Chapter 025: Can you help me if you don’t pretend to be an old man?

Songshan Village.

The sun sets.

Wen Yan and Pei'er went home carrying a basket of vegetables.

Pei'er pointed in the direction of her home: "Miss, there is a person sneaking around in front of our house."

Wen Yan looked over.

Sure enough, I saw a round figure wearing a veil, peeking into the yard.

Pei'er said worriedly, "Could it be a thief coming to scout the place?"

Wen Yan looked around, picked up a stone and walked over.

Seeing this, Pei'er picked up a bigger stone and followed.

"Hey!" Wen Yan hid the stone behind him and patted the man's shoulder.

The man shuddered and turned around.

"Why are you here!" The round figure took off his straw raincoat, and his chubby face was full of shock.

Wen Yan looked carefully and found that he was the fat old man who asked her to find the bag in the morning.

"I should be the one asking you this. What are you doing sneaking around here?" Wen Yan recognized him and glanced at his legs. "You're not coming here just to blackmail me, are you? I'm telling you, I don't have any money, but I can help you with a severance!"

Wen Yanliang took out the stone in his hand and protested to him!

"Who wants to blackmail you? Stop looking down on me. I'm here to visit a friend." As he said that, he turned around and was about to enter the Ying family's yard.

Wen Yan grabbed the door knocker to prevent him from entering: "Who are you visiting? What's his name? Where does he live?"

Wu Yunzi blew his beard and glared: "What do you mean by my friend? Anyway, it's not you I'm looking for. Do I need to report to you?"

Wen Yan pointed at the gate and said, "This is my home!"

Wu Yunzi: “Huh?”

He looked at Wen Yan and saw that she was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a bun on her head, fair skin, and long, delicate fingers. It was obvious that she was not an ordinary peasant girl.

Thinking of Ying Zhilin's new wife, Wu Yunzi's facial features were all squeezed together: "Ying Zhilin's young wife, can it be you?"

Wen Yan raised his chin and said, "Humph, it's just me, a humble person."

The two of them were arguing with each other and were about to get angry.

Ying Zhilin hurried over with two fish in his hands to stop them.

"Yan'er, this is Master Wu Yunzi, my friend and the specially appointed calligraphy and painting teacher of the academy." He just went to Aunt Li to get the fish, why did these two people start arguing?

Wen Yan was stunned for a moment.

He questioned the chubby old man in front of him, "Didn't they say that Master Wu Yunzi is very young and hasn't even reached forty yet?"

Wu Yunzi pointed at his face and asked angrily, "Look at my smooth skin and shining eyes. How can I be old?"

I didn't look closely at him this morning, thinking he was just an old man with white hair and a youthful face.

Now that I look closely, I realize that his eyebrows and eyelashes are white, and his pupils are red.

Like a fat white rabbit with red eyes!

It turns out that Wu Yunzi is an albinos.

She had misjudged him before.

Wen Yan snorted, "When I helped you carry your bag up the mountain during the day, you didn't object when I called you uncle."

"I was too tired at that time. Could you help me if I didn't pretend to be an old man?" Wu Yunzi touched his nose.

Seeing that she had no curiosity or fear towards him, he looked at her differently and his affection for her doubled.

It’s not that Wen Yan wasn’t curious, but she had traveled all over the country with Huo Yao in her previous life and was knowledgeable.

I know this is a disease that I carry from the womb.

Their constitutions are weaker than those of ordinary people, they are more susceptible to illness and are afraid of strong light.

Wu Yunzi hid under the shade of a tree in the morning, probably due to health reasons.

Seeing that the atmosphere had eased, Ying Zhilin hurriedly pushed Wu Yunzi into the yard.

Unexpectedly, the 'girl' that Wu Yunzi bullied in the morning was Wen Yan.

If I had known this, I would have beaten him to the point of crying for his parents when playing chess, leaving no one alive.

Ying Zhixue rushed out of the room with her younger brother, first calling him "Brother" sweetly, and then bowed to Wu Yunzi.

As for Wen Yan, she pretended that she didn't exist.

Ying Zhilin frowned slightly.

Then, as usual, he asked them about their situation at home.

He handed another bundle to Ying Zhixue and instructed her, "Send this bundle back to your aunt's house tomorrow."

Wen Yan looked over and felt that the bundle looked very familiar.

"Isn't this cousin Ying'er's bag? Cousin Ying'er has sent you something again!" Ying Zhixue took the bag and turned it over, revealing the shoes and socks inside.

Shoes and socks are private items. They are only given as gifts between men and women if they are close blood relatives or husband and wife.

It was given by my cousin Ying'er, and the implication is very obvious.

"This was sewn by my cousin Ying'er, stitch by stitch, why should we send it back?

It’s not like I haven’t received it before.

Oh, I see, she didn’t let you collect it, right…” Ying Zhixue pointed at Wen Yan angrily.

"Zhixue!" Ying Zhilin interrupted her in time.

He first invited Wu Yunzi to the study.

After coming out, he explained to Wen Yan, "After my mother passed away, the three of us siblings did hire someone to do the sewing for us. My aunt was only in charge of my younger siblings' sewing, and I asked Aunt Liu to help me with mine, and she paid for it."

Ying Zhixue was unconvinced and said, "Brother, how could you do this! This was made by my cousin with every stitch of her own. If it weren't for someone interfering, Cousin Ying'er would be my sister-in-law..."

Ying Zhilin glared at him.

Ying Zhixue felt as if someone had grabbed her throat and fell silent immediately.

It really wouldn't be nice to return the shoes now.

Ying Zhilin burned the shoes and socks in front of everyone, and then took out a hundred coins and gave them to Ying Zhixue: "Send them over tomorrow morning."

Ying Zhixue took the copper coin unwillingly and glared at Wen Yan fiercely.

Wen Yan knew that Ying Zhixue didn't like her.

She didn't know the reason before and didn't care.

After what happened just now, she probably guessed it.

Ying Zhilin had a verbal engagement with his cousin Ying'er, and Ying Zhixue also regarded "cousin Ying'er" as her only sister-in-law.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Yaojin appears halfway and Wen Ruyue arranges their marriage.

When Wen Ruyue returns to the Wen family, she no longer needs Ying Zhilin.

I thought "Cousin Ying'er" had another chance, but unexpectedly, Wen Yan came again.

Wen Yan has become a thorn in Ying Zhixue's side!

However, let’s not talk about the fact that she has already married Ying Zhilin.

Even if Ying Zhilin is not married yet, his sister Ying Zhixue has no right to tell him who he will marry.

"I'm sorry, I spoiled my sister." Ying Zhilin apologized to her before returning to the study to entertain Wu Yunzi.

Wen Yan went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

They had just moved in and hadn't had time to buy decent food at home.

She took out a hundred coins and asked Hui Niang to go to the village to exchange them for some fine grains, vegetables and meat.

Wu Yunzi is a master of calligraphy and painting after all, we can't treat him with whole-grain steamed buns!

Then she instructed Pei'er to kill the two fish that Ying Zhilin brought back and marinate them with ginger, scallions, salt and a little white wine.

She is busy.

There was a knock on the gate.

Soon, Ying Zhixue's mocking voice came from the yard: "What are you doing here?"

"I...I just want to ask, do you want to buy tofu?"

"Tsk..." Ying Zhixue sneered, "What? It's dark now, and you can't sell anything, so you just shove your junk into our hands? Do you think I'm a fool? Or do you think you can take advantage of us just because she's here? Are you going to ask for double the price?"