A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] Chapter 19

Hearing what Song Qinghan said, Wu Dahu shut his mouth even if he got worries in his mind. He just sighed softly and put the empty bowl back into the kitchen.

Song Qinghan felt much depressed in the room by himself, but then he began to be regretful after his equanimity.

He knew exactly that Wu Dahu was just worried about him, he didn’t appreciate it but just showed him a capricious attitude and complained instead. What an asshole he was!

He was not a willful and capricious person in the past though. He was also gentle and considerate towards his colleagues and patients. But since he got himself in this ancient world, his personality somehow changed a bit, and always came to a disagreement with Wu Dahu. How odd it was!

Song Qinghan didn’t come up with a conclusion after a long while of thought. He could only blame all the stuffs for the change of the horns after his pregnancy, which affected his mood.

Hearing the sound of grinding from outside, Song Qinghan couldn’t sit still. He walked out slowly and helped Wu Dahu dry all the fruits, put them into the bag and put the bag in the corner.

After finishing the fruit, Wu Dahu thought for a moment and said to Song Qinghan, “The bed will be done tomorrow. We need to find another room to accommodate this one. Besides, in two more months, you’ll deliver the baby. We should also get a nursery room for the baby, so I want to find a mud craftsman in the village to expand our yard and the house. What do you think?”

It was kind of a perfect idea, how would Song Qinghan refuse something like that? So he nodded and followed Wu Dahu up, saying urgently, “I want to go with you!”

Wu Dahu nodded and led him out of the courtyard and into the village.

There still existed some people judging them, but Song Qinghan was already get quite used to ignore them and mind his own things. He calmly followed Wu Dahu into a graceful yard at the village.

A man in the yard noticed that it was Wu Dahu, saying in ardor, “Oh, Dahu, what bring you here? You have any request to enlarge your room or something?”

To Song Qinghan’s surprise, the man was rather polite and nodded at Song Qinghan for greeting, so he nodded back for the mutual respect.

Wu Dahu patted the man’s shoulder, as if they had known each other for quite a long time. And then nodded, saying, “Right. I want to add two more rooms in my house and expand the yard. When do you have time?”

The man patted his own thigh, saying in excitement, “Alright! I had told you long time ago that you should get your yard expanded. Once you married, you would get an enough space for your livelihood. You just didn’t take my advise! However, nothing is too late. It would be troublesome to expand after the baby was born! Let’s move now. I will bring the tools and go with you!”

After that, he bowed to pack all his tool stuffs. It seemed that he was even more urgent than Wu Dahu.

The three walked out chatting along the way. Song Qinghan learned from Wu Dahu that this young man was named Qian Baozi, who was born the same year with Wu Dahu.

Besides, their names got somehow relation.

It was said that Qian Baozi’s father had always admired Wu Dahu’s father. After knowing that Dahu’s father named his son Dahu, in a meaning of “Tiger”, he named his son “Baozi”, in a similar meaning of “Panther”. He hoped that they could be nominal brothers.

After arriving at Wu Dahu’s yard, Qian Baozi put the tools on the ground and threw a hammer into his hand, saying with a smile, “Come on bro, it is our first time to cooperate!”

After that, the two of them walked to the side of the manor wall in unison, brandishing their hammers and smashing the wall down a few times, then the manor wall collapsed.

Song Qinghan had been reminded by Wu Dahu to stay far away before they worked, so he could clearly witness the scene of the whole wall falling down.

It was quite a quick action for the two. After smashing the wall, they began to stir the mud while discussing the new location the wall should be.

Not long, the two who had discussed the matter began to build the new wall.

Song Qinghan watched a brand-new wall slowly take shape under their hands. That was amazing for him.

It was such a wonderful affair to build their house by their own hands in such an original way, without the modernized tools like reinforced concrete and other automatic machines.

However, it was not that kind of easy to build a house. It had already been dark after Wu Dahu and Qian Baozi finished the process of erupting the new wall.

Wu Dahu asked Qian Baozi to stay for a shared dinner, but Qian Bao waved his hand, saying, “My husband is still waiting for me. He is such a clingy boy. Same as your husband.”

After he left, Wu Dahu took a close look at Song Qinghan. He tried to figure out the truth about what Qian Baozi said, HOW? Song Qinghan wasn’t that clingy as he desribed. It was obvious that he always had such a mysterious appearance that could never be seen through. He couldn’t be able to read out Song Qinghan’s mind sometimes.

During their dinner time, Song Qinghan became more talkative than ever before. He pointed at the empty ground, imagining a scenario in his mind about the future.

“We can create an arable land here for planting some vegetation, such as carrots, cabbages, garlic, onions, gingers and so on. Upon the land, we can make a shelf, allowing the vines of white gourd and towel gourd entwining it upward and growing. At that time, we won’t worry about the vegetable supply any more.” said Song Qinghan.

“And then we can get an extra space for planting the tree of fructus momordicae. Under the tree, we will gain some specific soil for cultivating some mushrooms. How wonderful of that!” He continued to say.

“Oh, right. We can also plant some flowers or other aesthetic plants along the wall such as rose, peony and so on. That will totally be a wonderful decoration for our yard.”

“…”

Seeing that Song Qinghan was talking about the plan of the yard without a pause and even forgot having the meal, Wu Dahu smiled with his eyes full of happiness. He nodded occasionally showing his agreement to Song Qinghan and kept every scene he had mentioned in mind.

All the dishes had already cooled down since Song Qinghan regained his attention back to the meal. Wu Dahu helped him to warm the food again without any complaint, and then urged him, saying, “Finish your meal first. Then we can better plan for that.”

Song Qinghan took up his bowl and started eating, but then he turned to another thought for a while and asked, “By the way, didn’t you get any plan for the yard stuffs? If I occupy all the space in the yard, you won’t get any personal space for yourself.”

“A personal space?” asked Wu Dahu, he repeated it over and finally got the meaning of this word. He smiled and shook his head, answering, “Personal space isn’t a requisite for me. It’s my great satisfaction to stay with you.”

His sudden answer with honeyed words was such a unpredicted surprise for Song Qinghan, which made Song Qinghan almost chocked himself from the meal.

“Mmm, then you don’t even have some moments when you prefer to stay alone without other’s disruption?”

Song Qinghan drank a mouthful of tea and asked in his curiosity.

After thinking for a while, Wu Dahu answered slowly in his hesitation, saying, “I do have, but when I get those moments, I prefer to go to the back mountain. It’s a place with tranquility and freedom. It was also those moments making me enjoy the real ‘loneliness’ there.”

Song Qinghan noticed some other emotions of sorrow and sadness in Wu Dahu’s eyes, he knew he said something wrong again to remind the man of something bad. Then quickly changed the topic and asked, “Then… do you expect a family of a bunch of kids or just one?”

After that, it was Song Qinghan’s turn to become rather depressed before Wu Dahu’s reaction.

Until now, he still thought that Wu Dahu would treat him well because he was carrying his baby. When the child was born, he would be abandoned by Wu Dahu since he acted like a man of caprice and laziness.

At that time, even if Wu Dahu left him stay with benevolence, it would be hard to guarantee that he would get some other concubines or something. What would Wu Dahu’s child have to do with him?

Wu Dahu glanced at him and knew exactly that he didn’t really enjoy the feeling of being pregnant. He then said in hesitation, “Let’s see. If possible, I would prefer a big family. But one is perfect too.”

However, Song Qinghan was completely immersed in his fantasy. He only noticed the first words uttered by Wu Dahu, and completely ignored his last sentence.

A big family?… A picture of the future came to Song Qinghan’s mind, he saw that a group of Wu Dahu’s concubines and children chasing up each other and playing games in the yard. He could only sleep in the corner with his stinky child and cry for nothing.

Wu Dahu didn’t know what words he said offended Song Qinghan. He saw that Song Qinghan finished his meal quickly and then went back to the room with a rage, leaving him alone standing there. He could do nothing but just shook his head with bitterness, and cleared up the table.

The next morning, Wu Dahu got up very early. He went directly to the yard, and was ready to move all the prepared materials into the yard, with an intention to take times on assembling them.

When Song Qinghan got out of the room stroking his eyes, a new bed featuring six feet in width appeared in front of him.

He couldn’t help sitting on, saying with a happiness, “See how solid it is! It is a REAL wooden bed. If it was in the modern… it would be such a valuable thing!”

Although Wu Dahu didn’t hear the place he mentioned clearly, he still shook his head, saying honestly, “It isn’t that kind of expensive. Elm wood is not rare at all. People who knows some sorts of the craft skills and possesses an extra strength can make one.”

Yeah, the crucial problem was that it was rather hard to find someone with a skilled craftsmanship and extra strength! Song Qinghan rolled his eyes thinking of that.

He now realized that Wu Dahu somehow was kind of diffident about his talent, which was probably related to his omnipotent father.

Wu Dahu had never compared himself to any other ordinary person, but only compared to his father, which showed that he was still doubtful over his ability. In that case, he would never know that from the other people’s points of view, he was such a man of all-power.

After they finished their breakfast, Qian Baozi also came over with a countenance of refreshment.

Wu Dahu asked him with a smile, saying, “Any good news? Look at yourself of that bright smile!”

Seeing Song Qinghan entering the room, Qian Baozi held Wu Dahu’s shoulder and said in a low voice, “My little bumpkin didn’t let me leave early in the morning with rather intimate action. I had to satisfy him, you know.”

None of men wouldn’t understand what he meant, but Wu Dahu was a little embarrassed. Obviously, he never got someone to share such an affair and talked like that.

Seeing the sullen look on his face, Qian Baozi didn’t get the deal and whispered in Wu Dahu’s ears, “Don’t tell me that your husband never ask for that. Or is it because he is pregnant? Don’t take that seriously! You can do whenever you want after his pregnancy after three months… hehe!”

Seeing Song Qinghan came out again, Wu Dahu coughed dryly with his face blushed. He pushed Qian Baozi away and said seriously, “It’s time to work.”

Seeing Qian Bao looked at Wu Dahu with a look of a faint hint, while Wu Dahu’s face was kind of red-rimmed, Song Qinghan couldn’t help but start to suspect.

Were they in a secret relationship? Although they were all men here, everything could happen here.

Thinking about this, Song Qinghan looked at Qian Bao with precaution.

Qian Bao thought that Song Qinghan had heard their conversation, so he felt a little guilty with his eyes flickering while he was working.

Wu Dahu wasn’t acting naturally either. Although the redness on his face had gone , he dared not to look at Song Qinghan. He just lowered his head and looked at the mud on the ground.

The strange reaction of these two people made Song Qinghan more suspicious. He angrily moved a small bench out and stared at their movements unblinkingly. As long as they were close, he coughed aiming to frighten them. These two poor men didn’t even dare to speak under the pressure from Song Qinghan.