Chapter 37

Looking at Li Yao squatting in front of her, Ning Jia was in a trance for a moment.

“You…want to carry me?”

She really didn’t expect that Li Yao would come out in the rain to find her.

“What else?” Li Yao looked back at her, “Are you planning to limp back? Ning Jia, your leg isn’t healed yet!”

“I know.” Ning Jia slowly climbed onto his back and carefully opened the umbrella. “I’m so embarrassed to ask you to carry me!”

Li Yao laughed grimly: “When I carried you back after your foot was injured, you didn’t seem embarrassed at all! Are you shy now?”

Ning Jia’s eyes widened: “Are you mocking my thick skin?”

Li Yao: “What do you think?”

Ning Jia: “It doesn’t matter. If you want to laugh at me, go ahead. I won’t lose a piece of flesh anyway!”

Li Yao curled the corners of his mouth.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the wind started to blow, with the rain blowing diagonally onto Li Yao’s face and body.

Ning Jia tilted the umbrella forward as far as possible, trying to shield him from the wind and rain.

Li Yao noticed it and said in a deep voice: “Just cover yourself.”

“The rain is coming from the front. If I cover the front, I won’t get wet.” Ning Jia is not so selfish. He only cares about himself and not others.

“It’s blocking my view. Move the umbrella back.” Li Yao said.

Ning Jia didn’t feel that her umbrella was pressed down too low and blocked his view, but when he said that, Ning Jia knew very well that Li Yao was afraid that she would get wet in the rain.

She felt a little touched, so she obediently moved the umbrella back a little.

Along the way, Li Yao carried her on his back and walked very steadily. His back was broad and warm, which gave her a sense of security.

only……

Ning Jia put her arms around his neck and gently jumped up twice.

Li Yao slipped and almost fell.

The dirt road in this village is like this. There is three feet of dirt when there is no wind, and the ground is muddy when there is water.

The ground was full of mud and water, making it easy to slip when walking.

“Don’t move.” Li Yao said.

“I didn’t move on purpose.” Ning Jia leaned over to his ear and whispered, “Li Yao, I guess you’ve never carried anyone on your back before!”

Li Yao had really never carried anyone on his back. After thinking about it carefully, Ning Jia was probably the first person he had ever carried on his back.

“Yeah,” he admitted.

“If you carry me like this, I’ll fall easily.” Ning Jia said, “You should use your hands to support my buttocks or thighs, instead of just holding my knees with your arms.”

Li Yao understood. No wonder she would jump up from time to time.

“Okay, I understand.” Li Yao followed her advice and held her buttocks with his hands.

Ning Jia felt much more comfortable now, so he lay obediently on the back and didn’t move at all.

Although the weather is approaching late autumn, the clothes are still quite thin.

Through two thin pants, Li Yao’s hands could clearly feel her outline and soft elasticity.

He couldn’t help but be distracted and didn’t even notice the puddle that was so close to him.

This pothole on the road is usually quite large, and it’s filled with water. It would be strange if you didn’t fall if you stepped into it.

“Pit, pit, pit!” Ning Jia reminded hurriedly.

Li Yao walked up to him before stopping.

Watching him walk around, Ning Jia breathed a sigh of relief: “You scared me to death! Are you distracted by something else? You can’t even see such a big puddle?”

Li Yao pursed his lips and said nothing, but his face felt slightly hot.

When the two of them entered the door, they happened to run into An Ye who was holding an umbrella and was about to go out to pick up Ning Jia.

An Ye was a little surprised to see that Li Yao actually carried her back.

She didn’t see Li Yao coming on her way back just now, so she guessed that they were taking two different paths.

“Oh, you two are such a sweet couple! When did your relationship become so good?” An Ye asked deliberately.

“What is it to you?” Ning Jia replied.

“I don’t want to bother with you! I’m going to the bathroom!”

Only after returning to his room did Li Yao let Ning Jia go.

Ning Jia put away the umbrella and stood in the corner.

She turned around and saw Li Yao taking off his shirt.

His clothes were soaked by the rain, and when he took them off and wrung them out, water flowed out.

Ning Jia felt a little sorry, so he poured a basin of hot water from the thermos, wet the towel in it, and handed it to Li Yao: “Wipe it!”

Li Yao took the towel, hesitated for a moment, and said to Ning Jia: “Turn around, I need to change my pants.”

“Okay.” Ning Jia also said, “Otherwise, take a hot bath to avoid catching a cold.”

“I don’t need it. Cold showers are the same. I’m in good health, so it doesn’t matter.”

“But I want to take a hot bath.” Ning Jia shook off her wet clothes and wiped the water off her hair. “I also want to wash my hair.”

“Change your clothes first. I’ll go to the kitchen to boil a pot of water.” After Li Yao said that, he pushed the door and went to the kitchen.

As soon as he entered the room, he started to light the fire and boil water, pulling the bellows with a clattering sound.

Not long after, Li Xu also came to the kitchen and saw Li Yao boiling water. He said, “Add another bucket of water. Your sister-in-law needs to take a bath after being caught in the rain.”

“Then you light the fire and I’ll fetch a bucket of water.”

“Okay. Be careful on the way, don’t fall into the well!”

“rest assured.”

Li Yao went out with the buckets of water and came back after a while. He poured both buckets of water into the big iron pot.

Old Mrs. Xu got up to go to the bathroom and heard the sound of a fire in the kitchen. Her heart sank immediately: the fifth and sixth sons’ wives must be eating secretly in the kitchen!

She rushed into the kitchen without even putting on her shoes, only to see her two sons busying around.

“What are you doing so late at night?” asked Mrs. Xu, “Why did you boil such a big pot of water?”

Li Xu said: “An Ye wants to take a bath, I have to boil some water for her.”

Old Mrs. Xu looked back at Li Yao and asked, “Where did you go when you were soaked like a drowned chicken?”

Li Yao: “Ning Jia wants to take a bath, so she picked up two buckets of water.”

Mrs. Xu: “!!!”

What did she hear?

One son was fetching water for his wife in the rain, and another son was pulling the bellows to boil water in front of the fire late at night.

When working for their wives, each one is more diligent than the other, but I have never seen them care so much about their own mothers!

“Great! You are grown men, how can you do such a thing as serving your wives? It will be so embarrassing if others tell you about it! Let them work on their own, and you keep two lazy women and worship them like ancestors!”

Li Yao and Li Xu said in unison: “Mom, don’t worry about it, go back and rest early!”

Old Mrs. Xu: “Oh my, it’s true that the son is no longer under the control of his mother! What evil have I, an old lady, done?”

“Mom, go to bed! Why are you worrying about all this?” Li Xu threw two more pieces of wood in, stood up and said to Li Yao, “Your sister-in-law is afraid of heat, so the bath water should be a little warm. I’ll go get her a basin first.”

“Okay.” Li Yao took over the work from Li Xu and continued working on it.

When Old Mrs. Xu saw that no one paid attention to her, she felt very angry.

Go to bed!

Li Yao boiled the bath water and placed it in the middle of the room: “You take a bath, I’ll go out and stand for a while.”

Ning Jia glanced at him and saw that he seemed a little unnatural.

She came forward and said, “It’s raining outside, damp and cold, what are you going to do there? Just stay inside and don’t look at it, okay?”

Li Yao looked at her, and his mind always appeared the image of her half-naked that day, with her skin as white as snow, smooth and beautiful.

“Are you distracted again?” Ning Jia came close to his face and saw that his face was slowly turning red. She shouted in surprise, “Li Yao, your face is red! What are you thinking about? Why are you blushing?”

In one sentence, Li Yao’s face turned even redder, and even his ears and neck changed color.

“Nothing, just take a shower.”

Ning Jia seemed to realize something.