Chapter 51: Picking Him up on A Typhoon Day
Translator: Fan Translation Studio
Villagers here always chatted in a loud voice but on the other hand, they thought that Li Hongi and the other two were won so they were easily bullied, so in this case they did not even lower their voices while gossiping behind others’ backs. Li Hongi and Ye Xiaoxian had heard all of it.
Xiao Baozhu was young with less nerve. Every ti she heard others talk about her family affairs she would feel so embarrassed that she wished that there was a hole which she could just crawl into.
Li Hongi didn’t wish to hear others’ gossip, and what’s more, she could deal with gossip about herself but not about her son and her daughter-in-law.
She was just about to put down her handcart to argue with them when Ye Xiaoxian, who was behind Li Hongi, stopped her. “Ma, don’t lower yourself to their level. It doesn’t benefit us much even if we win.”
Li Hongi turned around to face Ye Xiaoxian. “But they’re talking about you. Don’t you need to think about your reputation?”
“We earn our reputations by relying on our abilities, not by arguing with them. Those people are green-eyed. If we stoop to arguing with them we would be indignant by lowering ourselves to their level. Life is long so let’s wait and see!”
What Ye Xiaoxian said made Li Hongi feel much better.
“Little Ye, you’re right. So let’s just ignore them and let them say what they want to say. We’re very generous and we don’t care about those trivial matters!”
As soon as she finished talking, Li Hongi made a “spitting” sound to the banyan tree. “We don’t even bother to talk to you green-eyed people!”
Ye Xiaoxian. “...”
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Not long before they arrived ho, dark clouds were flooding the sky and within a split second ca drizzling rain from the sky and the wind was blowing stronger and stronger.
Qinghe is a southern village; but although it is not at the seaside, sotis there are still typhoons. A typhoon was fiercely approaching and small trees in the village were wavering east and west in the wind which was gusting through the house and all the tiles on the roof were almost blown away.
Once Li Hongi and Ye Xiaoxian reached ho they hurried to bring in their clothes and close the windows and doors.
Seeing that the rain was getting heavier, Li Hongi suddenly said, “Little Ye, Baoshan should be ho soon. I guess he didn’t bring an umbrella or anything with him. He might get soaked, right?”
“Then I’ll pick him up!” Actually Ye Xiaoxian thought about Xiao Baoshan as soon as the typhoon ca. She began to worry about him when she realized that he didn’t have an umbrella.
As Li Hongi said this, Ye Xiaoxian hurriedly picked up a bamboo rain hat, a cloak and the only oilcloth umbrella they had and then ran out.
Li Hongi was folding clothes but as she realized that it was not the proper weather for picking up others, Ye Xiaoxian had already run out of the courtyard. Li Hongi imdiately ran out after her and shouted, “Little Ye, don’t go...sigh, be careful!”
But her voice was devoured by the wind and the rain.
“Little Ye she really likes our Baoshan!” murmured Li Hongi.
Ye Xiaoxian didn’t realize the danger of this typhoon until she had run far away. She was thin and the wind almost blew her away.
When the typhoon struck, all the villagers hid inside their hos. Both the rain and the wind were heavy and her vision started to beco blurry. She could almost not see a thing except for the wind and the rain. All the roads in the village were made of earth which beca soggy every ti the rain ca and her shoes were already covered with mud.
The situation was even worse outside of the entrance to the village. Ye Xiaoxian was soaked from standing in the wind and rain for a short while. The temperature was dropping once the rain ca, and moreover her whole body was soaked with rain so she began to shiver.
She didn’t know why Xiao Baoshan had not co back ho yet or when he would co back. She knew that it would not do any good just by standing there and waiting.
She did not know why she ran out impulsively like this!
She waited for a while longer but Xiao Baoshan still did not return, and she began to shake.
Would she catch a cold like this?
It was getting late and if the sky was getting dark, she may not be able to find her way back, which would be more dangerous.
Her sanity was telling her this but her body wasn’t doing the sa thing. She just waited and waited and would not leave until she saw Xiao Baoshan.
She waited a while longer and finally she saw a larger, tall figure appearing in the rainstorm.
It is Xiao Baoshan!
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