Good Morning Kiss

Perhaps after repeating the same thing multiple times, Liu Xiaolan's body remembered Mu Yuchen and treated him like a large pillow, or perhaps a good heater? Who knows, but Liu Xiaolan indeed got used to having Mu Yuchen next to her during night.

Mu Yuchen looked at Liu Xiaolan sleeping in his arms and smiled. He moved his head and lightly patted her head before stroking her hair. "Sweet dreams, my foolish lady…"

Next day in the morning, when it was still dark outside, Mu Yuchen woke up. Perhaps because Liu Xiaolan has been sleeping too much lately, she was easily woken up by her little fool's movement.

"Uhm, what's going on?" She said as she moved her head to look at Mu Yuchen's face.

Mu Yuchen looked at Liu Xiaolan and almost cursed, what is this little fox doing? Lying on his chest and looking at him with these eyes, is she trying to invite him to do something else?

"Uhm, lady said that I should ask before…" He said hesitantly, "Can I kiss my lady?"

Without waiting for her answer, Mu Yuchen quickly pushed his luck and pecked his lady's little lips.

Seeing the changing look on Liu Xiaolan's face, Mu Yuchen took a deep breath and said, "It's morning already, my lady. We need to start preparing for today's chestnuts sale…"

"Lady can stay in bed and try to sleep a little longer, I'll go out and bring us some fresh water from the river…" He said, trying to smoothly stand up without bothering her too much.

However, Liu Xiaolan wasn't feeling sleepy anymore after what he did previously. "Mu Yuchen, what did you just do?"

"It's good you asked me about it, but shouldn't you wait for my answer?" Liu Xiaolan said while gritting her teeth and looking at the escaping Mu Yuchen.

Once Mu Yuchen was gone, Liu Xiaolan stretched herself a little. Thinking of the position she woke up in, she blushed a little. 'Just what was I thinking lying on his chest like that? Especially after yesterday…'

'And what's with the kissing? He wouldn't get addicted to it, would he?'

Liu Xiaolan quickly shook her head and started preparing the tools needed for cooking chestnuts. After all, even through her little fool is doing a good job in selling them and basically can sell out every day, but it still takes him a few hours in the city to do it.

The sooner he can leave, the sooner he can get it over with and come back home. Perhaps unaware of it herself, but Liu Xiaolan wished that her little fool could quickly get everything done and come back to her earlier…

An hour later, after Mu Yuchen took the chestnuts with him and went to the city to sell them, Liu Xiaolan looked up towards the sun. Seeing that it was still a little early, she decided to just go back and wait for a while longer.

Today, her goal is to go to the Tao family and talk with them about the business, but it wouldn't be good if she rashly run over to their home and woke them up...

After waiting for a little longer and making sure it was already a time when most villagers have gotten on their feet and finished eating breakfast, Liu Xiaolan decided that it was time to go to the Tao family.

Without losing any more time, she quickly took some chestnuts with herself to let them taste it and went towards their house. After all, for most of the villagers in Liuojia Village chestnuts are just a cheap thing that tastes bad and nobody really wants to eat them unless they have to because of their economical conditions.

So it's still better to take some of her fried chestnuts seasoned with salt and let them taste it. At least they won't think that she's crazy selling these things and telling them that they could earn a lot of money doing it…

Liu Xiaolan moved towards the center of the village and soon was near their home.

The Tao family originally had just 3 acres of good land. However, because their ancestors have been in the Liuojia Village for years, their land is located near the center of the village and they've got a pretty good relationship with other people nearby.

If not for the fact that the Tao family had so many people in it currently, they could be living quite a decent life currently. But who would have expected that they were unlucky?

From what Liu Xiaolan heard, the Tao family was a little weird compared to other farmers. While most families wished to have a good son that could continue their family's blood, the Tao family heavily wished for a daughter.

In their family, where females are not common, they've tried to get a daughter for a total of 3 times, but every single time Madam Tao ended up giving birth to a son, so they finally decided to give up, since they couldn't afford feeding any more children…

When Liu Xiaolan first heard of them, she was a little shocked. After all, most families in these times are patriarchal and they heavily favour having boys, but here you suddenly find a peasant family wishing for daughters.

But hey, for Liu Xiaolan it was good news. Since the Tao family wanted a daughter so much, then they shouldn't discriminate against her too much. Even though it's not uncommon, some people still can't understand that woman can do business as well, so many woman in the ancient times would prefer to simply dress as a man and have less trouble.

Also, the fact that the Tao family had 3 sons was good for her as well. With just 3 acres of land, there's no way that they need so many people constantly. They wouldn't have any trouble in splitting their manpower, sending someone to the fields, another person to collect chestnuts and then one more person could go to the city and take care of selling them.