A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] 147

It was true, though the flowers displayed were indeed gorgeous and beautiful, Song Qinghan seemed a little be absent-minded.

He felt quite empty in his arms because he did not bring Little Shitou out today. And plus, the loneliness in his mind was amplified infinitely because he was surrounded by bunch of strangers in such a strange environment.

Wu Dahu hadn’t taken his office yet, and Song Qinghan already had such a queer feeling now. If Wu Dahu really gained his popularity taking charge in the office, wouldn’t he be more miserable?

In such an environment, he had to keep his gracious and gentle smile on face even he didn’t want to while meeting different people every day. If not, probably the others would get themselves misunderstood. That would totally be a horrible thing.

She glanced at him with Ning, as if she had seen through his thoughts. She suddenly moved closer and whispered, “Do you want to leave?”

Song Qinghan was stunned and subconsciously touched his ears. Seeing that other people were secretly examining him again, he hurriedly responded, “No, the banquet is quite nice, I’m enjoying it!”

Hening suddenly laughed after realizing that Song Qinghan was just confessing nonsense. Before the next flower show, he rose all of a sudden while pulling Song Qinghan’s hand, saying, “I got some matter needed Doctor Song’s guidance, you guys enjoy your good flower show, I will bring him away.”

After that, he dragged with a great strength ignoring Song Qinghan’s reaction. With a unrestrained turn, he left outwards pulling Song Qinghan behind.

After the two of them left, the scene seemed to be boiling while a heated discussion seemed to be ignited.

“Doctor Song? Oh, it turns out that he is a doctor? Then how come he would do something immoral? Shouldn’t he poison himself to death without bothering the others?”

“Shh, don’t talk nonsense. Didn’t you hear the words of His Highness Hening, all these rumors were fake. Watch your mouth, will you? If someone in the scene intends to set you up, he will confess to His Highness, at that time you will be regretful towards what you said today!”

“But hey, haven’t you noticed that His Highness Hening get quite a closer relationship with Song QInghan? I wonder when they met each other. Logically speaking, he shouldn’t, should he? Song Qinghan just arrived here with his family. As for His Highness Hening, he always gets a peaceful life himself and never get some troubles, how come he would acquaint with someone who is seemingly immoral?”

“…”

Song Qinghan passively walked out of the door and noticed that he Hening were about to pull him into the carriage. He then frowned and said, “Your Highness, would you please mind your action? Please at the same time think about me, what do you think they will judge on me?”

Hening raised his eyebrows slightly as his expression became childish like the one of a seven-or-eight-year-old child, and he said with a teasing tone, “Mind my action? Hadn’t I already made it clear to that group of gossipy men? In addition, I know you don’t want to stay there as well. It would better to leave rather than to stay there zoning out, right?”

Having no competitive chirping capability against Hening, Song Qinghan pursed his lips without words, but he turned around and walked towards the carriage belonging to his own.

He hadn’t expected that his waist tightened suddenly by a force when he just walked till the midway, the next moment he could only feel the heavens revolved and the earth turned. When he opened his eyes again, he found he was already in the carriage of Hening.

Hening glanced at the coachman on the Song Qinghan’s carriage, and then said calmly, “We’re heading to another place, you just follow up in behind. If you fail to follow, punishment will wait for you!”

Even though the coachman had never seen the real Hening before, he still could recognize the other party being informed by the others. Hearing the orders made by Hening, he hurried responded and promised, and then followed up obediently behind the carriage.

Song Qinghan could do nothing now even he was of great reluctance when the carriage started to move. Yet he could still control his expression, he got his face sullen all of a sudden, and then said in hostility, “Forgive me, Your Highness. But I am not sure what I can do with you and where to go. I should remind you out of my kindness that you should go visit Huichun Shop if you are really uncomfortable physically. I got no way to compete with the doctors there.”

Although Song Qinghan was originally a modern person, he also knew that he should obey ancient rules in ancient times. When facing these aristocrats like kinsmen of the emperor, he should certainly speak to them in a nice tone, but things changed when he was facing Hening he couldn’t help but become wrathful. Towards that, he wasn’t sure if he was just accustomed to it due to the fact that Hening didn’t blame him for anything since they met.

As expected, the current situation was the same. Hening wasn’t angry at all but laughed instead, and then he answered gently, “You are just improperly belittling yourself! If it wasn’t you that day when I almost died because of the drowning but anyone else from the Huichun Shop, probably I am in the heaven currently, how come I am right here talking to you?”

Penny dropped! It turned out that the reason why Hening showed a queer attitude towards him was because of the inadvertent rescue that day!

Thinking of this, Song Qinghan showed a face of seriousness and felt that it was necessary to have a deep conversation with Hening. He then spoke seriously, “Your Highness, you really don’t have to care that much about me just because I saved you that day. Anyway, I would save anyone who was lying there, you or a beggar, both are just a patient who is eager for timely assistance.”

“Do you compare me to the beggar?” Hening raised his eyebrows.

Though his tone was rather plain, Song Qinghan could still catch a sense of danger.

He coughed lightly and shook his head, answering, “Of course not. I mean, I didn’t save people for the so-called reward. Nothing but just ignore the fact that I saved you instead of others, otherwise, the better you treat me, the more nervous I will be!”

Hening looked at Song Qinghan deeply, and then uttered like he was just murmuring to himself, “But if I don’t treat you good, I won’t be good either…”

Song Qinghan paused for a moment and didn’t know how to respond. Luckily, Hening quickly withdrew his expression and said coldly, “Well, I’m just taking you to see the flowers in my private garden. If you don’t like the flowers after that, I will send you home directly. Nothing bad will happen to you, don’t worry,”

“and, since you don’t like me to show up before you,” Hening took a sudden pause midway. Just as Song Qinghan thought the man would just discontinue to speak, Hening continued to say, “Then I will try my best not to bother you and show up to you.”

This voice evaporated in the air very soon, and an embarrassing silence came as followed.

For some reason, Song Qinghan glanced at Ning Xi’s side profile and felt that this femina man’s tightly frowned eyebrows were filled with unknown sorrow. Yet since it was Hening who took the initiative to keep in a distance, it would naturally be improper for him to ask the further reason which was somewhat private as well. So he just pursed his lips pretending that he didn’t notice that.

The carriage stopped suddenly after a short journey. Hening opened his eyes, jumped off the carriage and stretched forth his hand to take Song QInghan.

Song Qinghan looked at the man’s skinny and boney hand, he pondered for a moment but eventually put his hind on.

However, it seemed that by such a action of handholding, Hening didn’t intend to let go. He pulled Song Qinghan to get him closer, and used the other palm to cover on Song Qinghan’s eyes, saying gently, “We’re almost there, open your eyes after we reach the place.”

This interaction was indeed ambiguous between the opposite sex, but it was nothing in the same sex. Even though Song Qinghan was stunned at the beginning, he didn’t feel that much uncomfortable because he just regarded that Hening was still a bit childish. In that consideration, he didn’t resist at all but was thinking of whether he should pretend to be surprise after he opened his eyes to cooperate with Hening through such a ‘game’.

The two of them slowly walked towards the forest. And the farther they went, the stronger fragrance of flower Song Qinghan could smell, and then he subconsciously asked, “Do you like flowers that much?”

Hening chucked and then answered gently, “I can’t just say that, but just think that these plants are rather pitiful. They struggle to grow and to live, yet what awaits them at the end is just a passing fancy, an instant blossom. When there is blowing wind and showering rain, they will just die away and vanish with the dirt. And finally they will just be a nutrient for theirs trees around.”

“It will be worthy for them to have a short peek to this world if someone admires them. But it will just be crucial and terrible to them if no one comes to know them.”

He still remained his tone in calmness, but Song Qinghan could catch a sense of desolation within it. He suddenly realized that Hening was indeed a pessimistic, and then he couldn’t help but ask, “Why do you think that they need people to admire them? Shouldn’t they admire themselves? See, they must be rather happy when they witness their own brilliant achievements after their hardship of struggling, right? Then what’s the downsides if their beauties aren’t witnessed by others?”

Hening seemed to take a pause, and he quickly loosened his fingers and said, “We’re here.”

Song Qinghan needed to take a slow process to adapt the sudden brightness from the dark, so he put one of his hand one his forehead trying to avoid excessive sunlight, and slowly opened his eyes. Just as he saw the scenery in front, he couldn’t help praising, “It’s, it’s picturesque…!”

Unlike the dull and regular flowers which were displayed at the banquet, the peach blossoms and pear blossoms intertwined here while the white petals and pink petals mixed together, blooming recklessly yet harmoniously.

A breeze passed while the petals spun towards the air and flew away, as if all the petals were going to render the ambience a romantic one. The beauty of the scene was kind of domineering, making everything surrounding marvelous.

Song Qinghan stared blankly at everything in front of him. Some petals fell on his eyelashes, casting a layer of pink at the sight of his to view this entire world.

Standing next to Song Qinghan, Hening slowly reached out to remove the flower petals on Song QInghan’s head and face. And then he said softly, “You’re definitely right, but it’s somehow a kind of pity if the beauty is missed by the others, right?”

Song Qinghan pursed his lips but didn’t refute it. Suddenly he thought of something and laughed excitedly, “By the way, is this woods open for the outsiders as well? Otherwise, how can you eat all the fruits here?”

Hening smiled faintly, and then answered  “I never eat them, I just let them be rotten and fall onto the ground. That’s the reason the flowers here blossom nicer.”

Song Qinghan was speechless when he heard this and then he muttered, “As expected, poverty limits people’s imagination, you’re rich and you’re never going to know this fact. It would be better for you to sell it rather than to let them be rotten…”

He spoke gently and softly. Yet the surrounding silence amplified his volume more not less, and Hening could hear it clearly, so Hening chuckled, saying, “Alright, I will pick them and sell them. You can come here to pick for yourself before that, treat yourself like at home and I will charge you no coin, don’t worry.”

Song Qinghan widened his eyes and was about to nod in agreement when he suddenly realized that it was taking advantage of Hening and quickly rejected, “No, I won’t take any advantage of you! No gains without pains, take my coins and let me pick or you pick first and sell some to me. I won’t accept the deal that you charge no money for that.”

Hening didn’t hesitate at all, and then he promised directly, “Alright, as you wish then.”

Noticing that Hening was actually saying with an affectionate tone, Song Qinghan suddenly got goosebumps all over his body. Rubbing his own arms from both sides, he reminded, “I should go home now, are you going to stay here to browse the beauty of flowers?”