Chapter 24 Chapter 24 "Please."
Zhang Jingxian finally realized the fact that he was still angry about herself for not wanting to learn to read with him.
He didn't like people going against his wishes, especially someone of her "lowly" status.
Xie Yun felt that she should be filled with tears of gratitude. However, she was ungrateful and angered him. He would never agree to her request until this anger subsided.
Or they might even mock her and manipulate her.
Zhang Jingxian knew that she was carrying the heavy hopes of the villagers, so she did not struggle. Instead, she leaned forward slightly and looked at him seriously.
Sitting in the sedan chair and unable to move, he remained calm and arrogant. His dark eyes were very much like a mountain ghost at night, although she had only heard of it and never seen it.
"I want to learn to read from you, my dear."
Zhang Jingxian looked at herself in his eyes and said it again in a soft and moist voice.
"Please."
Xie Yun raised his eyelids, loosened his grip on the woman's wrist, and casually fiddled with the green stone with his fingertips. "Ah Xian didn't want to learn how to lose your temper before, and now you're asking for something. Are you deliberately teasing me?"
"It's not a joke..."
"Oh, what is that?"
He asked back, his laughter was sinister.
"At first I was afraid of troubling you, my dear, but now I just want you to be happy. In fact, I really want to learn to read with you, even in my dreams."
Zhang Jingxian hesitated for a long time before telling him that she had written two words with charcoal in her dream, "I believe that whatever you think about during the day you will dream about at night."
The sound of birds singing from the forest came one after another. In the frightening silence, Xie Yun's throat suddenly rolled.
Did this peasant girl really know what she had said shamelessly? She told him eagerly that she had dreamed of him.
"What did you write? Show it to me."
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Zhang Jingxian had no choice but to show him the linen cloth she had laid under her body at night for the sake of the villagers and her cousins. Fortunately, the words on it had not been erased by her.
The two black words look a bit childish.
"Ah Xian." Xie Yun's expression hardly changed, but his finger bones were firmly gripping the wooden wheel as he called out her name.
Then, looking closely at her, she said, "The handwriting is ugly."
Zhang Jingxian was angry but didn't dare to express it at this moment. She nodded sullenly and looked very docile.
"My dear, you are right. I will definitely practice hard in the future." After that, she said sincerely, "My dear, your handwriting is very beautiful."
"Yeah." Xie Yun responded lightly, finally feeling satisfied.
At this time, Zhang Jingxian observed his words and expressions, placed the thank-you gifts from the villagers in front of him one by one, and told him one by one which family had sent what.
"Everyone is afraid of your majesty, so they asked me to convey their thoughts to you." After hearing this, Xie Yun finally glanced at the scattered gifts on the ground and asked about what Zhang Shuanghu and others had found out.
Zhang Jingxian waited for him to ask, her breathing becoming slightly hurried. "I've heard that what you said is true. Those who were conscripted but died in battle will receive a pension."
"However, there's still no news from my cousin and the others." Her chest heaved, and she shuddered. "There's been no news of the people conscripted from Xishan Village, Dongshan Village, Xiaoyang Village, and Pingma Village. My uncle said the conscription was divided into three batches, and those with no news are from the third batch."
"My dear, do you know why? While not receiving the relief money is a good thing, I don't believe they are all... safe and sound."
There was a deep desire in her eyes, wanting to get an accurate answer from Xie Yun.
However, Xie Yun listened to it expressionlessly, only frowning slightly. He was not omniscient.
But, you can check.
"Let's talk about this matter after I recover my memory." He said coldly, with a dark light flashing in his eyes.
If there is something fishy going on with the soldiers in these four villages, then the people recruited from other places may not be clean either. If they are brought into the army, he will definitely investigate thoroughly.
Hearing this, Zhang Jingxian pursed her lips, obviously disappointed. She knew that he had not actually lost his memory.
So when would he recover his memory? Would it be when Gong Chengyue and his men came looking for him, or would it be when his leg injury healed and he could go back to being the high and mighty Lord Xie?
"I'll go make breakfast first." She was silent for a while and walked towards the kitchen in a depressed mood.
"The bean cakes we ate that day were delicious." Xie Yun suddenly spoke, pointing to half a cloth bag of red beans on the ground.
He asked Zhang Jingxian to make some red bean cakes for breakfast.
She paused and did not answer.
"Don't worry, Ah Xian. Whether the people who were taken away from the village are alive or dead, there will be an answer in the end."
After hearing the man's contemptuous voice, Zhang Jingxian turned around and silently took away the cloth bag containing red beans.
But, unfortunately, the red bean cake she made was not delicious at all, it just looked okay.
However, the result was beyond Zhang Jingxian's expectation. She thought that Mr. Xie, who was picky by nature, would only take one bite and then stop, but he ate five or six pieces in a row.
Zhang Jingxian looked at him quietly and pretended to be casual. She still had some spicy vegetables from the last time she went into the mountains. Why not fry and roast them together with the live chicken?
In her previous life, she had already figured out his taste.
Xie Yun likes spicy food, but can't stand greasy food, so a layer of sour wild fruit juice is spread on the roast chicken.
"Since Ah Xian wants to eat, let's make it at noon." Xie Yun glanced at her with a cold expression.
But Zhang Jingxian keenly noticed that his body leaned back relaxedly, which meant that he liked her.
She nodded, and at noon she carefully prepared the live chicken, added spices and roasted it. Soon, the whole yard was filled with the overbearing fragrance.
The black cat smelled the scent and couldn't help running over from the mountain. After asking Xie Yun for his opinion, Zhang Jingxian gave it the innards of a chicken.
She was afraid that the black cat would eat too fast and burn its mouth, so she tore the food apart bit by bit, let it cool, and fed it to the cat with her own hands.
On the other side, Xie Yun took in this scene, and his black eyes narrowed unconsciously.
Perhaps his gaze was too intense, the girl who was concentrating on feeding the cat looked at him with a little confusion, a question on her face.
"Enough, this chicken is mine." His tone was a little irritable and his eyes were cold.
Zhang Jingxian had almost finished feeding the cat, so she stopped, touched the black cat's head, and then stood up.
Next, they shared a roast chicken.
In the afternoon, Xie Yun taught her how to read. The compacted ground in the yard had not yet been paved with wooden boards, and it just happened to become paper in another sense.
Just like in his previous life, he first taught her the Book of Songs.
Zhang Jingxian stuttered as she read the words on the ground, tracing his handwriting with a thin branch in her hand.
Her eyes were dark and bright in the sunlight.
Xie Yun looked at her clumsy actions, and an inexplicable feeling arose in his heart. This peasant girl looked ordinary, but her methods were very cunning.
She knows how to please people.
The weather was a bit hot. Xie Yun pulled his clothes, asked her to come over in a deep voice, and wrote two words on the ground.
"Phase."
This was Xie Yun's handwriting, and he asked her to read it out loud.
Zhang Jingxian pretended not to know and read it again. At the end, she deliberately asked, "Is this someone's name? It sounds nice."
Xie Yun raised his eyebrows and felt a little thirsty.
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Muah~ The guy named Xie was coaxed into submission.
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