Chapter 39: Uninvited Guest (1) Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.
When Xiao Lang held her lips, Shu Lan seemed to taste the sweet taste of a mountain spring.
In the beginning, she was not used to the wetness under her skirt, but as she sat down, she felt nothing, not to mention all her attention seemed to be focused on the lips and tongue that she tasted arbitrarily. A little itchy, a little numb, and a very comfortable feeling made her feel like floating.
Shu Lan was really comfortable, so she fell asleep under Xiao Lang’s gentle and lingering kiss.
When Xiao Lang realized something was wrong and raised his head, he found that the lazy girl was sleeping soundly in his arms. Her small mouth was slightly open, red, and tender.
He stared at her silently for a long time, the blue veins on his forehead burst out and calmed down, finally, he sighed helplessly. Maybe he was the only one who felt his heart beat faster when their lips met, and the blood in his whole body boiled...
This guy could always give him a heavy blow after he took advantage.
Was there something wrong with the way he kissed? Maybe she was just too tired...
Touching Shu Lan’s small face, Xiao Lang put her on the grass next to him and went to the river to harpoon a fat fish. After that, he didn’t wake Shu Lan up right away, but squatted by the river to clean up the two fish before he woke her up: “Ah Lan, let’s go home!”
Shu Lan rubbed her eyes and sat up reluctantly. Looking around, she remembered the long way she had traveled. She stretched out her hands to Xiao Lang: “Older brother Wolf, I’m so sleepy, can you carry me back?” Her almond eyes were misty, opened, and closed, staring at him dazedly.
Thinking of her red soles, Xiao Lang put the bamboo spear into the wooden bucket, making sure that he could get it when he carried Shu Lan on his back, then he bent down and squatted down: “Come up.”
Shu Lan rubbed her eyes and stood up. She walked slightly behind Xiao Lang, stretched her arms around his neck, and continued to sleep against his back.
Xiao Lang weighed her up, stood up effortlessly, carefully lifted the wooden bucket with his right hand that was wrapped around Shu Lan’s leg, and walked back steadily.
The dazzling sunlight pierced through the dense foliage, casting a mottled patch on the two of them.
Don’t know how long it took, but Shu Lan suddenly woke up. The sound of a frightened bird flapping its wings lingered in her ears. She was stunned for a moment and then heard some heavy breathing from the person under her, and a steady and powerful heartbeat came from her ear through the shoulder.
She turned her head and saw Xiao Lang’s sweaty side face, just as he turned his head to look over and asked her with a smile: “Are you awake?”
His forehead was covered in fine sweat, and his flying eyebrows and his smiling eyes were so close to her that she could see the thin fluff on his face, so short and so shallow that they couldn’t be seen at all...
It seemed like her feet didn’t hurt so much anymore.
“Older brother Wolf, let me down. I have to go on my own.” Shu Lan stretched her arms and twisted her body to go down.
The wound on his left arm was touched by her. Xiao Lang took a deep breath and hurriedly bent over to put her down. He retracted his arm to take a look, only to find that the wound was open, and a little blood-stained was on the gauze.
He raised his arm, not wanting Shu Lan to find out, but Shu Lan had already seen it sharply.
“Older brother Wolf, you are bleeding!” Shu Lan cried out in surprise and distress. She had bled and knew how painful it was.
Xiao Lang pressed the wound, and after a while, he said: “It’s okay, it’s only a little bleeding. It doesn’t hurt. Let’s go home quickly.” It happened that they were approaching the end of the village, and even if Shu Lan didn’t wake up, he would call her.
Shu Lan walked on Xiao Lang’s left with some anxiety, turning her head from time to time and saw that the bloodstain really didn’t spread anymore, so she breathed a sigh of relief: “Daddy isn’t at home, it would be bad if older brother Wolf kept bleeding.”
This was caring about him. Xiao Lang kept silent in a good mood, smiled, and listened to Shu Lan’s stupid comfort.
When he was about to reach Shu’s house, Xiao Lang saw a sturdy donkey from a distance, tied to a willow tree next to Shu’s house. Someone was sitting with his back against the willow tree, but his upper body was blocked by the donkey. He frowned. The Shu family had only one relative of the Qin family. If the Qin family came over, they would definitely take a carriage. Could this person come to see a doctor?
At this moment, a hoarse voice came from behind the donkey’s butt: “Ah Lan comes back, Ah Lan comes back!”
It was the white-fur parrot!
Xiao Lang guessed who it was. He instinctively stopped, but Shu Lan happily ran over: “Quanquan!”
Hearing Shu Lan’s voice, Zhu Yuanbao, who closed his eyes and rested, immediately stood up and carried the parrot cage around the donkey. The moment he saw Shu Lan, his eyes brighten up and he smiled unconsciously: “Ah Lan, you’re finally back. I’ve been waiting for you here for a long time!”
“Brother Yuanbao!” Shu Lan shouted crisply, then took the birdcage impatiently, and said to the parrot she named Quanquan inside, “Quanquan, did you miss me? I miss you!”
“Ah Lan is so cute, Ah Lan is so cute!” Quanquan flapped its wings, walked left and right on the crossbar, turned its head, and chirped.
Shu Lan immediately smiled and raised her eyebrows, holding the birdcage, and staring at Quanquan without blinking. She wanted to see if it lost any weight. As everyone knew, Zhu Yuanbao also looked at her with good eyes.
The two have not seen each other for more than half a month. On the days when Shu Lan left, Zhu Yuanbao still didn’t think he missed her much, but on the fourth day, Shu Lan still didn’t return to Qin’s house, and he realized that Qin’s house was only Shu Lan’s grandmother’s house. She couldn’t stay in often.
So, he began to worry, afraid she would not come back for a long time, and afraid she had forgotten him, so he taught Quanquan to speak every day, thinking that Shu Lan liked Quanquan so much, as long as she saw Quanquan, she would think of him.
Because he was afraid of missing Shu Lan, he didn’t go out to play these days, but stayed at home honestly and listened to the movement next door. This morning, he finally heard from the servants of the Qin family that the young lady was back. He immediately ran over with the birdcage and wanted to see her on the pretext of returning it to Shu Lan. Who would have thought that only her mother and her older sister come? She stayed at home.
Zhu Yuanbao returned disappointed.
He was sitting in the backyard, looking at the persimmon tree, thinking of Shu Lan’s cute appearance on the tree, thinking of the sweet smile when she gave him mung bean cakes, and thinking of the scene where the two of them were teasing Quanquan together in those days, he suddenly felt very uncomfortable. The kind of discomfort that came from wanting to see but not being able to see it.
Since he couldn’t see the pain, then take the initiative to find her!
