Scholar's Sweetheart

Soong Xintong's feet stopped. Could it be a mandarin duck? Just as he was hesitating on whether he should take a detour and return home from the middle of the village, he suddenly heard a woman's embarrassed and angry voice from in front of a rock, "Who's your sister? You give... Get out of my way! My mother will be here soon. "

Why did this stuttering sound sound so familiar? Soong Xintong thought to herself.

"Little Sister Hee Family, don't lie to me. I've been watching for a long time and only you died here. Don't worry, it's not like anyone has come, so I'll have a good talk with you, little sister." The coquettish male voice sounded again.

The voice filled with weeping fear sounded once again. "You go away, you go away …"

Soong Xintong finally remembered that it was Hee Baiyun's voice, which was as clear as an oriole bird's. Without hesitating, she picked up a bamboo pole and ran in front of the rock, just in time to see a man in green clothes pulling Hee Baiyun's hand, immediately shouting: "White Cloud? What are you doing here? Second Aunt Hee is looking for you everywhere. "

Soong Xintong sized up the young man in front of her. Her face was like a peach blossom, but her eyebrows were raised.

When Hee Baiyun saw Soong Xintong, it was as if she saw her savior. She quickly ran towards Soong Xintong with the wooden basin containing her clothes and pulled on her sleeve gratefully, "My mother is looking for me? Then let's hurry back. "

"So it's little sister Soong Family. Who do I think it is?" Lai San looked at Soong Xintong with a lack of interest and curled his lips in disgust. Then, he shifted his gaze back to Hee Baiyun's proud chest, and said shamelessly: "Since you want to know, then little sister Hee Family, let's go back first. Big brother will come look for you another day."

With that, he turned around and walked away.

"Bai Yunlai, how did you meet such a person?" Soong Xintong did not have a good impression of this guy.

"He went to the riverside to wash his clothes. He wanted to go back to the stream to cool off, but who would've thought that he would run into him here." Hee Baiyun rubbed her reddened eyes. "Xintong, thank you so much for today. If not for you …"

"From now on, be careful. It's better to walk to the center of the village to be safer." Soong Xintong said.

Hee Baiyun was the same as her name, she looked especially white, and couldn't get suntan no matter how hard she tried. Her part-time job was a gene mutation in Hee Family, and they both said that it was white to hide a hundred faces.

In this remote village that was mostly Sister Blacky, Hee Baiyun could definitely be considered a great beauty.

Unlike Soong Xintong herself, she was tall and slender, but her chest was not even a taut piece of flesh. Although she had been taking care to protect herself from the sun these past few days, it was still a drop in the bucket.

The more Soong Xintong thought about it, the more her head hurt.

"Xintong, let's go back." Hee Baiyun whispered.

"Alright." Soong Xintong threw the bamboo pole into her hands and walked slowly along the shady path by the stream with the bamboo basket in her hand.

Hee Baiyun whispered, "Xintong, can you not tell my mother about this?"

Soong Xintong stopped and looked at Hee Baiyun. "I think that person will come looking for you. Are you sure you won't tell your mother?"

Hee Baiyun shook her head. "That person's name is Lai San, he's from the village. I heard he's doing well with some people in the county. If we offend him, I'm afraid …"

Soong Xintong saw that Lai San was just a hoodlum and was not a good person. His friends were probably just a bunch of gangsters, and he was the most difficult to deal with, "We can't just do nothing like that."

Hee Baiyun said worriedly, "A year ago, he flirted with a family's daughter and they beat him up. When he recovered, he broke their legs. Now, they can't even go down the ground. If I tell Mom, Mom and the others definitely won't be able to tolerate it. If by any chance … It was just a few flirtatious words, I … "Whatever it is."

Hearing Hee Baiyun's words, Soong Xintong knew that she was thinking about simplicity. In the modern era, ordinary citizens did not dare to offend those people with high morals, and in this era, it was even more so.

"Then be careful, don't come to this remote place by yourself again." Soong Xintong could only say so.

"There are many aunties sitting under the great banyan tree in the middle of the village. Every time I pass by, they would ask me about my marriage. I didn't want to hear about it, so I ended up walking here. I didn't expect …" Hee Baiyun sighed. She was extremely vexed.

Soong Xintong carried her basket and continued walking forward. "You said it's a marriage alliance?"

"Not yet." Hee Baiyun's fair cheeks flushed red like an apple, appearing beautiful and charming in an instant.

Soong Xintong mercilessly exposed her. "No wonder, your face is already so red."

Hee Baiyun lowered her head in embarrassment.

"Ai, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it. Don't forget to treat me to a wedding wine when the time comes." Hee Baiyun was very good to the original owner, and she was also the original owner's only good friend in the village.

Hee Baiyun nodded her head shyly, then pointed at the egg in Soong Xintong's basket and stiffly changed the topic, "Did you buy that egg?"

"That's right, Big Treasure and Little Treasure are extremely skinny. Buy them a few eggs to supplement their health." Soong Xintong said.

Hee Baiyun said, "You're going to have to spend 10 gold coins, aren't you? "It's not worth it at all. How about we raise a few chickens?"

"But I don't know how to raise one." Soong Xintong felt helpless. She had read so many books, but had yet to read any on breeding techniques.

"Raising chickens is very simple. You just need to feed them as you please." Hee Baiyun enthusiastically suggested, "My mother even said that she would go to the next village to buy some chickens and ducks. How about we buy some for you as well? The little chicks and the ducklings are all worth six cents each, so it would be cheaper to buy a little more. "

Soong Xintong didn't eat duck eggs very much. Instead, she was rather interested in raising chickens. "How long will it take for chicks to lay eggs?"

Hee Baiyun thought about it for a moment. "About five months."

"It's been too long." Soong Xintong shook her head. She didn't have the time to wait, and what if she died? Bai Yunlai, can you buy the egg directly for the hen? "

"The hens that laid the eggs?" Hee Baiyun looked at Soong Xintong in surprise. "Hens are expensive. A single chicken costs two hundred or two hundred gold coins. It's not worth it."

"If you can lay the eggs early, it would be great if you could eat them in the early days. This is also a good deal." Soong Xintong explained.

Hee Baiyun didn't know the exact situation, so she said, "Then I'll ask for you, mother?"

"Sure, it would be better if we could buy two of them. Then we can add a few chicks and slowly raise them." Soong Xintong calculated the time. If this was the case, then all the chickens could lay eggs in winter. It would be fine to eat one and throw one away, hahaha!

"Alright, I'll go back and talk to mom."

The two of them walked along the small path for a few more steps. A little girl who was as thin as a bamboo walked towards them. The little girl's face was swollen up high; she had a timid expression on her face as she walked past the two of them.

When the little girl had gone far away, Soong Xintong was still looking at her skinny back.

"Stop looking." Lili pulled Soong Xintong along and walked on. "Xintong, did you forget that Wan Ah Ju had a terrible mother?"

Soong Xintong was stunned for a moment before she remembered who Wan Ah Ju was. She was Ye Guihua's third daughter, and all of them were extremely patriarchal. Even the three daughters of the Wan Family didn't have a good time at home.

"Sigh." Soong Xintong could not help but sigh. Although she sympathized, she could not say anything as this kind of situation occurred everywhere, other than in a few families.

At the moment, Soong Xintong was very glad that her father had never been a son to a daughter.