TFWYH – Chapter 16 It’s better to buy a house

“Pretty husband, the main beam is cracked too,” Tang Wan said, peeking her head through the hole in the roof to talk to Ling Yu inside.

It was just… that nickname…

Ling Yu replied with annoyance, “Am I pretty?”

“Mhm, mhm, mhm!” Tang Wan nodded vigorously through the hole. Her big round face was almost as wide as the opening itself.

Ling Yu chuckled silently. But the next second, realizing what just happened, he quickly put on a stern face. “Don’t call me that!”

Tang Wan kept nodding. “Alright, pretty husband!”

Ling Yu: “…”

Ling Yue downstairs: “…”

Wait, wasn’t I here to help? Why do I suddenly feel full?

In the end, Tang Wan managed to patch the hole.

But because the main beam was involved, she didn’t dare make any drastic moves, worried it would bring the whole structure down.

So she ended up shaving some wooden planks to brace the main beam, then patched the hole, piled some dry firewood on top, and made sure at least rain wouldn’t leak through.

Though if there was heavy rain—well, she couldn’t guarantee anything.

That evening, Tang Wan went back inside and reported her findings to her pretty husband.

“There’s not much point in repairing it. Let’s just build a new house!”

Ling Yu frowned slightly and, after a moment’s thought, replied, “Then how about buying a house in town?”

Tang Wan: “…What?”

Are you serious, dear?

“How much would that cost?”

“For our whole family, we’d need at least a small courtyard. In a decent location… around two hundred taels of silver.”

“…” You’re seriously serious?

Unless she ran into idiots giving her fifty taels every day, how was she supposed to come up with two hundred taels anytime soon?!

“It’s not possible?” Ling Yu saw her go quiet, and a touch of disappointment flickered in his glittering peach-blossom eyes. He lowered his gaze—long, slender lashes trembling—and his devastatingly beautiful face somehow looked pitiful.

Tang Wan took one look at him and immediately forgot even her mother’s surname. Nodding like a chicken pecking rice, she said, “It’s possible! I’ll earn the money!”

Ling Yu raised an eyebrow. “You really can?”

Tang Wan put on a determined face and clenched her fists. “A girl should never say she can’t!”

Ling Yu almost laughed.

He used to find Tang Wan’s obsessive infatuation with him nauseating, but now… he actually didn’t mind it.

Somewhere deep down, there was even a smug little feeling he couldn’t quite admit.

No!

What smugness? That’s nonsense!

The upward curl of his lips slowly flattened as he made another unreasonable demand: “Tell me a story.”

“Oh, right!” Tang Wan snapped back to attention and continued telling him Water Margin.

Even Ling Yu had to admit: Tang Wan’s voice was truly pleasant to listen to.

Soft and melodious like a chime—perfectly fitting.

And now, Tang Wan was also very clean—she bathed almost every night before bed.

She always carried a faint medicinal scent, calming and comforting, refreshing to the senses.

The old Tang Wan definitely didn’t smell like that.

Ling Yu couldn’t figure it out. She was completely different from before, yet neither his mother nor siblings had noticed anything.

The voice beside him gradually grew fainter. Ling Yu looked up and saw that the chubby little girl had almost nodded off.

Ling Yu silently smiled and tucked the blanket around her before closing his own eyes.

Tang Wan didn’t sleep well that night. Her mind was filled with the issue of those two hundred taels of silver.

Her pretty husband’s wish must be fulfilled! What kind of woman couldn’t meet her man’s needs?

So the question was:

How do you make money fast?

The next morning, Tang Wan got up early, climbed onto the desk, grabbed some paper and scribbled furiously. Then she folded the sheet and tucked it into her chest.

She went outside, woke Ling Yue, and dragged her out to make the doubanjiang (chili bean paste).

Ling Yue looked skeptically at the bright red mixture in the jar and asked doubtfully, “This… can really make money?”

Tang Wan absentmindedly replied, “Just give it a try!”

“How?”

Just… eat it straight like this?