Chapter 87 You Said It, I Believe It
Song Yuntang was stunned.
"What wish?"
Before Lin Jingyao could answer, Xu Yongwang, who had just turned the corner in the direction of East Street and saw Song Yuntang and Xu Qingye, shouted excitedly, "Qingye, Yuntang girl, you two have met each other. I was wondering why this boy hasn't come for so long. I thought something happened to him."
Xu Yongwang's powerful voice is hard to ignore.
Song Yuntang looked at him and said with a smile, "Nothing happened. I just happened to meet him when I was buying rice, and Brother Xu helped me carry it for a while."
"That's a coincidence."
Xu Yongwang got off the ox cart with a smile, and together with Xu Qingye, moved the bag of rice onto the ox cart.
However, there were too many things piled on the ox cart, and there was also a middle-aged woman with neatly combed hair and Xu Qingye's grandmother, Mrs. Hu, sitting on it, so there was no room for more people to sit.
"Oh! There's no more room to sit." No matter how Xu Yongwang tidied, he couldn't find room for his buttocks.
After Song Yuntang and Hu greeted the unfamiliar woman, they turned to look at the car full of things.
"Uncle bought so many things. Did you have guests at home?"
Xu Yongwang laughed, "Silly girl, who would buy so many things for a guest? These are the betrothal gifts I was planning to give you. Didn't Qingye tell you?"
Song Yuntang glanced in the direction of Xu Qingye, then immediately looked away.
"No." Then he said, "There are too many things in the car, so I won't go up. This place is not far from where I live. I will lead the way for uncle."
After saying that, he turned around with an unnatural look and walked towards the southern suburbs.
Seeing this, Xu Yongwang jumped on the ox cart and looked at Xu Qingye who was still standing there. He said anxiously, "Come on, do you still want to ride the ox cart?"
Xu Qingye glanced in the direction of Lin Jingyao, then raised his legs and followed Song Yuntang's footsteps.
As a man, there was something hidden in the look in Lin Jingyao's eyes when he looked at Song Yuntang. Song Yuntang couldn't understand it, but he could see it.
Just now he was indeed thinking about what Lin Jingyao said, if she was engaged to him just to piss off another man, instead of thinking that he was suitable as her marriage partner.
He had to reconsider the relationship between the two.
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In the carriage, Lin Jingyao clenched his fists tightly, his face so gloomy that it seemed as if water could drip out of it.
Give the betrothal gift!
The Xu family came to town today just to give her a betrothal gift!
Just to make herself angry, she actually went to this extent!
But looking at her expression just now, it was obvious that she had already had some interactions with the Xu family, and they got along quite well. Maybe she did mean to be angry with him at the beginning, but she was afraid that after getting along for a long time, she would really have different thoughts about Xu Qingye.
Although Xu Qingye came from the countryside, his knowledge was no less than his own before he fell ill.
She really found a good opponent for him.
Then he thought again and rejected his previous idea. Xu Qingye was just a scholar now and could not be considered his opponent.
Awang sat outside holding the reins and called out carefully to the carriage, "Sir, are we still going to the county town?"
"Mr. Ding and I have an appointment to meet today, so I have to go." He paused and said, "When you come back tomorrow, go and find out where she lives now. From what they just said, it seems that she has moved to the town."
Awang said yes and drove away in the carriage.
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Seeing Xu Qingye catching up, Song Yuntang slowed down his pace to keep pace with him and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't you tell me that you were here to pay your betrothal gift?"
Xu Qingye said calmly, "I haven't had time to say it yet."
Song Yuntang looked back at the carriage that was already moving in the opposite direction and continued, "Lin Jingyao was successful at a young age and has some blind self-confidence. Don't believe what he says."
After all, Xu Qingye is my engagement partner, so it’s better to talk it out with him.
Xu Qingye looked at her.
"He said that you got engaged to me just to make me angry. Is that true?"
Some things must be clarified.
"If I tell you, will you believe it?" Song Yuntang asked.
She could understand that Xu Qingye had his own pride. If she was getting engaged to him just to find a suitable marriage partner, he might be happy in his heart. Even if they could not love each other in the future, they could at least respect each other. But if she was getting engaged to him just to piss off Lin Jingyao, he would definitely feel that he was being fooled, and would distance himself from her even if they were engaged.
Xu Qingye nodded without hesitation.
"If you say it, I will believe it."
"He and I were just siblings in the past, that's all. I did say some stupid things to stay in the Lin family, but that doesn't mean I have feelings for him." Song Yuntang looked at Xu Qingye and said seriously, "I didn't get engaged to you just to piss him off."
She continued walking forward.
"I proposed to get engaged to you at that time, on the one hand because I didn't want my family to continue to introduce me to some messy people, on the other hand I also wanted to put the Huang family's mind at rest, and the most important point is that I think you are suitable."
Xu Qingye turned his head to look at her, and his lips, which were originally tightly pursed, slightly raised.
Unless that's the reason.
No matter what she said or did with Lin Jingyao in the past, it didn’t matter.
“Why do you think I’m suitable?”
Song Yuntang counted on his fingers and said, "He is mature and steady, tall and handsome, well-educated, and of the right age. Most importantly, he is not old-fashioned and can understand many of my actions. I'm afraid it's hard to find another person like him in the entire Cile Town."
Take Lin Jingyao for example. Although they are both scholars, he feels that he is a heretic.
Hearing her answer, Xu Qingye couldn't help laughing.
"The rest is fine, but how can you say something like the age is the same?"
Song Yuntang naturally couldn't tell the truth about this, and just said, "I think the seven-year age difference is quite appropriate..."
Then she thought about it and said with a strange look on her face, "No, I'm so much younger than you. Normally, wouldn't the man be secretly happy? Why do you want me to comfort you?"
Looking at her appearance, Xu Qingye couldn't help laughing out loud.
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