Xia Lan was taken aback and looked up at Qin Yu. His eyes were clear, and he seemed to be doting on his younger sister rather than flirting with her.
"What do you want to do with these pieces of furniture?" Qin Yu asked, pointing to the furniture in the yard after Xia Lan finished eating.
His house can only fit a few pieces of furniture; there's simply no room for the rest. Putting them in the yard would be a waste.
"What do you think we can do?" Xia Lan didn't know what to do either; it seemed like selling things wasn't an option these days...
"Do you want to sell it for money?" Qin Yu asked.
"Is it possible? But... it's not that it's impossible?" Xia Lan was certainly willing, but these pieces of furniture wouldn't sell well, would they?
"Your dad used top-quality wood. If you're willing, someone should be willing to buy it." Qin Yu touched the furniture; it was all made of good wood.
"Won't people think we're...speculators?" Xia Lan asked nervously. Qin Yu seemed like someone who could be sold, but she didn't want to cause him any trouble because of it.
"You care about me?" Xia Lan's words made Qin Yu's lips curl into a slight smile.
Xia Lan glared at Qin Yu speechlessly. "We're roommates, of course I'd care about you! I'm counting on you to look after me..."
"Don't worry! Leave it to me." Qin Yu nodded.
Seeing Qin Yu's response, Xia Lan stopped worrying about it.
"Take your medicine." Qin Yu walked into the kitchen and brought out a bowl of medicine. Xia Lan looked at Qin Yu in surprise. "What is this black stuff? I don't want to drink it."
“You’re too weak. If you don’t drink it, it will take you four or five days to recover,” Qin Yu said seriously, leaving Xia Lan no room to refuse. “Drink it.”
"...Put it there, I'll drink it later." Xia Lan took the bowl and carefully placed it aside.
Qin Yu narrowed his eyes dangerously, picked up the bowl of medicine again, and fed it directly to Xia Lan's lips. "Drink."
Just as Xia Lan was about to dodge, Qin Yu placed a hand behind her head, cutting off her escape route.
glaring at Qin Yu resentfully, Xia Lan could only suppress her nausea and drink the dark medicine.
"Ugh." The bitter and unpleasant-tasting Chinese medicine almost made Xia Lan vomit.
Qin Yu glanced at her, took a piece of rock candy from the small cabinet, and stuffed it into Xia Lan's mouth.
Feeling the sweet taste in her mouth, Xia Lan felt as if she had come back to life.
His eyes narrowed with delight.
Seeing her like this, Qin Yu became even more determined in his heart.
—My little wife.
They need to be pampered like children.
"Go to sleep!" Qin Yu carried the bowl out of the room and covered the furniture in the yard with a cloth to prevent it from getting wet in the night if it rained.
Xia Lan felt sleepy shortly after taking the medicine and drifted off to sleep.
I was still half asleep, thinking about it...
There seems to be only one bed in the house, so... where has Qin Yu been sleeping these past few days?
When Qin Yu returned to his room, Xia Lan was already asleep.
Looking at her pale face, like a sickly beauty lying in bed, the sense of desolation made Qin Yu purse his lips unhappily.
She's still too thin and too weak.
Taking off his clothes, Qin Yu climbed onto the bed and lay down next to Xia Lan. He looked at her sleeping face and slowly closed his eyes.
Early the next morning
Xia Lan was awakened from her sleep by a commotion. When she opened her eyes, Qin Yu was not in the room. Xia Lan slowly sat up from the bed, feeling much better than yesterday. She put on her coat, got out of bed, and went to the yard.
When the women who were picking out furniture in the courtyard saw Xia Lan come out, their noise immediately stopped, and they all looked at Xia Lan with sympathy.
"Hello, aunties." Xia Lan nodded obediently and greeted the aunties who had helped her yesterday.
Her pale cheeks, coupled with her sickly frailty, made her look as if she had just woken up, her eyes vacant and confused, blinking her big eyes blankly, instantly striking a chord with the aunties and making them fall in love with her.
So cute.
—How pitiful.
"Xia, you're awake?" Aunt Liu saw Xia Lan looking around blankly, as if searching for something, and went up to her with a smile. "Are you looking for Stone? He went to ask the village chief for help."
"Hello, Aunt Liu." Xia Lan nodded. "What...are you doing?"
"Shi Tou said you want to exchange all this furniture for grain, is that true?" an aunt asked as she stepped forward.
"Yes...right?" Xia Lan didn't know how Qin Yu was going to handle it, and answered blankly. "I don't know either."
"You'd be better off waiting for Shitou to come back than asking Xia Lan!" Another auntie said with amusement, seeing Xia Lan's expression and knowing she still didn't know what was going on.
"Look at this girl, she obviously doesn't know anything."
Just as Xia Lan was about to say that she really didn't know, a sharp voice rang out from behind her. Judging from the implication of the words, it was alluding to Xia Lan, and the speaker seemed to be very dissatisfied with Xia Lan and looked down on her.
"Tsk, it's just this face, isn't it? Look at him, he's practically skin and bones, he's not worth two hundred!"
"Marrying a sickly woman means she'll never be able to lay an egg..."
Xia Lan turned around and saw a woman with a pointed mouth and monkey-like face looking at her with contempt. Her eyes were full of mockery and disdain, as if she wanted to make sure the woman knew she looked down on her.
"Hey, Hu family, watch your mouth! Xia Xia didn't offend you, is it really necessary to make such a fuss?"
"That's right, you shouldn't hit someone in the face, especially since Xia didn't do anything to you, why are you saying such nasty things!"
The women all frowned when they saw the woman with the pointed mouth and monkey-like face. Who would speak so rudely to someone's face?
Xia Lan squinted. She remembered the voice. It was the aunt Qin Yu had met on the way back from the clinic when she first transmigrated. At that time, she was already very disgusted with her, pointing out that she had spent money as soon as she entered the house.
“This auntie is quite clear-headed. I just happen to have this face, right? If it weren’t for this face, how could my Shitou be so infatuated with me, spending all his money on me, right?” Xia Lan didn’t hesitate to start her taunting mode.
"The radish seller follows the salt carrier—it's salty and unpleasant." Xia Lan snorted coldly, raising her chin arrogantly.
"You!" The aunt pointed at Xia Lan, unable to believe that Xia Lan dared to speak to her like that. "What an ill-mannered wild girl! You deserve to lose your parents! You jinx!"
Xia Lan was furious. It was one thing to talk about her, but to talk about someone else's parents was unacceptable.
"Instead of criticizing me, you should mind your own family matters!"
"Is your daughter married? How is her marriage? Is he lame or ugly? How many children has she had?"
"Has your son gotten married? Is his wife pretty? Is she ugly or unwanted? Is your daughter-in-law pregnant? Has your grandson been born?"
"Has your man eaten enough? Does he have enough clothes to wear? Has he been seduced by the widow next door?"
Xia Lan's witty remarks flowed like a string of questions.
The aunties standing nearby stared wide-eyed, never expecting that Xia Lan, who seemed so delicate and petite, could be so sharp-tongued when she argued with people.
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