Chapter 14 – Vixen

Ye Ling was busy dividing the remaining meat into several parts, he smeared it with salt to prevent it from getting spoiled.

Liu Duo entered the kitchen, leaning against the door: “Fourth brother, are you busy? After you’re done, shall we go out for a walk?’

Hearing Liu Duo’s voice, Ye Ling’s face brighten up. “Well, I’m all done, lets send some meat to San Nainai.”

In the past, Ye Ling rarely smile. He always felt inferior. He had leg disorder which made his walking staggered.

The children in the village would often laugh at him and mimicked how he walked.

Since Liu Duo woke up after the escaping incident and having spend time together.

He began to smile more and more

Two pieces of meat were strung with hemp rope, probably five or six pounds.

“Go ahead, go to Grandma San Nainai first and then show Liu Duo our vegetable and paddy fields”

“Okay..”

After talking to Ye Liu, Ye Ling and Liu Duo headed out.

Walking on the country road, seeing the distant mountains and wild flowers, Liu Duo was in a specially good mood. The air without pollution feels so refreshing.

Liu Duo smiled, her dimples showing.

She opened her arms and took a deep breath. “It feels good to come out, the air feels good!”

Ancient times without chemical pollution are surely ten million times better than the environment of the twenty-first century.

“If Duo’er likes it, we’ll go out more often.”

If Liu Duo is happy then he is happy, after all, two days of staying at home felt really stuffy.

“Well, Let’s go out more later.” Liu Duo laughed and took hold of Ye Ling’s hand.

Walking hand in hand with Liu Duo made Ye Ling blushed, his heart beating faster.

In this era, whether it was couple or not, this act was prohibited in broad daylight.

He wanted Liu Duo to let go, but he was also afraid of her being unhappy.

Some villagers saw Liu Duo and Ye Ling

They pointed out, “Who is that woman?” Shamelessly dragging a man along?”

“That man seems to be the Fourth child of the Ye family and that woman should be their child bride! Who else could it be?”

“What a disgrace, she’s definitely a vixen.”

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Listening to their gossiping, Liu Duo couldn’t care less. Let them say what they want. They must be bored with their lives.

“Dou’er, you dont have to hold me, let’s just walk side by side.” He doesn’t want the villagers to say something bad about her. He didn’t want to ruin her reputation.

“Why not?” You hate me?” Liu Duo deliberately aggrived.

“No ofcourse not! Its just…I don’t know how to explain it, but I don’t want Duo’er to have a bad reputation, and I don’t want Duo’er to be unhappy.

“Haha… Fourth brother, you’re so cute.”

“Don’t bother with them. The mouths are theirs.

If they like to gossip let them be. It wont hurt me physically anyway.”

“‘I’m not afraid, What are you afraid of? So what if I’m holding your hand? You’re my man afterall.

If It was someone else and they ask me to hold them, I’d rather not!”

“And we didn’t do anything? self-cleaning, self-turbidity. Do you understand?” Liu Duo carried out a more modern ideological knowledge.

But she still let go of the Ye Ling after all, this feudal society’s thought will not change overnight, but to slowly change his man, Liu Duo is confident.