Chapter 3
It’s almost time for Dragon Boat Festival, and as the coolness of the morning passes, the weather starts to get hotter.
Chen Jiao was about to be spit out by the smell of sweat around her...
She didn't want to be spoiled, but it was really difficult to make a spoiled noble girl from the Duke's Mansion adapt to a car full of farm families at once.
What's even more tormenting is that there are people farting.
The villagers burst into laughter and complained and joked. Chen Jiao couldn't stand it anymore. She took out a newly embroidered veil to pretend to wipe her sweat, but in fact she secretly covered her nose. Hongmei saw it, but she was too familiar with the temper of her good sisters. It was not surprising that Han Yue also saw it, and she was amused in her heart. Last time she met, he thought the beauty of the Lin family had changed her temperament, but she didn't expect that she was still the same as before, as if she was not from a farmer.
Han Yue doesn't like vain and cares about women.
Someone got off the car halfway, and Han Yue sat in the distance without a trace. Perhaps the sweet flower also disliked his rabbit skin.
Chen Jiao lowered her head and thoughts to leave the mule cart.
She was thinking about the cycle of cause and effect. Is it because she lived a poor life in this life that she would have wealth in the future? After all, God is fair and cannot always make one person rich and the other poor in life. Thinking of this, Chen Jiao gradually felt relieved. The only grievance was why did God arrange for her to have a life of a husband and wife?
"Jiaojiao, look!"
Hongmei suddenly patted her arm.
Chen Jiao came back to her senses and looked over Hongmei's fingers. She saw a white little lamb running into a vegetable garden in the field beside the road. The seven or eight-year-old boy ran after the little lamb behind. The little lamb bleated and ran around, full of childlike fun. Chen Jiao couldn't help but smile. This was an interesting thing that could not be seen in the Duke's Mansion.
Han Yue was also looking at the little lamb, and his eyes accidentally flew over the side face of the Lin family girl. His whiteness and pink lips were beautiful. A buddy's infatuation with Lin Jiao came up in his mind: "Her face is whiter and tenderer than steamed buns. I really want to hold it over and eat it for a long time, and that little mouth. If she is willing to kiss me, I will give her all the private money I have saved in the past few years!"
Han Yue looked away.
Compared to that kind of thing, he still prefers the silver and copper coins he has saved with great effort.
More than an hour later, the sun was already high, and the mule cart finally slowly stopped in front of the county gate.
The villagers in the car went to queue up honestly.
"Does Han Yue have a girl with good looks? Let's go to the cloth shop with us? I'll be happy to pick some flower cloth and send it out." After entering the city, they were about to part. Hongmei Niang smiled and teased Han Yue. The wives in the village liked to joke.
Han Yue smiled lightly and said, "No, Auntie, go and have a job, I'll go to the fur shop to check it out."
Hongmei Niang pulled a little girl away with one hand.
Chen Jiao rarely had the opportunity to go out for a shop. In the past, she was in the Duke's Mansion, and she rarely went out for a trip. She was accompanied by her elders, followed by her maids and maids. The jewelry and silk shops she went to were all famous in the capital. The shops were luxuriously decorated and elegant, rather than being noisy and crowded with civilian women who were choosing and bargaining.
But this is the shop that Hongmei Niang chose.
Things in small shops are expensive in the countryside, but they are in the county town, which are of good quality and low price, so there are many customers.
There was a big stall outside the store with a lot of cloth patterns on it. At this time, seven or eight women were crowding there, and they were fighting fiercely.
"Let's go, Jiaojiao helps us see!" Hongmei Niang also knew that Chen Jiao had seen many good things. She ignored her daughter and pushed Chen Jiao into the crowd that was carrying cloth.
"Where are the country bumpkins coming from? Why are you squeezing? There is no rule!" Chen Jiao bumped into a woman. The woman stared at her eyes. When she saw Chen Jiao's petal-like face, she was stunned. But after she found Hongmei Niang's rustic dress, the stunning in the woman's eyes immediately turned into disgust and said loudly.
Hongmei Niang came to pick out the materials for her daughter's wedding dress. She didn't want to argue with others, so she pretended not to hear it.
Chen Jiao felt very uncomfortable. Although the woman scolded Hongmei Niang, she felt inexplicably that the woman scolded her too.
Chen Jiao was unhappy, but she couldn't do it even if she let her argue with others in public. The only thing she could do was to steadily grasp the ground with her feet, her slender and graceful body, with a stubborn spirit, she was not squeezed away by the woman and stood firmly on the ground.
The woman couldn't squeeze her, so she squeezed to the other side.
Chen Jiao's unhappiness disappeared in an instant, and she focused on helping Hongmei Niang pick up cloth.
The cloths placed outside are the cheapest in the store. Chen Jiao looked down on them. Thinking of the one-month that Tian gave her, and Hongmei might marry this time in her life, Chen Jiao decided to add some money to help Hongmei buy a piece of good material. Anyway, she worked hard to squeeze all the mule carts and had to squeeze them once on the way back. She couldn't help her good sisters pick up the bad material back.
"Aunt, let's go inside and have a look." Chen Jiao smiled and said with a smile.
Hongmei Niang looked hesitant, afraid that she would not bring enough money.
Chen Jiao urged: "Go and have a look first, maybe there are some cheap ones."
This time, she pulled Hongmei and her mother in.
The little girl is beautiful, but when she goes shopping happily from the bottom of her heart, she becomes more and more bright and charming.
On the teahouse opposite the shop, in the private room next to the window on the second floor, a young man in a gorgeous costume smiled and shook his folding fan, and said to his friend next to him: "I didn't expect that, I just chose a day to come out to have a tea and found a little beauty. How about it, Brother Qing Cang wants to take action? You like the beauty with peach blossom eyes the most."
Brother Qing Cang, who was talking about, smiled and looked at the back of the beauty who had already entered the cloth shop and said, "Brother Tang is willing to give up his love, so I'm disrespectful."
In the cloth shop, Chen Jiao helped Hongmei pick a good material. The material was not much color, so it was cheaper than the big red flower cloth of the same material. With her one cent, she could just buy it.
"How can you be so embarrassed? No, let's change the cheapest one." Hongmei and her mother didn't want Chen Jiao's money. One robbed Chen Jiao of materials and wanted to put them back, while the other stopped Chen Jiao and refused to let her pay the money.
Chen Jiao could see that the mother and mother really didn't want to take advantage of her, rather than pretending to be polite, but the more she did, the more she wanted to help.
"No need to argue with you three, I'll invite this cloth."
A clear and melodious man's voice suddenly sounded in the noisy cloth shop full of women's hustle and bustle.
The three girls all turned around and saw a young man eight feet tall in a white brocade robe standing behind Chen Jiao. The man looked at Chen Jiao with fair skin, sword-eyed eyebrows and staring eyes, and said meaningfully: "I have a good relationship with Miss Lin, I have a little bit of love, and I hope to accept it." As he said that, he took out two taels of silver from his sleeve and threw it to the cloth shop owner from the air.
Both Hongmei and her mother were stunned.
Chen Jiao was only furious about being teased.
To be honest, the entanglement between Lin Jiao and Wei Qingcang from the Bodhisattva was like a quick look. Chen Jiao knew what happened between the two, knew that Wei Qingcang was not a good person, but she was more like an outsider, unable to personally feel Lin Jiao's sweetness, disappointment, resentment, or the loneliness and desolation of slowly remaining a widow. However, now, Wei Qingcang is teasing her, Chen Jiao!
"We don't know you." Chen Jiao said with a tense face. After saying that, she firmly stuffed her penny into Hongmei's hand and said quickly: "Aunt, I want to go home, let's check the bill quickly."
Hongmei Niang was not stupid, and she saw that Wei Qingcang was interested in Chen Jiao. Since Chen Jiao was not grateful, in order to avoid trouble, she decided to use Chen Jiao's front first and return to the village before returning to the village.
"We buy it ourselves." Hong Meiniang stared at the owner of the cloth shop who wanted to collect Wei Qingcang's silver, and was full of momentum.
The cloth shop owner glanced at Wei Qingcang.
Wei Qingcang, who was ruthlessly rejected by the beauty, looked inconvenient and said casually: "Since Miss Lin doesn't appreciate it, I will reward you with the money. I, Wei Qingcang, will never take back the things I gave."
Hongmei and her mother secretly smacked their tongues, where did the prodigal son come from? If you say no, you don’t want it?
Chen Jiao used to play cards in the boudoir, but she didn't blink if she lost twenty taels. Wei Qingcang's actions were like showing off her wealth in her eyes.
As soon as Hongmei's mother paid the money, Chen Jiao walked away with Hongmei's arm, and never looked at Wei Qingcang in person from beginning to end.
Chen Jiao, who is not well-educated, does not know that men are all mean, and they may not even care about beauties who are easily trapped. The more difficult it is to tame, they have to worry about them.
Playboy Wei Qingcang was no exception. Looking at Chen Jiao's cold and frosty side face, Wei Qingcang was not angry but happy. He quickly walked out of the cloth shop and followed the three girls no longer far or near.
Hongmei Niang regarded Wei Qingcang as a trouble.
Hongmei secretly looked back and whispered to Chen Jiao: "This young master Wei is pretty. You really don't like Jiaojiao?"
She remembered that the greatest wish of good sisters in the past was to marry a rich young man.
Chen Jiao said disdainfully: "When he sees me beautiful today, he will come to provoke me. Tomorrow he will meet someone more beautiful than me, he will definitely provoke me. I don't care about such a playboy."
Hongmei nodded, thinking that this is the reason.
They went to the city to buy wedding materials. Now that they have bought it, the three of them returned to the outside of the county town, waiting to go to the mule cart in the village. There are cars at noon and dusk.
Coincidentally, Han Yue also came to wait.
Hongmei Niang said in surprise: "Have your rabbit skin been sold?"
Han Yue nodded. He was very familiar with the shopkeeper of the fur shop. The prices were fixed. It was very simple to pay one hand and deliver the goods at the other hand.
After selling rabbit skins, Han Yue bought some snacks for his two younger brothers.
While chatting, Hongmei Niang quickly looked back and saw that Wei Qingcang had been following him all the time. Hongmei Niang was a little panicked and couldn't help asking Han Yue, a fellow villager who was tall and big, for help, and whispered: "Did you see that young man in white? He is a rich playboy. Seeing Chen Jiao beautiful, he kept following us. If something happens, Han Yue, please help us."
Han Yue looked at Wei Qingcang quietly. Just looking at his appearance, he looked quite a bit arrogant.
Han Yue looked at Chen Jiao again and saw that she frowned slightly, unlike being happy about being entangled by others, so he said to Hongmei Niang: "Don't worry, aunt."
"Okay, let's go!"
Seeing that the people waiting for were almost full of a cart, the mule carriage driver finally pulled out the mule from the shade of the tree and was about to get the cart.
Hongmei Niang rushed to occupy four good places in the car.
After Chen Jiao sat down, Han Yue was entrusted by Hongmei Niang and took the initiative to sit next to her, with a distance between them.
Chapter completed!