Ruan Changsheng ran to Qian Chuan and asked her, "Why are you here?"
Because of the distance, Qian Chuan certainly didn't hear what he said in front of Xie Tao. She stretched her head to look at Xie Tao who was still standing there, and saw that her face was bleak. She then looked at Ruan Changsheng and asked, "It seems that I came at the wrong time?"
Ruan Changsheng said directly: "No, you came at the right time, just an ordinary friend."
Then he looked Qian Chuan up and down from a close distance and said with a hissing breath, "I didn't expect it."
Qian Chuan rolled her eyes at him, then said with a smug smile, "There are many things you haven't thought of."
He had always said that she didn't look like a woman, but today he had to see for himself whether she was really a woman.
Ruan Changsheng smiled and apologized, "It is true that I am shortsighted."
As the two were talking, Xie Tao came over from behind.
Qian Chuan was very enthusiastic and open to everyone she met. She looked at Xie Tao and greeted him openly, "Hello."
Xie Tao smiled unnaturally, looked at Qian Chuan and replied, "Hello."
She wanted to ask Qian Chuan in person whether she was Ruan Changsheng's girlfriend, but her remaining self-esteem prevented her from speaking. In fact, even if she didn't ask, she already knew Ruan Changsheng's attitude.
But for some reason, I still feel unwilling.
So she looked at Qian Chuan and asked, "Which brigade are you from?"
Qian Chuan smiled and said, "My family is not from the village on the mountain, but in the town."
After hearing this, Xie Tao's face darkened a few shades.
Ruan Changsheng didn't have the energy to deal with her anymore, so he turned around and said to her, "I have something to do here, so you should go back early and be careful on the road. I've made it very clear, it's best not to see each other in the future."
Now there are not only two of them, there are other people watching. Xie Tao was embarrassed by what Ruan Changsheng said, and her face was expressionless. She clenched the cloth bag in her hand with her fingers, leaving herself a last bit of face, turned around and walked away quickly.
Ruan Changsheng didn't say much to her, he just looked at Qian Chuan and asked, "Tell me, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Qian Chuan withdrew his gaze from Xie Tao, patted his schoolbag and said, "I brought you something good."
Ruan Changsheng looked at her and smiled, "Then let's find a place to look."
The child who was leading the way had been silent, but when he heard that there was something good to see, his eyes widened like bells. He looked at Qian Chuan with curiosity and itching, and said, "What good thing is that? Can I take a look?"
What are you looking at, little brat! Ruan Changsheng put his hand on his shoulder, asked him to turn his back to him, then he raised his foot and kicked him on the butt, kicked him out and said, "Get lost."
The child turned around and shouted, "Xiao Wuzi, I'm going home to tell my mom!"
Ruan Changsheng made a face at him and waved his hand, "You can tell anyone you want. Bye."
The child was so angry that he picked up a stone and threw it at Ruan Changsheng. When Ruan Changsheng let out a "ouch" when the stone hit him, he laughed with satisfaction, then stuck out his tongue and made a face at Ruan Changsheng, then turned around and ran away.
Of course Ruan Changsheng didn't chase after the kid. He smiled and retracted his gaze, looking at Qian Chuan and said, "Let's go."
Qian Chuan squinted at him and said in a cryptic way, "You are three years old?"
Ruan Changsheng asked her back: "Am I not thirty?"
Qian Chuan pursed her lips and nodded, then said, "She looks thirty but has the intelligence of a three-year-old."
Ruan Changsheng: “…”
Does this girl have anything nice to say?
Qian Chuan looked at the expression on his face and laughed happily. After a while, she stopped talking to him and pulled him to a place where they could not see others. The two found a small cave nearby, went in to avoid being around people, and squatted down to talk.
Qian Chuan and Ruan Changsheng squatted face to face, and Qian Chuan asked him first: "Have you sold all the things I gave you?"
Ruan Changsheng smiled and said, "It was very simple. We sold out on the way back."
Qian Chuan's eyes lit up and she praised him, "You are amazing."
Ruan Changsheng couldn't stop laughing, "No big deal."
Qian Chuan then reached out and took down the schoolbag, opened the cover and showed it to Ruan Changsheng, and asked him: "I'll give it all to you, do you want it?"
Ruan Changsheng looked at Qian Chuan and could see what she was thinking.
After meeting him, she discovered a new way to make money. She wanted to develop him into her subordinate and sell everything she got to him, letting him run errands and take risks, while she could just lie down and earn some money.
This girl is so smart, she must be the reincarnation of a money-grubber!
But, can he refuse something that is delivered to his door?
Ruan Changsheng asked her: "How much?"
Qian Chuan held up five fingers and said, "Five dollars."
Ruan Changsheng said, "I would like it, but I don't have that much money."
Nowadays, anyone who can casually spend five dollars is considered a wealthy person.
Qian Chuan suggested, "Go home and ask your mother for it."
Ruan Changsheng: “…”
He is very good at finding solutions.
Ruan Changsheng thought for a moment and said, "How about this? I'll give you two dollars first, and I'll owe you the rest. When I sell all the things and get the money back, I'll give you three dollars back. How about that?"
Qian Chuan looked at him and blinked, "What if you take the things and run away without returning them to me?"
Ruan Changsheng said: "You can run away, but you can't. Don't you know where my home is now? If I take the things and run away without paying you back, you can just ask my mother for it."
Qian Chuan: “…”
What kind of son of a bitch is this...
Ruan Changsheng smiled and said, "It's just a joke. Since you choose to cooperate with me, we should trust each other. What do you think? Although we haven't known each other for a long time, I think you are a good person."
Qian Chuan looked into Ruan Changsheng's eyes and suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Who was that girl just now?"
Ruan Changsheng was stunned for a moment by the topic, and then replied: "My previous blind date didn't like me because I wasn't good enough, but now he suddenly comes back to me and says he regrets it."
No wonder her eyes were red. Qian Chuan asked again, "Did you reject that person?"
Ruan Changsheng nodded, suddenly moved closer to her, and whispered, "I'll tell her you're my girlfriend."
Qian Chuan glared at him and slapped him in the face, "Are you looking for death?"
Ruan Changsheng groaned as she slapped him, and raised his hand to cover his shoulder, "Do you have to hit me so hard?"
Qian Chuan wanted to hit him with her schoolbag again, but was afraid of damaging the things inside, so she glared at him and said, "No wonder she looked at me strangely just now, not at all friendly, and even asked me where I was from."
Ruan Changsheng smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. I won't see you again anyway."
Qian Chuan thought about it and agreed. She didn’t know the girl and they didn’t even know each other’s names. The girl doesn't live in town, she's tens of thousands of miles away, so I won't be able to see her even if I want to.
In this case, she looked at Ruan Changsheng and said, "You used me as a shield without my permission, so I'll give you one more dollar."
Ruan Changsheng's eyes widened: "You are robbing!"
How can he make money like this? If the items are too expensive, people won’t buy them, so she gets to make all the money!
Qian Chuan covered her schoolbag and stood up to leave, "Don't do it."
Ruan Changsheng then stood up and grabbed her, saying repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes, yes."
When she turned back with a satisfied smile, he added, "We'll be a family from now on anyway."
Qian Chuan: “???”
Who is the same as you! Home! people!
Ruan Changsheng didn't care what her expression was. He smiled and took the schoolbag from her hand. He said to her, "Wait for me here for a while. I'll go home to get the money and be back soon."
After saying that, he took his schoolbag and left.
When he got home, he put the sundries in Qian Chuan's schoolbag into his own schoolbag, took out his own two yuan of pocket money, packed some dry food and clothes, and went to greet Liu Xinghua: "Mom, I'm going out for a few days. I won't be back these days."
Liu Xinghua looked up at him and asked, "Where are you going to fool around again?"
Ruan Changsheng smiled and said, "Wait for good news from me. I will bring you a daughter-in-law in a while."
Liu Xinghua perked up when she heard this, "You're not trying to coax me, are you?"
Ruan Changsheng: "Of course not, I already have a goal."
Liu Xinghua asked with concern: "Where is this girl from? Whose daughter is she?"
Ruan Changsheng said: "Let's talk about it after it's done."
Ruan Changsheng used to go out often and would not go home for ten days or half a month. Liu Xinghua was not surprised by this and didn't bother him much. She just said, "As I said before, you can have fun but you can't do anything that is against the law."
Ruan Changsheng has always lived in a disciplined and measured way, "I know, Mom."
After saying hello to Liu Xinghua, Ruan Changsheng returned to the small cave.
Qian Chuan saw him coming back, stood up, took the schoolbag from his hand, slung it over her body, and muttered, "You kept me waiting here for a long time. I thought you had just taken the goods and ran away, and would not come back."
Ruan Changsheng took out two dollars from his pocket, took her hand and patted her palm, "I don't have many other advantages, but I am the most loyal and trustworthy, and my words always count."
Qian Chuan was happy to see the money and put it in her pocket first.
After packing, she looked at Ruan Changsheng and said, "When you have sold all the goods, come to town to find me. My home is near Tianfeng Primary School. Remember that, right? Bring money with you, and remember to owe me four dollars. Not a cent less."
After she finished speaking, she was about to leave, but Ruan Changsheng suddenly reached out and pulled her.
She turned around and asked, "What else?"
Ruan Changsheng said, "You are going down the mountain, right? I am going out to sell something, so I will just walk a little way along the way."
Qian Chuan looked at him and did not refuse to go with him. "Let's go."
The two of them left Fengyan Village and walked for a while. Ruan Changsheng suddenly remembered something and said to Qian Chuan, "If you are not in a hurry to go home, I will take you to a place and get you something to eat. Do you want to go?"
Is there anything to eat? Qian Chuan couldn't help swallowing his saliva, "Where?"
She ate only dry food and steamed buns on her way up the mountain, and drank water borrowed from people along the way. She hadn't eaten properly for two days. At this time, if you can have a hot meal, it would be what you want.
Ruan Changsheng said nothing, but just said, "Just follow me."
Qian Chuan now almost treated him as her own, so she didn't ask any more questions and followed him forward.
She didn't know where Ruan Changsheng was going to take her, and when she got there she found out it was a tailor shop. The tailor shop was locked and not open for business. She peeked inside through the crack in the door and saw a grape rack in the yard with a few bunches of small grapes hanging on it.
While Qian Chuan was lying at the door looking inside, Ruan Changsheng went under a small stone on the wall and took out a key. He came over and waited for Qian Chuan to move aside on her own, then he used the key to unlock the door and took Qian Chuan into the tailor shop.
Qian Chuan still remembered what Ruan Changsheng had said to her, so she asked after entering the yard, "Is this your niece's tailor shop?"
Ruan Changsheng closed the gate and said, "Yes, she is not at home today because she has work to do."
Qian Chuan looked around and said, "Your niece is really amazing."
Ruan Changsheng was used to hearing people praise his niece, so he responded, "Of course my niece is amazing."
Qian Chuan didn't interrupt him this time. She looked at him and said, "You want to cook for me here?"
"Yes." Ruan Changsheng nodded decisively, "What do you want to eat? I'll cook you a bowl of noodles."
Qian Chuan looked at him: "Can you?"
Ruan Changsheng: "It's edible anyway, do you want to try it?"
Qian Chuan didn't hesitate to say: "Just give it a try."
Ruan Changsheng was kneading dough, rolling out dough sheets and cutting noodles at the table, while Qian Chuan was sitting beside him, looking at him with her face in her hands, a sparkling smile in her eyes - this man was becoming more and more pleasing to the eye.
Ruan Changsheng asked her while cutting noodles: "How is my cooking skill?"
Qian Chuan deliberately gave a conservative evaluation: "It's just OK."
Ruan Changsheng looked at her, smiled and said nothing.
It’s not like he didn’t see the way she looked at him just now. It was obvious that she was very appreciative!
Ruan Changsheng didn't say anything, so Qian Chuan asked again: "I think you're pretty good, why didn't that girl like you?"
Ruan Changsheng knew that the girl she was talking about was Xie Tao, so he did not avoid the topic and continued, "My third sister did not live well after marriage. Her brother-in-law had been beating her for many years. Last year, around this time, my third sister came to her senses and wanted to divorce her brother-in-law, so she moved back to her parents' home. Their family could not accept my third sister, so they asked me to send her back to her husband's home."
Qian Chuan thought for a moment and said, "What kind of request is this? Your third sister lives in her own parents' home, what does it have to do with her? Seriously speaking, it's none of your business. You can rely on your parents for food and shelter, but can't your third sister?"
Ruan Changsheng continued to cut noodles, "So I didn't agree, and it didn't happen."
Qian Chuan was curious, "Then why did she come to see you again today?"
Ruan Changsheng was not very good at using the knife and cut the noodles slowly. "Because my third sister learned the craft from my niece and went to their team to make clothes yesterday. She must have seen my third sister, so she regretted it and came to find me."
Qian Chuan frowned and expressed incomprehension, "She actually had the nerve to come to you?"
Ruan Changsheng smiled. "After my last blind date with her failed, I felt that blind dates were boring, so I stopped asking my mother to find a matchmaker. She thought I was thinking about her and that I was single because of her."
Qian Chuan was stunned: "???"
After a moment, "She is really confident."
Ruan Changsheng burst out laughing, "You look pretty good, you can be confident."
Qian Chuan disagreed, "What's the point of being good-looking?"
Ruan Changsheng believed that she really thought that being good-looking was useless, otherwise, with her appearance, she would not go out and ruin herself like that. She only cares about money and nothing else.
pretty?
Is it more useful than money?
Of course not!
So he said, "Money is still useful."
Qian Chuan agreed with this and nodded heavily, "We are a fellow traveler!"
Ruan Changsheng couldn't help laughing out loud. It was the first time he realized that a money-grubber could be so cute.
After the noodles were cut, Ruan Changsheng put them on the panel to rise for a while, then went out to the vegetable garden to pick some green vegetables. After entering the kitchen, he washed the vegetables, sprinkled some chili oil on them, and then brought the noodles to Qian Chuan.
Qian Chuan couldn't help swallowing her saliva when she smelled the fragrant aroma of spicy oil. When the hot noodles were placed in front of her, she picked up the noodles with chopsticks without saying a word and slurped down a big mouthful in one breath.
Ruan Changsheng sat down opposite her and said, "No one is going to snatch it from you, so eat slowly."
Qian Chuan said as she ate: "I haven't eaten properly for two days."
Ruan Changsheng didn't care about her anymore and let her do whatever she wanted.
He had just finished talking about his own affairs. Now, as he watched Qian Chuan eating noodles, he asked about her affairs again, "You are not young anymore. Your family should have found a partner for you. Do you like anyone?"
Qian Chuan ate noodles and said, "I'm not interested. I've met a few, but they were scared away by me the first time they met me."
Ruan Changsheng: “…”
He must have gone to the blind date with soot all over his face, looking like a beggar.
He suddenly cleared his throat, looked at Qian Chuan and asked, "What do you think of me?"
Qian Chuan slowed down the way she ate noodles and raised her eyes to look at Ruan Changsheng. After looking at him for a moment, she quickly looked away. Then she took two bites of noodles, cleared her throat and said, "It's just OK."
Ruan Changsheng didn't beat around the bush: "Do you want to try it with me?"
Qian Chuan's body froze when she heard this, and then she quickly ate the noodles in the bowl. After she finished the noodles, she was satisfied and had no more regrets. She slammed the chopsticks on the table, stood up and ran away: "You want me to be your wife after eating a bowl of noodles? Dream on!"
Before Ruan Changsheng could react, he saw her disappear out of the yard gate.
“…”
In Akabane Village, the sun was setting in the western sky.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Cuizhi had already made two sets of uniforms, but there were other people in the village who needed their clothes altered, so they stayed in the village and did not leave. I estimated that I would be able to finish the work soon. If there was enough time, I would pack up and go back to the tailor shop.
Because of Xie Tao's matter, Ermei was unable to change her clothes yesterday, so today she brought clothes to find Ruan Xi and Ruan Cuizhi.
After the clothes were altered and she was paid, she happily went home with the clothes.
Then, when he was halfway there with the clothes, he bumped into Xie Tao who was coming back from outside.
She was even happier when she saw Xie Tao. She waved her hand and called Xie Tao's name to greet her. However, Xie Tao seemed to have not heard her at all. She didn't even look at her. She lowered her head and went straight home.
Ermei was puzzled and thought that she really didn't hear it, so she took the clothes and went to Xie Tao's house.
Then as soon as I entered the room, I heard Xie Tao crying in the room.
She went into Xie Tao's room and saw Xie Tao lying on the bed with her face buried in the pillow, crying so hard that her whole body was shaking.
Ermei didn't know what was wrong with Xie Tao, so she sat down, put her hand on her shoulder, and asked her, "What's wrong?"
Xie Tao just cried and ignored her. She cried until it was getting dark in the evening.
When Xie's mother and her aunt came home from work, they heard Xie Tao crying as soon as they entered the house. So the two of them opened the door curtain and walked into the room one after the other. When they saw Ermei, they asked, "What happened to her?"
Ermei shook her head and said, "I've been crying for a while."
Mother Xie and Aunt Xie Tao looked at each other and roughly guessed what was going on. But they had to let Xie Tao speak out and vent, so they asked Ermei to make way for them, sat next to Xie Tao, patted her and asked, "What happened?"
Xie Tao cried so hard that she could hardly breathe. After loosening her pillow to take a breath, she choked and said, "It's too late. Everything is too late... I went too late... He already has a girlfriend, and she's a girl from town."
Hearing this, Xie's mother took a deep breath and comforted Xie Tao, "Forget it, Ruan Changsheng is not the only man in the world. If we miss this one, we can just find another one."
Xie Tao cried until her eyes were red and swollen. "Where can I find someone better than him? I can't find anyone at all!"
As she spoke, she hit her own legs, anxiously and regretfully saying, "I shouldn't have mentioned the matter of his third sister at that time. If I hadn't mentioned this, he and I would have been married now. There's no chance now, absolutely no chance!"
Seeing her like this, Xie's mother felt angry, annoyed, distressed, regretful and aggrieved.
It was the idea of everyone in the Xie family to make that request to the Ruan family at that time, and she especially played the most important role in it.
She sat there unable to utter anything eloquent. She felt so suffocated that she just took deep breaths.
Aunt Xie Tao didn't dare to say anything, for fear of being blamed.
This time she has completely learned her lesson - she will never interfere in Xie Tao's affairs again!
Ermei, who was standing nearby, understood the whole story. She shook her head, sighed, and went home with her clothes in her arms.
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