Accompany by A Fool to do Farming

Chapter 81: 琐事 Trivia

After a nice dinner, because Zhao Zheng'an loved Zhong Ziqi dearly, he took the initiative to clear the table and do the dishes.

"Zheng'an ah, I'll help you with that too." Shen Amu got up and followed Zhao Zheng'an entered the kitchen.

"Grandma, you don't have to help me. I can do it by myself." Zhao Zheng'an stopped Shen Amu's hand from helping.

"Better, let me do it!" The head housekeeper came up with a smile and helped Zhao Zheng'an with his work.

"Amu, why are you dressed up like this today?"

Zhao Zheng'an asked Shen Amu as he brushed the dishes. He knew Shen Amu followed him to the kitchen because he definitely wanted to let Ziqi and Father Shen have some time to interact with each other for a while. He tactfully didn't ask him regarding this matter. But instead, he asked another question that made him rather helpless and puzzled. As soon as Father Shen and Shen Ame appeared today, he noticed something was wrong. The clothes they were wearing were the common silk fabric (satin), although it didn't count as a coarse cloth or hemp garment but compared to the previous good quality silk cloth, the difference was really too much.

But Shen Amu didn't think anything was wrong with it, "How's that? Do your grandfather and I dress up and look just the same as you guys? This is called following the customs of the countryside.1 Your grandfather and I discussed that we couldn't just come dressed in gold and silver.2 In here, it's going to attract a lot of attention ah! If we dress like this, people will only think at most that we are passing merchants or visiting relatives." After saying that, Shen Amu even turned around like a child.

"It's quite good..." Zhao Zheng'an said with a smile.

Because Shen Amu went out, at this moment, only Father Shen and Zhong Ziqi were in the dining room. Both of them were silent for a while. Because they were not familiar with each other yet and did not know each other well so they did not know what to say.

In the end, it was Father Shen who broke the silence first and asked with some deliberation, "Ziqi ah, your Amu.... Has he ever mentioned about us to you? Has he ever blamed me?"

This was what he wanted to know the most and also the most difficult thing for him to let go of.

Zhong Ziqi knew that Father Shen had a knot in his heart, so he thought deeply about it slightly before he said, "My Amu did mention you and grandma. He said that you guys were very good, and that you had spoiled him very much since he was a child. He also said that he didn't know how you guys were doing. He couldn't even be around to do his filial duty. I hope you guys don't blame him."

After Father Shen heard that, he almost burst into tears again. Sitting on the Kang bed, it took him half a day to get over his emotions. Thinking of the past, he felt guilty as he continued to say, "Your Amu... He may be a ger but we have always specially loved him since he was a child. We would definitely never stop him from doing anything he wanted to do. We would never force him to do anything he didn't want to do either. In the past ten more years, the only time we've forced him was about that marriage's matter. Who would have thought that your Amu would be so brave and dare to run away from home? Moreover, he was alone and a good-looking ger too. How hard that must be? How difficult. What if something happened to..."

The latter part of Father Shen words were not said, but Zhong Ziqi could imagine how hard it must be for a very good-looking ger to be wandering alone in every corner of a small town, not enough to eat, not having something good to wear and having to put up with all sorts of molestation from men, how hard it must be.