Bamboo Fragrance

Chapter 65 Shop
The next day, Li Kongzhu got up early as usual, yawned and walked towards the kitchen.

After opening the door, he rubbed his eyes in a daze, kicked the water tank with his foot, and saw that the water was not completely frozen.

He nodded in satisfaction and said: "It seems that Brother Cui Jiu did his best yesterday. Since the water has only frozen the top layer of ice slag, it can be broken if touched!"

While speaking, he turned his head and looked towards the bed.

Seeing this, he froze on the spot.

Except for the messy quilt, there was no Cui Jiu himself on the bed?

"Have you had a stomachache early in the morning?" He walked over suspiciously, and stretched his hand into the bed to check.

"Huh~" The trembling hand retracted violently, "Why is it so cold? It seems like I haven't slept..."

Didn't sleep?Li Kongzhu's eyes widened, and he touched it in disbelief.

She was still so cold, which shocked her.I don't care about cooking or cooking.

Instead, he ran out in big strides, shouting in the direction of the main house while running, "The master, the master! You come out!"

Someone who was stacking the quilt neatly heard her call, his eyes flickered and he gave a light hum.

Stepped out, just in time to meet her rushing body.

The man took a step back in fright, moved aside, looked at her and frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"

Li Kongzhu was dodged by him, and he didn't care about him anymore. Instead, he pointed to the toilet in the backyard, "Go to the toilet and see if Cui Jiu is there. Why didn't I see him? The bed is also cold. , as if you didn’t sleep last night.”

"...Mmm!" The man walked towards the backyard with a gentle gesture.

After Li Kongzhu stood there watching him go away, he regained the panic on his face, straightened his clothes and walked towards the kitchen.

Added water, lit firewood, and gnocchi, ready to eat pimple soup.

Zhao Junyi pretended to go to the back, walked around and came back, seeing her stirring the noodles with chopsticks, he said, "There is no one in the latrine!"

"No one?" The woman stopped stirring the chopsticks, frowned, and then said worriedly: "Then where did he go? He's not lying under the blanket, and it's freezing to death outside. Could it be possible?" You can still go out to enjoy the cool air!"

"Maybe he's gone!" Compared to her worries, the man was quite indifferent.

"Going away?" Li Kongzhu's hand holding the chopsticks tightened for a moment, and the next second he threw the chopsticks viciously into the basin.

Putting his hands on his waist, he yelled incredulously with his eyes wide open: "He just left without making a sound? Did he ask me? Did I let him go? It's just inexplicable... He really just left like that? "While speaking, she ran to search the bed where Cui Jiu had slept, and found nothing but a few long hairs on it.

Angrily throwing down the quilt, Li Kongzhu was very gloomy.

The man watched her series of actions from the side, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.Hooked lips and said coldly: "What? Can't bear it?"

"Of course I can't bear it!" Looking away at his darkened face, "I saved him so hard, fed him, fed him, and bought so many good medicines, so quietly Disappeared for me?"

"It's just inexplicable!" Li Kongzhu covered his chest with a pained face.Beating his chest and gritted his teeth, he said: "Look at the person, and the clothes are not vulgar. I didn't realize it, but I was a bum. Living for so long, not to mention getting a few hundred taels, even his mother I didn’t even give me a hundred pennies. It’s a waste of my enthusiasm to just leave so quietly!”

"..." The man was indifferent and speechless, but an inexplicable sense of joy rose in his heart.

Walking over, he took out the chopsticks in the basin, scraped off the sticky flour lumps, raised his eyebrows and said, "Instead of worrying about useless things, why not make breakfast quickly. I'm hungry!"

Li Kongzhu rolled his eyes at him, the last point is the key point.

With a cold snort, he walked over and snatched the chopsticks.He yelled at his nose instead of his nose and eyes instead of his eyes, "Wait when you're hungry, didn't you look at the pot and it didn't boil? Add firewood."

The man didn't argue with him, he squatted down very obediently, and set up the firewood for her.

A trace of loneliness flashed in Li Kongzhu's eyes, but in a blink of an eye, he quickly disappeared and began to reconcile his face...

After breakfast, Malt came over.

At that time, Li Kongzhu was washing dishes in the kitchen.

Mai Ya'er asked if she would go to the fair, "In three days it will be New Year's Eve, and there will be an inaugural fair again. My family needs to buy something for the festival. Sister-in-law, do you have anything to buy?"

"Yes!" Li Kongzhu thought for a while, and felt that it would be serious to buy Zhao Junyi some clothes.During Cui Jiu's stay, Cui Jiu also wore one of his only two sets of clothes.

The rest of the clothes I was wearing had to be taken off at night, washed and dried on the kang, and then sewed on the next day.

Although she is always asked to sew as a practice hand, but it is too disrespectful to always wash and take apart such a thing.

Mai Ya'er nodded and said to wait for her.

After she finished washing, when she followed her to the main house, she felt something was wrong.

Because only Zhao Junyi was sitting there drinking tea after dinner in the main house, Cui Jiu was not there, and he thought he hadn't seen him in the kitchen just now.

I couldn't help asking, "Where's that Cui Jiu? Why didn't I see it!"

Li Kongzhu, who was coming out with a thick jacket, heard this, and his face darkened immediately, "That guy is gone!"

"gone?"

"Yeah!" Li Kongzhu nodded and looked at her somewhat surprised face, and snorted coldly, "He left without saying a word, without even saying hello."

"There are people like this!" Mai Ya'er couldn't help becoming a little annoyed, "Not to mention how meticulous the care is, but just because he eats and drinks well, sister-in-law, you have paid a lot of attention to him." Let's pay. When I came back yesterday, I spent nearly one tael of silver to buy him some ginseng slices. One tael of silver, how many hawthorn sticks would have to be sold to get back the cost. An ungrateful guy , didn’t tell you to pay back the money, and left without even letting go?”

Seeing that someone was fighting against him, Li Kongzhu nodded while putting on a thick padded jacket and said, "Really! It's a waste of my expression. If there is another time like this, don't say let me save it. I won't kick him." Give him face."

"Yes! Yes!" Mai Ya'er was her loyal supporter, and she nodded solemnly and said, "It's better to be kicked out of breath, and it's useless to live."

Hearing the two women chirping and talking about how to execute the next rescued person, a certain man directly twitched the corner of his mouth, put down his tea bowl and walked out.

Li Diaozhu looked at it, wrinkled his nose and snorted a few times, "It's just that your third brother is a boring gourd, the only two sets of clothes, and people let people take one, it's really irritating!"

"God! Not only did he not repay his kindness, but he also took away a set of clothes for Lai?" Mai Ya'er covered his mouth, "Looking at the person who looks like a human, I can't imagine that he is still this kind of person!"

"Who says it's not!"

After fastening his belt, Li Diaozhu took out the skin and covered his head, then went to the corner to dig out the pot and took the silver.Then he went out with Mai Ya'er.

The two of them didn't intend to borrow another ox cart, but walked directly around the city, thinking that if they bought a lot when they came back later, they would just go back to the car.

When the two arrived around the city, they started shopping around the shops no matter how big or small they were.

In addition to following Li Kongzhu to buy some meat and cloth clothes and cotton, Mai Ya'er also went to the pastry shop to buy some bad cakes, which he planned to take home to eat.

Li Kongzhu followed suit and bought some raw melon seeds and peanuts, preparing to fry them by himself during the Chinese New Year.

When the big and small bags came out, Mai Ya'er wanted to go to the embroidery shop to buy some nets and come back to tie them.

"Anyway, I'm free, so I'll make a few calls. I'll sell them during the Chinese New Year, and when I go back to my mother's house, I can give them as lucky money for those who have children!"

"You really know how to live!" Li Kongzhu changed his hand to carry the basket.It's really that the few catties of cotton I bought are too risky to carry in my hands.

Mai Ya'er giggled, "It's the first time for me to go back to my mother's house to celebrate the New Year as a bride! You have to be generous."

The two of them walked through the alley and just turned a corner when they saw a newly opened shop being renovated at the entrance of the street.

The show shop they were going to was at a point inside, and the two of them inadvertently glanced inside when they passed by the door of the shop.

Coincidentally, the people inside also came out.

When several people met, they were all stunned for a moment.

Then, the person who came out of the house raised a smile and said: "I planned to let you come and take a look after the decoration is complete, but I didn't think so, since I ran into it here. It's just right, come in and take a look?"

It was none other than Hui Niang.

She smiled and beckoned the two to go in quickly.Li Kongzhu also smiled and turned around and walked towards her. "It's really a coincidence that we can meet each other several times. It seems that the fate between me and Hui Niang is really fixed, and I can't tear it off even if I want to!"

"That's just right, I also just want you to make a lot of money!"

While joking, several people stepped into the shop.

The shop is not very big, with a few long wooden boards inlaid on the two walls of less than [-] square meters.

To the left of the door, craftsmen are setting up the counter.

Standing aside, a strong young man in his early twenties was directing the craftsmen with a solemn face and telling them how to order.

When she turned around and saw the person led by Hui Niang, she stopped talking and walked towards this side.

Hui Niang introduced the two of them.

"Head, this is the partner I told you about, Diabolo girl. I'm a sister from the same mansion as me!"

Home?
Li Kongzhu glanced at her in disbelief, it's only been a few days.Since she is married?
"I'll explain it to you later!" Hui Niang beckoned the others to go to the back first.

Seeing this, Li Kongzhu had no choice but to hide what he wanted to ask, and then walked towards the hanging curtain over there.

Behind the curtain are two separate rooms separated by wooden boards.

Li Kongzhu and the others were called to sit down outside.If I want to come to the inner room, I'm afraid it will be used as a bedroom for two people in the future.

There was no hot tea and pastries, so Hui Niang shook her hand apologetically, "After two days of official opening, you can come and have a seat again!"

"That's what you said, is it possible that I'm here just to get that sip of tea?" Li Kongzhu replied with a reproachful smile.

The man stood aside and saw that he had nothing to talk to, so he handed over his hands and made a confession, and then walked out.

As soon as he went out, Li Kongzhu hurriedly asked her, "How come I haven't seen you for a few days, even if we are married? Why didn't you come to say hello? Since I don't even know, I'm still looking forward to drinking your wedding wine." Mile."

Seeing her resentful expression, Hui Niang patted her funny, "Don't be surprised! I'm already over eighteen, and I'm getting married soon. Is it possible that I'm going to be an old lady? As for the wedding banquet, The reason why I didn't greet you, but I just took a formality, and there is no big deal!"

Thinking of the group of people in the family, thinking about her money one by one, and wanting to sell her, I couldn't help but sneer, "That's fine, instead of letting those people with malicious intentions hit me It is better to take advantage of this to destroy their ideas!"

Li Diaozhu didn't ask any more questions, who knows who doesn't have a few best products!If you ask, it's just to follow suit.

"This store belongs to him. As you can see, he is not young. It's not the first marriage, but the second marriage. The first wife passed away two years ago because of dystocia. She has been single and never talked about marriage. She agreed to me. It was just a random accident.”

Li Kongzhu nodded, and learned from her mouth that the man she married was named Li, with a single name.

The first wife died, one dead body and two lives, and the child was not kept.Because I earned a shop for rent and about [-] acres of fertile land, the market is still very good in the countryside.

The reason why Hui Niang and Hui Niang got married in such a hurry was because after Hui Niang came to see her, on the way home, because He Mu wanted to take a shortcut, he directly set up the car and prepared to get out of the ice. Qingshui River.

Unexpectedly, when the car drove halfway, the river split open.As a result, they all fell into the ice hole with their people and cars.

"At that time, I was really scared and stupid. I thought it was just gone. I didn't expect it. I was lucky enough to let him pass by and bump into me, and rescued me."

If your body is hugged, of course you have to get married.

"This is also fate!" Li Kongzhu sighed.Grinning, "Brother-in-law is also considered a capable person. I'm afraid there are many people in the countryside who want to marry him. This is what you picked up, Sister Hui, just wait to be envied and hated by those people!" "

Anyway, he is a king and old man, and he is a good king and old man, which will more or less make some country girls jealous.

(End of this chapter)