After dinner, they watched the snow for a while and then went back to their room to wash up.
Lu Yunchu washed first. After he finished washing, when he was looking for Yu Niang to get another basin of hot water for Wen Zhan, he was pulled to the corner by Yu Niang.
"Ma'am, I have something to tell you."
Lu Yunchu looked puzzled: "What are you talking about?"
Yu Niang glanced cautiously towards the room and said, "I have nothing to say from the bottom of my heart. You can find an excuse to come out and look for me later. I will go get some water first, so that your husband won't blame me."
Lu Yunchu was confused. Were they familiar with each other? Why did she open up to him so openly... No, that was not the point. Was she afraid that Wen Zhan would blame her? Wen Zhan? She would not have anything to do with this word, okay
Curiosity killed the cat, and Lu Yunchu finally found an excuse to come out and find Yu Niang.
"I need to prepare breakfast for tomorrow." Lu Yunchu said to Wen Zhan.
Wen Zhan didn't suspect anything, nodded, picked up the cloak and put it on her.
It was cold at night, and I was afraid she would get cold while packing her things in her thin clothes.
So Lu Yunchu wrapped himself in a cloak and sneaked to the back kitchen to find Yu Niang.
Lu Yunchu was good-looking, had a good personality, and had a gentle look in her eyes. Yu Niang fell in love with her at first sight.
"Ma'am, you and I are destined to be together. I have to tell you something."
Lu Yunchu always felt it was strange, and couldn't help being curious, so he lowered his voice and said to her: "You."
"To be honest, I was also the one who pursued my husband."
Lu Yunchu stared.
Yu Niang felt somewhat proud. Sure enough, her guess was correct.
"Only we understand this feeling. Of course, I thought that I had to marry her, so I really tried every possible way and finally got married."
Lu Yunchu felt that Yu Niang and her husband were both ancient people, which was very instructive, so she quickly asked, "What's the method?"
Yu Niang chuckled: "There are many ways. Don't believe those ways that involve crying, making a fuss, and threatening to commit suicide. As for me..." She waved to Lu Yunchu, who quickly leaned over to listen.
When the words reached his ears, Lu Yunchu's eyes widened wider.
Sister, you are too aggressive.
But Yu Niang had no shame at all and kept imparting her experience to her. Lu Yunchu gradually got the taste of it in shock and took notes furiously in his mind.
The two hit it off immediately and had a great conversation. When Lu Yunchu returned, Wen Zhan had been waiting at the table for a long time.
The orange light from the oil lamp sprinkled on his profile, outlining his handsome features. He lowered his eyelashes, and when he heard the noise, he slowly raised his eyes, his every move like a painting.
He picked up the oil lamp and pushed the book aside.
When Lu Yunchu took a look, he saw a message on it: Why did you take so long
"Cough." She choked on her saliva and felt inexplicably guilty.
"There were a lot of things to prepare. I met Yu Niang on the way back and we chatted for a while."
Wen Zhan nodded without questioning it. Because in his heart, Lu Yunchu was good in every way and everyone should like her. It was normal for the innkeeper to take her as a guest and talk to her.
Lu Yunchu walked towards the bed, but suddenly realized something was wrong and quickly turned back.
"What does this mean?" She pointed at the bedding beside the table.
Wen Zhan pointed at the bedding and the pieced-together table top, his meaning was obvious: I'm going to sleep here tonight.
Lu Yunchu was furious, but she soon calmed down. According to Yu Niang's analysis, the two of them are now exactly the same as Yu Niang was at the beginning. Wen Zhan is not repulsive to her and has a good impression of her, but there is still some distance between them and staying together. She needs to work harder.
Start with close contact.
She asked righteously: "You are not in good health, you are lying on the table, and you still want to sleep on the table?"
Wen Zhan was stunned, and his eyes moved to the ground. Lu Yunchu immediately said, "It's even worse on the ground!"
Wen Zhan looked at the narrow bed, feeling a little helpless.
"If you don't want to squeeze with me, it's okay. I'll sleep on the table." She said and started to make the bed.
Wen Zhan hurriedly went over to hold down the quilt, and without saying a word, he obediently carried the quilt to the bed.
Lu Yunchu paused for a moment, then immediately put on a painful expression: "I was moving things just now, and I think I twisted my shoulder. Yu Niang poured me some medicinal wine, and I have to rub it."
When Wen Zhan heard this, he immediately came over with a worried look on his face, took out a pen and paper, and quickly wrote out a long list of questions.
Lu Yunchu didn't look at it, but walked straight to the bed and started taking off his coat.
"Swish—" This was the sound of Wen Zhan stepping backwards and hitting the bench.
He was startled and quickly turned around with his back to Lu Yunchu.
She had a lot to say, but she was dumb and could not speak, so she could only speak. Now Lu Yunchu was taking off her clothes and applying medicine, and she could not hand her little book to her, so she could only draw black circles on it to vent her panic.
"Ah." Lu Yunchu suddenly cried out in pain.
Wen Zhan turned his head subconsciously.
The candlelight was warm, casting an ambiguous halo around her. In the dim light, as the candlelight flickered, a dark shadow, like a hand, gently touched her shoulder.
Wen Zhan abruptly retracted his gaze, turned around and tried to hide, but bumped into the leg of a chair with a "bang".
Lu Yunchu then slowly added what she had not said before: "Ah, it's not easy to apply the medicine." She put down the bottle of medicine wine and said, "Forget it."
How could he just let it go? Wen Zhan pulled himself out of those strange and flustered emotions, his heart filled with worry.
He lowered his head and wrote, and saw that the paper was stained by his drawings. He quickly turned it over and wrote on the back page: Let Yu Niang rub the medicine wine for you.
"But it's so late now, she should be resting, it's not good to disturb the couple."
Wen Zhan then turned around and asked: Where is your maid
"She can't do that. She's a little girl that my family raised as a thug. She's not a tyrant."
While Wen Zhan was thinking, she said lightly: "How about you help me rub it?"
With a "bang", Wen Zhan took a step back and bumped into the table.
Lu Yunchu felt pained when he heard this, and continued: "I also applied medicine to you, let's help each other."
Wen Zhan's hands began to tremble and his scalp was numb. How could this be the same
Her expression was tense, her brows were furrowed, her figure was straight, and under the candlelight she had a clean and cold beauty.
The more this happened, the more Lu Yunchu wanted to press on.
She sighed, "Forget it, maybe the pain will go away, but I don't know if I can sleep tonight. It's really uncomfortable."
She rolled back the quilt and lay down with her head on the pillow. She waited for a while, and there was silence behind her.
That's not right. Didn't Yu Niang know that this trick always works
Just as this thought flashed through my mind, I heard hesitant footsteps behind me.
Wen Zhan knelt down outside the bed, picked up the medicinal wine, and pulled off the bottle cap with a "pop".
Lu Yunchu did not continue to be embarrassed. He sat up and exposed his shoulders and neck.
Wen Zhan's hands were very cold, and the gentle force that fell on his body felt like a snowflake floating down, making Lu Yunchu shiver with cold.
He immediately withdrew his hand, and the friction of the cloth behind him showed that he was very uneasy.
Wen Zhan probably wanted to get a pen and paper to ask, but Lu Yunchu quickly said, "It's okay, it's just that your hands are a little cold. I'm not used to it for a while."
Hearing this, he lowered his head guiltily and rubbed his hands hard to warm them up.
Lu Yunchu didn't look back, but he could imagine how good it would be when he rubbed his hands together.
Now that was good, he poured the medicinal wine into his palm and dropped it on Lu Yunchu's shoulders and neck.
He was afraid of hurting her, so he used very light force. Lu Yunchu was not injured, and wanted to ask for a massage, but the force was neither light nor strong, and it couldn't even relieve the pain and fatigue.
"Too light."
Wen Zhan increased his strength, rubbed it a bit, paused, as if asking a question.
"That's about it."
So Wen Zhan diligently massaged her shoulders and neck with a steady force, not at all inconsistent. But the shaking became more and more severe as time went on, and even with more force, Lu Yunchu could feel it shaking.
She said, "Are you shaking?"
Wen Zhan would not answer her. She turned around and found that Wen Zhan was tilting his head, not daring to look over here, kneeling beside the bed, silently changing his hand.
It stopped shaking now, but after a while, it became unstable again.
Lu Yunchu let it go: "Okay, that's it."
Wen Zhan immediately stood up and rushed out of the room as if escaping.
He just went out and rushed back, picked up the copper basin, and ran away in a panic.
Wen Zhan fetched some water, used some wood ash to wash off the grease and the medicinal wine, but no matter how he washed, he couldn't get rid of the itchy and numb feeling on the palms of his hands. It was like being licked by a tongue of fire, hot and prickly, and he didn't even have the strength to clench his fists.
What kind of medicinal wine is this? Why does it have such strange effects
He muttered to himself for a while, then soaked in the ice-cold well water for a while, but still couldn't get rid of the hot and numbing feeling, so he returned to his room helplessly.
Lu Yunchu had already fallen asleep, lying facing the wall, and only his back could be seen.
Wen Zhan breathed a sigh of relief for some reason, quietly took off his coat, climbed onto the bed, and fell asleep close to the edge of the bed.
The bed in the inn was too narrow. Even though I was leaning against the edge of the bed, I could clearly feel Lu Yunchu sleeping next to me.
His heart was restless and his hands began to feel uncomfortable again. He quickly raised his hands to press on his chest to get the two disobedient guys to quiet down.
Lu Yunchu turned over and his head rubbed against his father's back.
Wen Zhan was still wondering why he had become so strange, when he suddenly felt her approaching. He quickly steadied himself and nearly fell under the bed.
Fortunately, she didn't fall off the bed, otherwise, if she woke up, who knows what would happen.
No... She can't do that. It makes her look a little bit bad.
She is not bad. When Wen Zhan thought about how she applied medicine on him, his face inexplicably turned red. He felt that after what happened today, the thought of "applying medicine" would be different.
I had no idea how exactly it was different, so I could only keep clenching my fists, thinking hard, looking out the window, and being alert to the person behind me, in case she had a bad sleeping posture and fell on him.
In this way, I didn't sleep all night until the dawn, when I closed my eyes in a daze.
When Lu Yunchu woke up, she found Wen Zhan curled up in a ball, looking very cold. She didn't wake him up, but gently lifted the quilt, stepped over him and got out of bed.
By the time breakfast was ready, Wen Zhan hadn't gotten up yet.
Lu Yunchu thought that he had caught a cold last night and was a little worried, so he brought breakfast to the room.
Wen Zhan didn't have much need for sleep, but he had been tossing and turning all night thinking about many things, so he fell into a very deep sleep in the past hour or two.
His sleeping position was just like his sexual condition, very regular. He made no small movements, nor any signs of deep sleep. He just lay there quietly, looking less angry than usual.
Food cools down quickly in winter, so Lu Yunchu had to wake her up and let her eat before going back to sleep.
She walked towards Wen Zhan with a scallion pancake in her hand and shook the pancake in front of her.
Wen Zhan was awakened by a burst of oily fumes with a scent of onions. The sudden aroma rushed him into his dreamland, and before his brain could react, his body had already woken up.
When I opened my eyes, the light was so dazzling that I couldn't help but squint.
After she woke up completely, the fragrance became more obvious. She looked at Lu Yunchu who had taken back his hand in a daze. She was grinning.
"Get up quickly, it's time to eat."
When Wen Zhan just woke up, he was bleary-eyed, his hair was a little messy, and his eyes were no longer clear, covered with a layer of mist, which was in stark contrast to usual.
He propped up his upper body and sat up, his mind in a mess. Lu Yunchu asked him to get up, and he did as if he was obeying an order, throwing off the quilt and preparing to stand up.
Lu Yunchu quickly stopped him: “Put on your shoes.” He then threw his clothes on the bedding.
Wen Zhan stared at the clothes on the quilt for three seconds, reached out his hand, reacted for another three seconds, shook his head, and finally woke up.
He got out of bed quickly, dressed, washed, and by the time he finished cleaning and sat at the table, he was back to normal.
But I thought about it for too long last night, and my mind is still a bit confused and uncomfortable.
Today's breakfast was tofu pudding and scallion pancakes. Lu Yunchu woke up early and tinkered with Yu Niang in the kitchen for a while. He also taught her some skills as tuition.
Wen Zhan mechanically lowered his head to eat, scooped up a spoonful of smooth and white tofu pudding, blew on it twice, and put it into his mouth. The hot, fresh and salty tofu pudding slid all the way into his stomach, and he was completely refreshed.
Lu Yunchu had served a large bowl of tofu pudding. I was a little surprised when I first saw it, because Lu Yunchu had to control his food intake and seldom served so much. But when I ate the tofu pudding, I didn't understand why.
The tofu pudding has a very thin texture, not chewy, and is slippery. It melts at the touch, and is tender and delicious. It feels like you haven't eaten anything, but you have actually eaten it.
There is a lot of soup, which is very refreshing when paired with scallion pancakes.
The scallion pancakes are fried in oil, golden and crispy on the outside and fluffy and soft on the inside. There are not too many seasonings, only rich scallion fragrance and oily and fresh salty taste.
Take a sip of the steaming tofu pudding and a bite of the crispy scallion pancake. The sense of happiness brought by the carbohydrates makes you feel warm all over and all your strength comes back.
Lu Yunchu made the scallion oil pancakes very thin and round. The inside was not filled with dense dough, but with hot air generated by high temperature. When you bite into it, the fragrant dough and hot air gushed out.
Some foods should be eaten delicately, while some foods should be eaten roughly and unrestrainedly, so as not to be unworthy of their simple deliciousness.
Lu Yunchu pressed the scallion oil pancake into the soup, then held it up to eat, making a slurping sound as he ate.
Wen Zhan was curious and followed suit.
Dip the scallion pancake into the tofu pudding soup, the fragrant and fresh soup scrapes away the greasiness of the skin, but retains the crispness of the outer shell. The fluffy and bulging filling has small pores and absorbs the juice crazily. After a few stops, it has absorbed enough soup and becomes heavy and soft, full of soup.
Take a bite while the heat is still there, the soup makes the pancake become sticky and chewy. The combination of these already delicious foods doubles your sense of happiness.
He ate not roughly, but very quickly. Lu Yunchu almost suspected that he swallowed without chewing it thoroughly. He ate a bowl of tofu pudding and scallion pancakes cleanly. After finishing, he still felt unsatisfied. However, he had eaten enough today, so he did not stare at Lu Yunchu and beg for food.
Wen Zhan felt full and sleepy. He blinked and his eyes became misty again.
They were about to set off on their journey, so Lu Yunchu woke them up and said, "Go and sleep in the carriage."
Wen Zhan nodded, stood up and followed Lu Yunchu downstairs.
Lu Yunchu walked behind him, stretched his arms lazily, and patted his shoulders and neck.
Wen Zhan was still in a daze, but her action suddenly reminded him of last night's memory. He woke up immediately and all sleepiness disappeared.
Yu Niang was packing her luggage with the guards when she saw Wen Zhan coming down. Her face was still as cold, but her ears were red. Upon closer inspection, she could see that the expression on his face showed that he was full and satisfied.
She was extremely shocked. As expected of Lady Lu, she acted so quickly.