Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

"Would you like to wash your feet? I'll get you some water."

"No, I'll call you."

Miyali pulled her face away and struggled to get up, but Yu Qiutang held her down and said, "Let's talk about it later. I'll serve you tonight."

"That won't do. It would be so embarrassing if my third sister and the others saw us. It's not right for a woman to let her man fetch water for her."

"What's the big deal? Who says that men must be served by women? Aren't husband and wife fair?"

What Yu Qiutang didn’t say in his heart was: You took care of me for so long in my previous life, it’s normal for me to be nicer to you in this life.

"That won't do. I don't want my sisters to see me and say I'm immature. If I wait for a man to give me water on the first night, how can they think I'm good?"

"Don't worry, my eldest sister and third sister are both fine. Brother Jiang has gone to bed early and won't come out."

"Hey, just take a rest. I slept for the whole afternoon and I'm very energetic now."

Mi Yali gently pushed Yu Qiutang away, jumped off the kang, picked up the foot basin under the washbasin rack next to her and went to the kitchen.

She had been here when the house was being built, so she was very familiar with the layout of the yard.

Yu Qiutang had no choice but to sit on the edge of the kang and watch Mi Yali go out.

He smiled helplessly.

After marrying Miali, it would be impossible for him not to enjoy a good life.

She is such a virtuous wife and kind mother who takes care of the home inside and outside in every possible way.

Everyone in the area knew that Yu Qiutang had married a good wife.

But perhaps it was precisely because of this that she did not get enough rest over the years and became ill.

This can't happen in this life.

He must treat her well and let her live a carefree life.

Soon, Miali came back.

Bring a large basin of hot water.

"Come and wash your feet. I added some vinegar to make the bubbles more comfortable."

Miyali put the washbasin in front of Yu Qiutang, looked at Yu Qiutang's feet, and suddenly burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at?"

Yu Qiutang was curious and looked down, only to find that the socks he had put on in the morning now had his big toe exposed. He probably thought that the quality of the socks was not good and he had walked a lot today.

He smiled, took off his socks and prepared to put them aside to be washed.

Miyali took it directly and said, "Put it there. I'll wash it and sew it up for you tomorrow. The rest of it is fine, except for the toe."

"I'll wash them. How can I let you wash my socks?"

"What's the big deal? I'm your...your wife. If I don't wash you, do I have to wait for someone else's partner to wash you?"

Miali put the socks in a small basket at the door.

"My feet sweat easily, and my socks don't smell good."

Miyali smiled and said, "We are all farmers. We work hard all day long. It's okay to sweat a little. Besides, if your feet don't stink, why would people call them stinky feet? We might as well just call them cheeks."

"That's true."

Yu Qiutang really likes talking to Miali.

She is like the sun in a winter afternoon, warm and capable of not only warming the coldness on the surface of people, but also driving away the haze in their hearts.

Otherwise, how could he keep thinking about it.

Even if he were reborn and had more choices, he would still put so much thought and effort into making Miali come to him again.

"Hurry up and wash. I'll wash too after you're done. There's no hot water in the pot."

Mi Yali returned to the kang and sat next to Yu Qiutang.

Yu Qiutang rolled his eyes and said, "Let's wash together. This basin is big enough for two people to put their feet in."

"Ah, don't want it anymore?"

Miali shook her head quickly.

Yu Qiutang said, "How can I let you use the water I have used for washing? Wouldn't it be better if we wash together?"

"still……"

"Come on, do you want to take off your socks yourself or should I help you?"

Mi Yali looked at Yu Qiutang, then at the washbasin, and felt that it would be difficult to get through the night if she didn't wash.

"Why are you so... so..."

What's the matter? Actually, she couldn't tell.

You can't say he's a hooligan.

He is his own man, and it doesn't seem to be a problem for a man to wash his wife's feet together. After all, they will do more intimate things next.

"I will do it myself."

She slowly took off her socks.

Yu Qiutang glanced at her feet. They were not as small and pretty as described in novels or on TV.

Miali is over 1.7 meters tall, so her feet are quite big, probably at least 38cm.

Although the feet were very white, they were not smooth. Instead, they had many small cracks on them, and there was a frostbite scar next to the left foot.

Miali's feet have been frostbitten since she was a child. They would freeze again every winter. They would heal when she slept at night, but would freeze again during the day. As a result, the itchiness at night was unbearable, and the pain during the day made her unable to step on anything.

She didn't have the chance to take good care of herself. There was always endless work to do every day, which made her run around exhausted.

Of course, it wasn't just her feet that were frostbitten, but her hands and face were also frostbitten.

Yu Qiutang was away for a long time, and the family relied on Mi Yali for support, and suffered countless hardships.

"Come on, you go first."

Yu Qiutang pushed the basin over with his foot, but Miyali said, "Come here."

"Then... together?"

Miali nodded, the washbasin was placed in the middle, and the two people's feet were put in together.

The water was warm, and Yu Qiutang's feet were also warm, but Mi Yali's feet were very cold.

Their feet collided and Miali immediately moved her feet out.

"what happened?"

“My feet are so cold!”

"It's okay, my feet are just too hot, so it would be nice to cool them down."

Miali looked at him, and saw no teasing or joking in his eyes, but warm concern. She then carefully put her foot back in, but deliberately kept a distance from Yu Qiutang's feet so that her feet would not touch each other.

But the next moment, Yu Qiutang put his feet together with hers.

She had nowhere to hide and could only remain silent and motionless.

She let Yu Qiutang use his feet to "scrub" her feet clean.

The water quickly became cold. She said, "I'll go pour the water," and was about to get off the kang, but Yu Qiutang took the water out and poured it out first.

Didn't give her a chance.

After returning, Yu Qiutang locked the doors and windows again.

Turning around, I saw Miali turning around and spreading her legs under the quilt. In the flickering red candlelight, her shy look was particularly attractive.

Yu Qiutang rushed to the kang in three or two steps, jumped up, and pushed Mi Yali down. While she was in a panic, he hugged her face and gave her a long kiss.

Then he closed his eyes in ecstasy and savored it for a long time.

Only then did he open his eyes, look at his beautiful wife under him, and smile.

Miali didn't dare to open her eyes.

She felt that Yu Qiutang was very heavy, but she was embarrassed to push him down. The man's breath was like heat waves, rushing in front of her, making her a little confused. Her brain stopped thinking and her consciousness was completely blank.

"Lili, you are so beautiful."

Yu Qiutang said in her ear and bit her ear gently.

She immediately felt as if her whole body was electrified and she subconsciously hugged Yu Qiutang's waist.

"Honey, can I help you take off your clothes?"

In the confusion, he whispered in the other ear.

"Um……"

She didn't know what to do. She heard from others that sometimes she took off her clothes, and sometimes it was the men who took them off.

But more suggestions are that the man should take off his clothes himself on the wedding night.

It is said that men like this kind of thing very much.

She felt the buttons of her cotton jacket being undone one by one, and a cool breeze hit her body.

Below is a thin autumn sweater. If you take it off, you will see the mandarin duck bellyband embroidered by her mother for her.

She suddenly felt very shy.

When I thought about a man meeting me so openly, I felt as if I was blown around by a strong wind and couldn't keep my balance.

"Qiu Tang, blow out the candles."

"Can you not blow it?"

"Do not."

She felt her body lighten, and then she heard Yu Qiutang blowing out the candles with his huge lung capacity.

The red mist in front of her eyes turned into darkness.

The red candle must have been blown out.

Then there was a rustling sound, and then a warm body crawled back into the quilt, holding her tightly in his arms.

Then, a pair of rough hands reached out from under the clothes.

"Oh."

She sighed in her heart.

Afterwards, she felt like willow catkins blown gently by the warm spring breeze, floating slowly in the air and unable to fall to the ground for a long time.

She kept floating that night.
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Early in the morning, Yu Qiutang opened his eyes and subconsciously touched his side, and found that Mi Yali had already gotten up.

Upon closer inspection, I saw that she was just sitting up and putting on her clothes.

The wind is of course stronger in the early morning.

He sat up, hugged his wife from behind, put his face on her back, and sniffed her gently.

"cold!"

Miali hurriedly pulled the quilt over to cover her husband's naked body.

She was more beautiful than yesterday after her first time, with a touch of shyness and charm that is unique to young women. Just a casual glance from her was enough to make Yu Qiutang unbearable.

He pulled up the quilt and hid Miali inside it again.

Outside the window, two magpies on the tree couldn't bear to watch and flew away.

"Huh~"

Yu Qiutang’s head popped out from under the quilt, breathing heavily.

It's so tiring.

This isn't much easier than mountain climbing.

Miali learned her lesson this time. She hid under the quilt, put on her clothes, quickly came out from the side and hid far away.

I was worried about being eaten again.

But although she was fast, she was not as fast as Yu Qiutang, and her arm was still grabbed.

"Yeah, what else are you going to do?"

Yu Qiutang suddenly burst into laughter.

Miali laughed in confusion, not knowing what was so funny.

"I really hope to hold you in my arms and sleep with you forever."

Yu Qiutang rested his head on Mi Yali's hand, feeling the tenderness in her palm, which was really very comfortable.

Mi Yali's eyes were full of tenderness. She gently hugged Yu Qiutang and put him on the pillow. "You should take a rest. It's still early. I'll go cook for us."

"unwilling."

Miyali was helpless, "Why are you acting like a child? I'm going to cook, not to stay away forever."

Yu Qiutang then smiled and let go of Miyali's hand.

He watched Miali get off the kang, clean up the scene from last night, wash up, and then go out with the thermos.

Keep her tenderness in the room.

Mi Yali asked Yu Qiutang to sleep a little longer, but he would not really sleep obediently. He did not clean up last night and his toys were still in the yard.

Early in the morning, someone came to help and continued to clean up. It would be so embarrassing if everyone knew that he was still lying on the kang.

Besides, there are some people I didn’t have time to thank yesterday, so I just wanted to say hello to them today. Those who came this morning are all my close friends.

Sure enough, as soon as he got dressed and came out, people came over one after another and exchanged pleasantries.

There were some things I couldn't say freely yesterday, so today I took the opportunity to joke with him. It was all well-intentioned, so he just followed everyone else's lead.

Everyone is happy.

Wang Haofeng stands out in the crowd.

The relationship between him and Liu Chunyan was always confusing, with ups and downs.

According to him, Liu Chunyan should have been dealt with a month or two ago.

However, when asked when he would come to propose marriage and finalize the marriage, he said he would wait and put it off.

This made Yu Qiutang suspect that he had not accomplished it at all and was just showing off with words.

Based on his previous dealings with Liu Chunyan, Yu Qiutang discovered that the girl was not an ordinary person. Wang Haofeng's character was not delicate enough and he was rather reckless, which was not acceptable to everyone.

In terms of ability, there is nothing to show off.

In terms of family property, he was an orphan and his parents had not bought anything for him.

I did save some money with Yu Qiutang, but it was not enough, at least not enough to build a house. If I really wanted the girl to marry him, she would suffer if she followed him.

So Yu Qiutang actually didn’t think highly of the two of them for the time being.

As for this good friend, his plan is to wait until he gets married this year and then take him to make more money in the spring so that he can buy some property. It would be best to renovate the three old houses, and it would be even better if a yard could be built.

If that doesn't work, I can lend him some money first to build the yard and get married first.

Apart from anything else, he knew Wang Haofeng's character.

This guy has some problems with his brain and is a bit impulsive, but he is kind-hearted and a very upright person. He would go to great lengths to help his friends and is one of the few childhood friends that Yu Qiutang can truly be close to.

When Yu Qiutang lived in the south, he also made some friends. On the surface, everyone spoke very smoothly, but in fact, they were all very rational behind the scenes and did not really care about each other.

By comparing people in the South and the North, he found that Northerners are relatively more straightforward, while Southerners are more likely to calculate gains and losses.

Therefore, people in the South do well in business and have a developed economy, while people in the North are only left with brotherhood, and no matter how poor they are, they still need to make more friends.

Northerners believe that more friends mean more paths, and more friends mean an easier path to travel.

The two regional cultures have created different personalities. There is no good or bad, right or wrong. Everyone lives happily in their own cultural soil.

However, if people from the south settle in the north, or if people from the north come to live in the south, they may find it a little uncomfortable at first.

Over time, you will slowly be assimilated into the society and the people around you, and gradually after a few decades, you will become like the locals.

Yu Qiutang was still worried that Mi Yali might not be able to adapt to the new environment, but when he looked in through the kitchen window, he found that she had already been playing with her eldest sister and a few others, talking and laughing, and there was no sign of unfamiliarity at all.

This made him feel relieved.

After all, if a daughter-in-law and two sisters-in-law live together, there will generally be a gap between them. It is not easy to have such a harmonious relationship as theirs. (End of this chapter)