Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 301
This night, Huaici hugged Mai Xiang and tossed around for most of the night again, this time it was different from the previous night, this time it was because of joy, happiness, and gratitude, in short, the two of them went to bed late again.

"Second master, second grandma, it's not good. I heard that the young master ran away from home. The old lady, wife and grandma are crying in the room." Feng Ye circled outside the door for a long time before knocking on the microphone. Fragrant door.

Huai Ci's sleepiness was a little lighter than Mai Xiang's. Hearing this, he quickly sat up and asked, "Who? Who ran away from home? What's going on?"

"It's the young master. The young master left a letter to the young mistress, saying that he is sorry for everyone. He wants to go out and find a place to study quietly for a few years and pay homage to a good teacher. Grandma, his wife, and the old lady will all be here now." Wept in tears in the upper room."

"What's the use of crying, send someone to look for it?" Mai Xiang closed her eyes and said.

Running away from home at this time, doesn't it just mean that Huai Ci's success is too dazzling?

The fact is indeed so. When Mai Xiang and Huai Ci rushed to the upper room, Jiang looked at Mai Xiang and Huai Ci with fire in his eyes, and said, "It's you two, you forced my son away. I Poor son, I still don't know where life or death is going. He has never suffered since he was a child, and he has never left anyone around him. Who knows who he will meet when he goes out. Why are you so cruel? , you are your Tanhualang, you can go back to your own home and make a fuss, but you still have to do it in front of so many people, isn't this just pouring salt on my son's wound? My poor son... "

When the old lady heard "I don't know if it's life or death", she thought that the grandson she had cared for since childhood might be in a real misfortune, and that she might never see her beloved grandson again in this life. The old lady fainted from the pain. past.

Mai Xiang hurriedly sent someone to invite the doctor, only to find out that Wan Baocai and Wan Chengyao had gone out to find someone. Seeing that the old lady had passed out, Jiang went even further and insulted Mai Xiang and Huaici.

Seeing that the doctor didn't come, Mai Xiang didn't want to leave the old lady alone, but it happened that Wan Chengmin's family came at this time, and they also heard that Huaici had won the prize, so they came here to congratulate her.

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing?" Wan Chengmin was very upset when he saw that the old lady had fainted, and the sister-in-law didn't go to the doctor but was here to spoil her.

Jiang shi didn't dare to offend Wan Chengmin, so he quickly grabbed Wan Chengmin to complain, Mai Xiang interjected: "Auntie, please look at the old lady, the doctor will be here soon."

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she tore Kang Yi's clothes, and the two went to the opposite room.

"Sister-in-law, what's going on?"

"He has been unhappy these days, and he can't read books. I didn't dare to force him. He just came back from here yesterday, hugged me and sighed for a long time. I didn't know that when I woke up this morning, he disappeared. I I thought he had gone to someone else's house."

"Did he say what to do?"

Kang Yi shook her head, "He only said that he would go on a study tour. If he got the guidance of a famous teacher and benefited, he would come back to take the township examination in the next year. If not, he would not come back and let me take care of these children. Woohoo, I Why is life so hard?"

Kang Yi was really sad in her heart, she never dreamed that Wan Zhigao was such an irresponsible person, if something happened, he would blame others if he pushed all the responsibilities on others.

Mai Xiang understands the mentality of people like Wan Zhigao. In modern society, this person is collectively referred to as princess disease and prince disease. To put it bluntly, he has been spoiled since he was a child, and he cannot accept a little setback in society. Turn around, once you find that this society is incompatible with you, you don't think about how to adapt to this society and accept this status quo, but choose a negative path. The light ones stay at home and wait for the old, and the severe ones just choose a path of no return. road.

Wan Zhigao is a typical prince's disease. He was the best in everything since he was a child. He didn't expect to be defeated by a Huai Ci who was inferior to him in everything. Even if others didn't say anything, he couldn't accept this fact psychologically. That's why Kang Yi said that he had been depressed for a long time.In addition, during this period of time, the old man and the old lady were all focused on Huaici, and he felt even more unbearable. He felt that even the old man and the old lady had abandoned him. This was the last straw that weighed on him. The straw made him choose to run away from home.

If Mai Xiang guessed correctly, he shouldn't be able to go very far. A person like him doesn't have the guts and courage to really run away from home and support himself.

"Mai Xiang, let me ask you something, can you tell me the truth?" Seeing Mai Xiang bowing her head, Kang Yi summoned up her courage and asked.

"Ask." At this moment, what else can Mai Xiang hide?
"Well, what's going on between you and my husband-in-law? I seem to have heard yesterday that you used to be a couple?" Kang Yi struggled with this question all night. She was afraid that her husband's departure might be related to her asking this question. .

"Why do you say that?" Mai Xiang looked at Kang Yi's haggard face, feeling a little distressed.

Back then, she was the one who led the way in their private relationship. Thinking of this, Mai Xiang felt a little guilty.So, she told about the origin of the Wan family and the Ye family.

"This is just a verbal agreement. It was supposed to be fulfilled in the previous generation. I didn't expect that the Ye family had no girls. As for why the girls from the Wan family didn't marry the Ye family, I guess it was because the Ye family was too poor. The reason. I didn’t know there was such an agreement. It was only when the master came to ask for the token back that I realized that I was almost engaged. You have seen me back then. You said, just like me, everyone can see So, don't think too much about it. Without you, this marriage would not have happened. As for me and my husband, it was because he was also a poor man. To tell you the truth, I thought He is an orphan, and I only found out after the marriage was given that he also has a family, and he also belongs to the Wan family, what do you think is a coincidence?"

After hearing these words, Kang Yi didn't blame herself so much, but now her husband didn't know where to live and wander, and she didn't have the heart to answer Mai Xiang's question.

Seeing Kang Yi's tears streaming down again, Mai Xiang was about to say a few words of comfort when she heard the doctor came and went out to have a look. The doctor took the old lady's pulse and after a few acupuncture sessions, the old lady woke up.

Turning her eyes around, she didn't see the person she wanted to see, and the old lady's tears came out again.

"Mother, don't worry, Zhigao is so old now, and he has money on him, nothing will happen to him, at most he just goes out to relax, and he will be back in a few days." Wan Chengmin advised.

Wan Chengmin, who originally wanted to go back to her natal family to celebrate and take advantage of her parents' happiness to get some benefits from her natal family, how did she know that everything would be turned upside down as soon as she entered her natal family?It happened that the old lady fainted, so she could only comfort the old man patiently.

The old lady shook her head and said: "This grandson is very angry, he is angry with us, angry that we ignored him, my poor grandson, where has he suffered so much, how does he know how sinister people outside are? ?”

Upon hearing this, Huaici's eyes darkened, he turned and left the room, Mai Xiang walked beside him, only to see him smile wryly.

"No matter how hard I try, I can't match him, can I?"

Mai Xiang hugged Huaici's waist from the front, and pressed her face against it.

"Why compare with others? In my heart, you are you, you are the most important and the only one."

"Okay, from now on, I will only be the only one in your heart, and those are irrelevant." Huaici hugged the villain in his arms tightly.

Wan Baocai and Wan Chengyao came in after dark, and there was still no news. The whole family sat in the upper room and sighed, without even eating.

Jiang was crying all the time, complaining that Huaici's high school had irritated her poor son, and then crying that she wondered if her poor son had found a place to live, did he have any money with him, did he have any money? Not snatched by bad guys, etc.

When Jiang shi cried, the old lady felt uncomfortable with the heart-picking liver, and the old man was also very contradictory. After a while, he felt that what Jiang shi said was reasonable. If it wasn't for Huaici's high school, this grandson would definitely not run away from home; I also feel that Huaici's high school is the glory of Wanjia.

But the glory of the Wan family can't be exchanged with his beloved grandson?

Faced with Jiang's accusations, none of the elders of the Wan family spoke up to speak out for Huaici, let alone the planned return home to worship and celebrate the ancestors.

Mai Xiang and Huai Ci sensed the subtle changes of the elders, and they didn't go forward much except for morning and evening. Wan Chengmin took care of the old lady's illness in person.

For several days, there was no news of Wan Zhigao. This Dragon Boat Festival, the Wan family naturally didn't think about it, but Mai Xiang couldn't propose to move out at this time, so he reluctantly stayed.

Even if they stayed, there was embarrassment, because the two old people didn't want to see Huai Ci very much. When they saw him, they would think of the missing grandson.

Fortunately, within two days, Yongen sent Mai Xiang a piece of good news. The imperial court allowed her to run a newspaper, and allowed her to publish some palace manuscripts and some current events that were publicly discussed in the court. But there is one thing, Mai Xiang’s newspaper must Sending a sample to the palace every day, the emperor also wants to know what the common people pay attention to.

When Mai Xiang heard the news, she went to Cao Xueqin to discuss it. She wanted to open a column in the newspaper to publish serialized novels. The first book was naturally "A Dream of Red Mansions". The title of the book was already familiar to everyone.

It happened that Huai Ci had a few months of vacation, and Mai Xiang handed over everything to him. Three days later, the first newspaper sample was published. It was as big as the question of whether to close the coastal ports for trade in the court, or as small as the people's attention. How much the price of rice has risen because of the drought.

These articles were written by reporters sent by Mai Xiang to interview some street people or shopkeepers, and their answers were more down-to-earth.

It's just that Mai Xiang doesn't know, can the high-ranking emperor accept such an article?
(End of this chapter)