Chapter 79 Are They...Sleeping?
Wutong Garden, at the main gate.
A circle of snow-white fur was revealed at the collar of the cloak, surrounding Chen Tang's pale face, making her look particularly beautiful.
But she frowned and urged Qi Huaijing to hurry up.
Qi Huaijing looked up and down again, the soft and windproof fox fur cloak, the hand warmer tucked in the sleeve, the warm and soft deerskin boots... then he nodded with satisfaction.
"Okay, let's go."
Chen Tang was originally in a hurry to leave, but now he stood still with his hands in his sleeves.
"My dear, do you really want to go to the apotheosis clinic? On the 16th day of the first lunar month, the streets are full of young girls and wives. Aren't you ashamed?"
Qi Huaijing adjusted the straps of her cloak again, very confidently.
"What's there to be ashamed of? Huaping has gone back to her own home to celebrate the festival. If I don't go with her, who will serve you?"
Chen Tang turned to look at Bai Lu who was standing next to him.
Bai Lu was holding a lantern and just smiled without saying anything.
Qi Huaijing said: "She is from the capital and doesn't know the way to Guangling City. Don't get lost together."
Chen Tang looked at the two maids standing behind Bai Lu.
The two men were carrying a box of snacks and fruits, and neither said a word.
"They are even worse. They are so young and can't even remember the way."
After Qi Huaijing finished speaking, he asked the little maid to open the snack box. Seeing that all the food was fresh, he nodded slightly.
"Yes, take them all."
Chen Tang couldn't help but shook his head, and said, "You really don't need to take these. There are snacks for sale everywhere on the road today. How can you go hungry?"
"How can you eat food from outside? Who knows if the food has been washed? Tang'er, when you go out in the future, you should also eat less food from outside. If it tastes bad, it's secondary. If it's not clean, you will have to ask for it when you get home..."
As Chen Tang listened, he vaguely thought of Madam Yue and couldn't help but interrupt him.
"Okay, okay, stop talking. Let's go quickly while my wife is listening to the opera. If we are late, she will be asked to go with us again... It will be even more boring if she wants to go with us in the evening."
Qi Huaijing nodded only after he saw that she finally agreed to let him go.
"Don't worry, my wife hates the crowded streets. She won't go out if she can stay at home and listen to opera comfortably."
The group went out. The streets were brightly lit by moonlight, with colorful lights and loud sounds of flutes and drums. The women in the city went out together, and the city was very lively.
With so many beautiful women around, Qi Huaijing seemed out of place. Perhaps because he was too handsome, people would stare at him sideways wherever he went.
He was calm and composed, as if he was strolling in the garden.
Chen Tang walked behind him and couldn't help but sigh in admiration and whispered to Bai Lu.
"If I had known this, I would have dressed him up as a girl, so there wouldn't be so many people looking at him."
Bai Lu tilted her head to listen to her and said with a smile: "If there really is a girl as tall as the Third Master, she would attract a lot of attention."
She smiled and nodded in agreement.
Chen Tang rarely went out and was very excited. He walked across several bridges but still didn't want to go home.
Qi Huaijing said: "Then let's go to your house and sit down. My uncle must be still awake."
Chen Tang shook his head, "Goodbye, if I meet Xiao Li'er, I'll have to pester her for a long time again."
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the couple went to the Shen family to pay New Year's greetings.
Chen Li grew up following Shen Tang. Seeing her sister getting married and her brother Shen Di going to school every day, she was the only child left at home and felt very lonely and bored.
As soon as she saw her sister come home, she stuck to her side like a twisted candy, and pestered her cousin to play chess with her, but naturally she was defeated again.
When saying goodbye, Chen Li was tearful and reluctant to leave, and she wished she could go live with her sister at her uncle's house.
If the couple went to Shen's house in the middle of the night... there might be an extra child sleeping in the bed tonight.
Qi Huaijing asked again if they wanted to go to Aunt Song's house, but Chen Tang still shook his head.
"My aunt loves to cure all diseases. She not only cures her own illness, but also cures the whole family. She always goes out until the middle of the night and comes back. She is definitely not at home now."
She waited for a while, and seeing that Qi Huaijing couldn't think of a way out, she slowly came up with a good idea.
"Why don't we go check on Fengxi and Lidong? They have doctors at home, so they probably don't go out to treat all kinds of illnesses. Maybe they're at home."
Qi Huaijing looked at her with half-closed eyes. He clearly had his own ideas, but he still had to beat around the bush before he was willing to say them.
"Why don't you just say it straight out? What's the harm?"
Chen Tang smiled and curved his eyes.
"I just hadn't thought about it. It's so late and we didn't say hello in advance. What if they are sleeping?"
Qi Huaijing suddenly smiled and pulled her to whisper in his ear.
"What are you afraid of? Even if they are sleeping, they will stop and put on their clothes before opening the door for you."
Chen Tang didn't mean that at first, but when he said that, the scene immediately came to his mind, and he felt embarrassed and wanted to laugh.
"You...oh my, I'm not going!"
Qi Huaijing laughed and pulled her away.
Arriving at Mulan Lane, Chen Tang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the lights at Feng's house were still on. Bai Lu went up to knock on the door, and after just two knocks, someone answered.
Before opening the door, Qi Huaijing whispered in her ear again, "It seems that they are not sleeping."
Shen Tang was dignified for a while, but he couldn't help but teased her again.
So, when Feng Xi opened the door, he saw her bent over with laughter.
"Hey, what are you guys laughing at?"
Lidong also came along and was a little surprised to see a group of familiar faces at his doorstep.
"Everyone, at this hour...what happened to Third Grandma?"
Qi Huaijing bowed leisurely.
"Doctor, my wife had a laughing disease in the middle of the night, so I came here to ask for medicine."
Chen Tang: “Hahahaha…ah shut up!”
The elders of the Feng family had already gone to bed, and Feng Xi introduced Chen Tang one by one the family pets who had not yet gone to bed.
"Ah Huang."
“Woof woof!”
"A-Lu."
“Chirp, chirp, chirp~”
"Ah Hong."
“Quack~quack~quack~”
Chen Tang stopped in front of Ah Hong's broken jar.
"I recognize it. This is the one Huai Jing gave to Li Dong..."
Feng Xi nodded, "Yes, snow frog."
Shen Tang swallowed the word "toad" and greeted him with a smile.
"Ah Hong, Happy New Year!"
The moonlight was bright as frost. Qi Huaijing sat on the steps in front of the house, watching the two of them walking around in the yard. He took the hot tea handed to him by Lidong and took a sip.
"Why don't you live somewhere better?"
If Qi Huaijing had not been here before, the group would have almost lost their way into this shabby alley.
Lidong sat down next to him, "This is her home."
Qi Huaijing looked up at the small shabby courtyard and disagreed.
"Change to a better yard. As long as the people don't change, it's still her home."
"She grew up here."
"So you're going to live here forever? What about your house?"
Lidong is a child picked up by Old Man Yue. He was raised in the Yue family since childhood. After he grew up, he bought a small house in the capital. Since he came to Guangling, he has not returned to live there for a long time.
"I told her at the beginning of our marriage that I had no parents and only an old house in my hometown. She said I was so pitiful and told me not to think too much about it in the future because this was my home."
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