Assassin Farmer

41-50

Chapter 41: The Hard Earned Happiness

“Tired?” Lin Si Yao emptied a bucket filled with warm water into a large basin in a separate room by their bedroom. He intended for Shuilian to take a bath there. 

“I’m fine, thanks for your trouble.” Su Shuilian looked apologetically at Lin Si Yao as he carried the buckets of water into the bedroom and even helped her take out a set of clean clothes and hung it on the hanger.

“Didn’t we promise not to speak so courteously.” Lin Si Yao frowned as he tested the water temperature, “Ok it’s ready, call me when you are done.” Saying that, he lowered the curtains to the bedroom and walked out of the house.

From Lin Si Yao’s unhappy mood, Su Shuilian knew it was because she accepted Aunt Lao’s request of helping Xicui’s with the large embroidery job and thus ignoring him, her newlywed husband.

However, Aunt Lao had come twice early this morning to request for help. The embroidery also had a quickly approaching deadline, if she, Su Shuilian, would have felt bad if she didn’t help out. After all, Aunt Lao and her family had helped her many times.

But A Yao… Su Shuilian thought as she laid her back on the bath barrel and scooped water on her body. As she thought about Lin Si Yao who she didn’t know what he was currently doing, her eyelids started to feel heavier…

Lin Si Yao stood under the cherry tree for a while. The bright moonlight passed through the crevices of leaves and shone down on him. He looked like a jade deity beneath the moon, cool and handsome. It was just the wrinkle between his brow that had broken the seemingly calm and tranquil charm/grace from afar.  

Damn it it’s been so long, why hasn’t she called yet? Did she misunderstand his attitude before? Did she think that he was angry at her? Yes, he was angry, but he wasn’t angry at her. This whole day, all she ate was half a steamed bun. She also did not consume much water either, as she was afraid that she would need to urinate and waste time. And even after all of that to conserve as much time as possible to sew, she and Xicui had only finished one-fourth of the piece. If this continued on for three more days, it would be strange if she could still walk.

Lin Si Yao reluctantly listened in to any movement in the bedroom. After a long time, there was still no sound. Lin Si Yao wrinkled his brow and quickly made his way to the bedroom and knocked: “Shuilian?”

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Lin Si Yao looked at the scene dumbfounded. She had actually fallen asleep in the middle of bathing. She had rested on the side of the barrel with her hair out, as it reached down to the ground.

Taking the large towel from the hanger, Lin Si Yao wrapped Su Shuilian in it and took her out of the water before he let her down on their bed. He dried off her body before covering her with a thin cotton blanket. He then started to dry her waist long hair. With a new dry towel, as he rubbed the hair between it to absorb the water. As an extra measure, he used his internal force to dry the hair and stopped after he did the same with both the wet pillow and the blanket.

Lin Si Yao went to drain the water in the barrel and cleaned the wet floor before taking a cold shower. Afterward, he changed out of his clothes and put them into the wash basin in the kitchen; he planned to wash them tomorrow. When Lin Si Yao came back, he saw Su Shuilian turn, exposing her naked upper body.

Lin Si Yao held back the warm flow coming from his nose and quickly dressed Su Shuilian before he entered into the blankets. He hugged her as he fell asleep: this was his second night of good sleep.

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At the rooster’s third crow, Su Shuilian sluggishly moved her body. Su Shuilian thought back to last night before Xicui had left: she had promised to start working today at Mao-time (5am-7am); Su Shuilian reluctantly opened her eyes.