Chapter 30 Black and Best

Xu Xinger kept a light in the stove and waited for Shanzi to enter the house. She waited for no one to come back, so she whispered to him at the back door: "Brother Shanzi, what are you still playing with outside? Why don't you come back to bed quickly?"

Shanzi turned his head and saw Xu Xinger standing at the door, holding an oil lamp in her hand. The dim and swaying firelight made her pale face very warm. Before she could open her mouth, she heard her say, "You have to get up early tomorrow. You should also go to bed early. Those medicinal herbs... If they can't be used, don't blame my father. He doesn't understand that. I will slowly return it to you in the future.

"Am I that kind of person?" Hearing this, Shanzi's warm feeling just now disappeared, and some inexplicable irritability rose from the bottom of his heart, and he didn't bother to pick it up again. He left the herbs in his hand and said, "You didn't treat me as an outsider just now. Why are you talking outside again now? If you say so, what will happen if I save you twice? How can you pay me back?

Xu Xinger didn't expect that her words would cause such a reaction from Shanzi. For a moment, she was a little speechless and looked down at her toes and said, "As the saying goes, your own brother clearly settle accounts because you have saved me twice. I don't know how to repay you, so I can't let you lose anything else, right?"

After Shanzi said that, he was also stunned. Instead of feeling good, he became more and more depressed. It seemed that something fluttered and wanted to rush out of his heart, but it was always stopped by invisible things, which made people anxious.

However, at this time, Xu Xinger's lonely look in the light pierced his heart even more. He turned his mind and got up and said with a smile, "I don't sing in the play. My concubine has nothing to repay me. I'm willing to promise you twice. I'll save you twice in exchange for you to promise me once, and you're taking advantage of it!"

Xu Xinger was relieved to hear that Shanzi was making fun of him. The oppression on Shanzi just now made her a little overwhelmed. She quickly opened her mouth to explain with shame. Now when she saw that he had returned to his usual serious appearance, she also smiled and said, "Brother Shanzi, you don't usually come here much. I haven't heard of it yet. Pass it?"

"What did you hear?" Shanzi continued to pick herbs and did not look up. He only picked his doubts on the ending.

"There is a saying in our village that the three major Xingyuan can't afford to provoke, and Xu's daughter..."

Before Xu Xinger finished her words, Shanzi laughed and asked, "Who made this up?" It's quite mouthful."

"It was compiled by the teacher of the private school, a poor scholar." Xu Xinger curled her lips and said, "The Xu girl here is talking about me. Everyone in the village says that I'm fierce, and I will definitely not get married in the future!"

"That's not the right time for me. I'll take you and save the people in your village." Shanzi couldn't help laughing when he thought of that sentence, but when he saw Xu Xinger pouted and looking at him, he could only try to hold back and blush.

"That's all. If you don't say this, you will laugh at me." Xu Xinger simply sat on the threshold, put the oil lamp beside her, waved to Shanzi, and said, "Brother Shanzi, come here to pick it up. It's more bright. Let's talk, and you can continue to teach me."

Shanzi casually put the herbs on the ground and held them in front of Xu Xinger. She squatted and picked them out. From time to time, she remembered something to take the exam.

accompanied by someone, and the time seemed to pass faster. Shanzi quickly sorted out the herbs, gently tied the same kind into bundles with straw ropes, and then coded them all in the back basket, leaving them for tomorrow's market.

Xu Xinger yawned and asked vaguely, "Have you cleaned up? Put it in the house, otherwise it will be dew tomorrow morning, so it's better not to dry it.

Shanzi brought in the basket, washed his hands, took the oil lamp in Xu Xinger's hand and said, "Go to bed quickly. Look how sleepy you are."

Xu Xinger turned straight into the room without saying anything, raised her hand and waved to him as a good night.

Shanzi suddenly said badly, "Do you remember that it has been promised to me?"

Xu Xinger stopped when she heard the words, was tripped by the threshold, and fell directly forward.

"..." Shanzi didn't expect her to have such a big reaction. She reached out and pulled people in a cold sweat. She didn't dare to joke any more. She pushed her into the house and went to the East Room to sleep.

Early the morning, Li's loud voice sounded in the yard: "Lao San, I heard that you are going to the market? Bring my Yingzi with you."

Lock was woken up by her voice. Because it was not the usual time to wake up, she felt very uncomfortable. She twisted her body a few times in the quilt and cried loudly.

Chestnut was woken up by the lock and didn't know what was going on. When she heard the cry, she was unwilling to open her voice and cried louder than the lock.

Xu Xinger got up drowsily and shouted out of the window, "We are going to the market instead of being a thief, can we go there at dawn?"

Li was stunned by her, but then said, "I'm not afraid that you will go to the early market, so come and tell me quickly. Then I'll go back first and let Yingzi come back after breakfast."

Xu Xinger didn't care what she said at all. She got up with an unhappy face, first peed for the lock, and then changed the diaper for the chestnut. Then she went out to wash and prepare breakfast.

Shanzi quickly came out of the east room and came out of the east room. When he saw Xu Xinger's fire, he came up to help.

Xu Xinger said with some embarrassment, "Did I wake you up?"

"It's okay. I usually get up early. In fact, I woke up a long time ago, but when I saw that the third uncle didn't move, I didn't get up for fear of waking him up."

"You are still particular about it." Xu Xinger muttered, but no matter how dissatisfied she was with Li, she never spoke ill of her family in front of outsiders. She had to say that she was very much like Ye in this regard.

Xu Xinger was still looking forward to the market, so she soon cheered up, cooked porridge, heated flower rolls, cut pickles and sauce, pulled out some green onions and vegetables from her home, and soon set a table.

While eating here, someone picked up the curtain and entered the room. Xu Xinger looked up and almost sprayed the porridge in her mouth. Fortunately, she tried to resist it and swallowed it, and she was choked on the table and couldn't help coughing.

The person who came from Xu's second family is Xu Yingzi, the same age as Shanzi. He is taller than Xu Xinger, and his eyebrows are a little like Li's, but he looks softer than Li's and not so annoying.

The main reason why Xu Xinger almost sprayed porridge is that she was wearing a coat made during the Spring Festival. Originally, it was a cotton coat. Although it was also a layer of single cloth, it looked big and thick in this summer, which was very strange.

"Sister Yingzi, you... are you changing your clothes?" Xu Xinger was embarrassed to speak too bluntly and could only ask implicitly.

"Well, it's all cleaned up. My mother asked me to come and wait and go out with you." Xu Yingzi looked down at his clothes and pulled his clothes again. He didn't feel anything wrong, so he looked up and smiled at Xu Xinger.

"Cough." Xu Xinger coughed unstoppablely.

Shanzi raised her hand and patted Xu Xinger on the back and said, "She hasn't recovered from the rain, so she keeps coughing."

"Oh!" Xu Yingzi nodded and said, "Then you have to be careful. Why don't you rest at home? What do you want to buy and bring it back to you?"

Xu Xinger rolled her eyes and said, "This Xu Yingzi looks gentle and harmless. In fact, it is like a complex of Chen and Li. A belly black with a little abacus is not terrible, and a good one is not terrible, but a person who is both scheming and a small abacus will become a little unacceptable. .

Although her family has a good evaluation of her, Xu Xinger has never seen this sister. She used to quarrel with her, but at that time, she had a straight temper and would not turn around. Every time she was angry, beaten and then went home to be scolded and beaten. Now it is time to change her strategy.

So Xu Xing'er smiled and said sincerely, "It's okay. I'm just sick and depressed, so I want to go to the market to see the fun. My father and Brother Shanzi were afraid that I was not in a good body, so they both said they would accompany me. If I don't go, what kind of market should I go to?"

Xu Yingzi's eyes flashed, and she didn't say anything. She just said softly, "So that's right. Since my sister is going, she has to pay attention to her body and bring more clothes or something. The mountain road is cool. Don't be serious anymore." He said that he unconsciously stroked 90% of his new clothes.

"Thank you for your concern," Xu Xinger replied with a smile, and then continued to bow her head and eat porridge.

My own conditions are not good, and I haven't made new clothes for a long time. The cloth given to each family during the Spring Festival can basically be made by Xu Laosan or Ye, and then Xu Xinger picks up Ye's clothes to wear, and Taoer picks up Xu Xinger's clothes.

If it had been in the past, Xu Xinger would definitely feel ashamed, but now that her body has changed, how can she care about this clumsy trick? She would rather wear shabby clothes than go out in winter clothes to cover her sweat in summer.

After breakfast, Xu Xinger took a piece of clothes randomly. When she went out, she saw Xu Laosan pushing the wheelbicle out, and there was a big bag on the ground.

Shanzi came forward to help Xu Laosan carry the bag to the car, and then waved to Xu Xinger, "Don't always stand before you are well. Come up quickly!"

Xu Xinger sat on the left side of the unicycle. She had been cushioned by Ye Shi for a long time. She did not panic when she sat up. Her arm was just on the middle beam. She raised her hand and patted her right pocket with some comfort and asked, "What is this?"

"Take out the grain for fine rice." Xu Laosan carried the shoulder straps on the car, then held the handlebars with both hands and picked them up easily.

"Big sister, big sister!" Taoer ran out with an oil-paper umbrella taller than her, "Big sister is holding it to block the sun."

"Ouch, my peach really loves me." Xu Xinger put her hand around Taoer and kissed her face.

"You don't need to bring an umbrella. It's too tired to hold it. Just have a straw hat." Shanzi took off the hanging straw hat and threw it on Xu Xinger's head.

The straw hat belongs to Xu Laosan. Xing'er is so big that she can almost cover her nose. She adjusted her position and said with a smile, "I'm enjoying my happiness today. This is Buddha's trip!"

"What is the old Buddha?" Shanzi couldn't understand what she was saying.

"Just, it's Bodhisattva!" Xu Xinger quickly made up a cover-up and turned her head to please Xu Laosan and said, "Dad, shall we go now?"

Xu Laosan nodded and said, "You sit firmly. Don't fool around. It's not a joke to fall down."

Several people went out to meet Xu Lingzi in the front yard and rushed to the market together.