IACF [QT] Chapter 40.2

After dinner, Su Yi took Su Li’an for a walk in the garden to prevent the child from having food accumulation.

The castle they built last time was still there. When Su Li’an saw it, he immediately ran over and walked around the sand. He saw a few places that were about to collapse. He rolled up his sleeves and squatted down to reinforce it.

Halfway through, he remembered something and asked Su Yi expectantly, “Can I play with the sand for a while?”

Su Yi nodded, “Play for half an hour, and then take a shower.”

The child was playing there.

She walked to the place where she chatted with Lin Luoluo last time and sat down. She smelled the fragrance of flowers in the night breeze and looked at the night sky for a while.

Without her noticing, the curtains in the room on the second floor were slightly open.

No child could resist the charm of sand. Although half an hour was agreed upon, in the end, Su Li’an was urged by Su Yi to take a bath.

When she had just come here, the child would listen to whatever she said, but now he dared to play tricks with her and delay.

Su Yi didn’t know whether to be happy that she was competent enough, so the little brat would be close to her, or worried that the little brat would be difficult to teach in the future.

The mother and the child each had a room. As this was new to the place, Su Yi was worried that the child might be shy, so she stayed in Su Li’an’s room and waited until he fell asleep before leaving.

It was late at night. In the garden outside the window, insects kept chirping. In the small woods behind the house, unknown birds kept crying at night. By the small river a little further away, frogs croaked continuously.

All these sounds made the villa even quieter.

Earlier, with Su Yi’s hearing ability, he could still hear the sound of Uncle Gu walking in the corridor, but now even he had gone to rest.

She yawned, rubbed Mao Tuan on the quilt, and slowly closed her eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, she was suddenly awakened by a small noise. She listened carefully and confirmed that it was Su Li’an’s voice. The child seemed to be knocking on the door and calling her, but it was not her door that was knocked.

Su Yi immediately turned over and walked out while tidying up her pajamas. The closer she got to the door, the clearer Su Li’an’s voice became. At the same time, she heard the sound of another door opening.

The child’s unique baby voice suddenly stopped. Su Li’an probably realized that he had knocked on the wrong door.

He paused for a few seconds before saying helplessly in a crying voice: “I, I’m looking for my mother…”

The other party’s answer was a series of suppressed coughs.

That was not Uncle Gu, and Aunt Qin was downstairs. Apart from them in the house, there was only—

Su Yi opened the door and saw Su Li’an dragging a pillow, standing outside the door next to her room on the other side.

There was a man standing at the door. He was in his thirties, tall, and thin. His hands holding the door frame were slender and pale.

He was also wearing pajamas, with buttons buttoned to the top, and the hems and cuffs neatly arranged, without a single wrinkle on his body.

He stood so straight that one would wonder if he had just gotten out of bed.

When Su Li’an saw her, he ran over immediately and threw himself into her arms.

Su Yi touched his head soothingly, “Did you have a nightmare?”

The child said pitifully, “I want to sleep with you…”

“Okay.”

Su Yi said, “You can sleep in my room for three nights, but then you have to sleep by yourself. Otherwise, your friends will laugh at you.”

Su Li’an rubbed against her arms for a while. Then, he felt embarrassed, blushed, lowered his head, and hummed.

Su Yi smiled, took his hand, and walked to the door of another room.

Sheng Yunzhou seemed to have planned to close the door. When he saw them coming, he stopped his hand movement, but he still stood inside the door and had no intention of coming out.

Su Yi said apologetically, “Sorry, the child is not familiar with the bed.”

“Cough… It’s okay.”

This was the first time Su Yi heard Sheng Yunzhou speak. His voice was a little hoarse, and it was unclear whether it was because of coughing or because he rarely spoke.

It was late at night, so she was not going to talk to anyone. Just as she was about to say good night, she heard the sound of the door opening and closing.

It was Uncle Gu who heard the noise and came out. His hair, which was smooth and neat during the day, was a little messy at this time.

When he saw Sheng Yunzhou, he was startled at first, then walked over quickly, and wanted to support him, but the other party waved his hand to refuse.

Uncle Gu then looked at Su Yi and asked, “Why did Miss Su wake up? Didn’t you sleep well?”

Su Yi had to explain again.

She could see that getting up in the middle of the night was a burden on Sheng Yunzhou’s body. His hand holding the door handle had slightly white fingertips and almost no blood. Uncle Gu wanted to help him, but he didn’t dare to do it because of the other party’s previous refusal.

It felt like he would fall down if he stood for a while longer.

Su Yi touched Su Li’an’s head and said, “Sorry for disturbing you. Son, say good night to your uncle.”

Su Li’an stuck to Su Yi and looked up at Sheng Yunzhou. Just as he opened his mouth, Uncle Gu suddenly remembered something and said, “The generation is wrong. Your son and Rong Rong are of the same generation, so he should also call the Third Young Master grandfather¹叔公, shū​gōng: great uncle / grandfather’s younger brother / husband’s father’s younger brother .”

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Male lead: Old Gu is old, so let him retire.

 

 

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