binnovel Chapter 108 Can We Keep It?
Chapter 108 Can We Keep It?
After dinner, Tang Xu leaned lazily on Du Yun. Du Yun smiled faintly, holding her with one hand to prevent her from falling, and reading a book with the other hand.
Tang Xu pinched Du Yun's hair and played with it around his fingers, "It's so comfortable."
"Take a break if you're tired." Du Yun rubbed his cheek on her hair. For some reason, her hair was exceptionally soft and had a pleasant smell. It was hard to tell what the smell was, maybe it wasn't a fragrance, but it smelled very comfortable.
Tang Xu pinched their hair and tied a knot, "Where are the children? Look, does this count as a hair knot? Haha..."
"Mother has taken the children out to play. We can grow old together without getting married." Du Yun let her play with her hair. "By the way, tomorrow the Queen's wife invites you to attend the flower banquet at her house. Do you want to go?"
"Mrs. Wang?" Tang Xu sat up. "I quite like her, especially her mouth. She speaks so sweetly."
Du Yun laughed, "I'm afraid you're the only one who would say that in the entire Yihe Town."
Tang Xu thought of Mrs. Wang's sharp tongue and laughed.
Du Yun held up the laughing kid and said helplessly, "Be careful."
"When are you going? Do I need to bring anything? Can I bring the children? Are you unable to go?"
"Have breakfast and clean up before going. Uncle Qi will prepare gifts for you. You can take the children if you want. If you don't want to take them, leave them at home and your mother will watch over them. Some ladies will go, so it's inconvenient for me to show up. I will pick you up."
Tang Xu nodded, "Okay, then I'll take the kids with me so they can have some company."
His chin was itchy from being rubbed by his wife's hair. Du Yun reached out and smoothed her hair. For a moment, he felt like she was with Jia Rui. "Take a maid with you. It will be more convenient for you to run errands."
"Okay, then I'll borrow one from mom." Tang Xu said, and yawned again. It was easy to feel sleepy when doing nothing.
Du Yun looked down at her and touched her warm cheek. "Are you sleepy? Do you want to go to sleep for a while?"
"I just woke up, I won't sleep anymore. I'm going to paint a picture!" Tang Xu said she would paint, she got up and spread out the paper and ground the ink. She tapped her chin with the pen, what should she paint?
Du Yun followed and asked, "What do you want to draw?"
Tang Xu looked at him, "Draw a family portrait? Don't we have one yet?"
"Okay, I'll watch you draw." Du Yun put down the book and stood behind her.
"Are you trying to learn secretly? I saw through you, didn't I?" After saying that, Tang Xu laughed to herself. She had seen Du Yun's paintings. His style was different from her own. His paintings focused more on artistic conception, but his skills were also very solid.
Du Yun was amused by her quirky tone and continued, "Yes, Madam, are you willing to accept me as your disciple?"
"You have to pay tuition for that." Tang Xu smiled, compared the drawing paper and the number of people, and began to compose the picture in his mind.
Du Yun stopped talking when he saw her serious expression. She seemed even more beautiful when she was focused, with her usual confidence on her face and the light in her eyes was particularly moving.
This is my wife, he thought, they will spend the rest of their lives together, although he already knew the ending, he was looking forward to it every day. He was looking forward to the process, the surprises and laughter she would bring, which was different from relatives, friends, and teachers. It was a joy that belonged to her alone and could bring him.
Before the painting was half finished, Qiyue and Jiarui ran in hand in hand. "Mom, mom! Look! A kitten."
"Aunt, little kitten, little calico kitten, so small."
“We picked it up!”
“It also eats meat buns!”
"Follow us after you finish eating!"
“We’re bringing it back!”
"It's so good!"
"Can we have a kitten?"
"May I?"
The two little guys were talking to each other, looking up at Tang Xu with two pairs of eyes, making their eyes look bigger and rounder, just like the kitten in the basket.
Du Yun glanced at the kitten, which was not even as big as his palm. He suddenly remembered Tang Xu's coquettish look, which was almost exactly the same. He turned his head and looked at Tang Xu. Being stared at by four pairs of expectant eyes at the same time, Tang Xu almost covered his chest. Forget about these three kittens, but there is such a big one next to it. Is your look right? Who can stand this! It's too cute! "Raise it! Raise it! Feed it some goat milk first."
"The kitten wants more milk?" Du Jiarui heard this and ran away, "Grandpa Qi, the kitten wants milk! Come and give it some milk!"
"Hey, here it comes, Master Jiarui, go slower! Don't fall!" After a while, Butler Qi brought a bowl of goat milk. Ever since Tang Xu said that children would grow taller if they drank milk, the family bought a milk-producing ewe and gave the children a bowl of milk every day, and the extra milk could be used as snacks.
The two little ones squatted on the ground and watched the kitten roll the milk with its tongue to drink.
"It drinks so slowly! It finishes it in one gulp. Let me feed it!" Du Jiarui was about to pick up the bowl. Tang Xu quickly stopped him, "Jiarui, no, that's how kittens drink. Don't be impatient or they'll choke."
"It licks so slowly, but it finishes it in one go." Jiarui was puzzled.
"The milk isn't less." July pointed at the bowl.
Tang Xu gave them a lecture about the structure of a cat's mouth and tongue. The kids didn't quite understand, but they remembered that cats are different from humans and that they can't pour food into their mouths or they will choke.
"So that's how it is." Du Yun nodded and looked at Tang Xu, "Did Ah Xu have a cat before?"
"If raising cats online counts, then I have raised a lot of them." Tang Xu chuckled.
“Raising a cat in the cloud?” It’s another new word I haven’t heard before. Maybe it’s the dialect of her hometown?
Under the banyan tree outside the Du family's gate, a group of little potatoes squatted around the kitten, exclaiming in amazement. The kitten shivered and crawled under July's feet, calling out non-stop.
Hearing the kitten's cries becoming more and more urgent, Tang Xu had to come over and said, "The kitten is a little scared, everyone please watch from a distance."
After hearing this, Fang Zijun turned to look at the kitten and said, "We won't hurt you, kitten, you don't have to be afraid."
"Yes, little cat, we won't hurt you, come out and play." Zhao Yunniang took a step forward, wanting to touch its fur to see if it was as soft as a little rabbit's.
"Come out and play, I have some candy here." Jiarui took out his bag of precious snacks.
"Come out, kitten." July reached out to take the kitten out from between her legs, but failed.
Tang Xu held down Jiarui's hand holding the candy, "Don't feed it carelessly, it can only drink goat milk now. And there are too many of you, you are all surrounding it, it is very scared. You see you are so much bigger than it, think about it, if a group of adults surrounded you, would you be scared?"
"Well, yes, I would definitely be scared." Yunniang has always been a very empathetic child, and she stepped back when she heard that.
The other children also took a few steps back. The kitten seemed to sense it and poked its little head out to look around. The shrill cry finally stopped.
"It's looking at me!" Jiarui's face was full of surprise.
"Look at me!" Fang Zijun was unconvinced.
Nearly ten children watched this little cat for an entire afternoon. They were not bored at all and even tried to chat with the cat.
Unfortunately, the kitten only sticks to July. July now sleeps in the same room with Jiarui. The kitten was taken back to the room by them, and July no longer acted like a spoiled child and wanted to sleep with her mother.
He used to live with Tang Xu, and he was not used to sleeping alone all of a sudden. After coming to the Du family, he has been sleeping with Jiarui. The two little guys often chat until very late, and they will go to bed only after being reminded by the maid many times.