The Evil Man’s Lazy Lady Chapter 50 (Part 1)
Chapter 50: The Wolf Pulls the Fence (1) Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.
At dawn the next day, Qin-shi got up early. She carefully cleaned the yard and the outside of the yard, so as to welcome her daughter and son-in-law back, and then began to prepare breakfast.
Xiao Lang and Shu Zhan were both awake. Taking advantage of Shu Zhan’s time to go to the latrine, Xiao Lang sneaked into the inner room and saw Shu Lan was still asleep: “Ah Lan, wake up. Sister Wan is back today!”
Shu Lan’s long eyelashes moved and slowly opened her eyes. Looking at Xiao Lang who was in front of her, she asked uncertainty: “Really?”
“Really, they should be here in a moment.” Xiao Lang kissed her forehead, pushed a strand of fine hair behind her shoulder for her, and asked in a low voice, “Does your stomach still hurt?”
Shu Lan blinked her eyes and thought about it as if she was feeling whether her stomach hurt or not, then she sat up with a smile: “It doesn’t hurt anymore. It doesn’t hurt since I came back yesterday.”
There was the sound of Shu Zhan’s footsteps outside, so Xiao Lang quickly urged her: “Then remember, you are not allowed to tell others about our affairs, not even Sister Wan. If you do, she will be unhappy. Alright, get up quickly. I’m going out!” He quickly flashed back to his room.
When Shu Zhan came in, he saw Xiao Lang folding the quilt on the heated-brick bed.
He walked directly to the door of the inner room and called, “Ah Lan, are you awake?”
“It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt!” Before he could hear his younger sister’s voice, a slightly hoarse cry came out, accompanied by the sound of flapping wings.
Xiao Lang paused. That damn stinky bird. If he hadn’t watched the lazy girl treat it like a treasure, he would have plucked its hair and burned it to eat meat!
Shu Zhan frowned. What did Quanquan mean?
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the sound of putting on shoes and going to the ground, and then Shu Lan rubbed her eyes and walked out, saying to him, “Brother, is our sister coming back today?”
Shu Zhan patted her head: “Yeah, go wash your face. Mother’s cooking is almost ready!”
Shu Lan gave an “Mm” and went straight to pour water to wash her face.
Not long after the meal, there was the sound of hooves outside, and the family immediately stopped their work and went out together.
Cheng Qingran jumped out of the carriage first and turned to help Shu Wan. Shu Wan looked at his slender and fair hands. She suddenly remembered that at that time he also stretched out his hand to pull her into the carriage, and when she thought about how many times she had been touched by his hand in the past few days, her face became hot. She lowered her head and didn’t dare to look at him.
Cheng Qingran didn’t know why his little wife was blushing, but he liked her shy appearance, and a gentle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
The warm and beautiful appearance of the two of them completely fell into the eyes of the Shu family. Qin-shi smiled and turned her eyes, Shu Maoting nodded slightly, and Shu Zhan snorted softly, while Shu Lan ran over, calling “Sister” repeatedly, and threw herself into Shu Wan’s arms. Her head pressed against Shu Wan’s stomach: “Sister, you are back. I miss you so much!”
Shu Wan put her arms around her younger sister and her eyes turned red involuntarily: “Sister miss Ah Lan too. Okay, let’s talk with your sister in the house, stand outside, and cry, others will laugh at us!”
Shu Lan hugged her sister’s arm tightly, almost leaning against her.
Cheng Qingran greeted his father-in-law and mother-in-law, smiling and going to touch Shu Lan’s head: “Ah Lan hasn’t called her brother-in-law yet!”
Shu Lan instinctively avoided his hand and looked up at Shu Wan. Her older sister had said that she was not allowed to touch her brother-in-law.
Shu Wan obviously understood what her younger sister was thinking. Looking at Cheng Qingran who had a puzzled face, she couldn’t help laughing and crying, but she didn’t say anything. She would never tell him about this. Anyway, it was his own misbehavior. It was better to learn a lesson and see if he dared to take a child home casually in the future!
Men talk about men, women talk about women. After a short time together, Qin-shi took the two daughters to Shu Lan’s room. In fact, she just wanted to talk to Shu Wan about private matters, but Shu Lan insisted on following them. She had no choice but to take her. She didn’t understand anyway.
There were only four men left in the main house.
Naturally, Shu Maoting would not ask his son-in-law about the couple’s newly-married life, and the topic soon shifted to Shu Zhan’s studies.
Cheng Qingran had revealed to Shu Maoting before that he wanted to use his relationship to find a good teacher for Shu Zhan, but Shu Maoting had his own thoughts. Since his son-in-law had escaped from the prosperous capital to a remote town, he was obviously tired of the complicated officialdom. Why bother him with his son? He shook his head in disapproval.
Shu Zhan didn’t want to take advantage of Cheng Qingran. He had gone through the fushi, and he still had some confidence in himself. As long as he was patient and studied hard for two years, he would still have a chance next time. At that time, he was only 17 years old. Other people were not afraid of taking the exam in their 20s and 30s. Why should he worry about taking another exam? Their family was much worse than the Cheng family. He didn’t want to make his older sister short in front of Cheng Qingran because of his own affairs.
(T/N: fushi is the prefectural exam, the 2nd of the three entry-level exams in the imperial examination system.)
Xiao Lang sat on the side and listened quietly, then suddenly said: “Uncle, you always persuade me to pay respect to Xun Mu to be my teacher because of what he said? He isn’t bragging about “learning literature to get into the Hanlin Academy and learning martial arts to get a marquis and general title”, is he?”
Cheng Qingran’s eyes widened immediately, staring at Xiao Lang closely: “You said that person is called Xun Mu? Did he say he wants to accept you as a disciple?”
Maybe there are many people in the world named Xun Mu, but the only one who dared to say those words should be the old man he knew, right? Moreover, this was his hometown. He had always admired him and came, so it was normal for him to return to his hometown. Cheng Qingran gritted his teeth in anger. Good, when he said he wanted to travel around the world, it was actually a lie. He was already famous in town. He didn’t believe that the old man didn’t know he was here. He just pretended not to know. He didn’t even show his face when he got married. It was really ruthless!
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