Xu Yixiu looked at the wooden boards scattered into several pieces in front of her with some embarrassment.
She gritted her teeth.
After all, Chu Qingxiao was just a deceitful person, and she was the dignified young city lord of Jianyue City.
Now he has been reduced to the point where he has to help him repair the door.
This is nothing short of an insult!
She wished she could slam the door and leave now, but when she thought of her father's instructions when she left, and the Dragon Xiang Seal that was still in Chu Qingxiao's hands.
Xu Yixiu gritted her teeth and recited silently in her heart: When heaven assigns a great responsibility to this person, he must first work hard on his mind and body.
This allowed me to temporarily suppress the idea of leaving.
She angrily gathered the broken wooden boards together and pieced them together for a long time before she managed to piece together the prototype of a courtyard gate.
She looked at the tools on the side, picked up the hammer and nails, and prepared to use nails to splice the broken boards together.
After all, Xu Yixiu is a person with a lot of cultivation, and her strength is far beyond what ordinary people can match. Strength work like hammering nails may be laborious for ordinary women, but it is not difficult for Xu Yixiu.
She quickly nailed the two vertical boards together, and the whole process only took a hundred breaths of time.
Xu Yixiu was very satisfied with her speed. She erected the spliced wooden boards and prepared to figure out where to splice the remaining wooden blocks, but she had just erected the wooden boards.
Click.
There was just a crisp sound, and the center of the joint between the wooden boards suddenly broke. The upper wooden board fell down and hit Xu Yixiu's forehead with great precision.
"Ouch." Xu Yixiu, who was not expecting this, let out a cry of pain, and immediately covered her forehead in pain.
"Pfft." At this moment, a chuckle suddenly came from behind her.
Xu Yixiu turned around and saw a woman in white sitting on the wooden pavilion behind her, staring at her with a smile.
The woman's appearance is dignified, with a bit of the softness and gentleness unique to Jiangnan water towns.
If he had seen such a woman at any other time, Xu Yixiu would probably not be able to help but have a good impression of her in her heart, but the other party was indeed the thief's subordinate. Xu Yixiu hated her so much that she naturally did not like her. At this moment, she was embarrassed Falling into the opponent's eyes, Xu Yixiu became more and more annoyed, turned around and said loudly: "Why are you laughing?!"
The woman was not angry when she heard this. Instead, she walked up with a smile, knelt down under Xu Yixiu's vigilant gaze, and picked up the broken wooden board on the ground.
Then she found the remaining wood from the side that Chu Qingxiao had repaired the courtyard door before, and took the saw from the side. She squatted down and took the wood, and started gesturing at the gap between the two wooden boards.
"This wooden door is already rotten into several sections. If you just use nails to nail the two door panels together, the door panels will be too heavy and cannot be supported by these nails alone. If you practice this way, you won't be able to repair it until tomorrow morning. .”
When Xu Yixiu was wondering what Xue Sanniang was going to do, Xue Sanniang's soft voice sounded at this moment.
"You have to use a wooden board to cover the broken part of the door panel, and then fix it with nails on both sides of the board, so that the door panel can be strong, like this."
Saying that, Xue Sanniang picked up the saw, sawed the wooden board in her hand into a suitable shape, and attached it to the broken place of the two door panels. Then, under Xu Yixiu's strange eyes, she skillfully picked up the hammer and nails, and knocked got up.
She quickly fixed the wooden boards on both sides of the door panels, then repeated the same process, polished another wooden board, nailed it on the other side of the broken gap between the two door panels, and fixed it.
After doing this, she lifted the door panel, and this time, just as she said, the two broken door panels were firmly fixed together, preventing the accident that just happened in Xu Yixiu's hands.
"Look, this is enough." Xue Sanniang looked at Xu Yixiu with a smile and said.
Xu Yixiu was obviously a little surprised, but after she came to her senses, the girl was unwilling to be left behind. She said harshly: "I want... I want you to mind your own business."
Xue Sanniang didn't care about Xu Yixiu's harsh words. She just looked up at the sky, then at the few unassembled door panels and said, "It's going to rain. Let's repair this door together!"
"I don't need your help!" Xu Yixiu snorted coldly, stepped forward, took the tool from Xue Sanniang's hand, then knelt down and repaired the door according to the method taught by Xue Sanniang.
However, although Xu Yixiu thought she was smart enough, after all, this was her first time doing carpentry work, and mistakes were inevitable in many aspects. Xue Sanniang watched from the side and gave some advice from time to time.
Although Xu Yixiu said she didn't need Xue Sanniang's cat crying or fake mercy, she honestly followed Xue Sanniang's instructions and repaired the door panel.
About half an hour later, after several twists and turns, the door panel that was broken into several pieces was finally repaired under Xu Yixiu's work.
The entire door panel looked tattered, like a rag filled with uncertainty, but it could still keep out wind and rain.
"Hmph! Didn't I fix it myself?!" Xu Yixiu raised the door panel at this time, looked at Xue Sanniang proudly, and said.
Xue Sanniang smiled slightly and was about to say something.
Boom!
But at this moment, there was a muffled sound above the dome, an electric python pierced the night sky, and heavy rain suddenly poured down.
The smile on Xu Yixiu's face suddenly froze. The next moment, the heavy rain poured down and the girl's clothes were soaked...
…
"Drink some ginger soup, otherwise you will easily catch the cold." Xue Sanniang brought a bowl of ginger soup from the kitchen in the inner courtyard and handed it to the soaked girl next to her.
Xu Yixiu glanced at the ginger soup Xue Sanniang handed her and turned her head away, as if she didn't want to appreciate it.
Xue Sanniang looked at the childish Xu Yixiu and couldn't help but smile. She said: "My young master has always been mean, and you are from Jianyue City. He doesn't want you to be with him. He only keeps you here to do something." Show it to others.”
"Tomorrow he will definitely think of various ways to make things difficult for you. If you fail to fulfill his demanding requirements, he will have reason to drive you away..."
Xu Yixiu trembled when she heard this.
She gritted her teeth and hesitated for a while, but then she took the porcelain bowl under Xue Sanniang's smiling eyes and said, "Don't expect me to remember your kindness!"
After she finished speaking, she drank all the ginger soup in the porcelain bowl.
Seeing this, Xue Sanniang stood up and took a pile of clothes from the side, handed it over and said: "I saw that when you came, your hands were empty, and I guess you didn't bring any change of clothes. These are my clothes, they should be about the same as yours." You can wear it too, don’t worry, I’ll wash it clean.”
"Look, you're soaked all over. Take it off and put it on quickly."
People have always been like this.
Once the psychological bottom line initially established is breached, it will appear familiar again and again.
This point also applies to Xu Yixiu.
She thought to herself that she had accepted Xue Sanniang's kindness anyway, and this time was no different.
He simply took the clothes and retreated to the side of the kitchen. Soon, Xu Yixiu, wearing a blue dress, walked out with a burst of rustling sounds.
Xue Sanniang was cleaning the porcelain bowl at the side, and at the same time said: "Put the wet clothes over there. I will wash them together tomorrow, and I will take you to your room later."
"We are in a hurry and the room has just been cleaned. You can make do with it for one night. If the rain stops tomorrow morning, I will take you to buy some bedding and two pieces of clothes."
Xue Sanniang's tone was relaxed and a bit doting, like a big sister taking care of her own younger sister.
Chu Qingxiao and others who are familiar with Xue Sanniang naturally know that Xue Sanniang has always been like this.
But in Xu Yixiu's eyes, Xue Sanniang's style was clearly to show hospitality for nothing, and to be either a traitor or a thief.
She stared at Xue Sanniang warily.
"I, Xu Yixiu, am the young city lord of Jianyue City. I advise you to stop using sugar-coated bullets to corrupt my mind as soon as possible!"
Xue Sanniang smiled faintly, as if she didn't hear Xu Yixiu's bad words, and took out another bowl of wontons from the side and said, "You probably haven't eaten yet. Try the stuffing I made myself."
"Who said I didn't eat?!" Xu Yixiu stood up and was about to leave: "Don't be so self-righteous."
But as soon as she stood up, her stomach made a growling sound.
Xu Yixiu was stunned and froze in place.
Xue Sanniang handed the wontons to Xu Yixiu again with a smile on her face, and said with a smile: "Eat, this is the seventh time your stomach has growled since just now..."
Of course Xu Yixiu wanted to show some courage, but the fragrant wontons in front of her and her hungry belly made it really difficult for her to make a choice.
"There was a disaster on Tianxuan Street the day before yesterday. There is a curfew in Tianxuan City these days. There is no place to buy food outside at this time." Xue Sanniang said at the right time.
These words made the last little calculation in Xu Yixiu's heart come to nothing.
Only when he was full could he have the strength to deal with Chu Qingxiao.
This is not bowing to the enemy, it is showing weakness to the enemy.
City Lord Xu Shao defended himself in this way in his heart, and immediately he no longer hesitated, took the wontons, and started devouring them under Xue Sanniang's smiling gaze.
