Chapter 17: Sincerity of Self-Motivation

Yao Tianci waved his hands repeatedly: "Miss, you misunderstood me. I don't want money. In fact, in fact, I have been interested in you since the first time I saw you..."

"Do you really want to help me?" Liang Jinyu interrupted him, impatient to listen to those empty words.

Yao Tianci nodded heavily: "Of course, if you need me, please tell me."

"Then you go first, I'll follow you. Also, don't tell anyone else that you've met me." Liang Jinyu warned solemnly.

Yao Tianci agreed without hesitation, walked a few steps and turned back to shout: "It's dark in the mountains and it's not safe. Girl, just follow us. If you have anything to say, shout so I can hear you."

Liang Jinyu nodded and waved her hand to signal him to hurry up.

The snow fell heavier and the sky became darker.

The mountain road is muddy and you will slip if you are not careful.

"Be careful!" Uncle Youtian grabbed Yao Tianci and said, "What's wrong with you? You're not paying attention when you walk. If I hadn't been quick, you would have fallen."

Yao Tianci glanced at the steep slope next to him and his heart began to pound. It was so dangerous.

"What are you doing?" asked Uncle Arita.

Yao Tianci moved a large rock to the slippery spot: "Block it for a while, and also remind the people behind."

Uncle Arita laughed at him: "Only the two of us would be here on a snowy day. It's a waste of time."

Yao Tianci pretended not to hear anything. He turned around and looked at the mountain road behind him, his eyes full of worry.

I don’t know whether Miss Liang has caught up with us.

Not long after the two left, Liang Jinyu's figure finally appeared on the mountain road.

She walked to the place where Yao Tianci had just slipped, glanced at the stone, and felt no wavering in her heart.

We hurried and finally returned to the village before dark.

Liang Jinyu lowered her head and walked hurriedly, hoping that she could get home before Wang.

"Miss Liang." Yao Tianci suddenly jumped out from behind the haystack, obviously waiting for her.

Liang Jinyu felt a little annoyed, as if the ghost of the wronged person was still lingering.

"Why are you here?" Liang Jinyu asked patiently.

Yao Tianci looked around and made sure that no one was around. Then he took out a bag of something from his pocket and said, "This is candied fruit I bought in the city. Try it."

Liang Jinyu frowned: "I don't want it."

"It's okay, take it. If it's delicious, I'll buy it for you next time." Yao Tianci seemed to be afraid that Liang Jinyu would refuse, so he directly and forcefully stuffed it into her hand.

Without waiting for Liang Jinyu to say anything else, Yao Tianci ran away without looking back.

Looking at the preserved candy in her hand, Liang Jinyu didn't know whether to keep it or throw it away.

"Forget it, let's take it back and give it to Dani." Liang Jinyu thought to herself, Dani probably hasn't eaten these before.

As soon as I got outside the yard, I heard Wang's harsh words.

"Who are you kidding? How could she go wash clothes in this snowy day? Do you think she is as brainless as you? I ask you, did that whore run away with someone?"

"I've told you a hundred times, she went to the river to wash clothes. If you don't believe me, go to the river and find her yourself." Chen Dani rolled her eyes and said helplessly.

Wang was furious when she saw her like that: "How can you talk to me like that? Are you itchy? I provide you with food and drink, but you still raise an ungrateful person like me?"

"I didn't ask you to raise him. If I had known that this was the family environment, I would have died."

"What did you say? Say it again, you heartless loser. Don't run! Stop right there!"

There was a commotion in the yard.

Liang Jinyu came in from outside wearing her own clothes and holding Chen Laifu's wet clothes that she had just taken off.

When Chen Dani saw her, her eyes lit up instantly and she immediately hid behind Liang Jinyu: "See, I told you she went to do the laundry, but you didn't believe me."

Wang looked at the clothes in Liang Jinyu's hands suspiciously and asked in disbelief, "Didn't you wash your clothes this morning? Why are you washing them again?"

Liang Jinyu said calmly, "I missed it. Isn't it snowing? I thought I should wash it off quickly, otherwise Chen Laifu will have nothing to wear when he comes back."

Wang's face was long: "Chen Lai Fu, Chen Lai Fu, whose wife calls her husband by his full name? What did your mother teach you? It's unruly."

Liang Jinyu hung all the wet clothes on the bamboo pole under the eaves, and smiled and said, "I can't help it. Who made your son Chen Laifu like it?"

Wang was so angry that her face turned blue: "Shame on you! I wonder how long you can continue to run rampant."

Liang Jinyu was too lazy to pay attention to her and called Dani to go to the kitchen.

Old Man Chen and Chen Lai Fu have not been at home these two days. Liang Jinyu has now become more open-minded and is willing to take advantage of the situation while she can. She will not waste her time.

She didn't cook in the evening. She just made a pot of cabbage soup and ate it with the pancakes she had made in the morning.

During the meal, Wang was still finding fault and kept swearing for a long time, but Liang Jinyu never paid any attention to her.

Perhaps feeling bored, Wang put down her bowl and went back to her room to lie down.

"Here you go." Liang Jinyu took out the preserved fruit.

"What is this?" Chen Dani opened it curiously and smelled a faint sweet and sour smell. "It's sticky. What is this?"

"Preserved, try it." Liang Jinyu said with a smile, and put the bowl and chopsticks in the pot.

Chen Dani turned around and looked at her in surprise: "You bought it for me?"

Liang Jinyu shook her head: "No, someone else gave it to me. Eat it quickly and don't let your grandma find out."

Chen Dani murmured in her heart that she was not greedy for these things, but her body had never eaten good food before, so her mouth was watering.

"Hiss~ It's so sore!" Chen Dani shrank her shoulders and shuddered.

It must be apricots, very sour.

"Is it not delicious?" Liang Jinyu asked.

Come to think of it, Yao Tianci didn't have much money so he probably bought something cheap.

Wang didn't let them turn on the lights, so the kitchen was pitch black. Only the snow outside the window reflected a faint white light, illuminating the outlines of the two people.

Chen Dani swallowed the sour water in her mouth, looked up at the busy Liang Jinyu, and said reluctantly: "It's okay, not particularly bad."

Liang Jinyu chuckled: "Just treat it as a snack, eat it for fun when you have nothing to do."

"Do you want to try it?" As if by some strange coincidence, Chen Dani handed a dried apricot to Liang Jinyu.

Liang Jinyu shook her head: "I don't want it, you keep it and eat it slowly."

Chen Dani blinked and reacted.

[What am I doing? Am I crazy?]

"What did you say?" Liang Jinyu asked subconsciously.

Turning back, he saw Chen Dani's face full of surprise, and quickly covered it up by saying, "I don't like sour food."

"Oh." Chen Dani withdrew her hand, and a strange feeling arose deep in her heart, a little weird, and more of awkward.

The next day.

It snowed and the yard was covered in white.

Wang felt cold, and since Old Man Chen was not at home, she simply stayed in bed the whole morning. Even breakfast was brought to her by Dani.

Liang Jinyu shoveled all the charcoal fire in the stove into an abandoned pickle jar, picked up the bamboo vine on it and took it to Dani.

"I'm going to go out for a while, you stay at home and don't run around in the snow."

Chen Dani sat down next to the pickled vegetable jar with her ponytail, roasting herself by the fire and chewing dried apricots: "It's still snowing, where are you going?"

"I'll go find the village chief and be back soon." Liang Jinyu said, and then found a piece of old cloth to wrap around her head.

【What kind of aesthetics is this? It's too ugly. 】

Chen Dani secretly complained that when she wrapped the gray rag around her head, she instantly looked five years older.