great-warnovel Chapter 6 Sleeping Together Tonight? She snuggled into her older brother's arms like a kitten.
Chapter 6 Sleeping Together Tonight? She snuggled into her older brother's arms like a kitten.
Qin Mo's words were like pouring a ladle of cold water into a red-hot oil pan.
Even though we had just eaten a full meal, the temperature inside the room instantly dropped to freezing.
How do you sleep?
This is a critical problem.
The Qin family's dilapidated house, apart from the main room with a large communal heated bed that could sleep seven or eight people, had two other side rooms that were leaking air like sieves. Normally, the brothers would squeeze in and make do, since they were strong, had plenty of energy, and were resistant to the cold.
But now... there's a delicate little sister-in-law.
Su Wan looked at the large kang bed covered with a tattered straw mat, then at the seven men in the room who looked like iron towers, and swallowed hard, her throat dry.
If they slept together... wouldn't she be squeezed into a meat pie?
"Let's sleep in separate rooms."
The fourth brother, Qin Yue, fanned himself with a folding fan, his peach-blossom eyes slightly narrowed, and suggested with a half-smile, "Sister-in-law, sleep in this room, and we brothers will make do in the side room for the night."
"No!"
The eldest brother, Qin Lie, refused without hesitation, his face as black as the bottom of a pot. "The wind and snow are so heavy outside, and the side room doesn't even have a window."
We're tough enough to survive the cold, but what about Old Seven? He just came back from the brink of death; he can't stand the slightest breeze!
As he spoke, his gaze swept over Su Wan's pale face, his Adam's apple bobbed, and he added in a hard voice, "And... with her constitution, she'd get hard if you left her in that room for one night."
The entire room fell silent.
Yes, there weren't any extra blankets at home, just two thin, paper-thin cotton quilts.
"So...we'll all sleep here?" The third brother, Qin Meng, scratched his head, his face as red as a monkey's bottom, his eyes darting around. "This...this isn't the rule, is it?"
"Is survival more important, or are the rules more important?"
Qin Lie made the final decision with a cold face, and his patriarchal aura instantly suppressed all objections.
"We'll all sleep on the kang (heated brick bed) tonight! It'll be warm and cozy if we squeeze
He strode to the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) and began assigning positions like arranging troops in battle:
"My sister-in-law sleeps at the very back, against the wall, where there's no draft."
"The seventh brother sleeps next to his sister-in-law. He is in poor health and needs someone to take care of him."
"I slept next to the seventh brother to block the wind."
"The third brother sleeps next to me, then the fourth, fifth, sixth, second, and so on!"
This arrangement seems to be selfless.
Keep all the "dangerous elements" out and protect the two weakest ones inside.
Su Wan breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness, the sickly but handsome seventh brother is right next to me, which is safer than the third brother who sleeps next to me looking like a black bear.
……
The oil lamp was extinguished.
The room was plunged into complete darkness.
Outside the window, the wind howled fiercely, like the wailing of ghosts and wolves. Inside, however, the atmosphere was eerily suffocating.
Su Wan huddled in the innermost corner, covered with the only relatively clean thin blanket (which Qin Lie had specially left for her).
Although the kang (heated brick bed) was heated, the chill that seeped into your bones was still unstoppable.
Qin An, the seventh son, lay beside her.
The boy slept peacefully, his body carrying a faint scent of herbs.
Further out... there are rows of "human walls of fire" radiating astonishing heat.
The seven grown men were crammed together, their masculine scent so strong it was almost overwhelming, a mixture of sweat, soap, and an indescribable, sultry heat that seemed to seep into Su Wan's nostrils.
Can't sleep at all.
Not only could she not sleep, but the men lying outside were also staring wide-eyed at the dark ceiling, their bodies stiff as corpses.
It's too quiet.
It was so quiet that they could hear each other's heartbeats.
Especially Qin Lie.
Although he was separated by the seventh brother, his keen hearing allowed him to clearly hear the long, drawn-out breathing of a woman coming from the innermost part of the room.
The voice was so soft and gentle, like a feather tickling the tip of his heart.
Moreover... that faint milky scent, carried by the steam, was practically killing him!
"cold……"
In a daze, Su Wan murmured something.
In the Northwest after nightfall, the temperature plummeted to below minus ten degrees Celsius.
That meager warmth from the kang (heated brick bed) was hardly enough to be of any use.
Su Wan instinctively began to look for a heat source.
Although the seventh child beside her was covered with a blanket, his body was inherently weak and cold, like a block of cool jade. Su Wan rubbed against him, frowned in disgust, rolled over, and continued to roll out.
Beyond the seventh brother, there's a huge heat source ahead!
It's like a giant, red-hot furnace!
In her sleep, Su Wan hummed comfortably and rolled over with a "glug" like a cat that was afraid of the cold.
Qin Lie, who was counting sheep to hypnotize himself, suddenly felt a heaviness in his chest.
A soft, fragrant body suddenly crashed into his arms.
Su Wan buried her face directly in his hard chest muscles, rubbed against them, and seemed to find this "pillow" hard and warm enough. She smacked her lips in satisfaction, and one hand subconsciously wrapped around his strong waist.
boom--!
Qin Lie's entire body tensed up to its limit in an instant!
The veins on his forehead throbbed, and his deep eyes suddenly widened in the darkness, shining with a frightening brightness.
This woman...
Do you even know what you're doing?!
She's playing with fire!
He wanted to push her away.
But as soon as he reached out, he touched her icy body temperature through her thin clothes.
So small, so soft.
If I push her away, she'll probably cry from the cold.
Qin Lie gritted his teeth, his cheeks almost breaking.
Finally, the large, calloused hand remained frozen in mid-air for a long time, only clumsily tucking the blanket around her, and then... pressed her deeper into his embrace.
"Troublemaker."
He cursed inwardly, but the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up in a wild smile.
See? This woman can't live without him. Even when she's asleep, she knows to lean on the strongest man!
At this time, Qin Lie was not the only one suffering.
Because the kang (heated brick bed) was too crowded, everyone slept on their sides.
As Su Wan rolled over, her upper body nestled into the eldest brother's arms, but her long legs, being too long, had nowhere to go and ended up casually draped over the third brother Qin Meng's stomach!
"Hmm!"
From the darkness came a muffled groan from the third brother.
That little foot...
Even through the socks, the slight pressure was more stimulating to the innocent black bear than being stabbed twice!
Qin Meng's eyes widened, and he didn't dare to breathe.
Sister-in-law... Sister-in-law's leg... is on me?
Is that my sister-in-law's leg? That's his life!
He dared not move, for fear that any movement would scare away that precious little foot.
She could only stiffly stick out her belly, treating herself like a human footstool, while desperately suppressing her thunderous heartbeat.
*Thump, thump, thump!*
*Thump, thump, thump!*
The entire kang (heated brick bed) was filled with the sounds of heavy breathing and rapid heartbeats.
Hearing the commotion, the second brother pushed up his glasses and gave a bitter smile in the darkness.
The fourth brother waved a non-existent fan, his heart bubbling with bitterness.
The twins, listening to their older brothers' commotion, bit their blankets with envy.
This night was both hellish torture and heavenly enjoyment for the seven Qin brothers.
The culprit behind all this, Su Wan, was sleeping soundly, hugging that human-shaped heater.
[Beep! Beep! Beep!]
[A sustained high-frequency heartbeat resonance has been detected!]
[Heartbeat source: Qin Lie (180), Qin Meng (190), Qin Yue (150)... Everyone is in a state of high excitement!]
[Congratulations, host! Your Heartbeat Farm has received a huge amount of energy for irrigation!]
[Black soil quality upgraded! Fertile red soil!]
[Unlock new privileges: Off-season vegetable growing area (vegetables can be grown regardless of climate)!]
[Rewards: 1 bag of bok choy seeds! 1 bag of large carrot seeds!]
……
The next morning.
The first ray of sunlight shone through the torn window paper.
Su Wan stretched and groggily opened her eyes.
I slept so well, all warm and cozy.
"woke up?"
A hoarse voice, as if it had a mouthful of sand, came from above.
Su Wan was taken aback and looked up.
He was facing Qin Lie's eyes, which were bloodshot and had dark circles under them.
His eyes held a resentment mixed with barely suppressed anger, as if he had been brutally abused all night without being paid.
Su Wan then realized that she was clinging to the other person like an octopus.
He had his arm around the person's waist, but his legs...wait, where are his legs?
She moved her legs and found that her feet were being held in someone's arms like a precious treasure.
Look down—
The third brother, Qin Meng, with huge dark circles under his eyes, carefully held her feet in his hands. Seeing that she was awake, he grinned憨憨地, revealing a set of big white teeth:
"Hehe, sister-in-law's awake? I'm not tired, not at all, I can rest a little longer!"
Su Wan: "..."
At this extremely awkward and embarrassing moment, the fifth and sixth brothers suddenly screamed in terror from inside the courtyard:
"Big brother! Second brother! Come quick! Grass is growing on the snow in our yard...!"