Chapter 630: No Need to Be Shy

Gu Jinli: "..."

He knows, doesn’t he? This is just an excuse, right?

I remember several times when he braved the heavy rain to come back during his days off; now he says he can’t leave because it’s raining, it’s not like it’s raining knives!

Gu Jinli was quite conflicted, while Xiao Ji next to him asked, "Young Master, are you going to have dinner with Qin Family’s third son?"

Whenever Qin Family’s third son returns, the two families usually eat dinner together; and it’s not the first time Qin Family’s third son has come to the Manor to fetch the Young Master, they always eat together during mealtime when he visits.

Gu Jinli: "I’m sick, I have no appetite, I won’t have dinner. Just cook me some supper, I want meat dishes, and add a chicken leg."

Xiao Ji: "..."

Not having dinner but having supper, and still wanting meat dishes and a chicken leg, is this what it looks like when you have no appetite?

Moreover, the Young Master isn’t really sick, he just got a period early due to catching a cold.

Nevertheless, Xiao Ji sympathetically replied, "Your slave understands, I will tell Qin Family’s third son."

Xiao Ji took out the quilt to spread and also took out Gu Jinli’s clothes to hang on the clothes rack in preparation. After finishing, he went to the kitchen, but then doubled back, leaning on the doorway saying, "Young Master, there’s no need to be shy."

Then he hurriedly ran off.

Gu Jinli slapped the table: "You wait for me, I’ll have you married off when we return!"

...

There’s a guesthouse in the Manor, right next to the main residence, and that’s where Qin Family’s third son was staying.

After Xiao Ji made dinner, he and Xiangzi brought it to the guesthouse for Qin Family’s third son.

Qin Family’s third son was practicing his punches, and upon seeing them bring in the dinner, he frowned and asked, "Aren’t we eating at the main residence?"

Xiao Ji said, "Young Master isn’t having dinner, so he told you to eat by yourself."

This statement was abrupt, making Qin Family’s third son quite worried: "Why isn’t he eating dinner?"

Is it very uncomfortable?

Xiao Ji explained, "Young Master is sick and has no appetite, so he won’t have dinner, but he will have supper."

Hearing this, Qin Family’s third son became even more worried: "Is it serious? Can I go see him?"

Xiao Ji decisively refused, "You can’t. The madam of Dong Family and Nanny Tao said that no external men are allowed in the courtyard where the Young Master resides. Whoever dares to enter will have their legs broken."

After setting down the food, he called to Xiangzi, "Brother, let’s go, let’s eat dinner. The main kitchen has made chestnut stewed meat, it smells so good, if we’re late the Xiong Family’s three brothers will eat it all."

Xiangzi: "Coming."

The siblings happily went to have their meal, leaving Qin Family’s third son alone, looking at the two dishes and one soup on the table, feeling quite distressed as he ate.

He quickly had half a bowl of rice and a few sips of soup before putting it down, stood up, walked out of the room, and stood in the courtyard looking towards the main residence.

Is he really sick, or...?

For the first time, Qin Family’s third son was a bit unsure, thinking whether or not to check on him? Just one look would be fine, to confirm he isn’t sick.

Qin Family’s third son was worried about Gu Jinli, but Gu Jinli was actually sleeping, sleeping quite soundly for four hours, and felt very refreshed when he woke up.

"Young Master, you’re finally up, I brought your supper, after you eat just leave it, your slave will clean up tomorrow. I’m so sleepy, I want to go to sleep, is that okay?" Xiao Ji said, barely keeping his eyes open, pleadingly.

Gu Jinli, who had a comfortable sleep, waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, I’ll clean up after I eat."

Xiao Ji, tearfully grateful, hurried to the servant’s room and fell asleep on the bed. Mmm, the quilt is really comfortable.

Gu Jinli, whose appetite was wide open, ate everything on the table—the one dish, one soup, one rice, and even the chicken leg. After finishing, he still felt it was not enough and complained, "Xiao Ji, you stingy thing, you couldn’t even pick up a bit more?"

During these two years, he is growing and can eat a lot, his food intake has increased quite a bit.

Gu Jinli cleaned up the tableware, placed them into the food container, went out of the room, and came to the courtyard to wash the dishes using the outdoor water.

Just as I was washing...

"Who!" Gu Jinli’s wrist turned, a dagger slid out from an inner pocket of her sleeve and landed in her hand, while her other hand was ready with the poison, eyeing the courtyard wall, planning to greet the thief with the poison as soon as he appeared.

"Don’t be afraid, it’s me." Qin San Lang’s figure whirled and he jumped over the courtyard wall into the courtyard, landing gracefully.

Gu Jinli: "This wall isn’t high enough."

Seeing that she could still joke, Qin San Lang felt a little less worried and said, "I heard you were sick and didn’t have dinner, I was a bit worried, so I came to check on you."

He then asked, "Feeling better?"

Gu Jinli put away the dagger and poison, pointing towards the bowl and chopsticks in the water bucket, "Better now. Look at how good my appetite is, I ate quite a bit."

Gurgle~

Qin San Lang’s stomach made a noise.

Gu Jinli looked towards his stomach in response, "Are you hungry? Didn’t you have dinner?"

Qin San Lang smiled sheepishly, "I did, but I didn’t eat enough."

He was worried about her, so he only ate half a bowl of rice, and now he was so hungry he could feel his front sticking to his back.

Gurgle~

Qin San Lang’s stomach embarrassingly grumbled again, making Gu Jinli hungry too.

"I didn’t eat enough either, let’s go to the kitchen to find something to eat." Gu Jinli put the washed bowls and chopsticks into a food box, picking it up and leaving.

Qin San Lang, seeing that she didn’t avoid him, felt very happy and hurriedly followed.

But the kitchen seemed to be against them; a small kitchen, a big kitchen, and inside there was not a bit of food, only walls of radishes and cabbages.

"Chew on these?" Gu Jinli pointed at the radishes and cabbages.

Qin San Lang: "Better to cook them first."

We’re not pigs.

But Gu Jinli was someone who couldn’t enjoy a meal without meat, hating to eat radishes and cabbages unless there was absolutely nothing else, she would not eat them.

"Not eating these." She stood up, quite spiritedly saying, "Come on, big sister will take you to eat meat!"

Qin San Lang laughed, "I’m four years older."

Gu Jinli had already walked out of the kitchen’s main door and turned her head to correct, "Three and a half years, not quite four."

Qin San Lang: "It’s three years and nine months, more than a half year."

Gu Jinli got angry, glaring at him and said, "Are you arguing? Talk back again, and you get no meat."

Qin San Lang wisely shut up, feeling very happy inside, seeing her return to her usual self, not as resistant as she was in the evening.

Now it was midnight, but the manor wasn’t dark; Gu Jinli’s house wasn’t short of pine oil. They had set up stone pillars at the roadside of the manor, placed pots on them and lit pine oil torches to keep it lit until dawn.

This not only kept the wild boars that came down from the hills at bay but also the thieves.

After walking around the manor for more than a quarter of an hour, Gu Jinli brought Qin San Lang to a courtyard, opened the middle house, and pointed to the hanging ham inside, "Look, that’s the meat, plenty of it, right?"

Qin San Lang nodded: "A lot."

The whole room was filled with pig legs that had been hanging for three years.

"Can we eat them now?" Qin San Lang asked.

Gu Jinli stared at the hams, nearly drooling, "Three years, we can eat them, very tasty."

Qin San Lang looked at her greedy expression and couldn’t help laughing, pointing at the dense hams and asked, "Which one do you want? I’ll get it down for you."

Gu Jinli held a torch, walked around the room, and pointed at the biggest ham in the middle, "Let’s eat that one."