“Suggestion rejected.” Yan Jin chuckled, “The bathroom floor is slippery. How could I dare let you help me bathe?”
Yu Shu proposed a compromise, “Then I’ll help you scrub your back.”
“Helping me bathe and helping me scrub my back.” Yan Jin: “Aren’t they the same?”
“How could they be the same.” Yu Shu glanced at her, “The former involves washing a larger area, while the latter involves a smaller area.”
Yan Jin understood that Yu Shu hadn’t seen her for many days and missed her dearly, so he wanted to spend more time with her.
Although Yan Jin was clear about it, she wouldn’t be easygoing enough to actually let Yu Shu help her scrub her back.
What a joke. Yuanyuan’s belly was already starting to show. The bathroom floor was slippery. If Yuanyuan accidentally slipped and fell, the child would be secondary. Yan Jin was just afraid that Yuanyuan would get hurt.
Yan Jin softened her voice and coaxed Yu Shu to give up the idea of helping her scrub her back, “Yuanyuan, I have hands and can bathe myself.”
“But I want to help you.” Yu Shu blinked and softly called out, “Xiaoxiao.”
There was no other way. In the end, the two could only compromise.
It was fine not to let Yu Shu help, but he had to sit on a small stool and wait for Yan Jin to finish bathing.
Although Yan Jin felt it was strange for Yuanyuan to watch while she bathed, she had a thick skin. After accepting this fact, she began self-cleaning without changing her expression.
When she finished cleaning and turned her head, she saw Yu Shu holding his flushed face, his eyelashes fluttering shyly. Seeing Yan Jin looking over, he even turned his head away, not daring to make eye contact with her.
Yan Jin: ……
It was clearly his idea to watch, but now he felt embarrassed.
She really didn’t understand Yuanyuan.
After tidying up, Yan Jin took Yu Shu’s hand and went out to have dinner.
Perhaps due to worrying about Yan Jin’s exam recently, Yu Shu had a bit of morning sickness and had no appetite for anything.
Yan Jin was afraid that Yu Shu would starve himself, so she took him out to try some fresh food, hoping that he could at least eat a bite or two.
After the provincial exam, the streets of the capital were bustling with people coming and going.
Yan Jin casually glanced around and found that more than half of these people were examinees who had just finished the exam.
Yan Jin didn’t know the examinees from Yongning County who came to the capital for the exam this time, and she didn’t participate in the hometown association gathering.
Moreover, after Yu Shu became pregnant, the two had been staying at home most of the time. Yu Shu would occasionally go for a stroll next door, but Yan Jin simply stayed at home to read books and review. Therefore, Yan Jin was not very familiar with the examinees of this session.
Yan Jin curiously glanced at them, then withdrew her gaze from the examinees and pointed to a shop with a long queue on the street side, “I heard that the fu ling cake inside is famous throughout the capital, so delicious that it can make people swallow their tongues.”
Yan Jin was afraid that Yu Shu would feel uncomfortable standing for too long, so she pulled him to a nearby wonton shop. After ordering a bowl of wonton for Yu Shu, she said, “Yuanyuan, wait here. I’ll go queue up to buy you the fu ling cake.”
“Xiaoxiao, don’t go.” Yu Shu grabbed Yan Jin’s sleeve, “That shop is too crowded, and I don’t want to eat fu ling cake now. I want to eat wonton.”
Although Yu Shu said this, his eyes couldn’t help drifting towards that pastry shop.
So delicious that it could make people swallow their tongues, that fu ling cake must be really tasty.
[That little glance from Yu Shu, how could it possibly mean he doesn’t want to eat fu ling cake?] [If he wants to eat it, just go buy it. What’s so difficult about that?] [Yu Shu wants to eat fu ling cake, so Yan Jin has to queue up for it. But Yan Jin doesn’t like crowded places, so Yu Shu doesn’t want to eat fu ling cake.]……
[I can’t believe there’s this layer of roundabout meaning behind it. I completely failed to see it.] [No other meaning. I just want to simply ask: are you a peony in the back?]Yan Jin also noticed Yu Shu’s gaze and slightly frowned.
She understood Yuanyuan. Even if Yuanyuan really craved the fu ling cake, he would definitely consider her feelings.
If she insisted on queuing up to buy the fu ling cake, the result might be counterproductive and even make Yuanyuan shed tears.
Considering this, Yan Jin did not insist on her previous decision. Instead, she shifted her gaze to the sugar painting stall she had just glanced at.
“Yuanyuan.” Yan Jin asked Yu Shu, “Do you want to go make a sugar painting?”
If he couldn’t eat the fu ling cake, he could eat a sugar painting.
Anyway, they were both sweet. Not much difference.
Yu Shu, who was tempted by the fu ling cake but couldn’t eat it, lit up and nodded his head vigorously, “I want to!”
While the wonton had not yet arrived, Yan Jin told the wonton shop owner, exchanged a few words with the owner’s ten-year-old daughter, and then took Yu Shu to make a sugar painting first.
Yan Jin took out a piece of silver and handed it to the sugar painting owner. Then she turned to Yu Shu and said, “If you can’t make it, don’t be anxious. We’ll pay extra to have her make one.”
“You can make as many as you want. If there are any left, I’ll buy you all the candies.”
Yu Shu was happy in his heart, but he still mumbled, “I’m not a three-year-old child.”
The sugar painting owner was lowering her head to draw the sugar when she suddenly heard a voice like the clear spring water on a snowy mountain, “Xiaoxiao, don’t always treat me like a child.”
That voice, so clear and pure without a trace of worldly air, actually said words that a young man in the first blush of love would say.
The sugar painting owner, who was over fifty years old, was piqued by the few curiosities aroused by the words that were completely opposite to the voice, making her want to see what the owner of this voice looked like.
The sugar painting owner saw the hands placed on the turntable, slender as bamboo, with slightly bent knuckles, displaying a crystal-clear luster like white jade under the sunlight.
The owner raised her head and saw clearly that young man’s appearance—he was a very young man, at most not more than twenty years old.
Snow-white skin, ink-black hair, pale red lips, the collision of three extreme colors, with distinct contrast, set off that young man’s entire being as refined, aloof, and unattainable.
No matter how you looked at him, he didn’t seem like someone who loved eating candy.
As if sensing the sugar painting owner’s gaze, that ethereal young man looked towards her.
Meeting that young man’s clear, moist eyes, completely opposite to the indifference she imagined, the sugar painting owner silently withdrew her curiosity.
With those eyes, how could this young man possibly be someone who didn’t love eating candy?
After getting the sugar painting, before Yu Shu started eating, Yan Jin patted his head, “How is it? Happy now?”
“What do you mean ‘happy now’?” Although the corners of Yu Shu’s mouth were already raised, he deliberately restrained his expression, “You make it sound like I was unhappy just now.”
“Really?” Yan Jin raised her eyebrows, “Just now, I don’t know who it was that said he didn’t want to eat fu ling cake, looking so aggrieved that he was about to cry.”
“I wasn’t like that.” Yu Shu indignantly tickled Yan Jin’s neck, “Yan Xiaoxiao, you’re slandering me again.”
Yan Jin smiled brightly, “It seems I misunderstood Yuanyuan.”
“It’s good that you know it was a misunderstanding. Don’t do it again.” Yu Shu said primly, “Someone as kind and considerate as me is rare to find nowadays.”
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