Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 118 Knowledgeable

He just sneered, "Well-informed and knowledgeable."

Lin Qingping: ...

How can he be so good at picking up keywords? She said so much, but he only managed to pick up a few words?

She simply stopped talking!

Love it!

However, he seems to be obsessed with "what the book says," and he insists on competing with the book.

Later, Lin Qingping was truly exhausted. Under his persistent questioning, she mumbled, "It's even worse than what's written in the book..." and then passed out.

Gu Juncheng finally let her go.

She was too exhausted to care about what happened after that. She didn't even want to move a finger and fell into a deep sleep. She didn't wake up no matter how he cleaned her up.

The next day, Lin Qingping didn't get up until almost noon.

When I woke up, he was no longer in bed, just like yesterday.

After she finished washing up, she went downstairs, but her legs still felt weak.

He happened to be coming upstairs when he saw the way she was walking and, amused, helped her up.

She glared at him and then laughed!

Looking at him again, I realized he had already done a lot of work, the most important thing being that he had actually installed a shower in the downstairs bathroom.

It's definitely not a water heater.

Showers are still quite rare in this era. Lin Qingping doesn't know if big hotels have water heaters, but ordinary households really don't.

So he used the old method, making a simple version of a family boiler, burning coal, and then installing a water tank so that hot water could be sprayed down for showering.

Lin Qingping remembers that even around 2000, some old barbershops still used this method to wash and cut customers' hair.

But isn't he tired?

She glanced at his taut muscles and couldn't resist pinching his thigh.

Hard as a rock...

He was in a good mood today, completely different from the dean of students yesterday. He grabbed her hand and told her to stop being naughty.

I took her hand and led her downstairs. A middle-aged woman came out of the kitchen.

Gu Juncheng introduced her, "This is the older sister Wu Tianping introduced to us. Her surname is Zhao. She came to our house to help take care of the children and do housework."

nanny?

Lin Qingping looked at him in surprise. Why hire a nanny?

Sister Zhao looked very kind, so Lin Qingping didn't know what to say to her face and just smiled.

Gu Juncheng was going to register at school today. After lunch, he went upstairs to get his things. Lin Qingping followed him and asked, "You don't need to ask anyone! Why do you need to ask someone for help?"

Gu Juncheng had already packed his things. He took her hand and led her to sit on his lap. "You're here to study, not to take care of a child. Zhiyuan has already troubled you enough..."

“It’s no trouble at all! Zhiyuan is a very well-behaved person.” Lin Qingping disagreed with his statement.

Gu Juncheng rubbed his chin against her forehead. "Zhiyuan isn't your responsibility. It's already unfair to you that I'm raising Zhiyuan after you married me. You've been very good to him. But you and your second sister should focus on your studies now. You'll be living at school and only need to come home once a week. How can I let you attend classes during the day and then come back with endless housework and childcare?"

Lin Qingping scoffed, "You don't understand."

"Hmm?" He waited for her to say something, wondering if there was anything he didn't understand.

"I treat Zhiyuan well, not because of you. Don't flatter yourself! Zhiyuan is much more lovable than you!" She huffed at him.

"Is that so?" He deliberately put on a stern face.

"Yes!" Lin Qingping pinched his cheeks and pulled hard. "Zhiyuan is so cute when he smiles! Unlike you, who always has a long face. I'm so scared when I see you that I take three feet back!"

"Is it really that exaggerated?" He pulled her hand away, both amused and exasperated.

“Gu Juncheng…” Lin Qingping threw herself into his arms. “So, you arranged everything before you came, including the house, the school you found for Zhiyuan, everything was arranged in advance, is that why?”

Gu Juncheng remained silent.

Lin Qingping then mimicked him, putting on a stern face as well, "Are you being distant with me?"

Seeing that she was angry, he finally spoke, "It's not that I'm being distant, but how could I let you take two children and run around looking for a house and a school in a strange capital city?"

Lin Qingping imagined the scene: in the sweltering heat of August, she was drenched in sweat, running through the streets with Zhiyuan, looking at one shop after another, searching for one shop after another...

I initially thought it was nothing, just normal. Didn't she go through the same thing in her past life looking for a shop? There were even harder times, and she got through them all.

But now that he's said that, it seems like things are really a bit dire...

"Gu Juncheng..." she clung to his chest, "How often do you come home?"

He was from a military academy, unlike her; he needed to ask for leave to come out.

"I don't know yet, but I will definitely come back when I can get out." He carefully chose his words.

Lin Qingping sighed. Didn't she know? She just wanted to stay in his arms a little longer.

"Gu Juncheng..." she whispered, wrapping her arms around his neck and pressing her face against his, "Give me another kiss."

He paused for a moment, then laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Lin Qingping went all out, since she had already established her persona. "If you won't kiss me, I'll kiss you, what's the big deal!"

This time, Gu Juncheng genuinely laughed out loud.

Just as she was about to get annoyed by his laughter, he kissed her.

Then, unsurprisingly, all the anger vanished in their lingering breaths...

Lin Qingping thought he really knew how to handle things!

As a result, when he let go of her, he said, "I'm leaving. While I'm not home, you can review your dirty old material."

"What? You still want to learn? I think it's already amazing that you don't learn, but if you do, it will be even worse!" Lin Qingping blurted out.

He suppressed a laugh and gently pinched her cheek. "Alright, I'm leaving. The bicycle will be delivered tomorrow, and the TV will be delivered this afternoon. Have the deliveryman install it for you; I don't have time."

"Wow! You've done so much this morning?" Bicycles! Television sets! These are rare items in this day and age!

"I originally wanted to bring them back directly, but there were no bicycles in stock today. I happened to run into an acquaintance when I bought the TV, so I asked them to deliver everything." After explaining, he carried his bag downstairs.

Lin Qingping saw him off outside, accompanied him to the bus stop, and waited until he boarded the bus before returning to the house.

He was still very reluctant to part with her, but it was much better than before when one of them was in Gujia Village and the other was on the border. At least now they were in the same city, and it was just a matter of taking a bus ticket home. He would always come back during holidays.

The television arrived as expected in the afternoon.

The second sister and Zhiyuan had never seen this box before.