Chapter 94 Shouldn’t I give you a hug?
"It's not that Hongdu is lagging behind in information, but someone is doing it on purpose." Xiao Jiuyue's eyes flickered slightly, and she looked up at Chief Steward Jin and asked, "Have you found out where these rumors came from?"
"We're still investigating," Chief Steward Jin replied with a bow. "Miss is right. This was definitely done intentionally. I heard bits and pieces about the Xiao family at the end of October last year. People in the market were already talking about it, and now it's coming out again. Moreover, the direction is clear. It must be someone's deliberate act."
"The Fang family, the Cheng family, both are possible." Xiao Jiuyue could roughly guess after a little thought. She has always been low-key in Hongdu. Except for the time when the maid of the Fang family died, she has never been in the limelight. The people she offended were only Fang Caiwei and Cheng Fangjiao.
That day at the Fang residence, Cheng Fangjiao had looked at her with a hint of hostility. Could it be that she had ruined Cheng Fangjiao's plans? Or had she caused Cheng Fangjiao's Fangxin Bakery to lose business?
Xiao Jiuyue handed the matter over to Manager Jin and ignored it. The first jar of pickled radishes and cabbages had already been prepared. Now they were just waiting for the time to come. These pickled radishes and cabbages would come in handy!
There is also the top priority of spring sowing. Even if it is not time for spring sowing yet, Xiao Jiuyue will personally follow up on the base fertilizer of the soil. She will often walk around the fields and take a look.
It was very difficult to deal with natural disasters in ancient times. She had to grow crops well, otherwise she would be panicked, and no amount of silver could make up for this panic.
"Miss, is there something wrong with this land?" Lianxin followed Xiao Jiuyue all the way and saw with her own eyes that she almost stepped on all the land of the Xiao family. She didn't even wear her usual clothes, but the most ordinary clothes and ordinary cloth shoes. Her cloth shoes were also stained with mud because of walking.
Lianxin now recalled the shocked look on Madam's face when she first saw the young lady dressed like this. She almost couldn't recognize her own daughter!
Not to mention others, even Lianxin couldn't believe it. Is this still the noble lady who was once praised by everyone in Shengjing?
"Not enough fertilizer." Xiao Jiuyue squatted down, and her slender white hands mixed with the soil. Lianxin couldn't bear it. The young lady's delicate hands were not suitable for doing such work.
The soil rubbed between her fingers, and occasionally leaked from her fingertips. Xiao Jiuyue clapped her hands as if she didn't care, and walked to several places. She said, "Tell Yu Ge to add 20% more fertilizer to this piece of land."
Xiao Jiuyue clapped her hands, and Lianxin quickly wiped her hands with the wet towel she had prepared, saying, "Miss, wipe your hands quickly."
"Don't worry, you help me take care of these hands every day, they are in good condition." Xiao Jiuyue stretched out her hand. She had to say that the hands of this girl who had been pampered since childhood were really beautiful. She also understood how she got such slender hands like tender catkins and skin like cream.
"Miss, that won't work either. You need your hands to play the piano and write." Lianxin wiped her fingers carefully, even leaving the gaps between her nails.
Xiao Jiuyue looked at her serious expression and cared for her more than she cared for her own hands.
"Now, it's almost February." Xiao Jiuyue suddenly thought of the Chinese toon around the Qingming Festival. The fried eggs with Chinese toon were especially delicious. She looked at the endless mountains behind her and suddenly had an idea. She led Lianxin to run all over the mountain, wanting to find Chinese toon.
She didn't find the toon tree, but she did find an octagonal pavilion on the top of the mountain. The quaint pavilion looked very dilapidated, and even the stone bench was covered with moss. She stood in the pavilion and looked into the distance. As far as she could see, there were mountains upon mountains. When the morning fog was thick and had not yet dissipated, it made people feel like they were in a fairyland.
"Lianxin, have you memorized the way?" Xiao Jiuyue murmured, "Bring your piano someday and sit here to play. It will definitely be nice!"
After two months of practice, Xiao Jiuyue's piano gradually merged with its original form. It might be able to fool laymen, but for an expert, she still had to practice.
When she was practicing at the Xiao family, the beautiful mother would advise her that the wound on her arm needed to heal, and she couldn't practice for too long!
"Miss, Madam said..." Before Lian Xin could finish her words, Xiao Jiuyue said directly, "It's settled. Come tomorrow morning."
Xiao Jiuyue sat for a while and then went down the mountain. Not long after leaving the pavilion, she suddenly pulled Lianxin and hid in a tea bush.
Lianxin hadn't figured out what was going on yet, when she seemed to hear a sound from afar!
"Xier, don't run!" Xiang Tiegen's voice was so loud that Huang Chunxi, who was running in front, quickly turned around and covered his mouth: "Xiang Tiegen, you are afraid that others can't hear you, right?"
Through the gaps in the tea trees, she could clearly see the two of them. Isn't this the man who robbed manure last year?
Xiang Sanniang’s son, Xiang Tiegen?
Xiao Jiuyue was very impressed by this name, as well as Goudan's mother. This Xier should be Goudan's sister?
"Xier." Xiang Tiegen's face flushed to his ears. He grabbed her hand and said, "I'll go to your house tomorrow to propose marriage."
"No." Huang Chunxi looked at him and asked, "Have you saved up twenty taels of silver?"
"I, I'm still short of ten taels." Xiang Tiegen's face changed. He held Huang Chunxi's hand tightly and said, "Xier, my mother said that by this autumn, we will have saved enough money."
"Alas." Huang Chunxi sighed: "Don't blame my mother, she only cares about money. No matter if it's my elder sister or my younger sister, if I can't exchange it for money to marry Goudan, she won't agree to this marriage."
"Don't marry anyone else." Xiang Tiegen said excitedly: "Xier, wait for me, just wait for another half a year."
Xiang Tiegen held Huang Chunxi's hand tightly, fearing that she would run away if he let go.
"Tie Gen." Huang Chunxi looked up at him, this man whose eyes were full of him. She nodded slightly: "I, I'll wait for you."
"Xier." Xiang Tiegen was so excited that he didn't know what to do. He just called her name over and over again.
Huang Chunxi was too shy to look at Tiegen.
Xiang Tiegen took her hand and said, "Come on, I'll go chop wood for you and get grass for the pigs."
The two of them gradually left. Looking at their departing backs, Xiao Jiuyue couldn't help but sigh that the ancients were reserved. In that situation just now, shouldn't they have hugged and kissed each other?
On the way back, Xiao Jiuyue thought: As for what happened on the day of the manure robbery, Xiang Sanniang definitely didn't want her son to marry Goudan's daughter, but the two of them fell in love with each other. I wonder if the young couple can finally get married?
"Sister Xiao."
Three days after the rumors started spreading, Tang Tian came to her door excitedly and comforted her, "Sister Xiao, don't think too much about it. Those people just don't understand anything and are just talking nonsense."
Tang Tian took out the food box and said, "The chef has recently developed two new snacks. Sister Xiao, try them."
Xiao Jiuyue looked at the busy Tang Tian and asked, "Tiantian, what if those rumors are not false?"
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