Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 42 The Girl's Name
An Guang looked at Xu Lin, Xu Lin looked at An Guang, and then withdrew his gaze and looked forward solemnly, which meant that it was obvious that I was not in charge of food, drink, housing and transportation, and you looked at the arrangements.

An Guang saw that the raindrops were falling more and more densely, and the three of them came out without an umbrella, but he was negligent in letting the prince get caught in the rain, so he had no choice but to walk back to Xianglai with a cheeky face, and approached with a smile: "That... ...Miss, the rain is about to fall heavily, and we have nowhere to hide from the rain, so I wonder if we can take shelter at your house?"

Chen Xianglai secretly smiled inwardly, telling you to show off your prestige to me just now, you don't have the confidence to beg me now!
But for the sake of Luo Jinxing's face, she won't bother with An Guang, so she pulled out the shovel beside her and said, "Okay, come with me."

Then he turned to greet Tianlai and said, "Tianlai, it's raining, stop playing, go home quickly!"

Then, carrying a shovel, he took Luo Jinxing and the three of them quickly around the village and headed home.

Xiang Lai Niang and Second Aunt Niang were making lunch, but seeing Xiang Lai brought three more people back, Xiang Lai Niang asked: "Xiang Er, where are these guests?"

Xianglai said: "Mother, they are here to buy rice. It's raining and they can't leave the village. Come to our house to escape."

Xianglai Niang wondered: "It's so early, the rice isn't ripe yet."

Xianglai said: "Well, they came early, no matter how much our rice can sell, they will buy it all."

While talking, she let the three of Luo Jinxing into the living room, poured a bowl of water for each of them, and asked them to sit down and drink, but only Luo Jinxing sat down, Xu Lin and An Guang stood upright beside him .

Xiang Lai Niang saw at a glance that this was a person of status, she quietly pulled Xiang Lai to the outer room, and said: "Xiang Er, you bring guests home at noon, and you have to take care of their meals, but we The family doesn’t even have any fine grains, how can I entertain guests?”

Xianglai said: "It's okay, mother, you and the second aunt can make more wild vegetable dumplings. By the way, there are still little fish for it. You can steam another plate."

In spring, when she and her second aunt were picking wild vegetables, they saw small fish growing in the pond, so they fished them out and dried them in the sun.

Xiang Lai Niang said: "How can this work? These people usually eat delicacies from mountains and seas, and they still don't choke on our crude food!"

Xianglai secretly said: "We have some from the mountains and some from the water, and they can be regarded as delicacies from mountains and seas. If they like to choke, let them choke!"

While talking, she snickered and went into the house to greet the guests, Xiang Lai Niang had to sigh before cooking.

The second aunt was born in a Zhuang family, and she has only been to Songning City once in her thirties. When she saw such a precious person, she was too scared to show her face. After the meal, Xiang Lai Niang put the table in the living room , together with Xianglai, put the four sets of bowls and chopsticks and the only two kinds of food on the table - small dried fish and vegetable dumplings, and then hid in the kitchen with the second aunt to eat.

It's not that she's afraid of meeting people, it's just that the tradition here is that women can't dine with foreigners, and she and the second aunt are both widows, so they should behave properly, anyway, the girl can handle it, so let her greet her.

Chen Xianglai in the house saw that her mother only took four sets of bowls and chopsticks and knew what she meant, and secretly felt helpless for her outmoded ideas, but knew that it would be useless to persuade her, so she let her go.

After the meal was ready, he greeted the three of Luo Jinxing and said, "Come and have a light meal. The humble house is simple and the food is rough. Let the three of you settle down."

Luo Jinxing grew up in rich clothes and fine food, and he had never seen wild vegetable dumpling and dried fish. He found it novel when they were served, and sat down after listening to Xianglai's greeting.

But An Guang knew these two things. Seeing that Chen Xianglai actually entertained Luo Jinxing with it, he glared again and said, "You girl, why did you make this for... hiss, young master!"

When he lost his voice, Luo Jinxing reprimanded him softly: "Shut up, there is a way to do as the locals do, and guests do as they please. It is not certain whether the food for the family is enough, and you are still picky!"

Xianglai also gave him a sideways look, and said, "I'm afraid your young master won't be able to eat well, but when you come out, you carry all the pots, bowls, ladles, rice noodles, oil and salt on your back, and you can do what you want wherever you go!"

Hearing what she said was funny, Luo Jinxing said, "That's right, it's clear that you didn't do your duty, and you still dare to criticize others."

An Guang didn't expect Luo Jinxing to sing and sing with Shen Xianglai. He was so aggrieved by the scolding that he had to stand behind Luo Jinxing wanting to cry without tears.

Seeing that the two were still standing straight, Xianglai greeted again: "Why are you still watching, you really don't plan to eat!"

Luo Jinxing also looked back and said in a commanding tone: "Come and eat."

But Xu Lin said with a straight face: "Master, you can eat, we are not hungry."

On the contrary, An Guang picked up the chopsticks, first took a small piece of Luo Jinxing's vegetable dumpling and ate it, and then ate a small dried fish, but retreated back after eating.

Xianglai pondered for a while before she figured it out. It turned out that An Guang was not eating, but tasting poison. She cursed in her heart: Damn, this is a strange combination that came out of nowhere, and she really thinks she is the emperor. up!Okay, you can save if you don’t eat.

Thinking of this, she touched a vegetable dumpling with a bit of anger, put it in her mouth and bit it.

But Luo Jinxing on the opposite side was not as rude as her, but took a small piece of the vegetable dumpling with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, chewing it gracefully and slowly.

Xianglai ate in anger while despising him for being unmanly, but after a few mouthfuls she couldn't eat anymore, because Xu Lin and An Guang behind Luo Jinxing happened to be facing her. No one can eat comfortably.

After thinking about it, she got up and went out without saying a word, came to the kitchen and said to Tianlai who was sitting next to Second Aunt: "Let's go in with my sister to eat."

The second aunt said: "He is a child, how can he be served at the table!"

Xianglai said in a low voice: "Second Aunt, you don't know, among those three people, just the little one sat and ate, and the other two stood behind him and stared straight at me, which gave me goosebumps all over my body, let Tianlai go in I can feel better with one more person."

Xiang Lai Niang said: "At first glance, he is a well-behaved person. How can the servants sit at the same table with the master for dinner? I'll clean up a place and let them eat in the back room."

But Xianglai stopped her and said: "No mother, those two people don't know what to do, let them go hungry!"

After speaking, he led Tianlai into the living room, smiled at Luo Jinxing, and said: "This is the only man in my family, I let him accompany the guest."

As he spoke, he pushed Tianlai to the position where she was sitting just now, but he himself sat on the side.

Tianlai didn't care whether anyone was watching or not, he held the small fish in one hand and the vegetable dumpling in the other and ate it with gusto. He moved around and attracted the eyes of Xu Lin and An Guang. Now Xianglai felt that Much more comfortable.

Although Xianglai stopped, Xianglai Niang cleared the table in the back room, put wild vegetable dumplings and small fish, and called Xu Lin and An Guang to eat.

(End of this chapter)