Chapter 44

The two of them were chatting enthusiastically in the room, while in the west room of the Wang family.

Bai Xiuxiu looked at Wang Qinghe expectantly: “How is it? Did you meet Uncle Wu today?”

She said this while handing him the two meat buns that belonged to Wang Qinghe: “The buns are a bit cold, but it’s not cold yet, so it’s fine. Eat quickly!”

Wang Qinghe blushed and took the buns his wife gave him. He felt happy inside.

But he couldn’t help but worry. Ever since his wife fainted in the field last time, she had been better to him than before.

Was she really not feeling well?

“I met Uncle Wu today. He said he’ll go ask for us tomorrow.

He’ll give us an answer in three days at the latest. We’ll meet in the mountains then, and I’ll find a way to get it back.” Wang Qinghe met his wife’s expectant gaze, put his worries aside, and answered the question she wanted to know.

Then he continued to bring up the issue of seeing a doctor: “Xiuxiu, shall we go to the hospital tomorrow?”

Bai Xiuxiu: …

What was wrong with this man?

Was he hoping she would get sick?

Seeing the silly look on his handsome face, Bai Xiuxiu rolled her eyes at him: “What? Are you hoping I get sick?”

“No, how could I?” Wang Qinghe quickly shook his head in denial, afraid that she would misunderstand him. He was so flustered that he could barely speak: “I, I just feel like you’ve been so good to me lately. Xiuxiu, are you really not feeling well?

Don’t worry, no matter what illness you have, I won’t leave you alone.

As long as I have a breath left, I will definitely treat you and won’t let you die.”

As Wang Qinghe spoke, his eyes started to turn red.

This man had beautiful eyes, and his gaze was clear.

His red rimmed eyes made him look quite pitiful, like a character in a novel.

Bai Xiuxiu listened to his heartfelt words, and her expression became increasingly helpless: “You’re going to make me cry. That’s very nice, but I’m not sick.”

“Really?” Wang Qinghe was still uneasy.

Bai Xiuxiu didn’t understand. Why was he like this when she was just being a little nicer to him?

She hugged him and kissed him a few times: “Really!”

“Then why are you suddenly… so good to me? Before, you always shared buns with the children, snacks were yours, candy was for Mingming and Yueyue. Brown sugar was yours…” Wang Qinghe began to list all the things Bai Xiuxiu had done before.

Bai Xiuxiu was a little embarrassed. Had she been like that to him before? She coughed a few times awkwardly: “I just feel like you’re very important to us. If something happens to you, who will take care of me and the children? We need to take things slowly, we can’t starve you.”

Wang Qinghe: …

Was that it?

He looked confused.

Bai Xiuxiu scowled: “Yes, that’s it. If you don’t like me being nice to you, then I won’t be nice to you tomorrow.”

She couldn’t tell him that she was moved by the fact that he would avenge her in the next few decades, could she?

“Don’t! I like it.”

Wang Qinghe blushed and felt relieved. It was good that she was okay.

As long as she was okay, he was happy no matter why she was nice to him.

Xiuxiu was someone who always considered herself. If she didn’t like him, how could she marry him and have children with him?

He just didn’t like to talk, he wasn’t really stupid.

Thinking this, Wang Qinghe’s heart fluttered, and he leaned in to kiss her.

Bai Xiuxiu blocked his mouth: “Let’s talk about serious things. Tomorrow, you quietly sell our medicinal herbs too. Angelica is one yuan per jin. The rehabilitation pharmacy doesn’t give tickets, go to other places and see if they give tickets. Ginseng, I think the rehabilitation pharmacy gives one hundred yuan for ten-year-old ginseng.

Go to other places, ask for one hundred, and try to get more tickets.

There’s too little honeysuckle, we’ll leave it for now.”

Bai Xiuxiu whispered to him about serious matters.

She pushed him away and opened the space in her bracelet.

In front of her appeared a water screen and a medicine box.

On the water screen, the golden characters read: Angelica is ripe, please harvest promptly.

Bai Xiuxiu clicked on harvest, and immediately a pile of fresh angelica appeared on the ground. These were the seeds she had collected before.

The amount was much more than what they had found in the mountains.

On the water screen, new words appeared: Harvest successful, space has absorbed 1% of spiritual energy, used for upgrading. 20,000 points of spiritual energy are needed for the next level.

Upgrading?

Bai Xiuxiu was a little surprised.

Wang Qinghe was surprised by the medicinal herbs that appeared out of thin air. He was tidying them up while looking at his wife. Seeing her staring blankly at something, he was a little worried: “Xiuxiu? What’s wrong? Will this thing make you pay a price?”

Wang Qinghe frowned.

He didn’t believe in pie falling from the sky, and he felt that everything had a price.

“It’s nothing. It just said it can upgrade. I thought this thing was just a dead object.” Bai Xiuxiu didn’t hide anything from her husband.

She trusted the person she had known for decades.

“Upgrade?” Wang Qinghe frowned even more. That sense of urgency came back again.

“When you go hunting in the mountains, if you find any medicinal herbs, bring them back to me. I think it might upgrade if there are more varieties. The honeysuckle before, probably because there was too little, so there was no reaction.” Bai Xiuxiu thought this thing was too useful.

Wang Qinghe always agreed to his wife’s requests. He nodded: “Okay, but Xiuxiu, try to use this thing less before we split the family.”

Actually, he wanted to say, don’t use it until he was able to protect her.

But he knew Xiuxiu’s temper too well. If he said that, she would definitely refuse.

“Don’t worry, I understand. Don’t worry about me.” Bai Xiuxiu winked at him.

Dinner time at night.

Bai Xiuxiu and her family of four went to the main room.

In the main room, the chicken soup didn’t smell very strong, but it was meat nonetheless.

Today, even the flatbread was gone, replaced with steamed potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Zhao Guifen glanced at her eldest son and daughter-in-law. She wished they would all starve and not eat! To make up for the little advantage her eldest son’s family had taken over her.

Everyone in the family got one sweet potato and two potatoes.

Zhao Guifen personally ladled out the chicken soup, afraid that anyone would get more than their share.

After the food was divided, Bai Xiuxiu’s gaze fell on Zhou Jiaojiao, and she started to attack: “Fifth sister-in-law, today our family lost a bag of scraps of cloth because of you. Now you should give everyone an explanation.”

As soon as Bai Xiuxiu opened her mouth, Zhou Jiaojiao’s face turned black.

Everyone else immediately turned their attention to Zhou Jiaojiao.

Zhao Cuihua was even more excited: “What scraps of cloth?”

Her son would be leaving next year, and he was short of cloth to make clothes. Scraps of cloth could be patched together, even if they were ugly, at least they could be worn!

Thinking about this, Zhao Cuihua’s eyes lit up.

Even Chen Fang was interested in this. Although her family lived in the city, they didn’t have many cloth coupons. She wanted to make a small dress!

Zhou Jiaojiao’s scalp tingled as everyone looked at her. She was so wronged that she almost cried: “Sister-in-law, how can it be my loss?”

“Isn’t it?” Bai Xiuxiu smiled brightly at her: “Didn’t you say you saw a bag of scraps of cloth, and because you were in a hurry to get to the county, you hid it first? There were three of us. Couldn’t Mom just meet me in the county?

Why did you have to follow?

The things we found belong to the whole family.

Now the scraps of cloth are gone, shouldn’t you give everyone an explanation? Oh, and also the ten yuan you lost because you made Mom fall into the manure pit.

Fifth sister-in-law, give us an explanation first.”