Chapter 21.2

Translated by Aviana

After the introduction, these few women walked out of the room as they would have to go out and lend a hand in greeting the people who had come to attend the feast.

At this moment, the sky was already dark, and the lights were brightly lit along with a boiling cauldron of voices.

Lin Qingwan calmed down her heart and looked around at her new house.

This room was roughly about 20 square feet, with grey and white walls. The white color on the walls seemed to be recently painted.

The room was partitioned into two sections; the outer one was the bedroom. The entrance door opened into the middle of the room, with k’ang facing the door. Next to the window was a table; on top of it were her dressing-case, bronze mirror, combs, and such things. A wardrobe was placed near the corner, adjacent to which her two chests were put. In the middle of the room was a red-colored round table, with four red-colored stools around it.

A door opened into the wall on the left side. Lin Qingwan walked into the room to take a look.

It was a small rectangle shaped cubicle. Two stoves were built in the direction of k’ang, one of them didn’t have a stovetop burner to place the pot; apparently, it was used to heat the k’ang, while another stove had a big iron cooking pot placed on it with a firewood and water vat placed adjacent to it. At one corner, a chamber pot was placed, while on the other side, there was a big bath casket.

This bath casket was carefully selected by her and Yang-shi in the town as a part of her dowry, as she had heard from Yang-shi that it wasn’t quite convenient to take a bath in the Yang family. There were many people in the house, but there was only one bathing area.

As she was looking around, Yang Tiezhu suddenly appeared from who knows where.

“Did you like it? I specially arranged it.”

When he got to know that there was a big bath barrel in Lin Qingwan’s dowry, he specially invited a mason to partition his room to have a small cubicle for them to take a bath. He was also struck with the idea of having a k’ang flue in the small room to heat the k’ang in the winters so that they could boil the water for the bath by themselves and also can heat the k’ang from the small room to avoid being surrounded by flames and smoke.

Startled, Lin Qingwan glanced at him, blushingly.

“Why have you returned this soon?” Doesn’t he need to greet and give the guests a toast.

Yang Tiezhu raised the wooden tray in his hand. On it was a rice bowl and a dish, the dish was made up of meat and vegetables, and the rice was sorghum rice. In villages, this sort of food can only be eaten during happy occasions.

“I brought you some food to eat as I was afraid you be getting hungry.”

Both of them walked out of the small room, after which Yang Tiezhu put the food on the table.

Truly considerate…

With her head hung down, Lin Qingwan still remained standing there, momentarily not knowing what to do.

Suddenly she was pulled into his embrace.

“Wan’er, finally I married you…” Yang Tiezhu prattled from top of her head, without even knowing what he was speaking about, “I’m very happy… very excited… full of joy…”

He held her shoulders for a while before letting her go and looked at her with gleaming eyes.

“What about you?”

Lin Qingwan’s face suddenly exploded; even the bottom of her neck turned red.

After stammering for half a day, she whispered with her eyes half-drooping, “I…I am also very happy…”

Nima , she is a modern-day woman, but unexpectedly because of this simple man from ancient times, she blushed again and again, when in her previous life she didn’t even knew how to blush, ah.

尼玛 (ni ma) These are homophonic characters of 你妈, which means “your mother.”It is also used for meanings such as Come on! God! Jesus! Really?

When Yang Tiezhu again cheerfully pulled her into his embrace, the heat coming from his body made her dizzy.

After hugging him for a while, she pushed him slightly.

“Aiya… aren’t you going out to give a toast?”

It was only then Yang Tiezhu remembered that he still had to go out to give a toast. If the groom disappeared for a long time, the guests would surely start laughing at them.

He quickly let go of her hands and said in a low voice, “I will go out to give toasts, wait for me, okay.”

I’ll wait… I’ll wait for you to become a ghost …

Lin Qingwan bashfully spat out before calming herself down and walked towards the table to enjoy her meal.

Actually, she wasn’t feeling hungry yet. This day she had already eaten two meals, and also didn’t do much work. The whole day she was lying on the k’ang, as Yang-shi didn’t let her do anything.

The room door was suddenly pushed open. Lin Qingwan raised her eyes and saw Yao-shi standing with a bowl in her hand.

When Yao-shi saw her having a meal, she timidly said, “I wanted to bring you something to eat.” After speaking, she immediately turned around and ran away.

The third dimei seemed to be a little timid.

Lin Qingwan thought as such while eating.

After eating, Lin Qingwan got up and tidied up the table. She then went to her dressing table, sat down, and opened her hair. Under the reflection of red candles, the woman in the mirror, with her half draped long hair, rose-tinted red face, and spring in her eyebrows, she seemed to be as if she was bashful but not, as if she was frowning but not.

The night was getting gradually deeper.. .

The noise outside was also gradually lessening. Lin Qingwan, who had been all along listening to the noise outside, inevitably felt a little nervous.

Not long after, the room door was pushed open. Yang Tiezhu, with his whole face flushed red and eyes intoxicated, walked in with the help of Yang Tiegen.

Lin Qingwan saw his drunken appearance and hurriedly greeted him.

“Second sao, second brother had drunk too much.”

Yang Tiegen handed over the person to Lin Qingwan, lowered his head, and left quickly after saying this.

Lin Qingwan made Yang Tiezhu sit on the edge of the k’ang, and turned around to lock the door.

“Why drink so much?” His whole body reeked from alcohol as the smell rushed to her nose.

At this moment, Yang Tiezhu only knew how to giggle foolishly.

“I’ll help you wash.”

Lin Qingwan took Yang Tiezhu’s arm, intending to take him to to the small room. Earlier she had already boiled the water on the stove to warm it to make it easy for him to wash his face upon returning.

At this moment, Yang Tiezhu suddenly sat upright by himself. Although his face was red through and through, his eyes were shining clearly, not one bit like a drunkard from earlier who couldn’t even walk.

“Wife, I’ll do it myself.” His usual honest face was full of smiles with a bit of slyness. “I’m not drunk. I pretended to be.”

Lin Qingwan was stunned. The always naive and honest person suddenly doing as such really surprised her a little.

“If I didn’t pretend as such, today they would have made me drink till death ……” he rambled in a low voice, “not only that they would play pranks on us newlyweds …… If I didn’t do anything, I was afraid that they might cause trouble for you ……”

While saying so, he walked into the small room and washed his face.

Lin Qingwan felt both amused as well as touched.

This person truly…

Within a short while, Yang Tiezhu washed his face and walked out. He was bare-chested, wearing only a pair of white pants.

With broad shoulders, sturdy chest, quite strong muscles, well-defined skin texture, at this time water droplets were dripping down from his dark skin….

Lin Qingwan blushed immediately.

“Wife, if you look at me like this again, I can’t guarantee that I won’t do anything later…” Yang Tiezhu said in a husky voice as his body became astonishingly hot.

Yang Tiezhu was so excited, and felt that he was going to be driven mad by his wife.

His stature was tall and strong, while she was petite, exquisite, and seemed to be boneless. With just a single hand, he easily lifted her and walked towards the bed.

The moonlight was mellow and radiant…

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