Chapter 221: The Gift
Pei Yin frowned slightly, he seemed to hear a trace of anger in Ah Yu's words, but when he looked at Ah Yu carefully, he couldn't find anything on her face.
Ah Yu lowered her head and took a sip of tea, when she was uneasy, she would always make some small movements to calm her mood, such as drinking tea.
The manifestation of human emotions is most evident between words.
Especially since Pei Yin saw Ah Yu, he didn't think about covering it up.
He had anger in his heart, and he didn't send it out directly to Ah Yu, but when he talked to Ah Yu, there was still a little bit of anger faintly, but after hearing Ah Yu's answer, those anger became shallow apologies.
Ah Yu also saw Pei Yin's face gradually soften, and then asked, "Brother Pei asked me like this, is it because he found that someone deceived you?" Would you like to talk to me and let me help me come up with an idea? ”
There was no hidden danger around him, and Ah Yu became much more lively.
She always has a lot of guilt in her heart for the people who have helped her in the past, because she doesn't know when she will be able to repay the kindness she once had, so in the face of these 'creditors' in an alternative sense, Ah Yu hopes that they will have a place where she is needed.
Before Pei Yin could speak, the door of the box was suddenly pushed open.
Su Mingzhe shook the paper fan, and when he stepped into the door, he was still muttering: "I said Pei Yin, have you taken the wrong medicine recently, you have a stinky face all day long, as if someone owes you money, do you want my brother to accompany you for a drink, let you pour a good bitter water......"
He rarely wanted to care about his friends, and he went to Pei's Mansion to find someone, but Pei Yin didn't find it, but he met General Pei.
The general who has been stationed at the border all the year round has his own evil spirit, which is incomparable to a weak scholar like him, and he was almost not scared out.
Hurriedly escaping from General Pei's evil spirit, Su Mingzhe estimated Pei Yin's habits, turned around and went to the teahouse to block people.
not only blocked Pei Yin, but also attached a girl's house next to it.
After Su Mingzhe looked up and down at the two people sitting in the room, he saw the stains on the hem of Ah Yu's skirt, with his years of experience in climbing trees and climbing over walls, the girl's house in front of him must not have come out of the main entrance.
He paused, then swallowed a quip.
A lot of jokes can't be said casually.
At least in front of Pei Yin, Su Mingzhe didn't dare to make jokes about Ah Yin.
He closed the paper fan in his hand, sat on Pei Yin's right hand, and smiled at Ah Yin: "I haven't seen each other for a long time, Miss Wen looks a lot better!" ”
Reach out and don't hit the smiley person.
Although Ah Yu felt that she was not very familiar with Su Mingzhe and was not suitable to greet her in such a teasing tone, for the sake of Pei Yin's face, she showed a standard smile at Su Mingzhe, and smiled very politely.
Pei Yin glanced at Su Mingzhe beside him lightly, turned his head and said to Ah Yu, "You should have other things to do when you go out today!" ”
"It's already a hassle for you to listen to me complain in vain, and since you have something to do, then I won't stop you......"
A very familiar passage.
Ah Yu always felt a delusion of déjà vu.
Su Mingzhe couldn't help but hug Pei Yin's shoulder, and said with a smile: "How can there be a reason to let the girl leave as soon as I come, I don't think it's too early now, so I just invite Miss Wen to have a meal together." I heard that the shopkeeper of the teahouse has a specialty dish called Longjing shrimp, which tastes excellent and cannot be eaten elsewhere. ”
He winked at Ah Yu again: "That Longjing shrimp is really delicious, don't you want to taste it?" ”
Ah Yu and Pei Yin are also familiar with each other, and some small hobbies have never been hidden.
She glanced at Pei Yin, who had a faint look on the other side, thought about it, and still refused Su Mingzhe's invitation.
Although Longjing shrimp is not often available, thinking about Pei Yin's unhappy appearance just now, Ah Yu feels that this meal is probably not so delicious, so let's wait for the next time when everyone is still in a happy mood, let's try their Longjing shrimp again!
After all, the shopkeeper of the teahouse will not disappear suddenly.
Unable to leave the little girl, Su Mingzhe sighed and withdrew the arm that was still on Pei Yin's shoulder.
He shook his head, and was about to say something to Pei Yin, but when he turned around, he saw Pei Yin's face as usual, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Pei Yin's face as usual.
"Sure enough, I should still invite her to dinner......" Su Mingzhe looked at Pei Yin curiously, "What did the little girl tell you just now, you look much better now, and you don't have the bitterness and hatred before." Tell me about it, let me learn it, and when you are unhappy next time, I will coax you! ”
With such a paragraph, Pei Yin almost didn't knock his head crooked.
Su Mingzhe protected his head, hid by the window, flicked his sleeve with one hand, and the full cup of tea in front of Pei Yin just now was all splashed on his sleeve.
He whispered in pain, and looked at Pei Yin dissatisfiedly: "I haven't said anything yet, why did you start to do it!" ”
Pei Yin said with a cold face: "I remember that I warned you last time, and if you dare to treat me as one of your confidantes, don't blame me for being unkind to you!" ”
It's just a quick mouth.
Su Mingzhe recalled what he had just said, and at this time he also felt a little unreasonable, so he could only talk about other things.
He waved his hand: "Don't talk about this, the way you looked before, even a careless person like General Pei can see that something is wrong with you, and I'm really curious about what Wen Yu told you to make you return to normal so quickly." ”
Pei Yin paused for a moment and said, "It has nothing to do with her, I just suddenly figured out something." ”
As he spoke, he caught a glimpse of the ornament on Su Mingzhe's waist, and couldn't help frowning: "Where did you get this jade pendant, how do I see you wearing it every day?" ”
Su Mingzhe followed his words, glanced down, and then said with a smile: "What I win from others is always more pleasing to me." Why, you forgot that I got this from you! ”
Pei Yin thought about it carefully before remembering the origin of this jade pendant, when he saw the jade pendant, he was always a little unhappy in his heart, but looking at Su Mingzhe's appearance as if he was very happy, he didn't say anything in the end.
After Ah Yu on the other side went out of the teahouse, Aoba and Qingrui surrounded her.
"It's time for lunch, and the girl needs to find a restaurant for a meal!"
Ah Yu subconsciously touched her stomach, when she was talking to Pei Yin in the teahouse just now, she had always been very nervous, so she unconsciously stuffed something into her mouth, and now she didn't feel hungry at all with tea and snacks in her stomach.
She thought for a while and said, "Go directly to Chunhefang to see what Xie Huai'an sent me, and then go home!" ”
If the things sent by Xie Huai'an are not big, then she will take them home by the way, and if the things are big, then hire someone to send the things back to the Wen Mansion, and the results will be similar anyway.
Chunhefang is a place that sells dim sum.
As soon as I walked nearby, I could already smell a sweet smell.
It's a pity that Ah Yu ate too many sweet dim sum in the teahouse before, and not only did he not feel good at this time, but he also felt a little greasy.
There were a lot of people queuing up to buy dim sum, and Ah Yu didn't want to go over and squeeze around with those people, so she asked Qingrui to take the voucher left by Xie Huai'an and go to the steward of Chunhefang next door.
She herself took Aoba and sat down at the noodle shop next to the spring and workshop.
The owner of the noodle restaurant used to be a monk, and although it became vulgar later, the noodle shop he opened only sold somen noodles, and there was no meat at all.
However, his somen noodles are delicious, and there are many customers who come and go.
Ah Yu was filled with tea and snacks in the teahouse, and at this time he only ordered a bowl of noodles for Aoba.
As for Qingrui, we have to wait for her to come back from Chunhefang, who makes the freshly made somen delicious!
After Aoba ate half a bowl of somen noodles, Aoba finally came over with the steward of Chunhefang.
The steward of Chunhefang is a woman who looks very comfortable, she said that her surname is Xia, just call her Xia Steward.
Steward Xia looked at the more restless environment in the noodle shop, and whispered to Ah Yu: "The things sent back by the young master are all placed in the backyard of Chunhefang, does the girl plan to go over and have a look first, or let someone send them directly to the house?" ”
Ah Yu asked her, "Is there a lot of things?" Can I go over and have a look first? ”
Xie Huai'an was far away at the border, and he was still thinking about sending her something, maybe she should also repay the favor.
I heard that the border is bitterly cold, and there should be a lot of things missing!
After Ah Yu decided to return home, he would move out his money box and count them, and buy some food to give to Xie Huai'an when the time came.
Anyway, if you don't bring it in life or in death, she won't spend it at this time, and it will only be left in the box to accumulate dust, so it's better to make the best use of it!
Because the front door of Chunhefang is a shop used for business, Ah Yu and the others entered the yard from the back door, and the yard was indeed as Steward Xia said, with a lot of things.
However, at a glance, Ah Yu took a fancy to the puppy tied to the stone table.
"You also have a dog in the yard, it looks quite small...... "Ah Yu actually likes cats and dogs, but after being scared by a big dog in the Duan family once when she was a child, her parents thought that she was as afraid of dogs as Wen Rong, even if she wanted to raise a dog at home, she didn't get permission.
She knew that the domestic dog could also be very fierce, so she only looked at the fluffy puppy from a distance, and although she wanted to go up and touch it, she still tried to restrain herself.
Steward Xia smiled and said, "This dog was also sent back by the young master, and it was all given to the girl." ”
Winter has not yet arrived, and the border pass has not yet risen to fight for the time being, Xie Huai'an followed the Fan family at the border pass to participate in a few autumn hunts, and many of the furs he sent back were hunted back by himself, even the dog cub by the stone table.
Xie Huai'an met a wild dog that was about to die when he was hunting, and he originally had a kind attack, wanting to let the wild dog go into the ground so that his corpse would not be exposed to the wilderness, and then he found that there were two puppies next to the wild dog.
He left a small one for himself, and the other big one, and gave it to Ah Yu all the way.
Only then did Ah Yu find out that after the puppy saw her, he had been wagging his tail, staring at her with big watery eyes without blinking, and his expression was full of attachment.
As soon as her heart moved, she suddenly had a burst of courage, and went directly to the puppy's side, and stretched out her hand to smooth its hair.
The puppy cub has gone through a long journey, and the hair on his body has been knotted, but because it is one of the gifts to be given to Ah Yu, the subordinates of Chunhefang took the risk to clean it again, and then there is a clean puppy under Ah Yu.
Feeling the softness of the palm, Ah Yu looked at the exceptionally well-behaved puppy in surprise: "It looks so well-behaved!" ”
He turned his head to look at Aoba and Qingrui: "If I take it home, my mother will see that it is so well-behaved, and she should allow me to raise it." ”
Obsessed with the idea that she finally has a dog, Ah Yu even forgot to think about the puppy's future.
Steward Xia took a letter from the side and said, "The young master said that this dog has been specially trained, and the only owner it identifies is the girl, and it is still young at this time, and when it is raised for a few months, it will be able to protect the girl when it grows up." ”
When Ah Yu heard this, he suddenly showed a little hesitation.
A dog's life is certainly shorter than a human's.
She said in a hurry: "The average dog can only live for ten years at most, and more than ten years is a bit too ......."
"The life span of a dog is only so long, and a girl can keep it until the end of its life, so you have raised it for a lifetime, so why be upset about it?" Steward Xia persuaded Ah Yu.
Ah Yu looked up at her, the two of them didn't think about the same thing at all, but thinking about it the other way, there was indeed some truth.
A life is so long, you always have to do a few things that make you happy in order to prove that this life is worthwhile.
She untied the rope from the stone table and took the puppy in her arms.
The puppy curled up obediently and skillfully, rubbing Ah Yu's arm, not making trouble or barking.
As for the other things sent by Xie Huai'an, Ah Yu took a few general glances, and asked Steward Xia to find someone to help send them to the Wen Mansion, while she herself held the dog and slowly walked back.
Probably also had a bit of luck, Mrs. Wen seemed to be extremely busy today, and she didn't notice the Ah Yu who sneaked out of you, nor did she notice the many boxes that were sent to the mansion with great fanfare.
Of course, even if she didn't find out today, she would definitely know about it from other sources tomorrow.
So Ah Yu hurried the time, sorted out all the things, chose the things he liked more and kept them in the private vault, and by the way, according to what Xie Huai'an said in the letter, he also gave a gift to the other elders and sisters in the house.
Immediately afterwards, he went to rummage through his money box, divided most of the money he had saved over the years, and handed it over to Qingrui to buy grain and send it to the border.
At night, Ah Yu did not let people keep vigil or go to bed early, but sat on the bed with the quilt.
The night near winter, which was also a little cooler, she silently counted the patterns on the quilt, waiting for the pain to come.