Chapter Thirty
Most of the time, Song Gensheng looks like a scholar, and occasionally he doesn't like him. Not only does he not look like him, but he is more vulgar than a normal person.
At this moment, he entered the wretched man mode.
I did nothing for the whole morning, and followed Xiu'er far away like a fool. I watched her pick wild vegetables with a bamboo basket, humming a vulgar song and walking through the forest path, I saw her quietly take off her shoes, soak her feet in the clear winding stream, and comfortably raised her head and closed her eyes, blending with the mountains, forests and streams into a beautiful picture.
Song Gensheng looked at her from a distance quietly, his eyes obsessed with smiles on his lips, and he protected her like the black bear monster under Guanyin Bodhisattva's seat, loyally guarding the purple bamboo forest.
Seeing Xiu'er put on straw sandals, tidy up her clothes and then go home, Song Gensheng hurriedly followed.
Until Xiu'er walked back to the village, she met a familiar villager and stopped to greet her. Song Gensheng quietly hid behind an abandoned earth wall and poked his head out to glance at her.
With a slap on Song Gensheng's shoulder, Gu Qing leaned over, looked at his gaze, and said curiously: "Are you a thief or a thief?"
Song Gensheng screamed in fear, turned his head in panic and found that it was Gu Qing, so he sighed relieved: "A gentleman will not be scary behind you."
Song Gensheng was a little embarrassed and annoyed.
"I am not a gentleman, I am just an ordinary person. Sometimes what I do may not be considered a human being." Gu Qing said indifferently.
Song Gensheng was stunned and advised: "Whether a gentleman or an ordinary person, you should cherish your feathers. How can you slander and belittle yourself like this?"
"Famousness is a shackle. I don't need it. Don't change the topic. Who are you peeping with?" Gu Qing looked at Xiu'er in the distance. Gu Qing suddenly realized: "You are beastly in clothes, you do this kind of thing to peep at a young girl in broad daylight. Shouldn't this kind of thing be done at night? He actually has the nerve to teach me to be a gentleman...tsk!"
Song Gensheng's face turned red: "I, I'm not peeping, I'm... protecting her! I'm afraid she will meet bad people."
"The only bad guys in the village are the Ding brothers. They have been sold by me. Who else is the bad guy?"
Song Gensheng didn't say anything, but looked at Gu Qing with a determined look.
Gu Qing took a deep breath: "I am a bad person?"
Song Gensheng said slowly: "You said just now that sometimes you can't even be considered a human being."
In addition to studying, scholars generally have to practice verbal skills. The words that are very reasonable and cannot be refuted.
Gu Qing thought of several counterattack words in his mind, but in the end he was too weak to kill, so he was stunned for a moment, then smiled to the sky, pressed Song Gensheng's neck with one hand, and pressed his face against the earthen wall, rubbed it...
After a while, Song Gensheng sat behind the earth wall with expressionless expression on his face, rubbing his face, and Gu Qing stretched his waist with a refreshed look.
"Did you have been floating recently or do you think I can't carry the knife anymore?" Gu Qing glanced at him squintly.
"You have rubbed me, please help me think of a solution, how can you make Xiu'er admire me?"
Gu Qing was silent, and it was another damn topic, and he was not good at it at all.
"I don't know what kind of constitution you are doing with your courtship. Anyway, what I know is to send flowers, candlelight dinner, walk under the moon, and play the piano and sing love songs outside her door. Does it sound very rustic? Yes, it's true, but all I know is this."
Song Gensheng's eyes lit up: "Tu? How could it be soil? I haven't heard of it before, it seems very novel... If she is interested in me, how would she hint me?"
Gu Qing tried hard to recall the plot in the TV series in his previous life, and then said: "She... probably said that the new tea is on the market recently, so I'll invite you to her house for a cup of tea."
"Tea? No one in the village drinks this thing."
"Drinking water is OK, the important thing is not what to drink... I am really convinced of you, a straight man like you."
"What is the 'steel straight man'?"
"I don't want to explain such a profound question to you. There is only one question to ask you. Why don't you invite someone to come to propose marriage if you like Xiu'er? Prepare for a richer betrothal gift. Xiu'er's mother will definitely not object, right?"
Song Gensheng shook his head: "I hope that the two of them will fall in love before they propose marriage. If Xiu'er doesn't like me, I propose marriage and marry her. Isn't it a behavior of bullying men and dominating women? This is not what a gentleman does."
Gu Qing looked at him with a smile. Song Gensheng is a simple, elegant person, and has some pedantic nerd spirits. Gu Qing treats him not only because he is a friend, but more because Gu Qing sees many personality qualities that he does not have in him. Song Gensheng is like a complementary existence, which just makes up for the shortcomings in Gu Qing's personality.
Xiu'er in the distance finally saw Gu Qing and Song Gensheng behind the earthen wall, carrying bamboo baskets, and stood still when they were five steps away from the two, looking at Gu Qing timidly.
Gu Qing waved at her with a smile, and Xiu'er slowly approached.
Song Gensheng's expression was a little panicked, and Gu Qing could even hear his breathing sound a lot heavier.
Xiu'er squatted the blessings to Gu Qing and Song Gensheng, which surprised Gu Qing. Xiu'er's tutoring etiquette seemed to be well done, and it was difficult to see such a polite girl in the barren mountain village.
"Xiu'er has met Brother Gu and Brother Song." Xiu'er said softly.
Song Gensheng was at a loss, looked elsewhere with nervousness, and tried hard to hold his brother's airs and nodded, his face turned red.
Gu Qing glanced at him and smiled and said, "Do you look for me or Gensheng?"
Xiu'er said timidly: "Look for you."
"We are all neighbors in the same village, so I will just say something."
"I heard from the elders in the village that Brother Gu's pottery kiln summoned the village's laborers to help with work, which was rewarded, right?"
"That's right."
Xiu'er's face turned red and she lowered her head and whispered: "I, my mother said... she also wanted to go to the pottery kiln to do things. She said she was also a laborer, and she could do things that men could do."
Gu Qing was stunned, and never expected that she would make this request.
Seeing Gu Qing silent for a long time, Xiu'er said anxiously: "I can take half of the labor force. I can do things with my mother, so the rewards can be less, okay?"
Gu Qing frowned. Seeing Xiu'er's anxious look, she must have been very poor, otherwise she would not have shown up and worked hard in the pottery kiln.
However, when I think that the people working in the pottery kiln are all rough men, who are shirtless all day long while working while talking about joking about meat and vegetables, it is really inappropriate for Xiuer and her daughter to be in that environment.
Song Gensheng next to him was also extremely anxious, and stared at him with red face and anticipated eyes.
Gu Qing blinked and decided to give a favor, so he turned to look at Song Gensheng and said, "Where is the pottery kiln, there should be no shortage of labor for the time being, and it is inappropriate for women to do such rough work. Gensheng, do you think you should arrange a job for Xiuer and his daughter?"
Song Gensheng nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes! Of course!"
Xiu'er looked at Song Gensheng, and her eyes looked grateful.
Gu Qing smiled and said, "For Gensheng's sake, Xiu'er, you and your mother should cook for the laborers in the pottery kiln. I will allocate the grain to you every day. Xiu'er, you have worked hard to pick wild vegetables up the mountain. You mother and daughter can cook one meal every day. I will give you two cents a day. How about it?"
Xiu'er was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed and thanked Gu Qing. When she raised her head, her face was covered with tears.
"Brother Gu, my mother and I will remember your great kindness in my heart for the rest of our lives."
Gu Qing pulled Song Gensheng over and said, "Thank him, I didn't plan to hire anyone anymore. Gensheng said good things to you before I changed my mind."
Xiu'er saluted Song Gensheng again: "Thank you, Brother Song."
After thanking her, Xiu'er sued her and jumped home with a bamboo basket. She could see that she was very excited and couldn't wait to tell her mother the good news.
Song Gensheng said gratefully: "Thank you for helping me."
"Don't be polite if you mention it casually."
Song Gensheng said awkwardly: "In order to help me, in addition to paying villagers' remuneration, you also have to pay an extra meal every day, which is a considerable expense."
"After all, I am a neighbor. I will not suffer any losses if I give more benefits. Besides, I will naturally pay for the more I pay. Why not do it?"
Song Gensheng was curious: "Who?"
Gu Qing looked at the mountain road at the entrance of the village, thrust his chin, and smiled at the corner of his mouth: "They."
Chapter completed!