You are unlucky and I am tough

Chapter 173 Suddenly Becoming Pretentious

The next day, Cheng Shuang opened her eyes and found herself lying in Wei Qinglang's arms. They were covered with the same quilt, and one of them was holding a thermometer in his other hand, which was placed on the other's chest.

After being stunned for a moment, she sat up and stepped back, narrowly avoiding falling off the bed.

Then she sat on the edge of the bed and tried to recall when she fell asleep last night, but found that she couldn't remember it, and she didn't know how she ended up lying in Wei Qinglang's arms.

While the person was still asleep, Cheng Shuang reached out and touched Wei Qinglang's forehead. The temperature was normal, but she was still worried, so she used a thermometer to check again to confirm that the fever had subsided.

Then she prepared to quietly get out of bed and lie down on the small bed below, pretending that she had slept in the small bed last night.

At this moment, Wei Qinglang slowly woke up, opened his eyes and watched her sneakily getting out of bed.

Cheng Shuang suddenly rolled over and stood up from the bed. "Are you awake? How do you feel?"

Wei Qinglang sat up, looking at her flustered look, not knowing why. He shook his still dizzy head and said, "Much better. Thank you for taking care of me last night."

Cheng Shuang twisted a strand of hair that fell on her chest with her fingers. "It's okay. I just fed you the medicine and didn't do anything else. Not long after you took the medicine, I fell asleep in my crib. I slept soundly."

Their eyes met, Wei Qinglang glanced at the small bed behind her and nodded, "Well... then, thank you for feeding me the medicine."

Last night, he woke up in the middle of the night due to the heat caused by the effects of the medicine. When he woke up, he saw Cheng Shuang sleeping on his chest, with her hand still pressing the corner of the quilt to prevent him from kicking it off.

Then he pulled away the top quilt without waking up, turned over, grabbed half of his pillow and fell into a deep sleep.

Now that she has woken up, she doesn't recognize him. Does that mean she still doesn't like him?

Seeing him suddenly lower his eyes and look listless, Cheng Shuang coughed lightly and said, "Well, you have a cold, so you need to eat light food these few days. I'll ask someone to make you some porridge. After you finish eating, take some medicine and go to sleep."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and was about to leave, but Wei Qinglang reached out and grabbed the corner of her clothes, "Wait..."

Cheng Shuang turned around and looked at him in confusion.

Wei Qinglang opened his mouth, with something in his heart that he wanted to say but he didn't know whether he should say it. What if Cheng Shuang really didn't like him, how would they get along in the future?

Finally, he sighed softly, "I had a dream last night. I dreamed that I returned to the old world."

Cheng Shuang was surprised. "Having a fever can have such benefits? I also want to have such a dream, but since I came here, I haven't dreamed of my family once."

"Do you really want to go back?"

Cheng Shuang sighed, "What's the point of thinking? We can't go back. It's been so long, so we should just accept our fate. God has been good to us. After death, we can still live again in another world."

"But I don't want to go back."

Cheng Shuang was surprised. "Why?"

"Because in that world I was alone and had no attachments. Even if I died no one would know. But here I have family. I have brothers and sisters, loving elders, and... you!"

Wei Qinglang raised his head, his deep, dark eyes looking straight at her.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment. When Cheng Shuang met those eyes, she heard the sound of her heartbeat "thump thump" getting faster and faster. A strange feeling she had never experienced before spread in her heart.

"Why are you saying this?" She quickly looked away and whispered, "Why are you suddenly so pretentious just because you're sick?"

Wei Qinglang smiled and said, "I just want to tell you that I'm really happy to meet you here."

“Oh…I see.”

Cheng Shuang pulled out the corner of his clothes and said, "Just lie down. I'll go make you some porridge."

The other people in the family woke up early and were washing or working in the yard. Cheng Shuang opened the door and ran to the kitchen, saying she wanted to cook porridge.

Cheng Guqiu was kneading dough in the kitchen to make dumplings in the morning. When he asked, he found out that Wei Qinglang had a fever last night. He said that he must have caught a cold yesterday, and then scolded Cheng Shuang for only worrying about Xinyi and the boy from the Zhao family yesterday, and not caring about her own man.

Cheng Shuang had nothing to refute, it was indeed her negligence.

Soon the whole family knew that Wei Qinglang was sick, and his two younger brothers even ran into the room to see him. Fortunately, Wei Qinglang guessed that his family would come in to visit him when they knew he was sick, so he put away the crib in advance.

Wei Xinyi didn't have a fever, but she caught a cold and had a stuffy and runny nose. After Cheng Shuang cooked the porridge on the small stove, she took out two prescriptions and gave them to Wu Junniang to help boil the medicine.

Then she got on the medicine box and asked her two younger brothers to accompany her to the hunter Zhao's house.

As expected, Zhao Xiuwen was the only one left at Hunter Zhao's house. His parents had gone to work in the fields early in the morning. Zhao Xiuwen was reading a book in the yard. He looked fine, but he had caught a cold and was coughing a little.

Cheng Shuang brought her two younger brothers with her and was not afraid of being seen talking nonsense. She went straight into the yard, took Zhao Xiuwen's pulse, changed the medicine, and then left three prescriptions before going back.

The large courtyard of Mr. Cheng's house has been under construction for some time and has begun to take shape. Construction starts early every morning.

When Cheng Shuang passed by, she was looking at the pair of stone lions that their family had brought in yesterday, when she was suddenly pulled.

Cheng Chen pulled her and pointed to the front, "Sister, look at what they are doing?"

Cheng Shuang looked over and saw two people standing at her door, one of them was sneaking around through the crack in the door and looking inside.

Seeing them about to knock on the door, Cheng Shuang quickened her pace and called out, "What are you doing at my door?"

Wei Da Kui and Wei Xiao Kui were startled. Wei Xiao Kui, who was peeking through the crack in the door, straightened up quickly. Seeing that it was Cheng Shuang, he rolled his eyes and said, "I'm here to see my sister. Why are you yelling?"

"It's my sister-in-law. Didn't Xinyi fall into the well yesterday? My father asked us to come and see her."

As soon as Wei Da Kui saw Cheng Shuang's eyes, he looked her up and down dishonestly, thinking to himself why this girl was getting more and more beautiful, and that Wei Qinglang was really lucky.

Cheng Shuang said coldly, "Don't be so hypocritical. Xinyi is fine. You are not welcome in my house. Just take care of your son from now on."

She knew how much Wei Qinglang hated Wei Changgui and his two sons. He was sick at the moment, so it was impossible for her to let them in and disgust him.

"Please let us in and take a look."

Wei Da Kui handed over the fish in his hand and said, "Look, this is the fish I caught last night. I gave it to Xinyi to nourish her body."

The fish had been gutted and killed, and was being held up by a piece of straw, which was still dripping with blood.

Cheng Shuang stepped back in disdain. Thinking that Wei Changgui wouldn't be willing to spend money to buy the fish and send it to him, she asked, "Where did you catch this fish?"

"It's from the pool of water by the waterfall behind the peach forest. I spent a long time fishing there. I'm sincere enough, right?" Wei Da Kui smiled apologetically.

"Behind the peach forest?"

Cheng Shuang was speechless and laughed. "Have you forgotten that I bought that mountain for three thousand taels? The flowers, birds, fish, insects, grass and trees on the mountain all belong to me. You caught fish on my land without permission and then gave them to my family. That's really sincere of you."

Wei Da Kui's expression froze. "It's not just me who goes there to catch fish. There are other people in the village who go there to catch fish as well."

"Thank you for your reminder. I'll put up a sign over there someday."

As he said this, he walked past them both and pushed open the gate to let his two younger brothers go in first.

After the two younger ones went in, the two behind them also wanted to go in, but Cheng Shuang stretched out her hand to stop them, "Didn't you hear what I just said? You are not welcome in my house."

"Cheng Shuang, don't go too far."

Wei Xiaokui was a hot-tempered person. He shouted, "Wei Qinglang's last name is Wei. You married into our Wei family. Even if the family splits up, you should still call us big brother and second brother. What can you do if I get married today?"

Cheng Shuang blocked the door and sneered at his arrogant look. "Should I remind you that this courtyard of ours was given to me by the prefect. If I don't allow someone to enter, they can't enter. Otherwise, go to the prefectural government office and sue me. It's not far away anyway."

When the prefect was mentioned, the two men took a step back and looked at the high wall in front of them.

All the houses of the villagers were built according to the specifications of the old village, except theirs. The villagers said that it was because Wei Qinglang invented new farm tools and made a name for himself in front of the prefect that he was rewarded with such a large yard.

Wei Xiaokui was about to force his way in, but his arrogance instantly subsided. However, he was still unwilling to accept the result and shouted towards the yard, "Nanxing, Wei Nanxing, come out!"

Wei Nanxing rode out before dawn to find a place to practice martial arts and was not at home at all. Cheng Shuang rolled her eyes and said, "Will Nanxing pay attention to you? What a joke!"

Then he ignored them and slammed the door.

Wei Qinglang was lying in bed when he heard the noise and came out. He saw Cheng Shuang locking the courtyard door from the inside with a bolt. He asked in confusion, "Who's outside?"

"Who else could it be?"

Cheng Shuang closed the door and walked closer to him, telling him that the two people outside said they wanted to visit Wei Xinyi.

Wei Qinglang's face showed disgust, "Would they be so kind? I don't know what evil they are planning."

Cheng Shuang ran out when she saw that he was not wearing his coat and pushed him to his room. "Don't worry about them. Go back and lie down. The porridge will be ready soon."

The family didn't take the morning's incident seriously. Cheng Shuang took care of the two patients in the family personally. Wei Xinyi was ordered not to go out and play until she recovered from the cold. Wei Qinglang's symptoms were more serious and he needed to stay in bed.

But he said he couldn't sleep and kept wandering around the house. He sneezed dozens of times and coughed all morning, and his throat was inflamed.

Cheng Shuang said that he was spreading the virus, so he stayed in the room and read some books, and just refused to lie down.

As a doctor, the most annoying thing is that the patient does not follow the doctor's advice and refuses to rest well, so he recovers slowly. If Cheng Shuang recovers slowly, I have to take care of him all the time.

So after lunch, Cheng Shuang, who was furious, added some stuff to the medicine he was drinking and fed it to him personally.

After drinking a bowl of medicine, Wei Qinglang's eyelids began to droop in a short while. When the people fell asleep, she stood up with the medicine bowl in her hand and said proudly, "Little guy, I can't cure you anymore."

After everything finally calmed down, Cheng Shuang went to the yard and took out the soap she had made yesterday. After checking to make sure it was formed, she used a knife to break open the bamboo tube and take out the soap.