Chapter 184: A Short Separation Makes You Happy
The next day, when Su Tang woke up, it was already past ten in the morning.
The breakfast Lu Xiao brought was cold and could be eaten as lunch.
"woke up?"
Lu Xiao is washing clothes for Su Tang.
The battle was fierce last night. No matter how Su Tang begged for mercy, Lu Xiao did not let him go.
Therefore, the originally clean clothes became dirty.
However, Su Tang had been wearing this clothes for several days, so it was time to wash them.
She brought a change of clothes so that she would have something to wear even if she went out.
"I'll take you around Beijing later. It's different here from Shanghai."
Lu Xiao poked his head out of the bathroom and looked at Su Tang with sleepy eyes.
He rubbed the clothes clean and hung them up before he went out.
"Not awake yet? Do you want to sleep a little longer?"
Lu Xiao sat aside and reached out to tidy Su Tang's hair.
She leaned on his shoulder and hummed softly.
Seeing his wife so cute, Lu Xiao's heart melted.
He picked up a piece of clothes from the side and put them on Su Tang. After she put on the clothes, he tied her hair up.
But it's tied crookedly and looks very ugly.
Su Tang looked at himself in the mirror, feeling both amused and helpless.
"Captain Lu, if you open a shop with your skills, people will beat you to death."
Lu Xiao chuckled softly and scratched her earlobe with his fingertips: "That's perfect, I'll only give you acupuncture in this life."
The warmth of his palm seeped through her hair. Su Tang shrank her neck, turned around and threw herself into his arms, saying, "No, it's too ugly. I have to re-do it."
He couldn't resist, so he had to remove the rubber band and start over.
This time, she used significantly less force with her fingertips as she clumsily gathered the strands of hair behind her head, but the hair still tilted to the left.
Su Tang pouted in front of the mirror, and he suddenly put his arms around her waist from behind, resting his chin on the top of her head.
"That's good. You can tell at a glance that she is my Lu Xiao's wife."
"You're just playing tricks, aren't you?"
However, Su Tang did not ask for any more. After all, in modern times, a side ponytail is also very cool.
After teasing Lu Xiao for a while, Su Tang ate breakfast and followed Lu Xiao to visit the capital.
Of course, the modern Su Tang has been to the capital, and more than once.
She knows Wangfujing, Hutongkou, etc.
But now Su Tang has to pretend that he doesn’t know.
Lu Xiao held Su Tang's hand and walked in the alley. The blue-gray brick wall was mottled with traces of time, and a few pomegranate branches, wilted by the sun, peeked out from the top of the wall.
Su Tang deliberately slowed down his pace and looked around.
"This wall is much older than the Shikumen houses in Shanghai."
When it comes to history, this capital city has a lot to say.
"I heard that all the people living here are old BJs?"
Lu Xiao stopped and helped her tidy up her bangs that were messed up by the wind, and his fingertips brushed across her hot earlobes.
"Yes, this is the old town."
"Two blocks down the road, there's an old man named Zhang selling sugar paintings. His dragon and phoenix paintings have gold edges, and I think they were even featured in the news."
Before he could finish his words, Su Tang had already grabbed his arm and ran forward.
Several little girls with pigtails gathered in front of the sugar painting stall.
Old Zhang held a copper spoon and walked across the bluestone slabs. The amber sugar liquid fell into golden threads, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a flapping butterfly.
Su Tang pointed at the butterfly and whispered, "I want this one."
Lu Xiao paid the money, took the still warm sugar painting and handed it to her, and suddenly found that she was staring at the candied haws next to her.
The dark red hawthorns are wrapped in crystal sugar shells, glowing with honey-colored light in the sun, like a string of frozen sunset glow.
He was about to call out to the old man carrying the load, but Su Tang tugged at his sleeve: "Let's go see the moat? The book says we can see the shadow of the corner tower."
Lu Xiao smiled without saying anything, but when Su Tang turned around, he bought her a string of candied haws.
Little girls love to eat.
Even though they had a child named Cheng'an, she was still a little girl in his heart.
The water in the moat was thick green, and the weeping willows on the bank were blown by the wind.
Lu Xiao took off his army green jacket and put it on her shoulders.
Su Tang hugged her arms and chewed the candy painting, and the butterfly wings turned into sweet honey on the tip of her tongue.
At this moment, I heard a familiar laugh behind me.
It was Lu Xiao’s comrade-in-arms Zhao Peng, who was walking with a girl with pigtails in his arms.
"Captain Lu, are you taking your partner around the capital?"
Zhao Peng's voice was as loud as a gong, and the girl hid behind him with a red face.
Su Tang greeted him openly, and Lu Xiao replied, "It's my wife. She came to the capital to see me."
No matter whether she is a partner or not, Lu Xiao has to secure his position as the main wife.
When Zhao Peng heard this, his face turned a little bad.
He and Lu Xiao don't get along very well, even though Lu Xiao comes from a remote place.
But whatever it was, he was better than him.
He always gets first place in the exams and is a very upright and self-disciplined person.
I thought I had finally caught him this time, but I didn't expect that such a beautiful girl would be his wife.
This made Zhao Peng very angry.
How come Lu Xiao is not only able to marry a beautiful wife, but is also so powerful?
"It's my sister-in-law. Hello, sister-in-law."
Zhao Peng reluctantly called her sister-in-law, and after that, he took the girl and turned away.
After the pair of figures walked away, Su Tang realized that Lu Xiao was staring at her and smiling, with a glint of light in the fine lines at the corners of his eyes: "Did you see that? He's almost jealous."
"Yes, yes, I saw it. He is jealous of you."
Su Tang laughed while biting the candy painting, then turned around to reach for the candied haws in his hand.
Lu Xiao deliberately raised his hands high and watched her tiptoeing and fluttering in his arms, like a little bird stealing food.
"Lu Xiao!"
She hit his arm angrily, but he grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms.
The autumn wind seemed to become gentle, surrounding the two of them.
"for you."
He lowered his head and handed the candied haws to her mouth. Su Tang narrowed her eyes and suddenly found that there was some sugar stain on his fingertips, so she leaned over and licked it gently.
She couldn't admit defeat by letting him tease her.
Lu Xiao's breathing suddenly stopped and his ears turned red.
He held her hand tightly and walked to a less crowded place, his voice low and hoarse: "Don't make trouble, there are too many people here."
"So what if there are so many people? Are you scared?"
Su Tang's words not only did not embarrass Lu Xiao, but instead aroused his competitive spirit.
"You're not leaving tonight."
The implication was too obvious, and now it was Su Tang's turn to blush.
She raised her hand and hit him. Seeing her like this, Lu Xiao had to admit his mistake in a low voice.
The two men stopped by the moat. Lu Xiao looked at Su Tang and asked.
"What are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking..."
Su Tang stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the chin: "It would be nice if Cheng An was here too."
Lu Xiao's eyes softened. He took out a brown paper bag from his pocket and opened it to reveal a bag of donkey rolls.
"I bought it at the supply and marketing cooperative yesterday. We don't have this stuff in the northwest."
Su Tang's heart was suddenly filled with something.
She knew that Lu Xiao was not good at saying sweet words, but he always kept her and her children's preferences in his heart.
The distance is far, but their hearts are not far away at all.
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