Chapter 3: In the future, all things that are righteous and brave will come to me
Under the scorching sun, people are about to be melted away like lard boiling soup, Chu Jinrong looked down at his hands that were peeling and blistering, and then looked at the small pergola not far away, threw the hoe, took off the coat that was on top of his head to shade the sun, and ran over.
"Miss Li, you see me and Zhao Xiaotang working so hard, can you sell some chilled watermelon to quench our thirst? We've been busy for a long time and haven't even drunk a sip of water. β
This girl also has some skills, and I don't know where to get the ice in the summer, not only chilled watermelon, but also chilled watermelon juice and chilled sour plum soup, which looks very greedy.
Li Qiuchi sat on a rattan chair and comfortably nibbled on the first ripe watermelon he had grown, and raised his eyes to glance at him.
"Think about how many melon vines and small watermelon eggs you hoeed me, look at Zhao Xiaotang, none of them have been hoeed, you still have the face to beg for food? There is a mountain spring on the other side of the field, if you want to drink water, go there, jump in and take a big gulp, and be full! β
Zhao Xiaotang, who was suddenly named, seemed to have received a similar jealous look from his master......
Chu Jinrong was unwilling, and hurriedly said with a dark face: "It's not to beg, it's to buy!" Can't I spend money to buy it! I have money, how much silver is this watermelon, you give a number! β
Who knows, Li Qiuchi glanced at him with disgust, and sneered: "You are a thief, even if you have it, it is stolen money, and you don't deserve to eat!" β
Chu Jinrong choked, his face was a little unnatural, he was pampered since he was a child, and he was treated preferentially as an heir, who in the palace was not obedient to him, he had always been arrogant, but he didn't expect that one day he would be planted in the hands of a little girl.
He lowered his head and didn't speak, and his hands tightened again and again.
Zhao Xiaotang thought that his master was angry, threw the hoe, stopped doing it, and masturbated. Sleeves rushed over: "You say another word?" β
A stinky farmer is still panting.
It's okay to insult him, but not to your own master!
Li Qiuchi was startled, hid behind a rattan chair, and shouted towards a small courtyard at the entrance of the village: "Mother Wu, little Cuicui, go and call the captain to come over!" Send the official, I want to send these two thieves to the official! It's so fierce! β
As soon as he heard "send the official", Chu Jinrong immediately became anxious, he had been hoeing for two days, and the watermelon had not been eaten yet, so he couldn't send it to the official!
He hurriedly glared at Zhao Xiaotang, and his eyes could be said to be very sharp: "What are you doing!" Look at the scared girl Li, I usually teach you like this? Apologize! β
"Yes, I'm sorry, Miss Li, I just want to roll up my sleeves and cool off, so I don't have to trouble Miss Xiaocui...... Miss Xiaocui and Mother Wu. Zhao Xiaotang turned his face away and said silently in his heart: He definitely didn't apologize because he was afraid of making Xiaocui angry, it was the master who forced him!
"Humph! If you don't hoe the field well before dark, don't eat dinner!" Li Qiuchi was slightly settled, threw the half-gnawed watermelon in his hand to the puppy who was watching the melon field, wrapped a few pieces of saltpeter on the ground that had not been used up for ice making in kraft paper, and pushed the homemade cold drink cart and turned around.
Chu Jinrong looked at the half of the watermelon in front of the puppy, and his heart was not ordinarily uncomfortable.
Puppies can rub a little, he looks so handsome, why not?
I'm so angry, I took a chance to clean up at night......
The last touch of orange on the horizon disappeared, Chu Jinrong and Zhao Xiaotang finally carried their hoes to the small courtyard at the entrance of the village, tired after a busy day, when they saw the little smoke rising from the roof of the small courtyard, they only turned into a soft sigh.
"Zhao Xiaotang, why don't we build a house here, hey, it's next to Miss Li's house, and you can go to her house to eat whatever you want, what do you think?"
For his master's strange thoughts, he said that he wanted to ignore them directly, but he swept the pale green figure that flashed in the courtyard, and suddenly nodded with a secret smile.
"What are you doing stupidly? Come in and eat yet! A crisp shout woke up the two teenagers who were dreaming, Li Qiuchi glanced at the two of them, brought a plate of braised chicken from the kitchen, and put it on the small stone table under the tree: "You two men eat here, we won't go to hoe tomorrow, let's go to the town to set up a stall to sell watermelon juice." β
Chu Jinrong was a little stunned, his eyes fell on the woman's beautiful face, and he suddenly felt that this kind of ordinary life was very down-to-earth, and these dishes that were not sumptuous but delicious, and the idea of starting a family that he had never thought of before suddenly popped up......
Wait a minute!
"Zhao Xiaotang! I haven't eaten your master, who told you to move your chopsticks?! I'm going to deduct your annual salary! β
Li Qiuchi looked at the two people who were very undignified and grabbed food at the stone table, and shook his head, not knowing whether it was good or bad to leave these two people behind.
In the early morning of the next day, Li Qiuchi and Cuiyu got up early in the morning to pack up their things, put all the things into the small cart specially customized by the carpenter in the village, and took Cuiyu and Chu Jinrong's master and servant to the market in the town to set up a stall.
Longnan is surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing water in the south, there are only three seasons of spring, summer and autumn all year round, it is the middle of May at this time, it is so hot that the oil on the top of people's heads is not yet noon, Li Qiuchi will open a huge green tarpaulin umbrella, stand in front of the stall and shout.
"Fresh chilled watermelon juice, chilled sour plum juice, cool cough, cool but hot, delicious and cheap, come and try it!"
Two men and two women, both of whom are handsome men and beautiful women rarely seen in the town, coupled with this chic stall and cold drinks, for a while, Li Qiuchi's stall was full of people, and two large barrels of drinks were sold before noon.
Li Qiuchi was holding a small wooden box containing silver and smirked, the silver that was sprinkled out finally began to be recycled, and it won't be long before she can expand the scale, her gourmet shop ......
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! A discordant sound suddenly appeared in the crowd in front of the stall, and more than a dozen able-bodied little guys brutally pushed away the crowd and surrounded Li Qiuchi and the four of them in the middle.
"Where are you? What is this trying to do? Li Qiuchi put away the wooden box and guarded the jade behind him.
"You stole the master's money and ran away, you still have the face to set up a stall here to do business, when I was the Marquis of Fuyang, I was easy to bully, wasn't it?" Li Haoran, who was dressed in a pink robe, shook his fan and walked out slowly, the fat powder on his face was pasted on his face because of the hot and humid weather in Longnan, but he thought he was handsome: "Give it to me!" Arrest her for me and go to the official, and take away the maid behind her! β
Cuiyu grabbed the corner of Li Qiuchi's clothes in horror: "Miss, this little boy is too much!" Although we have dissociated ourselves from the Fuyang Hou Mansion, you are also his second sister, why is he still biting us! I don't want to be taken away by him......"
Chu Jinrong's eyes suddenly narrowed.
What does jade mean? What second sister? What is disconnected?
Could it be that they and Mama Wu are the three people he has been chasing around the long road, and this Miss Li is the second lady of Fuyang Houfu, his fiancΓ©e, who has a rebellious personality and ran away from home?
Did he find the man by mistake? What about his long journey to find a wife?
"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up! Do you have a bunch of dogs who eat white food? As soon as Li Haoran closed his fan, he threw it directly at one of the guards who was blocking him in front of him, grinning his teeth.
Li Qiuchi snorted coldly, and was about to make a move, when Yuebai's figure suddenly flashed and blocked Li Qiuchi and the two behind him, reached out to catch the fan, and opened it with a bang: "You said that she owes you silver, how much you owe, I will give it for her." β
"You give it for her? What kind of thing are you, hurry up and get out of the way of this son, otherwise this son will launch a threat later, so that your little white face will not be able to eat and walk around! Get out! β
"You ...... dog" Zhao Xiaotang was so angry that he almost rushed up to give him a kick, but Chu Jinrong grabbed the collar on the back of his neck: "Master, they deceive people too much!" β
"You stand back."
The voice did not fluctuate in the slightest, but in the dark it gave people a feeling of not being angry and self-righteous, being in a high position all the year round, Chu Jinrong was used to replacing anger with indifference, seeing this at this moment, Zhao Xiaotang was startled, how many years have I not seen the master really angry, this kid is afraid that he will suffer today!
"Yes." Zhao Xiaotang snorted, reached out and pulled the sleeves of Cuiyu and Li Qiuchi, signaling the two to stay away.
"This jade plate, is it enough?" Chu Jinrong took out a jade plaque from the pocket in front of him, the surrounding area was emerald green, with a little blood red in the middle, and there were a few snowflakes in the jade place, which was a masterpiece in the world.
Li Haoran is also knowledgeable, although he doesn't know the source, but he knows that the essence of jade is not simple, but he said: "Don't think that you can fool your grandfather and me with a fake jade, I have seen more treasures than you have heard." β
His hand was very honestly stretched out to Chu Jinrong's hand.
The corners of Chu Jinrong's mouth hooked slightly, and as soon as his hand loosened the jade, it fell to the ground, Li Haoran stared at the jade, and then pounced on the ground, and found that it was a good product, and he didn't care about his face, so he even crawled and rolled towards the jade, Chu Jinrong's eyes were fast, and he stretched out his leg and stepped on Li Haoran's hand.
Because the robe blocked his feet, the people around him didn't know what was happening, but they just saw his feet on the ground and clicked on them, and then they got out of the way, and then they saw Li Haoran holding his right hand with his left hand, and screaming.
"What's going on? It's so close, can you see clearly whether my jade card is real or fake? Chu Jinrong's smile frightened Zhao Xiaotang, others don't know, he can't be clear, I'm afraid that Li Haoran's hand won't be able to hold things for ten days and half a month at this time.
"You, you, you," Li Haoran shook his hands, hatefully, and waved back: "You dare to hurt my son, I think you don't want to live anymore, come here, arrest me!" β
The people behind him swarmed in, Chu Jinrong also waved his hand back, without saying a word, Zhao Xiaotang stepped forward directly, and with three or five strokes of his bare hands, a group of people fell to the ground, looking not much better than Li Haoran.
They all fled, and the last guard ran two steps, saw that Li Haoran was still in place, turned back, and fled together by his collar.
"Dead girl, I can't spare you!"
The troublemaker was beaten, the people watching the excitement gradually dispersed, and the business on the stall returned to normal, Li Qiuchi thought about it, stuffed a large bowl of chilled watermelon juice into Chu Jinrong's hand, and said with a smile: "For the sake of your righteousness and courage today, sister, I will invite you to drink a bowl of watermelon juice, but you are a melon thief, where did you learn these kung fu?" β
"Hey, I learned from the people who ran the hall on the street, and they were all fakes." Chu Jinrong held the bowl in a panic and poured a big mouthful into his mouth, feeling that the whole person was refreshed.
"Then that jade plaque ......"
"It's also fake, the color on it is dyed with sunflower seeds." Zhao Xiaotang's mouth twitched when he heard this, the royal talisman can also be said to be a street stall, this kind of thing can only be done by His Royal Highness the Prince.
Chu Jinrong wiped his mouth unsatisfied, and suddenly grabbed Li Qiuchi's arm with a serious expression, and said solemnly: "Miss Li, in the future, you will find me for this kind of righteous and courageous thing, is it okay?" β
Li Qiuchi twitched the corner of his mouth, he really wanted to put the bowl in his hand on his head!