Chapter 195: Marry This Girl and Bring Her Home!

“Your aunt heard that a century-old shop in Luo City makes excellent braised pork hock. Qinger, could you go buy one for me?”

Jiang Yuerou looked at Jiang Qingshang with a smile.

Jiang Qingshang knew that her Master wanted to send her away so she could speak with her husband alone.

“Master, that shop’s braised pork hock actually isn’t that good,” Jiang Qingshang murmured.

She couldn’t leave.

Even though she trusted that her Master wouldn’t expose her identity,

what if her Master said something else that made things difficult for her husband?

Jiang Qingshang didn’t believe Lin Xun would leave her for any kind of benefit, and she trusted that Jiang Yuerou wouldn’t do such a thing either.

However, if her Master tried to persuade her husband from another angle…

what if by the time her Master left, her husband came to her at night and said, “Qinger, your aunt told me everything. I can’t hold you back. For your own good and for your future, we should separate”?

If it really turned out like that, what would she do?

“It’s fine, Qinger. That shop’s braised pork hock naturally isn’t as delicious as the ones you make, my lady.”

Seeing Jiang Qingshang’s furrowed brows, Lin Xun took her small hand in his.

“But those pork hocks are decent enough, and I find myself craving them too. Qinger, go buy two of them.”

Lin Xun naturally knew the aunt wanted to talk to him alone, and Qinger was worried.

But Lin Xun felt he was full of integrity and could withstand any questioning from an elder.

Besides, other than visiting brothels to listen to music, he didn’t have any other hobbies—and he really only went there for the music!

At most, he’d watch some dancing!

“Husband…” Jiang Qingshang’s eyes still held a hint of worry.

“It’s alright.” Lin Xun rubbed his wife’s head and said softly, “I’ll just entertain your aunt.”

Watching the two of them gaze at each other with such warmth and happiness, Jiang Yuerou felt full even though she hadn’t eaten anything.

Jiang Yuerou even felt an impulse to set a fire and burn something!

Of course, the one she wanted to burn was this stinking man who had abducted her Disciple! She couldn’t bear to burn Qingshang.

“Mm, I understand.”

She listened to Jiang Qing for small matters and to Lin Xun for big matters—except for taking concubines, of course.

Actually, Jiang Qingshang felt she was very reasonable. Men were men, so what was wrong with taking a concubine? How could she possibly forbid her husband from doing so?

However, every household has its rules. If any other woman wanted to enter the Lin family’s door, there was only one condition: they had to defeat her first.

But regarding this condition, she felt there was no need to tell her husband for the time being.

Besides, in the year since they married, everything that happened in the house had been a “small matter,” so everything followed Jiang Qingshang’s lead.

“Then husband, Auntie, Qinger will be going out now.”

“Mm, be careful on the road.”

Despite her lingering worries, Jiang Qingshang decided that if it really came to that, she would lay her cards on the table with her husband! Then she would just carry him off and run away!

To a place where no one could find them.

In any case, having her husband was enough for this lifetime.

In any case, her husband could forget about ever leaving her in this lifetime.

The courtyard gate slowly closed, leaving only Lin Xun and Jiang Yuerou in the yard.

Only now did Jiang Yuerou slowly take in the courtyard.

This was the place where her Disciple had come for mortal world tempering, only to end up nearly unable to extricate herself.

The courtyard wasn’t large, just a typical small yard with a peach tree and a parasol tree. Since it was winter, both trees were bare.

There was a small flower bed in the yard, planted with some easy-to-care-for Winter Sweets.

There were no other valuable items in the yard. It was clean, tidy, and had a touch of cozy warmth; this was Jiang Yuerou’s impression of the place.

If there was one thing she was dissatisfied with, it was the few books scattered around the courtyard.

These books were scattered in a disorganized mess, making Jiang Yuerou’s obsessive-compulsive heart itch with irritation.

What was wrong with this kid?

How could he leave books lying around so carelessly?

Shouldn’t they be neatly arranged?

Agh!!! I want to put these books in order so badly!

Taking a deep breath, Jiang Yuerou’s chest heaved. Relying on immense willpower, she finally managed to pull her gaze away from those books.

Similarly, Lin Xun noticed Jiang Yuerou looking at those “randomly placed” books, and a smirk played in his mind.

Seeing these carelessly placed books, my persona as a scholar has surely been established in Auntie’s heart.

Now Auntie must be even more satisfied with me!

“Young Master Lin…” Jiang Yuerou looked at Lin Xun with a smile, while the image of him as someone who “leaves things lying around” was already etched into her mind.

Jiang Yuerou even thought to herself,

If this Lin Pei were her Dao Companion, she would definitely train him to have the good habit of “organizing as you go, never throwing things around”!

“Auntie Jiang can just call me Xiao Pei.” Lin Xun poured a cup of tea for Jiang Yuerou, his smile gentle and his words like a spring breeze.

“Mm, then I’ll call you Xiao Pei.” Jiang Yuerou smiled, her eyes curving.

To be honest, Jiang Yuerou felt very awkward calling someone over two thousand years younger than her “Young Master.”

“That is for the best.” Lin Xun smiled back, but soon looked away from Jiang Yuerou.

As for the reason…

【Everyone curses Cao Thief, but everyone wants to become Cao Thief. But at the very least, Lin Xun felt he certainly wasn’t a Cao Thief!】

“Xiao Pei, how did you and Qinger meet?” Jiang Yuerou was somewhat satisfied with Lin Xun’s pure-heartedness; at least it showed that although she was over two thousand years old, she was still young and beautiful!

So how on earth did I become an old lady!

Dammit! Lin Xun! Don’t let me run into you again!

“It was on a summer day.” Lin Xun spoke slowly, his eyes gradually softening. “It was Qinger who saved me.”

“Qinger saved you?” Jiang Yuerou was somewhat surprised.

She didn’t know much about Qinger’s husband; the information she had gathered only covered the two years since he appeared in Luo City to teach.

“Yes.”

Lin Xun filled Jiang Yuerou’s tea.

“That summer day, I was severely injured. Dragging my broken body, I walked like a living corpse until I finally collapsed in front of Qinger’s courtyard.

When I woke up, what I saw was Qinger’s face.

Back then, Qinger was very clumsy. Just brewing a pot of medicine would leave her choking on the smoke, and her small face would be smeared black with charcoal, as if marked by a charcoal pen.

But Qinger didn’t utter a word of complaint as she brewed medicine for me, a stranger.

Even though Qinger’s tone was very blunt every time, saying things like, ‘This is the first time this lady has brewed medicine for a man, so drink it all up, or I won’t let you off even if you die,’

I knew it was just this girl’s little tsundere nature.

At that moment, I secretly made up my mind!

I must marry this girl and bring her home!”