Chapter 1376: A small inn on the border
"This flower... is very special."
Shi Li bit her back teeth and took the white flower from Ah Heng's hand. Before he could say the next sentence, she stuffed the flower into Zhou Lingyu's hand in the blink of an eye.
"Haha, such a special flower should be given to the distinguished guest. It is a rare opportunity for our small shop to entertain distinguished guests. It is really an honor for us!"
After saying that, Shi Li quickly slipped back to the inn without waiting for the two people to react.
As soon as I entered, I saw Yuan Shang standing behind the door, laughing so hard that he couldn't straighten his back.
"Boss madam, boss madam, how does it feel to be flattered and fawned over?" After laughing for a while, Yuan Shang boldly came over and asked.
Shi Li rolled his eyes vigorously and said a "famous saying" that came from later generations.
"Do you think a woman who has been pursued by a male lion would be interested in two thin dogs?"
Yuan Shang's smile froze for a moment. He thought for a while before he realized what Shi Li was hinting at and laughed again.
Then he took a breath and corrected, "What the boss lady said is not right. You are just a woman who pursued a lion. You can't get it the other way around."
"go away!"
Shi Li was furious and slapped Yuan Shang on the shoulder, then went upstairs to the bedroom angrily.
The window of the room was slightly open, and the three large pages of letters she had written not long ago were indeed gone.
After eating and drinking, Shi Li lay down on the bed and began to feel sleepy.
In a daze, I recalled the time when I first met Xuanyuan Lin.
After the high fever subsided, Xuanyuan Lin went out for half a day. When he came back, he brought back a bunch of nourishing things, including ginseng, bird's nest, and ganoderma lucidum, which dazzled Shi Li.
"Such an expensive thing..."
Before he could finish his words, Xuanyuan Lin interrupted him. He stretched out his big hand and rubbed Shi Li's head randomly, saying with a smile: "You are as thin as a chicken, how can you be my wife?"
Shi Li: !!!
This person has no manners at all, what a little chicken!
Who looks like a little chicken!
wrong!
What a daughter-in-law!
Who is the daughter-in-law?
There were so many points to complain about that even Shi Li, who was good at complaining, didn't know how to respond. In the end, she lowered her head in silence and blushed.
At that time, Shi Li didn't know who Xuanyuan Lin was, or what he had been through, but under his meticulous care, she grew up plump and white in just one month. She was no longer the pale and skinny girl who looked like she might die at any time when she was picked up.
There was no inn at that time. Xuanyuan Lin rented a small courtyard in a small town near the desert and did everything by himself.
Then one day, Xuanyuan Lin told Shi Li that he was going out for three or five days, but he didn't say where he was going or what he was going to do.
Shi Li was very curious, but she refrained from asking and silently walked him to the door.
Xuanyuan Lin might have noticed that she was in a low mood, so he reached out and pulled her hair again, smiling and said, "You stay at home and wait for me, my little wife is not allowed to run away with others!"
Although it was not the first time that she was called "little wife", Shi Li still blushed and watched Xuanyuan Lin disappear from her sight.
He said he would be away for three to five days, and he really came back in the evening of the fifth day. He looked tired, with purple eye sockets.
After seeing Shi Li, he took out a sparkling gem bracelet from his lapel and said, "This is a gift I brought back for you. Do you like it?"
Shi Li would never admit that seeing him back made her happier than any gift. She just smiled and said, "I like it!"
"As long as you like it, I'll save it for you as a dowry."
No matter how tired Xuanyuan Lin was, he couldn't change his habit of talking nonsense. In this regard, Yuan Shang had inherited half of his true teachings.
From then on, Xuanyuan Lin would go out almost every once in a while, sometimes for three to five days, sometimes for seven or eight days.
He would come back exhausted and sometimes even injured, but the only thing that remained unchanged was that he would always bring various small gifts for Shi Li.
Later, he went out and came back one day, bringing back the unconscious Yuan Shang.
Yuan Shang was covered in knife and sword wounds and had to lie in bed for half a year before he recovered.
During the past six months, Shi Li's cold poison broke out again. Thanks to Xuanyuan Lin's internal energy, she did not have a persistent high fever. However, the remaining poison spread throughout her body, and she was in pain for more than ten days before she gradually recovered.
Xuanyuan Lin didn't dare to go anywhere during that period, and stayed by her side every day. When she was no longer in pain, his eyebrows were almost wrinkled with wrinkles that could not be straightened.
He didn't even tell jokes, and he spoke in a soft voice when he brought her soup and water.
"Brother, she's not made of paper, you don't have to be like this, right?" Yuan Shang was still recovering from his injuries, but he couldn't change his habit of talking too much.
Then he was glared at by Shi Li and Xuanyuan Lin together.