Chapter 26 - Anything Else You’d Like to Ask? (1/2)
Chapter 26: Anything Else You’d Like to Ask?
Xue Dongting knew what was coming next, and she knew that this was normal for a husband and wife to do, but she still flinched, biting her delicate lip, her eyes full of apprehension.
Song Yuming at the edge of the best said gently, “Dongting, anything else you’d like to ask me? Ask away.”
She thought about it. “Why did that woman from the west end make shoes for you?”
Song Yuming couldn’t help finding this funny. His little wife was stil hung up on this. “That lady was deprived of her husband at a young age, left to look after her baby son. She can’t do much manual labor, so I helped her out a bit, that’s all. Some days ago I carried some firewood for her down from the mountains. She was probably showing her gratitude, that’s all.”
“Just because you don’t think there was anything else doesn’t mean she doesn’t,” Xue Dongting said softly. “Or else why did she come especially on the day of your wedding to give them to you?”
Song Yuming laughed and reached out and put a loose hair of hers back in place. “All that matters is I have a clear conscience.”
She thought about it and didn’t argue. She didn’t like the way that woman had acted, but she did pity the widow having to live all by her lonesome. She nodded, smiling. “Alright then. That’s all over and done with then.”
Song Yuming smiled. “Hang on a minute now. Didn’t you say that day that you were going to make me shoes? Well? I don’t see them.”
Xue Dongting’s heart froze. She cursed inwardly. She had forgotten all about it while at Mama Qiao’s place. She was going to ask Mama Qiao for help. She could only turn to him and say, “Not that quickly, I don’t have any material. Next time you go into town you can buy some matertial, then we’ll talk.”
Song Yuming nodded and took on a serious tone. “I will remember that you owe me a pair of shoes.”
Xue Dongting laughed. “You’re not only honest, you’re also petty, making a point of remembering a pair of shoes.”
He leaned closer, smiling. “How do you know I’m honest?”
She gave him the side-eye and went “Pooh” and that was it.