join in the fun. I heard the small garden is very noisy! How could I be left out of such an event? Didn't my second sister-in-law and second brother come here for this matter?"

Song Mingyue was in high spirits.

Upon hearing this, Zheng turned and exchanged a glance with Cui Zhijun. She felt a little embarrassed to spoil her fun, and stammered, "Um... Mingyue, maybe, perhaps... is it possible that you guys are too late... The second house has already dispersed, even mother-in-law has gone home."

"What! Dispersed——" Song Mingyue's eyes were dizzy. Frightened, Cui Zhichou quickly reached out to catch it, "Liu'er, are you okay, Liu'er!"

Song Mingyue held her brows, full of melancholy.

In the past, wherever there was a bustling event, she would definitely be there. She would even be the first one there. Now, she was just pregnant, so why did she not even care about the bustle?

Reaching out and tightly grasping Cui Zhichou's arm, Song Mingyue suddenly cursed: "Cui Laosan, I hate you."

"Me? What's wrong with me?"

Cui Zhichou looked at Song Mingyue who was half leaning in his arms, with a confused look on his face.

He thought, hadn't he helped her escape her mother's care today? He had already shouldered the responsibility, wishing only for her happiness. Why did she end up hating him?

Cui Zhichou felt that he was really wronged.

Seeing Song Mingyue's lost face, the other end of the zither stepped forward and took her arm. Regardless of the dark night, he said to the person in front of him: "Mingyue, don't be anxious. I'll tell you what you want to hear."

"Second sister-in-law, you are so nice." Song Mingyue left Cui Zhichou's arms and became excited again.

only……

Wouldn't it be possible for these two sisters-in-law to chat until midnight?

Cui Zhijun acted decisively and reached out to pull Taishi Zheng back from Song Mingyue. He said in a deep voice, "No, Xiao Zheng, it's too late today. Let's go back."

Cui Zhichou understood his second brother's intention and rushed over to support Song Mingyue's arm and said, "Sixth brother, this won't work. If we don't go back, we'll be discovered. Do you want them to go back and complain to mother? You and second sister-in-law, let's do it another day."

The two brothers exchanged glances, a rare tacit understanding. They turned around and dragged their wives away, one to the south and the other to the north. But the two sisters-in-law still looked back at each other reluctantly. Song Mingyue said loudly: "Second sister-in-law, go to the eldest sister-in-law's house and wait for me tomorrow——"

Zheng waved her hand gently and was forcibly taken away from the corner by Cui Zhijun.

-

Back at Yinzhu Yatang, Taishi Zheng rubbed her aching knees and sat down on the porch. She seemed to remember something, raised her hand, and waved to Cui Zhijun, who was walking slowly over there, saying, "Cui Erlang, come here."

Cui Zhijun had no idea what was going on. He walked towards Taishi Zheng silently.

Cuo Cuo also came over.

But when he came to his wife, Cui Zhijun lowered his eyes to look at her, but Zheng gestured to him, "Lower your head, lower your head."

Cui Zhijun couldn't figure out what she was up to, so he obediently leaned towards her.

Seeing the person approaching, Zheng stretched out her hands without saying a word and started to touch Cui Zhijun's arms randomly, making Cui Zhijun feel itchy all over, not knowing why. However, he did not stop Taishi Zheng's actions. On the contrary, he subconsciously supported his arms on both sides of the armrests, completely surrounding the person in front of him on the chair.

Zheng was surrounded by Cui Zhijun like this, looking at his eyebrows in panic. At this time, Zheng's hand was still on Cui Zhijun's chest.

Cui Zhijun probably mistakenly thought that Taishi Zheng was taking the initiative to do the real work. Without waiting for anyone to speak, he kissed the person in front of him from the center of the eyebrows to the top of the lips.

Zheng didn't resist, although she was a little confused.

When they were at a relative distance again, Cui Zhijun called out softly, "Xiao Zheng..."

However, before he could finish his words, Zheng pulled her hand out of his arms, taking out an oil-paper bag along with it. With her brows lowered, she shyly said to Cui Zhijun, "Well... I just felt something in your arms in the garden a while ago, and I wanted to see... what it was."

The ambiguous atmosphere suddenly turned awkward.

Cui Zhijun looked down at the oil paper in Taishi Zheng's hand and his face turned red instantly.

It turned out that I was too reckless and misunderstood what she meant.

Cui Zhiyun was extremely embarrassed.

He really didn't know what Taishi Zheng would think of him...

And what about Taishi Zheng? After what happened yesterday, she really felt that Cui Zhijun was ready to eat her at any time.

The face cannot be saved.

Cui Zhijun immediately jumped away from Taishi Zheng's seat, quickly turned his back to the people behind him, and coughed twice to cover his embarrassment. He said, "Oh... I bought that oil paper cake when I was passing by after work today. It's cold, though, so don't eat it..."

Don't want it? How could Taishi Zheng, this greedy girl, hear "don't want it" twice?

When Cui Zhijun turned around again, Tai Shizheng had already opened the oil paper and started eating the cold and even hard rice cake bite by bite.

"Xiao Zheng, it's cold——" Cui Zhijun reached out to pull it.

He was afraid that his wife would get a stomachache.

Zheng dodged back, not letting him touch the glutinous rice cake in her hand, "It's not cold, it's not cold. How can it be cold? Isn't it still warm from you holding it? Besides, this is the first time you bring me something, so of course I have to eat it all. Look, Dad said wasting food is a taboo-"

"If you don't ask me to eat, then go and talk to Dad."

Cui Zhijun couldn't resist, so he smiled, shook his head, and withdrew his hand. This was Taishi Zheng's greatest benefit, as it didn't spoil the fun. But before Cui Zhijun could even open his mouth to urge Taishi Zheng to eat slower, Zheng suddenly choked on a mouthful of glutinous rice cake, leaving her stunned.

"Water...water...give me water!"

"Wait a minute."

Cui Zhijun was about to go into the house to get some water when Aunt Wu suddenly emerged from the hut, holding a bowl of pigeon soup and shouting, "There's soup, there's soup. Madam, hurry up and drink some. I just heated it up, and it's just the right temperature."

Look, she has been squatting in the hut for a long time.

Aunt Wu quickly came to Taishi Zheng and handed her the bowl of soup. Zheng took the pigeon soup and drank it down without thinking.

The dry, choking rice cake finally went down her stomach with a bowl of warm soup. Zheng felt extremely satisfied. She stroked her chest, looked up and asked Aunt Wu with a smile: "This pigeon soup took some time to stew. It's delicious. Did you make it, Aunt Wu?"

Aunt Wu shook her head. "It wasn't cooked by me. Wasn't that what Erlang brought back? I was afraid it would get cold, so I brought it in and simmered it on the small stove."

"Erlang, you also brought back pigeon soup?" Zheng was puzzled. Cui Zhijun suddenly noticed something was wrong and glanced down the corridor. "I brought back... Are you talking about the one next to this chair?!"

Aunt Wu nodded, "Yes, apart from that, I haven't seen anything else."

broken!

Cui Zhijun was horrified when he heard this. He grabbed Taishi Zheng, who was still chewing on the glutinous rice cake, and threw her out of the corridor, slapping her hard. "Xiao Zheng, throw up quickly. This pigeon soup was brought by Madam Zou today. She was so attentive, but I just feel like something is wrong."

But her glutinous rice cakes——

All fell off.

Zheng looked at the fallen glutinous rice cakes in the courtyard and the empty oil paper in her hands, wanting to cry but unable to. She asked Cui Zhijun, "It's okay to be too attentive when there's no reason, but the soup that Madam Zou made can't be poisonous, right? She brought you this soup, and if she poisoned you to death, it wouldn't be good for her at all."

"Yeah, that's not possible." Aunt Wu looked at the soup bowl and agreed.

Cui Zhijun stopped moving. He was so concerned about Tai Shizheng that he forgot to think.

This time it was Taishi Zheng who reminded him.

After straightening his wife back up, Cui Zhijun was still a little worried. "You have a point, but do you feel any discomfort? Or do you have abdominal pain or chest tightness? Just in case, why don't we ask Aunt Wu to call a doctor to take a look?"

"There's no need for a doctor. It's so late. It wouldn't be good to disturb my mother-in-law and sister-in-law. I just think..."

Zheng suddenly changed the subject, which made Cui Zhijun's heart tighten.

But when Taishi Zheng looked at Cui Zhiyun with grievance and shouted, the people in the courtyard felt relieved and laughed.

"Cui Jilang, my back hurts!"

-

The young couple tossed and turned in the corridor for a while, and by the time they had washed up and climbed into bed, it was already sleepy.

At this time, the evening wind outside the window was bleak.

It seems that only the warmth of the quilt can relieve the thousands of sorrows and grievances in the world.

Zheng slipped into the bed barefoot and hid under the quilt, unwilling to stick her head out again. But when someone next to her sat down on the bed, she lowered her head and said quietly, "Cui Erlang, I want to sleep well tonight. Don't disturb me anymore..."

Cui Zhijun blew out the light and went into bed, then hummed and said nothing more.

Lying peacefully on either side of the bed, the night began to flow. Unexpectedly, less than a quarter of an hour later, Cui Zhijun felt someone lift the covers and straddle his abdomen. This person's body was so hot, what was she doing? Didn't she say not to disturb...

Cui Zhijun began to murmur.

He opened his eyes, just as he was about to figure out what was going on, when he discovered that his nightgown had been opened by Taishi Zheng for no reason. Cui Zhijun stared at the person in front of him in disbelief, watching her move up and down, whispering in a pleading voice, "Erlang, I... I'm so hot..."

"You... help me... I seem to..."

Cui Zhijun looked at Taishi Zheng in the moonlight. She was wearing less and less, and her graceful figure was in full view.

Cui Zhijun could no longer suppress the desire in his body.

He sighed:

What on earth is this little Zou doing...

What medicine——