RI Chapter 61

Lihua smiled embarrassedly and playfully nudged her brother, whose mouth was covered in grease from eating, saying, “It’s alright, it’s just that we make the same few dishes every day. Even if they weren’t delicious, they’ve become delicious by now. Brother Lei, Sister Xie, please eat more if you like them.”

“Lihua, you’re too modest. Yesterday, Yiren and I ate rice noodles at a restaurant in town, and they weren’t as good as what you cook.”

Hearing this, Lihua smiled even more happily, her eyes sparkling. “Really? I didn’t know they were so delicious.”

Xiao Chuang chimed in, “What Ah-jie makes is delicious, the most delicious in the world.”

These words made the usually stern Azhuo smile as well, looking at his younger siblings with affection.

Seeing the good atmosphere, Lei Yun took out a thousand yuan from his pocket and placed it on the table, saying, “Um, Brother Azhuo, Yiren and I want to stay here for a few days. We also want to go to Little Ji Mountain. This is for living expenses.”

Seeing this, Lihua waved her hands repeatedly, and Azhuo was also a little surprised. “This is too much, we can’t accept it.”

Lei Yun then said, “We might be staying for a while, and we’ll be eating at your house, so please accept it.”

“Also, we want to wander around nearby.” He glanced at Xiao Chuang, who was gnawing on a chicken leg, and said, “Could you let Xiao Chuang take us around the area these days? That way, it won’t interfere with your work.”

The siblings exchanged a look, and Azhuo nodded, accepting the money and saying, “Okay, it just so happens we live at home, and tomorrow Xiao Chuang will take you around.”

After the meal, they roughly washed up and went back to their rooms to sleep. Lihua’s house had small rooms, and the beds weren’t very big either.

“I’ll sleep on the bed, you sleep on the floor,” Lei Yun said.

Chen Jing glanced at the floor and then at the only quilt on the bed, saying, “There’s no extra quilt.”

The mountain air at night was quite humid, and the temperature was much lower than at noon. If he slept directly on the floor, Lei Yun definitely wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Lei Yun naturally knew this, and he scratched his head embarrassedly, saying very gentlemanly, “It’s okay, I’ll just make do on the floor. You go to sleep.”

Hearing this, Chen Jing was too lazy to argue with him, only thinking to herself, why has Lei Yun been acting so awkward these past few days?

The bamboo house was truly cold in the middle of the night. Lei Yun leaned against the table and couldn’t help but rub the goosebumps on his body. The soft hissing sounds reached Chen Jing’s ears on the bed.

Then, a cold and gentle voice reached Lei Yun’s ears, “Come up and sleep. Don’t let Little Ji Mountain not be reached, and you freeze yourself first.”

Hearing this sentence, Lei Yun only registered the words “come up and sleep” in his mind. He didn’t hear the first part clearly.

He dazedly looked ahead. Seeing that he wasn’t moving, Chen Jing quickly got up, her long hair loose, and sat prettily on the bed, looking at the stunned Lei Yun.

“You’re not frozen stiff, are you?”

Lei Yun looked over, his body tensed up, and he shook his head, saying, “No, no.”

Seeing this, Chen Jing was too lazy to pay attention to him. She directly moved to the side, revealing a part of the bed for him, “Then hurry up and go to sleep.”

Lei Yun supported himself on the table and got up, slowly walking to the bed and lying down, his whole body stiff. He started to overthink.

He could already hear Chen Jing’s even breathing beside him, and he could clearly smell the cold and refreshing fragrance from her body, which almost made Lei Yun dizzy.

He violently shook his head, relaxed his nerves, and slowly fell asleep.

Chen Jing, who was beside him, suddenly opened her eyes and stared blankly at the wall, not knowing what she was thinking. After a long time, she closed her eyes again.

The next morning, mountain songs rang out in the village. Lei Yun woke up groggily, discovering that his hand was on something soft, and his arms held a fragrant body. He suddenly woke up and looked over, only to see Chen Jing leaning against his embrace in her sleep.

He looked at her fair and delicate face, her eyelashes trembling slightly. He quickly removed his hand from her waist, almost falling off the bed. He quickly grabbed his coat and walked out of the room, thinking to himself, “I’m really falling for her.”

He suddenly slapped himself on the face and said with a bitter face, “How could I hug her in my sleep? If I wasn’t aware of it and Xin Ying didn’t see it, I would have lost all face.”

Lihua and her brother, who were cleaning the yard, were both puzzled and surprised by Lei Yun’s actions. The siblings exchanged glances, both wondering if the two of them were having a fight.

However, in the morning, when Chen Jing woke up, Lei Yun’s behavior was still the same as yesterday.

After they had breakfast, Xiao Chuang took them to wander around the area.

On the mountain path, Lei Yun casually asked, “Xiao Chuang, have many tourists been coming to the village recently?”

Xiao Chuang was tugging at dogtail grass, and after thinking for a while, he said, “Not many. Besides you two, there’s another brother.”

Hearing this, Lei Yun and Chen Jing thought to themselves, “This person must be Qi Ming.”

“Which family does that brother live with?”

Xiao Chuang looked around, making sure no one was around, and whispered, “He lives at Uncle Kanshan’s house. A few days ago, I heard that he went to participate in the Flower God Festival.”

He carefully looked around and continued, “Don’t tell my Ah-ge and Ah-jie.”

Flower God Festival. Just from the name, you could tell that it must be related to the Flower God.

Lei Yun and Chen Jing smiled and nodded, indicating that they would definitely not tell.

However, why Qi Ming wanted to worship the Flower God made them feel puzzled.

They coaxed Xiao Chuang to take them to the vicinity of Little Ji Mountain.

Little Ji Mountain was a very tall mountain. To enter, you had to pass through the village.

Xiao Chuang pointed to a small black dot on the mountainside and said, “That is the Flower God Temple.”

Lei Yun and Chen Jing pretended to take a few pictures, looking at the Flower God Temple.

From the high mountainside, they could vaguely see a temple in the middle.

“Brother Lei, don’t go up there today. The Flower God Temple is very high. In a few days, the village will hold the Flower God Festival. We’ll come and see it together then.”

After speaking, he pulled Lei Yun and walked to the side with a grin, saying, “Brother Lei, if you have any unfulfilled wishes, you can ask the Flower God to bless you.”

They had heard in the town that the Flower God blesses love and marriage. Now it seemed that most of the people here believed in it, especially the unmarried women.

Lei Yun and Chen Jing’s arrival had given them the illusion that they were seeking a happy marriage.

Although the people here were always very wary, after staying in the village, they treated Lei Yun and Chen Jing very kindly, sometimes chatting with them. How could Lei Yun miss such a good opportunity? He learned a lot of things from chatting with the aunties.

Qi Ming, who lived at Uncle Kanshan’s house, never came out, staying inside all day. Several women in the village had been gossiping about it for days.

“Alang, isn’t it strange? The one who lives at Kanshan’s house, he’s always holed up inside, so weird.”

“Yeah, yeah, we only saw him once when they first entered the village. Such a handsome Alang, how could he be like that?”

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