"Touched?" Bai Nuo felt quite embarrassed under Hu Mingmei's gaze, and tried to remain calm as she asked, "Do you think I'm especially nice?"
"Hmm..." Hu Mingmei looked at her, his expression suddenly becoming very affectionate. He held her small, muddy hands and said, "Suddenly, I feel like I like you even more."
Bai Nuo's face flushed red instantly.
We lost! We lost!
That day, Bai Nuo only showed Hu Mingmei one clam. She took the rest home and secretly opened them all behind Aunt Liu's back. Firstly, there wasn't enough time, and secondly, Bai Nuo didn't want anyone to know.
Hu Mingmei didn't recognize this kind of thing because he didn't need to. He had always lived a good life, so it was normal for him not to recognize it. But there were hardly any people in the sugarcane field who didn't recognize it.
Who knows, maybe someone has dug up pearls before.
Pearls have never been popular here, which is why she, an outsider, got such a good deal. But if someone saw her collecting them, they would definitely wonder what she was doing with them.
That would be fatal.
After cleaning all the pearls, Bai Nuo didn't bother to process them at home. Instead, she took them all to the Treasure Pavilion and asked Hu Mingmei and Lu Ying to help her with the process.
She, Bai Yu, and Hu Mingmei quickly strung all the pearls together. Bai Nuo had the idea of scooping up all the river mussels in the pond to dig for pearls. Anyway, Hu Mingmei and Lu Ying were willing to help, and the four of them were much faster than her doing it alone.
"Should we borrow Lu Ying and Xia Donglai?" Early that morning, while the four of them were dealing with pearls, Bai Nuo mentioned this idea to Hu Mingmei.
"Miss Bai, I really like this bracelet too. Could you give me a discount? I'd like to buy one too." Lu Ying was diligently drilling a hole when she overheard Bai Nuo and Hu Mingmei's conversation and immediately spoke up.
"What are you doing here?" Xia Donglai glanced at him. "You don't have a girl you like either. If you want to wear it, wear it yourself." Although Second Master also wore a bracelet, Xia Donglai and Lu Ying always thought that it was a token of love from Miss Bai to Second Master. Unlike them, they thought that it was impossible for men to be so flashy as to wear a bracelet like that.
“They’ve been pretty free lately. If you need them to do something, just tell them. You don’t need to ask me!” Hu Mingmei held two red ropes in his hand, and the ropes bounced around in his hands. In no time, the two red ropes were twisted together.
Is anyone there?
While Bai Nuo and the others were chatting, they heard someone shouting downstairs. Lu Ying laughed and said, "Someone's here so early?" It's not time for them to open yet, is it? Isn't that something everyone knows?
Why is someone knocking on the door so early?
Is this thing really that popular?
He absolutely must get one for his future wife; otherwise, it will be too late.
Bai Nuo had already stood up and gone downstairs to open the door. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Jiang Qiao'er standing at the entrance.
"Why are you here?" Bai Nuo asked.
"Hey, I thought you weren't here!" Jiang Qiao'er walked in, looked at the empty house, and couldn't help but ask, "Are you all alone?"
"Otherwise?" Bai Nuo looked at her strangely. "I've always been the only one here. Who else could it be? Oh, right, A Yu is still upstairs. Are you looking for him?"
"No!" Jiang Qiao'er waved her hand anxiously, "I'm not looking for your brother!"
"Then who are you looking for?" Bai Nuo asked curiously. "I'm all alone here. Who are you looking for?" It's strange, Jiang Qiao'er isn't here to see her after all.
Bai Nuo subconsciously didn't want to tell Jiang Qiao'er that Hu Mingmei was also here with them.
"I..." Jiang Qiao'er stammered.
"Say what it is right now!"
“I’m looking for Young Master Hu, whom I saw at the Fulai Inn the other day. I went there, but I didn’t see him, so I thought I’d come here to check. Aren’t you quite familiar with each other? Isn’t he here with you?” Jiang Qiao’er said somewhat shyly.
"Why are you looking for him?" Bai Nuo asked, puzzled. "You two don't even really know each other!"
"I need his help with something!" Jiang Qiao'er said. "Didn't that old hag say she wanted to call off my sister's engagement? And that bitch Yu Ziqing agreed to it!"
"Ah!" Bai Nuo nodded. "And then?"
"And then, I want to take back the house they're living in now!" Jiang Qiao'er blurted out. "They're practically strangers now, why keep the house for them? I don't want to, and my sister agrees that I should take it back. We told them before that we'd give them some time to move out, and a few days have passed now, so I want to go and take the house back!"
Bai Nuo continued Jiang Qiao'er's question, "So you want to take Hu Mingmei and the others with you?"
"Yes!" Jiang Qiao'er smiled a little shyly. "There are only my sister and me in my family. We don't have parents or brothers. It would be too much of a loss for the two of us to go alone, so I wanted them to give me some courage!" They would definitely be scared to death if they saw Lu Ying. Would they not move then?
“But the problem is!” Bai Nuo pondered, “They’re willing to move, aren’t they?” Judging from Jiang Qiao’er’s statement, they were unwilling to move, so Jiang Qiao’er was thinking of kicking them all out!
Jiang Qiao'er came by herself. Although Jiang San Niang agreed to take back the house, if they really don't want to move out, will Jiang San Niang soften her heart?
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