With regards to his current body, Ning Yi didn't have much confidence. However, he had trained for a few months, so it was normal for him to feel a little dizzy in the morning. He pushed open the door to get some fresh air, and his mind would wake up.
At this time, the sky had not yet brightened, and the entire city of Jiangning was shrouded in darkness. However, it was already close to dawn. Looking out from the second floor, including the Su family's residence, the city far and near had already been lit up with flickering lights. In the nearby courtyards, the servants who had woken up early were walking around, and the faint sounds of conversation could be heard. Further away, beyond the courtyard walls, there were streets immersed in the dark silhouettes, and the hazy lights of the houses could be seen.
In the small two-story building opposite, warm yellow lights shone through the window lattices, enveloping the courtyard in a layer of warm colors. The three young servant girls had always woken up early, and Su Tan'er usually woke up early, but it seemed that she had already woken up this morning. The silhouette of a woman's figure in front of a mirror was reflected in the window on the second floor, and the figure of the young servant girl's figure was busying about. When Ning Yi walked down the stairs, Juan'er was walking through the corridor towards the small building on the other side. She slightly bent her knees to greet him, and softly said, "Son-in-law, you're up."
"Good morning, Juan'er."
Then, the window of a room downstairs opened, and the face of Chan'er, who was busy inside, appeared. "Son-in-law, don't come down, I'll bring some water up."
"Ah, no need to trouble yourself. I can do it myself."
The Su family had a large kitchen, so these two small buildings didn't have a separate kitchen for cooking. However, the small room downstairs had a place to boil hot water and wash up. This was because if one wanted to take a bath in winter, they would light a fire under the bathtub, so it was not good to set up a bathroom upstairs. Xiaochan had already adapted to Ning Yi's habit of waking up early to exercise, and at this time, she planned to bring hot water up. Ning Yi had already come down. As a modern person, he didn't care about these small things, and it was no big deal for him to boil water himself. A few days ago, when he got up early in the morning and ran down to wait for the water to boil, he was bored and squatted by the stove to add firewood, causing Xiaochan to be at a loss. When eating, Su Tan'er also tactfully said, "Husband, don't do these things." Xiaochan also lowered her head as if she had done something wrong, but he just smiled and said it didn't matter.
There was no need to deliberately show off his maverick behavior. He wouldn't do things that were really taboo, but there was no need to deliberately restrain himself and completely turn into an "ancient person." Otherwise, there would be no point in him coming here to live.
If they were really going to make do with each other for many years in the future, if there was really a possibility of being a husband and wife, then in these small things, instead of restraining himself, it was better to let the other party slowly get used to and understand. Therefore, many small things that didn't matter to him, he would show them, and he wouldn't mind occasionally going into the kitchen to light the fire. Therefore, in class, he would tell a group of students some stories and talk about the things around him, and he wouldn't change this. Occasionally, he would add a few modern words that others didn't quite understand in his words, but he didn't mind it too much.
In front of the old man from the Qin family, he could occasionally talk about some of the more avant-garde ideas, even if it was slightly deviant, but it didn't matter. This old man used to be an official, so he was knowledgeable, and he didn't care about trifles. They were just chess friends, and there was no entanglement of interests. As the old man said, he married into the family of a merchant, and it was very difficult for him to climb up in things like official titles. The friendship between gentlemen was as indifferent as water. Perhaps this was the situation, and the other party wouldn't harm him. After playing chess for such a long time, Elder Qin was trying to figure him out, and he was also trying to figure out the other party.
Since they could be friends, then it didn't matter. Occasionally, if he said a few words that were a little more advanced, it actually quite satisfied his vanity to see the other party thinking deeply. To him, it was just nonsense. In fact, it wasn't that he didn't have such knowledge, it was just that the way he said it was different. If it was something really sensitive, he naturally wouldn't touch it.
Downstairs, he brushed his teeth and washed his face. At this time, there was toothbrush and toothpowder, but the taste was really bad. Then, he went out of the courtyard, through the small path to the side door. Along the way, the rooster began to crow, and a faint white light appeared in the east. Occasionally, when he met other maids or stewards in the courtyard, he would call them son-in-law and greet them.
Out of the courtyard of the Su family, he still trotted along the original path. On the way, he thought about what he should say in class today, and some China style songs that he knew. He couldn't remember some of the songs. Perhaps it didn't fit the style of this era, but entertainment was really too scarce these days. Thinking that he might forget more after a period of time, he felt that it was indeed necessary to copy down the lyrics of the songs that he still remembered. After thinking for a while, he thought about poetry. When he was in school, he wasn't a good student, and perhaps he didn't deliberately memorize many poems. But after a few decades, he still had a wide range of knowledge, and he still remembered many famous lines. This was a good resource, and it would be a pity if he forgot it in the future.
After running for a while, he felt that there was indeed something wrong with his body. After all, falling into the water yesterday had brought about adverse effects. But in any case, running for a while and sweating for a while was a good treatment, so he continued forward.
The city was filled with fog, and the scene was no different from the day before. When he was near the place where he climbed out of the water yesterday, he heard some sounds coming from the river not far away. That was the direction where he fell into the water. Looking around, he could vaguely see a figure swaying there, as if it was a small boat.
He slowed down his pace, and approached curiously. The small boat shook violently on the water, and the figure of a woman stood on the boat with a long bamboo pole. It seemed that she couldn't stand steadily, and just swayed for a long time under Ning Yi's gaze before falling back into the boat with a bang. He didn't know if it was the woman from yesterday morning, but today, the woman was wrapped in a pink cloak. Her figure was tall and graceful, and she was quite beautiful. But the way she fell and got up from the small boat was a little bad for her temperament.
The small boat shook violently, and the woman carefully got up, one hand gently holding on to the side of the boat. When she raised her head, her hair was a little messy. She glanced at the figure of a man who was watching the show from the side of the river, and suddenly her eyes widened in panic. Only then did Ning Yi see clearly that the long bamboo pole had a net tied to one end, and there was some sand on it. After the woman carefully stood up, she held a kitchen knife in her hand.
Oh, it was indeed the one from yesterday …
The cloak was beautiful, but it was a little old. This woman's swimming was bad, but she might be able to row a boat a little. She actually waited until there was no one in the morning to pick up the kitchen knife. Was she shy? Thinking about it, this was probably a girl who lived in a good environment in the past, but the current environment was a little bad. Ning Yi took a few glances and came to this conclusion. He didn't care much about the people around him, but the woman seemed to be a little flustered. She wanted to row the boat to the shore with the bamboo pole, but perhaps because she was flustered, the small boat kept spinning on the water, and she was a little unstable, almost falling several times. Then …
"Achoo —"
Just as Ning Yi was about to leave, he sneezed. The woman on the boat also sneezed, and with a bang, she fell back into the boat. When she got up, she looked over with some embarrassment. Ning Yi also felt a little awkward and pouted his lips. "The chicken has already drowned, why are you still picking up the knife …"
There was a slight silence.
"The chicken is back …"
"Huh?"
Ning Yi said it casually. To be honest, it was really a very, very clumsy cold joke, but he had underestimated the other party's answer. After the voice came from the center of the river, Ning Yi was also a little surprised.
"… The chicken didn't die, the Chen family's … the Chen family's aunt found it," the other party explained.
"… Oh."
Yesterday, this woman chased the chicken until it jumped into the river, and then Ning Yi was also pulled down, so he didn't see what happened next. Presumably, the chicken was also very powerful, flopping for a while, but it actually came back up again. The people were really simple, knowing that she had lost the chicken, but they actually sent it back. Ning Yi praised in his heart, and after a moment, said, "Can you pass that pole over?"
The boat was a distance from the shore, and the pole could originally reach it, but if he wanted to lift it flat, the woman didn't have enough strength, and the strength of the pole also made the boat a little dangerous. After trying a few times, the pole reached the shore, but it was still submerged in the water, and Ning Yi couldn't reach it with his hands, so he could only go up the river. After walking for a while, he found another bamboo pole by the side of the road, extended it from the shore, and pulled the woman and the boat over.
"Thank you, young master … and about yesterday's matter, I had just woken up, and did some …"
This woman wasn't someone who didn't know right from wrong, and after reaching the shore, she apologized, and at the same time, apologized to Ning Yi for what happened yesterday. Yesterday morning, she was saved by someone, but slapped him, she thought that it was probably because she felt embarrassed. Ning Yi didn't care about this, and waved his hand, "It's okay, it's okay, I still have to continue running, I'll be leaving first."
He turned around and sneezed again, ignoring the strange question that the woman asked, "Young master, are you being chased?", and ran away. Repaying a favor was the same as taking revenge, both were troublesome things. Not to mention practical things, if the other party said a few words of gratitude, he would have to be modest for a long time, and the etiquette between men and women was troublesome, why bother? Now that he had a cold, it was more practical to run and sweat a little.
He had run this way many times, and when he arrived at the predetermined place, he finally found the woman's residence halfway. It was a two-story building facing the river, quite chic, and there was a small balcony on the other side of the river, quite elegant of living on the water, but purely as a residence, it was probably a little impractical, and the winter should be relatively cold. At this time, the woman was standing next to a small vegetable field outside the small building, the vegetable field was surrounded by a fence, and the hen she chased yesterday was in the fence at this time. The woman hesitated for a long time with the kitchen knife, then walked in and reached out to catch the hen, the hen frantically resisted, and she retreated awkwardly, hurriedly closing the fence.
Now it could be confirmed that the woman had indeed done nothing, but her condition was not good. Living in such a small building, perhaps she was a prostitute related to the famous entertainment industry in Qinhuai River. Some famous prostitutes would choose to work alone after redeeming themselves, or get a chic courtyard to live in, saying that they had turned over a new leaf, but in fact, there would be benefactors coming to visit them one after another, and they would still be popular social flowers, and even appear to be of a higher class after not being manipulated by others. Looking at her beautiful appearance, he didn't know how she fell to the extent that she had to kill a chicken by herself.
Ning Yi ran from the side while watching. The woman went in once, and this time she had caught the hen, but when she turned around, the hen struggled to escape, and the feathers were flying. In the woman's panic, the hen had already flown out of the fence, and was caught by Ning Yi, who couldn't stand it anymore. This time its two wings were grasped, and it was impossible to break free. The woman saw Ning Yi again, and was stunned for a long time. Probably she wanted to thank or apologize again, but Ning Yi reached out and said, "Give me the knife."
"Uh …"
Ning Yi didn't bother to talk to her, and reached out to take the kitchen knife. There was already a bowl on the ground outside the fence. Ning Yi just walked over and squatted down, holding the hen's struggling head with the hand that grabbed the wings, making it protrude its neck, and then gently waved the knife.
"Young … Young Master … That … Gentleman …"
"Gentleman my ass, is the hot water boiled?"
"… It's boiling."
"Alright."
Ning Yi didn't waste time, and cut the hen's throat, and began to pour the chicken blood into the bowl. After steadily draining the blood, the hen didn't struggle much. He threw the hen on the ground, put the knife on the bowl, and stood up.
"Take it to the kitchen, and pluck its feathers with hot water, then cut it open and wash its internal organs. Speaking of which, do you know how to make it into a dish?"
The woman hesitated.
"Forget it, find someone who knows how to cook and ask them to help, for example, that aunt who helped you find the chicken. It's not easy to kill a chicken, don't waste it. Also, go see a doctor, you might have caught a cold … I've caught a cold too. I'll leave first, no need to thank me, I'm a living * * * … Ahchoo — "
He turned around, jogged all the way, and left, leaving a trail of dust behind. The woman behind watched him leave, and then frowned slightly, "Living … * * * *? Living? Or Hu? Hu * * * … So strange … "After all, there were no living people in this world with the surname 'Hu', but there were people with the surname 'Hu'. The woman pondered in a low voice for a long time, and felt that the other party might be an ethnic minority, or perhaps his surname was Huyan. In that case, he would be called Huyan * * *. This name was a little domineering, and perhaps that was it.
In the past, she could be considered a person who knew a lot of people, but this man only saw her in a sorry state, and his behavior and words were also strange, so she couldn't use the words that she used to respond to him in the past. She thought for a while, after all, Ning Yi had already run away, so she could only resentfully carry the old hen, the bowl of chicken blood, and go to the kitchen …
That morning at Yushan Academy, the discomfort in his body had become intense. After class, he vomited on the way home, and it could be confirmed that his physical condition had worsened. This time, Xiaochan was by his side, so when he returned home, he was treated as a serious patient and pushed to the bed on the second floor to be protected.
The life of a patient when he first came here would probably have to live for another day or two …
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