Song Wan Yue stood up, “Forget the silver, please keep an eye on your brother and don’t bother me anymore, we’ll be clear after I return the bracelet.”
“Don’t give me that!”
Miss Gu flung out three silver tickets, “This is three hundred taels of silver, take it and ransom the jade bracelet back, don’t play any tricks.”
Looking at the three silver cheques that fell at her feet, the corners of Song Wan Yue’s mouth hooked up, “Silver cheques, Miss Gu should pick them up and put them away yourself, I will naturally send the bracelet back when it reaches three months.”
Song Wangyue turned around and walked out.
“You ……”
Never before had a person dared to be like this in front of her, Miss Gu’s chest rose and fell in anger, grabbed the tealight for half a day without catching it, and slapped it on the table, “Insensitive thing!”
After leaving the winery, Song Wangyue took a deep breath, spread her legs and headed back to the Song family village.
Although it was half an afternoon, it was still very hot, and there were hardly any pedestrians on the road. Song Wan Yue walked very fast, and as she walked, she ran, faster and faster, and the fire she was holding in her heart slowly vented out as she ran, until her whole body was soaked through, and even the strands of her hair carried beads of sweat, before she slowed down and walked back home.
……
As the sun’s afterglow was about to set, Xu and Song Lin were busy cooking. Xu added water, panned the rice and put it in the pot, covering it with a lid. Song Lin sat at the stove to make a fire.
“I’ll mix some cold dishes later. It’s hot today, so eat cold dishes for dinner.”
“Okay, when I get the fire going, I’ll go to the vegetable garden and pick some vegetables.”
“It’s better if I go, I’ll take the scented bag Yue’er gave me yesterday with me.”
Song Lin was about to say that the family wouldn’t be back for a while, so it would be better to wait for him to go later.
Song Wan Yue entered the house covered in sweat.
“Yue’er, what’s wrong with you?”
Xu exclaimed, stepping over quickly.
Song Wan Yue looked at ease, “I had nothing to do, so I went out for a short walk.”
“You child ……”
Xu didn’t have time to go inside to get a towel, so she lifted her own sleeve to wipe her face, “Why are you running on this hot day, look at your sweat, what if you catch a cold?”
“I’m now feeling good, I’ve never felt better, I’ll have to go out for more runs in the future.”
“Go and find her clothes, I’ll carry the water. ”
The Song family had their own well, and every morning they drew a few buckets of water to dry in the courtyard so that the family could bathe in the evening.
His leg had not yet healed, so Xu could not bear to see him carrying water.
She let Song Wangyue into the bathing room first, and she took a basin and scooped up water and brought it in, making several trips in a row until there was enough water for her, before going to Song Wangyue’s house and bringing her a change of clothes.
After this was done, she returned to Song Lin’s side and asked in a lowered voice, “His father, is there something wrong with Yue’er?”
Before, Yue’er had never run before.
Song Lin also felt that there was something unusual about Song Wan Yue and was about to speak when the sound of Song Wan Yue humming a song came from the bath room, the doubts in his heart were dispelled, “Maybe this is another method that Yue’er read in a medical book to strengthen her body, let her be.”
“Is that so?”
Xu glanced back towards the bathing room in confusion, she always felt that her daughter was not in the right mood today.
“Don’t worry.”
……
The Gu family.
Miss Gu was also walking back and had just entered the house when she saw Gu Yi, who had finished changing, stumbling out the door.
She greeted her with a natural expression, “Little brother, Miss Song said that she had been out for quite some time, and for fear that her family would worry, I had someone send her back, so you should also hurry back to your house and rest.”
Gu Yi still insisted on going out, “No, I want to see the little girl off myself.”
“Big sister knows that you like little girl, but if you send her back in this state, what if her family sees you? They are already reluctant to our marriage proposal, if you leave another bad impression, won’t it be even harder to ask for Miss Song’s hand in marriage in the future?”
Gu Yi thought about it drowsily, “Then I won’t go.”
“That’s right, listen to big sister and hurry back to rest.”
Gu Yi took her hand, “Big, big sister, I, I like the little girl, I want to betroth her and marry her as my daughter-in-law later.”
Big Sister Gu patted his hand with a smile in her eyes, “Big Sister knows, don’t worry, if the Song family doesn’t agree, Big Sister will personally go to the Song family and make sure that the marriage is settled for you.”
“Big sister is the best, big sister loves me the most.”
“Quickly help the young master inside.”
Xiao Si and another boy of his age helped Gu Yi back inside.
Miss Gu and Master Gu went into the flower hall and sat down, the maid brought up tea, put it in front of the two and retreated.
Miss Gu elegantly lifted the tea jar, lifted the lid, flicked the tea leaves to one side and took two small sips before she felt the anger she had felt from Song Wangyue recede.
“Father, do you really want to set up this marriage for my younger brother?”
Master Gu and took two sips of tea to suppress the shock, “I think that Song girl is quite good.”
“My daughter also thinks she is good, but after all, she comes from a small family, and our Gu family is so big that I am afraid she will not be able to hold up in the future.”
“Father has long thought about it. When we are really engaged, father will bring her over and hire a female teacher to teach her. I see that the girl is not badly qualified, she can’t go wrong in the future.”
“If she is a good one, father will naturally do so. But when my daughter spoke to her just now, she found that this little girl has a deep heart. My daughter was thinking, when she used that method to save her little brother in full view of the public, was she thinking of using it to climb up to our Gu family?”
Master Gu put his tea back on the table, “No way? When father first came to the door to propose marriage, the Song family didn’t say yes, and they spoke very unkindly.”
“But the way Miss Song acted, she didn’t exactly refuse, did she? Moreover, the timing was just right for them to pawn the bracelet. No matter how my daughter thinks about it, she feels that they are trying to get away with it.”
Master Gu waved his hand, “You misunderstand, I have met the Song family, they are not that scheming, everything is a coincidence.”
“But this is too much of a coincidence. Father has thought about it, my little brother is not in his right mind, so when that girl enters the house later, she will be able to hold the family business in her hands. If she treats my little brother well then, it’s fine, but if she doesn’t, will you two be able to feel at ease?”
Master Gu frowned, according to the Gu family’s wealth, they could even marry the daughter of a county governor’s family.
The reason he went to the Song family to ask for a marriage was that he had heard that the Song family was simple-minded and that when that girl entered the family in the future, she would treat her son with single-mindedness.
Seeing his hesitation, Miss Gu struck while the iron was hot, “How about this, I will take my little brother to my house tomorrow to stay for some time, and then bring him back when he has put down Miss Song.”
