Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 241

After he finished eating, he got up and washed all the dishes he used by the sink.

Seeing that he got to wash the pot later, Gu Yin stopped him, “Let’s put it away, it’s getting late, we’ll be leaving early tomorrow morning, and if we don’t go back to sleep, I’m afraid we won’t be able to get up.”

“It’s just a matter of convenience,” he finished cleaning as he spoke.

The two blew out the oil lamp and crept to the backyard, preparing to leave through the back door.

They had just left the back door when the door to the backyard wing creaked open.

Chef Xu rubbed his eyes and woke up at night, muttering, “Why do I seem to smell the fragrance of noodles?”

The little apprentice who was in the same room with him said in a sleepy voice, “Master, did you dream of eating noodles, where did the fragrance of noodles come from in the middle of the night?”

Chef Xu took two more sniffs and said, “No, I really can smell the noodles! It must be a thief!”

After he finished speaking, he immediately ran to the kitchen, and then shouted, “God damn little thief, eat the dough I was going to keep for supper! No, the little thief also ate vegetables and eggs, and put the tableware and chopsticks away. The pot and the pans are all washed! The stove is still hot. I will see where you are going!”

“Let’s go.” Gu Yin lowered her voice and winked slyly at Wu Qingyi, “He didn’t remember to close the door. Therefore, it’s best not to tell him.”

She laughed like a little mouse stealing oil.

Wu Qingyi looked at her crescent eyes and nodded.

While they were talking, Chef Xu lit an oil lamp and touched the back door, and the two ran away in a hurry.

After running for half an hour, Gu Yin really couldn’t run anymore, she supported her waist and said with a smile, “After this time, he will never forget to close the back door again.”

Wu Qingyi also laughed. Seeing her panting, he asked aloud, “Do you want me to carry you?”

Gu Yingang was so happy, she stopped laughing when she heard that, shook her head and said softly, “No need, we are already at the door.”

Wu Qingyi looked up, and sure enough, a few steps away was the gate of the Gu House.

He thought it was a pity that they reached that soon.

At the gate, Mrs. Wang was waiting for them with a lantern. When she saw the two figures, she approached with a lantern and said strangely, “Why are you two running in the middle of the night? After you run home in one breath, why stand there?”

Gu Yin shook her head and said nothing, then walked into the house with her eyes down.

Wu Qingyi followed her in, and as soon as he reached the door, Mrs. Wang reached out and held him.

“How was it?” Mrs. Wang asked him in a low voice.

Wu Qingyi asked, “What?”

Mrs. Wang stomped her feet in disgust, “What? I am asking how the festival went between you and your wife!”

Gu Ye got home earlier than them, and when he got home, he asked strangely the reason the couple weren’t home yet. They had already said that they were going back, and he didn’t know what they were doing.

As soon as Mrs. Wang heard it, she laughed so hard at that time. She pretended not to understand anything, and said to Gu Ye, “Maybe they are discussing going to Beijing. You go to bed first, and I will wait at the door for them.”

After waiting for almost three quarters of an hour, the young couple came back.

Knowing that Gu Yin was thin-skinned (shy), Mrs. Wang couldn’t ask her, so of course she had to ask her eldest son who had a thick skin.

Wu Qingyi said again, “It was good.”

“What did I tell you before you went out? Last year, Qingchuan from your Aunt Xu’s house took her and guessed a whole street of lantern riddles! How many did you guess today?”

The mother and son entered the house while talking. Wu Qingyi helped Mrs. Wang lift the door bolt as thick as an adult’s arm with one hand, and inserted it into the slot lightly.

“None.”

Mrs. Wang said anxiously, “Then what did you do after that?”

“I met Ye and the others and played with the children.”

“And later?”

“Later she made me a bowl of noodles, which was delicious.”

Mrs. Wang’s back molars creaked. She also knew that Xu Qingchuan gave Gu Yin a rabbit lantern the previous year. Although she heard from the two children later that Gu Yin didn’t seem to like that lantern very much and she passed it on to other children, her silly son went out with his wife for a while but didn’t give her anything. The more she thought about it, the more irritated she became.

Wu Qingyi was stabbed in the eye in vain. Although he was a little puzzled, he did not argue.

The mother and son were about to leave the door when they heard a soft knock on the door outside.

Three longs and two shorts knocks were the secret codes used by the rebels.