Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 38
Wu Zhaodi didn't say anything, sniffed her nose and snorted disdainfully, then ran to the latrine with her hips twisted.

Xianglai and Yu Zixi walked around the village to the rice field.

Yu Zixi knelt down and gently shook the neck of the ear of rice that was being filled with grout, and said, "So you bought my rice for this purpose!"

Xianglai smiled embarrassedly and said, "Yes, this thing is so expensive, who wouldn't want to plant it!"

Yu Zixi said: "Others will be able to grow rice if they want to grow it. So far, only you can make rice grow by the Songhua River."

Xianglai remained silent, not knowing if Yu Zixi said something to ask herself if it was related to rice planting.

Yu Zixi saw her thoughts and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I didn't come here to ask you how to grow rice, I have something else to ask you."

Xiang Lai said, "What's the matter?"

Yu Zixi said, "I want to ask you why you tied poplar branches on the door."

Xianglai blinked her eyes suspiciously when she heard Yu Zixi's question, thinking that it couldn't be such a coincidence, the only person she met in Songning was Yu Zixi, could it be that he is the son of the old man who lost his hand?
So she didn't answer directly, but asked instead: "It's just a branch, why does Brother Yu care so much?"

Yu Zixi said: "Because I have made an agreement with others, if I have something to say to me, I will hang it out of a poplar branch with red roots and three branches."

Xiang Lai said: "Then what is your relationship with the agreed person?"

Yu Zixi pondered for a while, and said, "I am his... son."

Xianglai stared at Yu Zixi's face earnestly. Although the old man who lost his hand was too embarrassed to remember his face when he died that day, Chen Xianglai instinctively felt that he and Yu Zixi in front of him were not like father and son.But after much deliberation, this kind of follow-up record is really secret. If the two hadn't made an agreement, outsiders might not know about it, so she confirmed again: "Then where should your father be?"

Yu Zixi also looked at her expression seriously, and slowly said: "The last period of his life was in the gold mine in the southern mountain."

Xianglai was startled again, and said, "You know he's dead?!"

Yu Zixi said with a gloomy expression: "Yes, I found his remains near the gold mine a few days ago, but... only to find that his hand was broken, so I want to find out the cause of his death, you know ?”

Chen Xianglai was a little flustered, and said: "I, I don't know. When I saw him, his hand was broken. My second aunt and I wanted to save him and help him stop the bleeding, but it was freezing and snowy. He was too cold. It took a long time, and too much blood was shed, and I couldn't do it without saying a few words."

Yu Zixi said: "I know how difficult it is to save people in that kind of deep mountains and wild mountains. I am very grateful that you can help my father!"

Xiang Lai said: "Brother Yu, you don't need to be so polite, in fact, we didn't help much."

Yu Zixi shook her head and said, "Thank you, I must thank you. I'm really glad you found him before he died. I really want to know, what did he say before he died?"

Although Xianglai basically dispelled his doubts about his identity, he still felt very strange about their "father and son" behavior, and said hesitantly, "He said... there is a sentence for me to bring to you."

Yu Zixi's eyes became brighter and she said, "What are you talking about?"

Xianglai sensed his hidden excitement, but still said the last words of the old man with the severed hand, saying: "He said that there is a big dragon under the gold mine..."

Yu Zixi's heart throbbed for a while, but she tried her best to hide it, and said, "Oh? Only this sentence, nothing else?"

Xiang Lai shook her head and said, "Not anymore."

Yu Zixi turned his face to the side, as if he was thinking about something, then turned back after a while and said, "You and your second aunt both know what he said?"

Xianglai said: "No, Second Aunt doesn't know, Second Aunt was not here when Uncle said this, so she doesn't know that the branch I tied on the door is a contact token."

Yu Zixi's gaze flickered for a moment, then she looked down at Xianglai, and said, "I really appreciate what you did!"

Xianglai said: "Why do you say thank you again? If you want to say thank you, I should also thank you. You are willing to let me exchange books for rice seeds."

Yu Zixi said: "I've said it earlier, the value of your book is not comparable to this rice seed."

Xianglai looked a little embarrassed by him, turned his eyes to the side, avoiding his gaze, and said: "Let's not thank each other, and just treat each other as friends helping each other."

Yu Zixi didn't speak any more, but her gaze stayed on Xianglai, she stood for a while and asked, "Are you really only 14 years old? Why don't you look like that at all?"

Xianglai's heart moved, and she turned her head to look at him, and said, "Have you never heard the saying that the poor's children should be in charge of the family early? My father died, my mother was weak, my younger brother was young, and my aunt's mind was too simple. If I If you don’t support this family, how will your family live?”

Yu Zixi pursed her lower lip and said, "Are you only living for your family? Do you have any wishes of your own?"

Xianglai looked at the sunset in the sky, thought for a long time, finally shook her head, and said: "I really can't think of anything, maybe my wish in this life is that the whole family can live a good life, and I can live a good life, that's fine." gone."

Yu Zixi didn't smile this time, she paused for a while and said: "It's getting late, I should go too, so I won't bother you anymore, go back."

Xianglai said in a daze: "You still go at such a late hour, there will be wild beasts on the mountain road to the west at night, and there are no homes for a long way, you'd better stay at my house for one night, and go on the road tomorrow!"

Yu Zixi made an excuse: "No, I have something to do tomorrow morning. I came here on horseback. The mountain road is more than ten miles away. It won't take long."

Xianglai was still a little worried, but even now she didn't know Yu Zixi very well, it was really hard to force him to live at home alone, so she could only watch him leave the field and walk towards the village.

Yu Zixi didn't walk very fast, she seemed a little bit reluctant, walked a dozen steps, suddenly stopped and looked back at Xianglai, and said in a neither high nor low voice, "You...will you marry me?"

This time Xianglai was really scared, just now she felt that she didn't know Yu Zixi well enough to allow him to stay at home, but in a blink of an eye, that man actually asked herself if she wanted to marry him!
She stared at Yu Zixi for a while, tongue-tied and dumbfounded, before she said after a long time: "Yu, Brother Yu, why are you making such a joke?!"

Yu Zixi didn't know it was imprudent to ask like this, but he always felt unwilling not to ask a question. Seeing Xianglai's expression, he knew it was completely impossible, so he also smiled brightly and said: "Yeah, I'm talking nonsense and I'm foolish." .”

After speaking, he turned around and walked quickly.

Xianglai stared at his back in a daze for a while, and then went around the village to go home.

(End of this chapter)