Chapter 20.1

Substitute Marriage (6) –  Agile and Clever (1)

Once the bride was in the bridal chamber, the groom had to stay here for wine toasting.

However, Zheng Yan Qing was not in good health, so he could only use tea instead of wine, and toasted table by table.

Lu Zhi Yao didn’t touch the food at the wedding banquet, but just peeled open the crispy candies one by one and ate them one after another as if he wasn’t tired of them.

The child sitting next to him ate the duck meat and glanced at him from time to time.

Lu Zhi Yao was so pretty and ate so deliciously that it completely tickled the child’s cravings.

But he somehow felt that there was something scary about this man and dared not go up to him to make conversation. Seeing how his eyes were closed and couldn’t see, he boldly reached out to touch a crispy candy.

“Want to eat candy?”

Lu Zhi Yao reached out and grabbed the child’s hand with a gentle smile.

The child relaxed at the sight of his smile and nodded, “I want to eat it.”

Lu Zhi Yao turned to him, with a candy bulging out of his left cheek and he looked so harmless.

“I seem to be in a bit of a bad mood, how about this, you give me a finger, and when I’m happy, I’ll give you a candy, how about that?”

He took out a shiny dagger from his sleeve and twirled it between his fingers, the stream of light that spun from the dagger crossed the child’s eyes.

The child looked at the small knife in his hand and was so frightened that he dropped his duck legs to the ground.

Hearing the movement, Lu Zhi Yao put the dagger back and sighed helplessly.

“Boring.”

He continued to eat the crispy candy as his fingertips kept tapping the tabletop.

As if something finally occurred to him, he put the remaining crispy candies into his arms, took the blind stick on the side and walked outside, with a much brisker pace.

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Li Ruo Shui was lying on the couch covering her stomach, hungry and sleepy.

The sun had almost set outside the window, but she hadn’t eaten anything yet.

Are married people not human?

Just when she was looking out of the window in boredom, a group of people suddenly arrived outside with a lot of noise.

She turned over and sat up, looking through the paper window, only to see Zheng Yan Qing and his maids and servants behind him slowly walking towards the room.

Li Ruo Shui lifted her skirt off the couch and the door was pushed open just as she sat down on the edge of the bed.

Zheng Yan Qing smiled apologetically at her and went forward to sit beside her.

The maids and servants carried the food and dried fruits, and after they arranged the food, they stood in a line in front of the two of them.

Li Ruo Shui looked at them, not remembering for a moment what the process was.

“What is this……”

Two of the maids came forward, each holding a tray of dried fruit containing dried dates and peanuts.

“May the young master and young lady have a precious child early and be blessed for a hundred years.”

As soon as she finished speaking, she tossed all the dried fruits in her hands over.

Looking at the two trays of dried fruits, Li Ruo Shui reflexively closed her eyes and remembered the process of this “blessing”.

How could this be a blessing, it was obviously just a grudge!

The dried hard nuts fell on the clothes and the bed, making a thumping sound that was painful to hear.

It was nothing if it hit her body, but she was just afraid that it would hit her face.

Li Ruo Shui’s eyes were shut tightly the whole time and her hands were clutching the hem of her skirt.

In such a situation, what she feared most was not being hit, but the nervousness of being hit.

What kind of marriage is this? This is clearly a punishment.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, the maid seemed to be afraid of disrupting the auspicious time, yet she could not just pour it all out, so she had to speed up the frequency of the blessings.

“May the young master and young lady have a precious child early and a hundred years of good fortune……”

The maid said that while throwing, although she had already paid attention to the direction, she still could not avoid hitting the face—

Hit Zheng Yan Qing’s face.

Zheng Yan Qing was in a daze, his face had already been hit with several red marks. Li Ruo Shui closed her eyes and was nervous, but none of them hit her face.

When the two trays of dried fruits were finally emptied, the maids sighed in relief and left the place in a hurry after saluting them.

Li Ruo Shui opened her eyes, patted her chest thankfully, and said after the disaster.

“Luckily I didn’t get hit in the face.”

When she turned her eyes to look at Zheng Yan Qing, she couldn’t hold back her laughter, “You’re so miserable.”

Zheng Yan Qing not only had red marks on his face, but also had a few peanuts in his hair, and he looked in a terrible state.

“I had already foreseen this coming yesterday.” Zheng Yan Qing gestured to the food on the table: “Do you want to eat some?”

“Sure, I’m hungry too.”

Li Ruo Shui’s hand was chafed as she got up. She picked up something and couldn’t help but twitch the corners of her mouth.

“Never mind if it’s dates and peanuts, why have to go as far as spreading crispy candy?”

It was a small piece of broken crispy candy, with sharp-edged and a sweet fragrance.

Li Ruo Shui’s posture and tone of voice were so natural that Zheng Yan Qing not only felt much less awkward, but strangely more of a touch of brotherly affection.

“I don’t think so.” He turned to look at the bed and paused for a moment: “……there are quite a lot.”

The red bed surface looked very conspicuous with many crumbled pieces of crispy candy scattered between the dried dates and peanuts.

“Luckily I’m fine.”

Li Ruo Shui sighed again, threw the crispy candy back on the bed and sat down at the table with Zheng Yan Qing to get something to eat to fill her stomach.

To be precise, she hadn’t eaten anything since the two matchmakers came to her door yesterday afternoon.