Black Market Boss: His Beloved Wife's Lazy Life

Sure enough, Gao Jianguo took out a thermometer which showed 37 degrees Celsius, indicating he did not have a fever.

"Alright, let the girl take off a few clothes! I'm going to find Old Man Chen." Old Master Zhang slowly walked out of Gao Jianguo's room.

Shang Yanfang took off her military overcoat and cotton-padded jacket, and then her face wasn't so red anymore.

"Sister, have some more food." Shang Guokang carried a bowl of porridge to his older sister.

Shang Yanfang looked at the bowl of porridge with great distress. She had just vomited up everything she had eaten, and now she felt a bit resistant to looking at the porridge.

"Honey, eat a little more! Just a little is fine. Or tell me what you want to eat and I'll make it," Gao Jianguo coaxed his wife.

Shang Yanfang nodded helplessly, opened her mouth, and ate a small mouthful of porridge.

"Ugh~" Shang Yanfang felt like vomiting as soon as she smelled the porridge.

"I don't want to eat it." Shang Yanfang looked at the bowl of porridge with great resistance.

"Then, honey, what would you like to eat?" Gao Jianguo was very worried when he saw that his wife couldn't eat.

"I have no appetite." Shang Yanfang really doesn't want to eat anything right now.

"Honey, I'll go make you a bowl of sour soup noodles. Wait a moment." Gao Jianguo remembered that Shang Yanfang liked sour and spicy food, so he thought he would make some for her to try.

"Sigh... Husband..." Before Shang Yanfang could stop Gao Jianguo, he had already disappeared from sight.

"Sis, I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have said you ate a lot." Shang Guokang looked at his sister with great remorse; he really shouldn't have said that.

They actually said her sister eats a lot. Isn't it good to eat a lot? It's much better than not being able to eat at all right now.

"No need to apologize, Xiaokang. This is a normal phenomenon during pregnancy," Shang Yanfang comforted Shang Guokang, whose head was drooping.

"Dinner's ready, Yanfang, have a taste." Just as Shang Guokang was blaming himself, Gao Jianguo quickly made a bowl of sour soup noodles and came in.

Shang Yanfang breathed a huge sigh of relief, finally no longer having to think about how to comfort Shang Guokang.

Gao Jianguo served a small bowl of sour soup noodles and a plate of spicy cabbage. He didn't make much because he wasn't sure if his wife could eat it.

Shang Yanfang looked at the noodles with green scallions floating on top and was very surprised. How could there be scallions in the middle of winter?

"Honey, why are there still scallions here?"

"Well, before, someone took vegetables to sell on the black market in winter, and I knew that they were vegetables grown indoors, so they had vegetables to eat in winter."

Gao Jianguo was very confident about the bowl of noodles in his hand. He had accidentally seen that the scallions he had planted in his grandfather's room were still alive. He had originally planned to take his wife over to see them, but instead, he put them in the rice first.

Looking at the small bowl of noodles and scallions, Shang Yanfang's appetite was instantly whetted. She picked up the bowl and took a bite.

Gao Jianguo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his wife could eat.

"Honey, do you have any chili peppers? I'd like something spicy." Shang Yanfang said, taking a bite and then picking up the spicy cabbage that was placed next to her.

"I'll get it for you." Gao Jianguo got up and went back to the kitchen, bringing over the leftover chili oil from making spicy strips that day.

Shang Yanfang scooped out a large spoonful and put it in, then ate it with satisfaction.

"This tastes so good, it would be perfect with cola too." Shang Yanfang couldn't help but mention her habit from her previous life.

"Wait a few more days before drinking Coke." Gao Jianguo looked at Shang Yanfang seriously. He now knew that drinking Coke was very bad for one's health, so he limited his wife's Coke consumption to twice a month.

"Hmph~" Shang Yanfang glared angrily at Gao Jianguo. All she wanted was a Coke, but this man was preventing her from having one.

"Sweetie, I'll make you a bowl of malted milk powder in a little while," Gao Jianguo coaxed, stroking the little girl's head.

Shang Yanfang ignored the old-fashioned man and continued eating.

"Make another bowl!" Gao Jianguo said, looking at the bowl that had only a few noodles left.

"No need, I'm full. I'll throw up again if I eat any more," Shang Yanfang said, rubbing her stomach.

This wasn't the first time Shang Guokang had witnessed his sister and brother-in-law's interactions, but he still felt a toothache. If he weren't worried about his sister not being able to eat, he would have definitely just left.

Now that her sister seems to be doing much better, she doesn't plan to stay here as a third wheel any longer.

"Okay, then you should rest for a while longer." Gao Jianguo thought that his wife had just vomited and should rest for a while now.

As a result, when he took the bowl back to the kitchen, Shang Yanfang lifted the blanket and went to Old Master Chen's room.

When Gao Jianguo came back after washing the dishes, he couldn't find his wife and assumed she had gone to the bathroom. However, after waiting and waiting in the house for a while without seeing her, he started looking for her.

When I saw the young woman eating roasted sweet potatoes in my grandfather's room, I finally felt relieved.

"When did you arrive? Why didn't you tell me?"

Shang Yanfang, engrossed in eating sweet potatoes, didn't notice Gao Jianguo's arrival at all. She only became slightly nervous when she heard his voice.

"Well, I was hungry and wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes, so I came here," Shang Yanfang said with an embarrassed smile.

"Jianguo, if you have nothing else to do, go and clean up the kang (heated brick bed) again. Don't go looking for trouble." Old Master Chen noticed the girl's nervousness and looked at Gao Jianguo with great displeasure.

Gao Jianguo was so angry that he laughed. He was just looking for trouble. But when he saw his wife's evasive look, he gave a soft reply and went to tidy up the bed.

"Girl, if that brat bullies you, just tell Grandpa, and Grandpa will take his cane and beat him up," Grandpa Chen said to Shang Yanfang after his grandson left.

Shang Yanfang felt a little guilty. It was her who had disobeyed first, so it was normal for Gao Jianguo to be a little angry. But her husband hadn't scolded her just now; it was purely because she felt guilty that she acted that way.

However, Shang Yanfang still liked this feeling of being favored. So she responded with an "Mmm~" to Old Master Chen's kindness.

The two old men continued playing chess, and Shang Yanfang did not go back to the house. Instead, she sat by the stove, warming herself by the fire while knitting a sweater.

After Gao Jianguo led Shang Guokang to heat and light the kang in their room, he invited the three of them into their room. Then he went to heat the kang in Old Master Chen's room.

After cleaning the kang (heated brick bed), both of them had black ash on their faces. "Brother-in-law, do I need to clean my kang?" Shang Guokang thought that since it would only get dirty once, he could just clean all the kangs.

“No need, yours is a newly built kang this year, it doesn’t need to be connected. But we need to connect the kang at Grandpa Chen’s house as well.” In previous years, Gao Jianguo connected the kangs of both houses by himself.

You can't expect an elderly person to tidy up the kang (heated brick bed).