Chapter 39 Enjoying the Cool

After finishing the meal, everyone chatted for a while and prepared to go back.

Aunt Lu took out the wedding eggs.

They were real wedding eggs dyed with red paint.

The whole egg was bright red.

Each family was given five.

Some customs in the countryside nowadays are to give even numbers of gifts, and some places are a bit biased towards boys, giving five red eggs to a boy, which means five sons will pass the imperial examinations, and giving three red eggs to a girl, which means three obediences and four virtues.

After receiving the red eggs, everyone had to say a few auspicious words.

Shi Tingyu was no exception.

Although she didn't know about this custom, she just followed what others said.

It's hot now, and the eggs have to be eaten quickly.

After returning home, Shi Tingyu peeled an egg and prepared to eat it.

Before crossing over, because she was an orphan, she had no relatives, so naturally she had never eaten red eggs.

After crossing over, the original owner had been living abroad, and only came back in the past few years, and she had never eaten red eggs.

The peeled red egg had one or two red marks on the white egg white.

Shi Tingyu raised the egg in her hand and asked, "Weiguo, can this red one be eaten?"

Lu Weiguo took a look and knew that she might not have eaten it before, so he said, "Yes, it is dyed with red yeast rice."

Shi Tingyu was not hungry at this time, she just wanted to eat something fresh. After hearing that it was edible, she finished one egg and her stomach really couldn't eat any more. The remaining four eggs went into Lu Weiguo's stomach.

Looking at the other's flat belly, Shi Tingyu subconsciously reached out and pressed it, "Where did you eat?" The

soft little hand touched his abdomen through the thin layer of summer clothes. Lu Weiguo subconsciously tightened his abdominal muscles and his whole body froze.

Shi Tingyu didn't think too much, and her little hand rubbed his belly twice, feeling that the place touched was extremely hard.

Lu Weiguo took a deep breath and reached out to clasp her slender wrist.

His skin color was a darker wheat color, and his hands had distinct tendons and bones. He held her fair wrist and applied a little force to stop her from moving. The blue veins on the back of his hand were clearly visible.

"What's wrong?" Shi Tingyu couldn't help asking, a little confused by his sudden action.

Lu Weiguo's narrow eyes stared at her sparkling eyes, his Adam's apple rolled unconsciously, and his voice was hoarse: "You can't touch it."

Shi Tingyu only realized at this time that it was so challenging for a man to touch his belly like this, but she couldn't help but complain: "You are a tiger's butt, can't you touch it?"

Lu Weiguo looked at her, and after a long time, he said: "It's not impossible..."

As he said that, his hand holding the other's wrist loosened slightly, and Shi Tingyu's hand pressed directly on Lu Weiguo's abdominal muscles because of inertia.

As if being burned by something, Shi Tingyu retracted her hand instantly.

With her slender and well-proportioned hands behind her back, Shi Tingyu curled her fingers where the man couldn't see.

There was a hint of smile in Lu Weiguo's eyes, "No more touching?"

Shi Tingyu coughed lightly and turned to walk towards the room, "Okay, okay, I have to wash up and go to bed quickly."

Lu Weiguo glanced at her rather fleeing back and followed her into the room step by step.

He felt that his wife was becoming less and less defensive towards him, and was beginning to have more intimate interactions with him. This was a good start.

After changing clothes, Lu Weiguo went to heat water for Shi Tingyu to take a bath.

He knew her. In this weather, his wife would like to take a bath three times a day.

When both of them finished washing up, it was still early.

The room was a bit stuffy after all, so Lu Weiguo went to get a cool mat and a fan and laid them at the bottom of the corridor.

"Let's go outside and cool off

for a while." Shi Tingyu followed him out happily.

In this age without air conditioning, cooling off on summer nights is definitely a powerful weapon against the scorching heat.

The cool mat is made of bamboo, and it is very refreshing to lie on it.

Lu Weiguo also lit a plate of mosquito coils next to it.

Shi Tingyu lay on it and sighed comfortably.

But not long after, the buzzing of mosquitoes could be heard.

Although the mosquito coils were lit, it was outside after all, and the mosquito coils had little effect on mosquitoes.

Seeing this, Lu Weiguo took a fan and fanned her. With the double effect of the fan and mosquito coils, the mosquitoes did not come close to her anymore.

Unknowingly, Shi Tingyu fell asleep.

Lu Weiguo looked at his wife, whose breathing was even, and pulled the blanket next to him to cover her belly.

In the second half of the night, the temperature dropped, and he touched Shi Tingyu's exposed arms, which were delicate and cool.

He put down the fan, stretched his sore arms, bent over and carried his sleeping wife horizontally.

Shi Tingyu moved uneasily, and Lu Weiguo pressed his hand around her shoulders against the back of his neck. Perhaps because her head was supported, Shi Tingyu calmed down, and her head unconsciously nestled in his neck without moving. Lu

Weiguo was tall and strong, and he held his wife as easily as if he were holding a pillow.

He first put her legs on the bed, then freed one hand, carefully protected her head and placed it on the pillow.

Shi Tingyu was wearing a long skirt-style pajamas. When she was picked up just now, her skirt was slightly lifted up, revealing her tender and slender legs.

In the darkness, Lu Weiguo only felt that her legs were glowing white.

He forced himself to look away and turned on the table light in the room.

From the mat outside to the bed in the room, Shi Tingyu still slept soundly.

Lu Weiguo looked at her and couldn't help but reach out and touch her head, then took a fan to drive away mosquitoes, and only put down the mosquito net after making sure there were no mosquitoes in it. It

was still hot for him in such a day, and he didn't turn on the electric fan at home.

It's not that he doesn't want to turn it on, but the fan is a bit noisy, and the wind blowing directly at people can easily give people a headache.

When Shishi Tingyu sighed, if he had known this earlier, he would not have bought the fan.

She really overestimated the performance of electric fans nowadays.

Shi Tingyu once asked Lu Weiguo to spread a cool mat on the floor facing the door in the main room to sleep, but Lu Weiguo refused. He was depressed for several days because of this.

The heat doesn't matter, but they can't sleep in separate beds. This is Lu Weiguo's bottom line.

The next morning, when Shi Tingyu got up, she found that the man had gone to morning training.

She quickly got up and changed her clothes, only to find that she was not sleeping under the corridor outside.

She tried hard to recall but couldn't remember how she got back to bed last night.

But it's easy to guess that Lu Weiguo must have carried her back.

Thinking of this, the corners of her lips slightly raised, with a smile in her eyes.

During her routine inspection of the small vegetable garden in the yard, Shi Tingyu found that the vegetables she had planted before were gradually growing, and after a while, the cucumbers and loofahs could be put up on the racks.

What she didn't expect was that the cabbages she planted later had also sprouted, and they looked fresh and green.

She asked Mrs. Zhang next door for the cabbage seeds when she saw that there was still a patch of land left to be planted in the yard.

But the cabbages were a bit dense, so she could thin some of them out in the evening to make a delicious soup.

When she came to the kitchen, she found a pot of porridge warming on the coal stove.

Shi Tingyu brought the porridge pot down, opened the small door under the coal stove that sealed the stove, cut some peppers and fried them with eggs.

After Lu Weiguo came back from morning training, he was holding an enamel pot with several steamed buns in it.

"Did you cook?" Lu Weiguo asked after looking at the golden eggs.

Shi Tingyu said, "Let's fry some eggs with the porridge."

With the steamed buns, Shi Tingyu and Lu Weiguo ate until their bellies were full.

I have to say that this chef's steamed buns are really good.