Begging You to Break Off This Engagement! Chapter 24 part1

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What Luo Fei thought of, he did. After bringing the chicks home, he really went to go find the big tiger to pull out the feathers. Of course, this “pulling out the feathers” was not “pulling out the fur”of the other. Luo Fei wanted to pull out the feathers of the big rooster at home. After all,  there were not many living expenses left at home now.

[TN: In Chinese, the character for feathers and fur is the same. Luo Fei is saying he didn't want to "pull out the tiger's fur" aka annoy Xi Yanqing bc he needs more living expenses.]

Originally, Luo Fei had some money in his hands, but he had to spend it to afford to buy food. Oil, salt, and vinegar also cost money. In addition, adding some bowls and plates to their cupboards wasn't free. Xi Yanqing was busy working in the fields every day and simply did not have time, so the matter of buying all these things naturally fell on Luo Fei.

At the beginning, he thought about noting down the expenses and later asking Xi Yanqing for reimbursement, but after buying all of that, he thought about how the two of them always ate together. It was not reasonable to especially have Xi Yanqing pay for all of it. Moreover, this money was originally from Xi Yanqing, so he didn't say anything. In any case, he could buy everything he needed for himself with his own money. Today was three wen, tomorrow five wen. It seemed that he didn't spend much each day, but the money wasall spent bit by bit like this. After buying the chicks, Luo Fei had only five copper coins left.

Luo Fei looked at the chicks in their new home "jijijiji" chirping, and used his elbow to poke Xi Yanqing next to him. As if they were just casually chatting, he said: “Hey, there are almost no more living expenses left, can you pay some of my salary in advance?"

Recently, Xi Yanqing had been leaving early and returning late, he really had forgotten about this matter. Hearing this, he did not raise any objections and took a money bag out: "It was my negligence. I should have given you this earlier. Recently, I've only been thinking about how to increase the output of the fields every day and forgot about this.”

Luo Fei opened the bag and looked in it, he said very startled: “So much?!”

In there was not only a lot of copper coins, but there was also some pieces of silver. He estimated that there must be two or three taels of it. He looked at Xi Yanqing with some surprise: “Isn't this too much? Just leaving some for living expenses is fine. The main issue is just that we don't have much food at home right now. Once the crops in the garden grow, the expenses should be reduced.”

In those years when Xi Yu was away, no one had planted any vegetables. It was even more impossible that they would have something like dried vegetables, so they just bought some and brought it home to fix up pickled vegetables with porridge. Other times, they would buy some tofu to eat. Living like this, naturally they would have some extra living expenses. However, after fall this year, they would have dried some vegetables and naturally won't lack vegetables that they would otherwise need to buy.

Xi Yanqing knew that there were three taels of silver and around three coppers in the bag. This was not all of the household monetary property, but to them at this time, it was still not a small amount. But he still insisted on giving it Luo Fei: “Didn't we already discuss that it's better for you to take care of the household tasks, and I'll take care of the outside work? The things I can help out with at home I'll help out with, things I can't help with then I can only ask you to work hard. Besides this, I probably also have another ten taels of silver on hand. We'll leave it for when we have to deal with emergencies. What I mean is if it's possible not to use that portion of money, then we must do our best not to touch it . Let's strive to first become self-sufficient this year. Wait for me to finish dealing with the land here

 Then, once I go into the mountains to find some medicinal herbs to plant here, that should be another source of  income.”

“All right, then you can be at ease. I will definitely not spend it recklessly.” Luo Fei said, “You can trust me. I naturally will not disappoint you.” It was three taels of silver coins! That is equivalent to the living expenses of a farmer's family for one entire year! Luo Fei felt that if it was him, he may not necessarily be so generous. No! He definitely would not be so generous!

“I've never doubted my own foresight, and I wouldn't doubt yours even more.” Xi Yanqing rubbed Luo Fei's head, “Right, you said that Auntie Pan told you that you can't let these little things stay on the ground yet? Then for the time being, the outside chicken coops can't be used by them. We must find a temporary lodging for them.”

“I know what to do!” Luo Fei carefully put away the money. “Han Xu said that the cupboard was finished. Tomorrow, him and his brother Carpenter are going to come over. I'm wondering if we could just remove the old cupboard this afternoon. Then we can knock part of it down and fix it up a little. After that, can't we give it to the chicks to live in? "

“That's also fine. Then you go and get the bowls and plates in there. I will help you with it in a bit.”

“I'll go do it right now!” Luo Fei quickly got up and went to remove the things in the cupboard (term specifically refers to one that holds dishes).

Xi Yanqing took advantage of this time to find some tools he could use. After Luo Fei had finished removing the dishes, he took the cupboard from inside the house outside. The outside light was good. He used a saw to cut away the partitions carefully. He changed the “four rooms” into “one room”. Then he smoothed the edges as much as possible, so as not to inadvertently prick the chicks. After finishing this, he wiped the cupboard clean and carried it into the house.

But evidently, the height of the sides after putting them in was not enough. It was only 30 centimeters. They guessed that after growing for a couple of days, the chicks will have flown out.

Thus, Xi Yanqing borrowed two bundles of rice straw from Aunt Zhou's house next door. He weaved it together, making it like a big seamless fence, and placed it around the cupboard. Like this, the chicks would have no way of jumping out.

Luo Fei sent the chicks to their new home one by one. Seeing that they couldn't jump out even when they expended a lot of effort, clicking his tongue, he praisingly said: "Qing-ge, aren't you too OP? You even know how to do this.”

Xi Yanqing smiled and said: “All right, then you can continue to watch them for a while. I'm going to make a trip to the cornfields and thin out the seedlings while the weather is still not too hot.”

“Is it very urgent? If not, then let's get up early tomorrow and do it together. It's already this time, you should also take a rest.”

“That's true… All right, I will act as if I'm giving myself a day off today.” Since he began laboring in the fields, he hadn't had a single leisure day. Xi Yanqing also indeed felt somewhat tired.

“Then you sleep for a while. I'll prepare some food.”

“Can I use your pillow to rest my head?” Xi Yanqing asked.

“Sure.” Luo Fei climbed onto the bed and got his pillow. He then put it onto the bed and patted it. “Sleep!” The way he said it was very refreshing.

“If I had known earlier that you would agree so easily, then I should have had you let me use your legs to rest my head on for a while.” Xi Yanqing had a face of regret. “Is it still too late to ask now?”

“Stop that! Go sleep!” Luo Fei was slightly fierce towards Xi Yanqing. He wanted to go out afterwards, yet he got pulled over by Xi Yanqing. Xi Yanqing looked at him for a moment with an unsmiling expression, then lightly pecked his lips.

Luo Fei's face immediately became red. He glared at Xi Yanqing while clenching his fists. He had an appearance of “If you dare kiss me again, I will jump up and give you a beating!” Then, covering his mouth, he ran away.

Xi Yanqing looked from behind and lightly licked his lips. Then soon after, he lay down on the bed.

Luo Fei thought that this person would perhaps chase him out to cause more trouble, but after a while, he heard the snoring sounds from the bedroom from the kitchen. It seemed that Xi Yanqing was really exhausted to the bone.

Xi Yanqing was too hardworking. It is very tiring to do farm work in modern times, let alone in this era. There is no modern equipment, no high-tech methods, and almost everything relied on labor power. Yet Xi Yanqing has never complained of the hardship, doing his best from the beginning.

If this person was Xi Yu, at least it could be said that he has long already gotten used to it. But Xi Yanqing, he lived in modern times for many years with a convenient life full of shortcuts. After arriving in this era, it's amazing he could still endure such suffering. Although Luo Fei never said anything aloud, he admired it very much in his heart.

Notes:

Get excited for the next part :33

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