It didn't take much effort for the ox cart to stop in front of a house.
The old man said that this is the Xi family's mansion.
For such a house, the walls are not high and the house is not deep.
It only looks like there are two entrances, but the materials used are quite solid.
If it were placed in the city, it would be a well-off family, but in this country, it would be considered an excellent mansion.
Ning Junwu and Xia Xiaodong looked at it from a distance first, and saw an eleven or twelve-year-old girl sitting at the door.
She had thin arms and legs, and dark skin.
She was obviously found locally, and she was probably used to guard the door and pass on messages. .
Before Ning Junwu could step forward, a half-year-old boy suddenly came over and said a few words to the little girl.
Then he saw the little girl's eyes gleaming and she ran away as fast as she could.
The young man bowed slightly to Ning Junwu and Ning Junwu, and followed them.
The door was unlocked.
I pushed the door open with a creak and went in.
I walked around the white screen wall and was immediately startled by the greenery in front of me.
Behind the screen wall, there is no ordinary courtyard or courtyard, and there is no embellishment such as a lotus pond.
There is a bluestone passage about ten feet wide in the middle, with farmland on both sides of the passage.
What a unique field.
The soil in the field was black and moist, and there were no big lumps of dirt at all.
It was carefully taken care of.
Most of the vegetables planted are early spring vegetables, and if you look closely, there are also some melon and fruit seedlings.
Now all kinds of seedlings have sprouted.
The tall ones can be more than a foot, and the short ones are as short as two inches.
They are so green and gratifying.
Hearing the noise, a woman who was bending down to pull weeds stood up straight and looked over.
The woman looked no different from an ordinary peasant woman, except that there were no patches on her clothes, and her head was covered with a blue turban.
The hands raised in front of her forehead cast a shadow on her face, making her expression unclear for a while.
Ning Junwu suddenly stiffened and reached out to grab Xia Xiaodong's arm, but said nothing.
The woman put down her hand, patted her body a few times to remove some dust from the field operations, and walked over slowly.
"Master Twenty-Six has arrived.
Let's go in and drink tea."
The woman's voice was low and calm, without any surprise or panic.
Xia Xiaodong's eyes took turns looking at Ning Junwu and the woman, and he was a little surprised.
Is this woman who was thrown into the pile of peasant women, guaranteed to never be found again, the Grandma Jia?
From Ning Junwu's previous narration, plus the experience of almost being arrested last time when he was frightened at the dock, Xia Xiaodong's impression of Jia Auntie was that the old aunt was a bit perverted, stubborn and solemn.
Later he found out that she was actually There was an illegitimate son, who changed the old aunt into an old green tea.
Who knows who this peasant woman with a gentle look and calm demeanor is when she sees her face to face?
Ning Twenty-Liu was obviously more shocked than Xia Xiaodong.
Xia Xiaodong only felt the gap in his imagination, but Ning Junwu clearly felt that an extremely familiar person had become extremely strange.
Except for her eyebrows, eyes, nose, ears, and mouth, it was indeed Jia Aina.
Everything else, whether it was her attire, temperament, or the aura she exuded, was wrong.
Could it be that Grandma Jia has a twin sister?
Maybe Ah Hu and the others searched and searched, but failed to find the rightful owner.
Instead, they found the other one who had been separated for many years.
However, what Jia Aimai said next quickly dispelled Ning Junwu's suspicion.
"Master Twenty-Six is coming from the capital, I guess."
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Grandma Jia led the way towards the house.
She could only hear her voice but not see her face.
All she could see was a very smooth double-knot tied behind her turban.
This sentence was of course nonsense, so Jia Auntie went on to say: "The one I want to accompany you is Miss Xia.
Ever since I heard that Miss Xia was named the eldest princess Minhui, and later Yanzhou was designated as a fiefdom.
I felt that, Maybe there will be a chance to meet.”
Not everyone is as blind as Xia Xiaodong.
Chen County is located on the way from Beijing to Yanzhou.
"You, you bought this place a few years ago, and you thought carefully about it."
Ning Junwu didn't know what to call Grandma Jia, so he was vague. "" Grandma Jia didn't answer.
She just pushed open the ajar door, quickly turned on the smoldering small tea stove, added some water to the crooked clay pot, and put it on to heat.
"I originally bought this place for retirement."
Grandma Jia sighed, dragged two square stools over, and asked Ning Junwu and Xia Xiaodong to sit there.
The round table is not big, so three people can sit around it just right.
If it hadn't been for what happened before, just looking at this scene now, the woman with fine lines creeping up to the corners of her eyes and smiling, the young man with dark eyes and handsome eyes, and the elegant and generous girl who smiled and said nothing, would look like a happy family.
The clay pot made the sound of gurgling water.
Grandma Jia hurriedly raised her hand to bring it down, but did not rush to make the tea.
She only prepared the teapot, teacup, justice cup and other items with boiling water.
She added a pinch of Dahongpao to the teapot and let the tea leaves simmer for a while.
The water that has just been boiled is too hot to make tea, so you have to wait.
Ning Junwu had been familiar with this scene since he was a child, but now it was just that the tea set was different.
Unconsciously, he felt more and more sad, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Why?"
The voice is low and astringent, like rough stone grinding, dull and unpleasant.
Xia Xiaodong reached under the table, found one of Ning Junwu's hands, and held it gently.
"Why?"
Grandma Jia didn't look at Ning Junwu.
There was a gentle smile in her eyes, but she looked at the round button on the lid of the teapot: "Why?"
She raised her head and looked directly at Ning Junwu.
Eyes: "I did something that needs explaining" What did you do?
Ning Junwu stared at her in shock, but couldn't find the right words to question.
Why are you looking for someone to attack Miss Xia?
Well, it seems to be to help you get her back.
Why are you looking for those guys with dirty tricks?
You only ask about the results but not the means.
Isn't it unreasonable?
Moreover, those guys who really do it have probably never seen the people who gave the orders.
Why do you secretly raise an illegitimate child?
Who do you need to explain to except the child's father?
Why did you set up a secret around Twenty-Eight?
Arrange people around your half-brother and raise him to rot.
Isn't it better for you?
Why didn't you tell me this when you were little?
When you are older, would you agree if I told you this?
The contents of the stuffy jar may be rotten and smelly, or they may be pickled into crispy and delicious pickles, but no one is willing to open the lid to verify the result.
There are many things that I don’t really know, I just don’t want to think about them.
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Is such a woman who seems to have been protecting him for at least more than ten years really duplicitous, scheming, vicious, and unforgivable?
"Since," after a long while, Ning Junwu suddenly asked a weird question: "Since you don't object to me being with Miss Xia, why do I have to make a special trip to Tianbei Street before I leave?"
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