Chapter 52

Xu Qin has a peaceful sleep that night. When it’s early morning, she is ‘tossed from side to side’ by the man beside her.

Song Yan hugs her from the back and strokes her back.

Xu Qin opens up her eyes and looks at the window.

She flips her body to lay down, she asks; “What time is it?”

“I don’t know…..” His voice is hoarse. He buries his head on her neck.

She pants and flips her body to look at his face. She accidentally bumps into something. She asks: “When you are in the camp, how would you solve this?”

“Em?” He hasn’t responded.

“Every day when you wake up, then it would…… wake up too….”

Song Yan laughs and moves closer to her face. He closes his eyes and says: “Just ignore it, it would be soften soon.”

Xu Qin thinks about it and asks again: “Then why every time you are with me, every morning it wouldn’t soften by itself?”

Song Yan opens up his eyes and asks: “What do you think?”

Xu Qin couldn’t help but to smile.

He hugs her closer and tighter. He sighs: “Ah…. Lao Po (Wife), I want you again…”

She feels itchy. She just holds him and lets him do it.

Today it’s a cold weather, yet her heart is burning hot.

……….

After being tangled with each other for two hours, he still holds her, he leans on her and doesn’t let go.

It’s already 11:00 a.m., he sighs: “It’s over, I don’t want to wake up.”

“I just want to stay on the bed and ‘play’ with you for the whole day”

She is happy yet she says meanly: “You are a soldier, how could you have no restrain?”

“I’m addicted to a woman. Now I know the feeling and the idea of that words.” Song Yan says: “It’s lucky that I have no imperial palace, being with wife is much more comfortable than go to the morning court held by a sovereign.”

She pushes him away when she hears his obscene words: “Vulgar!”

He just laughs.

She just lets him to hold her again. Actually she also doesn’t want to get up.

What’s so good to be wake up early in this lonely and cold night, it’s better to stay inside his embrace.

But she remembers something, she says: “But for real, if we aren’t waking up now, Jiu Jiu and Jiu Ma would talk.”

He is startled and laughs: “Don’t worry. They would be happy if we wake up late.”

Xu Qin doesn’t know why it is so.

She looks at the window.

She doesn’t know what happened last night, she doesn’t know that Jiu Ma and Jiu Jiu are worried about her.

Outside the bedroom.

“I’m worried about those two kids. Qin Qin was drunk yesterday, do you think they are fighting?” Jiu Jiu is sitting on the chair and draws something. He sighs.

“They are okay.” Jiu Ma sits down on the opposite of him and smiles: “I just looked over from the window, they are still sleeping.”

Jiu Jiu is startled and says: “They aren’t awake?”

Jiu Ma says: “Not yet, they have a great relationship…… They were indeed in unhappy situation before but it might be because they didn’t see each other so their minds were all over the place.”

Jiu Jiu just turns relieved and says: “Di Miao, that girl, what is she doing right now, she isn’t coming home.”

“She is going to have her final examination soon, she should be putting last minute effort frantically.” Jiu Ma says, then talks about another topic: “I’m thinking, when are they going to register their marriage?”

“They just be together for short time, how could they be so quick?”

“I’m just worried, I want to hold Sun Zi (Grandson ) soon.” Jiu Ma smiles and looks at Jiu Jiu’s drawing: “This cupboard is really good-looking.”

Jiu Jiu smiles: “No need to compliment me, my carpentry is better than those who are sold in the shop.”

“Of course, Di family’s carpentry skill has been passed down for so many years.” Jiu Ma is so proud of her husband. She continues: “Qin Qin would like it. Our Yan Yan is too…. he invests everything on it.”

Then suddenly they hear Xu Qin’s cry out in alarm: “It’s snowing?!”

Both of the elders look at the window of Song Yan’s bedroom. Xu Qin is standing on the corridor and looks at the sky. She looks so happy. Song Yan is standing behind her and helping her to take out her hair out of her collar.

Both of the elders are happy and satisfied. “Oh! Two of them are okay, they look happy.”

Xu Qin crosses over the threshold and goes out of the bedroom. She looks around, it’s really snowing. They are white layer on every place.

She looks up and feels happy.

The air feels so refreshing. She inhales and could smell the faint scent of the snowflake.

She kneels down and makes a snowball. She turns her head and looks at Song Yan: “Indeed it’s so beautiful here.”

“Today the snow isn’t very heavy.” Song Yan says: “In two or three weeks, it would be heavier.”

Xu Qin continues to make snowball and stands up.

He is talking: “That time, we would make snowman and let you play with it.

He just finishes talking and Xu Qin suddenly turns her body. Song Yan is fast, he holds Xu Qin’s wrist quickly. She suddenly be startled. He smiles: “You are kneeling down before, I watch you and just know what kind of evil plan you have.”

Then Song Yan takes the snowball from her then stuffs it on her neck.

Xu Qin jumps around. She has a left-over snowball on her hand, she just holds his waist of trousers and puts the remaining snowball inside.

“WTF!”

Song Yan feels so cold all over his body, he immediately goes the the bathroom and shakes the snowball off. Xu Qin watches him. Looking at him, she laughs so hard.

Song Yan take off his belt and shakes off his pants. He notices that Xu Qin is laughing so hard. He just comes forward and pulls her back inside the bathroom. He locked the door.

Xu Qin is surprised. She is placed on the sink.

“Do you want to die? You want to die right? Em?” He starts to take off her clothes like he is taking off a doll’s clothes.

Xu Qin tries to stop him. She doesn’t want to lose from him, she lifts up her chin: “I just want to die, so what would you?”

“Okay.” He raises his eyebrow and nods: “Okay great, later on don’t beg me.”

She is laughing so hard, she wants to run away. But he keeps on catching her.

She immediately feels irritated that her face is red, she yells: “Lower your voice! Someone is outside!”

“You are shy now?” He finds she is so funny, he pokes on her cheek: “Weren’t you so unrestrained before? Em?”

Finally she begs him: “Okay stop it, if we could doing this, Jiu Jiu and Jiu Ma would have bad impression about this bathroom.”

Song Yan is startled and hugs her tighter. He laughs.

Xu Qin is embraced by him, she also laughs.

They both just feel so happy though it seems that it’s just a minor thing.

When it’s the afternoon, the snow is melting.

Song Yan stays inside Jiu Jiu’s studio room for a while, he is choosing material for wooden floor. Then he returns back to the bedroom. The time he opens the door, he doesn’t see Xu Qin.

He hears there’s a sound of water near the corridor. He goes and takes a look. He sees that Xu Qin is kneeling on the outdoor’s water tap to wash rag.

Song Yan immediately comes over and picks her up. He also takes the rag from her, he asks: “What are you doing?”

Xu Qin is startled: “I have nothing to do, I want to wipe the table.”

“The water is so cold ah.” Song Yan frowns and holds her cold hands. “Go back.”

She is taken by him back inside.

He uses a warm water and takes the rag to wipe the table. She wants to help him.

He stops her and says: “Go and wash the clothes.”

“Oh.” Xu Qin takes a basket full of dirty clothes and throws the clothes inside the washing machine. She pours the detergent and presses the button. The work is done.

Song Yan wipes the table and also takes the mop to clean the floor.

Xu Qin sits down on the sofa and watches him.

“Song Yan.”

“Em.”

“You are spoiling me too much.” She says.

He couldn’t help but to laugh. He asks: “Then are you happy?”

She smiles without making any sound.

Song Yan says: “In the past when I was in the army, I did a lot of things, so I use to all of these chores.”

“Oh.” She nods.

He continues: “Since you were young, you never do this. If you be together with me, you need to do this, then why should you be with me?”

Xu Qin feels something poking in her heart, she suddenly remembers the past.

That time she was kneeling in the Jiu Jiu’s studio room and carving a wooden flower.

Song Yan said:

“I promise that this lifetime I would love you to death.”

It turns out he is saying the truth.

That time he was saying the truth.

………..

In the afternoon, Xu Qin goes to learn some carpentry skills with Jiu Jiu. Song Yan also plays for a while with her, then he returns to the bedroom to read book.

When the carpentry lesson is done, Xu Qin thinks that she still has a lot of time. She wants to go back to west to visit her Pa Ma.

Song Yan wants to accompany her to go over.

At first Xu Qin didn’t approve, she knows that Fu Wen Ying wouldn’t let Song Yan get in.

But Song Yan doesn’t plan to intensify the situation, he also doesn’t want to meet Fu Wen Ying. He plans to wait outside.

He just wants to send her home and pick her up. He isn’t willing to see her go home alone.

On the way, Xu Qin lays inside his embrace. The journey isn’t long, they arrive much quicker than usual.

Both of them separate for a while.

Xu Qin goes inside the house and suddenly feels it’s hard to bear. She feels like she is abandoning him. She keeps on looking back after walking few steps. She watches that Song Yan is walking toward the museum. So she is relieved.

The mansion is also covered with the snow, people are cleaning the road up. It’s wet.

The time she arrives at the house, she enters the room. She asks her maid who is at home. The maid says that Meng Huai Jin and Fu Wen Ying are at home, they are inside the study room on the second floor.

Xu Qin changes into her slippers and acts calmly. Actually she feels timid, she feels pressured to come back home.

She walks toward the study room.

The door is opened.

Meng Huai Jin and Fu Wen Ying are reading their book.

She knocks on the door and calls after them. “Pa, Ma.”

Both of them look at her. Fu Wen Ying’s expression turns cold, she continues to read her book and doesn’t mind Xu Qin; Meng Huai Jin looks at her for a while. He frowns and sighs. He shakes his head like he feels sorry for her but he says nothing.

Xu Qin doesn’t know whether she should get in or not, she stands in front of the door for five minutes.

The room is silent. No one minds her, no one is looking at her.

Xu Qin keeps looking at them, her face turns pale.

Luckily Meng Yan Chen comes downstair from the third floor, he notices Xu QIn.

Meng Yan Chen stops and closes his eyes. He pursues his lips and releases a deep breath. he walks toward her.