A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] chapter 35

Lin Dafu delivered him a smile, and then answered in a rather good mood, “Well, tonight doesn’t count in. So you can do whatever you want, you’re free. But from tomorrow on, you have to be obedient to me.”

Hearing that, Song Qinghan leaf directly without giving even a look at Lin Dafu.

He couldn’t talk back in retort because he was a beggar now, a man lower down the pecking order and needed so much the assistance from Lin Dafu. If Wu Dahu wasn’t in jail, he probably would bring such a disappointment to this man now.

Anyway, Lin Dafu was just a man that took advantage of another’s perilous state.

Walking along back to the room with rage, Song Qinghan tried to force himself into sleep, thinking that it would be a tough and arduous day tomorrow.

The next morning, when the sun was beaming in through the window, Song Qinghan opened his eyes. But to his surprise, Lin Dafu was right aside staring at him with a pair of eyes full of affection. Song Qinghan screamed, but then turned to a rage, shouting at Lin Dafu, “How long have you been here? Are you a psycho? What’s the fun staring at someone sleeping>””

Lin Dafu got himself a sullen face all of a sudden, saying in his calmness, “Oops, you got a wrong attitude treating me today!”

At the moment when Song Qinghan was about to fight back verbally, the treaty made yesterday occurred to him suddenly, he then force himself to confront the man, asking in impatience, “What kind of attitude should I have then?”

Lin Dafu gestured, motioning Song Qinghan to close his eyes.

Song Qinghan couldn’t say no, he had to follow the orders that Lin Dafu made. He then closed his eyes, half-opened one. He wanted to have a peek.

“Now open your eyes.”

“Say in an exciting mood that ‘I’m soaking in shower of heaven when I open my eyes and you just show up.’”

“And then pull my hands and get up.”

Lin Dafu made all these orders in such an equanimity.

Song Qinghan was stunned listening to the words from Lin Dafu. He couldn’t make it since he thought it was creepy and disgusting.

Lin Dafu raised his eyebrows, saying, “Aren’t you going to get Wu Dahu out of jail now?”

That seemed to be a curse to Song Qinghan, he clenched his fists and forced himself to smile, saying in reluctance, “I’m soaking in shower of heaven when I open my eyes and you just show up.”

Then he loosened his hand and grabbed Lin Dafu’s wrist.

Just as he was about to put on his shoes, Lin Dafu suddenly stopped him, bending himself and taking the shoes. He was trying to help Song Qinghan put on shoes.

Song Qinghan subconsciously shrunk his feet. But then he noticed that Lin Dafu was going to lecture again, he obediently stretched his feet out.

Song Qinghan struggled to get himself off the bed, and right at the moment when he was about to relax a bit, it happened that Lin Dafu made another request, “Hold my hands!”

Such a creepy man arouse all the rage of Song Qinghan all of a sudden. With reluctance Song Qinghan stretched out to get Lin Dafu’s hands.

Fortunately, Lin Dafu wasn’t bothering when they had their breakfast. He just kept picking up the dish to the bowl of Song Qinghan, watching him to gobble everything.

After the breakfast, Lin Dafu looked out and found a great weather outside, he suggested with a big smile, “Look, the weather is quite good today. Well, it is probably bitingly cold out there on the lake, but with the warmest liquor and sunlight, it’s nothing.”

Noticing the sight falling on him, Song Qinghan answered, “Oh, right! Do you like lake cruising. That’s a good idea though. ”

Lin Dafu ordered the servants for some domestic trifles. And he guided Song Qinghan onto the carriage, heading to the suburban district.

Song Qinghan came to a dizziness since he just had finished breakfast and rode on a carriage with a great vibration. He decided to take a nap.

The carriage ran and ran but then took a sudden pause which woke Song Qinghan up right away. When Song Qinghan opened his eyes, he found himself lean on the shoulder of Lin Dafu. In a flash he stood up with awkwardness.

Lin Dafu didn’t show any annoyance on his face at all, but came to a smile, saying, “You didn’t change, did you? You’d always sleep as long as you get on the carriage, struggling to lean over me on my chest.”

Lean over on his chest? Song Qinghan suddenly got himself bunch of goose bumps all over imagining the image of what had come into his mind.

It happened that Lin Dafu didn’t notice the micro expression of Song Qinghan, he took the lead landing, and then helped Song Qinghan get off the carriage.

The lake emerged right away at the moment Song Qinghan got off the carriage, he couldn’t even take his eyes off staring and exclaiming over the grand scenery.

Yet, the extreme coldness of the winter had withered the lotus flowers in the lake, leaving only bunch of decayed stems standing there. It still delivered an infinite imagination for Song QInghan to rebuild the flourishing and vivid scene happened in the summer time.

At the right moment, he made a decision in his mind that he would be here again with Wu Dahu when the lotus flowers boomed again the next year. That must be the happiest time.

Lin Dafu caught the happiness overflowing from the expression of Song Qinghan. He thought it was the scenery right here cheered up him, not figuring out what Song Qinghan was really thinking. If he did so, he probably would be enraged.

The two walked to the lake side, and then entered a boat, paddling to the center of the lake.

Lin Dafu poured two cups of liquor that were still tepid. He picked up one of them and delivered to Song Qinghan, explaining, “Don’t worry, this is a soft one. Those who are pregnant are allowed to take a drink of it.”

Song Qinghan didn’t refuse, he took the cup and swallowed the liquor in one gulp. Feeling the specific taste the liquor brought, he heaved a long sigh.

Lin Dafu chuckled and took a sip of the liquor, saying, “You’d always been a capricious one every time you took a shot in the past, and you’d told me that the liquor tasted bad, you didn’t want to try anymore. It’s surprising that you can taste the flavor out of the liquor of bitterness.”

Song Qinghan didn’t answer, he just poured another cup of liquor and drank slowly.

The breeze by the lake blew, blowing away the steam out of the liquor, and yet, bringing a trace of coldness to these two.

The lake was rather clear, and the fishes were visible in the water. It somehow revealed a subtly harmonious atmosphere coordinating with elegance of the surrounding landscape.

Lin Dafu noticed the red-rimmed cheek showing right on the face of Song Qinghan while the whole bottle of liquor was empty, he spoke to the boatman, “Let’s go ashore.”

Song Qinghan couldn’t even stand steadily by his own will when they landed ashore. But he still got a principle, he wouldn’t lean over himself again to Lin Dafu, and then he himself walked alone to the carriage, staggering.

Facing Song Qinghan, the one who was drunk and delivering a face of spacing out, Lin Dafu came to ask, “Why did you choose Wu Dahu? He got no money, go no power, and got no nice look. He is just a rustic mediocre. What make you beg me for saving him?”

Song Qinghan didn’t passed out yet, he could hear the voice and understand what Lin Dafu meant. He chuckled, saying in a taunting tone, “I agree with you that he indeed is poor, and without power. But he got no nice look? Hell NO!”

“He ain’t get a nice look? He got a nose, he got eyes, I just like them all!” gushed Song Qinghan.

Lin Dafu can’t help laughing, shaking his head, and saying, “HA? Everybody gets a nose and pair of eyes. Then why are you infatuated with him?”

Song Qinghan was suddenly stunned, scratching his head in confusion, saying, “Why am I infatuated with him? It’s because… because…”

He couldn’t answer him right away about the fact, but just at the moment Lin Dafu was about to give the question up, Song Qinghan clapped, as if he had found out the answer, saying, “It’s because Dahu is humble and honest. He never lies to me except the one of kindness. That’s a man of justice, he loves to help people around, and never bow himself to the noble and power. He is a man of emotion, if you treat him good, he will treat you better than you do to him! He feels for people and those who are weaker. In all, I love all the characters he possesses.”

After Song Qinghan spoke out that quite long sentence, he passed out, leaning his head aside. Just at the moment his head was about to be hit by the wooden chair, Lin Dafu reached out to hold, and placing Song Qinghan on his shoulder.

Now, although there was no physical distance between him and Song Qinghan, the man could clearly feel that he was thousands of mile away from him emotionally.

When Song Qinghan woke up again, he was completely immune to Lin Dafu’s dark and deep pupils.

He rubbed his head and said uncomfortably, “Didn’t you say that the liquor was a soft one? How come I got drunk after that?”

Lin Dafu smiled in bitterness and shook his head, saying, “Well, it is a soft one. But you drank a lot! And you don’t get a stomach for liquor. Do you?”

Song Qinghan came to a silence and then he flipped getting off the bed. He asked, “Is lunch served now? I am starving.”

Lin Dafu nodded and held Song Qinghan’s hands and then headed out.

The two finished their lunch in silence. To Song Qinghan’s surprise, Lin Dafu said before he was about to ask the plan in the afternoon, “You got tired this morning, we go nowhere this afternoon, you just take a good rest.”

Well, that was exactly what Song Qinghan wanted, but then he came to another worry, he worried that probably Lin Dafu would say NO to get Wu Dahu out of the jail. And then he turned to ask, “How about you? Are you going outside?”

Lin Dafu answered, “Right, I will go to the shop this afternoon, you don’t have to follow me up.”

After that, he noticed the unease from Song Qinghan’s countenance, he then took a pause and continued to say, “You behaved perfectly nice today, just keep it the rest of the days.”

Hearing that, Song Qinghan heaved a sigh of relief, as if the stumbling rock pressing in his mind finally fell.

Lin Dafu then suggested, “Let’s take a walk, and I will leave the mansion later.”

Song Qinghan nodded and took the initiative to grab Lin Dafu’s hand and walk into the garden.

In the garden while they were walking, something suddenly seemed to occur to Song Qinghan, he looked around searching for something, and then asked in a quite strange tone, “Where are the people in your mansion? Where are the twins?”

Lin Dafu answered leisurely as if he didn’t care, “I kicked them out of the mansion.”

Song Qinghan looked at him in surprise, he asked trying to confirm, “Kicked out? All of them?”

Lin Dafu nodded and said without emotion, “I kicked them out because I lost interest on them all of a sudden, there will be nothing good but bad lingering in this mansion. So I delivered them a bunch of money which was enough for them to live the rest of their lives. And yes, I kicked them all out.”

Song Qinghan didn’t like the man in front of him at all, but he did express his respect and praised over his bravery to kick out all of his concubines just in one night.

Then there came another question, Song Qinghan asked him in confusion, “I see, so that means you get no husband or even a concubine? Are you ready to marry another person?”

Lin Dafu took a pause, he tried to avoid the eye contact with Song Qinghan, staring at the inverted images on the surface of the lake, answering, “Yes, I want to. But I am not going to marry a new one or someone else. It’s just kind of embarrassed to talk about this right now. I can even make it real.”

That was kind of a vague and tortuous answer which got Song Qinghan more confused. But he didn’t think further, and just patted Lin Dafu on his shoulder, consoling, “Come on, you are still young. You can meet someone better, and you don’t have to be so infatuated with a specific one. Don’t hang yourself on one bald tree.”

A BALD TREE? Lin Dafu came to a smile but shook his head, he sighed a bit, saying, “I’m leaving now, take care of yourself.”

Song Qinghan nodded. And then he gave Lin Dafu a send off. He walked alone in the garden. What attracted him right now was the delicate design of the garden. He learned and kept all the arrangement in mind. He thought that he could surely used them for reference one day if he and Wu Dahu built another new shacks or rooms.

Night fell again when Lin Dafu came back home.

Lin Dafu was stunned noticing Song Qinghan standing aside the gate searching around, he then asked, “Why are you here? If you are hungry, you can have the dinner first.”