Chapter 53 - Following Her up The Mountain (1/2)

Ye Xiaoxian was stilling taking care of the fire in the kitchen so she wore her hair down to dry it off.

It was not long before Xiao Baoshan came in as well.

Ye Xiaoxian felt upset just from seeing him, so she turned around and ignored him.

Xiao Baoshan then found the brown sugar by himself. He cut some ginger into it and poured hot boiled water and a bowl of brown sugar tea was done.

He sat the brown sugar tea on the top of the oven and said to Ye Xiaoxian, “Have some brown sugar ginger tea. Don’t catch a cold.”

Ye Xiaoxian asked, “Ma told you to do this, right?”

“…” Xiao Baoshan hesitated.

Ye Xiaoxian had already see through this so she said sulkily, “Fine, I know. Put it down here and I will drink it!”

Xiao Baoshan paused and added, “I was in the wrong for what happened just now and thank you for sending me an umbrella in the storm!”

Ye Xiaoxian raised her head but Xiao Baoshan had already turned around and left.

This rain lasted for a whole night.

The rain abated by the next morning but it was not the right weather for going to town to put up their stall.

Moreover, the temperature was lower in a typhoon and few people would buy cold jelly to drink. It would be a waste of time even if they went there.

Xiao Baoshan did not go out today either.

Being a handyman was a part-time job anyhow. They were paid on a daily basis and were supposed to do various jobs including sailor, s.h.i.+p tracker, delivery man, cart driver, jiao driver. It was okay if they were free from work for a couple of days.

As they didn’t have to go out, Ye Xiaoxian stayed at home and taught Xiao Baozhu to practice Chinese characters. In fact, Xiao Baozhu wasn’t fond of reading and writing. She was not very literate herself and she complained every time she had to practice writing characters.

Ye Xiaoxian could not care less. She didn’t expect Xiao Baoshan to grow up to be a scholar but she needed to at least know how to read.

When the time reached Si, which equaled to 10:00 a.m., the rained finally stopped and so did the wind. The cloud had gone and the sun came out.

It seemed that the typhoon had already gone.

Ye Xiaoxian was sitting idly, so she was thinking to go up to the mountain to collect some Chinese mesona.

Xiao Baozhu heard that Ye Xiaoxian was going to collect Chinese mesona and she immediately said, “Sister-in-law, I’m going with you!”

“You’d better not go. Stay here to practice the characters I just taught you. I’ll check your work next time.”

Xiao Baozhu was upset all of a sudden.