When the pears are green

Chapter 152 Qing Yang Wan Xi

Ruyi finally found Zhang Pingan who was climbing a tree in the woods south of the village. Ruyi stood under the tree and told Zhang Pingan that it was Jiang who asked him to go home. Zhang Pingan reluctantly climbed down the tree, and then followed Ruyi, looking back every few steps to look at his friends who were still climbing the tree.

"Mom, what do you want to talk to me about?" Zhang Ping'an hurriedly walked to Jiang and asked after returning home. He thought that if there was no emergency, he could go to the woods to climb trees again.

Jiang didn't answer immediately. She kept looking at her little son.

His originally fair face had turned dark after a summer, his eyes were moving around, there was some dust on the tip of his nose, and his hair was messy.

Zhang Ping'an felt uneasy when Jiang looked at him, and he hurriedly asked Jiang what was wrong.

"Ping'an, I want to find a child bride for you." Jiang didn't beat around the bush with Zhang Ping'an. She was informing him, not discussing with him.

"What?" Zhang Ping'an looked at Jiang in surprise, and then looked at Ruyi and Xia Lin beside him.

Jiang repeated it to Zhang Pingan again, and Ruyi and Xia Lin also nodded to Zhang Pingan, indicating that he had not heard it wrong.

Zhang Pingan quickly squatted beside Jiang and asked why. He didn't want to be laughed at like his friend Zhang Yang. He had seen Zhang Yang's child bride, who was thin and stupid. She worked all the time and never went out to play with Zhang Yang.

"You've just met the right one. Don't go out tomorrow. Your cousin will bring the girl over to see you." After saying this, Jiang asked Zhang Ping'an to tidy himself up. She also warned Zhang Ping'an not to just go out to play in the future, but to learn to take on some housework.

Zhang Ping'an went into the kitchen to boil water in annoyance. He kept greeting Song Li and Jiang Qingzhou in his heart. The two of them kept sneezing on the way to Jiang Gou Wa's house.

Song Li looked at the sun above her head. It was high in the sky. She smiled and said to Jiang Qingzhou who was still sneezing, "Maybe Ping An is talking about you and me. He blames us for disturbing his leisure life."

Jiang Qingzhou tried to hold back the sneeze that was about to come out, but he couldn't help it in the end. He held onto a tree by the roadside and sneezed one after another, sneezing five or six times before he stopped.

Song Li hurriedly touched Jiang Qingzhou's forehead, she was afraid that Jiang Qingzhou was like this because of a cold. She touched Jiang Qingzhou's forehead, then touched her own forehead, and compared them several times before she felt relieved.

"Xiao Li, it seems that Ping An blames me more." Jiang Qingzhou smiled and teased a few times, then led Song Li to continue walking towards the north of the village.

Near noon, there were not many villagers walking in the village, only occasionally a few children running and playing in the alley.

"See it? It's right there, those shacks are there." Jiang Qingzhou pointed to a shack in a courtyard on the left side of the road and told Song Li that that was where Jiang Gou Wa and Jiang Xiao Mei lived.

Song Li looked at the scene in the yard. There was no wall, only a fence made of short branches. The yard was very clean and there was a vegetable garden. Jiang Gou Wa and Jiang Xiao Mei were squatting beside the vegetable garden, and no one knew what they were doing.

Song Li smiled and looked away, and found a man sitting under a sycamore tree not far away, but when Jiang Gou Wa and Jiang Xiao Mei came over to greet Song Li and Jiang Qing Zhou, the man hurried away again.

"Gou Wa, Xiao Mei, what are you doing?" Song Li asked with a smile.

Jiang Xiaomei happily replied to Song Li: "Sister-in-law, my brother went fishing this morning and we are slaughtering the fish."

Jiang Gou Wa immediately wanted to take the fish and give it to Jiang Qingzhou and Song Li, but the two of them quickly refused, saying that they had also caught fish a few days ago and asked Jiang Gou Wa to keep it for themselves.

Song Li then told Jiang Gou Wa and Jiang Xiao Mei about going to Zhang's house tomorrow. Song Li and Jiang Gou Wa agreed on a time, and Jiang Gou Wa said he would arrive on time tomorrow.

"Gou Wa, come here, I want to say something to you." Song Li smiled and motioned Jiang Gou Wa to follow her outside the yard.

Jiang Gou Wa glanced at Jiang Qingzhou, who smiled at him, and then he walked towards Song Li.

Song Li glanced at the place where the man who had left sat again. She whispered to Jiang Gou Wa what she had seen, and then continued, "Don't you have some peeled bamboo sticks? Take a few and stick them in the dirt. Put them next to the bed at night. Don't mind the stink. If that man comes again, just stab him with the sticky end."

Jiang Gou Wa looked at the place Song Li mentioned with resentment. He also hated himself for not being able to provide Jiang Xiao Mei with a stable life.

After Song Li and Jiang Qingzhou left, Jiang Gou Wa did as Song Li said. He and Jiang Xiao Mei exchanged sleeping places that night.

Jiang Gou Wa lay on the wooden board, staring at the starlight leaking through the roof of the shack, not daring to fall asleep.

Soon, a slight sound of footsteps was heard. Jiang Gou Wa endured the stench, held the bamboo stick in his hand, and covered himself with a sheet.

A blurry figure slowly walked into the shack and touched Jiang Gouwa who was curled up in the sheets.

Jiang Gou Wa endured a pair of hands touching him randomly. Just when the man lifted the sheet, Jiang Gou Wa used the starlight at the door to quickly stab the man's arm. The man pulled out a bamboo stick and was about to catch Jiang Gou Wa, but his view was blocked by the sheet thrown by Jiang Gou Wa.

Jiang Gou Wa bent down and picked up a handful of bamboo sticks he had prepared. He raised his leg to trip the man, then sat on the man and used the bamboo sticks to stab the man's moving arms hard.

The man tore off the sheet and looked at Jiang Gou Wa with fire in his eyes. He stretched out his hand and wanted to throw Jiang Gou Wa aside, but Jiang Gou Wa stuffed a few bamboo sticks into his mouth. The foul smell made him vomit bile.

The man finally used all his strength to pull Jiang Gou Wa off himself, and ran out of the yard retching.

Jiang Gou Wa came out of the shack with a bed sheet in his hand. He sat wrapped in the bed sheet in front of Jiang Xiao Mei's shack all night.

After dawn, Jiang Gou Wa took advantage of Jiang Xiao Mei not getting up yet to clean up the filth that the man vomited.

Wisps of smoke rose from the chimneys of each household. Jiang Gou Wa and Jiang Xiao Mei squatted in front of the stove waiting for the water in the pot to boil.

Seeing that the sun was about to rise above the treetops, Jiang Gou Wa hurriedly took Jiang Xiao Mei to Jiang Qing Zhou's house. Song Li and Jiang Qing Zhou were standing at the gate of the yard waiting for them.

After the four of them reunited, they went directly to Zhanggou Village. Jiang Gou Wa quietly told Song Li what happened last night. Song Li assured Jiang Gou Wa not to worry and said that the man should not be concerned about revenge on him now.

The gate of the Zhang family's courtyard was open. Song Li and Jiang Qingzhou led Jiang Gou Wa and Jiang Xiao Mei directly into the courtyard. The Jiang family was waiting in the courtyard.

Zhang Ping'an hid behind Jiang and secretly looked at Jiang Xiaomei. She was prettier than Zhang Yang's child bride. He lowered his head and saw that his nails were a little dirty. He quickly hid his hands behind his back and kept picking at the nail crevices of his left hand with his right fingernails.

Song Li introduced Jiang Gou Wa and Jiang Xiao Mei to them with a smile, and the brother and sister hurriedly greeted the Jiang family members.

Mrs. Jiang looked at Jiang Xiaomei with a smile. She praised Jiang Xiaomei as a good and polite child. She was very satisfied with Jiang Xiaomei, who came from a simple family and was very smart.

Seeing that Jiang had a good attitude, Jiang Gou Wa said that as long as he paid for a bag of grain, he could let Jiang Xiao Mei stay in the Zhang family as a child bride.

"Xiao Li, let your younger sister stay here first. Even if we have to wait for your uncle to come back, I think he will be satisfied. I don't want this child to sleep in the shack again. Let her live with Ruyi." Jiang had her own plans in mind. The corn harvest was about to begin, and she also wanted an extra laborer. Besides, Jiang Gou Wa's requirements were not high.

Song Li looked at Jiang Gou Wa, and Jiang Gou Wa quickly nodded in agreement.

After hearing what Jiang said, Ruyi and Xia Lin also took Jiang Xiaomei's hands to show their goodwill to her.

Jiang looked at Jiang Xiaomei again. She wanted Jiang Xiaomei to change her name. Now that she was in her own family, everything had to start over, including her name.

"Xiao Li, Qing Zhou, you know a lot, so just change my name. Calling me "Xiao Mei, Xiao Mei" all the time is too difficult to pronounce." Jiang looked at Song Li and Jiang Qing Zhou with a smile.

Song Li quickly said that she didn't know how to name something, and Jiang Qingzhou asked Jiang Gou Wa if he wanted to change it together.

Jiang Gou Wa has always felt that his name was ugly. He thought that even being called Tu Dan would sound better than Gou Wa. Now that he had the opportunity to change his name, he naturally nodded in agreement.

"I once read a sentence like this: There is a beautiful person, Qingwan and Wanxi. Why not let Xiaomei change her name to Qingwan and Gou Wa change his name to Jiang Yang." After Jiang Qingzhou finished speaking, he asked Jiang Xiaomei and Jiang Gou Wa for their opinions.

Jiang Xiaomei and Jiang Gou Wa thanked Jiang Qingzhou happily. They kept saying their new names. Zhang Pingan, who originally thought that Jiang Xiaomei's name was not nice, also laughed happily.

"Ping'an, take my little sister, no, Qingwan, out to play. Don't forget to come back for lunch." Seeing that Zhang Ping'an was also grinning, Jiang Shi took the opportunity to let Zhang Ping'an take Jiang Qingwan to familiarize herself with Zhanggou Village first.

Jiang Qingwan looked at Jiang Yang reluctantly, and Jiang Yang smiled and said that he would visit her often in the future.

After Jiang Qingwan and Zhang Pingan went out, Jiang asked Jiang Yang when he would need the food.

"Auntie, let's wait until after the autumn harvest. We still have some food at home now. It's not safe to keep so much food at home." Jiang Yang replied quickly.

Jiang smiled and agreed. She also said that Jiang Qingzhou would be the middleman and she would not embezzle his food.

Jiang Yang didn't want to see Jiang Qingwan sad, so he wanted to leave before Jiang Qingwan came back.

After Song Li, Jiang Qingzhou and Jiang Yang left, Jiang went to the village head. She asked the village head to write a document for her, and when Zhang Peng came back, she would take Jiang Qingwan to the government office to register, for fear that Jiang Yang would regret it in the future.