19. Goldfinger
What appeared in Jiang Wan's mind were some scattered pictures, no sound, only fragments. She saw Pei You change out of the blue shirt he often wears, put on a brand-new moon-white shirt, and stood on top of the beautiful carved beams and paintings in the main hall, talking eloquently; She saw him kneeling down with a happy face, and the man who was on the first dragon chair on the top of the main hall, wearing a dragon robe who seemed to be the emperor, smiled heartily; She saw that he had attended a banquet and received congratulations from many scholars, his cheeks were rosy, and his joy could not be concealed at all.
When those pictures dispersed, Jiang Wan came back to her senses, only to find that she was still holding Pei You's hand. And Pei You, who was being pulled by her, was intoxicatingly red, and froze at a loss, as if he wanted to withdraw his hand, but he couldn't take it back for a while because Jiang Wan was too hard.
Jiang Wan hurriedly let go of Pei You and took a step back, in order to save Pei You, she accidentally dropped the basin, and the clothes that had been washed were scattered all over the place, she picked it up, and didn't say anything to Pei You, rinsed it several times in clean water, squeezed it dry and put it back in the basin.
One is angry that he thinks of her like that, and the other is that he wonders what he saw just now, Jiang Wan doesn't want to talk to Pei You.
Pei You kept the pestle in place, looking at Jiang Wan washing clothes helplessly, the flush on her face had not faded, and she felt very ashamed when she thought of her questioning herself just now.
At the beginning, he promised his mother not to have anything to do with Jiang Wan again, at that time, he believed what his mother said, and later returned the things, he couldn't say anything, she seemed to have something in front of her father...... However, after a few contacts, he suddenly doubted himself who had believed in his mother's words before. His mother's eyes can't see, and the things she can know are all what others told her, in fact, it is impossible for his mother to understand Jiang Wan. And he, naturally, doesn't know all about Jiang Wan, however, judging from the daily contact between the two of them, he actually doesn't believe those words in his heart. He often reads in the yard and under the tree, and he knows that she likes to stay at home on weekdays and rarely goes out, so how can she seduce others?
He was too gullible, and her questioning made his heart beat incessantly, and he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed in his chest when he recalled those clear and angry eyes.
Jiang Wan was right in front of him, but she didn't seem to want to look at him anymore, focusing on washing her clothes, lining him like a fool standing aside.
"Miss Jiang......" Pei Youne opened his mouth, but he just screamed, and he was red again, unable to speak.
Jiang Wan ignored him, washed her clothes by herself, and soon, all the clothes were cleaned, she got up with the basin in her arms, didn't look at Pei You, turned around and left with a cold face.
Pei You panicked somehow, and suddenly had courage in his heart, and took a step forward and said, "Miss Jiang, please...... Please stay! β
Jiang Wan thought that if she didn't stay and listen to what he would say, after all, he had too few opportunities to take the initiative to talk to her, so she stopped, turned her face sideways at him, and said coldly, "What else does Mr. Pei want to say?" If you say something that makes me angry, I'm not going to be kind to you. β
Pei You's face turned red, and he waved his hand again and again: "No, it won't!" Fang is me...... Mine is not. I, I shouldn't believe that, after all, rumors are rumors, not facts, and believing them is really mine. He has always been filial, and he will not speak ill of his mother at this moment, but only regard those things as rumors he heard, not what his mother said. If it was just a rumor, maybe he wouldn't be so gullible...... After all, he had seen her many times at that time, and he knew what kind of person she was.
"Mr. Pei, are you paying me compensation?" The corners of Jiang Wan's mouth hooked a subtle arc, and quickly pressed down, turning her head to look at him, her expression was deliberately cold.
Pei You was almost forced to run away from her shining gaze, but this time, he restrained his instinctive evasion, nodded and said sincerely: "Yes, Miss Jiang." It's my fault, and I'll make amends to you. β
"Then you know that all the rumors are false?" Jiang Wan said.
Pei You hurriedly said: "I know, I know." β
Jiang Wan thought about it, there was nothing more to say. Just now he was so angry that he wanted to tear his mood because of his words, knowing that he was wrong, and he was willing to apologize, Pei You was still saved, so she would forgive him generously.
"Okay, Mr. Pei, you should do your laundry, they should come later." Jiang Wan finally had a soft look on her face, but she deliberately pretended to say.
"Yes, yes!" Pei You then remembered that his clothes had not been washed yet, and he was in a hurry for a while.
Jiang Wan couldn't help but burst out laughing, and when she saw Pei You looking at her blankly, she smiled again and turned to leave.
Pei You looked at Jiang Wan's departing back, recalling Fang Cai's smile, and couldn't help but feel a little joy in his heart. Miss Jiang smiled, then she just didn't get angry with him and forgave him, right?
Pei You couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips, but for a moment, he remembered his mother's misunderstanding of Jiang Wan, and what made him feel gloomy was that he couldn't explain this misunderstanding to his mother. He had explained, but his mother didn't believe it, he must never mention Jiang Wan in front of his mother again, mention her good, otherwise his mother would only think that she had come to "seduce" him again.
He sighed, and crouched down to wash his clothes, and at last he returned home before the women came, but he had an extra preoccupation in his heart.
Jiang Wan, who returned home, was also thinking about what happened by the river. Those pictures, looking back carefully, seem to be what Pei You looked like in high school, but why did she see it? After all, it hasn't happened yet, and I don't know if it will happen...... Could it be that she wished he was in high school too much, and then married her to make her an official wife, so she would daydream?
Jiang Wan really couldn't figure this out, maybe it was the wind blowing by the river early in the morning and a little cold, or maybe it was the exhaustion caused by the ups and downs of the love, and the whole day in the next day, Jiang Wan felt a little groggy in her head, her spirit was not good, and she was not interested in doing anything.
Fortunately, when she woke up early the next morning, the fatigue on her body when she slept yesterday disappeared, Jiang Wan was in a good mood, and she was glad that she had escaped a cold. In this era, ordinary people may die, of course, you must take good care of your body and don't get sick.
In less than two days, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and because of the more than a dozen taels of silver this year, the Jiang family went to Changping County again. At this time, there is a festive atmosphere in the county, and the reed shed is built in the frequented bazaar, full of fresh fruits and vegetables, such as peaches, pomegranates, pears, dates, etc., and all kinds of colors make people feel appetizing, and they can't wait to buy them all.
There were many people in the bazaar, shoulder to shoulder, so it was not lively, and after a while, Jiang Wan was separated from her family. She didn't care, she said on the way here, there must be a lot of people in the market today, if you get separated, see you at the market. In broad daylight, there is no need to worry about any danger.
As a small county seat, Changping County has very good public security. Although Jiang Wan can always hear the lace news of the county magistrate on weekdays, even if he wants to come to the county magistrate, even if it is for his son's expenses, he has also made a lot of benefits. However, this magistrate will not only make money, but also do practical things, the crime rate in Changping County is relatively low, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, but they also like this magistrate. It is said that the previous magistrate did not do anything, at that time there were even several major cases of murder and overselling in the county, which made people panic, and after being known by the superiors, the former magistrate was dismissed and investigated, and the newly appointed magistrate had the means and ability to crack the big cases and get the love of the people, although the people also knew that he was greedy, but the former was also greedy, and he didn't see the predecessor do something, but it made the people suffer, so no one was dissatisfied with the current magistrate - The magistrate is greedy for the money of those merchants and rich households, and he can't be greedy for the heads of these little people!
Jiang Wan has a similar idea as most people, anyway, it's either him who is greedy, or another person who is greedy, as long as she can manage the place well, don't let the people can't get by, she doesn't care if he is greedy or not.
Jiang Wan had dozens of dollars on her, and she didn't see anything in particular that she wanted to buy when she walked around, so she looked at it all the way.
Jiang Wan was about to walk to the entrance of the market to meet her family, when there were suddenly more people in front of her, she was a little unaccustomed to such a crowded environment, so she hurriedly hid to the side, preparing to avoid the limelight for a while, and then leave after this peak of traffic. It just so happened that just as she was hiding to the side, someone was walking through from the front like a flower and a willow, and happened to collide with her. Seeing that she was knocked back by him, the other party hurriedly reached out to grab her, and coincidentally, he happened to grab her hand.
Jiang Wan froze as if she had been electrocuted, and countless images flashed in front of her eyes.
The person who hit her was dressed as a son, personable, handsome, and he pulled her and let go of what she wanted to leave, but at a glance out of the corner of his eye, he found that the person who collided with him was actually a young woman, looking at her hair bun and unmarried, although she was dressed as a farmer, it was rare that she had a good look.
So, the boy didn't leave, looked at Jiang Wan with a smile, and said softly: "Please forgive this girl, Fang is abrupt." I don't know the girl's surname? He paused, and then added, "Down there'......."
didn't wait for him to finish speaking, he heard Jiang Wan interrupt him coldly: "You are the son of the magistrate?" β
The boy was stunned for a moment, and then blamed this on his fame, so he smiled a little proudly: "It's Xie Chengchou below." The girl is really wise......"
As soon as he said this, Jiang Wan's whole expression was wrong.
At the moment when this man grabbed Jiang Wan, a lot of pictures flashed in her mind: he was jealous of a man in fancy clothes in the Qinglou, and the two fought when they disagreed, and they hurt each other; In the county office, he and a middle-aged man who was five points similar to him, dressed in the official uniform of the county magistrate, knelt on the ground, a man with a white face and beard was reading something, he and the person who suspected to be his father were pale and collapsed to the ground; In the cell, the man in fancy clothes who had quarreled with him appeared in front of him proudly, and his face was like ashes; On the execution ground, in the bleak autumn wind, his head was cut off, and blood was splattered on the ground......
Jiang Wan's face turned pale with fright, and she finally woke up and looked at the person in front of her, her expression still uncontrollably panicked. This man's name is Xie Chengchou, and he is the son of Xie Zhengcang, the magistrate of the county. Among the pictures she saw, there was a scene of these two people being beheaded in prison, which was so real that it seemed to be seen with her own eyes.
Jiang Wan suddenly recalled the pictures she had seen when she caught Pei You's hand by the river, she thought that those were just her daydreams, just the presentation of her strong desire, but now, a similar scene happened again, and she didn't know who the man in front of her was, but the picture she saw confirmed his identity, which really shocked her.
She understood that those pictures were not pipe dreams, but "future"! In other words, somehow, after she traveled through so many days, God finally gave her a golden finger that could see the future! So, she felt unwell and tired that day before, I'm afraid it's not a cold, but a side effect of this golden finger, right?
Jiang Wan thought for a long time, and Xie Chengchou said worriedly: "Girl, girl? Didn't I break you? β
Jiang Wan then remembered that there was a big living person in front of herβand in the near future, this big living person would be in a different place.
"Gongzi Xie, in the future, you will have a dispute with a young man in Chinese clothes in the Qinglou, please don't argue with him when the time comes, that person is not something you can afford to provoke, if you insist on doing it, it will bring death to you and your family, remember!" Jiang Wan's face was stern, and she quickly finished this paragraph.
Xie Chengchou looked surprised, frowned, and said, "Girl, what did you say?" β
Jiang Wan said: "I'm saving the life of your whole family, listen or not, listen to it!" β
After she finished speaking, she quickly hid in the crowd when there were suddenly more people. Xie Chengchou shouted at her a few times, but she disappeared into the vast sea of people after a while, where could he still find her?
"Young master, young master! You don't want to run so fast alone, the little ones can't catch up with you! A little guy panted and squeezed through the crowd to Xie Chengchou's side.
Xie Chengchou frowned, thinking back to the strange words that the strange girl said just now, and he couldn't understand it for a long time.
The little guy didn't notice the strange appearance of his young master, and said with a smile: "Young master, there is a new girl in the Baihua Building recently, I heard that she is as beautiful as a fairy, and she has competed with Diao Chan, do you want to find a day to take a look?" β
"Really?" Xie Chengchou was immediately attracted to attention, and smiled with great interest, "That young master is going to take a look!" β
As for what the girl said just now, he had long forgotten it.
Jiang Wan drilled around in the crowd, and after a long time of seeing that the magistrate behind her did not chase after her, she was relieved.
Her heart was still pounding.
Just now, she subconsciously chose to tell Xie Chengchou in advance about the future she saw and remind him to be careful. As said before, although Xie Zhengcang, the magistrate of Changping County, is greedy, but he governs this place very well, if he changes someone, he doesn't know what will happen, she very much hopes that Xie Zhengcang can continue to be the magistrate of this county, she also plans to find business opportunities to make a fortune, if there is no stable social environment, where can he make a fortune? She doesn't have what it takes to make a fortune. Another point is that she doesn't know, since she knows that one person will tire the whole family to death because of a trivial choice, of course she can't stand idly by. As for whether the magistrate will listen to her and whether he can avoid the disaster because of this, it is not up to her to control it. She's now done all she can.
Fortunately, it was a bazaar, and there were a lot of people, so she ran fast, and she was not caught by him and asked in detail, otherwise she couldn't tell why she knew. This county is so big, she believes that even if the son of the county magistrate escapes the catastrophe in the future, he will not be able to find her.