Chapter 106 Jinjiang First Release Chapter 106 Yang Yang and Xiao Shitou...

The next morning, Fang Dingman and Fang Wu woke up before daybreak.

The old couple prepared the meal quietly and when they saw Yu Qinglong coming out of the alley, they called him aside.

Fang Wu said to Qinglong, "Brother Long, your mother and father are going on a long journey soon.

Yu Qinglong had woken up from the urge to pee and was thinking of going to the bathroom and then going back to sleep. Suddenly, he heard this and took a moment to react before asking quietly, "Is it because Lord Hong and his family are staying at home?"

Fang Wu said, "No, it's your Aunt Zhou's family that's having a wedding the day after tomorrow. Her child is getting married. You still remember Aunt Zhou, right? She's the one who acted as a matchmaker between you and Shu'er."

Yu Qinglong knew that auntie and nodded: "I remember her."

Fang Wu said, "She's my good sister. Your father and I will go over and help with the preparations. I've made steamed buns and dumplings for you, and I've also cooked millet porridge and eggs. When you wake up later, think about giving her something to eat. We've already fed her everything we can, so just have Shu'er feed her again this afternoon."

Yu Qinglong said, "I see, mother. Is there any work to be done in the fields?"

Fang Wu said, "No, your brother Fang Shan will take care of the arrangements. Just take care of yourself. Your father and I will be away for at least three days. Your Aunt Zhou's family doesn't have many people, and your husband's family isn't very helpful either. You should slow down a bit these days and let Shu'er do whatever he can."

Fang Shu waited in the room for a long time but Yu Qinglong didn't come back. He hurriedly put on his clothes and came out. Seeing that everyone was in the main hall, he asked, "What happened?"

Yu Qinglong said, "Father and mother are going to help Aunt Zhou and won't be back for a few days. Mother, please wait for me."

Fang Wu nodded and said to Fang Shu, "You have to take good care of my son-in-law while I'm away. He's older now and isn't the same as before, so you have to be careful with everything you do. Also, you have to do all the work you can, okay?"

Fang Shu smiled and said, "Don't worry, mother. I guarantee that not a hair of his will be missing when you come back."

Yu Qinglong went back to his room and found a tael of silver. "Mother, take this with you on the road. Normally, since Aunt Zhou's family is having a wedding, Shoucheng and I should go and see it, but we can't leave right now."

Fang Wu said, "Mother has money."

Yu Qinglong smiled and handed it to her: "What you have is yours. Isn't this a gift from Shoucheng and I to you? You have to go to town first before you go to my Aunt Zhou's house, right? Then you can buy anything you like."

Fang Wu said, "You are just good at coaxing people. Okay, then mother thanks my son-in-law, and we are leaving."

Yu Qinglong nodded and walked him to the door.

The two elders didn't want to wake up the guests, so they did everything quietly and didn't make much noise until they left.

Yu Qinglong sometimes felt that in this era, whether it was meeting the Yu family, Fang Shu, or the rest of the Fang family, he was extremely lucky. These people were simple and honest, and always so considerate of their families. This was what prevented him from feeling particularly disgusted with the world.

"Are you hungry?" Fang Shu said, "If you are, I'll bring your meal into the study first."

"I'm not very hungry yet. Peel an egg for me first."

Fang Shu went into the kitchen, quietly opened the lid of the pot, and took out an egg, which was still very hot.

He put the egg in cold water to cool it down, peeled half of it and gave it to Yu Qinglong to eat.

Yu Qinglong broke off half and ate it, and put the other half into Fang Shu's mouth.

The couple was eating and laughing when Hong Huan came out.

As a guest, getting up later than the host was somewhat rude in his opinion. He thought he had gotten up early enough, but he never expected the couple to get up so early.

Fang Shu and Yu Qinglong didn't seem surprised at all, and greeted him naturally, "Good morning, Brother Liwei."

Hong Huan nodded: "Good morning. Where are the elders?"

Although he was an official and the Fang family were civilians, since he considered Fang Shu a friend, Fang Shu's parents were his elders. Now that he was staying at their house, he had to say hello.

Fang Shu said, "They went out for something. A good friend of my mother's was having a wedding, and they went to help."

"...I didn't think it through."

"Brother Liwei, don't worry about it." Fang Shu said, "My family doesn't follow those rules for relatives and friends. When you weren't here, Long Ge'er and I would have slept until we woke up naturally. These are all trivial matters. Are you hungry? What would you like to eat first? There are eggs, buns, and porridge in the pot. If you're hungry, you can fill your stomach with them."

"I'll go wake up Han'er first."

"No," Yu Qinglong said, "Let him have a good rest. People are alive, but etiquette is dead. There's no outsider involved."

Honestly, Hong Huan didn't want to wake his beloved. He had slept late the previous night, and he hoped his husband would get some rest, otherwise he would have woken her up before he came out.

Seeing that Fang Shu and Yu Qinglong sincerely felt that this was no big deal, Hong Huan stopped dwelling on it.

After washing up, he asked Fang Shu for a bun. After eating, he talked to Fang Shu about issues related to the scientific expedition.

After all, Hong Huan was a Jinshi (Jinshi) scholar, so he could offer Fang Shu a wealth of experience. Fang Shu listened intently while Yu Qinglong inspected the animals in the house.

Almost half an hour passed before Yuan Sihan woke up. When he woke up and saw that there was no one in the room, he was so scared that he quickly got dressed and combed his hair. When he came out, he saw Yu Qinglong and the others were awake and chatting in the yard.

This immediately made him nervous and felt rude. Hong Huan wanted to say it was okay, but Yu Qinglong was the first to say, "Brother Yuan, come here quickly. I have something fun to show you."

Yuan Sihan's curiosity faded the awkwardness and he went over to ask, "What is it?"

Yu Qinglong pointed to the corner where he and Fang Shu had piled rocks and said, "Look, there's a small seedling growing here. It looks like a melon, but I don't know what kind of melon it is. If it grows up, I'll definitely build a climbing frame for it."

Yuan Sihan said with a smile: "Anything that grows in your house is cute and interesting."

Yu Qinglong whispered to him softly, "My parents-in-law are out. An aunt is having a wedding at her house. They'll be away for the next few days, so you can sleep in as long as you want. Don't feel any burden in your heart. We don't have so many rules at home, and I used to wake up only when I had enough sleep. Come on, go wash your face and we'll have breakfast later."

Yuan Sihan nodded and quickly went to wash his face.

Although this was his first time living here, he had been coming to Fang's house every day recently, so he knew where to find basins and water.

Yu Qinglong didn't care at all and let people use it however they wanted.

Yuan Sihan got some water to wash her face and brush her teeth, then she and Yu Qinglong set up breakfast together.

At home, there were people to take care of all these things. He had never even thought about doing these things before, and he never had to lift a finger. At most, he would serve his parents-in-law meals. But the feeling back then was completely different from this.

Hong Huan was also unfamiliar with this, but he did not stop it. He found that it was precisely because of these things that his husband became more vivid.

This made him fall into deep thought.

Qin Yushuang, too, had never touched a woman's body, yet she was full of energy and energy every day. But her husband couldn't match that. Perhaps, as Yu Qinglong suspected, the elders in his family put too much pressure on his husband.

Young men from aristocratic families are all about being dignified and prudent. If they were to be bound by etiquette and morality, it would be strange if they could be cheerful.

He hadn't told her husband that his family had already sent two letters in the past few days. The elders had asked about the environment in Qixia Town and seemed to want to come. He had been hesitant before, but now he had made a decisive decision and said it was inconvenient.

After they had finished their meal, Fang Shu asked Yu Qinglong what he wanted to do today, and Yu Qinglong said he wanted to plant potatoes.

His potato sprouts were already well-formed, reaching nearly half a palm's height from the exposed roots to the tips. Qin Yushuang had also arrived early, and the others began to divide up the work.

"Do you get up so early at home?" Yu Qinglong asked Qin Yushuang.

"How is that possible?" Qin Yushuang said, "It's so boring at home. There's nothing interesting to do even if I get up early, so I might as well sleep a little longer. Hey, actually, I woke up before dawn today, but I didn't dare to come because I was afraid you wouldn't wake up yet." He got up earlier than the chickens! He was very excited all day and felt so happy.

"Are you used to it?"

"I wasn't used to it at first. But I fell asleep as soon as I lay down, and I don't know if I got used to it even in my dreams." Qin Yushuang placed the seedlings in place and filled the space with a small shovel. "Brother Yuan, how do you feel here?"

"I don't even want to leave." Yuan Sihan said, "It would be really fun to have a garden like this where I can grow my favorite vegetables."

Unfortunately, neither his father's nor his in-laws' had large gardens, but no vegetable gardens. If he wanted to go to the vegetable gardens, he had to go down to the farm, but even there he couldn't work in the gardens; the elders would say that wasn't his job.

It seemed as if she could only do two things in life: serve her parents-in-law and husband, and give birth to children. But without children, it would be difficult to serve her parents-in-law, which made him feel that he had not done anything well and was very depressed.

Yu Qinglong said, "If you like this place, you can come here every year. It's not far away anyway."

Qin Yushuang whispered, "We do want to. But it's easier said than done. If we encounter a strict mother-in-law or father-in-law, we might not be able to go out many times a year."

Yuan Sihan lowered his head when he heard this, obviously feeling a little depressed.

Yu Qinglong couldn't help but sigh. This era was far too harsh on both women and men. He was lucky to have met Fang Shu, but if he had been unlucky, he would have had a hard time living a happy life.

"Then I'll try my best to ensure that while you're here, I'll let you enjoy more things that you can't do in the city."

"Is there anything else you haven't played yet?" Qin Yushuang asked. Yuan Sihan also raised his head.

"Catch the fish and dry them. You can make spicy dried fish with rice."

His grandmother always made noodles with fish, which is not found here. Why not try using river fish?

However, the water is still too cold these days, and Yu Qinglong feels that he needs to wait a little longer.

So the day after planting the potatoes, Yu Qinglong took Qin Yushuang and Yuan Sihan to visit Aunt Liang's home. Li Zheng had told him that Aunt Liang hatched chicks and ducklings every year. This year, Yu Qinglong had also ordered goose chicks from Aunt Liang.

Now they've all hatched. Yu Qinglong bought twenty chickens, ten ducks, and ten geese. Just taking these little guys for a walk every day is enough to keep him busy, not to mention the five puppies.

Qin Yushuang and Yuan Sihan have plenty of work to do and are never idle.

If you are busy, you won’t have time to think about random things. If you don’t think about random things, you will be more energetic.

After a month in Qixia Town, not only had they become stronger, but they had also learned a number of skills from Yu Qinglong. One was cooking. It wasn't necessarily the best, but at least it was clean and edible. Then there was planting. Now, Qin Yushuang and Yuan Sihan both knew how to grow vegetables, though the varieties were limited.

They also know how to feed chickens, ducks and geese, keep account books and make spreadsheets, and even learned how to train dogs.

These guys from seemingly rich families don't need to learn these things, they all know how to do them and do them quite well.

In mid-April, Hong Huan left for work, taking Yuan Sihan with him. Qin Yushuang, feeling it was not appropriate for her to stay out alone, followed her second brother back home.

But during this period, two major events happened in the Fang family: first, Xiao Yuncai gave birth to a calf, and Xiao Jiao also gave birth to two lambs.

Second, Yu Qinglong showed signs of premature birth.

He didn't even think about it at first, because Bai Wanqiu got pregnant before him and she hadn't given birth yet, so he thought it was still too early for him.

He subconsciously felt that Bai Wanqiu would definitely be born earlier than him.

But the next day after he had planted everything that needed to be planted in his field, he began to feel something was wrong.

He would wake up at daybreak every morning to relieve himself, then return to sleep. But today, for some reason, he woke up before daybreak.

He felt a slight pain in his stomach.

At first I thought it was the child kicking me and that it would heal in a short time. But it got worse and worse.

The usually calm person couldn't help but panic: "Husband, wake up."

Fang Shu was confused: "Huh? What's wrong, Long'er?"

Yu Qinglong said, "My stomach hurts. It seems like Yangyang and Xiao Shitou are about to come out."

Fang Shu was dazed for a moment, then sat up suddenly: "Wait for me, I'll go find my mother right away!"

Fang Shu ran to the next door without even putting on his shoes: "Father! Mother! Are you awake?"

The sound was so loud that it sounded like a fire, frightening Fang Dingman and Fang Wushi: "What's going on?"

Fang Shu said, "Long'er seems to be about to give birth, mother, please come and see him."

Fang Wu and Fang Dingman put on their clothes without saying a word and came out. Fang Wu went to see Yu Qinglong, then told Fang Shu, "The baby is about to be born. Go and get your Aunt Liang over. Head of the household, have Dashan get Doctor Mo, it's safer."

The father and son hurried out. Yu Qinglong, no longer in pain, said uncertainly, "Mom, I'm not in pain anymore. Could it be that it's not time yet?"

Mrs. Fang Wu said: "At the beginning, the pain was not constant, but came in waves, and it became more severe as time went on."

Yu Qinglong was also a little panicked when he heard this.

He knew that twins were prone to premature births, his master had told him so as well. But this seemed too early, only a little over eight months old!

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Author's words: Fang Shu: Long'er, I'm panicking [burst into tears]

Qinglong: Shut up! The more you panic, the more panic I get [laughing and crying]

Fang Shu: Aunts, please help my little wood and stone to be born safely [Please]