There was someone else's land next to them, and an aunt greeted Ji Huai warmly when she saw him coming back.
"Brother Huai, you're back. Are you looking for vegetables for lunch? Your land has been left uncultivated for a long time. Do you want beans? Auntie has some here."
Ji Huai took the money and bought a bunch of beans from his aunt.
When she got home, Yun Yuan looked at the beans and curled her lips. "I don't want to eat beans. I want to eat bok choy."
Ji Huai lowered his eyes: "Today there are only beans."
Yun Yuan persisted: "Ji Shen's house has some bok choy, go pick some."
Ji Huai suspected that he had heard wrongly, "You want me to steal vegetables?"
Yun Yuan nodded as a matter of course: "Are you going?"
Ji Huai didn't move. Yun Yuan stamped her feet in anger and said, "If you don't go, I'll go by myself."
"Wait." Ji Huai stopped her: "I'll go."
Yun Yuan smiled brightly, "Pick more, you're welcome."
Ji Huai went out, but did not go directly to steal vegetables. Instead, he knocked on Ji Shen's door.
Ji Shen was comforting Yan Xiaoman. After two hours, Yan Xiaoman had gradually calmed down. Hearing a knock on the door, Ji Shen let go of Yan Xiaoman.
"I'll go out and take a look."
He opened the door and found Ji Huai, feeling suspicious.
Yun Yuan was about to become irreconcilable with him, but she was still thinking about the incense money in his hand?
Ji Huai didn't know what had just happened, so he said, "I want to buy some bok choy from you?"
Little white cabbage? Ji Shen was stunned. After making sure he heard correctly, he pointed to a place.
"There are some in our private plots. Pick as much as you want."
Ji Huai handed over the five cents in his hand.
"No need, just consider it as a gift to your brother."
Incense money? Someone from the Yunyuan family?
Yan Xiaoman heard the dissatisfaction in the house. Why should Yun Yuan get the cheaper price for the vegetables he had worked so hard to grow?
She rushed out of the house and shouted, "Wait, I can give my food to anyone except Yun Yuan."
Ji Shen held her back and said, "Neighbors, Ji Huai and I used to play together when we were little. It's just a handful of vegetables..."
"Is this about a handful of vegetables?" Yan Xiaoman said excitedly, "Yun Yuan was the first to oppose me, falsely accusing me of harming her parents. There's no end between us. Let alone a single vegetable, I won't even give her a single leaf!"
Ji Huai hadn't been home for a long time, and didn't know about the grudge between the two. When he heard this, his face didn't show much expression. He just turned around and said, "In that case, I'll go ask someone else."
After Ji Huai left, Ji Shen and Yan Xiaoman walked into the house side by side.
"You were too extreme just now." Ji Shen said: "Yun Yuan is Yun Yuan, Ji Huai is Ji Huai, they are just a bunch of vegetables, you don't need to offend them."
Yan Xiaoman asked, "Was that man called Ji Huai?"
"Yes, that's Ji Zhang's younger brother." Ji Shen explained, "He's also doing business outside, but I don't know what kind of business he's in. He went out to explore the world when he was very young. I originally thought I could ask him to help with our business, but now it seems that's not possible."
Yan Xiaoman thought of Ji Huai's shorts and said indifferently, "Businessmen are always concerned about their image. He doesn't look like a businessman dressed like this. Maybe he's just a warrior. If I offend him, I don't care. Once I make the wine, there will be plenty of people to cooperate with me."
Seeing her so confident, Ji Shen said lovingly, "I believe in you, my lady."
Yan Xiaoman was proud. She had read at least eight hundred time-travel novels and was confident that she could make a name for herself in ancient times.
She knew that merchants had a low status in ancient times, and Ji Shen was the other half she carefully chose. She believed that he would have a bright future and provide her with protection in the future.
After leaving Ji Shen's house, Ji Huai went to find a few more people and finally bought the bok choy that Yun Yuan wanted. However, Yun Yuan said, "I won't eat it unless it's from Yan Shen's house."
"Yun Yuan!" Ji Huai's voice turned cold: "I'm not my brother, don't show your temper in front of me."
Yun Yuan's eyes immediately turned red, her lips trembled slightly, and then she pursed them tightly. Crystal tears hung on her eyelashes, as if she was about to cry out loud at the next moment.
Ji Huai didn't expect her to react like this. He panicked and said quickly, "I...I said the wrong thing. Don't cry. It's just a little cabbage. I'll pick it for you."
Yun Yuan immediately burst into laughter, wiped away her tears with the back of her white hand, and urged him: "Then go quickly, don't give them money, the sooner you go, the sooner you can come back."
There was still a lingering blush at the corners of her eyes, her eyes were watery, and there were traces of tears on her face.
Ji Huai suddenly understood why his brother, who had always been smart, was being controlled so easily. It was indeed hard for anyone to be cruel to him.
He stood up and walked out. While no one was around, he quickly pulled a bunch of Chinese cabbage from Ji Shen's field.
He was very skillful in plucking the hairs, doing it at intervals so most people couldn't notice.
After picking the vegetables, he walked away quickly with a guilty conscience.
Yun Yuan watched secretly and nodded, saying that the boy is teachable.
Ji Huai fried the bok choy and gave Yun Yuan an egg, but Yun Yuan had no taste for it.
"What's wrong?" Ji Huai asked.
Yun Yuan put down her chopsticks and sighed, "I haven't eaten meat for three days."
Today is exactly the third day since Ji Zhang’s death.
Ji Huai couldn't explain what was going on in her heart. She wasn't sad at all about her elder brother's death, and she was only thinking about eating meat?
He looked at Yun Yuan's fair and delicate face again. Her skin was like white jade, emitting a faint luster. Then he looked at the exquisite hairpin in her hair. It was produced by Langyu Pavilion and was very expensive.
He thought to himself that he sent money back every month, but now it seemed that all the money was spent on Yun Yuan.
He sighed to himself: Putting aside other factors, my elder brother really raised her very well.
He also put down his chopsticks and said, "There will be a lot of dishes for the funeral tomorrow. I've already asked someone to buy some meat."
Yun Yuan pursed her rosy lips: "I want to eat it tonight."
Her voice was soft and clear, and sounded like she was acting coquettishly in Ji Huai's ears. He was moved and thought that Yun Yuan was his sister-in-law, so he immediately stopped thinking that he shouldn't have such thoughts.
"I'll find a way for you."
"Yeah!" Yun Yuan nodded vigorously, peeled the egg happily, ate only the egg white, and threw the yolk on the table.
Ji Huai's gaze fell on her slender and beautiful fingers. Their whiteness and tenderness were no less than egg white, and her nails were a transparent pink, showing at first glance that they were the hands of a pampered person.
He couldn't help but think that he would go back after finishing his elder brother's funeral. His elder brother passed away silently, leaving her, a woman who knew nothing, in the village. What would she do in the future?
He said, "Since my brother has passed away, you don't have to stay with him. If you find someone you like, I will give you a dowry."
Yun Yuan put the last piece of egg white into her mouth and licked the remaining egg white crumbs on her index finger.
Ji Huai's body stiffened and he quickly looked away.
Yun Yuan shook her head slightly: "I have no intention of getting married again for the time being. I will live here alone from now on."
"How can this be possible?" Ji Huai said, "It's not safe for a weak woman like you to live here. Why don't you come with me into the city and find a family there later?"
"No." Yun Yuan said firmly: "I have to look after Yan Xiaoman. Wherever she is, I will be there." From now on, she will be the spirit behind Yan Xiaoman.
If Ji Huai didn't know that she had a grudge against Yan Xiaoman, he would have thought that she was in love with Yan Xiaoman.
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