19. Chapter 19
The master ordered Ningxiang to follow Lu Cheng to fetch water.
The branches of the fruit trees are very low, and some are almost touching the ground, so even though the fragrant fragrant head is lowered, you can still see the white and pink sand fruit flowers, clustered into balls, like brocade and embroidery.
Such a spring scene distracted her attention. Ningxiang had to force herself not to look at the man in front of her at first. After walking for a while, she felt much more relaxed. Her almond eyes drooped and she only stared at the passing Shaguohua.
When Lu Cheng couldn't help but look back, he saw her tilted her head to enjoy the flowers. He seemed to really like these flowers, and he was a little distracted by the flowers. Lu Cheng couldn't explain why he had this idea, but he just felt that the little girl was not very happy that he had caught her with Pei Jinghan, and deliberately avoided him.
"Have you seen a sand fruit tree before?"
Lu Cheng slowed down and insisted on waiting for her to walk side by side.
After walking silently, he suddenly spoke, Ningxiang's calm heart immediately roared. He glanced at his trouser legs. Ningxiang slowed down and pretended to look at the flower, saying, "I have never seen it. There are only apricot trees and peach trees in the village, so there is no rare thing like sand fruit."
He stopped and she slowed down, clearly because she really wanted to avoid him. Lu Cheng was wronged and curious, and wanted to know what she was thinking.
"You are walking so slowly, aren't you afraid that the prince will be anxious?" Lu Cheng looked at her slightly red face and asked with a low smile.
The smile in his words was intimate and natural, as if he didn't care who she was, and there was no misunderstanding of despising her. Ningxiang raised her head in surprise and looked at him for the first time after coming to the orchard.
Lu Cheng smiled and raised his chin to the northwest side of the orchard, "Go away quickly, don't let them wait."
The smile was brighter than the warm spring sun. Ningxiang once regarded this as his indifferent expression, but at this moment, she was warmed by the man's bright smile. Finally, a villager didn't look at her with that meaningful look when he learned that she was serving Pei Jinghan, nor did he indirectly ask if she had been taken over by Pei Jinghan.
After being moved, I feel guilty.
What she knew about Lu Cheng and Miss Feng was heard, but Lu Cheng, who had been in contact with, was helpful, kind, and was open and unpretentious. She was also a very careful and considerate father. How could she decide to deliberately alienate this person who helped her and Mama Li twice because of a little guess?
How is his indifferent self different from those villagers who misunderstood what kind of villager she and Pei Jinghan have?
After silently apologizing in his heart, Ningxiang breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Lu Chengzhanyan, "Brother Lu, wait, I'll go to the carriage to get the bamboo tubes first. The prince is very picky and will definitely not drink water from the things of our countrymen."
One of the "we" classified her and Lu Cheng as the same type of people.
Lu Cheng's heartbeat accelerated, for her beautiful and pure smile, he understood that the misunderstandings she had about him that he didn't understand had been eliminated. He walked to her with a smile, "Then I'll accompany you. The first time you came, I'm afraid you won't remember the way, so I'll go around in the circle."
Ningxiang looked at the way she came and nodded softly.
As the relationship returned to its original state, Lu Cheng started chatting with her maturely, "Why are you here?"
Ningxiang sighed, "The prince is going to hunt in Laoxian Mountain. We are here to serve his daily life. I just had a meal at Yingxianju, and suddenly I have to come here to enjoy the flowers... But it turns out that Brother Lu is working here."
"It's really a coincidence. I didn't expect to meet you in the town." Lu Cheng avoided a slanted branch and stared at her white and red face and said, "My friend and I were also in Yingxianju's meal at noon. When we came out, we happened to see you get off the car, so when we came back, I heard from the master say you were coming, and I was not surprised to see you again."
When he mentioned the chance encounter in the town, Ningxiang felt guilty and looked at the side unconsciously.
Lu Cheng immediately understood that she saw him at that time and got off the bus late because she wanted to hide from him.
Are you afraid that he will misunderstand something?
The noble young man and the beautiful maid are indeed fascinating.
But seeing that she wears old clothes every time she goes home, Lu Chengdu believes that she is not the kind of person who wants to climb on the dragon and possess the phoenix. Such people are vain and want to return home in glory to let everyone know that she has the favor of her master.
So was she afraid that all the familiar villagers would misunderstand, or was she just afraid that he would misunderstand?
As the thought came, Lu Cheng clenched his fists excitedly, smiled and changed the subject: "Last time I came back with Anan, the stinky brat woke up on the way. I didn't see you very angry, so I deliberately urinated all over me."
Thinking of Anan's cute sleeping face, Ningxiang relaxed and looked at Lu Cheng in surprise, "Can't you? How old is he? How could he understand this? Brother Lu must have thought too much."
Lu Cheng did not dodge and looked directly at her beautiful almond eyes and said, "How is it impossible? As soon as he got home, he asked his second uncle to carry me. He didn't give me a good face for a long time and didn't let me feed him to dinner at night. Finally, I promised to take him into the city at the end of the month, and pick you up when I came back, so he would let me hold you and sleep."
It’s so great to have a son, and it’s a ready-made reason to pick her up home.
This reason is indeed very good. If Ningxiang hadn't had her cousin's whispers, she wouldn't have thought too much, but when her cousin said that Lu Cheng might like her, Ningxiang suddenly felt a little uncomfortable and couldn't help guessing if Anan was Lu Cheng's guise.
He felt confused, Ningxiang smiled naturally and said, "Brother Lu doesn't have to worry about it anymore, and the child is very forgetful, Anan probably doesn't remember me now."
Lu Cheng immediately said, "It's no problem. Anan is one year old this month. I was going to take my sister to the city with him to buy some things. I stayed at my third uncle's house for one night. When I came back the next day, I happened to go with you..." After saying this, I suddenly realized something. Lu Cheng quickly said embarrassedly: "Look at me, I just think that Anan likes you, forget it, then let's go home later, so as not to see Anan pestering you to your house again and cause trouble for you."
Ningxiang heard that he misunderstood that he despised Anan, and suddenly became anxious and looked up and said, "No, I like Anan very much, Anan is very obedient..."
"Then it's settled?" Lu Cheng interrupted her softly, his peach blossom eyes shining brightly, "We will see you at the North City Gate at the end of the month."
Ningxiang couldn't refuse anymore, but she wanted to know if Lu Cheng had that meaning, so she also chatted: "After Brother Lu left that day, Qiu'er was a little unhappy and muttered to me that Brother Lu regarded her as a child, called me a big girl, and called her Qiu'er."
Lu Cheng's mind changed rapidly. He hesitated for a moment while following the trend and following the progress, but finally chose the latter and said with a funny look: "This, she is a little girl in her teens. Shouldn't I just call her nickname?"
It turns out that he treats his cousin as a child, not because he is concerned about her.
Ningxiang suddenly felt a lighter on her shoulders, and she smiled and looked at Lu Cheng, "Qiu'er is thirteen."
Lu Cheng looked surprised and then said helplessly: "Then I'll call her second girl next time, so that she won't like me."
Ningxiang lowered her head and smiled.
A hint of disappointment and gratitude flashed in Lu Cheng's eyes. It seemed that she did not want her to like her, but fortunately she did not rush to express her feelings.
He took two bamboo tubes from the carriage and went straight to the spring.
A very small spring was surrounded by bricks, which were as big as two pot lids. The spring was bubbling, and the overflowing spring water flowed north along a small canal, and I don’t know where the end was. The breeze blew, and the garden was filled with faint fragrance of sand and fruits. Lu Cheng bent down to get water, and Ningxiang looked around for a while, and sincerely envious: "It’s great to be able to do things here. In autumn, Brother Lu can eat fruits at will?"
Lu Cheng just filled a bamboo tube and smiled at her when he handed it to her, "It's because you have fruits to eat?"
Ningxiang's face turned red, she just said it casually, and she didn't greedy for fruits at all.
Lu Cheng thought about it and tentatively said: "When picking sand fruits in autumn, there is not enough staff, so he will ask the villagers to help pick the fruits. If you have already redeemed by then, I can ask you brothers and sisters to come and help, each of them can earn twenty cents a day."
It's still such an interesting job to earn pocket money, Ningxiang immediately said, "Okay, then Brother Lu remember to call me brother, my uncle and aunt can help, Qiu'er, Qiu'er and Amu are better off alone." The branches of the fruit tree are low, and Amu can help pick the ones below.
Nothing is wrong. Lu Cheng deliberately joked about her: "Let Amu do your job, are you lazy to be your sister?"
Ningxiang looked at the fruit tree next to her regretfully and sighed: "I will not redeem myself next autumn, and I will definitely not be able to help this year."
Lu Cheng lowered his head to get water and pondered this sentence carefully.
She spoke with a firm tone, sure that she would be able to redeem her next autumn. In other words, she knew that Pei Jinghan would definitely let her go out of the house. Pei Jinghan did not have the possessive desire of a man in her. It should be a matter of money to delay until next year's redeem.
The haze in Lu Cheng's heart dissipated. When he got up, he asked in a chat: "You must be expensive to redeem your money, right?"
Ningxiang said as she walked, "Twenty taels, fortunately, I'll save more than a year."
It's true.
Lu Cheng is now getting one or two taels of wages a month. He guessed that Ningxiang is about the same. Now by next autumn... she should have four or five taels of silver in her hand, and his family has eleven taels. If the two save together, they will be able to redeem themselves in June.
If she wants her to accept his money, he has to make her fall in love with him in the next three months and be willing to marry him.
When he secretly looked at the gentle and kind girl next to him, Lu Cheng was quite confident.
"Then you work hard, I'll ask you to come and help next year." Lu Cheng said with a smile, hiding his little thoughts for the time being.
Ningxiang nodded shyly, and she also looked forward to the life behind her.
The two of them walked back while chatting. When they approached Pei Jinghan and Suyue's viewing flowers, Ningxiang took the bamboo tube from Lu Cheng's hand and whispered to him to go back first. First, Pei Jinghan didn't like outsiders' hindrance, and second, Ningxiang didn't want Pei Jinghan to see that she had a friendship with Lu Cheng. She did not forget that in her previous life, because she said a few more words to Mr. Shen, Pei Jinghan suspected that she had an affair with Mr. Shen.
Lu Cheng thought of Pei Jinghan's hot eyes when he looked at Su Yue before, and said goodbye tactfully.
Ningxiang watched him walk out for a while before turning around and continuing.
Becoming closer, no one was seen, Ningxiang shouted softly.
The sound reached Su Yue's ears, and she anxiously pushed the man pressing on her.
"Don't be afraid, she will know sooner or later." Pei Jinghan gasped, and after saying that, he continued to hold Su Yuehong's bright lips, and his body pressed her tightly against the tree trunk, wishing he could do everything and penetrate her now.
Su Yue didn't want Ningxiang to see it, and didn't want Ningxiang to worry about her early, but it was useless. The more she struggled, the tighter Pei Jinghan pressed her down, and her big hands held her tighter, without any intention of pulling out of her clothes.
Ningxiang soon saw the corners of the clothes behind the fruit tree. At the beginning, she was far away and covered with fruit branches. She just pretended that the two were standing under the tree to appreciate the flowers. After walking two more steps, she saw what the two were doing, and her heart suddenly became cold and the bamboo tube in her hand almost fell down.
Fortunately, she is not the reckless Ningxiang in her previous life.
Holding the bamboo tube tightly, Ningxiang felt as if she didn't know anything, and said with a smile: "Criminal, I'm back from getting the water."
She wanted to remind them to separate.
Su Yue begged to hold Pei Jinghan's wrist, hoping that he would stop.
Pei Jinghan was not satisfied with the calmness in Ningxiang's words. He wanted Ningxiang to see it and let her taste it. He would treat her the same thing tonight.
So he let go of Su Yue's lips and squeezed her hard.
Chapter completed!