“Ling, I can fetch hot water for Little Duo. You can wait there with Mo. You’ve taken a bath so best not get sweaty again.” Ye Liu came forward and grabbed the other empty bucket from him.
Ye Ling nodded and walked over to where Ye Mo sat.
The sky had slowly darkened. Ye Liu took the buckets to the bathroom after fetching the hot water.
Liu Duo wanted to close the door to take her bath but Ye Liu would not move out of the way. He said, “Little Duo, I think I should still take a bath with you. It’s much more fun that way.”
“Fat chance!” Liu Duo rolled her eyes at him. She felt she might very soon become the master of eye-rolls.
How many times can one roll their eyes in one day?
“Since you haven’t bathed yet, why don’t you help Yang peel some garlic? You might learn something from him, like more work, less talk!”
And then she pushed him out and shut the door in his face.
Ye Liu bellowed as he leaned on the door, “Sure thing! I’ll listen to you and learn from Yang. Then you’ll have to reward me tomorrow by sharing a bath with me!”
“I’ll reward you with my fists! How about that, rogue?” Liu Duo’s resentment sounded out from inside.
Ye Liu chuckled and stopped teasing her. He turned around and went back to the kitchen to help peel the garlic.
Liu Duo heard the sounds of his footsteps trailing away before disrobing to take her bath.
Ye Ling found himself in the same room with Ye Mo. He said, “Mo, you can sleep with Duo Er tonight. I promise I won’t think about the incident. Don’t worry about me.”
“Ling, can you not be so sentimental? We don’t simply change what is already decided, alright?” Ye Mo fumbled with his hair, bearing a serious look on his face.
His youngest brother was perfect, but he had the tendency to nag.
“Oh.”
Ye Ling did not want to upset Mo, so he agreed not to talk about it again.
A few moments later, Ye Mo suddenly closed in on Ye Ling and, in whispers, offered a suggestion. “Ling, what do you think about you and I sleeping with our wife tonight?”
For one thing, he could keep an eye on Ye Ling; for another, he could still sleep with Liu Duo according to their arrangement! That was basically killing two birds with one stone!
Ye Ling’s eyes widened when he heard that. Did Mo suggest that the three of them sleep together?
Could his ears have deceived him?
Seeing him react like that, Ye Mo whispered some more, “Ling, we’re all Little Duo’s husbands. Even if Yang, Liu and us two sleep with her all at once, it’s still normal!”
Ah?
Ye Ling became even more surprised than before. What crazy things had he just heard?
Ye Mo had gotten him spooked.
Ye Ling gulped and whispered back, “Mo, this… this isn’t quite right, is it? Even though the four of us are her husbands, five people sleeping together is too… It just won’t do!”
Even if they might not do anything, it was just too embarrassing an image to think about!
So, would Duo Er sleep in the middle? While the four of them slept on both sides of her?
The more he refused to think about it, the more easily the image seeped into his brain. He could clearly see what was going on. And so, a blush came onto his handsome face. Even his ears went scarlet red.
He realized he was letting his imagination run wild, so he quickly changed the topic. “Mo, you’re going to town tomorrow, aren’t you? Can you buy some writing paper while you’re there? We’ve used them up quite quickly because we’ve been practicing a lot.”
“Sure, I’ll remember that,” Ye Mo nodded in acknowledgment.
Just when Ye Ling thought he had managed to turn the tables and therefore breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Ye Mo whisper to him again, “You’re right. It’s not very practical if all four of us and Duo Er go at it at once. The bed is only that big, but if it’s just the three of us, I think there’s some room to spare.”