There were people supporting boats by the river, so Xiao Zhi directly rented a boat and asked the boatman to take him around casually.

Chief Steward Wu followed all the way, and he was relieved to see that Xiao Zhi just wanted to distract himself.

Xiao Zhi is a landlubber, and Kyoto City only has a small lake, and there is no such scenery.

"The little master is not a local at first glance, but he has to sit firmly, there is wind in winter, and the water surface is not very peaceful." The boatman said with a smile, usually the people who use his boat go straight to the county seat, these two really seem to be here for sightseeing.

Xiao Zhi smiled and said, "It's really interesting for you to go to the place." Looking at the village not far away, he asked, "Is that Xijia Village?" ”

"Exactly." The boatman answered, and then sailed in the shallow water, and he could also see through the quiet appearance of Xijia Village.

Xiao Zhi felt that the scenery in the countryside was also good, he used to think that Kyoto City was the best and most prosperous, but after seeing too much prosperity, this kind of quiet village made him feel even more happy.

When he was close to the shore, a duckling swam to the boat, Xiao Zhi smiled and wanted to grab one to play, and it was not far from the small dock on the shore, and he also came to play. As a result, the boat shook as a result. The boatman hurriedly said, "Don't move, sit back!" ”

As a result, it was still too late to say this, and with a plop, Xiao Zhi fell into the water with his head down.

Chief Steward Wu was so frightened that he was also a landlubber, and hurriedly said to the boatman: "Save people!" ”

The boatman was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Can't know water?" ”

"No!" Steward Wu is so anxious that he wants to burn down the house!

The boatman didn't want to go down when he saw the cold river, but if he didn't go down, he would die, so he had no choice but to plunge down.

Xiao Zhi didn't know how to water, and when he saw the boatman coming, the whole person was about to tie the boatman, and the boatman couldn't open his arms and legs all of a sudden, and almost sank with Xiao Zhi.

At this time, Xi Hongdou, who walked to the entrance of the village, heard someone calling for help by the river, and the sound was still a little familiar, but when she saw it, she found that it was Wu Da Steward, so she hurriedly ran over.

"Steward Wu? What's wrong? As soon as Xi Hongdou asked, the steward of Wu hurriedly turned around, and when he saw Xi Hongdou, it was like seeing a life-saving straw, and hurriedly said: "Red Bean girl, my young master has fallen into the water!" ”

Xi Hongdou looked at Chief Steward Wu standing on the boat, and said, "What about the boatman?" "If you fall into the water, the boatman should be the first to save people, right?

"I went down, but I didn't come up!" Chief Steward Wu can't wait to jump off now, if something happens to Xiao Zhi, it is estimated that he will live to the end.

Xi Hongdou saw that there was no one around, so he took off the thick cloak outside, and then jumped into the river.

Xiao Zhi was about to lose consciousness under the water, and the boatman was about to roll his eyes, Xi Hongdou held his breath and finally saw the two of them, seeing that Xiao Zhi was dead or alive, he directly raised his hand and gave Xiao Zhi a punch, Xiao Zhi was in pain and let go, the boatman finally got free, and finally the two of them worked together to fish Xiao Zhi up.

Chief Steward Wu saw that Xiao Zhi had passed out, and he almost fainted, but the boatman came over and punched him twice, and finally let Xiao Zhi spit out the water, and he was sober.

The boatman scolded and said, "He fell by himself, and he can't rely on the money he should pay." ”

The chief steward of Wu hurriedly settled the money, and the boatman felt unlucky, so he hurriedly propped the boat away.

"What can I do? This body is wet, even if you take the carriage back to the county seat, you will freeze. Chief Steward Wu said, after all, it is winter, and the wind is still cold.

Xi Hongdou picked up his cloak and put it on Xiao Zhi, and then said, "Let's go to my house first, and dry the clothes first." ”

Steward Wu nodded, and then helped Xiao Zhi to follow Xi Hongdou to Xi's house.

Aunt Xi is holding the dried wormwood and braiding her hair, and now the fire fold also costs money, and you can be trapped in the fire with something, and you can directly start the fire by blowing when you use it, and press it when you don't use it, and the spark will not be extinguished.

At this time, Xi Hongdou came back in a hurry, followed by the two of them, and Aunt Xi asked in surprise: "Why are you all wet?" Are you looking for death again? ”

"No, someone fell into the water, mother, use brown sugar to boil ginger water!" As he spoke, he asked Chief Steward Wu to help Xiao Zhi to his house first.

Xiao Zhi blew a cold wind for a while, and sneezed vigorously.

Xi Hongdou took the dry sweat towel and asked Xiao Zhi to wipe the water first, and then she also took a change of clothes and went out first.

After changing her clothes, Xi Hongdou took Xi Lin's clothes again and asked Xiao Zhi to deal with them first, so she could go to the stove to dry the clothes.

Xiao Zhi changed into dry clothes, and finally felt that it was not so cold, and Aunt Xi brought brown sugar ginger water over again.

"Thank you." Xiao Zhi thanked him, and after taking a sip of ginger water, he felt that he was pulling from his mouth to his stomach, and his body was much warmer.

Aunt Xi knows Xiao Zhi, what kind of character is the son of the Xiao family? However, when Xiao Zhi, who is usually glamorous and dressed in gorgeous clothes, wears the plain cloth clothes of the farmers, he looks awkward, but the extravagance of that body is really unbearable.

Wu said thank you, Aunt Xi went out first, and Xiao Zhi looked at Xi Hongdou's "boudoir".

Although the room is not gorgeous, it has a warm taste, and there is paper on the small wooden table, and there is something drawn on it, which looks like a ridge somewhere.

Xiao Zhi went out and saw that Xi Hongdou was busy working on the stove, so he went over to speak.

As soon as Xi Hongdou raised his head, he immediately smiled.

"You look really awkward." Xi Hongdou said with a smile, and then took a small bench and put it next to Xiao Zhi for Xiao Zhi to sit on.

Xiao Zhi sat down, and he felt the heat in the stove pit, so he said, "You saved me again." ”

"Again?" Xi Hongdou was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "It doesn't count last time, if I hadn't called you last time, you wouldn't have let people break their heads." And you've saved me too, this time it's kind of a. ”

Xiao Zhi smiled, took the firewood in his hand and threw it into the stove pit, listening to the sound of crackling and peeling, he felt that people were becoming lazy.

"Wait a little longer, your clothes will be better when they are dry." Xi Hongdou said, and let Xiao Zhi go back to the house to rest first.

After the steward Wu changed his clothes, he hurried to find his carriage, Aunt Xi looked at the house, and then went to talk to Xi Hongdou.

"Hongdou, you are a girl who has not yet left the cabinet, how can your boudoir sleep for men?" Aunt Xi is afraid that there will be something unpleasant.

Xi Hongdou didn't care: "Then where do you let people sleep?" My brother and sister-in-law are here, if you sleep with me, you will sleep with me, and you will not sleep with me, what are you afraid of? ”

Aunt Xi slapped Xi Hongdou, when did this Xi Hongdou speak so wildly?

Xi Hongdou smiled: "It's okay, isn't it an accident for the sake of the old customers." ”

Aunt Xi sighed, and then asked her family not to go out and talk nonsense.

After a while, Steward Wu came over with his own carriage, and after Xiao Zhi changed his clothes, he got into the carriage and left.

The carriage of the Xiao family is not small, when he left the village, he was seen, so he talked about it again, when he passed by the river, he saw a woman washing clothes by the river, and what was still in his mouth, Xiao Zhi asked the carriage to stop first, he wanted to hear what those people said.

"That Xi Hongdou is also shameless, Kefu doesn't say it, now I heard that he also seduced the young master of the rich family, I just watched the young master of the rich family enter the Xi family!" A woman said, everyone turned their backs to the shore and didn't pay attention to the carriage behind them.

Another daughter-in-law said: "Just now I saw that the carriage has entered the village, this Xi Hongdou is also powerful, not to mention the death of two, and continue to harm people!" The Zhang family's divorce can't do it, it's still stabbed to death! ”

"But I heard that Zhao Tiezhu is very interesting to Xi Hongdou, although he is a lazy man, but if the Xi family doesn't want to be embarrassed, maybe they will really let Xi Hongdou marry that Zhao Tiezhu! If the vegetables are left for a long time, won't they have to be sold cheaply? As soon as the old woman's voice fell, the long-tongued women around her also laughed.

Xiao Zhi's face was not good, and when he heard these people say bad things about Xi Hongdou behind his back, he immediately wanted to get out of the car to see what ugly these long-tongued women looked!

"Young master, this is someone else's business, if the young master gets off today, I'm afraid that the red bean girl will be talked about even more!" Chief Steward Wu said that Xiao Zhi has not suffered any grievances since he was a child, so he naturally doesn't know how difficult it is for ordinary people to survive. He had also heard about Xi Hongdou being ridiculed and ridiculed by the cook in the Xiao family's kitchen before, if Xiao Zhi hadn't always shown kindness to Xi Hongdou, those subordinates would not have cared about a mountain girl.

Xiao Zhi couldn't be angry in his heart, but he was also afraid that Xi Hongdou would be said like this again because of himself, and in the end he would endure it.

All the way into the county, Xiao Zhi's face was not very good, thinking of his father and mother and others who said that they were "hard", and they felt even more empathy for Xi Hongdou's experience.

After returning to Xiao's house, Xiao Zhi took a bath, and then didn't eat dinner and wrote a letter for Wu to send back to Kyoto City.

Chief Steward Wu looked at the letter in his hand, and his heart was a little complicated, but he still hurriedly sent it to the post house.

Seven days later, Xiao Zhi received a reply that Mrs. Xiao was coming, and when Steward Wu saw that Mrs. was coming, he trembled in his heart, and always felt that something was going to happen.

After a year, it was quite stable, Xi Hongdou spent the sixth day of the new year at home, and Aunt Zhang came to make trouble again, and scolded Xi Hongdou in front of the villagers for being worthless, which made the Xi family angry.

"I'll take a look." Xi Hongdou listened to Aunt Zhang's crying and mourning scolding outside in the room, and she also heard it harshly.

Aunt Xi hurriedly stopped and said, "Don't go, if you go out, you will really let the villagers watch the excitement." ”

Xi's second sister-in-law also said at this time: "If you can't be angry, your sister-in-law will help you scold her away." ”

Xi Hongdou shook his head: "It's useless to scold her once, she will come in the future, I will reason with her, so that she will not have the face in the future!" Aunt Zhang is also a little on the nose, she said that she had to withdraw from the marriage, and then she didn't want to quit, she could do whatever she wanted, she Xi Hongdou was not used to her stinky problems!