Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 258 Depends on fate

Inside the house, Tao Qiuyi was spreading herbs on the floor in front of the fireplace.

In winter, without the sun to dry the herbs, fresh herbs would easily spoil if left for too long. So Tao Qiuyi came up with a solution: she placed the fresh herbs in front of the fireplace.

Use the heat of the fireplace to dry the herbs.

Upon entering, Wei Jingyuan saw the person who should have been resting fiddling with herbs. He said, "Didn't I tell you to rest? Why are you fiddling with herbs again?"

“The temperature inside is high, and the herbs will easily spoil if left in the basket,” Tao Qiuyi replied succinctly.

Looking up at Wei Jingyuan, who had returned, she asked, "Why are you back again? Don't tell me you've already boiled the water so quickly."

From the time he went out until he came back, less than five minutes had passed. He probably couldn't even light a fire, let alone boil water.

"No." Wei Jingyuan walked over to her and squatted down, helping her take the herbs out of the basket. "Qiusi is boiling water."

Tao Qiuyi asked in surprise, "Why is he boiling water? I asked you to boil water. The job I assigned him was to clean pheasants with Lizi."

“Indeed.” Wei Jingyuan nodded.

"Did Pear and Little Locust reject him?" This was the only possibility Tao Qiuyi could think of.

“No, the three of them get along very well,” Wei Jingyuan suggested. “If you don’t believe me, you can listen carefully.”

"Good hearing isn't something you can use to eavesdrop on other people." Tao Qiu rolled her eyes at Wei Jingyuan, her tone serious. She never took advantage of her good hearing to listen to what others were saying.

"When...when did he eavesdrop on other people's conversations?" Wei Jingyuan was speechless. But he still nodded and did not refute Tao Qiuyi's words.

After taking out all the herbs from the basket, Wei Jingyuan and Tao Qiuyi said, "Go back to the house and get some clean clothes. I'll go to the kitchen and see if the water is hot."

"Okay." Tao Qiuyi stood up and went to the next room to get a change of clothes.

Wei Jingyuan then went to the kitchen.

in the kitchen.

Once they started talking, the three boys seemed to instantly become closer. Tao Qiusi told the twins about life in the deep mountains, and the twins told him about things happening in the village at the foot of the mountain.

Pear and Little Locust gradually discovered that Tao Qiusi knew a lot. Her speech and word choice were very organized, as if she had been to school.

Through casual conversation, Tao Qiusi discovered that the twins were easy to get along with.

He had initially worried that his sister's twins wouldn't accept him easily. To his surprise, they were both very easy to talk to.

Entering the kitchen again, Wei Jingyuan saw Tao Qiusi still tending the fire. Li Zi and Xiao Huai were gathered around an iron bucket, from which steam was rising, as the siblings were plucking feathers from pheasants.

"Pear, Little Locust, be careful not to get burned." After giving Pear and Little Locust a word of advice, Wei Jingyuan carried the iron bucket next to the stone water vat to the stove.

He scooped the hot water from the pot into an iron bucket, filling it about halfway, and then went to the water tank to add cold water.

When Tao Qiuyi came out with a change of clothes, Wei Jingyuan had already brought hot water to the outhouse for her to wait in.

"Thank you." After saying thank you, Tao Qiuyi went into the outhouse to wash her hair and take a shower.

Wei Jingyuan outside reminded him, "It's cold, hurry up and take a shower, don't catch a cold."

"Okay," Tao Qiuyi responded softly from inside.

Hearing her soft voice, a sensual scene flashed through his mind. Wei Jingyuan felt his face flush, his heart race, and his breathing become rapid.

She quickly stopped her random thoughts and went to the kitchen.

Wei Jingyuan took over from Tao Qiusi to tend the fire. "Qiusi, go get your change of clothes. Take a bath when your sister comes out." "Okay, Brother Wei," Tao Qiusi replied, and went out of the kitchen to get her change of clothes.

Wei Jingyuan put two pieces of wood into the stove. Xiao Huai walked up to him and asked, "Brother, I see that Qiu Si is dressed in thin clothes. Does he not have a thick cotton coat?"

"I don't know." Wei Jingyuan really hadn't noticed this.

Xiao Huai said, "If Qiu Si doesn't have a thick cotton-padded coat, the new cotton-padded coat that my sister-in-law made for me can be given to Qiu Si to wear first."

“Alright, you can talk to Qiu Si yourself.” Wei Jingyuan didn’t interfere with his brother’s affairs, but still gave him a reminder. “Qiu Si hasn’t interacted with humans for over three years, so watch your words.”

"You need to make Qiu Si feel that you are genuinely helping him, not that you are giving him charity."

"I will be careful." Xiao Huai nodded seriously.

Wei Jingyuan said, "Also, Qiu Si is used to living alone on the mountain. He's just come down from the mountain, so he's bound to be unfamiliar with life down there. You and Li Zi should help him out more."

Xiao Huai and Li Zi both agreed and promised to help Qiu Si adapt to the communal living at the foot of the mountain as soon as possible.

With his younger siblings helping Qiu Si adjust, Wei Jingyuan didn't worry about it. He was thinking that after Qiu Qiu finished her bath, he would talk to her about making clothes for Qiu Si.

Since they brought Qiu Si down the mountain, they naturally had to take care of her food, clothing, and shelter.

Pear walked over and asked curiously, "Big brother, why is Qiu Si living alone in the mountains all of a sudden?"

"I don't know," Wei Jingyuan answered decisively, and it was the truth.

"Didn't you and your sister-in-law ask about Brother Qiu Si?" Pear continued to ask.

“Your sister-in-law and I didn’t ask.” Wei Jingyuan glanced at his younger sister. “You shouldn’t ask either, it’s no use asking. Qiu Si has even forgotten her own name and age, how could she possibly remember how he got into the mountains?”

"Will he remember it?" Xiao Huai asked a more practical question.

"It's hard to say," Wei Jingyuan said, unable to give a definite answer.

Human memory is the most mysterious thing. Some people lose their memory and never remember it again. Others, however, suddenly remember it at some point.

"If Qiu Si remembers where his home is, will he leave us and go back to his home?" Pear asked worriedly.

Wei Jingyuan said, "Whether Qiu Si stays or goes is his own decision, and we should respect it."

Xiao Huai also said, "Yes, it was fate that Qiu Si came to our family and became one of us. The fact that he decided to go back to his own home means that our fate has run its course, and we shouldn't force it."

"It depends on fate. Where did you learn to speak so old-fashionedly?" Wei Jingyuan asked with a chuckle.

"I heard it from someone," Xiao Huai said, spouting nonsense with a straight face.

Wei Jingyuan was speechless.

“I’ve never heard anyone say anything like that before!” Pear frowned in confusion.

Xiao Huai looked at the pear and said in a very sincere tone, "Your memory isn't very good. Even if someone tells you something, you won't remember it."

"It seems so." Pear immediately stopped worrying.

Wei Jingyuan looked at the pear and sighed inwardly. Was his sister's naivety a good thing or a bad thing?

Outside the kitchen, Tao Qiusi overheard the conversation between Wei Jingyuan and his two siblings, and a warm feeling flowed through her heart.

Brother Wei said that he would respect Brother Wei's decision on whether to stay or leave. His sister also said that she didn't expect either of them to take care of the other, as long as they respected each other.

He was incredibly grateful that he had agreed to go down the mountain with his sister and Brother Wei; otherwise, he would never have met such wonderful family.