Chapter 15 Does the wife-master want to try it on?……

Those beautiful phoenix eyes were wide open, hiding behind the window, staring at Li Ruantang without blinking.

Didn’t she say she had no money? How come she still specially bought a small wooden comb?

He sullenly tugged at Li Ruantang’s buckwheat pillow and sighed softly.

If you say she’s not enlightened, she knows what gifts are appropriate for young men, but if you say she is enlightened, she doesn’t know to wear the flower crown when giving it to others.

But she and Ah Ning have only known each other for a few days, yet she’s so attentive. Look at that smile on her face, the young gentleman snorted with extreme disgust.

In the courtyard, Hu Youning’s ears had already turned red.

Li Ruantang didn’t notice.

Her full attention was on the young gentleman peeking from behind the window. Seeing him eavesdropping so intently, Li Ruantang’s smile at the corner of her lips became increasingly difficult to suppress.

Her little husband was truly silly, who would eavesdrop while hugging a pillow and fidgeting with it? Not alert at all.

She deliberately coughed and looked up. The figure hiding behind the window finally noticed and suddenly lay flat. But his head was buried under the blanket, while his body was still sticking up.

The thin blanket they had been using for the past few nights was arched high, clearly indicating through the window frame that someone was there.

Li Ruantang pressed her lips to hold back a laugh, her gaze turned towards Hu Youning, but not landing on him, “Young Master Hu, today is your birthday. This is a gift from me and my husband.”

The small wooden comb was also something she had put on credit after entering the village and being mentioned by Hu Sanniang.

“Although the preparation was a bit hasty, it’s a token of our sincerity from me and Jiu Jiu. We hope Young Master Hu will accept it.”

“I can’t, Lady Li. You’ve been so kind to me, how could I trouble you to prepare such things?” Hu Youning, who had been looking down just now, suddenly blushed. He looked at Hu Sanniang somewhat hesitantly.

“Silly child, since it’s a gesture from Lady Li and her husband, you should accept it.” Hu Sanniang laughed quite heartily.

This time, traveling to Changshan Gou with Li Ruantang, they had exchanged many methods to please their husbands along the way. Now was the time for close relationships.

“Please accept it, Young Master Hu.”

Li Ruantang also smiled and handed it forward. Those apricot eyes seemed to hide little hooks no matter how you looked at them, making one’s heart flutter.

Hu Youning’s face reddened even more. Taking the small wooden comb from Li Ruantang, he paused for a moment before lowering his voice, “Lady Li, please wait a moment. I have something else to say.”

As they chatted and laughed, the young gentleman suddenly felt uncomfortable in his heart, becoming increasingly gloomy under the covers.

He couldn’t hear anything!

The footsteps in the courtyard dispersed. Creak——

The door was gently pushed open.

Li Ruantang curved her eyebrows, glanced at the flower basket and willow branches placed on the table. Then looked at the highly arched thin blanket.

Thanks to Hu Youning’s honest confession, otherwise she probably would have had to guess for a long time to know why her husband was sulking in the room again.

“Jiu Jiu.” Li Ruantang washed her face, sat on the edge of the kang bed and called him softly, “I went to Changshan Gou today just to see how far my physical strength could support me. I was afraid you’d worry, so I decided to keep it from you.”

“Hmph, I’m not worried at all.”

The person covered under the blanket muttered, “But wife-master just said she wasn’t in a hurry to return to the capital, yet now she rushed off to Changshan Gou. Wife-master doesn’t need to deceive me, Jiu Jiu isn’t stupid, I know wife-master’s implications and hidden meanings.”

“Moreover, the Hu family all knew about this, only keeping it from me. Wife-master clearly doesn’t consider me as her own!”

“How could that be,” Li Ruantang’s eyes curved, gently patting the thin blanket, “Jiu Jiu is now the closest person to me in this world. I truly was afraid you’d worry, that’s why I didn’t tell you.”

“I promise, it won’t happen again.”

“Really?”

The blanket opening that responded was just a thin line. Li Ruantang leaned in, and in the dim light under the covers, those beautiful phoenix eyes seemed to have captured the stars in the sky. She originally just wanted to tease him a little.

Unexpectedly, as she leaned in, she was almost nose to nose with the young gentleman.

Their breaths intertwined, like wind blowing over sparks of fire.

She suddenly leaned in so close. Meng Jun’s heart fluttered, immediately becoming a bit stammering, forgetting to avoid her.

“Wife, wife-master.”

It was stuffy under the covers, making the young gentleman sweat profusely.

Li Ruantang wasn’t doing much better. Her cheekbones were flushed, but there was a strange, indescribable look in her eyes.

Meng Jun couldn’t understand it. He unconsciously pressed his slightly dry lips together, his mind hazily recalling sentences from story books. Those beautiful phoenix eyes lowered slightly, long eyelashes covering the rippling light in his eyes.

In his ears, his heart was pounding like drums, about to burst out of his chest.

The young gentleman’s fingers gradually tightened on the thin blanket. Before he could figure it out, he heard the red-eared girl say softly, “Silly Jiu Jiu, isn’t it hot being covered up? Come out quickly.”

She sat a bit further away, and also poured a cup of tea for the young gentleman.

Meng Jun held the cup, his eyes darting around, but looking very confused. Li Ruantang coughed lightly, reaching out to take the willow branches on the table, “Does Jiu Jiu also plan to make a flower crown?”

She asked gently.

The young gentleman was stunned, suddenly recalling what Ah Ning had said about men and women exchanging flower crowns. He hurriedly clarified, “Um, because I didn’t know what birthday gift wife-master would choose for Ah Ning, so I promised him I’d weave a flower crown as a birthday gift.”

He carefully looked at Li Ruantang’s expression, seeing that she wasn’t angry. Only then did he secretly relax, “Unfortunately, I just struggled for a long time and couldn’t learn how to do it.”

“This actually isn’t too difficult.” Li Ruantang reached out to take the flower crown the young gentleman had placed on the kang side table, “Look, the willow branches need to be aligned…”

She sat right next to Meng Jun, pointing out each step to him.

At first, the young gentleman listened attentively, but as he listened, that gentle voice seemed to fly off somewhere unknown. He stared blankly at Li Ruantang’s fingers.

Hmm, the scabs on her hands have formed, it seems the ointment was effective after all.

“…Jiu Jiu, do you understand now?” Li Ruantang lowered her head to see her little husband staring blankly like a silly goose, looking adorably foolish.

Li Ruantang couldn’t help but smile, but just as she showed a hint of amusement, she was stopped by a look from Meng Jun who had come to his senses.

The young gentleman nodded. It looked easy to understand. But when it came to actually doing it, it was still a bit difficult.

Especially the willow branches in his hands seemed to be deliberately opposing him. Meng Jun became increasingly dejected as he wove. He looked up at Li Ruantang, “Wife-master, why don’t you weave it for me?”

“How can that be? This is the gift you promised to Young Master Hu.” Li Ruantang raised her eyebrows slightly, reaching out to take the willow branches from the young gentleman’s hands, “Although I’m not very good at weaving either, look, this part needs to be folded back.”

“Here, you try.” Li Ruantang turned sideways, and the young gentleman who was originally sitting beside her leaned forward in response, fitting perfectly into her half-embrace.

He was unaware, still focused on weaving the flower crown.

Li Ruantang’s heart skipped a beat. She inadvertently lowered her head, and her nose was filled with the sweet fragrance of his hair. It burned her ear tips, making them uncontrollably red and hot.

She quietly sat up straight, moving towards the edge of the kang bed.

“Oh, it really works!”

The excited Meng Jun hadn’t noticed their current posture. Those beautiful phoenix eyes looked up brightly, “Wife-master, what’s the next step?”

“Didn’t you also pick a lot of flowers? Now you can decorate it with all of them.”

The young gentleman nodded, very obediently choosing some pretty flowers. He was doing it so attentively that when the wind lightly brushed his forehead hair, causing a slight tickle, he had no free hand to scratch it. He just casually rubbed against the shoulder of the person next to him.

Outside the window, clouds rolled in from the horizon, bringing with them a fiercer wind.

Li Ruantang, who he was leaning against, darkened her gaze and quietly turned her face away, leaving only her burning red ears to be blown by the erratic wind, pumping out chaotic heartbeats.

“Wife-master, look!”

The young gentleman called her excitedly, but before Li Ruantang could praise him, he had already lowered his head dejectedly.

The flower crown in his hands had taken shape overall, but it was still a bit crude to give as a gift.

“All things in the world cannot be separated from practice makes perfect. You being able to weave like this on your first try is already impressive. Yesterday, I wove more than a dozen flower crowns before selecting the most presentable one to give you.”

Li Ruantang gently comforted her dejected little husband, “Besides, I don’t think this flower crown is bad at all.”

“Really?”

The young gentleman looked up slightly. From what he knew of Li Ruantang’s usually picky nature, if she was willing to wear it, it meant the flower crown was indeed not bad.

Thinking of this, Meng Jun’s eyes suddenly brightened, eagerly looking at the nodding Li Ruantang, “Then does wife-master want to try it on?”

“Me?”

Li Ruantang’s breath caught, glancing at the flower crown she had given to the young gentleman yesterday. The petals that should have been dry had been carefully dotted with water droplets early in the morning.

Since he treasured it so much and hinted shyly, how could she as a woman retreat?

Moreover, on this journey, Hu Sanniang had also chatted with her quite a bit, and one thing she said was particularly reasonable, ‘As husband and wife, one shouldn’t be distant.’

Thinking of this, Li Ruantang’s fingers clenched tightly in her sleeves, as if desperately holding onto this thread of marriage. She curled her lips, smiling warmly, “Alright.”

Oh!

She actually agreed, does that mean the flower crown he made was really not bad?

The young gentleman cheered inwardly, kneeling in front of Li Ruantang, carefully holding up the flower crown and placing it on her simply styled hair bun.

He held his breath, focusing intently, as if doing something extremely important.

Just as he withdrew his hand, before he could admire it, Li Ruantang smiled and also placed a flower crown on him.

Boom——

A burning embarrassment spread from Meng Jun’s handsome face. He looked at the girl in front of him somewhat nervously.

“Jiu Jiu, tonight I want to——”

Before she could finish speaking, Hu Sanniang’s voice respectfully sounded outside the room,

“Lady Li.” She stood outside the door, somewhat embarrassedly rubbing her hands, “Are you busy at the moment? I have something I’d like to inquire about.”

There was no extra movement from behind the tightly closed door.

Hu Sanniang anxiously pressed her lips together, not daring to rashly push the door open. Fortunately, Li Ruantang didn’t delay for long.

As soon as she went out, the young gentleman quickly reached out to touch his still burning red face, then felt his forehead.

Could it be that he caught a chill in the small ravine today? Otherwise, why hadn’t the heat on his face subsided even after sitting for so long?

Oh no, getting sick not only costs money.

The young gentleman frowned with slight grievance. Although he hadn’t mentioned the word “gift”, Li Ruantang did indeed wear his flower crown. If the Mountain Goddess misunderstood and truly blessed them with a long-lasting relationship, what should he do?

Wuu, how could he have forgotten about this!

However, those beautiful phoenix eyes narrowed slightly in confusion. What exactly was she going to say just now?

Could it be that tonight, she wanted to do something?

***

The person he finds displeasing in this life turns out to be his cherished wife-master in previous life…

Xie Zhi and Fang Xianxing who had known each other for less than three days through a blind date sat in the same car in front of the civil affairs bureau. They had a disagreement and failed to get married.

Xie Zhi immediately took out his phone, slid through his contacts, and randomly selected the next marriage candidate.

The woman snatched his phone and hung up. Looking at his phone wallpaper, she awkwardly changed the subject: “An ancient painting, eh? It looks pretty good, it’s just that the person in the painting looks a bit like me.”

When he heard this, he sarcastically mocked her for being so delusional, completely unaware that, the person in front of him was the reincarnation of Wen Ru, the famous prime minister of Yuan Shun whom he most admired…

The female CEO who doesn’t want to get married with a divorce agreement in hand × The male archaeological researcher who will only get married if he’s sure he can get divorced