Turning Antagonist to Protagonist: He is Both Soft and Fierce-Chapter 103 - 98: He Likes His Sister-in-law Calling Him Tingfan
Coming out of the kitchen, she saw an orange placed next to Song Qin. Her brow twitched, and she couldn’t help but swallow.
Seeing her come in, Song Qin lovingly offered the orange to her, "Qiao’er, have an orange, it was just given by Tingfan."
Lin Qiao: "..."
She wanted to say no, but couldn’t bear to let Song Qin have something sour, so she took it, "Thank you, Granny."
"You child, if you keep being polite to Granny, Granny will feel embarrassed," Song Qin pretended to be angry.
"Then I won’t be polite to Granny." 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
Lin Qiao had just sat down for a little while when Song Tingfan returned, panting, "Grandpa Fan wants one." He said, holding a rabbit in his hand, and quickly ran out again.
"Niu Niu is like a little ox," Song Qin said, amused.
Hearing them always calling Song Tingfan Niu Niu, Lin Qiao was curious, "Granny, why is Uncle called Niu Niu?"
Song Rong and Song Qin laughed, Song Qin set aside her needlework, "The year he was born, he was called Tuantuan. Later, when he grew up a little, could crawl and walk, in a blink, he would disappear. After searching several times, one day the whole family was sitting together eating, your Grandpa said let’s call Tuantuan Niu Niu, he was always so sturdy."
"At that time, Niu Niu could somewhat talk, he was happily clapping his little hands next to us, calling Niu Niu, Niu Niu, and that’s how the nickname changed."
"Uncle was really interesting as a child." Lin Qiao imagined a smaller version of Song Tingfan, surely adorable, and chuckled twice.
About a quarter of an hour later, Song Tingfan came back and handed her dozens of cents.
Lin Qiao took the money, smiled at him, "Thank you, Niu Niu."
The words "Niu Niu" coming out of sister-in-law’s mouth seemed a bit childish, not like a man at all.
Song Tingfan didn’t like his sister-in-law calling him Niu Niu, he preferred her to call him Tingfan, he said gloomily, "Sister-in-law, our teacher said we should use names."
Lin Qiao smiled and followed his words to change, "Alright, thank you Tingfan."
Instantly, the young man beamed with joy, sister-in-law calling him Tingfan sounded better than anyone else.
"I just saw Grandpa Zhou, he said try to prepare the winter supplies these days, there’s going to be heavy snow in a few days."
Lin Qiao thought for a bit, there shouldn’t be anything lacking at home, things for the New Year were almost ready, but she still needed to buy some rice, "Uncle, take a rest, after that, come with me to buy dozens of pounds of rice."
"I’m not tired, we can go now."
Song Tingfan rubbed his hands, suddenly remembered something, "Wait a minute."
After saying that, he rushed out of the hall, soon returned, and handed the gloves to Lin Qiao, "It’s cold outside, take these, sister-in-law."
"What about you?"
Lin Qiao saw that he took two pairs and only then accepted them to wear, all the rabbit fur at home was used to make gloves, Song Qin and Song Rong each had a pair.
She herself didn’t have any, the remaining scraps were used by her to make brushes, which she used for drawing.
The two took an umbrella and went out, thin snow had already accumulated by the roadside, Lin Qiao rarely saw natural snow, she caught a few flakes on her hand, which soon melted.
The side profile of the woman was very beautiful, her skin under the umbrella remained fair, her eyebrows and eyes were as exquisite as a painting, the color of her lips appeared pale due to the cold, with a hint of coolness amidst the beauty.
Song Tingfan unconsciously tightened his grip on the umbrella handle, when he saw her about to turn her head, he inexplicably panicked and quickly averted his gaze.
Noticing the umbrella askew, Lin Qiao instinctively reached to adjust it, unexpectedly touching warm fingers.
She looked sideways, their eyes met, she smiled gently, "Uncle, keep the umbrella straight, your shoulder is getting wet." As she spoke, she moved her hand upwards, avoiding his hand, and adjusted the umbrella properly.
With her smile, Song Tingfan’s heart pounded like a little deer running amok, he lowered his eyes, the beautiful face of the woman transformed into two pairs of feet on the ground.
Black mid-length boots, red and green embroidered shoes.
He suddenly felt a sense of contentment, it would be nice to walk with sister-in-law like this for a lifetime.
He would be very willing.
At the Fan Family, they bought fifty pounds of rice, spent four hundred cents, Mrs. Fan laughed and joked with them while packing the rice, "The rabbit was ’gifted’ to us."
Lin Qiao smiled, "We took advantage of Granny Wang."
Mrs. Fan burst into laughter, glanced at her, thinking that Madam Tingfan was becoming more and more amiable.
She generously added half a pound of rice for them, smiling, "Giving you an extra half pound, come buy again next time."
"Thank you, Granny Fan." Lin Qiao did not refuse.
People in the village get along by exchanging favors, sending some food later would be fine.
Seeing sister-in-law say thank you, Song Tingfan followed obediently, "Thank you, Granny Fan."
After Mrs. Fan finished weighing the rice, he tied up the bag with a rope, then easily carried it on his shoulder, without even a breath.
"Tingfan has quite the strength."
Mrs. Fan gave a look of admiration, "Good to have someone strong in the family, Madam Tingfan, in a couple of years, you’ll be enjoying good fortune, I can tell, Tingfan will do well in life!"
"Tingfan, when you succeed, don’t forget Granny Fan."
The more she saw the child from Song’s second family, the more she was satisfied, giving her granddaughter to him would certainly be a life of happiness.
Lin Qiao glanced at Song Tingfan, agreeing, "Yes, in two years, I’ll be enjoying fortunes."
Being praised, Song Tingfan felt a bit embarrassed, sheepishly touching the tip of his nose, responding to Mrs. Fan, "Won’t forget Granny Fan."
After exchanging a few more words, Lin Qiao and Song Tingfan headed off with an umbrella.
With Lin Qiao holding the umbrella, because Song Tingfan was taller, she strained a bit to hold it up, slightly standing on tiptoes.
Suddenly, an aggressive dog barking sounded, "Woof woof woof..."
The village’s nasty yellow dog appeared out of nowhere, Lin Qiao was startled, instinctively shielding Song Tingfan without thinking.
Even she herself didn’t notice her own instinct.
At the same time, she felt a tightness around her waist, instantly stepped back a few steps, followed by the young man’s fierce scolding, "Get lost, come closer and I’ll beat you to death!"
He lifted his fist as a threat.
The aggressive dog, sensing it wasn’t in its favor, turned and fled.
Song Tingfan, angry that it frightened sister-in-law, quickly picked a pebble from the ground to throw at the vicious dog.
He had hunted for years, his aim and strength were very accurate, the stone hit the dog’s backside, resulting in a series of "aww aww aww" dog yelps.
Once the aggressive dog was out of sight, he turned to look at Lin Qiao beside him, seeing her still looking panicked.
He quickly reassured, "Sister-in-law, don’t be afraid, I’ve chased it away."
Lin Qiao continued her act, taking the opportunity to portray "fragility."
She patted her chest, taking a breath, "Uncle, that scared me to death, lucky you were here, or I would’ve been bitten."
But she really was frightened, that vicious dog was truly nasty, it bit two kids from the village a few days ago.
In her opinion, such uncontrollable dogs shouldn’t be kept in the village, too dangerous.
If it had rabies, there would be no cure.
"Sister-in-law, don’t worry, it won’t bite you again." Song Tingfan glanced at the courtyard where the vicious dog had run into, pursing his lips.
