Chapter 213: Communication – Daily Melon Eating at the Sickly Aunt’s Courtyard

Chapter 213: Communication - Daily Life of the Sickly Young Woman in the Courtyard

Due to the farce of the previous night, many people in the courtyard started an enthusiastic rat extermination effort the next day, and Lin Qing and Cen Xi were no different.

However, most of the others were women and elderly who stayed at home and didn’t go to work, though there were also couples like Lin Qing and Cen Xi who did it themselves.

In the afternoon of the next day, both Cen Xi and Lin Qing returned early.

"Let's start with the bedroom first!" Cen Xi pondered for a moment before saying.

"Okay!" Lin Qing was indifferent.

After all, she was quite afraid of mice herself, so Cen Xi took the lead in this rat extermination effort, and he could make the decisions.

Cen Xi started from the innermost part of the bedroom, moved the bed aside, and carefully checked the walls. Perhaps because they had just moved in not long ago and had cleaned meticulously at the time, even if there had been mouse holes, they were sealed up, and now there was nothing wrong.

Cen Xi's inspection doubled as cleaning, as such corners were not easy to clean, so after Cen Xi finished checking and found no problems, Lin Qing came over, broom in hand.

"Qing Qing, there's no problem here, give me the broom!"

"No need, you check the wardrobe and the dressing table, I'll sweep here, and you can move the bed back afterward." Lin Qing did not listen to him.

She thought that working together as a couple might speed things up, so it wouldn't delay their dinner and rest later.

Cen Xi gazed at her steadily, seeing her genuine desire to help, and besides, cleaning was not too tiring, so he let it be.

"Okay! You do it!"

Cen Xi stepped aside for her, then ran to the other side to move the wardrobe, fortunately, there was still nothing.

Thinking of Lin Qing's words, Cen Xi didn’t say anything else but gave her the position to clean, while he himself ran back to the bed and moved it back, then went to move the dressing table again.

One moved large items to inspect, while the other cleaned up afterward, and the two worked together seamlessly.

In less than half an hour, they finished checking the bedroom, and their bedroom was completely free of mice, at least no mouse holes were found.

After the inspection, Lin Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief, this was truly good news, at least she wouldn’t feel like she was cohabiting with mice.

In fact, mice were quite common in the past, but after the extermination of the four pests, they were greatly reduced, and now many people are not very afraid of mice, and even hope to catch mice, and some people who don't mind will even cook mice for a meal, of course, Lin Qing is not one of these people.

On the contrary, Lin Qing is actually quite afraid of mice, and mice look dirty, in the past she was quite frail, so weak that she couldn't even bear the germs brought by mice.

She had been sick once because of mice, and after a hospital check-up, it was found that her body's resistance was too weak, and she fell ill because she couldn’t tolerate the home environment, mainly the germs brought by small animals like mice at home.

After that, their home almost had a thorough cleaning every month, especially in their room, where mouse holes were absolutely not allowed.

"Okay, okay, seeing you heave such a big sigh of relief is really rare!" Cen Xi suddenly felt a bit funny, he seemed to have never seen such a wife!

"Ouch, everyone has something they are afraid of, what's wrong with me being afraid of mice?" Lin Qing pouted, unconsciously acting coquettishly.

"Yes, yes. You're right, everyone has something they are afraid of." Cen Xi was full of smiles.

"Then what are you afraid of?" Lin Qing saw through the smile in his eyes at a glance and asked back.

Cen Xi was stunned for a moment, and then inadvertently saw the smile in her eyes, "Are you teasing me on purpose?"

"Uh-huh." Lin Qing was indeed a bit deliberate, but she really wanted to know something she didn't know yet.

"Do you really want to know?"

"Yeah, I do. See, I've already told you what I'm afraid of. Don’t you think you should tell me what you’re afraid of too?" Lin Qing gazed at him with sparkling, clear eyes.

"Can’t you tell me?" Lin Qing looked a little confused.

Cen Xi shook his head and smiled, "There’s nothing I can’t tell you."

"Then tell me already!" Lin Qing shook his arm playfully.

Cen Xi felt satisfied seeing her playful side. He leaned down and whispered a few words in her ear.

Lin Qing gasped, covering her mouth in surprise. "Are you for real? You’re not messing with me?" Her face was full of doubt.

"If you don’t believe me, fine," Cen Xi muttered under his breath.

Lin Qing grabbed his arm, "No, I believe you!" she said, still a little stunned, "It's just a bit hard to believe."

"Why is that so hard to believe?" Cen Xi was indifferent, just as he said, everyone has something they're afraid of, and he was no exception.

"How is that the same? Who’d believe you if you said that out loud?" Lin Qing whispered, "Are you… afraid of ghosts?" After saying this, she covered her mouth again.

These days, you shouldn’t talk about superstitions, so Lin Qing spoke very softly, not daring to speak loudly for fear of being overheard. If someone made a big deal out of it, it wouldn't be good for them.

Cen Xi nodded. Yeah, no one would believe he was afraid of ghosts, but who could argue with the facts?

"So why are you afraid of that?" Lin Qing didn’t mention ghosts again, but pointed with her finger.

At her question, Cen Xi thought back to his childhood.

"Well… when I was a kid, my parents were always busy. When I was very young, there were people to take care of me, but as I got a bit older, I mostly followed my older brother around. But he was a bit older than me and didn't really like having a little kid following him. So, to keep me occupied, he told me," Cen Xi said this without much emotion, "he told me that even if I was alone in my room, I wasn't really alone. There were other people in the room, I just couldn't see them."

Cen Xi suddenly rolled his eyes, "Of course, I was young but not stupid. I didn't believe him at the time, but when I was alone at night, I couldn't help but think about it, and then I always felt like someone was watching me from the shadows."

Lin Qing’s heart ached, and she hugged him tightly, complaining with a tearful voice, "How could your brother do that?"

Cen Xi hugged her back. "It’s okay, really. It’s all in the past now. Actually, I’m not really afraid anymore! It's just that the impression from when I was young is quite deep."

To be honest, looking back now, he didn't really blame his brother, but rather blamed himself for not being strong enough.

If he had been strong enough back then, he wouldn't have been scared.

"Are you really not afraid now?"

"Of course, if I were really afraid, how could I have lived alone for so many years?"

"Then you weren’t lying to me just now?" Lin Qing sniffled and wiped away her tears.

"Huh? When did I lie to you?" Cen Xi was a bit confused.