Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 322: Chapter 322: Xiao Xiaomei_1

An Jing said this as Xiao Changyi took out the keys and handed them over to Meng Lanqing.

Meng Lanqing immediately received them with both hands, respectfully and trembling, ”Yes!”

An Jing continued, ”Once the shop is renovated, let me know. I will have Shi Xiaolan and An Fu work there and provide them with a room to live in.”

Meng Lanqing once again respectfully complied, ”Yes!”

”We’ve signed contracts with four laborers at the labor broker’s, and they will start work at the shop after seven days.”

”This subordinate understands.”

”Make sure the accounts for the rice shop are kept accurately, without a single mistake, as my husband and I may check the books at any time.”

”Madam, rest assured, this subordinate will keep everything clear and accurate.”

An Jing hesitated, but nonetheless said, ”If you really don’t wish to show your true face, you can disguise yourself, but do so appropriately. Don’t make yourself look as fierce as before. You’re going to be a shopkeeper, and if you look like that, who would dare to come to our rice shop to buy rice, right?”

”...Yes.”

Listening to Meng Lanqing’s obviously subdued voice, An Jing couldn’t help but find it amusing.

After Meng Lanqing had left, An Jing then said to Xiao Changyi, ”My dear, his face is quite fine. Why despise it so, as if wishing it were on someone else’s head?”

Xiao Changyi replied truthfully, ”He himself feels his face doesn’t make him look like a man.”

So, he dressed himself so roughly just to make himself look more like a man... Is that what it means? Is that the idea?

An Jing silently queried her husband.

Xiao Changyi actually nodded, ”When he first joined the military camp, because of his face, everyone treated him as a woman and compared him constantly with women. It wasn’t until he had achieved one military accomplishment after another and defeated several who underestimated him that people in the military camp stopped comparing him to women.”

An Jing: ”...” So, it’s wrong to be good-looking, too?

After a while, An Jing finally spoke, ”He and Meng Zhuqing are brothers. How can their appearances be so different?” Meng Zhuqing had very ordinary looks, at best he could be considered decent.

”I don’t know.” After a pause, Xiao Changyi added, ”They are twins, nonetheless.”

An Jing remained silent for a moment, then asked, ”Could one of them have been swapped at birth?”

Xiao Changyi shook his head.

An Jing immediately said, ”Then they must be fraternal twins.”

”Fraternal twins?”

An Jing, afraid Xiao Changyi wouldn’t understand, didn’t delve deep into the explanation, but simply explained, ”It’s a scientific term from my world, meaning that twins born from the same pregnancy look different, while identical twins look very similar.”

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Five days later, Meng Lanqing came again to report that the renovations were complete, and then, An Jing sent Shi Xiaolan and An Fu to work in town.

An Jing also explained to Shi Xiaolan and An Fu that Shi Xiaolan was really just there to help her look after the shop, while An Fu would do various chores in the shop. If sometimes there weren’t enough workers to hull the rice, he would help out.

Upon leaving An Fu’s house, An Jing and Xiao Changyi headed home, and on their halfway back, they ran into Xiao Xiaomei.

Ever since she got married in town, Xiao Xiaomei seldom returned. Now that her mother and her second brother Xiao Gousheng had died, she came back to help out to avoid people saying she was unfilial.

She had been back at her family’s home for several days, but the last time An Jing and Xiao Changyi passed by riding their horses, she saw them and thought they looked unfamiliar, so she asked her sister-in-law Hehua who these two were.

It was for this reason that she came to know about the current appearances of An Jing and Xiao Changyi.