Chapter 111 Honey, help me take off my bath towel.
Pei Jiuyan blinked. He had clearly misunderstood Qin Suisui's meaning and was actually quite happy about her rare initiative. So he ordered Chi Donglin and Song Yunlai around like crazy, wishing they could finish peeling the bamboo shoots and eating and then get out of there.
Chi Donglin and Song Yunlai complained as they peeled bamboo shoots: "Ayan, I've realized, you're basically making us do the work, aren't you? Will there be any for us after the pickled bamboo shoots are done?"
Pei Jiuyan didn't even look up: "I used your spots, but you don't get any."
Chi Donglin: ...
Song Yunlai: ...
You're stealing bamboo shoots!
After peeling the bamboo shoots, the three men busied themselves cleaning crayfish and preparing eels and snails.
Qin Suisui found a moment and called Song Yunlai into the living room, handing him the clothes Su Yunyi had made before she returned.
Looking at the clothes handed to him, Song Yunlai was a little surprised: "Why did you buy me clothes, little sister? Why are you being so polite? I don't need any clothes!"
He said he had plenty of clothes, but his face was all smiles. He even deliberately glanced outside at Pei Jiuyan and Chi Donglin, who were busy in the yard, his eyes full of smugness.
Qin Suisui interrupted him with amusement: "Stop looking! This was made by Sister Yunyi to thank you for saving her and us back then."
Song Yunlai paused for a moment, then folded the clothes he had just unfolded back up: "Then please thank her for me, sister. I appreciate her kindness, but forget about the clothes. We can't take a single needle or thread from the people."
Qin Suisui stopped him: "Keep it, it's alright. If you don't accept it, Sister Yunyi will feel uneasy. Zhenzhen and I both have some!"
Song Yunlai nodded and said, "Okay, then please remember to express my gratitude for me."
After saying that, he put his clothes on the sofa and prepared to go out to continue eating lobster.
"Brother Yunlai, why don't you give it a try and see if it suits you?"
Song Yunlai waved his hand with his back to her: "No need to try it on, it looks about the same. A grown man doesn't need to be so particular about his clothes."
Qin Suisui sighed quietly. It was a case of unrequited love.
Because there were other dishes to prepare, only half a bucket of crayfish was cooked, with the rest left for Qin Suisui to eat slowly. While they weren't looking, Qin Suisui secretly smuggled a dozen or so into her spatial dimension and threw them into the stream. Since seafood can reproduce in her spatial dimension, maybe crayfish can too? That way, she could eat crayfish whenever she wanted!
Last time, everyone had tried crayfish and agreed that braised crayfish was the best. So this time, they made braised crayfish. They stir-fried snails with chili sauce that Qin Suisui had bought from the black market and added some perilla leaves that had just grown in the yard to make perilla spicy stir-fried snails. It was really delicious.
The eels were all large this time; no small eels were caught, so Qin Suisui's much-anticipated stir-fried eel dish didn't come through. However, the spicy stir-fried eel pieces were quite delicious.
Qin Suisui had already taken out the braised beef a long time ago. Now she mixed it with some scallions, ginger, garlic, Sichuan peppercorns, and vinegar, and sprinkled some cilantro on top. It smelled especially good.
Of course, the most popular drink is Qin Suisui's sweet rice wine, especially since she added some ice. One sip and you'll find it fragrant, sweet, and refreshingly cool. Drinking a bowl of it in this kind of weather is incredibly comforting.
The group drank until the stars came out, and as night fell, it finally cooled down a bit.
Chi Donglin and Song Yunlai leaned back in their chairs, looking up at the sky. A cool night breeze blew in from the sea, circled the mango tree in the yard, and fell down with a fresh fruity fragrance, making people sigh with comfort.
"Hey, Ayan, if a big typhoon hits in a couple of days, Donglin and I will team up and come to your place to take refuge. You won't mind, little sister, will you?" Song Yunlai looked up at the stars in the sky and asked with a smile.
Chi Donglin adopted the same posture as him and muttered, "Yeah, your place is big too. I'll sleep in the guest room downstairs, and Yunlai can sleep on the sofa. We're not picky."
Song Yunlai kicked him and said, "Get lost! I'll sleep in the guest room, you sleep on the sofa."
Chi Donglin deftly dodged the question: "Then it's the same old rule, whoever wins gets to sleep in the guest room."
Pei Jiuyan sat to the side, one hand resting on the back of Qin Suisui's chair, half-embracing her, while the other hand rested on the table, holding a cup of sweet rice wine, looking languid.
Hearing Chi Donglin and Song Yunlai's words, he put down the glass in his hand and tapped the table lightly with his fingertips: "Go back to where you came from, and get out now."
Song Yunlai and Chi Donglin ignored them, slumped in their chairs, looking up at the sky, motionless.
Qin Suisui chuckled: "Come on, everyone come on in. There's plenty of space at home, so we can all be together and help each other out if there's any danger."
Pei Jiuyan turned to look at her, the sweet aroma of rice wine wafting from his mouth onto her face: "What help can they offer? You have me!"
Song Yunlai and Chi Donglin simultaneously covered their ears, muttering curses: "We can't stand it anymore! If you want to kick us out, just say so. Stop playing these tricks, Ayan, you've changed!"
They laughed and cursed, but they had already stood up. The two of them put their arms around each other's shoulders and staggered towards the dormitory.
"Little sister, get some rest. Tell your brothers when you're done eating the lobster, and they'll go catch some more for you. I'm off now!"
Qin Suisui stood up, walked to the door, and said to the two people outside, "Be careful." Honestly, if this rice wine wasn't brewed by her own hands, she would have suspected that they were drinking high-proof liquor.
The two men had already walked away arm in arm, leaving only their backs waving at her.
Pei Jiuyan grabbed Qin Suisui and pulled her back: "What's there to worry about with those two grown men? They can crawl back over there. Go take a shower, I'll clean up the dishes."
Qin Suisui nodded and was about to walk into the house when Pei Jiuyan grabbed her wrist and gently pulled her back, kissing her on the lips: "Do you want to wait for me to shower together?"
Qin Suisui's yawn was only halfway through when she was startled and pulled her wrist back from his grasp: "No, no, you go wash the dishes!" With that, she ran off in a flash.
What a joke! Ever since that morning, she has strictly forbidden Pei Jiuyan from entering her bathtub!
Zan Zan had already fallen asleep. Qin Sui Sui went to check on the children in the next room. The little guy was sleeping soundly. She then went to the master bedroom to get her clothes and headed straight to the bathroom. She had been tired from digging bamboo shoots today. Pei Jiu Yan had already boiled two kettles of hot water when he came back. She poured all of it into the bathtub, added some cold water, and took a comfortable bath, washing away all her fatigue.
After washing up, she was wearing a silk nightgown and sitting in front of the dressing table drying her face when Pei Jiuyan had already finished washing up and came in.
Qin Suisui turned around in surprise: "So fast?"
Pei Jiuyan hummed in agreement, took her hand, and asked in an ambiguous tone, "Is there something you want to tell me?"
Qin Suisui recalled the story Chi Donglin and Song Yun had told her before lunch that afternoon, and looked at him with a smile: "Pei Jiuyan, have you secretly been to Jiangcheng many times before?"
Pei Jiuyan paused in his touch, his expression slightly unnatural, but he still spoke softly, "It... wasn't that many times...?"
Qin Suisui leaned closer, staring into his eyes with amusement: "Five years ago, in that winter, at the state-run restaurant near my school, the person wearing a black woolen overcoat and a gray turtleneck sweater, the one who lined up behind us to buy hot rice wine, was that you?"
Pei Jiuyan was genuinely stunned: "You recognized me?"
Qin Suisui shook her head: "No, but this afternoon I heard Brother Yunlai and Brother Donglin say that there was a fool who traveled all the way to Jiangcheng, bought two catties of sweet rice wine, and drank it all night in the heavy snow. He didn't even want to share it with them. That's when it dawned on me, oh~ so the handsome guy my classmates and I were talking about was actually a jealous bastard. He mistakenly thought we were talking about someone else and ran back to Beijing overnight to drink his sorrows away."
Seeing Pei Jiuyan's incredibly varied expressions, Qin Suisui mischievously added, "No wonder he didn't reply to my letters for half a month during that time; it turns out he was secretly jealous~"
Her voice trailed off, full of teasing undertones, and Pei Jiuyan could easily tell.
He chuckled softly, then bent down and brought his face close to hers, mimicking her tone and taking the initiative: "Yeah, you were secretly jealous for half a month, but you've made up with yourself~"
Seeing Qin Suisui laughing heartily at his joke, he pressed his advantage, saying, "So someone was praising me back then? What did they say? Bright eyes, fair skin, long legs... Oh right, there was another thing, something about a straight nose, so I must be really good in that area too~ How could someone so young say such things?"
Qin Suisui, who was laughing heartily, suddenly hiccuped, her laughter abruptly stopping. Her face flushed red as she protested, "I didn't say that!" She was incredibly annoyed. Damn it, they were speaking so quietly, how did he hear her?
Pei Jiuyan pulled her close, inhaling her sweet fragrance, and said in a low voice, "It wasn't you who said it, but you're here to verify it. So, are you satisfied?"
Qin Suisui was so embarrassed that she wished she could disappear into a crack in the ground. When she was in school, she was young and ignorant, and it was also the time of her adolescence, a time when she was very curious about this kind of thing.
After reading a few novels and spending time with my best friend, we chatted about everything under the sun!
Now look what happened! The bullet she fired when she was young has circled around and hit her right between the eyebrows. She wished she could die on the spot!
The more she tried to dodge, the closer Pei Jiuyan moved, shamelessly seeking personal gain: "I don't know how I got through those two weeks. I thought my fiancée was going to cheat on me. I couldn't eat or drink, and I had no energy for anything."
"Honey, don't you have to make it up to me?"
He was good-looking and had a pleasant voice. He leaned close to her ear and kept playing the victim.
Qin Suisui shamefully softened her heart. Thinking back to that time, she realized that when she was with her best friend, she would discuss any good-looking boys or girls she saw, and she had indeed forgotten that she had a fiancé.
Recalling the scene Song Yunlai and Chi Donglin described that afternoon, Qin Suisui imagined a snowy night where Pei Jiuyan, dressed in thin clothes, was drinking alone in the snow. She felt her heart soften even more.
Yes! It was definitely his fault; he needs to be made up for.
Qin Suisui knew perfectly well what compensation he wanted. She stood up, tiptoed, wrapped her arms around his neck, pulled his head down, and gently kissed him: "Okay, I'll make it up to you." Then, with a light leap, she skillfully wrapped her legs around his waist.
Pei Jiuyan was flattered and thoroughly enjoyed her kitten-like kisses. He quickly reached out and supported her buttocks and lower back to prevent her from slipping down. He carried her to the door, locked it from the inside, and drew the curtains. When they reached the bedside, Qin Suisui's silk nightgown was nowhere to be found.
Pei Jiuyan felt like he was about to explode, but he still patiently coaxed her in a hoarse voice, "Baby, help me take off the bath towel."
Because of the hot weather, Pei Jiuyan usually only wraps a towel around his lower body after taking a shower at night and comes out of the bathroom. He only wears pajamas when he goes to sleep.
"Mmm." Qin Suisui responded drowsily, her lips still on his. She bent down slightly, reached out, and gently pulled the towel tied around his waist. Then she turned and kissed his Adam's apple, which was bouncing up and down...
That night, the candlelight in the bedroom flickered until dawn.
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