Pastoral Valley Fragrance

Chapter 48 Moody An Jinxuan
The seedlings have already been planted. Li Dequan told his family when he returned home that day that the young master wanted to use the small wooden cart as soon as possible. Just go to town and call.

Chen Yongyu patted his chest and promised Gu Yu's family to release water from the fields and other things to him, but Jing Zhe insisted on doing it himself, saying that if there was anything he didn't understand, he would ask for advice, which won Chen Yongyu a lot of praise.

Xu Qinshi and Xu Shi still came here every day. Li He thought he was not busy and let Xu's family have dinner, thinking about Xu Qinshi's mouth, it was fine. Xu Qinshi was naturally happy that he didn't have to stay there all day. The one with the nose and eyes facing each other stays at Gu Yu's side every day because he wants to help his grandson prepare clothes. Li He's needlework is not good, and Xu Qin's is even more helpless when he hears that.

After Xu Qinshi came over, Xiaoman didn't have to work anymore. She took care of cooking, tending the vegetable field and feeding the chickens. Gu Yu was also free. She didn't know what to do. She just asked Jingzhe to teach her to read.

Jing Zhe was more than happy to let An Jinxuan and Gu Yu practice calligraphy in the room, and teach them new characters or a few ancient prose after school.Gu Yu didn't have the slightest interest in this kind of calligraphy practice, but was even more troubled by the ancient prose that had to shake his head and recite. At first, he just used the pretense to reckon that he should be able to read, so as not to have an excuse for saying something different in the future.It's just that Jing Zhe asked her to learn from painting red, and asked An Jinxuan to supervise her. An Jinxuan seemed to have studied, although he was not as good as Jing Zhe, but he was not bad. Drawing there like a child who just learned to read, Gu Yu sighed in her heart that she was really self-inflicted.

Fortunately, Chen Jiangsheng came over from time to time for a stroll. Wang Shi was afraid that he would neglect this little guest, so he asked Gu Yu to play with him. The people became three people, going to the Taolin and the river, almost going to the wild forest in the back mountain, but Chen Jiangsheng shook his head to stop him: "There are big beasts inside, mother said that they would eat children, don't go in, you have to go in." All the adults go in together, go in and pick fungus and fungus, my father has been there!"

After speaking with a look of pride on his face, An Jinxuan sneered lightly and didn't say anything. Seeing his complacent look, Gu Yu squinted at him: "What's so special, your father has been there and it's not you!"

Chen Jiangsheng patted his small chest, "I can go too in the future!"

"What can you do now?"

Chen Jiangsheng kept scratching his head, but he still said something that could be done, "I can cut calamus!"

Gu Yu was stunned for a moment, but also thought it was fun. The Dragon Boat Festival came as soon as it was said. At the beginning, I thought that I would not bother my family to do something. I didn’t expect that I would be useful. Hearing what Chen Jiangsheng said, it might be possible Cut calamus and go back with moxa?
Just do it, Gu Yu called An Jinxuan: "Brother Jinxuan, let's go cut calamus together, and put it on the door when we get home!"

An Jinxuan was stunned suddenly, and his eyes turned cold in an instant. He tried his best to hold back, bit his lip with his fine white teeth, and walked away without saying a word. Of course he knew that there were two eyes behind him, but he He felt that if he stopped for a while, he would not be able to bear it.

Some things, some wounds, An Jinxuan originally thought that the blood that flowed through would form scabs, and after a long time, after the scabs fell off, there would be nothing left. Something called dull pain.

Gu Yu was very puzzled. An Jinxuan was really strange. At one time, his smile made people feel like a spring breeze, and at another time, he was as cold as ice, making it difficult for ordinary people to get close to him. She didn't understand that this eleven or twelve-year-old child was like this, and she didn't either. Knowing that I actually looked at his dejected look, and felt a little distressed.

Chen Jiangsheng waved his small fist at An Jinxuan's back, "Hmph, he's always so cold and frightening, if Gu Yu ignores him, he will behave like this, weirdo!"

Gu Yu had a knot in his heart, so he asked Chen Jiangsheng, "Brother Jiang, was he like this from the beginning?"

Chen Jiangsheng curled his lips indifferently, and sighed pretending to be an adult, "He only came to Zhuangzi two years ago, and I haven't seen him before. I remember that my mother made me sugar-steamed rice just after my birthday. cake……"

Cough, Chen Jiangsheng didn't know where he was when he spoke, Gu Yu was speechless, and quickly interrupted, "You said what do you do on your birthday, let's talk about him."

Chen Jiangsheng twisted his chubby fingers, and said: "I just ate sugar and rice cakes, and I went out to play with the wooden sword my father got me, and saw my second uncle bring back a man, eh, dirty, with a face like that. The neck was all black, and the eye sockets were black and black, which scared me. My second uncle told me to go and play with him, so I didn’t go. After a while, I washed it clean, and it looks like it is now This way, but..."

Gu Yu was listening intently, she really couldn't imagine why An Jinxuan was like that, so it seems that the second uncle adopted An Jinxuan, did he have a hard life before?It's not like, he can read and write, and when he went to sell things, he seemed to be familiar with those materials, how could he fall to this point?Just as he was about to listen, he realized that Chen Jiangsheng had stopped talking, and approached Gu Yu with a mysterious expression on his face, "He can't laugh, I've never seen him smile before."

This is still some kind of mysterious thing, Gu Yu looked at Chen Jiangsheng's childish face, thinking that he wouldn't know much, and asked unwillingly: "Then what did he do before?"

Chen Jiangsheng shook his head: "I don't know, my father doesn't know, it's someone's son of the second uncle, anyway, I'm used to it now, he is cold-tempered, and he is still very strong. I saw him come back with a wild sheep on his back , he must have beaten him to death, I'm afraid, Gu Yu, don't get too close to him in the future..."

"What the hell are you doing, little brat!" Gu Yu couldn't help but blurted out.

Chen Jiangsheng showed a very hurt expression, "He is one year older than you, but you are younger!"

Gu Yu was angry and funny, temporarily kept the matter of An Jinxuan in his heart, went to the river with Chen Jiangsheng, the two of them cut a bundle of calamus, the leaves were green and pleasing, and smelled the green fragrance, which was very refreshing.

First, I carried it to Chen Jiangsheng's house. Jiang was feeding the pigs. Seeing Chen Jiangsheng and Gu Yu hugging the calamus, they were too greedy to cover their faces, and they were reluctant to let go. They tilted their heads and slowly moved there. Entering the yard, I couldn't help being a little funny, hurriedly put down the chicken food in my hand, took a few steps over, took it and put it under the eaves, "I can't hug you less, Gu Yu, do you like rice dumplings? Auntie will wrap you rice dumplings and eat them. How about two big pieces of fat?"

Gu Yu rolled his eyes, thinking that it would not be a long-term solution to always rely on the Jiang family for financial assistance, and his parents were afraid that it would be bad if they lost their favor, so they said, "Aunt Jiang, why don't I exchange rice from my family for you?" A few catties of glutinous rice, the zongzi wrapped by my mother is delicious, and my second aunt and grandma are also at my house, and the meat zongzi is left for the second aunt to eat, and the younger brother in the belly also wants to eat."

Jiang shi smiled so much that he bent over and hugged Gu Yu, "You are so family-friendly at such a young age, and you still love your second aunt. If only I were my daughter."

Chen Jiangsheng was unhappy, "Gu Yu can't be Mother's daughter!"

Gu Yu glared at Chen Jiangsheng, "Why not?"

Seeing the two children quarreling, Jiang sees Gu Yu's clever and determined appearance. He heard that he is still able to read and Jiang Sheng is simple and honest. , just smiled and stopped mentioning it.

Seeing Jiang's family, Chen Jiangsheng was stunned, "Mother, do you still want to give Gu Yu's family glutinous rice?"

Jiang's thoughts changed just now, and now hearing what Chen Jiangsheng said, he was a little bit annoyed at his own child, "Why, Gu Yu's family wants to eat zongzi, so you are so impatient?"

Gu Yu was calculating how much glutinous rice is worth, and said again: "Aunt Jiang, if I exchange a wooden basin with you, I still have a chicken food box at home, look at yours, it's all broken..."

Seeing what Gu Yu said, Jiang nodded her forehead again, "We don't need to calculate this way, I will be angry next time, isn't it just a few catties of glutinous rice? I thought it was just wrapping zongzi anyway, so why not cooperate with us? Isn’t the festival just a fun and festive occasion!”

The Jiang family has a temperament of doing what he says, so he measured the glutinous rice and put it in a wooden bucket. He didn't forget to tell Chen Jiangsheng, "We can't run out of those calamus at home, so take them with you."

Seeing Jiang's approaching in this posture, Xu Qin could not help but be overjoyed, "I want to go with me, okay, you come and get the glutinous rice, and I will wrap the rest, and I just sent it for the holiday with my brother. I just missed this glutinous rice, and asked about it over there," as he pointed to the yard over there, Jiang nodded knowingly, and Xu Qin continued: "The boss's daughter-in-law didn't say whether she had it or not." I'm afraid I'll take too much to fill this side, don't count on them now, just wrap a big pot of zongzi, and share a portion of the yard over there, and tell them to look at their toes and feel ashamed!"

The words made the two of them burst into laughter.

Mrs. Wang is good at wrapping zongzi. Mrs. Xu Qin told Mrs. Jiang that she had never seen so much attention. So Mrs. Jiang went to soak the glutinous rice, Mrs. Xu Qin washed the leaves of the zongzi, Mrs. Wang cut the meat and mixed it with ingredients, and prepared them one by one. Sure enough, Wang's wrapped rice dumplings are as small as Gu Yu's fist, Jiang and Xu Qinshi looked at it and said that Wang's too particular, isn't this something that comes into the mouth to eat alone?Gu Yu watched a few women busy at home, and thought in his heart that if this could continue, it would be a good thing.

The zongzi was cooked, and everyone shared the zongzi to eat. Gu Yu never liked to eat glutinous rice. At this time, he also ate a small zongzi wrapped in Wang's family. After eating, he remembered that An Jinxuan was in the room, carrying two zongzi into the door, " Brother Jinxuan, please eat rice dumplings, they are delicious, and there is meat in them."

After speaking, seeing An Jinxuan's eyes wide open, hands trembling, he picked up the rice dumpling and threw it outside the house, then turned to face the wall without looking at Gu Yu again.Gu Yu was stunned for a moment, a little aggrieved, anyway, I am also nine years old, so let it be ungrateful, and even threw the zongzi, Gu Yu felt a little distressed, picked it up and patted the dust on the leaves, sitting in the hall unhappy.

Unexpectedly, An Jinxuan moved out again, "Gu Yu, I... I'm not angry with you, it's because I can't eat zongzi."

Gu Yu raised her head and looked at the guilty expression on his face. There was a deep sadness in his eyes. The unhappiness in his heart had long been swept away, and he quickly smiled and said, "That's right, I don't like to eat greasy things either. !"

(End of this chapter)