In the room.

Xu Huaiqian heard the sound of Chen Xiaomei coming back, and his heart was finally at ease.

Even in modern society, there is no guarantee that an eight-year-old child will not return home at night. What’s more, in this era where there is no law and order at all.

“I told you that she will come back by herself.” He raised her from the cradle, how could he not understand her?

Chen Liejiu held a bowl of medicine in his hand, stirred it with a spoon, and handed it to Xu Huaiqian: “Okay, it’s getting late, drink the medicine quickly and rest.”

“Okay.”

Xu Huaiqian took the medicine bowl, and smelled the pungent smell of the medicine. He thought of the nauseating bitter taste during the day, and a resistance arose in his heart, but he also understood that he couldn’t hide his illness and avoid medical treatment just because he didn’t want to take the medicine. He coughed several times today and almost coughed half of his life away.

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated. He picked up the medicine bowl, closed his eyes, and drank it all.

 Chen Liejiu made the bed, turned around and saw Xu Huaiqian drinking medicine like poison. He saw him drinking it so tragically, laughed and walked in front of him.

“Ah——”

Xu Huaiqian opened his mouth defenselessly, and a candied fruit rolled into his mouth.

Chen Liejiu smiled with his eyes curved: “This way it won’t be bitter.”

Xu Huaiqian bit the sweet candied fruit lightly and laughed: “Mm.”

The Chen family yard is composed of a row of four blue tiled houses, with two earthen thatched houses on the left and right.

The four blue tiled houses, except for the middle one that is used as the main hall, the remaining three are bedrooms.

Wang Wanwan lives alone on the far left, and Chen Xiaomei and Chen Liejiu live on the right.

Two of the three rooms are occupied by young girls. No matter how thick-skinned Xu Huaiqian is, he can’t squeeze into a room with a girl, so he can only choose to live in the same room with Chen Liejiu.

 Gers belongs to the third gender in this world, but in Xu Huaiqian’s eyes, Chen Liejiu is a man like him.

Besides, his current identity is Chen Liejiu’s husband, so it shouldn’t be a big deal…right?

“Why are you still standing there? Come up.” Chen Liejiu took off his coat, revealing his snow-white inner garment. Seeing that Xu Huaiqian hadn’t made any move, he patted the bed and urged him to come and sleep.

He saw that Chen Liejiu didn’t care at all so Xu Huaiqian also let go of the little awkwardness in his heart. He tried to untie the belt tied around his waist, took off his coat like Chen Liejiu and slept in his inner garment.

But as soon as he took off his coat, Chen Liejiu’s voice came over.

“No wonder you were so reluctant to take off your clothes. It turns out that Sanzi found you an inner garment like this.”

Xu Huaiqian lowered his head following Chen Liejiu’s gaze.

The hazy moonlight illuminated his inner garment full of patches. 

Xu Huaiqian’s breath was choked: “…”

He really didn’t know that he was like this inside.

Especially the crotch, which was patched with the largest and most conspicuous piece of dark red cloth.

Lying on the bed, Xu Huaiqian wanted to wrap himself up in the quilt. He made a big fool of himself on the first night of sleeping together. If he had known that his clothes were like this, he would not have taken off his outer clothes.

“It’s okay, it’s not embarrassing.”

There was suddenly a man’s scent on the bed. Chen Liejiu was a little uncomfortable at first, but when he saw the man who had been facing away from him since he got on the bed, he smiled. He was still a child: “Isn’t it just a patched inner garment? I didn’t have inner garments when I was a child. I wore outer garments outside every day.”

“Once,” Chen Liejiu untied his hair band and his hair hung loose. With his hands behind his head, he continued, “It was too hot in the summer. The children in the same village played too hot and took off their outer garments. I realized that they were wearing inner garments and there was another layer on top. “

Perhaps he was comforted by Chen Liejiu, Xu Huaiqian turned around and asked curiously: “What about winter? Isn’t it cold in winter if you only wear one piece of clothing?”

“Who goes out in winter?” Chen Liejiu looked at the roof with a distant look, “Everyone stays in bed in winter. If you really need to go out, just put on a few more clothes. If you don’t have many clothes, put on the clothes of everyone in the family.”

At that time, he thought that he didn’t want to live like this. He wanted to live like a human being and at least have a complete set of clothes to wear.

“So there’s nothing to be ashamed of,” Chen Liejiu yawned, closed his eyes and prepared to sleep, “If you really care, I’ll let Wanwan make you two new sets tomorrow.”

The rich have wine and meat, but there are frozen bones on the road.

There are rich people and poor people in this world.

 Xu Huaiqian thought of the first time he went to inspect the mountainous area. Although it was only a few hundred kilometers away, the people in the mountainous area had difficulty even eating because of the inconvenient transportation. However, a few hundred kilometers away was a prosperous metropolis with convenient transportation and a large number of people. The unfinished food was dumped at will.

Now he has become a member of that mountainous area, and it seems that there is nothing to be ashamed of.

Just when Xu Huaiqian was about to reply that he didn’t care, his throat suddenly itched and the desire to cough surged wildly.

But this is night-

It was okay during the day when everyone was awake, and he wouldn’t disturb anyone no matter how he coughed.

But it is night. The surrounding environment is quiet, and his cough will definitely wake everyone up.

Xu Huaiqian’s fingers tightly grasped the quilt, his face flushed to resist the itch in his throat.

At this time, Chen Liejiu, who was almost asleep with his eyes closed, suddenly turned around, and hugged Xu Huaiqian, who was so thin that only bones were left, into his arms, and gently stroked his back.

 “It’s okay.”

“Cough it out.”

“You are a patient, and patients have the right to be willful.”

As if he had received some permission, Xu Huaiqian, who fell into Chen Liejiu’s arms, coughed wildly.

After coughing, he buried his chin in Chen Liejiu’s shoulder, his whole face pressed against his neck, and hugged Chen Liejiu’s back. Xu Huaiqian, whose face was red from coughing, tightened his hands.

-Help.

-He smells so good.

The morning dew has not dried, and birds are chirping.

Early in the morning, Chen Liejiu woke up from the bed with a yawn. He gently dug Xu Huaiqian, who was still hugging him tightly, away from his body, got out of bed and put on his clothes. He didn’t know what he thought of, but his hands paused while putting on clothes, and then he returned to the bed and gently pushed the person who was still sleeping.

 Xu Huaiqian, who was half asleep, opened his eyes slightly: “Hmm?”

Chen Liejiu, who was straightening his clothes, said: “The money bag I gave you yesterday contains the money I collected for the bank. I have to take it back to settle the account. Please remember it.”

Xu Huaiqian, whose head was still in deep sleep, only vaguely heard that Chen Liejiu wanted to take the money. He hummed twice and continued to sleep soundly with his head resting on the pillow.

Chen Liejiu took the money and went out. Seeing the sun rising slowly in the sky, he breathed a sigh of relief.

“Today is a good day for collecting debts!”

Wang Wanwan, who got up early and made breakfast, said with a smile: “Brother, have breakfast before going.”

“Okay.” Chen Liejiu went to the kitchen and brought out a bowl of porridge to eat.

 Chen Xiaomei, who had tied up two small pigtails, pursed her lips and said stiffly: “Don’t go to collect the debt, or else you’ll bring someone back again.”

Chen Liejiu pulled her pigtails: “Are you still angry? People have made dragonflies to coax you.”

Chen Xiaomei stiffened her neck: “Who wants him to coax!”

“Okay, okay, you don’t need to be coaxed,” Chen Liejiu finished his meal, put down his bowl and began to give instructions, “I’ll ask someone to collect the debt. He is weak. Let him sleep a little longer. Remember to ask him to take medicine when he wakes up. Do you understand?”

Chen Xiaomei didn’t say anything.

Chen Liejiu waited for a while, but didn’t hear any sound. He turned around and asked her again: “Did you hear me?”

Chen Xiaomei, who was playing with a dragonfly, replied impatiently: “I know!”

Chen Liejiu glanced at the dragonfly she was playing with and left without saying anything more.

When Xu Huaiqian woke up, it was already noon.

 Wang Wanwan brought him a brand new set of toiletries.

When he was washing, Chen Xiaomei was watching him closely beside him.

“What are you looking at me for?” Xu Huaiqian asked in confusion after washing his face.

“You can sleep so well.” Chen Xiaomei didn’t answer, she just said something to herself and ran away.

Xu Huaiqian’s face turned red.

When he was not working, he usually slept until eleven or twelve o’clock. The first time he traveled through time, he was in someone else’s house. He got up early on purpose, but he didn’t expect that he was the last one to get up in the family.

Thinking about it, the ancients didn’t have much entertainment. They worked from sunrise to sunset. He, who was used to working from nine to five, still needed time to adjust. There was no comparison at all.

Xu Huaiqian adjusted his mood. Chen Xiaomei came out from nowhere again, holding a bowl of medicine in her hand.

 “My elder brother told me to watch you drink, so drink it quickly.”

That little expression was as arrogant as it could be, as if to say, if it wasn’t for my elder brother’s order, I wouldn’t bother to care about you.

“Second brother thanks Miss Chen San for the medicine,” Xu Huaiqian took the medicine bowl and smiled, “I’ll drink it right away.”

Miss Chen San!!!

He called me Miss Chen San again!!!

Chen Xiaomei’s face turned red, and when she saw Xu Huaiqian drink the medicine, she said with a straight face, “I told you I’m not Miss Chen San!”

Xu Huaiqian’s face turned blue because of the bitter medicine, but he was quite friendly when facing Chen Xiaomei: “But in second brother’s heart, you are the third lady of the family.”

Chen Xiaomei opened her mouth and didn’t know what to say. In the end, she could only say dryly: “Don’t think that if you call me Miss Chen San, I will forgive you for lying to me.”

She took away the medicine bowl that Xu Huaiqian had finished drinking and saw his brows that were still frowning from the bitterness. She paused in her steps, took out a piece of maltose from her small pouch, stood on tiptoe and fed it to him while snorting.

“This is also what my eldest brother ordered!”

Xu Huaiqian held the candy in his mouth, looked at the figure who ran away after feeding, and couldn’t help laughing: “Little girl, you are quite cute.”

She said that she didn’t forgive him, but she didn’t correct him for calling himself second brother.

Farmers have few idle people in April, and they have just finished sericulture and planted fields.

 During the time when every household was busy in the fields, a group of tall and tough-looking farmers, holding sickles and hoes, blocked the door of Xu’s house.

Chen Liejiu stood in front of them in red clothes, looking slightly shorter than them. He pointed at Xu’s house, but his momentum was greater than anyone else’s.

“Tear it down!”

Then a group of men swarmed in, some took down the door, some took down the tiles, and some carried the stone slabs.

 “What are you doing! What are you doing! What are you doing!”

After a while, a group of furious people ran out of the Xu family’s house: “You all have nothing to do and come to tear down the house for fun. You want to get sued, right?”

Chen Liejiu stood in the middle of the crowd, looking at the angry man in front of him. He smiled and said: “Xu Dalang, oh, no, now I should call you big cousin.”

As soon as he said this, Chen Liejiu changed his words: “Big cousin, what are you talking about? I am tearing down my own house, why should I get sued.”

Xu Dalang saw Chen Liejiu and became even angrier: “This is the Xu family’s house, when did the child become yours, Chen Liejiu. “

Faced with Xu Dalang’s anger, Chen Liejiu was not at all anxious: “Look at your memory, cousin. Yesterday he said that Ah Qian would be my man in life and my ghost in death. How come he forgot it today?”

Xu Dalang remembered: “That’s true, but what does it have to do with you demolishing my house?”

“Of course it has something to do with it,” Chen Liejiu smiled, “Ah Qian is my man now, so of course I have to help him get his things back.”

“You!”

Xu Dalang stared at Chen Liejiu with his eyes wide open.

 “What about me?” Chen Liejiu looked at Xu Dalang, “Cousin, am I wrong?”

Xu Dalang gritted his teeth in anger: “Since Erlang has already married into your family, how can a married man come back to take Xu’s things?”

“Why not? He has no parents and no children. If he marries into my family, he must marry into my family with his property.” Chen Liejiu smiled at Xu Dalang: “Otherwise, will he let others occupy his family property for nothing?”

Xu Dalang was really holding back a mouthful of blood in his heart, neither swallowing nor spitting.

When Erlang was taken away by Chen Liejiu to be a bought husband, he had planned it out. When he took him, Erlang would pay him back and he would not be able to take the Xu family’s house away.

It just so happened that there were more people in the family and they could not live in a separate place. With a second-room house, they even saved the money for building a house.

It was really killing two birds with one stone.

 But he never expected that Chen Liejiu would tear down his house!

There was no room for negotiation.

Xu Dalang looked at the house being torn down, and his heart was bleeding.

 But it wasn’t over yet. When the house was almost demolished, Chen Liejiu turned around again, took out a promissory note, and asked Xu Dalang with a smile: “Cousin, you can pay me back the money you owe me now, right?”

“What?!”

Xu Dalang looked at Chen Liejiu in disbelief, as if he was hallucinating: “Didn’t I marry Erlang into your family to pay off the debt?”

“Ah Qian is Ah Qian, and you are you, cousin!” Chen Liejiu held the promissory note like a devil, “Ah Qian said that he voluntarily married into my family, and he has nothing to do with the Xu family’s first branch.”

“Of course, if cousin insists on giving Ah Qian to me, that’s fine,” Chen Liejiu curved his lips, “as long as the first branch is willing to give half of the family property to Ah Qian, I will destroy the promissory note now.”

Xu Dalang almost fainted with anger. He had seen shameless people before, but not such a shameless person!

The first and second branches had been separated for more than ten years. Why did he want to give half of the family property to Erlang for no reason?

 Xu Dalang blushed and started to act like a rogue again: “I don’t have money, but I have a life. If you have the guts, take me away.”

“Brother, you are really something,” Chen Liejiu paused, “that’s all you can do.”

“Why do I need your life?” Chen Liejiu looked at the Xu family’s main house with a cold look, “I just want half of the Xu family’s stones.”

The three rooms in the Xu family’s main house are not mud houses or blue brick houses, but real stone houses.

When Grandpa Xu was young, he worked in a quarry and knew the manager there. He got cheap stone through the back door, which allowed his family to build a pure stone house that was stronger than blue bricks.

He can brag about this in the village for the rest of his life.

Now Chen Liejiu wants to demolish the house, and it’s not easy to dig out his heart.

 Xu Dalang was furious: “How dare you!”

Chen Liejiu raised the IOU in his hand and faced him without any fear: “Why should I be afraid? It is only natural to pay back debts.”

“Give it to him,” Grandpa Xu said hurriedly, fearing that Xu Dalang would let Chen Liejiu demolish the house, “Dalang, give him back the money.”

The quarry has long been closed down, and there is no mountain in the entire Mishan County that can be used to mine stone. The stone materials of the three houses of the Xu family are much more valuable than the ten taels of silver.

“Grandpa!” Xu Dalang was unwilling.

How could Grandpa Xu be willing, but they could not beat Chen Liejiu, so he waved his hand dejectedly: “Pay back the money.”

Grandpa Xu had already spoken, and Xu Dalang had no choice but to hold his breath and scrape together the money to redeem the IOU.

Chen Liejiu and his men demolished the second house of the Xu family like a swarm of locusts. Even the bluestone slabs at the door were not spared, and taken away, which stunned all the villagers of Xinghua Village.

Even Xu Huaiqian was stunned after knowing Chen Liejiu’s operation.

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