Chapter 153: New Year's Day
Lord Zhang's family suddenly suffered a disaster, which caused a huge sensation in Qingshi County. Because of Zhang Hua's reign in the past few years, the lives of the people in Qingshi County have not changed much. So everyone was speculating about what Master Zhang had done, but they turned around and went to their own business.
Ordinary people are very simple, as long as you don't affect their lives, they don't care who is in power at all.
So a few days after Mr. Zhang's accident, everyone put this matter behind them and began to prepare for the New Year.
The business of the supermarket is also coming to an end, Liu Meiniang and Zhang Jihan have bought some New Year's goods, and they are also ready to go back to Liuhe Village for the New Year.
"Ji Han, what are you always doing with me, I'll just go buy some embroidery thread." Looking at Zhang Jihan, who was following the same trend beside her, Liu Meiniang said helplessly.
"No, no matter where you go, I'll follow you." Zhang Jihan shook his head and said stubbornly.
After the last incident, Xue Wuyi sent Liu Meiniang back and told Zhang Jihan what happened before, and Zhang Jihan was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.
He couldn't imagine what would happen if Liu Meiniang really suffered? How can their Zhang family still live?
So recently, as long as Liu Meiniang goes out, Zhang Jihan will follow Liu Meiniang every step of the way no matter what she is busy with.
Liu Meiniang sighed, feeling that Zhang Jihan was too careful.
Now that Lord Zhang, Mrs. Zhang, and Zhang Xueying are all in prison, who else in Qingshi County will harm her?
But no matter what Liu Meiniang said, Zhang Jihan still did not compromise, and Liu Meiniang had no choice but to go with him.
"Mei Niang, here!" When passing by a teahouse, Liu Meiniang heard someone calling her, and when she looked up, Xue Wuyi was waving to him on the second floor.
Liu Meiniang asked Zhang Jihan to go up with her, Zhang Jihan waved his hand, and said that he would go shopping and pick up Liu Meiniang later. Liu Meiniang didn't say anything more, and watched Zhang Jihan leave.
"Why are you here?" Liu Meiniang went up to the second floor, and Xue Wuyi waited at the staircase.
"I'm here for tea, I just happened to see you." Xue Wuyi said with a smile.
I don't know why, after that incident passed, Liu Meiniang's feelings for Xue Wuyi changed.
used to just treat Xue Wuyi as a good friend, but after learning Xue Wuyi's identity, Liu Meiniang just wanted to keep a distance from Xue Wuyi.
"You're in a good mood." Liu Meiniang raised her eyebrows and quipped.
"Why haven't I seen you on the street lately?" Xue Wuyi made Liu Meiniang a cup of tea and asked.
"Buy New Year's goods." Liu Meiniang sighed, did Xue Wuyi think that everyone was as idle as him?
"Really?" Xue Wuyi asked with a smile.
"By the way, how are you going to celebrate the New Year?" Liu Meiniang asked.
"I'll go back to the capital." Xue Wuyi said lightly.
"That'...... I wish you a happy new year in advance. Liu Meiniang propped her chin and spoke in a relaxed tone.
"I hope so." Xue Wuyi was a little melancholy.
If he could, he wouldn't want to go back, that deep mansion compound, everyone only knew how to fight openly and secretly, where to stay free in Qingshi County.
"And when are you leaving?" Liu Meiniang asked.
"Tomorrow." Xue Wuyi took a sip of tea and said.
"Have a nice trip." Liu Meiniang said with a smile.
"Okay." Xue Wuyi glanced at Liu Meiniang, and her peach blossom eyes were full of tenderness.
"I won't send you tomorrow, so I should practice it for you today." Liu Meiniang picked up a cup of tea and replaced the wine with tea.
"See you in the next year." Xue Wuyi said.
Coming out of the teahouse, Zhang Jihan was waiting at the bottom.
"Sister-in-law, Xue Gongzi." Zhang Jihan greeted.
"Ji Han." Xue Wuyi nodded.
"Goodbye." Liu Meiniang waved at Xue Wuyi.
Xue Wuyi glanced at Liu Meiniang deeply, shook the fan and left.
"Where is Xue Gongzi going?" Seeing that both of them looked a little heavy, Zhang Jihan asked.
"It's going to be the capital for the New Year, okay, let's go shopping quickly." Liu Meiniang took the lead and walked away after speaking, and Zhang Jihan also left.
After the two left, Xue Wuyi's figure appeared on the corner of the street again.
The reason why Xue Wuyi left this time was so sentimental was because he would definitely tell Xue Wuyi about his family when he went back to his house this time, and in the sons of the noble circle in the capital, there are indeed few men like Xue Wuyi who have not yet married, and Xue Wuyi is a maverick.
In the first two years, he could use his young age as an excuse, and every year he went back in the past two years, his mother-in-law would show Xue Wuyi all kinds of girls.
Xue Wuyi's resistance before was because the girls that his mother-in-law found for Xue Wuyi were from poor backgrounds, they were all people with weak personalities, which was what Xue Wuyi disliked the most.
When I went back last year, my mother-in-law looked at the second daughter of a third-grade official in the court, and her appearance was barely strong, but her personality was submissive.
Xue Wuyi's longing wife and partner are the kind of women who have their own ideas, not like the same ladies in Beijing, and the girl whose mother-in-law looks at Xue Wuyi, Xue Wuyi naturally looks down on her.
This also exacerbated the contradiction between Xue Wuyi and Xue Zhongjing.
Xue Zhongjing felt that Xue Wuyi did not learn and did not know how to do it, and engaging in business was even more insulting to the spirit of the literati of the Xue family, Xue Wuyi was a concubine, and the girls who looked at each other were all the second daughters of big families or the mothers of slightly younger officials, so what was Xue Wuyi's dissatisfaction with.
In fact, aside from the identity of the son of Prime Minister Xue Wuyi, in fact, there are still many women in Beijing who want to marry Xue Wuyi, if nothing else, Xue Wuyi is at least rich, and after marrying Xue Wuyi, the family's business will have financial support.
But how could the mother-in-law allow such a thing to happen, in addition to trying her best to kill Xue Wuyi, the mother-in-law of the Xue family has also been ruining Xue Wuyi's reputation.
Xue Wuyi obviously didn't do anything treacherous, but his reputation in the noble circle in Beijing was very bad. Although Xue Wuyi didn't care about these things, he had already moved out of his family, but in the eyes of outsiders, he was still the Xue family, so he still had to go back for the New Year.
Later, when she met Liu Meiniang, Xue Wuyi felt that she had found the love of her life, but Liu Meiniang's eyes were always attracted by Lu Shaoli. This made Xue Wuyi distressed.
Today, Xue Wuyi deliberately waited for Liu Meiniang somewhere, just to say goodbye to Liu Meiniang, because he didn't know if he could come back to Qingshi County after the end of this year.
It wasn't until Liu Meiniang's back could not be seen that Xue Wuyi left silently.
Liu Meiniang and Zhang Jihan bought a lot of things, and on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the two paid the staff of the supermarket, closed the supermarket, and prepared to go back to Liuhe Village for the New Year.
Early the next morning, Liu Meiniang got up as soon as it was dawn.
When she went home, Liu Meiniang set two carts of things, the ox cart pulled the New Year's goods to be used by the family for the New Year, and the carriage also contained some things to use and eat.
Liu Meiniang simply made some porridge and side dishes, and after eating, she packed up the dishes and chopsticks and was about to set off.
"Hey, sister-in-law, where's the meat bun?" was about to leave, Zhang Jihan suddenly asked.
After Zhang Jihan came to the county seat, he also saw the meat bun, and Liu Meiniang panicked and said that it was a tiger cub that she picked up when she went out to play with Xue Wuyi.
Zhang Jihan didn't doubt it, and he liked to tease the meat bun every day. Because she was going home today, Liu Meiniang didn't release the meat bun from the space, but she didn't expect Zhang Jihan to ask.
"Look at my brain, the meat bun must be sleeping in the nest, I'm going to pick it up." Liu Meiniang pretended to forget and patted her head, turned around and was about to go in.
"Sister-in-law, I'll go." Zhang Jihan rushed in front of Liu Meiniang and walked inside.
"I'd better go, the meat bun is afraid of raw, hehe." Liu Meiniang laughed twice and hurriedly ran into the house. Close the door and pull the meat bun out of the space.
Meat Bao happily licked Liu Meiniang's face, although the space is big and fun, but it is only a tiger, in comparison, Meat Bao still likes to play with Liu Meiniang outside.
Looking at the round meat bun, Liu Meiniang sighed, where does the current meat bun look like a tiger, it is simply a pig.
"Let's go." Liu Meiniang came out with a meat bun.
"Sister-in-law, I'll drive, you go and sit inside." Zhang Jihan said.
"Okay." Liu Meiniang no longer competes with Zhang Jihan, her driving level is really average, if it is an empty car, it is fine, now that the car is loaded with so many things, Liu Meiniang is still a little stunned, and Liu Meiniang obediently stayed in the carriage.
The carriage was smooth and steady along the way, and Liu Meiniang gave Zhang Jihan a thumbs up for his driving skills.
As soon as the carriage and ox cart stopped at the gate, Zhang Dandan ran out of the smoke.
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law is back." Zhang Dandan shouted happily.
"Dandan." Liu Meiniang poked her head out of the carriage and beckoned to Zhang Dandan.
Zhang Dandan was attracted by the meat bun in Liu Meiniang's arms.
"Sister-in-law, what are you holding in your arms?" Zhang Dandan's eyes widened and he said.
"Puppy." Liu Meiniang laughed, and Zhang Jihan rolled her eyes in a place where Liu Meiniang couldn't see.
"Puppy puppies, so cute." The meat bun suddenly hit Zhang Dandan's heart, Zhang Dandan opened his hand and was about to hug the meat bun, but he didn't expect the meat bun to "whine" at Zhang Dandan, looking like Zhang Dandan was not allowed to hug it.
"The puppy is afraid of life, let it familiarize itself with the environment first, and then you can hold it after a while." Looking at Zhang Dandan's injured little face, Liu Meiniang couldn't help but smile and comforted.
"Okay." Zhang Dandan looked at Liu Meiniang's meat bun aggrievedly on the ground, and the meat bun began to smell everywhere.
Zhang Dandan followed behind the meat bun.
"Mei Niang is back." Zhang Li came out of it and saw Liu Meiniang, and his face unconsciously smiled.
"Mother, I'm back." I haven't seen Zhang Li for a long time, and Liu Meiniang really misses it.
Zhang Li was followed by Zhang Tongtong, Zhang Tongtong just glanced at Liu Meiniang lightly and stopped talking.
"Mother, Ji Han and I will move the things down first." Liu Meiniang patted the back of Zhang Li's hand, turned around and went with Zhang Jihan to carry the things on the ox cart.
"How did you buy so much?" Zhang Li was so angry that he still couldn't hide his happiness in his tone.
In the past, when I used to buy so many things during the Chinese New Year, it was a good thing to be able to eat a meal of white rice, white noodles and meat.
Seeing that there were clothes and food on the ox cart, and there were even a lot of fireworks, Zhang Li was very pleased.