I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 53
Zhou Chenyu didn't dare to take him away rashly, so he opened the box containing red bean cakes and waved it in front of him, "Old man, I have food here. Don't eat that. Take a look."

The old man stared at the box of red bean cakes, stopped, and looked at Zhou Chenyu expectantly, "It smells so good."

"That's right." Zhou Chenyu pulled him to sit on the stone bench aside. The old man stretched out his hand to grab food. When he saw his hands covered with dirt, he stopped again and said at a loss, "Dirty...I Dirty hands."

"It seems to be quite dirty." Zhou Chenyu looked at it tangledly. He searched all over his body but couldn't find a tissue. Finally, he had to take out the lid of the box and said, "Sit here and wait. Don't run around. I Come as you go."

Zhou Chenyu didn't know whether he understood or not, so he took the lid of the box and scooped some water from the river outside, and ran back quickly. Fortunately, he was still sitting there.

"Here, let me wash your hands for you."

The old man silently stretched out his hand to take the water, rubbed it vigorously, and washed away the black mud.

Zhou Chenyu saw that he was scratching the back of his hands with his nails and the skin was broken. She stopped him and wiped him dry with the hem of her skirt. She smiled lightly and said, "Okay, okay, it's clean now. You can eat."

Yang Xi, who was chasing along the trail, bumped into this scene, stopped and stood there quietly, with a hint of humanity in his calm and composed eyes in the past.

Zhou Chenyu's attention was entirely on the old man, and he was not aware of the situation around him at all.

The old man looked at the box cringingly, his hands secretly poking at his legs, his whole body curled up into a ball, and he shook his head.

Seeing that he didn't dare to reach out, Zhou Chenyu took out the red bean cake from the box and handed it directly to his mouth, "Here, let's try it and see if it tastes good?"

"Yeah!" The old man smiled, as happy as a child. He reached out and grabbed the red bean cake, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it wholeheartedly.

After finishing one, Zhou Chenyu picked up the other one, fearing that he would swallow it whole again, so he broke it in half and gave it to him first.

The old man looked at his other half, hesitated for a while, and she smiled: "You finish this first, these are all yours, don't worry."

The old man saw her smile, picked it up and ate, "It's delicious."

Soon, the old man finished a box of red bean cakes.

Zhou Chenyu broke off the last one and gave it to him, then looked at him with a straight face, the smile on his lips faded, his eyes were a little sore, and he said dullly: "Obviously my life is not that good, but I still I can’t see these sufferings in the world, alas.”

She murmured, and when she saw that the old man was satisfied with his meal, her faint smile appeared again, "Slow down, don't choke, no one will compete with you."

"It's delicious, it's delicious." The old man was eating very happily, but suddenly he stopped and looked at the person coming behind Zhou Chenyu with his eyes shining: "Hey, you're here, great, you You finally came to see me!”

Who is here?
Zhou Chenyu turned around and saw Yang Xi standing in the alley with his hands behind his hands, wearing a smart navy blue narrow-sleeved official robe under the tree, with a clear figure standing prominently.

Zhou Chenyu was stunned.

when was he there
Did he just see it?
Yang Xi walked over slowly, crossed her knees and knelt down, looking at the old man, with a gentle tone of blame: "Didn't I tell you not to walk around? Why are you still running around?"

The old man patted his shriveled belly, not afraid of him at all, and smiled: "I'm hungry... I'm hungry. Eat a cake. The little girl gave it to me. The cake is delicious."

The old man pointed his finger at Zhou Chenyu, and Yang Xi looked over. Zhou Chenyu met his eyes. I wonder if it was her imagination, but his eyes seemed less inhumane than before.

He said, "The old man is a little confused. I would like to thank Miss Zhou on his behalf."

He was actually willing to take the initiative to talk to her.Unexpectedly, an unintentional act actually fulfilled her good deeds.

Zhou Chenyu beamed with joy, "You're welcome. I'm happy to help others. This is what I should do."

Taking this opportunity, she leaned forward and asked him, "Bandou Yang, is this old man a relative of yours?"

"No." Yang Xi shook his head and wiped away the food residue from the corner of the old man's mouth. "He is a relative of an old friend of mine. I am just taking care of him on his behalf."

Old friend?

I heard Li Xiuju say before that the old man only had one dead son. Are he and the old man's son friends?
Zhou Chenyu was thinking about it when he saw Yang Xi standing up and walking towards her: "Miss Zhou, the cake you gave me is what I bought from you. Do you think there is enough here? If it is not enough, I will replenish it for you another day." .”

Zhou Chenyu looked at the silver, which was almost twenty copper coins, enough for her to make many red bean cakes.

How can you talk about money when you do good things?
How philistine.

What's more, the thing she pictures is more than this price...

She raised her lips and smiled, "Team Leader Yang, I don't want your money. I just passed by and saw that this old man was pitiful, so I gave him food. I don't do this for anything else, I just want to do some good deeds and accumulate points. It’s just virtue.”

Yang Xi looked at her smile, his eyes as calm as water, and said in a deep voice: "I will take care of you, you deserve the money."

After speaking, Yang Xi put the money directly in the wooden box.

Could he mean that if she accepted the money, the money and goods would be settled?

A smile disappeared from Zhou Chenyu's lips, he picked up the wooden box and walked towards him with a hint of coquettishness, "Bantou Yang, I gave the red bean cake to the old man just to do a good deed. If you insist on giving me money, I will Zhou Chenyu is not a person who is greedy for petty gains. A box of red bean cakes in our candy shop only costs five cents at most. You have a full twenty coppers here, I will give you the rest."

Yang Xi helped the old man up and was about to leave, and said to her, "I know that your Zhou family has been humiliated by Qian Rushan several times. We are short of money right now. A little money is nothing, so there is no need."

"That's not okay, I can't earn your money in vain." Zhou Chenyu stopped him and said seriously: "If you are not willing to accept the money, then I will send you the remaining red bean cake in a few days. , don’t blame me.”

Yang Xi saw the old man eating happily. After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "In that case, please ask Miss Zhou to deliver it to the door of the government office. Thank you for your help."

"No problem, I guarantee it will be delivered!" Zhou Chenyu's watery apricot eyes deliberately lowered their hooks, and Yang Xi's eyes narrowed, with a modest and indifferent expression, "Goodbye."

Zhou Chenyu looked at his overly calm look and smiled softly, and he took it easy, "Little fish, you'd better take the bait quickly."

Seeing them walking away, she also picked up the wooden box and walked out of the city in the opposite direction.

However, before he could be happy for a long time, something happened on Baoyu's end.

From afar, Zhou Chenyu saw Baoyu being pinned down on the table by two men, who seemed to be the two sons of the old woman in the tea shed opposite.

"You brat, how dare you steal business from us? I think you're tired of living?!" Baoyu was held down by his younger son's hands, while his older son sat on top of him.

(End of this chapter)