Chapter 99: The bulging muscles, the powerful waist and hips, the massive...
"The quilt cover isn't dry yet, so I'll have to put you through this tonight."
"It's okay. I'm fine."
Xiang Yao patted the quilt and pretended to be relaxed.
In fact, the original quilt on the bed was not small and was very clean. She smelled a faint scent of soap when she slept last night, which showed that its owner was a person with a neat and tidy private life.
But she was a little nervous at the moment. After all, it was the first time she slept under the same quilt with a man. Her damn heart had been beating abnormally since she came back.
She thought it was time to go to bed, but unexpectedly, Nie Baichuan walked to the table in the corner and took out a box from a wooden box underneath.
"What?" Xiang Yao asked in confusion as she watched him hand the box to her.
Nie Baichuan gestured for her to open it: "Here you go."
Xiang Yao opened the box and looked up at Nie Baichuan in shock: "So much money and tickets, give them all to me?"
The box was only slightly smaller than a shoe box in later generations, and it was filled with neatly stacked money and various bills, looking unremarkable under the flickering kerosene lamplight.
But in the impoverished Shitang Brigade, the money and banknotes that filled half a box were enough to shock everyone.
Nie Baichuan nodded calmly: "All for you."
After a pause, he continued, "This isn't just my idea; it's Dad's idea, too. From now on, I'll ask you to take care of our family."
Xiang Yao touched the box, her heart blossoming: "Then I won't be polite to you either."
She loves money so much, she became rich overnight! Hehe!
Seeing the money, Xiang Yao became alert. All the anxiety he had felt before was gone. He sat down cross-legged and began to count the bills one by one.
After a while, she suddenly looked up: "More than 2,600!"
You have to know that at the end of the year, the people in Xiangjiawan are paid according to their work points. The most a family can get is only about 100 yuan. This money has to be used to pay off debts and cover the expenses for the whole year. Those who get less have to pay back what they owe to the team, which directly becomes a negative number.
This two thousand plus is a truly enormous sum! Even after working so hard to dig in the melon field and pick the fruits, she only has a little over two hundred in her hands. Even this is already an incredible amount of money.
Nie Baichuan, wow, you are so rich!
Nie Baichuan looked calm. Seeing her beaming with joy, he smiled and said, "Well, about right. Building the house, building a bathroom for us, and making furniture will probably cost nearly a thousand."
Xiang Yao interrupted him: "The house is for my mother to live in, so you don't have to pay for it."
She had already made plans. She had a little money, although not much, but it was enough to build a small living room, like the small apartments in later generations. When she earned more money, she would add rooms one by one.
She didn't expect Nie Baichuan to be so generous and actually asked her to pay directly from this money.
She told him her plan and said, "Although we are married, it is not your responsibility to build this house. You don't have to take it on."
Nie Baichuan, however, held her hand, looked into her eyes, and said in a gentle but unquestionable tone, "You also said that we are married, so your mother is my mother, so there is no need to make such a clear distinction."
"Besides," he stroked her hand and arched his brows, "if you're going to build a house, build one that's bigger. At least it should have a main room, a bedroom, a kitchen, and a bathroom. You should also build an extra room so that if you want to live with mom in the future, you can have a separate room."
Xiang Yao couldn't help laughing: "That piece of land is less than a hundred meters away from here, why do you make it sound like it's so far away?"
Nie Baichuan: "My mother's house is always different. Besides, with an extra room, it will be easier to arrange for relatives from your grandmother's family to come over in the future."
Xiang Yao was convinced. If she wanted to build a bigger house, the money she had was really not enough, so she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Their eyes met in mid-air, reflecting the flickering lights, and the air around them became softer.
Nie Baichuan then explained to her, "Most of the money I paid to my brothers has been paid, and there's still a little left. However, I still have some money on hand, and besides that, I have to use it to buy some betrothal gifts for your grandmother's family, so I won't hand this part over."
Xiang Yao nodded. She wasn't the type to want to keep the money tightly in her hands. "If it's not enough, take it yourself. I'll keep the money where it was."
After she knew that Nie Baichuan attached great importance to the customs of marriage, she didn't say anything else. Since he was willing to go through with it, then let him go through with it.
After the money matter was explained, the two fell into a brief silence.
Nie Baichuan suddenly leaned over and gently touched Xiang Yao's forehead with his lips: "Go to sleep."
Xiang Yao lowered his eyes: "Yeah."
She placed the box next to the pillow, lay down and covered herself with the quilt.
Nie Baichuan blew out the light and climbed onto the bed in the darkness.
Xiang Yao pursed her lips, opened her eyes wide in the darkness, and lay flat on her back. She felt the bed beside her sink slightly, and then another body lay calmly beside her, covered with the quilt.
Her body couldn't help but become a little stiff, and for a moment, she felt uncomfortable no matter how she lay.
After a while, I felt a little itchy on my face, so I reached out my hand and scratched it gently. After a while, I felt uncomfortable lying flat, so I hesitated for a moment and changed to sleeping on my side.
In short, with one more person around, everything feels wrong.
What was even more terrible was that Nie Baichuan beside her was quite warm. Even though there was a little distance between them and they were not very close, she could still feel the heat clearly.
The air suddenly became thick, as if some substantial spider silk was flowing between the two of them.
The breathing sound became clearly audible, and even worse, Xiang Yao could hear his own heartbeat.
"Can't sleep?" A low voice suddenly sounded, with a hint of hoarseness.
Xiang Yao closed his eyes and tried to remain calm: "No."
A light laugh came from not far away from my ear, shaking the bed slightly.
Nie Baichuan didn't expose her, but said, "Go to bed, it's getting late."
Xiang Yao said "hmm" and stopped talking.
She really wanted to sleep, after all, she had been very busy during the day, but she was too excited mentally and couldn't fall asleep.
She wanted to go work in the melon field, but she didn't know how she would behave in reality after her mind entered the melon field, so she was cautious and didn't dare to act.
I had no choice but to endure it and let my thoughts wander. I don't know how long it took, but my consciousness really became confused and I fell into a deep sleep.
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The price of staying up late is that Xiang Yao didn't turn over and barely opened his eyes until noon.
The first thing she did was to look at her side, but she was the only one in the bed, as the other one had gotten up long ago.
After listening carefully for a while, there was no sound in the entire Nie family. Except for the dense chirping of birds in the back mountain, it was very quiet.
Xiang Yao sat up, stretched lazily, and was in a very good mood.
When she was at the Xiang family, she would hear Zhang Juhua chattering and cursing in the yard early in the morning. Most of the time, she woke up to the sound of her dissatisfied cursing.
After changing her sleeping place, she actually managed to wake up naturally. Well, just thinking about it makes me feel happy!
Xiang Yao got up slowly and washed up, just in time to see Nie Baichuan walking in from outside with a hatchet buckled around his waist and a bundle of branches in his hand.
Seeing that she was awake, Nie Baichuan explained, "I'll clear the weeds and trees on that plot of land first. Breakfast is on the table, go and have some."
Xiang Yao wrung out the towel and said with a smile, "Great! Did you make breakfast?"
Nie Baichuan threw the branch into the yard and smiled, "Dad did this."
Xiang Yao felt a little embarrassed, but Nie Baichuan immediately said, "Dad used to make breakfast at home. He gets up early, so he's used to it."
Breakfast is white rice porridge, which is cooked into a thick consistency with a layer of rice skin on top. It looks delicious.
Xiang Yao scooped a bowl and tasted it. It was sweet because sugar was added.
She was slurping her porridge when she heard the sound of chopping wood in the yard. She looked over and stopped drinking her porridge.
Maybe it was a little hot when he was clearing the trees, so Nie Baichuan took off his shirt before chopping wood. He just exposed his strong upper body and swung the axe to chop the wood again and again.
He has a typical inverted triangle body shape, with broad shoulders and back, covered with very conspicuous muscles that gradually taper downwards, looking wild yet full of abstinence.
At this time, as the wood was chopped with force, the muscles rolled, and as the blade cut into the wood, wood chips flew. Even from a distance, the obvious bulging blue veins on the arms could be seen, like the clear ridges in the fields outside the yard, winding in a regular pattern under the skin.
In the sun, Nie Baichuan's whole body was glowing, appearing so full of life.
Xiang Yao bit the spoon, her eyes wide open.
Isn't this better looking than those celebrity brothers on TV before? Nie Baichuan's color is beyond words!
She was admiring this strong, firm and perfect body, but she didn't expect the other party to wipe the sweat off his face and turn his head to look at her.
The two people's eyes met in the sunlight, creating sparks that seemed real.
Originally, if you admire it secretly, this body is really very ornamental, but once it is discovered by the person involved, the appreciation immediately changes.
Xiang Yao panicked and immediately lowered his eyes and continued to drink his porridge as if nothing had happened.
Her heart was pounding violently. The bulging muscles, the powerful waist and hips, the well-defined chest and abdomen... filled her mind.
It can’t be shaken off, it can’t be shaken off!
Fortunately, Nie Baichuan probably sensed her discomfort. After looking at her intently for a few seconds, he calmly looked away.
He stopped chopping wood. He wiped the sweat off his face, walked to the well, filled a basin with water, wet a towel with it, and quickly wiped his body and hair.
After putting on his clothes, Nie Baichuan became the neatly dressed young man again.
Xiang Yao took a glance and felt that Nie Baichuan's temperament with clothes and without clothes was completely different.
Tsk, top quality.
After drinking the porridge, Xiang Yao went to the kitchen to wash her own dishes. Seeing that the kitchen was clean and she didn't need to clean anything, she felt very relieved.
She liked the simple relationship in the Nie family. No one would keep a job for themselves and assign it to a specific person.
When they got out, the quilt covers they washed yesterday were already hung out to dry. Nie Baichuan pushed his bicycle out and asked, "Are we going to your grandma's house now?"
Xiang Yao thought for a moment and said, "No, let's go to the brigade headquarters first."
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