Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 347 Good intentions (two in one)

However, parents, especially the feet of unmarried women, are a very sacred and special part in the minds of men of this era. Apart from being seen and touched by their own father and brother normally, if they are Other men also saw and touched it, so this woman can only marry this man in this life to keep her innocence.

Jin Xi's feet were exposed in Ah Cai's eyes without any hindrance, no wonder Ah Cai was so frightened that he didn't dare to turn his head back.

Jin Xi grinned, and said: "Your lady, I am a profiteer, and I show my face outside. Some of the rules that check and balance other ladies in the boudoir are just blank paper for me."

"Don't worry, just turn around boldly!" Jin Xi said, putting her bare feet into her shoes.The socks have been soaked for a long time and there is no need to wear them, and the inside of the shoes is naturally not much better, but it is better than standing on the ground with bare feet!
He knocked on the door outside, just because he didn't want to bump into something he shouldn't, but unexpectedly, he bumped into him anyway.

I thought that the lady would blame me, but I didn't expect that the lady not only did not blame, but also used self-deprecating jokes to resolve the embarrassment.If it goes on like this, it will appear that I am a man who is stingy.

Hearing this, Ah Cai cleared the embarrassment from his face, turned around and strode this way.

The young lady was squatting at the door of the stove to wash her hands, her hands were full of plant ash, and it was pitch black in the sink.On the rolling stone next to it, there is also a pair of iron pokers.

Ah Cai immediately understood that his cautiousness had frightened the young lady.Thinking of the mission he came here for, a look of annoyance flashed in his eyes, and he put the bundle in his hand in front of Jinxi.

"The young master asked me to send it to Miss, please have a look at it." Ah Cai said.

Wending sent Ah Cai to send it?what is itJin Xi took her hand out of the water basin, shook it dry vigorously, wiped her body twice, and then took the bundle roll that Ah Cai handed over.

The burden roll is neither light nor heavy, and when you hold it in your hand, you can feel that it is like clothes inside.

"Didn't Uncle Cai tell Brother Wen that when I came, I already brought a change of clothes." Jin Xi said, not in a hurry to untie the bag.

"The young master said that he knows, but these things must be useful to the young lady." Ah Cai said, looking at the bundle in Jin Xi's hand that had not been untied.

Jin Xi nodded and said, "It's rare that he has a heart. It's you who rushed here at night, and there is no extra bedding here."

"It's okay, I just have a place to rest my feet, and I don't need to sleep." Ah Cai said.

"How can it be done? It's freezing cold, and the night is long. How about this, I'll give you the key to Qianlixiang, and you go to Qianlixiang to make do for the night. In Brother Baohong's house, bedding is ready-made. You see how?"

Ah Cai lowered his head and took the wooden basin aside, then stood in front of Jin Xi again, and said in a deep voice, "I will wait for Miss's arrangement."

Jin Xi nodded, and said: "Well then, follow me to the room over there first, I didn't leave the key with me."

The two extinguished the candles in the stove, and went to Liang Yuzhong's room in front one after the other.

"It's getting late at night, master and madam are resting, I'll come back tomorrow to say hello to them." Ah Cai said, taking a step back and waiting in the yard by the door, Jin Xi smiled and walked into the house.

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In the room, Cai Qingyang, who had washed his feet, planned to pull up a chair and make do with Liang Yuzhong's bed for the night.Unable to bear Mrs. Sun's persuasion, he had to take off his shoes and nest at the foot of Liang Yuzhong's bed.

"...I'm afraid that the master will be crowded..." He said gratefully and worriedly.

I am just a servant, and I actually slept in the same bed and under the same quilt as the master. This was the first time I was treated like this, and I was a little flattered.

"It's okay, this bed can accommodate two people, it's warmer if you squeeze together," Sun said.

Taking another look at Liang Yuzhong, who was deeply asleep, he sighed lightly, and said, "If he was awake, he would definitely not want you to freeze on the ground."

Although it is a master-servant relationship, Sun and Liang Yuzhong have never belittled the members of the Cai family, and even regarded them as family members.Family members should love each other, right?
After setting up Cai Qingyang, Jin Xi hurried in, put a bundle on the bed, briefly explained the origin of the bundle to Sun, and said that it was delivered by A Cai, and that A Cai was still waiting outside the house, and then He took Qian Lixiang's key and hurriedly turned around and left the house.

After a while, a thin figure came out of the house and walked towards the tall and thin young man standing under the moon in the yard. She had a bunch of keys in her hand.

"Come on, I'll take you to the arched door in front." After saying that, he raised his foot and stepped forward.

"Miss, no need, you can go back to the house." Ah Cai whispered from behind.

"It's nothing, it's just a few steps away. When the door lock of Qian Lixiang's shop was being hammered, my father asked the locksmith to add something to it. When I reached the arch in front, I will use this key to practice for you. Look, there is a little trick in picking the lock."

It turned out to be like this, Ah Cai followed behind Jin Xi silently without making a sound. And overlapped and intertwined.

Ah Cai looked at the two overlapping shadows on the ground, and lowered his eyes even deeper, covering the tenderness in his eyes.

In the room here, Mrs. Sun picked up the bundle, thinking it was Mama Dong and Mrs. Jian who tidied it up calmly later and entrusted A Cai to deliver it.So I untied it under the lamp, took out the contents, and planned to sort it out...

As soon as the bundle was unwrapped, the first thing that caught the eye was a pair of wrinkled round-toed dark red buckskin soft boots.

Sun was secretly surprised, when did my daughter buy a pair of soft boots like this?Why haven't you heard a word from her?She squinted her eyes and began to look carefully.

There is no embellishment on the outside of the boots, simple and elegant.Mrs. Sun nodded secretly. These boots are very suitable for the girl's usual elegant style.

She looked at the bottoms of the boots again. The bottoms of the boots were thickened. The material used was not flattened with ordinary cloth, but was polished with a material similar to soft leather.

The place close to the ground obviously took a lot of thought when making it, and many small uneven creases were nailed.It is used for walking in snowy days. It is not only thick and moisture-proof, but also non-slip and stable.

"Girl, where can I find a good shoemaker, this kind of snow boots are really not bad!" Mrs. Sun looked up and down in satisfaction, and praised in a low voice.

After looking at the outside and then the inside, the inside of the boots is also very richly filled.Sun's hand was inserted into it and within a blink of an eye, she felt that her fingers were wrapped in warmth.In the other boot, there was a pair of socks stuffed.

"Your mother and your daughter-in-law are really careful in doing things. Not only did they prepare boots, but they didn't even leave any socks behind." Sun said with a smile.

Instead, he put the pair of boots aside, revealing a touch of silver-red clothes underneath, then shook them off and took a closer look...

Jin Xi gave the key of Qian Lixiang to A Cai, turned around and went back to the house.

There are four beds in the room, a small table is placed between each bed, and a rope is pulled under each beam, and a simple cloth curtain is strung on the rope.

Wangji Medical Clinic is the best medical clinic in the town, and it is also a time-honored medical clinic, not only because of Dr. Wang's medical skills, but also because of the ward in the backyard that specializes in receiving patients.

Jin Xi prefers this kind of simple curtain that hangs down, it is very humane.

On the small table beside Liang Yuzhong and Cai Qingyang, there was a weak candle.Jin Xi didn't go over to look, but when she heard the two of them snoring slightly, she expected to be asleep, so she turned around and walked towards the innermost bed.

Naturally, Sun Heyi was not asleep, and Heyi was sitting on the head of the bed, with the bundle that Jinxi brought in earlier in his hand, and the flickering candlelight by the table projected her distracted appearance on one side on the wall.

"Mother, you've been tossing around all day, you can't sleep well now, why are you so absorbed in thinking?" Jin Xi came to the bedside, bent down to take off her shoes, and joked softly.

It's really rare to see Sun's so distracted and focused, so I'm curious what she's thinking!
Sun's thoughts were interrupted, she smiled softly at Jinxi, raised her hand to support Jinxi to let her climb into the bed, and wrapped Jinxi with the hot quilt.

Jin Xi snuggled up to Mrs. Sun, and the two of them were wrapped in the quilt like this. The wind outside the house gradually picked up. After a day of tossing, Jin Xi finally let out a breath of comfort.

At the side, Mrs. Sun was preoccupied with another matter. Looking down at the soft blue hair of her daughter in her arms, she couldn't help raising her hand to stroke it lightly. She couldn't tell what it was like in her heart.Obviously happy, but can't help feeling sour, very strange.

Jin Xi enjoys being nestled in her mother's arms very much, letting her slightly calloused hands brush gently over her head, and she closes her eyes comfortably.

"Xi'er, when mother asks you something, just treat it as a heart-to-heart conversation between our mothers. There is no other meaning. Don't be cautious, okay?" After a while, Sun's soft voice sounded from above her head.

Jin Xi didn't open her eyes, she pursed her lips and smiled, "Yes."

"In our country, the girls are thirteen or fourteen years old, and they have reached the age where they can be called husband's family. Qinya will also make a verbal agreement with Erhu when she goes back this time..."

"Well, I know this. Yesterday when you were asking Qinya about something, I was sitting beside her..." Jin Xi murmured, lying on Sun's lap, and changed her position comfortably.

"Xi'er, after the Chinese New Year, you will be thirteen, Qinya and you are just a few months apart..." Sun hesitated, and her fingers stopped on Jinxi's unraveled black hair.

"Mother, you are also in a hurry to kick me out of the house, right?" Jin Xi lay there, giggling twice, Mrs. Sun is really strange today, isn't she tired after running around all day? Talk to her about this?What stimulated you?
"Where will it be? Mother wishes that you and Rou'er will be by my side all the time, but some things can be done as mother wants. When my daughter grows up, she must go out and live her own life... "As Sun spoke, her voice became sour and she couldn't continue.

Jin Xi raised her head, blinked her bright eyes and looked at her mother in amazement, because of fatigue, there was a circle of light blue shadows in her eyes, but this did not hinder the flash of vigilance in her eyes.

"Mother, it's fine, how do you talk about this? What's wrong with you? Tell me!" Jin Xi grabbed Sun's hand and said in a deep voice.

Sun squeezed out a smile, looked at Jinxi, then at the bundle that Jinxi had stuffed into the bed, opened her mouth, hesitated to speak.

Jin Xi also followed Sun's gaze, and after getting along with her in the past few years, she had a good understanding of Sun's temperament, and suddenly realized why Sun's abnormality tonight.

Jin Xi caressed her forehead, Wending asked Ah Cai to bring her something, she didn't even bother to look at it carefully, she just knew it was clothes.Could it be that there was something in it that shouldn't be there, and Sun Shi saw it, so she thought too much?
Impossible, Wending is not Yang Feng, he has always done things safely, how could he put something abrupt in his baggage at such a juncture!

What's more, between her and Wending, there has always been a love affair that ends with courtesy, and this love has nothing to do with the love between a man and a woman.

Jin Xi had a good idea in her mind, and opened the bundle neatly in twos and twos. The bundle was loose, obviously Mrs. Sun had read it first.

That's okay too!Jin Xi thought, and then her eyes fell on the unfolded bundle, and a gleam of light flashed in her eyes.

The top one is a pair of dark yellow buckskin soft boots.Jin Xi has never worn soft boots, she always wears Sun's and Tao Zhina's mille-soled cloth shoes.

No matter the color, style or workmanship of this pair of soft boots, you can feel its goodness when you see it or touch it.The sole is light, soft and thick, and there are palm nails where it contacts the ground.The inside of the boots is obviously filled with a lot of material, which is warm and comfortable.

Jin Xi showed the size of the boots with her fingers, she was also a little surprised, it matched the size of her own feet!

Under the boots is a silver-red cloak, beautiful but not gaudy, bright but not dazzling. Under the candlelight, it has a low-key but blurred luster, like a rainbow reflected in the water, silently flowing through the warmth of the heart.

Jin Xi doesn't like wearing bright red and green clothes, but the silver-red cape in front of her made her like it immediately.Then he half-kneeled on the bed and shook off the whole cloak.

Inside the cloak, there is also a great universe.A layer of black velvet-like liner.His hand touched it, as if wiping it on a stream of warm spring water.If you touch it backwards, you can feel the black soft hairs inlaid in it.

"What kind of fur is this? It's softer than rabbit fur, tougher than goose feather, and denser than duck down..." Jin Xi looked down, she had never seen this kind of material.

"I guess it's black velvet." Mrs. Sun reminded softly from the side.

Jin Xi looked at Mrs. Sun in surprise, black velvet?What is that?Is it just a simple name for the material of the fabric, or is it really the down of the black swan?

"Qingyang also took a look at it before. He said it looked like black velvet, but he couldn't guarantee it. He used to be at his old employer in Qing'an Fucheng. When the nobles who went out of the mansion came back to visit their relatives, the sleeves were decorated with a circle of black velvet. Let’s just say it’s black velvet, which was bestowed by the emperor, and it’s [-]% similar to the inner lining of your cloak at a glance.” Sun explained.

Before Cai Jinshan's family came to Jinxi's house, they worked in a large family in Qing'an Fucheng.A young lady from that big family was sent to the palace and was made a nobleman by the emperor.Mama Dong had said a thing or two to Mrs. Sun and Jin Xi about this.

Later, that family didn't know why they committed the crime, and the whole family and members of the clan all ended up miserable.I heard that the nobleman in the palace also got sick soon, and died soon after.

Therefore, when Mama Dong and Mrs. Sun were working together, she would keep talking about it, it is better not to send the girl to the palace, and find a suitable family nearby, and watch her get married and have children, so that she can feel at ease!

"It's black velvet? No wonder..." Jin Xi murmured, no wonder she couldn't recognize this material, it turned out that it was such a rare and hard-to-find item.

"Xi'er, what do you think, brother Wen?" Sun suddenly asked in a low voice.

Jin Xi froze for a moment, then turned to look at Mrs. Sun inexplicably, still holding the cloak in her hand.

"Mother, what do you mean by that? Xi'er doesn't understand." Jin Xi said.

"Brother Wen asked Ah Cai to bring you these things, right?" She asked again.

Jin Xi nodded: "Yes."

"But I don't think these boots and cloak can make mother think so wildly." Jin Xi said, if Mrs. Sun sees the puppets that Wending gave her, Mrs. Sun will probably think even more wildly.

"Then, if you add this, will Mother be able to think wildly?" Sun said, taking out something from under the sleeve and putting it in front of Jin Xi, it was the pair of socks.

Jin Xi glanced down at the pair of socks, feeling a little uneasy, and said, "Is this also in those boots?"

Sun nodded and smiled, and looked at Jin Xi without saying a word.

In Dayue Kingdom, it doesn't matter if it is the powerful class, traffickers, or remote mountain villages.No matter how open the atmosphere is between men and women, whether they invite each other to play or give gifts to each other, there is one thing that a man should not give to a woman lightly.

That is the sock!
If an unmarried woman receives a gift of socks, then the origin of the socks must only be given by two people.One is her own father, and the other is her husband-in-law, the one who has a marriage contract.

For other men, if they gave socks as gifts, they could only have two meanings.One is to express his feelings to the woman, and the other is to flirt abruptly.

Apparently, both Sun and Jinxi understood that Wending's act of giving away the socks to Jinxi was absolutely, absolutely, impossible to be the latter.

Then, the only possibility is the former, Wending is boldly hinting at Jin Xi's heart!
When celebrating her birthday last time, Qin Ya's words resurfaced in Jin Xi's mind again.I have always taken her words as a joke, but...

Jin Xi lowered her eyes, and slid her fingertips over the black velvet inner lining of the cloak, like breaking a pool of spring water, soft and docile as if there was nothing.

However, the bottom of Jin Xi's heart is like a few faint ripples on the surface of water...

"Mother, I..." Jin Xi opened her mouth, but she didn't know where to start.

How should I put it, that Wending may have liked her for a while, but she has been forcing herself to hint in her heart that it is her brother's love for her sister?

"Xi'er, when a girl grows up, she will eventually marry. Father and mother can't stay with you forever. The only one who can accompany you to the end is your future husband." Sun touched Jin Xi's hand Head, said earnestly.

Jin Xi remained silent and looked at Mrs. Sun quietly, the wind outside the house seemed to gradually fade away.The candlelight on the table danced twice, her eyes reflected Mrs. Sun's kind and sincere face, and Mrs. Sun's heart-pounding exhortations came from her ears.

"We have never asked about Brother Wen's birth and family background in detail. We have never thought about that. We never thought that he would give you the idea of ​​getting married. Look at the things he brought you tonight, mother It's not because of the preciousness and rarity of those things, but because Mom saw the thought he put into you..."

Thoughts on flowers...

Jin Xi thought of the little puppets that he carved out with a stroke of pen and knife. They were lifelike and lifelike, even the smile lines on the corners of their mouths were not missing.

"Although I don't know what's going on at his house, his parents are still alive, and there are a few brothers and sisters. But this child is really good, and there is nothing to pick from our family. Even if he is not successful at the moment, his leg is broken , but we are not the kind of people who judge people by their appearance and tear down bridges!"

Jin Xi nodded silently, without Wending, it can be said that if the Jin Xi family wanted to realize what they have now, it would take at least two years of delay, and they would have to take many detours and encounter more obstacles...

"The kindness of a drop of water will be repaid by the spring, but our family is not the kind of person who pushes the daughter out to repay the kindness!" Sun's hand on Jinxi's head increased a little bit, and finally said She said what she most wanted to say.

"Xi'er, Mother just wants to hear your truth. What are you thinking in your heart?"

Jin Xi suddenly raised her head, looked at Sun, and said, "Mother, you want to ask, do I have Brother Wen in my heart, is that so?"

Sun looked at Jinxi, smiled lovingly, and said: "My parents will never force you, everything will be done according to your will. If you have him in your heart, your parents will feel relieved to hand you over to him. If you don't have him in your heart, then parents will treat him twice as well from now on!"

In this feudal era, it is almost impossible for children to make decisions about their marriage.But Jin Xi feels that she is so lucky to meet such open-minded and considerate parents!

Jin Xi took a deep breath, with a wry smile on her lips, and said: "Mother, how can people be ruthless if they are not plants and trees? It would be a lie to say that there is no such thing. You can say that there is, but it seems that there is no such thing as a physical and mental relationship." So much!"

"Mother, I can't say it right now, don't force me to say it, my girl has a thin skin, if I continue talking, I'm going to get into trouble. Let's lie down and rest, okay?" Jin Xi hugged Sun's arm,

Mrs. Sun also got into trouble. How could such a matter be so preoccupied?But then I thought back, my daughter has always been calm and steady, especially when encountering such a big event, it is natural to be cautious.

"Okay, mother won't force you. You're only thirteen after the Chinese New Year anyway, so you still have time to think about it. However, it's about Brother Wen. You have to think about it carefully, seriously, ah!" Sun also said. Relieved, Jin Xi nodded helplessly, and it wasn't until Mrs. Sun blew out the candle on the table beside her that Jin Xi felt amnesty, and quickly took off her coat and lay down under the warm blanket.

(End of this chapter)