Chapter 29: Teasing Her
Qin Yanci stands in Ying Sisi's room for a moment, holding the bag he brought with him.
He's clearly not afraid to enter her space, and it seems he's feeling comfortable enough to make himself at home. He neatly arranges her bedding and sits down.
When Ying Sisi returns, he stands up and sits at the desk. He's being careful not to be seen too close to her, knowing that poison stepmother would spread rumors if she saw them sitting together.
Ying Sisi noticed the straightened blanket at first glance, and a smile curved her lips. He knew how to do housework. “Yanci, aren't you going to study today?”
“I brought my books,” Qin Yanci says, opening his bag. “I brought you some clothes. Try them on.” He's being attentive, and it seems he's trying to win her over.
Ying Sisi smiled with her mouth, but her heart was filled with joy. She held them up in front of her and looked them over.
The trendy red down jacket, the classic white padded jacket.
Two sweaters, one black and one white.
Two pairs of trousers, one wide-legged and one straight-legged, both black.
Two sets of innerwear.
And three sets of light-colored underwear.
These things didn't look cheap, he had actually prepared so much for her at once.
“This must have cost a lot,” she says. “I'm still working on your coat.”
Qin Yanci's eyes twinkled. “Not much.”
It was all thanks to her feeding him yesterday.
The new house didn't have any bedding, and he wasn't used to sleeping there. After his wife left, he went back home.
Just in time for dinner.
He had eaten too much, so he only picked out easy-to-digest vegetarian dishes. His sister-in-law asked him why he wasn't eating meat, if it didn't agree with him.
She meant well.
But when he saw his sister-in-law's face, he thought of the two things she had said, “It will be lively with the whole family living together, we can look out for each other.”
He had been alone on the farm for ten years.
Why didn't she say “look out for each other” then?
He had borne all the hardship.
Now she started talking about ”looking out for each other.”
He directly retorted, “I ate too much vegetarian food on the farm, I get diarrhea when I eat meat.”
His parents felt guilty towards him, and they didn't feel good about it.
After dinner, they took the initiative to talk to him.
To make up for it, they stuffed money into his hand. He didn't hesitate to take it and used it to buy clothes for his wife.
"..."
Ying Sisi tidied up the desk so that Qin Yanci could use it to study, and she went to the living room to sew.
Li Yuwei had less work at her unit and got off early. When she came in, she couldn't stop laughing. “Haha... your face is swollen like a pig's head.”
“You're not swollen, but you look like a pig's head.”
Li Yuwei's hair stood on end. She turned her head and saw Qin Yanci standing at the door of Ying Sisi's room. “You, why are you at my house? This isn't your place to run wild. Sister, he hit you, don't put up with it...”
Ying Sisi scolded her, “Are you crazy? I told you, I fell.” She couldn't go a day without stirring up trouble, could she? “Yanci, she's a little off, don't mind her.”
Ying Sisi took her clothes back to her room to sew and closed the door.
Li Yuwei rolled her eyes and leaned in to eavesdrop.
She heard Qin Yanci say, “Don't you want to rest?”
“Rest.” Ying Sisi said, but her hand reached for the book he had given her. Pointing to the Georgian style and French floor-to-ceiling windows that she couldn't find in the dictionary, she asked him, “What are these?”
“It's hard to explain in a few words. When I get the chance, I'll take you to see some famous historical buildings.”
Ying Sisi responded sweetly, “Okay.” She picked up the dictionary. “I looked at this yesterday, the synonyms and antonyms, I think they're very interesting. 'cope' (dùifu) and 'manage' (yìngfu), 'deferential' (gōngjìng) and 'reverence' (zūn jìng), they all mean the same thing.”
Qin Yanci couldn't grasp the interesting part, but he wanted to tease her. “You learned so much in one night, then let me test you. What's the synonym for 'quiet' (ān jìng)?”
Ying Sisi thought carefully for a moment. “Shhh (xū)~”
Qin Yanci held back a laugh. “Right, how do you describe 'flirting' (sā jiāo)?”
Ying Sisi thought hard. “Eng~~? Is that right?” It sounded weird. Was he deliberately making fun of her?
(End of Chapter)
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