Chapter 30: The Cold Husband

"What's wrong?" Lu Mingchuan asked.

Su Heng's eyes flickered: "Well, it's getting dark, I want to go to the bathroom."

Lu Mingchuan: "So?"

Su Heng saw the mischief in his eyes and immediately got angry: "Accompany me to the backyard, will you come?"

Lu Mingchuan chuckled and stopped teasing her, "Go, let's go."

Su Heng entered the bathroom carrying a kerosene lamp and asked, "Lu Mingchuan, you're outside, right?"

"Um."

"Don't sneak away."

Lu Mingchuan was helpless. He didn't expect her to be so timid and still like to tell ghost stories. He didn't deliberately scare her and said, "I won't leave, don't worry."

Su Heng was still nervous and tense as she quickly went to the toilet.

But for some reason, there was a cold wind tonight, and the fallen leaves on the ground were swirling and making rustling sounds.

She followed Lu Mingchuan back to the house, and when she arrived at her bedroom, she suddenly felt that the space under the bed was dark and scary.

Her bed was a wooden frame bed. Su Heng prepared herself mentally for a long time, then quickly raised the kerosene lamp and shone it under the bed.

Fortunately, there was nothing, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Oh no, you scare yourself.

The next day, Su Heng decided to accept the loss and was about to take Lu Mingchuan's clothes while doing laundry, but found that his clothes were already hanging in the yard.

Su Heng was about to tell him when she saw the men's underwear in the corner and her face turned red instantly.

Well, if it comes to doing laundry, this shouldn’t be included.

Just then, Lu Mingchuan came from the backyard, and she quickly moved away from the place where her underwear was hung.

The sparrows under the eaves fluttered away in fright. The ramming of earth in the backyard just stopped, and there was a moment of silence.

Su Heng had no choice but to lower her voice and say, "Next time, leave the clothes outside for me to wash."

Lu Mingchuan: “No need.”

"Why?" Su Heng wondered.

It would be nice to have someone to help with the laundry. She just hated that she wasn't the winner last night.

Lu Mingchuan glanced at her calmly and said, "I washed my underwear while I was washing them."

He must have done it on purpose. Su Heng felt like she was being ridiculed again.

But she's not really his wife, this is too private! How could Lu Mingchuan do this? He has no manly virtue at all. I despise him!

Su Heng: "You refused it yourself, not me who refused to fulfill it."

"Can I change it?" Lu Mingchuan asked.

Su Heng: "What do you want to change? I'll consider it."

Lu Mingchuan: "I want to make a reclining chair, can you help me?"

It was so simple, Su Heng agreed without hesitation and asked again: "Can you do it?"

Lu Mingchuan said, "Try it, there's a tutorial."

A few days ago, Su Heng mentioned that it would be nice to have a recliner so that she could lie under a tree in the afternoon to enjoy the cool breeze.

What he wanted to make was not the old-fashioned bamboo lounge chair, but a rocking one with two curved pieces of wood at the bottom.

There was some wood in the west room, which looked like the same kind of wood used for the bunk bed in Su Heng's room. She didn't understand it, so she followed along to help draw the lines and mark the dimensions.

In order to make his work more convenient, Lu Mingchuan wore a white cotton vest and loose army green trousers.

As he sawed the wood, he exerted force on his arms, his lean muscles bulged, his cold white skin turned a little red from the sun, and the blue veins on his arms were very obvious.

Sweat slid down his smooth jawline and dripped onto his chest.

The white cotton vest was not thick and was soaked with sweat, through which one could vaguely see the outline of the bulging chest muscles and the abdominal muscles underneath.

This is not the fancy muscles developed in gyms in later generations. The muscles developed through actual combat training are not overly exaggerated, but just right.

Su Heng's eyes unconsciously wandered away, and he squatted aside, daydreaming.

I don't know if Lu Mingchuan has eight abdominal muscles. I heard that it depends on the individual's physique. Some people are born with only six packs...

"What are the dimensions of the handrail?" Lu Mingchuan asked, holding a tape measure.

"Eight... No, let me see."

Su Heng spoke faster than her brain. She reacted halfway through her words and quickly flipped through the reference book in her hand and reported it to Lu Mingchuan.

Lu Mingchuan glanced at her while bending down to measure the size, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly.

He was so perceptive that Su Heng's completely unconcealed gaze was impossible to ignore.

Su Heng didn't know anything about carpentry, so she sat on a small stool and only helped by occasionally handing over tools or reporting dimensions.

It was cool under the tree, and she felt drowsy as she listened to the afternoon breeze scented with the fragrance of locust flowers.

When Lu Mingchuan looked up briefly during his busy schedule, he could see Su Heng's pretty profile, which looked like a little fox taking a nap under a tree.

Making a rocking chair takes some effort. In the next few days, Su Heng went to the mountains to look for medicinal herbs as usual in the morning, came back in the afternoon to process them, and helped Lu Mingchuan by the way.

And the well in the backyard is finally being completed.

Because we raise poultry in the backyard, we are afraid that the chickens and ducks will step on air and fall into the well, so we sealed the well and added a water pressure device, which makes it very convenient to use water.

There are two pipes connecting the kitchen and the yard for convenient water supply.

Because of the additional work and pipes, the final cost of digging the well was ninety-four dollars.

After paying the bill, there was still six dollars left from the money Lu Mingchuan had given.

Su Heng counted her own small treasury. She still had a little over two hundred dollars of her own money, and the three hundred dollars given by Lu Mingchuan were untouched.

If she wanted to buy a bicycle, she still needed forty yuan. It was still a while away from half a month anyway. She had saved up some medicine these days, and if it was not enough, she could use the money Lu Mingchuan gave her.

Money is spent quite quickly, but I have to buy a bicycle, otherwise I will only be able to carry a limited amount of things when selling goods, and I can’t bother others to come to my house every time.

The initial expenditure was necessary. Su Heng felt relieved when she thought of the several large bags of food piled up in the kitchen.

She walked to the small pool in the yard, turned on the faucet and washed her face.

The well water was icy cold, and Su Heng shrank back a little, but after getting used to it, she couldn't help but crave the coolness.

The weather was good today and there was water again, so she decided to wash the sheets and quilts that had not been washed for half a month.

After dragging out an extra-large wooden basin from the west room, Su Heng went into the room to tidy up the bedding.

Passing by the main room, Su Heng saw the open door on the other side. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "Lu Mingchuan, do you want to wash your sheets?"

"Well, let's take a shower together."

Lu Mingchuan responded and also picked up the sheets and quilt covers and took them out. It was just that it was difficult for Su Heng to wring them out by herself.

There was only one large basin and washboard, so Lu Mingchuan started washing the sheets while Su Heng used a small basin to wash their pillowcases.

She felt a little embarrassed. Seeing Lu Mingchuan diligently rubbing her sheets, she said, "Call me when you twist them later. It will be easier for two of us to do it."

Lu Mingchuan responded casually. Su Heng looked at him, a big boy like him, sitting on a small stool, calmly ruffling the white bed sheet with big red flowers.

That must have been bought for the wedding, with big peonies printed on it.

Help! The more she looked at Lu Mingchuan, the more she felt that he had the air of a married man.

He looks so aloof and unapproachable, and has nothing to do with these two words.

Seeing Lu Mingchuan was about to look up, Su Heng quickly retracted her gaze and pretended to be busy.

But I do have some things to do. After washing the pillowcases, it’s time to water the vegetables in the backyard.