Jiang Wu's expression was helpless, but there was a smile in his eyes: "Okay, I can't hear what you said, but I don't need half of it. After all, this is a business you got, so I'll help out with the strength to run a leg or something. Twenty-eight, you eight and me two."
"How can it be done on 28? Your car will definitely be used at that time. Your Daqing mule is not considered labor? Daqing, look, Jiang Wu said that you are not considered labor, and even your rations will be deducted."
The mule named Daqing shook his head and snorted, which seemed to mean that if he dared to deduct my rations, I would slack off and let him carry it himself.
Zhao'er laughed out loud, pointed at Daqing and said, "Look, even Daqing protested."
Jiang Wu turned his head to look at the girl who smiled wantonly, with a strange light flashing in his eyes. Fortunately, Daqing is also docile when he recognizes the road, otherwise he would have taken all three people in a car into the ditch beside the road.
Xue Tingxiang, who was behind, saw this scene, and his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
He was annoyed and suffocated in his heart, and he forgot about Jiang Wu.
In that dream, Jiang Wu had been coveting Zhao'er.
Jiang Wu was two years older than Zhao'er, but he never married. If it wasn't for Zhao'er being his child bride, it is estimated that the Jiang family would have come to propose marriage.
Even so, Jiang Wu has never given up, and once even found him in front of him and told him that he wanted to marry Zhao'er, so that he would not be so selfish and let Zhao'er free. He also said that he would study with Zhao'er and treat him as his own younger brother, so he knew about it.
He was shocked and annoyed. At the same time, he remembered that Zhao'er had always been reluctant to marry him. He mistakenly thought that Zhao'er had an affair with Jiang Wu, so he forced her to marry her at the orders of his parents. Later, it was an accidental opportunity. Only then did he realize that he was blaming her wrong.
This incident has always been a scar between the two, even if it was never mentioned again, there was a separation. After that, he was busy with his career, while Zhao'er was busy with his business. The two only met once for a long time, and even if they met, they seldom spoke again until he went to Beijing to take the exam after the middle school entrance examination.
The one in the dream had thought after Zhao'er's death that if he wasn't so despicable back then and forced to ask for it by his parents' orders, Zhao'er would not have died.
But this kind of thought is like a swipe of water, and it just passed by in a flash. At this time, he is probably despicable in his bones. Even if he is not the Xue Tingxiang in his dream, he never thought of letting go.
She was supposed to be his, and when he still seemed to understand, someone would always point at her and say, this is his future daughter-in-law, isn't it
"Brother Jiang Wu, you should look at the road. This road is not smooth. Don't bring us all into the ditch."
Xue Tingxiang's voice successfully interrupted Jiang Wu and Zhao'er's laughter, as if a very ignorant person suddenly appeared, which made the warm atmosphere suddenly cool down.
Zhao'er laughed dryly: "Look at me, I just talked to you about the business, but I forgot that you were still driving the car. Fortunately, Daqing is smart, otherwise the designated person will fall."
Daqing cried out, looking very satisfied.
Jiang Wu looked back subconsciously, just in time to meet the dark eyes of the young man. These eyes made him feel a little guilty for some reason, and he immediately became more confident.
He knew that the Gouzi of the Xue family didn't like recruiting children, and he also knew that the second family of the Xue family had recruited children as their daughters at first, not a child bride. The child bride was only passed from person to person in the village, and together with the death care of the Xue family's second room and the couple, it became true.
Not only that, he also knew that Zhao'er was just treating the other party as his younger brother, and had no intention of marrying the other party.
The young man is undoubtedly thin, although handsome, there is still a bit of immaturity on his face. Such a young man gave the strong and powerful Jiang Wu an inexplicable sense of condescension. He smiled heartily and said indifferently, "Don't be afraid, dog, you Jiang Wu-ge drives the car every day, and you can walk back with your eyes closed."
Xue Tingxiang did not speak, but lowered his head with pursed lips.
Seeing this, Zhao'er immediately understood whether it was the name of the dog that made the little man feel uncomfortable again. But facing Jiang Wu, she couldn't show a cold face, she could only laugh and say: "Brother Jiang Wu, I told you that the dog has a name. It's called Tingyan, Xue Tingyan."
"It's an elegant name."
"Yeah, so don't call it Gouzi Gouzi in the future, it's weird."
While talking, the car had arrived at Yuqing Village.
Jiang Wu habitually circled to the end of the village before stopping, and Zhao'er and Xue Tingxiang got out of the car.
"When will the business be done? You tell me the time, and I'll pick you up when the time comes."
"Aren't you going to work in the town tomorrow, and you have to pack up those clothes. When I'm ready here, I'll go to your house to give you a letter."
Zhao'er also thought that in two days it would be the day when Xue Tingxiang and Xue Juncai competed.
"Row."
Now that things are settled, they say goodbye to each other.
Jiang Wu drove the car home, while Zhao Er went home with Xue Tingxiang.
Along the way, Xue Tingxiang didn't speak, just walked silently.
Zhao'er glanced at him: "What's the matter? It seems a little unhappy. Did Brother Jiang Wu call you angry just now? He also doesn't know you are famous. I told him that he will never do it again in the future. That's what it's called."
He suppressed the jealousy in his heart, and said in a muffled voice, "How come you know him so well?"
"You said, Brother Jiang Wu, we didn't know each other since we were young. You forgot that Heizi was brought back by his dog. Brother Jiang Wu is very nice and helped me a lot."
Xue Tingxiang didn't speak and stopped.
Zhao'er walked forward for a while, only to realize that he didn't keep up.
She came back in a few steps and asked in confusion, "What's wrong with you, why are you so weird?"
He held his breath: "Don't forget, you are a man with a man."
Zhao'er was stunned for a moment, then looked at him and smiled. But he just laughed and didn't speak, and that appearance made Xue Tingxiang angry and annoyed.
Don't think about it, she definitely didn't think anything good.
Seeing that his pale face was flushed with anger, Zhao'er hurriedly said: "Okay, don't be angry, I know that I have a man."
There was a sense of teasing in her voice, knowing that she was coaxing him, but his heart still jumped several times.
With the experience in the dream, Xue Tingyan knew that this was not the time to be awkward. Besides, there was Jiang Wuhu who was staring at him next to him. He didn't want to repeat the experience in the dream again.
He couldn't help but reiterated: "I'm doing it for your own good too, so as not to be seen by the villagers and make irresponsible remarks." He didn't dare to look at her, but stared at the ground beside him, confidently taking a few words. Distracted.
Seeing him explain himself like an adult, with a fair face, and a slightly childish face, I don't know how to do it and want to rub his head.
She did the same, and said at the same time: "Okay, you are right, I will listen to you."
He suddenly became more angry, and there was a sense of powerlessness and discouragement in his heart.
Why does she always treat herself as a child!
Early the next morning, Zhao'er and Xue Tingxiang went out.
When Dongliju had just opened the door, Xue Tingxiang went to the clean room yesterday to continue copying books, but Zhaoer went to the yard behind the shop.
She discussed with Boss Chen and borrowed this place to pack her clothes. Zhao'er had seen those clothes before, and they were all old clothes. Since she wanted to make money, things didn't look good, so she came here today mainly to do this job.
She borrowed the bamboo mat used for drying books in the shop, and poured out the big bag of clothes. She first classified them according to men's and women's styles, and then divided them into several piles according to their texture and thickness, and then began to check whether the clothes were torn one by one. The place.
If there was any hole, she sewed it up with the needle and thread she brought. Zhao'er's needlework is not bad, but she can't do embroidery or anything, and it's no problem to sew and mend clothes.
She finally cleaned up a pile, and seeing that the sun was just right outside, she went to the well in the courtyard to fetch water. There is a reel on the well, and it is very convenient to fetch water. Zhao'er fetched a basin of water, soaked the clothes in a large wooden basin, and washed it with soapy water.
After washing and rinsing, the rice soup in the kitchen is ready.
Although Boss Chen and the others didn't cook in the shop, they always needed a place to boil water to make tea or something, so the shop also opened fire, and Zhao'er borrowed the stove to cook a large pot of rice soup.
She brought out the boiled rice soup, poured it into a wooden basin, and added some water to it, it was best to be slightly hot. Fang poured all the washed clothes into it and kept stirring with a stick.
After stirring well, put half a cup of tea time, pick up the clothes from the wooden tub, and rinse again with water.
This is called starched clothes, and starched clothes stick to a straight line and look like new as long as they don't fade. Some people who are very particular will iron it with an iron, but because they don't have that condition, Zhao'er doesn't plan to do this.
During this period, Boss Chen came in. Seeing that Zhao'er was so busy, he pointed at the clothes that had been drying in the yard and said with a smile: "It's good for you, treat me as your own place. It used to be an elegant place. You've made it look like a pulp-washing room."
Nowadays, there is such a place as a pulp washing room. Some people do not want to wash their clothes at home, so they will send their clothes to the pulp washing room to be washed. Inexpensive and saves time and effort.
Knowing that Boss Chen was joking with himself, Zhao'er also jokingly said: "After Uncle Chen said this, it opened my eyes again. When I don't have any business, I will buy a pulp washing room. Uncle Chen brought the clothes, and I don't charge you to wash them."
"You girl, you are really a businessman." Boss Chen shook his head and laughed, and went back to the front.
The house where Xue Tingxiang copied books was in this yard, and the big window happened to be facing the yard, so Zhao'er's words and deeds were in his eyes.
Usually he can focus on nothing, but today is better, he always sees her intentionally or not.
Seeing her pounding back and forth in the yard, seeing her particularly angry face in the sun, seeing the beads of sweat on her forehead, she had no intention of copying books at all, and only copied less than two pages in one morning.
Boss Chen came in to have a look, and then followed his gaze to Zhao'er: "You are lucky to have such a woman on the stall."
Xue Tingxiang did not speak.
Boss Chen said again: "By the way, where have you reached in your studies?"
"I have finished studying the four books, but I can only read and not understand."
"It's not good if you can only read and can't understand it. Since you have already entered university, you should start to study the Ming Jing. However, many teachers in the countryside and village schools have only half knowledge and can't teach anything. You can read more when you have nothing to do. Reading books such as "Four Books, Chapters and Sentences" and "Zhu Zi Ji Zhu", although they can't make you fully understand the classics, they are somewhat helpful. The most important thing is to find a good school, and a good teacher can give you advice. "Boss Chen pointed.
After a pause, he said again: "I heard Zhao'er say that I want to send you to Qinghe Academy. Instead of spending a lot of money to go to that kind of place, I suggest you go to Qingyuan Academy."
"Qingyuan Academy?" Xue Tingxiang was stunned for a moment.
Boss Chen thought that he didn't know, or that he was also deceived by the false rumors like those lay people heard some rumors, and said: "This Qingyuan Academy is one of the oldest schools in Huyang Township, and it was once famous throughout Xia County. In our township, half of the people who pass the county examination every year are from Qingyuan Academy, and among them, there are not a few scholars who pass the examination. It’s just that Qinghe Academy has risen up in recent years, and it seems to be a little down.”
Boss Chen's voice was low and seemed to be infinitely sighing, but suddenly it turned high, and he was quite indignant: "Everyone in the world values fame and fortune, and they are easily fooled by illusions, but they don't know that Qinghe Academy is using opportunistic methods. Relying on the fact that he was close relatives with the magistrate of Hu, the imperial court allotted the money to support the local social studies and village studies into the Qinghe Academy.
"And the owner of Qingyuan Academy is an honest person and does not want to be with him. In addition, Qingyuan Academy has a lot of preferential treatment for children from poor families. Without this silver subsidy, we can only encourage support. The county that presides over the county test Lingdu looked at Qinghe Academy in a different way, and even the students who wanted to enroll also flocked there. This has changed and the other has grown, and the reputation of Qingyuan Academy has gradually declined in recent years. "