Chapter 4

I have to say that the heart of gossip is still very terrible, fortunately, Zhao Yunsheng has always been expressionless, even if they tease him for a long time they'll feel bored in the end.

In fact, Zhao Yunsheng is indeed twenty-two years old this year. With his age people who have not married more or less have some problems, like bad character or poor family. But with Zhao Yunsheng, these are non-existent.

Last year, the Zhao family was indeed very poor, but that was because Zhao father's health was not good, every month they bought medicine which was worth one or two silver. Some rural farmers only spend about two silver for a whole year, you can imagine that if Zhao father was in good health, just how much money would the Zhao family have saved up in a year.

These cases are hard to predict, but this year Zhao father's body and bones have gradually improved, which made a lot of people put their eyes on Zhao Yunsheng.

Zhao father is a scholar, while Zhao Yunsheng is a hunter. At this point there is nothing to say, hunters rely on skill and luck to eat, with good luck with preys they can go out to earn money, which is enough for a year and a half to spend. If not for Zhao Yunsheng who learned to hunt at the age of eight, the Zhao family would've stayed poor.

Before the girls in the village did not put the Zhao family in their eyes. Now they're slowly getting wanting to pursue him. With just Zhao Yunsheng's ability, anyone who marries him will have a fortunate life. Unfortunately, before the matchmakers have had time to act, Zhao Yunsheng came back with a wife (1), like his father.

At the riverside, the aunts doing laundry and dishes looked at Zhao Yunsheng and couldn't help but feel their heart become full with regret. Ah! Just look at that basket filled with wild pheasants! It's meat! Meat, I say! Farmers can only eat meat a handful of days all year round. This Zhao Yunsheng, if he became their son-in-law, life would be good.

The young man is not bad (2), and can earn money, how did they not see it before! The blind aunts shook their heads with remorse, although they did not see with their own eyes they have heard a lot regarding the lady Zhao Yunsheng brought back, and he just personally nodded, confirming that this little lady is born beautiful! My own girl has no chance!

On the other side, in the Zhao yard, Lin Suzhi accompanied Yu Wei to talk and estimated the time to cook. Yu Wei saw her enter the kitchen and stood up and walked towards the side of the yard.

Zhao's yard is not big, on the left side of the yard is the kitchen, there is a well outside the kitchen, beside the well there's also a barrel, clearly there is enough water to clean the wild pheasants but Zhao Yunsheng went to the river to deal with it because Zhao father can't stand a bloody scent. In addition, in the left yard there's also a piece of land sowed to plant a few small vegetables, and at the right side of the yard there stood two orange trees, in the middle of the two trees was a rope tied to each trunk which was used for hanging a few clothes. Currently the clothes that hung on the rope were the clothes Yu Wei wore.

Yu Wei walked toward the right side of the clothes to find if they were dry, his clothes were styled like an aristocratic dress with a light purple color, not only were there many buttons, it was also filled with pockets. It also has a fine retro design everywhere making it obvious that it was exquisite and precious, Yu Wei reached out and touched, the clothes must've been washed just this morning because it was not yet dry. He casually turned the clothes inside and out, his heart feeling a bit concerned.

There are so many pockets, it makes sense to miss something when you wash them, right?

When he confirmed he can have an alibi against the two storage bracelets, Yu Wei started humming happily, but then he squinted, raised his hand to cover his mouth and yawned. The side effects of the medicine he drank previously began to play out, he became sleepy and couldn't keep standing so he slowly moved into the bedroom, ready to sleep.

Back in the bedroom Yu Wei's eyes fell on the bed, the bed was made of wood, and on top lay a very thin layer of blanket, basically the blanket is almost non-existent. Just sitting on it already hurts, I don't understand how someone will fall asleep in such a bed.

Yu Wei went to open the wardrobe door, on the left side the clothes were stacked neatly and most of the colors are what dark blue, dark green, and gray, not vibrant at all. Yu Wei was not interested and turned his focus on the right side, here in the right side of the wardrobe were two beds made of cotton quilt. (3)

In this weather the cotton cloth may be too hot, but Yu Wei still dragged a bed out. Rather than feeling hot, what he can't stand is the bed being too hard.

Just lay the cotton wool on the bed, and then cover myself with the blanket... Okay, that's it!

Yu Wei's manual class teacher had always praised him in name only, although his skills are not the best, but this also shows that his hands-on ability is very strong isn't it? (4)

After enjoying his first bed-making work for a while, Yu Wei climbed into the bed face down and lie a good sleeping posture.

Yu Wei did not know how long the cotton wool was stuck in the wardrobe but there is a touch of dust smell. Yu Wei, who was lying on it face first could smell it and made his nose uncomfortable to death. He thought he would not fall asleep soon, but after lying down for a few minutes his eyelids couldn't help but close and he soon fell asleep.

Zhao Yunsheng opened the door and came home. He took the clean wild pheasant to the kitchen, where Lin Suzhi was cutting vegetables.

"Sheng er, you came back, why were you out for so long?" Lin Suzhi asked as soon as he saw him.

"I went to the Hushan Creek and caught two fish. Zhao Yunsheng put the pot containing wild pheasant on the stove. Lin Suzhi tilted her head to see a basket which was filled with water, and there were two palm-long and two-fingers-wide grouper swimming. Although the fish were small, grouper meat was tender and refreshing.

"This fish is very hard to catch, Sheng er's skills are getting better and better." Lin Suzhi saw that he quickly picked up the two small fish and put them in a larger bowl, and then scooped the water from the kitchen tank and mixed it in the bowl.

Zhao Yunsheng nodded, indeed he came back late because the fish were hard to catch. "Xiao Wei is still in the house?"

"He came out and sat for a while before, but now he seemed to be go back to sleep. Lin Suzhi said, Lin Suzhi and Zhao father did not like to eat fish, but Sheng er likes it very much. With this grouper she can just make a fish soup and give it to Sheng er and Xiao Wei to eat at noon. "You go and rest first, leave these up to me."

"Okay," Zhao Yunsheng said, and went out of the kitchen and walked towards the bedroom.

In fact, it is busy season in autumn right now, but the Zhao family only have one acre of paddy fields and one acre of dry land. So they've already finished harvesting this early, it is said that Zhao father had some more land when he was young. But Zhao father had no brothers nor sister and with his body there was no one to help him farm the lands so he ended up selling them.

The current season made the weather unpredictable. It's cool in the morning so you add more clothes but then it becomes too hot at noon and you'll end up removing your layers.

Zhao Yunsheng has a natural stove constitution, before he saved Yu Wei he only slept on the hard bed. (5) But when Yu Wei came back, seeing that his bones were so weak, he added a blanket on the bed. But now Yu Wei actually also covered the bed with a layer of cotton wool.

Is it that cold?

Zhao Yunsheng took a look, Yu Wei's forehead has a layer of delicate sweat and his sideburns were also wet. His small face was flushed and he kept puffing warm breaths of air, seemingly hot. Zhao Yunsheng instantly understood, this little master felt uncomfortable sleeping on the hard bed and chose to sleep warmly on the cotton wool instead.

There is a folding fan on the desk by the window, this was hand-made by Zhao Yunsheng, a folding fan with a painting of bamboos. It was painted by Zhao father. He went to pick up the fan and opened the window. Early in the morning when the weather was still a little cool, he was afraid that Yu Wei might feel cold so he kept the window shut.

Zhao Yunsheng picked up the folding fan and went back to the bed to sit down, gently waved the fan to cool down Yu Wei. He saw the hair on his face and helped him get it all to one side to put it away.

Yu Wei had a head of straight long black hair. His hair was styled like this since childhood. His mother thought that his long hair suited his features and that's why Yu Wei kept this style. But when his mother died, he cut his hair once, and then has been left till the present time. His hair reaches his waist, but he bundles it up to make it look shorter.

"Help..." Yu Wei muttered in his sleep. He dreamt that he was locked in an oven, he was shouting for help when the door was opened, suddenly cool air filled the place. Yu Wei was scared of this kind of things that he subconsciously reached out to catch his Savior's hand. "Don't go..."

Zhao Yunsheng accidentally hit Yu Wei's hands with the fan, and his other hand supported his weight on the bed, at this time another pale and tender hand stretched out. It was small and looked soft as if it hand't any bones, it was like a kitten paw trying to scratch his chest.

He grabbed the cat's paw with his free hand, held it in his hand and pinched it, and it felt really soft.

Zhao Yunsheng stared at the Little Master's hand, found that he was wearing a gem bracelet, this bracelet he caught a glimpse before he fed him the medicine. but when applying the ointment to Yu Wei's body, he hasn't seen it even though he was able to glance at his body.

......

Yu Wei slept very well, except for the beginning of a nightmare that ended after a while. He didn't continue to dream. He slept peacefully until he woke up all. He opened his eyes and found that the room was dark, only a sliver of moonlight came from the open window.

Originally, after eating a good meal at noon Lin Suzhi wanted to come in and call Yu Wei to eat, but when she came in to see, Yu Wei seemed to be sleeping deeply ah. His small face was squished by the bed and his own weight so his baby fat were squeezed out. She did not call him out until the evening to eat again, but Yu Wei still seemed to be sleeping deeply that even after a few calls he did not wake up.

Zhao Yunsheng finally stopped Lin Suzhi and said, "Mother, let him sleep."

Lin suzhi did not agree with him, "How can I do that, he was not able to eat the fish soup I made during lunch, and at night I stewed chicken soup specifically to feed it to Xiao Wei so he can fill his body. He hasn't eaten yet the whole day what to do if he wakes up hungry ah."

"It's okay, just leave a bowl on the table, you and Dad eat first, I'll wait for him to wake up at night so I can give him food when he feels hungry." Zhao Yunsheng said, "He has a wound on his back and could only sleep peacefully now, if we wake him up he might not be able to sleep again."

"This..." Lin Suzhi was embarrassed, and had no choice but to agree, " Sheng e, at night if Xiao Wei woke up hungry, go to the kitchen and heat up the food for him to eat."

As a result of the mother and son's debate, a little master was able to sleep so well until the night.

The author has something to say.：Muah~

(1) original text says 'he gave himself a daughter-in-law' but i changed it to 'came back with a wife'

(2) not bad in character t/n: for real though :3

(3) basically mattresses

(4) i'm not sure what to make of this paragraph :// i'll be back to edit this after more research

(5) basically he's not used to sleeping with cotton wools nor blankets in this season