I've been eating porridge the whole time, and this is the first stir-fried dish I've had in the past two days since I transmigrated!
The bowl of food that Ye Lingyu brought over smelled delicious, which made the little frog in Cheng Qingyan's belly croak happily.
Seeing that Cheng Qingyan didn't take the bowl, Ye Lingyu smiled and asked her, "Aren't you going to eat?"
Cheng Qingyan swallowed hard, hesitated for a second, and said, "Eat!"
Ye Lingyu handed her the rice bowl: "Is this okay?"
"Of course I can! You should eat quickly too, before it gets cold."
There were no wild vegetables in her bowl, only leafy greens and eggs.
Ye Lingyu served the rice but didn't bring it over to eat with her.
Cheng Qingyan glanced casually at Ye Lingyu's bowl; there were no eggs, no green vegetables, only wild vegetables.
She has now learned to distinguish between wild vegetables and leafy greens. Wild vegetables, when stir-fried, also have a dark green hue, making them easy to tell at a glance.
Ye Lingyu didn't sit down because she didn't want Cheng Qingyan to see her.
A warm feeling welled up in Cheng Qingyan's heart. "Fine, I won't expose Ye Lingyu today."
After the truth is revealed, should you give half of the eggs to Ye Lingyu and half of the vegetables as well?
It doesn't matter if she doesn't eat, but Ye Lingyu's efforts to avoid her will be in vain.
Ye Lingyu is such a thoughtful and kind person, the reason why she was given good food was because she was sick and because her family was poor.
They were truly poor, Cheng Qingyan pondered, trying to figure out how to increase the value of the ginseng in the basket. The fundamental solution was to make the family wealthy so that Ye Lingyu wouldn't have to hesitate to eat whatever she wanted.
Moreover, she needs to recover quickly so she can go to town with Ye Lingyu and sell those ginseng roots.
"Wife, when can we go to town?"
Ye Lingyu calculated the date: "The day after tomorrow, then. We can go to the market, and it will be convenient to get to the town. We can take an oxcart."
Do we need to pay for the oxcart?
"When the time comes, you can ride in an oxcart, and I'll walk."
It looks like I need to pay, but where am I going to get the money?
"Wife, how much is an egg?"
"Two coins each, why are you suddenly asking about the price of eggs?"
"It's nothing, I was just asking."
The day after tomorrow, we're going to the market in town. She doesn't want Ye Lingyu to walk; she'll take the bus. We'll walk together and ride together.
That night, Ye Lingyu let her stay in her room to sleep.
She went to the room where Cheng Qingyan was sleeping, a room that was drafty on all sides and had a drafty roof.
Cheng Qingyan followed him to his room and felt really cold.
“Wife, we’re in the same boat. Why don’t we sleep together on your side? That way we can keep each other warm.”
Ye Lingyu ignored her and kept tidying up the straw mat.
Cheng Qingyan pressed on, "Look, it's so cold here today. What if you get sick? I don't even know where I'll find a doctor. What will I do then?"
Ye Lingyu put down the quilt she was tidying up: "You're not well yet. If you pass on your illness to me, I'll still get sick."
"That's different. We can each sleep on one side of the bed, not on the same side."
"Look, there are no stars tonight. If it rains, you'll still have to come and sleep here."
Ye Lingyu looked up at the sky from the rooftop. The sun had been shining intermittently all day. The weather was unpredictable; it might really rain.
"Then you can sleep on the other side, and we'll each sleep in our own blankets."
"Okay, no problem!"
"Oh what?"
Oh no, why bother showing off with English? It just makes me look like I know a couple of letters.
Cheng Qingyan quickly tried to salvage the situation: "I meant, oh, okay. Where's the 'oh' in there?"
Ye Lingyu didn't dwell on the issue and went back to her room with the blanket to tidy up.
Cheng Qingyan obediently placed her pillow at the other end of the straw mat, knowing it would be warm tonight.
It was indeed very warm. As she was falling asleep, she somehow ended up in Ye Lingyu's bed.
Ye Lingyu was woken up and shook Cheng Qingyan, but she was sleeping soundly and Ye Lingyu couldn't wake her up no matter how many times she shook her.
Ye Lingyu frowned. Was this person doing this on purpose?
"Cheng Qingyan? Cheng Qingyan, wake up."
Cheng Qingyan was woken up and found herself holding a pair of feet in her arms.
Upon seeing Ye Lingyu's somewhat dark expression, he quickly let go, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was half asleep. I didn't mean to. I'll go back now."
Ye Lingyu sighed and said nothing more.
Unexpectedly, not long after, her leg was grabbed again...
Ye Lingyu was exhausted after a long day of work and didn't dare to sleep all night. She thought she would wake Cheng Qingyan up later, but she fell asleep first.
The next morning, Ye Lingyu woke up feeling as if she were being restrained.
Under the blanket, Cheng Qingyan held her feet tightly, and her upper body was pressed down by Cheng Qingyan's legs.
She suddenly seemed to understand why Cheng Qingyan wanted to sleep with her so much.
She really loves hugging people. I remember waking her up once last night, but I was too tired and thought I'd wake her up later. Unexpectedly, I fell asleep before I could wake her.
This was the first time in Ye Lingyu's life that she had ever had such a difficult time getting out of bed.
Wasn't Cheng Qingyan sick? How can someone so frail have so much energy while asleep?
Ye Lingyu had already exerted a lot of effort just to free her legs from her arms; she never imagined that getting out of bed would be so tiring.
Tonight, I absolutely cannot sleep with her again.
She slept so hard that her back ached, her arms hurt.
After stretching her limbs, Ye Lingyu, feeling somewhat tired, went to the river to fetch water.
After returning from the town, the rice in the fields was ready to be harvested.
This concerns her and Cheng Qingyan's food supply for the entire winter and spring, so it's something they have to take seriously.
Cheng Qingyan woke up as soon as his arms were empty.
Hearing Ye Lingyu walk out, her eyelids felt heavy, and she didn't want to open them.
There were still two eggs left in the jar, but no more vegetables. Ye Lingyu had eaten all the wild vegetables in the basket, and where the basket had been before, there was now a pile of dry straw.
It's obvious without even thinking that those few small ginseng plants must be inside.
Tomorrow, when Ye Lingyu isn't looking, I should replace this ginseng that's too young. This family has so many places where money is needed.
He took out some small green vegetables from his storage space, filled the basket, and then put four eggs into the rice jar.
Cheng Qingyan stretched and went to the yard, found a tinderbox, and tried to start a fire, just like Ye Lingyu.
Ye Lingyu was carrying a bucket of water when she saw thick smoke rising from her house from afar. Was it on fire?
I was so eager to get home that I spilled a lot of water on the way.
When they got home, Cheng Qingyan's face was covered in smears, and she was coughing by the vegetable garden because of the thick smoke.
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