Chapter 34: Chapter 34 If She’s Afraid, She’s Not An Jing!_1 Chapter 34: Chapter 34 If She’s Afraid, She’s Not An Jing!_1 Xiao Changyi remained silent.
An Jing raised an eyebrow with a smile, “Won’t you comfort me a bit? She said quite a few bad things about me, you know.”
“You don’t care about it anyway,” he replied with his usual line.
An Jing couldn’t help but burst into laughter. “If I really get kicked out of the village, would you come live with me deep in the mountains?”
Without a second thought, Xiao Changyi nodded, “Sure.”
“That eager?” An Jing asked with raised eyebrows, feeling incredibly sweet inside.
Xiao Changyi looked at her, “Wherever you are, I am there.”
Yet suddenly, An Jing fell silent, stopped smiling, and lowered her head, staring blankly at the ground.
Xiao Changyi quietly watched An Jing for a long while before lifting his hand to touch her head.
An Jing tensed up for a moment before slowly pulling the hand on her head down to hold it, staring at Xiao Changyi’s large hand for a while. Then, lifting her head, she looked at him seriously and said, “Remember what you said today.”
Without waiting for Xiao Changyi to say anything, she added, “I’m taking you seriously.”
Xiao Changyi clasped her hand back, his large hand enveloping her small one, tightly, “What I said is the truth.”
An Jing finally smiled again, her radiant joy comparable to the brilliant sunlight outside.
Xiao Changyi couldn’t resist; he lifted his other hand to touch An Jing’s head again.
This time, An Jing laughed until her eyes disappeared.
As for the villagers’ rejection, An Jing never took it to heart from the beginning to the end.
She had her own hands and feet, she did not rely on the villagers for her sustenance, so why would she fear their rejection?
If she did fear, she wouldn’t be An Jing.
The next day, because they needed to go to town, An Jing and Xiao Changyi rose before dawn. And Xiao Changyi had gotten up much earlier than An Jing; he even went in the dark to the fields to fetch more Niu Jin Grass.
Seeing Xiao Changyi apply the mashed fresh Niu Jin Grass to her foot made An Jing feel unspeakably sweet.
After having some leftover food from last night, Xiao Changyi carried An Jing out the door.
At the village entrance, there was already a bullock cart waiting, and each person only needed to pay a copper coin to ride the cart to town.
It was still not fully light, but several people were already seated on the bullock cart. Seeing Xiao Changyi carrying An Jing over, everyone immediately felt uncomfortable.
Despite Aunt Liu Hua’s explanation, and the fact that the villagers had dropped the idea of driving An Jing out of Jiuping Village, they still harbored a grudge against her in their hearts.
“Go, go, go, my bullock cart won’t carry someone who’s cursed our Jiuping Village!” Wu Mazi rudely drove them away, not allowing Xiao Changyi and An Jing to ride his bullock cart, even before they had approached.
Wu Mazi was a person with extremely straightforward thoughts; whatever he felt was plainly reflected on his face. The discomfort he felt upon seeing An Jing was unabashedly displayed, and to straightforward people like him, An Jing and Xiao Changyi posed no threat at all.
From the refusal of Carpenter Zheng to make their bed yesterday, An Jing had already guessed there might be a scene today; therefore, she did not get angry but simply ignored Wu Mazi, turning to ask Xiao Changyi, “Two hours, can you make it?”
“Hmm,” Xiao Changyi nodded. At the same time, he turned and started walking toward the direction of the town with An Jing on his back.
To walk to the town took two hours, and Xiao Changyi was carrying her there; An Jing was a bit worried inwardly, afraid it would be too tiring for him.
But Xiao Changyi had already nodded, so she did not say anything more.
Xiao Changyi’s pace was steady; An Jing lay on his back, not feeling any jolts at all. If An Jing were carefree, being carried by Xiao Changyi would have surely put her to sleep long ago.