To put it bluntly, she just wanted to find a way to teach Gu Tong a lesson without a reason, and this time she deliberately found an excuse.
But it’s a bit too harsh...
Li Yan’s face grew increasingly dark, exuding an aura of millennium-old ice. He wasn’t siding with Gu Tong, but rather, Li’s mother was indeed too much.
"Mom, don’t worry..."
Gu Tong’s heart skipped a beat, and she quickly pulled back Li Yan, who was on the verge of an outburst. Although she already knew their relationship was tense, she didn’t expect it to be so intense...
"Relatives will be arriving soon, so I have to wait at the door. Li Yan knows where the kitchen is; he can take you there in a while..."
Li’s mother had a sense of the situation, knew it wasn’t going well, and quickly made her exit.
The already cold air did not warm up because of it.
Gu Tong shivered, "You... what’s wrong with you..."
"Who told you to agree!" Li Yan, with residual anger, narrowed his eyes slightly, appearing somewhat dangerous.
"We’ve just come back... Surely you don’t want news spreading tomorrow that the mother-in-law was bullied by her daughter-in-law... Besides, we’re not staying for many days, we can just make mom happy..."
Gu Tong murmured, but she retracted her neck.
The lion got angry, so scary...
Li Yan’s deep eyes looked at her, seeing her somewhat scared look, he forcibly suppressed his temper, "No matter what you do, she won’t be satisfied."
Gu Tong was a bit surprised, she didn’t expect Li Yan to say something like that...
Moreover, he was completely on her side, using a tone reserved for his own family, could it be... this is how a couple should get along...
The rural kitchen was separated into an individual partition, extremely simple in setting.
The independent brick stove leaned against the wall, with a large iron wok in the middle. The corners were rusted. This kind of stove required firewood.
As soon as Gu Tong arrived in the kitchen, her beautiful brows knitted together, somewhat stunned...
"How... how do you light this..."
She had no problem cooking, but dealing with this kind of old-fashioned stove was a bit challenging...
Li Yan, with his elbow propped on the door frame in a lazy pose, said, "Need any help?"
He had heard from Gu Wangjue that Gu Tong always kept her fingers away from mundane tasks, never doing any work. Clearly, she couldn’t cook, yet she dared to take on the task, giving Li Yan a headache.
"Help me light it... I can’t start the fire..." Gu Tong blinked her large watery eyes a few times.
This stove was too ’high-tech’... she couldn’t handle it...
"..." Li Yan’s mouth twitched, he knew it...
However, since trouble was caused by his woman, he had to take responsibility for the mess.
He walked over to the stove with graceful steps, crouched down, picked up dry branches and grass from the ground, and with his slender fingers, took a match from the table, struck it to light the dry grass and branches, tossed them into the stove, added a few logs, and then worked the bellows.
Gu Tong, who was originally looking for ingredients, was completely captivated by this scene, thinking her husband was so handsome... out of all things, how could lighting a fire be like playing the piano...
"Just watching me, will the food get cooked?" Li Yan continued adding firewood, asking nonchalantly as if he had eyes on his back.
Cooking and admiring her husband weren’t mutually exclusive, were they?
However... indeed, they were short on time...
Only then did Gu Tong reluctantly pull her gaze away and plunge into the ocean of stir-frying...
Li Yan glanced over with the corner of his eye to see Gu Tong marinating some dark beef, his complexion turning slightly unpleasant, ultimately giving up and not holding any hope.