Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 193 Two-pronged approach
Mai Xiang followed Huai Ci back to West Fourth Alley, Huai Ci was silent all the way, but held Mai Xiang's hand tightly.

Seeing that the driver was Yong En's boy, Mai Xiang didn't ask any questions, but put her other hand on Huai Ci's.

Back home, Huaici was just about to say something when she saw that Mai Xiang had taken out two long gowns from her bag, and hurriedly took her hand to look carefully, seeing that there were still a few blisters on Mai Xiang's hands, she felt distressed. He touched it and said, "What clothes are you giving me again? Didn't you just give it to me last time?"

"Last time it was a jacket, this time it's a summer shirt."

"I also have summer shirts, last year's ones can still be worn." Although Huai Ci was moved, he didn't want Mai Xiang to be too tired.

"Last year's was short, but you have grown." Mai Xiang visually estimated that Huai Ci should be more than 1.7 meters five.

"Sister, you..." Huai Ci couldn't continue, and directly touched Mai Xiang's face.

Seeing Huai Ci talking, Mai Xiang suddenly stopped, looked at herself, stretched out her hand to caress her face, was a little stunned for a moment, and stared at him with wide eyes.

She knew that he was sad, wronged and resentful. The reason why she did this first was to tell him that she was always by his side, but she didn't expect that Huaici would suddenly touch her face.

Seeing Mai Xiang staring at him with wide-eyed eyes, Huai Ci thought it was her actions that frightened her, so she hugged Mai Xiang tightly, and whispered in Mai Xiang's ear: "Sister, don't be afraid." , brother won’t hurt you, brother is just glad, glad that brother has you by his side.”

At this time, Huai Ci was really glad that he caught Mai Xiang in time.

But when he thinks about what just happened, he feels very depressed. Why has he given up everything in the Wan family, and only wants to give the person he likes a stable life with his own ability. He can't even do such a simple thing?
"Sister, I'm sorry, but no matter how difficult it is, I will not let you go." Huaici changed his sentence.

"Okay, don't go." Mai Xiang returned him a hug.

"I will be good to you, and I will be good to you only for the rest of my life."

"know."

After hearing this, Huai Ci buried her head in Mai Xiang's shoulder, and after a while, she let go of Mai Xiang, and pulled Mai Xiang to sit again.

"Are you more comfortable now?"

"Ah."

"Okay, now can you tell me what's going on?"

"I thought you wouldn't want to know." Huaici said with a light smile, he was indeed much calmer now.

"Mai Xiang, this is what it feels like to like someone. I always want to see her, always want to be with her, and always miss her in my heart. I feel uncomfortable seeing her sick, and I am happy seeing her happy."

Mai Xiang didn't expect Huai Ci to say these things, she already knew these things, Huai Ci had already been like this when he said he was going to be his brother, but at that time he still couldn't accept the physical contact between the two, instead of being like Now like this, he will hug her at every turn.So she raised her head to look at Huai Ci again, and deliberately asked: "What else?"

"Also, I want to hold her hand, I want to hug her, I also want to touch her face, Mai Xiang, it turns out that you don't need to deliberately get close to her when you like someone, and you accept her naturally, Mai Xiang Xiang, I did it, I really did it, I like you, I really like you."

When Huaici said this, his eye circles were a little red. He was always worried that he would still have shadows and wronged Mai Xiang, but he never thought that in just a few months, he had completely accepted Mai Xiang from both thought and psychology.

Mai Xiang didn't expect that, originally she wanted to ask what happened to him again, but in exchange for Huaici's confession again, and, this time, Mai Xiang was convinced that the other party was indeed in love with her and had a crush on her. The love between men and women, because at this moment, Huai Ci is holding Mai Xiang's face with both hands.

The two got bored for a while, but it was still Mai Xiang who pushed Huai Ci away, "Let's go and see the house first, then buy some food and come back to cook, Fujin will send someone to pick me up later."

"Okay." Huai Ci also agreed, he was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would really do something that was not good for Mai Xiang.

After getting off the kang, Huai Ci led Mai Xiang into the study room, and took out the books in the bottom shelf of the bookcase. There was a dark room inside, and Huai Ci took out a wooden box from the dark room.

"This is our family property. If you want to use a large amount of silver, you can get it from here. The scattered silver is in the drawer of the desk."

Mai Xiang saw that in addition to the bank notes, there were four house deeds and a land deed of [-] mu of land in the wooden box, so she said with a smile, "Aren't you afraid that I will steal all your belongings and run away?"

"I'm giving it to you. You don't need to file or run away. I can still earn money. I will give it to my sister in the future." After Huai Ci finished speaking, he picked out a house deed and handed it to Mai Xiang.

"what is this?"

"This is a new yard I bought for your family. I think the house is okay, but I was afraid that it would be delayed into someone else's hands, so I decided to buy it myself and gave it to my father-in-law and mother-in-law."

After hearing this, Mai Xiang hurriedly asked, "How much money?"

"Since I said it was a gift, I asked for money. I specially thanked my father-in-law and mother-in-law for raising a good daughter for me."

"Then what are you going to use to thank me?" Mai Xiang thought of teasing.

If the ancients talked about love, they would be no less disgusting than modern people.

"Everything in my hands belongs to you, including myself." Huai Ci rubbed Mai Xiang's face again after speaking.

"Let me see how much wealth you have left?" Mai Xiang counted Huaici's banknotes after speaking, and there were 700 taels left.

"How about buying another shop at Liulichang and renting it out?" Mai Xiang asked.She always felt that it was a pity that the money was left like this.

"That's okay, I'll let Feng Xiang pay attention."

"Pack up your things. If you can buy a shop, buy a shop, and if you can buy land, buy land. I don't need money for the time being, and I have a lot of money in my hand. It doesn't cost much to live normally."

Mai Xiang is telling the truth, if you don't buy luxury goods, antiques or real estate, silver is still very economical.

Huai Ci found a cloth bag from under the box, Mai Xiang guessed from the shape of the cloth bag that it was a pair of bracelets, and it should be the pair of jade bracelets that his mother left him, so she hurriedly held down his hand Hands, "I'm still young and my hands are thin, and I'm not idle at home. It's not suitable for me to wear this. I'll talk about it later."

"But I want to give it to you."

"I know, I'll ask for it later when I'm older."

Huaici thought for a while, but didn't insist anymore, put the things back, took a bunch of keys, took Mai Xiang's hand, and went out the door.

The newly bought house is just across from the back door of Huai Ci's house, the two houses are so close, no wonder he was so anxious to buy it.

This is a small courtyard with two entrances. It is rare that the furniture is still complete. Mai Xiang counted, there are almost twenty rooms, which is quite enough for my family to live in.

"I heard that the owner here is still the second best. Now that he is in the Hanlin Academy, he thinks this place is too small. I think it's okay. If the father-in-law thinks it's too small, we can live in later, and give them the big one."

"Are you willing?" Mai Xiang smiled.

Huaici's newly built house is a three-entry house, with a much larger area than this, and of course there are many more rooms, it is a courtyard in a courtyard.

"Just be angry with me." Huai Ci smiled, stretched out his hand and pinched Mai Xiang's face.

"By the way, you haven't told me yet why you were uncovered this time because of what happened before?" Mai Xiang suddenly thought that she hadn't asked about the serious matter yet.

"That's a long story."

It turned out that after Wan Zhigao returned, he told Mrs. Wan about meeting Huai Ci near the academy, which naturally aroused Mrs. Wan's vigilance.She asked someone to check Huai Ci.

Only then did I know that Huaici not only entered the academy, but also built such a big house in the capital, two shops, and the location of the house and shop is so good.

She is not afraid of Huaici's business, after all, no matter how rich a businessman is, he has no social status. Moreover, Huaici's starting point is low, and she does not believe that Huaici can make a lot of money.

But she was a little scared when Huai Ci wanted to study, because she still remembered that her husband said that the child was smart and understanding. If Huai Ci passed the exam and her son failed the exam, the family fortune of the Wan family would be hard to say. In whose hands, more importantly, if Huaici really wins the election one day, he will donate an official. He also has Prince Li as the backstage. Have a good time?

Mrs. Wan found an excuse, saying that Huaici's house had good geomantic omen, because Huaici's house had a second place behind it. She asked a geomancer to see it. .

Mrs. Wan told her home that Wan Baocai, Mrs. Wan, and Wan Chengyao all believed it. Can the places that can rank second in the list still be popular?

This was also the reason why the Wan family wanted to move into Huaici's yard. The house was so big that the Wan family could live there.What the Wan family lacks is popularity and culture. The Wan family's descendants are always not prosperous, and finally Wan Zhigao has two in his generation, but one is born of a maid, so he can't take it out.

Mrs. Wan wanted to move into Huaici's yard because she knew that Huaici would definitely not agree. In this way, she could once again achieve the goal of separating Huaici and Wan's parents.

Because of Huaici's gift of marriage this time, and because of Prince Li behind Mai Xiang, the elders of Wan's family showed more love and care for Huaici, which was the last thing Mrs. Wan wanted to see.

Mrs. Wan was really angry when she saw the elders of Wan's family, and the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren who were originally not close has become weaker. Mrs. Wan was secretly delighted, and secretly asked someone to tell Huaici the reason why Huaici was dismissed from Changhe Academy. It is located in the academy mountain.

Because Huai Ci was personally introduced by Prince Li, Shan Chang naturally refused to make his own claim, so he had to entrust someone to deliver a letter to Yong En.

"Your aunt is really capable, she really worked hard for you, tsk tsk, she actually knew how to play both ways, on the one hand, she separated your father and grandparents, made them hate you and ignored you, and then she did anything else, because no one paid attention You have worked time and time again."

Mai Xiang didn't understand, why did Mrs. Wan hate Huaici so much? Huaici didn't ask Wan's family for protection or money, and she couldn't do it separately?
(End of this chapter)