Chapter 27 Admiration
She didn't walk slowly, it didn't look like she was wandering around. She had her hair combed into a bun, with black hair rings hanging down her back. When she walked, she swung her hair like two drooping ears. Her face looked as if she had applied some powder, but she didn't bite the lipstick. However, the girl's lip color was originally Just rosy, still young and pretty.
She wore a thin jasper bracelet and seemed to have bells on her ankles, which jingled slightly when she walked. Holding a thin willow branch in one hand, he was playing with it beating the weeds on the roadside as he walked.
Li Wuxiang guessed who it was after just one glance. Yesterday, he went to the town. He had seen many women in the town. No matter whether they were young, beautiful or ugly, they all wore plain clothes like Xue Baoping, and their hair was simply combed into a bun. Although this girl's dress is not made of silk or satin, the color is quite bright. Coupled with the bracelet on her wrist, she must be the only daughter of the town lord.
This was an unexpected surprise.
His eyes only touched once and then he looked away, stood up, and walked back to the side room.
Xue Baoping seemed to have used the warm water in the pot to clean the back room. Ever since Li Wuxiang wiped the oil stain on the stove a few days ago, she had kept the house spotless every day. Li Wuxiang sat down at the stove and added a piece of firewood to ignite the embers, then scooped water from the water tank into the pot to prepare some food for the reopening of Xue's store in two days.
After he had scooped half of the pot of water, he heard footsteps stopping at the door - Chen Xiu, with his hands behind his back, was looking openly into the house from the door.
Li Wuxiang didn't look up and just said: "The store hasn't opened yet."
"Oh, I know. I used to come here often." Chen Xiu nodded, looked around the room again, and took the time to stare hard at Li Wuxiang. Seeing that he was just looking down at the fire on the stove, he coughed and said, "Hey, I'm thirsty."
"The water tank is by the door."
Chen Xiu walked to the water tank and saw the gourd and ladle resting on the wooden tank cover on the side. This gourd has been used for many years, and the tawny shell has been rubbed until it shines, and there are black spots on the handle. Chen Xiu wanted to reach out and take it, but when he saw those black spots, he retracted his hand. But from this angle, she could see Li Wuxiang's profile - slightly red due to the stove fire, the skin on his neck was tight and smooth.
She let out a breath and looked at the loess wall blackened by years of fireworks: "Is your name Li Jiye?"
"Yeah."
"You must be particularly unaccustomed to living here. Can you get used to the food here?"
Li Wuxiang looked up at her, then lowered his head and continued to add firewood, and said calmly: "It's okay."
"Are you used to living there? You're not sleeping in a straw shop, are you?"
"It's not bad."
Chen Xiu broke the willow branch with his hand behind his back. She thought that the young master of the Li family should be the kind of gentle, decent and generous person, but now she realized that he was like a boring gourd, deserted, and he had no good skin. She felt a little resentful in her heart, but the worst part was her good skin - she didn't want to leave angrily just yet.
At this time, the fire in the stove was about to go out, so Li Wuxiang took the bamboo blower, brought it to his mouth and blew a long breath into the stove, and the firelight illuminated his face again.
Chen Xiu took a long breath and let it out, deciding to give him another chance: "What is that? It looks fun, can you play with me?"
Li Wuxiang shook the torch in his hand: "This?"
"Yeah."
"Blow torch. Very dirty."
So Li Wuxiang was stunned when he saw Chen Xiu, and then opened his mouth slightly.
He smiled inwardly. Now I have a rough idea of Chen Xiu's temperament. He has an upright temper that comes from being pampered, but his mind is also quite delicate and his conscience has not been lost. If you are smart enough but not too smart, you can figure out the reason why you are so cold because of what you just said "very dirty" - she dislikes the black-spotted gourd and the straw shop, so This made him unhappy and unintentionally offended by her.
No matter whether you can think about it clearly or not, you will still feel a little bit guilty because of this vague understanding——
"...Ah, I didn't say you were dirty."
Then, because of such a small sense of guilt, he would suppress the temperament of the young lady who is not too excessive, and follow the topic of his own in a flattering manner.
Li Wuxiang didn't answer her immediately, but left her alone for a short while. When he realized that she was about to frown slightly, he suddenly said, "Is there a Qi practitioner in your town?"
His brows were smoothed instantly. Chen Xiu immediately said: "Yes."
Li Wuxiang raised his face and asked her to see a reluctant smile: "If our town had been here before...if I was also a Qi practitioner, maybe it wouldn't have happened because of the flood——"
He stopped talking, sighed softly, and lowered his head to fiddle with the firewood.
"I'll go back and ask the immortal master in my town if he can accept you as his apprentice." Chen Xiu said quickly, "My name is Chen Xiu, my father is the master of Jinshui Town, and the immortal master is enshrined in our house!"
Li Wuxiang shook his head again and said in a low voice: "It's not that easy...but thank you anyway."
A trace of anxiety flashed through Chen Xiu's heart. She felt that she had never spoken to anyone so carefully before, but she could never be coaxed. But when she thought of his pitiful life experience, she felt ashamed of her anxiety. Moreover, she suddenly realized that what she just said was so wonderful - if Master Zhao Xian really accepted him as a disciple, he would have to be able to go in and out of his own home!
Master Zhao Xian clearly told his father this morning that he was the young master of Lijiawan, but his father kept pushing and refused to ask anyone to propose marriage. He said that this kind of thing has never been so urgent, and he still needs to see who he is. Taste.
But is his character worth mentioning? He dared to beat up the scoundrels and idlers in the town, and the scoundrels were frightened by him. He was polite when talking to the big shopkeeper, and he was many times more educated than Zhao Qi! This is obviously both civil and military. Besides, what kind of thing has always happened? Aren’t the rules set by humans? In Jinshui, it’s obvious that dad means to follow the rules!
If he could be asked to walk back and forth a few times at home, my father would never say, but my mother would love it so much!
She took two steps forward, hoping that she could see him more clearly across the stove: "I can put in a good word for you, and Master Zhao Xian...well...is actually not a bad person."
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Li Wuxiang frowned slightly: "But I heard that Qi practitioners have bad tempers." "Ah, no, I think his temper is not bad, but he just doesn't like to talk much and stays in the room. , mysterious, seems to look down on people... Ah, actually not really, he actually..."
Li Wuxiang smiled: "My family used to worship people like this."
This smile made Chen Xiu breathe a sigh of relief. He dragged the bench on one side, took another step forward, and sat on the other side of the stove. He didn't mind that his skirt was brushing on the ground at all: "Right? That's right?" Like that! When my father talks to him, he is very picky when talking to him. He doesn’t even want onions, ginger, garlic and leeks. If my mother wants to cook it for him alone, she has to cook it separately.”
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"He always thinks he is very smart! When he first came here, my father invited him to drink. After a few drinks, he sighed and said, Oh, there are so many stupid, stupid people in this dirty world. It's really annoying." When I got here, I coughed and spat on the ground, and then said, most of them were vulgar and unruly. Oh, our family is unruly, but we also know not to spit on the floor of the main hall."
"My father flattered him, saying that Immortal Master, you have great supernatural powers now, so naturally you look down on the common people in the world. Alas, even though a master like you practices in the mountains and lives in poverty, you are still better than being pure - as soon as he heard that my father If you say this, tell my dad quickly about them The Ranshan sect is so famous and rich. I almost laughed to death about the golden whisk, Jade Ruyi, elixirs, and pills. They looked like they had never seen the world. I also have a Jade Ruyi at home, and it is inlaid. The one with beads——"
As long as Li Wuxiang smiled a little and asked a few questions, he could make her talk happily non-stop, as if it was not only because he could make the person he liked happy, but also because he finally found a person in this small town. I talked to someone with a similar family background who could resonate with me. So after a quarter of an hour, Li Wuxiang roughly knew what kind of person Zhao Qi was.
After a short while, everything about Zhao Qi was finished, and Chen Xiu turned to talk about some trivial things in life. This was the first time that Li Wuxiang had seen a girl with her temperament in this world - lively and generous, with a simple mind, as if she was born without understanding the dangers of the world, and it was hard to imagine what kind of family she was raised in.
So his smile became less and his responses became shorter. Soon, Chen Xiu found that there seemed to be nothing to talk about. Only then did she realize that she seemed to be sitting a little too close to Li Wuxiang - like the kind of friends who had known each other for a long time, almost touching each other's knees. That's why she discovered that the mute girl of the Xue family He was sweeping the floor in the yard with a big broom in his hand.
Last night when she was tossing and turning in bed unable to fall asleep, she was still thinking wildly, feeling that her future husband-in-law was currently living in the home of a young girl, which always made people feel uneasy. But at this moment she was relieved - with such a good appearance and such a family background... how could she think about him?
The hostility she had in her heart before was gone. When she thought that she was the one who dragged her Li Jiye up from the river, she even felt a little more guilty, so she immediately took the opportunity to stand up and walk to the courtyard. , greeted happily: "Sister Xue, do you still remember me? One time I came to your house to ask for water, ah... I felt thirsty just now."
Xue Baoping stopped, holding the broom, looking at her with wide eyes, and then glanced at Li Wuxiang.
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"Are you going to reopen the store?" Chen Xiu looked into the yard and reached out to take the broom, "Here, let me help you. It would be great if you could talk. We can still talk often -"
She wanted to sweep the yard, but the big broom was made of dried thin bamboo branches. The handle was thick and concave, and it was a little heavier than she expected. She tried sweeping it, but the branches hooked the corners of her skirt. , and quickly wanted to squat down and lift up the skirt, but the broom fell to the ground.
Xue Baoping held on to the broom and lifted her skirt: "I can talk."
Chen Xiu stared at her with wide eyes: "Huh?"
Xue Baoping smiled reluctantly at her: "I didn't want to talk before."
"Ah..." Chen Xiu nodded, but he didn't understand what he meant by not wanting to talk before and why. But I heard Xue Baoping say again: "Why don't you fetch a bucket of water for me? He doesn't like the dirty yard. You can help me sprinkle water on the yard."
Chen Xiu quickly said: "Okay!"
The Xue family's well is in the corner of the yard. It has a stone wellhead and is covered with wooden boards. Chen Xiu walked over and moved the wooden board away, and his hands got some muddy water from the edge of the manhole cover. She frowned and leaned the manhole cover over the wellhead, and went to lift the bucket, but found that the thick hemp rope tied to the bucket was also wet and a little slippery. She took a deep breath and threw the barrel down. When she heard a popping sound, she pulled it up, which made the barrel bang. But when she pulled it up, she found that there was only a shallow layer of water at the bottom of the barrel. The pendulum was completely wet and dirty.
When she was panting and lifting the barrel down, Xue Baoping held the broom and said, "Oh, your clothes are all stained. I'll sprinkle them on."
Chen Xiu wiped his forehead with the back of his hand: "It's okay, it will get dirty when I pick water chestnuts."
Xue Baoping nodded and started sweeping the yard again.
Li Wuxiang smiled inwardly, continued to add some water to the pot, and began to prepare the noodle fish to be sold tomorrow. Two girls, one was sweeping the yard and the other was limping in front carrying a bucket to sprinkle water. Chen Xiu talked more. After a while, Xue Baoping also said a few more words. When the courtyard was swept clean and the bluestone slabs were wet and bright, Li Wuxiang could see through the white mist that there was a smile on Xue Baoping's face.
So at this time, he walked to the courtyard while wiping his hands: "Miss Chen, you should go back and change your clothes. Otherwise, you will sweat and your clothes will get soaked, and you will catch a cold."
Only then did Chen Xiu realize that most of her skirt was wet and clinging to her calves, which looked unsightly. Normally she didn't care, but this time she cursed herself in her heart, looked at the two people in the yard and took another breath: "Okay, I'll come to play with you tomorrow. You... um, wait, I'll go back and call you My father asked Zhao Qi to accept you as his apprentice.”
Li Wuxiang smiled and bowed to her. She lifted her skirt and walked happily through the wing. After walking more than ten steps, she pretended to twirl her earrings and quickly glanced sideways. At a glance - no one was seen at the door of Xue's house.
After she walked across the bridge, Li Wuxiang turned around from the door panel and saw Xue Baoping sitting in front of the stove. He quickly lowered his face and added two more firewood.
So he let out a breath: "Things went a little smoother than I expected. Miss Chen is impatient, and Zhao Qi is impatient. It's not noon yet, but if my guess is correct, Zhao Qi will come to see me in the afternoon Are you suitable to be his disciple?”
Xue Baoping hummed absentmindedly, as if he felt that his words were a bit perfunctory, so he raised his face and asked again: "Well... how, how do you know that Zhao, Zhao, Zhao Qi would want to call you special... special ...his disciple?”
Li Wuxiang walked to the stove, sat down on the bench where Xue Baoping was sitting just now, and gently touched Xue Baoping's knee: "You also heard what Miss Chen said when she talked about Zhao Qi. A qigong practitioner feels that he has a noble status and hates ordinary people. The layman still thinks that calling someone a mountain villager to serve him is an insult to his status, but the demands in life are many and many - not only is the Chen family annoying, but he himself also thinks that the Chen family is clumsy and not smart enough. "
"So if there is a young man who is careful and smart enough, he should be happy to ask him to be his nominal disciple and de facto servant. Especially if this young man is alone, he will be even more loyal and obedient. I think this is the case. You have to wait until we sell the winter melon candies before you can find out more from Miss Chen. Unexpectedly, she came over and helped us a lot."
Xue Baoping's mouth moved slightly, and Li Wuxiang knew that she silently recited the word "we" twice. Then her expression became more vivid: "Oh, then you were just trying to trick her..."
Li Wuxiang didn't speak, only smiled slightly and tilted his head: "Let's fish noodles, eat them for lunch, it's refreshing and cool."
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