Chapter 127 Chapter 127 Together
The village chief came here today to ask Fu Wenxiao whether he wanted to hold a banquet in the village.
Fu Wenxiao was the top scorer in both the county and prefectural examinations. In the eyes of the people in Qingshi Village, this was a matter worth celebrating. The village chief and the elders all wanted to hold a banquet in the village to celebrate.
At the same time, they also announced to the public that their Qingshi Village had finally produced a scholar with honors.
Although the Fu family only settled in Qingshi Village four years ago, Qingshi Village has already regarded him as one of their own. After all, the Fu family settled in the village and married girls from their village. How can they not be considered people of Qingshi Village?
When Yu Li heard the village chief say this with confidence, he understood.
It seems that the villagers have given up on the scholars from the eldest branch of the Yu family, and now they don't place any hope on them.
In fact, it is not their fault. They are just scared by Boss Yu in the past, and they are also worried that the Yu Jingde brothers will be like Boss Yu, still unemployed after being in their thirties.
Although the Yu Jingde brothers are still very young, this year is their first time to take an exam. Even Yu Jingli passed the county exam, which is a good start. Maybe they will pass the exam in the future.
But the villagers are still very worried. After all, there is a saying that goes, like father, like son.
What if the two brothers are like their father and never pass the exams...
Hearing the village chief's intention, Fu Wenxiao said, "Village chief, I don't plan to display it."
"Why?" The village chief was a little nervous. Did he want to go back to Yuzhou to set up the stalls? I heard that his hometown was in Yuzhou, so it seemed normal for him to want to go back and set up the stalls.
Fu Wenxiao said, "I plan to take the college entrance examination in August. If I pass it, it won't be too late to set it up then." He said apologetically, "During this period, I want to concentrate on studying and try to pass the college entrance examination."
Hearing this, Zhou next to him couldn't help but look at him.
If she didn't know Xiao Ge'er's knowledge, she would have believed what he said and thought he was studying hard.
Xiao Ge'er is probably too lazy to go back to the village. A first place in the provincial examination is nothing in his eyes.
The village chief had no doubts. He was not clear about Fu Wenxiao's knowledge, but he knew how difficult it was to pass the examination to become a scholar, so it was normal for him to want to concentrate on his studies.
Of course the village chief was still very happy because Fu Wenxiao's words represented his attitude.
He recognized Qingshi Village. If he passed the imperial examination in the future, he would definitely be willing to hold a banquet in the village to bring fame to Qingshi Village.
The village chief couldn't help but hope, what if Fu Wenxiao really passed the college entrance examination in August?
By then he would be a scholar, and their village finally had a scholar husband...
The village chief left with a smile.
Before leaving, he kept reminding her: "Mr. Fu, study hard. If you need anything, just send someone back to the village to tell us."
Then he thanked Zhou for raising such a good son, and his eyes were particularly kind when he looked at Yu Li.
After sending the village chief away, Yu Li looked at Fu Wenxiao.
"Li Niang, what's wrong?" He turned to look at her with a smile on his face. His pair of black jade eyes reflected her figure, as if he kept her in his heart.
Yu Li was distracted for a moment and asked, "Are you really going to take the entrance exam in August?"
"Yes." Fu Wenxiao nodded and took her to the study.
Yu Li looked down at him holding her hand, and suddenly felt confused. She didn't know since when he always liked to hold her hand.
She tried hard to recall that he seemed to do this sometimes when they were outside.
In the eyes of outsiders, they are a couple, so she must give him face; plus his body is fragile, it is not easy to do anything casually, what if she hurts him...
Yu Li was sitting in the study, and before she could figure out what was going on, a plate of steamed cake was placed in front of her.
This was sent by Madam Song today.
Madam Song came over to congratulate her and was very grateful to Fu Wenxiao for teaching Scholar Song. She knew that Yu Li loved the steamed cakes she made, so she would send some over from time to time.
After eating the steamed cake, Yu Li quickly put aside his previous doubts and continued talking about the college entrance examination in August.
"I heard that the college entrance examination is held in the provincial capital." Yu Li looked curious, "I haven't been to the provincial capital yet."
Fu Wenxiao picked up a book and tilted his head to look at her, with a smile in his eyes: "So when the time comes, I will have to trouble Li Niang to take me there. If Li Niang is not here, I won't be able to rest easy."
Yu Li blinked, nibbled the steamed cake slowly, and looked at his face.
His skin was very white, a whiteness that was rarely seen in the sun, with a lustrous luster that made his facial features even more delicate and beautiful. When he smiled and stared at me, he no longer looked pale and sickly as he had when we first met.
She said: "Your body should be almost recovered by then..."
Fu Wenxiao was stunned.
No one knows his physical condition better than him. Although he still cannot overwork or stay up late, and will feel tired after a while, he is actually not far from recovery.
Yu Li added: "Now that you are well, you don't need me to go with you, right?"
When his body recovered, she wouldn't have to follow him around like that.
She would follow him from the county examination to the provincial examination. In fact, it was also to facilitate his treatment so that he could pass the examination. Once his body recovered, she would not have to follow him like this.
Fu Wenxiao lowered his eyes, and his long and thick eyelashes drooped slightly.
Suddenly, he smiled and said, "But if Li Niang is not here, I will feel uneasy. I am afraid that I will not do well in the exam..."
He put down the book in his hand, and his face looked very lonely.
Yu Li was a little conflicted. She was biting a steamed cake in her mouth, her cheeks puffed up like a little hamster.
The steamed cake in my hand was finished without me noticing.
Seeing this, Fu Wenxiao poured her a cup of tea to moisten her throat. Although steamed cakes are delicious, eating too much will cause choking.
The cup of tea was placed next to her, and she could just reach out and drink it.
Yu Li picked it up, drank the tea, and continued eating the steamed cake.
The study soon became quiet. Fu Wenxiao continued to read while she ate steamed cakes.
The whole plate of steamed cake, which was quite a lot, ended up in her stomach.
After she finished eating, Yu Li licked her lips and was about to get up when she saw him reach out and hold her, taking out a handkerchief and wiping some crumbs from the corners of her mouth.
Yu Li didn't move.
Fu Wenxiao patiently wiped her face, then took her hand and wiped it, and asked, "Li Niang, do you want to eat some preserved fruit?" As he said that, he brought over a plate of preserved fruit.
They bought this preserved fruit in the city. It is very sweet and delicious.
Yu Li was about to get up, but when he saw the plate of preserved fruits, he sat down and continued eating.
They stayed in the study all afternoon.
He sat there reading a book, and she was eating like a little animal beside him, occasionally stopping to practice a few words with him.
Yu Li just came back from the provincial capital, and the butcher shop told him to rest for a few more days and not to rush over.
It just so happened that the weather had gotten hotter recently, and the butcher shop needed to slaughter fewer pigs. Even if she didn't go, it could still handle it. It was just that Zhang Fu and the others would be busier, and it wouldn't be as relaxing as when she was there.
In fact, everyone in the butcher shop knew that Yu Li would not be able to work there for long.
With Fu Wenxiao's ability, he will definitely pass the exam to become a scholar or even a juren. Maybe he will have to go to Beijing to take the exam in the future. She definitely won't be able to stay in the butcher shop working forever. Maybe she will go to Beijing with him, or even go to other places.
With her abilities, she will also be able to do something big.
Yu Li was not actually tired, and she could have gone to work in the butcher shop, but there were many people coming to her house to congratulate her recently, and she was worried, so she decided to stay at home and watch over the place.
It was almost evening. Yu Li had just finished practicing a few characters and when he stopped, he found Fu Wenxiao painting.
She curiously leaned over to take a look and found that the person in the painting was very familiar.
The painting shows a woman sitting at a table by the window, painting with a brush. Her eyebrows are slightly drooping, but her posture is not gentle and soft. Outside the window is a clump of green bamboo, which seems to be gently swaying in the sun...
Yu Li turned his head and looked out the window, just in time to see the familiar bamboo.
She realized belatedly that the person in the painting was herself?
Yu Li thought about it and looked up at the man who was painting at the desk. Coincidentally, he also looked up at him.
She was silent for a moment, then asked curiously, "Xiao Ge'er, you drew me, right? Why did you draw me?"
He smiled and said, "Because I want to... draw you."
Yu Li tilted his head to look at him, said "oh" slowly, and couldn't help but look at the woman in the painting again.
Without waiting for her to continue looking at it, he suddenly rolled up the painting and placed it in a large porcelain scroll jar beside the desk, which also contained some of his usual scroll paintings and calligraphy.
Suddenly, she became curious about what those scrolls and paintings looked like.
In the evening, Yu Li came to the study.
She lit the oil lamp and tried to pick up the scrolls of calligraphy and paintings from the porcelain scroll jar.
Yu Li opened a scroll and found that it was a piece of calligraphy. Fu Wenxiao's calligraphy was indeed very beautiful. Even people who didn't understand calligraphy could tell the quality.
After taking a quick look at it, she put the calligraphy away and went to get another scroll painting.
This time it's a painting.
It is a figure painting under the moon. In the painting, the woman is in a yard, practicing a set of physical skills with a graceful figure.
Yu Li recognized the courtyard in the painting as the guest house of the Xuan family's mansion in the city.
A few days before the provincial examination, she stayed with him at home. While he was reading, she practiced martial arts in the yard. Sometimes at night, when she felt like it, she would go to the yard to practice.
Yu Li looked at it for a while and then went to get the third painting.
When she finished looking at all the scrolls in the jar, she found that ten of them were portraits, and the woman in each of them was her.
She never knew that he actually painted so quietly.
"Mother Li, why don't you go back and rest?"
A clear and gentle voice sounded at the door. Yu Li turned around and saw Fu Wenxiao appearing at the door of the study.
He had just come out of the shower, wearing loose clothes, with his hair loose and the ends of his hair wet with moisture.
Yu Li was holding a scroll in his hand and felt like he was being caught.
Fu Wenxiao came over and saw her holding the painting she had made. His expression remained unchanged and he said with a smile: "If you want to see it, come and see it during the day. The light at night is too dim and it will damage your eyes."
Yu Li held the painting in his hand and said, "Why do you only paint me?"
As she asked this, she looked at him without blinking.
In the dim light, he looked particularly gentle, even his smile seemed tender, "Because I wanted to paint Li Niang, but unfortunately I couldn't paint the image of Li Niang in my mind."
"Really?" Yu Li looked at him in surprise, "Why do you think it's not drawn? It's quite beautiful."
Fu Wenxiao's painting skills are undoubtedly amazing, and every painting he makes is very well done.
In her opinion, his paintings were so beautiful, and the artistic conception of each painting was very good. Even she felt uncertain. Was she really so beautiful?
Fu Wenxiao smiled and said without explanation, "It's late now, go back and rest."
Yu Li responded, put the scroll back into the scroll box, and left the study with him.
When they returned to the backyard, they met Zhou, who was about to go to the room in the front yard to see if Fu Yanhui and his sister were asleep.
Now Fu Yanhui and his sister have settled down in the room in the front yard.
Every night before going to bed, Zhou would go over to see them.
Zhou looked at them in confusion, "Why don't you rest yet?"
"Let's go and rest now." Fu Wenxiao said to her, "Mom, you should go and rest too. Don't get too tired. I just checked and Yan Hui and Yan Sheng are all asleep."
Zhou didn't think much about it and thought they were going to the front yard to see the two children together, so she smiled and urged them to rest.
They said good night to her and went back to their room.
When he returned to the room, Fu Wenxiao's hair was already dry.
Then they changed into pajamas and prepared to go to bed.
Fu Wenxiao had just changed his clothes and came out. When he saw her coming over and holding his hand, he lowered his eyes to look at her, then smiled. He didn't think much about it, knowing that she was going to treat him again.
When the treatment was over, I suddenly heard her voice.
"Xiao brother, are you willing to be my wife?"
Her voice rang out in the quiet night. It was a soft and mellow voice that belonged to a woman, yet it also had a hint of her own unique coldness.
It sounds like a voice without any emotion.
Fu Wenxiao didn't react for a long time, thinking he had heard it wrong.
Until she asked again: "Don't you want to?"
When she said this, she let go of his hand. If he didn't want to, she wouldn't force him...
Just as she let go, Fu Wenxiao quickly grabbed that hand.
He held it very tightly. Although the force was nothing to her, Yu Li could feel the strength of that hand. She looked up at him and found that his expression was a little strange.
"Li Niang..." Fu Wenxiao spoke, his voice a little hoarse, "What did you say? Can you say it again?"
Yu Li patiently repeated: "Are you willing to be my wife? Really, not just in name only like now."
In the eyes of outsiders, they were husband and wife, but they both knew in their hearts that it was only in name only, and they had never crossed the line. Even before this, she had never considered him as a husband, and only considered the Fu family as a place to stay, the kind that she could leave at any time.
It's just that she was used to being taken care of by Zhou and used to this family, and suddenly she didn't want to leave anymore.
This time, he heard it clearly.
Fu Wenxiao's throat tightened and his Adam's apple rolled uncontrollably.
"I... Of course I am willing!" He said quickly, "But, Li Niang, are you willing? If you are not willing, I will not force you. I can..."
This surprise came too suddenly, causing him to lose his usual composure. He felt his heart burning, his head pounding, and he had lost the ability to think. He instinctively followed his heart and asked her.
"Of course I am willing." Yu Li said, "That's why I asked you if you are willing."
Before going to the capital, she had already thought about this and decided to be a real couple with him.
But he had to take part in the provincial examination, so she couldn't disturb him with this matter. Later, the Kang family incident happened, so she had no time to ask him.
Now that the provincial examination is over, they have returned to the county town and are resting at home.
Since both of you are free, just ask him.
Mainly because she saw his paintings today, she felt inexplicably touched in her heart. She decided to ask now, as today is the best day.
Fu Wenxiao looked at her in surprise, "Of course I am willing to do so!" Although he was surprised, he still wanted to confirm, "Li Niang, do you understand what it means to be a real couple?"
He was afraid that she was still young and too naive to understand what being a real couple meant.
"I know." Yu Li thought his question was weird.
However, in Fu Wenxiao's heart, the more she said "I know", the more he suspected that she actually didn't know at all.
He even suspected that she didn't think that living under the same roof meant they were husband and wife.
Fu Wenxiao said patiently: "Li Niang, if you don't live together, you are husband and wife. A true husband and wife supports each other through thick and thin, is..."
Yu Li quickly understood what he meant. She looked at him puzzledly: "Why do you think I don't understand? Of course I understand. Being a couple means two people being together. You can never betray each other."
A couple is two people together...
Hearing this, Fu Wenxiao was even more surprised, "Li Niang, are you willing to be with me?"
Yu Li nodded. If she was with him and became his wife, she wouldn't have to leave the Fu family and she could call Zhou "mother" with a clear conscience.
This way she wouldn't have to deceive her mother-in-law anymore.
Fu Wenxiao looked at her steadily, then tentatively reached out his hand and held her in his arms.
Yu Li was stunned, but did not push him away and let him hug her.
She hesitated for a moment, as if she should hug him back at this time. So she reached out and hugged him, sniffing his scent, which was a woody fragrance, the same scent as the fat beads they had been using recently.
When Fu Wenxiao noticed her movements, he could hardly suppress the excitement in his heart.
After a long while, he finally realized that she agreed to be with him and they could be a real couple.
At this moment, his mood was like the bright moon that he had been waiting for for a long time. He could finally hold it in his arms, and it occupied his heart completely.
"Li Niang..." Fu Wenxiao didn't know what to say, so he could only lower his head and gently press his lips into her hair.
It was a very light and shallow kiss, and also tentative.
She raised her head, looked at him puzzledly, thought for a moment, and then kissed him on the face.
Fu Wenxiao's face suddenly turned red, and even the tips of his ears were red.
"Hey, your face is very red." Yu Li said, "Your body temperature is also very high, are you sick?"
His skin color is a kind of fair and smooth white, so the redness on his face is very obvious, which looks very nice. It is true that good-looking people look good no matter what they look like.
Fu Wenxiao's pupils trembled slightly and he pursed his lips, but he still couldn't suppress the changes on his face.
He looked away somewhat embarrassedly and said, "I'm not sick."
Yu Li also realized that she had asked a stupid question. How could anyone suddenly get sick? But she was puzzled by his blushing face.
This was not part of the knowledge she had learned in her previous life.
Fu Wenxiao's face was still red, but he smiled and said, "Li Niang, I'm not sick, I'm just too happy."
Yu Li was surprised. So his face would blush when he was happy?
At this time he asked again: "Why did you kiss me just now?"
"Because you kissed me, of course I have to kiss you back!" She said as a matter of course, "Since we are together, isn't it normal to do this?"
She had taken physiology classes, so of course she knew what couples did; hugging and kissing were normal.
Fu Wenxiao was speechless, realizing that she really understood the matters between husband and wife. He was worrying too much, thinking that she knew nothing and was too naive.
But he was still very happy and liked her straightforward personality.
He couldn't suppress the smile on his face, which looked a little silly. He held her hand and said, "Li Niang, I'm really happy."
"Happy?" Yu Li looked at him curiously, "Is it because we are together?"
He smiled and nodded, "Yes! I always thought you didn't want to be with me, I..." He said a little embarrassedly, "So when you said you wanted to be with me, I was really happy."
It turns out he is so happy!
Yu Li couldn't help but look at his face again. He could indeed feel his happiness and said, "Actually, I'm not unwilling..."
Because she had never thought about these things before, so how could she think about whether she was willing or not.
The two of them stood there, you looked at me, I looked at you, and then Yu Li touched his stomach, "I'm hungry."
I just transferred my superpowers to him and now I'm hungry.
Fu Wenxiao laughed, "There are some snacks in the cupboard. I'll go get them."
He went to get the snacks from the cupboard, then pulled her to sit down, watched her eat, and poured her a glass of water.
Yu Li didn't hesitate to take the snacks and started eating.
The way they get along did not change because they decided to be together, but Yu Li could clearly feel that he was looking at her more often.
She asked in confusion: "Why are you looking at me?"
Fu Wenxiao looked at her gently, "Because Li Niang is very good, I feel very good when I see you."
"Really?" Yu Li looked at him with wide eyes, "Why?"
Is he really so dependent on her to this extent?
Fu Wenxiao did not answer, his expression did not change, and he said, "Li Niang, I will paint for you in the future."
"You can draw if you want to." Yu Li said, "Besides, aren't you already drawing?"
He immediately smiled, "Well, you are right."
Yu Li didn’t understand that kind of implicit expression, but she was in a good mood.
Originally, she thought he was unwilling. If he was unwilling, she naturally couldn't force him. If her mother-in-law knew that they were actually a fake couple, she would not be able to stay and leave. Sooner or later, she would have to leave the Fu family...
I feel a little lost when I think about it.
Now it's okay. She didn't expect that he seemed willing. She should have asked him earlier.
After eating snacks and filling his stomach, Yu Li went to wash up and prepare for bed.
When she was lying on the bed and about to fall asleep, a slightly cool hand held her hand.
Maybe his body hasn't recovered yet, or maybe it's because of the poisoning in the past, his body temperature has always been lower than that of ordinary people. And the weather has been hot recently, so it's very comfortable to hold it like this.
Yu Li barely woke up a little, and asked him sleepily, "What's wrong?"
The sound of turning over was heard in the darkness. Fu Wenxiao moved closer to her and asked softly, "Li Niang, do you feel uncomfortable when I get close to you?"
"Yeah... not bad."
In fact, she was now accustomed to his presence and would not strangle him in her sleep.
Thinking of this, Yu Li felt somewhat guilty.
Could it be that he remembered this?
Fu Wenxiao smiled and said, "I'm glad you're not feeling uncomfortable. I hope you can have a good sleep tonight."
"I slept." Yu Li protested, thinking that he cared about the past, and assured him, "I won't pinch you again, don't worry."
Fu Wenxiao couldn't help laughing, "Well, I believe you." Because he hadn't woken up from his sleep for a long time.
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