Chapter 87

Yunkai caught up with Yueming in a few steps and hugged her from behind. Yueming struggled in panic: "What are you doing? Someone saw us."

Seeing that no one was around, Yun Kai tilted his head and bit her earlobe: "I'll take you to see the horsetail flowers tomorrow, so you need to get up early."

Yueming was startled by his bite and reached out to pinch his arm that was around her waist: "Are you going crazy? What are you doing in public?"

Yun Kai felt so pinched that it hurt, so he loosened his arm and said, "Are you a reincarnated crab? You always pinch me."

Yueming looked at him with a half-smile: "If your cousin doesn't pinch you, go find her!"

Yun Kai was speechless. He had proven it with his own actions last night, so why was she still jealous of Se Manli? He tapped her forehead with his fan. "If I really go find you, you'll be furious. I'll pick you up tomorrow morning. Don't sleep in again."

Yue understood him at a glance: "I can't get up, so I won't go." After saying that, she turned around and walked away with her head held high.

Yun Kai didn't chase her, but just said to her back: "I'll pick you up tomorrow morning. If you don't get up, I'll climb over your wall."

Yueming snorted and ignored him.

The next day, Yun Kai rode to the Lan residence before dawn. The gate was closed, and even if he listened carefully, the people inside didn't seem to be out of bed. Looking at the high courtyard wall, he took a few steps back. With a running start, he leaped and grabbed the top. He put his foot on it, flipped over, and landed lightly in the courtyard.

Little Lahu, who was sleeping in the low house next to the gate, heard the sound of something heavy falling to the ground. Without even having time to put on his clothes, he rolled over, grabbed the long knife from the bedside, and rushed out with his upper body naked. He looked at Yun Kai who had just stood up in surprise.

Yun Kai was just about to show off his authority as the young master of the Tusi Mansion to stop meddling in other people's business when he heard the sound of a bolt being pulled on the window. He quickly dodged to the side of the low house and clung to the wall.

"Lahu, did you hear anything?"

Little Lahu shook his head and gestured with his hands to indicate that he had not discovered anything.

Seeing that he was holding a knife in his hand, Changsheng thought that he had already inspected the place. Since he said that he found nothing, Changsheng closed the window with peace of mind and went back to bed to sleep.

Little Lahu glanced at the side wall, then returned to his room, knife in hand, and closed the door. Yunkai let out a soft sigh, deciding that when he got married, he would definitely specify that Little Lahu be his concubine. He was as good at judging people as Feng Xiaosai, and he was worth cultivating.

He knew where Yueming's room was, so he climbed up the thick Burmese osmanthus tree in the yard. Carefully, he treaded on the shaky branches and moved forward. He was still two feet from Yueming's window, unable to move any further. He pulled a silver dollar from his pocket and threw it at the window. The silver dollar hit the window frame and landed on the stone slabs in the yard with a tinkling sound. Afraid of attracting Changsheng again, he threw one more and didn't dare to throw. He could only whistle at the window, imitating the call of a bird.

He blew the window several times but there was no response, and he was secretly worried. He blamed Yueming for sleeping so soundly, and at the same time he was worried that Yueming had changed rooms. It would be embarrassing if Lan Yingde opened the window after all his hard work!

Just as he was feeling anxious, the window creaked open, revealing Yueming's disheveled sleeping head. Seeing him sitting on the tree, he stared with wide eyes in disbelief and cursed in a low voice, "What the hell are you doing so early in the morning?"

Yunkai smiled silently at her and mouthed the words for her to come out.

Yueming also said silently, "I said yesterday that I wouldn't go."

He winked at her and said, "Hurry up, I'll wait for you." Then he quickly slid down the tree without waiting for Yueming to react.

Yueming stared at him swiftly climbing over the wall and couldn't help but complain in her heart, "Since you let me out, why don't you wait a moment and walk out with me through the main gate? Why are you trying so hard to be cool? Aren't you afraid of being mistaken for a thief by the neighbors next door?"

Although she was complaining in her heart, she was still very happy in her heart.

She quietly changed her clothes, poured water from the tin bottle, brushed her teeth, and washed her face. Worried that he would be waiting anxiously outside, she only drew her eyebrows and put on some lipstick before leaving.

She tiptoed down the stairs, afraid that Lan Yingde or Changsheng would suddenly open the door and ask her where she was going so early. She was so nervous that her palms were sweating as she climbed the short two flights of stairs.

She came to the front door, slowly pulled out the bolt, opened the door, slipped out in one go, and quickly closed it. She was afraid that the sound and shadow of opening the door would be so loud that it would attract little Lahu to come out to check, so she ran as fast as she could as soon as she got out of the door, and she took the three steps in one step.

Yunkai was waiting for her on horseback at the hitching stone next to her house's gate. Seeing her rushing towards him without any clue, he quickly let go of the reins, bent down and lifted her onto the horse.

Yueming sat in front of him and hurriedly urged him, "Hurry up, hurry up, it will be bad if my dad comes out."

With the beauty already in his arms, Yun Kai had nothing to worry about. He controlled the reins with one hand, held her waist with the other, squeezed his legs against the horse's belly, and shouted, "Go!"

The horse galloped wildly through the misty streets, the crisp sound of hooves on the stone slabs echoing through the cold streets. Although the ride was a bit bumpy and uncomfortable, Yueming felt an indescribable joy in her heart as she faced the cold, damp wind.

The horses carried the two of them all the way to Dujuan Mountain. In March, the bright red azaleas on the mountain were in full bloom. White mist swirled in the mountains, and the peaks scattered in the swirling clouds made Yueming wonder whether he was in the human world or in a fairyland.

The horse strolled into the rhododendron forest, where the branches were thick and the leaves were dense, and the flowers were overwhelming. The sweet fragrance of rhododendrons filled the air.

We came to an open area with only one azalea tree. Although it was solitary, its canopy was huge, and when the wind blew, the flowers on the tree fluttered in the wind like living butterflies.

Yunkai dismounted and carried Yueming down, placing him on a large rock beneath the azalea tree, large enough for a person to lie down on. He then took a wine flask and snacks from his saddle bag and placed them on the rock. He and Yueming sat side by side, waiting for the sunrise.

Yueming hadn't eaten a single grain of rice that morning, and after galloping for a while, her stomach was already rumbling with hunger. She picked up a piece of snack and ate it. Yunkai saw that she was eating anxiously, so he poured her a cup of rice wine and handed it to her, saying softly, "Drink it first, don't choke."

Yueming took a sip from the cup in his hand. Although it tasted sweet, she could still detect a hint of alcohol. She said in surprise, "Usually, you get mad at me when I drink. Why are you letting me drink today?"

Yun Kai wiped the snack crumbs from the corner of her mouth with his fingers and said softly, "It's very humid in the mountains. I'm afraid you'll get cold, so drink something to warm yourself up."

As they were talking, a flash of orange light shone on the two of them. They tilted their heads to look and saw that the morning sun had already half appeared, shining with golden light and slowly rising from the sea of ​​clouds.

Although he was still chewing a snack, Yueming still felt that the rising sun in front of him was like a huge salted egg yolk, the kind that was well-marinated and dripping with oil.

Sharing this thought with Yunkai, he sighed deeply and consoled himself: Forget it, forget it. He knew how much she was educated, so he couldn't expect her to compose poems like "The morning sun hides its brilliance, Cebu still shrouds its peaks." She even knew how to describe it as "like a salted egg yolk," which was good enough. It was much better than just saying, "Beautiful, damn beautiful!"

The rice wine was very strong, and Yueming fell asleep in Yunkai's arms before the salted egg yolks could all burst out. When he woke up, the salted egg yolks were so dazzling that he couldn't look directly at them.

She lay on Yunkai, who held her with one arm and tucked the other behind his head, sound asleep. The petals from the tree were no match for the wind, swirling down onto the two of them, piling up beneath the stone, their delicate fragrance filling the air.

Yueming saw that Yunkai was sleeping soundly and became malicious. He moved up, opened his mouth and nibbled his chin with his teeth.

Yun Kai was woken up by the bite, and knew that it was Yue Ming who was causing the trouble. He closed his eyes and smiled, "Where did a rat spirit come from? Ah..."

His chin was bitten hard. He held Yueming tightly, pinched her chin and scolded her, "Little thing, what are you doing?"

Yueming pouted innocently and said, "I'm so happy, my teeth are itching. Can you let me take a bite?"

Yun Kai touched the tooth mark on her chin and flicked her forehead with his finger, threatening her: "Your teeth are itching because you ate too much chocolate. If you eat any more, you'll have a mouthful of rotten teeth. I'll go to the horseshoe shop and borrow some pliers to pull them all out for you."

Yueming used her hands and feet to move up again, so that her eyes were level with his, and bared her small white teeth at him: "My wife said that betel nut is good for teeth. At worst, I can just start learning to eat it now."

Yunkai imagined the scene of Yueming eating betel nut, a graceful little girl in a Western dress, with a mouthful of big black teeth when she smiled, and spitting out blood-red saliva while talking to him.

He felt that he could not bear that kind of scene and immediately wanted to push Yueming off him.

"I've never seen a wife take her daughter-in-law out for a smoke or drink, but you're just short of taking you out for a gamble. Don't move, get out, get out. I'm a hot-blooded young woman, and you can't seduce me into doing something immoral under the covers."

Yueming was afraid that he would really push her to the ground, so she cried out and hugged his neck tightly, clamping her legs around him.

Yun Kai looked at her with admiration: "Little thing, you're learning and applying it! I just taught you the other night, and you've already mastered it so well."

He thought Yueming would blush shyly and get angry at him, but he didn't expect Yueming's focus to be very strange: "Why do you keep calling me little thing today? I'm going to be eighteen in two months, how can I be little?

Xiao Yunkai was happy to explain the difference. He put his hand on her chest and smiled maliciously, "Of course it's smaller here, but don't be sad. As long as it grows on you, I like it even if it's small."

Yueming angrily let go of her hand and sat up, gritting her teeth and saying, "Your cousin is older, why don't you get along with her?"

Yueming sat on his lower abdomen, almost sitting out the snacks and rice wine that Yunkai had eaten in the morning.

Yun Kai pressed her shoulders to stop her from moving, begging for mercy: "Ancestor, Ancestor, I was wrong, please don't move, or you'll end up being a widow for the rest of your life."

Yueming said angrily, "You are so annoying. You just like to bully me. I don't want to go to Siam with you."

This hit Yunkai's sore spot. He wanted to keep Yueming in his pocket or hanging her on his waist, never leaving her side. Thinking that he wouldn't be able to see her for half a year, he mustered up all his patience. He used both hands to push her back to his chest, caressing her delicate face and coaxing her softly, "You're such a fool! If I had something going on with Se Manli, would I still be engaged to you? I'm afraid the kids would run around."

Yueming snorted angrily, "My father said that cousin marriages are most likely to produce bad children. It's not certain whether your child with her can escape."

Yun Kai was at a loss for words and said, "Just be jealous in front of me! My wife will be unhappy if she hears what you say."

Yueming snorted and buried her face in his chest, ignoring him.

The little girl's eyes were rolling up so much that they were about to pop out. Yun Kai dug out her face and said lovingly, "Silly child, I give you my whole heart. It's in your hands. You can make it happy and it will be happy. You can make it hurt and it will be hurt. Why bother to get angry with other women? Not only are you making yourself half dead, but you're also taking your anger out on me."

Yueming said aggrievedly, "But every word she said was directed at me, and I couldn't curse back in front of my wife. I felt so aggrieved."

Yun Kai took the opportunity to say, "Then come with me to Siam! When you send Se Manli home, tell uncle that we are getting married, and he will discipline her. Why bother pulling her hair and cursing at her?"

His idea wasn't exciting enough, nor was it appealing enough. Yueming said with a dull expression, "Let's talk about it later. I just got back and don't want to travel any further. If you take me back to Kunming, I might consider it."

Yun Kai continued to persuade, "Come with me. In name, I want to take you to see my elder sister, but in reality, I just can't bear to leave you. I promise you, if you come with me this time, I'll go to Kunming with you on your honeymoon."

This proposal was quite attractive. Yueming asked with some doubt, "Really?"

Yunkai chuckled, "Why would I lie to you?" Then he explained the benefits to her, "When we get to Bangkok, it'll just be the two of us at home. You can get up whenever you want and eat whatever you want. Have you ever been to the beach? Siam has many beaches with clear waters. You can even see small fish swimming around."

She had never seen an ocean before. The two most ocean-like places she had seen were Dianchi Lake and Erhai Lake. But both of them were lakes.

She was somewhat reassured by what he said, but still hesitated, "But Dad won't let me go alone with you."

"I asked him yesterday, and he promised to let you go if you want."

"Alright then!" Yueming stroked his chin and agreed perfunctorily, all her attention focused on the two rows of teeth marks on his chin. They were quite neat, and there were no missing teeth, so he shouldn't need betel nut.

Seeing that she looked uninterested, Yun Kai leaned over to her ear and whispered, "It's mainly because I'm feeling suffocated. Yun Xiang can't buy condoms, and I'm afraid you'll get pregnant before the wedding day."

Yueming glared and scolded, "I'll ask Dad to make you some medicine. I'll make sure you don't even think about that before the opening ceremony."

Yunkai broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this. Women are really the most vicious!

"But what is condom? Is it medicine? Does it work?"

Yunkai immediately perked up, chuckling and whispering some general knowledge in her ear.

Yueming suddenly understood: "So this is for men!"

The clouds are clearing...are you too lazy to even pretend to be shy now?

"Then it's a deal. I'll go to Siam with you. But you have to keep your word. You can't just leave me to my elder sister or leave me at the mansion. You have to take me everywhere to play."

The flowers on the branches could not withstand the wind and slowly fell. Yunkai reached out to catch them, put the flowers in Yueming's hair, and gently kissed her forehead: "When have I ever broken my promise to you?"