kingnovel Chapter 124 Who is it?
Chapter 124 Who is it?
After Chu Xun'er left, Li Xiaonuan stared at the village road, lost in thought for a long time. Jingjing, who had been watching Li Xiaonuan closely, finally jumped out of her house when she was gone. Fangfang and Sister-in-law Minghua, who had gathered at Jingjing's house out of curiosity, also arrived.
"Sister Xiaonuan, that young lady won't be coming again, right?" Fangfang asked, her big, round eyes fixed on the direction Chu Xun'er had gone.
Li Xiaonuan nodded and said, "I won't be coming today, but I don't know if I'll come in the future."
Minghua's sister-in-law patted her chest, looking still shaken, and said, "That really scared me to death. If that young lady had really fallen and gotten hurt, we would have been in big trouble."
Sister-in-law Liu, looking lingering fear, said, "That's right. Those rich and powerful families love to vent their misfortune on ordinary people like us."
Li Xiaonuan comforted them, "Don't be afraid, that young lady isn't as unreasonable as you think. I think she's just bored and doesn't have any good places to go or any fun to have, so she wanted to go into the mountains. Besides, you see, she left without saying anything. That means she won't blame you."
Jingjing nodded in agreement, saying, "Yes, I think that young lady is a really nice person, and seems very righteous. She might just be spoiled, but she's actually not a bad person."
Li Xiaonuan looked at Jingjing with amusement, thinking she was looking for a kindred spirit. To be honest, Chu Xun'er and Jingjing were quite similar in some ways. It's just that Chu Xun'er was relatively more willful and domineering, and her upbringing had been a bit skewed.
“Jingjing really likes that lady. Okay, if she comes to see me again in the future, I'll definitely invite you to come along,” Li Xiaonuan said to Jingjing with a smile.
Jingjing nodded seriously, her slightly chubby face beaming with smiles. Jingjing's sister-in-law, Liu, said irritably, "Jingjing, you're already impulsive. If you become as arrogant and domineering as that young lady, I wonder how you'll ever get married."
Jingjing didn't care much: "Sister-in-law, don't worry about me. I'm sure I'll get married. My mother said we don't need to marry into a wealthy family in the city. We'll just marry an honest man from the village."
Hearing Jingjing's words, the others chuckled. Fangfang raised her crisp voice and said, "Jingjing is just in a hurry to get married. My grandma said there are plenty of good men in our village, so I shouldn't rush. I can take my time and find someone I like."
Madam Liu laughed uncontrollably: "Look at these two shameless little girls! They're so young, yet they're always talking about men. You two mustn't say that to anyone outside, or people will laugh at you for being so shameless!"
Jingjing rolled her eyes and said nonchalantly, "Who cares? That's just who I am. Anyway, I'm just telling you guys. Who cares to talk about this with those lousy people?"
Fangfang agreed, saying, "That's right, we only said that in front of you. My grandma said there are a lot of gossipy women in the village, so we shouldn't tell everyone everything."
Minghua's sister-in-law pinched Fangfang's cheek and scolded her with a smile, "Fangfang, listen to your grandma. Don't say things like that again, okay?"
The plan was to have a picnic on the mountain, but Chu Xun'er's unintentional mistake ruined it. So Li Xiaonuan invited a few people to her house for a meal. Jingjing and Fangfang naturally had no objections. However, Liu Shi and Sister-in-law Minghua declined.
After all, they were someone else's wives and couldn't be as free as young girls. Li Xiaonuan understood them and didn't force them. At noon, Li Xiaonuan took out the cured rabbit and ate it to her heart's content with the two little girls.
Although the old lady remained outwardly composed during the meal, those who knew her knew she was unhappy. After seeing Fangfang and Jingjing off, Li Xiaonuan asked the old lady what had happened.
The old lady frowned and said with a bitter face, "You said you wanted to lead the whole village to grow chili peppers. Now that the news has spread throughout the village, Xiaogang and I can't even go out."
Li Xiaonuan asked, puzzled, "What does this have to do with whether you go out or not?"
The old lady looked at Li Xiaonuan with some annoyance and said, "Those people are laughing at our family, saying we're daydreaming. Not to mention that no one has ever seen that kind of chili pepper before, even if they had, no one would know what it is. Who would dare to buy it? In the end, will our family pay for it? If our family promises to buy it ourselves if we can't sell it, then they will dare to follow suit and plant it."
Li Xiaonuan then realized that what everyone was worried about was the sales of their produce. Therefore, she said with relief, "Grandma, if you encounter people like this again, tell them that our family promises to buy all the chili peppers grown by the villagers. But the condition is that they have to grow them diligently and produce good results."
The old lady got even angrier and said, "Buy, buy, buy! You think you can just buy whatever you want? Where are you going to get the money to buy it? After you buy it, are you just going to leave it there as a decoration?"
Li Xiaonuan looked at the old lady with amusement, thinking she was acting like a child throwing a tantrum: "Grandma, don't worry. Trust me, I'll definitely be able to sell all the chilies. As long as someone grows them, we'll have succeeded in taking the first step towards getting rich."
The old lady rolled her eyes and stopped talking. Li Xiaonuan knew that this meant the old lady agreed with her.
After calming the old lady down, Li Xiaonuan squatted down in her little vegetable garden to admire her chili pepper patch. Just as she was considering whether to scatter all the seeds from that packet to start seedlings in advance, something hit her on the head.
Li Xiaonuan looked in the direction the object had come from and saw Wei Yu flash past the fence. She picked up the pebble wrapped in paper, opened it, and looked inside.
The paper had these words written on it: "Hurry into the city, go to Zang Baicao."
The characters were written in a flamboyant, domineering style. Li Xiaonuan thought to herself, this shouldn't be Wei Yu's handwriting. She often saw Wei Yu's handwriting. Although it was also strong and powerful, with a certain style, it didn't have this kind of arrogant and domineering air.
After putting away the papers, Li Xiaonuan went back to her room to tidy herself up. She told the old lady that she was about to leave when her father hurriedly came out of the room, saying he would go with her. Li Xiaonuan thought that her father really needed to go to the clinic for a follow-up visit, so she didn't refuse.
The father and daughter arrived at the clinic around 1:00 PM. Qi Ji had already sent a maid to wait in the front hall, and upon seeing Li Xiaonuan, she took her to Prince Jing's Fuwei Courtyard. Li's father was personally taken by Qi Ji to the back courtyard so that Doctor Qi could give him a full examination.
Upon entering Fuwei Courtyard, Li Xiaonuan felt an inexplicable sense of oppression and gloom. A melancholy seemed to permeate the air. This made Li Xiaonuan inexplicably tense. She felt as if she had been caught up in an unnamed struggle throughout her life.
As soon as she entered, Li Xiaonuan smelled a faint odor of blood. She looked up at the people in the room, trying to see who was injured. When she saw the person lying on the stretcher, Li Xiaonuan was shocked.