Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 152 Brother and Sister
No matter what Mai Xiang thinks, she feels that something is wrong. If it is an ordinary kidnapper, and Yong En said this for himself, he should tell himself so that he will not have to worry about it in the future. If it is not an ordinary kidnapper, then he is an acquaintance. Who is it?
"I'm sorry, he told me, don't tell you beforehand. When I saw this thing, I thought he found you." Huai Ci saw the doubt on Mai Xiang's face, and naturally knew that it was not Lord Baylor who took the thing. Give the wheat fragrance.

"You should eat first." Mai Xiang couldn't think of an answer, so she put the matter aside for the time being.

Huai Ci didn't listen to Mai Xiang either, but tore off the seal first, opened the box, looked at the contents, and said, "Thank you, Mai Xiang, I will definitely return the money to you in the future."

"You don't need to pay it back. If you say you don't owe anything, you have to get involved."

After hearing this, Huai Ci didn't know what to say for a moment, but just looked at Mai Xiang.

Mai Xiang felt sore when he saw it, and said, "Hurry up and eat, I have to heat it again when it gets cold, I dare you to take the trouble."

"Mai Xiang, not only am I not a good person, I'm also a useless person." Huaici said quietly.

"Who is the person you love? I have half a penny to do with me? You saved my life, and I also saved your life today, and I returned your mother's relics to you in full. With your kindness, from now on, the two of us will go back to the road." Mai Xiang's heart was not going well, and her words became much stiffer.

"Okay, from now on we will return from road to road and bridge to bridge." After Huaici finished speaking, he lowered his head and began to eat porridge.

Mai Xiang turned around and didn't look at him again. She was also panicked and couldn't tell what emotion she was in. She didn't want to do anything at first. She came to the capital to find him just to return the things, but why did she want to Why do you care so much about his attitude?
Is it sympathy?Mai Xiang defined herself as sympathy, and she just sympathized with his experience. Any woman in Mai Xiang's position should also sympathize with his experience, right?

When Mai Xiang was struggling, she suddenly heard something behind her. She turned around and saw Huai Ci looking down at the porridge in the bowl, tears falling drop by drop into the porridge.

Mai Xiang also wiped her own tears, without saying anything, but went out, sat by the stove, and added some firewood.

After a while, Mai Xiang heard Huai Ci's subdued crying, Mai Xiang sat in front of the stove, looking at the flames in the stove, I don't know how long she sat there, what was she thinking.

When Mai Xiang heard that there was no movement in the room, she got a basin of hot water and took a towel in, twisted the hot towel herself, and handed it to Huai Ci.

While Huaici was wiping his face, Mai Xiang went to change him another bowl of porridge. After crying, Huaici felt a little more at ease. He ate the porridge with his head down, without saying a word, and got into bed again.

Mai Xiang found a quilt by herself, and this time she lay down at the end of the kang, with the kang table still in between.

The room was very quiet, so quiet that Mai Xiang almost thought that Huai Ci had fallen asleep, but Huai Ci suddenly spoke.

"Mai Xiang, you are a good person, don't come to see me again. Let go of that matter and live your life well."

Mai Xiang didn't make a sound after hearing this, she knew what Huaici was talking about was about being kidnapped and rescued.

"I know you haven't fallen asleep. In the morning, you can go away, and don't tell others that you came to see me."

Mai Xiang still didn't make a sound.

After Huai Ci finished speaking, he sighed faintly, and did not speak any more. I don't know if it was because of his fever and weakness. Huai Ci fell asleep before Mai Xiang, but this night, he was never at peace, talking in sleep constantly.

Mai Xiang heard him yelling for a while: "Mother, don't go." After a while, he shouted "Yun'er, it was I who killed you." After a while, it was something "Don't come here, don't come here, please don't come here .”

Mai Xiang sighed, guessing that he must have carried a lot of things, and he must have had some unbearable past, otherwise he would not have told Mai Xiang that he is not only not a good person, but also a useless person.

Mai Xiang got off the kang, went outside and wrung out the towel. Like what she saw on TV, she put the towel on Huaici's forehead, and used this primitive method to help him cool down. I don't know how many times I changed the towels back and forth.

When Huai Ci woke up again, what he saw was Mai Xiang sleeping beside him, he instinctively felt a kind of disgust, and wanted to move away, but the handkerchief on his forehead fell off, and only then did he know that Mai Xiang was taking care of him. He didn't sleep all night, feeling guilty for misunderstanding her.

With Huaici's movement, Mai Xiang woke up quickly, just about to stretch out her hand to touch Huaici's forehead, but seeing Huaici dodging, Mai Xiang withdrew her hand back.

"I'll make you breakfast and leave."

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she didn't look at him, got off the kang, washed rice and cooked porridge, and in less than half an hour, she brought the porridge and side dishes to the kang table.

"Eat something before you go."

"No need, lest you get bored after reading it, the greatest strength of me is self-knowledge."

"Mai Xiang, do you have to do this?"

"Don't worry, I won't be hungry, take care of yourself."

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she took the burden and lifted the curtain, but she didn't leave immediately. She looked at the yard. The yard was very small, with no side rooms, only three main rooms, which were very dilapidated and old. Well, it must be to save a few rents, right?Who is this Huai Ci?

Mai Xiang still remembers the first time he met him. At that time, he had a servant and a horse. Although he was dressed in cotton clothes, he gave himself more than two taels of silver as soon as he made a move. Now that he thought about it, maybe that was the only thing on his body. the property of.

The second time I saw him, he was much more downcast. There was no servant, and Maixiang was asked to teach him arithmetic, and he had to find a job to support himself. In order to pay himself five taels of silver for tuition, he pawned his mother's belongings.

The most puzzling thing is his attitude towards himself, as if he is particularly resistant to physical contact, Mai Xiang doesn't know whether he is targeting himself or all women.

Thinking of being against all women, Mai Xiang flashed a thought, could he be gay?

Mai Xiang shook her head, startled by her speculation, and soon Mai Xiang blamed herself, most likely because she read too many comics and novels in her previous life, and used them in this ancient time.

But for some reason, this idea couldn't go away, the more I thought about it, the more likely it was, otherwise, why would he say that he is a useless person?

Mai Xiang sighed in her heart, forget it, everyone has their own fate, so let's go back to live our own little life.

Mai Xiang raised her head and took a deep breath, forcing back her tears, said to the door curtain, "Goodbye." Then she strode out of the gate.

After coming out of Huaici's house, Mai Xiang turned to the street, thinking about coming, why not go shopping, she wants to see what the price of the shop in the capital is, because she wants to open her own handicraft shop in the capital, the business should be good Much better than in Huangye Village.

Mai Xiang inquired all the way, and asked a few. The shops facing the street basically cost 600 taels of silver, and the houses not facing the street are much cheaper. You can buy a courtyard with five or six rooms for more than 100 taels of silver. Mai Xiang deduced The courtyard where Huaici lived probably could be bought for less than 50 taels of silver.

Mai Xiang was walking, and suddenly saw a big drug store, standing in front of the drug store, she was stunned for a while, thought for a while, and said to herself: "A good person will do it to the end, and send the Buddha to the west."

Half an hour later, Mai Xiang brought an old doctor into Huaici's courtyard again. As soon as Mai Xiang opened the door, she heard a whining cry, saying that the crying sound might not be right, it was more like howling, or that There was a desperate howl, and at the same time, Mai Xiang heard the thud of hitting the wall.

Mai Xiang waved to the doctor, and whispered, "Old man, please come back in a quarter of an hour."

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she gave the old man a piece of silver. The old man was very reluctant at first, but when he saw the piece of silver handed over by Mai Xiang, he nodded in agreement.

Mai Xiang lifted the curtain lightly and went in, only to see Huai Ci bang his head against the wall while crying, Mai Xiang stepped forward and hugged him.

Huai Ci never thought that Mai Xiang would go back and forth, he was startled all of a sudden, and naturally he didn't have the nerve to cry any more, but his breath couldn't rise or fall at once, and he suffocated.

Mai Xiang helped him smooth it out, and when his breathing became more stable, she poured him a bowl of hot water to drink, went to fetch another pot of hot water, and wrung out a towel and handed it to him.

Huai Ci took the towel, but didn't wipe it off immediately, with a blank expression, not knowing how to face Mai Xiang.

"Wash up, I found a doctor from the pharmacy, and I'll be there in a while."

"Ah, no need, I'll be fine after two days of rest." Huaici finally spoke.

Mai Xiang didn't speak, looked at the sunny day outside, opened the window, carried Huaici's used quilt out and put it on the rope, and took some dirty clothes from the kang with a wooden basin, Go to the well platform.

When Mai Xiang was washing clothes, Huai Ci had already tidied himself up. He was sitting on the kang, and through the window, he happened to see Mai Xiang washing clothes by the well platform. Huai Ci didn't move, just stared blankly. .

Before Mai Xiang's clothes were washed, the doctor went into the yard.

"Doctor, the patient is my brother, please take a good look at it." Mai Xiang stood up and led the doctor into the room, closing the window at the same time.

About a quarter of an hour later, the doctor took the pulse and wanted to prescribe a prescription. Mai Xiang found a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the window sill, and there was a stack of Huaici's practiced characters inside. , also read many years of books.

After prescribing the medicine, Mai Xiang went out with the doctor, grabbed the medicine back, entered the room without saying anything, and started to decoct the medicine.

After Mai Xiang put the medicine on the kang table, Huai Ci's eyes were red again.
"In the future, if you don't mind, let's be brothers and sisters." Mai Xiang spoke out first.

In any case, the other party has also been kind to me, and Mai Xiang really can't do such a cold-blooded abandonment.However, Huai Ci's worries in Mai Xiang's heart are also generally clear, he is afraid of dragging Mai Xiang, afraid of disappointing Mai Xiang, of course Mai Xiang guessed the latter.

"Okay, brothers and sisters are brothers and sisters, and from now on, I will be assigned by my sister." Huaici was also relieved to hear that they were brothers and sisters, and picked up the bowl to drink the medicine in big gulps.

Because Huai Ci's health is still not good, and he can't leave people around, Mai Xiang had no choice but to live again.

(End of this chapter)