She was a modern woman, in her view, after confirming a romantic relationship, there should be a period of sweet love, not rushing to get married. That would just be rushed for the sake of continuing the family line. Although here, the custom was that as soon as men and women expressed mutual interest they should marry, she still thought they should enjoy the process of falling in love.
Auntie Sima added, “You’re fifteen this year, right? After the New Year, you’ll be sixteen. If you don’t start considering seriously, you’ll bee the old maid that can’t marry.”
“…” This time, Nan Feng was truly taken aback.
At fifteen, in the modern world, she wouldn’t even have graduated from middle school. This would be considered having a puppy love, a situation which would get a lecture from parents and teachers. However, here, she was considered an old maid.
Nan Feng was only twenty before she traveled through time, nowhere near considering marriage, so she was in no hurry.
Then, she instinctively turned and looked at the guy, Ye Ge.
…
Ye Ge was sitting with Uncle Zhou, the Zhou brothers also helped themselves over, but each of them brought a red envelope. The youngest Zhou even caught a big fish and brought it to Nan Quanyou as a gift.
None of the daughters-in-law of the Zhou family made an appearance, presumably out of embarrassment.
There was rice wine at the banquet, the Zhou brothers loved to drink, and they had planned before they arrived, normally, they couldn’t beat Ye Ge at fighting or working or hunting, but they bet they could get him drunk.
“Brothers, may everything go smoothly…” Big brother Zhou went first, Ye Ge didn’t say a word, just silently gestured with his hand, and in the end, big brother Zhou lost, so he drank.
“Brothers, may everything go smoothly…” Then it was second brother Zhou’s turn, Ye Ge also just gestured and again second brother Zhou lost and had to drink.
Third brother Zhou naturally refused to accept defeat, so it was his turn to play. The result was the same, so he turned to Uncle Zhou, saying, “Dad, it’s your turn!”
Uncle Zhou, chuckling, then challenged Ye Ge, and this time Ye Ge lost and had to drink.
…
That night, after the feast, Nan Feng returned to town with Ye Ge.
They rode on Ye Ge’s horse. She sat in the front, Ye Ge sat in the back. One of his hands guiding the horse, the other around Nan Feng’s waist. There was no hurry, they just slowly headed towards the county town.
Nan Feng could smell the faint scent of alcohol on Ye Ge, and feel the warmth emanating from his solid chest. His breath tickled her neck. She was pletely infatuated with this sensation, and leaned her entire body against his back.
The two chatted intermittently. Ye Ge asked her, “Did you enjoy yourself tonight?”
“Yeah, it was pretty fun,” she lazily yawned. Because of her father’s situation, she’d been traveling back and forth between the county town and the village recently, and was really exhausted.
“Why did you insist on getting your dad to marry Auntie Yun?” Ye Ge’s voice was low and raspy, like a lullaby before bed, with the horse’s rhythmic walking being almost cradle-like.
“If they get married, they can live together openly every day, have babies, and do some… embarrassing things!” Nan Feng yawned once again.
The cool breeze continued to blow on her, and she could hardly keep her eyes open.
From behind her, his voice was faint, but very serious: “Nan Feng, how about we get married too?”
At that same moment, Nan Feng had nodded off in Ye Ge’s arms, pletely asleep, and obviously she couldn’t hear what Ye Ge said.
Ye Ge, a little frustrated, just had to provide sleeping support for her while maintaining their same steady pace on their journey towards the town.
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