Jiang Mengzhen looked at the wooden door that Hao Cheng had closed with great force. He subconsciously put the finger that had touched Hao Cheng before on his lips.
The other person's rosy lips were as warm and soft as he had imagined, but unfortunately, he had only placed his fingers on them.
When Hao Cheng pinned him down and questioned him just now, he also figured out some things that even he found incredible.
He put a lot of thought into chasing her to this place, not just out of a desire for revenge or a desire to be unwilling to accept the outcome.
If that were the case, he could completely use his own interests to capture Hao Cheng no matter where she fled to, and torture her to the point where she would rather die than live.
He chose the tortuous path, taking great pains and going through great lengths, just because he was moved.
Maybe it was because Hao Cheng saved him, maybe it was because of that bowl of heartwarming noodles, or maybe it was because of the time they spent together.
In short, heartbeat is heartbeat. For this heartbeat, even if they are thousands of miles apart, he can still think of her and worry about her.
This was the first time that Jiang Mengzhen had any romantic thoughts. Although he lived to be 28 years old, his first marriage was the product of his stepfather's planning.
This kind of emotion is beyond his control, and to him, it is rare and precious. To him, his emotions are not that passionate yet, but he may never be moved again in this life.
Naturally, he had to hold on tightly to the person he fell in love with for the first time, so as to avoid living a lonely life in the future.
Moreover, there was nothing he could not get. Since he wanted Hao Cheng, he would not let her go easily just because she refused.
Hao Cheng didn't know what Jiang Mengzhen was thinking. The moment she was shocked, her subconscious reaction was to rush out of the room.
Wang Yang in the yard saw her and asked loudly in a hurry, trotting over: "Master, what's wrong?"
"It's okay!" Hao Cheng said calmly, turned around and went into his room, quickly pulled the bolt and locked the door from the inside.
Wang Yang obviously didn't only care about her as the master. After she said she was fine, she went to knock on the door of the next room: "Mr. Meng, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." As Jiang Mengzhen's cold voice rang out, the yard became completely quiet.
Hao Cheng leaned his back against the door, trying to calm his heartbeat that was rising and falling from the intense running.
Those actions just now were clearly Jiang Mengzhen teasing her, or to put it more euphemistically, he was expressing his affection to her.
You have to know that women are respected here, and it is an ancient time with very strict feudal etiquette.
It has always been women who confess their love to men. How could a man from a decent family take the initiative to say something shameful like "I want you" to a woman
It would be fine if the other person was a young boy so tender that water could be squeezed out of him, after all, he is young and easily impulsive.
But Jiang Mengzhen was a man who was ten years older than her current body, and according to his own description, he was a married man, even though his wife was gone, which seemed strange.
Hao Cheng exhaled, trying to figure out Jiang Mengzhen's intention. She thought about it again and again, and felt that he must have said that because he was confused for a moment.
In this stalemate, she couldn't do anything. If she just said that she had no feelings for him, wouldn't it be embarrassing if Jiang Mengzhen said that she had misjudged the idea
She paced back and forth in the room, thinking over and over, and decided to treat Jiang Mengzhen coldly for the time being. If he was sensible, she would be tougher and make her attitude clear after the Tiankui period was over, even if it would be very hurtful at that time, but repeatedly giving people hope and being ambiguous with others was even more scumbag and irresponsible.
Hao Cheng was determined to stay away from Jiang Mengzhen, the "dangerous goods", but Jiang Mengzhen, who was at the door, picked up the bowl of warm rice dumplings made from fermented glutinous rice.
He only used a spoon to gently scoop a small spoonful, and took a sip of the sticky and transparent sweet soup. The fragrance of rice wine instantly filled his mouth. He held the white dumpling in his mouth and took a bite. It was extremely tough.
Although it was brought in by the maid, these rice dumplings were definitely made by Hao Cheng. Jiang Mengzhen's eyebrows slightly curved, and a faint smile appeared on the corners of his lips.
He didn't like eggs because he hated the faint fishy smell, but Hao Cheng always handled them very well. The egg custard was perfect, and the minced eggs in this bowl of glutinous rice balls were also smooth and tender without any fishy smell.
He had drunk glutinous rice balls in wine before and thought they tasted mediocre then, but now they tasted particularly delicious. Perhaps this feeling had something to do with the person who made it, but after drinking it, the sinking feeling in his lower abdomen was indeed relieved a lot.
Although he didn't like the bright red wolfberries in the snack that Hao Cheng made for him, Jiang Mengzhen still ate them all up, one by one. In the end, there was not even a drop of soup left in the huge celadon bowl.
He knew very well that this ordinary bowl of rice dumplings made with fermented glutinous rice would probably be the last snack made by Hao Cheng that he would taste in the near future.
As he expected, starting from the next day, Hao Cheng deliberately avoided him. She would finish her breakfast early in the morning, then go out to purchase goods. When she came back from setting up the stall, she might not come back early.
Even when she came back, she would eat and read in her room at mealtime, ignoring him completely.
Hao Cheng practices the three no principles of “no seeing, no hearing, no seeing” through his actions.
Jiang Mengzhen took the initiative to show his goodwill, but she remained silent, pretending to be deaf.
On the second day after Jiang Mengzhen's arrival, his abdominal pain was much relieved. But a bowl of rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice was still served in a blue and white porcelain bowl and sent to his room. However, after he took a sip, he immediately realized that the rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice were different from the day before.
In addition to the rice dumplings cooked in fermented rice, the other dishes in this mansion were also prepared by the servant whom he disliked, but Jiang Mengzhen couldn't deliberately joke about his own body.
For Hao Cheng now, his threats only deepened her dislike for him. She invited a cook from outside to cook for her, but she was worried that Hao Cheng would use this as an excuse to ask him to leave, so she forced herself to swallow the food that was too rough for him every day.
Although they were living under the same roof, Jiang Mengzhen felt that he was even further away from Hao Cheng than when they were separated before. If someone really wants to avoid you, then even if you are very close to each other, you will still feel that you are very far away from her.
Late autumn and the beginning of winter is a good time to gain weight, but because of his bad mood and poor appetite, Jiang Mengzhen's chin, which had worked so hard to make it rounder, quickly became thinner over the past few days.
In order to avoid major conflicts over appearance in the future, Jiang Mengzhen changes his makeup day by day, making his current gentle and harmless appearance more and more similar to the appearance he had when he was in the capital.
Hao Cheng and he were always around, and although she tried to avoid him, she could still see his changes. She could feel Jiang Mengzhen losing weight quickly, but then she thought, he didn't even take care of himself, so why should she care about him
Jiang Mengzhen was very thin, but his face became more and more beautiful. In just a few days, Hao Cheng was sometimes secretly frightened when she saw him. Fortunately, Jiang Mengzhen didn't like to go out, otherwise he would get into trouble because of his beauty. She was afraid that he would offend someone he shouldn't offend.
By then he would be able to get away with it unscathed, but if she was implicated, she would have to humbly ask him to pull her out.
Dong Xue looked at Hao Cheng's attitude and spoke coldly to Jiang Mengzhen. But he was concerned about Jiang Mengzhen's sharp words that day, so he had a bad attitude and didn't dare to be too presumptuous.
I just complained privately: "Look at him, he is a master. If he has the ability, he should live on his own. Why does he come to our master and accept my service?"
After complaining, he also mocked Wang Yang as usual: "You should behave yourself. You keep giving yourself to others and you don't care if they look down on you. To them, you are not even qualified to serve them."
Wang Yang remained silent and continued to work. Jiang Meng really didn't know what the two men were doing in private, and even if he knew, he wouldn't bother to care about it.
Hao Cheng ignored him at home, so he certainly couldn't be so cold to him outside. When his period was over, he changed his clothes, put on a cone hat to cover his face, and walked to Hao Cheng's stall.
Hao Cheng's stall is easy to find because it is in a good location in the market and can be easily spotted at a glance. Seeing Hao Cheng standing next to the stall, his face softened under the cone hat and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Just as he was about to walk over, a very dazzling scene came into his sight. Standing very close to Hao Cheng was a handsome young man with elegant clothes.
The other person was obviously familiar with Hao Cheng. Seeing that Hao Cheng was sweating all over, he took out a handkerchief and stood on tiptoe, trying to wipe the sweat from Hao Cheng's forehead.