Chapter 27
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"From now on, we will bolt the door when we are not selling tofu. They have no sense of boundaries. It's ok for them to enter the yard without knocking, but how can they just enter the house directly?" Cheng Yeran had never spoken a word to his neighbors since he was a child. He would draw boundaries with his family, and his parents would knock before entering his room. He had never experienced the feeling of entering someone else's house casually.
"How can you lock the door in broad daylight?" Shen Yuntang has lived in the village since he was a child and has become accustomed to the fact that doors cannot be locked during the day. When he goes to someone's house, he just shouts at the door and goes in. It would be awkward if the door was locked.
"Why can't we lock the door during the day?" Cheng Yeran asked puzzledly.
"If we lock the door in broad daylight, people will think we are doing something in the house..." Shen Yuntang's ears turned red as he finished speaking, "It's not a good influence."
"Do we need to care about what others think when we lock the door? Why don't they consider our opinions when they casually enter our house?" Cheng Yeran came back and continued to lean over to look at him with one hand on the table, "Are you suffering from too much mental exhaustion?"
"???" Shen Yuntang looked up at him in bewilderment, "You are well-read, but I am illiterate and cannot understand what you are saying."
Cheng Yeran glanced at the string of copper coins on the table and said, "Ah, I understand. Just now I asked you to keep accounts, and you said I did it on purpose. Do you think I deliberately asked you to keep accounts even though I knew you were illiterate? Do you think I was mocking you?"
Shen Yuntang turned his head away and stared at the table legs: "Isn't it?"
"Of course not, I just asked casually and didn't think too much about it. Next time you come to collect the money, I will keep the accounts." Cheng Yeran just forgot about Shen Yuntang's character. This is an ancient setting, not modern times. It is normal for a country boy to be illiterate. Shen Yuntang is just acting according to his character.
Now Cheng Yeran finds this variety show more and more interesting. This variety show only gives a character, a general plot and rules, and the rest is up to him to come up with. There is no specific script, and he has no idea what lines his opponent will say. It is very challenging.
Moreover, Shen Yuntang has a very good sense of acting and it is easy to be drawn into the role when acting opposite him. He even feels inferior as he has been acting for so many years but is not as good as a newcomer.
After Cheng Yeran explained to him, he found that he was still angry, probably because of the tofu. "Do you think that the villagers know about the tofu, but you don't, and you think I treat you as an outsider? Do you know everything about your friends in the past? Have you never encountered a time when others forgot to share something with you?"
"But I don't treat you as someone else." Shen Yuntang looked up at him, his tone filled with anger and grievance, "What do you think of me?"
Cheng Yeran happened to be leaning over to look at him. From this angle he looked very pitiful. It was the first time he saw such a pitiful expression on a boy's face and he didn't find it disgusting.
If it was another boy who cried easily, he would definitely think that boy was too artificial and really good at pretending, but Shen Yuntang was so beautiful that no matter what he did, it was right and even heart-warming.
Heart-beating!
This word popped up in Cheng Yeran's mind and his heart beat rapidly. He quickly raised his head, not daring to look Shen Yuntang in the eye.
He felt that Shen Yuntang's beauty was too alluring, and unconscious seduction was the most deadly.
Shen Yuntang saw him turn his head away and guessed that he was avoiding his question, "Do you treat me as your husband? I don't ask you to treat me as your beloved, I only ask you to treat me as your family."
"You seem to treat making money by making tofu as your own business. You don't tell me anything and only call me when you need my help, as if I were a servant you ordered around. There was no need to tell me everything and it would be useless to tell me." Shen Yuntang remembered that when Xia Xiaowu looked down on him in his previous life, Xia Xiaowu thought the same way and often said things like 'It's no use telling you, you know nothing', which left him with a psychological trauma. Even though he knew that Cheng Yeran was different from Xia Xiaowu, he couldn't help thinking this way.
But he doesn't care about other people. He doesn't care what other people think. It's best not to bother him with their affairs. But Cheng Yeran is different.
Cheng Yeran is different to him.
He pressed his chest, and when these words popped into his mind, his heart couldn't help but pound, just like what was written in the storybook.
In his previous life, the prefect's daughter married into the Xia family and became Xia Xiaowu's second wife. At first, the prefect's daughter was very nice to him. She would chat with him, share her hobbies with him, and she also told him the contents of the storybook.
He listened to many stories about love. Why do people have such complicated emotions when they fall in love with another person? They feel happy, tormented, restless, happy, wronged, unwilling...
Every time she told the stories in the picture book, she always showed a longing expression. At that time, he was still wondering, what was there to long for in something as torturous as love.
And now he is experiencing it all.
His emotions seemed to have become complicated recently. He secretly glanced at Cheng Yeran and found that Cheng Yeran turned his head to look at him. The moment their eyes met, he quickly turned his head away as if he was burned.
"Forget it. From now on, no matter what happens, you can say it if you want to, and I don't care if you don't want to. " Shen Yuntang said as he stood up and pushed him away, "Get out of the way, there are still a lot of things to do."
"You don't want to change people, do you? That won't work." Cheng Yeran wanted to chase him out, but Shen Yuntang closed the door before he could leave, almost slapping his nose crooked, "Why are you so irritable?"
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The news that Cheng Yeran's family started selling tofu spread in the village, and Shen Yunfeng also heard the rumor.
He couldn't stand hearing any good rumors about his cousin. He had lived in his cousin's shadow since he was a child. His parents were both dead, while his cousin's parents were still alive. He was also spoiled by his brothers. He was obviously very handsome, but he was always said to be inferior to his cousin.
Whispering Wind
In some occasions when his cousin was around, he always became a foil, and he didn't want to be a foil anymore.
Now my cousin’s family has started selling tofu. There is only one family selling tofu in the village, so you can imagine how much money they make.
Xia Xiaowu will become the county magistrate in three years. By that time, Cheng Yeran will have become a wealthy man in the village. He can't stand it for another three years.
He has not had a good day since he got married. His mother-in-law and sisters-in-law make things difficult for him, and he has endless work to do every day. His eldest and second brothers often speak ill of him to Xia Xiaowu, saying that he is not dignified and is always smiling and seducing someone who knows who it is.
Even if he didn't smile sometimes, but just glanced at his eldest brother or second brother, they would tell Xia Xiaowu that he was deliberately using his eyes to seduce others and that he was not a good person.
Xia Xiaowu scolded him many times for this matter and even beat him once.
How he wished that Xia Xiaowu could quickly take the position of county magistrate, so that he would have servants to serve him and would not have to work so hard. He could also live in a separate courtyard from his elder and second brothers and avoid a lot of trouble. Most importantly, he wanted his cousin to be jealous of him.
He secretly put down the work at hand and went back to his room to find Xia Xiaowu. Xia Xiaowu was writing something. When he saw him come in, he casually asked, "Have you washed the clothes?"
Shen Yunfeng felt a little suffocated when he heard his tone of taking it for granted that he was ordering him around. If it weren't for his cousin's man as a comparison, he would have thought it was natural for him to wash clothes. But ever since he saw Cheng Yeran felt sorry for his cousin and helped him wash clothes, he also fantasized that after getting married, Xia Xiaowu would worry about his tiredness and help him wash clothes.
As a result, after getting married, Xia Xiaowu seemed like a different person. He was no longer gentle to him, nor did he say sweet words to him. He even often didn't talk to him at home, and he wouldn't get a response when he took the initiative to talk to her.
Today, when Xia Xiaowu asked him if he had finished washing the clothes, although he was quite upset at first, he became happy again when he thought about how Xia Xiaowu took the initiative to talk to him today, "It's almost done."
"Why don't you go wash quickly? What are you dawdling for?" Xia Xiaowu said in a perfunctory tone.
"You study so well. If you take the imperial examination in advance, will you be able to pass it?" Shen Yunfeng wanted Xia Xiaowu to take the exam this year. In his eyes, Xia Xiaowu was very good at studying, but he just lacked confidence. He encouraged him to take the exam this year. Maybe he could become the county magistrate's wife this year.
"What do you mean? Are you ordering me around?" Xia Xiaowu pushed him away impatiently, "You're blocking the light, get out of the way."
He pushed with some force, and Shen Yunfeng lost his balance and fell on the table, spilling the ink onto the article Xia Xiaowu had just written.
"Ah, I I I..." Shen Yunfeng stood up nervously, trying to save the table, but the paper was black and completely unusable.
His hands and face were covered in ink. He looked at Xia Xiaowu pitifully, trying to get an apology or comfort, but ended up being met with Xia Xiaowu's angry face.
Xia Xiaowu reached out and grabbed his hair, pressing him hard on the table.
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Cheng Yeran’s tofu sells very well, and two plates of tofu are sold out every day. Cheng Yeran is still thinking about whether he should buy two more molds to make more money.
But this time, don’t buy the mold online. Ask Shen Yuntang’s father to make it. This way, your father-in-law can earn some money and Shen Yuntang won’t get angry.
I don't know why, but Shen Yuntang has been avoiding him these days, not even making eye contact, as if he is nothing but air. He just hates him so much...
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There have been new rumors in the village these days. After the Cheng family sells tofu, they will lock the door. They lock the door in broad daylight and no one knows what they are doing inside.
Uncle Zhang acted as if he knew the inside story and told everyone that he saw an outsider in the Cheng family that day. Making tofu was so profitable, how could they just sell it to Cheng Yeran? The recipe was actually obtained by Cheng Yeran in exchange for Shen Yuntang. He let the stranger who knew how to make tofu live in his house and do that with Shen Yuntang every day, so naturally he had to lock the door.
At first, few people believed it, but what Uncle Zhang said was so convincing that gradually many people began to believe it.
Someone kindly reminded Zhang Bo: "The Cheng family kid is crazy. If you tell his family secrets, be careful that he will retaliate against you."
Uncle Zhang: "He was just talking. Look how scared you are. Would he really dare to do anything to me?"
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