12dz Chapter 167 Sneaking
Chapter 167 Sneaking
Song Ruize was wandering at the door of the Tang family. Hearing the footsteps getting closer and closer, he turned around and moved forward, pretending to look seriously in the direction of the field embankment.
Tang Luwu came out holding a wooden basin filled with pig offal.
She planned to go to the river to clean the pig offal and make the braised pork intestines that Qin Huiyin liked to eat in the evening.
As she walked out, she saw Song Ruize standing with his back to her and asked doubtfully, "Are you here to look for Yinyin?"
Song Ruize turned around when he heard the voice and asked calmly, "How is her foot?"
"Yinyin is resting inside. Go in and ask her!" Tang Luwu said, "Everyone is busy outside now. Yinyin is the only one left. She is bored."
"No need." Song Ruize said calmly, "I'm going into the city soon."
"Oh..." Tang Luwu ignored him and walked away with the wooden basin.
Song Ruize looked towards the door, his eyes full of confusion. After a while, he looked around and slowly moved towards the Tang family's door.
If Tang Yichen could step into his house, why couldn't he go in and find Yinyin?
When Song Ruize moved into the door, Tang Luwu, who was supposed to leave, poked her head out from the corner, with gossip burning in her eyes.
"Yinyin said that most men say one thing and mean another, especially those who don't show their emotions. Their hearts are even harder to understand. This Song Ruize's personality is really even more awkward than a woman's."
If you want to care about Yinyin, then just go in and find her. Is their Tang family a den of dragons and tigers?
Qin Huiyin heard that there was no one outside, so she got out of bed, took out the semi-finished facial mask from the cabinet, and continued to tinker with her beauty artifact.
Knock, knock! Someone is knocking on the window.
Qin Huiyin stuck her head out, looked outside, and saw Song Ruize standing by the window.
"Why are you here? Come in, what are you standing here for?"
"No need, I'll just stand here for a while." Song Ruize said calmly, "How is your foot injury?"
"I've been fine for a long time, but no one believes me and insists that I take a break. Now I'm the most idle person in the family." Qin Huiyin complained.
"You've been tired for so long, it's time to rest." Song Ruize said calmly, "Try to walk around slowly and see if the area where I adjusted your bones still hurts."
Qin Huiyin walked out and turned around in front of Song Ruize: "How is it? I said it's okay."
"Although I'm fine now, I still need to be careful when walking these days and not walk too fast. If I sprain my ankle again, it might not be so easy to recover."
"Okay." Qin Huiyin agreed obediently. "Are you going back to the city?"
"Yes, come over here and tell you."
"I'll go prepare some dried fish for you." Qin Huiyin walked towards the kitchen.
Song Ruize stopped her: "Don't go. If you keep whetting their appetites like this, they'll just be a bunch of termites clinging to you in the future."
"It's not a valuable thing anyway. If they want to eat it, let them eat it. I can afford it. They work for you and helped you a lot this time. You should thank them."
Song Ruize picked her up and walked towards the kitchen.
Qin Huiyin felt a little embarrassed and looked at Song Ruize's cold face and said, "You should smile more in the future. Even if they are your friends, you will scare them away if you always have a cold face."
Song Ruize moved his lips and fell silent.
After entering the kitchen, Qin Huiyin wrapped six packets of fried dried fish, six packets of braised meat, and six portions of seasoning sauce in oil paper.
"Brother Erzhu will be back in town tomorrow, so take his portion too! One for each of the six of you. Oh, and you asked for help this time, didn't you? Pack two more bags. You also have to maintain your relationship with Yang Baotou and Brother Xiang, and that yamen runner is a pretty good guy, so take a few more bags of fried dried fish."
Song Ruize held the back of her hand and shook his head gently: "This is the source of your money. You are always so generous. Can you really make money? The six of us can just share one portion. The two yamen runners who helped me and Yang Baotou and the others can each have a bag of dried fish. Put the rest away. Don't be so generous."
“Wouldn’t that be too stingy?”
"No. I'll treat them to a meal."
"That's good. You should make friends as much as possible. One more friend opens up more opportunities. But you also have to be careful of bad people. Some treacherous villains say one thing in public and another in private. And..."
Qin Huiyin tried hard to recall the pitfalls that Song Ruize would fall into during his novice period, but she found that apart from knowing that he always encountered evil people with ulterior motives, she knew nothing about the rest of the plot.
Song Ruize looked at Qin Huiyin who was talking nonsense, reached out and touched her hair, with a complex expression in his eyes that he himself could not understand.
"Ahem..." Tang Yichen didn't know when he came back, nor how long he had been standing at the kitchen door. He coughed lightly, interrupting the warm interaction between Song Ruize and Qin Huiyin.
Song Ruize picked up Qin Huiyin and when he passed by Tang Yichen, he glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and passed by with a cold face.
Tang Yichen's gaze rested on Song Ruize's arm.
The two men are of similar age and height, but their physical strength is very different.
Song Ruize had been hunting in the mountains since he was a child, and his skills were so great that even the adult men in the village couldn't match him. Tang Yichen had spent years studying and writing, and even if he had learned some riding and archery skills at the academy, they were only superficial, and certainly not comparable to Song Ruize's abilities, which were developed through actual combat with wild animals.
Tang Yichen raised his arm and moved his wrist.
No, too thin.
He has to exercise.
Song Ruize left with Qin Huiyin's thoughts.
Qin Huiyin stood at the window and watched him leave until his figure completely disappeared. She was about to go back to continue tinkering with her skin care products, but she heard the sound of chopping wood.
She turned her head and saw Tang Yichen chopping firewood with an axe.
Qin Huiyin: "..."
Tang Yichen rolled up his sleeves, tied up his clothes, and chopped firewood again and again.
Song Tieniu and Zhang Jieba usually chopped firewood for their family. By this time, a large amount of chopped firewood had piled up in the corner of the yard, enough to last for five days without stopping. Chopping this firewood wasn't a must.
Qin Huiyin did not disturb Tang Yichen.
Come on, young people should do more and move more, and just reading books won’t do. Usually, Tang Yichen is buried in books and almost forgets what normal life is like.
Tang Yichen chopped for a while, and his palms turned red.
He looked at his palm with disdain and said, "That guy can chase prey for days and nights, but I can't even chop wood? No, I absolutely cannot lose to him."
There were many people his age in the village, but Tang Yichen had always had a special eye for Song Ruize. It was just that Song Ruize used to be a demon everyone in the village avoided. He was a child prodigy with good academics, so he didn't have to take him seriously. But now it was different. His sister seemed to like Song Ruize more. As her legitimate brother, he absolutely couldn't let some "outside brother" take his place.