Chapter 424 Grim Reaper Comes to Claim Lives (2)_1
After washing up, Pei Wendong practiced calligraphy and worked on problems in his own room while Pei Qin taught Pei Yuan and Pei Qian. It was a hot summer and they needed ice, so when the dog days began, they all slept in the same room to save on ice blocks.
Lu Hao bolted the door and climbed up the wall to look outside, only to see Mo Heng standing not far from the door under an elm tree, wordlessly imitating Pei Qin’s eye-rolling dismissiveness. Young Master Shen thought he had left, but the man had not gone at all; in fact, he had moved even closer. It was the middle of the night; instead of sleeping, he wandered over here, ghost-like, and even wore all black, as if he didn’t know how frightening that was!?
Feng Wei and Zhang Gengshan had tried to persuade him several times, but now they dared not do it anymore. He kept saying he was about to leave, but he had been preparing for four or five months. Even if a family was building a new house for relocation, it wouldn’t take that long to prepare, right? He was determined not to leave.
Both of them indeed hoped that Shen Songming would marry Pei Qin quickly, so as not to affect their young master.
Mo Heng watched the moon rise to the treetops and stood outside for a while before he finally walked back to his place, enjoying the night breeze.
Zhang Gengshan silently sighed and prepared water for him to bathe.
The days became hotter and hotter, and around noon people felt like they were frying in their own grease. Pei Qin made watermelon ice, and each of the four siblings, along with Lu Hao and his sister Lu Hai, enjoyed a big bowl, embracing the cool relief.
While others suffered through the scorching summer heat, those few indulged in comfortable ease.
As soon as the busy farming period was over, Chang Yonglin rushed over, complaining about the heat, lifting his sleeves and pulling at his collar to show Pei Qin the prickly heat on his skin, grumbling, "The bai liang fen I made at home is not tasty at all!"