Hearing the courtyard door being opened, he put down his needlework and left the room.
Li Qiao's tall figure walked towards him in the moonlight. He was still more than one meter away from him when he smelled the faint smell of alcohol.
"You're drinking."
"Yeah. I'm going to wash up." Li Qiao said and walked to the kitchen.
"I'll get you water." Tao Zhu also walked to the kitchen.
"No, just rest. Besides, I smell like alcohol."
Tao Zhu couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "I don't dislike you."
"I despise myself." Li Qiao told him not to get close to him. Although the alcohol content in this world was not as high as that in his previous life, the smell of alcohol was always unpleasant.
Li Qiao insisted that Tao Zhu could only let him go, but Tao Zhu did not go back to the room, but stood aside and chatted with him.
"I see that Brother Wen's clothes all have dark patterns. Although they are made of cotton, they look pretty good. I don't know how to embroider that kind of thing. How about we buy you two sets of ready-made clothes at the cloth store? I'll do it. You wear it at home, you wear something more expensive when you go out on weekdays."
Li Qiao was washing his face. Hearing this, he immediately shook his head: "It's not necessary. With my face, I look good even if I'm wearing a sack. When everyone sees me, they just look at my face. How can they care about what I'm wearing?"
"..."
Tao Zhu was speechless.
But he quickly asked, “What do you mean by this are many people looking at you when you go out?”
"The return rate is probably 80 to 90 percent."
Li Qiao looked calm: "Who gave your man such a good face?"
"... Then you go to the county seat tomorrow, and I will go too."
"Ah?" Hearing this, Li Qiao raised his face with water droplets and looked at him. Seeing that his lips were slightly pursed and he seemed a little angry, he suddenly became happy and said, "Okay, let's go to the county seat together tomorrow."
He made some foul-mouthed remarks, but Brother Zhu took it seriously. He wanted to let him declare his sovereignty.
he likes.
"Then let's take a walk around the county town tomorrow." Li Qiao said.
This time Tao Zhu did not object: "Okay."
So that night the husband and wife went to bed early, and before dawn the next day they went to Li Gu's house to take the bullock cart to the banker's house.
When they arrived at the banker's house, not only Li Yougen was there, but there were also more than a dozen fellow villagers who planned to go to Wangyue Tower to see the world.
Shopkeeper Wang's carriage must be loaded with snacks and sausages. But the dealer also has bullock carts. If they are crowded, two bullock carts can accommodate so many people.
So we set off.
The ox cart was faster than walking, and we arrived at the county seat in one and a half hours.
The county town was as busy as usual, with people coming and going and traffic.
When the folks from Sanliu Village entered the county seat, they were all a little restrained. Even if they were following behind Shopkeeper Wang, they did not dare to speak loudly, but kept turning their heads to look at the shops and stalls around them.
After entering the backyard of Wangyue Tower, they relaxed a little.
The backyard of Wangyue Tower is just an ordinary yard. Although it is better than the houses in their village, there are fewer people and being in a relatively closed yard makes it feel safe inexplicably.
Shopkeeper Wang asked people to unload the corn, green dumplings, sausages and other things from the carriage, and then he said to the villagers in Sanliu Village: "This is Wangyue Tower. In the future, if other villagers come to the county to sell corn, they will not know it." The road, I hope you can help lead the way."
"It should, it should."
"Even though they are all from the same village, it's not a big deal."
…
The dozen or so villagers nodded.
"Then everyone, drink some hot water and eat a pancake, and wait until you have a good rest before leaving." Shopkeeper Wang asked someone to bring hot sesame pancakes and hot water for everyone to eat before leaving.
We set off too early, and everyone hadn't had breakfast yet. Even though they arrived in a bullock cart, they were definitely hungry at this point.
The villagers did not expect that shopkeeper Wang would invite them to have breakfast, and they all waved their hands, which was very embarrassing.
Later, I saw that shopkeeper Wang was not being polite, but really wanted to invite me, so he smiled and thanked me, and ate sesame seed cakes happily.
This sesame seed cake is about half the size of a cattail fan, and half of it is made of cornmeal. But I don’t know how the chef at Wangyue Tower makes it, but it tastes no worse than white flour sesame seed cake.
Moreover, Shopkeeper Wang is so kind. He deserves to have such a big courtyard and such a big restaurant!
After eating the bread and drinking water, Zhuang Fengshou led the villagers away.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu also left.
The couple were not going back to the village for the time being and wanted to take a walk in the county town, so they put the oxcart at Wangyue Tower first and would pick it up when they got home.
Tao Zhu wanted to come to the county town just to see if his man's return rate was really as high as 80 to 90 percent.
Therefore, when walking on the street, what he saw was not the shops and stalls on both sides, but the pedestrians coming and going.
Originally, he didn't believe Li Qiao's words and thought they were too exaggerated.
But at this moment, he pursed his lips again.
Pedestrians on the street, whether they were young girls, young wives, aunts, or unmarried boys, or married husbands, when they saw Li Qiao next to him, they hardly looked away, and most of them would look at him more. Li Qiao blinked and then turned his gaze.
hateful.
Where did Li Qiao exaggerate? Li Qiao was clearly being modest.
The last time he and Li Qiao came to the county town, because they were about to get married, they were so nervous and excited that they didn't notice this.
"Brother Zhu, let's go buy some mutton oil for hand protection. That guy from Dashan bought it for Brother Qian, so we two have to make arrangements."
Li Qiao stared at the shops on both sides, looking for the kind that specialized in selling rouge and gouache.
Now that the weather is getting cooler, hands and face tend to get dry, so it’s time to protect your hands and face.
Hearing this, Tao Zhu looked down at his calloused hands and hummed softly.
He had no need to use this kind of thing in the past. Even if he had frostbite, he should wash his clothes in cold water or cold water.
But now... buy it, you must buy it, not only those who wipe their hands must buy it, but also their feet must be anointed.
Li Qiao quickly found a shop called Yanzhihong. The shop was quite large. They entered the door side by side and were immediately greeted by a smiling waiter.
"What do the two guests want to buy? Is it for their wives or husbands? Our shop not only has rouge and gouache, but also..."
"What nonsense are you talking about? We are husband and wife, and this is my husband!"
Li Qiao saw that this guy actually mistook Tao Zhu for a man, and immediately interrupted him with a dark face.
Tao Zhu, who was on the side, bit his lip and looked unhappy, but did not speak.
The waiter looked at Li Qiao's dark face and was stunned. He subconsciously looked at Tao Zhu.
Seeing clearly the unobvious mole between Tao Zhu's eyebrows, his eyes suddenly widened. These two people were really husband and wife!
Then a look of fear appeared on his face and he quickly apologized: "Sir, I was blind and didn't realize that we two were husband and wife. You two are not as knowledgeable as me."
Seeing Li Qiao holding Tao Zhu's hand and about to leave, he quickly stopped him, raised his hand and slapped himself on the face, admitting his mistake.
Seeing this, Tao Zhu pursed his lips: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to continue shopping, let's just buy it here."
It’s not entirely the guy’s fault. Who makes the mole between his eyebrows really light?
This guy wasn't the first to treat him like a man, and he definitely wasn't the last.
If he was angry every time, he would be angry to death long ago.
Li Qiao saw that Tao Zhu really didn't want to go shopping anymore. After thinking about it, he said, "Then buy it in this store and buy a hairpin by the way."
"...Okay." Tao Zhu did not refuse.
Should he be like Zheng Qianqian, shaving his eyebrows and wearing jewelry?
In this case, others should be able to recognize that he is actually the little brother at a glance...
Next, Tao Zhu was not in high spirits and was a little absent-minded, so Li Qiao took full control and bought not only mutton oil for wiping his hands, but also makeup tools and two silver hairpins.
After leaving the shop, Li Qiao took Tao Zhu into the cloth shop.
He bought two sets of ready-made clothes, made of cotton, but because they were embroidered with exquisite patterns, one set cost one tael of silver, which was quite expensive.
It was not yet noon when we came out of the cloth shop, but there were a lot of things to do at home, so the couple went to Wangyue Tower and got on an ox cart to go home.
Of course, don’t forget to take the duck necks and duck offal prepared by Shopkeeper Wang when you go home.
There were not many pedestrians on the country road, so Li Qiao simply stretched out his hand and took Tao Zhu's hand, which was smaller than his: "Still unhappy?"
"Are you happy on your behalf?" Tao Zhu glanced at him, his lips still pursed.
"If someone recognizes me as a woman, will it affect your feelings for me?" Li Qiao asked.
"Of course not." Tao Zhu shook his head immediately.
"That's it, you know whether I am a boy or a girl, and I also know whether you are a boy or a little brother."
"Besides, even if you are a boy, I still like you. What I like is not your gender, but you as a person."
"The fact that I need you has nothing to do with you as a person, and has nothing to do with your gender."
Even now, he still subconsciously regards his little brother as a man. In his eyes, Tao Zhu is naturally a man too.
"Then why did you buy makeup products just now? Do you also think I should wear makeup?" Tao Zhu asked.
"Because you are good-looking to begin with, but you should look even better with makeup. From now on, you will only show it to me."
Li Qiao doesn't think that men can't wear makeup. The male celebrities in his previous life didn't still wear makeup.
Of course, the makeup he likes is not the kind of makeup that involves applying makeup and powder to make a face very white. What he likes is the kind of light makeup that is slightly modified on the original basis.
He looked at Tao Zhu's face, which was very close at hand, and said with a smile: "You are so attractive that I can't live without you now. If you really wear makeup, I will be fascinated to death."
"...You are not allowed to say anything about death or immortality. It is unlucky."
That was true, but Tao Zhu felt really better.
But he still lowered his head and lowered his eyes, still unhappy: "Although you always praise me for being good-looking, others don't think I'm good-looking. If we two get together, they will definitely feel that we are not a good match."
He was also unhappy because of this.
The look on the guy's face today is enough to illustrate this point.
