Chapter 1228: TangNing Don’t move (1/2)

“You can’t soak in the springs, so I got you a tub of spring water to soak your feet,” Tang Li explained.

“How do you know I can’t soak in the springs?” Ning Jing asked.

“I calculated. Over these past two days, it’s not convenient for you, isn’t that right?” Tang Li grinned.

“Wrong,” Ning Jing rolled her eyes at him. “You’re over 10 days off. How did you calculate things?”

“Impossible! Before, yours always come around the first of each month, there’s no mistake! Unless the dates changed after your pregnancy!” Tang Li was convinced.

Ning Jing narrowed her eyes. “Before? Heheh, you certainly took pains with the details!”

Tang Li realized that he’d fallen into Ning Jing’s paces. In the past, he was proactive enough to avoid bullying Ning Jing around the first of the month. Truthfully speaking, his motives for calculating her period dates weren’t pure at all.

“Heheh, I’m taking pains with the details even more. Jing Jing, come, husband will serve you by soaking your feet.” Tang Li took Ning Jing’s foot and slipped off her shoe while the latter laid back and rested her other foot on his shoulder, allowing him to serve her freely.

Afraid that the cold air would be too much, Tang Li tried to cradle her bare foot, but Ning Jing refused by sticking her toes against his face to tease him. Tang Li let her do as she wished, neither angry or repulsed. Yet soon enough, he took hold of Ning Jing’s toes and bit down on her big toe. Although it looked like he used a lot of strength, it didn’t hurt at all.

Ning Jing immediately kicked him aside and complained, “Aren’t you worried that it’s filthy?!”

“I don’t mind,” Tang Li chuckled.

“Well, I do!” Ning Jing huffed.

Tang Li feigned a sigh. “Alright, I’ll help you wash it clean.” Then he really did take her foot and soak it in the water. If this was any other day, Ning Jing would be content to be waited on, but today was different.

She quickly withdrew her foot and declared, “On inconvenient days, I should avoid soaking my feet even more!”

“Why?” Tang Li didn’t understand.

Ning Jing only shot back, “If I say I can’t, then I can’t. You’re a man, why ask so many questions?”

Tang Li finally gave up and went to sit next to Ning Jing. But before he could lie down, she shoved him aside and said, “I’m going to sleep, you go soak yourself and don’t make a racket!”

“Tang Tang will be coming back soon. Let me lie with you a bit.” Tang Li scooted next to Ning Jing, but she kept pushing him away.

“Don’t be so noisy! Can’t you just let me rest a while?”

Seeing her so unhappy, Tang Li could only obediently rise to his feet.

“Get out!” Ning Jing urged.

As soon as Ning Jing opened the door to the springs, she saw that it was empty.

Where is he?

While feeling puzzled, she spotted Tang Li coming in head bowed with a small pot in one hand. He was very careful with his item and didn’t even notice her presence. Ning Jing’s heart gave a lurch as her eyes grew moist at the sight. What a familiar, long-lost scene. She didn’t need to check to know that the little pot contained her favorite red bean soup. She couldn’t even remember how many nights of red bean soup Tang Li had cooked her in the past. Every time he delivered it to her personally, careful yet urgent--both because the pot was hot and because he wanted her to eat it before the soup cooled. She loved scalding hot food on cold winter nights.

As he drew close, he finally noticed Ning Jing by the door and chuckled at the things in her hands. “Jing Jing, did you want to steal a bath with me so bad?”

Ning Jing rolled her eyes before turning to close the door. Tang Li carried the red bean soup inside and personally ladled out a bowl before her. “Hungry, right?”

Ning Jing was truly ravenous, but the sight of Tang Li’s red bean soup would make her hungry even on nights she was full. Only he was capable of cooking such a fragrant brew. She carefully took in the scent while Tang Li watched from the sidelines as always.

If you truly loved someone, just watching them eat was happiness enough.

If you truly loved someone, just having a bowl of their home-cooked soup was satisfaction enough.

“Jing Jing, do you have any news of your big brother?” Tang Li asked.

“No. But judging from his personality, no one will find him if he wants to leave,” Ning Jing knew Ning Cheng best of all.