Chapter Twelve Open a Small Door
Ye's family had promised to meet with Ye Jing'er the next day, and Gao Yuan was overjoyed, eagerly anticipating their meeting. However, when the next day arrived, Ye's family came as usual to help out, but Ye Jing'er was nowhere to be seen, nor did Ye Feng appear. This made Gao Yuan feel anxious and itchy in his heart, but he couldn't bring himself to ask Ye's family about it, so he suppressed his emotions and waited until the afternoon. Finally, he saw Ye Feng jumping around energetically in his own home, and seizing an opportunity when no one was looking, he grabbed Ye Feng and pulled him into a quiet corner.
"What's wrong with you, Gao Da Ge?" Ye Feng twisted back and forth.
"I asked you, where's your sister? Why hasn't she come over yet?" Gaoyuan asked impatiently. "Is it that the wine hasn't sobered up yet?"
"I'm already awake, can't you wake up too?" Ye Feng pouted.
"Why didn't you come over today?" asked Gaoyuan.
"In the morning, my sister got up and chatted with her mother for a while. I saw my sister's face turn bright red as she slipped into the house. When I arrived, she hadn't come out yet." Yefeng was twisting in Gaoyuan's hand like a snake, but couldn't get free.
Hehe smiled and let go, muttering to himself: "It turns out you're just shy." Thinking of Ye Jing's coy and embarrassed appearance, he couldn't help but feel delighted.
Ye Feng stretched his neck and looked at Gao Yuan who was laughing, asking in a low voice: "Gao brother, do you like my sister?"
Gao Yuan knocked on his head, "Little guy, what do you know?"
"What's wrong with me?!" Ye Feng said discontentedly: "Gao brother, I'm warning you, I'm a big man, not a little kid."
"Alright, alright, if a big man like you is willing to do something for me, I'll reward you with ten cents to buy sugar gourd, how about that?" Gaoyuan took out ten cents and flipped them in his hand, the copper coins clinking against each other, ringing out.
Poor Ye Feng usually didn't have any pocket money, and thinking of the tempting sugar gourd on the street, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva. "Alright, Gao Da Ge, you must want me to find my sister for you, no problem." This little guy sold his sister for ten cents, without hesitation.
"No, just deliver something for me to your sister. " Gaoyuan stuffed ten cents into his hand and took off a jade Buddha that had been hanging from his neck, "Give this to her and say it's from me."
Watching Ye Feng hop away happily, Gao Yuan couldn't help but smile. Turning around, he suddenly saw Ye Shi, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly walked away nonchalantly.
Zhang Yi had already filled all the wine into jars, filling over a dozen jars, with a total of about 40 catties of wine. Gao Yuan planned to let the pungent flavor of the wine dissipate after two days before sending a few jars to Lu Hong.
Zhang Yi was not at home. As a professional butler, he had already run to the tenant who rented more than 100 acres of land to collect rent. Gao Yuan was bored and walked into the backyard to exercise his body. By October, things at home were almost busy, and Gao Yuan was ready to take office. Although he had never been in the military, Gao Yuan knew that to stand firm in the military, first of all, you must be able to suppress others with your martial arts skills. Compared to his previous life, his physical strength was about the same, but his functions were far inferior. He had to catch up.
After about an hour, Ye Feng finally appeared in front of Gao Yuan again, holding two strings of sugar gourds, gnawing happily, and ran to Gao Yuan's side, spreading his hand out, saying vaguely: "This is for you from sister."
She handed it over from afar, but it was a small exquisite sachet. "Sister said that the Buddha she gave him would be worn close to his body, and this one is for you."
Picked up the sachet and brought it to my nose, a familiar fragrance wafted in, and I suddenly realized that's why I always smelled this scent when I was close to Ye Jing'er before - it was because of this sachet. The faint body scent was definitely from something that belonged to Ye Jing'er, and my heart skipped a beat as I carefully put it in my inner pocket.
This is considered an exchange of love tokens, isn't it? Gao Yuan thought to himself.
On the third day, Ye Jing'er finally appeared at Gao Yuan's home, but she always hid from him. Whenever Gao Yuan approached her to talk, she would immediately run away like a startled deer, leaving Gao Yuan sighing in frustration. What was going on here?
Fortunately, Zhang returned, and the big and small carts pulled back the newly collected rent grain to the Gao Mansion. He directed the tenants to carry the grain into the warehouse. Gao Yuandu estimated that there were about 3,000 or 4,000 catties of grain. In this era, the yield was not high, and it was good if one mu could produce 300-400 catties. With over a hundred mu of land, he could harvest around 30,000 to 40,000 catties of grain. One-tenth of that as rent didn't seem too high. It seemed that this landlord wasn't too bad after all.
As soon as the grain was stored in the warehouse, Gaoyuan took two bags of new grain and went to the neighboring house in a hurry.
"Auntie, this is the new grain from this year's harvest, I brought some over for you to try." Ever since he had finalized the matter with Ye Shi regarding Ye Jing'er, Gao Yuan became even more respectful in front of him.
"Put it anywhere!" Now Ye Shi also has the demeanor of a future mother-in-law.
"Auntie, I've been thinking, our two families are originally next to each other, but it's still a big detour to come over. I'm about to take office soon, and in the future, there will be a lot of trouble at home that will have to bother you. Why don't I open a door on this wall to connect the two houses? That way, it'll be more convenient for you to come and go in the future. What do you think?" Gaoyuan said cautiously.
"If you think it's good, then it's good!" Ye Shi had no objection. "After taking office, will you go live in the military camp?"
"Yes, Uncle also said that it's hard to take care of the big-headed soldiers, living with them can help get familiar with them earlier, it's a way of sharing weal and woe."
Ye nodded.
Yue's family didn't seem to have any objections, so Gao Yuan's courage grew a bit bigger,"The furniture in your mother's house is too simple, tomorrow I'll let Zhang Yi come over and help your mother buy some furniture and things, you take a look at what style is good, just instruct him directly, don't worry about spending money."
Ye raised his head and glanced at him, then lowered his head to tie his shoelaces. He neither agreed nor disagreed, but Gao Yuan had already made up his mind. "Auntie, you go ahead with your business, I'm going to visit Uncle Lu's house."
After leaving Ye's house, Gao Yuan couldn't help but feel delighted and opened a door on the wall of the courtyard, making it convenient for him to come and go as he pleased. Hmm, maybe in the future, even at midnight, he could sneak over and discuss things like the weather and seasons with Jing'er.
Back home, he called Zhang Yi over.
"Get a bricklayer over here right away and have him open up an eavesdrop hole in the wall between our house and that of the Xiang family." he ordered.
Zhang Yi was taken aback at first, then laughed and said, "Young master's quick hands and feet are really something. Why don't we just tear down the wall between our houses and merge them into one? Wouldn't that be great?"
Gaoyuan smiled and said: "It's not far from that day, let's open the door first. Oh, right, you go to the next room tomorrow and discuss with Auntie, replace all the furniture in their house. There is a piece of furniture in Jingniang's house that looks like a model, don't be afraid to spend money, pick good ones to buy, understand?"
"Understood, young master."
"Hurry up and get it done, first open your ears!"
After sending Zhang Yi away, Gao Yuan lingered in the house until late afternoon, then grabbed two jars of wine and rushed straight to Lu's residence.
