Chapter 172: Sour Enough To Pinch
Su Yaoguang said from the side: “I just went to the academy, and the old man guarding the gate said Wangshu had just left. Turns out he was dragged out by you all to play.”
Jiang Ziqian’s matter with his eldest sister-in-law is their private affair. It would be impolite to rashly discuss others’ private matters, so better change the topic!
Zhou Wangshu picked up Su Yaoguang’s bowl and picked out the scallions inside.
“Brother Zhou, what are you doing…”
“Someone is picky and doesn’t like eating scallions. If there were outsiders around, she wouldn’t have the nerve to pick them out herself.”
Everyone looked at Su Yaoguang with teasing eyes.
Su Yaoguang kicked him under the table and leaned over to say, “Don’t I care about my pride?”
“If you don’t like it, then don’t eat it. Why wrong yourself for the sake of so-called pride?” Zhou Wangshu finished picking out the scallions and placed the bowl in front of her. “Eat up!”
Jiang Ziqian looked at the two and said, “You two have such a good relationship.”
“They are husband and wife, of course their relationship is good.” Zhong Chushan said, “If a couple’s relationship isn’t good, whose could be?”
“But I remember once hearing Brother Zhou and Boss Su mention that though you have the marital name, you only share brother-and-sister feelings.” Jiang Ziqian said.
“When did you hear it? Who told you? Did we tell you ourselves?” Zhou Wangshu raised his eyebrows.
Jiang Ziqian smiled faintly: “I didn’t intentionally eavesdrop. I just happened to overhear your conversation when I went to see Boss Su.”
“How is that any different from eavesdropping?” Zhou Wangshu retorted.
“Boss Jiang’s curiosity is quite strong too.” Su Yaoguang said, “Wangshu and I have always spoken without restraint and like to joke around. The wontons are clumping up, eat them quick!”
The group finished eating the wontons. Zhong Chushan said: “Boss Jiang, I want to talk business with you.”
“Young owner Zhong, please go ahead.”
“It’s too noisy here, hard to explain clearly. Let’s go to your home to talk! Come on, we’ll keep you company and have a few drinks. Wangshu, you take your wife for a stroll around, we won’t keep you company.”
Chen Buyu put his arm around Jiang Ziqian’s shoulders and said: “Exactly, we’re old acquaintances with Boss Jiang too. We ran into each other here today, perfect chance to have a few drinks and catch up, and talk some business on the side.”
Zhou Wangshu paid the bill and pulled Su Yaoguang away: “Then we’ll head out first.”
Su Yaoguang turned back to look in the direction of Jiang Ziqian and the others.
“They’re already far away, still looking?”
“You haven’t been home for half a month. I thought you were really busy, but turns out you’re busy playing with them? No time to go home, but time to hang out with them?”
Zhou Wangshu leaned over: “Do you care whether I go home or not?”
“You’re my brother, of course I care if you go home or not. Your schoolwork can be poor, you can fail at both literature and martial arts, but you have to be healthy. I need to make sure you eat well and sleep well.”
Zhou Wangshu’s mouth twitched slightly: “Thanks so much for your well-wishes.”
Was he really that bad? In her eyes, he was just an incompetent person who failed at both literature and martial arts!
Zhou Wangshu pointed at the lantern opposite: “I want that one.”
“Then buy it!”
“I used all my money to pay for the wontons, I have no money on me now.”
Su Yaoguang took out her sachet and placed it in his hand: “Buy it. We’re not short on money now.”
Zhou Wangshu weighed the sachet in his hand and praised: “I just like how magnanimous you are with money.”
While Zhou Wangshu went to buy the lantern, Su Yaoguang was standing in front of the sugar figurine stall, discussing with the boss if she could make one herself. The boss agreed, so she started making it.
She made two sugar figurines, and just as she skewered them on bamboo sticks and picked them up, she turned around and saw Xiao Yanci and Jiang Yihuan. Just then, the two of them also came to the sugar figurine stall, and the two sides faced each other directly.
Xiao Yanci saw the sugar figurines in Su Yaoguang’s hand. One looked like her, the other like Zhou Wangshu. This reminded him that she had made him one before too, but he thought it childish and threw it away.
Su Yaoguang saw the two, frowned, walked straight past them, and went to meet Zhou Wangshu who was carrying the lantern.
“Look what this is.”
Zhou Wangshu saw the sugar figurines in her hand and said with a look of disgust: “So ugly.”
Sarcasm flashed in Xiao Yanci’s eyes.
See! Even if it was a different person, they would still disdain her behavior.
How could Su Yaoguang not understand?
Men like gentle and charming women like Huan’er, not coarse women who only know work and don’t understand what tenderness is at all.
“That’s not because a certain someone is ugly, so it could only be made like this.” Su Yaoguang didn’t care about his disgust and bit off “Zhou Wangshu’s” arm in one bite.
“You ate it!” Zhou Wangshu yelled, “You deliberately made it look like me just to eat it?”
“It’s a sugar figurine, of course it’s for eating. What else, to use as a decoration?” Su Yaoguang said while eating, “If we don’t eat it now, it’ll melt later. That would be such a pity.”
Zhou Wangshu snatched the other sugar figurine from her hand and bit off its head in one go: “You’re right, it’d be a pity if it melted. Better to eat it into the belly.”
“You dare bite off its head in one go! That’s my head!”
“Heh, it’s a sugar figurine. Better to eat it into the belly than let it melt. Your head is so big, I couldn’t bite it off even if I tried!”
“Zhou Wangshu, I see your skin is itching for a beating.” Su Yaoguang rolled up her sleeves to swing at him.
Zhou Wangshu didn’t dodge and directly shoved the lantern into her hands: “It’s dark, hold it while walking.”
Su Yaoguang: “…”
This punch couldn’t land now.
“Wangshu, you’re still the best.” Su Yaoguang nudged his arm with her elbow.
Zhou Wangshu’s mouth curved up: “Good that you know. From now on, keep your eyes open. Don’t accept just anyone. Who else is as handsome, gentle, and considerate as me?”
Su Yaoguang: “…”
So shameless.
And yet she couldn’t refute it.
“Xiao Gege…” Jiang Yihuan tugged at Xiao Yanci, “What are you doing? You crushed the lantern.”
Xiao Yanci came back to his senses, looked at the lantern in his hand, and threw it toward the corner nearby.
“If it’s broken, it’s broken.”
Jiang Yihuan frowned: “Xiao Gege, you seem really focused on Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu. What did they do to upset you again?”
Ever since Xiao Yanci embarrassed himself, the academy wouldn’t let him go out, making him prepare for the imperial examination there quietly. In fact, after such a big embarrassment, Xiao Yanci didn’t want to go out and show his face either.
But for some reason, he just couldn’t calm his mind.
Anyway, in his previous life he had already become the top scholar, and afterward served as an official in the imperial court for so many years. With advance knowledge of the exam questions and years of official experience, he had no worries about any problems in this imperial examination. The top scholar position was his in the previous life, and it would be his in this one too. Moreover, this life he would be even more glorious than the previous one.
“Nothing. I just don’t like them. Seeing them annoys me.” Xiao Yanci said, “Let’s ignore them. Huan’er, how about I make you a sugar figurine myself?”
“As long as it’s from Xiao Gege, it’s the best in my eyes.” Jiang Yihuan said shyly.
