Chapter 22 Scholar
Time passes by little by little.
Jiang Zhiluo knew that it would take a long time to cook.
"Mom, why don't I prepare dinner first."
Mrs. Cui put a piece of firewood into the stove and said, "Zhiluo, I'll help you cook dinner."
In the past, eating was like a task for Mrs. Cui, and she had to rack her brains to figure out how to cook.
But no matter how hungry I was, the food I cooked tasted like chewing wax.
But after Zhiluo cooked two meals, Mrs. Cui finally knew what delicious food was after eating them.
Zhiluo can make even the simplest things delicious.
So when Mrs. Cui heard Jiang Zhiluo say she was going to cook dinner, she became excited.
Jiang Zhiluo shook her head and said, "It's okay, Mom. I can do it myself. Just help me light the fire."
Mrs. Cui watched Jiang Zhiluo do things neatly and efficiently and felt that her daughter-in-law was very talented.
"Zhiluo, I just put some firewood in the stove. It can burn for a while. Mommy can help you with something, like washing the vegetables."
Mrs. Cui was reluctant to tire out such a good daughter-in-law.
Cui Hejin has a cold and hard personality and doesn't know how to be caring. The Cui family is no longer the Duke family it used to be. As a mother, she can only do more to make her daughter-in-law feel the warmth of home.
Don’t let He Jin go one day because you can’t stand it anymore and you won’t have anywhere to cry.
Jiang Zhiluo thought for a moment and said, "Mom, how about you help me pick some leeks?"
Mrs. Cui smiled and said, "Okay."
Only when she had something to do did Mrs. Cui feel that she was useful.
Jiang Zhiluo used coarse flour and water to knead the dough in a basin.
Of course, some spiritual spring water is also added to the water, so that even the noodles made from coarse flour will taste good.
After kneading the dough, Jiang Zhiluo covered it with a clean cloth and let it rest for a while.
At this time, Mrs. Cui had already picked the leeks.
Jiang Zhiluo said, "Mom, I'll go wash up."
As she spoke, Jiang Zhiluo took the basin to the yard, poured water to wash the leeks, and poured the washing water into the vegetable field to water the soil.
In ancient times, water was free, but carrying water was hard work, so this was the only way to save water.
Just as Jiang Zhiluo was washing leeks, a man stood at the door, looking in and said, "Brother Cui, is Brother Cui here?"
Jiang Zhiluo heard the voice, stood up, wiped her hands, walked to the gate of the fenced courtyard, and looked at the young man dressed as a scholar in front of her.
This man was wearing a coarse cloth gown, with sparse eyebrows and eyes, bronze skin with a pale color, and a handsome and elegant appearance with a strong scholarly air. However, judging from his appearance, he was also a bit rigid and stubborn.
He looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old.
Liu Ting'an was also stunned when he looked at the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl in front of him.
Did he come to the wrong place?
I haven’t heard that Brother Cui has a younger sister?
Liu Ting'an bowed and said, "Miss, may I ask where Brother Cui Hejin lives?"
Jiang Zhiluo said, "This is it."
As she spoke, Jiang Zhiluo called out into the house, "Husband, someone is looking for you."
When Liu Ting'an heard this, he was so shocked that he almost stumbled and fell to the ground.
He just felt dizzy and thought he had heard it wrong.
Brother Cui actually got married!
It was like a bolt of lightning hitting him on the head.
He really couldn't accept that Brother Cui, who was so handsome and upright, actually got married.
Although the woman in front of him looked pretty, she was wearing coarse clothes and looked like a country girl.
Brother Cui is such a good man, how could he marry a village girl!
"Brother Cui got married... got married?"
Jiang Zhiluo looked at the expression of the person in front of her and roughly understood what he was thinking.
Jiang Zhiluo saw that this person looked quite shocked. Did he think that she was not worthy of Cui Hejin?
She just felt a little funny, with a cunning look in her eyes, and said: "Well, we got married a few days ago, and my parents' family is in the next village."
Liu Ting'an's pupils shrank violently, and he felt a little sad for Brother Cui.
"You...did you use some tricks to force Brother Cui to marry you?"
Some time ago, Brother Cui said that he would not get married and had no plans to get married here.
If that's the case, it must be the woman in front of him who forced him to submit.
Jiang Zhiluo shrugged and said, "Why are you saying that? What do you mean by using tricks? I fell in love with my husband at first sight, and I fell in love with him the next time I saw him."
"You...you..." Liu Ting'an's face turned red. He felt that the village woman in front of him was shameless and could say such words.
Jiang Zhiluo curled her lips and said, "What do you mean by 'you'? Are you trying to say that it's insulting?"
"A scholar like you is so old-fashioned."
"Do you think that only a woman with some poetry can be a good match for a scholar like you?"
Jiang Zhiluo folded her arms and looked at Liu Ting'an with raised eyebrows.
Liu Ting'an seemed to have been hit by the words, his face turned even redder, and he felt both embarrassed and angry.
But he also felt that the woman in front of him was too eloquent and he couldn't even win an argument with her.
Jiang Zhiluo is not a weak person. If she hadn't owed Cui Hejin in that life, she would have wanted to be good to him and would not have been like this.
As for others, they are not Cui Hejin, so she can just criticize them if she wants to.
Cui Hejin came out of the house and happened to hear this conversation, and was slightly stunned.
Perhaps he didn't expect that his wife, who usually looked gentle and docile, would have such a side to her.
And every word she said didn't sound like she was uneducated.
Cui Hejin couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
When Liu Ting'an saw Cui Hejin, he excitedly said, "Brother Cui!"
But when he thought about Brother Cui marrying a village woman, he felt a little sad for Brother Cui.
"Brother Cui, it's all my fault. If something hadn't happened at home, I wouldn't have gone back. How could you suddenly..."
Before Liu Ting'an could finish his words, Cui Hejin interrupted him and said, "Let's go inside and talk."
"Okay, okay, let's go inside and talk."
Cui Hejin took Liu Tingan into the inner room.
Two people were talking in the inner room.
After Jiang Zhiluo washed the vegetables, she also washed the fungus. These were the things her parents asked her to bring back.
After washing, she brought it into the house and started chopping leeks and fungus.
There are also scrambled eggs and then the filling is mixed.
After preparing the filling, I placed the panel on the dining table near the stove and started making leek dumplings.
Jiang Zhiluo worked quickly and finished wrapping a leek box in no time.
At this time, Liu Ting'an in the house was still saying uncomfortably: "Brother Cui, I think that village woman is not a very good person. You have been wronged."
Cui Hejin said calmly: "You think too much."
Liu Ting'an continued to talk to himself, "I know, she must have used some tricks to force you to submit. Otherwise, with your talent and looks, you would never marry a village woman."
"I know that the daughter of the bookstore owner has taken a fancy to you. Their family is much better off than the villagers. They offered such a good condition, but you didn't agree."
"You didn't even like the daughter of that bookstore owner, let alone a village woman who can't even read a single word."
Liu Ting'an felt sad for Brother Cui.
Jiang Zhiluo paused as she wrapped the chive dumplings.
The scholar was talking to Cui Hejin in the room. Although the door was closed, his voice was so low that Mrs. Cui could not hear him.
But Jiang Zhiluo has wood-related abilities. Even though her abilities are very weak now, her ears are very sensitive, so she can easily hear even the smallest sounds nearby.
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