Chapter 298 It's Too Late
Seeing the three children jump up and run away, Song Chunxue belatedly shook her head.
How could a mother speak like that in front of her son? It's so tactless.
But then I thought about it again, and the fact that Sanwa reacted so strongly meant that he had hit the nail on the head.
Indeed, most men in the village get married around this age. The sons of wealthy families are usually given concubines.
The third child is at the age where he is full of vigor and vitality, which is perfectly normal.
In her previous life, Song Chunxue had thought about finding someone to live with for many years after becoming a widow.
But things are different now. She has cultivated Taoism and feels extremely pure and free from desires. Like the Taoist priest, she has no distracting thoughts that disturb her mind, except for the desire for food and drink.
Not long after, the Taoist priest brought out a large bag of tools for making peach wood swords.
Fearing he would make a mess of the sawdust, he moved the tools and the lightning-struck wood to the kitchen.
Seeing his posture, Song Chunxue couldn't help but ask, "Senior Brother, are you not planning to go to sleep?"
"It won't be long, junior brother, go to sleep first. I'll meditate until dawn, it's more restorative than sleeping."
Song Chunxue nodded and walked to the kitchen door. Suddenly, she thought of Yao Man and felt an itch in her heart. She wanted to ask Yao Man how she had confessed her feelings to her senior brother.
Previously, she was worried that if her senior brother could really be moved by a woman like Yao Man, he might end up being taken advantage of.
But now, she could see that her senior brother had no interest in that kind of woman, and even almost injured Yao Man because he had been drugged.
"Hey senior, I ran into Yao Man today. Guess what she said to me?"
To avoid being beaten by her senior if she asked directly, Song Chunxue took a gradual approach and mentioned Yao Man's name first.
"Bang!"
The Taoist priest calmly raised his clear eyes, the emotions in them gradually darkening and turning cold.
"What, is she still eyeing her junior brother?"
"..." Song Chunxue was speechless, her mouth wide open, and finally she helplessly stretched out her arm, "Senior brother, you're amazing, it's my fault for being nosy."
"etc."
The Taoist priest's tone was somewhat forceful, like a teacher catching a student making a mistake. He pointed the file in his hand at the stove, "Sanwa boiled hot water for you to wash your feet and hair. Although you can't be too glamorous when you're out and about, you can't be filthy and slovenly either. Behave yourself when you're out and about, understand?"
Song Chunxue took a wooden bucket and turned to the stove to scoop water. She really couldn't afford to offend Yao Man. It seemed that Yao Man was detestable enough to her senior brother, otherwise he wouldn't have suddenly changed his personality.
"I know what you want to ask, but don't bring it up, or I'll go to a brothel right now, buy a male prostitute, drug him, and deliver him to her doorstep."
"..." Song Chunxue was so frightened that she didn't dare to breathe. She stepped out of the door and apologized softly, "Senior brother, I was wrong. I shouldn't have been curious. Senior brother, you're busy. Get some rest."
However, the Taoist priest, with a dark expression, had no intention of giving up.
"Stay away from that woman from now on. Have you forgotten how awful that tutor he introduced you to was?"
Song Chunxue nodded repeatedly, looking at him like a quail, "Yes, yes, I won't do it again next time, Senior Brother. I've forgotten the pain once the wound has healed. I'll stay away from that woman from now on."
The Taoist priest sat on a low stool, looking down to find suitable tools, and snorted, "That's more like it. Go to sleep."
Song Chunxue's eyes widened. Her senior brother actually told her to get lost?
Is it really necessary to be so angry?
She hadn't even asked the question yet, but she had already mentioned Yao Man's name.
Fine, fine, who told her he was her senior? She was just too curious and brought this on herself.
She gritted her teeth, carried water into the house to wash her hair and feet, sat in front of the oil lamp, and dried her hair while turning the pages of a book. After drying her hair, she went to bed to meditate and then went to sleep.
Before falling asleep, she could vaguely hear her senior brother chiseling wood in the kitchen.
This was her first long trip since her rebirth, and Song Chunxue woke up before the rooster crowed.
She cleaned the room and yard, added hay for the donkey, gave the dog some coarse bread and water, and then went to water the high walls of the fort.
When I came down, the poached eggs in the pot were already cooked.
When Sanwa finished washing up and was eating, Song Chunxue couldn't help but give him a detailed reminder, telling him not to let the animals in the house starve to death.
If Ren Haitang didn't come, he would have to pay more attention.
She also gave Sanwa five taels of silver so that he could eat and dress warmly and buy things for Mulan.
Although Song Chunxue pretended not to see it, she knew that Sanwa had been saving money for Mulan to make a bracelet.
It's clear that this child's heart is filled with thoughts of Mulan.
“If your elder brother comes, don’t give him any money, just buy him more food. Otherwise, Chen Feng will urge him to come again. It’s not that I’m stingy with money, but I can’t stand his hypocritical attitude with ulterior motives.”
"When I'm not around, you should wash your own clothes and dress neatly, so that people don't think you're neglected."
"Oh, by the way, when you're on vacation, go for a stroll in the medicinal herb field. Other people have dug up all the licorice from our field, and we didn't even notice."
Hearing this, Sanwa spat the steamed bun he had just bitten into back into his bowl. "If I want to find someone to watch over our medicinal herb field, can I go to Meiyang?"
"Sure, the person he introduced is quite reliable."
Song Chunxue was dressed in a simple and plain blue Taoist robe, with her hair tied high at the back of her head. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't tell if she was male or female.
“Senior brother, we should go now. Can we take a wolfhound?” Song Chunxue squatted down and stroked the dog’s head. “They seem to know we’re going on a long trip.”
"Can you ride a dog?" the Taoist priest asked bluntly. "You don't want it to get bitten to death by the wild monsters on the mountain."
"Huh?" Song Chunxue asked, puzzled. "Why are we going up the mountain to look for wild monsters?"
"I forgot to tell you, I was thinking of going up the mountain to see my teacher uncle whom I haven't seen for many years. He is quite good at dealing with the animals on the mountain, and they are all particularly fierce. If they see something unfamiliar and try to break into the mountain gate, the consequences would be unimaginable."
"..." So, most of the dangers she encountered when she went out were brought by her senior brother?
She said that in her previous life she went to Liangzhou alone and didn't see any bandits or robbers, so how come her senior brother even brought swords made of lightning-struck wood, and not just one?
“Here, Sanwa, take this talisman. If anything happens, Wang Shouming will come looking for you.” With that, the Taoist priest slung the cloth bag over his shoulder. “Junior brother, how can we set off now? Let’s go to the city gate and catch a carriage.”
Song Chunxue glanced at the three children, then shouldered a bundle weighing about five pounds and walked out.
"Sanwa, I'll be back soon, and I won't delay your marriage."
Sanwa blushed and said, "I'm not in a hurry."
As soon as she stepped out of the courtyard, the Taoist priest stuck a talisman on her back.
"Don't move." The Taoist priest pressed his finger against the talisman, muttering something under his breath.
The next moment, she felt a heat in her back and turned her head to find that the talisman had spontaneously combusted.
"Senior brother, what's going on?"
"Don't ask, let's go. Junior brother, you have to listen to me on this journey. To be honest, I've been waiting for this day for two years."
"Huh?" Song Chunxue was completely confused. "Senior brother, you're not trying to trick me into becoming a Taoist priest on the mountain, are you? I haven't made up my mind yet."
"Don't worry, one day you will come up the mountain with me on your own initiative. But from today onwards, you will accompany your senior brother to witness the deeds of swindling and deceiving... oh no, accumulating good deeds and virtues. When I die, if you have nowhere to go, you can inherit my ability to turn misfortune into good fortune."
"Can't you wish me well for once, senior brother?" Song Chunxue gritted her teeth. "I want to go to Liangzhou alone."
"It's too late."
P.S.: There was a power outage today, but luckily I left a chapter yesterday.
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