Chapter 15: Evil Comes to Honuer
Xu Changting rarely woke up naturally today without being harassed, rubbing his sleepy eyes and yawning, and saw that Liang Caier was already busy adding water to the copper basin.
Hearing the movement, he turned around and saw Xu Changting, and said with a smile on his face: "Weiyang has woken up, the water temperature is just right now, wash your face and sober up first." β
"Thank you, Sister Cai'er." Xu Changting walked up to him and smiled at Liang Caier.
has long been accustomed to the attitude that neither Xu Changting nor the Xu sisters treat her as a real maid, Liang Caier just smiled, and then took advantage of Xu Changting's washing time to go into the bedroom to help Xu Changting clean up.
"Sister Cai'er, what about the eldest sister and the second sister?" Xu Changting, who had finished washing, asked towards his room.
"They're all making new clothes ahead." Liang Cai'er's voice came from inside.
Xu Changting was already standing at the door of his room, leaning on the door frame and looking at Liang Cai'er who turned back with a smile, and said, "No wonder Sister Cai'er looks elated today, the second sister plans to make you a few new clothes?" β
"It's two new clothes, and new shoes and socks." Liang Caier replied with a smile.
"Then if you don't choose fabrics, and come to me, you're not afraid that the good materials will be occupied by my sisters." Xu Changting yawned, last night was another night of tossing and turning like a pancake.
"It doesn't matter, the materials you bought back yesterday are all good materials, and the colors are very good." Liang Caier said while busy cleaning up.
"That's okay, Sister Cai'er, you are busy first, I'll go to the front yard to take a look, and help you take some good material." Xu Changting said hehehe, and the last sentence seemed to mean something.
At first, Liang Cai'er didn't come back to her senses, until she suddenly looked down at her bulging chest, and then realized the last sentence Xu Changting had just said, and her cheeks instantly turned red.
Tailor-made clothing is not of much interest to men, but for women, it can be described as a lively party no less than an important holiday.
The weather was beautiful, the breeze swept through the courtyard, and the newly grown leaves shook their heads in the breeze. The sun shines on the courtyard, on the maids and women in the house.
The fabrics bought yesterday were divided into several piles, some should be made into what kind of clothes, some should be made into what kind of shirts and skirts, some high-quality materials would be made into intimate clothes, and even the fabrics of quilts and bed sheets, all of which were in their discussions and plans.
Back and forth, tirelessly pick up the material and compare it on the body, or twist the fabric with your hands to feel the texture, and then seriously discuss with the person next to you, what style should be made, make it wider and look better, or be thinner to look beautiful?
After watching Xu Changting come over, the eldest sister Xu Changhong, who got up from the pile of fabrics, personally prepared a meal for Xu Changting.
Looking at Xu Changting, who was gobbling up, Xu Changhong felt that this was more comforting to her than anything else, and from beginning to end, a pair of eyes were always full of tenderness.
"Sister, has Huo Nuer's amount been measured? Why don't you see others? Xu Changting asked while eating.
"In the front stable, I'll make it for them when I'm done measuring it for you." Xu Changhong held his delicate chin and said with a smile.
In Xu Changhong's heart, no matter what it is, Xu Changting will always be in the first place, and only when Xu Changting has it, she will think of others.
"I need to go out today." Xu Changting lowered his head and said vaguely.
Xu Changhong frowned slightly, nodded and agreed after a pause, but told him to be careful after going out, don't cause trouble, and then get up and let Xu Changting prepare the car.
"Sister, no need, I'll walk out with Huo Nuer for a while, just casually." Xu Changting raised his head and stopped.
Xu Changhong looked at Xu Changting, then slowly sat down again, and then repeated the clichΓ© advice, which made Xu Changting sometimes suspect that Xu Changhong was not his eldest sister at all, but more like his own mother.
Because he was stupid since he was a child, even Xu Changting, who grew up in Danfeng City, was not familiar with Danfeng City at all.
As for the friends he knows, there are even fewer of them, except for Feng Zidu, Xu Changting has almost no friends in Danfeng.
As for Lu Xidao, it was only during the period when their family was about to leave Danfeng and go to Xining that they had an intersection, and it was also at that time that there was a dispute because of Xu Changting, and Lu Xidao finally slapped Xu Wenrou with a slap, but Xu Wenrou returned two slaps at that time.
In Xu Wenrou's opinion, the matter has been settled, but in Xu Changting's opinion, this matter is far from over.
After measuring the clothes indiscriminately, and calling Huo Nuer and the mallet over to measure the clothes together, Xu Changting walked out of the house under his mother's advice.
The stables built at the door are quite spacious, whether it is the horses used when driving, or the nine catties and charcoal that are brought back, there is a relatively spacious "foothold" in the stable.
Xu Changting didn't plan to ask Steward Liang to send someone to send the title deed to the willow bark, but planned to go there himself today.
Last night, he tossed and turned like a pancake, so that he, who originally planned to live the life of the first and second ancestors, had to make some changes to his ideal life for some reasons.
Especially after seeing the test method in his father's room last night, Xu Changting began to worry about his father's safety in the court.
So...... Maybe something needs to be done in the future so that I can give my father some support and protection. And he also planned that if he could, he might as well start with Banlong Village.
Originally, he planned to go to Banlong Village with Huo Nuer, but he looked back at the taciturn mallet, and after thinking about it, he asked the mallet to also take out a horse from the stable and go to Banlong Village with the two of them.
Hearing that Xu Changting also asked him to go back to Banlong Village, the mallet was stunned for a moment, and then after being reminded by Huo Nuer, a smile instantly appeared on his dark face, and he almost ran away and rushed straight to the stable, which frightened several horses inside for a while.
Xu Changting looked at Huo Nuer next to him with some surprise: "What's the matter?" You've always been deep and you're talking to a stranger? β
Huo Nuer tied the long hair tied back to the back of her head, glanced at Xu Changting and said, "You should first ask me where I slept last night." β
"Don't tell me it's in the stable with the mallet?" The back door of the stable leads directly to the west cross courtyard in the house, and after the mallet came to the Xu Mansion, Steward Liang specially arranged a room for him in the west cross courtyard.
"That's right." Hornuer said proudly.
Xu Changting watched the mallet lead a horse out, looked at Huo Nuer again, and finally said: Sick.
"I still feel more secure and comfortable sleeping with horses, like going back to ...... My home. Huo Nuer followed Xu Changting and said.
"Whatever you want, just stop being scared and live in the trees." Xu Changting said lightly.
"No, since we returned to Danfeng, I have been living in a firewood house in the backyard for the past few days......." Hornuer said with a smile.
Xu Changting was helpless for a while: "If you don't say that you are sick and let others know, you still think that I am abusing you, as if I didn't prepare a room for you." β
"Life is too comfortable, people will become lazy." Hornuer said thoughtfully.
Xu Changting did not look at him impressedly because of this.
Not long after arriving in Xining, by chance, Xu Changting picked up Huo Nuer, who was covered in injuries and dying, on the side of the road.
In Xu Changting's words, he didn't realize that he had picked up a person at that time, and he always thought that he had picked up a cat and a dog.
Don't sleep in a cleaned room, don't eat at the dining table, don't sit on a chair, sit in a corner, eat only in a corner, and most importantly, sleep on a haystack.
When he first arrived at Xu's Mansion, he even slept outside the window of Xu Changting's room, but after he was scared by Xu Changting's eldest sister Xu Changhong, who was about to wake up Xu Changting, he was kicked and beaten by Xu Changting and rushed to the room that had been prepared for him a long time ago.
But on the second day, when Xu Changting pushed open the door and didn't check whether the person was in the room, a voice came from overhead: "I'm here." β
"You're sick, birdman, sleeping in a tree?" Xu Changting raised his face and scolded.
Honuer came down from the tree lightly, scratched her head, and explained a little embarrassedly: "I'm not used to it." β
Then Xu Gongzi was a little dazed, and he was stunned for a while before he understood: "Are you not used to sleeping in a room and like to sleep on a tree?" β
Hornuer looked up at the "bed" where she had slept for half the night last night, shook her head and said, "I like to sleep in the haystack, or sleep with the horses, it is warm in winter and cool in summer. β
"Let ......." Xu Changting just wanted to say the last word, but he saw the second sister jumping over, so he had to swallow the last word back into his stomach.
From the day he picked up Huo Nuer to heal his injuries, Xu Changting has always been very interested in Huo Nuer's identity, why is he scarred and why he is lying on the side of the road like a dead dog? Who hurt you, where is your home, etc., Huo Nuer has never said a word.
Even now, Xu Changting doesn't know Huo Nuer's life experience very well, only that he was born and raised in the grassland, and he once had his father and mother brothers and sisters, as for the rest, every time Xu Changting asked, Huo Nuer always talked about him.
Of course, now Xu Changting also knows one thing, that is, Huo Nuer's full name is called Evil Lai Huo Nuer.
After a day, he came to Banlong Village again, Xu Changting and Huo Nuer didn't feel anything, but the mallet next to him who didn't talk much along the way was extremely excited, and his waist on horseback was straightened, his chest was straightened, his head was raised, his eyes became bright, and he looked like he was "obscene" when he returned to his hometown.
However, along the way, after Xu Changting and Huo Nuer's side knocks, I also figured out one thing, that is, the mallet is not called a mallet, and there is also a rather elegant name: He Chenghuan.
It's just that when the mallet says his name, a touch of embarrassment will appear on his dark face.
In Banlong Village, he also has an elder brother named He Chengtian, a Confucian scholar who reads poetry and books, but he has never been able to meet his Bole.