Chapter 132: The Village Beauty and the City Girl
Xu Zaohua stood under a locust tree and saw through the branches and leaves that Gu Jingzhe was picking apricots for a beautiful girl in gorgeous clothes.
Gu Jingzhe is the most noble scholar in Qinghe Bay. It was the first time she saw Gu Jingzhe climbing a tree and the first time she saw such a happy smile on Gu Jingzhe's face.
The girl looked very rich, and her clothes were things she had never seen before.
She guessed that this girl might be a relative of Gu Baishuang's husband's family, the Nie family.
Because the Gu family only has the Nie family as a wealthy relative.
Xu Zaohua clenched her hands tightly, Gu Jingzhe was hers and no one could snatch him away from her.
Mrs. Yan was returning home with her four sons from the threshing ground and happened to pass by Tong Huaqiong's yard.
From afar, one could hear laughter and joy.
When I got closer, I saw Gu Jingzhe picking apricots on the tree, and Gu Taohua and the beautiful girl were standing under the tree.
When they were threshing in the wheat field, Mrs. Yan and her four sons had already seen Lu Zhaozhao.
Such a beautiful girl is better than the village beauties Gu Xiaocao and Xu Zaohua. I don’t know where Tong Dajiao got this relative.
Just now, when they were threshing in the wheat field, Mrs. Yan and her four sons were guessing behind their backs, but they had no clue after guessing for a long time.
But there was one thing that Mrs. Yan was very sure of, that this girl was from a wealthy family, and was probably brought by Tong Huaqiong to be her son's daughter-in-law.
When Yan Pozi thought about the fact that the Gu family would have such a wealthy and beautiful daughter-in-law, she felt so jealous that she almost burned herself.
When Xu Siyi saw Lu Zhaozhao, half of his body softened. He usually saw country girls. Even Gu Xiaocao, the girl he wanted to marry the most, was not as good as Lu Zhaozhao.
The first time he saw Lu Zhaozhao in the threshing ground, he thought to himself that it would be worth dying for if he could taste the girl from a wealthy family.
"Yaozu, what kind of relative is that girl to your family?"
Xu Si followed Mrs. Yan and passed by Tong Huaqiong's house. He looked back at Lu Zhaozhao frequently and his heart could no longer be controlled.
When he met Yaozu who was cutting grass for pigs and returning home on the road, he asked Yaozu about Lu Zhaozhao's origins.
Yaozu was very proud that Lu Zhaozhao was from the city, and wanted to show off, so he proudly said to Xu Si: "Aunt Lu is from the city. My uncle used to work in her house. This time she came and brought us a cart of things."
When Mrs. Yan heard that the girl came from the capital, she became even more jealous.
Xu Si's eyes lit up. A girl from the provincial capital.
And they are the family where Gu Dahan works.
He had heard before that Gu Dahan was valued by a wealthy family in the capital and was hired as a coachman.
So, this girl named Lu must be the daughter of a very wealthy family in the city.
Xu Si's blood was boiling.
He heard that girls from wealthy families in the city paid more attention to their reputation, unlike girls in the villages. He had already torn off half of Gu Xiaocao's clothes, but Gu Guangkui still refused to marry Gu Xiaocao to him.
A girl from a wealthy family in the capital city, even if she picked up a handkerchief from her husband, would either be sent to the family temple or marry the man who picked up the handkerchief.
Of course, this set of rhetoric was heard by Xu Si, who had only been to Yanguan Town, from a storyteller in a teahouse. He believed the stories in the book to be true.
Seeing Lu Zhaozhao at this time, he was really eager to snatch Lu Zhaozhao's handkerchief.
Maybe you can marry a girl from the provincial capital for free without spending a penny.
Of course, Xu Si didn't know yet that he would pay a bloody price for his ideas.
Tong Huaqiong had already entered the house. Gu Jingzhe, Lu Zhaozhao and Gu Taohua were busy picking apricots. No one noticed Xu Si's obscene look.
"Fourth brother."
Xu Zaohua came out from behind the locust tree and stopped Xu Si who was behind Yan Pozi.
"Zaohua."
Xu Si's eyes swept over Zaohua's chest.
He dared to make a move on any girl in the village except Gu Taohua and Xu Zaohua. Gu Taohua could crush him to death with one blow, and Xu Zaohua was his own sister and her uncle was the village chief, so he was afraid of being expelled.
Xu Zaohua was considered one of the pretty girls in the village, but compared with Lu Zhaozhao, Xu Si felt that she looked rather rustic.
"Fourth brother, are you attracted to the girl from the capital city who came from Tong Dajiao's family?" Xu Zaohua asked with a smile.
Xu Si smiled wickedly and said, "We can't covet the girls from the prefecture, but we can at least take a look. You know what, the girls from the prefecture are different. They are fair and pretty. No girl in our village can compare to them."
These words made Xu Zaohua dissatisfied.
What's so good about the girl from the provincial capital? She is so thin and you can tell at first glance that she can't bear children.
Only scholars like Gu Jingzhe were confused!
"A girl from the city is also a girl. Who says I can't have desires for her? Haven't you heard in the opera that a princess can throw a ball of embroidery to a beggar as her husband? What's a girl from the city? Besides, fourth brother, you are tall and strong, and you are most likely to attract the skinny and weak girl from the city." Xu Zaohua said while picking at her nails.
"How to attract?" Xu Si's eyes lit up.
"It's done now." Xu Zaohua said and walked away with a smile on her lips.
Xu Zaohua thought that Xu Si would definitely understand her hint.
Xu Si looked at Lu Zhaozhao from a distance, and Lu Zhaozhao was smiling brightly.
Zaohua is right, it’s enough to just cook the rice before it’s done.
As long as the girl from the prefecture city is in the village these two days, he will have a chance.
Xu Si made up his mind and started wandering around Gu's house after dinner. The next day, he got up at the crowing of the rooster and went to the bushes near Tong Huaqiong's house to observe the movements of the Gu family.
He wanted to take advantage of the fact that Lu Zhaozhao was alone and pull him into the bushes.
This weak little girl from the capital city can definitely be subdued in just a few moves.
Tong Huaqiong had almost threshed her wheat. At daybreak the next day, everyone in the Gu family went to help Gu Dashu's father-in-law Liu Tiechui harvest the wheat as agreed the day before.
Tong Huaqiong did not go, and took Yaozu and Maner home to feed the pigs.
The twenty or so pigs were growing up and the pigpen needed to be expanded. Tong Huaqiong planned to let Gu Dahan lead people to expand the pigpen after the wheat was harvested.
After Lu Zhaozhao got up, he found that Gu Taohua, Gu Jingzhe and others were not at home, so he asked Tong Huaqiong where they had gone.
Upon learning that Gu Taohua was helping the Liu family harvest wheat in the field, he asked Maner and Yaozu to take her to the Liu family's wheat field to join in the fun.
The land where the Liu family harvested wheat this time was a little farther away than the Gu family's wheat field. They needed to cross the threshing ground and then cross the riverbank.
But Tong Huaqiong didn't take it seriously.
After all, it is wheat harvest season and the village is full of people.
Seeing Lu Zhaozhao walking out of the Gu family yard, Xu Si stood up from the grass and felt energized.
He heard Widow Tong's voice in the bushes and knew he couldn't move at the door.
You have to go farther.
He was pleasantly surprised to see Maner and Yaozu taking Lu Zhaozhao towards the Liu family's wheat. What surprised him even more was that usually there were people on the river beach in the threshing ground, but today there was almost no one.
It seems that God doesn't want him to be single forever.
He silently followed Yaozu Maner, Lu Zhaozhao and the other two. He had already made up his mind and decided to start in the threshing floor.
The threshing ground is full of straw stacks, making it very hidden.
Even if someone comes, they will not be easily discovered as long as they don't make any noise.
First he strangled the two kids, Maner and Yaozu, unconscious, then he covered Lu Zhaozhao's mouth and dragged him into the haystack.
There was no way Lu Zhaozhao could call for help.
The girl from the capital city, just wait to become Xu Si's wife.