Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 451 Emotions

Everything was fine until Gu Juncheng saw that she was able to eat properly, which made him feel relieved. He was about to have to go out again, so he was relieved that his parents could take care of him.

But halfway through the meal, Liu Fen suddenly started staring at Lin Qingping.

Lin Qingping hadn't paid any attention yet, focusing only on eating the chicken with the slightly spicy pickles. Liu Fen pushed a plate of pickled cucumbers in front of her, "Pingzi, try some of this."

Lin Qingping didn't pay attention and ate a piece, but the cucumber wasn't crisp and had little flavor except for being sour. She frowned and shook her head, refusing it.

"What about this?" Liu Fen pushed the small dish of pickled green beans again.

Lin Qingping shook her head, having no appetite. The feeling of vomiting after drinking the sour passion fruit juice came back to her.

"No, I'm full." She put down her chopsticks. "You guys eat slowly, I'm going to rest for a bit."

Lin Qingping went to the backyard to wash her face and rinse her mouth before returning to her room.

What she didn't see was that when she entered the room, her mother-in-law was still watching which foot she stepped with first.

The house on the island doesn't have as many rooms as the two-story building in the capital; it only has two rooms. Zhiyuan is currently boarding at school, so Gu Juncheng arranged for his parents to stay in Zhiyuan's room. But what will happen when Zhiyuan comes back on the weekend?

When Gu Juncheng came in at night, Lin Qingping told him about it.

"Set up a bed for Zhiyuan in the living room, or let him sleep on the sofa, either is fine," Gu Juncheng said without thinking.

Lin Qingping immediately felt a lump in her throat, and her displeasure was visibly evident on her face.

"What's wrong now?" Gu Juncheng lay down beside her. "Are you feeling unwell?"

She glanced at him. "If Zhiyuan were our own son, I would do as you say without hesitation. But Zhiyuan isn't! A child living under someone else's roof is naturally sensitive and perceptive. Now that you have your own child, you're sending him to sleep in the living room, without even his own room. How do you expect him to feel?"

Gu Juncheng thought she was overthinking it. "Didn't we all sleep like this when we were kids? Many families had a lot of children, so they would put a curtain in one room and have several people sleep there. Some even slept on the floor. Sleeping on the sofa isn't so bad, is it?"

Lin Qingping thought about it and wondered if it really was her problem?

Was it because she was used to living in a big house and having her own room in the latter half of her previous life? Or was it because she also has a big house in the capital in this life, and naturally follows the lifestyle habits of her previous life?

In those days, many families indeed didn't have such conditions. Many homes didn't even have functional separations like a living room, dining room, and bedroom. On this island alone, many families lived like this. It's fair to say she was just too particular...

Seeing that she was still silent, Gu Juncheng comforted her, "Don't worry, Zhiyuan isn't that kind of child."

“I know he’s not like that, but I…” Lin Qingping shut up because she couldn’t think of a better solution. She couldn’t very well make her in-laws sleep in the living room, could she? Even if they were willing, she didn’t want to wake up every day to find her father-in-law sleeping on the sofa…

"What's wrong?" He hugged her and pulled her closer to him.

"Forget it, let's go to sleep." She pushed him away and turned her back to him.

"Aren't you happy yet? I'm leaving tomorrow," he said softly.

Lin Qingping was surprised and blurted out, "Where are you going?" After she finished speaking, she saw that he was silent and knew that she had asked the wrong question. How could he possibly tell her where he was going?

"Never mind, I just asked casually, you don't need to answer." She looked listless.

She felt that she was really emotional today, and it seemed that she was not the calm person she used to be.

"I'm going out tomorrow, don't you want to pinch and play with it?" he suddenly whispered in her ear.

Upon hearing this, Lin Qingping didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In the end, she just chuckled, but the anger in her heart hadn't dissipated. She rolled her eyes at him and said, "Whoever wants to pinch me can pinch me!"

"Okay, it's my choice to pinch..." His voice disappeared into the warmth of his burning lips.

As for where he pinched, it was all hidden in the darkness of the night, gradually dissipating the gloom in Lin Qingping's heart.

“I’ll figure something out…” he said.

Lin Qingping didn't know what he was going to do. She was half asleep, feeling the warmth of his broad hands on her skin, and gradually drifted off to sleep.

She is currently very sleepy and exhausted. Because she always vomits after eating, she is tired and sleeps poorly. On days when she eats well, she sleeps very soundly.

So, when I woke up that night, it was already bright outside, and he was naturally no longer by my side.

There were faint noises and voices outside. She was just waking up and still a little groggy when she heard the familiar accent from her hometown. Then she realized: her father-in-law and mother-in-law had arrived...

I wonder what they're doing outside?

She got up, opened the door, and was stunned.

A curtain was drawn in the middle of the living room, behind which was a wire bed. The sofa had also been moved behind the curtain and placed next to the bed to form a large bed. My mother-in-law was lying on the bed making the sheets.

Hearing the door open, Liu Fen looked up and smiled, "Pingzi, you're awake? What would you like to eat for breakfast? I'll make it."

"Mother, what are you doing?" Lin Qingping looked out from behind the curtain and saw that her coffee table and her gardenia bonsai were gone. The dining table in the kitchen was standing in the center, with a few wooden stools placed around it.

Liu Fen made the bed and said to her with a smile, "Chengzi brought a small bed over this morning and put it in that room, saying that when Zhiyuan comes back, he will sleep in the same room as us. I was thinking that it would be too crowded to put two beds in one room. We are old, and it would affect Zhiyuan's studies. Don't you have another room? Just put a curtain in the room and we can sleep here. Your dad and I will sleep here. We can put your soft bed together, and it will be just right."

A soft bed refers to a sofa.

Lin Qingping was speechless. From now on, she wouldn't be able to sit on the sofa to watch the sunset, rest, or read.

The father-in-law was shouting something outside, and the mother-in-law went out to see what was going on, yelling "What are you doing?" Lin Qingping followed her out.

Good heavens, her fence, the one where bougainvillea had started to climb, was half bare. Half of the bougainvillea had been dug up by her father-in-law, and the gardenias planted next to it were also "corpses" piled up on the ground in the yard.

"Mother, what is Father doing?" Lin Qingping asked anxiously.

Liu Fen explained to her, “You young people don’t understand. You’re about to have a baby, why are you planting so many white flowers in the yard? And that white pot in the house is unlucky. After your father pulls them all out, I’ll plant some vegetables for you. From now on, you won’t have to buy anything you want to eat; you can just pick them yourself.”

"Mom, there are places where vegetables are grown!"