jdhmnovel Chapter 329 Heaven Wants to Keep Guests
Chapter 329 Heaven Wants to Keep Guests
"Brother Dong, why did you come here without wearing raincoats? There are raincoats in front of the car, please put them on quickly. The car can move now and we will be home soon." Niu Yuzhu shouted to them.
The two of them didn't hesitate. Zhao Dong put on his hat and then let Zhao Nan put on his only raincoat.
Amber was holding her young lady tightly in the car. At this moment, she heard a strange voice coming from outside saying that someone was there to help. Her frightened and yellow face finally regained some color.
The car tilted so suddenly that she thought it was going to overturn.
As she was anxiously waiting, the muddy mule cart finally arrived at her doorstep.
Zhao Dong asked Zhao Nan to hide under the eaves, then he took his hat and raincoat and said to the people in the cart, "The raincoats are on the cart, you can take them yourselves. Do you need help getting off the mule cart?" Zhao Dong asked, looking at the muddy door.
Feng Zhijin in the car paused for a moment, then said, "No, thank you."
As a result, they were slapped in the face very quickly. When the two people put on their straw raincoats and got off the car, the girl Amber got off first. As soon as her feet touched the ground, she turned around and wanted to help the young lady down. However, she slipped and fell forward in panic.
The driver next to him reacted quickly, shouting "Be careful", and had already loosened the reins of the mule cart to help the person.
When people fall down, they will subconsciously reach out to grab something. The mule was feeling uncomfortable after being washed by the rain, so it shook its tail to express its irritability.
As luck would have it, Amber grabbed a few of the tail hairs.
The mule, in pain, raised its head and groaned, and couldn't help but take two steps back. Feng Zhijin, who had crouched down in the carriage, was caught off guard, and the water outside the carriage was slippery, so she fell to the side. In panic, she grabbed the curtain of the carriage with one hand, but was unable to stop herself from falling off the mule cart.
"what!"
"Be careful!" Gu Qingqing shouted and was about to rush out. Zhao Dong was standing in front of her, and this time he rushed out faster than her.
He caught Feng Zhijin who fell from the car with his bare hands and held her horizontally under the door.
After the other party stood firm, Zhao Dong took two steps back, clasped his hands together and said to her, "I was so rude just now, please forgive me, young lady."
Feng Zhijin saw that he was dressed like a farmer, but his actions were not entirely rude. Moreover, if it had not been for him just now, Feng Zhijin would not dare to think about the consequences.
"I am very grateful to this big brother for his help just now." Feng Zhijin did not lose her courtesy in the panic and bowed to him.
Gu Qingqing looked at the situation in front of her. It was really not the right time to speak. She first said to Zhao Dong, whose clothes were sticking to his body, "Brother Dong, I'll ask Daxin to boil some hot water. You and Brother Nan can go to their room and take a shower."
Zhao Dong nodded to Gu Qingqing. He was already soaked and didn't care about getting wet again. The two of them ran into the yard in the heavy rain.
On the other side, Amber also entered the courtyard with the help of the coachman, pouting slightly. Gu Qingqing couldn't tell whether she was crying or not because her face was covered with water.
It was obvious that they couldn't leave in such weather, so Gu Qingqing could only take Feng Zhijin to the inner courtyard first, and then carry the straw raincoat she had taken off to pick up Amber.
In the end, Niu Yuzhu followed to the inner courtyard corridor to get her family's straw raincoat, helped Luo Meihua put it on first, then hid the bamboo basket inside the straw raincoat, and the two of them went back supporting each other.
As for the driver?
Gu Qingqing could only let him lead the mule to the gate to shelter from the rain.
Seeing that their clothes were wet, Gu Qingqing gave them her clean clothes to change into.
"Thank you so much, Madam Wen." Feng Zhijin said.
Gu Qingqing waved her hand and said, "No one knew we would encounter such weather. You two must have been very scared along the way. Here is the ginger soup I just cooked. Have some."
Gu Qingqing put a little brown sugar when cooking the ginger soup, so it tasted sweet. Feng Zhijin, who was feeling a little cold, immediately felt much better.
If Erhua knew that her sister Xiangxiang was coming on normal days, she would definitely come up and chat with her, but today Sanhua had just been frightened, so she made all kinds of funny faces on the kang to make Sanhua happy.
He kept muttering to himself: Huluhulu, I can't be scared.
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Everyone looked at the sky outside which was getting darker and darker. The heavy rain turned into moderate rain, but there was no sign of it stopping.
Feng Zhijin, who had been saying that he would leave when the rain stopped, did not look well.
Gu Qingqing knew in her heart that in this situation, they couldn't leave even if it was daybreak, not to mention that it was almost dark.
The land outside was completely soaked by the rain, and the mule cart would definitely leave two deep trenches, making it impossible to move forward.
God wants to keep us, we have to keep us!
"If you two don't mind, you can stay at my house tonight. There are not many people in my family. The boy you met last time and an elder in the family live in a room in the front yard. The people you just met will not stay here tonight. There are only me and my three daughters in the inner yard." Gu Qingqing told them a little about the situation of her family.
Feng Zhijin thanked her gratefully. She knew that they couldn't travel any further today. "Madam Wen, we are very grateful that you can take us in for the night. But we have a driver..." Feng Zhijin said this and stirred the handkerchief in her hand awkwardly. Then she hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I won't let you take us in for nothing. We can pay you."
As Feng Zhijin finished speaking, Amber took out a small silver nugget worth more than one or two taels from her pocket and gave it to her.
Gu Qingqing was not polite, and ended up saying, "There is only one vacant gatehouse in my front yard. If you don't mind..."
"I don't mind, I don't mind. It's good to have a place to stay." Feng Zhijin nodded.
"Okay, I'll be over there later. I'll take you to the east wing to rest first. I'll bring the meal to you when it's ready." After the master and servant entered the east wing, Feng Zhijin was surprised by the decoration inside.
Amber swallowed her saliva. This room was so nice, better than where she had lived before.
"My daughter lives in this room during the winter. Now that their father is not at home, they live with me. This room is temporarily unused. You will have to make do with it tonight."
Gu Qingqing said she would just make do with it, but the layout of the room took her a lot of thought that day.
"Madam Wen, you're welcome. This place is great."
Gu Qingqing told them to rest first, and then called Dahua to go to the kitchen.
Since she had accepted the money, she couldn't be too stingy.
I steamed a pot of white rice mixed with millet, and picked out some pickled bamboo shoots. In the evening, I made scrambled eggs with pickled bamboo shoots, fresh meat, black fungus, and water celery, as well as stir-fried wild amaranth that Daxin picked early in the morning, and a plate of stir-fried bacon with bracken.
By the way, make a pot of egg and wild vegetable soup.