30. Token of affection

Jiang Wan packed up the dishes and chopsticks and took them back to her house, and took the sewing basket to sit in the courtyard of Pei You's house. She first went to Xu Chunying's room and said that she would be in her yard and could call her if there was something, and then went back to the yard to sit down. As for Pei You, he saw it when she came in and out, so she didn't need to say more.

Jiang Gu, Xu Hui and Pei Yulian all took a small bench and sat next to Jiang Wan, the two little girls learned from her to do female celebrity work to pass the time, while Jiang Gu held the book that Jiang Wan confiscated from Pei You, and flipped through it curiously. He is only just now able to read and write, and he can't even recognize a few words in this book, let alone understand the meaning. Jiang Wan was bored doing embroidery work, while pointing out a few words to Jiang Gu, telling him how to pronounce words he didn't know, if she knew the meaning, she would explain it to him by the way, if not, just let him remember how to pronounce it. She will also encounter a few uncommon words that she doesn't know, so she asked Jiang Gu to skip first, saying that she would ask him for advice when Mr. Pei was better in the future.

A few people were spending time in the courtyard, Pei You stayed in the house, knowing that Jiang Wan was outside, and his heart felt a little more stable.

Lying on the bed for a while, Pei You felt much better in his heart, so he got up and came to the desk, and when he picked up the pen, an irrepressible impulse suddenly welled up in his chest, and the next pen was a soft outline, which was the petite face of a graceful woman. However, in the next moment, that beautiful outline suddenly blurred and became a large mass.

Pei You looked at this scene in amazement, put down the pen, picked up the paper and checked it carefully, and after a long time, he picked up other papers that had not been touched, and looked at them one by one, but he didn't see any clues. He couldn't figure it out, so he had to put the broken piece of paper aside, pick up the second one, and after thinking about it, he put down the pen with a smile on the corner of his mouth, but where he put the pen, it was still a smudged stain. He frowned, put the second piece of paper aside, picked up the third, and carefully dropped the stroke, seeing that it was not smudged, then he breathed a sigh of relief and continued to draw the next stroke. It's just that painting is not his specialty, and after a few strokes, he feels bad, sighs and puts aside the third piece of paper, and picks up the fourth......

After so many tosses, either the paper is smudged badly, or he himself doesn't think he can draw well, and the best finished product is just a soft back with a few brushstrokes.

This stroke of writing made Pei You's spirit that he had finally recovered withered again, he put down his pen and went back to bed to lie down.

At noon, Jiang Wan boiled porridge and let the little ones eat first, and then asked Pei Yulian to take the bowl to Pei You's house, and she herself took the bowl to Xu Chunying's house. After lying down for two days, Xu Chunying's body was better, and she didn't need Jiang Wan to feed her anymore, so she took the bowl and ate it herself. Jiang Wan sat idly on the side and didn't speak.

But Xu Chunying spoke: "You'er, has he eaten it?" ”

"Yulian took it." Jiang Wan said.

"How is he looking these days?" Xu Chunying said, "Although he has come to see me in the past two days, and said that he is fine, but I can't see this blind, I don't know if he really gets better, or if he only comforts me to make me feel at ease." ”

Jiang Wan was a little vigilant in her heart, she didn't think that just by serving in front of the hospital bed for the past few days, Pei You's mother would praise her, and now Pei Youniang asked about Pei You's situation, in addition to really wanting to know, I was afraid that there would be a temptation to see if she had too much contact with Pei You.

Jiang Wan's plan is to try her best to win her favor without arousing Pei Youniang's disgust, so before Pei Youniang has a chance to accept her as Pei You's wife, she must not expose the fact that she is in close contact with Pei Youniang, and attract Pei Youniang's disgust.

"I saw it in the morning, and it seems to be fine." Jiang Wan's voice was flat, "Mr. Pei can already get out of bed." ”

I don't know if she noticed the coldness in Jiang Wan's tone, Xu Chunying said, "Jiang Wan, I couldn't help it before." You don't take those words I said to your mother to heart. ”

Jiang Wan smiled reluctantly: "Auntie, don't worry, I won't take it to heart." ”

"That's over there...... Please also take care of him more, he is weak, this serious illness, I don't know how long it will take to get better. Xu Chunying sighed.

Jiang Wan was silent for a few seconds before she said, "I know, I will tell Yulian to take care of her brother more." Her tone was full of reluctance.

Xu Chunying smiled: "Then thank you." ”

"It should." Jiang Wan nodded in response, and her feelings were not high.

Waiting out of Xu Chunying's house, Jiang Wan breathed a long sigh of relief, she was sure that Pei Youniang was testing whether she was still thinking carefully about Pei You, I don't know if she could satisfy the other party with her appearance of being unwilling to have more contact with Pei You today?

When Jiang Wan came out, Jiang Gu and they were still eating slowly waiting for her, so she hurriedly sat down at the table, picked up the rice bowl, and the group had lunch happily together, and when they cleaned up the table together, Pei Yulian said, "I'll go and see if my brother is eating well." ”

Jiang Wan smiled: "You and Huihui go play first, just leave it to me here." ”

Pei Yulian hesitated and said, "Sister Wan, is this really okay?" Playing with Xu Hui in the past few days, Pei Yulian's mood has improved a lot, and there are more beautiful smiles on her face that a girl of this age should have, she likes such days, but she is always worried that her mother will scold her if she knows.

Jiang Wan blinked and smiled slyly: "If you don't say it, I won't say it, and Huihui and your second brother won't say it either, who will know?" ”

Pei Yulian's eyes lit up, and she nodded vigorously: "Thank you, Sister Wan!" After she finished speaking, she was pulled away by the grinning Xu Hui.

Jiang Wan cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, but with a smile on her face, the person who wants to say thank you should be her, and she also wants to thank Yulian for giving her the opportunity to get along with Pei You, and she won't let Pei You's mother know.

Jiang Gu smiled on the side: "Sister, if you are good, you will be bad!" ”

Jiang Wan turned her head and glared at him: "You are a dog biting Lu Dongbin, you don't know the hearts of good people!" I'm not doing this to please Mr. Pei, so that if you don't know the words, you can ask him and let him teach you. ”

Jiang Gu had a suddenly realized expression: "I see! That sister, do I also want to curry favor with Mr. Pei? ”

"It is enough for one person to please, and if there are more people, be careful that he gets bored." Jiang Wan is serious.

Jiang Gu thought so, and watched Jiang Wan walk towards Pei You's house after cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks.

Jiang Wan straightened her hair and clothes in front of Pei You's house, knocked on the door gently, and heard the inside say please come in, so she pushed open the door and went in.

Seeing that it was her, Pei You's eyes suddenly lit up.

Jiang Wan couldn't help but hook the corners of her lips, and said as she approached him: "I'll take the bowl, have you used it well?" ”

"Alright." Pei You hurriedly said, "I'm tired and gentle......"

"Where, it's not hard." Jiang Wan took the bowl, but she didn't want to go out immediately, her eyes swept around, trying to find an excuse to continue talking, but she saw that there were traces of pen on the desk, so she put down the bowl and walked over.

Pei You didn't expect Jiang Wan to go straight to the desk, so frightened that he almost jumped off the bed, and hurriedly said, "Wan, Wanwan...... There's nothing ...... there."

Jiang Wan had already walked to the desk, saw more than a dozen pieces of rice paper that had been written and scrapped, turned around and said with a straight face: "Mr. Pei, it's not enough to confiscate a book in the morning, do you still want me to confiscate all your pen, ink, paper, and inkstone?" You are still sick, you have spent too much time, how can you get better? ”

Pei You felt that he was at a loss, lowered his eyes and said, "I'm sorry ......"

"Next time, let me see that you are still sick and read and write, do you dare to tear up your paper and book." Jiang Wan snorted.

"I, I don't dare......" Pei You said busily.

Jiang Wan was satisfied, turned around and looked at the paper on the table, and picked it up with some curiosity.

Pei You was a little nervous, swallowed his saliva, and watched her turn over the waste rice paper without blinking, his heart beating extremely fast.

Jiang Wan suddenly looked up at Pei You, the latter's heart was tight, afraid that she would say something, but she was expecting her to say something, but she heard Jiang Wan say, "Help you, I have to apologize to you." ”

Jiang Wan's words were not what Pei You imagined she would have when she saw her painted by him, her brows furrowed slightly, and she looked at her with some doubt.

But seeing Jiang Wan's stunned appearance, she snorted and laughed: "Didn't you notice that there is something wrong with these shengxuan?" ”

Pei You replied honestly: "It's a little inappropriate, some papers are easy to smudge." ”

Jiang Wan looked at him with a smile: "That's because I did my hands and feet." ”

Pei You looked sluggish.

Jiang Wan smiled again: "I was angry with you before, but you asked my mother to help you bring rice paper, my mother won't buy paper, this matter naturally fell on my head, I specially bought two kinds of paper, a good one, a bad one, but I can't see it on the outside, I messed up these two kinds of paper and stuffed them together, only received the money for your good shengxuan, and I will give you the bad one." ”

Pei You was stunned, and muttered for a while: "No wonder...... This paper is cheaper......"

Jiang Wan approached him, pretending to be sad on her face, and asked him, "Then are you angry with me?" ”

Pei You hurriedly shook his head: "It was mine before, Wanwan, you should make such a harmless joke to me, how can I be angry with you." ”

"You're so nice." Jiang Wan looked at him and smiled.

Pei You's face turned red suddenly, and he looked away.

Jiang Wan took out one from the pile of waste paper, and said with a smile: "How about giving me this one?" ”

When Pei You looked back, he saw that what she was holding in her hand was the back picture he had drawn the best before, and he immediately sneered: "This picture is not well drawn, it really can't be elegant......

"But I just like this one." Jiang Wan smiled and took out a purse from her arms and handed it over, "I don't take your things for nothing, this is in exchange, how about it?" ”

Pei You took the purse in a daze, it was a cloth with auspicious cloud patterns on a blue background, the stitches were not very fine, but it could be seen that it was carefully sewn, and there was an improperly embroidered Pei character in the corner.

Jiang Wan smiled: "My female celebrity is not good, no one will suffer if you change your unelegant paintings, right?" ”

Pei You was holding the purse in both hands, and he could still feel the body temperature that belonged to Jiang Wan, and it seemed to be a little hot. As if eating honey, it is sweet from the mouth to the bottom of the heart, and it is like a mellow wine, and it is the most slightly drunk and refreshing.

"This ...... This painting is really not good, I repainted it, can I give it to you again? Pei You clutched the purse tightly and refused to let go, and said with some embarrassment. This...... Is this a token of love? Then he couldn't just give her the unfinished scribble.

Jiang Wan stretched out her hand and spread it out in front of him: "Then you also return the purse to me, and wait for me to re-embroider a better one for you." ”

Pei You's hand clutched the purse, and he was willing to return it like this.

Jiang Wan smiled proudly, put the other paper back, folded the rice paper with a few strokes outlining a graceful back and hid it in her arms, and said with a smile, "Since you refuse to pay me back, then I won't pay you back." I just like this one, I don't want anything else. ”

The purse was just made by Jiang Wan before, and she deliberately embroidered a Pei character in the corner, which was to make up her mind to give it to him, so she carried it with her, waiting for a good opportunity to send it out. She originally wanted to embroider her name for him, but then she thought that it would not be good if she was accidentally seen revealing her stuffing, so she had to settle for the next best thing and embroider his surname.

"I'll go out first, you can rest." Jiang Wan picked up the dishes and chopsticks and smiled at Pei You.

Pei You watched her go out in a daze, and after a while, he fell on the purse again, the corners of his mouth unconsciously hooked, and he looked at it over and over, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and he didn't feel tired of it.

This afternoon, Jiang Wan took a few children to read and write in the courtyard of Pei You's house, and soon Jiang Funian and his party came back and brought back two pairs of medicines.

Jiang Wan handed the medicine to Pei Yulian and asked her to prepare first, while she pulled her father and mother to ask about the results.

Xu Fenggu took out a large bag of copper coins and handed it to Jiang Wan, and the smile on her face couldn't be stopped: "Little wealth fan, see for yourself!" ”

Jiang Wan took a rough count, and there were nearly eight hundred texts.

"Mother, are they all sold?" Jiang Wan asked with a smile. Jiang Wan knew how many pastries were made at home yesterday, so she could naturally roughly guess how many pastries they had sold.

"Yes! There are only a dozen or so left. Xu Fenggu smiled.

However, these 800 texts are naturally not pure profits. According to Jiang Wan's calculations, the cost of each piece of pastry is about one penny, and when it is sold, it is roughly two and a half, which is almost doubled. However, the market is limited after all, and it is impossible to do more, and these two times can be sold, also because it has just come out, fresh, and there are many people who try it, or the daily sales volume will tend to stabilize after a few times.

But in any case, if you sell more wild vegetables before they are gone, you can save a lot of money by selling them in the past ten or twenty days.

"I didn't expect this wild vegetable fresh meat cake to sell so well, or Aunt Feng, you have brains and good craftsmanship!" Liu Caiyun's face was full of joy. Naturally, she doesn't take a lot of the money she earns, but she is just a hand, and she can take a lot of copper coins, and she is naturally happy in her heart, and she has never been a greedy person.

"Hey, my family Wanwan still wants me to go to the stall with the owner to do a small business, otherwise where would we think of it!" Xu Fenggu said with a smile. She and Jiang Funian are both honest farmers, and the income from farming at home is enough to feed the whole family, so naturally they don't think about it, and their savings are limited, so they don't dare to try it at will. This time, it was because the family had more savings and more confidence, and under Jiang Wan's many persuasions, he made a bold attempt, and he was ready to lose money, but he didn't expect that in the end, not only did he not lose money, but he also made a lot of money. It can be seen that Wanwan is right, support the bold to death, starve the cowardly.

Xu Fenggu and Liu Caiyun were discussing the next thing, and Jiang Wan listened to it for a while, and felt that someone was pulling her sleeves. She looked sideways and saw that the person pulling her sleeve was Jiang Gu, who looked tense at the moment and seemed to be a little flustered.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Wan frowned.

Jiang Gu glanced at Xu Fenggu and Liu Caiyun, who were talking lively, and pulled Jiang Wan to the side.

Jiang Wan said strangely: "What is mysterious and mysterious?" ”

Jiang Gu said in a low voice and panicked: "Sister, something is wrong!" ”

"Don't worry, speak slowly." Jiang Wan touched Jiang Gu's head and motioned for him to calm down.

Jiang Gu took a deep breath for a while before he said in a low voice: "Sister, I just pestered Brother Yingzi to say interesting things about the county, he was so entangled by me that he couldn't help it, so he said a few things, but I didn't expect one of them to be related to us!" ”

"What is it?" Jiang Wan's heart jumped.

Jiang Gu looked around, seemed to be a little nervous, and lowered his voice and said, "There is a reward posted on the street, saying that it is to catch a blonde barbarian!" ”

Jiang Wan's eyes widened slightly, didn't the blonde barbarian mean Ronna?

"Did you say why? Also, did anyone catch it? Jiang Wan said hurriedly. Those who can post a reward are the people of the government, why did the government arrest Rona? I think it must have something to do with the eunuch from the capital they offended that day! And once the bounty is placed, it is easy to catch Rhone, his personal characteristics are so distinct!

However, she remembered that Ronna's disguise had not been seen through that day, and it stands to reason that the man should not have known that Rhona was an alien. Could it be, it's just that she thinks too much, the person to be arrested on the bounty is not Ronna, but someone else, who happens to be a foreigner, who happens to be blonde, and who happens to have committed something......

Several assumptions in a row made Jiang Wan's heart sink, how could there be such a coincidence in this world?

JIANG Gu. said: "Brother Yingzi doesn't know! ”

Jiang Wan frowned, feeling uneasy.

Before saying goodbye to Ronna, she told him very seriously and asked him to pretend that he didn't know her, which was not only to protect him, but also to protect herself, but if the government intervened and arrested him, he would probably have to recruit him. However, because she didn't leak much, Rona could only recruit her name as Jiang Wan at most, and he didn't know how to write her name. In this way, finding her is simply looking for a needle in a haystack, and she doesn't have to worry too much.

However, whatever Rona said was all affected by her, and she couldn't be comfortable knowing that he was arrested because of her, and she stood by and watched.

"Sister, what should I do? Will they, will they find us? Jiang Gu said in a panic. He stepped forward that day because Jiang Wan was bullied, and he was impulsive, but knowing the identity of the other party afterwards was definitely not simple, he was naturally afraid in his heart. As the old saying goes, the people don't fight with the officials, how can they be able to fight the officials and masters?

"Don't be afraid, they won't find us." Jiang Wan said with certainty.

"Really?" Jiang Gu was still uneasy.

Jiang Wan said: "Really. As long as we don't go to the county seat for the time being, they won't be able to find us. ”

Seeing that Jiang Wan was sure, Jiang Gu's heart that had been carrying it finally relaxed a little.

"That'...... And what about Rhona? Jiang Gu whispered, with a hint of worry on his face.

Jiang Wan was stunned: "I don't know ......"

"Sister?"

Jiang Wan came back to her senses and touched Jiang Gu's head: "He was affected by us, do you think we should find a way to save him?" ”

Jiang Gu nodded vigorously at first, and then hesitated again. He wanted to save that person, but they couldn't fight the government at all, how could they save it!

Jiang Wan sighed, patted Jiang Gu's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, maybe the person who was rewarded is not him?" ”

They also couldn't get any news in the village, so they were afraid that they would have to go to the county seat to find out the situation. It's risky to just go to the county seat to find out the situation, and it's too unlucky if you accidentally bump into the main owner.

Jiang Wan's comfort did not make Jiang Gu much easier, and he also knew very well that the blonde barbarian, I am afraid that Luo Na is alone in Changping County, not to arrest him, but to arrest whom?

"Well, what do you two say?" Over there, Xu Fenggu and Liu Caiyun finished talking, and then they found that their children were sneakily hiding aside and didn't know what they were muttering.

Jiang Wan hurriedly whispered: "Little Er, calm down, don't panic, don't let your father and mother see the clues." ”

Jiang Gu nodded hurriedly: "I know!" ”

Jiang Wan turned her head to look at Xu Fenggu, and said with a smile: "Mother, I'm telling Xiao Er how big the yard will be in the future after making money!" ”

Xu Fenggu said helplessly: "It's not a matter yet, you guys should talk about it first." ”

Jiang Wan just smiled: "Oh mother, this is not accurate, what if we really accidentally get rich?" ”

She walked over and grabbed Xu Fenggu's arm: "Let's be ambitious!" ”

Xu Fenggu nodded Jiang Wan's forehead and said with a smile: "Is it hard today?" Sister Chunying, is it difficult for you? ”

"It's not hard at all, I'm going to be lazy!" Jiang Wan smiled coquettishly, "Aunt Chunying didn't embarrass me, she was still counting on me, where would she embarrass me." She apologized to me today, saying that she didn't take her words to heart. ”

Xu Fenggu laughed, nodded and said, "Sister Chunying is also an understanding person. ”

Jiang Wan and Xu Fenggu talked and laughed and went home, with a carefree smile on their faces, but their hearts were full of sorrow.

In any case, she will go to the county seat tomorrow to see the situation. It's always important to figure out what the situation is before deciding what to do next.

After returning home, Jiang Wan told Jiang Funian and Xu Fenggu that she wanted to go to the county seat again tomorrow, only saying that she missed the rock sugar gourd in the county and wanted to play, and it happened that her father and mother were at home tomorrow, and she could take care of Pei You's family next door, and she happened to be lazy.

Because Jiang Wan and Jiang Gu also went to the county seat alone last time, this time Xu Fenggu did not object, but just asked her to go with Jiang Gu.

Jiang Wan naturally responded well, and turned around to tell Jiang Gu about it, and the two of them prepared worriedly.