Unable to persuade Grandma Xu, Village Chief Xu had no choice but to agree to her request. After breakfast, he took Shu Jiaying to the ferry at the edge of the village.
At that moment, a boatman was soliciting passengers on the shore. He saw Xu Li following a masked girl from afar. Although he was suspicious, the boatman still greeted her warmly, "Mr. Village Head, are you in town again for business? Come... quickly get on the boat. We'll set sail once you're aboard."
Village Chief Xu smiled slightly and nodded.
"Yes, helping with some errands and paperwork.
Erlang...thank you for giving me that big fish yesterday, it was really delicious."
The boatman Erleng shook his hands embarrassedly.
"Hey...it's just a fish. Do you have to be so polite to me, Mr. Village Head? Besides, people in our village don't eat fish because they dislike the fishy smell. I was worried you would mind at the time!"
"No, no, no..." After helping Shu Jiaying onto the boat and letting her sit down, Village Chief Xu continued, "Brother Lengzi, you're so polite. By the way, I heard you say Xiaohua had a fever yesterday. How is she now?"
Speaking of his daughter Xiaohua, Erlang's eyes began to dim as he lowered his head, but when he raised his head, his natural look returned. He said lightly, "It's okay. My boat has arrived in town this time, and I'm going to Zhenghetang to find a doctor to prescribe some fever-reducing medicine.
"Captain Xu, I might be returning to Guangming Village early today. I think you can take Boss Zhu's boat after you finish your business. His boat leaves later than mine, so he won't be returning too early."
Village Chief Xu immediately responded, "It's okay, Lengzi. It's more important to get medicine for Xiaohua. Don't worry about us returning to the village."
"Um!"
After talking to Village Chief Xu, Erlang finally couldn't help but cast his gaze on Shu Jiaying. In fact, he knew Shu Jiaying, but wasn't old man Shu's ugly daughter a person who never left the house?
It's rare that she left the village today.
What's even more surprising is that she is actually together with Xu Lichang?
Could it be that something major happened to the Shu family?
Thinking of this, Erlang turned his curious gaze back to Village Chief Xu.
"Mr. Village Head, are you bringing Old Man Shu's daughter with you to the town to do some business?"
Village Chief Xu smiled nonchalantly.
"Why not?"
However, when he met Erlang's inquiring gaze and thought of the situation yesterday evening when Shu Guozhong and his wife broke into his house and caused trouble, Village Chief Xu felt that it would be better to give a good explanation.
In front of everyone on the boat, he said to Erlang, "My mother accidentally sprained her ankle while working at home a few days ago. She is now very inconvenient to move around, so I specially hired Jiaying, the maid from the Shu family, to come to my house and take care of my mother for a few days.
Today, Jiaying didn't exactly accompany me to the town to do some business. She was asked by my mother to take the eggs that my family had saved up over the past few days to the town to sell.
I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I don't want to trouble Jiaying, but I really can't do the job of selling eggs, so I can only ask Jiaying to run to my house for me."
"Uncle Xu, it's not unfair. It's just a small favor."
“…”
The matter was explained clearly, and everyone on the boat said "Oh" in unison. Then no one was curious about why Shu Jiaying was with Village Chief Xu anymore.
The passenger wooden boat sailed for more than twenty minutes before Shu Jiaying and Village Chief Xu finally arrived at Tianhe Town.
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