When Yu Qizhe woke up, dim morning light was shining through the window of the room and the sound of birds chirping could be heard from the branches in the courtyard. He sat up and saw Yu Jiao sleeping with her eyes closed on the head of the bed. A gentle smile flashed across his eyes.
He got out of bed gently, put his arms around Yu Jiao's waist and carried her to bed. After covering her with a thin quilt, Yu Qizhe turned around and walked out of the house.
Glancing at the faint flickering light of the remaining candle on the table, Yu Qizhe raised his hand and waved it lightly, extinguishing the candle.
Song Chun in the outer room had already gotten up to feed the poultry. Yu Qizhe took a deep breath of the air in the yard, stretched his arms, and felt more relaxed than ever before.
Song had just finished feeding the pigs when she saw Yu Qizhe in the yard and said, "You went to bed early last night and didn't eat anything. Are you hungry?"
Yu Qizhe was indeed a little hungry. He smiled, walked to the water tank, scooped some water to wash, and followed Song into the kitchen, "Mom, I'll help you light the fire."
Seeing that he looked very good today, Song washed a melon she had picked from the field, handed it to him, and said softly, "Eat a melon first to fill your stomach. Mother has been busy all by herself. I'll call you when the meal is ready."
Yu Qizhe took the melon and was about to eat it when Song saw the medicine pot warming on the stove. She opened it and saw the aroma of rice porridge mixed with a light medicinal aroma. "Hey, why are they still cooking medicinal porridge?"
Yu Qizhe's heart moved slightly after hearing this, thinking that Yu Jiao must have made it specially for her, and a warm curve appeared at the corner of his lips.
Yu Jiao slept until noon before waking up. When she sat up, she found herself sleeping on Yu Qizhe's bed.
Yu Qizhe was sitting at the table reading a book. He noticed that she had woken up, so he looked up and saw that Yu Jiao's hair was disheveled and her clear almond eyes were still a little dazed from just waking up. He couldn't help but smile, "Are you awake? There's food left for you on the stove. I'll go get it for you."
Yu Jiao glanced at him dully. Just as she was about to throw off the quilt and get out of bed, she suddenly realized something was wrong. She felt wetness between her legs and a dull pain in her abdomen, which were obviously symptoms of her period. Her face turned red in an instant and she became much more awake.
"You...you...go out first." Yu Jiao stammered, "Call Sister Fuling."
Yu Qizhe saw a rare panic on her face, with a hint of shame in her eyes, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange. He stood up and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"
Yu Jiao was too shy to look up. There was nothing wrong with her period, but she had the misfortune of happening on Yu Qizhe's bed, which was really too embarrassing.
"Don't ask anymore. Go out and call Sister Fuling over." Yu Jiao's voice was as soft as a mosquito, and she held the quilt tightly on her body.
Yu Qizhe had no choice but to turn around and go outside the house and call Yu Fuling from the side room.
After Yu Fuling entered the room, Yu Jiao breathed a sigh of relief. She hurriedly asked her to close the door and said in an embarrassed voice, "Sister Fuling, I'm having my period..."
Yu Fuling rarely saw her so embarrassed, and seeing Yu Jiao sleeping on Yu Qizhe's bed, she couldn't help but laugh, "I have two new menstrual belts that I sewed earlier. I'll get them for you right away."
Yu Jiao said hurriedly, "Sister Fuling, please help me get a change of clothes."
Yu Fuling responded and walked outside with a teasing smile.
As soon as she pushed the door open, she saw Yu Qizhe standing outside, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated. Yu Fuling was a little embarrassed to explain, so she could only say to Yu Qizhe, "Go to the yard for a while."
Seeing that she was so mysterious, Yu Qizhe had no choice but to go outside.
Yu Fuling went back to the room, found the menstrual belt, and took out a set of clothes, and brought them to Yu Jiao. After teaching Yu Jiao how to use the menstrual belt, she closed the door and waited outside for Yu Jiao to change clothes.
Yu Jiao hurriedly changed into clean clothes and saw a brown blood stain on the mattress. She couldn't help feeling worried, so she took off all of Yu Qizhe's bedding, rolled it into a ball, and carried him out of his room.
When Yu Fuling saw her coming out with bedding and clothes, she covered her mouth and laughed out loud.
Yu Jiao looked embarrassed and blushed. She hid Yu Qizhe's bedding in her and Yu Fuling's room, and then said, "I soiled the bedding in his room. Sister Fuling, do you have any bedding at home?"
"Yes, there are some washed bedding in the cabinet. I'll change it for him." Yu Fuling smiled and took out the bedding from the cabinet and carried it to Yu Qizhe's room.
Yu Jiao took out a pair of scissors from the sewing basket, untied the bedding, stuffed the soiled quilt into the straw basket, and planned to take it to the river to wash.
Yu Qizhe stood in the courtyard for a while. When Mrs. Zhang saw him, she asked in confusion, "It's so sunny outside, why is Fifth Brother standing in the courtyard?"
Yu Qizhe passed it over vaguely and was about to go back to the house when he saw Yu Jiao holding a straw basket. Seeing that the straw basket contained the bedding on his bed, Yu Qizhe asked in confusion, "Why did you take down the mattress for no reason?"
Yu Jiao's smiling face, which had just faded away, suddenly turned red again. She avoided Yu Qizhe's sight and lowered her eyes and said, "The mattress is dirty. I'll go wash it."
Yu Qizhe didn't understand what was going on, and thought she was afraid that he would mind if she slept with him before, so he said with a smile, "It's okay, I don't mind if you slept with her before."
Yu Jiao felt her face burning. She walked around him and said, "I'm going to do the laundry." She ran out of the yard carrying the straw basket, as if she was being chased by someone.
Yu Qizhe narrowed his peach blossom eyes and looked at her fleeing back, smiled helplessly, with a hint of doting in his eyes.
When he returned to the room, he saw that Yu Fuling had changed a new mattress for him. Yu Qizhe asked, "I have only slept on that mattress for a few days. Why did you change another mattress for me?"
Yu Fuling thought of Yu Jiao's embarrassed face and couldn't help laughing. She said, "The weather has been good these past two days, so it would be convenient to change clothes frequently."
She went back to the side room and saw that Yu Jiao was not there, so she asked, "Where is Yu Jiao?"
Yu Qizhe said, "She went to the river to wash clothes."
Yu Fuling had her period a long time ago and knew that women should not touch cold water during their daily life. Yu Jiao was in such a hurry to wash the bedding because she must be afraid that her younger brother would find out. She laughed to herself and hurried to the river to find Yu Jiao.
Yu Qizhe sat at the desk but had no intention of reading. He stared absentmindedly at the bedding on the bed for a long time before he collected his thoughts, spread out a piece of rice paper, and casually picked out a line of Yan Jing's policy essay.
After writing at his desk for more than half an hour, there was a rustling sound from the roof suddenly, followed by dust falling. As soon as Yu Qizhe raised his head, he was met with an energetic and dark face.
Seeing that he was discovered, the man grinned, revealing a row of bright white teeth, and gave Yu Qizhe a big, bright smile.
Yu Qizhe was surprised for a moment, then his eyes regained their composure and he asked the person on the roof, "When did you come?"
A few more tiles on the roof were pried open, and the man jumped down from the roof nimbly, landing in front of Yu Qizhe with light movements. He glanced inside the house and said with a smile, "I just saw a young lady sleeping in your room, Junior Brother, we haven't seen each other for so long, why aren't you excited to see me?"
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