If the moonlight hadn't been so beautiful, why would she have felt as if her mind had turned to mush, like she was drunk?
Lu Shiyan also felt his heart racing, as if he were drunk.
The soft touch beneath his fingers stirred a surge of impulse within him, a desire to do something else.
But in the end, he restrained himself and withdrew his hand, asking Jiang Tangtang, "Is it delicious?"
Jiang Tangtang then carefully savored the taste of the chestnut in her mouth.
It must be said that although these chestnuts are small, the air environment in this era is not polluted, and the wild chestnuts taste really good.
She smiled at him and said, "It's delicious."
Hearing Jiang Tangtang say it was delicious, Lu Shiyan gave her the few chestnuts he had just peeled. After peeling them, he would give the chestnuts to Jiang Tangtang and then start peeling them himself.
Seeing that he had been busy for a long time without eating a single piece, and ended up eating them all himself, Jiang Tangtang felt a little embarrassed, "You should eat some too!"
"I'm not hungry, eat as much as you like." As he spoke, Lu Shiyan had already peeled all the chestnuts that Jiang Tangtang had taken out.
"Is there any more? Give it to me and I'll peel it for you so you can eat it whenever you want."
"How could I possibly accept that?" Jiang Tangtang said, but a sweet and joyful feeling she had never experienced before welled up inside her.
Lu Shiyan turned his head to look at her, thinking of that delicate girl who always asked him to do this and that, and smiled, "You're embarrassed?"
Thinking back to how she used to throw tantrums and make all sorts of unreasonable demands on him just to earn points, Jiang Tangtang realized that what she said might have sounded a bit fake.
She pouted and took out all the small cloth bags from her storage space.
I thought to myself, this must be what they call a character falling apart! With her character set like this, it's really hard for her to be even a little bit virtuous.
Wait, why does she need to be virtuous?
Jiang Tangtang thought of the love-struck mindset she used to hate the most, and immediately shook her head, shaking off her infatuation with Lu Shiyan from her mind.
He's good to her, and she can repay him in other ways. Like helping him develop weapons or stabilizing the rear. There's no need to get herself involved.
Yes, that's it.
Jiang Tangtang became calmer and calmer as she thought about it, and finally started thinking about the iron ore again.
Lu Shiyan looked at Jiang Tangtang, who was deep in thought with her chin resting on her hand. Even though she was right next to him, she always felt that she was very far away from him.
She seemed to suddenly turn cold.
Actually, this wasn't the first time he'd felt this way.
On many occasions when he was with Jiang Tangtang, he could clearly sense that she was sometimes somewhat infatuated with him.
But before long, she will suddenly calm down again, just like she is now.
When she's with him, she constantly refers to him as "husband," seemingly affectionate and tender. But looking into her eyes reveals that it's all an illusion.
A cool breeze blew by, temporarily interrupting Lu Shiyan's thoughts. He rummaged through his luggage and took out a piece of cloth, draped it over Jiang Tangtang, and said, "Why don't you go home and rest first?"
After the start of autumn, it gets colder day by day.
The temperature was even more noticeable at night.
Jiang Tangtang glanced at the time on the system and found that it would be more than three hours before dawn.
This is indeed taking a long time; it would be best to go back and lie down to sleep.
but……
Looking at the freshly peeled chestnuts beside her, Jiang Tangtang felt that this wasn't quite right. He was painstakingly peeling chestnuts for her, while she ran home to sleep.
Lu Shiyan noticed her gaze was fixed on the chestnuts and misunderstood her meaning. He said, "Would you like some more? We're almost done peeling them."
"No need," Jiang Tangtang shook her head repeatedly. "Aren't you going to rest?"
Lu Shiyan said, "I'll just sit for a bit."
"Then I'll stay here with you." Jiang Tangtang moved a chair over and took out a homemade soft pillow from her space, adjusting her position.
This soft pillow is a square pillow she bought from outside, and she stuffed the cotton inside herself. It's quite different from modern throw pillows, and it's not very comfortable to use.
Jiang Tangtang was thinking to herself about when she could get herself a set of modern bedding.
It was one thing to not have the means before, but now that we do, of course we want to improve our living conditions.
With her mind on the room's layout, Jiang Tangtang quickly drifted off to sleep.
*
The next morning, just as dawn broke, Lu Shiyan got up and headed towards the earthen fortress.
The villagers were surprised to see Lu Shiyan. "Sanlang, why are you back? So early?"
"So early, is there something you need?"
...
After Lu Shiyan went to Puzhou to take up his post, some of the younger generation in the village who wanted to get closer to him liked to call him Lord Lu.
However, some older villagers still feel more affectionate towards calling him Lu Sanlang. Therefore, the way he is addressed is basically based on the villagers' preferences.
Lu Shiyan didn't care too much about the way people addressed him. After greeting everyone, he explained, "Nothing happened, we just brought some things back."
Upon hearing this, someone immediately remembered Jiang Tangtang's earlier mention of hiring female workers to sew clothes, and hurriedly asked with a smile, "Did you bring back fabric and cotton?"
Lu Shiyan said, "We did bring some back."
"Come on, let's go help." A group of women chatted and laughed as they walked towards the entrance of the cave into the valley, turning back to ask as they went, "Are we still at the intersection?"
Lu Shiyan nodded and thanked everyone again.
The villagers said repeatedly, "No need to thank us. If it weren't for you two, we wouldn't have such a good life today."
"Yes, yes, yes, this is what we should do."
...
If there were people who were jealous of the Lu family's good life when they were fleeing famine, that's no longer the case.
Lu Shiyan and Jiang Tangtang are like the anchors of the valley; only when the two of them are safe and sound can everyone feel at ease.
Therefore, nowadays, the villagers feel mostly gratitude towards the Lu family, in addition to envy.
The Lu and Jiang families also received the news and rushed over, heading towards the entrance of the cave.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Lu Shiyan turned back and followed them toward the cave entrance.
Hearing the noise from the villagers, Jiang Tangtang had already put away the cushions on the chair and started tidying up her things to make them easier to move.
The villagers were stunned when they saw what was at the entrance of the cave.
"My goodness, how come there are so many pieces of furniture?"
"It has a bed, a table, and a cabinet. It really has everything. This is great."
"So much stuff, it must have taken them all night to move it, right? This couple is really capable."
...
The villagers, unaware of the existence of the space, assumed that Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan were afraid the valley would be discovered, so they were only moving things into the valley at night. They thought that with so much stuff, they must have spent the entire night moving things back and forth.
The villagers felt that the two men were working too hard and repeatedly told them to go home and rest, saying that the task of moving things could be left to them.
Jiang Tangtang certainly wouldn't go back to rest. She thanked everyone for their kindness and brought up the matter of hiring workers to make clothes.
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