Chapter 190: Harvest and Capital
Xiao Yuanwei had been looking at the little one since earlier, his face appeared rather dazed.
Su Wan naturally noticed that and couldn’t help but ask. She could see that Xiao Yuanwei’s expression changed slightly.
This elder brother of hers had been staying in the carriage most of the time, and she suspected that he was avoiding Zhou Anran.
"Do you notice that your condition actually getting better since we start our journey to the Capital... or can I say that after you met them?" Su Wan smiled. "What do you think?"
Xiao Yuanwei’s gaze settled on Xiao Qingya’s sleeping face, and he pursed his lips, sighing deeply.
"Don’t make baseless assumption or you might harm Mrs. Zhou," he muttered.
Su Wan clicked her tongue. "Baseless assumption? Are you not worried that if it’s true, they might get snatched away by someone else?"
She teased, "After all, Sister Anran is so beautiful. I heard that many young men proposed to her after her husband went missing..."
Xiao Yuanwei subconsciously clenched his fists when he heard that. The moment he realized what he had done, he was taken aback.
What he was doing?
For a moment, a few fragments of memories flashed by. These past few days, indeed, his condition has improved, so was the vague images in his head.
He never relapsed again.
But... if he was really Zhou Anran’s missing husband like Su Wan had said, why didn’t Zhou Anran recognize him?
This question had been bugging him so much that he covered his face whenever Zhou Anran was around. It was just his subconscious reaction...
Now that he tried to recognize this strange feeling coursing in his chest, he began to understand it. Su Wan’s words also wake him up a bit.
He was actually... afraid of her rejection.
It was such an strange and inexplicable feeling.
Suddenly, he had an urgency to remember the times he hadn’t remembered...
He had a feeling that during this journey, his memories might start to become clear and he would remember them again. He just needed to get close to Zhou Anran.
"How can I be her husband when she doesn’t recognize me?" Xiao Yuanwei shook his head. "Zhenyue, you read too many storybooks."
Su Wan was angry. She let out a snort and walked toward the sleeping Xiao Qingya and Xiao Yuxi, leaving him behind in bewilderment.
He could only watch as his sister poked Xiao Qingya’s chubby cheeks. His fingers subconsciously traced his mask, and he thought.
Should he take it off?
The journey to the Capital took more than two months. There were some accidents along the way, but they were easily resolved.
Xiao Yuanwei still didn’t get too close with the Zhou and Xiao family.
However, his sister had been persuaded to do one thing lately: taking off his mask to see whether Zhou Anran’s children recognize him as their father.
Actually, he didn’t seem to be as opposed to the idea as he originally thought.
"Imperial brother, get close to the little one. She is the easiest to coax. You just need to give her some food and she will be willing to talk to you," Su Wan persuaded.
Xiao Yuanwei didn’t move.
His memories became increasingly clear after two months, and he had to admit that it would take him a while to ingest it.
He felt like he was watching someone else’s life, but at the same time, he knew that it was him.
***
Zhou Anran was pretty relieved that Xiao Yuanwei rarely showed his face during these past few months.
The Zhou family in the Capital were just commoners, so she thought that they shouldn’t get entangled with each other again, right?
Considering their identities, it was unlikely for them to meet again.
Just a few more days and they would arrive at the Capital and part with each other. Although there was still Su Wan, she was still an imperial princess.
Su Wan wouldn’t be able to hang out with them as freely as before.
The thought alone made her sigh in relief.
Other than that matter, Zhou Anran also had been taking care of her little field in the space dimension.
"The paddy rice will be ready for harvest soon," she told her children.
"Mother, that’s so fast," Xiao Yuxi widened her eyes. "How many months is that? Only two!"
Zhou Anran nodded. "I will sleep a lot these days."
It was only their consciousness that could enter the space dimension. Xiao Qingya had once brought up this matter to the System.
[Host, in order to unlock more features, the space will need to be upgraded.] The System explained.
Another talk about upgrades.
For now, they could only focus on taking care of their fields until they could harvest them. They might be able to trigger an upgrade.
Unfortunately, the System also didn’t know how many items needed in order to trigger a certain upgrade, so they needed to experiment themselves.
The temperature in the north was much colder, but in the space dimension, Xiao Qingya could roll all over Xiao Xue’s fur and didn’t feel cold at all, so she often slept these days.
"Little Ya, let’s harvest the paddy rice." Zhou Anran told her youngest daughter the next day.
Xiao Qingya nodded excitedly, already curling up in her sister’s embrace and preparing to sleep.
Zhou Anran was cutting the paddy rice stalks while Xiao Qingya used the natural resource as usual, Xiao Xue’s sharp teeth.
It took them a long time, and the moment they realized they had taken too much time, it was already nearing nighttime.
The moment they woke up, they were taken aback when they saw the sight before them.
"Mother, Little Ya, you two have woken up? It’s so cold here. Let’s warm ourselves by the fire." Xiao Yuxi came and took their hands.
Zhou Anran didn’t expect she would also see Xiao Yuanwei there.
Inside her inner thoughts, Xiao Qingya was snorting. [That masked man is my cheap father, huh? I haven’t seen him much.]
Zhou Anran’s heart almost stopped breathing when Xiao Yuanwei’s eyes settled on Xiao Qingya.