Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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She quickly zoomed in on the wardrobe, took out all the thick clothes from it, and threw them onto the baby’s bed, nagging, “The North is freezing cold, and winter is coming soon, so we need to bring plenty of warm clothes.”
As Lu Huan looked at the words on the screen, and at the wind rushing past him from the wardrobe and back again, busily tidying up his clothes, a warm feeling washed over him.
He smiled slightly, pursed his lips, and continued folding the clothes, his voice soft and gentle: “Okay.”
The cub was very good at tidying up, such that Su Xi couldn’t really help much from behind the screen.
Seeing that the cub had gone to the eaves again to take down the lantern and then put the box she had buried in the ground into the pile of luggage, she couldn’t help but widen her eyes: “Do you have to bring this with you on a military campaign?”
Lu Huan was finally able to talk to her more, instead of just asking questions and her answering yes or no. So he was much happier and said, “The salary of a fourth-rank official has increased a lot. I plan to buy a house in the inner city and bring these things with me. That will be our home in the future.”
Previously, the official residences of the Ministry of War and the Ning Wang’s mansion were either places of temporary refuge or places of hurried travel, neither of which could be considered true homes. The residence in the outer city, being in the outer city, was merely a place for Changgong Wu and the workers to stay.
So, the house that the cub was planning to buy could finally be called their first home.
A warm feeling welled up in Su Xi’s heart. She smiled and reached out to pat the baby’s head through the screen: “Okay.”
However, just as her fingertips were about to touch the screen, she suddenly couldn’t bring herself to do it.
The little one used to be so tiny, looking like a glutinous rice ball or a steamed bun on the screen, making you want to knead and rub him all the time.
But now, it seems like the little one has grown up overnight, turning into an outrageously handsome young man.
Seemingly sensing that she was about to reach out, he turned his head slightly, his handsome features like melting snow, his eyes reflecting a shimmering light in the candlelight, which made Su Xi’s heart skip a beat.
The fingertips that were about to land on his head suddenly landed on his shoulder, pressing down hard in a panic.
The baby, whose arm on the screen was almost dislocated: “…”
Su Xi quickly said, “I’m sorry, I accidentally used too much force.”
She could never quite get the hang of it when she was looking at a screen.
Lu Huan looked up and saw her cheeks, which were inexplicably flushed, through the curtain… and his mood suddenly improved.
“It’s alright, you’re not very strong, I can handle any amount of strength.” He pouted, pretending to be focused on packing his clothes.
Meanwhile, Su Xi, watching from outside the screen, was completely bewildered as her son suddenly appeared to be standing under the sun… What was going on? He was actually quite happy about almost having his shoulder dislocated and even looked a little smug.
….
The two finally managed to communicate and couldn’t help but chat for a long time, especially Su Xi, who became a chatterbox, talking about Yun Xiupang one moment and about the embroidered ball the next… Seeing that the cub’s face was getting darker and darker, she laughed and quickly changed the subject.
However, Su Xi had just returned from exercising early in the morning and hadn’t even had a chance to shower before sitting on the sofa playing with her child for half an hour. Now she felt sweaty and uncomfortable, so she decided to log off and take a shower.
She told her son before logging off.
“I have something to do, so I’ll go first. I’ll come find you tonight, little—” Su Xi remembered that the cub didn’t like her calling him little one, so she couldn’t help but bite her lip and smile, and changed her name: “Xiao Huan, see you tomorrow.”
Lu Huan was also a little dissatisfied with the new name, but it was still much better than the previous one, so he reluctantly accepted it and asked Su Xi, “Will you come with me to the Northern Border?”
“Of course we’ll go together,” Su Xi said without hesitation.
Seeing the cub curl the corners of his mouth, looking as if he had swallowed the reassurance, Su Xi smiled and reached out again— she quickly slapped her hand, deciding to correct her habit of wanting to rub the cub’s head every day— she instead gently tugged at the cub’s sleeve and said, “I’m leaving, bye-bye.”
Although Lu Huan didn’t know what the last two words meant, he could roughly guess that they were similar to “goodbye,” so he also said, “Bye, bye-bye.”
Su Xi, watching from outside the screen, burst into laughter and finally turned off her phone.
She tossed her phone onto the sofa, opened NetEase Cloud Music and played a song, then grabbed a towel and got up to walk towards the bathroom.
Meanwhile, Lu Huan, who hadn’t yet closed the curtain, stared in shock at the brick she had left on the long couch. That brick could actually sing?!
Lu Huan sat on the bed, waved his sleeve to move the curtain in front of him, then fumbled to enlarge the curtain and tried to touch the brick on the long couch. The brick immediately lit up, displaying the words “fingerprint unlock”.
Lu Huan felt that the civilization a thousand years later was too novel. He still didn’t understand what this brick was, why some people used it to make sound transmission talismans, why some people used it to play songs, and why she could use the brick as a curtain.
Lu Huan saw Su Xi enter one of the smaller rooms.
He hadn’t been inside that little house before, so he tried switching the interface into it.
There, Xiao Xi was applying some kind of foam to her face in front of the gleaming bronze mirror. Inside the small room, Lu Huan looked at the screen and noticed a white object that resembled a toilet but also looked like a well.
Lanterns were placed on the rooftops, suggesting that candles were no longer needed for lighting a thousand years later?
As he packed his luggage, he intended to take a closer look, but just then, he saw Xiao Xi suddenly start taking off her clothes—
Lu Huan’s face flushed red, and before he could see anything clearly, he hurriedly closed the curtain.
His heart was pounding. He walked to the desk, took a deep breath, and punished himself by copying “Do not look at what is improper, do not do what is improper” a hundred times before he could finally calm down.
….
Lu Huan packed his things quickly, and General Zhenyuan’s army set off two days later. He mounted his horse and, together with several people he had met at the archery range before, escorted a new batch of grain provided by Wan Sanqian to the northern border.
The march was long and arduous. When he thought Su Xi was a ghost, he originally planned to tell her not to run so far with him. But now that he learned that she only needed to unlock a section to arrive directly, he felt relieved.
After the army had marched for several days, they set up camp in a village. Lu Huan returned to his tent alone, closed the tent flap tightly, and then opened the curtain.
He had been traveling for the past few days and could only talk to her when they were alone in the tent at night.
At this moment, it seemed to be early morning where she was.
Lu Huan sat cross-legged on the straw mat, picking up two booklets— which she seemed to call magazines— from the long couch in her main hall. He carefully flipped through them through the screen, trying to memorize as many new words from her dynasty as possible from these miscellaneous books, while waiting for her to get up.
As the sun rose, the door to another room in her house suddenly opened, and two middle-aged cartoon figures walked out.
Lu Huan smiled slightly. He had already met them in the past few days. These two little ones were Father and Mother Su.
He silently greeted Su parents, but they were unaware of his presence. After yawning and finishing their breakfast, they left a portion for Su Xi on the long table, then picked up their bags and left, presumably to go do some work, just like he was heading to the government office.
Lu Huan got up and added some candlelight to his side, then waited a while longer, but Su Xi’s door remained closed.
Because he was worried about a repeat of the situation that happened in the bathroom last time, he never dared to easily switch the interface to Xiao Xi’s room.
But today was the day she was to go to school— Lu Huan had learned from the booklet that in their area, school was called “school”.
But she didn’t get up for a long time.
Lu Huan frowned, feeling that the eggs and porridge on the table were getting cold. So he picked up the porridge from the curtain, awkwardly carried the interface to the kitchen, and put the two items into a black box.
This thing was called a microwave oven. He saw an advertisement for it in a brochure the other day, and after fiddling with it for a while, he found it to be very simple and easy to use. Technology from a thousand years later was indeed convenient.
A little while later, the porridge in the plastic container was taken out and put back on the table.
It should be hot now, Lu Huan said, his eyebrows relaxing.
However, Su Xi still didn’t emerge.
Lu Huan glanced at the clock on the wall in the main hall. It was already past the time Xiao Xi usually rushed to put on her shoes and go to school, and a trace of worry flashed across his eyes.
He hesitated for two seconds before switching the screen to her room.
However, she was found lying on the bed covered in sweat, with a thick quilt, her eyes tightly closed, her face pale, clutching her stomach, curled up in a ball.
Lu Huan’s eyelids twitched, his heart clenched, and he abruptly stood up from the haystack.
The author has something to say:
Lu Huan, who was already old enough to marry and have children in the Yan Kingdom at sixteen: First of all, I’m not called little one…
Su Xi: So? Shall I take you to Metersbonwe[1]?
Lu Huan, who was already old enough to marry and have children in the Yan Kingdom at the age of sixteen: …???
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[1] Metersbonwe Group, marketed as Meters/bonwe is China’s leading casualwear apparel company.