Chapter 22 - There’s Something I Have to Tell You (1/2)

Chapter 22: There’s Something I Have to Tell You

Xue Dongting looked up at Song Yuming standing in the doorway. She smiled. “I saved you some hot water. Go on and wash up first.”

Song Yuming entered the room. “Did you sleep well?”

She nodded and smiled. “I didn’t even know when you came back… Oh right, what was going on at the river last night?”

He poured hot water from the kettle into the wooden basin and shook his head. “It was nothing.”

“Did you see the person playing the flute?”

“Yes, but it was just a traveler… Someone just passing through.”

Xue Dongting nodded and thought no more of it. “I saw some dried mushrooms in the cellar, so I got some and cooked them up. They’re not bad.”

Song Yuming had already forgotten what all he had in the cellar. Now that she mentioned it, he recalled he had went into the mountains last summer and picked them and dried them out in the sun. “Good thing you found them. I had forgotten all about them. Since you like them I’ll go pick some more next year.”

She ladled congee as she said, “There’s a lot of stuff in the cellar. There’s probably more in there you’ve forgotten… Back at Cloudgem Lodge I never paid attention to that sort of thing. I hope you won’t mind how inept I am.”

Song Yuming laughed. “Having you here managing things is more than I could ask for, what do I have to worry about?” She scalded her hand trying to pick up the steaming bowls of congee and jerked her hand back. He hurried over to the stove and took a bowl in each hand and carried them in.

After breakfast, Song Yuming tied the fish up on a string and got a fur hat from his wardrobe and gave it to Xue Dongting to wear and the two of them tidied up a bit and headed out.