Chapter 19

When Zheng Yunsheng arrived home, Gu Qijiao was carrying the cooked dishes outside the house.

She didn’t go to pick vegetables in the evening. She peeled two potatoes her parents sent her, cut them into pieces, fried them with green beans, and made some chopped green onion soup.

With one dish and one soup, dinner is taken care of.

In the countryside, many people eat in the yard in the summer. Not only is it too hot inside the house, but they also have to light kerosene lamps to see, which is such a waste.

After Zheng Yunsheng entered the yard, he called Gu Qijiao, then quickly went into the house and put the book on the desk.

When he got off work, Zheng Yunsheng had already washed his hands by the well next to the wheat field, so after putting away the books, he went out and went to the kitchen to help serve the rice.

The rice in the evening had more rice than corn rice and smelled delicious.

It wasn’t that Gu Qijiao wanted to live so extravagantly on purpose. It was mainly because in her previous life, she had no shortage of food and drink.

There was too much cornmeal in the rice and she found it a little hard to swallow.

So she reduced the amount of cornmeal when she cooked in the evening.

After the food was served, the couple sat down face to face and ate in silence.

The yard was quiet, the croaking of frogs in the mountains and fields rose and fell, and the night was peaceful and charming.

“Jiaojiao, what did you do at home during the day?” Zheng Yunsheng suddenly asked.

He is just making small talk.

In the previous life, whenever Zheng Yunsheng returned home, Gu Qijiao would talk nonstop in front of him like a sparrow.

Now that Gu Qijiao stopped talking, the yard was so quiet that Zheng Yunsheng felt a little uneasy.

It’s just that he was born taciturn and not good at speaking. Even if he wanted to change in this life, he couldn’t find a topic to talk to Gu Qijiao about for a while.

When Gu Qijiao heard Zheng Yunsheng ask her, she looked up at him and replied casually:

“There’s not much to do at home. I just cleaned up the house, fed the chickens, and prepared dinner.”

After hearing what Gu Qijiao said, Zheng Yunsheng said “hmm” and didn’t know what to say anymore.

Zheng Yunsheng was extremely upset. He really couldn’t understand why he was still so stupid after living a new life!

He doesn’t even know how to please women.

After the meal, Zheng Yunsheng still took the initiative to clean up the dishes.

Gu Qijiao looked at the already pitch-black kitchen and said:

“Just clean it up and put it on the stove. You can wash it tomorrow morning. You can’t see it now. You can’t see it clearly with a kerosene lamp, and you can’t wash it clean. It’s also a waste of oil.”

After saying that, Gu Qijiao got up and went back to the house.

The yard was full of mosquitoes, and after sitting for a long time, her body was covered with bites. She lit mugwort in the house, which was much more comfortable than in the yard.

After returning to the room, Gu Qijiao lit the kerosene lamp and placed it on the windowsill. Then she pulled out a wooden basin from under the bed, poured some water from the thermos, and began to soak her feet.

Gu Qijiao deliberately did not boil the water in the thermos so that she could use it for foot soaking in the evening.

She had already washed her face.

Zheng Yunsheng originally planned to wash the dishes, but then he saw that the kitchen was too dark and he couldn’t see anything by groping around, so he had to give up.

After he closed the kitchen door, he turned and went into the bedroom.

Seeing Gu Qijiao soaking her feet, Zheng Yunsheng naturally moved a stool and sat opposite Gu Qijiao. He took off his shoes and put his own big feet into the basin.

Although Zheng Yunsheng appeared calm on the surface, he was actually trembling with fear inside.

When his big feet covered with calluses touched Gu Qijiao’s slender and white little feet, Zheng Yunsheng’s heart melted.

In the previous life, it was Gu Qijiao who took the initiative to soak his feet with him first.

Gu Qijiao looked at Zheng Yunsheng’s series of actions in amazement.

But she couldn’t say anything against it. They were husband and wife now. It was fine if they couldn’t do things that husband and wife did, but she couldn’t have an objection to washing feet together!

There was no choice but to give up soaking her feet. She wanted to take her feet out of the basin.

But Zheng Yunsheng stepped on her lightly, preventing her from moving.

She looked at Zheng Yunsheng with some annoyance, but when she raised her head, she met Zheng Yunsheng’s gentle gaze.