Lin Meizhen felt the urge to cry again.

Her son-in-law was just too wonderful, polite, cultured, able to treat illnesses, and good at cooking; he was a jack-of-all-trades son-in-law. How many lifetimes of good fortune had she cultivated to have earned such a wonderful son-in-law...

Dinner ended.

Qin Feng prepared another dose of medicine for Lin Meizhen, had her drink it and rest, then the topic of where everyone would sleep came up.

The house had only two bedrooms.

One belonged to Lin Meizhen, the other to Yu Xiaolong.

Xiao Lian said to Qin Feng, "How about this, my mom and I will share a room, and you can squeeze in with my little brother, Little Dragon. Is that okay?"

"Of course."

Qin Feng shrugged his shoulders.

"No way."

Yu Xiaolong spoke up at this moment, "I'll sleep at a classmate's house tonight, and you, my brother-in-law, can just sleep in my room."

"That's not acceptable!"

Xiao Lian flatly refused.

She and Qin Feng were pretending to be a couple, so they naturally couldn't sleep together.

"What's wrong with that? Sis, don't think that I don't know how open things are in the city. You might have been together a long time ago. There's nothing to be embarrassed about," Yu Xiaolong said.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Lian's face flushed "whoosh" red, and she complained, "You're just in middle school, what are you paying attention to every day! Stop talking nonsense!"

In the end, she firmly decided to sleep with her mother.

The moonlight was peaceful.

Everyone went to their respective rooms.

Qin Feng followed Yu Xiaolong to his room and was about to lie down when he noticed that Yu Xiaolong didn't seem ready to sleep and asked, "Why aren't you sleeping?"

"Brother-in-law, my bed is too small. I'll go sleep at my classmate's place in town," he said, picking up the necklace box, "It's perfect timing because the girl I like, Wang Xiaolu, has her birthday tomorrow. Her home is in the town, so I can give her the birthday present first thing in the morning."

"I see, wait a minute."

Qin Feng took out more than two thousand yuan and handed it to him, "When you're going out with a girl, you should bring enough money. I don't usually carry cash, this is all I have right now. You take it."

"Brother-in-law, this doesn't seem right..."

"Take it! Without money, dating is absolutely impossible."

"Then, then I'll just take two hundred to treat her to a meal."

"Listen to me, take it all. Buy a cellphone later, it'll make it easier to keep in touch with her in the future."

"Well... then I won't be polite with you, brother-in-law. I'll pay you back double when I graduate and earn money."

Yu Xiaolong gratefully accepted the money.

Qin Feng smiled.

He seemed to see a reflection of his younger self in Yu Xiaolong.

Back then in Dragon and Tiger Village.

One day a supremely beautiful Immortal girl arrived in the village, causing all the village boys to become infatuated, all wanting to take her out to play in the town outside.

The Immortal girl also wanted to see the outside world.

Later, Qin Feng spent over a dozen yuan to buy some laxatives, causing the village boys to collectively come down with diarrhea.

He then went out to have fun in town with the Immortal girl.

That experience was deeply etched in his memory.

Because after they went out, he realized he only had a few tens of yuan on him, not enough to buy her any nice jewelry or books at the market, and when lunchtime came, he only had five yuan left. They each had to settle for a bowl of cold noodles on the roadside. Qin Feng, afraid she wouldn't have enough to eat, even added extra vinegar and chili to her bowl.

Since then.

Qin Feng understood the importance of money, especially when courting a girl...

The night was calm and quiet.

Yu Xiaolong snuck out quietly.

Unbeknownst to him, Xiao Lian, who hadn't fallen asleep, heard the noise, ran out into the yard, but Yu Xiaolong had already run out the door. Lowering his voice, he said, "Sis, I've cleared the place for you and brother-in-law."

After saying that, he ran off into the distance.

"This little brother, really worries me," Xiao Lian said dejectedly.

Qin Feng came out, chuckled, and said, "Boys will be boys, stealing chickens and touching dogs is a part of everyone's youth."

"You too?"

"Uh... go to sleep, let's go to sleep..."

"..."

Seeing his embarrassed look, Xiao Lian found it very amusing, and said to Qin Feng, "It's cold at night, don't forget to add more coal to the stove."

"Okay."

Qin Feng returned to the room and lay down to sleep.

As for the stove...

The fire was nearly out, and he was too lazy to tend to it.

His constitution was such that he normally didn't fear the cold or the heat, and could lie in the snow and ice without a problem.

The night was quiet and still.

Qin Feng was sleeping comfortably when suddenly he heard someone opening the door.

He looked up and saw it was Xiao Lian who had come.

"What's wrong?"

Qin Feng asked. Chapter source: My Virtual Library Empire (*).

Xiao Lian, dressed in long johns and draped in an overcoat, gave a bitter smile and said, "The bed in my mom's room is too small. If I move even slightly, I touch her. I worry I might wake her and affect her recovery. There's no chair in her room either."

"Then lie down and sleep here. I can sleep on the chair," Qin Feng got up and said.

"No, no, no, boss, how can I let you sleep on the chair? I can sleep on the chair," Xiao Lian hurriedly said.

On hearing this, Qin Feng deliberately laughed and said, "What 'boss'? You should call me 'husband'."

"..."

Xiao Lian's face turned red, and she lowered her head.

"Anyway, if we're going to put on a show, we have to do it properly. Besides, if Little Dragon suddenly comes back and finds you sleeping on the chair while I'm comfortably lying on the bed, wouldn't I be a total failure as a 'brother-in-law'?" Qin Feng said.

There was no helping it.

In the end, Xiao Lian had to lie down on the bed.

The room quieted down.

Qin Feng sat on the chair and leaned on the table to sleep.

Possibly because he sat on a bus for a whole day and night, his waist was a bit sore and swollen, so he kept twisting and turning.

Xiao Lian, who had also sat on the bus for a whole day, knew how exhausting it was, so she gritted her teeth and said, "Why don't you come up and sleep as well?"

"Okay!"

Qin Feng immediately agreed and jumped straight into the bed.

"..."

Xiao Lian was somewhat bewildered.

Suddenly, she felt like he had been plotting this all along, just waiting for her to offer.

"Let's sleep, let's sleep. I'm so tired I can't take it anymore."

Qin Feng said with a smile.

The bed was a single bed, so the two of them could only lie on their sides. Even so, their bodies were touching, which worried Xiao Lian. Him jumping onto the bed so quickly, could he be planning to... you know with her?

After all, a lone man and woman shared a room and the same bed.

What if he actually did that... what should she do then?

Resist?

She was troubled by these thoughts.

Suddenly, she heard a consistent sound of deep sleep.

"Is he already asleep?"

Xiao Lian's heart that had been hanging, finally began to relax slowly.

At the same time, she found her previous thoughts ludicrous.

Such an upright person he was, how could she have had so many messy thoughts? Really...

Just as she thought this.

Suddenly, Qin Feng's leg went over her body.

Her body stiffened, and her heart clenched tightly!

"Could it be... he's pretending to sleep? Is he testing me?"

Xiao Lian's heart was incredibly tense.

At that moment.

Qin Feng's arm also came over!

For a while.

She dared not move at all, her anxious heart nearly leaping out of her chest.

What to do!

What to do!

If he was really about to do something to her, what should she do in the end?

After being tense for a good while, she was sweating all over, and when she found that Qin Feng had no further movement, she relaxed a little, thinking it might just be a habitual sleeping pose.

But just as she had that thought.

Qin Feng's hand suddenly rested at the position beneath her neck, over her heart...