Chapter 11

The areas are similar, but the difference in the furnishings in the house is that one is fully furnished and the other is unfinished.

At least she had her own room now. Xu Ning nodded, “Okay, I’ll sleep in this room, but isn’t it inconvenient to leave my clothes and toiletries in your room?”

When she wakes up in the morning, she has to go to his room to get towels and toothbrushes. What if he hasn’t gotten up yet and she goes to knock on the door to get things? How embarrassing!

“I get up early every day and come back late at night. You can take the things you need before I come back and return them the next day after I leave.” He Beian said those words after careful consideration. It is better to be safe than sorry. What if his mother found out that they didn’t sleep together, there would be blood and rain again.

No wonder he said that, it turns out he has thought it through! This is indeed the best way, Xu Ning has no objection.

The unfinished room had not been cleaned yet, so Xu Ning planned to clean the room after dinner. After all, she would have her own room.

It’s the room she lives in alone!

The dormitory she lived in in junior high school was a ten-person dormitory, with ten girls in each dormitory. The high school dormitory has eight people, but there is an empty bed, so there are seven people in one dormitory. The university room is for six people, with one bed left for sundries, so there are actually five people living there.

Since junior high school, she has hardly ever slept in a room alone. Even during the winter and summer vacations, she would ask school leaders for permission to live in the dormitory.

Having my own room makes me feel a little excited.

“I’m not at home during the day. If you want to watch TV, you can do so in my room. You can touch any other place except the bed.” He Beian walked into his room and opened the closet.

There is a pair of black wooden wardrobes with a pair of flying phoenixes carved on the wardrobe doors. They look quite old. There were two stacks of clothes neatly placed in the closet, all black, with one or two pieces of army green mixed in with the black.

He opened another wardrobe and put all his things into it.

“I don’t have many clothes. One closet is enough. The other one is for you.”

In addition to the cabinets, there are also desks, basin racks…

A drawer on the desk was cleared for her, and half of the space on the basin rack was left for her towel.

He just gave away half of his private territory and didn’t seem to mind at all.

Xu Ning was standing at the door and heard him say that he would give the other cabinet to her. She almost couldn’t control herself and asked directly if he meant it belonged to her. Can she take the cabinet away when she divorces?

Based on her experience in making treasure appraisal videos in the short film industry, this cabinet is definitely an antique and looks valuable.

She looked around the room, and finally looked at his bed. He said she could touch anything except the bed…

The bed was a double bed, with the quilt folded neatly at the end of the bed and a pillow on top. Even the pillowcase on the pillow was neatly placed without any wrinkles.

Is he mysophobic or obsessive-compulsive? Xu Ning objected: “There’s only one pillow on the bed. It looks like one person is living here, right?”

He Beian really didn’t think about this problem. He thought he had considered everything. Should he let Xu Ning put her quilt and pillow on his bed?

You can see his brows furrowed. He is willing to let go, but Xu Ning is still reluctant! She suggested: “Just take a pillow that no one is using and put it on your bed.”

Her pillows should be put away, and he just needs to keep two pillows on the bed.

He Beian nodded in agreement, “You go eat first, I’ll get things ready in the house and go to work, I’ll be back around eight in the evening.”

Feeling hungry, Xu Ning said, “I’ll pack my things in the afternoon,” and turned to walk out.

She would wait for He Beian to go to work before cleaning up, so she could be alone and free.

Hu Xianglan went back to the room and put their marriage certificate under the book, hoping to smooth out the crease.

After pressing the marriage certificate, she went back to the kitchen to continue cooking, with a smile on her face.

After all, it was the auspicious day to get the marriage certificate, so Hu Xianglan spent a lot of money to stew the big bones and also bought a few small yellow croakers to fry.

When Xu Ning came in, she was frying fish, and the whole kitchen was filled with the aroma of fried fish.

Fried yellow croaker is her specialty. She learned it from her father-in-law when she was young. The yellow croaker fried by Lao He is not as delicious as hers.

“There are stewed bones in the pot. If you’re hungry, take a piece and eat it first.” Hu Xianglan greeted Xu Ning with a smile. She was too thin. It would be difficult for her to conceive a child.

Fresh large bones are the most delicious when stewed. Hu Xianglan added more than a dozen seasonings, including the common pepper and aniseed, as well as several Chinese medicinal herbs. The secret recipe passed down by our ancestors not only tastes good, but is also good for your health.

She now has only one goal, which is to fatten Xu Ning up as soon as possible and wait to have grandchildren.

Xu Ning was not ready to eat, so she lifted the lid of the pot to take a look. The moment the lid was lifted, the aroma wafted towards her. My stomach, which was not very hungry to begin with, seemed to have digested the remaining food in an instant, and an unreasonable feeling of hunger surged up.

The big bones are chopped into pieces and soaked in the sauce-colored gravy. After a long period of stewing, each piece of meat is visibly soft and rotten. The most fragrant part is the bone marrow in the middle of the big bones.

Xu Ning’s appetite was aroused, and she quickly covered the pot and asked Hu Xianglan, “Aunt, is there anything else you need to do? I’ll do it.”

“There’s nothing to do. I’ll just fry these small yellow croakers.” Hu Xianglan scooped up a small yellow croaker with a colander and shook off the oil. She raised her hand and poured it into the plate. Her smile faded a little. “Xu Ning, you and Bei’an have obtained a marriage certificate, so you are a couple. You should call me mom like him.”

After all, she is from the country and she doesn’t have the cleverness of a city girl.

“Ah? Shouldn’t we wait until we are given a change package at the wedding banquet before shouting it out?” Xu Ning blinked and asked in confusion, “On the way here, Aunt Qian specifically told me not to shout it out wrong, saying that if I shout it out too early, my in-laws will be angry and think I am uneducated.”

Unfortunately, there was a scene in the script that described a quarrel between a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law who disliked each other. The daughter-in-law angrily scolded her mother-in-law for bullying her because she came from the country and knew nothing, and she changed her mind and refused to give the mother-in-law a red envelope.

If Xu Ning is not there, it’s ok, but if other daughters-in-law have it and she doesn’t, that won’t work.

She felt embarrassed to waste He Beian’s money because she had not paid anything for him, but she had to take the money for changing her name because she was really calling him “Mom” without any falsehood.