The next day, Qiuhua and Erhua went home after breakfast. When they left, Tang Sannan gave them a bag of sugarcane that he had bought in the morning.
The two of them walked leisurely on the road. Erhua took out a piece of sugarcane and gave it to each of them, and they chewed it as they walked.
Qingming Festival has not arrived yet, so sugarcane is still edible, but the taste is much lighter than during the Chinese New Year.
"Brother, I want to ask you something." Qiuhua asked after spitting out the residue in his mouth.
"Ask, why are you so hesitant?"
"What do you think of Sister Luo Zhen?"
Erhua paused for a moment, then immediately went back to chewing sugarcane as if nothing had happened and said, "What's wrong? Of course he's a good person."
"Brother, you're just being silly. I asked you what you thought of my sister. Didn't Xu Guoqing say that Master Tang might be looking for you as his son-in-law?"
"Aren't you ashamed to say these things, you little bitch? Talk about recruiting a son-in-law? That's not true. It's nonsense."
Speaking of this, Erhua felt inexplicably uncomfortable. He didn't want to mention this matter, and even didn't want to mention Luo Zhen to Qiuhua.
"Big brother already has Sister Xiaojuan, and I'm just worried about you. You're not much younger than Big Brother, so don't you want to get married?" Qiuhua thought he was being too kind and said, "You don't look like you're interested in Sister. But Sister is different..."
She kept it a secret for a moment, but Erhua became nervous. He cared about what Luo Zhen thought of him, so he kept fighting with himself and was very stubborn.
"What did she say about me?"
"Does it matter? Since you don't want to hear it anyway, just ignore her thoughts."
After eating a piece of sugarcane, Qiuhua wiped his hands on his clothes. His mouth felt sweet and he felt much more comfortable.
"Well, you see, I'm going to study at Master's house for several years anyway, so it's normal for me to be concerned about what Senior Sister thinks of me."
Qiu Hua didn't say anything. He seemed to have thought of something. He stopped and asked angrily, "Brother, tell me the truth, do you dislike Sister Luo Zhen's lame leg?"
Erhua was stunned. He didn't expect that his sister actually thought about him. He didn't dare to speak or even look at her. He knew that he was despicable. He clearly felt the intentions of Luo Zhen and his master, but pretended to know nothing and enjoyed their kindness to him with peace of mind.
"Speak up!"
Qiuhua felt angry. She knew her brother too well. He was just that kind of person, conscious of face and pretentious. If Sister Luo Zhen was not lame, he would definitely rush to get close to her. It was a pity that a young lady with Sister's conditions would not look down on him if she was not lame.
"Your silence means you agree. It's a shame that I still think you're a good person! You actually despise her lame leg. If she knew, she would be so sad!"
"Don't tell her!" Erhua finally spoke.
The two of them were moving even slower. Qiuhua was furious. It was ok that her brother was idle most of the time, but now he was so mean. He was simply despicable. He lived so comfortably in Master Tang's house, but he had no gratitude at all and even despised the other man's daughter for having a lame leg.
"How could you do this? They were so nice to you, and now you're disgusted by my lame leg!"
Qiuhua's tone was bad, and his whole body was shaking with anger.
“You’re so mean!”
This sentence immediately ignited Erhua. If he felt a little guilty just now, now he was just angry.
He yelled, "Just because they're nice to me, I'm going to marry their lame daughter? Are they saving my life or something? In your eyes, I, Erhua, am inferior to Dahua. He's worthy of the director's daughter, but I can only be worthy of a cripple!"
"Don't forget that you are my sister. We both have the surname Liang, so we are a family. Are you trying to force me to marry a cripple so that I can't hold my head up in the village?"
"If you all think this way, I won't learn this craft!"
After Erhua finished speaking, he left Qiuhua there and walked quickly forward. Qiuhua was stunned by what he said and didn't react for a while. She only jogged after him after he had gone far away.
"Brother, please walk slower!" Erhua ignored her. Qiuhua also felt that she had spoken too harshly. "Brother, please walk slower. I shouldn't have said that you were mean."
Erhua suddenly stopped again, and the entanglement and unwillingness that had been accumulating for so long suddenly burst out.
"I'm telling you, this kind of thing doesn't mean I should marry her just because they're nice to me. You have to care about whether I'm willing or not. Their kindness has put me on a pedestal, so do I have to stay in that half-high position of being a nice guy and can't come down? I won't!"
Qiuhua was silent. Erhua was right. She thought Sister Luo Zhen was a good girl, so it was natural for her to think that Erhua and she should be a match. She even thought it was wrong for Erhua to despise her lame leg.
"Sister Luo Zhen is a good person!"
"I know!" Erhua sat down on the ground angrily. "She's pretty and a good person. If she wasn't lame..."
He didn't say anything more, but Qiuhua understood immediately. Erhua was clearly enjoying the benefits of her good impression of him, and now he was disgusted by her lameness, but he didn't explain it to her, and kept her hanging and dragging.
"You clearly know what she means, but you dislike her in your heart and don't say it clearly. In order to learn the craft from Master Tang, you let her think that you are interested too. This, this, this..."
Erhua's face flushed red. Although Qiuhua was young, she had always been the most transparent and transparent among their brothers and sisters. She suddenly exposed the darkness in his heart, which he could not accept.
That's right, he had Luo Zhen in his heart. Before he saw her limp, he even felt that he was not worthy of her at all. There were so many young women in the village, but none of them could be more beautiful than her. Master Tang was also a rosewood master, the only child of a wealthy family. There was no way it would be the turn of Liang Erhua, who had neither good looks nor family background!
The two were speechless for a moment.
After a while, Qiu Hua slowly said, "Brother, if you go back this time, you should explain everything to Sister."
Erhua nodded. He had been a jerk for more than ten years, and now he was still being jerk to such a good little mermaid. He was really a piece of shit.
"Okay, I'll explain it to her after Qingming Festival. If Master doesn't want me to learn the craft anymore, then I'll accept it."
Qiuhua sighed, not knowing whether what she was doing was right or not. Seeing that life at home was getting better and better, and her mom and dad were so happy because Erhua was learning a craft, now it seemed that all this was about to be ruined.
"Let's not tell my family yet. Maybe Master Tang is still willing to let you continue studying? Master Tang is also very good!"
Erhua nodded, but he had no idea in his heart. He was the one who had let his master and Luo Zhen down, and he deserved it!
"Let's go. We can get some work done if we get home early."
The two set out again. No one knew what the future held, so they decided to take it one step at a time.
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