Begging You to Break Off This Engagement! Chapter 18.2

Translated by Amaryllideae, Unedited because Ahzinal has very important exams!!! Everyone wish them luck :3

Han Xu told Luo Fei about a few basic designs, wanting to hear Luo Fei's opinion. Luo Fei told him to just embroider some clusters of flowers and a flying phoenix, the symbolism was good and it would also look beautiful. When he was in the modern world, Luo Fei used to see a lot of his Grandma's embroidery drawings, after a few minutes he already suggested a few classic ones to Han Xu. As Han Xu listened, he was extremely pleased, as expected and said: “That is also good, then let's embroider what you said. But when I don't know how to do something you ought to teach me.”

“Don't worry, don't worry, who's the one with you? If you don't know how to do something just come over with the veil anytime.” Luo Fei finished and rubbed his ears. “Hey, what if I just call him ‘big tiger'?”

“Ah? What big tiger?” Han Xu didn't look up from embroidering.

“Just Xi Yanqing, how about I call him 'big tiger'?"

“Pfft, why do you want to call him 'big tiger'?”

"Look, he's so tall and big, and he definitely has a lot of strength, you know? Even that heavy of a hammer when you ask him to swing it, he can just do it, if it was me, just lifting it would take so much energy.”

“The yellow cow's strength is also big, why don't you just call him 'big yellow cow'?! Ha, what exactly is your brain filled with?” Han Xu teased, “although hearing you say it like that it seems like it would be pretty fun, occasionally calling him like that would be okay. My family's Hua Zhang-ge, I usually call him a Brother Carpenter, others don't call him like this, and he is willing to let me be the only one to call him like that.”

“Wow wow, you seem so satisfied.”

“Of course, his carpentry work is very good. He has built a new set of furniture for the new house. I will take you to see it later, it is super beautiful.” Han Xu just thinking about it made him happy. “Right, right, there is also an important thing I almost forgot to tell you. Five years ago, Brother Carpenter prepared a lot of wood. This time, even after making the furniture, there is still some material left. He asked me if you and your Xi-dage is lacking any furniture, if so he will find the time to build it for you. No need to pay. But it seems he won't be able to make anything too big, he should be able to make two small pieces, like tables or chairs.”

“We actually do have stuff we need to make, but this matter I will have to ask Xi Yanqing first, I can't make your Brother Carpenter work for nothing.” He has a good relationship with Han Xu, but this is another matter*. Furniture are big items, these ancient times aren't like the modern times where there are many convenient tools to use, what electric drill or expander bolts, here it is really purely reliant on one's craftsmanship, making things was quite troublesome.

[T/N: The idiom is literally "That's a horse of another color."]

“You saying it like that I am not happy to hear, who just talked to  you about that? Us two, who is close with whom?”

“All right, then I will first ask Xi Yanqing what we're missing.” Xi Yanqing is the boss, this matter has to be reported to the boss.

Han Xu sat down for another while and then said that he would first sketch out the design and the come find Luo Fei. And Luo Fei, with new information, naturally hurriedly went to the boss to discuss.

Xi Yanqing had already finished mending the vegetable garden fence. At this moment, he was carrying the shovel on his right shoulder, with his left hand carrying the hammer, walking to the front yard. In the end, he really was a person who been a soldier and fought a war, when he walked his footsteps felt particularly firm and steady.

Luo Fei was standing and admiring him from the perspective of a homosexual male, feeling  that this person was actually quite… good.

“What are you looking at?” Xi Yanqing walked over, laid down the hammer and the shovel, as he lowered his voice and asked Luo Fei. “Did you suddenly realize that your husband is quite handsome?”

“As if! Hey, let me talk to you a real matter. Just now Han Xu said that his Brother Carpenter has finished making their furniture and has some wood left. He can make two small pieces. Tables and chairs or something, asking us if we want it or not, no need to pay. I said I would ask you.”

"It'd be good if he could do it. I've seen Chen Huazhang's craftsmanship, it is rather good. But doing for free may not be good. Not to mention, the furniture we need is more than just a small piece or two, later let's think about what we need together, and then invite him to our place to consult. 　　

“… Do we have enough money?” Luo Fei hesitated before asking.

“When that time comes, let's ask first. If we really can't do it, then let's do two practical things first. Didn't you say that you wanted to change the dish rack in the morning? Let's switch to a bigger one, and then have a table made. Right, we also have to get a small chair for you, so when you wash the clothes you don't have to just squat there.” There is a small stool in the house, but it is too tall, if Luo Fei is just sitting then it's fine, but if he's sitting on it doing work, it would be uncomfortable.

“Then I'll tell Han Xu later.” Luo Fei finished saying and then didn't move. Originally he had thought about mentioning the “big tiger” matter. But afterwards he thought it would be quite ambiguous to make a special form of address for him that others didn't use. So he just forgot about it, lest Xi Yanqing think too much about it.

The next morning, the last bowl of braised pork with stewed egg and six steamed buns from their wedding was left. Luo Fei heated them up and they ate them with some plain boiled water. After eating, he went to the garden with Xi Yanqing to work. Xi Yanqing said that the potatoes and Chinese cabbage* had to be planted today.

[T/N: Chinese cabbage is different from American cabbage; it's more watery and I personally like it better~]

Luo Fei was not quite sure how to do this kind of work, because Xi Yanqing planted the crops was not quite the same as others. He looked at the neighbors' fields and they first sowed the seeds before they watered them. However Xi Yanqing first watered, and then spread a thin layer of soil on top before sowing, also the depth of the seeds he planted was also different from that of their neighbors. Different from how the Luo family did it as well. However, Luo Fei watched for a while, and felt that he was able to do this work, he took over and let Xi Yanqing go do other things.

Xi Yanqing said that he would go set up the chicken coop, and seeing that Luo Fei was planting well, he went to go bring the old planks over. Previously when he went to the Luo House to borrow planes, he kept one, this time he picked suitable old boards to use and used the plane to even the surfaces again, trying to use the waste material to the greatest extent of its usefulness.

The front yard of the house is smaller than the backyard. The front yard is about 40 to 50 square meters, and the backyard is around three to four hundred square meters. After Xi Yanqing finished planing the boards and figured out what to do with Luo Fei, they decided to put the chicken coop next to the entrance of the vegetable garden, so that when they were weeding or thinning out the seedlings, the greens could be thrown to the chickens to eat without having to bring them to the front yard. In addition, whenever people come, the first place they enter is the front yard, if the front yard is clean then it would give people the feeling that the whole house is very neat.

Xi Yanqing's work is very efficient, after pounding for a while, he managed to make a chicken coop. As for others, the old boards were gone, and if they wanted something else they'd have to find the suitable materials for it.

Luo Fei had finished planting the potato and Chinese cabbage according how Xi Yanqing instructed, he saw that a piece of land next to him  was still clear, and it was especially in the middle, and so he asked Xi Yanqing: “What are we planting on this piece of land?”

Xi Yanqing said mysteriously: “This piece of land we won't plant anything for the time being, I'll tell you about it later.”

Luo Fei curled his lip: "Don't care if you won't tell me.”

Xi Yanqing seeing his little donkey's mood, smiled and said nothing.

During the day, they did a lot of work. In the evening, Xi Yanqing couldn't stand his own body's sweatiness any longer. Fortunately, they had boiled a lot of water at home, and it was quite convenient to take a bath. He ate the porridge that Luo Fei had boiled with a "virgin"* sesame coated baked cake that Luo Fei had made; it was so hard every time he took a bite he thought his teeth would fall out. Soon after he moved the bath tub to the kitchen and poured hot water into it, after telling Luo Fei he undressed and went in to soak.

[T/N: Xi Yanqing called it a "virgin" cake because virgin males don't have a S.O. to cook good food for them, thus why it's so hard lolol The cakes aren't sweet dessert cakes, more like salty pan fried breakfast biscuit things. Sometimes they're stuffed with veggies, meat or bean paste!]

Luo Fei sitting in the house listening to the "hualala" (water splashing)  movements, couldn't sleep. Plus, the sesame pancake was so hard that after eating it, his stomach felt uncomfortable. And so he sat by the lamp and began to piece together cloth–his pillowcase has not been finished yet.

After a while, around the time the water was pretty much cold, and Xi Yanqing shouted from the kitchen: ” Luo Fei, can you get a clean underwear for me?”

Xi Yanqing really did not deliberately forget this time, it was just that he was used to washing by himself, and after washing he just went – naked – into the house to wipe his body. But Luo Fei is here, and he could not really just go in face to face Luo Fei naked.

[T/N: Or he could ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

However Luo Fei was sewing to a critical place but actually wrongly stitched—it was mainly because the light was too dim, and he pieced it together incorrectly. He had planned to piece out several geometric patterns for the design, piecing it together was not the outcome he had wanted. And since he was annoyed, he yelled back: "Why don't you get it yourself! I don't care! Just come out naked!”

Xi Yanqing heard this and thought, ah, you brat, you think I won't? This is what you told me to do!

Xi Yanqing stood up, and it was that kind of quietly standing up, giving people the illusion that he was still in the tub. Then he didn't even put on his shoes, barefoot, dripping water and entered the house.

“You…” Luo Fei felt that the already dim light that was suddenly blocked by something, and it became darker. He looked up and was immediately dumbfounded. “Xi Yanqing! You  you you! You hoodlum*!”

[T/N: Could be translated as exhibitionist too lol]

“I am a hoodlum? You were obviously the one that had me come out like this.” Deep down in Xi Yanqing's heart there was also a sense discomfort. After all, he has gotten this old and this was still his first time revealing his entire body to someone else. However, he tried to keep his face from changing. He opened the cabinet and took some clothes out. “My body's not bad, huh?”

“As if it's not bad! I, I, I, I'm going out! Yo can change slowly!” Luo Fei was really a little frightened this time. He also didn't care whether the thing in his hand needed to have the stitching torn, after throwing it to the side he slipped away and ran outside.

“Tsk, his face is really thin.” Xi Yanqing  dressed himself in an unhurried manner, and after finishing it, he remembered that when Luo Fei ran out, he seemed to be only wearing a flimsy garment. So he took a coat and went out to see if his little wife was really embarrassed.　　

The air outside was indeed cool, and the heat on Luo Fei's face had dissipated a bit. But for thousands, no ten thousands of reasons he shouldn't have said at this moment while poking a pole of the fence: "Fuck! The boss's bird* seems to be thicker than this!"

Xi Yanqing was holding the clothes as he said: “Pff, what are you talking about?”

Luo Fei: “!!!”

This was so fucking embarrassing!

Luo Fei turned around his complexion alternating between green and red: “I, I mean, this wood is quite, quite thick.”

Xi Yanqing  nodded and acted as if he was taking this very seriously: “En, it seems to only be a little thinner than mine.”

Luo Fei: “…”

You really heard it! Heard it! Heard it!

Xi Yanqing draped the clothing over Luo Fei: “Let's go into the house, it's cold outside.”

Luo Fei just discovered that Xi Yanqing  had come out to bring clothes to him when he had not even finished drying his hair. He knows that he should say thank you at this time, but, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, could it get even more 囧* than this? ! Now Luo Fei wished he could just hang himself on the tree. How could he be stupid to this point? Could he just say that kind of thing casually? !

[T/N: Chinese character used as an emoji 囧]

After Luo Fei entered the house, he let little Film Emperor Luo out without thinking, deciding to play mute for a few days.

Chapter end