Chapter 191 Gossip
Su Jiuyue watched him receding, and then turned around to look at Chunxi beside her.
"Why don't you go back with him?"
Chunxi shook her head and said, "We didn't come together. Why do I have to go back with him?"
"I'm just worried that it's not safe for you to go back alone." Said Jiuyue.
"It's not a big deal. We are both single, and people may say things if we are too close. Uncle Liu of the next village took me here with his ox cart for free, and he said that I can go to the city gate to look for him at 3 o'clock this afternoon." Said Chunxi.
Su Jiuyue thought for a while and agreed with what Chunxi said. Although Guo Ruowu was a handsome man, he was very strange. She didn't want Chunxi to have anything to do with him. She believed that Chunxi deserved a better man.
"It's still early, and you must be tired. Why don't you have lunch before you leave?" Su Jiuyue asked her to stay longer.
Surely, Jiang Chunxi wouldn't say no. "Of course, I'll stay for lunch! I'm starving!"
The two of them chatted and laughed while cooking.
After lunch, Jiang Chunxi helped clean the kitchen.
The sun was setting in the West. Jiang Chunxi had to say goodbye to Su Jiuyue reluctantly.
Although Su Jiuyue didn't want Chunxi to leave, she thought that it would be unsafe for Chunxi to go back if she missed the ox cart. Jiuyue wanted to walk with her to the city gate, but Jiang Chunxi refused.
"Niutou town is just a small town. I don't need you to walk with me. It's not far away. Just stay home and have a good rest. I can go there by myself. Otherwise, I don't want to leave, too."
Hearing her words, Su Jiuyue could only watch Chunxi walk out of the alley before she turned around and closed the door again.
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As soon as Jiang Chunxi walked out of the alley and took a turn, she saw a man standing at the corner, leaning against the wall and motionless, like a sculpture.
Jiang Chunxi was stunned, "Guo Ruowu? Why are you still here? Didn't you leave?"
Guo Ruowu finally moved when he saw her. He stood straight and spat out the grass leaf he was chewing. Then he said, "I'm worried that it's not safe for you to go back alone. What took you so long?"
Hearing this, Jiang Chunxi had a strange feeling.
It was hard to describe her feeling. It was like her heart was gently stroked with a feather. Such complicated and palpitating feeling was so strange to the innocent Jiang Chunxi.
She pursed her lips for a while and said, "I didn't ask you to wait for me."
Without arguing with her about it, Guo Ruowu turned around and walked towards the city gate. "Shut it, let's go."
Jiang Chunxi lowered her head and muttered, "What an arrogant man!"
But she still followed him.
Guo Ruowu remained silent when he noticed that she was following him. The two of them kept a certain distance and left the city together.
As expected, Uncle Liu's ox cart was waiting for her outside. Guo Ruowu gave Uncle Liu two dollars and said, "I'm with her."
Uncle Liu glanced at them and smiled knowingly.
Jiang Chunxi felt that everyone in the cart seemed to have misunderstood them, but they didn't say anything, and she couldn't explain even if she wanted to. She could only sit in a corner far away from Guo Ruoyan, trying to pretend that she had nothing to do with him.
When they arrived at Daxing village, Jiang Chunxi jumped out of the cart and ran back home.
Mrs. Jiang called her when she saw her, but Jiang Chunxi went back to her room directly as if she didn't see her mom.
Mrs. Jiang shook her head. "How rude..."
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Jiang Chunxi had thought that it would be over, but the second day when Mrs. Jiang was doing needlework outside the house, Mrs. Wu in the village suddenly came to talk to her.
"Mrs. Jiang, I heard that a happy event may happen to your family soon."
Mrs. Jiang was confused and asked, "What happy event? Why don't I know about it?"
Noticing that she didn't know anything, Mrs. Wu immediately fetched a chair and sat next to her. "I only tell you this because you are my friend. This morning, I saw several women in the village gossiping about your daughter. They said that she is close to that guy Guo Ruowu who lives at the entrance of the village and often goes to his house. And yesterday, they even went to Niutou town together. So, I wonder if you want that Guo Ruoyuan to be your son-in-law."
There was only one person whose surname was Guo in the whole village, of course Mrs. Jiang knew who he was.
Guo Ruowu came from a well-off family and was rich, and his parents were dead, so Jiang Chunxi would not be bullied if she married him. However, he had always done the esoteric things, so now he was twenty years old and still single.
Therefore, when Mrs. Jiang heard that someone in the village was spreading these rumors, she immediately got angry.
"If I knew who's gossiping about it, I must tear her mouth! My daughter is innocent. When did she get close to that Guo Ruowu?"
Mrs. Wu sighed, "Mrs. Jiang, it's useless to get angry. People in the village have way too much time on their hands and like to create rumors. I heard it today, so I come to tell you. If your daughter and Guo Ruowu don't have any plans to get married, then they should avert arousing suspicion as soon as possible. You should also restrain Chunxi. After all, she is a now a teenage girl who should know the boundary of men-women relationship!"
Mrs. Jiang thanked Mrs. Ma and sent her away. Then she ran to her daughter's room angrily.
Jiang Chunxi was doing needlework in front of the window. Mrs. Jiang saw the pine pattern on the pouch she embroidered at a glance and knew immediately that it was for men.
Mrs. Jiang was so angry that she grabbed the pouch and threw it on the ground. "You bad girl, how could you be that shameless?!"
Jiang Chunxi was confused why her mother scalded her for being shameless when she was just embroidering a pouch.
Tears welled up in Jiang Chunxi's eyes. She asked in a sobbing tone, "Mom, what are you talking about? How was I shameless? If you don't explain it to me, I won't accept it!"
Mrs. Jiang looked down at her and said angrily, "Don't you know what you have done? Do I have to explain it to you? You have been close to some man, and now you even embroider pouches for him! You! You really piss me off!"
Jiang Chunxi was stunned and opened her mouth slightly. After a while, she retorted, "What do you mean by getting close to some man? What man? I made this for dad. He told me yesterday that his pouch was broken, so I wanted to make a new one for him. Why did you say that I am shameless?"
Hearing this, Mrs. Jiang calmed down a lot and said in a softer tone, "Then tell me, what's your relationship with Mr. Guo, the geomancer of our village?"
Thinking of the man leaning against the wall and saying that he was worried about her, Jiang Chunxi's heartbeat got a bit faster. She didn't even dare to look into her mother's eyes and just quickly explained for herself, "We have no relationship. We just took the same cart and came back together."