There was a cool breeze in the yard. After dinner, my family sat under a tree to enjoy the cool air and ate winter melon. After cutting it, the skin was green and the flesh was red. A sweet fragrance spread out, and the juice fell onto the table with the knife. You could tell at a glance that it was very delicious.
Wang Yu was also very surprised when he saw it in the shop today. He didn't expect to see watermelons. After buying it, he learned that watermelons here are called cold melons. They are said to be shipped from the north. After buying them, they are placed in well water to cool. Eating them now is refreshing and relieves the heat.
Cheng Chen squinted his eyes while eating, thinking that this was even better than peach blossom wine. Wang Yu knew he liked it by looking at him like this. After he finished eating, he picked up another piece and handed it to him.
The watermelons were quite large and difficult to preserve after opening in hot weather. The four of them were full and satisfied after eating. Cheng Chen stood up and went to the yard to digest the food. He swept up the watermelon seeds on the ground and dumped them on the edge of the vegetable garden. After looking at them for a while, he took a shovel, dug up some soil and buried them. He wondered if they would sprout.
The Queen Mother saw him shoveling the soil and asked, "Are you going to plant it, Achen?"
Wang Yu turned around and looked at him when he heard it. Cheng Chen said sheepishly with a shovel in his hand: "Just give it a try. I don't know if it will sprout."
Several people laughed. It should be impossible to grow it like this. No one here grows winter melon, and they don’t know how to grow it. Cheng Chen felt embarrassed by being laughed at. He put down the shovel, blushed, and sat obediently next to Wang Yu.
He was so cute and well-behaved that Wang Yu reached out and touched his head and asked, "Do you like to eat?"
Cheng Chen nodded and said "hmm".
Wang Yu: “I’ll buy it next time.”
After talking with Cheng Chen for a while, Wang Yu looked up and saw a lot of peaches hanging on his peach tree. He said, "Look, these peaches can be eaten next month, right?"
"Sure, persimmons will be edible in two or three months." The Queen Mother looked at the persimmon trees, which were also bearing fruit and growing very well, and said, "The peaches are ripe. Send some to Achen's parents. They don't have peach trees at home."
Cheng Chen was very happy to hear what the Queen Mother said, and whispered "Thank you, mother". The Queen Mother looked at Cheng Chen and was satisfied. During this period of time, Cheng Chen was diligent, well-behaved, and filial. She knew that her son also liked him and thought that this was a good husband to marry.
The family chatted and laughed in the yard, then washed up and went back to their rooms to sleep. There were still five days left in the holiday, and after being busy for so long, it was finally time to relax. Wang Yu planned to take his parents Cheng Chen to the town for a good stroll tomorrow, and he had already asked for leave from the manager yesterday.
When Wang Yu woke up the next morning, he watched Cheng Chen excitedly take clothes from the closet and handed them to him like a treasure.
"Are the clothes made? Where's yours?" Wang Yu looked at the moon-white clothes in his hand, with bamboo embroidered on the collar.
"It's done. Let's wear the same thing today." Cheng Chen said with red ears, and then took out clothes of the same color embroidered with beautiful crabapple flowers from the cabinet.
Wang Yu looked at his shy expression, stood up, kissed him on the ear and said, "Okay, wear whatever Achen says."
The two of them packed up and went out. Wang's mother also said that they looked good in this outfit. Wang's father and mother were also wearing newly made clothes today. The whole family was in high spirits. Wang Yu praised his parents for looking a lot younger.
After breakfast, the four of them dressed neatly and went to the town. The town was still the same as before. Cheng Chen had been there a few times, but he was still very happy. The two of them walked and looked in front, while Wang's father and mother also followed behind and walked around.
Cheng Chen walked to a small stall and took a look. There were boxes of facial cream, rouge, lip balm and the like. There were many kinds of things. These things were also available in rouge and powder shops.
Wang Yu suddenly felt that he had neglected something. He thought that men of this era might also like these things. Although they didn't need to wear heavy makeup like women, they still needed face cream and hand cream. So he asked, "Which one does Ah Chen like?"
"No, I'm just looking." Cheng Chen shook his head and said. His family used to use badger oil, which was made from badgers hunted by themselves. Cheng Chen had also seen these fragrant facial creams and lip balms, but had never bought them. He knew that these things were very expensive.
Wang Yu picked up a facial cream and said, "This will definitely be good for Achen."
The peddler saw that there was business and immediately said, "You have good taste, customer. This is the best facial cream I have. The one you took has an orchid scent, which is perfect for your husband. It smells very fresh. And this one has an orange blossom scent, which is light and natural, perfect for summer use."
Wang Yu took it and smelled it. It smelled really good, a bit like an orange. He asked, "How much?"
"Don't worry, this box of two hundred coins in your hand is the goods I got from the provincial capital. They are definitely useful." The peddler added a little bit because he was afraid that Wang Yu would find it too expensive.
Cheng Chen's eyes widened when he heard this. Someone in their village had bought an eighty-cent coin before and showed it off for a long time. He thought eighty cents was already very expensive.
Cheng Chen pulled Wang Yu's sleeve to indicate that he didn't want to buy it. Seeing this, the peddler quickly took out a box and opened it, saying, "Why don't you try it? It's definitely useful. If you buy it, I'll give you a box of lip balm as well."
Wang Yu was surprised. This peddler was quite good at business. He knew to give customers samples. The opened box was obviously a trial pack. It was smaller and had signs of being used.
Wang Yu took it and scooped up a little, then rubbed Cheng Chen's hand with it. It was very smooth and absorbed well, and his hand looked much smoother. Wang Yu thought it was good enough to buy, so he picked up another box and said, "Pack these two boxes."
"Okay, one box of orange blossom scent and one box of jasmine scent, a total of four hundred coins. This is the lip balm for you. Take care, sir." The peddler was very happy because he opened his shop today. When he was purchasing goods, he was deceived and bought several boxes of such expensive goods. He had been setting up the stall for several days but couldn't sell any of them. Unexpectedly, he sold two boxes today.
Cheng Chen didn't interrupt the whole time and asked, "Husband, this is so expensive, why did you buy it?"
Wang Yu shook his hand. "But it's very useful, isn't it? You felt it just now. If it's useful, then it's not expensive."
Cheng Chen touched his hands and found that it was indeed useful, much better than badger oil. It was not greasy when applied. He also smelled a faint fragrance on his hands.
Wang Yu patted his head and said, "Okay, my husband wants to buy it for you. Don't you like it?"
Cheng Chen nodded to show that he liked it. Wang Yu handed the orange blossom-flavored facial cream to Cheng Chen and said, "As long as you like it."
Cheng Chen held the facial cream, looked at Wang Yu with sparkling eyes, and whispered to him, "My husband is so good!" This look of joy and admiration made Wang Yu's head twitch. He leaned in and said something naughty: "My husband is so good, so let me smell it more often in the future?"
Cheng Chen's cheeks flushed when she heard this. She quickly looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when she found no one had heard. She angrily whispered, "How could my husband say such things in broad daylight!"
Wang Yu realized what he had said after he finished speaking. He touched the tip of his nose and apologized: "Okay, okay, it's my husband's fault, my husband's fault."
Cheng Chen didn't know what to say on the street. She forgave her husband after seeing him apologize to her. She touched the facial cream on her hands and felt very happy.
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