It got dark, and Xiaoyue didn't wake Liang Qi. She just covered him with a blanket and slept in the west room until noon the next day.

Liang Qi got up and tidied up. Xiao Yue brought over some boiled sauerkraut dumplings. The two sat on either side of the kang table, their faces flushed and their hearts pounding. Liang Qi stole a glance at Xiao Yue.

Xiaoyue was eating dumplings with her head down. Although she felt someone watching her, she didn't dare to look up. After a while, she took the opportunity to glance at Liang Qi, then quickly looked away. The two of them finished their meal awkwardly. After clearing the table, Xiaoyue finally mustered up the courage to make an excuse and said:

"You've finished eating, you should go home now, after all, you still have your father to take care of." Xiaoyue regretted saying it as soon as she finished speaking. Would he think she was kicking him out? Just as she was feeling uneasy, she heard Liang Qi speak up.

“Okay,” Liang Qi looked out the window, “I’ll sweep the snow out of the yard after it stops before I go back.”

After Xiaoyue finished clearing away the dishes, she couldn't help but think of what Liang Qi had mentioned about Yun Xingfei yesterday, so she asked curiously, "Did you run into Yun Xingfei?"

Liang Qi, who was putting on his shoes to go out and shovel snow, looked up, straightened up, and helplessly patted Xiaoyue's head, saying with resentment, "Can't you show some concern for me?"

Xiaoyue turned around, taking a step back from Liang Qi. She glared at him and said firmly, "Those are my friends. Is it wrong for me to care about how they are doing?"

Liang Qi pulled Xiaoyue into his arms again, his chin pressed tightly against her head, and led her to sit on the edge of the kang (heated brick bed). He said gently, "They are doing well. I heard from Young Master Yun..."

After you disappeared that day, we went to Fatty Ren's house. Then the head of the Bai family came and refused to let Young Master Yun and me return to Niukou Village. They stayed in Hejia Town for two days. Yun Ba and Yun San were with Young Master Yun, and with the intervention of the head of the Bai family...

He, Yun San, and Yun Ba wore short-sleeved clothes, and Bai Da Biao arranged for eight more people to accompany and protect Yun Xingfei, forming a caravan that made a living by selling tea. They headed north directly to Anping County.

Upon arriving in Anping County, the caravan members went to great lengths to find Marquis Anping, finally managing to meet him under the pretext of selling tea. Yun Xingfei saw Marquis Anping, who had just woken up, recuperating in his tent.

He immediately knelt before Marquis Anping, saying that upon hearing of Marquis Anping's injury, he had rushed here day and night, and that Marquis Anping had arranged for Yun Xingfei and Yun Ba to serve as Feng Yunyi's personal attendants.

When Xiaoyue heard that Yun Xingfei and the others were all doing well, she turned her head and looked up at Liang Qi happily, saying, "The capital is doing quite well. Now that Ren Shuhui can't reach them anymore, and when Yun Xingfei and the others return to Longcheng, Ren Shuhui won't be able to afford to offend them."

Liang Qi looked down at Xiaoyue's smiling face with affection, hugged her tighter, and whispered in her ear, "When are we going to have our wedding?"

Xiaoyue's face flushed red again. She struggled out of Liang Qi's embrace, picked up a broom from the side, and started sweeping the floor while saying, "Whatever you want, you and Liang Boding can go ahead."

Liang Qi stood up, put on his hat and gloves, and pushed open the door. The ground was covered in silvery-white snow. Xiao Yue followed Liang Qi out and went to the shack in the front yard. Liang Qi took a broom and went out to sweep the snow.

Xiaoyue looked at the chickens, ducks, and geese in the shed. After removing the gate that enclosed them, they all ran out happily. Xiaoyue cleaned up the animal droppings and dumped the cleaned droppings in the northeast corner to be composted in the spring.

Xiaoyue felt very at ease watching the people sweeping snow in the white snow.

As Xiaoyue watched, a wicked thought formed in her mind. Behind Liang Qi, she secretly made two snowballs, quietly approached him as he bent over sweeping snow, and stuffed the snowballs down his neck.

He ran back with a "haha" sound. Liang Qi jumped up from the cold of the snowball. He quickly threw down the broom, shook the snowball off his neck, and the snow water flowed down his neck and into his chest. Liang Qi quickly took off his gloves and threw the snowball off his neck.

Then he turned around and chased after Xiaoyue, who was laughing so hard she couldn't breathe in the snow. She was wearing a thick cotton-padded coat, and because she wasn't very tall, she was running with her short legs, looking like a ball.

Liang Qi chased after her, making snowballs as he went. Liang Qi's snowballs were no different from Xiao Yue's. Xiao Yue's snowballs were all shiny and solid, while Liang Qi's snowballs were just lightly pinched and scattered when they hit Xiao Yue.

Liang Qi hit Xiao Yue five times, and Xiao Yue would always hit him back once. The two of them chased each other, their clothes covered in snow, their breath turning their eyebrows white. Xiao Yue stood there laughing loudly.

Pointing at Liang Qi's eyebrows, he laughed so hard he could hardly breathe, saying between laughs, "You really look like an old man."

Liang Qi approached Xiao Yue and forcefully pressed her down into the snow. He then began to throw snow all over her, trying to bury her. Xiao Yue struggled desperately, and eventually, Liang Qi, exhausted, and the two of them lay down on the silvery-white ground.

Looking at the cloudless sky, Xiaoyue glanced at Liang Qi, clenched a handful of snow in her hand, and couldn't help but sigh, "It feels so good." Before Liang Qi could react, Xiaoyue sprinkled the snow on Liang Qi's neck.

Liang Qi rolled over and pinned Xiaoyue down on the ground. He held Xiaoyue's arm with one hand and grabbed a handful of snow with the other, threatening to throw it at her face.

Xiaoyue giggled and quickly begged for mercy. Liang Qi threw away the snow, placed his hand on Xiaoyue's face, and couldn't help but bend down and kiss her. He then stroked Xiaoyue's face with both hands and couldn't help but kiss her again.

Xiaoyue wrapped her arms around Liang Qi's neck, and the two of them turned around. Liang Qi was afraid that Xiaoyue would feel cold lying on the bed, so their positions changed. Xiaoyue sat on Liang Qi's lap, and her infatuated gaze made my heart tighten involuntarily.

Liang Qi placed his hands behind Xiaoyue's head and slowly brought her face closer to his. Her eyes were filled with a rabbit-like fear, and her face was flushed even in the snow.

Liang Qi's heart started pounding for no reason. He pressed Xiao Yue's face against his chest. Xiao Yue stared at Liang Qi in surprise, the sound of his heart beating as loud as a drum.

Xiaoyue swallowed hard, her mind racing. With a mischievous grin, she leaned in and gently took a bite of Liang Qi's bright red nipple.

Then, as she was about to get up and run away, Liang Qi grabbed Xiaoyue who was running away, touched his lips, and pressed Xiaoyue down in the snow, kissing her passionately for a long time.

When Liang Qi released Xiao Yue, Xiao Yue fled in panic, ran to the bottom of the house, glanced at Liang Qi, smiled timidly, and then opened the door and went inside.

Liang Qi watched Xiaoyue enter the house, then walked to where he had thrown the broom, picked it up, and continued sweeping.

As he swept, he said to Xiaoyue, who was entering the house, "I'll take you up the mountain to catch pheasants tomorrow."

"Great! Great!" Xiaoyue jumped up and down excitedly, clapping her hands.