Chapter 37
On the second day, Jiang Yun Zhu was doing the takeaway business. Sure enough, the number of people ordering food didn’t decrease today.
This afternoon, she was about to take a break when someone knocked on the door outside.
Mrs. Chen went to open the door and pleasantly said, "You're here!"
It was Mrs. Liu who brought Lu Yuan here. Wei Kang Ping was next to her. He was carrying a lot of things in his hands.
He carried the things for Mrs. Chen to the middle hall and put them down. He explained with a smile, "Brought some Song Ji's snacks, Baofulou's roast chicken, and some oranges from the south for you to try."
Mrs. Chen was a little flattered. There were snacks, roast chicken, and oranges. She saw them in the county last time. They were very expensive.
"Can’t really. It can’t do. We can't have it." She refused.
"Elder Sister-in-law Chen, keep it. Consider it as me thanking you." Mrs. Liu piped in at this moment.
Mrs. Chen assumed she was talking about reminding her to leave Jinniu Village before, so she responded, "It's really not worth doing this."
She just said a few words. Didn't really help her.
Naturally, Mrs. Liu didn't mean that. She was thanking Mrs. Chen for allowing her to meet Wei Kang Ping. However, this matter hasn’t been finalized yet and can’t really be clearly explained. She could only get Mrs. Chen to accept it.
Mrs. Chen had no choice but to accept the things and let them sit in the room.
"Where's Eldest Brother Jiang?" Mrs. Liu asked when not seeing Jiang Cheng upon entering the room.
"Him!" Mrs. Chen laughed, "After getting that mule, he couldn't sleep every day because of the joy. HeI rode the mule around to familiarize himself with the route."
At this time, Jiang Yun Zhu, Jiang Lin and the others entered the room. Mrs. Liu had brought things, so they were guests. As members of the family, they had to meet guests.
The others didn’t react too much. Except for Wei Kang Ping, his eyes lit up when he saw Jiang Yun Zhu. He didn't even have time to take a closer look at her when he glanced over at the mule and horse market that day. Today, she seemed to be more beautiful than that day.
Jiang Yun Zhu felt that someone was looking at her and looked over there. She met Wei Kang Ping's gaze.
Wei Kang Ping nodded slightly with the air of a nobleman. What he assumed was actually oily in Jiang Yun Zhu's eyes. It gave the self-centered feel of ‘I’m the best’.
Jiang Yun Zhu withdrew her gaze, thinking that maybe it wasn't her imagination that day. This Wei Kang Ping...
"Familiar with the route? What route to familiarize with?" Mrs. Liu responded what Mrs. Chen said just now.
Mrs. Chen explained Jiang Cheng’s plan to make a living by giving rides in the future.
Mrs. Liu listened and felt that this was a good career. But why later? The mule was already bought.
Don't have money to buy a cart. Mrs. Chen was embarrassed to say.
Mrs. Liu guessed it and immediately offered, "Elder Sister-in-law Chen, if you are short of money, just tell me. I still have some."
She was widow with an orphan. How could Mrs. Chen borrow her money, so she quickly said no need.
"If you are short of silver, I have some here. Elder Sister-in-law, just take it and use it. If you have it in the future, you can pay. If you don't, no need." Wei Kang Ping stated and even took out an ingot of ten liang silver and handed it to Mrs. Chen.
This was ten liang silver.
Mrs. Chen was taken aback, and quickly stepped back, "No, no, really no." She said repeatedly.
She dodged and exposed Jiang Yun Zhu who was sitting next to her.
With a turn of his arm, Wei Kang Ping stuffed the money toward Jiang Yun Zhu's hand and uttered, "Younger Sister, hold it for your mother."
He called Mrs. Chen ‘Elder Sister-in-law’ and Jiang Yun Zhu ‘Younger Sister’.
"Don't dare." Jiang Yun Zhu deftly dodged his hand and calmly responded.
Wei Kang Ping's hand stopped there. It was a little awkward.
"Quickly put it away. You've already helped us a lot." Mrs. Chen hurriedly dissolved the situation. The other party did it out of kind-intention.
"Okay. Then whenever you are short of money, just come to me." Wei Kang Ping said.
After this incident, everyone chatted and talked about all kinds of things in Jinniu Village and sighed.
In the middle, Mrs. Chen noticed that Lu Yuan was very well-behaved and cute. So she looked at Jiang Yun Zhu, conveying, was there anything to eat at home and to get some for the child.
The Jiang Family didn't have any snacks. Jiang Yun Zhu remembered that there was still glutinous rice lotus root made at noon. She got up and went to the kitchen.
She found glutinous rice lotus root in the jar. Thinking of Lu Yuan's age, she put the lotus root on the chopping board and planned to cut the lotus root into small pieces before giving it to Lu Yuan. This way it was easier for him to eat it.
"Younger Sister, what is this? Smells so sweet?" Wei Kang Ping arrived in the kitchen at some point and asked with a smile while looking into the jar.
Jiang Yun Zhu replied briefly, "Glutinous rice lotus root."
"Glutinous rice lotus root? What is that?"
Jiang Yun Zhu didn't want to talk to him anymore.
Wei Kang Ping smiled, took out a box from his sleeve, opened it, and handed it to Jiang Yun Zhu, "Younger Sister, look at you, you are so beautiful and don't even have a hairpin on your head. It's too plain.
This was for you. "
In the box, a butterfly-shaped bead flower was shining brightly.
If Jiang Yun Zhu was a girl from an ordinary family and at the age of wanting to be pretty, she would definitely be tempted by the sight of the beautiful bead flower. Too bad she wasn't. Not to mention the jade beads she wore in the Anping Hou Mansion in the dream, even in modern times, she had seen things a hundred times better than this pearl flower.
"No need." Jiang Yun Zhu put the chopped glutinous rice lotus root into a bowl, turned around, and left the kitchen directly.
The smile on Wei Kang Ping's face froze. His past invincible tricks didn't work with Jiang Yun Zhu!
He watched Jiang Yun Zhu's back. There was a hint of fierceness on his face.
In the room, Jiang Yun Zhu handed the glutinous rice lotus root to Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan was very moved by the smell of glutinous rice lotus root. He looked at Mrs. Liu.
"This is glutinous rice lotus root. Yun Zhu made it. Yuan-er try it." Mrs. Chen urged with a smile.
"Your Elder Sister Yun Zhu gave it to you, eat it quickly." Mrs. Liu smiled to Lu Yuan, "By the way, what else do you want?"
"Thank you, Elder Sister Yun Zhu." Lu Yuan accepted the bowl containing glutinous rice lotus root and faced his small face at Jiang Yun Zhu.
"You're welcome!" Jiang Yun Zhu patted his head, feeling heavy in her heart. This Wei Kang Ping wasn’t a good man. Mrs. Liu and this child...
At this time, Wei Kang Ping entered the room. Out of all the space in the room he could sit, he chose to sit next to Jiang Yun Zhu.
Though Jiang Yun Zhu didn't look at him, she was wary of him.
Suddenly, she noticed his arm bumping toward hers. He seemed to be talking to old Mister Chen, but he was actually looking at her from the corner of his eyes.
Jiang Yun Zhu was quite sure that he did it on purpose. He purposely wanted to touch her arm.
He was bullying the fact that old Mister Chen had bad eyesight!
Jiang Yun Zhu felt disgusted. Immediately, she withdrew her arms and yelled, "What are you doing!"
As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the room. Everyone looked at Jiang Yun Zhu.
"He wanted to touch my arm." Jiang Yun Zhu directly told.
In this day and age, everyone valued women's chastity very much. Especially since Jiang Yun Zhu wasn’t married yet. A man like Wei Kang Ping wanted to touch her arm?
Mrs. Chen immediately stood up and looked at Wei Kang Ping with an ugly expression.
Old Mister Chen clenched the cane in his hand.
Mrs. Liu stood up in panic, looked at Wei Kang Ping and then at Jiang Yun Zhu. Completely at a loss.
Being stared at by everyone, Wei Kang Ping felt embarrassed and angry at the same time. He did want to touch Jiang Yun Zhu's arm with his arm. In his opinion, even if he did and Jiang Yun Zhu felt it, she could only accept it as an unmarried girl and dare not speak out.
Maybe she would show a shy and timid expression.
He liked to see girls showing this kind of expression the most.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Yun Zhu dodged and even questioned him directly.
"I didn't want to touch you." Wei Kang Ping could only latch onto this point. Then he explained, "I only wanted to tidy up my clothes."
He pointed to his own clothes.
After all, there was no proof. Wei Kang Ping and Mrs. Liu left in embarrassment. Mrs. Chen threw all the things they brought into their arms and closed the door without saying goodbye.
Mrs. Liu stood there for a long time before walking back with a cold face.
Wei Kang Ping cast a bitter look at the gate of the Jiang Family and hurried to catch up, "Qiu Niang, I promise, I never want to touch her. You know, I like you."
"A girl would use this kind of thing to frame you?" Mrs. Liu didn't believe it.
"Maybe she misunderstood. Besides, think about it, why was she always staring at me?"
Mrs. Liu still ignored him with a cold face.
"Qiu Niang, I want to dig out my heart and show it to you. This way you can see who it holds inside. If you still don't believe me, alright, I’lll swear. If I really want to touch her today, I won't dead a good death." Wei Kang Ping swore.
Ancient people believed in the existence of gods and ghosts in this world and believed in swearing. Seeing Wei Kang Ping cursed himself like this, Mrs. Liu's heart began to waver. Did Jiang Yun Zhu really misunderstand?
But it was hard to explain. She originally wanted to thank Mrs. Chen, but who would have thought that it would become like this now.
She held Lu Yuan and continued to walk forward, ignoring Wei Kang Ping. Her expression softened though.
Wei Kang Ping gritted his teeth and quickly followed.
In the Jiang’s house. When Mrs. Liu trio left, Mrs. Chen saw there was no one and took the chance to ask Jiang Yun Zhu in private, "He, really wanted to touch you?"
"Mother, don't you believe me?" Jiang Yun Zhu responded.
Mrs. Chen was furious. Of course she believed Jiang Yun Zhu.
Later, when Jiang Cheng came back, Mrs. Chen told Jiang Cheng what happened in the afternoon. Jiang Cheng was so angry that his eyes turned red. He believed Jiang Yun Zhu. That surnamed Wei!
"I'll go find him." Jiang Cheng flushed. He headed out to settle accounts with him.
"Family Head." Mrs. Chen became worried again.
"Father! We have no evidence." Jiang Yun Zhu stopped Jiang Cheng. She was afraid that Jiang Cheng would suffer losses if he went.
"Yun Zhu." Jiang Cheng turned to look at her.
Jiang Yun Zhu frowned in thought. She wasn't touched, but Wei Kang Ping's motivation for this behavior was sexual harassment.
What's more, she was a little worried about whether people like him would retaliate. And Mrs. Liu and that child...
In short, preparing for the worst in everything was the right way.
Oh right. Seeing the mule that Jiang Cheng was holding, she suddenly wondered why a person like Wei Kang Ping would sell such a good mule to them so cheaply?
Previous
On the second day, Jiang Yun Zhu was doing the takeaway business. Sure enough, the number of people ordering food didn’t decrease today.
This afternoon, she was about to take a break when someone knocked on the door outside.
Mrs. Chen went to open the door and pleasantly said, "You're here!"
It was Mrs. Liu who brought Lu Yuan here. Wei Kang Ping was next to her. He was carrying a lot of things in his hands.
He carried the things for Mrs. Chen to the middle hall and put them down. He explained with a smile, "Brought some Song Ji's snacks, Baofulou's roast chicken, and some oranges from the south for you to try."
Mrs. Chen was a little flattered. There were snacks, roast chicken, and oranges. She saw them in the county last time. They were very expensive.
"Can’t really. It can’t do. We can't have it." She refused.
"Elder Sister-in-law Chen, keep it. Consider it as me thanking you." Mrs. Liu piped in at this moment.
Mrs. Chen assumed she was talking about reminding her to leave Jinniu Village before, so she responded, "It's really not worth doing this."
She just said a few words. Didn't really help her.
Naturally, Mrs. Liu didn't mean that. She was thanking Mrs. Chen for allowing her to meet Wei Kang Ping. However, this matter hasn’t been finalized yet and can’t really be clearly explained. She could only get Mrs. Chen to accept it.
Mrs. Chen had no choice but to accept the things and let them sit in the room.
"Where's Eldest Brother Jiang?" Mrs. Liu asked when not seeing Jiang Cheng upon entering the room.
"Him!" Mrs. Chen laughed, "After getting that mule, he couldn't sleep every day because of the joy. HeI rode the mule around to familiarize himself with the route."
At this time, Jiang Yun Zhu, Jiang Lin and the others entered the room. Mrs. Liu had brought things, so they were guests. As members of the family, they had to meet guests.
The others didn’t react too much. Except for Wei Kang Ping, his eyes lit up when he saw Jiang Yun Zhu. He didn't even have time to take a closer look at her when he glanced over at the mule and horse market that day. Today, she seemed to be more beautiful than that day.
Jiang Yun Zhu felt that someone was looking at her and looked over there. She met Wei Kang Ping's gaze.
Wei Kang Ping nodded slightly with the air of a nobleman. What he assumed was actually oily in Jiang Yun Zhu's eyes. It gave the self-centered feel of ‘I’m the best’.
Jiang Yun Zhu withdrew her gaze, thinking that maybe it wasn't her imagination that day. This Wei Kang Ping...
"Familiar with the route? What route to familiarize with?" Mrs. Liu responded what Mrs. Chen said just now.
Mrs. Chen explained Jiang Cheng’s plan to make a living by giving rides in the future.
Mrs. Liu listened and felt that this was a good career. But why later? The mule was already bought.
Don't have money to buy a cart. Mrs. Chen was embarrassed to say.
Mrs. Liu guessed it and immediately offered, "Elder Sister-in-law Chen, if you are short of money, just tell me. I still have some."
She was widow with an orphan. How could Mrs. Chen borrow her money, so she quickly said no need.
"If you are short of silver, I have some here. Elder Sister-in-law, just take it and use it. If you have it in the future, you can pay. If you don't, no need." Wei Kang Ping stated and even took out an ingot of ten liang silver and handed it to Mrs. Chen.
This was ten liang silver.
Mrs. Chen was taken aback, and quickly stepped back, "No, no, really no." She said repeatedly.
She dodged and exposed Jiang Yun Zhu who was sitting next to her.
With a turn of his arm, Wei Kang Ping stuffed the money toward Jiang Yun Zhu's hand and uttered, "Younger Sister, hold it for your mother."
He called Mrs. Chen ‘Elder Sister-in-law’ and Jiang Yun Zhu ‘Younger Sister’.
"Don't dare." Jiang Yun Zhu deftly dodged his hand and calmly responded.
Wei Kang Ping's hand stopped there. It was a little awkward.
"Quickly put it away. You've already helped us a lot." Mrs. Chen hurriedly dissolved the situation. The other party did it out of kind-intention.
"Okay. Then whenever you are short of money, just come to me." Wei Kang Ping said.
After this incident, everyone chatted and talked about all kinds of things in Jinniu Village and sighed.
In the middle, Mrs. Chen noticed that Lu Yuan was very well-behaved and cute. So she looked at Jiang Yun Zhu, conveying, was there anything to eat at home and to get some for the child.
The Jiang Family didn't have any snacks. Jiang Yun Zhu remembered that there was still glutinous rice lotus root made at noon. She got up and went to the kitchen.
She found glutinous rice lotus root in the jar. Thinking of Lu Yuan's age, she put the lotus root on the chopping board and planned to cut the lotus root into small pieces before giving it to Lu Yuan. This way it was easier for him to eat it.
"Younger Sister, what is this? Smells so sweet?" Wei Kang Ping arrived in the kitchen at some point and asked with a smile while looking into the jar.
Jiang Yun Zhu replied briefly, "Glutinous rice lotus root."
"Glutinous rice lotus root? What is that?"
Jiang Yun Zhu didn't want to talk to him anymore.
Wei Kang Ping smiled, took out a box from his sleeve, opened it, and handed it to Jiang Yun Zhu, "Younger Sister, look at you, you are so beautiful and don't even have a hairpin on your head. It's too plain.
This was for you. "
In the box, a butterfly-shaped bead flower was shining brightly.
If Jiang Yun Zhu was a girl from an ordinary family and at the age of wanting to be pretty, she would definitely be tempted by the sight of the beautiful bead flower. Too bad she wasn't. Not to mention the jade beads she wore in the Anping Hou Mansion in the dream, even in modern times, she had seen things a hundred times better than this pearl flower.
"No need." Jiang Yun Zhu put the chopped glutinous rice lotus root into a bowl, turned around, and left the kitchen directly.
The smile on Wei Kang Ping's face froze. His past invincible tricks didn't work with Jiang Yun Zhu!
He watched Jiang Yun Zhu's back. There was a hint of fierceness on his face.
In the room, Jiang Yun Zhu handed the glutinous rice lotus root to Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan was very moved by the smell of glutinous rice lotus root. He looked at Mrs. Liu.
"This is glutinous rice lotus root. Yun Zhu made it. Yuan-er try it." Mrs. Chen urged with a smile.
"Your Elder Sister Yun Zhu gave it to you, eat it quickly." Mrs. Liu smiled to Lu Yuan, "By the way, what else do you want?"
"Thank you, Elder Sister Yun Zhu." Lu Yuan accepted the bowl containing glutinous rice lotus root and faced his small face at Jiang Yun Zhu.
"You're welcome!" Jiang Yun Zhu patted his head, feeling heavy in her heart. This Wei Kang Ping wasn’t a good man. Mrs. Liu and this child...
At this time, Wei Kang Ping entered the room. Out of all the space in the room he could sit, he chose to sit next to Jiang Yun Zhu.
Though Jiang Yun Zhu didn't look at him, she was wary of him.
Suddenly, she noticed his arm bumping toward hers. He seemed to be talking to old Mister Chen, but he was actually looking at her from the corner of his eyes.
Jiang Yun Zhu was quite sure that he did it on purpose. He purposely wanted to touch her arm.
He was bullying the fact that old Mister Chen had bad eyesight!
Jiang Yun Zhu felt disgusted. Immediately, she withdrew her arms and yelled, "What are you doing!"
As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the room. Everyone looked at Jiang Yun Zhu.
"He wanted to touch my arm." Jiang Yun Zhu directly told.
In this day and age, everyone valued women's chastity very much. Especially since Jiang Yun Zhu wasn’t married yet. A man like Wei Kang Ping wanted to touch her arm?
Mrs. Chen immediately stood up and looked at Wei Kang Ping with an ugly expression.
Old Mister Chen clenched the cane in his hand.
Mrs. Liu stood up in panic, looked at Wei Kang Ping and then at Jiang Yun Zhu. Completely at a loss.
Being stared at by everyone, Wei Kang Ping felt embarrassed and angry at the same time. He did want to touch Jiang Yun Zhu's arm with his arm. In his opinion, even if he did and Jiang Yun Zhu felt it, she could only accept it as an unmarried girl and dare not speak out.
Maybe she would show a shy and timid expression.
He liked to see girls showing this kind of expression the most.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Yun Zhu dodged and even questioned him directly.
"I didn't want to touch you." Wei Kang Ping could only latch onto this point. Then he explained, "I only wanted to tidy up my clothes."
He pointed to his own clothes.
After all, there was no proof. Wei Kang Ping and Mrs. Liu left in embarrassment. Mrs. Chen threw all the things they brought into their arms and closed the door without saying goodbye.
Mrs. Liu stood there for a long time before walking back with a cold face.
Wei Kang Ping cast a bitter look at the gate of the Jiang Family and hurried to catch up, "Qiu Niang, I promise, I never want to touch her. You know, I like you."
"A girl would use this kind of thing to frame you?" Mrs. Liu didn't believe it.
"Maybe she misunderstood. Besides, think about it, why was she always staring at me?"
Mrs. Liu still ignored him with a cold face.
"Qiu Niang, I want to dig out my heart and show it to you. This way you can see who it holds inside. If you still don't believe me, alright, I’lll swear. If I really want to touch her today, I won't dead a good death." Wei Kang Ping swore.
Ancient people believed in the existence of gods and ghosts in this world and believed in swearing. Seeing Wei Kang Ping cursed himself like this, Mrs. Liu's heart began to waver. Did Jiang Yun Zhu really misunderstand?
But it was hard to explain. She originally wanted to thank Mrs. Chen, but who would have thought that it would become like this now.
She held Lu Yuan and continued to walk forward, ignoring Wei Kang Ping. Her expression softened though.
Wei Kang Ping gritted his teeth and quickly followed.
In the Jiang’s house. When Mrs. Liu trio left, Mrs. Chen saw there was no one and took the chance to ask Jiang Yun Zhu in private, "He, really wanted to touch you?"
"Mother, don't you believe me?" Jiang Yun Zhu responded.
Mrs. Chen was furious. Of course she believed Jiang Yun Zhu.
Later, when Jiang Cheng came back, Mrs. Chen told Jiang Cheng what happened in the afternoon. Jiang Cheng was so angry that his eyes turned red. He believed Jiang Yun Zhu. That surnamed Wei!
"I'll go find him." Jiang Cheng flushed. He headed out to settle accounts with him.
"Family Head." Mrs. Chen became worried again.
"Father! We have no evidence." Jiang Yun Zhu stopped Jiang Cheng. She was afraid that Jiang Cheng would suffer losses if he went.
"Yun Zhu." Jiang Cheng turned to look at her.
Jiang Yun Zhu frowned in thought. She wasn't touched, but Wei Kang Ping's motivation for this behavior was sexual harassment.
What's more, she was a little worried about whether people like him would retaliate. And Mrs. Liu and that child...
In short, preparing for the worst in everything was the right way.
Oh right. Seeing the mule that Jiang Cheng was holding, she suddenly wondered why a person like Wei Kang Ping would sell such a good mule to them so cheaply?
I smell trouble with that guy... Thank you for the chapter!
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