Chapter 30 Zhuang Qingmei
"Hey, you little thief is so fierce. Even if you say it well, you can't speak well? There is no demeanor at all..." The woman twisted her waist into the yard, with a green jacket and red skirt, and she couldn't bear to see her match. She walked in a straight and elegant manner, with all kinds of charm. "There is no one who is lonely and widowed, but I can wash your clothes and roast them to the fire, which is not too troublesome..."
Li Ji hesitated slightly and still followed the courtyard. He was unwilling to do so, but this dress was wet, but the smell was so odor that he really couldn't go out to see people.
The yard is not big and a little messy. A large bluestone mill is suddenly placed in the middle of the yard. There is a pot of soybeans soaked in a large wooden basin next to it. When looking at the messy wooden barrels and spoons of gauze around, Li Ji was happy. Could this woman be a tofu?
"Take off your clothes quickly, and look around, you little thief said you didn't come in to steal things?" Although the woman's heart was soft, she would not suffer any loss.
"What are you stealing? Are you stealing the junk in your yard and making tofu?" Li Ji retorted.
"Hey, this little thief is sharp-eyed... What's wrong with making tofu? All the tofu made by my mother is well-known. Even someone from the Taoist sect is here to buy it..." After taking the clothes handed over by Li Ji, the woman threw it into the wooden basin with disgust and went to pick it up.
"Slowly, you, you, aren't your wooden basin used for making tofu? How do you use it to wash my clothes?" Li Ji suddenly thought of this question.
"Fuck you, you a thief, I haven't thought your clothes were dirty yet, but you despise the wooden basin first... Open your dog's eyes and see clearly that this is the one who washes clothes, and that is the one who makes tofu... I really use that to wash clothes for you, but I think you are dirty..." The woman was furious and pointed at Li Ji with one hand, and her plump breasts fell together, making Li Ji dizzy.
"Okay, okay, it's just that if you don't say it, it's just that..." Li Ji was in a disadvantage, but this woman was really arrogant and couldn't afford to offend her.
The woman was very quick-moving. Of course, in Li Ji's opinion, this woman was just perfunctory. She quickly washed her clothes and hung them on the straw rope. Below was the stove firewood that had been cooked in the morning and had not been completely extinguished. The straw rope was limited in height, so she was very close to the stove after hanging the clothes. She was reminded to remind the woman to be careful not to burn the clothes, but thinking about her sharp mouth, she lost the mind.
"Hey, do you have clothes that men can wear here? I'll lend it to me first, there are still many things..." Li Ji asked, thinking that he couldn't just squat and wait like this.
"Bah, my mother, I'm a big girl, how can I wear men at home?... Little thief, are you calling me unfaithful?" The woman opened her mouth and was thorny as usual.
Li Ji was speechless. He found out that he couldn't be polite when talking to this woman, "I mean you have any clothes left by your father and brother in your family... You woman, can't you speak well?
"Everything is dead..." The woman didn't say much this time. After a while, she walked into the house and took out a shabby Taoist robe, "Only this one, whether to wear it or not..."
Li Ji took great effort to put on this Taoist robe. The owner of the Taoist robe must be short and thin, so he actually looked like a tight-fitting suit.
"I will come to get my clothes again in the afternoon..." Li Ji said when he walked out of the yard.
Li Ji's next goal was to find a place where he could read books, which was what he had to do every time he went to a new place. Books were a friend of mankind. It was because of the books that he had a window to understand the world. Of course, he would not let Gukou Town go. After asking several residents of the town, he quickly found a family that was said to have a rich collection of books.
It’s someone else’s house. Gukou Town does not have a bookstore and a bookstore and other facilities. Think about it, it doesn’t have to take the imperial examination here, so naturally there is no business of a bookstore. This family is a two-story wooden building with only one owner, an old widower who can’t tell the age. The old man on the first floor lives on his own, and he puts books on the second floor and borrows one or two silvers for a book, no matter how long you borrow it.
The people of Gukou Town were all heartbroken. Li Ji cursed in his heart, climbing up the clattering and shaking stairs. When he climbed the second floor, he was shocked. There was hundreds of books full of books, and there was no so-called serious books about the imperial examinations, all of which were about Taoism and the cultivation of the truth and the cultivation of the ascension of the Xia Ju. Of course, there was no secret technique. Most of them were about the cultivation characters, stories, biography, travel and other miscellaneous things, which were suitable for viewing by admirers of his level.
The old man didn't leave much. After choosing everything, Li Ji chose five books, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Book of Saving People", "Quotes on Panshan", "Biographies of Gods and Immortals", and "The Historians of Fanghu", all of which are about how ordinary people attain enlightenment and ascend to the Tao in one go. After reading it, they will come to Taochang.
These book not the Taoist simplified scripts he used to use, and they cannot be stuck on the forehead and must be read like usual. Fortunately, the number of words in these book simplified scripts is limited, like "Fanghu Waishi" is the longest, only more than 90,000 words, and "Du Ren Jing" is the shortest, only 30,000 words. With the reading speed of a senior bookworm in a certain website in his previous life, these books are only half a day at most.
With the book slip, the rest was to find a place to read. The teahouse and restaurant really couldn't afford to go there. After thinking for a long time, he turned back to the small courtyard. He didn't want to go in and endure the woman's poisonous tongue, so he found a stone pier outside the yard and started to look at it with relish in the warm late summer sunshine.
I don't know how long it took, but suddenly the sunlight in front of me darkened. When I looked up, I found that the woman was standing in front of me with a smile on her face. From Li Ji's perspective, the pair of weapons were almost coming out. "What's the matter?" He always felt that this woman was smiling unnaturally.
"Well, big brother... That's right. When I heard you come, I wanted to find a family to stay, right?"
"Yes, can you be kind and plan to introduce your family to me?" Li Ji looked at this woman with a little doubt.
"No, no, that's right. Actually, there is still a room in my yard, but no one has lived in it for a long time, and it's a bit unhappy... Since the eldest brother spoke, I'm not unreasonable...
"What a strange thing, you are not afraid of being alone, a man and a woman, and you will not kiss her anymore?" Li Ji said strangely, in a short time, why did this woman change so much?
"Why are there so many long-winded words? Do I open an inn here? Come when I want to come, leave when I want to go?... If I don't want to live, I will take your clothes and leave quickly. Don't bother me again." How could the woman's original temperament be stimulated by Li Ji's words, she instantly restored her true face. She turned her head and walked into the yard.
Li Ji followed inexplicably. Seeing the woman's own clothes in her hand, he finally understood the reason why the woman's attitude changed a lot just now. "You bad-hearted woman, how long has it been? Why did my long gown become a short-sleeved shirt? He insisted on baking it on the stove, but he was not distracted to take care of it. Fortunately, I came back early and had to become a vest later... "
"A little thief who is so terrified, but a ragged jacket is thrown out and no one picks up the junk. It's worth being so careful... Anyway, it's burned, what are you going to do?... I promise you to stay here, it's already a great deal of face for you. Don't be ungrateful..."
The two of them had a good time, but no one was willing to give in.
"A 50 taels of silver per month, but no penny is left. You need one tael of silver per book, little thief, to borrow books from Li Crooker. Could it be that I will lose this little expense when I get to my mother?" the woman shouted.
"Crazy woman, you run a black store? It's your so-called guest room, no bed or quilt, and the light leaks. There is a donkey tied in the room next to you. You can smell a donkey dung egg from a distance. I think it's too expensive to give you thirty taels a month, and it's still fifty taels. Are you crazy about money?" Li Ji shouted back.
"Forty-five taels, no longer need to be less. The little thief is really not as good as a man, so why is he so petty like a woman..."
"Thirty-five taels, no longer can I get more, what if a man is? He will have to be plotted against by you?"
"Thirty-five taels are not impossible, but the little thief has to get up in the morning to feed the flowers and plants..."
Chapter completed!