After helping Grandma Li, who had drunk too much and fallen asleep, onto the kang bed to rest, Li Xiu glanced at his wife. She'd also had a little too much to drink, and he couldn't help but smile. 'This much wine won't be enough to make her pass out.' He deftly cleared the dinner table, then gently scooped up Zhou Lian and carried her to the bed in the bedroom off the main hall. A stove had been lit in there ahead of time, so the room wasn't very cold.
He checked the doors and windows, then carried Nuonuo over to the large bed as well. With his wife and daughter in his arms, Li Xiu felt no desire to sleep. His mind drifted to all sorts of things. The large bed in the room had been custom-built this year; their original rosewood wedding bed had already been moved to their home in the Capital City. He had commissioned this current set of furniture from a carpenter before leaving, and once it was finished, Li Bao and Ge Yulian had moved it in and set it up for them.
