"Oh!" Shen Fenghua laughed. "So, this tiny thing has become a rat-hunting hero?"
“Yes,” Qi Ye said with a smile, “the chefs in the main kitchen really like it.”
Shen Fenghua laughed heartily, patted Big Yellow twice, and went inside to look around.
There were three kang beds, one large and two small. The large one was right next to the kitchen, so heating the kang would be a quick and easy task. As for the two smaller ones, Qi Ye had already made plans: "One for us to live in, and one for the children."
Shen Fenghua blushed at the words, pursed her lips, and said, "You're so annoying."
She was too embarrassed to bring it up, so she changed the subject, "Well, do you have enough money on hand? I have some here, you can take it..."
“I’m already very grateful that you’ve provided the house and my child can still come to school here. I should have been the one to renovate the house. Besides, when you think about it, which family’s son doesn’t build a house when he gets married and starts a career? I’m already getting a great deal by living in your house.”
"But……"
“There’s no ‘buts’,” Qi Ye shook his head. “We got together to live a good life together. From now on, everything in this house is ours, yours and mine. Is it necessary to be so calculating?”
Shen Fenghua smiled slightly, "You're right."
Seeing that Shen Fenghua was no longer insistent, Qi Ye breathed a slight sigh of relief, "That's just how it is."
There wasn't much to see inside the house. Apart from the three kang beds, the rest of the room was completely bare. He led Shen Fenghua outside. "This is a cat's nest made from the leftover parts of the kang bed. And here, I made a chicken coop. I was worried that the two of them wouldn't get along and would fight every day, so I put it far away."
Chicken coops and cat houses were provided, and the well was cleaned up thoroughly, complete with buckets and a lid.
"That way, the water we use will be clean on a regular basis."
Shen Fenghua nodded, then silently shifted her gaze to the large water vat beside her. "So what are you doing here...?"
"I'm worried you might have trouble carrying it, so I'll fill some water and put it here so you can use it right away."
Every single thing was done with utmost care.
Cat houses and chicken coops look similar, one on the left and one on the right. Shen Fenghua thought that she would build a fence to keep chickens in, or if she didn't keep them in, she could also cultivate some land to grow some vegetables, whether it was a bunch of scallions or a piece of cilantro.
In any case, this thing can't be wasted.
"How about it?"
Shen Fenghua smiled and said, "Quite good."
It looks empty now, but it's much cleaner. Once the furniture comes in, I can put things in and put my usual things back in their place. It will feel like a little home.
Hearing Shen Fenghua's words, Qi Ye also smiled.
"Then," he asked Shen Fenghua tentatively, still somewhat uneasy, "when are we going to the countryside to bring Grandma here?"
There's nothing I can do. Although free love is valued these days and those old-fashioned ways aren't popular, Qi Ye, whose house is already renovated and who's just waiting to get married, is feeling uneasy.
There wasn't even a proper betrothal ceremony or the traditional marriage ceremony, which was bad enough. But the problem was that even an ugly daughter-in-law has to meet her in-laws, and this ugly son-in-law didn't even know who his wife was meeting. If word got out, he'd be a laughingstock.
"You want to go?" Shen Fenghua was indeed a little surprised. She didn't expect that he would be so much more enthusiastic than she had imagined when it came to picking up her grandmother.
"Why wouldn't I want to go?" Qi Ye said matter-of-factly. "Logically speaking, if we've taken a liking to each other and hit it off, you should be the one to lead me to your home. But we just haven't had the chance. Grandma's in the countryside, and you've been so busy lately. I'm just reminding you so you don't forget."
Shen Fenghua smiled, "Indeed, then, shall we go this Saturday?"
There are still three days until Saturday. Once the exam is over, I can be debt-free.
"Okay," Qi Ye said happily, his tone becoming much more cheerful.
“Then I’ll bring the child along too, so that Grandma can see him for a bit and she can feel more at ease.”
That's true, but thinking of her grandmother reminded Shen Fenghua of all the mess in the Shen family, and she couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. It's okay to keep some things from outsiders, but you can't keep them from your grandmother. But if you do that, wouldn't it be a blow and a hurt to her as well?
In fact, Shen's mother was her maternal grandmother's biological daughter, whom she raised with great difficulty. Shen Huixiu was also her granddaughter!
How is this any different from killing each other?
"Don't worry," Qi Ye comforted Shen Fenghua, perhaps noticing her distress. "What is destined to be yours will be yours, and what is not, you cannot force. We are not close relatives, so let's just close the door and live our own lives, bring Grandma over, and let her enjoy her old age in peace."
"good."
Looking at Shen Fenghua's bright face, Qi Ye joked, "That's good too. They were all destined to be alone, but now that they've come together, they can barely be called three generations living under one roof."
Upon hearing this, Shen Fenghua was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, she realized it was true.
A faint smile curved her lips.
Qi Ye was stunned, his gaze fixed intently on Shen Fenghua's face.
Shen Fenghua naturally sensed it, her face flushed, and she tried to leave, asking, "What are you doing?"
Qi Ye held Shen Fenghua's hand tightly, reluctant to let go, "You are so beautiful."
Such blatant praise and direct gaze made Shen Fenghua extremely uncomfortable. She looked away, lowered her head, and said with some embarrassment and annoyance, "Don't look at me like that."
"Then how should I see it?" Qi Ye looked at Shen Fenghua's flushed face and couldn't help himself. In the end, he barely managed to keep his composure and only managed to place a devout kiss on Shen Fenghua's forehead.
Shen Fenghua didn't reply, but her ears burned red.
He reached out and pulled Shen Fenghua into his arms, feeling her stiff expression, and chuckled softly, "Fenghua, you're so cute."
Shen Fenghua was truly unaccustomed to this situation. Faced with Qi Ye's flirting, she was really about to flee in panic, thinking, "You're shameless."
“Hmm,” Qi Ye shamelessly agreed, “Then do you know that shamelessness is actually a reward for a man?”
Shen Fenghua: "..."
She found it difficult to describe her feelings at that moment.
"By the way," Qi Ye stopped joking with Shen Fenghua and let go. Shen Fenghua jumped away almost instantly and stood three meters away from him.
"you say."
That cautious demeanor is just so adorable.
"My marriage application report has been received."
"So fast?"
Shen Fenghua was dumbfounded.
It's only been a month since they met.
I've heard people say that it's not uncommon for the application process alone to take one or two months to complete.
But this came down in less than half a month?
Facing Shen Fenghua's suspicious gaze, Qi Ye didn't blink and said quite sincerely, "It should be handled as a special case. After all, she's not like me, who's so old and still doesn't have a partner."
This obviously teasing remark made Shen Fenghua roll her eyes at him and spit out a curse, "Shameless."
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