Admiration

Chapter 27 Admiration

She walked quite fast, and didn't look like she was strolling around. She had a pair of buns on her hair, and the black hair rings hung down behind her. When she walked, they swayed like two drooping ears. She looked like she had put on some makeup, but she didn't wear lipstick. However, the girl's lips were originally rosy, and she was still youthful and pretty.

She wore a thin jade bracelet, and it seemed that she also wore bells on her ankles, which rang slightly when she walked. In one hand, she held a thin willow branch, and she used it to play with the weeds on the roadside while walking.

Li Wuxiang guessed who this was at a glance. He went to the town yesterday and saw many women in the town. No matter young or beautiful, they all wore plain cloth clothes and simple buns like Xue Baoping. Although the girl's dress was not made of silk or satin, the color was quite bright. With the bracelet on her wrist, she must be the only daughter of the town owner.

This was an expected surprise.

His eyes were only touched for a moment before he retracted them, stood up, and walked back to the wing room.

Xue Baoping seemed to be using the warm water in the pot to clean the inner room. Ever since Li Wuxiang wiped the grease on the stove a few days ago, she kept the house spotless every day. Li Wuxiang sat down by the stove and added another piece of firewood to ignite the embers, then scooped water from the water tank into the pot to prepare some food for reopening the Xue family store in two days.

When he scooped half of the pot of water, he heard footsteps stop at the door - Chen Xiu stood at the door with his hands behind his back, looking into the room openly.

Li Wuxiang didn't look up, but just said, "The store hasn't opened yet."

"Oh, I know. I used to come here often." Chen Xiu nodded, looked around the room again, and took the time to stare at Li Wuxiang. Seeing that he was only busy fiddling with the fire at the bottom of the stove, she coughed, "Hey, I'm thirsty."

"The water tank is by the door."

Chen Xiu walked to the water tank and saw the gourd ladle placed on the wooden lid of the tank. The ladle had been used for many years, and the yellow-brown shell had been rubbed to a shine, with black spots on the handle. Chen Xiu wanted to reach out to take it, but she retracted her hand when she saw the black spots. But from this angle, she could see Li Wuxiang's profile - slightly reddened by the fire, and the skin on his neck was very tight and smooth.

She exhaled lightly, and looked at the yellow earth wall blackened by years of smoke and fire: "Your name is Li Jiye, right?"

"Yes."

"You must be very uncomfortable living here. Can you get used to the food here?"

Li Wuxiang looked up at her, then lowered his head to continue adding firewood, and said indifferently: "It's okay."

"Then are you used to living here? You don't sleep on a straw bed, do you?"

"It's okay."

Chen Xiu broke the willow branch with her hands behind her back. She thought the young master of the Li family should be a gentle, decent and generous person, but now she found that he was like a dull gourd, cold and lonely, and he had nothing but a good appearance. She felt a little resentful in her heart, but the good appearance was the killer - she didn't want to leave immediately.

At this time, the fire in the stove was about to go out, and Li Wuxiang took the bamboo blowpipe, put it to his mouth and blew a long breath into the stove, and the firelight illuminated his face again.

Chen Xiu took a long breath and exhaled, and decided to give him another chance: "What is that? It looks interesting, let me play with it?"

Li Wuxiang shook the blowpipe in his hand: "This?"

"Yeah."

"Blowpipe. Very dirty."

So Li Wuxiang saw Chen Xiu was stunned for a moment, and then opened her mouth slightly.

He smiled in his heart. Now he roughly understood Chen Xiu's temperament. She has a kind of open and honest temper that comes from being spoiled, but her mind is also very delicate and her conscience is not lost. If he is smart enough, but not too smart, then he can figure out the reason why he acted quite coldly because of his previous sentence "very dirty" - she disliked the gourd with black spots and the straw shop, so this made him feel unhappy and was offended by her unintentionally.

Regardless of whether she could think clearly or not, she would feel a little guilty because of this vague cognition——

"...Ah, I didn't say you were dirty."

Then, because of this little guilt, she would suppress her not-so-excessive lady temperament and start her topic in a flattering manner.

Li Wuxiang didn't answer her immediately, but left her there for a while. When he found that she was about to frown slightly, he suddenly said, "Is there a Qigong master in your town?"

The brows were smoothed at once. Chen Xiu immediately said, "Yes."

Li Wuxiang raised his face and let her see a reluctant smile: "If our town had been...if I was also a Qigong master, maybe we wouldn't have been flooded by the flood--"

He stopped, sighed softly, and lowered his head to fiddle with the firewood.

"I'll go back and ask the immortal master in my town if he can accept you as his apprentice." Chen Xiu said quickly, "My name is Chen Xiu, my father is the master of Jinshui Town, and the immortal master is enshrined in our family!"

Li Wuxiang shook his head again and said softly, "It's not that easy...but thank you anyway."

A trace of anxiety passed through Chen Xiu's heart. She felt that she had never spoken to anyone so carefully, but she always failed to coax him. But when she thought of his pitiful life experience, she felt ashamed of her anxiety. Moreover, she suddenly realized that what she said just now was really wonderful-if the immortal master Zhao really accepted him as a disciple, he would have to come in and out of her house!

Master Zhao Xian clearly told his father this morning that he was the young master of Lijiawan, but his father kept pushing and refused to ask anyone to propose marriage. He said that this kind of thing has never been so urgent, and he still needs to see who he is. Taste.

But is his character worth mentioning? He dared to beat up the scoundrels and idlers in the town, and the scoundrels were frightened by him. He was polite when talking to the big shopkeeper, and he was many times more educated than Zhao Qi! This is obviously both civil and military. Besides, what kind of thing has always happened? Aren’t the rules set by humans? In Jinshui, it’s obvious that dad means to follow the rules!

If he could be asked to walk back and forth a few times at home, my father would never say, but my mother would love it so much!

She took two steps forward, hoping that she could see him more clearly across the stove: "I can put in a good word for you, and Master Zhao Xian...well...is actually not a bad person."

Li Wuxiang frowned slightly: "But I heard that Qi Masters have bad tempers."

"Ah, no, I think his temper is okay, but he doesn't like to talk much. He shrinks in the room, is mysterious, and seems to look down on others... Ah, actually that's not the case, he actually..."

Li Wuxiang smiled: "It seems that the ones my family used to worship were like this."

This smile made Chen Xiu breathe a sigh of relief. He dragged the bench on one side, took another step forward, and sat on the other side of the stove. He didn't mind that his skirt was brushing on the ground at all: "Right? That's right?" Like that! When my father talks to him, he is very picky when talking to him. He doesn’t even want onions, ginger, garlic and leeks. If my mother wants to cook it for him alone, she has to cook it separately. "

"He always thinks he is very smart! When he first came here, my father invited him to drink. After a few drinks, he sighed and said, oh, there are so many stupid, stupid people in this dirty world, it's really annoying." When I got here, I coughed and spat on the ground, and then said, most of them were vulgar and unruly - oh, our family is unruly, but do we know how not to spit on the floor of the main hall?"

"My father flattered him, saying that Immortal Master, you have great supernatural powers now, so naturally you look down on the common people in the world. Alas, even though a master like you practices in the mountains and lives in poverty, you are still better than being pure - as soon as he heard that my father If you say this, hurry up and follow me Dad said that their Ranshan sect was so famous and rich. I almost laughed to death about the golden whisk, Yu Ruyi, pills, and pills. They looked like they had never seen the world. My family also has one of Yu Ruyi. , or inlaid with beads——"

As long as Li Wuxiang smiled a little and asked a few questions, he could make her talk happily non-stop, as if it was not only because he could make the person he liked happy, but also because he finally found a person in this small town. I talked to someone with a similar family background who could resonate with me. So after a quarter of an hour, Li Wuxiang roughly knew what kind of person Zhao Qi was.

After a short while, everything about Zhao Qi was finished, and Chen Xiu turned to talk about some trivial things in life. This was the first time that Li Wuxiang had seen a girl with her temperament in this world - lively and generous, with a simple mind, as if she was born without understanding the dangers of the world, and it was hard to imagine what kind of family she was raised in.

So his smile became less and his responses became shorter. Soon, Chen Xiu found that there seemed to be nothing to talk about. Only then did she realize that she seemed to be sitting a little too close to Li Wuxiang - like the kind of friends who had known each other for a long time, almost touching each other's knees. That's why she discovered that the mute girl of the Xue family He was sweeping the floor in the yard with a big broom in his hand.

Last night when she was tossing and turning in bed unable to fall asleep, she was still thinking wildly, feeling that her future husband-in-law was currently living in the home of a young girl, which always made people feel uneasy. But at this moment she was relieved - with such a good appearance and such a family background... how could she think about him?

The hostility that she had in her heart before was gone. When she thought that she was the one who dragged her Li Jiye up from the river, she even felt a little more guilty, so she immediately took the opportunity to stand up and walk to the courtyard. , greeted happily: "Sister Xue, do you remember me? One time I came to your house to ask for water, ah... I felt thirsty just now too."

Xue Baoping stopped, holding the broom, looking at her with wide eyes, and then glanced at Li Wuxiang.

"Are you going to reopen the store?" Chen Xiu looked into the yard and reached out to take the broom, "Here, let me help you. It would be great if you could talk. We can talk often -"

She wanted to sweep the yard, but the big broom was made of dried thin bamboo branches. The handle was thick and concave, and it was a little heavier than she expected. She tried sweeping it, but the branches hooked the corners of her skirt. , and quickly wanted to squat down and lift up the skirt, but the broom fell to the ground.

Xue Baoping held on to the broom and lifted her skirt: "I can talk."

Chen Xiu stared at her with wide eyes: "Huh?"

Xue Baoping smiled reluctantly at her: "I didn't want to talk before."

"Ah..." Chen Xiu nodded, but he didn't understand what he meant and why he didn't want to talk before. But I heard Xue Baoping say again: "How about you help me fetch a bucket of water? He doesn't like the yard being dirty, so you can help me sprinkle water on the yard."

Chen Xiu quickly said: "Okay!"

The Xue family's well is in the corner of the yard. It has a stone wellhead and is covered with wooden boards. Chen Xiu walked over and moved the wooden board away, and his hands got some muddy water from the edge of the manhole cover. She frowned and leaned the manhole cover over the wellhead, and went to lift the bucket, but found that the thick hemp rope tied to the bucket was also wet and a little slippery. She took a deep breath and threw the barrel down. When she heard a popping sound, she pulled it up, which made the barrel bang. But when she pulled it up, she found that there was only a shallow layer of water at the bottom of the barrel. The pendulum was completely wet and dirty.

When she panted and lifted the bucket down, Xue Baoping held the broom and said, "Oh, your clothes are all stained. I'll sprinkle them on."

Chen Xiu wiped his forehead with the back of his hand: "It's okay, it will get dirty when I pick water chestnuts."

Xue Baoping nodded and started sweeping the yard again.

Li Wuxiang smiled inwardly, continued to add some water to the pot, and began to prepare the noodle fish to be sold tomorrow. Two girls, one was sweeping the yard and the other was limping in front carrying a bucket to sprinkle water. Chen Xiu talked more. After a while, Xue Baoping also said a few more words. When the courtyard was swept clean and the bluestone slabs were wet and bright, Li Wuxiang could see through the white mist that there was a smile on Xue Baoping's face.

So at this time, he walked to the courtyard while wiping his hands: "Miss Chen, you should go back and change your clothes. Otherwise, you will catch a cold if you sweat and your clothes will get soaked."

Only then did Chen Xiu realize that most of her skirt was wet and clinging to her calves, which looked unsightly. Normally she didn't care, but this time she cursed herself in her heart, looked at the two people in the yard and took another breath: "Okay, I'll come to play with you tomorrow. You... um, wait, I'll go back and call you My father asked Zhao Qi to accept you as his apprentice."

Li Wuxiang smiled and bowed to her. She lifted her skirt and walked happily through the wing. After walking more than ten steps, she pretended to twirl her earrings and quickly glanced sideways. At a glance - no one was seen at the door of Xue's house.

After she walked across the bridge, Li Wuxiang turned around from the door panel and saw Xue Baoping sitting in front of the stove. He quickly lowered his face and added two more firewood.

So he breathed out slightly: "Things went a little smoother than I expected. Miss Chen is impatient, and Zhao Qi is impatient too. It's not noon yet, but if my guess is correct, Zhao Qi will come to see me in the afternoon Are you suitable to be his disciple?"

Xue Baoping hummed absentmindedly, as if he felt that this sound was a bit perfunctory, so he raised his face and asked again: "Well... how, how did you know that Zhao, Zhao, Zhao Qi would want to call you special... special ...his disciple?"

Li Wuxiang walked to the stove, sat down on the bench where Xue Baoping was sitting just now, and gently touched Xue Baoping's knee: "You also heard what Miss Chen said when she talked about Zhao Qi. . A Qi practitioner feels that he has a noble status. He hates ordinary people, and feels that calling someone a mountain villager to serve him is an insult to his status, but the demands in life are many and complex - not only is the Chen family annoying, but he himself also thinks that the Chen family is clumsy and not smart enough. "

"So if there is a young man who is careful and clever enough, he should be happy to ask him to be his nominal disciple and de facto servant. Especially if this young man is alone, he will be even more loyal and obedient. I think this is the case. You have to wait until we sell winter melon candies before you can find out more from Miss Chen. Unexpectedly, she came over and helped us a lot. "

Xue Baoping's mouth moved slightly, and Li Wuxiang knew that she silently recited the word "we" twice. Then her expression became more vivid: "Oh, then you were just trying to trick her..."

Li Wuxiang didn't say anything, only smiled slightly and tilted his head: "Let's fish noodles, eat them for lunch, it's refreshing and cool."

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