Chapter 240: A Gentleman Does Not Eat Food Given in Pity
Qingxi Village, Shangcun, an uninhabited corner.
Sang Xingjia sat cross-legged on a rock, holding a cup of milk tea in his hand and sipping it. There were four identical cups of milk tea beside him.
He looked at the blue sky, took a sip of milk tea and couldn't help sighing.
"well--"
It seems that what I am drinking is not milk tea at all, but a fine wine that can relieve all my worries.
He is really worried now. How long will it take him to finish so many cups of milk tea?
It contained milk and black tea, both good things, and it would be a waste not to finish them. But if he finished them, he wouldn't be able to eat when he got home.
Just as he was worrying about how to finish these cups of milk tea, he suddenly heard a rustling sound behind him.
Looking back, I saw a person covered in dust emerging from the dense grass. It was a girl of about eleven or twelve years old.
At this time, his hair and clothes were stained with grass juice that came from nowhere, and even his cheeks were covered with green marks of varying shades.
This look was really miserable, and his melancholy mood was instantly broken, and he burst out laughing.
Que'er went to the mountains to pick wild vegetables as usual today. On the way home, she unexpectedly met a bamboo rat. She was overjoyed and thought of catching it to improve the family's food.
The bamboo rat was very cunning. It was small in size and very fast, but it kept burrowing into the grass.
In order to catch it, the bird could only follow it into the grass. The house here was deserted, and the surrounding weeds were extremely lush.
She followed the bamboo rat around in the grass for a few circles. When she came to her senses, it was nowhere to be seen. She could only crawl out of the grass in disappointment.
Unexpectedly, she heard laughter as soon as she came out. She immediately looked towards the source of the sound in anger: "You..."
After she saw Sang Xingjia's appearance clearly, she swallowed back the curse that was about to come out of her mouth, and replaced it with a question with a bit of shame and anger: "You, what are you laughing at?"
Then he began to tidy up his messy hair and clothes.
"Ahem, I was indeed rude just now. I shouldn't have laughed at the young lady." Sang Xingjia also realized that it was inappropriate for him to laugh at this time, and hurriedly bowed to apologize.
When he saw the milk tea in his hand while bowing, his eyes suddenly lit up: "It's my fault. Why don't I use this to make amends to the young lady?"
He jumped off the stone lightly, took out a cup of untouched milk tea and handed it to Que'er: "Try it, this is a new drink made by my little sister, it's called pearl milk tea, and it tastes great."
Since he couldn't drink it and had offended the young lady in front of him, the most appropriate way to apologize was to use milk tea.
Que'er stopped combing her braids, took the bamboo tube, looked at it curiously, and sniffed the smell. It was indeed the smell of milk and black tea.
She didn't take a sip right away, but instead looked warily at Sang Xingjia and the few remaining cups of milk tea on the stone where he had been sitting.
"You look unfamiliar, you're not from this village, are you? What do you want to do with all this milk tea?"
Knowing that she was afraid he had bad intentions, Sang Xingjia quickly explained, "I'm not from the upper village. I live in the lower village. These weren't sold out today, so I didn't want them to go to waste, so I drank more."
"He's from the lower village? He doesn't look like one." Que'er muttered softly. Judging from the man's appearance and temperament, she would believe that he was a young man from the city.
However, this place is remote and few people come here. Even I came here today to chase bamboo rats.
If the other party really had any bad intentions, he wouldn't sit and wait in a place like this.
Que'er believed what he said almost completely, and finally picked up the bamboo tube and took a small sip, and then her eyes lit up instantly.
“It’s delicious!”
Seeing his little sister's work being praised, Sang Xingjia raised his head proudly: "Of course, it doesn't matter who made it."
"Well, you just said that these were not sold out? Who has such a bad taste?" Que'er took another big sip and asked while chewing the pearls.
"It's not that others don't like it, it's that we took the initiative to close the stall and come back." Sang Xingjia continued to hold up his cup and drink it down in gulps.
At first glance, this sounded like a deliberate attempt to save face, but Que'er believed it directly: "That's right, I said it was so delicious, how could it not sell out?"
"You like it, young lady? Then these cups are for you. Take them back and let your family taste them together."
The two of them had a pleasant chat, so Sang Xingjia decided to be generous and gave the remaining three cups of milk tea to the other party so that he could go home earlier.
"Are you giving me all these cups? Really?" The surprise came so suddenly that Que'er was stunned for a moment.
"Of course it's true."
Que'er, carrying a few cups of milk tea and a basket of wild vegetables, looked back almost every three steps.
Seeing that Sang Xingjia was still standing there and didn't seem to want to catch up, he finally believed that he had met a kind person.
After she left, Sang Xingjia continued to climb up the rock and waited until the time was almost up before going home.
The sparrow flew through the gaps between the walls of each house, looking back from time to time. After circling around a few times, she went home with peace of mind.
As soon as she pushed open the gate, her little sister came up to her. The five-year-old girl hugged her legs and put her chubby face against her waist.
"Sister, Ling'er misses you so much."
This little girl is really something. It's only been three or four hours since we last met, but she acts as if she hasn't seen me for ten days or half a month. She's really likable.
In the past, Que'er would definitely pick her up and kiss her before doing anything else, but today.
"Ling'er, let me go first. I brought you some sweet drinks. They're really delicious. Go and ask mom and dad to come out and drink them together."
When she heard there was something sweet to drink, Ling'er's expression of missing something just now disappeared instantly, and only joy remained on her face. She immediately went downstairs to call her parents out.
Chai Yuanwei was reading in his study when he was suddenly interrupted and called out. He was in a bad mood. When he saw Que'er in such a mess, he frowned and opened his mouth several times, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
However, his wife, Tan Xi, although her face was pale, still had a smile on her lips.
Seeing Chai Yunque covered in grass and leaves, she was immediately shocked: "Why is Que'er in such a mess? Is she not hurt?"
Que'er waved her hand nonchalantly to indicate that she was fine, and urged the others to try it: "It's okay, Mom. Come and try this sweet drink. It tastes delicious. It's called pearl milk tea."
"Where do you get the money to buy sweet drinks?" Chai Yuanwei grasped the key point. Their family was not rich and they could barely afford food, let alone spend money to buy sweet drinks.
"It was given to me by a kind-hearted person. They didn't sell out today, so they gave me a few." Que'er didn't dare to say that this was an apology from the other party.
However, she didn't expect that her explanation angered Chai Yuanwei. He snorted angrily: "Oh, a gentleman does not accept food given out of pity. After all, you are a woman, so short-sighted!" He immediately turned away and returned to the study.
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