Chapter 27 Xu Yi couldn't guess the purpose of the other party's visit, so he put the post in his arms for the time being. He raised the wild boar meat he was carrying, looked at Madam He, and asked sincerely: "Mrs. He

, can you make wild boar meat?"

Damn it, if wild boar meat is not processed, it will go bad tomorrow.

He finally got it back from Butcher Duan, so he couldn't just leave it alone.

I remembered that Mrs. He had handed over the food she made several times before. Although the taste was not amazing, it was not bad.

He changed the topic so quickly that Mrs. He didn't follow him for a moment. She was stunned for a moment before looking at the piece of meat in his hand and said "Huh": "Is this the meat of the wild boar you killed? Look at it. It's weird, why didn't you leave some good ones for yourself?"

Xu Yi: "..."

He forgot.

Of course I won't tell Mrs. He this.

After a while, the wild meat was transferred to Mrs. He's hands.

"I still have aniseed at home for pickling, but I don't have much soy sauce. Brother Yi, go get some soy sauce. It costs about one pound and two taels. Go to Li Hu's house to buy it. Theirs is delicious." Mrs. He He ordered, carrying the meat back to the house first.

Xu Yi unloaded the bamboo basket in the yard. Xiao Huang was wagging his tail and sniffing around him cautiously. He smelled the smell of blood and barked.

"I'm fine." Xu Yi patted its head to reassure him. He went back to the house and changed out of the dirty and bloodstained clothes. He then went to the yard to wash his face, and carrying a bamboo tube, he went out to make soy sauce.

A breeze blew, and Xu Yi lit the kerosene lamp at home. He cut the wick and the light became much brighter.

Before the medicinal materials dug up in the mountain were processed, he first took out the cloth wrapped at the bottom. After opening it, he found that the agarwood inside was intact and exuded a faint fragrance.

Agarwood will emit a rich fragrance when heated, and the agarwood at this time is still in a very original state.

Xu Yi dug out clean cotton cloths from the box, wrapped them again, and placed them on the roof beams to make them dry and difficult to detect.

After doing this, he asked the idle man to fetch water from the well, and also asked the idle man to buy two portions of food.

Before it was time to eat, he washed himself, disinfected the scabbed area with boiled dandelion water, then mashed the dandelion and turmeric together and applied it to the wound.

After bandaging, the idle man arrived carrying food.

Xu Yi gave a portion to Xiao Huang. After eating, he picked up a box of soybean cakes and knocked at Mrs. He's house.

The one who came out to open the door was not Mrs. He, but He Linqiu, who had returned home from vacation.

"Brother Yi, are you here to see my mother?"

He Linqiu asked, stepping aside to let Xu Yi enter the room, "My mother is busy in the kitchen, I'll call her over."

Xu Yi said no: "Qiu Yi Brother, when did you come back? I haven't seen you this morning."

He Linqiu said that he arrived home after noon, and his host allowed him three days' leave. He wanted to go home and stay with Mrs. He.

He is the same age as Xu Yi. Two years ago, he went to work as a laborer for a family in Yanting County. He was able to take three days off once every three months.

This was the first time Xu Yi met him after he came here. He was very familiar with him in the past, but he gradually became unfamiliar with him after He Linqiu went to work, not to mention Xu Yi. After chatting for a few words, he made an excuse to go to the kitchen to find Mrs. He.

Mrs. He was cooking wild mountain pork in the kitchen. When she saw Xu Yi coming over with mung bean cake, she couldn't help but say something to him.

"What's your relationship with me? I'm just going to burn some meat for you. As for spending that money to buy things that won't fill your stomach."

Xu Yi smiled and said, "Brothers will have to settle the accounts clearly. If I keep occupying you, Mrs. He, It's been a long time, don't you feel angry? I don't want to waste my love in vain. I will ask you for anything I want to eat in the future."

Madam He glanced at him: "After I stopped studying, I became more talkative than before. "

Xu Yi smiled. After all, he is not the original one and cannot be exactly the same.

If you can't do it, then just do it yourself. Now that he is familiar with the environment here, he feels two things about it.

By the light of the kerosene lamp, Mrs. He filled the water briskly. She told Xu Yi to burn it on high fire for half an hour first, so that there would be no shortage of soup in the clay pot. If there was less soup, some would have to be added.

Then it was changed to low heat and simmered slowly. Madam He picked up a piece of meat with a pair of chopsticks, tasted it, and said, "You can eat it in half an hour."

"How many days can it be eaten?" Xu Yi looked at the meat. I asked with more than half a can of meat.

Madam He pursed her lips: "If you are diligent and boil it before eating every day, you can eat it for several days."

Xu Yiran was stunned, no, no, this is too long.

After the meat was cooked, Xu Yi gave one third of it to Mrs. He. Mrs. He wanted to refuse, but he put her back by saying, "What is our relationship?"

He came out with the jar, and He Linqiu chased him out: "Brother Yi."

Xu Yi stood still and said, "What's wrong?"

He Linqiu saluted him and said, "Thank you, Brother Yi, for your kindness to my mother during this time. I'm often not at home, and my mother can't find anyone who can help me."

"Ms. He treats me very well." Xu Yi looked at him, "You don't need to thank me."

He Linqiu said silently. He raised his eyebrows, and there was confusion in his eyes.

Seeing that he had been standing silent, Xu Yi said, "If you have something to say

, you can just say it." He Linqiu was thinking about how to speak. When he heard Xu Yi's words, he said, "I do have something to trouble you. My mother said you don't I have changed my studies to medicine. Can you please diagnose my mother's pulse?"

"Oh?" Xu Yi looked at him coldly.

Seeing this, He Linqiu became embarrassed, and explained in a low voice: "I went home this time, and my mother rubbed her waist several times in just half a day. I asked her if she felt uncomfortable, and she said it was okay. I always felt that I Mom is hiding something from me."

This time, Xu Yi remained silent.

It seemed that Mrs. He didn't take his advice seriously. Thinking of her doing embroidery day and night and sitting for most of the day, it was only a matter of time before she had problems with her waist and eyes.

Xu Yi said: "Let's go tomorrow. After seeing the guests tomorrow, I will go over."

He Linqiu's eyes flashed with joy: "Okay, then I will thank Brother Yi first."

He had admired Xu Yi very much before and felt that he studied Well, he is still so nice. Now that I think about it, he is still so nice.

...

The next day, Xu Yi got up and cleaned the yard, and poured water to remove the dust.

Then move Xiao Huang's kennel to a position closer to the kitchen. There is stewed braised pork in the room, which smells very fragrant. If you don't pay attention, the rats who steal the food will come to visit.

The fishy wild boar meat, thanks to Mrs. He's craftsmanship, becomes chewy and chewy when pinched with chopsticks. It's a bit salty, and Ms. He said it's durable.

He steamed rice, fried a plate of dried bamboo shoots, and ate two large bowls of rice with wild mountain pork.

Xu Yi is not bored at home alone. After he has eaten, he still has a lot of things to do. The medicinal materials dug yesterday are to be sold, and some medicinal materials for making Xiaoshi pills are also needed.

As soon as I returned home with the medicine, a moment later there was a knock on the courtyard door. Xu Yi walked out and saw a brightly dressed woman standing outside the door.

Not surprisingly, this person should be the wife of the Qian family.

"Xu Xiaolang?" Madam Qian saw someone coming to open the door and looked over with an appraising gaze. She saw the young man had scabs and scratches on his face and was wearing a cotton gown that had turned white after washing. He looked poor.

It seems so. The people who came to Yanting County to inquire about the information did not give the wrong information. In order to treat their parents, the Xu family spent all their money, including no money to study.

If Sister Mei finds a husband like this, she will have to suffer a lot in the future. Although the Wang family is not a wealthy family, they are still a well-to-do family in Pengxi County. They wanted to marry the Xu family before, but it was because the Xu family had a son who looked promising.

Now that I think about it, it's still too early to get engaged, and I should show Mei a few more people.

"Is this Mrs. Qian?" Xu Yi opened the door for her and asked in a clear voice, "I was really surprised when I received the post yesterday and invited Mrs. Qian to come in for a cup of turbid tea."

There was only loose tea in the house, so Xu Yi didn't rush . After pouring tea for her, he asked her: "I wonder if Mrs. Qian has taken the trouble to come here, but is there anything important?"

Mrs. Qian raised her eyebrows, saw the beech wood furniture that did not match the entire thatched house, and lowered her head again. He looked at the cup of turbid tea with displeasure in his eyes and did not touch the cup of tea.

She frowned and said: "Some time ago, my family only asked the younger generation to send silk money, but it was always due. I am coming to Yanting County to purchase household items, so I came to see Xu Xiaolang."

Xu Yi lowered his eyes . : "Thank you, Madam Qian, for your concern. Please give my regards to Uncle Wang and Madam Wang."

"That's easy to say." Madam Qian rolled her eyes, and the words in her heart were as hard to pull out as a stone.

It really makes no sense to cancel the engagement at home. Nowadays, the management of divorce is very strict. If one party does not agree, it will be very troublesome for the other party to divorce.

If things go wrong, she might get into a lawsuit and ruin her sister Mei's reputation.

But we can't let Sister Mei step into this pit of fire and live in poverty for the next few decades.

After thinking about it, Mrs. Qian first asked Xu Yi about his future plans, and then confirmed that Xu Yi would not study but study medicine instead. She frowned deeply.

"You are so confused, how can you not study!" Madam Qian suddenly became angry, "How can Qihuang's skills be compared with those of scholars? What are the benefits of being a medical student? What future do you have if you give up halfway?"

She spoke so harshly just to anger Xu Yi.

If she has a strong temper, she will definitely refute when she hears this. If she seizes the opportunity, she can propose to cancel the engagement.

Anyway, there are no elders in the Xu family anymore. As Sister Mei's biological aunt, she has the right to make the decision to break off the marriage.

Xu Yi frowned slightly: "What does Mrs. Qian mean?"

Even if he had never experienced it, he gradually figured out that something was wrong.

I'm afraid this money lady is coming from someone with bad intentions.

Mrs. Qian was just thinking about getting angry, and pointed to the main room angrily: "Don't you look at how this family is ruined now? If you don't study and don't change your family name, could it be that you want Sister Mei to marry you and follow you?" Suffering? "

Sister Mei...

is the name of his fiancée he has never met?

Xu Yi's eyes were sincere: "If Sister Mei gets married, I will not let her suffer."

Although he has never met, he knows that ancient marriages are about the orders of the parents, and the matchmaker said that he would not refuse this marriage if he wanted to. Easy, unless the other party proposes to break off the engagement first.

Mrs. Qian choked at his answer. As expected of a person who has read books, she was very organized and did not fall into her trap.

Since the other party pretends not to understand what she means, they can only make it clear.

"Xu Xiaolang, I didn't come here today to get married to you. Now that you are no longer willing to study, your marriage to my family will probably end."

The words fell to the ground.

Xu Yi looked over and curled his lips into a smile. If he had told it earlier, there was so much foreshadowing that he almost thought he was going to do something.

It turned out that he was here to cancel the engagement.