Chapter 16: He is nervous on the wedding night. No, he should wait for her to take the initiative...
Now that there are no outsiders around, Yan Xue can indeed go into the house and lie down for a while.
I just didn't expect Qi Fang to choose to clean up by himself and let her go back to rest. After all, they had agreed that he didn't have to do the housework for the time being.
Yan Xue didn't move for a moment. Qi Fang noticed and put down the basin he had just cleaned. "Didn't you drink?"
Still with a cold expression, Yan Xue smiled with her eyes curved. "I'm fine. I just assumed he'd had a few drinks before coming here, so I figured he wouldn't be able to drink much, so I offered him the cup."
She is not a real tiger, so she dares to challenge others to a drinking contest without any confidence.
In the past life, women were much more likely to get into trouble at the dinner table than they are now. They generally did not pick up the cup easily, and if they dared to, it would be at least 700 to 800 grams.
Hearing this, Qi Fang lowered his gaze and continued to clean up. "Actually, you don't have to drink it."
This made Yan Xue raise an eyebrow calmly, "What? Did letting your wife take the lead hurt your reputation?"
It seemed like she was joking with him, but whether it was a joke or not, perhaps only she knew.
Qi Fang glanced at her again, said nothing, and stood up to put his things in the cupboard. "I just think there are other solutions."
There were certainly other solutions, but she was never one to wait for others to solve her problems.
Yan Xue smiled brightly. "Isn't this the fastest? I didn't know you'd already asked Chuncai's brother to find someone."
It's definitely faster, simpler, and more efficient to just get someone drunk. As for her saying she doesn't know...
It's true that she didn't know what he did specifically, but it's not necessarily true that she didn't know he had any response.
Qi Fang's gaze fell on that pretty, smiling face for a long while, and finally he just said, "Go back and rest."
When everything was cleaned up, it was already completely dark. Qi Fang put down his sleeves and walked into the inner room. On the kang, a petite figure was lying on her side with her hands under her head.
Her face couldn't be seen clearly in the darkness, but she was so small that it was hard to tell that she could drink a big man with a good alcohol tolerance in one breath.
Qi Fang paused and did not turn on the light, but Yan Xue on the kang opened her eyes and turned around to look at him, "Are you done cleaning up?" There was still sleepiness in her voice.
He said "hmm".
Yan Xue moved over there, her voice now much clearer. "How did Yu Yongzhi know we were getting married today? And he even came straight here."
It seemed like a casual question, but it hit the nail on the head.
Qi Fang's wedding was not a high-profile affair, and he only invited a few people. How could the news spread so widely?
Even if Yu Yongzhi had been staring at him and wanted to find trouble, he shouldn't have chosen this time. After all, there were many people here today. If they really started fighting regardless of the bad luck, it would be hard to say who would suffer.
Seeing that she was not sleeping, Qi Fang reached out and pulled the cord of the lamp. "When Wei Guo went to invite people, I asked him to ask where Yu Yongzhi had been drinking before."
The warm yellow light spread out like water. Yan Xue subconsciously closed her eyes, thinking that this question was really well asked.
The key point was not whether Director Yu could get the information out, but to tell Director Yu that someone was instigating his son. After all, the forest farm was so small, and it wasn't a secret. Even if he didn't tell them, they would still find out.
Sure enough, when she asked, Director Yu told Liu Weiguo that he didn't know either, but when Qi Fang told her this, there was no disappointment on his face.
Yan Xue laughed and said, "You talked a lot to Chuncai's brother. I guess I have to go out and find out where he drank tomorrow."
"No need to ask," Qi Fang said calmly, "Weiguo can't keep secrets."
The implication was that Liu Weiguo would definitely inquire about it, and as long as he knew it, they would also know it. He, who grew up in a forest farm, was more familiar with the people in the forest farm than they were.
Thinking back to when she went up the mountain to meet Qi Fang for a blind date, it was indeed Liu Weiguo who came back to get his things, and as soon as he left, the news spread everywhere...
Yan Xue was speechless. "You know the people around you very well."
Do you know the people around you well?
Qi Fang's movements were almost indecipherable. He quickly picked up the melon seed plate from the desk as usual and put it under the kang cabinet to dry it out of the moisture. "I don't have that ability."
It was unclear whether this was a humble remark or a self-deprecating one, but it reminded Yan Xue of something that happened a few days ago.
Originally, weddings were supposed to invite family members. Yan Xue was fine, as her relatives were all far away. The only one who lived close by, Shan Qiufang, was even more distant, so it wouldn't be easy to ask her to come over during the New Year to pay her respects. Qi Fang, however, had lived with his aunt for several years, so it was reasonable for him to invite her family.
But when Yan Xue asked him if he had any relatives to invite, he said no, and his attitude was cold and even indifferent.
At that time, Yan Xue was wondering whether there was any conflict between Qi Fang and his aunt's family. After all, his aunt was his biological family, but his uncle was not.
What's more, I heard that his aunt has many children, and they have to raise another one. I'm afraid her life will not be easy in the coming years.
Yan Xue is not someone who likes to expose other people's scars, and Qi Fang should not be either, otherwise he wouldn't have waited such a long time without asking about her family situation.
She changed the subject and said, "By the way, do you know anyone in the forest farm who's good at carpentry?"
Qi Fang didn't ask her what she wanted to do, but only gave the answer, "There's a Master Jia, and we ask him to make all the furniture for the forest farm."
"Then after the New Year, I'll ask him to make something."
Yan Xue thought of the roller skates again, and another thing. The Liu family had really helped them so much, and she felt bad if she didn't give them something to express her gratitude.
Upon hearing this, Qi Fang said "hmm" and said, "I'll take you there after the New Year." He was speechless for a moment.
Although the two are already legally married, they are actually not very familiar with each other. The few times they met, they talked about marriage. Now that the marriage is over, they don’t even have anything to talk about.
This is not a big deal. Yan Xue is not the kind of person who would feel awkward if she has nothing to talk about. The key point is that tonight is their wedding night.
Going to bed with someone you've only met a few times and don't even know well is no different from having a one-night stand. Although Yan Xue is a crossdresser, her thinking hasn't reached that level yet. She feels uncomfortable just thinking about it.
Even though this "one-night stand" partner has a stunning appearance, a well-proportioned body, and beautiful thin muscles when he rolls up his sleeves...
Yan Xue rested her face on her arms again. Although there was still some alcohol in her body, she was not very sleepy. She just lay there with her eyes closed until after eight o'clock.
Qi Fang was the first to stir at the desk. He closed the notebook he had been writing in, stood up, and locked it in the small box. Then he seemed to pause slightly and called her in a low voice, "Yan Xue."
Yan Xue hesitated for only a second between pretending to be dead and facing reality, then chose to face reality and got up to wash up.
When she came back, the man had already put the bedding in place. The warmer side of the kang was obviously reserved for her. When he saw her come in, he went to the outer room without saying a word.
When people came back, the forest farm had just experienced a power outage, and all light sources were instantly reduced to darkness.
In the silence, someone held their breath, and then there was the rustling sound of clothes being taken off. Someone lifted a corner of the quilt and lay down beside Yan Xue.
A faint smell of soap wafted through the air, and Yan Xue thought to herself, fortunately this person has good hygiene habits, otherwise she wouldn't be able to eat Shen Yan if he didn't wash his feet or take a bath.
I closed my eyes and waited for a while, but there was no movement next to me.
It was like knowing that the second shoe was about to drop, but no matter how long she waited, it didn't fall. Yan Xue couldn't help but turn over and open her eyes to look to the side.
Qi Fang was obviously not asleep yet. He was lying flat on his back with his eyes half closed. He even had his shirt on with only a few buttons undone at the collar. One of his hands was resting on the quilt.
Noticing Yan Xue turning over, he was silent for a moment before glancing sideways at her. In the darkness, her peach blossom eyes showed no emotion at all.
The two looked at each other across the silent night, and soon, they looked away at the same time as if they had a tacit understanding.
Yan Xue turned over again, this time with her back to Qi Fang. Although Qi Fang was still lying flat on his back, he subconsciously pulled the quilt up.
Is this man nervous, incompetent, or waiting for her to take the initiative?
Yan Xue felt like complaining.
What she didn't know was that Qi Fang next to her was also thinking about her, thinking about her action of turning things around, and thinking about the questions he asked her after she got the marriage certificate that day.
Although Yan Xue talks a lot and has a sweet mouth, she is actually not the kind of person who talks nonsense.
She doesn't pry into other people's affairs, and doesn't make random comments about anything. The two completely unrelated questions she asked today were not at all like something she would ask.
Did she finally realize they were married and start to get nervous?
I'm starting to regret it...
Qi Fang had no choice but to think of the worst, as his fate in recent years would only push him towards a worse direction.
And the way she turned over showed that she was obviously feeling uneasy.
Afraid that he would do something to her.
In the darkness, the silence stretched out infinitely, just like the confused thoughts of both people, until suddenly there was a burst of dog barking outside, as if it came from the house behind theirs.
The two seemed to have a tacit understanding and turned their heads at the same time, listening attentively.
Many families in the forest farm kept dogs, so barking was nothing unusual. But this was in the mountains after all, and one had to be on guard not only against thieves but also wild animals. Wild animals often destroyed crops and livestock in the agricultural team.
After listening for a long time, the barking of the dogs did not stop, and even the sound of human voices could be heard faintly. Qi Fang picked up the sweater folded on the edge of the kang and said, "I'll go take a look."
"Yeah." Yan Xue sat up, hugging the quilt. Seeing the man quickly put on his clothes and got down, she followed up with a sentence: "Be careful."
Qi Fang put on his coat and looked at her, "Yeah." He opened the door and went out.
Yan Xue was also busy, and went down to check all the doors and windows to see if they were locked. Just after the check, Qi Fang came back from outside, "Nothing, there's a couple arguing in the back street."
A couple quarreled, and the neighbor's dog barked in the middle of the night. How intense was that?
Yan Xue was speechless. She watched the man lock the door, put on his cotton coat and go back to the inner room.
This time when I took off my clothes and got on the kang, I didn't feel as uncomfortable as before because of the sound of dogs barking and people talking outside.
There was no atmosphere for doing anything, after all, the couple had been arguing for a long time, and it went on and on for a long time without stopping.
Yan Xue was tired after a day of work and had drunk half a pound of wine, so she couldn't help but yawn.
Qi Fang heard it and seemed to be silent for a moment. Then he said in a cold voice, "Go to sleep."
No one knew who breathed a sigh of relief in the darkness, but when Yan Xue opened her eyes again, it was already the next morning.
Liu Weiguo came at about one in the afternoon to return the basin that the Liu family had taken away yesterday. As soon as he entered the door, he winked at Qi Fang and said, "I know you guys can't get up today, so I deliberately waited until this time to come. How about that? Isn't that nice of you?"
That might disappoint him; they didn't do anything yesterday.
Of course, Yan Xue couldn't say this. She just smiled, took the basin from his hand, and put it in the cupboard.
There was no strange expression on Qi Fang's face. He half-closed his eyes and glanced at the thing in his arms.
Liu Weiguo immediately carried him in and said, "My little clock is not accurate again. It's two minutes slow every time it goes by. Qi Fang, please help me check it."
Yan Xue asked him why he was holding a small clock. Not only was it not customary to give clocks as gifts, but it was obviously an old one.
Qi Fang washed his hands and returned to find the small clock already on the desk. He turned it around and opened the door behind the wooden clock body with ease. "Did you oil it on time?"
"I did," Liu Weiguo said. "Not only did I apply oil, I also swept the dust as you asked. It still doesn't work, so I came to you."
Qi Fang didn't say anything else. He lowered his eyes and took out a tool kit from the cabinet under the desk.
His fingers were long, slender, and flexible and powerful. In a short while, he had taken apart the parts one by one and placed them on the table next to him.
His movements were clearly neither fast nor slow, but extremely fast. Liu Weiguo could hardly see how he operated them, and he didn't dare to touch the parts for fear of losing them.
He simply stood half a meter away from Qi Fang, leaning his head in to look, and asked, "Didn't you ask me yesterday where Yu Yongzhi had been drinking before? Guess whose place it was?"
He actually came and told them this. No wonder Qi Fang said he couldn't keep secrets.
Yan Xue didn't know that Qi Fang could repair these things, so she simply sat down on the edge of the kang, ready to listen to what he had found out.
Liu Weiguo really lived up to Qi Fang's evaluation of him. Qi Fang just said "hmm" without even raising his eyes. He had already taken the initiative to reveal, "I drank it at his brother-in-law's house." He didn't keep anyone in suspense at all.
"The brother-in-law surnamed Liang?" Yan Xue remembered that the brother Liang who took her up the mountain seemed to be the son-in-law of Director Yu.
"You know him?" someone interrupted, and Liu Weiguo immediately turned around. "That's him, Liang Qimao. He's Yu Yongzhi's second brother-in-law. Yu Yongzhi has four brothers-in-law. Except for the eldest sister who got married early, the other three sisters are all living here. He's a big drinker, and he drinks at every house he has free. His second sister, in particular, is especially spoiled by him. Even after he's been working for several years, she still comes home to help him with his laundry."
"How many sons does he have?" Yan Xue asked.
"As for his older brother himself, there was originally another one above him, but he died of smallpox when he was a child. Otherwise, how could his family spoil him so much?"
As the only male in the family, with four older sisters, he's enjoyed every advantage of his gender since childhood, so it's a wonder he hasn't developed some bad habits...
Yan Xue showed a hint of curiosity, "His brothers-in-law don't mind him doing this?"
"How could there not be? But he went there for his sister, and his father is the director, so we have to give him some face."
It was exactly what Yan Xue thought. Yu Yongzhi went to his sister's house to drink all day long. Liang Qimao probably had some objections to this. Liang Qimao and Qi Fang happened to have some unpleasantness, so he simply sent his brother-in-law over.
As long as a quarrel breaks out, no one on either side will benefit, which can be said to be killing two birds with one stone.
"I remember the day you went up the mountain to find Qi Fang, he seemed to have reported you guys. Did you find out about that on that day?"
Yan Xue was a much more competent listener than Qi Fang. As Liu Weiguo spoke, he moved from Qi Fang's right side, farther away from Yan Xue, to his left side, closer to the kang.
Qi Fang looked up and saw two people, one with his face upturned and the other with his head down, chirping vigorously. He casually threw the screwdriver in his hand onto the table and said, "I found the reason."
Liu Weiguo stood up straight immediately and came over. "What's wrong?"
Qi Fang pinched a gear with his fingertips and said, "It's too worn out. The quality of your gear is not good. It can't compare to the starry sky gear at Wang Bing's house."
"What should we do?" Liu Weiguo took the gear and looked at it, but he had no idea where to start.
Qi Fang had already started putting other parts in. "Let's go to the clock repair place in town and see if there's any that can be used. I'll buy a replacement."
"What if there isn't one? This is just an old antique of unknown brand in my house."
"Come back to me if you're not there." Qi Fang paused holding the screwdriver, and finally said.
Liu Weiguo had no other choice but to hold the small clock and the part and leave. "Then I'll find another one to try. Thanks."
Yan Xue looked at Qi Fang's various tools and said, "I didn't expect you could repair a small clock."
These words made Qi Fang pause and turn to look at her, his eyes fixed on her, making people confused.
Yan Xue blinked slowly and did not speak rashly.
But her expression was clearly one of confusion. The two families had lost contact more than three years ago, and she didn't even know what he studied in college or what he had liked since childhood.
Qi Fang lowered his eyes and put the things back into the cabinet without saying another word.
Then he spent the whole afternoon chopping wood, sweeping the house, and preparing ingredients for tomorrow's New Year's Eve dinner. The man was so busy that he had no time to talk.
Yan Xue was good at reading the air, and she quickly guessed whether her words had touched his sore spot. After thinking for a long time, she really couldn't figure out what it was.
This man is really deep-minded and his emotions are hard to tell. Could he be a Scorpio?
Yan Xue thought about it and realized that his birthday really did fall on those days. She didn't care whether he registered it according to the lunar calendar or the solar calendar, and his mood was none of her business.
He is a mature adult and doesn't need anyone to coax him. He should figure out how to digest it himself.
After finishing his work that night and going to bed, the warmer bed was left to Yan Xue as usual. After Qi Fang finished washing up and lay down, he closed his eyes directly.
Does this mean I don't have to do anything tonight?
Yan Xue stared at it for two seconds, then turned over and closed her eyes with peace of mind.
After a while, Qi Fang opened his eyes, and the person next to him with his back to him could already hear the sound of even breathing.
He rubbed his swollen temples and stared blankly at the ceiling, feeling that tonight would be another sleepless night.
Yan Xue slept well all night, and when she opened her eyes again, there was no one beside her.
The man was leaning against the desk, winding his watch with his eyes lowered. Just looking at his long legs and handsome profile was a pleasure to look at early in the morning.
Unfortunately, she looked listless, with her eyelids half-closed. The same was true when she woke up and folded the quilt.
Could it be that he didn't sleep well?
Yan Xue buttoned her clothes and thought, but didn't ask any more questions because of the other party's difficult-to-understand personality.
There were many things to do on New Year's Eve, and the first thing to do was to put up the spring couplets. Luckily, they were renting someone else's house, so they only had to put up the spring couplets at the entrance of the main hall.
The couplets had been written before the wedding, and the Liu family had helped find someone to write them. Yan Xue and Qi Fang were applying the paste, one while the other was pasting them. As they were about to return to their room, Aunt Guo came out to paste the couplets.
Guo Changan had been in the hospital for half a month. Guo Changping, the eldest son of the Guo family, and his wife had been staying at the hospital. Usually, the old lady was alone with her grandson at home. When Yan Xue saw this, she simply went over to help the old lady put on the patch as well. Although Qi Fang was not a talkative person, he went with her.
"Young people are quick," Aunt Guo thanked them repeatedly. "I'll be going to the hospital soon. Are you all right at home?"
"Aren't you going to be home for the New Year?" Yan Xue asked her.
"I'm not going to spend it at home, I'm going to the hospital. I've already made dumplings and am waiting for you to come over and eat them together."
Yes, in the past the family was reunited, but now it’s just her and her grandson at home.
Seeing that the old lady wanted to pick up her grandson and get some things, Yan Xue simply helped carry some of the things and sent her out.
When I reached the fork in the road, I happened to meet a group of people coming from the other road. They turned out to be acquaintances.
Brother Liang, who had done something bad to them the day before yesterday, was wrapped in a large scarf that was pulled down to his eyes. A big child was walking beside him, and two or three meters in front of him, his wife was holding a small child in her arms.
"Are you going back to celebrate the New Year?" Aunt Guo asked.
"Ah? Yeah." Liang Qimao subconsciously pulled his scarf up, especially after seeing Yan Xue next to Aunt Guo.
Yan Xue had to pay attention. The last time they met, it was even colder, but he was only wearing a wicker helmet. Why was he wearing a scarf today? He looked like a woman...
There can't be a wound on the face, right?
She deliberately stared at the other person's face, "Brother Liang, do you have a cold?"
"Yes, I have a cold and I'm afraid of infecting others." Liang Qimao's eyes were visibly unnatural.
Afraid that Yan Xue would ask more questions, he quickly quickened his pace and said, "We have to catch the train, so we'll go first." It was obvious that Aunt Guo was going to take the same train as him.
Yan Xue became even more suspicious and even looked back in the direction they came from.
The street behind their house is indeed nice. Could it be that it was Brother Liang’s family who quarreled in the middle of the night the night before yesterday?
It can’t be because of Yu Yongzhi, right?
On the other side, Liang Qimao's wife Yu Cuiyun was also talking to him about Yan Xue, "Why are you running so fast? Are you afraid that people will notice? Why haven't I seen you know this person before? Where did you know him?"
"There are so many people in the forest farm, how can you meet all of them?" Liang Qimao said in an impatient tone.
Yu Cuiyun didn't let him go, "Then how did you know him? If you can know him, why can't I?"
Liang Qimao was overwhelmed. "Can you please keep your voice down? We quarreled for most of the night, isn't that enough? I don't know how I'm going to tell my mom when I get home."
"What are you going to tell your mom? Tell the truth! Do you think you're right to instigate Yongzhi to cause trouble?"
Yu Cuiyun got angry whenever she mentioned this. "If it weren't for my dad, would you have been able to become a tractor driver so easily, without having to lift logs every day? But you, on the other hand, used Yongzhi as a pawn. I left home at almost nine last night, and he still hasn't recovered. I don't know which bastard got him drunk."
Liang Qimao also wanted to know which wicked guy was so cruel that he could get Yu Yongzhi drunk without causing any trouble.
But he didn't dare to say that. "When did I use him as a pawn? I just said Qi Fang was getting married today, and he went right before me. How could I have known he could do this?"
"Don't you know that he and Qi Fang don't get along? Don't you know how to stop them?"
"As if I could stop him. Besides, he left when I wasn't paying attention. Didn't you not see you going to the toilet in the yard?"
"Stop making excuses. You just don't like Yongzhi. You don't have any good intentions..."
The couple started arguing again as they were talking. One of their children walked with his head down, while the other was yawning due to sleepiness, but neither of them dared to make a sound.
So which bastard got my uncle drunk? They've been arguing about it since last night.
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