Jiangxi and the others didn't know what was happening outside at all, and they were still immersed in their grief, and when they arrived at the county seat, as soon as they entered the city gate, they heard someone talking about the ghost carriage on the official road.

"Xi'er, what are you talking about the noise outside?" Li Shi saw that Jiangxi opened the curtain of the carriage and exposed his head to look outside, so he asked.

Jiang Xi listened for a while before he came back to his senses with a frown.

"It's nothing, it's just that someone is talking about strange things on the road. It's almost noon, and my brother is coming back for dinner, so let's speed up and go back. Jiang Xi diverted the topic, and when the Li family heard that Qin Hao was going home for dinner, he also became excited, and put what he had just done behind him.

The coachman quickened his pace, and Jiang Xi and the others arrived at the courtyard of the alley in the county seat in a short time.

The courtyard here in the county seat is not big, Jiangxi They have just arrived, the concierge shouted, everyone arrived, came to move things, prepared things, and suddenly the whole yard became lively.

"Madam, girl, have you just come from the official road?" The mother-in-law in charge here asked as she walked towards the courtyard with them.

Li nodded, and listened to the woman continue: "A carriage also came from the official road just now, saying that you encountered something unclean on the road, madam, didn't you encounter it?" ”

Something unclean? Jiangxi frowned again, why is the whole county mentioning this, they are on the official road, why haven't they encountered anything. Then this is too evil, so let that family encounter it.

"It's good if you haven't met it, that thing must only be looking for bad people, Madame and Girl are blessed, no wonder you can't see anything."

As she spoke, the mother-in-law led them into the courtyard.

There have been some changes in the yard, the most obvious is that the bamboo planted by Qin Hao himself last year has grown, although it has not reached the height of the bamboo forest in the backyard, it looks unique.

"Wow, Xi'er, you have a lot of bamboo, if I guessed correctly, it should be planted by my cousin."

Li Xuemei's eyes were shining, looking at this and that for a while, and her eyes stayed on the fine bamboo for a long time. She also likes bamboo, but unfortunately the mountains are full of fruit trees, and this is the first time she has seen so many bamboos.

As soon as Li Xuemei opened her mouth, many girls looked at her. Before, they all thought that Li Xuemei was the same as Qing Huan, a girl that Jiangxi bought from outside. After all, they had only heard that the master of the family had bought a new person in the county, but they had never seen it.

Now when she heard the meaning of Li Xuemei's words, she was still a relative of her master, and she didn't dare to slack off.

To say, in fact, they have also seen Li Xuemei before, and during the Lantern Festival last year, Li Xuemei also followed the Li family to the county seat.

It's just that Li Xuemei at that time was dressed differently than now. And people are also a lot taller, if you don't recognize them carefully, you really can't recognize them, which is why they admit their mistakes.

As soon as the girls came to their senses, someone went to clean up a first-class room, and when they arrived at the inner courtyard, the room was ready.

"Girl, it's been a long journey, and hot water is ready in the kitchen, when do you think it's going to be used?" The girl who was waiting in the courtyard of Jiangxi lowered her head and walked in and spoke respectfully.

At that time, Jiang Xi was telling Li Xuemei about the things in the county and waved his hand at her.

"Don't worry about it yet, you can step down."

"Yes."

The girl respectfully stepped back and stood at the door, ready to give orders.

Li Xuemei gently pulled Jiang Xi's sleeve and whispered: "Xi'er, how do I think these people in your county look so restrained, and they don't have any affinity in the town at all." ”

She still likes the people in the town, everyone is happy, not like a master and servant, more like a family member. There, everyone had a smile on their faces, but here, everyone had big words written on their faces, serious and restrained, which made people feel bored when they looked at it more.

Jiang Xi smiled: "After all, the place is different, and the people are different." If you think about it, most of the people in the town are from our village, and no matter how poor they are, they are from neighboring villages and towns. Their hometown is there, and everyone has known each other for many years, so naturally there is nothing unfamiliar with them.

Moreover, most of the people in the village are friendly and there are no taboos, so it is natural to get along well. In addition, most of our family are long-term workers, and everyone is struggling for their own small families, so they naturally work harder.

The people in this county are different, they were all bought by our family, and we didn't know each other before. And before we entered our house, most of our childhood lives were unhappy. After buying it, they can only guard this place, try to do the things at hand well, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault.

Because in their impression, once they make a mistake, they may be sold by the master's family, and if they meet a bad master, then they will live in endless pain for the rest of their lives. Therefore, it is certainly impossible for them to be too friendly with their masters, for fear that they will commit a big taboo and be expelled. ”

"Huh? Speaking of which, isn't the provincial city more serious? Xi'er, I don't even dare to go there when you say that. ”

Jiang Xi raised his forehead and chuckled: "I didn't find you so timid before." ”

Li Xuemei immediately defended herself: "I'm cowardly, I just don't like to get along with such serious people." My mother is right, I may not have been born to be a young grandmother, I like to mingle with people. ”

Li Xuemei's temperament, Jiang Xi likes it quite a lot, lively and cheerful and not pretentious, better than many people.

"It's not so terrible in the provincial capital, how to say it, those girls in the provincial city are different from the county seat. Many of them have been trained, and people like them can't be sold to people who are too bad, so without this worry, their faces naturally look much better.

They are serious in their work, but they have not lost their liveliness by nature, you can see the Qinghuan around me, most of them are like her, there is no lifelessness here. ”

"Whew! That's good, what I'm most afraid of is more serious than that. ”

While Li Xuemei breathed a sigh of relief, she began to look forward to it. The provincial city, she has never been there, and even the news over there has only been mentioned by Jiang Xi and her grandfather before.

Li Xuemei's grandfather is Jiangxi's grandfather. It is said that when the old man was young, he also went to the provincial capital, and worked as a partner in a large pawnshop at that time. Later, when she was old, she went home to marry Jiangxi's grandmother, and then gave birth to her two uncles, as well as her mother and Li Chunlan.

The farthest place in his life was the provincial capital, and now that he is older, he always mentions the provincial capital when he tells his grandson and granddaughter about what happened when he was young.

In the old man's words, the provincial city is simply a fairyland on earth, which is extremely desirable.

Li Xuemei's two elder brothers are relatively cold, and they will listen to these things, and they will not have anything. But Li Xuemei is different, she is a girl who loves fantasy, so she has always longed for the provincial city.

"Girl, the young master is back, you can start eating." Qing Huan walked in from the outside with a smile, and the girl at the door glanced at her, both envious and a little disdainful. probably thinks that Qing Huan is not restrained enough, and he is not at all like a maid who is qualified to serve the girl. On the other hand, she was very envious of such a Qinghuan, envied the smile on her face, and was valued by Jiang Xi.

Jiang Xi touched her stomach, she was already hungry, and when she came over, she also ate two pastries on the mat, otherwise it would be impossible to persist until now.

Holding Li Xuemei's hand, Jiang Xi said excitedly: "Let's go, let's go to dinner, I haven't seen my brother for almost half a month." After dinner, I'll take you to my brother's school, let's go to the street again, I haven't even seen the newly opened post station. ”

"Okay, okay, I didn't go shopping much last time, I also brought silver this time, my mother told me, if there is anything that I think is good, let me buy it first, and then give it to my brother for marriage."

The life of the Li family is getting better, and they have money in their hands, Li Xuemei's mother is such a pair of children, and she can't wait to give them the best things.

This time Li Xuemei went out, her mother gave her more than ten taels of silver, let her take it, buy a little jewelry here in the county, and then see if there are any novelties, and buy two silk flowers for the Zheng family girl by the way.

There are no silk flowers sold in the town, and these can only be bought in shops in county and provincial towns. Girls, most of them like these, Li Xuemei's mother didn't want to treat Zheng Yulian, the future daughter-in-law, badly, so she asked Li Xuemei to buy some back.

The two of them walked towards the dining room, and in their house, except for the banquet, they would not eat in the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard at other times. It's just that sometimes, Qin Hao is busy studying, and Jiangxi is also busy with business, so they eat in the small courtyard.

However, whenever they have free time, they prefer to get together as a family. Li also always said that when he ate with the two of them, his appetite was much better, and he ate more fragrantly.

"Brother!" Before he walked into the dining room, Jiang Xi saw Qin Hao who came back from school, waved at him, Qin Hao also sped up his pace, smiled and nodded with Li Xuemei, and then his eyes fell on Jiang Xi.

"I didn't say hello this time, if someone hadn't come to tell me, I really didn't know, maybe I would have used it casually outside with them at noon."

"Brother, don't say anything casual, if my mother knows that you eat casually, I will have to count you down again."

Xu thought of Li's reaction after hearing it, and Qin Hao smiled helplessly: "That's it, don't tell your mother about this." Let's go, let's go in. ”