Days

The Su family’s kitchen was tightly covered and had a cotton curtain installed. The fire on the stove was roaring, boiling a large pot of water. The whole room was filled with steam, which was quite warm.

The bathtub was filled with water, and a ladle was floating on it. Su Huai rolled up his sleeves and waited for Lu Yuan to take off his clothes.

“Why haven’t you gone out yet?” Halfway through his clothes, Lu Yuan looked back and saw Su Huai still standing there, and was stunned.

Under normal circumstances, it would be nothing for two grown men to be frank with each other, but now Lu Yuan realized that he was a little ger. Even if he didn’t treat himself as a little ger, could Su Huai? Thinking of this, Lu Yuan realized that it seemed inappropriate for the two of them to be too close.

 “Are you still showing off? Have you forgotten the last time you fainted in the bathtub?” Su Huai had no intention of leaving. Instead, he pulled a wooden stool and placed it next to the bathtub: “You are pregnant, it is too dangerous to take a bath. Sit here, I will wash you.”

“Of course I knew it was dangerous, so I took a bath on purpose…” Lu Yuan muttered in a low voice, and he hated it when he thought of it.

He is an obstetrician and gynecologist, how could he not know that pregnant women are not suitable for taking a bath at high temperature, which will cause fetal malformation or even premature birth?  If it weren’t for the fact that Master Su kept a close eye on him, he couldn’t drink abortion pills, couldn’t eat things that were very cold, and didn’t even have the chance to fall on purpose, why would he go to such great lengths to harm the child in his belly, and even cause himself to have insufficient blood supply, fainting in the bathtub, and almost choking to death…

Just as he was frowning and dazed, his head was suddenly rubbed by Su Huai: “If you don’t want the child, then don’t want it. Why do you have to be so cruel with your own body? I didn’t save you for fun!”

“…” Lu Yuan was speechless for a moment. Su Huai had already untied his hair, urging him: “Do I have to help you take off your clothes?”

“Haha… I’ve always been a man anyway, there’s nothing to be embarrassed about. I’m just afraid that you’ll be embarrassed…” Lu Yuan teased, pulling his collar uncomfortably.

 “You are so big, no one would think of you as a ger! Don’t worry, I have seen you so many times, and I am not interested!” Su Huai snorted and stretched out his hand to test the water: “Take it off quickly, the water will be cold soon!”

Since Su Huai said so, Lu Yuan had nothing to worry about. He took off all his clothes and only wore a pair of underwear. He rolled up his trouser legs and sat on the stool obediently. Su Huai also rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs, scooped up water to help Lu Yuan wipe his back.

The pigsty was not very clean to begin with. Although the sheep shed was also cleaned, it was too clean to be next to the pigsty. The lambs were weak, and they were not fed well, so they were easily infected with parasites. Lu Yuan went to watch every day without fail, messed with the trough, touched the sheep and looked at the milk. After coming back, he just washed his face and cleaned his hands. Over time, he got lice.

 Su Huai specially took soapberry to wash him, and used rough wood ash to wash his hair. It didn’t work this time. He had to wash for ten consecutive days to get rid of the lice.

The towel wiped his back, and the originally white and tender skin was scratched with red rafters. Su Huai thought, it’s no wonder there are lice. This kid is big-headed, but he is really delicate and tender… and white, with a thin waist…

For a while, the stove fire was roaring, and the steam was noisy. Su Huai was a little distracted.

 “I say Su… uh, Huai Zhi!” Lu Yuan suddenly spoke up, feeling comfortable from being rubbed. He felt Su Huai’s movements stagnate for a moment, and he laughed with a teasing tone: “Although I am a ger, I have always been raised as a man. No matter how good you are to me, I can’t repay you, and I can’t give you my body!”

Su Huai’s movements completely stopped, and the bath towel blew on his back. Lu Yuan shuddered: “Hehe… So I said, you can’t sacrifice your lifelong happiness just to help me! Otherwise, if there is a good ger who suits you, you can marry another one? Or I can help you find one? It’s also a way to repay you, what do you think?”

“Huai Zhi?” After talking for a long time, Su Huai didn’t respond. Lu Yuan turned his head and looked at Su Huai: “What’s wrong with you?”

Su Huai was still stiff, and he stared at Lu Yuan for a long time: “Forget it, just take a bath yourself!” Su Huai threw the bath towel into the bathtub and got up and left.

 “But you haven’t finished rubbing my back yet? And, you’re all wet, don’t you want to wash? Do you want me to rub your back? Huai Zhi? Huai Zhi…”

Since he got lice, Su Huai didn’t allow Lu Yuan to go to the sheepfold anymore. He left everything to Hua Zi. He even went around the town to ask about the sheep and how to get rid of the lice. Lu Yuan always felt that he had planned to raise sheep and sell goat milk to help Su Huai with the family expenses, but now he made Su Huai work hard for him. He felt very sorry and always wanted to do something to repay Su Huai’s kindness.

When he really wanted to do something, Lu Yuan found that he really didn’t know what Su Huai liked.

 He ran to ask Eldest ger, who said, “Men like their own gers to be virtuous. If you want to please him, cook a good meal, wait for him to come back, and massage his shoulders and feet in the evening. If his clothes are torn, mend them, and if his shoes are worn out, buy him a new pair…”

Lu Yuan was stunned. He thought that he had not been so demanding of his wife in his previous life. He shuddered, directly filtered out Eldest ger’s proposal, and went to discuss it with Hua Zi again.

“Young master… hates trouble the most, hates saying more than three sentences to people, hates people who talk too much, hates taking care of others, hates meddling in other people’s affairs, hates joining in the fun, hates going home, hates the master…” Hua Zi never stopped talking, and after counting carefully for a long time, he really couldn’t summarize what his young master liked.

Lu Yuan was confused, and felt that Su Huai had done all the annoying things Hua Zi said…

“Hua Zi, does your young master like to kill himself?”

“Why do you say that?”

“I’ve seen him do all the things you said, but why don’t I think he’s that annoying?”

Hua Zi was stunned for a moment, and then he looked as if he had realized something. He looked at Lu Yuan who was happy like a fox who had taken advantage of a big advantage: “Young Master, I can’t help you with that. My father is experienced, ask him!”

It was not until Lu Yuan was gone that Hua Zi laughed and shook his head: “Is it said that the eyes of lovers are beautiful? Whether it is annoying or not, it depends on who you are with…”

Old Hua was really experienced. As soon as Lu Yuan opened his mouth, he looked like he knew everything and smiled like an old fox. He looked up and down and whispered: “It’s not easy for Xiao Momo to make the young master happy. Come closer…”

Lu Yuan was happy to hear this and hurried over. The more Lu Yuan listened to Old Hua’s whisper, the more he couldn’t stand it. Finally, he blushed and ran away.

He was still cursing while running. What a perverted old man! What about the chungong map… two grown men… Lu Yuan’s footsteps paused and he suddenly felt a chill.

How should the chungong map of two men be handled?

 Behind him, Old Huatou was looking at Lu Yuan with a smile, and behind him was his master’s voice that was inaudible: “Old Hua, what nonsense did you say to Xiao Yuan? You have no manners!”

“Master taught me…”

“Really, that bastard is hiding from me, is this newcomer afraid of me too? If you want to please that kid, why didn’t he ask me? I saved that grandson for him, I guarantee that the bastard will be very happy!”

“What the master said is…” Old Huatou nodded repeatedly, but he was thinking, Master, if you knew how to please the young master, could you let the young master run away from home for more than ten years without bringing him back? Now looking for you, this young master is still smart.

*

After a lot of trouble, Lu Yuan naturally couldn’t find a way to please Su Huai, but Su Huai came back with good news.

 “Eldest ger’s husband will be back in the next two days. This time he will lead a caravan from Fanjiang. I heard that the people in the caravan are from Caoyuan. They have been grazing cattle and sheep for many years. Maybe we can find out how to raise sheep.” At night, Su Huai closed the doors and windows, went to the kang and talked to Lu Yuan who was curled up in the quilt.

Lu Yuan has been living as a married woman for a month, and he has become more and more open with Su Huai. Su Huai also gradually talked more, which made Lu Yuan, a chatterbox, feel much more comfortable.

 Helping Su Huai to lift the quilt and wait for him to come in, Lu Yuan said: “Huai Zhi, although I don’t raise sheep very well, I don’t raise them for fun. Remember I told you that goat milk is good for the development of babies? When I was in Shihe Village, I saw that the physical constitution of newborn babies in the village was not very good, and those born prematurely were even worse. A few days ago, the third baby in Eldest ger’s family was also very weak. I thought that if I could let the baby drink goat milk, it would definitely become strong, and maybe I could even do a small business.”

After talking for a long time, Su Huai was speechless, and Lu Yuan suddenly felt a little discouraged.

It’s true. Su Huai lived in this place, and he had never heard of any child drinking milk. It was too difficult for him to accept this.

 Sighing, Lu Yuan smiled: “Anyway, you won’t take it seriously if I tell you…”

“Do you think I go to inquire about sheep farming methods every day just to tease you?” Su Huai suddenly interrupted. Lu Yuan was stunned. When he looked up, he found that Su Huai was also staring at him seriously: “Who directed me to help the Wang family deliver the baby? Who told me what kind of rice soup to give to the premature baby of the Li family? Or who solved the problem of my Eldest ger’s third child not drinking rice soup well? Do you think I don’t believe you, or you don’t believe yourself?”

Su Huai rarely said such words. Lu Yuan listened to it, and every word was as precious as golden beans.

“I thought you… thought I was a waste…” Lu Yuan muttered, and he felt warm in his heart.

In this strange ancient times, what he knew had nowhere to be used. Everything had to be learned from scratch. What he did was not recognized by others. Lu Yuan kept smiling on his face, but he felt uncomfortable in his heart. Whenever it was late at night and everyone was asleep, he thought about how he couldn’t fit into this world and missed the old world even more. But at this moment, although Su Huai’s words were not much of a compliment, they were an affirmation of Lu Yuan, as if he had grasped the meaning of living here in an instant.

His nose was sour, and Lu Yuan, who considered himself a grown man, really wanted to cry.

“You didn’t completely misunderstand it. In some aspects… you are really a waste.”

“…” Lu Yuan’s face was stiff, and his expression of emotion was too late to be restrained. It looked a little distorted.

Plague God Su, sometimes he really wants to jump up and beat him up!

The bed creaked, and Su Huai had already lain down. He only felt that the quilt was warmer than usual. He raised his eyelids and glanced at Lu Yuan: “Don’t you want to sleep?”

Exhaling a breath, Lu Yuan also lay down with his back to Su Huai. He thought that he must have been kicked in the head by a donkey to warm up the quilt for you out of kindness!

 “Don’t move, the warmth is gone.” The bed creaked. Su Huai turned over, hugged Lu Yuan from behind, and somehow the two beds became one. Su Huai’s body pressed against him, and it was warm.

“Hey – I can’t breathe when you press me like this!”

“Aren’t you sleepy?” Su Huai snorted, and his hands loosened a little and wrapped around his waist.

“I said, isn’t this a fake marriage? I’m a man!”

“No, you’re a real man, you’re not afraid of being hugged.” Su Huai said as a matter of course, and slightly curled his lips behind Lu Yuan.

“I…”

After a long while, Lu Yuan was speechless. They were both grown men, and now they had reached a consensus…

Then – just hug!