Mu Xingzhi smiled as he watched Su Qingluan stretching, and asked softly, "Qingluan, are you tired?"
"Isn't it?" Su Qingluan rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Since this morning, I only had a little breakfast and haven't eaten anything else. I only drank a little bit of sugar and salt water for fluid replenishment."
Su Qingluan had once recommended the sugar and salt water drink to Mu Xingzhi, hoping he would promote it. However, sugar and salt were still too expensive in this era to be suitable for large-scale promotion. However, Mu Xingzhi still knew about this strange-tasting but truly effective drink.
Mu Xingzhi looked at Su Qingluan and teased, "So Qingluan is hungry. There are wedding cakes on the table over there." The so-called "wedding cakes" are auspicious cakes used to decorate the bridal chamber. They are not for the sake of being delicious, but for the sake of good luck. "So there is no need to rush to look for those peanuts and lotus seeds in the wedding quilt."
Su Qingluan was shocked: Could this guy have some kind of prophetic ability, or perhaps a clairvoyant eye? How did he know what I had done?
In fact, the place where Mu Xingzhi said to put the wedding cakes was very conspicuous, right on the table. However, it was covered with a red cloth. Su Qingluan didn't know what was inside, and was afraid of disturbing the things and revealing her identity, so she didn't dare to move it. She never thought that she would be discovered at a glance.
Seeing that Su Qingluan's secrets had been exposed but she didn't want to admit it, Mu Xingzhi's smile deepened. He reached out and gently stroked the corner of Su Qingluan's mouth. While Su Qingluan was still in a daze, he handed the thing in his hand to Su Qingluan.
Su Qingluan looked down at the slender but white fingers. There was a little bit of peanut shell debris on them, just a little bit that could only be seen clearly from a very close distance.
The "evidence" was solid, and Su Qingluan finally seemed like someone caught doing something bad. She nodded with a gloomy face, "Okay, I admit I ate a little bit." She stretched out her index finger and thumb, making a very small gesture to show that she had eaten very little. "Who made me so hungry?"
Anyway, the "crime" had been exposed, so Su Qingluan simply stood up and took a piece of wedding cake with date paste filling from the place Mu Xingzhi said. She looked at Mu Xingzhi who was still sitting in the wheelchair, cut the wedding cake with date paste filling in half, thought about it, kept the larger half for herself, and handed the remaining piece to Mu Xingzhi.
"Are you hungry too? Want to eat something?"
Mu Xingzhi looked at the piece of wedding cake that Su Qingluan handed over with a smile, then took it after a moment and began to eat it slowly.
Su Qingluan sat aside and watched Mu Xingzhi. Sure enough, this guy always ate everything so slowly and methodically, without leaving any crumbs around his mouth! What kind of technique was this?
Thinking of this, Su Qingluan asked this question. Mu Xingzhi turned his head and looked at her: "Qingluan wants to learn?"
"...Is it difficult to learn?" To be cautious, Su Qingluan did not answer the question immediately, but asked it in return.
It's no wonder she asked so many times. She had watched a lot of film and television works in her previous life. Whether it was "Princess So-and-so" or "Present So-and-so", there were more or less scenes of learning etiquette. Those scenes could not be said to be unbearable to watch, but at least they were horrible.
Mu Xingzhi looked at Su Qingluan and slowly finished chewing the last bite of cake before he slowly said, "It takes years and months of practice. What do you think, Qingluan?"
Sure enough...Su Qingluan's mouth twitched.
Anyway, learning the rules is definitely not an easy task, but...
"Do I need to learn? If I do, can I pay more?" Su Qingluan's eyes suddenly became extra bright.
Mu Xingzhi was stunned for a moment, then chuckled. Perhaps because he laughed too quickly, he couldn't help coughing and could only cover his mouth and nose with his hands while coughing.
Su Qingluan was afraid that he would choke after eating, so she quickly looked around the room for something to drink.
Fortunately, there was a teapot and teacup on the table, but there was no tea in them, only cold water. Fortunately, it was still late summer and early autumn, and the weather was not cold, so it was no big deal to drink some.
"Here, drink some to calm your nerves." Su Qingluan handed over a bowl of water. "Do you need to call Uncle Song over?"
Mu Xingzhi shook his head: "There are still many villagers outside who have come to help, and Song Bo is in charge of greeting them." The matchmaker, the band that helps greet people inside and outside, and the odd jobs are all villagers who spontaneously organized to help. Although everyone is volunteering, Mu Xingzhi, as the host, cannot really do nothing, so Song Bo should be very busy outside now.
Su Qingluan listened to the noisy voices in the yard and nodded to show that she understood.
"What's more..." The man said with a half-smile, "Why is Qingluan so unromantic on her wedding night and wants to find another man?"
The corners of Su Qingluan's mouth twitched, and she patted Mu Xingzhi's shoulder in annoyance: "Why are you out of breath even though you're fat?" As they got closer, she remembered Mu Xingzhi's face, which she had almost forgotten just now. "Can... can I ask you a question? About your face..."
Su Qingluan didn't continue speaking, but looked at Mu Xingzhi.
She has always been subtle and cautious, not in terms of etiquette, but in terms of "bottom line topics" - if there is any sign that it is unsafe for her to touch on a certain topic, Su Qingluan will definitely turn around and leave immediately, and even if she finds something suspicious, she will pretend not to know.
So the second half of her unfinished sentence was equivalent to a test. If Mu Xingzhi's expression or other body language indicated that this topic could not be touched upon, Su Qingluan would stop while she was ahead.
Mu Xingzhi did not answer her whether "you can ask" or "no", but pushed the wheelchair to the side of the screen in the room, where there was a washbasin rack with half a basin of water in it.
When Su Qingluan was "exploring" the house before, she had noticed the washbasin and even the toilet behind the screen, but all her attention was focused on "finding food" at the time, and she didn't pay much attention to this inconspicuous furniture.
Now think about it, a toilet is reasonable, but why is there a basin of water here? Generally speaking, people may wash their faces before going to bed, but is the water for washing face usually prepared in advance?
It looks as if... as if... this basin of water might be used at any time...
Thinking of this, Su Qingluan saw Mu Xingzhi push the wheelchair to the side of the washbasin rack and wring out a towel to apply to his face.
"Are you... ready to wash your face and rest?" Su Qingluan checked the time: it was already completely dark, and the voices outside were getting farther and farther away, as if everyone had gone home one after another. But if she wanted to rest now, there was only one bed...
While Su Qingluan was struggling, she saw Mu Xingzhi pull out a familiar needle from somewhere—but this needle was very long, almost as long as an adult's palm. He fiddled with the nose near the eyelid a few times.
Just as Su Qingluan was about to ask her what she was doing, she saw an almost transparent film-like thing being peeled off from Mu Xingzhi's face!
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