Brocade tears

Meng Kuang moved a small bench and sat in the kitchen, tinkering with the hammer and chisel to repair the broken table with the light of the fire coming from the stove. "Gu~~", her stomach was empty, she couldn't help but swallowed her saliva, trying to ignore the hunger, and continued to do the work in hand.

Meng Ai said that if she didn't give her dinner, she really wouldn't give it. She cooked the food in the kitchen for two, and she packed up all the dishes prepared at home and took them to her room. She took her to the east wing, and the door was barred, leaving Meng Kuang outside alone.

Meng Kuang knew he had done something wrong, so he accepted the punishment obediently.First, he went to the pharmacy to collect all the confiscated medicinal materials from Meng Yan and Sui Er, and then helped to grind all the medicinal materials that needed to be crushed.When she returned to the yard, she saw that the table with a broken leg in her room was thrown out by Meng Yan, and it was thrown by the kitchen.Meng Yan was probably angry and wanted to chop the table up and use it as firewood.Meng Kuang felt a little reluctant, so he went to the firewood room to get a hammer and chisel, repaired the mortise and tenon of the table legs, and put the legs back. Because it was short, she specially found a piece of firewood from the firewood pile. A section of tenon was sawed at the bottom, which can be regarded as making up the length of the leg.The repair is done, but the table looks really ugly, it's better to get some paint and paint it again some other day.

She took the tools back to the woodshed, but the table was too big to fit in, so she had to put it by the kitchen door.After all this, she was covered in sawdust, hungry and tired.Clutching my stomach, I searched the kitchen for a while, and there was nothing left to eat, only seasonings, onions, ginger, and garlic.She complained in her heart that her younger sister was really cruel, so she gave up looking for food and went back to the house, intending to take a bath and change clothes.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she arrived at the door of the bathroom, she heard the voices of her sister and Sui'er talking inside.She knew that she had come here by accident, she should have gone back and waited, but somehow she couldn't move, she stood outside the bathroom and listened quietly.

"This stinky sister, she has scratched your arm." Meng Yan said angrily.

Sui Er didn't answer.

"Turn around and I'll look at your back." Meng Yan said again.

After a while she said: "Fortunately, the injury on the back hasn't gotten worse."

Not long after she heard the sound of entering the water.There are two tubs in the bathroom, Meng Yan and Meng Kuang use them separately.Meng Yan is a doctor, she thinks this is cleaner.This bathroom was built by Meng Kuang herself. She asked a blacksmith to make two large iron tubs, and built two stoves with bricks in the bathroom. The circle of wood prevents the body from being scalded by direct contact with the wall of the iron barrel.In this way, there is no need to boil hot water every time you take a bath, and it is tiring to carry it around.Just add water to it and heat it with wood.

Of course, clean water still needs daily manpower to draw from the well and pour it into the tank in the bathroom.The tub is deliberately elevated, with an opening at the bottom, and when the bamboo mouth is connected, the water can automatically flow into the tub.After washing, there is a water outlet under the iron bucket, and there is a diversion outside the mouth. When the water comes out, it will flow to the sewer outside the house along the diversion channel built in the bathroom.

It was Meng Kuang's job to fetch water, so naturally his sister couldn't let his sister do this kind of heavy physical work.She fetches water about every two or three days, usually in the morning as part of her morning exercises, and after that, it's just to warm up.The water in the jar is enough for the sisters to wash twice.Bathing is infrequent in winter and can last longer.When Meng Kuang was away, Qingxu would also help fetch water.It's just that since Sui'er came here recently, the bath water has been consumed very quickly, and Meng Kuang has always been dirty in the past two days and needs to take a bath, so it is estimated that there is not enough water in the bucket.She hasn't stored water for the past two days. If her younger sister didn't hit the water today, then she should have no water to take a shower later.

Thinking about it, she decided to plan ahead, and went to the well to fetch water, filled four buckets of water, picked it up with a load, and walked outside the bathroom door.She cleared her throat and said:

"Hey, can I come in?"

"What are you doing here?" Meng Yan asked cautiously, her tone of voice made Meng Kuang a little sad, why did she become a dangerous person in the eyes of her younger sister.

"There should be no water in the tank, let me add some water."

There was no answer in the bathroom for a long time, Meng Kuang waited for a long time before he heard Meng Ai say, "Come in."

Meng Kuang pushed open the door of the bathroom, and the warm steam rushed towards his face. The scent of saponin mixed with traces of feminine fragrance instantly made Meng Kuang's face hot.

Hot water was boiled in both tubs, and they bathed in separate tubs, with the younger sister in the outer one and Sui'er in the inner one.The two were submerged in the water, and the water covered their shoulders.Meng Yan stretched her neck and poked her head to watch her sister come in with a burden.I saw that she had changed into the rough clothes at home, she still tied her hair and wore a net towel, and there were still sawdust on her body that hadn't been cleaned.I thought my sister would not go to repair the Naluoshizi table.What an idiot who knows to fix the table and doesn't know how to say a nice word of apology.Miss Xiaosui's eyes were red from crying, she was really hurt by her.Why did she lose her temper so well and treat Miss Xiaosui so rudely, she still has injuries on her body.Meng Yan was very angry and decided to ignore her at least tonight.

Meng Kuang lifted the water onto the stone platform with the big vat, then jumped onto the stone platform and poured four buckets of water into the vat.She really didn't dare to look around, so she inadvertently looked at the bathtub where Sui'er was. In the misty water, she could only see the snow-white and rosy skin and the long brown cloud-like hair floating on the water.She kept her body deeply submerged in the water, no matter where Meng Kuang went, she only turned her back to her and bowed her head.

The strange feeling came again, and the fierce burning in her chest tormented her nerves.She had an urge to walk over and get closer to her.She wanted to push back the long hair that covered her back and take a closer look at her body, to touch her skin, to see where she had hurt her.She still wanted to submerge her arms in the water to hug her, and wanted to... She hurriedly stopped her thoughts.Under these inexplicable desires, there is still a deep anxiety.Did she despise herself, or had a deep fear of her since then, and never wanted to get close to her again?Every time I think of this, my heart seems to tremble.She didn't know why she was so afraid of it.She desperately wanted to make up for her mistakes, and swore to God that she would never do it again, and let her understand her heart.

But... these weird emotions were really indescribable, Meng Kuang already felt at a loss, and didn't even understand what was wrong with him.Did she... fall in love?

With her head sullen, she carried four empty buckets out of the bathroom, and closed the door of the bathroom again, only then did the suffocating chest tightness subside a little.The cold night air outside the house woke her mind. She carried the empty bucket back to the well, sat on the stone steps at the mouth of the well, looked at the waning moon far away in the sky, and fell into deep thought.

Meng Qing... Have you been around men for too long, unconsciously thinking of yourself as a man?How could you fall in love with a woman?

But if you think about it carefully, it's not like she didn't have this kind of weird emotion before, and she seemed to have this kind of feeling towards Sui'er back then at Jiji.At that time, she simply thought it was just a feeling of sympathy, because she was so pitiful, so she always wanted to protect her and take care of her.But now that she is getting older, although she has never had any emotional experience, she can gradually understand what love is like.The thoughts she has for Sui Er are really pure love, which cannot be summed up in the word "poor".

His eyes fell on his left arm, which was exposed by rolling up his sleeve, and there were still marks of her teeth biting her on it.She raised her left arm and stroked the mark with her right hand, and Sui Er's words "I thought I finally found support" came to mind. She said this sentence with tears in her eyes, wronged and sad. Heartbroken.Thinking back at this moment, the sweetness like syrup rose from all kinds of sourness. She really wanted to rush into the bathroom to express her feelings to her. Don't hurt her a bit.But... She bit her lip, the expression on her face was really painful and sweet, entangled repeatedly.

"Ahhh!" She let out a helpless and helpless growl, took off the net towel, and messed up her hair.

Meng Qing, you are sick, you like women, you are simply unreasonable!She couldn't accept her emotions intellectually, and she couldn't get along for a while.He plunged into the study and sat behind the desk in a muffled voice.After a while, I got up again at a loss, rummaging through the bookshelves.Suddenly she seemed to remember something, pushed open the door and entered the bedroom.She walked to the side of the bed, removed the stepping board under the bed, dug out a loose floor tile under it, and took out a well-wrapped oilcloth bundle from it.She unwrapped the bundle, and inside were three erotic books.This thing was given to her not long after she joined Jinyiwei by a colleague from the same guard.At that time, she hated this thing deeply, and after a rough review, she only felt that it was obscene and thieves, which was unacceptable.She was among the men, and she knew very well what the men in the military camp used to look through the erotic books every day, so she was really tired and crooked, and she couldn't understand why men liked this kind of thing at all.Nai He Tongpao said he would lend it to her and asked her to keep it safe and not lose it, and she couldn't throw it away either, so she had to hide it by her side.It didn't take long for her to transfer and leave, and the erotic book didn't return, so it became her property.She sealed these three booklets under the floor tile of the dormitory, and kept them out of sight.

She vaguely remembered...there were a few pages that didn't seem to depict men and women, but men and men, women and women.I flipped through it casually, and it really turned out for her.Looking at the explicit descriptions and words on it, her face turned red, and she quickly repacked and sealed the three booklets.

Breaking the customs and entering the Zen forest, the body is pure and the mind is not clear.The night came and the wind and rain passed, and it was suspected to be knocking on the door.The mirror grinder has existed since ancient times, but it often happened between court ladies and nuns, or between monks and nuns. There are also such poems in the folks that vaguely describe the scene of nun Kundao having an affair in the middle of the night.But for Sui Er...is this the case?Is it because she is also like a nun and cannot get married when she reaches the age, so she is too lonely?

As the night was getting dark, Meng Kuang listened to the movement in the study, heard his sister and Sui Er went back to the East Wing, and saw that the lights in the East Wing went out, then quietly went to the bathroom to wash and change clothes.When she finished washing and returned to the room, it was already mid-moon, and when she just walked to the door of the study, there was the sound of a three-shift watch outside.

She pushed open the study door, but her footsteps stopped suddenly.Because at this time, a figure was standing next to her desk, and was putting the food box in her hand on her desk.She suddenly pushed the door and entered, scaring the man.The person who came was Sui'er, she didn't light the lamp, she obviously came secretly and didn't want others to find out.Now he was bumped into by Meng Kuang, and suddenly felt embarrassed.The two stood silently in the study for a while, neither of them said a word, she turned around, pretending that Meng Kuang was not there, and was about to go out from her.Meng Kuang subconsciously wanted to stretch out his hand to pull her, but saw Sui'er shrinking back nervously, her hand froze in mid-air, her heart felt like a knife had been stabbed, and it was burning hot.

"Sui'er...I'm sorry..." She whispered softly, "I'm so hot today, I shouldn't be so fierce to you."

Sui Er didn't answer, Meng Kuang added weakly: "I promise I won't in the future..."

The hazy moonlight penetrated through the open door and sprinkled on the ground between the two of them, Sui'er's face was obscured in the darkness.But Meng Kuang's night vision was very good, and he could see that she was pursing her lips, her expression was extremely aggrieved, and she was about to cry.Looking at her appearance, Meng Kuang felt that his heart was about to break.She tried to take a step closer to her, Sui'er didn't step back this time.

"Can I... see your arm? Did I hurt you?" she asked cautiously.

Sui'er seemed to be a little angry and raised her arm, Meng Kuang walked forward slowly, and pushed her sleeve up, and sure enough, she saw the handprint left on her arm.

"I'm sorry..." Meng Kuang apologized again.

However, Sui'er saw the tooth marks left on her left forearm after rolling up her sleeves, and suddenly smiled.She reached out her hand to touch the mark, and said, "We're even. If you do this again next time, I will bite you to pieces." At the end of the speech, she gave Meng Kuang an angry look.

Meng Kuang bowed his head embarrassedly and smiled, then heard Sui Er say:

"I told your sister, what did I do today, and why are you angry?"

Meng Kuang looked at her with some surprise, and heard her say: "I didn't want to pass the news out without telling you, but I'm really worried about the situation outside. I can't leave in a short time now, because Guo Dayou is still staring at me. If I run away, won't you suffer? But if I can, I really must leave as soon as possible. There are still people in the palace waiting for me to save, and her days are numbered. I once said that these are my business and yours It doesn't matter, I don't want to involve you. But now it seems that if you don't tell you, you still don't know how to suspect me. You are really narrow-minded, I'm afraid of you. "

Just as Meng Kuang was about to ask, he was interrupted by Sui Er:

"But!" She continued, "Let's not talk about it tonight, it's too late. Find a time tomorrow and call everyone you think you need to know to your home, so as not to have to tell everyone. I'll tell you what happened to me."

"Okay." Meng Kuang responded.

"I made you... something to eat, Xiao Ai is still soft-hearted, but he couldn't bear to see you, so I brought it." Sui'er suddenly had two red clouds floating on his face, and said softly with his head down.

With a happy smile on Meng Kuang's face, he went back to the table and lit the oil lamp with a scythe, and the room was lit up.She immediately opened the food box, and saw a steaming bowl of noodles inside. She just cooked a bowl with Chinese cabbage stored at home and bacon marinated in winter, and sprinkled some green onion on the surface, but it looked strange. tempting.Meng Kuang was so hungry that he picked up the bowl and ate it.The taste in the mouth is really delicious. I don't know if it is because she is too hungry. She feels that she has never eaten such delicious food.

"Is it okay?" Sui'er asked from the side, seeing Meng Kuang devouring his food, she laughed and reminded, "Eat slowly, be careful of burning."

"Yeah, it's delicious! It's delicious!" Meng Kuang said vaguely.

A bowl of gnocchi was eaten in the blink of an eye, and Meng Kuang would have licked the bowl if he hadn't been worried about being too ugly.

Sui'er smiled and collected her empty bowl, and was about to pick up the food box and leave.Meng Kuang pressed the food box and asked:

"Are you going to sleep with Ai'er tonight?"

"Yeah." Sui'er nodded.

"I..." Meng Kuang waited for a long time, and finally said, "I have repaired that table, and it can be used again after painting."

Sui'er looked at her, with an irresistible arc on the corner of her lips.road:

"That's good. From now on, you have to take good care of your belongings, and don't lose your temper all the time. These things are so innocent that they will suffer." After finishing speaking, he looked at Meng Kuang with a smile on his eyes, waiting for her to answer this sentence.

Sure enough, Meng Kuang was a little embarrassed, and he choked out a sentence for a while, "Wan'er's bed is too narrow, I'm afraid you two will be crowded together."

"It's not crowded, it's just right for the two of us to fall asleep."

Meng Kuang: "...It's just a comfortable bed for one person to sleep in."

"Pfft..." Sui'er finally couldn't hold back her laughter, "What on earth are you trying to say?"

"You can sleep in the study room, you like this arhat bed, let me sleep in it for you." Meng Kuang blushed, it was not easy to say these words.

"It's fine to stay and sleep, but..." She elongated her tone, Meng Kuang looked at him, and heard her say, "I'm afraid of the cold, please help me warm the bed, I'll sit and read a book first. "

After she finished speaking, she went to close the door, sat down at the desk, picked up the book piled up on the desk, and started to read.Meng Kuang was stunned for a moment, then he took off his coat and robe honestly, and lay down under the bed with his middle clothes on.Sui'er watched her move, and slowly bit her lip.

Fool...it's so cute, it makes people's heart ache.

Meng Kuang lay under the quilt for a while, feeling nervous for some reason, and now her hands and feet were also cold, and she always felt that the quilt couldn't get warm no matter what.She was going to rub her hands and feet to get hot, but before she could move, the oil lamp suddenly went out, and Sui'er got in when she was lifted by the horn, scaring Meng Kuang to sit up.

"Don't get up, it's so cold, the wind is blowing." Sui'er said, with an inexplicable hint of coquettishness in her tone, Meng Kuang's heartbeat accelerated sharply, and his whole body seemed to be on fire, restless.She lay down carefully, keeping a certain distance from Sui'er, and asked:

"You don't read books anymore?"

"Don't watch it, it's so late, I'm sleepy."

"The bed is not warm yet."

"The two warm up quickly." Sui'er turned sideways to face Meng Kuang, who was lying on his back and dared not turn his head to look at her.

"Go to sleep, don't go to sleep elsewhere tonight." Sui'er whispered in her ear, and after saying this, she didn't speak anymore, leaving Meng Kuang alone to watch with his eyes open. Roof beams overhead.

Long nights, unintentional sleep.