Jiang Henian opened the door and asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"
Lin Shi and his sister were standing outside the door, one carrying an empty backpack, the other carrying a backpack for carrying firewood, and a hatchet hanging at their waists.
Both of them were covered in dirt, obviously having been busy all day.
"Sister He Nian."
Lin Shi's voice was still a little awkward when she called out "Sister." "We came this morning and knocked on the door but no one was there."
"Ah, I went to town this morning," Jiang Henian came out, "What happened?"
Lin Shi lowered his head and nodded to his sister Lin Shuangxi.
Lin Shuangxi carefully took out two eggs from his bulging pocket and handed them to Jiang Henian.
"elder sister."
On the thin little face, the exposed eye was clearly black and white, with the purity unique to children.
Jiang Henian looked at the two eggs that looked particularly large in the child's hands and asked in confusion, "What is this..."
"We heard you fell into the water last night. Aunt Yingzi said..." Lin Shi's face showed some of the embarrassment of a young boy, "She said you were here, Shuangxi was worried about you, and said she wanted to send you some eggs."
He said as he touched his sister with the back of his hand.
Lin Shuangxi immediately nodded heavily, raised his hands high, and handed them to Jiang Henian. His voice was low but clear.
"Mom said, if you eat egg soup, you won't catch a cold."
The little girl still covered her left eye with her hair, and was very careful when looking up at herself, not revealing the red birthmark on her face.
Jiang Henian suddenly felt sad and soft in his heart.
These two children who were so poor that they could barely afford to eat heard that I had fallen into the water, so they offered me their most precious eggs. When they failed the first time, they came again.
And there are two of them.
If they save two eggs, they can exchange them for half a pound of grain at other people's homes.
Jiang Henian sniffed his itchy nose, and touched Lin Shuangxi's head with a smile, "Oh~ Thank you, Shuangxi. After eating this egg of yours, I will definitely be able to hoe a mile of land tomorrow."
"So one is enough. You and your brother can eat the other one."
She reached out and took the smaller egg, shook it, and said jokingly, "Otherwise, if I dig two miles of land at once, I'm afraid my Uncle Guangsheng will be scared."
Jiang Henian pulled the brother and sister, who were about to leave after delivering the eggs, into the house and asked each of them to sit on a small stool.
"Come, try it."
Lin Shuangxi stared at the long white cake wrapped in oil paper and sprinkled with white sugar powder, his eyes wide open and his thin neck swallowing saliva.
But his hands remained on his legs without moving, and he just turned his head to look at Lin Shi.
Jiang Henian understood and took a piece and stuffed it into Lin Shi's hand. "Eat it quickly! This is your sister's wedding cake. It's unlucky if you don't eat it."
"If no one eats the wedding cakes we gave away, it's not going to affect our marriage—"
Lin Shi immediately grabbed the biscuit and stuffed it into his mouth, biting off a large half of it.
He also reached out and took a piece for Lin Shuangxi, urging him in a vague voice: "Eat quickly."
Lin Shuangxi held the long white cake in both hands, which was almost the size of her palm, and ate it ravenously, her mouth full of white frosting, her eyes shining brightly.
Jiang Henian turned the vacant enamel basin upside down on the ground, using it as a makeshift stool, and also took a bite of it.
It is soft, sweet and fragrant when you put it in your mouth, with a light milky aroma, and the coarse sugar grains on the surface make a crunchy sound when you chew it.
The taste was certainly nothing to write home about compared to the dim sum she had eaten from famous chefs, but it was something she could only get once a year here.
The Lin brothers and sisters lost their family members early, so they probably never had it.
Even the reserved Lin Shi started eating in a hurry. After all, he was just a 13-year-old boy, so how could he not be greedy?
She is 18 years old and still greedy! I saw Wang Yuenniu buying it that day and I have always remembered it.
Jiang Henian chatted with them while pushing another bag of fried dough twists over to them.
Another sentence, "Wedding cakes, eat more, the more auspicious it is", coaxed the brother and sister to eat without stopping.
"Xiao Shi, are you here from Aunt Yingzi's place? Did she mention anything about Jiang Yanqiu from the Jiang family? Tell me about it."
Lin Shi almost choked when he heard this. He patted his chest and swallowed it down, then turned his eyes away and nodded uncomfortably.
Jiang Henian munched on the cake and said excitedly, "Tell me about it, tell me in detail."
Lin Shi was working in the fields today. Everyone was talking about what happened last night from morning to afternoon. Among them, Wang Yingzi had the loudest voice and updated the news the fastest.
It would be hard for him not to hear.
Unable to resist Jiang Henian's curious urging, Lin Shi glanced at Lin Shuangxi who was concentrating on eating the cake, and then hesitantly told Jiang Henian everything he had heard.
As he spoke of the latter part, one could see the redness on the face of the young boy Mai Hei.
Of course, he didn't dare say some of the villagers' very explicit and excessive words.
Jiang Henian was listening with a smile on his face. When he heard that Chen Goushuan was also in the warehouse, he quickly glanced at Lin Shuangxi.
She quickly figured out what had happened.
Wang Chunfang accepted the betrothal gift from Chen Goushuan's family and wanted to drug her to force her to submit and marry him without any proof of her innocence.
As for the person called "Wang Gou", Jiang Henian didn't recognize him.
I guess he is not a good person, otherwise Jiang Yanqiu would not have gotten into trouble. She tried her best to get rid of him and Chen Goushuan and clung to an educated youth.
Jiang Yanqiu was the first to do evil and try to harm her, and in the end she suffered the consequences. Jiang Henian had no sympathy or guilt at all.
If she hadn't discovered it in time and escaped, the consequences would have been even worse than Jiang Yanqiu's.
It's a pity for that male educated youth. It's very likely that he was just passing by and saving someone, but was falsely accused by Wang Chunfang and her daughter.
Jiang Henian shook her head. After all, she had already taken revenge and the Jiang family had been burned down. From now on, there would be nothing between her and the Jiang family.
If they dare to make trouble, she won't be polite.
Just draw your sword and drive them out!
Jiang Henian ate a piece of fried dough sticks with satisfaction and said to Lin Shi vaguely, "You don't have to worry about that person anymore."
As she spoke, she glanced at Lin Shuangxi with a relaxed tone.
Lin Shi is not a stupid person either.
Chen Goushuan and his mother originally wanted to attack their own sister, but were saved by Jiang Henian. The next day, the Jiang family accepted the betrothal gift from the Chen family and caused that scandal in the warehouse.
That means Chen Goushuan has set his eyes on Jiang Henian and has changed his target.
Lin Shi felt a surge of complex and indescribable emotions in his heart, and he stared at Jiang Henian in a daze.
"Hey, why are you looking at me like I'm dead?"
Jiang Henian chuckled, took out a piece of oil paper, put a few pieces of Changbai cake and twisted dough sticks in it, and changed the subject.
"Take these cakes and candies back with you later."
"sister……"
Lin Shi spoke with difficulty.
Jiang Henian paused, and let out a long "eh~~" like an old lady, continuing to put a handful of candy in with her hand, her tone deliberately sharp.
"I'm not giving it to you for free. I'm going to ask you about someone else."
Lin Shi immediately put down his hand that was eating the cake and said seriously: "Don't eat it, sister, you say it."
Seeing his brother stop, Lin Shuangxi secretly took another big bite, filling his cheeks like a hamster, then reluctantly let go and nodded heavily to Jiang Henian.
It was as if he could find out things from this little girl who had barely spoken to him.
Three half-grown children gathered around a square low table, whispering to each other in the room, talking about this and that for a long time before they dispersed.
Of course, it was mainly Jiang Henian who was talking, Lin Shi was responsible for answering, and Lin Shuangxi was more involved.
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