When Liu Duo heard this, she looked at him and replied, “I currently don’t have such a plan. However, if we were to go the capital, our entire family would have to trouble you for help.”
He was the only person they knew in the capital so they would naturally need him to be the tour guide.
“What do you mean trouble me? There is no such thing with our relationship!” Dongfang Ming’s smile was gentle and handsome.
“Hahaha… you will need to take care of us then. Will you be taking responsibility for sightseeing, what to eat, and where we stay?” Liu Duo joked with him.
“Of course.”
Ming Yan looked at his master as he chatted happily with Liu Duo and immediately thought about what Dongfang Ming had muttered in the horse carriage. He had a strong feeling that his master wasn’t actually joking.
He muttered in his heart, How could this be good? Master finally took a fancy to a girl but she is someone else’s wife, and a shared wife as well!
If she were a young girl who was not yet married, with his master’s looks, experience, and knowledge, there was no way he wouldn’t be able to marry her. However, since she was someone else’s wife, this was extremely difficult!
Moreover, she was still not a widow. Even if she were a widow and Dongfang Ming wanted to marry her, the madam of the house and the others wouldn’t approve.
It was only after Liu Duo finished breakfast that she picked up the framed painting and looked at it in detail. Although she already saw it before, she couldn’t help but sigh. This painting was basically an image taken from a photograph!
“Oh yeah, how much did the framing cost?” Liu Duo looked at Dongfang Ming and asked.
“Why mention this? Ming Yan and I can just eat lunch at your house.” Dongfang Ming never thought about having them pay for the framing. Wouldn’t talking about money spoil the relationship?
When Liu Duo heard him, she didn’t say anything more about it.
Time passed quickly and noon arrived. While riding the bullock-cart home, Ye Liu and the others ran into Ye Yang so they went back together.
“Brothers-in-law are back.” Liu Ran looked at Ye Yang and the others and ran over eagerly to prepare to help move the tomatoes.
Hei Xiaomeng also followed over eagerly. It was extremely excited when it saw its master coming back home, its tail wagging very quickly.
“Oh, Dongfang Ming you are here.” Ye Liu looked at Dongfang Ming and greeted him cordially.
When Ye Yang and Ye Mo saw he was here, one of them showed no response as always and his face looked as paralyzed as ever, and the other just showed a cool and arrogant look as always.
Neither of the two liked to smile except when they were in front of Liu Duo. Ye Mo was slightly better than Ye Yang in this regard.
Dongfang Ming got up, nodded and laughed. “I’m about to go back to the capital so I took a special trip here to come to say goodbye. Since I was coming here, I also brought the framed painting here.”
When Ye Mo heard him while he was moving the tomatoes, the corner of his mouth moved up slightly and he muttered in his heart, You should’ve gone back long ago. If you stayed any longer I bet your errands in the capital would pile up into a mountain!
“When will you be leaving? Just have your lunch here. It can be considered as your send-off party,” Ye Liu said. He looked at Ye Ling and said again, “Ling, make a few more nice dishes for lunch. We will have a farewell for Dongfang.”
He wasn’t surprised Dongfang Ming was leaving. After all, he had already stayed here for quite some time.
Going back to the capital was something that was definite and necessary!
Ye Ling nodded and replied, “I already finished preparing them. We can start eating once we finish moving the tomatoes. I added two meat dishes for lunch.”
In the morning, he and Liu Duo had asked Dongfang Ming to stay for lunch so he would naturally prepare dishes for his farewell.
It was only after some time passed again that lunch officially started.
“Dongfang, your painting technique is really just too awesome!” Ye Liu gave him a thumbs up in admiration.
