Chapter 68.3

Translated by Aviana

The next day, when Yang Tiegen was going to the town, she had him buy locks. Ever since then, she made sure that there was a lock on the cupboard.

Lin Qingwan took this measure for two reasons: One, she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart. Two, she was afraid that someone from the Yang jia might find out their eating habits. Ever since she began making Laweixian, the food quality at home had improved. With so many people living in the family, it was a little hard for her to pinpoint who had touched it, but she had a vague guess. One time was fine, but if it happens every time, they might find out that their food quality was excellent and refined grains were used. It might be troublesome if He-shi got wind of it.

Although He-shi and Yang laoyezi could no longer exercise their control on them, He-shi was kinda troublesome. Having one less thing to deal with was always a better option.

All the prepared jiaozi were placed in the cupboard outside. Lin Qingwan reckoned that by the following day, they would freeze adequately. When jiaozi are perfectly frozen till they are very hard, they could be stored in a pot, which would consume less space than on the bamboo tray.

Once they were finished entirely wrapping all the jiaozi, Lin Qingwan greedily requested to eat one. Yao-shi glanced at her as if she were a gluttonous little kid and intended to take out only one serving for her. But, in the end, Lin Qingwan, who was feeling quite ’embarrassed’, firmly stopped Yao-shi, saying that she would eat along with everyone.

Thereon, four adults and two little girls gathered around and ate jiaozi.

After eating, they examined if everything was ready and proper before Yang Tiegen and Yao-shi retired to their rooms. Tomorrow was Lunar New Year’s Eve, their entire family still had to take a bath and wash themselves clean and become prim and proper to welcome the new year in their best selves.

Lin Qingwan also put the water on the stove to boil them, intending to wash them. Yang Tiezhu, from the side, fervently gazed at her and said he also wanted to take a bath.

Glancing at him, Lin Qingwan felt a headache coming. But, asking him not to have a bath was not an option. As they say, before New Year, one has to wash neat and clean.

With no other choice, she also boiled water for him as she contemplated how to help him have a bath later without getting his arm wet.

After her water was boiled, Lin Qingwan got ready to take a bath. No sooner than she undressed herself and got into the bath barrel, she heard rustling sounds behind her.

She turned her head around to see Yang Tiezhi had also come in. Not to mention, she didn’t know how he did it, but he managed to strip himself naked apart from his bandaged arm. Normally, as Yang Tiezhu couldn’t move his arm, he would take Lin Qingwan’s help when undressing.

Immediately, Lin Qingwan’s face turned bright red as she quickly asked him to get out.

But unexpectedly, the more Yang Tiezhu fooled around, the thicker his face became. To her surprise, he stubbornly refused to leave. While refusing to leave, he even cried that it was terribly cold.

“You rogue, quickly get out.”

“Hehehehe…” Yang Tiezhu slyly chuckled. “Wife, quickly let me in. It’s so cold, ah!”

Lin Qingwan directly shut her eyes close, finding it embarrassing to look straight at him. Nevertheless, his strong six-pack body kept continuously replaying in his head… This silly fool, he had been lying in bed all day long for a long time now, yet his strong muscles didn’t disappear….

Realizing that she couldn’t drive him out anymore, she could only bashfully let him come into the bath barrel lest he caught a cold.

The bath barrel was big enough to fit in two people comfortably. Bashfully, Lin Qingwan covered her chest with her arms and shrunk to a corner, leaving him a lot of space.

But alas, Yang Tiezhu possessed a tall and sturdy physique. As soon as he entered in, the water level reached up to brim as if it would overflow at any minute. Until Yang Tiezhu got in, Lin Qingwan didn’t dare to raise her head, and later she didn’t even dare to glance below.

Yang Tiezhu chuckled mischievously. Dreading that he might get his arm wet, he kept his upper arm raised parallel to the ground.

“Wife, quickly help me bathe, ah!” Yang Tiezhu urged her quickly, “My arm will get sore if I keep it like this for a long time.”

Seeing him chucke, Lin Qingwan glared at him. Yet, she helplessly reached out and helped him scrub his body. Fortunately, she had been regularly helping him wipe his body clean, thus helping him bathe didn’t take much effort.

Pei, what hadn’t she seen before? What’s there to feel embarrassed about?! On the one hand, Lin Qingwan helped him wash with her head lowered down, while on the other hand, she disdained herself in her heart.

But after a while, she felt something was wrong. Why was there another hand on her body? And the said hand even seemed to be wandering around?

Lin Qingwan raised her head and looked at the man in front of her. Yang Tiezhu chuckled evilly before putting on an innocent appearance.

Lin Qingwan couldn’t exactly remember how it all began. All she could remember was that while her brain was blank, this man seemed pretty excited as he tossed her from one side to the other quite a bit before letting her go.

By the time they were done tossing around, the water had already turned cold. Yang Tiezhu also quickly ran away, as if he was afraid that she would fly into a terrible rage. With trembling legs, Lin Qingwan got out of the bath barrel, wiped her body, and drained out the water in the barrel. Fortunately, the kang in the room was still burning, and the fire in the kitchen also wasn’t extinguished, making the room slightly warm.

After walking out of the cubicle in her innerwear, she saw there weren’t any movements on the kang and reckoned that Yang Tiezhu had fallen asleep.

This spineless coward! She fumed with rage.

While climbing onto the kang, she was careful not to press him as she went into the inner side. Just as she was wrapping herself with a quilt, her entire body was quickly pulled entirely into the quilt.

“Weren’t you asleep, ah?” As soon as these words left her mouth, Lin Qingwan felt she was quite stupid. How could one possibly fall asleep this fast?

“Hehe, wife, are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?” She glanced up only to be met with the concerned eyes of the man. Hearing his words, Lin Qingwan’s face once again turned red.

“You still know to be scared that something might happen to me?” Earlier, who was the one who had tossed her from one side to the other? But she couldn’t spell these words out.

Seeing his wife’s expression, Yang Tiezhu knew that she was fine. He then slowly whispered, “I asked my third younger brother. He said it would be fine as long as I was careful.” His voice seemed to be laced with ecstasy.

Lin Qingwan suddenly felt as if smoke was coming out from the top of her head.

This silly idiot actually went and asked Yang Tiegen about this. Heavens, let a bolt of thunder strike me to the death.

Yang Tiezhu embraced his wife into his arms tightly, wishing to knead her into his bones.

“Sleep!”

Her furious roar rang out.

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