Chapter 240: Gossip, love to listen, love to talk!

Whether to speak or not, Afang truly lives up to being a Jiaozhou native.

All his life pursuing openness and brightness, a straightforward northerner.

Even the trait of seeking fame and fortune is that piece of the Qilu populace whose blood runs with the most loyal yearning.

However——

Afang's arrival is really untimely!

Can this be a time for being open and straightforward?

With her flinging off the blanket, wouldn't Afang be scared silly?

Du Shanü: "(〃＞ dish ＜)"

Du Shanü showed a pained expression, struggling to hide under the blanket:

No, I won't get up!

What's wrong with the first day of the lunar new year?

Even on the first day of the lunar new year, they don't need to go pay New Year calls......

Even if they were to pay New Year calls, isn't there still Afang!

In short, Du Shanü made up her mind: today she would fully carry out her intention to stay in bed.

However, after hiding twice, she bumped straight into Chinu's scorching embrace from behind.

Du Shanü's whole body tensed, and seeing Afang ahead clearly somewhat incredulous, but only for a moment, she gritted her teeth and began to mutter:

Not getting up, not getting up...... then after you sleep with him, can you tidy up?

Look at all these fun things on the floor, is this even proper?

The whole Xian Xie can hear your commotion; once this door opens, this chaotic heaven and earth is simply one of a kind——

Wait, wait——

How am I being nagged again?

Du Shanü covered her ears, a pained look——

What does it mean to have a wolf ahead and a tiger behind?

This is it!

Half an hour later, the tidied-up Du Shanü ultimately sat at the table with a face of utter weariness, resigned, preparing to have breakfast.

Du Shanü picked up her chopsticks, about to start eating, after thinking, she still spoke:

The money I brought back, could it have been used up?

Then, that wouldn't amount to a breakfast of seven dishes, would it?

As the saying goes, a raging flood is no match for a trickle.

Although today is the first day of the year, if we spread the money spent on one meal over each later meal, then each meal could surely be eaten well, right?

Du Shanü recalled that earlier bite of pickled vegetable, then looked at the spread before her—white-cut chicken, steamed whole fish, blanched shrimp, braised pork with preserved vegetables, meatballs, fried tofu skin, braised pork, pickled mustard greens—so many varied dishes, it was simply heart-wrenching......

However, the next instant——

Last night's leftover New Year's feast.

Chen Weifang, sitting opposite the two, was completely calm, took a sip of porridge, and said slowly:

You didn't get up to eat last night, so it's been left until now.

Fortunately the weather isn't cold, I also had people fetch well water to chill it, and this morning I reheated it...... Hurry up and eat.

Don't say anything about Chinu and the Wise Lord; here they have to eat leftovers!

If those two could have gotten up last night, where would the leftovers come from!

Today he must stare at the person before him, making the two finish this whole table before it's acceptable!

Chinu: "......"

Du Shanü: "......"

Good heavens.

This time it's really good heavens.

Whose Wise Lord not only has to be woken by his subjects, but also forced to eat the leftover New Year's dishes?

Turns out it's her, then it's fine.

How can this be considered being forced?

At most it's just Afang being thrifty!

Du Shanü calmly and steadily picked up a piece of tofu skin, put it in her mouth, took another sip of porridge, feeling that this life was somehow much better than before.

After a couple of bites, having something in her stomach, her extreme fatigue eased a little, and Du Shanü only then belatedly recalled something, beginning to worry about her own Afang:

Hey Afang, what's the situation with the spring visit you sent to Cang Cheng a few days ago?

I think that lad really has genuine affection for you.......

Cough cough cough!

Cough cough cough——

Two coughs sounded in succession on the table, Du Shanü instinctively covered her porridge bowl, looked up, and saw that both the person in front and beside her wore the same look of astonishment.

Chen Weifang: "(? ｀? Д? ′)!!"

Chinu: (? ｀? Д? ′)!!

Chinu's chopsticks hovered in midair, about to fall but not yet, his whole body written with the four big characters 'incredible':

What does it mean that that lad truly loves Afang? Does that lad have a cut-sleeve fetish?

Du Shanü seeing him so shocked, instead felt completely bewildered:

Yeah, you don't know?

In the next instant, Du Shanü saw on Chinu's face the expression she herself had just had——

Bewildered, astonished, doubtful.

A lingering doubt slowly surfaced on Chinu's face:

How would I know?

He and that kid had only first met when the other side came to Dun Cheng half a month ago!

Back then, I only vaguely saw the other person as an upright individual, how……

Chinu stiffened, gazing suspiciously at the person opposite:

"Afang, why would the other party have such thoughts about you? Could it be that you also……"

Chinu finally put down his chopsticks, but in the next instant he tightened his clothes without showing any emotion.

The meaning couldn't be said to be merely slightly obvious; it was outright blatant doubt.

Chen Weifang was drinking porridge when he was first startled by his own Wise Lord into a cough, and upon hearing Chinu's words, he suddenly felt his anger flare up:

"If you two keep spouting nonsense, I'll pack up and return to Glue Prefecture!"

He had struggled desperately for both of them, only to end up being suspected of having homosexual inclinations……

Is that reasonable?

Can that be considered reasonable?!

It would be better to leave now, before anything happens, and distance himself from the two who doubt him; he would return to Glue Prefecture and live as a carefree mountain hermit!

I won't come out anymore, I won't come out anymore!

Chen Weifang rarely flew into such a rage, even scolding Chinu with two sentences; for a moment Du Shanü dared not tease further:

"No, no, I didn't say you were……"

"We're just asking! Asking won't cost a piece of flesh……"

Enough.

Originally, Chunrijian was truly in unrequited love.

She still had to think that Chen Weifang had been alone all these years, wondering if there were some reasons unknown to outsiders……

As it turned out, she simply wanted to remain single.

Chen Weifang looked at the two before him, one face full of fearful doubt, the other utterly disappointed, and couldn't help but start grinding his teeth again:

"I and Chunrijian are merely ordinary teacher and student; even the term 'teacher-student' is merely a forced attribution, and I never actually taught him. It's only because 'teacher' is a respectful term examinees used for examiners in the imperial examinations that this title came about."

"Chunrijian and his father once came late at night to reveal an incident of cheating, begging for my mercy; seeing him thin and small, truly pitiful, and I myself also harbored some resentment toward those aristocratic families, so I deliberately, in front of everyone at the examination site, seized the clansman who intended to coerce Chunrijian into handing over his answers……"

The downfall of aristocratic families is certainly satisfying.

What he wanted was also for the other party to lose face and never again take the imperial examinations, so as not to persecute Chunrijian in the future.

Perhaps it's also because he exerted too much authority when seizing that person, which somehow caused Chunrijian to develop thoughts he shouldn't have.

Chen Weifang struggled to recall those past events, and couldn't help but sigh:

"This person's family business... the Wise Lord also knows, it can be said to be inseparable from 'wind and moon'."

"Perhaps because he often sees such things, he actually has a bit of an unrestrained demeanor; as soon as the exam ended, he couldn't wait to lay bare his feelings to me……"

?? coming, coming!