Begging You to Break Off This Engagement!

19.2

Translated by Dandan, Edited by Ahzinal

At first, Luo Tian and Li Yuehua worried that after Luo Fei was married off to the Xi's house, he would cry and shout about wanting to go home not even after two days. They didn't expect that kid to actually be successful in settling down and establishing roots. They obviously lived so close to each other, but he had actually not even returned once to his parent's house. Originally, Li Yuehua had wanted to go to the Xi house to see how Luo Fei was doing, but she was stopped by Luo Tian.

"How many days has it been?" Luo Tian said, "Just wait a little longer. You will be able to see him when they visit us*. Don't let Xi Yanqing worry." According to the customs of Yu Qing Country, there are to be three visits to the bride's parents. One visit is on the sixth day after marriage, the second is on the sixteenth day, and the third is on the twenty-sixth day. Accounting for all the "sixes*" of each month means that everything will go smoothly in the future. During this period, it wasn't that no one visited early, and some mothers would even go to see their own children, but if that happened , it is easy to be gossiped about by people behind their backs. If it wasn't that "the party that married their children out of the house is not at ease with the husband's family", then it's that "the child's marriage is not going well". Anyway, nothing good came of it, so no one usually did it. After all, It was only in six days, so talking about the length, it wasn't that much.

[T/N: Married women often come back to visit their parents' homes with their husband as part of rituals.]

[T/N: I think the smooth marriage correlation is that the word six (六, liu) is a homophone for the word smooth (流, liu) But here's more info (last paragraph)]

"All right. I-I'm just worried that they aren't able to eat well. I'm telling you, since he was young till now, Er-bao's cooking skills have not improved. Also, Yanqing just returned from fighting in a war. I reckon the he also wouldn't know how to make some stuff to eat. What if......"

"What 'what if'? You women just love to worry." Luo Tian lying in the blankets rested his head on his sturdy arm. "You can just be at ease. Can't you tell from Yanqing, that kid's expression when he looks at Er-bao? He cherishes our Er-bao in his heart and definitely wouldn't allow Er-bao to suffer any grievances. When I came back from the field today, I met Xiao Zhou. Xiao Zhou also told me that Xi Yanqing and Er-bao were laboring together while talking and laughing. Afterwards, the Zhou family's old aunt reminded them that after getting married, Er-bao should pay more attention to his body. Yanqing immediately didn't let our Er-bao work anymore."

"Ai, Er-bao, after leaving home, he is really like a chick flying from the nest. Even if you try, you can't even catch him anymore."

"Hei, I say, Li Yuehua, is something wrong with you? The one who was afraid that he would come back is you, but then the one complaining that he is not coming back is also you." Luo Tian shook his head. "Really hard to please!"

"Still don't know who is serving who!" Li Yuehua glared, "Aren't I just, just concerned about him? I'm saying, that plum blossom on his hand is so light that you can't even see the color. What if it's really as Qin Guizhi said? I'm really afraid that during then our Er-bao..."

"Younger generations will do well on their own. Why are you thinking so much? Sleep!"

"You want to sleep, sleep yourself!" Li Yuehua turned onto her other side and continued to think about her Er-bao. She counted on her fingers and it seemed that there were still two days until he could come back. Thinking about it, she felt that two days were still quite difficult to bear.

However, some people just can't help but keep harping on, but it seems that after harping on about it, they (XYQ and LF) actually came.

After Xi Yanqing's quail egg and dough clump soup, Luo Fei ate another not fully cooked deep-fried pancake alongside a not fully cooked plate of pan-fried potato pieces, as well as a plate of soft and mushy mashed potatoes, that were boiled for too long because he was afraid they would still be raw.