Chapter Eighty-Six: True Good Deeds
Coming out of the county office, Wujin was a little distressed, Su Hanzhen asked him to help with the matter, the imperial history of the imperial court Cheng wanted to pass through Donghai County, Su Hanzhen asked him to guard the whole process in Donghai County, of course, that imperial history Zhongcheng himself also had bodyguards, in fact, he didn't need to bother, he was equivalent to being a tour guide in later generations, accompanying Yu Shi Zhongcheng to travel the mountains and rivers, anyway, he didn't have too many things during this time, so he agreed.
Unexpectedly, Su Hanzhen asked him to rush to Pingjiang County in the afternoon, and he only then reacted that it was the local companion of Donghai County, not the local companion of Weiyang County, and it was not a big problem to accompany Yushi Zhongcheng, but the trouble was that he would discuss writing a novel with Jiutian tomorrow, which made him a little embarrassed, he couldn't tell Su Hanzhen, I have an appointment with your niece tomorrow, and I don't have time to go to Pingjiang County.
Wu Jin had no choice but to postpone the discussion of the novel with Jiutian, and after leaving the county office, he turned around and went to Shuyuan Street, even if he couldn't find Jiutian, but at least he could let Uncle Yan change his message.
When I came to Shuyuan Street, I saw from afar that the door of the Burrow, which was still quiet and unoccupied in the early morning, was full of carriages, and many figures were shaking.
He walked quickly to the door of the bookstore, where three or four flatbed wagons carrying goods were parked, loaded with heavy sacks, and five or six people were carrying the sacks into the bookstore.
'It turned out to be rice!' Wu Jin saw a pile of white rice on the ground, it seemed that the sack was broken and scattered, and he secretly wondered in his heart, what is the bookstore doing to buy so much rice, does Uncle Yan really want to bend his waist for five buckets of rice? Don't sell books, change to rice shops?
At this time, I saw Jiutian coming out of the bookstore, she was carrying a big bamboo basket, and the other hand was holding a dustpan, not seen for a few days, Jiutian seemed to be more beautiful, wearing a water-green long skirt with patterns, and her hair was tied up, revealing a soft and snow-white neck, which was quite refreshing.
She shoveled the rice piled on the ground into the basket with a dustpan, and soon there was a basket full, which seemed to be heavy, and Jiutian didn't pick it up twice in a row, she frowned slightly, and at this moment, she suddenly felt the basket loosen, and her hand seemed to touch a warm palm, and the basket had been picked up.
As soon as Jiutian turned around, he saw a tall young man standing behind him, looking at her with a smile.
"It's you!"
Jiutian's beautiful eyes lit up suddenly, and her eyes revealed irrepressible surprise, "Wujin, why are you here?" ”
'Wait! 'Jiutian suddenly felt wrong, could it be that he remembered it wrong? Didn't you say we'll see you tomorrow? She glanced at Wu Jin suspiciously.
Wu Jin smiled, "Can't I come today?" ”
"No, I didn't mean that, I mean, I thought I was mistaken."
Jiutian hurriedly explained, "Actually, I'm very happy that you came today." ”
"Why?"
Wu Jin looked at her with a smile in his eyes, there was a trace of indescribable ambiguity in that smile, Jiutian's face was slightly red, but she blinked mischievously, and looked at the cart full of rice bags, "What do you say?" ”
"Oh! I see, it turned out that they wanted me to be a coolie, okay! It looks like I'm going to become your Zhu Bajie. ”
Wu Jin said, his arm was strong, and he sandwiched a heavy bag of rice under his armpit, almost one stone of rice, less than two hundred catties, he held his strength and said: "Since Miss Gao has an order, the old pig will have to work hard!" ”
"What Miss Gao?" Jiutian didn't understand, she knew Zhu Bajie, but she hadn't heard the story of Gao Laozhuang, she was stunned for a moment, but saw Wu Jinzhen entering with the rice bag, she hurriedly caught up and smiled: "I'm joking with you, you put down the rice bag quickly, don't you work!" ”
Wu Jin had already walked into the bookstore, but he was stunned all of a sudden, only to see that the books in the bookstore were gone, all of them were rice bags, and there were two or three hundred bags, which ..... Uncle Yan really wants to sell rice!
He put down the rice bag and basket, pointed to the rice bag full of the house, and turned back to Jiutian to ask, "What's going on?" ”
"Huh! It's Wu Jin coming. ”
I saw Yan Yushu walking in from the back door, and when he saw that Wujin was full of doubts, he smiled and said, "Don't think that I want to sell rice, this is Jiutian doing great good deeds!" ”
"Uncle, look at what you said, it's not a great good deed!"
Jiutian's face turned even redder, and she was a little embarrassed to explain to Wujin, "There is a big drought in Huaibei this year, and there is no harvest of summer grain, and I heard that there has been a famine, so I want to buy some rice to relieve the victims, and I will do my best, it's as simple as that." ”
"That's pretty good!"
Wu Jin began to be impressed by Jiutian, writing books to earn some manuscript fees, and actually being able to take out part of the relief of the victims, this is not simple! It's better than the good deed of repairing the bridge that I did, "However, when I said nine days, it seems that the method is a bit stupid." ”
Wu Jin saw that Jiutian's beautiful eyes suddenly widened, as if asking him where she was stupid, so he smiled and pointed to the rice in the room, "This is at least three hundred stones!" How did you send it to Huaibei? The most economical way is to take water transportation and go directly to the sea, then you might as well contact the ship first, and then directly let the rice shop send the rice to the ship, so that the bookstore does not have to be a warehouse, right? ”
Wu Jin was proud, he wanted to see Jiutian open his small mouth and look at him with admiration, but Jiutian smiled slightly, shook his head gently, and Wu Jin was stunned, "Am I not right?" ”
Yan Yushu next to him also laughed, "It's not that what you said is wrong, but that you underestimated us for nine days, do you think she will donate this rice?" ”
"Uncle, don't say it, it's nothing, don't say it again, Wujin, I just happened to have something to do with you!"
Jiutian is thin-skinned, she has done good deeds but doesn't want others to publicize them, especially in front of Wu Jin, as if she is deliberately showing something, she doesn't like it, she pointed to the back door, meaning to let Wu Jin go to the back to talk to her, but Wu Jin didn't want to leave a stomach full of questions, he asked Yan Yushu again, "Did Jiu Tian donate other money?" ”
Yan Yushu ignored his niece and gave him a look, and said to Wu Jin: "She has donated seven hundred taels of silver, and asked Su Thorn Shi to buy rice and transport it together with the government's relief grain, and my rice here is ready to be used to help the victims of the upcoming Donghai County, I heard Su Thorn Shi said that the imperial court has issued an order to allow the Huaibei disaster victims to eat in Danyang County and Donghai County, it is estimated that it will be coming soon, and she will buy three hundred taels of silver of rice in nine days, and ask us to help her with disaster relief." ”
Wu Jin suddenly realized, it turned out that this was the case, his mouth couldn't help grinning, my good man! actually donated all the manuscript fees of 1,000 taels of silver, which is also too generous, if she marries her as a wife in the future, will she also donate all her family property?
"Wu Jin!" Jiutian's face was as ashamed as a red cloth, and she twisted a little and said, "I also want to ask you for help." ”
"Just say it!"
Wu Jin patted his chest, "No problem, as long as I can do it." ”
"That's right, I don't think this amount of rice is enough, but I really don't have any money, can you also donate two hundred taels of silver to buy some rice, I'm really embarrassed."
In fact, there is not much rice, the key is that Jiutian also hopes that Wujin can also have a little kindness and help the victims, she hopes that her friends can also help the victims like herself, so she feels that although Wujin is a little worse in terms of knowledge, but his character is very good, but she saw Wujin dumbfounded, as if she was stunned.
Seeing that Wujin was a little reluctant, she was slightly disappointed in her heart, so she whispered: "Forget it, I won't force you." ”
"Not really!" Wu Jin touched his waist bag and took out four ingots of eighty taels of silver, "I only have so many in total, I don't have two hundred taels, or tomorrow!" Maybe I'll have an income. ”
"What, did you use up your manuscript fee?"
Jiutian looked at Wu Jin with a puzzled face, that was a thousand taels of silver, many ordinary people had to earn it for ten years, it was only a few days, how could he use it? Could it be......
Jiutian also heard that many men go to the Qinglou to buy joy, and it is normal to spend a lot of money overnight, so he won't go too!
Wu Jin scratched the back of his head vigorously, looking helpless, so he had to tell the truth, "That's the case, the Eight Immortals Bridge next to my fifth uncle's shop is too dilapidated, so I decided to raise donations from the surrounding businesses to repair the bridge, you know, I took the lead in fundraising, so the one thousand taels of silver ......"
Wu Jin saw Jiutian's eyes suddenly lit up, his eyes were full of appreciation and like, he couldn't help but secretly scolded himself for being shameless, actually using this kind of lie to deceive the kind little girl, he wanted to change his mouth and say that he lent the fifth uncle to do business, but before he could speak, Jiutian would not give him a chance.
"Wu Jin, come here, I'm looking for you something!"
Wu Jin obediently went to the backyard with her, he was the first time to the backyard of the bookstore, the small courtyard was not big, close to the small river, built two bamboo sheds, one is wisteria, one is grapes, the leaves are tender green, lush, climbed the whole courtyard, there is a green pottery ancient tank in the corner to make a fish pond, a few velvet red goldfish and pearl goldfish swim in the tank, there is a stone table under the wisteria, there is a waist drum-shaped stone bench on each side, clean and spotless, a tea set and a few books are placed on the stone table, a quiet place to read.
"You sit down first!"
Jiutian sat down first, and Wu Jin also sat down, "What's the matter?" ”
Jiutian Youyou sighed and smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry, tomorrow is the beginning of our first day of writing, but I have to ask you for leave." ”
"Oh! Do you have something? ”
"Hmm!" Jiutian nodded lightly, "Tomorrow is Shengnan's eldest brother to Pingjiang County to welcome his relatives, according to customs, he must be accompanied by two younger sisters, one is naturally Shengnan, the second Shengnan wants to ask me for help, originally I didn't want to go, because tomorrow I will start writing a book, I suggested letting Yimei go, anyway, she is fine, but last night Shengnan's mother came to visit Sufu, she offered to let me go, and my aunt agreed, this is very difficult to do, I heard that I will go for two days, I don't want to make my aunt unhappy, I have to think of you to ask for leave, or, Let's change the day after tomorrow! All right? ”
Jiutian looked at him apologetically, hoping that he would not be angry that he had breached the contract, in fact, Wujin himself was here to ask for leave, it was best for Jiutian to take the initiative to delay, he was about to say that in fact, he also had something, he had a change of mind, why did he say it? Wouldn't it be nice to let Jiutian owe himself a favor?
He smiled a little proudly in his heart, and pretended to be very helpless, "Then forget it, I originally wanted to tell you the story of Tang Seng tomorrow, since you are not free, then next time!" ”
Wu Jin didn't know that Jiutian had been looking forward to tomorrow's book meeting for a long time, if it weren't for her aunt being a little angry, she really refused, she heard Wu Jin want to tell the story of Tang Seng, and her heart was even more difficult to give up, she suddenly had an idea, and hurriedly smiled and said: "Otherwise, you go with me, anyway, several friends of Brother Shengnan are also going, you just think it is one of them, I heard that it is to go by boat, it just so happens that we can have a good chat about Tang Seng's story on the way, what do you think?" ”
Wu Jin was taken aback, how could this work, he was going to leave this afternoon, "This... This, you know that Zhao Shengnan and I have a little bit of that, so I won't go. ”
Jiutian smiled, her smile seemed to be like a lotus flower that had just bloomed, and her pretty face was extremely beautiful.
"Isn't that right? You guys just clear up the misunderstanding, smile and smum, no Jin, okay, just follow me! ”
There was a hint of coquettishness in Jiutian's tone, which made Wu Jin's heart flutter, and he almost couldn't help but blurt out, "Okay, I'll go with you!" ’
But he had already promised Su Hanzhen, how could he not believe his words, he was a little frustrated, and secretly scolded Su Hanzhen in his heart for finding trouble for himself, so he had to sigh, "I really want to go!" But I'm busy repairing the bridge tomorrow, and I really can't leave....."
Wu Jin hated 'Knock knock! He knocked twice on the stone table, "Sorry! ”
Jiu Tian smiled and said, "Then forget it, let's say okay, early the day after tomorrow, we will meet here, I will make you a pot of good tea, and treat you well!" ”
"Okay, I promise!"
At this moment, Wu Jin had already thrown the responsibility of accompanying the ground out of the clouds.
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