25. Lost soul
Jiang Wan experienced such an experience in the county, and she was really in no mood to deal with Pei You again, she said angrily: "Don't borrow!" β
Pei You was stunned.
Jiang Gu snorted and walked towards his house by Jiang Wan, who was not squinting.
Pei You watched Jiang Wan pass by him, and he didn't mean to stop at all, and couldn't help but say anxiously: "Miss Jiang, what I want to tell you is the night of the Lantern Festival......"
Before he finished speaking, he saw Jiang Gu rushing over to stop between him and Jiang Wan, and shouted angrily: "Shut up, stop talking, don't mention it!" β
Pei You was stunned and looked at Jiang Gu in front of him in surprise. Jiang Gu looked at his expression, as if he was looking at the enemy who killed his father.
Jiang Wan was afraid that Jiang Gu would have a radical move, so she hurriedly said, "Little Er, let's go!" β
Jiang Gu glared at Pei You unwillingly, snorted and turned to follow Jiang Wan, and then turned back to look at Pei You vigilantly.
Pei You was so overwhelmed by his gaze that he had to watch the two leave.
Since yesterday's failed explanation, Pei You tossed and turned and couldn't sleep at night, and then he kept thinking about finding an opportunity to explain to Jiang Wan.
He had already figured it out, no matter what would happen in the future, at least at this moment, he should let Jiang Wan understand that he had indeed made an effort that night, he didn't want to continue to see her disregard and disdainful gaze, every time he saw that gaze, he felt a dull pain in his heart.
It's just that God always seems unwilling to let him get his wish, and every time he fails to explain the misunderstanding that night, it seems that there is always a hidden force stopping him.
Before entering the house, Jiang Wan glanced back and saw that Pei You was still standing under the plane tree in his house, looking at her yard blankly, and her heart was a little inexplicably complicated.
In the past, when she used to go to him to be courteous, he disdained it, but now that she ignored him, he rushed to her from time to time, and I really don't know what kind of psychology this is. Is it cheap? Jiang Wan didn't want to pay attention to him, but she was also a little curious about what he wanted to tell her when he came to her several times? The next time he comes to her, will she give him a chance to talk?
Jiang Gu said worriedly: "Sister, Mr. Pei shouldn't threaten us with what happened that night, right?" β
Jiang Wan came back to her senses and said funny: "Where do you want to go?" Mr. Pei, he shouldn't be such a person. β
JIANG Gu. Said: "Sister, don't you often say that you know people and faces, but you don't know your heart?" Maybe Mr. Pei is like that, and we don't know if he is black in his bones! β
"Alright, don't think about it anymore, I'm here. If he dares to threaten our family, can I only bear it? Don't underestimate your sister, think about that night. Jiang Wan said with a smile.
Jiang Gu recalled that night, when her sister kicked Xu Tucai, she felt that she was really worried, with his sister's current ability, Mr. Pei is a scholar, how can he help her?
As soon as the two entered the house, they felt that there was some extraordinary liveliness in the house, it turned out that there were not only their parents and mothers, but also Aunt Yingzi and her pair of children.
Jiang Wan basically doesn't have a good impression of the people in Shanxia Village, but Aunt Yingzi is one of the rare ones that makes her feel happy to see her. Aunt Yingzi's real name is Liu Caiyun, she was also widowed in her early years, and she worked very hard to bring up a pair of children, her son is called Xu Ying, seventeen this year, and her daughter is called Xu Hui, eleven this year, both of them are very well-behaved and sensible, which should be a relief to Aunt Yingzi.
Jiang Wan had heard a group of long-tongued women in the village secretly speak ill of her, and the only one who spoke for her was Aunt Yingzi. Aunt Yingzi is a good person, although the people of Shanxia Village will not bully her family, but it is inevitable to take some small advantages, she has no pillars in her family, most of the situation can only laugh, so little things will not make trouble in Lizheng. Fortunately, now that her son has grown up, the family is about to get better and better, and now the matter of marrying a daughter-in-law for Xu Ying is also on the agenda. She appeared at Jiang Wan's house, or because Xu Fenggu had a good relationship with her, and by the way, she mentioned that she would make snacks and take them to the county seat to sell, she was moved, so she brought her children over.
Xu Fenggu has never been a stingy person, and she also knows that Liu Caiyun wants to save money to marry a daughter-in-law for her son, but Liu Caiyun's family is not like her own family, and many things are inconvenient, so she wants to take her with her. Xu Fenggu wanted to give some of the flour, pork and other ingredients bought in the county seat yesterday to Liu Caiyun, but the latter didn't want it, she just said that she would come to help, and when she sold it, she would give her some wages.
Xu Fenggu saw that she couldn't persuade the other party, so she agreed, thinking that it was a big deal to give more wages if she made more money in the end.
Seeing Jiang Wan and Jiang Gu coming back, Xu Fenggu put down the work she was busy with, wiped her hands and came up and said, "Is this journey still smooth?" β
"Mother, what can happen to you?" Jiang Wan said with a smile, her eyes swept in.
Xu Fenggu smiled and said the reason for the matter. Jiang Wan knew that her mother was kind, and she also had a good impression of Liu Caiyun, so she quickly accepted this and beckoned Jiang Gu to wash her hands and come over to help.
Liu Caiyun saw that Jiang Wan was back, so he smiled and said, "Wanwan, I heard that you went to the county seat today?" Your mother has been chattering all morning, afraid that you will bump into it, and now that you have come back safely, she is also relieved. β
Jiang Wan smiled: "My mother just loves to worry about it, I go to the county seat with Xiao Er, what else can happen?" β
Liu Caiyun said: "As a mother, you will always worry about your children, how can there be a father and mother who are not worried about your children!" β
Liu Caiyun's children Xu Ying and Xu Hui were silently helping on the side, and Jiang Wan greeted the two: "Yingzi, Huihui, are you all here to help?" Great work. β
Both of them smiled shyly at Jiang Wan and said that it was not hard.
At the end of the day, the work in the kitchen was almost done, Jiang Wan saw that there was no water in the water tank, so she beckoned Jiang Gu to go to the stream to carry water, and as soon as the two walked out of the yard door with a bucket, Yingzi ran out and said to Jiang Wan shyly: "Sister Wanwan, I'll come!" β
Jiang Wan pushed him for a while, then let him go, looked at the backs of Jiang Gu and Xu Ying laughing and went away, and returned to the courtyard with a smile.
As everyone knows, this scene was clearly seen by Pei You next door.
Xu Ying and Pei You have also had a few encounters, but on weekdays, the two of them have a relationship that they can't match, and Pei You was still in the rumors when he heard the most news about him, and he was tied to Jiang Wan together. Xu Ying was born with a strong spirit, bright eyes, and hard work, he is a rare good guy in the village, and many families with girls of the right age to marry are pondering it. Pei You also knew that in the eyes of the farmer, a man like Xu Ying who could work was a good match, and when he thought of Jiang Wan's smile at Xu Ying, he panicked. She turned a blind eye to herself, but she was so gentle to Xu Ying, he couldn't help but feel a trace of sourness in his heart, she had obviously smiled so gently at herself in the past. At that time, she was sometimes gentle, sometimes cunning, and it made his mind flutter, but now, he could no longer see it.
Pei You felt an irrepressible sense of loss, as if a claw scratched his heart at the bottom of his heart, forcing him to run to her yard immediately and tell him what he had been doing that night.
Reason prevailed in the end pei you sighed and clenched his hands into fists he ...... He's always going to find a good time.
Not long after Jiang Wan and Jiang Gu joined in to help, the wild vegetable and fresh meat cakes were all ready. Jiang Wan ate one while it was hot, the fresh fragrance of wild vegetables and the fresh aroma of meat jumped on the tip of her tongue like a pebble, she ate one was not enough, and ate the second one, only to be slightly satisfied, and looked at the third with a smile.
Xu Fenggu smiled: "Look at your gluttony, if you like to eat, you can eat a few more." β
Jiang Wan said distressedly: "But I can't eat dinner like this......"
"If you can't eat it, you won't eat it, so let's eat it for dinner." Xu Fenggu said.
Jiang Wan's eyes sparkled and she went to grab the third one.
Xu Fenggu said to Liu Caiyun again: "You also bring some back to try first, we make our own things, but we always have to keep our mouths tight." β
Liu Caiyun saw the eager eyes of his children when they looked at the wild vegetable fresh meat cake, so he naturally didn't shirk it, and only smiled: "I'm afraid that we will eat it before we sell a few of them." β
Xu Fenggu smiled nonchalantly: "Let's do it after eating." β
Liu Caiyun smiled and didn't say anything, she was very envious of Xu Fenggu's open-minded attitude.
Xu Fenggu took a plate and filled it with some pastries, and politely took them to the next door for Pei You's family.
Pei You couldn't shirk it, so he had to take it, he wanted Xu Fenggu to wait, and return her family's plate by changing the pastries to his own plate, but when he was about to leave, he said like a ghost: "Aunt Feng, I'll send this plate back to you in a while." β
Xu Fenggu didn't take it seriously, and went away with a smile.
Soon Liu Caiyun took her children home first, and before leaving, she made an appointment to come over early tomorrow morning and go to the county seat with Xu Fenggu's family. Jiang Wan hurriedly proposed at this time that she was too tired to go to the county seat with Jiang Gu today, so she wouldn't go tomorrow. Liu Caiyun thought about it, and decided to only take Xu Ying with him tomorrow, leaving Xu Hui behind, and asking Jiang Wan to help take care of it. Jiang Wan was naturally full of words.
When Xu Fenggu and Jiang Funian were decorating the pastries, Jiang Wan moved a small stool out, spread paper, and racked her brains with a pen to think about what to name these pastries. What if the pastry sells out in the future? There has to be a brand. She thought for a while, and then picked up a pen and wrote down the words "Jiang's Wild Vegetable Fresh Meat Cake". Most of the working people can't read, so she should choose a simple and easy-to-remember name.
Jiang Wan took the words she wrote to her father and mother, Jiang Funian and Xu Fenggu were both a little curious, Jiang Wan smiled and said: "Mother, I gave our pastry a name, it's called 'Jiang's Wild Vegetable Fresh Meat Cake', in case it sells well in the future, this is an excellent signboard!" β
Xu Fenggu said angrily: "You, this ambition is really big enough, and before you start selling, you start thinking about selling popular!" β
"It's always right to think farther, people must have near-term worries if they don't have long-term concerns, and our family will definitely become rich in the future." Jiang Wan said confidently.
Just then, there was a knock at the gate of the courtyard.
The courtyard door has always been open, Jiang Funian and Xu Fenggu think that there is nothing to hide about this matter, they will not go to publicize it, but if anyone sees it, they will see it, but the Jiang family is located in a remote area, and there are not many people who come to visit the door on weekdays, so even if they open the door, no one will know what they are doing. It's true that no one else came over at all throughout the day.
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and several people in the courtyard looked up one after another.
The person who came was Pei You, he quickly glanced at Jiang Wan, who was smiling proudly, the tips of her ears were a little pink, and there was only one sentence left in her mind: She was smiling so beautifully just now......
Xu Fenggu didn't notice Pei You's strange appearance, and when she saw him coming, she understood his intention, got up and walked over and said, "Let's go with Mr. Pei." β
As she spoke, she reached out to take the plate in Pei You's hand, but she didn't pull it out, and she couldn't help but look at Pei You strangely: "Mr. Pei?" β
Pei You came back to his senses at this time, quickly loosened the plate, and said in a low voice: "Thank you Aunt Feng, the pastries made by your family are delicious, and Yulian has eaten several in a row." β
"Really? If she likes to eat it, would she like to take some back? When the little girl is growing up, she should eat more. Xu Fenggu said happily and enthusiastically.
Pei You hurriedly said: "No need Aunt Feng, there are still a lot of them at home." β
"That's right...... Okay, let's get it when you're done. Xu Fenggu was not reluctant, and smiled.
At this time, Pei You should say goodbye and leave, but he was reluctant. He thought about it for a long time before, knowing that even if he brought the plate over, it would be impossible to find a chance to talk to Jiang Wan alone, but he still couldn't hold it back, and he almost made a fool of himself because of his distraction.
He told him that he should go, it seemed too unnatural to stay any longer, but his toes seemed to be glued to the ground, he raised his eyes lightly, and suddenly blessed his heart, and smiled softly: "Aunt Feng, are you going to write some words?" If you need my help, please feel free to say that I have been taken care of by my aunt's family now, and if I can't do anything for you, I will always be unable to let go. What Pei You saw was the rice paper that Jiang Wan was still holding in her hand.
Xu Fenggu said with a smile: "My family is preparing to go to the county seat tomorrow to set up a stall to sell pastries, it is Wanwan who said that she has to write signboards, so she wrote those words, and thanks to Mr. Pei who taught my family Wanwan to read and write in the past, there is no need to trouble Mr. Pei now." β
Now when it comes to Jiang Wan learning words from Pei You, Xu Fenggu is not as jealous as she was at the beginning. After all, Jiang Wan had never admitted in front of them that she was hooking up with Pei You, and they only thought that it was not good for Jiang Wan to go to Pei You for a long time, plus Jiang Wan did learn to write, and she sold a book and made ten taels of silver for nothing, so they really thought that Jiang Wan went to Pei You at that time purely for the sake of literacy, but Pei You was blind and caused their family Wanwan to be wronged. So now when it comes to this, Xu Fenggu is a little proud - how capable her family is, how long has she been learning, not only can she write, but also write a book!
"No trouble, yes...... Miss Jiang Wan, she learns quickly, and I don't have much credit. If there is anything useful to me, please feel free to mention it. Pei You said. Jiang Wan's handwriting is not good-looking, but when he saw the somewhat familiar font, he actually felt that it was very pleasing to the eye after reading it for a long time, and he regretted that he returned all the words she wrote at that time, and he couldn't see the words she wrote anymore, and he didn't know what was going on behind the book. Did she continue to write that script? The widow and the scholar in the book...... Can you get married?
Thinking of this, Pei You's face was a little hot for some reason, he didn't dare to look at Jiang Wan, his eyes were slightly drooping, and no one knew what kind of charming things he was thinking about under his gentlemanly appearance.
"Then we'll thank Mr. Pei first." Xu Fenggu smiled happily, and she naturally felt proud when she heard a scholar like Mr. Pei praise her daughter for learning quickly.
Having said this, Pei You knew that it was a little inappropriate to stay any longer, so he said goodbye: "Aunt Feng, Uncle Jiang......" He paused, plucked up the courage to raise his eyes to look at him, only glanced at him when he knocked on the door, and then kept looking down at Jiang Wan, who didn't know what he was thinking, "Miss Jiang, I'll go back first." β
Jiang Funian and Xu Fenggu each responded, and Jiang Wan ignored him as if she hadn't heard it.
She still didn't want to look at him more.
Pei You suppressed the loss in his heart and walked out of the Jiang family's courtyard. For some reason, he didn't go far, but just stood outside the courtyard wall, doing what he had never despised beforeβhe wanted to hear if and how they would talk about him.
As soon as he calmed down, he heard Jiang Wan's beautiful voice like a silver bell ringing, and he mentioned him as he wished, but what he said made him a little wronged.
"Daddy, you say, is my handwriting beautiful?" Jiang Wanjiao said angrily.
Where do Jiang Funian and Xu Fenggu understand this? Naturally, he said in a loud voice: "Good-looking, good-looking!" β
Pei You, who was outside the wall, silently replied in his heart: Good-looking......
Jiang Wan said: "Hmph, then Mr. Pei actually looks down on my words!" β
Pei You, who listened to the corner of the wall, was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't wait to rush into the courtyard immediately to declare that he didn't think so, but in the end, he remembered what he was doing and didn't dare to move.
Xu Fenggu smiled: "What do you think, where does Mr. Pei look down on your words?" β
"If you don't look down on it, why did he see my words and say he wanted to write them for us? Doesn't this make it clear that he looks down on my writing and wants to humiliate me with his words? Jiang Wan snorted.
Xu Fenggu nodded Jiang Wan's nose and smiled helplessly: "Mother knows that you don't want to deal with Mr. Pei recently, but you don't have to slander him like this?" We've been neighbors for so many years, it's not clear what kind of person he is? He just felt that he had been invited by our family and wanted to return the favor. β
"Knowing people and knowing faces but not hearts, who knows if he is well-dressed or not?" Jiang Wan said, with a little annoyance in her voice.
Xu Fenggu was a little surprised by her attitude, and couldn't help asking, "Wanwan, why did you say this?" Did something happen? β
Jiang Wan also discovered her gaffe, and said perfunctorily with a smile: "What can happen, I just said it casually, don't take it seriously." β
Xu Fenggu saw that Jiang Wan was smiling without any abnormality, so she didn't ask any more, thinking that she had been injured by Mr. Pei and Sister Chunying before, so she had a grudge against Mr. Pei, and it was not a big deal. After the spring next year, Mr. Pei is afraid that he will go to high school, so he will take his mother and sister to be officials and enjoy happiness, and the two families will not have any more contact with each other, and it is not in the way whether Wanwan dislikes Mr. Pei.
Outside the courtyard wall, when he heard the word "human-faced beast heart", Pei You's face turned pale.
It turns out that in Miss Jiang's heart, he is already a "human-faced beast heart"? He, how should he be good? Will she change her mind after he explains?
Pei You had cranky thoughts in his mind and returned home in despair.
Jiang Wan wrote the signboard, and asked Jiang Funian and Xu Fenggu about pricing, the two calculated the cost, and spent a total of 400 wen to buy pork flour and other ingredients, and the wild vegetables were picked up the mountain for no money, except for the ones eaten, there were more than 300 cakes left, Xu Fenggu was not greedy, and felt that two wen and one were almost the same.
Jiang Wan thought for a while and said, "Mother, let's be like this, one is three texts, two five texts, three eight texts, four ten texts, and so on." If you buy ten at a time, you will get two more minus, which is twenty-three. β
This algorithm is not complicated, Xu Fenggu remembered it after a while, and praised Jiang Wan: "It's better to be Wanwan, your method." In order to cheapen those two pennies, maybe they will buy more. β
Early the next morning, Liu Caiyun came over with Xu Ying and Xu Hui, left Xu Hui behind, and the mother and son set off to the county seat with Jiang Funian and Xu Fenggu.
Jiang Wan didn't know what she could do with this transaction, and she couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in her heart. Next to her, Xu Hui looked at herself with a pair of big black eyes, and she had a headache What to do. In modern times, just throw a computer or tablet to your child and let them play on their own, there is nothing at this time, and it doesn't seem good to leave the little girl aside.
After thinking for a while, Jiang Wan asked, "Huihui, do you want to be literate?" β
Xu Hui's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she nodded: "Yes!" β
Jiang Wan breathed a sigh of relief: "Then can I teach you?" β
Xu Hui was happy and admired: "Good! Sister Wan, you are amazing! β
"Then you wait for me first, I'll call my second child up." Jiang Wan said with a smile.
When Jiang Gu was dug out of the bed, he was still very reluctant, and when he heard Jiang Wan say that he wanted to teach himself to read, he opened his eyes and thought for a while, struggling to get dressed and get up. After all, he is determined to be literate and make a lot of money in the future, but he can't give up halfway!
Jiang Wan taught the two of them a class together and taught them to read, Jiang Gu learned a little, and it was easier to read and write, Xu Hui was learning for the first time, and she couldn't remember a few words after stumbling for a long time, Jiang Wan was not in a hurry, and patiently taught her little by little, but Xu Hui was embarrassed herself, afraid that Jiang Wan would think she was stupid, so she retreated in her heart. It can be seen that Jiang Wan looked serious and did not mean to be impatient at all, so Xu Hui calmed down again.
After the three of them studied for a while, the sun was rising, Jiang Wan adhered to the attitude of combining work and rest, and prepared to climb the mountain for a while to exercise. As soon as I walked out of the yard, I saw a petite person running out of the gate of Pei You's yard not far away.
Xu Hui's eyes lit up, and she waved her hand and shouted, "Yulian! β
Xu Hui and Pei Yulian are of the same age, plus their fathers died early, and they have the same illness, and the relationship between the two is very good, but Pei Yulian's mother is not easy to get along, and Xu Hui does not dare to go to her house.
Pei Yulian heard Xu Hui's cry, looked over blankly, and saw that in addition to Xu Hui, there were Jiang Wan and Jiang Gu, she hesitated, but still hurriedly ran over, carefully pulled Jiang Wan's sleeve, and said in a panic: "Sister Wan, my brother is sick, and my mother also fell in a hurry...... IβI don't know what to do......"