Chapter 61: Misunderstandings resolved. Are you impotent?
Qiu Yu was not discouraged and counted the silver twice.
It’s nine taels, that’s right.
It is impossible for the amount of silver to suddenly increase unless someone secretly stuffed it in.
Since there are only two of them in this family, the answer is self-evident.
Qiu Xuan held the extra two taels of silver in her hand, her heart in turmoil.
She hid the money and was discovered by Zong Xiao, but Zong Xiao pretended not to know and even secretly put money in it...
Why did he do this? Why didn't he just ask her directly? Many images flashed through Qiu Xuan's mind, and the last scene stopped when Zong Xiao gave her money after noon.
Zong Xiao gave her the silver twice, saying that it was her money.
Qiu Xuan didn’t understand at first, but now she understands.
Qiu Xuan rearranged the bedding. She had a lot of questions in her mind that she wanted to ask Zong Xiao, and she wanted to get them clearly.
After an unknown amount of time, the door was pushed open from the outside, revealing Zong Xiao wearing a thin undershirt with wet hair hanging down on his shoulders.
"You...why didn't you call me after you finished washing?" Qiu Xuan hurriedly took out a clean cloth and put it on his back.
Her tone was noticeably softer. "If you're not comfortable calling me, just call me. Why did you just come out like that? It's so cold outside. Just wear a layer of underwear. You'll definitely catch a cold."
Zong Xiao sensed that she was in a bad mood. She would have been annoyed if she had seen him like this in the past, but today...
Zong Xiao said, "I thought it was only two steps away, so it wouldn't be a problem."
"I'll see what you'll do if you catch a cold." Qiu Xuan asked him to sit on the stool. She picked up a clean cloth and wiped his wet hair bit by bit.
Even though the room was warm, her hair still didn't dry easily. Qiu Yu had to change several towels before she could finally stop the dripping.
She said, "If I had known earlier, I would have bought a stove in town. Otherwise, your hair wouldn't have been dry for half a day."
Zong Xiao patted her arm with his left hand and smiled, "The next village should be selling it. I'll go ask tomorrow."
Qiu Xuan tied his hair up and didn't let it hang loose.
"No need to go. Just stay home and recuperate for the next few days. If you can't lift your chopsticks tomorrow, your mother will definitely notice." Qiu Xuan patted his left shoulder and said, "Take off your clothes. I'll give you some medicine."
Zong Xiao did as he was told, enduring the pain and letting her disinfect him again.
The wound was so deep that he knew that if it wasn't healed properly, he would never be able to lift heavy objects with his right hand again.
I decided to listen to Qiu Xuan and take care of it at home.
Qiu Xuan felt extremely distressed. The more she looked at the wound, the more she wanted to ask Zong Xiao why he went up the mountain that day.
But if she asked him directly, he would definitely not admit it. Qiu Yu thought for a moment, then changed her mind and asked, "By the way, what did you say to mother when you went up the mountain that day? Why did mother agree to it so readily?"
Qiu Xuan tied the gauze and helped him walk to the kang.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Qiu Xuan pursed her lips, feeling unhappy, "Huh? Even I can't know?"
"I didn't say I wouldn't tell you." Zong Xiao was just embarrassed to say it. He only said those words to Zong Mu as an excuse.
It's just delusion after all.
Qiu Xuan locked the door and took the oil lamp from the table to the edge of the kang. The light in the room was concentrated there, forcing Zong Xiao to look over.
"If you don't tell me, I'll go to sleep." Qiu Xuan turned around, leaving him with only her back.
This method always works for her, and Zong Xiao always responds to her honestly.
Sure enough, this time was no exception.
Zong Xiao said: "I said, but I said you can't be angry."
"What's there to be angry about?" Qiu Xuan turned around and faced him.
Zong Xiao opened his mouth and thought for a long time before saying, "I told my mother... I want to save more money while I can go into the mountains. If I have children in the future, I won't go into the mountains anymore."
The clan used to make a living by hunting. My father supported the family with his hunting skills, but he also lost his life because of hunting.
There is also Dalang from the Zong family. He also went into the mountains because he wanted to make money to buy food for his wife and children.
But in the end, both of them stayed in the mountains and did not come back alive.
Qiu Xuan lowered her eyes and said in a muffled voice, "Mother agreed? Isn't mother afraid that something bad will happen to you?"
"Scared." Zong Xiao felt a little relieved when he saw that she didn't get angry about the word "child". He moved closer to Qiu Xuan with the quilt in his arms and said softly, "That's why I called several hunters this time. With more people, Mom agreed."
After hearing this, Qiu Xuan instantly understood many things.
No wonder the Duan brothers piled up stones in front of her house that day. It turned out that Zong Xiao was the one who connected everyone.
He had already made up his mind to go into the mountains.
Qiu Xuan frowned and thought about what he had just said. The more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.
Zong Xiao has a hidden illness, and Zong's mother should know about this. How can she still listen to him talking about having children in the future???
He has a hidden illness, how could he have a child?
A bold guess emerged in Qiu Xuan's mind, and she pursed her lips and dared not ask any further questions.
"If you have anything else to ask, just ask me. I won't hide it from you." Zong Xiao didn't know what he was about to face. The only thing he cared about now was that Qiu Yun was not angry.
"Just tell me what I ask." Qiu Yu twisted her fingers, as if she was about to ask a question.
Zong Xiao thought, you and I are husband and wife, so naturally I won’t hide it from you.
When Qiu Xuan saw him nod in agreement, she no longer had any worries.
Since Zong Xiao said to answer whatever was asked, she just asked directly.
She turned around and took out the purse next to the pillow. With a clatter, all the silver fell onto the quilt.
She said, "Count how much silver there is."
"Thirty-two taels." Zong Xiao didn't see anything wrong.
Qiu Xuan held his hand and looked up at him: "You gave me twenty-three taels, but now there are thirty-two taels here. Don't you want to know why there are nine more taels?"
Zong Xiao was not stupid. As soon as the words "nine taels" came out, he knew what Qiu Yu wanted to ask.
"How did seven ounces of silver become nine ounces? How do you think it happened?"
"Zong Xiao, did you already know about the seven taels of silver hidden in the kang?"
Qiu Xuan spoke one sentence after another, not giving him any time to answer.
"Didn't you ever think of asking me where I got those seven taels of silver?" Qiu Yu became more and more excited as she spoke, with tears in the corners of her eyes.
Zong Xiao had indeed thought about this question: how could a girl like her have so much money? But when he thought about how smart she was, he thought she must have saved it herself.
Besides, Qiu Xuan hid it because she didn't want him to know. How could he ask if she didn't want him to know?
Qiu Yu pointed at the seven taels of silver and gave a wry smile, "I stole this silver."
"Do you still remember the day you returned home?"
Zong Xiao will never forget that day. It was the first time he witnessed a father not loving his child so much.
"Hu Zi did take the money, but I took the bulk of it." Qiu Yun told him everything. The things she had wanted to hide were no longer important. "I took seven taels. Five taels were the amount they sold me to pay off the debt, and the other two taels were the dowry my mother brought when she got married. It was a silver hairpin."
Qiu Xuan looked at him quietly. She had already told him everything she had hidden. She wanted to see what Zong Xiao would do and whether it would be what she had guessed.
"It's not your fault." Zong Xiao raised his left hand and held her in his arms. He knew that she was forced. It was the Qiu family who was too mean. The Qiu family owed her.
Qiu Xuan raised her eyebrows: "Don't you think I'm bad? And I stole money?"
Zong Xiao didn't even have time to feel distressed, so how could he think she was bad?
He coaxed her, "How could that be? You are smart and kind, and the money should have been yours."
Qiu Xuan felt relieved. Now that the matter was made clear, she could continue asking questions.
"What about you? When did you find the money, and why did you secretly put it in there?"
Zong Xiao: "I found it when I came back to change the quilt that day."
"You don't ask me anything, aren't you afraid that I want to save money and run away?" This is what Qiu Yun wanted to do at first, but after spending half a year together, she no longer had this idea.
"I thought about it." Zong Xiao said honestly, "I thought you might want to leave."
Qiu Yun spoke for him, "So you secretly put money in there, right?"
"Yeah." Seeing her tears, Zong Xiao raised his hand to wipe them away for her, "Why are you crying again?"
Qiu Xuan couldn't stop crying. She felt sad and painful when she thought that Zong Xiao might have gone into the mountains to save more money for her.
He almost died on the mountain.
Qiu Xuan cried for a long time, and even soaked Zong Xiao's inner clothes.
She choked up and said, "You went into the mountains to earn money this time, did you want to give me more money? If I really took the money and left, you wouldn't stop me?"
Zong Xiao had just said no when Qiu Yu glared back at him.
He quickly changed his words: "Stop, don't let you go."
Although he couldn't see through Qiu Xuan's thoughts before, now Zong Xiao can be sure that Qiu Xuan doesn't want to leave. She is willing to stay here, willing to stay in this home.
The two of them talked everything out, and Qiu Xuan finally stopped crying.
"Didn't you say that we are husband and wife and we shouldn't hide things from each other?" Qiu Xuan was still angry, angry that she knew nothing.
Zong Xiao said helplessly, "Who is hiding this?"
Qiu Xuan was in the wrong, so naturally she couldn't refute it.
She moved away from Zong Xiao's arms, lifted her own quilt and crawled in, muttering, "Let's sleep."
There were too many things to digest tonight. She could only say that she knew everything but had not had time to digest it.
She secretly wiped the tears from her face and covered her head with the quilt.
Now she just wants to be alone.
Zong Xiao was secretly worried. Although the matter was clear, he couldn't decide how to comfort the person.
In the past, he would coax people by making food, but now that his shoulder was injured, he couldn't do those things.
After thinking it over, he lay down as well, but this time he deliberately moved the quilt next to Qiu Xuan.
Feeling some movement under the quilt, he raised his hand and patted it, saying like coaxing a child, "Stop crying, okay? I won't hide anything from you from now on."
"I really have nothing else to hide from you, really."
"That's what you said." Qiu Xuan poked her head out from under the quilt. She suddenly remembered that there was something she hadn't asked him.
"Yeah, I said it." Zong Xiao tucked her scattered hair behind her ears and said softly.
Qiu Xuan rested her head on the pillow, looking carefully at the scar on Zong Xiao's face.
She asked bluntly, "Are you not capable?"
“???” Zong Xiao was stunned. Before he could digest this sentence, he heard Qiu Yu say again.
"Do you have a hidden illness? Um... no, erectile dysfunction?" Qiu Xuan had a vague guess in her mind, but she still had to hear it from Zong Xiao in person.
Zong Xiao didn't know why she thought so.
Qiu Xuan pulled her hand out from under the quilt and stroked the scar on Zong Xiao's face, her eyes filled with pity. "On the day of our wedding, you lifted my veil and then ran away. We never consummated the marriage. Was it because of this scar, or because of impotence?"
Zong Xiao coughed awkwardly. He never thought Qiu Yun would think this way.
"So it's not impotence?" Qiu Xuan said deliberately, "I always thought you had a hidden illness."
Zong Xiao narrowed his eyes and said with a half-smile, "How about giving it a try?"
"How can you try with your shoulder like that?" Qiu Xuan had the answer in her mind. She turned around and covered her head with the quilt again, leaving him with only her back.
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