Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 19: Chapter 19 That Profound Meaning is Called Shamelessness_1 Chapter 19: Chapter 19 That Profound Meaning is Called Shamelessness_1 The sensation was truly too good, to the point that when An Jing slept that night, the corners of her mouth were still upturned in a smile.

She enjoyed a good night’s sleep.

When An Jing woke up again, it was already broad daylight.

Here in this place, unmarried women all wore their hair down. An Jing casually picked up a wooden comb to comb her hair. Fortunately, even though Lin Anjing was as thin as a stick, her hair quality was very good. After casually combing it a few times, her hair was smoothed out.

Leaning on the stick Xiao Changyi had given her the night before, An Jing stepped into the main room’s doorway only to see Xiao Changyi in the yard hanging clothes to dry, his own as well as hers.

An Jing felt her face warm up, as no man had ever washed clothes for her before. This was a first.

Perhaps he heard a sound, Xiao Changyi turned his head to look her way, and when their eyes met, she smiled, “Morning.”

Though, it wasn’t actually early, but quite late. If she had gotten up at this time back at the Lin family, she would have definitely been scolded mercilessly.

But now, she was at Xiao Changyi’s place, where instead of scolding her, he replied with one word, “Morning.”

An Jing’s smile grew even wider. Here at the farmer’s house, there was no custom of exchanging morning greetings. Her greeting just now was a subconscious act, and she hadn’t expected this ancient man to respond.

After Xiao Changyi finished hanging the washed clothes nicely, he brought over water to where An Jing was standing in the yard and handed her a fresh willow twig he had just snapped off not long ago.

In this era, there were no toothbrushes; people brushed their teeth with willow twigs. An Jing understood and didn’t say anything, simply taking the willow twig and biting one end to soften it.

Xiao Changyi then handed her tooth powder.

An Jing dipped the softened, brush-like end of the twig into the tooth powder and then brushed her teeth earnestly.

Xiao Changyi didn’t walk away; he just stood there holding the tooth powder next to her. Back when An Jing was in the military, everyone brushed their teeth and washed their faces together in the washroom, so now with someone standing next to her, she didn’t feel anything amiss.

In the yard, the two of them stood there like that, one active and one still, yet they were extremely harmonious.

Passing villagers who saw them were slightly stunned, as if they were taken aback that An Jing was brushing her teeth at such a late hour, and also as if they were taken aback by how well-matched An Jing and Xiao Changyi looked standing together.

Jiuping Village wasn’t particularly large or small, but the incident of An Jing fighting over the servitude contract to go home with Xiao Changyi from the day before had still spread so that the whole village knew. Therefore, no one was surprised to see An Jing at Xiao Changyi’s house now.

However, the looks everyone gave An Jing were now tinged with a deeper meaning, a meaning called—shamelessness.

As soon as An Jing finished brushing her teeth, she went to wash her face. The wooden basin reflected her current appearance: sallow and emaciated, with not a trace of beauty and a far cry from how she used to look.

As soon as she had washed her face, Xiao Changyi took her wash water and poured it onto the vegetable garden in the courtyard.

Though calling it a vegetable garden was a bit of a stretch since nothing had been planted yet.

An Jing glanced at the empty courtyard and then said, “Let’s raise some chickens and ducks. We won’t keep pigs; they smell too strong.”

“Hmm,” Xiao Changyi agreed without any objections. “Do you want to eat first, or should I apply the medicine first?”

An Jing was taken aback, “You’ve already made food?”

“Hmm,” Xiao Changyi nodded lightly without saying much. In fact, he had gotten up before dawn, first going to the side of the field path to pick some Niu Jin Grass and then starting a fire to cook. After the meal was ready and seeing that she had not yet woken up, he then went to the river to wash the clothes.

Feeling sweet inside, An Jing grinned, “Let’s eat first.”

Leaning on the stick as she walked towards the kitchen, she suddenly remembered something, “Right, I still haven’t eaten that half piece of mantou. It’s on the bedside; I need to eat it quickly before it goes bad.”