Beautiful step by step

Chapter 4

After speaking, Yan Heng took three steps and two steps into the wing room.

The post station is just a resting place for officials, and the overall layout is relatively simple.With his low-end official position of seventh rank, he can only be assigned to middle and lower courtyards.The main room in the courtyard was naturally reserved for the two brothers, and Wei Wei used the remaining wing room.

The main room is still simple, needless to say the wing rooms.There is a square table on one side of the kang near the window, and a screen on the other side.It is said to be a screen, but it is just a few wooden boards.At the moment, the wooden boards are covered with colorful clothes, which make the screen less monotonous.

Pushing aside his clothes, he walked behind the screen, his hands were soft, much more comfortable than the official clothes he wore.Unknowingly, he remembered the surprise when he opened the door when he knocked on the door to deliver water just now.Ah Yun's words in Yahang during the day were quite good, Ah Mao was indeed good-looking.Don't say that the tofu Xishi in Jiuquan County is the daughter of the magistrate who is well-known in Liangzhou, and his appearance is not as good as that.

So during the day at the tooth shop, he clearly saw the expectation in her eyes, but he still hesitated again and again.It's bitter cold in the northwest, can you support her?

Rubbing the cloth, it feels soft just now, but it will be warmed by the palm of your hand, making it even more comfortable to touch.According to the matchmaker, Ah Mao came from a wealthy family in central Beijing.Although from the first time I saw her, she didn't show any squeamishness, but she was bold and decisive like a man in her gestures, but this didn't completely dispel his worries.

After all, the northwest is not only bitterly cold, but the Yan family is in chaos.

With a wry smile on his face, he accidentally tore off the clothes on the screen.The fine cotton cloth embroidered with mandarin ducks on both sides was covered, softly covering the slightly calloused palm.After seeing clearly what was the thing that was slightly larger than the handkerchief and tied with straps at the four corners, Yan Heng froze in place.

"Is Ah Heng too busy alone?"

It's been a long time since the boy came out, Wei Wei put down his soap.As soon as she crossed the threshold, she saw Yan Heng standing beside the screen, holding the tube top she just replaced with her palm, with a slightly excited expression on her face.

Rao is a female man, seeing this scene is also embarrassing.But after a moment of embarrassment, seeing Yan Heng's ears blushed, she suddenly felt less embarrassed.

"I'll clean it up."

"It's okay, I'll come, it will be fine soon."

As if being scalded, Yan Heng turned his face away and threw the tube top indiscriminately, and then began to lift the screen.Seeing this, Wei Wei stepped forward, raised the other corner of the screen, and suddenly felt a tingling pain in his hand.

"hiss."

"It's a wooden thorn, you have to pick it out."

After finishing speaking, Yan Heng put down the screen, strode over to the square table in a big stride, and reached out to grab the oil lamp.Seeing the two pieces of paper being pressed under the oil lamp, Wei Wei felt bad.

"Need not……"

The tail sound is still in the air, and he has picked up the oil lamp.The slightly sticky base of the oil lamp brought paper flying, and the blood-stained letter paper turned over and floated to the table, falling right in front of Yan Heng.

"come over."

Seeing Yan Heng waving at her, Wei Wei hesitated.There was a coldness of metal collision in his tone, obviously angry.

"Listen to me, I didn't mean to hide it from you."

Yan Heng left the square table without looking sideways, as if there were no letters there, and glanced out the window: "The light over there is dim, and the oil lamp alone is not enough to see clearly. If you don't pull it out, the wooden thorns will only get deeper and deeper."

Wei Wei moved over carefully, and saw him take out a dagger from his pocket very quickly.The dagger was out of its sheath, and under the moonlight, the blade appeared cold. It looked sharper than the Swiss army knife she carried with her when she was camping in her previous life.Wei Wei was envious, but he picked a wooden thorn with a dagger... Are you sure you won't pierce your finger?

Seeming to see through her thoughts, Yan Heng shook his head, the corners of his lips curled up in an almost invisible arc.The tip of the dagger was flicked into the leather sheath, a cold light flashed, and the embroidery needle fell on the square table.After finishing all this, he looked at her, his gaze moved down and focused on her hand, the meaning was obvious.

Taking a look at the slightly dark night, Wei Wei didn't hold back, she clenched her fist and stretched out the middle finger of her right hand.

"Don't be afraid, it will be fine soon."

There was a thick layer of calluses on Yan Heng's fingertips, and when he pinched her fingers, he felt a little stagnant.Under the moonlight, the tip of the needle fell slowly, and just as she was about to shrink back subconsciously, she heard him coaxing her.Although the voice was still hoarse, throwing it couldn't stop the tenderness and patience in it.

Before she knew it, she relaxed and looked up at Yan Heng's face that was close at hand.He was so well-born, his wheat-colored face was smooth and clean, without any bumps, thick eyelashes cast shadows at the corners of his eyes, and his high nose bridge protruded from the three-dimensional side.In terms of appearance alone, she is much better than the few little stars who chased after her in her previous life.

"All right."

Oh, Wei Wei was a little dazed.So fast?She hasn't seen enough of that face...

Yan Heng put away the dagger, he didn't know what was wrong with him, the thorn in his flesh that he could pick out with a single pinch in the past, but now he wished it could be pricked deeper and more hidden, so that he could spend more effort.He tensed his face to hide his regret, he felt that it must be too comfortable to pinch with his fingers, it was smoother than tender tofu, and much softer than the tube top just now.

He couldn't think about it anymore, thinking of the big mess at home, he forced his thoughts to stop.

"Is there someone in Beijing to respond?"

Wei Wei regained consciousness, followed Yan Heng's gaze to look at the letter on the table, nodding or shaking his head.

In Yan Heng's view, her attitude is the default.Sighing in his heart, even he didn't know what he was expecting.It is easy for anyone to choose between the capital city with beautiful flowers and beautiful flowers and the bitter cold Liangzhou in the northwest.

"I planned to wait for the curfew to be lifted early tomorrow morning, and I asked my friends in Beijing to take you to take care of you. It's just that my friend is young and can't talk at home, so you will inevitably suffer some grievances. That's fine, this person is in danger I will never leave you, and I will take good care of you."

From the gentle pick on his face, to the cold statement that he didn't intend to take her on the road from the beginning, Yan Heng changed his face faster than Sichuan opera.Even though Wei Wei knew that he had no malicious intentions, he couldn't help but retort:
"Are you despising me as a burden?"

But she forgot that her face now is no better than the popular face in her previous life.Regardless of anger or sarcasm, no matter how majestic the look on this beauty's face, it all arouses pity.

Yan Heng couldn't hold it anymore: "Ayun likes you so much, how could I..."

Seeing the blush on his face gradually spread to the ears, how could Wei Wei not understand the deep meaning of his words.If he really disliked her, how could he redeem her for teething work, and tried every means to entrust her to his friends in Beijing and China.

For a young man to do this for her, he should not only not hate her, but also have a good impression of her.

What about her?
Wei Wei asked herself, and found that after learning about his thoughts, she was not disgusted.As a rich woman in her previous life, even though she was average-looking, she never lacked suitors.Every time those people, especially the starlets arranged by those relatives, posted it, she would feel sick and then be in a bad mood all day long.

It seems that she also likes Yan Heng a little bit, although only a little bit.

"What will happen? Ah Yun is Ah Yun, and you are you. The nine sons of a dragon are all different. It doesn't mean that Ah Yun likes me. Even the clothes on my body are what he asked Mrs. Yi Cheng for. You would rather let him go than do it yourself, isn't that annoying?"

"it's me……"

When the words came to his lips, looking at Ah Mao's vivid hibiscus face, Yan Heng suddenly felt that it would be good to let her misunderstand like this.

"kindness?"

"I'm sorry for you."

After uttering these words, Yan Heng ran away.

The wooden basin was still by the well, he took a deep breath, buried his face in the water, the cool temperature of the well water came, but his heart felt like a fire.

He just ran away...

Hey, you don't need the half bucket of boiled water left in the bath, what the hell is going to soak in cold water!

Looking out the window at the skinny young man dipping his head in the water for a long time, when she almost thought he was going to drown, he got up and turned the handle of the pulley, picked up the well water to rinse the clothes of the two brothers over and over again, and shook them out one by one to dry on the pole.During this time, he didn't look sideways, as if the dress in his hand was a rare treasure in the world like Heshibi.

There was a knocking sound, and there was a creaking sound of closing the door next door, and she curled up on the kang avoiding her vitals, Wei Wei couldn't understand it.

Yan Heng didn't hesitate to show off his badge to rescue her from the tooth shop, and he didn't hate her, so why did he keep saying things differently?

Staring at the swaying flame of the oil lamp, she frowned and thought, and for a moment she felt blessed.

In the previous life, I saw a lot of men who ran the train with their mouth full, and his face changed when he talked about the notarization of pre-marital property.There were even those starlets who were arranged by a few relatives to seduce her to smoke marijuana with sex dances. She almost forgot the noble quality of restraint.

"A modest gentleman, gentle as jade."

The body stretched, and the fire light in front of his eyes gradually blurred.Yawning leisurely, this sentence came to Wei Mao's mind before falling asleep.At the same time, the scale bar of Yan Heng's favorability in her heart suddenly jumped up a lot.

In the main room separated by a wall, Yan Yun rubbed his eyes and yawned, with a bit of frustration in his voice.

"Brother, Sister Ah Mao won't go back with us, will she?"

Yan Heng patted him on the back: "Why do you think so much, go to sleep."

"I'm very sleepy, my eyelids are fighting, but I just can't fall asleep. Brother, I went to relieve myself just now, and I heard you and sister Ah Mao talking. You don't know, you were not at home a few days ago, and my mother often called my second cousin to come home. He even said that she would be my sister-in-law in the future. Brother, I don’t like my second cousin, she’s so fierce. She’s also greedy, and she’s going to snatch one of the two pieces of plastic toothpaste given out during the Chinese New Year.”

"Don't worry, Ah Yun, she can't be your sister-in-law."

"Actually, it was the third cousin who came up with bad ideas, and the second cousin is not that bad. But Sister Ah Mao is so good, so beautiful, and she speaks nicely. She even taught me to write my name on the carriage today. If the second cousin How nice it would be to change with Sister Ah Mao."

The little guy just remarked casually, completely unaware that his childish words caused a storm in his elder brother's heart.

Finally coaxing his younger brother to sleep, Yan Heng opened his eyes wide and looked at the dark roof, thinking aimlessly.If the second cousin was replaced by Ah Mao, that beautiful Ah Mao would be so lively and quick-witted to the old bustard.

As the night deepened, even the crickets quieted down.On the kang, Yan Heng could almost hear his heart beating like a drum.

(End of this chapter)