122. Chapter 123
The Zhou family and Su Changsheng secretly calculated Su Liu, they didn't know anything about it, but they heard about the Su family's small courtyard from a good person, but they just laughed at it, and they closed the door to live their own lives.
As usual, after coming out of Sun Xiucai's house, he still went back to Bei'ao around Da'ao Village, but he didn't admit that he met Old Man Su.
"Old man." Su Liu's words saluted lightly, not rude, but also not respectful, and his attitude was just towards an ordinary elder.
When Old Man Su saw her, he was a little uncomfortable, his eyes were complicated, and he said, "It's Liu'er, how are you doing?" β
"It's good."
Her tone was cold and detached, Old Man Su frowned, and felt that he had nothing to say for a while, and thought for a while and said: "Come and sit at home when you have time, in the end, it is your house, even if you follow your mother, don't have to be divided." β
Su Liu raised his eyelids and didn't make a sound.
Old Man Su was a little displeased when he saw this, and said in his heart that this granddaughter couldn't kiss the fragrance, so he said a few words casually and left.
The corners of Su Liu's mouth showed a hint of sneer, and he didn't take it to heart, and went straight home, but saw Chen fiddling with ingots, candles, incense and other things.
"Mother, how did you get this?" Su Liu stepped forward and helped fold the ingots.
Chen was slightly annoyed and said, "You girl, it will be Menglan Festival in two days, don't you know?" β
"That's right, sister, it's your birthday tomorrow!" Su Xiao walked over with a basket of tung oil leaves.
Su Liu suddenly realized that the Menglan Festival on July 15 is the Zhongyuan Festival, and July 14 is her birthday.
"I've been busy these days, and I've forgotten to turn over the yellow calendar." Su Liu scratched his head and smiled a little wryly.
Chen smiled and said, "Tomorrow, we will close the stall early and celebrate for you." β
"yes, let's buy meat." Su Xiao's eyes lit up.
"You're hungry for meat, and you're a foodie." Su Liu pinched her face, since leaving the Su family these days, although they are not big fish and meat, but at Su Liu's insistence, there is always some meat on the table, and Su Xiao's face has some meat.
Su Xiao grinned, but Chen said: "Over the years, you haven't had a good birthday, and tomorrow you will cook something delicious, and now we are not short of that idea of silver." β
Su Liu didn't really care much about his birthday, but when he heard Chen's tone, he was quite apologetic and even a little sad, so he pretended to laugh and said, "Listen, my mother is not short of money now, but she is very generous." β
Amused by her like this, Chen smirked, pointed at her and said, "You narrow ghost." β
Su Liu smiled and said, "I'll go to the field and take a look, and I'll cook in a while." So saying, he took a bucket.
"Sister, I've already watered, don't water it." Su snorted.
Su Liu answered, put down the bucket again, and only walked around the house to the vegetable patch at home.
Their family, one acre and three points of land, two houses with a latrine, and a livestock pen, only accounted for four points of land, and the rest of the land was opened up by them.
Their place is biased, even the land next to it, it is also a barren sandy land, and it seems to be ownerless, so Su Liu plans to wait for the silver to buy all the land next to it.
Now behind their house, after tidying up, they have made rows of ridges, and there are already small spiky vegetable seedlings popping up, and because Su Xiao has watered, the ground is wet.
Su Liu walked straight to the tomato field that he had transplanted, squatted down, looked carefully, and saw that the leaves were all green, without the slightest dilapidated appearance, as if they had grown stable roots.
On the tomato tree, there are five or six tomatoes the size of a newborn baby's fist, and one of them is green with a little yellow, which is actually ripe.
Remembering what he had seen in his previous life, Su Liu found two bamboo branches and built a shelf, so that the tomato vines grew along the bamboo shelf, and when it was done, the sun had already set, but he saw Ning Guang coming from the other side of the field.
Su Liu stood up, Ning Guang would come over to help them repair the yard at this hour as early as these days, and it had already been repaired, what was he doing at this time?
"What's coming?" She greeted her, smiling.
Ning Guang put the basket in his hand to the ground, and Su Liu took it and saw that it was two rabbits, one white and one gray.
"Well, how did you get that?" She asked, stunned.
"Don't you want to?" Ning Guang replied nonchalantly, and said indifferently: "I caught it on the mountain today." β
Su Liu raised her eyebrows, she really wanted two rabbits, the rabbit she hunted last time was originally going to be raised as a rabbit species, but something happened again, and the rabbit actually died.
She was very sorry that she had inadvertently mentioned to Ning Guang these days that she wanted two raw rabbits, but she didn't expect him to remember them.
Su Liu ironed in his heart and said with a smile: "It's hard for you to remember." β
Ning Guang was a little uncomfortable, the roots of his ears were slightly red, and his hands were a little unsure of how to put them, so he only snorted lightly.
After getting along for so many days, Su Liu naturally knew that he was thin-skinned, so he pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "I won't say thank you." Tomorrow's birthday, my mother said to make something delicious, you can have dinner when it's late. β
Ning Guang was stunned for a long time before he snorted.
The two of them were a little quiet for a while, and they had nothing to say, Su Liuxin said in his heart that he was really an elm stuffy pimple.
"What do you want?" Ning Guang suddenly asked.
"What?" Su Liu was teasing the two rabbits in the basket without raising his head.
"Birthday, what do you want?"
Su Liu was stunned for a moment, then raised his head, glanced at him, and said with a smile: "No need." She raised the basket in her hand again and said, "Isn't this a gift?" β
Ning Guang frowned, and was about to say something, but suddenly took two steps back and looked at a point.
Su Liu didn't know why, followed his gaze, and saw a woman carrying a burden, standing on tiptoe and looking this way with her neck open.
Ning Guang seemed to be a little annoyed, and said, "I'll go back first." β
Su Liu sighed, blinked, and looked at the woman again, and suddenly became a little clear.
It seems that Ning Guang pays more attention to reputation than her, although in the countryside, the contact between men and women is not like the women and children in those big families in the city.
But the identities of Su Liu's mother and daughter are already embarrassing, and they are already in the spotlight, so having a foreign man here can't help but add a bit of reverie.
Now that someone sees herself talking to a man, it seems that tomorrow there will be rumors in the village about how she is like this.
Su Liu frowned, this is also a trouble, it seems that it is better to settle the matter with Ning Guang quickly, and it is justifiable, even if he is married first, he also has the name of a fiancΓ©, and no one can say anything.
Su Liu guessed well, and on the second day, there was a rumor of right and wrong in Daao Village, from Su Liu to a good one, to Chen's, and then to a mother and daughter, in short, there are all kinds of rumors, which is very unbearable.
Some eyes red that their mother and daughter opened a stall and had a good business, so they said that it was because of the funding of Xiang Hao Lu that they opened such a bun stall, and even said that it was because of this that the Chen family would reconcile.
Some people also say that it is no wonder that the houses and vegetable patches in Bei Ao are so properly cleaned, and someone helped to do it.
There are also people who defend them, and Su Xizi is one of them, saying: "I also helped to cultivate those vegetable fields, which is as unbearable as you think." "The tone is very bad.
Some people laughed at Su Xizi's stupidity, saying that they just treated him as a cow, and Su Liu had a crush, but he was still hot.
Su Xizi, who was stabbed by these words, was uncomfortable physically and mentally, endured it for a day, and when Su Liu and the others returned from collecting the stall, they hurriedly looked for Su Liu.
The two stood in front of the house, and Su Xizi didn't know how to speak when she saw Su Liu.
Su Liu had also heard those unpleasant rumors, and compared to Su Xiao's anger and Chen's worries, she was very calm.
Because she had been prepared for a long time, she was not surprised, but she was a little surprised by Su Xizi's arrival.
"Sister Liu'er, that, that ......"
Su Liu smiled slightly and interrupted him, "Brother Xizi is here for those rumors in the village? β
"Did you hear it all?" Su Xizi raised his head suddenly, feeling that his reaction was too intense, so he lowered his head again and said, "Don't care, they are just talking nonsense, and they are red at you." What do you say in that sentence, what kind of shadow are you catching? β
"Catch the wind." Su Liu said with a smile.
"Yes, yes. It's just chasing the wind. Su Xizi nodded again and again, and said honestly: "Sister Liu'er, you are so smart." β
"Since Xizi also knows how to chase the wind and shadows, what are you worried about? I don't even care, it's just a matter of being said. Su Liu shrugged his shoulders, full of indifference.
"That's not what I said. In the end, it is the reputation of the daughter's family. Su Xizi frowned, as if thinking of something, her face flushed, she lowered her head, and said hesitantly: "Actually, I don't care about your reputation as Sister Liu'er." If you answer, I, I will let my grandmother send a matchmaker. β
After he finished speaking, his head could not be found to be attached to his chest, but his face was red to his neck, and his hands were clenched at the corners of his clothes.
Su Liu was stunned for a moment, blinking, this, is it a confession?
Su Xizi was very nervous, this was the first time he had said such a thing to the girl, and he couldn't hear a response for a long time, a layer of sweat oozed from the corners of his forehead, and he didn't dare to raise his head to look at Su Liu.
Su Liu was also a little embarrassed, coughed and said, "Brother Xizi, I, I have always been as close as you are my eldest brother!" β
Su Xizi listened, raised his head, and saw that Su Liu's face was serious, not as if he was telling a lie, his heart couldn't help sinking, his eyes were not without disappointment, he pursed his lips, and said, "Sister Liu'er, I will be kind to you." β
"I know it." Su Liu shook his head with a smile and said, "Brother Xizi, I know that you are good, but I only treat you as an elder brother." After a pause, she said: "Actually, Chunhua is also very good, she is very rare about you." β
Su Xizi's thoughts, she more or less knows the way, she only pretends not to understand, but now, she can't pretend to be able to continue, it is better to say it clearly, so as not to delay it for a long time, the more troublesome it will be.