Turning Antagonist to Protagonist: He is Both Soft and Fierce-Chapter 314 - 309: It’s Not the First Hickey Anymore

Chapter 314: Chapter 309: It’s Not the First Hickey Anymore

When he came in, Lin Qiao had just finished cooking the tofu cakes. "Tingfan, wash your hands and eat a cake, eat while it’s hot."

"Okay."

Song Tingfan washed his hands, handed one to each of Song Rong and the others, and then took one for himself. However, he didn’t eat it immediately; instead, he brought it to Lin Qiao’s lips, wanting her to take a bite.

Knowing his temperament, Lin Qiao didn’t say anything. She lowered her head and took a bite. It was a bit hot, so she blew on it a couple of times before chewing. "Not bad."

Out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly saw Song Tingfan eating directly from the spot she had bitten, and her face inexplicably started to turn red.

This rascal is quite good at this.

She decided to ask him someday where he learned this from.

Song Tingfan then again brought the cake to her mouth. She hesitated: "..."

"Ahem, Tingfan, you eat it. I’ll wash my hands and get one myself."

He persisted in feeding her, so she had to take another bite.

Song Qin and the others glanced over and smiled. Mrs. Fan got up and said, "I’m going to sit outside for a bit. It’s too hot in the kitchen."

"We’ll go with you." Song Qin took Song Rong’s hand, and they went out together.

Their intention to give her some space was a bit too obvious. Lin Qiao’s mouth twitched. She glanced at Song Tingfan, picked up a tofu cake, and said, "We’ll have porridge for dinner, you should grab some pickled vegetables."

"Okay." Song Tingfan put down the cake, quickly rolled up his sleeves, and scooped out some pickled vegetables from the jar.

There were too many cakes made, and half of them weren’t finished at dinner. After washing the dishes, Song Tingfan went to bathe, while Lin Qiao sat with Song Rong and the others at the door to cool down. It’s cooler in the alley at night.

Quite a few people were cooling off, and two or three families had even brought wide bamboo baskets to use as beds to sleep on.

The young woman from across the street brought over a stool to talk to her, "Lady Song, are you going to the Li family’s banquet?"

Lin Qiao thought for a moment before realizing she meant the first house in the alley, and she shook her head, "We weren’t invited."

"I wasn’t invited either. I heard it from Ms. Gui. We don’t talk much usually. I plan not to go, but my husband told me to send something over, so I thought I’d ask you." The young woman said softly while fanning herself.

Hearing that, Lin Qiao thought for a moment, "I need to ask Tingfan later, I’ll let you know then."

The young woman smiled with twinkling eyes, naturally going on to say a lot, "That sounds good, are you going to buy groceries tomorrow? I plan to go, we can go together, early in the morning to get fresh vegetables. The vegetables here are really expensive, back in my hometown you could get two pounds for one cent..."

When Song Tingfan came out, he saw Lin Qiao talking. He approached and sat beside her, speaking softly, "The water’s inside, and the clothes are on the stool, go and take a bath."

"Okay, I’ll go bathe, call me in the morning." Lin Qiao told the young woman and then went inside.

Although Song Tingfan spoke softly, the young woman still heard what he said and felt a bit envious. Her husband only knew how to give her silver coins but didn’t do any chores at home.

She probably must’ve been blind back then.

She picked up the stool and went back home, seeing her husband lounging with crossed legs. Annoyed, she kicked him, "Vice General Song knows how to fetch water and clothes for his wife, but you act like a big man every day. When you married me, you said you’d handle everything, what did you handle?"

Suddenly mad, the sturdy man retracted his legs, displeased, "I am a big man, Vice General Song is good, so why don’t you go find someone like him?"

"Fine, you’re sleeping outside tonight." The young woman kicked him angrily, then went inside and with a "bang," shut the door.

The sturdy man: "..."

"Wife, open the door, I want to sleep inside."

While this couple was quarreling, the Song couple went inside to sleep.

Lin Qiao was drying her hair and saw Song Tingfan directly get onto the bed, indicating nothing was planned tonight.

Glancing outside at the night sky, it wasn’t 9 p.m. yet, and she slowed down a bit with her drying.

Ahem, it’s not that she was being coy, but her waist hadn’t fully recovered yet.

Song Tingfan naturally noticed her actions, but didn’t urge her, closing his eyes to rest. Lin Qiao thought he had fallen asleep and sighed with relief, only getting into bed when her hair was half-dry.

"Ah."

Suddenly being held in his arms, she couldn’t help but exclaim, looking up, in the dim light, the man’s eyes were clear.

"..."

Turns out he had been fooling her just now.

...

Past midnight, the room quieted down, and after a while, the door opened.

A tall figure stepped out, looking up at the sky.

It was past midnight.

An hour and a half.

Not short.

After the night’s activities, Lin Qiao didn’t get up directly in the morning. Others came to call her to buy groceries, but she didn’t know, and only woke up when the young woman brought some groceries over.

It must have been Song Tingfan who asked for her help.

Lin Qiao packed some tofu cakes for her, "Thank you, big sister."

"Thank you for what, it’s no big deal."

The young woman accepted them unceremoniously and suddenly noticed something on Lin Qiao’s neck, covering her mouth to laugh.

Following her gaze, Lin Qiao looked at her own neck but didn’t see anything. After taking the groceries and returning to the room to check with a copper mirror, carefully observing for a while, she found a red mark on her neck, "..."

She used to think this was quite speechless, if you’ve done it then you’ve done it, why show off, afraid others won’t know what happened last night?

Unexpectedly, it happened to her too.

This isn’t the first "mark," there have been several.

Finally, she pulled her collar up a bit, covered it well, and then went to the shop.

The shop was almost done for the day, Lin Qiao checked carefully, and finding no issues, she collected the silver coins.

Next, she needed to hire workers, so she wrote a note and posted it at the door. No sooner had she done that, a middle-aged man asked, "Boss, are you hiring a bookkeeper here?"

"Yes."

Lin Qiao looked him up and down, noticing his clothes were made of coarse fabric, suggesting his family wasn’t well-off, she added, "Uncle, please come in."

She asked him a few simple questions about accounting, and he could answer them all.

"You can start in a few days, it’s one tael of silver a month."

One tael of silver was quite a lot, the middle-aged man was naturally willing, happily saying, "My name is Zhao Changsheng, I live in Soldier Alley."

Soldier Alley?

Lin Qiao hadn’t seen him in the past few days, didn’t have any impression, "I’m also from Soldier Alley, why haven’t I seen you?"

"I just arrived a few days ago. My son is a soldier here, so my family moved over."

Zhao Changsheng looked at her a few times, this boss was very pretty, then suddenly thinking of something, he exclaimed, "Are you Vice General Song’s wife?"

Vice General Song’s wife is beautiful.

The most frequently heard phrase around here is about Vice General Song’s wife, it felt like she was monopolized by Song Tingfan, Lin Qiao couldn’t help but laugh, "Yes."

"My son is one of Vice General Song’s soldiers, named Zhao Gang, he often says how great Vice General Song is at archery." Zhao Changsheng wasn’t flattering, just sincerely praising.

Lin Qiao smiled, "He is indeed good."

Song Tingfan has been good at hunting since he was a child, naturally good at archery.

After chatting for a while, they verbally agreed.

It was already noon now, and Lin Qiao planned to drive the carriage back. Wei Yun’s servant found her here, slightly anxious, "Lady Song, my young master is looking for you."