Volume 1: This Heart's Desire Chapter 35: You Take a Bite, I'll Take a Bite (Part 2)

  "Jingtai blue." A woman who was enjoying her half-grown son washing her face, with closed eyes and a wet face said, "Remember, you must be a tolerant, generous, considerate man who knows how to take care of women. Like today, when I'm tired from walking, you should help me wash my feet too. Although women may not need your care, this is a virtue for men. Most men here don't have this virtue, and I hope you do."

  Jingtai Lan frequently nodded her head, smiled and leaned in to give her a wet kiss on the lips, showing her determination.

  "Bang." Zhao Thirteen fainted, murmuring before losing consciousness, "Wash feet... wash feet..."

  Tai Shi Lan looked at him strangely - I taught my son to wash my feet for me, why are you so heartbroken?

  Rong Chu reached out to support Zhao Thirteen, staring at Tai Shi Lan with a strange gaze, taking a deep breath as if enduring something, before finally saying, "Are you teaching him or harming him?"

  "Huh?"

  "Washing a woman's feet......" Rong Chu's face didn't look good, staring at her feet - in the future if he wanted to take her in, would he also have to wash her feet?

  "What's wrong?" Tai Shi Lan stared at him coldly, "Feeling embarrassed? Inferior? Insulting the dignity of a man?"

  Too ashamed to speak.

  Tai Shi Lan naturally knew that his silence was equivalent to consent, and he also naturally understood that in a feudal patriarchal society, her ideas were shocking and unconventional, but what did it matter?

  "Knowing how to be considerate of women won't hurt a man's dignity. Washing his mother's feet isn't degrading either." She said calmly, "It will only teach him to be more broad-minded, understanding and empathetic towards others."

  She picked up Jing Tai Lan and wiped his wet face clean with a rough touch, then carried him out.

  "A nation that respects women and all life is the wisest and most vital nation."

  Her words trailed off in the distance, the contents of the house remained still and quiet, with a slight furrowed brow.

  Although he couldn't fully agree, he had to admit it.

  She is really special.

  Very special.

  After eating, of course, they couldn't just sleep. Jing Tai Lan was clamoring to go for a stroll, and Ta Shi Lan had always adhered to the policy of "tightening and loosening, kindness and severity" in educating children, so he generously took him out. When they came out, they found that the swallows that had arrived with the wind last night were nowhere to be seen this morning, and the atmosphere around them was relaxed on the surface but tense underneath. It's unknown what method Rong Chu used to disperse them.

  Rong Chu's demeanor appears carefree and leisurely, but in reality, he is extremely vigilant. Wherever he goes, it's unlikely anyone can pry into his affairs.

  Rong Chu didn't care about her going out, but handed her a conical hat. Tai Shi Lan was afraid of the sun and reluctantly wore it. Rong Chu then magically pulled out a mask for Jing Tai Lan, who immediately happily put it on.

  Taishi Lan blinked at Chu with one eye - who was she trying to cover up? And, Duke Guo followed her without taking a step back, wasn't he idle?

  As expected, the group of people on the street followed her, but they all changed their clothes and wore bamboo hats, dispersing into the crowd, looking ordinary to the extreme. Zhao Thirteen stared at her with unblinking eyes, afraid that she would poison Jing Tai Lan. As soon as he left the inn, he went to hug Jing Tai Lan, "I'll hold you."

  "Let him go." Tai Shi Lan's arm swept across.

  Jingtai Blue had to leave by himself. Not far from where he was walking, he saw a sugar vendor and shouted for him. Zhao Thirteen immediately took out money to buy the sugar figure. After buying it back, Taishi Lan stretched out his hand and took the sugar figure from him.

  Under the gaze of everyone, Ta Shi calmly took a bite of the sugar man. "Crack" went the sound, and the sugar man's head was gone...

  Zhao Thirteen shivered and Jing Tai Blue pouted, on the verge of tears.

  Tai Shi Lan held up the sugar figure, nibbling on it as he leisurely said to Jing Tai Lan, "You told me you're full, so I think you don't need to eat this."

  "I'm not full..." Jingtai Lan's 45-degree watery big eyes, angelic corners raised upwards, attempting to turn the tide.

  "Not being full is no excuse for lying. A man who lies can be killed by anyone, I won't kill you, but I'll punish you by not letting you eat snacks." said Tai Shi Lan.

  Forty-five degree angel halo pause, Jingtai blue instantly became street corner painting circle stray cat.

  Jingtai Blue, having learned a lesson, miraculously learned to feed himself during lunch. With the help of a small spoon, he managed to eat half a bowl of porridge and drink a lot of fish soup. The little guy looked like an adult eating with a spoon, amusing the passing female knights and the hotel owner's wife. Jingtai Blue's apple face under his mask was pinched countless times, and the owner's wife waived one-third of the meal cost.

  Zhao Thirteen was repeatedly tense and eager to pounce when the blue glaze was being wiped, but he was stared down by Rong Chu's eyes each time, and Tai Shi Lan pretended not to see.

  Due to Jing Tai Lan's beauty, the price of rice was reduced. To show appreciation, Ta Shi Lan said that Jing Tai Lan could make a request. Jing Tai Lan, who had been thinking about Sugar Man, immediately said: "Sugar Man!"

  "I'm going to buy it!" Zhao Thirteen swiftly went and soon brought back a super-large sugar figurine, which was so big that it covered his wide face. The blue and white porcelain heart-shaped decoration was in full bloom, but the smile on his small face had just begun to unfold halfway when one of his hands calmly took the sugar figurine again.

  "Did I ever promise to buy you a sugar figurine?" Tai Shi Lan held up the sugar figurine and bit off half of its head with a "crunch"...

  Jingtai Lan covered his ears with both hands, indignantly refusing to listen to this ruthless and heart-wrenching crack.

  "This story tells you," Tai Shi Lan said calmly to the little friend, "what your mother says is what counts, and I don't agree with anyone else's words are nonsense."

  Zhao Thirteen silently spat out a mouthful of blood.

  "I'll tell you something else," Tai Shi Lan continued to gnaw on the sugar figure, "men who like snacks are not good men..."

  "Crack."

  Rong Chu suddenly leaned over and nibbled off the other half of the sugar man's head.

  Tai Shi Lan's hand stopped in mid-air, her eyebrows raised, "Huh?"

  "This story tells you." Rong Chu squatted down, looking at Jing Tai Blue, "What she said may not be right, I also like to eat snacks, I also ate snacks, but I am still a perfect man."

  "Crunch." Tai Shi Lian bit off one of the sugar man's hands and sneered, "Perfect? Just like this sugar man."

  "Crunch." Rong Chu nibbled on another hand, smiling at Jing Tai Lan, "No matter how it looks, sugar people are sweet, their nature won't change."

  "Crunch." Tai Shi Lian bit off a piece of Sugar Man's clothing, "Too sweet will rot your teeth, just like some people, annoying!"

  "Crunch." Rong Chu nibbled off one of the Sugar Man's feet, smiling slyly as he glanced at Tai Shi Lan, "You see, women always say one thing but mean another. They complain about being fed up, yet they still eat with relish."

  ……

  The blue and white porcelain, dazed by the conflicting educational concepts, stood still, biting its fingers, staring at the sugar man being nibbled away bit by bit by the two of them, until it couldn't bear it anymore, shouting, "Is it sweet or not? Is it greasy or not? Can't you leave a single bite for me...?"

  ……