Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 160

Seeing that Mai Xiang was still angry, Huai Ci was in a hurry, and he didn't care to avoid suspicion, so he caught up and grabbed Mai Xiang's hand, and said in a low voice: "Sister, it's my brother who is wrong, my brother will accompany you, right? Not anymore, bro..."

"Hey, what are you two talking about? It's not over yet. Is this thing still for sale?" The customer looked at the two and asked impatiently.

"Not for sale." Huai Ci said.

"Sell." Mai Xiang said.

"Are you two sick?" The other party dropped his things, flung his sleeves and was about to leave.

"My lord, please stop. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. Please choose whatever you want." Mai Xiang's principle is not to feel sorry for anything and not money, so she habitually goes forward to keep customers, but forgets to give up. This is not my own territory.

The other party picked two kites and two dartboards from the goods that Mai Xiang had just brought, and they obviously came straight for these two things, otherwise they wouldn't have waited so long.

Mai Xiang took advantage of Huaici's time to collect the money, and then carefully looked at the shop. Strictly speaking, it was a bookstore, with a total area of ​​about [-] square meters. There were bookshelves in the middle, almost all of which were old books. Where did it come from.There are kites and other small things hanging on the walls on both sides. Mai Xiang can see that these are not belongings of her own home. There is a staircase next to the wall inside, and there is a small attic above.

When Mai Xiang looked carefully at the shop, Huai Ci had already sent the guests away and closed the door.

"Sister, brother is wrong, it is brother who blamed sister by mistake, sister, don't be angry, okay?" Huaici walked to Mai Xiang, and said in a low voice.

"Where do I dare to be angry? I know that chasing people is not a business, and I can only blame myself for being too soft-hearted. Well, I am relieved to know that you are fine, and I am leaving. From now on, I will not bother you again, you Buy whoever’s goods you want to buy.”

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she was about to leave with her own burden on her shoulders. She didn't expect that the two of them talked well at the beginning. The kite improves life, but when Huai Ci gets angry, he can actually go to another house to buy goods, completely disregarding Mai Xiang's things are backlogged in the warehouse and Mai Xiang's feelings, isn't such a person too cool?
Mai Xiang thought of the several times the two dated. Except for the time when he wanted to learn arithmetic and it was Mai Xiang who asked for it, Mai Xiang took the initiative to find him for the rest of the times. When recovering from the panic, he was eager to get rid of Mai Xiang, and when Mai Xiang bumped into him inadvertently, his eyes would always show disgust.

The more Mai Xiang thinks about it, the more sad she becomes. She's getting into a corner at this moment. In fact, Huaici's hatred is not aimed at her. For this, Huaici has made a lot of fun to please her and laugh with her. It's just that Mai Xiang can't remember it at all. She All he could think of was Huaici's bad.

Seeing that Mai Xiang was about to leave with red eye circles, Huaici took Mai Xiang's hand again and said, "You don't know, that night, I ate the fish and rice you cooked, and I went to the kang happily, but I never knew I touched the jade pendant you returned on the kang, and it was like pouring cold water on my heart. I didn’t fall asleep that night. After thinking about it, I thought that my sister returned the jade pendant for the sake of not being in debt. For me, I thought that my sister made that meal for me to express my guilt. It was a farewell dinner. The more I thought about it, the more I felt like this, and the more I thought about it, the more frustrated I became. No, brother misunderstood you, it turned out that my sister returned it to me because she thought it was too expensive, didn’t she? I don’t blame my sister, but my brother’s stupidity.”

"Even if this is the case, you can't treat me like this. People at home see that you haven't come to pick up the goods for so long. I don't know how worried you are, worried that you won't eat well, worried that you are sick again, and worried that your clothes are torn. It's getting old, so I'll give it to you..." After that, Mai Xiang didn't go on, what is she doing?

"My sister doesn't tell me, I know that my sister really treats my brother well. Well, my sister has been here for a long time, so I'm hungry. I'll take my sister to a restaurant." Huai Ci knew what Mai Xiang wanted to say, but he didn't The courage to pierce this layer of windows can only deceive oneself and others.

Huai Ci took a special look at Mai Xiang after she finished speaking, Mai Xiang is not tall enough, so it shouldn't arouse others' suspicion, right?

It's strange to say that since he has known Mai Xiang for so long, he has always felt that Mai Xiang is precocious, even more mature than him, so he often ignores her age.It's just that he had to take Mai Xiang out for this meeting, and it seemed that something was wrong when he thought about it. He looked at Mai Xiang specifically, and then remembered that Mai Xiang was still a child, really just a child.

"No, you can eat by yourself, I'll go to Baylor Mansion." Mai Xiang still held her breath in her heart, and of course she was also angry with herself.

Huai Ci didn't know what to do when he heard this, he let go of Mai Xiang's hand, turned his back to Mai Xiang, and after a while, he said: "My sister can leave if she wants to. It's my fault, everything is wrong." My fault, my fault."

Mai Xiang left immediately after hearing this, regardless of whether she was tempted or not, whether it was sympathy or pity, in short, she didn't allow herself to go on like this, and she had to come out before she got too deep.

Unexpectedly, when Mai Xiang pulled the door latch, Huaici rushed over again, took Mai Xiang's hand again, and asked, "Can't we really just be brothers and sisters? I will treat you well, and I will only treat you well." Hello, just like a brother is as good as a sister, I really want to be nice to you, I want to love you very much, you are the only warmth I have in this world."

Huaici saw that Mai Xiang really turned around and left. At this moment, he was afraid, frightened, and rushed forward desperately. Just like he said, Mai Xiang is his only warmth in this world. After leaving like this, from now on, his world will only be left with a cold one, and there will be no warmth to speak of.

"Why?" Mai Xiang asked.

"You don't know, these days, although I haven't looked for you, I can't be interested in doing anything. Before, I tried my best to earn money to prove myself, but I'm a failure, no matter what I do Failed, my life is in a mess, so what can I do with more money? Later, I met you, and you didn't dislike me at all, and recognized me as your brother. I feel that my life has a bright future. Earn a lot of money and let my sister live a good life, but this sister doesn't want me anymore, so what do I want money for?"

"You know that's not what I'm asking?" Mai Xiang took a breath, but she didn't expect that the other party wasn't really heartless.

"What else is there if it's not this?" Huai Ci didn't understand for a while.

"Don't you hate me touching you? Why did you take the initiative to grab my hand several times today?" Mai Xiang didn't want to evade this question.

"Ah?" Huai Ci was startled when he heard this, he quickly let go of Mai Xiang, looked at his hands, and then at Mai Xiang.

Mai Xiang saw him looking at her hands in surprise, probably he didn't expect that, unconsciously, he no longer resisted Mai Xiang's physical contact.

"You, found out?" Huai Ci asked this sentence with difficulty.

"What did I find?"

Huai Ci didn't speak, just looked at Mai Xiang quietly, Mai Xiang didn't speak, she was waiting for an answer.

After waiting for about seven or eight minutes, Mai Xiang saw that Huai Ci was still in a state of embarrassment, so she turned around and opened the door, strode out the door, and said to herself while walking: "Who cares about you? What's the big deal? The earth will continue to rotate without anyone else, and the sun will rise from the east tomorrow, and I will definitely live a better life than you."

While talking, Mai Xiang suddenly felt salty in her mouth, and touched her face with her hands, only to realize that she had burst into tears for some reason.

Mai Xiang kept wiping her tears while walking with her head down, and forgot to look at the road. After wandering around for a long time, she didn't know what kind of dilapidated alley she turned to. It looked even dilapidated than Liu'er Hutong where Huai Ci lived.

Mai Xiang came out this time, because it was sent by Sanfu, and she planned to go to Baylor House, so she changed into a pink silk thin padded jacket given by A Muxin, covered with a green satin jacket, and the bundle in her hand was also silk of.

Mai Xiang's attire was not suitable for the surrounding environment. When Mai Xiang realized that something was wrong, she already felt that she was being targeted by two men in their twenties.

Fortunately, Mai Xiang has always been smart, she pretended to ask for directions, but turned around and smiled at the people following her: "You two, how do you get to the Tong family? I came out with my brother, who knows that my brother insisted on playing tricks on me. , One wrong eye and disappeared, I must be hiding somewhere to play hide-and-seek with me. Hmph, he thought I was too young to go to grandma’s house, so I didn’t wait for him, and I also hid to scare him.”

The reason why Mai Xiang asked Tong's family was because there were quite a lot of people with the surname Tong, and it was a common surname, so maybe it could really be covered up.

Sure enough, the other party heard that Mai Xiang was looking for Tong's family, believed it, and said, "Is that the Tong's family who opened a shop in Liulichang? It's over there, how about I take you there?"

"No need, but my lord, if you see a tall man with a fierce face inquiring about me, don't say you met me. I insist on having fun with him. Who told him to always scare me?" What about me? I'll let my dad go home and spank him." Mai Xiang deliberately retreated towards the entrance of the alley while talking.

"Hey, that's wrong. Tong's family is here. Why are you going out?"

"That's right, my brother might be waiting for me on the road over there. I can't let him catch me. I have to turn around." Mai Xiang quickened her pace as she said.

When they were about ten meters away from the two of them, the two of them seemed to have thought about it a little bit, and chased after Mai Xiang, who ran away at once. Children who grew up in the country are good at this, and they have good physical strength.

When the two chased after them, Mai Xiang had already reached the entrance of the alley. At this time, Mai Xiang had already exerted all her energy and did not look around. was hugged.

(End of this chapter)