Chapter 71070. The First Formal Gift
Mr. Miao sent a lot of river clams, enough for two meals, so Zhou Yi gave half of them and a basket of plums to Mr. Zhu's house.
It took a while to go.
Judging from Zhou Yi's pace, he should be back soon. Did he buy anything on the way?
This thought flashed through Lei Li's mind, and when he saw Zhou Yi coming back empty-handed, he asked casually.
"Mr. Zhu asked me for some recipes for cold dishes. He said Zhu Zhu'er has been picky about food lately and prefers to drink porridge instead of meat. He made some side dishes to go with it."
Zhou Yi said as he worked, "Zhu Zhuer likes hot and sour food now. If we make lemon duck, sweet and sour spareribs, etc. these days, we can send some to them."
"become."
Lei Li thought for a moment and asked, "Why don't you just tell Mr. Zhu how to make it? He'll be able to make it himself, so he won't have to run around and affect the taste."
"Mr. Zhu said he couldn't control the amount of seasoning and was afraid Zhu Zhu'er would dislike it and not eat it."
Zhou Yi said, "He is now older and the baby is growing fast. The doctor said he needs to eat more and get more nutrition, otherwise it will be bad for both the adult and the child."
"really."
Lei Li nodded.
Although what he learned from Dr. Niu was relatively superficial, covering common diseases, he knew that some expectant mothers would become very sensitive and picky about smells and tastes, and would indeed give up if the food tasted a little unpalatable.
You can ask Zhang Daqiang to take it over when the time comes. He runs fast and the trip back and forth won’t interfere with your meal.
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But Zhou Yi took on the job of delivering meals.
"It's okay for me to eat later."
Zhou Yi walked out with a two-layer wooden lunch box, saying, "I have nothing to do for the time being after cooking. You still have to collect money and clean up the dishes after eating. Besides, I'm more familiar with that area, so I'll go and deliver it."
Without waiting for Lei Li to speak, he walked out the door.
For several days in a row.
They brought him food, plums, and tangerines. Sometimes when Zhou Yi came back, he would have something in his arms that you couldn't notice unless you looked carefully.
Zhou Yi doesn't sleep at night.
In the past, after being disturbed by Lei Li several times, Zhou Yi would boil water for Lei Li to clean up. If Lei Li stopped bothering him, he would fall asleep quickly after lying on the bed and sleep until dawn, basically not getting up at night.
But now he suddenly wants to study hard. Didn’t he say that he was not good at studying?
After Zhou Yi coaxed Lei Li to sleep, he went to light the oil lamp and read a book. It didn't look like he was reading, and there was no sound of turning pages, but his expression was very focused. Lei Li stared at him for a long time without noticing.
As soon as Lei Li made a sound of getting up, Zhou Yi turned his head to look at him, closed the book, walked over and asked if he wanted to drink water or was hungry and wanted to eat something.
Lei Li also found that Zhou Yi's savings jar was empty, but there was nothing extra at home, and the food purchases were normal, with no unusual expenses.
What did Zhou Yi spend the money on that he had to hide it from him and do things behind his back?
Lei Li couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it. When Zhou Yi sneaked out to light a lamp and read again, he called him over.
"What's wrong?"
"I want to do it."
“That wasn’t just…”
"Thinking about it again."
Lei Li stood up, hooked her arms around Zhou Yi's neck, covered his eyes and kissed him, but she looked at the oil lamp and closed the book, and her lump bulged underneath.
I don't know what they are covering up.
A letter from a lover?
Not so loud.
Sachet?
A bit similar in size.
but……
Lei Li looked back at Zhou Yi. His ears were red, and his eyes, which were covered by his hands, drooped obediently. His expression was calm but also embarrassed and focused.
Kiss passionately.
He doesn't look like someone who has cheated on his wife in his heart.
"Zhou Yi."
Lei Li panted slightly, touched Zhou Yi's face, and slowly smiled, "What have you been doing these days? What did you hide under the book?"
“…”
Zhou Yi's face became more embarrassed. After thinking for a while, he let go of Lei Li's hand, went to the table and handed the hidden things to Lei Li, "I know you found it, but I thought you would ask me on the first day..."
"Am I such an impatient person?"
Lei Li glanced at him with a smile, then turned his gaze to his hands and unfolded the thing.
Is it a headband?
The same deep blue as the night sky.
The texture is soft and smooth, it is expensive silk, one strand costs one or two hundred coins, and it is embroidered with golden patterns, which look like small flowers and dots, but the embroidery is not complete.
The stitches are very fine, with needle and thread still embellished on top, and only one-third of the embroidery is done.
Lei Li was a little surprised and looked up at Zhou Yi. "You used the money in the jar to buy this headband? Did you embroider it?"
"Um."
Zhou Yi nodded, seemingly calm, but actually a little nervous and embarrassed. "I see you've been using your headband for a long time, and you bought a blue one earlier that you don't use. I guess you thought it was too expensive and you weren't wearing it because you were afraid of damaging it."
"I bought it with the pocket money you gave me."
"Have you spent all your money?"
“It’s all spent.”
Lei Li's heart skipped a beat. Thinking back, Zhou Yi didn't have much pocket money. It seemed like even less than 200 Wen in total. How could he buy such an expensive headband...
"Because solid colors are cheaper, so... I actually bought two."
Zhou Yi said a little embarrassedly, "I plan to give you the one that looks good. If you want the remaining one, I'll give it to you. If you don't want it, I'll use it myself."
Zhou Yi touched his buzz cut and said, "Although I can't use it now... I'll tie it up when it grows longer. But I'm slow at tying my hair, so I might need your help."
Zhou Yi has been wearing this hairstyle for half a year, and his original buzz cut has grown longer, but he found it troublesome, and the Dayou Dynasty did not require people to grow long hair, so he cut his hair into a buzz cut again with a pair of scissors. This has almost become his signature feature.
"I'll help you tie it."
Lei Li's eyes lit up with smiles as he looked at the delicate and beautiful embroidery. Suddenly, he understood, "You've been going to Zhu Zhu'er these past few days to ask him for advice on embroidery?"
"Um."
Zhou Yi nodded and said, "I've only sewn clothes before, never embroidered flowers. But I saw that Mr. Zhu's embroidery was quite simple, and I thought it wouldn't be difficult for me, so I learned from him."
Worried that Lei Li didn't like embroidered hair, she added, "Last time, Mr. Zhu embroidered a patterned headband and asked you if it looked good. You said it looked good, so I thought you liked patterns too."
"But the headbands in the fabric shop are too fancy, and you don't like fancy ones, and solid colors are too monotonous, so I thought of embroidering one for you myself."
"I embroidered it on some coarse cloth. I thought it was okay, so I embroidered it on a headband. But I've only been learning for a few days, so I'm a little slow. I wanted to give it to you after I finished it."
Seeing Lei Li staring at the headband in silence, Zhou Yi suddenly became nervous, "Is it too ugly? How about I save up some money and buy you a new one..."
"Need not."
Lei Li shook his head, his fingertips stroking the pattern on the dark blue headband. He felt his eyes getting hot and his heart aching. He didn't know what to say for a moment.
“Not ugly.”
Lei Li raised his head again and smiled at Zhou Yi, "It looks very nice, I like it very much."
"As long as you like it."
Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief, "Once I finish embroidering it, I can give it to you."
Remembering the treatment that the headband had received before, he became serious again. "Don't refuse it just because it's expensive. I bought it to be used by you. If it gets dirty, I'll wash it for you. If it breaks, buy another one and I'll embroider another one for you as a replacement."
"good."
Lei Li smiled happily.
She returned the headband embroidered with needle and thread to Zhou Yi, and watched him carefully embroidering stitch by stitch under the light. She then asked, "What are you embroidering? I don't think I've seen this pattern before."
"It's the stars."
Zhou Yi felt a little embarrassed. "I originally wanted to embroider fireflies, but fireflies are complicated and the headband is small, so it's too difficult for me. And after I embroidered it for a while, I didn't think it looked good, so I changed it to stars."
"Fireflies twinkle and look like stars from afar. It's very simple. I embroider a radial pattern and don't emphasize symmetry or anything like that."
“Why do you want to embroider fireflies and stars?”
Lei Li felt that these two patterns were quite rare. Most of them were flowers and auspicious clouds, and the more complicated ones were mandarin ducks, birds, tigers, etc.
"Don't you like fireflies?"
Zhou Yi looked at him puzzledly. "When we were in the countryside, fireflies came out at night. You said they were beautiful. You also said that when you were a child, you always caught fireflies to make lanterns."
"You also said the stars were beautiful."
"I see..."
Lei Li understood that Zhou Yi remembered what he said, and felt warm in his heart, but also a little amused.
Actually, he didn't like fireflies and stars, he just thought they were golden and twinkling, and looked a lot like gold...
What he really likes is gold.
However, embroidering gold on the headband doesn’t feel very good. Although it looks nice and luxurious, it looks a bit... nouveau riche. I feel like Zhu Zhuer would laugh to death.
He is a very cool and steady elder brother in front of Zhu Zhuer, and he has to maintain his demeanor.
“It’s pretty.”
Lei Li nodded seriously and affirmatively, "I like fireflies and stars."
From today on, he likes fireflies and stars, which come after money... after his parents, money, and Zhou Yi... after his parents, gold, Zhou Yi, and silver.
"As long as you like it."
Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief and smiled a little.
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However, Zhou Yi's progress was quite slow. In addition, he had to open the shop the next day and could not sleep too late, so he could only embroider a few stars a night.
Zhou Yi spent almost half a month embroidering a headband.
After finishing the embroidery, Zhou Yi had to think about how to braid Lei Li's hair. Although Lei Li always had a high ponytail, what if he suddenly wanted to change his hairstyle? What would Zhou Yi do?
Still have to learn.
Moreover, Zhou Yi also wanted to save money to buy Lei Li a better set of clothes, such as silk, also in blue, which would match the headband perfectly.
Lei Li had other plans.
He brought the hairband to the bed, and under Zhou Yi's blushing eyes, he bit one end of the hairband with his teeth and wrapped it around his hand in circles.
"Help me tie the knot."
Lei Li glanced at Zhou Yi with a smile, stretched out his hand in front of him, saw that he blushed and obediently said "hmm", and tied a loose knot.
The thunder chestnut can be pulled off with a single pull.
Just like Zhou Yi's belt.
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