Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

the next day.

Liang Zan didn't know whether he wanted to impress his new master, so he started practicing martial arts by pounding wooden stakes in the yard early in the morning.

Jingzhi moved her ears and found that in addition to the "click" sound outside the door, the sound of Erdi rocking the chair, and the footsteps gradually approaching from next door.

Uncle Huabao comes to teach so early?

Being good at kung fu doesn't mean having good teaching ability. She wants to go out and see how he teaches.

So, she took the big teapot and quickly filled Erdi's small teapot with tea, covered it with a lid, wrapped it with a handkerchief, and then rushed out.

As soon as I stepped out of the door, I saw Erdi, who was very idle. She was sitting in a rocking chair, rocking slowly, with her legs crossed on a stool, fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan from time to time, and she was as happy as a fairy.

She stuffed the small teapot wrapped in a handkerchief into his hand, squatted down again, took his hand that was resting on the armrest, blinked her big eyes at him, and said in a negotiating tone:

"Erdi, I've been writing for several days. Can you give me a day off? I'm almost getting tendonitis from writing so much."

Erdi glanced at her sideways and said slowly:

"It's only the fourth day."

Jingyi choked and stretched out four fingers in front of him.

"That's forty already, plus the ones you asked me to rewrite, so that's nearly fifty. My hands are going to break."

She shook his hand again, pouting and acting coquettishly:

"It's just one day. I'll continue writing tomorrow."

She seldom acted coquettishly towards him. Erdi was so captivated by her coquettish look that she hesitated for a moment and said:

"I'll take half a day off in the morning and teach you painting in the afternoon? I'm free now."

Just when Jingzhi was about to grit her teeth and agree, Erdi suddenly looked behind her and raised her lips to tease:

"Fatty, you're dressed so beautifully, are you going to a wedding?"

Jingzhi looked back and saw Huabao wearing a dark red satin robe and a slightly big belly, which made him look like a wealthy man. However, his big strides and casual behavior made him look rude.

Hua Bao glanced at Er Di, snorted, and said to Liang Zan:

"I get angry when I see this sissy. Let's go and practice somewhere else!"

Liang Zan stopped upon hearing this and followed him obediently.

Halfway through the walk, Hua Bao turned back to look at the two people's clasped hands behind them. His expression suddenly became serious:

"Hey, sissy, when are you going to marry Jingzhi? Stop taking advantage of her!"

Erdi's chair stopped shaking instantly, and she sat up with her back straight. She looked down at Jingzhi who was concentrating on being a mushroom, and a hint of tenderness flashed in her eyes.

This time, he did not argue with his senior brother. Instead, he smiled at him and said,

"I listen to her."

Jingzhi suddenly held his hand tightly, and the sweat from her palm slowly passed through a layer of gauze to the skin of his palm, and the two clasped hands gradually became a little wet and hot.

Hua Bao nodded slowly and said:

"Sister Jingzhi, I'm waiting to drink your wedding wine, don't make me wait too long."

Jingzhi didn't dare to look up, for fear that someone would notice her blushing face and embarrass her. She nodded quickly and made a few vague "hmm" sounds.

Seeing that the girl was shy, Hua Bao didn't say much. He raised his eyebrows at Erdi, laughed teasingly a few times, and took Liang Zan to the woods in the backyard.

"Xiaozhi, we..."

Just as he was struggling with what to say, Jingzhi suddenly stood up and pulled him to follow the two people who had just left.

He asked: "What are you doing with them?"

She hushed, seeing him staring at her straight, her mind suddenly remembered what he had just said, and the heat on her face, which had just faded, instantly began to heat up again.

She thought for a moment before lowering her voice and saying:

"We can talk about the wedding after you are better, but we can slowly prepare the things for the wedding."

He suddenly laughed heartily and stopped walking. Talking about this topic, he couldn't help feeling a little excited, so he quickly pushed her against a tree by the roadside. Just as he was about to kiss her to express his love, Jingzhi noticed a villager coming up behind him with his trouser legs rolled up and half-dried mud on his ankles. He was the one who had just finished farming.

She gently pushed his shoulder away, then took his hand and strode towards the two figures that were almost disappearing, saying as she walked:

"Don't kiss outside, I'm afraid you'll be talked about."

She further explained:

"I'm a little curious about how Uncle Hua Bao teaches. Let's go over and take a look. We can just watch from behind without getting too close."

Erdi was about to say something when she suddenly heard a murmur from not far behind her.

"Ah, that old lady is taking her grandson out to play again."

Erdi tilted her head to look at her hair, and her face darkened.

"Are you angry?" she asked.

Erdi pursed her lips and tightened her hand. After a while, she said calmly:

"You're afraid of others gossiping about me, and I don't want others gossiping about you either."

She was the most beautiful person he had ever seen, except that her hair was a little pale, but she never seemed to care much. However, every time people talked about her, he felt upset.

It seems that we need to find a way to help her.

Jingzhi lifted a strand of long hair from behind her and held it in front of him and said:

"Do you dislike my gray hair?"

Erdi was tickled by the strands of hair that touched the tip of his nose, and he wanted to sneeze. He held his breath and tried to hold it back. He reached out and took the strands of hair, pecked them gently, and then said:

"So you dislike me for not having eyebrows?"

His question made Jingzhi a little stunned. She stopped and looked at his brow arch carefully.

He had been away from the troupe for a long time, and his eyebrows had grown a little. The shape of his eyebrows was good, but they were still a little sparse, which made him look more cool and aloof.

She shook her head and said:

"I don't mind it."

He pursed his lips and smiled: "Me too."

He suddenly said:

"Xiaozhi, you are very different from other girls. When it comes to being intimate outside, girls are usually more shy, but you are worried about me instead."

Inexplicably, Jingzhi's heart skipped a beat. She didn't know how to tell him that she came from the modern era, so she avoided his gaze a little, but she gritted her teeth and answered loudly:

"That's just my personality. I don't care much about these things."

Erdi looked at her thoughtfully for a while before slowly saying "oh".

The two were silent for a moment, and the two people in front also stopped at this time.

Jingzhi quickly stopped walking. Uncle Huabao’s ears were really useful, so she couldn’t get too close to him.

They slowly squatted down and hid in a bush to peek.

They were quite far away, and the sounds of their conversation were faint. If Jingzhi didn't look at their lip movements, she wouldn't even know what they were saying.

There were some small thorns on the low bushes beside her. She was about to reach out and touch Erdi's arm to ask a question, but her fingertips accidentally touched a sharp thorn.

She hissed softly and quickly withdrew her finger. Fortunately, the thorn did not pierce the flesh, but the white gauze slowly turned a little red.

Erdi hurriedly took her hand and inserted her fingers into the entrance of her glove at the wrist. Just as she was about to take off her glove to check, Jingzhi was quick to grab it.

"I am fine."

Erdi looked at her deeply. At this moment, he felt that she was like a mystery, which made him want to explore further.

"When will you tell me?"

Jingzhi lowered her eyes, not knowing how to respond, so she simply looked up at the two people in front of her.

As soon as I took a look, my eyes were covered.

"What?"

"That fat guy is shameless, taking off his clothes in public."

Erdi's tone suddenly turned cold.

"I think I see a lot of knife wounds."

The veins on Erdi's forehead twitched. He didn't want to believe it, so he asked again:

"Did you really see that?!"

She was silent for a moment, nodded honestly and said:

"I have a very good eye."

Erdi gritted her teeth and glared fiercely at the fat man who was showing off his achievements in the distance. Then, as if she was holding back a rage, she pulled Jingzhi back a few steps with a hunched back, then turned around and walked back quickly.

Jingzhi couldn't help looking back and said hurriedly:

"Hey, I haven't even seen it yet, are we going back now?"

Erdi pursed her lips tightly, her teeth biting her cheeks so hard that they kept moving. He thought for a moment, then turned back to Jingzhi and said:

"There's nothing to see here, Fatty. Let's go to the market."

She was a little surprised:

"So sudden?"

Thinking of the things he wanted to buy, his eyes softened. He looked around and saw that everything around him was green and there was no one in sight. He pressed Jingzhi against the big tree again, held her neck, and kissed her with his head tilted.

After a long time, he let her go, breathing slightly.

Jingzhi's lips were red, and she smiled sweetly. She started teasing him again, saying, "What's up, you sickly little brat, can't you breathe?"

The vein on his forehead jumped and he quickly covered it again.

A few minutes later, both of them were breathing heavily, supporting each other's shoulders, and looking at each other anxiously with their heads against each other.

She couldn't bear it any longer, so she looked away first and sideways at the sky. The sun was a little strong, but there was wind, so it was suitable for traveling.

She patted Erdi's shoulder gently and said:

"Stop kissing, let's go back and pull the cart. I know what you want to buy, hey."

Erdi gently pinched her cheek and said with a half-smile, "You may have only guessed half right."

His words are as alluring as he is.

Jingzhi was so hooked that she stopped walking and asked him, "Aren't you going to buy things for the wedding?"

Erdi smiled, raised the end of her eyebrows, scratched her nose lightly and said:

“…I can’t tell you right now.”

It's over.

She wanted to know more.

Seeing him avoiding her questioning and turning away, Jingzhi followed him closely, asking him left and right whether he would tell her or not. Erdi just smiled and remained silent.

The two of them walked like this, Erdi walked straight ahead, Jingzhi wandered back and forth behind him, chasing him all the way back to the courtyard.

Jingzhi had just pulled out the trailer, which had been used once and was still brand new, from the backyard when she saw Erdi bringing an old ox from somewhere.

"Where did it come from?"

Erdi pointed to a house with white walls and black tiles in the distance and said:

"Look, there, that's the fellow villager who said you were my grandmother. I borrowed it from him."

Jingzhi spat at him: "You are the grandma."

He smiled, but suddenly stopped smiling and looked at her with some heartache.

Her subconscious reply means that she still cares.

He skillfully connected the rope between the trailer and the cow's back. Jingzhi had never ridden on this thing before. She pushed herself up with her arms and sat down on the front corner of the cart. She patted the other corner and said excitedly:

"Come up quickly, come up quickly!"

Erdi was a little confused: "Haven't you ever ridden in an ox cart?"

Jingzhi's excited expression suddenly froze.

She has ridden in all kinds of vehicles, cars, trains, buses, but never in a bullock cart.

She cleared her throat and said seriously:

"Of course I have. It's been a long time since I last sat on one. I missed it."

Erdi's eyes dimmed slightly.

She lied again.

He turned around and sat on the other side.

An old horse knows the way, and an old cow is no exception. Erdi held the rope and adjusted the direction slightly, and the cow began to walk slowly on its own.

The country road was uneven, and the car body swayed along with it, with the wheels making creaking sounds from time to time. Sometimes, when encountering a protruding stone, the car body would suddenly jump.

Erdi's family was poor before, and she often rode in an ox cart, so she was somewhat accustomed to the shaking.

Jingzhi felt it was novel and she couldn't help looking around. When it shook violently, she even laughed out loud. After another shake, she couldn't help but patted Erdi's shoulder and said:

"Di, this is really fun. I'll sit on it again next time so that my hands can be free."

For some reason, he felt a little depressed. He lowered his brows and said slowly:

"Don't call me Di. Last time I asked you to change your name, have you thought it through?"

Jingzhi really hadn't thought about it yet, she planned to think about it now.

So he scratched his face and thought for a while, until his face was almost broken, but he still couldn't think of a good name.

It's really hard to come up with a nickname for his name.

Using a word that starts with "xiao", Xiaoer? Xiaodi?

If she screamed out, she was afraid he would beat her to death.

Using words starting with "A", A'er? A'di?

It sounds silly, she doesn't like it.

Unable to figure it out, I simply leaned over to his ear and whispered:

"Ms. sir~"

Erdi's depressed mood was like a ball, which was blown away by the word "husband". He quickly turned his head and kissed her cheek before responding in a low voice.

For a long while, he didn't dare look at her. He lowered his eyes to look at the brown pointed horns of the old yellow ox in front of him and called out softly:

"……lady."

Jingzhi heard it, but was not shy. She just scratched her head and frowned and said to him:

"Calling me Madam seems a bit old."

Erdi was not angry either. He looked at her with a half-smile and said:

"Didn't you say you were twenty-eight?"

Jingzhi began to grind her teeth and glared at him:

"I can say it but you can't! I'll beat you to death!"

She raised her hands high, but Erdi was not afraid at all. She even stretched her face forward, her eyes and eyebrows were very soft:

"You can't bear it."

Jingzhi's hand froze in the air for a long time before she gently lowered it and pinched his cheeks twice:

"Stinky little brother, I won't call you husband today!"

"Hey. You screamed again."

"you!"

The cowbells rang softly, and a gentle breeze blew past them, carrying the sounds of their fighting and playing far away.

Jingzhi thought that there were no more obstacles between them and they could live happily forever.

But a sudden autumn rain shattered everything...