Chapter 33 (2/2)

Badou said without pauses.

“Badou, how can you know these?” Li Datian asked with curiosities.

Badou relied with forced smiles, “My elder sister loves those things. Every time she comes here, she will ask me to company her.”

Badou saw Xue staring at a peach wood hairpin with lotus. He said, “This hairpin is not bad. Elegant and tasteful. There are even earrings in the same style. But these may be expensive.”

“You do have a good taste. This pair of hairpin is just purchased from the city towm. Just one pair. It has been intrinsically designed and crafted. The hairpin is made of silver, and the lotus is made of the Lotus Stone…” The elder storekeeper said to Xue.

For a while, they went out of the store with a wooden box in Xue’s hand.

“Tingxiang, you’re really generous. This pair of hairpin has costed a tael of silver. It takes you a lot of time and work to earn a tael of silver.” As generous Badou was, he would not be so generous as Xue like this.

In general, it would not cost more than one hundred cents to buy the girls stuff. But Xue should have spent one tael of silver!

“This pair is suitable for her. I can earn the one tael of silver later, but this pair may not be found anymore.” Xue smiled, and sensed the wooden box in his bag.

“It sounds reasonable. Anyway, this gift is for your fiancée. The gift should not be cheap.”

At the moment when they arrived the school, the bell for course rung.

They hurried back dormitory and put the stuff in dormitory. With books in hands, they quickly ran to the lecture room.

In general, there were no teachers lecturing in afternoon. This period of time was for students to study by themselves.

What’s more, since it was the Bathing Day tomorrow, it seemed that no one remained to be concerned of the studies.

In fact, many students were from the villages nearby. Therefore, before the ending time of the daily courses, students had been allowed to return dormitory and pack their luggage. Not for a while, there was no one in the school anymore.

They went out the school, and heard of someone calling Xue’s name.

A mule cart pulled over the corner of the street. There were two men sitting on the mule cart: one was an adult, and the other was young.

Xue was unhappy immediately.

Badou was just going to ask when he saw the younger one came to them swiftly, “Tingxiang, I remember it’s the time for you to leave the school. Brother Jiang has remembered wrong timing. Let’s go back home. I’ve bought many foods to cook for you.”

The younger one was Zhao’er. She didn’t lower her voice, for which her clear female voice could be heard by them. Badou seemed to be too astonished to say even one word.

It was not until at this moment that Zhao’er realized Xue’s fellows. “Are they your classmates?”

Xue just nodded, with no more words nor smiles.

“What’s wrong? You are unhappy. Is there anyone has bothered you? I’ll help you!”

“No one has bullied Xue. You are?” Badou said awkwardly.

“Oh, may I introduce myself? I’m elder sister of Tingxiang. You must be his classmates.” Zhao’er was happy to see Tingxiang make friends with others. She had been worried about Tingxiang’s over solidarity, even though he had changed a lot.

“She is not my sister. She is my fiancée! I have to go now.” Xue grabbed Zhao’er and left in hurry.

Badou was astonished again, and said after a while, “I get it. Xue loves his sister. The sister is his little fiancée.”

Datian was a little embarrassed, “How strange it is for you to say little sister of Xue. We’d better to hurry up. Or we may miss the carts.”

Xue was unhappy in the cart throughout the trip back home. It was inappropriate for Zhao’er to ask him directly, since Jiang Wu was also in the cart. Therefore, she had no choice but to say something.

Jiang Wu hadn’t realized what was happening. He just said with Zhao’er.

When they arrived at the village, Jiang Wu pulled over the front door of Xue’s home directly.

Zhao’er and Xue got off, and Jiang Wu started to move those stuff to the home of Xue from the cart.

Zhao’er had said that she ‘bought’ a lot of, and that was not a joke. There was one bag of grains, one bag of flour, two pig’s feet, 2.5 kg pork, two meters of cloth, and other stuff.

All of the members of Xue were coming out, including Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Yang, who came out for Xue Juncai, since they thought it was Juncai coming back.

Today was also the day for Xue Juncai came back home.

“Zhao’er, why you have purchased so much stuff?” Mrs. Sun asked curiously.

Zhao’er opened the door, placing the stuff in the room. She answered, “Tingxiang returned home. It’s necessary to treat him with something good.”

Mrs. Zhao stood in front of the door, feeling so embarrassed and angry, “Ha, you even will return home? Can you see there is any girl like you hanging out all the day?”

Zhao’er smiled innocently, “Mrs. Zhao, I return home every day. And I return home every early before the sunset. You see, it costs to support Tingxiang and Juncai to study in school. I have to go out to get enough money, right?”

Mrs. Zhao was pretty unsatisfied, and entered the room with cold face.

Zhao’er even didn’t take care of that, and said to Jiang Wu, “I really have caused so much troubles for you today. Please have a relax tomorrow.”

Jiang Wu nodded, and said to Zhao’er, “Then, I’d better to go.”

“OK.”

After finishing all the tedious works, Zhao’er went to Xue Tingxiang.

Xue was still unhappy. Zhao’er touched her nose award, and thought by herself. She took the female clothes and changed the dresses in a hidden corner of the room.

Zhao’er was combing her hair, and suddenly Xue stood in front of her.

She looked up, and saw a wooden box handed by Xue.

“What?”

Xue replied with no word, but stared at her with his black eyes.

Zhao’er took over the box and opened it.

“Is this for me?”