When the pears are green

Chapter 134: Smell the Green Plum

Wu Mingshu, Wu Mingxuan and Lin Chunhong responded to Song Yue with a smile.

Song Yue's gaze unconsciously turned to Wu Mingde who was standing next to Wu Mingxuan. Wu Mingde smiled at Song Yue, and both of them lowered their heads embarrassedly.

Song Li watched the two people's little movements, and she smiled and suggested to Song Yue: "Yueyue, you embroidered some handkerchiefs, let Sister Wu and Sister Wu pick a few they like, as a gift for meeting."

Wu Mingshu quickly refused after hearing this: "Xiaoyue, don't take it..." Before she finished her words, she was interrupted by Lin Chunhong: "Sister, this is Xiaoyue's heartfelt gift. If you don't take it, it will make Xiaoyue sad."

"Sister Wu, Second Sister Wu, please wait a moment. I'll get it right away." After Song Yue finished speaking, she went to the room. She first hid the shoes in the sewing basket, and then put all the handkerchiefs she had embroidered into the sewing basket and took it out.

Lin Chunhong took the sewing basket with a smile. She found a stool and sat down with the basket. Then she smiled and called Wu Mingshu and Song Li to help her pick out a handkerchief.

Wu Mingxuan looked at the three women gathered together to pick handkerchiefs, and he said to Wu Mingde consciously: "Mingde, I'm going to find Minghui, don't let the little girl go crazy."

After Wu Mingxuan left the yard, Wu Mingde looked at Song Yue under the locust tree with a smile and walked over quickly.

The two of them stood under the lush locust tree and whispered.

"Mingde, I'm almost done with the shoes. Are you going to the academy in a few days?" Song Yue asked in a low voice.

"In three days, I will be back after the college entrance examination is over in August. Although I also want to meet Xiaoyue often, I must concentrate on my studies now. I want to create good living conditions for Xiaoyue so that she won't have to embroider handkerchiefs every day." Wu Mingde spoke his true feelings to Song Yue. He lifted Song Yue's right hand and gently touched the calluses on it with his fingers.

Song Yue opened her eyes wide and looked at Wu Mingde, the man with whom she would spend her life.

"I understand. If love between two people is long-lasting, why does it matter if they are together day and night?" Song Yue said, and held Wu Mingde's fingers.

Wu Mingde smiled and retracted his fingers, then leaned over to Song Yue's ear and whispered, "Xiaoyue still understands me. Let's meet again on the afternoon of the 19th, at the same place as before."

"Okay, I will make the shoes in the next two days and bring them to you then." Song Yue replied with a red face.

Wu Mingde chuckled softly, he reached out and touched the hibiscus silk flower in Song Yue's hair, then promised Song Yue that when he came back, he would buy her another silk flower of a different pattern.

"I don't want silk flowers, I just want you to come back." Song Yue looked at Wu Mingde with watery eyes.

Wu Mingde held Song Yue's hand again. He smiled and promised Song Yue: "Don't worry, I will come back with Juanhua."

After Lin Chunhong picked out the handkerchief, she secretly looked back at Song Yue and Wu Mingde who were still talking, then smiled and said to Wu Mingshu: "Sister, no wonder Minghui said that Madam Jiang is smart. Look, isn't this good?"

"It's really good. No one is embarrassed." Wu Mingshu also quietly looked back at Song Yue and Wu Mingde. At first she didn't understand why Song Li asked Song Yue to get the handkerchief, but now she understood.

Wu Mingshu put the handkerchief she had chosen in her hand. She sighed and asked Lin Chunhong, "Chunhong, if I were as considerate as Madam Jiang, would my relationship with Yang Cheng be better? Would he not think of taking a concubine?"

"Sister, Yang Cheng was forced by his father to marry you. He is so picky about you because he doesn't like you, not because you are not good enough. No matter how understanding you are, it's useless. You have been married for five or six years, and the number of times you have been together can be counted on ten fingers. Now he blames you for not being able to have children and wants to take a concubine under the name of this. Bah! Didn't father tell you to divorce him? Let's get a divorce after Mingde's matter is settled. Are you afraid of him?" Lin Chunhong said angrily. Originally, she was the one who comforted Wu Mingshu, but now it was Wu Mingshu who comforted her.

Wu Mingshu patted Lin Chunhong on the back and comforted her, saying, "This is my business. You are even angrier than I am. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at by Madam Jiang?"

Lin Chunhong glanced at Song Li who was still picking out a handkerchief. She knew that Song Li must have heard the conversation between her and Wu Mingshu just now.

"Mrs. Jiang, can my elder sister and I call you Xiaoli?" Lin Chunhong asked Song Li.

Song Li put the handkerchief into the sewing basket and replied with a smile: "Of course."

"Xiao Li, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me for telling you this. You heard what I just said. My elder sister still doesn't want to divorce Yang Cheng?" Lin Chunhong made the matter clear and repeated it. She wanted Song Li to help persuade Wu Mingshu.

Song Li and Wu Mingshu were not familiar with each other. This was their second meeting, but she had a good impression of Wu Mingshu, so she told her thoughts to Wu Mingshu: "Sister Wu, why don't you want to divorce? Are you afraid of being laughed at? Or is Yang Cheng treating you well except... uh... not giving you the chance to have children? Or do you want to stay in the Yang family and wait for Yang Cheng to change his mind, or to watch him take a concubine and have children, or to watch him live happily with other families?"

Wu Mingshu turned her eyes to one side and whispered to Song Li and Lin Chunhong, "Xiao Li, Chunhong, today is a good day for Mingde and Xiaoyue. Let's not talk about this anymore. I will think it over carefully."

Lin Chunhong quickly changed the subject. She smiled and told Song Li and Wu Mingshu about the interesting things that happened in the grain shop she and Wu Mingxuan opened in the county town.

Soon, Zhang and Wu Li came out of the main room with smiles on their faces. Song Yue and Wu Mingde hurried to Song Li and the others.

Mrs. Wu Li smiled and said to Song Yue and Wu Mingde, "The date has been set. You will be married on the eighth day of the twelfth month of next year."

Song Yue and Wu Mingde both blushed.

"Where did Mingxuan and Minghui go?" Seeing that Wu Mingde and Song Yue were embarrassed, Mrs. Wu Li changed the subject and asked Wu Mingshu.

Wu Mingshu quickly replied: "Mom, they went to play outside the door."

Mrs. Wu Li smiled and told Mrs. Zhang that Wu Mingxuan had been naughty since he was young and he still acted like a child even though he was a father.

At this time, Song Changhe and several people from the village head also came out of the main hall, and Zhang and Wu Li hurried over.

After a few pleasantries, Zhang led Song Li to the main hall and took out two chickens, a piece of cloth, and two boxes of snacks as a return gift and placed them on the Wu family's ox cart.

After seeing off the Wu family, Song Li asked where Jiang Qingzhou had gone?

"Uncle Changrong and the others moved the betrothal gifts, and then I went to look for you. I saw you picking out handkerchiefs with the people from the Wu family, so I went outside the courtyard gate to talk to Uncle Changrong and the others." Jiang Qingzhou explained to Song Li with a smile.

Song Changrong, who had not yet left, smiled and said to Song Li: "Xiao Li, what Qingzhou said is true. I can testify to it."

Everyone in the yard laughed.

After Song Ershun and Song Sanshun's families left, Song Changhe took Song Li and Jiang Qingzhou to see the rabbit hive he had built.

Song Li looked at the rabbit hutch built with green bricks, and she asked Song Changhe if he bought the bricks specially?

Song Changhe smiled and explained to Song Li that these bricks were given by the village head.

"Xiangxiang, bring the backpack over and catch two rabbits for Xiaoli." Song Changhe turned his head and shouted loudly to Zhang who was talking to Song Yue.

Zhang took out the backpack from the bedroom. Song Li walked over and handed the cloth and books inside to Song Yue, asking her to make clothes for her and read books in her free time.

Song Yue held the cloth and the book and said softly to Song Li, "Thank you, sister."

"This girl is so distant to me, let her go back." After saying this, Song Li touched Song Yue's head.

Song Changhe and Jiang Qingzhou had already caught two rabbits. Song Changhe tied the rabbits together with a piece of cloth and put them in a backpack. Then he told Song Li, "Xiao Li, these two rabbits are a male and a female. You can raise them when you go back. However, rabbits can dig holes, so you have to build a nest with bricks."

"Dad, I understand." Song Li nodded, thinking that raising rabbits was really troublesome.

Jiang Qingzhou and Song Li left after feeding. Before leaving, they asked Song Xing if he wanted to go back with them.

Song Changhe said that he would send Song Xing to the Jiang family the day before the school opens.

Zhang cut a piece of pork sent by the Wu family and asked Song Li to take it back. Song Yue also took out the cloth bag that Song Li had placed in the room and gave it to Song Li.

Zhang put everything into a clean basket, and then told Song Li: "Careless girl, don't forget it again."

Song Li quickly smiled and said no.

Zhang, together with Song Changhe, Song Yue and Song Xing, sent Song Li and Jiang Qingzhou to the village entrance, and did not go home until they could no longer see their figures.