PDLP Chapter 194 Gift
Chapter 194 Gift
Mu Jinghua nodded first, and then realized Xu Shu's reluctance, blinked and began to act coquettishly: "No need, I just want to be with you, otherwise you are busy reading military books, I am so bored."
"I blame myself for neglecting you." Xu Shu reached out and took him into his arms, and asked him, "It's your birthday in the spring, what gift do you want?"
Mu Jinghua uttered an "ah" and then realized that his birthday was coming. Then his eyes lit up: "Gun, I want your gun."
Xu Shu: ...
"Is it not possible?" Seeing Xu Shu's hesitation, Mu Jinghua said carefully, "I have been practicing archery diligently recently. Although I can't shoot an arrow through a willow leaf from a hundred paces away like Qiao Jianhong said, I can still hit eight out of ten. I won't hurt myself."
"I know." Xu Shu sighed, "It's just... it's not appropriate to give something like this that involves fighting and killing as a birthday gift."
"Then can you send me home?" Mu Jinghua instantly became excited, and his voice became higher, "I will protect you in the future."
Xu Shu couldn't help laughing: "Do I still need your protection?"
That's true. Having seen how powerful Xu Shu is, Mu Jinghua nodded with a bit of regret: "When you pass the exam to become the top martial arts scholar, you will be a general in the future, so you won't need my protection."
"But I want..."
"What are you thinking about?" Xu Shu rubbed his increasingly smooth long hair and said with a smile, "You also want to be a general?"
Mu Jinghua imagined the scene and shook his head: "I don't want to be a general, I want to be the general's wife, and then..."
"Just like what you said in your storybook," his eyes sparkled, "If the general is not around, the general's wife can also lead the general's mansion to fight."
"My storybook?" Xu Shu was stunned. He didn't remember having seen such a storybook before. "You went to the study to peek at my storybook again?"
Mu Jinghua was caught, but he was not afraid of Xu Shu at all. Instead, he said confidently: "Books are the best place to live. There are so many books in your study, why can't you let me read them?"
The books in the study were all taken out of Xu Shu's backpack. The original intention was of course for Xiao Mujin to read, but Mu Jinghua only liked to read vernacular novels, which gave him a headache: "I want to let you read them, but you can't read them every day. You even read them under the lamp at night, and your eyes are getting dark circles."
Xu Shu gently touched his dark circles, feeling helpless. In the past, little Mu Jin was a good child who went to bed early and got up early.
Look at her now, staying up late and being stubborn. Although she is still very cute, but... this is really not good.
Moreover, if they get married in the future and the time for doing serious work at night is squeezed out, that would be a real problem.
Mu Jinghua has been studying medicine with his master for the past few years and can now diagnose patients' pulses independently. He certainly knows better than Xu Shu that staying up late is not good, but he just can't help it.
If he hadn't read the storybooks in Xu Shu's study every day, he wouldn't have known that there was such a thing as snow in this world.
He has never seen snow.
Xu Shu said that snow is like rain, but it only snows in winter. Whether it is heavy snow, willow catkin snow, or snow mixed with drizzle, it is equally beautiful.
Xu Shu said that after leaving Yuzhou, the weather would get colder and colder as you go north. When you reach the extreme north, there would be only snow. There was so much snow that even the potatoes in the field turned into snow.
The book also mentioned a lot more, such as the lone goose in the desert, the long river at sunset, the mountains piercing through the clouds and the waterfalls cascading down from the steep cliffs, but he had never seen any of them.
Xu Shu just laughed after hearing this: "There are so many miracles in this world, how can anyone have seen everything?"
Mu Jinghua was a little unconvinced, after all, Xu Shu knew everything he asked. Xu Shu had seen snow, the desert, the sunset, climbed to the top of a mountain, and even seen a waterfall.
But when he changed his mind, he felt that it was okay, after all... Xu Shu was a god.
Mu Jinghua thought he had stopped looking forward to it, but now thinking about it, he still felt a little disappointed, and changed the subject sullenly: "What do you want to eat tonight? Wan Ge'er and I will make it together."
Although Jiang Xiao built a new house in Shiqiao Village, that was only in recent months.
Before this, the Jiang family lived in the small courtyard outside Xu Shu, so Mu Jinghua and Jiang Xiangwan would cook together. After cooking together a few times, their relationship improved a lot.
Even though the two families no longer live together, Jiang Xiangwan would occasionally come to Mu Jinghua to discuss dinner.
Xu Shu didn't care. Mu Jinghua's cooking skills were much better than his. In addition, he had met many different kinds of people in the past two years of running Mu Yi Lou. Sometimes his understanding and taste of dishes were much better than Xu Shu's. "I'll listen to you."
Mu Jinghua nodded and started to plan on his own. After saying a bunch of dish names that Xu Shu couldn't quite understand, the carriage finally arrived home.
He immediately forgot his little regret, ran down the carriage happily, and called out to Jiang Xiangwan: "Wan'er? Are you there?"
Jiang Xiangwan poked her head out of the courtyard and smiled when she saw Mu Jinghua. Then she was a little confused when she saw Xu Shu carrying a bamboo basket full of account books.
Xu Shu signaled him not to worry, and turned to look at Mu Jinghua: "I'll take it to your study? Or bedroom?"
"The study room." After all, Xu Shu had just taught Mu Jinghua not to stay up late to read, so he was still very obedient. "Thank you, brother."
"Be good." Xu Shu felt much more comfortable after being called brother, and the smile on his face became more obvious.
After Mu Jinghua waited for him to leave, he immediately pulled Jiang Xiangwan to a corner mysteriously and whispered, "Did Xu Shu ask you recently?"
Jiang Xiangwan nodded: "Mr. Xu came to see my husband two days ago. I was beside him at the time and interrupted him. I said I would give him a wooden hairpin with peach blossoms. I don't know if Mr. Xu listened to me. He didn't say anything at the time."
"Nothing?" Mu Jinghua clapped his hands. "That's even better. Xu Shu must have felt that it was too shabby to just give him a wooden hairpin."
He gave Jiang Xiangwan an example: "Do you remember? Last year, on my birthday, he gave me a Simmons mattress with gold-embroidered quilts on it."
"Although it's ugly." Mu Jinghua said regretfully, "But according to Xu Shu's style, he would definitely not just give a wooden hairpin."
Jiang Xiangwan disagreed: "I think according to Mr. Xu's style, he would definitely carve a wooden hairpin himself. Brother Mu, have you forgotten? The reason why the quilt is ugly is because Mr. Xu sewed it himself."
"Of course I haven't forgotten." Mu Jinghua sighed and whispered, "It's because he sewed it himself that I can't bear to use it."
Jiang Xiangwan asked again: "Brother Mu, why do you keep asking about Master Xu's gift? Anyway, no matter what Master Xu gives you, you will definitely like it, right?"
Mu Jinghua nodded, but sighed: "But I want the gun in his hand. If Xu Shujin prepares other gifts for me, that gun...that gun, when can I touch the gun?"