Bamboo Fragrance

Chapter 60
When I got home it was dark again.

Zhao Mengzi and his wife left after waiting for Li Kongzhu to enter the courtyard.

Zhao Junyi, who opened the door, stood in the courtyard and looked at the woman walking towards the main house, with complex eyes.

During the day, he felt restless all day long.Thinking about what she said, I don't know what it feels like.

That feeling of surprise, joy and fear was like crazy weeds growing wildly in his heart, which made him very unhappy and wanted to suppress it, but he was a little bit reluctant.

The man who had been showing his indifference to others for a long time had his eyes downcast at this moment, not knowing how to deal with himself.

And Li Kongzhu, who entered the room, was not much better. After taking off the fur she wore, she melted the icicles on her eyelashes, while her heart was beating like a drum, thinking about how she would speak for a while.

In her opinion, the sooner this kind of thing is revealed, the better, even though she is a woman, she should be reserved or something.

But in her previous life, she was considered a woman anyway, and it was really not her style to make her squirm, have a secret love, or be ambiguous.

Just thinking about it, the man opened the door and came in.

Seeing him walking in, Li Kongzhu's heart skipped a few beats.On the face, he looked at him pretending to be calm and asked, "The head of the house, that Cui Jiuli? Can he sleep again? Now he has received a big order, and his ginseng slices may not be available for the time being."

There was a cold flash in the man's eyes.When he raised his eyes to look at her, he looked at her again with a kind of indifference to the extreme.

This made Li Kongzhu's mouth, which was planning to step into the topic next, frightened, half-opened on the spot.

After a long time, it was finally a certain woman who turned around.His eyes followed the man to where he was sitting, and he cleared his throat and said, "Master, that, I want to talk to you about the two of us."

"...Hum" The man pretended to be pouring tea casually, and held the teapot in the air for half a second before continuing to let the water pour out with a hum.

Seeing him, Li Kongzhu agreed.He quickly sat down on a stool next to him, looked at him, and opened his mouth.I wanted to speak, but saw him looking over inadvertently.

Although those plain eyes were very pale, but just staring at her like this, she still swallowed the words she was about to say with a beating heartbeat, and completely lost the momentum she had when she was just thinking about something.

"What do you want to say?" The man looked at her for a while, and saw that apart from the occasional flash of panic in her eyes, the eyeballs were very afraid of seeing him turning and trying to avoid it.

Calmly withdrawing his gaze, Zhao Junyi drank the tea in the bowl calmly, waiting for her to talk to him.

In the quiet small room, apart from the occasional small noise caused by the beating of the oil lamp, Li Kongzhu's breath was getting more and more uneven.

Secretly tried to calm Li Kongzhu who was going back and forth a few times, seeing that the man was about to look at him again, he quickly reached out his hand to stop him and said: "Well, master, can we not see eye to eye?"

"..."

"Actually, I really have something to tell you, your eyes are right, my heart, its jumping is out of my control!" Li Kongzhu beat his little heart that was not very useful. .

Seeing the man's surprised look, she couldn't help but smiled bitterly, and said to the man in a half-joking way: "Master, I seem to have taken a fancy to you. What should I do? Do you think we can survive?"

The man squeezed the bowl tightly, and did not answer for a long time.

Li Kongzhu didn't dare to look at him, and turned his eyes to look at the shadow of the man printed by the light on the grass curtain on the wall, "I have never been married in my previous life and this life, and I don't know what it feels like to like someone. At first In less than a day, I married you in a wedding gown. Although I am very unwilling and you are not willing, but life has to pass. I thought of passing by, and waited for you to get bored and divorce me someday. Abandon you, or one day I will abandon you after I get rich."

He didn't notice the man's darkened face when he turned to look at her.She continued: "Who would have thought that life would be so bloody? Even though we have been together for a long time, even if he is an animal, he can develop some friendship, but how long have I known you? With this kind of inexplicable An unknown feeling?"

The man's hand pinching the bowl tightened again, feeling that these words were extremely harsh.

But she sighed again: "Although I don't know what you are hiding, I can tell you that I have nothing to hide, except that you know the soul in my body. It can be said that I have nothing to hide in this world." It's a secret."

After Li Kongzhu finished speaking, he recalled the 28 years he had lived in his previous life.Since my father fell to his death from a construction site at the age of 15, and my mother remarried at the age of 16.She has lived alone ever since.

After her father's death, there is construction site compensation, which can be used for her to finish college.

But she didn't want to accept the money, she felt that every penny of the money was shed with her father's blood, and her heart would tremble unbearably, let alone spend it.

From the age of 16, she began to live alone and make money alone.Every day is good, not bad, not unhappy.I feel that I can live anywhere, and I am not like those teenagers who feel that the sky is unfair and they have to fight against society.

She is very quiet, she has never said anything about her feelings, and if she didn't, she would force it.She always believes that what should be yours is yours, and what is not yours will not necessarily come if you force it.

Even at the age of 28, when the married mother thought of her and urged her to get married, she was never salty or dull.

When I thought that I was living in such a bland manner, I didn't want to, some unsightly thing came out of some lump one day, and it made him cut the back of his head.

Just like that, she passed through as soon as she fainted, and she was married as soon as she came here.

Thinking of this, she sighed, "There's really no way to talk about ape dung!" Who would have thought that her marriage would be staged in ancient times?
Li Kongzhu looked at the silent man, and asked him, "The head of the family, how about you..."

What is the point of view?Do you not like it, or are you willing to accept it?
The man didn't say a word, recalling the itch like a bug bite in his heart when she said she had fallen in love with him just now.

In the inexplicable and difficult to distinguish, there is such a trace of unconcealable joy mixed in it.

Yes, joy!

The man looked down at the tea in the cup, she could tell her past calmly, but what about herself?
Coldness flashed across his eyes, and his knuckles turned pale when he was holding the teacup.If it wasn't for the last sliver of rationality that involved him, he might just crush the teacup in front of her.

Li Kongzhu looked at him for a while, and saw that he was silent and only stared at the bowl of tea with lowered eyes.The fingers pinching the bowl were extremely tight, and there was a light crunching sound.

Lowering her sad eyes, she said: "I understand!"

I can't tell what it feels like.There is sadness, and there is also disappointment.

Then, she shrugged her shoulders pretending to be relaxed, and stood up with a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, there is still time now, so I explained. Then I will be able to like other people again in the future!"

"Heh!" The man recovered from her words with a chuckle.Regarding her words, she opened her mouth half-sarcastically, "You can think about it!"

"What should I do if I don't want to eat some?" The woman got up from the stool, looked at him with disdain, and said, "Is it possible that I will not marry for two lifetimes and keep my body like a jade? I am not a vegetarian!"

The man's face darkened, and his phoenix eyes stared straight at her like ice.

Seeing him like that, Li Kongzhu couldn't help muttering: "You were unwilling. After you left, I'm afraid that this so-called ridiculous marriage contract between you and me will not exist in name, but in reality it will just die. "

The man looked up at her in shock.But seeing the woman shrugged again indifferently.

"Master, I beg you to do something!"

"... Tell me." The man spoke for a while.

"If the day you leave, I'm not strong enough. Can I ask you to find a safe place for me?" If he wants to leave, I'm afraid that my fake daughter-in-law of the Zhao family will not be able to do it.She didn't want to go back to her natal home. If she hadn't had the conditions to buy a safe house for herself at that time, she hoped that he could find a suitable place for herself based on today's friendship.

"……it is good!"

The man's answer reassured the woman.

Li Kongzhu smiled sincerely, "Although I don't know what kind of shocking secret you are hiding, but I wish you an early success here in advance!"

The man looked at her extremely warm smile, and for a long time, he pursed his lips indifferently, "Okay!"...

Li Diaozhu used all the silver anise to buy sugar.Due to the large demand, it is also a gift to big households.

Li Diaozhu thought of adding more sugar to make the sour taste more thorough.

In the past, because the hawthorn was not willing to bear the cost, the sugar content in a catty was only about one or two.In addition, the people here have never tasted the delicate taste of the previous life, and it belongs to ordinary people.So it is easy to accept that taste.

But big families are different, and there are countless delicate pastries that they have eaten.If it is not more refined, I am afraid that there will no longer be a market after a long time.

Ordinary people have limited consumption power, and if they want to earn more, they can only go to the high end.

Li Kongzhu found Mai Ya'er and expressed his thoughts.Mai Ya'er also felt that this method was good, and when he went back to send back the goods, the maid casually gave several coins as a reward.It can be seen that there is no shortage of that little money in the big portal.

Knowing that Li Diaozhu was short of funds, Mai Ya'er simply put all his private houses over and prepared to buy sugar.

Li Diaozhu didn't dare to do it blindly, so he made some original and improved versions on the night before leaving Laba.

Laba didn't have time to make Laba porridge this morning, so he called Mai Ya'er and Zhao Mengzi borrowed an ox cart and went into the city again.

I stayed in Yuzhou County.

Li Kongzhu came to the so-called Su Mansion, found a servant from the back corner gate and informed Su Xiu.

Told her what happened.

After finishing speaking, she saw her looking at herself warily.I hurriedly took out the two flavors of hawthorn that I had made.

"Miss Su Xiu, you can try it. Little ladies have no reason to tell lies. Thinking about the lords, ladies and ladies in your mansion, they are all noble people, how can they eat the ordinary taste with the common people. For food, the more refined the better. Although it has increased a few dollars, the taste is actually several grades higher than the original one."

Seeing that she spoke seriously, Su Xiu put the two kinds of samples she brought into her mouth with half-belief and tasted them.As soon as he tasted it, his expression changed a little, and he said, "Wait a minute!"

After all, he took the oiled paper bag and entered the mansion.

When she came out again, she was holding a red brocade pouch in her hand.

He just threw it at Li Diaozhu, "Your reward. The master asked you to make it according to the modified taste. The money is not a problem, you just do it!"

Li Diaozhu was not annoyed either, and bent down to pick up the brocade purse she threw on the ground.I squeezed it with my hands secretly.Seeing that it was not empty, he greeted Li with a smile, "The little lady knows!"

"Get out!" Su Xiu looked at her action with some disdain.Call her to leave quickly.

Li Kongzhu nodded, pulled Mai Ya'er, turned around and walked towards the exit of the alley.

As soon as she came out, she opened the lotus bud.Seeing that there was a flowering silver scorpion about seven cents in it, he couldn't help but narrowed his eyes with a smile and said: "It's really generous, this way. It's seven cents to buy sugar again!"

Seeing that, Mai Ya'er also took a deep breath, and the unhappiness in his heart caused by Li Diaozhu's bullying just now disappeared.Swallowing his saliva, he said, "I didn't expect the master of a big family to be so generous. This, this..." The money must be too easy to earn.

Li Kongzhu smiled and said nothing, did not say that it is possible to reward more than this.After all, there is no reason to run away in vain, and when Su Xiu was holding the purse, she didn't believe that she would not have the heart to set aside some of it.

Holding the delicate and beautiful purse in his hand, Li Kongzhu called Mai Ya'er to go to the city gate quickly, "Go to the town and sell this purse to an embroidery shop, maybe you can buy it for ten or twenty cents!" Now, she is a person who lacks everything, especially money!

(End of this chapter)