Chapter Twenty-Three: I Will Earn Much, Many Pieces of Silver
Shu Xiaobai pretended not to see her small movements, and saluted and called: "Sister-in-law, I'll borrow some soju." β
"What kind of soju, we don't have it at home." Jiang refused without even thinking about it.
"Really?" Shu Xiaobai clearly remembered that when he worshiped the tablet of his father-in-law and mother-in-law on the day of his marriage, Jiang Dahu poured too much wine and was reprimanded by her.
Seeing Shu Xiaobai's big black and white eyes staring straight at her, for some reason, Jiang's heart suddenly became weak, and then remembered that this was her family and not Shu Xiaobai's family, and immediately puffed up his chest again: "I said no, no, do you still want to go into the house to search?" β
Shu Xiaobai stretched out his hand and began to pull Jiang's body.
Jiang Shi was taken aback: "You, what are you going to do?" β
"I went in and asked my father-in-law and mother-in-law to ask for soju, I clearly remember that there was a jar of wine at home on the day I got married to Brother Erhu, and my sister-in-law said no, so I had to go in and find it myself." Shu Xiaobai looked innocent.
Hearing that Shu Xiaobai was going to go in to find it, Jiang's eyes immediately appeared in front of him half a roast chicken on the stove table and white rice and white noodles in the corner jar, and his body trembled, these must not be seen by Shu Xiaobai, otherwise this little hoof will definitely take some away, and maybe in the future, he will not give it to her again, so he rolled his eyes, raised his hand and patted his head: "Look at my memory, I remembered, there was a jar of wine before, but it is estimated that there is only half a jar left, and you will drink a lot of it for your eldest brother." β
"That ......" Shu Xiaobai didn't really want to go in, just to scare and scare the Jiang family, the Jiang family regarded as a treasure, she was not rare. Jiang's head nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "You wait, I'll go get it for you." β
Afraid that Shu Xiaobai would follow up, Jiang ran all the way into the stove room, hugged the wine jar and rushed out.
Shu Xiaobai looked at her appearance, laughed in her heart, took the wine jar and said a kind word: "Thank you, sister-in-law." β
Seeing Shu Xiaobai turn around and leave, Jiang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was faintly annoyed in her heart, she had never been afraid of anyone, she didn't know why she was a little scared of Shu Xiaobai, after several interactions these days, she could see that Shu Xiaobai was not the master to be messed with, and Jiang Erhu not only loved Shu Xiaobai, but also became indifferent and ruthless, but it was just a jar of wine, and it was better to provoke the two of them less.
Shu Xiaobai returned home with the wine jar in his arms and immediately looked at Jiang Erhu.
There was no need to ask, Jiang Erhu knew what Shu Xiaobai wanted to know, nodded and said, "He's in good shape." β
"Great." Shu Xiaobai put his heart in his stomach, put down the soju and began to disinfect the wound of the calf.
In the evening, Shu Xiaobai didn't cook rice, made a few pieces of sweet potato pastry and gave them to Jiang Erhu, and stayed in front of the stove to boil rice oil.
From childhood to adulthood, as long as she was sick, her mother would always boil thick rice oil for her to drink, and after drinking the thick and glutinous hot rice oil, she immediately felt that she was more than half better, but it was a pity...... Shu Xiaobai's eyes were moist, and she had never drunk rice oil since her parents died in a car accident.
"Dad, Mom, are you okay over there? You must not have imagined that my daughter and I would actually travel to ancient times, and marry someone and become a family, but don't worry, I have a good life, I just miss you so much. β
Shu Xiaobai said silently in his heart, and for a while, tears couldn't help but flow down his cheeks.
After coming to ancient times for so long, she has not been so homesick and misses her parents as she is today, maybe it is because she sees the calf touching the scene like this.
The rice in the pot was bubbling and already boiled very thick, Shu Xiaobai wiped away his tears, stood up and put a small basin.
When Shu Xiaobai entered the house, Jiang Erhu had already lit the oil lamp, and when Shu Xiaobai put the rice bowl on the table, he happened to see Shu Xiaobai's expression clearly.
Seeing that Shu Xiaobai's eyes were red as if he had cried, Jiang Erhu suddenly chuckled in his heart.
But Shu Xiaobai then began to get busy, feeding rice oil to the calf, so that he didn't have a chance to say anything if he wanted to, until a bowl of rice oil was fed for most of the bowl, and Shu Xiaobai showed a smile: "If you can drink it, it means that it's okay." β
Seeing the smile on Shu Xiaobai's face, Jiang Erhu's heart also relaxed, he frowned slightly, he didn't like to focus on Shu Xiaobai like this at all, but he didn't know why he couldn't control his eyes and didn't fall on Shu Xiaobai.
"I've been busy for most of the day, let's eat." Seeing that Shu Xiaobai was still standing by the bed, he couldn't help but say.
Shu Xiaobai raised his head and smiled lightly: "I'm not hungry at all, by the way, Brother Erhu, you can go to sleep on the ground tonight." β
The shallow smile and reddish eye circles made Shu Xiaobai in someone's eyes particularly moving, and he asked, "What about you?" β
Shu Xiaobai's eyes fell on the calf's face: "I'm guarding the calf tonight." β
"Then I'll guard him with you." Jiang Erhu replied without thinking about it.
Listening to Jiang Erhu's words, I don't know why Shu Xiaobai felt a warm current in his heart, and he hummed softly.
The moon rose, the white moonlight spilled in from the window, and don't read books and do needlework, it was too wasteful to turn on the oil lamp, Shu Xiaobai raised his hand and wanted to extinguish the oil lamp.
"I'll come." When the lights went out, Jiang Erhu glanced at Shu Xiaobai a lot and saw that her eyes were already looking out the window.
This girl must have something on her mind, but how can he ask? She had said she didn't want him to interfere in her business.
Jiang Erhu hesitated for a long time, not knowing how to speak, usually Shu Xiaobai chattered non-stop, and suddenly, she fell silent, and suddenly he felt that the room was so depressing.
After sitting quietly for a long time, Jiang Erhu couldn't help it, and asked, "Xiaobai, sister-in-law is embarrassing you?" β
Shu Xiaobai was shocked, turned her head, and saw Jiang Erhu looking directly at her, only then did she remember that she only cared about sadness and ignored him.
She shook her head: "No, I'm just going to borrow the altar wine, what can she embarrass me." β
"It's not that my sister-in-law is embarrassing you, are you still blaming me for not accompanying you to the county seat?"
Of course, Shu Xiaobai was depressed when she remembered the events of her previous life, and she was hesitating whether she should talk to Jiang Erhu or not, and when she heard him ask, her eyes rolled, since he took the initiative to mention going to the county seat, then she would talk about it, and the province would have to figure out how to talk to him.
"Brother Erhu, you are also a person who has seen the world, I don't think you want to nest here and eat sweet potato cakes for the rest of your life, right?" Shu Xiaobai pointed to the leftover sweet potato cakes on the table and said.
Jiang Erhu was stunned, his eyes flashed slightly, these words are not like a little orphan can think of, what has she experienced? This shouldn't be like her Uncle Zhu taught it.
After speaking, Shu Xiaobai realized that what she said was a little profound, and immediately added: "I heard Uncle Zhu say that he went to many places when he was young, with delicious food, fun and beautiful scenery, I have always dreamed of going out, to the county, and even to the capital in the future." After speaking, Shu Xiaobai carefully observed Jiang Erhu's reaction.
Jiang Erhu's body shook slightly, he didn't expect him to marry such an ambitious little girl, but during this time of getting along, he did feel that Shu Xiaobai was a little different from others, as for what it was, he couldn't say it for a while.
He subconsciously asked, "Do you want to go to the capital?" β
"Yes, don't you want to go to the capital, such a prosperous place, there must be a lot of fun and delicious food." Shu Xiaobai pretended to be naΓ―ve again.
If you say something profound and philosophical, it is hard to guarantee that Jiang Erhu will doubt it.
Jiang Erhu wanted to say that the capital is not only a fun place, but also a place full of sinister, but Shu Xiaobai would not understand what he said, so he smiled: "Yes, I heard that the capital is very fun, but it is too far away from us." β
"As long as there is silver, distance is not a problem, so" Shu Xiaobai waved his fist: "I want to earn a lot of silver." β
"You can't make a lot of money by going up to the mountains to hunt game." Jiang Erhu kindly reminded.
Shu Xiaobai pointed to the calf on the bed: "I don't only know how to hunt, I can also heal." β
Speaking of this, Jiang Erhu remembered the scene when Shu Xiaobai sucked out the venom for the calf, and looked at her: "Xiaobai, why did you think of sucking out the venom for the calf first?" β
"Uncle Zhu taught me, once I was bitten by a snake, and Uncle Zhu saved me in this way."
Shu Xiaobai didn't even think about it, and pulled out Uncle Zhu as an excuse.
Jiang Erhu said: "Uncle Zhu is really a strange person, you have the opportunity to introduce me to me." β
Shu Xiaobai said in his heart, you reminded me that you will never let you run into Uncle Zhu in the future, but he nodded again and again on the surface: "Okay, I have a chance to introduce you two to each other." β
After talking for a long time, the goal has not been achieved, so she immediately dragged the topic back: "Brother Erhu, let's go to the county seat first, maybe we can find a business opportunity to make money." β
Then he whispered, "It's hard to make a lot of money here." β
It seems that Shu Xiaobai will not give up if he doesn't go to the county seat, Jiang Erhu thought about what to do.
Shu Xiaobai asked him to go with him, he didn't want to take risks, but he didn't want Shu Xiaobai to go to the county seat alone.
After saying this, Jiang Erhu was still indifferent, Shu Xiaobai thought that he was worried about the mask on his face, and said: "If you hire a carriage and don't get down in the car, no one will see your face." β
Jiang Erhu's eyes lit up, she had so many ideas, what she said made sense, he went with her, but he didn't show his face, wouldn't it be okay.
But I don't know why, deep down in his heart, he still doesn't want Shu Xiaobai to go to the county seat, isn't it good to stay here with him like this, then Jiang Erhu was shocked, he seemed to think too much, he himself couldn't guarantee how long he could stay here, Shu Xiaobai wanted to go to the county seat to open his eyes, okay.
So he nodded: "Okay, when the calf is ready, I'll accompany you." β
"yes, that's great." Shu Xiaobai shouted happily.
On the bed, the calf seemed to be woken up by Shu Xiaobai's scream, and snorted, Shu Xiaobai hurriedly stood up when she heard it, and wanted to go over to take a look, who knew that the action was too violent, and she fell during the day and her body didn't stand firm all of a sudden, and she was about to fall to the ground, and suddenly she was pulled by a strong force, and then she was hugged into a warm embrace, and the whole person was hugged tightly.