Chapter 22: Scholar
Chapter 22 Scholar
Time passed little by little.
Jiang Zhiluo knows that it takes a long time to cook.
“Mom, how about I prepare dinner first.”
Mrs. Cui put a piece of firewood into the stove and said, "Zhiluo, let me help you make dinner together."
In the past, for Mrs. Cui, eating was like a task, and she had to rack her brains to think of how to cook.
No matter how hungry you are, the food tastes like chewing gum.
But since Zhi Luo made two meals, Mrs. Cui only knew what delicious food was after eating them.
Even the simplest things can be made delicious with Zhiluo.
So when Mrs. Cui heard Jiang Zhiluo talk about making dinner, she started to look forward to it.
Jiang Zhiluo shook her head and said, "It's okay, Mom, I can do it myself. Mom can just help light the fire."
Mrs. Cui looked at Jiang Zhiluo's clean and neat movements and felt that this daughter-in-law was very talented.
“Zhiluo, I just put firewood in the stove to burn for a while. Mom can help you make something, maybe wash the vegetables.”
Mrs. Cui couldn't bear to burden such a good daughter-in-law.
Cui Hejin has a cold temperament and doesn't know how to be kind to others. The Cui family is no longer the former Duke's family. As a mother, she can only do more to make her daughter-in-law feel the warmth of home.
Don’t give up He Hibiscus any day when you can’t stand it anymore. There will be no place to cry.
Jiang Zhiluo thought for a while and said, "Mom, why don't you help me pick the leeks."
Mrs. Cui smiled and said, "Okay."
When something is done, Mrs. Cui feels that she is useful.
For Jiangzhiluo, use coarse flour and add water to knead the dough in a basin.
Of course, some spiritual spring water is also added to the water, so even the bread made from thick flour will taste good.
After kneading the dough, Jiang Zhiluo covered it with a clean cloth and let it rest for a while.
At this time, Mrs. Cui had already picked the leeks.
Jiang Zhiluo said: "Mom, I'm going to take a shower."
With that said, Jiang Zhiluo took the basin to the yard, poured water to wash the leeks, and poured the vegetable washing water into the vegetable field for watering.
In ancient times, water cost nothing, but carrying water was hard work, so we could only save some water in this way.
Just as Jiang Zhiluo was washing leeks, a man stood at the door, looking in and saying, "Brother Cui, is Brother Cui here?"
Hearing the sound, Jiang Zhiluo stood up and wiped her hands. She walked to the gate of the small courtyard and looked at the young man dressed as a scholar in front of her.
This man was wearing a long coat of coarse cloth, with sparse eyebrows and pale bronze skin. He was delicate and elegant with a strong bookish air, but judging from his appearance, his temperament was also a bit upright and stubborn.
He looked about eighteen or nineteen years old.
Liu Tingan looked at the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl in front of him and was stunned for a moment.
Did he go to the wrong place?
Haven’t I heard that Brother Cui has a younger sister?
Liu Ting'an cupped his hands and said, "Girl, which household does Cui Hejin and Brother Cui live in?"
Jiang Zhiluo said: "This is it."
With that said, Jiang Zhiluo shouted into the house, "Husband, someone is looking for you."
Liu Tingan was so shocked when he heard these words that he almost stumbled to the ground.
He just felt dizzy and thought he had heard wrongly.
Brother Cui actually got married!
It was like a thunderbolt that struck him on the head.
He really couldn't accept that Brother Cui, who was so glorious and glamorous, actually got married.
Although the woman in front of me looks somewhat beautiful, she is wearing a coarse cloth, and she may be from the countryside.
Brother Cui is so good, how can he marry a village girl?
“Brother Cui married... got married?”
Jiang Zhiluo looked at the expression of the person in front of her and probably understood what he was thinking.
Jiang Zhiluo saw this person's shocked look. Did she think she was not worthy of Cui Hejin?
She only felt it was a little funny, and a sly look flashed across her eyes, and she said, "Well, we got married a few days ago, and my mother's family is in the next village."
Liu Tingan's pupils shrank violently, feeling a little sad for Brother Cui. "You...did you use any means to force Brother Cui to marry you?"
Some time ago, Brother Cui said that he would not get married and had no intention of getting married here.
In this case, it must be the woman in front of him who forced him to submit.
Jiang Zhiluo shrugged and said: "Why do you say it so harshly? What does it mean to use means? I fell in love with my husband at first sight and will fall in love with him again."
"You...you..." Liu Ting'an's face turned red. He felt that the village woman in front of him was shameless, and she could say such words.
Jiang Zhiluo curled her lips and said, "What are you talking about? Do you want to say that it is insulting to gentlemen?"
“A scholar like you is so old-fashioned.”
“Do you think someone who can write poems like Hongxiu Tianxiang is worthy of a scholar like you?”
Jiang Zhiluo held her hands and looked at Liu Tingan with raised eyebrows.
Liu Tingan seemed to have been told something that was on his mind, and his face turned redder, feeling ashamed and angry.
But he felt that the woman in front of him was too eloquent, and he couldn't even speak to her.
Jiang Zhiluo herself is not a weak-tempered person. If she had not owed Cui Hejin that life and wanted to be good to him, she would not have such a temperament.
As for the other person who is not Cui Hejin, she can just quarrel with him.
Cui Hejin came out of the house and happened to hear such a conversation, and looked slightly startled.
Perhaps I didn’t expect that my wife, who usually seemed gentle and gentle, would have such a side.
And every word she said didn't sound like she hadn't read the book.
Cui Hejin couldn't help but think deeply.
When Liu Ting'an saw Cui Hejin, he said excitedly: "Brother Cui!"
But when he thought of Brother Cui marrying a village woman, he felt a little sad for Brother Cui.
“Brother Cui, it’s all my fault. If something hadn’t happened suddenly at home, I wouldn’t have gone back. Why did you suddenly...”
Before Liu Tingan could finish speaking, Cui Hejin interrupted him and said, "Let's go inside and talk."
“Okay, okay, let’s go into the house and talk.”
Cui Hejin took Liu Tingan into the back room.
Two people were talking in the back room.
After Jiang Zhiluo washed the vegetables, she washed the fungus. These were the things her parents asked her to bring back.
After washing, she took it into the house and started cutting leeks and fungus.
And scrambled eggs are broken into pieces, and then the fillings are mixed.
After adjusting the stuffing, I placed the panel on the kitchen table and started wrapping the leek boxes.
Jiang Zhiluo moved very quickly, and in a moment a box of leeks was wrapped.
At this time, Liu Ting'an in the room was still feeling uneasy and said: "Brother Cui, I don't think that village woman has a very good temperament. You have been wronged."
Cui Hejin said lightly: "You are thinking too much."
Liu Ting'an was still thinking to himself and said: "I know that she must have used some means to force you to submit. Otherwise, with your talent and appearance, you would not be able to marry a village woman."
"I know that the daughter of the owner of the bookstore has fallen in love with you. Their family conditions are much better than those in the village. They offered such good conditions, but you didn't even agree."
“You didn’t even fall in love with the bookstore’s daughter, let alone a village woman. She can’t even read a word.”
Liu Ting'an felt sorry for Brother Cui.
Jiang Zhiluo’s hands wrapping the box of leeks paused.
The scholar was talking to Cui Hejin in the house. Although the door was closed, his voice was very low and Mrs. Cui could not hear it.
But Jiang Zhiluo has a wood-type power. Even though the power is very weak now, her ears are sensitive and she can easily hear even the smallest sounds nearby.
(End of this chapter)