Chapter 167: Stealth
Song Ruize was wandering at the door of Tang's house. Hearing the footsteps getting closer, he turned around and moved forward, pretending to look seriously in the direction of the field.
Tang Luwu came out holding a wooden basin filled with pig offal.
She planned to go to the river to clean the pig offal and make the braised pork intestines that Qin Huiyin liked to eat in the evening.
As she walked out, she saw Song Ruize standing with his back to her and asked in confusion, "Are you here to look for Yinyin?"
Song Ruize turned around when he heard the voice and asked calmly, "How is her foot?"
"Yinyin is resting inside, go in and ask her!" Tang Luwu said, "Everyone is busy outside now, only Yinyin is left, and she is bored."
"No need." Song Ruize said calmly, "I'm going into the city soon."
"Oh..." Tang Luwu ignored him and walked away carrying the wooden basin.
Song Ruize looked towards the door, his eyes full of confusion. After a while, he looked around and slowly moved towards the door of the Tang family.
If Tang Yichen could step into his house, why couldn't he go in and find Yinyin?
When Song Ruize moved into the gate, Tang Luwu, who was supposed to leave, poked her head out from the corner, with gossip burning in her eyes.
"Yinyin said that most men say one thing and mean another, especially those who don't show their emotions. It's even harder to understand what's going on. This Song Ruize's personality is even more awkward than a woman's."
If you want to care about Yinyin, then just go in and find her. Is their Tang family a dangerous place?
Qin Huiyin heard that there was no one outside, so she got out of bed, took out a semi-finished facial mask from the cabinet, and continued to tinker with her beauty artifact.
Knock, knock! Someone is knocking on the window.
Qin Huiyin stuck her head out, looked outside, and saw Song Ruize standing by the window.
"Why are you here? Come in, what are you doing standing here?"
"No need, I'll just stand here for a while." Song Ruize said calmly, "How is your foot injury?"
"I've been fine for a long time, but no one believes me and insists that I take a break. I'm now the most idle person in the family." Qin Huiyin complained. "You've been tired for so long, it's time to take a break." Song Ruize said calmly, "Walk around slowly and see if the place where I set your bones still hurts?"
Qin Huiyin walked out and turned around in front of Song Ruize: "How is it? I said it's okay."
"Although I'm fine now, I still need to be careful when I walk these days and not walk too fast. If I sprain my ankle again, it may not be so easy to recover."
"Okay." Qin Huiyin agreed obediently. "Are you going back to the city?"
"Yes, come over and tell you."
"I'll go prepare some dried fish for you." Qin Huiyin walked towards the kitchen.
Song Ruize stopped her: "Don't go. If you keep spoiling their appetite like this, they will become a bunch of parasites that will cling to you in the future."
"It's not a valuable thing anyway, so they can eat it if they want. I can afford it. They work for you and helped you a lot this time. You should thank them."
Song Ruize picked her up and walked towards the kitchen.
Qin Huiyin felt a little embarrassed, and looked at Song Ruize's cold face and said, "You should smile more in the future. Even if they are your friends, you will scare them away if you always have a cold face."
Song Ruize moved his lips and fell silent.
After entering the kitchen, Qin Huiyin wrapped six packets of fried dried fish, six packets of braised meat, and six portions of seasoning sauce in oil paper.
"Brother Erzhu will also be back in the city tomorrow, so you can take his share as well! One for each of the six of you. Oh, you asked for help this time, didn't you? Pack two more bags. You also have to maintain your relationship with Yang Baotou and Brother Xiang, and that yamen runner is also a very good person, so take a few more bags of fried fish."
Song Ruize held the back of her hand and shook his head gently: "This is the source of your money. You are always so generous. Can you really make money? The six of us can just share one portion. The two yamen runners who helped me and Yang Baotou and the others can each take a bag of dried fish. Put away the rest. Don't be so generous."
“Wouldn’t that be too stingy?”
"No. I'll treat them to dinner."
"That's good. You should make friends as much as possible. One more friend means one more way. But you also have to be careful of bad people. Some treacherous villains say one thing in public and another in private. And..."
Qin Huiyin tried hard to recall the traps that Song Ruize would fall into during his novice period, but she found that apart from knowing that he always met evil people with ulterior motives, she knew nothing about the rest of the plot.
Song Ruize looked at Qin Huiyin who was talking nonsense, reached out and touched her hair, with a complex expression in her eyes that he himself could not understand.
"Ahem..." Tang Yichen didn't know when he came back, nor how long he had been standing at the kitchen door. He coughed lightly, interrupting the warm interaction between Song Ruize and Qin Huiyin.
Song Ruize picked up Qin Huiyin, and when he passed by Tang Yichen, he glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and walked past him with a cold face.
Tang Yichen's gaze rested on Song Ruize's arm.
The two men are of similar age and height, but their physical strength is very different.
Song Ruize has been hunting in the mountains since he was a child. He is so skilled that even the adult men in the village are no match for him, let alone his peers. Tang Yichen has been studying and writing for many years. Even if he learned some riding and shooting skills in the academy, they are just superficial, and are definitely different from Song Ruize's ability that he has gained through fighting wild beasts.
Tang Yichen raised his arm and moved his wrist.
No, too thin.
He has to exercise.
Song Ruize left with Qin Huiyin's thoughts.
Qin Huiyin stood at the window and watched him leave until his figure completely disappeared. She was about to go back to continue tinkering with her skin care products, but she heard the sound of chopping wood.
She turned her head and saw Tang Yichen chopping firewood with an axe.
Qin Huiyin: “…”
Tang Yichen rolled up his sleeves, tied up his clothes, and chopped firewood again and again.
Song Tieniu and Zhang Jieba usually chopped firewood for their family. At this time, a lot of chopped firewood had been piled up in the corner of the yard, and it would not be used up even if it was used continuously for five days. This firewood did not have to be chopped.
Qin Huiyin did not disturb Tang Yichen.
Come on, young people should do more and move more, and just reading books is not enough. Usually Tang Yichen is buried in books and almost forgets what normal life is like.
Tang Yichen chopped for a while and his palms turned red.
He looked at his palm with disdain and said, "That guy can chase prey for days and nights, but I can't even chop wood? No, I must not lose to him."
There are many people of the same age in the village, but Tang Yichen has paid special attention to Song Ruize since he was a child. It's just that Song Ruize used to be a demon that everyone in the village avoided. He was a child prodigy who was good at studying, and he didn't need to take him seriously. Now it's different. His sister seems to like Song Ruize more. As her legitimate brother, he must not let the "wild brother" outside take his place.
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