"I..." Wang Jiajia blushed and looked at me timidly: "Sister Mu doesn't let me say it, he says yes... If I tell you the truth, I'm afraid you will be angry."

This girl is so anxious!

I rested the burden on my shoulders, took off the iron bucket she carried, and grabbed her shoulder with both hands: "Say! I'm not angry."

"I... I went to Sister Nuanxin once and talked about the things you ignored me. I felt sad, and was just caught by Sister Mu. She said... She said that she is the best at dealing with men, and promises... As long as I follow her arrangements, I guarantee you to hold you tightly."

I looked at the woman in front of me in shock, and I don’t know when in her eyes, I became a prey and were plotted to lead me into a trap.

"Then you discussed how to deal with me?" I asked casually.

"Sister Mu said that some men are... just being mean. If you keep treating him wholeheartedly, he will feel bored.

Only by being yourself well and becoming more independent will you naturally not be inferior to your suitors. I have told you this before - flowers bloom and butterflies come.

Sister Mu said, ignore him for a while, and then carefully observe his reaction:

If he is indifferent, it means that he really has no feelings for you and he doesn't have to waste time on him.

If he wants to get close to you in turn, it means that he actually cares about you in his heart, but he himself didn't know it.

At this time, continue to neglect him, and then occasionally give him some sweetness, acting close and distant, making him worried about gains and losses."

As Wang Jiajia spoke, her voice became smaller and smaller, but I heard it very clearly. It turned out that Wang Jiajia's performances these days were all about Madam Mu's advice behind the scenes. Only I, without knowing it, was confused by her.

"So that's the case." I couldn't laugh or cry.

"I'm sorry, brother Jianghu, I...I think this is not good. I shouldn't play tricks on you. If you are angry, it's good to beat me and scold me, but..." Wang Jiajia covered her mouth with her hands and sobbed: "I'm sorry...I really like you...I...I want to try it to see if you can like me too."

Looking at the woman who was crying in front of me, I felt a little distressed. She wiped the tears from her face with her sleeves. Her original exquisite makeup was all worn out, and even the scar returned to its true colors.

"Follower!" I hugged her in my arms: "Congratulations, your conspiracy succeeded."

"Brother Jianghu...what did you say?"

"Haha, stop crying, I'm not angry, I don't blame you, I want to thank you: Thank you for letting me discover who the person I really like, thank you for always loving me..."

I comforted me, my nose sore, and tears came down. I knew that a big man was embarrassed to cry, but I couldn't hold it back for a while. Because I could show my instinct in front of her, we are childhood sweethearts, what hadn't she seen before me?

After a while, we separated and looked at each other with four eyes, tears on our faces and smiles mixed together.

"Is it cold? Let's go back first." I picked up her hand and put the stove in my arms into her.

"Brother Jianghu." Wang Jiajia shouted sweetly.

I put the two loads on my shoulders together, and gave me a free hand to hold her hand: "You just said to Lin Sheng, 'The imperial envoy has sent a group of spies to sneak into the inside of Tubo'. Is that what Madam Mu taught you?"

"Well. I mentioned it last time outside the West City Gate. I don't know if the red-faced ghost head is in my heart, so I'll remind him again today."

"Then... did Xiao Mu really arrange someone to be an insider?"

Wang Jiajia shook her head straight: "I don't know this."

I was puzzled again: "Since Madam Mu knew that Lin Sheng was a ghost-faced man, why didn't she tell Xiao Mu?"

Wang Jiajia thought for a while: "Why do you think Sister Mu didn't report it? Maybe Xiao Mu had known it a long time ago, but there was no definite evidence, so we asked him to check it out in detail."

"Well, there is such a possibility." I nodded, and suddenly felt that Wang Jiajia had changed a lot. I used to call him a silly girl, but now it seems that she is quite smart.

The journey was hard, and at least there were people with me, talking and laughing, but I didn’t feel that it was too cold, tired and difficult to leave.

When we arrived at the door of our house, Wang Jiajia and the others had locks hanging on the gate of the courtyard. At this time, is there something wrong with the governor's mansion?

Wang Jiajia touched her body: "I seem to have forgotten to bring the key."

"Go to my house."

After walking ten steps forward, Wang Jiajia pushed the door and pursed her lips again: "It's locked inside."

I put down my burden and pushed the door: "What are my mother doing? What door is tied up before it is dark? My mother! My mother! I'm back!"

A few footsteps came to the door, and the door finally opened, but it was Fatty Wang who opened the door. He was wearing a brand new winter dress, his hair was a little messy, and the beard on his lips was cleaned up very clean.

"Oh, Jianghu is back." He glanced at me, his face turned red, and he quickly bent over to pick up the burden on the ground: "Go in quickly, go in quickly, it's cold outside, go to the fire in the room."

"Yes, Master." I replied.

"Why is Aye here? I thought you were still in the government office and didn't come back." Wang Jiajia asked, helping me put the burden under the eaves.

"Haha, it's cold today and nothing is going to happen. I've been back a long time ago. Your mother made me a new dress and came to try it."

"Jianghu and Jiajia are back." Ah Niang also came out, her face flushed. It must be because of the fire for a long time.

"Mom." Wang Jiajia still greeted intimately.

"It's too cold today, and there are few people going out. If it weren't for Liu Jiabao's help, I would have almost been sold out."

As I said, when I entered the house, I saw that the sporadic pieces of charcoal in the brazier in the main room burning the last warmth and would be extinguished at any time.

Fatty Wang also noticed this scene, quickly uncovered the lid on the jar next to him, picked up some new charcoal with tongs, and added it carefully. He blew it gently for a few times, and the bright red flames finally rushed up.

Wang Jiajia and I looked at each other and sat by the fire to roast our hands. We only felt that the atmosphere in the room was a little wrong.

After Wang Jiajia finished telling the story of Liu Jiabao helping us, Ah Niang brought over more than a dozen taros and buried them in the charcoal ash. Then she put an iron tripod on the charcoal fire and put a pot on it.

"What are you cooking?" I asked, and when I opened the lid of the pot, I saw that it was just a pot of clean water.

"I only know how to eat every day!" My grandmother slapped me in my hand and re-covered the pot: "Our family is pretty good. Although we don't have big fish and meat every meal, we can also guarantee three meals a day. Unlike some people, we only eat two meals a day."

"My mother is talking about it recently. Since I took over the tofu stall and had more ways to make money, I have eaten a few full meals according to order.

In the past, we had two meals a day. We were busy in the morning, and we had to sell the goods on the street for a while or we were willing to buy something to eat after selling them. Then we were busy again. We had to wait until it was almost dark before dinner started, and we fell asleep when we were hungry."

I sighed, looking around at the newly built wall, I suddenly felt that in just over half a year, my family had changed a lot.

"Haha, I remember that in the past, my brother always liked to run out of the wilderness. In spring, I went to the bamboo forest outside the West City to make bamboo shoots, in summer, I went to the river to fish and shrimps, in autumn, I went to the mountains to find wild fruits, and in winter, I set up a few bamboo baskets to catch wild game. Haha, there are ways to find food all year round," Wang Jiajia laughed, her bright eyes like twinkling stars under the fire.

Thinking of the hard days before, I also smiled: "You just told me, when did you not go? When did I find food, you didn't eat?"

Ah my grandmother added a few more pieces of charcoal: "Okay, you two, you have basically never let you suffer since you were young.

Those days were nothing? I remember when I was a child, one year when I was famine, I had eaten all the surplus grains at home, so my mother went to the mountain to dig wild vegetables and cooked them with bran.

Some people can’t even dig wild vegetables, so they can cook bark and grass roots.

Alas, now thinking about it, I really don’t know how I got through those days.”

"Yes, you are living a life like a god now. We have caught up with it and can enjoy it. I just hope that it will always be such a peaceful and stable life. I hope that the war will not burn us to Xiangzhou." Fatty Wang also sighed.

"Okay, I'm worried about it here again!" Ah Niang elbowed him hard: "Isn't there an imperial envoy? How could he let Tubo come over?"

"The imperial envoy... Alas, I've never seen the imperial envoy for some time. That kid... Well, Xiao Mu, what has he been busy with recently? We..." Fatty Wang leaned over to the door and looked at it, and then said, "We are also Tianyan Spy, so we won't arrange some tasks for us?"

Wang Jiajia picked up a branch and poked the charcoal to play, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Didn't Brother Jianghu arrange a task for you? You are incompetent and have not found valuable clues."

"I... Fatty Wang frowned: "You said you asked me to investigate the matter of Chief Lin a few days ago? Then... how should I check it? I, a small coroner in the governor's mansion, went to the county government to check the identity of the chief clerk? What's this called? If he really has a problem, wouldn't he be alerted?"

I nodded in approval: "Master is right, this matter is really unhurried, so I need to investigate it slowly."

"You mean...he really has a problem?"

"Well, I can be 80% sure. Lin Sheng, the chief clerk of the county government, kidnapped Jia Jia half a month ago."

"It's unreasonable. Even my Fatty Wang's daughter dares to move. He's tired of living." Fatty Wang slapped his thigh, his lips trembled, maybe it hurt himself.

The four of them communicated casually again, and it finally became dark. Fatty Wang and his daughter did not mention going home, probably because they were thinking about the food under the fire.

A trace of hot air came out of the gap in the lid of the pot, and then the hot air became more and more, making the lid sound.

Ah my mother opened the lid of the pot and saw that the water in the pot was boiling, so she brought a bowl of prepared thin batter and a colander from the kitchen. She placed the colander on the water surface, poured the batter into the colander, and then shook it down. Drops of batter fell into the boiling water from the small hole, and instantly solidified, like cicada pupas rushing around.

"Go, get the bowl!" My mother kicked my feet.

"oh."

I came over with four bowls. The dumpling soup in the pot had been cooked, one large bowl for each person. After drinking a sip of hot soup, the whole body was warmed up. After taking a bite of dough bumps, it was smooth and smooth. It was very chewy. The taro from the hot ash was immediately fragrant. Peeled and bitten, and it was soft and fragrant, making people feel happy.

Such a simple supper, because of the company of relatives, is full of laughter and joy.


Chapter completed!