Siheyuan: I can always stay out of it

It was exactly noon.

Looking at Chen Xu standing at the door with a smile on his face, Lin Chan widened his eyes.

"You...why are you back again?"

Lin's mother next to her was unhappy.

"How can you talk like that, little girl? Xiao Chen, come inside quickly. You haven't eaten yet, right? Let's have a bite together."

"Good."

Chen Xu sat next to Lin Chan very naturally, and looked at the little girl with her head down and felt like laughing for some reason.

I guess I left a big psychological trauma on this girl last time, so I need to comfort her.

I just ate a few bites and lunch was over.

The mother-in-law left on the pretext of going out to chat with someone. Chen Xu looked at Lin Chan who avoided his gaze and forced himself to keep a straight face.

"You don't welcome me over?"

"No...no, it's just..."

Looking at the slightly panicked Lin Chan, Chen Xu inexplicably felt a sense of guilt.

He felt that it was a bit too much to force a girl who was as strong as a mountain and as powerful as the world to this point.

He reached out and held Lin Chan in his arms, and Lin Chan did not refuse.

"If you don't like me doing that, I can wait until you're ready."

Chen Xu said hypocritically that it was his wife, so it didn't matter if she was a little excessive. He planned to take care of this girl for the rest of his life anyway, so what was wrong with bullying her?

"without..."

Lin Chan looked up at Chen Xu and felt that she was being a little pretentious. The two of them had already confirmed their relationship. If Chen Xu was not old enough and she herself wanted to stay in Linjia Village, they would probably have been married by now.

"I'm sorry, was I too harsh?"

Lin Chan bit her lip, feeling that she was bullying Chen Xu. How could she take someone's gift and then hide from him?

These days the bride price is only a dozen yuan, and ten kilograms of food can find a good wife. Although Chen Xu did not say that the food he gave her was a bride price, Lin Chan and her mother both thought so.

That's thirty pounds of flour. If you sell it on the black market, it would cost about a hundred yuan.

"No, my wife is just not used to it."

Chen Xu found an excuse for Lin Chan himself.

Lin Chan was a little moved and said softly with a slightly red face.

"How about...how about waiting until tonight..."

Chen Xu almost laughed out loud.

"it is good."

It is impossible for him to refuse. He is not mentally ill and his wife is willing, so there is no point in him being pretentious.

It's all a matter of time anyway.

It's good enough that he can hold it back now.

In the afternoon, the two of them went to Lin Qing's place.

Looking at the two people walking hand in hand, Lin Qing almost couldn't hold back his expression. It was just as he thought.

However, he still admired Chen Xu for being able to deal with Lin Chan so quickly.

"Brother-in-law..."

Just as Lin Qing was about to change his words, he realized that Lin Chan next to him had no intention of taking action. He immediately gave Chen Xu a thumbs up and came up to him and whispered.

"Brother-in-law, you are really awesome. My cousin has never been nice to that man."

Chen Xu felt that Lin Chan was easy to deal with.

Lin Qing didn't gain much, but it was quite a bit too. After all, it had been more than a week since he last came here.

Looking at a few lively pheasants and a strange creature, which looked a bit like a deer but much smaller, Chen Xu asked in confusion.

"What is this? A deer?"

"Um, you don't know the deer?"

Chen Xu really wanted to say that he knew nothing about it. He had never seen this thing in his previous life, and it did not exist in his original memory.

However, when he heard the name Zhangzi, he still had some impression of it.

Although he had never seen it, he had heard of it to some extent, but this was the first time he saw it in real life.

Moreover, this thing has become a national second-class protected animal in the 21st century. If you eat it, you will be sentenced to life in prison.

"How is it? Not bad, right? We used to have a lot of this stuff, but now we have to rely on our luck."

Lin Qing sighed and said that people have a hard time these days, and animals are no different.

It is not so easy for him as a hunter to catch prey. He only gets this little in a week. This was unimaginable in the past.

"I want them all."

Chen Xu accepted all offers and took as much fresh game as he could.

The steel mill has no limit on the quantity of this stuff they buy.

One musk deer and three pheasants weigh only about 30 kilograms in total. Although it sounds like a lot, according to Lin Qing, this is already a good amount. Musk deer are not easy to come across nowadays.

Compared to him, Lin Chan's harvest was even smaller. After all, when it comes to hunting, hunters definitely have an advantage over warriors.

On the way back, Lin Chan hesitated for a moment and then spoke.

"Chen Xu, how about you stop paying me for the prey? You can keep it."

Chen Xu turned his head to look at the girl, then reached out and rubbed her head.

"No, it's not my money anyway. Besides, you eat a lot, don't go hungry, I'll feel bad."

Lin Chan's face turned red. For the first time, she felt that it was normal for someone to say that she ate a lot, but it still made her feel warm in her heart.

"Then...then when will you go back?"

Chen Xu looked puzzled. Why was this girl asking this?

Lin Chan obviously felt that his words might be easily misunderstood, so he hurriedly explained.

"My mother is at..."

Chen Xu understood what she meant immediately.

This girl was probably afraid that she might make some noise at night and be discovered by her mother-in-law.

"Well, it's getting late, let's get going as soon as we get back."

Chen Xu pretended to look at the sun in the sky that was still working hard to shine on everything and said.

Lin Chan: ...

"By the way, what do you need to eat at once?"

"what?"

Lin Chan was a little confused and didn't understand why Chen Xu suddenly asked this.

Chen Xu scratched the tip of her beautiful nose.

"Since the relationship is already established, I'll also make preparations early to see how much food your man needs to feed you. There's no need to underestimate it, just tell me directly."

Lin Chan felt a little embarrassed. Obviously, Chen Xu had directly expressed his willingness to support her, which was very manly.

"If you want to eat enough, a dozen steamed buns a day is usually enough. If you have meat, you can eat less."

The more Lin Chan spoke, the lower his voice became. Obviously, this level of appetite was almost impossible for ordinary people to afford.

"That's it?"

Chen Xu's reaction was somewhat beyond her expectations. Lin Chan looked at him in astonishment, as if her man thought she ate too little.

"If it's just this level, I think I'll be able to support you in no time."

Chen Xu has confidence in himself, or rather, confidence in space.

"Ah."

Lin Chan didn't know where Chen Xu's confidence came from. Even if he was a city dweller, his income shouldn't be that high.

It wasn't that she was completely unaware of the current living standards of city dwellers. After all, she often went to the commune and had heard about some of the things going on.

But that didn't stop her from believing in Chen Xu.

Chen Xu's confidence naturally came from the changes in space. He found that the seeds he planted had sprouted and had already broken through the soil. This speed was simply incredible. You know, he had just planted them yesterday afternoon, and it had only been one day so far.

At this rate, the 100-day growth cycle can be compressed to less than a month.

What does this mean? It is equivalent to crops maturing at least ten times a year. By the time they grow up, he can afford to raise not just one cicada, but a hundred.