“Mo Li, let me tell you, the strawberries I planted have started bearing fruit. They’ll be ripe in a few days. I’ll give you one when the time comes—they’re super delicious.”
That night, Luo Wangshu was smiling brightly as he shamelessly massaged Mo Li’s shoulders.
Mo Li still responded with his usual lukewarm “Mm,” and said nothing more, leaving Luo Wangshu completely confused.
When they went to sleep, Mo Li still held him like always, but Luo Wangshu felt that things weren’t as close as before.
This kind of distant yet intimate feeling was seriously irritating!
“Mo Li, I can’t sleep. Tell me a story?”
Luo Wangshu lightly patted that cold, stern face with both hands. Mo Li opened his eyes and looked at him in confusion.
“A story. Ghost stories, romance stories, any kind is fine.”
Those light golden eyes stared at him brightly. After a long moment of eye contact, Mo Li finally gave in and said, “I don’t know how to tell stories.”
“I want to hear one anyway.” Luo Wangshu rarely acted this stubborn. He was basically being unreasonable.
After thinking for a long while, Mo Li finally spoke in his unique deep voice.
“Once upon a time, there was a man. He…”
“A man or a woman?” Luo Wangshu casually played with a strand of Mo Li’s long hair as he asked.
Mo Li paused before replying, “A man. He fell in love with a woman, but his family didn’t approve. So he secretly met with her, and they had a son. The woman died from heavy bleeding after giving birth, and the man never gave either the woman or the child a proper status.”
Luo Wangshu’s hand stopped moving. “What happened after that?”
“Later, the boy grew up. He always treated his uncle as his father. He studied and practiced martial arts, while the man never once appeared. One day, the boy was conscripted to the borderlands. After earning military merit and returning, the man finally gave the boy his surname as a reward… Heh.”
In the silent night, the emotionless voice continued.
“After that, the boy went back to the border again and planned never to return for the rest of his life. Years later, the man sent a letter saying he didn’t have long left to live. The boy believed him and traveled back alone, but halfway there he was ambushed and chased by a group of people, eventually falling off a cliff. The reason was because the man already had an eldest legitimate son in the family. To prevent any inheritance disputes, the man decided to kill the boy.”
“And then?” Luo Wangshu waited for a long time without hearing anything else and finally asked.
The low, hoarse voice answered, “There is no then.”
After a moment, Luo Wangshu patted his shoulder.
“And then, the boy didn’t die. He lived happily in a small mountain village with family members who loved him, never involving himself in worldly matters again. Hehe, my ending is much better than yours, right? You really are bad at telling stories.”
Without saying a word, Mo Li fiercely pulled him into his embrace. The only thing Luo Wangshu could do was hug him tighter, tighter, even tighter…
Someone who could casually summon a person back from the borderlands…
Probably only that one person could do that, right?
Luo Wangshu thought that he might have found himself an incredible golden thigh to cling to.
“Promise me… don’t leave me alone.”
So in the end, he really had scared him badly.
Luo Wangshu gently stroked the fluffy head, then struggled to lift his own head and bit down hard on Mo Li’s chin.
“With this mark, you belong to me from now on,” he said smugly.
Mo Li lowered his head and smiled softly. He kissed him gently from forehead downward, finally lingering on his lips in a lingering, tender kiss…
On a night that was ordinary to everyone else, it became something different for Luo Wangshu.
Maybe from now on, he wouldn’t be alone anymore.
What was love?
It didn’t matter if he didn’t understand.
As long as he found someone willing to spend the rest of their life figuring out that strange feeling together with him, that was enough.
How lucky I was to find you…
At dawn, Luo Wangshu felt the warm furnace in his arms leave. He yawned and rubbed his eyes unhappily.
“Mo Li?”
“Wife, it’s still early. Sleep a little longer,” Mo Li said as he kissed Luo Wangshu’s thoroughly ravaged lips.
“Mmm… come back early…” Luo Wangshu mumbled sleepily as he rubbed against the pillow before drifting back to sleep.
Mo Li smiled helplessly and tucked the blanket around him.
So this was what his wife looked like after completely letting down all his defenses.
Who knew how much time had passed before a sudden weight landed on him.
“Auntie! Wake up! The sun’s already shining on your butt!”
Li Miaomiao was as energetic as ever, while Luo Wangshu, who had only fallen asleep in the second half of the night, suffered miserably.
“My little ancestor! Get off quickly, my waist is about to break!” Luo Wangshu gasped painfully. Was this girl trying to kill him?
Li Miaomiao looked at him in confusion. Seeing that he really was in pain, she quickly climbed off him, but still couldn’t resist teasing him.
“Auntie is so weak. You can’t even carry Miaomiao.”
Luo Wangshu’s face turned red then white. In the end, he just rolled his eyes and comforted himself that Miaomiao was still young and ignorant.
“Auntie, hurry up and get up! Today you have to teach me five characters!” Li Miaomiao struggled to pull the blanket off him.
Caught off guard, Luo Wangshu had half the blanket pulled away. Luckily, he reacted quickly and yanked it back before he ended up completely exposed.
“Huh? Auntie, did mosquitoes bite you last night? There are so many bumps.”
Li Miaomiao widened her eyes curiously and even poked one of the red marks on Luo Wangshu’s neck.
“Alright, alright, hurry downstairs. If Miaomiao keeps being naughty, I won’t teach you today.” Luo Wangshu deliberately put on a stern face.
Li Miaomiao stuck out her tongue at him. Before running out and closing the door, she still shouted:
“Auntie is shameless! Sleeping without clothes on!”
Hey! This brat!
Before Luo Wangshu could explode, Li Miaomiao had already skipped away.
Someone was angry now, and the consequences would be severe.
Student Li Miaomiao, as a qualified student, you must learn to write “餐蚕惨灿 ”(cān cán cǎn càn) properly. If you can’t write them well, then no potato chips for you.
Luo Wangshu smiled sinisterly, but the next second he grimaced and held his aching waist because he moved too much.
In one corner of the small courtyard, a patch of green plants grew lushly. Looking carefully, there were already tiny green fruits the size of little fingers growing on them.
Under a large tree sat two people, one big and one small. Using sticks as pens and the ground as paper, one taught seriously while the other wrote seriously. Time quietly flowed by.
“Husband! You absolutely can’t die on me!”
A woman’s crying voice came from outside the gate, getting closer and closer. Before long, a noisy crowd arrived at the entrance.
Luo Wangshu looked up and saw several men carrying in a blood-covered man. Mo Fang followed beside them directing things around, while the woman behind them grabbed a child with one hand and cried her heart out.
Li Miaomiao stared in shock.
“Auntie! Isn’t that Brother Xiaoguang?”
Luo Wangshu quickly covered her eyes.
“Children shouldn’t look at things like this. You’ll have nightmares.”
“Oh… alright.”
Li Miaomiao obediently wrapped her arms around Luo Wangshu’s waist and stopped looking.
What happened now?
Luo Wangshu frowned, but there were too many men over there. With his identity, it wasn’t appropriate for him to go over and ask questions.
Mo Fang looked unhappily at the crying woman.
“If you don’t let go of Xiaoguang right now and delay stopping your husband’s bleeding, then whatever happens afterward will be your responsibility!”
The woman sobbed as she released the boy’s hand.
Mo Fang ordered, “Go get the medicine box. Prepare the hemostatic powder.”
Without saying a word, Li Guang quickly ran into the medicine room.
“Waaah! Husband! You absolutely can’t die! If something happens to you, how are we supposed to live—”
Her funeral-like crying made everyone uncomfortable. The man was seriously injured, not dead, okay?!
“Shut up!” Mo Fang coldly glared at her.
Mrs. Li shuddered in fear and instantly closed her mouth.
Once things quieted down, Mo Fang instructed people to boil water. When the medicine box arrived, he cut open the clothes with scissors, inserted several needles, and the bright red blood gradually slowed.
Without needing instructions, Li Guang handed over the hemostatic powder. One passed tools while the other treated the wounds. Their coordination was flawless, as if they had done this thousands of times before.
Luo Wangshu knew this wasn’t a suitable scene for him to watch, so he quietly brought Li Miaomiao into the bedroom and closed the door before focusing his mind and entering the space.
Only after entering the space did Luo Wangshu finally relax.
“Auntie, what are we doing here?” Li Miaomiao copied Luo Wangshu by squatting on the ground with her head resting in her hands, wearing the exact same expression.
Realizing he had unintentionally led the child astray, Luo Wangshu silently stood up.
“Ahem… Miaomiao, you’re a girl. You can’t squat with your legs spread apart like that, understand?”
Li Miaomiao also stood up.
“But Auntie squats like that too.”
“I’m a man. No one says anything if I squat like this. But if girls squat like this, it looks ugly.”
Especially in this feudal ancient era. If those people saw it, they’d probably drown her in rumors. Maybe they’d even put her in a pig cage?
The more Luo Wangshu thought about it, the more terrifying it became.
What was so good about transmigrating into ancient times anyway? Without power or status, you couldn’t even keep your money. Commoners got exploited too.
Tsk tsk…
“But Daddy said Miaomiao should learn from Auntie. Daddy said Auntie and Miaomiao are the same!”
Luo Wangshu’s eye twitched.
The same? How were they the same? He was a man!
“Does your father have something wrong with his eyes?”
Li Miaomiao shook her head like a rattle drum.
“Daddy’s eyes are perfectly fine. He sees very clearly.”
Luo Wangshu decided to end this pointless conversation. He also wondered how things were outside. So annoying.
“Huh? Auntie, there are fruits here!”
Li Miaomiao excitedly tugged on Luo Wangshu while pointing at the strawberries in the field.
Luo Wangshu glanced over with the corner of his eye.
They really were ripe…
“I’ll try one first. Miaomiao, don’t pick any yet.”
Luo Wangshu carefully picked a strawberry from the field. Since there were no pesticides or anything, he directly tossed it into his mouth.
Mmm, pretty sweet.
It tasted even better than the strawberries he used to eat. A faint fragrance lingered in his mouth for a long time afterward.
Another one?
“Is it good?” Li Miaomiao watched Luo Wangshu eat one after another and nearly drooled.
Luo Wangshu finally found time to answer her.
“Miaomiao, why haven’t you started eating yet?”
Li Miaomiao instantly became unhappy.
“Didn’t Auntie tell Miaomiao to wait first?”
“Silly child. When I ate the second one, you should’ve started already. Learn from me.”
Luo Wangshu directly sat beside the field and continued eating. Eating the fruits of his own labor really felt amazing.
Li Miaomiao originally wanted to argue a bit more, but once the strawberry entered her mouth, she forgot everything else.
Mmm! So delicious!
And so, the two of them sat cross-legged beside the field without caring about appearances, eating strawberry after strawberry.
What Luo Wangshu didn’t notice was that after he ate the strawberries, the land quietly expanded a little, and the strawberries’ growth speed also became much faster.