Chapter 5 The Storm Rises Again
It's easy to stay up until the master of the Zhao Mansion finishes eating, the leftovers are withdrawn, and the cooks go to eat collectively, gentle, tired and hungry, but they still have to stay in the kitchen to wash the pots and bowls and clean up the table. The big vat of clean water that was stained by Sister-in-law Wang, Sister-in-law Liu also pointed out to let her pick and change, and gently saw that there was no one in the kitchen, so she secretly used the wastewater, and then washed those pots and bowls, and then rinsed them with clean water, and finally picked up the flat pole and two buckets by the side of the water tank, and went out to fetch water.
Fortunately, the well is only a few dozen meters away from the kitchen, not too far, and the problem of fetching water is easy to solve. Just when she hesitated to carry back the bucket of water, or simply gritted her teeth and walked, she suddenly heard a familiar voice in her ear: "Carrying water?" I'll help you. ”
Wen Rou was startled, and when she turned around and saw that it was Zhao An standing behind her, she was relieved and said with a smile: "Why didn't you eat?" I haven't thanked you for the other day! ”
A few days ago, Wen Rou was still immersed in the shock of bizarre crossing, and the grief was inexplicable, Zhao An brought her a few times of stick medicine, but she ignored it, and now her mood is finally much calmer, and then she remembered that she hadn't thanked him yet.
"You don't have to take the little things to heart." Zhao An seemed a little uncomfortable in the face of gentleness, his eyes always didn't dare to focus on her face, he only snatched the two buckets of water in her hand, and easily put it on his shoulders as soon as he picked it up, and said as he walked: "I've already eaten, but I haven't seen you yet, you shouldn't have eaten yet." ”
Hearing this, Wen Rou sighed and said: "Don't mention it, this whole day can only be described in two words - miserable!" If you want to be lazy and rest, it is difficult to drink saliva, let alone eat. ”
"You-" Zhao An suddenly stopped and looked at her hesitantly, "Your speech seems to be a little different from before. ”
"What's the difference?" Gentle was taken aback, thinking to herself that Zhao An didn't see any clues, right? She didn't think that her "borrowing corpse to resurrect the soul" could be casually known, so she blurted out and asked, "Are you familiar with me?" ”
She originally wanted to understand the previous interpersonal relationship of the owner of this body, Ruhua, but she felt inappropriate when she asked what she said, but it was too late to change her words, Zhao An misunderstood her meaning, thinking that she was accusing him of being nosy, and a thin layer of red suddenly appeared on his slightly dark face, fortunately, it was dark, and he couldn't see it, he desperately shook his head and denied it, "No, we are not familiar at all, we are not familiar at all, you don't pay attention to me, I will talk about it." ”
Gentle chuckle, I think this man with a somewhat shrewd face, in fact, is very loyal and honest, but she is also alert to the inappropriateness of her mouth, after all, the people here speak with different words and sentences than her, even the accent is different, the so-called silence is golden, she will still see more, listen more, think more, and speak less in the future.
Xu Yu picked up the water and went back, and gently saw a little girl at the door of the kitchen looking around, and after a closer look, it was Xiaohuan, and when she saw her coming back, she hurriedly beckoned to her and said, "Sister Ruhua, come quickly." ”
"What's the matter?" Gently left Zhao An beside him, and hurried two steps.
"I saw that you didn't go to dinner, so I secretly left two steamed buns and a plate for you, you eat quickly, and when my mother and them come back, you have to be busy washing the dishes that have been removed, and you can't get any food at all." Xiaohuan said, pointing to a plate of vegetables on the table, and handed her the steamed bun in his arms.
The tentacles of the steamed bun were still warm, and a faint warm current suddenly surged in her gentle heart, she thought that this little girl would never dare to talk to her in the future, but she didn't expect to be so careful to keep food for her.
"Brother Zhao An, just pour the water into this tank, but you have to bother to pick it twice before it is full." Xiaohuan saw Zhao An coming in, knowing that he was carrying water for Gentle, so he hurriedly greeted, and when he turned around, he saw Gentle still standing there with his head bowed, and said hurriedly: "Eat quickly, let my mother bump into me carefully!" ”
glanced at Zhao An gently, thanked him with his eyes, and then under Xiaohuan's earnest gaze, he took a big bite on the steamed bun and chewed it twice, and the fragrance of wheat suddenly overflowed. She was really hungry, from morning to now, only drank a bowl of thin porridge, and worked all day, not even drank saliva, at this time the fragrance of food awakened the suppressed hunger, she no longer cared about what to eat, urgently looked for a pair of chopsticks, a chopstick greens, a bite of steamed buns, buried in the bitter eating.
"Sister, be careful of choking." Xiaohuan was frightened by her gobbling up, and quickly scooped a bowl of hot water in the pot of boiling water and placed it in Wen Wen's hand.
Zhao An shook his head and smiled, and then helped her carry water.
After the water tank was full, the two steamed buns had been gently stuffed into the stomach, and the plate of green vegetables was also eaten up, she thanked Xiaohuan while cleaning up the empty dishes on the table, and saw that Zhao An put down the empty bucket and was about to leave, so she hurriedly caught up and said, "How much did you spend on buying stick medicine for me two days ago?" ”
"Why are you asking this?" Zhao An rubbed his foot on the ground twice uneasily.
"I'm going to pay you back." She hadn't forgotten the conversation she heard when she was semi-unconscious, and knew that the money Zhao An had saved was to redeem himself for himself.
"A few small dollars, you don't have to worry about it." Zhao An turned around and went out as he spoke.
"How can this be, it must be returned!" Gentleness rushed up and grabbed his sleeve.
"No, I really don't." Zhao An panicked inexplicably, wanting to withdraw his sleeve from her hand, but he didn't dare to exert his strength, and he looked embarrassed to stand there.
"Yikes! Excuse me! Only then did Wen Rou find that he was "moving his hands and feet" against him, which should have been a taboo in ancient times! Hurriedly let go of his sleeve and retracted his hand, but unfortunately it was too late, and a slightly rough female voice suddenly sounded, shouting her name, "Ruhua!" ”
When she looked back gently, she saw that it was Sister-in-law Liu who came back with two or three cooks, and everyone was staring at her hand, with a very strange expression on their faces, as if they had seen something ugly.
Zhao An saw that something was wrong, and he couldn't say anything, so he hurriedly nodded to Wen Rou and hurriedly avoided it.
"Hey, it's just a meal, and people can find a way to pull and pull with men!" One of the cooks looked at Zhao An's back, couldn't help but say mean words, and turned around and said, "Sister-in-law Liu, you really should take care of it!" I just saw someone in the kitchen probe out, but isn't it your daughter Xiaohuan? ”
As soon as Sister-in-law Liu heard this, she immediately became angry, rushed into the kitchen and took out the small ring and scolded her. Xiaohuan didn't dare to argue, just begged for mercy loudly, and for a while, inside and outside the kitchen, only a crying and scolding sound was heard.
Gentle herself has been wronged and doesn't feel anything, after all, she has already seen all the white eyes in the past few days, but Xiaohuan was beaten because of her, which made her feel uncomfortable like a cat scratching, and when she was about to go up to persuade her, she saw Xiaohuan struggling and crying, and she was still secretly looking at her, teaching her not to care, so she knew that she couldn't go up and add fuel to the fire, so she had to stand in place, bow her head and bite her lower lip, and try her best to endure it.