Chapter 69068. Lei Li’s feeling of being a husband…?
The issue between Niu Dali and Miao Fulang was resolved in just one day.
Because he had to sign an agreement to sever ties with Niu Dali, Miao Fulang also brought Xiaobao with him. After all the trouble, it was already past five in the afternoon.
There were no ox carts left to go back to Sanli Village, so Miao Fulang and Xiaobao stayed at Lei Li and Zhou Yi's house, living in the secondary bedroom reserved for Lei Dashan and Liu Ye'er.
The master bedroom is occupied by Lei Li and Zhou Yi.
There is another room that Lei Li left for her future child. However, she didn't know when she would get pregnant, so she didn't put up any furniture in it. It was empty and was temporarily used as a storage room to store pickled bamboo shoots, five-color peppers, local lemons, and a small cabinet of old books.
These are all miscellaneous books that Lei Li bought from the bookstore.
Because the books were very old and copied, and had passed through many hands, they were very cheap. Lei Li bargained again and the total price for twenty books was three taels of silver.
——A serious textbook related to the imperial examination costs at least one or two taels of silver.
Zhou Yi studied in modern times.
Although his grades were average, his experience and knowledge made his learning ability much higher than that of ordinary people in the Dayou Dynasty. From daily communication and the names of medicines in the door couplets, and asking Zhu Zhuer's husband Zhu Qingshan for advice, Zhou Yi already knew quite a few common characters.
If you want to understand the writing and background culture of the Dayou Dynasty, it is best to start with these various miscellaneous books, which include storybooks, travel notes, landscape paintings, and even a pornographic book.
I don't know how it got in there, the pages are almost torn apart by the previous owner.
The painting is a bit abstract though.
Zhou Yi didn't understand what the two people in the picture were doing in the first few pages. As the pictures became more and more explicit, he finally realized what was going on and stuffed the book back into the small cabinet.
He took out another travelogue and read it as he walked back to the master bedroom.
This travelogue happens to be about one of the two prefectures that Zhou Yi knows - Xiling Prefecture and Zhongchuan Prefecture, and the author's experience of traveling around Zhongchuan Prefecture.
According to the author's description, the terrain of Nakagawa Prefecture is complex and diverse, with great differences in elevation. The terrain is high in the west and low in the east, and is composed of mountains, hills, plains, basins and plateaus.
Moreover, the climate types are diverse. Some areas are hot and humid, while some areas are cold and dry. There have been severe snowstorms and floods, but overall it is relatively suitable.
The key point is that it has abundant natural resources and two major rivers flow through it. The largest gold and silver mines of the Dayou Dynasty are all in Zhongchuan Prefecture. It is an important transportation hub and economic city, as well as a political stronghold.
Therefore, Zhongchuan Prefecture City had many officials with real power, at least more than Xiling Prefecture City. They were scattered across various links and economic and political points, forming a huge network...
Of course, these are the author's own thoughts, because he is just an ordinary poor scholar who doesn't know any officials at all. He just met a few constables who bullied others by taking advantage of their power.
The author has no money, so he does this budget travel. He writes travel notes just as a diary and makes some extra money. What if someone is stupid enough to buy them?
"However, from the author's speculation, we can probably see that things are turbulent in Nakagawa Prefecture. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes."
Zhou Yi sighed slightly.
As the old saying goes, the world is bustling with people because of profit, and the world is clamoring for profit. Moreover, in a gold rush like Nakagawa Prefecture, it would be strange if the waters weren't deep.
"But to be the largest rice merchant in a place like this, to be able to pay tribute to the royal family, the Meng Rice Shop is truly remarkable. I wonder how they managed to raise a little white rabbit like Meng Luo..."
Zhou Yi thought of the young man who was stunned by Lei Li, who was compassionate and had a sense of justice, and the shopkeeper with a mustache who was very shrewd but liked to complain and was obsessed with money. He suddenly laughed and sighed.
A month passed.
Mengluo still hadn't come to terms with it yet, and the chili pepper business deal was probably a failure.
Although he didn't really expect it to work out, Meng Luo's two hundred taels of silver were still in their hands, and Lei Li had even used one to buy a house...
I hope Meng Luo doesn't care about this little money. It would be better if he forgets about this matter and the two of them, because Lei Li will definitely not return it, and then it will cause trouble again.
Mainly because I'm afraid of getting into trouble.
Zhou Yi was thinking as he turned over the travelogue. The book wasn't very thick. He had just read it once and was planning to read it again to consolidate the knowledge points. Then he heard the sound of the door opening.
It was Lei Li who came in.
Zhou Yi subconsciously turned his head to look over and saw that Lei Li had just finished taking a shower. He was wearing a plain white inner garment with the belt tied casually, leaving his chest half-hidden and half-exposed.
My hair is wet.
Several strands of water stuck to her neck, seeping into her chest, wetting a small area, and her plain white undergarment naturally stuck to her skin.
In order to make it easier to work, Lei Li usually only wore cheap and durable coarse linen clothes, but he would buy better fine linen clothes for his parents, which were light and soft to wear.
Liu Yeer bought a pair of fine linen for Lei Li, but Lei Li said that they were easy to wear out and he didn't like to wear them, so he put them in the bottom of the box.
Now that he was in the county town, he had a profitable shop and a small yard of his own. He no longer had to go into the mountains to drill trees and dig the soil all day, so Lei Li put on his fine linen clothes.
Plain white.
It does not mean that the color is pure white, but that it is plain and has no patterns, and has not been dyed at all. It is the white color of the linen rope itself, which is close to beige.
This color of fabric is the cheapest.
It also makes people look soft and harmless.
But when worn on Lei Li, it was completely different from his temperament yet somehow harmonious with him. His sharp features seemed to be softened, revealing a warmth and softness that was rarely seen in other days, not the kind of threatening smile.
Actually...
There's this absurd feeling of a gentle and virtuous husband.
Although according to Lei Li's personality, he should be the one who steals someone else's husband...
Zhou Yi blinked, then came back to his senses from his slight trance. He took a clean cloth and asked, "Why don't you dry your hair before coming out?"
As she spoke, she took Lei Li's hair, slowly rolled it up from the ends and wrung out some water, then carefully and cautiously helped him wipe his hair, trying not to pull it.
"I forgot to bring a cloth."
Lei Li sat on the chair and let him wipe her. She tilted her head slightly, revealing her fair neck, but she did not look fragile or seductive.
Because Zhou Yi knew that Lei Li could punch him as soon as he turned his head. No, Lei Li could hit Zhou Yi accurately without turning his head.
Zhou Yi is tall.
From this angle, Zhou Yi could easily see through Lei Li's slightly open collar, revealing a clear, white chest, two bright red spots, distinct abdominal muscles, and a lean, strong waist...
Clearly understood.
Zhou Yi could even count how many kiss marks and teeth marks there were. They were left there last night. There were not many, just a few, but they were extremely obvious and ambiguous.
Zhou Yi moved his Adam's apple calmly and turned his attention back to Lei Li's hair.
It's not rough, but not particularly smooth or soft hair either, and it only reaches above the waist.
Usually Lei Li would casually tie her hair into a high ponytail with a wooden hairpin or a black cloth strip. She would only let it down at home, on such leisurely and relaxing nights.
Zhou Yi has never seen it have a third hairstyle, but he has seen Zhu Zhuer several times, and almost every time Zhu Zhuer has a different hairstyle or hair accessory on her head.
Sometimes it becomes a long braid, sometimes it is tied into a half-low bun, sometimes it is tied with a brightly embroidered headband, sometimes it is decorated with a hairpin decorated with beads, sometimes it is decorated with fresh flowers, and sometimes it is just a jade hairpin.
Zhu Zhuer's clothes are always changing, sometimes green, sometimes lake blue, sometimes plain, sometimes bright, and sometimes decorated with a few small sachets.
Zhou Yi's nearly ten years of military career made him subconsciously observe others. In addition, Zhu Zhuer was Lei Li's good friend, and the two of them always appeared together. One was black, white and gray, and the other was bright and colorful. The contrast was very obvious, which made him remember many details unconsciously.
There are many details that are not found in Lei Li.
Lei Li is always decisive, cold, and half-smiling. He seems gentle but is actually very sinister.
But Zhou Yi vaguely felt that Lei Li also wanted to dress up, just like Zhu Zhuer and Liu Xiaocao, and wanted to wear bright and colorful clothes and beautiful headbands.
But it’s not as gorgeous as a butterfly, but rather a low-key yet refined style... handsome and good-looking?
Zhou Yi could only roughly describe this feeling, because he didn't know much about dressing up. He might even buy a pair of pants repeatedly just because they were comfortable to wear, and wear them for several years without changing to other styles.
As for why I feel this way...
Perhaps it was because Lei Li loved fireflies and stargazing that she accepted the wildflowers he picked by the roadside. And not long after they got married, when she was buying burlap for Zhou Yi to make clothes, she bought him an impractical red headband and put it in her closet, never taking it out to wear...
"Zhou Yi."
Lei Li suddenly spoke up, looking up at Zhou Yi who was clearly distracted. "I looked at you for a while, but you didn't notice me. What were you thinking about?"
"I thought of a little thing."
Zhou Yi shook his head and didn't say it clearly, mainly because he was afraid that he would be beaten if he exposed Lei Li, or that he would be laughed at by Lei Li if he guessed wrong.
At night, being beaten and laughed at by Lei Li was not a good thing, because he would always use this as an excuse...
"Yeah?"
Lei Li looked at him with a half-smile, "Your eyes don't seem to say that. What were you thinking just now? Do I know it, or do I not know it?"
"It's something you know, but also something you don't know."
Zhou Yi had a plan in mind, but he couldn't tell Lei Li yet. "I was thinking about the Zhongchuanfu City mentioned in the travelogue. It seems very lively and crowded there. I kind of want to go and see it."
"Where in Dafu City isn't bustling?"
Lei Li had no doubts. He saw the travel notes on the table. Zhou Yi had read them to him last time, and he knew the contents.
Zhou Yi wanted to teach him how to read, but Lei Li felt overwhelmed when he saw those wriggling earthworms. He didn't need to understand them, and since Zhou Yi was there, couldn't he just do the rough work of writing letters and learning to read?
He rejected Zhou Yi.
"It's better to go to Xiling Prefecture than Zhongchuan Prefecture. I heard that things in Zhongchuan Prefecture are much more expensive than in Xiling. Even rice there costs eight cents a pound. What price can't be sold?"
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