"Hey, Yuanbao, why did your young master send earthworms, there are so many, hey, I feel goosebumps coming out..." Basket looked at the earthworms in the small wooden bucket, feeling a little numb on his scalp, and quickly took a step back.
Fang Xin also glanced at it and looked away.
This earthworm may not feel anything just by looking at it, but when these small half buckets are piled up together, looking at the earthworms that are constantly churning inside, they feel a little terrifying.
Yuan Bao saw the expressions of the two of them, scratched his head, and glanced at the wooden barrel himself, thinking it was nothing, he replied, "Mr. Xin, my young master just wants you to dig earthworms less hard, so he will do it himself. I went to dig it for the goslings to eat. I dug for a long time. Don't you like it?"
Hearing this, Fang Xin felt a little warm in his heart, but this matter really made people laugh or cry, he replied, "Thank you then. It's just that the goose cubs can't eat so much."
Yuanbao scratched his head and said, "Then let's eat slowly, put some water and soil in the bucket, and you should be able to live for a long time."
Fang Xin nodded and replied, "Okay, it's hard work for you. Just let your young master not have to dig hard next time, and let him study with peace of mind."
Yuanbao nodded with a smile, and said, "Okay, Young Master Xin, have you replied to me and brought it to the young master?"
Fang Xin thought for a while, and touched his left sleeve with his right hand. There was a picture he had drawn in it, but he still pursed his lips, shook his head gently, and said, "Not today."
"Master Xin, Yuanbao will go back first." Seeing that there was no reply, Yuanbao left.
When Yuanbao left, Basket asked, "Young Master, didn't you prepare a reply, why didn't you give it?"
"Now, it's not the time." Fang Xin shook her head and said, "Take this earthworm to the gardener, Uncle Lu, and ask him to help deal with it."
Luo Mingda made no secret of his intentions, but he was used to it, and whether it was worth his whole life to be entrusted to him still had to be observed.
"Don't you keep it for the goslings?" Basket asked, frowning at the wooden barrel.
"I can't eat so much, I look dizzy."
"Okay, I also think it looks scary, and I don't know what Master Luo thinks." After speaking, the basket covered the lid of the small wooden barrel, and then took it to the gardener.
Fang Xin returned to the room, took out the envelope in his sleeve pocket, and put him in a small wooden box.
In the blink of an eye, it is May, and after the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is getting hotter day by day.
The original goose cub has grown into a vigorous big white goose, pecking everywhere with vigor and arrogance all day long, looking like an invincible general every day.
Fang Xin kept them in captivity in the backyard, and dug a small pond for them. The grass on the edge was not removed, so they grew into the water, so that the geese could swim and peck at the grass.
Luo Mingda looked itchy, wanted to see the big white goose, and even more wanted to see Brother Xin. Since he saw Brother Xin in Chaoxia Mountain at the end of January, he hadn't seen him again. But the fear passed again, and Brother Xin didn't see him again.
In the past few months, Luo Mingda has been insisting on painting for Brother Xin, and he receives at least three replies from Brother Xin every month, and they still keep in touch from time to time. But Luo Mingda didn't figure out what he thought about Brother Xin, whether he liked him or not.
Because every time Xin Ge'er replied to the letter, he painted goose cubs, from the little goose cub to the big white goose. Although I haven't seen it, Luo Mingda has witnessed the growth of the big white goose with his own eyes.
"Yuanbao, do you think I shouldn't have sent goose cubs to Brother Xin at the beginning? Brother Xin didn't paint his own life at all, and he didn't ask me how I was doing." Luo Mingda was a little disappointed and began to reflect.
Yuanbao comforted: "Master, if you didn't send the goose cubs, maybe Mr. Xin didn't even draw the goose cubs for you?" Yuanbao can be regarded as witnessing his young master's hard work in chasing people, it is very hard.
"...That's true. Oh, when will Brother Xin be able to paint himself? I haven't seen him for a long time, I really want to see him... " Luo Mingda lay on the table and said weakly.
Yuanbao leaned over, fanned his young master, and said, "Hey, young master, I just heard that the master went to ask our husband for leave, saying that he has something to do tomorrow but he can't come to the mansion."
"Oh, did he say something?" Lominda asked casually.
"I'm listening, it seems that there is something wrong with his family." Yuanbao replied.
"Oh, that's it." Luo Mingda looked uninterested.
Seeing that his young master had no reaction, Yuanbao asked, "Hey, young master, you want to see Young Master Xin so much, why don't you just go to his house to find him?"
"Go to see him?" Lominda sat up straight.
"Yeah, it's not far anyway, it'll be there in a quarter of an hour by carriage."
Lominda hesitated, "... I'm afraid he won't see me."
Yuanbao thought for a while and said, "Just say, say, go to see the goose cubs! The goose cubs are all grown up, and you haven't seen them yet."
Hearing this, Luo Mingda's eyes lit up, and he high-fives happily: "Yeah, I'm going to see the goose cubs, and the goose cubs are sent by me. This is a good reason! Hahaha, Yuanbao, well done, we will go to see the goose tomorrow. Cub! By the way, I will write a greeting, and you will send it to me later."
"Okay, young master!"
The next day, Luo Mingda got up early, ate breakfast, packed herself handsomely and set off with ingots and gifts.
When they arrived at Fangfu, because they had sent a post yesterday, the concierge took them directly to the main hall.
In the main hall, Mr. Fang was explaining the housekeeper's affairs. When he saw Luo Mingda coming, he wentssip with him for a while. Knowing his purpose, Mr. Fang asked the basket to take him there.
The basket took the two to the place where the goose cubs were raised in the backyard, where Brother Xin was feeding the two big white geese with leaves.
When Luo Mingda saw Brother Xin, he couldn't take his eyes off the ground. After not seeing him for a few months, Brother Xin took off his heavy winter clothes and put on refreshing summer clothes, which made him look more refreshing and beautiful, like a lotus flower that was about to bloom. Although he is now holding green leaves in his hand, it does not detract from his charm in the slightest.
"Are you here?" Fang Xin saw the two of them and turned to greet them.
Luo Mingda saw God, until Yuanbao bumped his arm next to him and reminded him in a low voice, then he regained his senses and said with a smirk: "Brother Xin, long time no see."
Seeing him like that, Fang Xin pursed her lips and smiled, then said, "Well, the goose cub you want to see is here, come and see."
I don't want to see goose cubs, I want to see you!
"...Oh, good." Luo Mingda blinked, approached, and glanced meaningfully at the two big white geese in the circle.
Seeing this, I was startled.
"Oh, why are they so big!" Luo Mingda was stunned for a moment. The two big white geese were much bigger than he thought. When he looked up, they could reach his thighs!
"Gah—" Hearing his voice, a big white goose raised its head and called, and the call was loud and powerful.
Fang Xin glanced at him, smiled, handed over a vegetable leaf, and asked, "Would you like to feed it?"
"Okay." Of course the vegetable leaves that Brother Xin gave him should be fed.
Luo Mingda took the vegetable leaves and stretched them forward for the big white goose to eat.
"Just drop it on the ground..."
"Ah—" Brother Xin didn't say anything, Luo Mingda was startled by the action of the big white goose, took a step back, and shrank his hands and looked at the big white goose in horror.
Almost got pecked! The force of the peck was so great that all the leaves were pecked off!
Brother Xin burst into laughter and said, "Just drop it on the ground, it hurts when they peck."
Luo Mingda looked at Brother Xin with wide eyes and asked, "Brother Xin, have you been pecked by them?"
Fang Xin shook her head and said, "No, the baskets have been pecked. When they were young, they had a lot of strength when they pecked the leaves. Later, we didn't dare to feed them directly."
"Oh, that's good, that's good." Luo Mingda was relieved when she heard that Brother Xin hadn't been pecked.
Fang Xin heard the words and glanced sideways at Luo Mingda. Seeing that he was looking straight at her, she hurriedly turned her head and continued to feed the big white goose.
When Luo Mingda saw it, her heart tickled with joy.
I always feel that after seeing Brother Xin today, the two seem to have become familiar with each other a lot. Brother Xin chatted with him and said a lot.
"Are you still feeding?" Fang Xin felt that Luo Mingda was looking at him all the time. His gaze was so hot that his ears felt warm. In order to divert Luo Mingda's attention, he asked.
"Hello." Luo Mingda came back to his senses, took the vegetable leaf from Brother Xin's hand with a smile, and accidentally touched his finger with Brother Xin's finger.
"Then eat well." Fang Xin withdrew her hand and held it with the other hand, without looking at him and pursing her lips.
"Okay." Seeing that Brother Xin seemed a little embarrassed, Luo Mingda quickly retracted his gaze and threw the vegetable leaf in his hand towards the big white goose. He was afraid of making Brother Xin anxious, and then he would ignore him again. What should he do
After feeding for a while, the two of them finished feeding all the vegetables in the basket, and stood aside watching the big white goose eat.
"Brother Xin, you raised them so well, they are so fat." Luo Mingda looked at the two geese. The goose crowns on their foreheads were bright, their necks were long, their bodies were strong, and their feathers were tight and shiny. They were really good looking.
Fang Xin glanced at him and replied, "This is not for you."
Luo Mingda was stunned for a moment, then anxious, and quickly said: "Hey, Brother Xin, I don't want to eat them, really, although I like to eat goose meat, but these two are just the ones you raised with hard work, I have never eaten them. I thought about eating them, I just want you to keep them for fun, you have to believe me..."
Seeing that he was really anxious, Fang Xin burst out laughing and said, "Okay, I'm joking with you."
"Oh, you're joking, hehe..." Luo Mingda scratched the back of his head, looked at Brother Xin's smile, stayed for a while, then turned around and asked, "Brother Xin, are they male or female? ah?"
"..." Fang Xin blinked and said, "Didn't you buy them? I don't know if they are male or female?"
Luo Mingda shook his head and said, "I didn't ask, so I asked the farmer to pick two stronger ones."
"..." Fang Xin heard the words, chuckled lightly, then pointed at the two big white geese and said, "This is only male, that is only female."
Luo Mingda saw that the two looked exactly the same, except that one was bigger and the other was smaller, and asked curiously, "How to tell the difference?"
"..." Fang Xin thought that the uncle of his gardener put his finger directly into the anus of the two geese to check the male and female, his face suddenly turned red, and said, "My gardener said that this one is bigger. The one is male, the smaller one is female."
"Oh, that's it..." Luo Mingda looked at it, still didn't quite understand how to tell the difference. Just as he was about to ask again, Brother Xin spoke again.
"Aren't you studying all the time recently? It's been a while since Qiu Wei, so why do you have time to see the goose cubs?"
When Luo Mingda heard the words, she felt that Brother Xin was just caring about him, and when she was happy, she said it in her heart: "Today, the master has asked for leave. I, I want to come to see you, so I came."
"...Didn't you come to see the goose cubs?"
Luo Mingda: "...I want to see you when I see goose cubs."
Brother Xin knew that was the case. He looked at Luo Mingda quietly for a while, and then said, "Master Luo, Qiu Wei is only three months old. You should prepare carefully."
What Luo Mingda is most afraid of is that Brother Xin looks at him so quietly, as if everything in his heart is hidden in front of Brother Xin. He felt guilty for a while, lowered his head and said, "...I know, I will prepare well."
Brother Xin sighed in his heart. Seeing his cowardly appearance, his tone subconsciously softened, and he said, "Now, the goose cub has also seen it, and the people... have seen it, so let's go back."
Luo Mingda was obviously reluctant to go back at this time. He just saw him for a while, but seeing Brother Xin's appearance and thinking of his goal, he could only nod his head and answer: "Okay. Then, Brother Xin, I, I gone back?"
Brother Xin nodded and said, "Go back and prepare for the exam."
Luo Mingda reluctantly walked away.
When Luo Mingda left, Basket asked, "Young Master, it's not easy for Master Luo to come here. It's only been a while, and he obviously doesn't want to leave. Why did you drive him away?"
Fang Xin looked at the two big white geese and replied softly, "So what if he doesn't want to, now he should concentrate on preparing for the autumn exam. I didn't want to agree to let him come yesterday."
"Then why did you agree again?"
Fang Xin was silent for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's nothing. Let's go, I haven't finished the summer clothes for my younger brother."
Three months passed in a blink of an eye, and soon the day of autumn came.
In order to encourage Luo Mingda to take the exam, Fang Xin also specially wrote a letter to him. It was not a portrait, but eight words: calm and calm, and focus on nothing else.
Luo Mingda was very excited when he saw it, and Brother Xin was cheering him on.
He entered the Gongyuan with high fighting spirit, and then... came out disheartened.
After he came out, he knew that he would definitely not be able to win Juren, and he still had this self-knowledge.
Now, he really regrets that he didn't study hard a few years ago, but it's too late to regret it. Brother Xin is going to get married next year, and he will definitely not choose someone who can't even pass the township test.
Desperate to think about it.
He was bored at home all day, and he couldn't even draw the paintings for Brother Xin every three days. He didn't have the confidence to paint, and he didn't have the confidence to send the paintings out.
Chu Rong and the others came to invite him to drink, but he was not in the mood to go. He just stayed at home every day, staring at the reply letter from Brother Xin to him before.
When the list was released a month later, he didn't even go to see the results. When Yuanbao came back after reading the results, he really missed it.
Chu Rong heard the news, and invited him to drink again, "You said before that you want to prepare for the exam, the brothers understand you and don't bother you, now that the exam is over, if you don't go out and have fun, you have to succeed. Here comes the monk! Come on, don't pretend to be dead, you are still young, and you can take the test next time."
Luo Mingda shook his head and said weakly: "There is no next time. Brother Xin will marry next year."
Chu Rong patted him on the head and said: "Hey, just a little brother, are you a villain? There are so many good-looking brothers in the world, and Fang Xin is not the only one, don't be stubborn!"
Luo Mingda raised her head, looked at Chu Rong with red eyes, and said, "But there is only one brother Xin in the world!"
"..." Chu Rong looked at him like this, and was really fascinated by Fang Xin, and immediately scolded with a smile: "Xing Xing Xing, only one Xin brother! You frowning, go and drink with your brothers, Relax."
"I'm not going, I'm going to sleep." Lominda muttered, lying on the table.
"What do you sleep for? You've been sleeping for a month! Walk around, we found a good place, brother will take you to have fun."
"I don't want to go..."
"Walk!"
With that said, Chu Rong pulled the person out of the door.
Just as he was about to get into the carriage, Yuanbao suddenly called out, "Basket? Why are you here?"
Luo Mingda turned to look over, Fang Xin's servant basket was standing aside watching them.
Basket looked at Luo Mingda and replied, "I'm here to deliver a letter to my son. Master Luo, are you going out... to play?"
Hearing that Brother Xin had a letter for him, Luo Mingda immediately ran over and said, "No, no, I just came out to send it to Master Chu. Where's the letter? Give it to me."
Basket gave him a hesitant look, then handed the letter over.
Luo Mingda hurriedly opened the letter, looked at it, and was stunned. After a while, he hurriedly said to Yuan Bao: "Yuanbao, hurry up, prepare the carriage, let's go to Brother Xin."
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Yuanbao asked quickly when he saw his young master's anxious look.
"Oh, hurry up and hurry up!" Luo Mingda hurriedly pushed Yuanbao, then turned around and said to Chu Rong: "Brother Chu, I'm sorry, there's something wrong with Brother Xin, I want to go and see Look, let's go play."
"What's the matter in such a hurry?" Chu Rong was very dissatisfied.
"Just... something. You go quickly, don't let them wait." Luo Mingda said, pushed Chu Rong onto the carriage, and then sent the people away.
Then, he asked the basket again: "Basket, how is Brother Xin? Are you sad? How come the big white goose is gone?"