Xu Xingchen frowned and stood between the two of them. "Zhang Xiaochun kneeling down to apologize is a bit too much."
"Widow Xu, can't you see my pants? I made him kneel down and apologize, which is good enough. But he looks so poor. Can he afford to pay for it?"
Zhang Xiaochun finished yelling with his neck stiffened. He looked at Xu Xingchen protecting the beggar, his eyes flickering between the two of them. He then muttered, "Hey, Widow Xu, look at the way you're protecting him. I didn't do anything to him, so what's the matter? Is he the man you keep at home?"
As she spoke, she circled around Xu Xingchen and said in amazement: "I can't believe you have such a unique taste."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jun Haoyue shouted with a cold face, "Zhang Xiaochun!"
Zhang Xiaochun immediately reacted like a mouse meeting a cat, "Mr. Jun..."
"This is my home. I don't want to hear anything disparaging about my cousin. Do you understand?"
"But! My pants..." Zhang Xiaochun was unwilling.
"You need to kneel down to apologize, so if my cousin saved you, shouldn't you also kneel down to thank her?"
Zhang Xiaochun choked, "Mr. Jun, this is different!"
Jun Haoyue was calm and composed. "Why are they different? They're both 'Tao'. One is an apology, the other is gratitude. My cousin saved you and the beggar. You are equal. The beggar can kneel down to apologize to you, so why can't I kneel down to thank you?"
When it comes to nitpicking, no one can beat Jun Haoyue, and Zhang Xiaochun is no exception. She doesn't understand the principle behind what Jun Haoyue is talking about, but she thinks it makes a lot of sense.
Zhang Xiaochun opened and closed his mouth but could not utter a word of rebuttal. He felt extremely humiliated and left in a rage.
Xu Xingchen, who was watching from the side, was amazed and still couldn't get enough of it. Jun Haoyue had both verbal and physical output, he was truly a man of both civil and military talents.
After the man left, the beggar said in a low voice: "Sorry, my foot slipped."
Xu Xingchen blinked and replied, "This won't happen again."
The beggar was slightly stunned, then nodded and admitted, "I won't do it next time."
Jun Haoyue watched the two people playing dumb with a stern face, although in his opinion it was not a dumb game. The beggar deliberately tripped and splashed Zhang Xiaochun. He saw it, but he just didn't understand why he did it.
Now it seems that this guy is secretly venting his anger on Xu Xingchen.
Xu Xingchen felt like he could have a good chat with the beggar. He said, "Since you've helped me, we're friends. Let me formally introduce myself. My name is Xu Xingchen, and his name is Jun Haoyue. He's... my cousin."
After a moment's hesitation, the beggar slowly told his name and origin.
It turned out that the beggar's name was Li Tingcen. He was from Shangfeng County, two mountains away from Sanwan Village. His family was destroyed by a fire, and he was the only one who escaped. With nowhere to go, he begged and wandered, and unknowingly came here.
Xu Xingchen felt very sympathetic after hearing this. "That's too tragic. If you have nowhere to go, you can stay with me first."
"This, this is not good. It's mainly because of me...I..." Li Tingcen seemed a little embarrassed to express himself.
"Well, you can recover from your injuries here with me. When you are well, you can do whatever you want. I wish you a bright future."
Li Tingcen moved his lips and just nodded.
......
A few days passed unknowingly, and Li Tingcen's injuries had healed a lot. The wounds on his body had begun to scab over, but the burns on his face left bumpy marks, which looked very creepy.
It was early spring and everyone in the village started farming. Xu Xingchen also planted wheat and sweet potatoes in his own fields, and Li Tingcen volunteered to help.
In order not to scare people, he always covered his face with a scarf when helping Xu Xingchen with farm work. Even in this weather, the scarf was still very hot. His sweat flowed onto the wounds on his face, stinging him and making him gasp.
When he returned, Xu Xingchen had to apply medicine to him again. When he came back from the field that day, his face was festering again due to stuffiness.
Xu Xingchen sighed beside Yao Bian. This was not a good idea. Even if Li Tingcen went out to develop on his own, he would be despised by others because of his ruined appearance.
At night, she opened the system backpack and stared at the attributes of the Peacock Spirit in a trance.
Peacock Spirit: Peacock feathers have the function of beautifying and repairing...
The next day, Xu Xingchen and Li Tingcen went to the fields together. The villagers they passed by all walked around them and complained a few words.
"Oh, I'm so scared. You're going out like this. Are you trying to scare people to death?"
"That's right. If it were me, I wouldn't dare go out."
Xu Xingchen glared at them angrily, and the villagers shut up and walked away dejectedly.
"You..." She wanted to say something to comfort him.
Li Tingcen shook his head and said, "It's okay. I'll get used to it slowly. I'll hear more of this kind of talk when I go out in the future." He is very self-aware.
Xu Xingchen frowned at his passive and negative thoughts and had to change the subject, "What do you want to do in the future?"
He looked up at the blue sky and said in a distant voice, "I want to take the imperial examination."
"If I graduate from high school, I will definitely come back and repay you."
Xu Xingchen settled down. Li Tingcen was a respectable man who knew how to repay kindness. It was too unfair for such a man to have such a face. So she secretly made a decision.
When Xu Xingchen got home from work in the evening, she immediately went to the lab and came out with a blue-purple stone with a green glow in her hand. She saw the peacock spirit in her backpack with a feather icon and thought it was a feather, but it turned out to be a stone.
Jun Haoyue also came out of the greenhouse. Seeing what she was holding, he called out to her, "Xingchen, what are you doing?"
Xu Xingchen answered irrelevantly: "Oh, this was brought back by Mundun'er."
He knew it was something Menduner had brought back. "Leave it to me. I'll grind it into powder."
As if he knew everything, Jun Haoyue did not ask what this thing was used for, and Xu Xingchen's answer verified his guess.
"Uh, that's not good. I'll do it myself. After all, I saved the person."
"Your arm is still injured, let me do it."
Jun Haoyue's words were not wrong. Her arm hadn't fully healed yet, and she felt sore when she exerted any force. Helplessly, she had to hand it over to him, "You must be careful when grinding it. Mundun'er only brought back this one, and without Li Tingcen's face, there's no way to heal it."
Xu Xingchen is someone he cares about, but this person always disregards her own safety and always hurts her body and mind for strangers. Jun Haoyue hopes that she can consider herself more.
He had good intentions and didn't want her to worsen her injuries, but this person kept nagging about others.
"I know! Xu Xingchen, can you please be more self-reliant?"
Jun Haoyue had rarely spoken to Xingchen so loudly before. Xu Xingchen was stunned. Was he angry with him?
Li Tingcen heard a tone similar to a quarrel and came out of the bamboo house to watch. Before he could say anything, Jun Haoyue said in a cold tone with a blank expression: "I'm going to grind flour." Then he left the yard.
Xu Xingchen was still wondering why Jun Haoyue was angry.
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