Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 43 Embarrassment
After the two left, Xianglai felt much more comfortable, and asked Luo Jinxing while eating, "How is it? Are you still used to it?"

Luo Jinxing looked at the vegetable balls on the plate, and said seriously: "It's delicious, I've never eaten it before, and I'll ask the dining room to make some when I go back."

Xianglai said: "Well, I'm afraid you don't have this kind of food there. If you really like food, I'll get you some when you leave. I have plenty of them!"

Looking at the bright expression of the woman beside him, Luo Jinxing's eyes lit up again, and he lowered his head and said, "Then thank you girl..."

After he paused for a moment, he asked, "Well...can I take the liberty to ask the girl's name?"

According to the rules of this era, it is quite impolite for a young man to ask a girl's name directly.

But Chen Xianglai didn't feel it at all, and said casually: "My name is Chen Xianglai."

Luo Jinxing read in a low voice: "Chen Xiang Lai, Dim Fragrance Xu Lai, Shen's daughter Lai... Seems clumsy but actually a good name..."

He was reading here, but Tianlai on the opposite side interrupted abruptly: "My name is Shen Tianlai, she is my sister, and our aunt gave us our names!"

"Auntie?"

Luo Jinxing looked at Xianglai strangely.

Who gave the two names? If Tianlai doesn't mention Xianglai, I really don't know. Seeing Luo Jinxing cast a puzzled look, he explained: "Oh, he's talking about my mother. His mother and my mother are as close as sisters." , we are also called Da Yi Er Yi, there is no such thing as aunt or concubine."

Luo Jinxing's eyes flickered for a moment, and he seemed to have a feeling and said: "It's really rare for Mrs. Erfang to be so kind!"

Xianglai didn't see the sentimentality behind his admiration, so she also asked him: "By the way, I also said that I want to sell your rice, and I don't know your last name or name."

Luo Jinxing said: "My surname is Luo, and my name is Jinxing."

Xianglai also repeated his name: "Luo Jinxing, surnamed Luo..."

As she was talking, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "Hey, Luo is the country's surname!"

Luo Jinxing's eyes flickered again, he lowered his head slightly, and said, "Yes, I was lucky enough to have the country's surname, and I gained a lot of glory!"

His words have double meanings, and it depends on how people understand them. If people know him, they will think that he is lucky to be born into the royal family, and that he is qualified to inherit the throne and has been honored by the heavens. He was talking about getting an advantage because he had the same surname as the royal family, so he laughed it off.

After the meal, it was Xianglai who helped my mother clean up the table and chairs, but the second aunt still hid in the kitchen and dared not come out.

And after Xu Lin and An Guang finished eating, they returned to stand next to Luo Jinxing again, which made the two of them talk no longer as casually as before. When they were bored, they had to look at the rain by the window, hoping to stop sooner, and Luo Jinxing could sooner. Go back, and Chen Xianglai can end this discomfort sooner.

But the sky doesn't follow people's wishes, the more I want the rain to stop, the rain still has ten endless rains.

Xianglai remembered that the water outlet in the rice field was not blocked, and the ground was still pouring into it during the day and night, so the water in the field might have accumulated so deep, so she went to the field again wearing a coir raincoat to block the water outlet.

Luo Jinxing watched that thin figure tossing and falling in the wind and rain, feeling a little distressed.

Such a woman should be raised in a deep boudoir, loved and loved in every way, but why does she have to work so hard, there is no one who can shelter her from the wind and rain!
But she is still so bright and bright, without any sense of self-pity or sorrow, just like the white birch tree on the mountain side, no matter the severe winter or the scorching heat, it grows tenaciously, and grows beautifully and luxuriantly.

At this moment, Luo Jinxing was completely unaware that his cold heart was throbbing and nostalgic for this country girl whom he met for the first time.

The rain did not stop until Shenshi. An Guang and Xu Lin were secretly anxious. In order not to mobilize the crowd and keep the prince's whereabouts secret, they did not tell the accompanying officers and soldiers and the defenders of the royal tomb when they came out, even if they found out. The prince will not see him and will not cross the river to look for it, and it is impossible for the three of them to cross the river in the rain in the boat they came here. If it really rains overnight, can they still spend the night here!

They were anxious, and Xiang Lai Niang was also worried. She heard An Guang's words clearly in the kitchen at noon, and even if it wasn't for An Guang's words, with her personality, she would not greet them with wild vegetable dumplings and small dried fish all at once. guest.

After much deliberation, she caught the old hen that was laying eggs, but after squatting under the eaves for a long time, she still didn't dare to use the knife, and she couldn't do it well and went into the house again to ask her daughter for help.

After Xianglai blocked the water outlet, she came back and changed her clothes. She was talking to Luo Jinxing that it didn't hurt or itchy, but she saw her mother waving to herself at the door of the living room, and she came out of the room and asked, "Mother, what's the matter?" ?”

Xianglai Niang said with some embarrassment: "Mother caught a chicken and wanted to entertain guests, but she didn't dare to kill it."

Xianglai smiled lightly and said, "Well, let me do it."

As he spoke, he came to the door, picked up the old chicken with its legs tied up, hid under the dripping eaves, plucked a section of the feathers from the chicken's neck, and then cut the chicken's throat with a knife in his hand.

Luo Jinxing, who was in the room, saw Xiang Lai going out to mutter with his mother, and felt that something was wrong, so he also walked to the door, just in time to see this scene, and he was dumbfounded.

Xiang Lai headed towards the door to kill the chicken, only focused on lowering his head to control the blood, felt someone standing at the door watching, thought it was mother waiting, and muttered: "Mother, this chicken is laying eggs, it's a pity to kill them for eating, See if I don’t raise the price when I sell his rice tomorrow, I will return all the chicken money, egg money, and egg money for hatching chickens and laying eggs..."

But when she raised her head while talking, she saw Luo Jinxing standing in front of her, and she was dumbfounded.

What I said just now was just a joke to my mother, but it was really stingy to the person involved.

In this way, she held the chicken in one hand and the knife in the other. The chicken's neck was dripping with blood, and the knife was stained with a chicken feather that was shaking in the wind. She stared at Luo Jinxing with her mouth wide open.

Luo Jinxing looked at the embarrassed woman beside the rain curtain, and suddenly burst out laughing, saying: "Your chicken is dead, why don't you let it go?"

Only then did Xianglai laugh a few times, slowly lay the chicken flat on the ground, put down the knife and stepped over cautiously, saying: "Go into the house, the rain has splashed all the clothes."

The two returned to the house together.

Xiang LaiNiang and Second Auntie boiled water in the kitchen, came out to take the chicken back, plucked and washed it, then stewed it in the pot.

Xianglai was thick-skinned enough, but she was embarrassed for a while and acted as nothing, and she was already talking and laughing freely during dinner.

It's just that the rain stopped during dinner, and Luo Jinxing put down the bowls and chopsticks before eating a few mouthfuls of the deliciously stewed chicken, beckoning Xu Lin and An Guang to leave.

Xianglai didn't know that they were going back to the other side of the river, and thought they had to go out of the mountain, so she detained her and said, "It's so late, why do you still have to go, it's cloudy and there's no moon, what if you encounter wild animals in the mountains ?”

(End of this chapter)