"No, no, no, it's not—"
Jiang Henian waved his hands quickly and denied it repeatedly.
However, before he could finish his words, He Jinshan pushed the crowd away and took him away by the wrist.
Leaving behind a group of villagers chattering away, still unsatisfied.
"By the way, didn't Qian Dahai buy the batch of bricks he mentioned a few days ago by going into the mountains?"
"Oh, yes! He's built a yard in the thatched house at the foot of the mountain, and also built two small rooms at the same time. I saw it yesterday when I went to collect firewood. It's completely changed! I didn't expect it..."
A tall man pulling a petite girl with two pigtails walking in the village would have been talked about for three days and three nights in the past.
However, after all the gossip in the past few days, the villagers' threshold for gossip has increased a lot. Just the newly married couple shaking hands is not enough.
At most, they would just smile and make a few jokes about how good the relationship between young people is.
In an unnoticed corner, under a big tree on the roadside in front of the left side of the brick kiln, a man in military green uniform walked out.
His eyes were fixed on the backs of the two people leaving, his eyes were deep and full of inquiry.
"It seems that it's different from what the information says. His skills don't seem to be trained in the military."
"I can't even tell the depth."
Seeing that the person next to him hadn't responded, he sighed softly and crossed his arms.
"Hello."
Hou Wenying leaned against the tree, her fingers still slowly twisting her curly hair.
With a light sidestep, he turned his head to look at the two people who disappeared around the corner.
"Interesting."
The woman's voice was still charming and full of charm, but the ending tone was a little colder.
The man casually swatted the midge that flew in front of him and snorted sarcastically, "What fun! Get this over with and get out of this lousy village."
Hou Wenying twisted her waist and casually stuffed the green leaf she was playing with between her fingertips into the man's collar.
"If you're so anxious, why don't you first find out how much he knows about the matter?"
"If it's just to kill someone to silence him, why would I ask you to come?"
After she finished speaking, she tried to hook the man's chin with her long fingers, but he turned away in disgust.
The two of them had a disagreement and turned around and walked in different directions.
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That night.
He Jinshan discovered that Jiang Henian seemed to have been equipped with the "follow" skill, and she followed him wherever he went.
Even when he went to the toilet, his little tail almost followed him in.
The man stopped and turned around suddenly, and the child who was following him bumped into his chest.
Jiang He screamed, covered his forehead with his hands, and raised his eyes to meet He Jinshan's leisurely gaze.
She moved her eyes and saw that there was a toilet in front of her. She was immediately embarrassed, smiled awkwardly, and took one step back, two steps.
Then he turned around and ran back to the house.
This made the man stand in front of the toilet, shaking his head and chuckling.
Jiang Henian gave up the urge to talk to He Jinshan, sat down at the small square table, and carefully fiddled with the dozens of medicinal herb samples he brought back from Lao Ma Liu.
Separate them one by one and place them in small piles on the table.
Old Ma Liu was very stingy. He stood in front of the medicine drying shelf and picked and chose, just like the auntie in the cafeteria. He wished he could only give Jiang Henian a sample the size of a fingernail of each item.
Jiang Henian held the broken kettle and showed it off in front of him, so he put on a sullen face and picked up a little more.
She picked up a half-finger-long dark brown "dead branch" and spread out the herbal book in the medical book. While reading the book, she observed, touched and smelled the real thing.
I study very attentively.
When He Jinshan walked in, he saw the girl sitting obediently on a small wooden stool, with her head lowered and a tattered book in her arms, studying.
From time to time, I would break off a dry vine or leaf and smell it carefully.
He sniffed at the movement with the tip of his nose, like a little rabbit smelling vegetable leaves.
The girl's profile has smooth lines, thick and curled eyelashes, a straight nose, a slightly rounded cheek, and a slightly messy braid hanging on the side of her neck. She looks particularly cute and innocent under the dim and swaying light.
furry.
The man leaned against the door and looked in with interest for a while, then took two steps over, bent down and touched the knob on the base of the kerosene lamp on the corner of the table.
Inside the glass cover, the bean-sized flame instantly doubled in size, making the surroundings much brighter.
Jiang Henian raised his head and met He Jinshan's gaze, his eyes narrowing.
He Jinshan tapped her forehead with his fingers, "Don't you want your eyes anymore?"
Jiang Henian chuckled foolishly, running his hands over the old pages of the book. "I can see clearly. Kerosene is very expensive."
He Jinshan didn't comment. He just moved the lamp closer and said, "Connect the electricity in two days."
"Really? Then I can get two hours of light when I get home at night, just in time for dinner, shower, and clean up~"
The electricity supply in Huagou Village is very unstable. It is only available for two hours every night, and the power often goes out of service.
Sometimes, the food is still being fried in the pan, and the children have just been forced to do their homework obediently under the lamp, but the light bulb suddenly flashes a few times and the food goes out.
Everyone complained at the beginning, but now they have gotten used to it. As soon as the lights go out, they take out candles and kerosene lamps and light them up, making a seamless transition and never giving their naughty children the chance to throw pencils off the table.
However, Jiang Henian was still very happy to be able to use electricity.
After all, it's really annoying to have to do everything in the dark with a candle or kerosene lamp.
Especially since she was "blind at night", she had fallen down countless times at the Jiang family's house at night since she came to this place, and she almost developed all her skills.
He Jinshan took the vine from Jiang Henian's hand, tapped her nose with his backhand, and said jokingly:
"I have a little blind kid at home, how can I be fake?"
Jiang Henian smiled slightly, carefully pinched the root of the vine that was against the tip of his nose, and said shyly: "Don't break it off, this is my homework."
Jiang Henian said this, feeling a little embarrassed.
Other people’s kids have to turn on the lights to do their homework, but she is already eighteen years old.
As expected, He Jinshan immediately burst into a smile, slightly bent his two slender fingers, and pinched his cheeks, "I almost forgot."
"Forget what—"
As soon as he finished speaking, he moved his fingertips down to pinch the girl's soft chin, lifted it up, bent down and kissed her directly.
After a few breaths.
He Jinshan stepped back half an inch, his dark eyes fixed on the girl's watery eyes, his lips curled up, "I forgot to hand in my homework."
Jiang Henian's heartbeat stopped for a second, and then began to beat faster and faster.
How come the serious life-saving treatments we receive every day become so taboo and embarrassing when he describes them like this?
What homework...
Jiang Henian was inexplicably reminded of a romance novel he had read, in which the hero was described as "paying his dues", and a steam locomotive rumbled past in his mind.
He Jinshan stood up, looked at the stunned child with amusement, pinched his face and shook it.
"Get up, the water is ready, go take a bath."
At the foot of the mountain, the only courtyard is very comfortable and quiet.
The west room on the left side of the main house is the newly built kitchen, with a bathroom separated from it, and the curtain at the door is drawn tightly.
Jiang Henian sat on a small wooden stool and took a bath, with a large bucket of steaming water beside him.
She hummed a tuneless tune and took a hot bath happily.
As expected, leaving the Jiang family and joining He Jinshan was an extremely wise choice. Otherwise, she would still be chopping wood and feeding pigs.
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