Yun Xiaoxiao, though she planned to enjoy a life of farming early on, hadn’t yet researched what to pay attention to when planting vegetables. What vegetables to plant in which months?
"I remember you like to eat bok choy with noodles," said Tianlei, "so I plan to scatter some bok choy seeds in a corner of the yard. I’ll plant some peas too. They’ll be delicious with noodles when it’s the right time."
"You decide," she replied.
She didn’t know how to garden either, so she’d leave all the matters of the vegetable garden to him.
Even before her amnesia, the wife didn’t know anything about what to plant in the fields.
Zhao Tianlei also boiled water to prepare the rabbit.
"Xiaoxiao, how should I cook the rabbit?"
How should it be cooked?
"Shredded ginger rabbit?" she blurted out subconsciously, even though dry pot rabbit was delicious too.
By the time she realized something was amiss, wondering whether this dish might raise his suspicions since she had amnesia now.
He agreed just like that?
That evening the male lead really did make shredded ginger rabbit, and it tasted surprisingly good.
She hadn’t expected the male lead’s cooking skills to be so impressive.
"Your cooking is quite good," she said.
Being praised by his wife put Tianlei in a particularly good mood. "I learn things quickly. I had this dish once at a restaurant when I was out."
"Daddy, it’s so spicy, so spicy..."
"Drink some water, drink some water," Tianlei quickly poured water for the little ones, having forgotten that they couldn’t handle spicy food.
"Daddy, this meat is yummy."
Zhao Tianlei noticed that his wife enjoyed the shredded ginger rabbit. Although it was a bit spicy, she still savored it with gusto.
They’d barely gone to sleep when it started raining, and by midnight, the rain grew heavier.
"Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao..."
Yun Xiaoxiao was sleeping soundly until she heard someone calling her. She opened her eyes groggily and heard the rain pouring outside and the sound of water droplets hitting the ground from the roof tiles.
Why were there children’s voices in the middle of the night?
"Xiaoxiao, Da Bao and Xiao Bao’s room is leaking. Is yours?"
This time Yun Xiaoxiao was completely awake and got up immediately to open the door.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw Zhao Tianlei holding the two little ones, bringing them into the room and placing them on the bed.
"I’ve been too busy to check the tiles. The rain is quite heavy this time— it’s pouring outside, but it’s only drizzling inside."
Yun Xiaoxiao lit a kerosene lamp; the two little ones, who had taken off their coats and were in their underwear, were covered by a quilt that Tianlei had pulled over them.
Shouldn’t they be wiped down with a towel?
"Keep an eye on the kids, I’ll go check it out," he said.
Yun Xiaoxiao quickly grabbed him, "It’s raining heavily outside, and you’ll just get wet."
"I need to get something to catch the water, or the three of us won’t have a place to sleep for a while."
Although the house was constructed with bricks and tiles, it only had three rooms: two bedrooms, one living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and another earthen room to store firewood and various other things.
Yun Xiaoxiao turned to look at the two little ones huddled under the quilt.
Getting drenched meant they needed to be wiped down with a towel.
She went to get towels from the chest to wipe the little ones’ hair.
"Not cold, not cold. Come to bed, mommy!"
Wasn’t it still before dawn?
The two little ones were still drowsy when Zhao Tianlei carried them over.