Chapter 8 Sweet Potato Champion

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She listened to the conversation between Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Qiao outside the window, and almost instantly understood the deep meaning in it. - Grandma Jiang wants her to be that person's daughter-in-law.

A small home, a few rooms, chickens and ducks in front of the door and melons and fruits behind the door, it is indeed very good, but ...... It wasn't a life she could hope for. She has her mission, and that is an unshirkable responsibility, and unless she dies, she can't afford not to carry it.

"I want to go to town, can you send me?" Ah Jiang opened the curtain and stood at the door of Grandma Jiang, leaning sideways without looking at anyone's expression, and said to Jiang Qiao in a low voice.

She felt so cruel she was.

There was silence in the room for a long time, and finally Jiang Qiao heard a soft "um".

Lunch was made by Mrs. Jiang, she almost took out all the New Year's goods prepared for the New Year, and made a meal for Ah Jiang very carefully. Those salted fish and bacon are not rare dishes of Ah Jiang, and the taste made with only oil, salt and limited seasonings cannot be compared with the craftsmanship she is used to, but every bite Ah Jiang eats is cherished. She wanted to remember that she had had such a simple and ordinary happiness.

From beginning to end, no one mentioned parting and retention, Mrs. Jiang tried her best to keep smiling, and vigorously put vegetables in Ah Jiang's bowl.

It's also mysterious, she just likes this little girl for no reason, even if she and her second son have no fate, they are still acquainted in the end......

After eating, Mrs. Jiang pulled Ah Jiang into the back room, took out a peach wood comb to comb her hair a little bit, slowly combed out a single screw bun, and decorated it with a wooden hairpin with openwork flowers, and immediately had the taste of clear water and hibiscus.

"Good boy, Grandma doesn't know your name yet." Mrs. Jiang held Ah Jiang's hand, her eyes full of reluctance.

"You can call me Ah Jiang, I'm ...... My mother likes to call me Ah Jiang. Ah Jiang squinted his eyes, as if he remembered some happy memory, and his whole expression became lively.

"Ah Jiang." Mrs. Jiang read it again, touched her hair like ginger satin lovingly, and couldn't say a word of reluctance in her heart.

Jiang Qiao looked at it for a while and said, "Let's go." ”

He took the mule and slowly walked out of Qinghe Village with Ah Jiang. None of them looked back, afraid of seeing Mrs. Jiang holding the dog and standing in front of the door with a reluctant appearance.

On the rugged mountain road, Ah Jiang straightened his forehead hair that was blown by the mountain wind, and looked up at Jiang Qiao, who was walking side by side, "I don't know your name yet." ”

"Jiang Qiao."

"Scorched wood?" Ah Jiang covered his lips and laughed lowly, and his crisp voice seemed to make the sound of the wind in his ears sound beautiful.

"The woodsman who fishes and cultivates reads." Jiang Qiao corrected it seriously.

"Your name is very learned." Ah Jiang also looked like an old pedant, and said nonsense in a serious manner: "The river, the water and the worker, the worker is the soil; The woodcutter, the scorch and the wood, the scorch is the fire. Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, you account for four of the five elements! ”

Jiang Qiao blinked narrowly when he saw her, and accidentally laughed angrily: "Wood, water, fire and earth, does this mean that there is a lack of gold in life and you deserve to be poor for a lifetime?" ”

Ah Jiang was a little surprised that Jiang Qiao could hear his jokes, and his eyes widened slightly inexplicably and coquettishly, which made Jiang Qiao's eyes deep.

"It's spring, are you going to take the imperial examination?" Ah Jiang tilted her head, she felt that Jiang Qiao was likely to be a great sage who was hidden in the mountains.

Jiang Qiao sneered: "I don't know a single big character, what is the test?" Roasted sweet potatoes are ok. ”

"What is a sweet potato?" Ah Jiang frowned fiercely, "There is still this item in the Great Qi Imperial Examination?" ”

Jiang Qiao really burst into laughter this time. He knew that Ah Jiang was an indigenous person of this era, so he really didn't know what a sweet potato was, but she looked puzzled and seriously thinking, which really poked him inexplicably and laughed.

"You laugh at me!" Ah Jiang felt that she had been tricked, and immediately felt an anger of being deceived, she raised her foot and kicked Jiang Qiao's leg, turned her head and snorted.

Knowing from the strength of that kick that Ah Jiang was really angry, Jiang Qiao immediately looked serious and explained: "Sweet potato is a starchy food that can be used to satisfy hunger, with a large yield, and the soil requirements are not strict. ”

Although she didn't know what "starch" was, Ah Jiang obviously had the same skills as a dog, and she immediately grasped the point in Jiang Qiao's words, "The output is very large? Is it poisonous? ”

"This ......" Jiang Qiao thought about it carefully, as if he had never heard of anyone who was poisoned by eating sweet potatoes, so he nodded to Ah Jiang: "There is no poison." It is not like potatoes, although potatoes also have a large yield and are easy to grow, but if you eat sprouted potatoes, you can still die if you are not careful. ”

"What about the ones that didn't sprout?" Ah Jiang asked.

"Then you can eat whatever you want." Jiang Qiao shrugged, "If you want to die, you will die." ”

"Jiang Qiao!"

Ah Jiang somehow became excited, and pulled Jiang Qiao's arm excitedly, his eyes were full of the light of the winter sun: "You must go to Kyoto and take the imperial examination!" As long as you go, Your Majesty will definitely crown you champion! It's called the sweet potato champion! ”

"I'll only write my name that is short of gold." Jiang Qiao shook his head and laughed at himself. No matter how difficult his previous life was, he graduated from college as an adult, who knew that he would be forced to become illiterate when he fell here, and it was not a good feeling to think about it.

Ah Jiang obviously didn't believe it, guessing that it was the country's current turmoil and decadence that made Jiang Qiao discouraged and unwilling to come out to assist the king, and he was a little discouraged at the moment.

"There are no virtuous ministers in the court, does Daqi still have a future?" She looked at the withered and yellow appearance of the four fields in the winter, and muttered questions that she didn't know the answer to.

Jiang Qiao raised his eyebrows, "Don't think about this when you're a girl, if something happens, there will be men on top of it!" ”

"If the country is not a country, there will be no men and women in Daqi, only slaves who will die in the country!" Ah Jiang shook her head and smiled bitterly, her innocent eyes revealing a perseverance that did not match her age.

"Ah Jiang." Jiang Qiao called her, and when she saw Ah Jiang coming over, she raised her hand and touched her eyes a little rudely, and when she saw that Ah Jiang was stunned, she simply took the opportunity to bow her head and kiss her smooth forehead.

Ah Jiang looked like Shen Rongrong when he opened his eyes, but Ah Jiang's eyes were very different from Shen Rongrong, which was really weird!

Jiang Qiao sighed to himself, but he didn't see that Ah Jiang, who had come back to his senses, had already raised his legs mercilessly.

"Ouch-"

Except for Jiang Qiao's elongated screams in the four fields, everything was peaceful and calm, and Ah Jiang squinted his eyes and sighed that the sun was so warm......

Jiang Qiao limped through the second half of the mountain road, and was obviously relieved when he saw the flat official road.

He barely got on the mule in style, and then stretched out his hand to Ah Jiang. Ah Jiang seemed to be smiling, slapped Jiang Qiao's hand and jumped up, his movements were indescribably neat and heroic.

Jiang Qiao felt that she had been hurt, because Ah Jiang was obviously not a fuel-efficient lamp, and her old man sat down behind him unceremoniously, reaching out from his waist and snatching the reins......

From an outsider's point of view, it's the girl who encircles him in his arms!

"Don't move, it's a bit hard for the two of us to carry this horse." Ah Jiang patted his buttocks dissatisfied, but he didn't notice that Jiang Qiao was half of his body.

Pretty woman in ...... No, it should be "in the arms of the beautiful woman", the two were close to each other, grinding their ears and temples, and even when she spoke, Mr. Jiang knew for the first time in her life what it meant to "exhale like an orchid". Speaking of which, he is not a hairy boy who doesn't know anything, why did he become green when he faced Ah Jiang......

Convoluted.

However, the speed of his tongue can still be successful, he snorted lightly, and pointed out Ah Jiang's mistake: "Miss, that's a mule, not a horse!" It's a cross between a donkey and a horse! “

"What is a donkey?"

"There are obviously donkeys here, don't lie to me if I don't study!"

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