frightfiction Chapter 271 Embarrassment
Chapter 271 Embarrassment
Xie Jiaojiao patted his hands: "Okay, He Hu is right! We have indeed spent a lot of money to build the dock, and we also need to build new ships. I am afraid that the He family has already stretched their financial resources!"
Jiang Weinan heard this and said, "Then how about we send some more silver over?"
Xie Jiaojiao shook her head: "You are sending money over yourself, isn't that an insult to their family? Mr. He didn't take the initiative to say that he was short of money, so he must have his own way. We don't need to worry about it. If it really comes to that, the He family will naturally speak up themselves."
"Okay, I'll do as you say. You're tired today, and since you have nothing to do, why don't you go back and take a rest?"
It would have been fine if he hadn't said it. As soon as he said it, Xie Jiaojiao started yawning: "Then let's go back and have a rest. I haven't seen your cousin for a day. I wonder what she's busy with..."
The two of them walked towards home, and Jiang Weinan said unhappily, "Why do you care about her? She's already grown up, she can do whatever she wants!"
Xie Jiaojiao glared at him: "Alright, you don't have to deliberately distance yourself from her in front of me. It's a good thing that you have a crush on her, but she is your cousin after all, she is your relative, and grandpa also wrote to us, asking us to take good care of her, so don't neglect her..."
Jiang Weinan nodded: "Okay, as long as you believe that there is really nothing between her and me."
Meanwhile, Li Yan'er locked herself in the room and was in a daze for the whole day.
Qiuxiang looked at her and asked her, "Miss, would you like me to accompany you for a walk?"
Li Yan'er shook her head. Qiuxiang could only stand aside. Li Yan'er suddenly sighed: "Forget it, let's go out for a walk. It's boring to stay at home all day."
Qiuxiang smiled and said, "My cousin, you are right. The dragon boat race will be held tomorrow. The streets are very lively today. I heard that the county magistrate will set off fireworks on the city wall tonight!"
Li Yan'er felt uninterested as she listened to her. She was from the capital and had seen all kinds of prosperity and bustle.
When I took Qiuxiang out, as soon as I walked out of my yard, I saw Xie Jiaojiao and Jiang Weinan coming back talking and laughing in the distance.
I quickly hid myself and just watched secretly.
Qiuxiang saw it from behind her and called out softly, "Cousin?"
Li Yan'er looked at the two of them and asked quietly, "Have they always been so close?"
Qiuxiang nodded: "The young master and the young mistress have always had a good relationship and care about each other."
Seeing that everyone had gone far away, Li Yan'er stood up, still feeling a little uncomfortable: "Let's go back to the house!"
"You're not going out?"
"I don't want to go!"
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In the evening, because tomorrow was the Dragon Boat Festival, Xie Jiaojiao took a rest in the afternoon and asked the kitchen to prepare some meals. The weather was getting hotter and hotter, so Xie Jiaojiao got up and made some white fungus soup, put it in the well, and ate it when it cooled down at dinner time.
Suddenly thinking that he had been away for so many days, the watermelons at home might be ripe, so he asked Lai Fu to go there. When Lai Fu heard that he was going to eat watermelons, he was so happy that he took two steamed buns from the kitchen and set off.
Li Yan'er asked Qiuxiang in a low voice: "What is watermelon?"
"My dear cousin, it is a kind of fruit, which is very thirst-quenching!"
"Is it delicious?"
Qiu Xiang shook her head: "I haven't eaten it either, but I know that many people in Jiangbo City almost broke our restaurant to buy this watermelon last year!"
Li Yan'er was surprised. How come she didn't know about such delicious fruit?
Just as the meal was about to start, Manager Wang came in from outside, followed by someone. Wasn't it Jiang Ruonan?
"Cousin, cousin-in-law!"
Jiang Ruonan poked his head out from behind Manager Wang, his eyes curved with smiles.
But before he finished laughing, he saw Li Yan'er sitting next to him and immediately glared at her: "Cousin, why are you here?"
"If you can come, why can't I?"
Jiang Ruonan rolled his eyes and sat next to Jiang Weinan and Xie Jiaojiao.
Jiang Weinan was dissatisfied: "There are so many seats over there, why do you sit next to me?" You are really something to separate me from my wife!
"I'm not sitting with her!"
As soon as he said this, Li Yan'er pointed at him with her nose not her nose and eyes not her eyes: "Jiang Ruonan, do you think I want to sit with you?"
Jiang Weinan looked at the two people's battle and raised his hand hurriedly: "Alright, alright, stop arguing, both of you."
The two looked at each other, snorted again and turned away.
Xie Jiaojiao looked at Jiang Weinan and asked him: What's going on with these two people!
Jiang Weinan looked like he didn't know either.
The two of them argued twice more at the dinner table. Jiang Weinan threw his chopsticks in anger and said, "Are you still going to eat? Believe it or not, I will take you two back to the capital tomorrow and hand you two over to Grandpa!"
They both shouted at the same time: "No!" Then they shut up and ate their food obediently.
After dinner, Li Yaner took Qiuxiang out and said they were going to see the lantern festival.
Jiang Weinan then pulled Jiang Ruonan aside and said, "What's going on between you and Li Yan'er? Why did you both come to my place?"
Jiang Ruonan gets unhappy when Li Yan'er is mentioned!
"Isn't my sister getting married? Grandpa and grandma thought that Li Yan'er and I were the only ones left at home, so they wanted to marry Li Yan'er to me! I finally escaped, but who knew she was here too!"
This shocked Jiang Weinan and Xie Jiaojiao.
Jiang Ruonan continued, "Li Yan'er is several years older than me! And she was clearly promised to my cousin before, but now she's given to me..."
Before he finished speaking, he realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurried to see Jiang Weinan and Xie Jiaojiao's reactions. He saw Jiang Weinan glaring at him, while Xie Jiaojiao was looking at him with a smile.
She hurriedly used a smile to cover up her embarrassment: "Well, that cousin, I didn't mean it."
Xie Jiaojiao looked at him with a smile: "I didn't say anything."
"So both of you sneaked out?"
Jiang Ruonan smiled awkwardly again: "Cousin, you guessed it right!"
Xie Jiaojiao rolled her eyes inwardly.
Jiang Ruonan added: "But who knew she would come to your place as well."
Xie Jiaojiao shook her head, thinking about what Jiang Caifeng said in the letter, and shook her head slightly. It seemed that Li Yan'er ran away from home before Jiang Ruonan.
"Okay, don't be so rude to your cousin. Don't worry, she doesn't want to marry you." Xie Jiaojiao said.
"Of course I know she doesn't want to marry me." Jiang Ruonan said and looked at Jiang Weinan again. Jiang Weinan thought to himself, this brat, he just wants to talk, why does he keep looking at him!
"But I feel embarrassed when I see her, just like she feels embarrassed when she sees me!"
Xie Jiaojiao yawned.
Jiang Weinan started to chase people away and said to Jiang Ruonan, "Okay, your cousin's wife is tired too, go back to your room and have a rest. I'll take you to the riverside to watch the dragon boat race tomorrow. Didn't you want to watch it when you were a kid?"
It was so late, Jiang Ruonan naturally didn't want to disturb him, so he got up and left.
After they saw the man leave, they washed up and went to bed to rest.
Jiang Weinan couldn't help but say, "I think grandpa and the others just want to randomly match people up."
Xie Jiaojiao turned over and said, "Grandpa just loves Yan'er, and Second Uncle has only one daughter, so he always wants to marry Yan'er to one of you cousins, so that he can help out a little and Second Uncle won't feel that his hard work to earn money for the Jiang family is not worth it."
Jiang Weinan listened and felt that what Xie Jiaojiao said made some sense, so he stopped talking and put his arm around Xie Jiaojiao's waist: "Okay, go to bed quickly, you have to get up early tomorrow."
A night without words...