My Gentleman Reborn

He Yuzhou narrowed his eyes, Qi Yan said so, it was hard for him to refuse, he sighed, and put the jade tablet back into his arms, Qi Yan smiled softly when he saw this.

After returning to the house, Qi Yan locked himself in the east wing. He Yuzhou ignored him and went to the kitchen. He had almost eaten eggplants and loofahs these days, and the edamame shriveled on the ground. He Yuzhou soaked it in water.

There are many ways to prepare edamame, most of which are eaten as a snack. The edamame here is a bit old, and the skin is inedible. He Yuzhou peeled it out.

Wash the mourning water, let it soften, then add oil and stir-fry, beat an egg, put soy sauce and salt, He Yuzhou also likes to add a little sugar, if there is chili pepper, you can also put chili pepper, but at this time, He Yuzhou’s family He didn't prepare chili, so he didn't put it...

Once the pot is ready, a bowl of fragrant edamame is ready. With a few glasses of wine or tea, it is a delicious snack to pass the time.

Because there were a lot of edamame, I filled four big bowls after frying all of them, and I just gave a bowl to Mrs. Guan, Uncle Zhao and Cong Di's family.

Seeing that the door of the east wing hadn't been opened yet, He Yuzhou put Maodou in the hall, packed three bowls in a food box, and sent them to Aunt Guan, Congdi and Zhao's family in turn.

The last ones to go were Zhao's family. He Yuzhou stayed there for a while. Zhao Yi talked about asking him to dig the well again. He Yuzhou thought about it for a while and didn't agree immediately. He just asked Uncle Zhao Yi when he would go to town.

Zhao Yi replied: "Anytime."

He Yuzhou thought about it, went home, took his only 20 taels of silver, told him with Qi Yan's jade token, and went out.

This time when I came to the town, it was getting late. He Yuzhou didn't dare to delay. He went to the grain store to buy a stone of miscellaneous grains. Now that there was a slight sign of drought, the price of grains in the grain store doubled immediately. After paying He Yuzhou two taels of silver, he bought another [-] catties of rice, which cost two taels of silver after a double increase. He added some flour and glutinous rice flour, and asked someone to help deliver it to Zhao Yi's car.

I went out alone.

After leaving the grain store, He Yuzhou only had 17 taels left in his hand...

I don’t know if it’s enough to build a well. Uncle Yi said that it would cost around 20 taels, which means that it’s better to prepare 20 taels. He Yuzhou thought about it, and finally came to the only pawnshop in the town with a jade card.

He had been to this pawn shop before, and pawned a piece of clothing left to him by the ninth son in exchange for a tael of life-saving money.

Now, when I come here again, I want to take this jade token to get money?

Is it really feasible?

He Yuzhou felt uneasy... But he had no choice but to take a deep breath and walk in.

The owner of the pawnshop is a shrewd young man with delicate features, and he often fiddles with the abacus at the counter.

When He Yuzhou came in, the young man was doing some calculations. When he saw someone coming in, he raised his eyes and saw that it was He Yuzhou. His eyes lit up and he raised his head: "Hey, girl, it's you. Long time no see."

He Yuzhou was a little taken aback, he came here once, does this person still remember him?

The young man looked at He Yuzhou with his chin propped on one hand, looked at his empty hands, and asked jokingly, "Girl, what are you going to be this time?"

"...and... not when..." He Yuzhou pondered how to speak.

The young man laughed and said, "Isn't it a pawn in my pawn shop... Could it be that he came to see me?"

As he spoke, he walked out from behind the counter. He was even shorter than he had imagined. He was only as tall as He Yuzhou's chest, maybe only the height of the counter. He Yuzhou looked at the counter in astonishment, only to find that there was a small stool behind the counter. There are two mud footprints on it, this person is standing on a stool to greet business...

As if realizing that it was impolite to look at him like this, He Yuzhou quickly withdrew his gaze, took out the jade token in his arms and said, "Someone told me that as long as you hold this jade token and put the name 'Qi Yan' on it, you can Come get some silver for dual use..."

"!" The young man widened his eyes, took the jade token and looked at it carefully, then solemnly handed it back to He Yuzhou, his face restrained from joking: "Girl, how much do you need?"

"Uh... 20 taels... is enough."

The young man was slightly stunned and said: "Then wait for me."

As he spoke, he entered the inner room, and soon, he came out with 100 taels...

He Yuzhou was taken aback, and the young man said, "This is the first time I've seen this jade plaque, girl, where is the owner of this jade plaque?"

"Eh?" He Yuzhou was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say, but the young man patted his head suddenly and said, "Look at me, I've forgotten the rules, don't ask why, sorry, sorry."

As he said that, he really didn't ask any more questions, but silently packed up the dual-purpose money bag and handed it to He Yuzhou.

He Yuzhou looked at the money bag with some hesitation. Finally, he seemed to have made up his mind. He reached out and took the silver tael without daring to stay any longer. He took the money and went to find Uncle Zhao, and they returned to the village together.

After discussing with Zhao Yishu, he would find someone to dig the well tomorrow, and He Yuzhou returned home.

Even though he had many doubts about the pawn shop, He Yuzhou didn't know how to ask Qi Yan, but he just cooked food in silence, but Qi Yan could see that He Yuzhou was absent-minded.

Sitting at the dining table and eating, Qi Yan said, "Is there anything going on in town today?"

He Yuzhou was taken aback, then lowered his head and said, "I used the jade token you gave me to get a hundred taels of silver."

Qi Yan smiled: "Isn't this very good? The girl can dig a well, and you can also buy some delicious food. By the way, I don't have any clothes. Girl, buy me some."

"..." He Yuzhou cast a glance at him, and didn't reply sullenly.

Qi Yan raised his eyebrows, put down the bowl and chopsticks, looked at him and asked, "But did you encounter trouble in the pawnshop?"

He Yuzhou shook his head, frowned and pursed his lips, looked at Qi Yan for a while, and said as if he had made up his mind: "The man said he saw such an emerald jade plaque for the first time, and asked me where are you?"

Qi Yan was taken aback: "Did the girl say that?"

"No, before I had time to say it, the pawnshop owner said to himself that it was a rule not to ask, and then he gave me the money and let me go..." He Yuzhou looked dazed.

Qi Yan chuckled: "So, what is the girl worrying about now?"

"...It's better to say doubts than distress." He Yuzhou put a piece of edamame into his mouth and chewed it like a cover-up.

Qi Yan laughed lowly when he heard the words: "I understand, the girl is curious, curious about what I am doing? Curious why the pawnshop owner is like this? I am also curious about the rules..."

"The girl is interested in me." Qi Yan smiled.

He Yuzhou was startled suddenly: "Stop being narcissistic, I'm just wondering, you can say it or not, if you don't want to."

"I didn't say I didn't want to. In fact, didn't I plan to tell the girl last time? It was the girl who said, 'I don't care about your past, I only care about your future. What are you going to do in the future?'" , as if I had nothing to do with the girl before." Qi Yan narrowed her eyes just right, with a sly expression like a good fox.

"..." He Yuzhou turned his head away in embarrassment.

Qi Yan laughed out loud: "The girl wants to know, how about being more frank?"

"Come on, say something to me—I want to know everything about you."

"As long as you tell me, I'll tell you everything right away."

"..." He Yuzhou pursed his lips, looked at Qi Yan, frowned, and looked distressed.

Qi Yan looked at him with burning eyes...

He Yuzhou clenched the bowls and chopsticks in his hands. After a while, he opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to speak, but he was silent. After trying for a while, he suddenly closed his mouth and turned his head: " No, I don't want to know."

Qi Yan was taken aback, then sighed helplessly and said, "Forget it, one day the girl will be able to tell."

He Yuzhou bowed his head to eat without saying a word, Qi Yan looked at him, picked up the bowl and chopsticks again and said: "The pawnshop is just an industry, in fact, most of the pawnshops in this Qi country are my industry, but although it is my But I am not running the business, I entrusted it to a trustworthy person, usually, I will be a hands-off shopkeeper, and I will pick up the silver when I need it, and the jade medal is the token."

Said, Qi Yan chuckled: "Because my whereabouts are uncertain, and they don't know when and where I need silver taels, so I arrange properties everywhere. In fact, when I go out, I always bring one or two followers with me, and the followers also have silver taels. Similar jade cards do not need the next jade card to pick up the silver taels, this time is so special, that's why the shopkeeper was curious and asked the girl."

"...I... said I don't want to know, but you don't have to explain it so clearly." He Yuzhou said softly.

Qi Yan chuckled: "Because the girl's face is full of 'I want to know', I can see it clearly."

"..." He Yuzhou turned his head away in embarrassment, Qi Yan smiled lightly, He Yuzhou's face became hot, and he changed the subject and asked: "Since there are industries everywhere, why bother to nest in my small place?"

"Is the girl following me?"

"No..." He Yuzhou shook his head, Qi Yan said with a smile: "That's good, I like this place, and I want to live more."

"It's a girl." Qi Yan changed the subject and looked at He Yuzhou.

He Yuzhou looked back at him suspiciously: "Me?"

Qi Yan pretended to be serious and nodded: "Well, it's the girl. You see, my family has tens of millions of property all over the world, and I'm also handsome. Girl, just agree to marry me?"

"..." He Yuzhou's complexion turned cold, Qi Yan raised his eyebrows when he saw this: "...There is no rush, let's eat."

While talking about eating, Qi Yan frowned imperceptibly, clearly feeling that this person had feelings for him, why would he be reluctant when he heard about getting married.

Qi Yan was puzzled and couldn't help but pay more attention.

The next day, people from Zhao's area came to dig a well.

This person's surname is Qian, and everyone calls him Old Man Qian. It is said that he is an experienced well digger in the village, and the well of Zhao's family is the location where he measured.

This man looked older than the village chief, with gray hair, holding a pipe, walking slowly, and skinny.

He Yuzhou carefully greeted him into the house and watched him walk, for fear that he might accidentally fall somewhere.

Old Uncle Qian looked at He Yuzhou with a smile. Xu was aware of He Yuzhou's worries, so he waved his hands repeatedly: "The old man is not old yet, he can still go, little girl don't need to worry."

Entering the yard, he seemed very satisfied with the environment here. Old man Qian nodded repeatedly, looked around as if something was going on, bent down and drew a place with the long pipe in his hand, and said, "This is fine... little girl You are near the mouth of the river, and there are many places to dig wells, so this place must be the most suitable."

Qi Yan stood at the door and saw everything in his eyes, raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "It seems that the old man is a master."

Uncle Qian shook his gray beard and said with a smile, "I can't become a master, but I just watched the well all my life and gained a lot of experience."

When Qi Yan heard this, his eyes flickered and he said: "You can know where the most suitable place can be if you can just look at it a few times. The old man must have rich experience. Please, old man, have a cup of tea before leaving."

Uncle Qian looked at Qi Yan a few more times, and Qi Yan looked at him with a smile on his face. Uncle Qian sneered, and entered the room with his hands behind his back.

He Yuzhou was slightly stunned, Zhao Yi stood in front of He Yuzhou and frowned: "Xiaozhou, has this person left yet?"

He Yuzhou nodded and said, "Maybe he will stay for a while."

Zhao Yi hesitated to speak, but He Yuzhou didn't pay attention, and entered the room to serve tea to Qi Yan.

They are all jasmine black tea, needless to say, Qi Yan has been drinking this tea for the past few days. The old man is already very old. He Yuzhou worried that he would not be able to stand the coolness of bamboo leaf tea, so he also poured him a cup of jasmine black tea.

Old Uncle Qian took two sips. Although he said something delicious, he didn't taste like Zhao Yi, Lu Zhuoxi and Qi Yan drank. He seemed to be just quenching his thirst. He looked at it silently, and He Yuzhou turned and left the room.

The water spinach stalks pickled a few days ago should be ready, so He Yuzhou went to make a plate, and put a plate of water spinach stalks and yesterday's edamame on the hall to entertain Uncle Qian.

After finishing these, he was dragged out by Zhao Yi, and they discussed who to ask to dig the well.

Although this well digging is knowledgeable, but at this time someone has already found the location, so it doesn't matter if you need experience or something. Everyone knows it. According to what Zhao Yi said, it is almost enough to find a few people to dig out the water.

He Yuzhou didn't know anyone very well, so he asked Zhao Yi to help him make a decision.

Zhao Yi said that he had invited relatives to dig the well at that time, and it would not be appropriate to invite them now, so He Yuzhou would have the two brothers Cong Di, Guan Dahai and Zheng Qi together.

The salary is [-] Wen a day during the construction of the house.

After He Yuzhou agreed, he immediately invited them to come.

The well was located near the kitchen, at the corner. Qi Yan and Old Man Qian were coming out of the house when the four of them came over with the tools.

Old Uncle Qian went out and saw He Yuzhou, his eyes lit up, and he called out, "Little girl, do you still have your snacks? The old man has the cheek to beg for some to take home."

He Yuzhou was taken aback for a moment, and replied, "Old man Qian, what are you begging for? I still have a lot of soreness, but the edamame is gone."

Seeing that the old man was a bit disappointed, He Yuzhou said: "But I can tell the old man how to make it. As long as the old man has edamame at home, he can make it himself."

Old Uncle Qian waved his hand when he heard the words: "Forget it, my wife and I are the only two at home, and the old man doesn't want my wife to go busy anymore, girl, give me some of your sourness."

"Okay." He Yuzhou responded, went into the kitchen, filled a bowl of pickled sour, and a tael of silver to give to Old Man Qian.

This is what Zhao Yi had told him in advance, and the position of watching the well should be one or two.

However, Old Man Qian shook his head and said that he would not accept the one or two, which made He Yuzhou and Zhao Yi very astonished.

Old Uncle Qian laughed and said, "I won't accept this one or two, but let the little girl buy some edamame for me and send it over, okay?"

He Yuzhou laughed when he heard the words: "You don't need one or two, just keep it, old man."

"No." Uncle Qian shook his head, looked back at Qi Yan, took the acid, waved his hand, and left.

He Yuzhou was very surprised, he looked at Qi Yan suspiciously, Qi Yan blinked at him.

He Yuzhou frowned, approached him and asked, "What did you tell the old man?"

Qi Yan said: "I didn't say anything, do you believe it?"

"What do you think?" He Yuzhou looked at him.

Qi Yan smiled lightly, and said, "The girl will know when the time comes."

He Yuzhou was curious, but Qi Yan greeted Guan Dahai and others, and went into the house.

Even though he was very curious, He Yuzhou had to greet Guan Dahai and the others first, so he could only watch Qi Yan enter the house.

"Xiaozhou, is this the man you rescued on the mountain that day?" Cong Di spoke first.

He Yuzhou was taken aback. Except for the Zhao family, it seemed that he had not told anyone else about this person's arrival. Perhaps Aunt Zhao had revealed it through chatting with others.

Thinking of this, He Yuzhou replied: "Yes, his name is Qi Yan, and he will rest here temporarily."

Cong Di and the others looked into the room curiously.

He Yuzhou smiled slightly and said, "Everyone come in for a cup of tea first?"

"No, it's better sooner rather than later, we'll start now." The one who unexpectedly spoke was Cong Erchi.

Cong Di replied, "That's right, let's start the work."

Among these four people, there was one that He Yuzhou was not very familiar with. It was Orion Zheng Qi, but Zhao Yishu seemed to know him very well, so he asked He Yuzhou to call him and He Yuzhou called him.

He is a very strong boy, with well-developed muscles, looks like a trainer, and looks very powerful.

He hasn't spoken since he entered the room, which is comparable to Cong Erchi's silence.

However, the four of them did it.No one was lazy, Cong Di and Guan Dahai would chat from time to time, while Cong Erchi and Zheng Qina didn't even open their mouths, they just shut up and worked hard.

Zheng Qi is a hunter, and his digging speed is much faster than Cong Di and Guan Dahai. Surprisingly, Cong Erchi's speed can also keep up with Zheng Qi.

The original impression of Cong Erchi was that he was silent and not easy to get along with, but now it doesn't seem to be the case, he just doesn't like to talk, and he seems to be very honest in doing things, at least he hasn't paused since the start of construction, his head is full The profuse sweat also expressed that he did his best.

In comparison, Zheng Qi's sweat is much less than that of Cong Erchi.

He Yuzhou watched, went into the room and made a pot of bamboo leaf tea and brought them out, calling them over to drink.

At noon they stayed at He Yuzhou's house for dinner. He Yuzhou cooked a pot full of miscellaneous grains. Since he didn't buy any meat, He Yuzhou cooked some with the vegetables at home.

The tender pumpkin is cut into thin strips, made into batter with eggs and flour, and fried into pancakes.

Stewed potatoes, fried a cabbage, made a steamed egg.

Putting it on the table, Wei Wei explained with embarrassment: "I didn't go to town today, I didn't buy meat, so I'm neglecting."

Cong Di smiled and said, "No, this dish is already very good."

Guan Dahaiying: "Yes, it's better than my family's."

"Xiaozhou, you come to eat too, call Mr. Qi together." Cong Di said.

He Yuzhou responded, beckoned them to sit down, and went to call Qi Yan. Qi Yan was slightly taken aback when he saw the people at the table, and then raised his eyebrows in novelty.

At the dinner table, Qi Yan was very talkative and cunning, and in just a few words, he could find out the background of a group of people.

He glanced around the crowd, finally looked at Zheng Qi, and asked in a chatty manner: "Zheng Orion, when will you go hunting in the mountains?"

"Well, I can't say for sure. There are still a few months before autumn. I will probably go up and have a look later."

"Huh? Do we have to wait until autumn?" Qi Yan asked him.

Zheng Qiwei was stunned and said: "Not really, it's just that there will be more prey in autumn, so it's okay to go at this time."

"Then how about taking it down the mountain to have a look in two days?" Qi Yan dropped the words.

He Yuzhou was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Qi Yan, who looked back at him and said, "Young lady, too."

He Yuzhou frowned. He really wanted to go up the mountain, but... "Your injury? Besides, building a well..."

Qi Yan smiled and said, "My injury doesn't matter anymore, don't you really want to go up the mountain?"

As he said that, he lowered his head and thought about it again: "As for building the well, it won't be too late to go up the mountain after the well is completed in two days, and I will trouble Zheng Orion at that time."

This left Zheng Qi with no choice to refuse, but fortunately, Zheng Qi didn't think it was a big deal.

Afterwards, He Yuzhou went to the town, bought some clothes for Qi Yan, bought some meat and came back. During the few days of building the well, Qi Yan took care of the house, and He Yuzhou ran to the vegetable field in front of Mrs. Guan's thatched house. The piece of corn was taken back.

Because the vegetable field is not big, it took two days for Mrs. Guan and He Yuzhou to finish it.

With Baogu, He Yuzhou's family has another food - corn syrup.

Every day after dinner, each person comes to a bowl. Although most men don't particularly like it, Mrs. Guan likes it very much.

Five days later, the well was dug out. Qi Yan and He Yuzhou stood by the well to check its depth.

Qi Yan visually measured about five meters, and He Yuzhou asked to dig deeper.

On the sixth day, the well Pi was dug, and the well Pi was in the center of the bottom of the water.Dig a small well with a diameter less than one meter and a depth of one meter

Let it have water coming out all year round.

The next step is to sprinkle some sand and stones picked up from the river at the bottom to settle the sediment in the well water.

Then bricks were laid, and the bricks at the mouth of the well had to be bought separately, because a wooden frame had to be installed on the well, so He Yuzhou went to Jiang Qin, a carpenter in the village, and asked him to make a wooden frame for a tael of silver.

By the tenth day, the well was officially completed.