No matter how stupid Yang Donghu was, he could see that Su He was provoking him.
It turned out that Su He's weird attitude towards him was not an illusion. It turned out that she was completely focused on Zhao Luochuan. She didn't want to be friends with him at all. Her plan to teach him embroidery was fake. Her real intention was to sow discord between them.
"What do you mean by that?"
Seeing that he was angry, Su He put down the things in her hand and said apologetically: "I just said it casually. It happened a few years ago. You didn't think it was the wrong thing. If you mind, I won't mention it again. It's my fault. Don't be angry."
"I mind it very much." Yang Donghu frowned and pursed his lips tightly: "You let a stranger use your handkerchief?"
"I didn't think too much about it at the time. Seeing that Dachuan was very tired, I got anxious..."
"If Zhao Luochuan knew that his kindness in helping you had turned into a tool for you to stab him, I wonder if he would regret helping you." Yang Donghu cast a sharp look at Su He.
Su He's eyes dodged, not daring to look directly into Yang Donghu's sharp gaze: "I was just saying it casually..."
Yang Donghu interrupted, "You didn't just say it casually. You meant it. You know better than I do what a handkerchief, such a personal item, represents. Regardless of whether what you say is true or not, if I believe it, it will create a rift between him and me. I don't doubt all the help you say he gave you, but I believe him."
"But I bet you that he definitely didn't take your handkerchief. As for praising Yuanyang's beauty, it was just a compliment. He probably didn't take it to heart. If you misunderstood it, you must be overthinking it."
Su He blushed at these words, but she still refused to give up and said, "You said it nicely, I believe he would still be so angry."
"You know what? Zhao Luochuan promised my grandmother to take care of me. Even though he and Wang Dujuan were almost enemies, he never made things difficult for me just because I'm her child and have her blood flowing in my veins. I've been with him for so long. If you think you can drive a wedge between us with just one sentence, that's ridiculous."
Yang Donghu said coldly, "I'm not angry because I believed you, but because his kindness was wasted. We shouldn't be ungrateful. Others can say whatever they want about him, but you can't use him as a scapegoat."
"He helped me, why didn't he help me to the end? He was able to pull me back from the brink of life and death, so why didn't he give me a little more support? He saved me and gave me hope, but why did he let me despair? I have waited for him for so long, why didn't he look back at me?"
Su He stood up and asked sternly with red eyes.
"He saved you simply because he saw injustice, nothing else. Even if it wasn't you, he would still have saved you."
"You don't understand. This is between him and me. No matter how much you say, it's useless. Even if you refuse, I want to hear it from him in person."
Yang Donghu said so much to her, but seeing that she was still stubborn, he shook his head helplessly and said firmly: "It's up to you, but you are not welcome in my house. Don't come here again."
"I don't care."
Su He packed all her things into the sewing basket, then left angrily. Because of her anger, her steps seemed a little unsteady, and she stumbled as she crossed the gate.
It’s hard to persuade a damn ghost with kind words. Yang Donghu had said all he wanted to say and was too lazy to care about her anymore.
Some anger cannot be expressed in front of others, just like now, Yang Donghu took off all the willow knots on the window sill and threw them in the corner.
It's so indecent. He complimented a girl on her beautiful handkerchief without any sense of propriety. Bah, you can reply or not.
Yang Donghu still felt unsatisfied, so he stuffed the washed clothes back into the box without even folding them, and just stuffed them all in at once.
Wear your moldy clothes!
Zhao Luochuan, who had just come down from the mountain, didn't know that his hornet's nest had been taken away by someone else. He was waiting for him to come back angrily and sting him all over.
Although we went up the mountain a little late this time, fortunately we were lucky. The prey were still the common ones, but the number was greater than that of the previous year. We also brought back a nest of newly born rabbits.
The female rabbit's legs were broken by the trap while struggling, and if they were left on the mountain, they would be dead.
There was only one flock of chickens at home and the yard was spacious, so Zhao Luochuan simply took all the rabbits back home. Since the rabbits could not be sold at a high price, he kept them for himself.
The female rabbit weighed several pounds, but there was only one, so it wouldn't be worth much if sold. I went home and bandaged its legs and kept it together.
The cart that was pushed up was fully loaded. The traps where they hunted deer last year were still there. Zhao Luochuan and Zhao Fangyu slightly modified the traps and redesigned the mechanisms.
It was actually still usable and quite powerful, successfully capturing an adult wild deer.
During the twenty days or so they stayed in the mountains, they caught three goats, one wild deer, several wild rabbits, a large wild musk deer, and several various birds.
Zhao Luochuan calculated the price on the mountain. Excluding the wild rabbit, the rest of the items added up to about eighty or ninety taels.
They had been in the mountains for nearly a month, and Zhao Luochuan was completely focused on returning home. The two of them didn't get much rest along the way. When they got home, Yang Donghu was playing clay sculptures with Zhao Fangchu in Zhu Cuilan's yard.
This idea was thought up by Zhao Fangchu. He saw that anything could be baked in the earthen kiln, so he asked Yang Donghu to mix the yellow mud and make small figures and put them in the earthen kiln. If the figures were small, they would be kept in the earthen kiln for a few hours. Except for the color, the figures would be similar in shape to those sold outside.
Zhao Luochuan was extremely conspicuous along the way pulling the cart. The troublemakers in the village followed them since they entered the village, craning their necks to see what was inside.
Su He couldn't hide such a big commotion from her ears. She quickly dressed herself up, washed Xiao Shanli's face, and hurried to see Zhao Luochuan with the child in her arms.
"Winter Lake!"
Yang Donghu looked at the man at the door with a blatant smile on his face. He was overwhelmed by this sudden joy and stood there in a daze for a moment.
"Brother! Brother Okawa!"
Zhao Fangchu's shouting brought him back to his senses, and he spoke: "Why are you..."
Zhao Luochuan parked the cart at the door, strode up to Yang Donghu, and hugged him in his arms.
The people outside watching the fun suddenly became excited, and the sound of teasing was endless.
"Yo yo yo, I'm holding you, I'm holding you."
Zhao Luochuan blocked out all the noise outside. He finally held the person he had been thinking about day and night in his arms. His heart was beating violently. He leaned over to Yang Donghu's ear and took a deep breath. The breath he exhaled was as hot as a raging fire: "I miss you so much."
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