农门喜事：夫君，来耕田
FH Chapter 28 : 哪来的自信？
Where does her confidence come from?
The original body and Sun Xing’s previous past, it has nothing to do with Li Haitang but she is not willing to take the scapegoat ( fall guy). If she married this barbarian (ambitious person), would the other party’s heart not mind about it?
A good woman does not marry twice, Li Haitang only wants to find an honest man who can take care of her, and live an easy life wholeheartedly.
“Sun Xing and I are not in that kind of relationship that the villagers think of.”
Li Haitang took out a jade pendant from her bosom and explained to Xiao Ling Chuan, “My mother left her last wish before she died, wanting me to take my little brother to the capital to search for our relatives, I’m a woman,so I can’t go on the road alone, so I looked for Sun Xing to discuss it.”
Sun Xing is an outsider who comes and lives in the village and has only one mother, the widow Sun. If the two of them can accompany her out, they won’t alarm the villagers and have people who guard them on the road.
“He received my silver, full of promises, but somehow climbed up to the rice and grain shopkeeper’s daughter….”
The highest level of lying is to mix truth and falsehood, a white lie is necessary, moreover it’s the original body who likes Sun Xing, not her.
Xiao Ling Chuan had once heard a dialogue between her and Sun Xing, which just happened to match Li Haitang’s words.
For some reason, hearing her explanation, Xiao Ling Chuan actually felt a little happy, but he didn’t think much about it, and after the meal, he neatly cleaned up the dishes.
“I’ll pick up Jin Hu at the bottom of the mountain, and buy some women’s clothing on the way.”
Xiao Ling Chuan practiced martial arts for many years, either following ‘armed escort for a convoy’ (bodyguard kind of job or delivery safety service in ancient times). His complexion was dark, and his blush could not be seen. He had never bought women’s items,so he was embarrassed at the moment.
“Then I’ll trouble Big Brother Xiao (Xiao Da Ge).”
Li Haitang touched her nose awkwardly, as for the matter of marriage, how could she open her mouth? She couldn’t ask him to go to the bottom of the mountain and prepare the wedding candles or something, in her whole life, she only wanted to marry once, she really didn’t want to get married just like that in silence (unknown to public).
“The surroundings are more dangerous. You are at home, don’t wander, when you are hungry there is food in the kitchen and cakes.”
Xiao Ling Chuan does not eat snacks, all of them are bought early this morning. He went down the mountain to buy it, he used to be a member of ‘armed escort for a convoy’, seeing his companion brothers often bring dried fruits and preserves (such as sweetmeats and candied fruit) to their wife,so he thought that all women like those snacks.
Li Haitang sent him to the front door only, seeing his back disappeared in the depths of the shadow of the trees, and only then closed the courtyard door.
The cabbage in the backyard has ripen, she has to do a lot of work,such as cutting off the bottle gourd or calabash’strips and pickled sauerkraut, then drying it in the sun. She can stew meat to eat in the winter.
Around midday, the rain stopped.
Li Haitang cleaned the house inside and outside, opened the bedding sheets, changed it at the same time, took it and washed it, before hanging all of them in the courtyard.
“I wonder if he met my little brother or not…”
The sun moves towards the west, soon after the sun sets, the sky is dark. Li Jin Hu is a cautious person so Li Haitang gave the location and explained in a few words, believing that his little brother can follow him back.
It was strange to say it right now, she was the most wanted criminal with reward offered by the Qin family, Li Haitang was surprisingly not worried that the commoner (literal: wild man) would take advantage of this opportunity to capture her little brother, furnish secret information to the Qin family, and take her in exchange for silver.
“Knowing the face but not the heart’ (knowing a person for a long time without understanding his true nature), where on earth did I get that confidence?”
Li Haitang did not understand, so she no longer looked or investigate it any deeper, anyway, she took a step to see another step (take a step and look around before taking the next—proceed without a plan, or with caution), looking at the dinner hour, her little brother in town, she also afraid that he can’t eat well, she had to make it up for his body by cooking supplement food.
On the eaves at the top of the stove room, there are several woven bamboo baskets hanging, inside there are air-dried chickens, ducks and rabbit meats, there are also a few pieces of bacon.
Li Haitang picked a small half pot of bean curd, cut a piece of bacon, put the bacon in a pot and popped it, added bean curd and potatoes, and made a big pot of stew.
The porcelain altar or arena in the corner had maize flour, she mixed a small amount of coarse texture flour, and put up the pancakes on the side of the cauldron.
When the green beans came out of the pot, the brown pancakes’ aroma drifted away.
