Chapter 10: Conflicted Heart

“Jiu jiu?”

Li Ruantang waited for a while, but the young gentleman didn’t say a word. She coughed lightly a few times, listened to the quietness in the courtyard, and then gestured to her own head with her hand, “Look, it’s a little rabbit that hops like this.”

“Oh.”

The young gentleman, who had come back to his senses, responded indifferently, but his fingers that had retreated into his sleeves were as if they had been burned by fire, and suddenly grasped a palm full of sweat.

Heavens!

What was he thinking just now!?

The young gentleman frowned, but the culprit was still acting as if she was completely unaware. He instantly felt annoyed, and blurted out, “Wife-master, who told you that all men like little rabbits?”

She coaxed people so naturally, she must have said it to someone else a few times.

Meng Jun turned his face slightly and glanced at Li Ruantang, who was stunned in place, with the corner of his eye. He secretly snorted in his heart, he wasn’t a young master who only stayed in the inner courtyard and hadn’t seen much of the world. He wouldn’t lose his bearings just because someone casually coaxed him.

Little white rabbits weren’t rare things, and they couldn’t compare to gold, stones, or jade.

He didn’t want them.

The young gentleman pouted slightly and glanced haughtily at Li Ruantang, who was drafting an explanation.

The more serious her expression was, the more excited Meng Jun became.

Just as Li Ruantang was about to speak.

“Oh~”

The young gentleman dragged out his voice, deliberately interrupting her, “I know, Wife-master must have other lovers outside!”

“No, Jiu jiu, listen to my explanation!”

“I won’t listen.” The young gentleman sat on the edge of the kang, his body trembling slightly. From the back, he looked both hurt and pitiful.

But in a place where Li Ruantang couldn’t see, those beautiful phoenix eyes didn’t have a hint of sadness, and were instead happily darting around, pricking up his ears to listen to the movement behind him.

This scene was common in storybooks.

When Meng Jun first read it, he thought it was pretentious, but now he understood the fun in it.

It was all about teasing people.

He hugged his arms, secretly glanced at the helpless Li Ruantang, and lowered his voice a few more notches, “Wife-master, don’t mind Jiu jiu, Jiu jiu was just talking nonsense just now.”

“If Wife-master has a young master she likes, just bring him back when we return to the capital.”

“As the husband, I should be magnanimous.”

“Jiu jiu, listen to me, I—”

Slender fingers timely covered Li Ruantang’s mouth corner through the handkerchief, and the young gentleman sighed deeply with great vigor, “Wife-master doesn’t need to say more, I know everything.”

Those beautiful phoenix eyes were still slightly reddened, like peach blossoms that had just awakened in spring, vividly falling into Li Ruantang’s heart, making people feel full of pity.

“I only have…”

Through the handkerchief, her words were muffled and unclear.

The young gentleman, who was still acting, curiously raised his eyes and immediately fell into a sincere gaze.

“Jiu jiu.” She called these two words clearly.

Did she say she only had him, or did she only call his name?

The young gentleman’s breath stagnated, and he didn’t dare ask her. He immediately became annoyed again. If he had known earlier, he wouldn’t have learned from those men in the storybooks who covered people’s mouths at every turn. Now it was good, he had brought himself a lot of trouble instead.

Although she had said before that there was no one else, how much of the past could an amnesiac woman remember? Even if there was really someone she liked, she would have long forgotten.

The young gentleman lowered his eyes, uncomfortably letting go.

Anyway, they weren’t really husband and wife-master, he… he couldn’t be bothered to care about these things that hadn’t even started.

Taking a deep breath to suppress the heart that was jumping erratically in his chest, Meng Jun stood by the table and saw the boiled fish that Ah Ning had brought over just now, and remembered the important matter at hand.

“Wife-master.”

The young gentleman ladled a bowl of delicious fish soup for her and said, “The sky outside is still overcast. If it rains, the water level in Changshan Valley is likely to rise. Ah Ning said that in the past, when the rainy season came, even Sun Huolang, who was familiar with the mountain roads, had difficulty entering the village.”

“Mm, Hu Sanniang also mentioned this.” Li Ruantang nodded, and before she could get up, a bowl and spoon were handed to her.

In the extremely fresh fish soup, there was fish meat that the young gentleman had carefully picked out the bones.

He solemnly ladled a spoonful first, blew on it, and then fed it to Li Ruantang’s lips, “But if that’s the case, it will delay the time for Wife-master to return to the capital.”

“Should we make other plans?”

The longer they stayed here, the harder it would be to explain this fake marriage in the future.