CHAPTER XXI
"This way, we have a much smaller range."
Su Huaijin nodded, but frowned again, and said, "Most of the scholars in this town are from the same academy as me, and I have more or less gotten along with them, but I have never seen such a person. ”
Su Jinshi shook his head, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, "Many people are not as scheming as they appear on the surface, if they are scheming people, they will hide their true selves, maybe you are the murderer who is the most unlikely to be a murderer." ”
Su Jinshi looked at Su Huaijin with interest, and the latter glanced at her and said, "You won't doubt me, right?" ”
Su Jinshi smiled, "The most unlikely thing is that it may be the murderer, why don't I doubt you?" ”
Su Huaijin: "......"
"I've been sleeping outside for the past few days to help you investigate the case, but you still suspect me! It really makes me so sad......" Su Huaijin's expression was a little exaggerated, and his voice was very resentful.
Su Jinshi laughed out loud, stopped teasing him, and asked, "What do you think of Gu Shengyun?" ”
As soon as these words came out, Su Huaijin immediately laughed, "I heard that Gu Shengyun is very good to you and likes you very much, what's the matter?" Are you interested in him too? ”
"Who's interesting to him, I'm just casually asking." Su Jinshi said angrily.
Su Huaijin was in a bad mood when she saw Su Jin, and she didn't have the heart to joke, "Gu Shengyun is one of my many classmates who has a better relationship with me, he is humble, gentle and polite, and he is good at studying in the academy. ”
Su Jinshi nodded, thinking, probably because she was thinking too much.
It's just that the coldness she saw in Gu Shengyun's eyes at that moment, she always lingered.
"Jinshi, there is one thing I don't know whether to talk about or not." Su Huaijin said with some hesitation.
"What's the matter?"
"Last time, I overheard my father and mother discussing your marriage, and it seems that I have already found you a good family." Su Huaijin said in a flat tone.
Su Jinshi nodded stunnedly, she thought that her parents didn't take her marriage to heart anymore, it turned out that she had already found a good family, so the next step was to marry her under the pretext of her parents' order matchmaker?
Su Huaijin was in no mood to talk when she saw Su Jinshi, so she left her room.
Su Jinshi lay on the bed and looked at Fang Liang blankly, feeling mixed in her heart, before the case was clarified, she had her own troubles, if Su Xin and the Zhao family forcibly married her, what should she do?
Escape?
Unwillingly, the case is still confusing, she doesn't like to do half of the work.
Don't run away?
married according to her parents' orders, how should she face her in-laws and how should she face the unknown man?
What should she do?
Su Jinshi was thinking about it, when Zhao entered the house, she closed the door, and saw Su Jinshi lying on the bed without taking off his clothes, and couldn't help frowning: "Why didn't you wash and lie on the bed?" If you are sleepy, go wash up first. ”
Su Jinshi came back to his senses, looked at Zhao Shi a little confused, and saw the reluctance in her eyes, and his heart was even more bleak.
"Jinshi, why are you always reluctant to get married?" Zhao sat on the edge of the bed and asked earnestly.
Su Jinshi didn't even want to explain, her modern people's thoughts couldn't be understood in ancient times, they didn't even understand free love, she said that no matter how much she did, she couldn't change their minds, rather than talking.
"Mother, if I don't want to get married, will you let me stay at home all the time?" Su Jinshi asked rhetorically.
Zhao Shi was stunned and smiled a little reluctantly, "How can you say such a thing, girls naturally want to marry, although you are old, it is not that you can't find a suitable person, you don't want to say this kind of non-marriage again." ”
Su Jinshi's heart was cold, and he said, "I know." ”
"Ugh." Zhao sighed faintly, "If you get married, your father and I will naturally be reluctant, but if your daughter's family doesn't get married, what do you think, my mother only hopes that you will find a good family." ”
Su Jinshi was silent and didn't speak, she was a little fed up with such words, they thoughtfully planned everything for themselves, and planned her future one by one, but they forgot her thoughts.
In the name of her good, controlling her future is not as good as treating her badly in the first place.
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Su Jinshi has been a little listless in recent days, in addition to her own troubles, there is also the problem of young age.
Since that day, Nian Su seems to have been ignoring Su Jinshi, she went to look for her, she was indifferent, this feeling was not like a deliberate estrangement before, but like being angry with her.
This feeling is a little weird, it reminds her that Lu Jingshen used to be angry with her, often because she forgot any important anniversaries or festivals, she would not remind her, she would only be angry with her.
Lu Jingshen once said to her: You should be glad that I will still be angry with you now, if I don't get angry and angry one day, then I really don't love you anymore.
And the day she said finally came.
Lu Jing was angry because she cared about her and liked her, so what about Niansu?
Does Nian Su like her too?
Such a discovery made Su Jinshi a little panicked, she hadn't prepared a new relationship yet, besides, didn't Nian Su hate her before?
"Jinshi, you help me give these to the daughter-in-law of the big cow next door, I still have something to do here."
Zhao stuffed a basket of vegetables into Su Jinshi's hand, and before she could refuse, she had already hurriedly walked away, Su Jinshi looked at the dishes in his hand, and hesitated.
She wasn't ready to go see Niansu......
But now it seems that she has no choice.
Su Jinshi came to Nian Su's house with a vegetable basket, the door was hidden, Su Jinshi knocked and no one answered, she pushed open the door and walked in, the house was empty, Su Jinshi shouted a few times, and no one answered.
She put the dishes on the table and said to herself, "It's true, no one is at home and the door is still open, aren't you afraid of thieves coming in......"
Su Jinshi turned around and wanted to leave, but a white figure suddenly appeared at the door, and he couldn't see his face clearly when he stood against the light.
"Why are you here?" Nian Su's tone was light.
Su Jinshi pointed to the dishes on the table and said, "My mother asked me to give these to you." ”
Nian Su was silent for a while, and said: "Su Jinshi, in fact, my aunt doesn't need to send me vegetables, and the big cow also has a bit of thin fields, so it's enough to raise me and Xiaodouzi." ”
She paused, went to the kitchen and took out a few pieces of tofu, and said, "This is the tofu I made, if you don't dislike it, take it back." ”
Su Jinshi took the tofu and said with a smile: "Neighbors should also help each other." ”
Nian Su nodded and didn't speak again, Su Jinshi felt a little embarrassed when she stood there, but she couldn't stand this relationship between the two.
"Nian Su, are you angry?" Su Jinshi asked bluntly.
Nian Su didn't expect her to ask so directly, pursed her lips, and said, "No, you think too much." ”
"I thought we had been through so many things together, at least we were friends, and now that you are like this, I feel that I am making a mistake with myself." Su Jinshi's tone was a little excited, "I've always regarded you as a friend, I don't know if you feel the same way about me." ”
"Friends?" Nian Su asked with some uncertainty.
She had heard the word friend from many people, but no one had ever said it to her.
Since she was a child, no one played with her, she was sent to do a lot of things when she was very young, laundry, cooking, cleaning, and when other children were playing happily outside the house, she could only clean obediently at home.
In the spring, I followed my mother to the field to sow seeds, in the summer I did laundry, cooked, and cleaned the house, and in the autumn I turned over the grain and harvested the grain.
All year round, she has endless things to do, she is always busy throughout the day, no one has ever helped her as wholeheartedly as Su Jinshi, and no one has said to her:
I treat you as a friend.
"yes, don't you think of me as a friend?"
Su Jinshi's voice brought Nian Su back to his senses.
"Friends." Nian Su muttered this sentence repeated, as if he couldn't believe it.
"What's wrong?" Su Jinshi asked suspiciously, her expression seemed to be a little wrong.