Dressed as an actor in the Qing Dynasty

Hua Jingzhao brought some stir-fries and a pot of fermented flowers from Baofulou. The food was served in a pear-wood lunch box. They were all Baofulou's signature dishes, and there were two other dishes from Xianhelou. Su Qingchi's appetite has been low these days. Very well, Hua Jingzhao can only pay attention every day, seeing that he ate two more mouthfuls of that kind of dish, and ordered that kind of dish the next day, those dishes that Su Qingchi only slightly touched were withdrawn and replaced with new ones , and so on, just for Su Qingchi to eat two more bites.

Illnesses come and go like a mountain, and go away like silkworms. This is really true.

Although Su Qingchi's health is not very good, because he has been taking good care of himself, he hasn't gotten sick at all. It's just that he suffered from a cold a few days ago and has a low-grade fever. The doctor invited three or four people, and he also took the medicine Quite a lot, but it's not good. Su Qingchi lost a lot of weight after spending time on the sick bed day after day. The clothes that used to fit him now looked empty, as if a gust of wind could sweep people away. , can make people feel distressed.

Last night Su Qingchi broke out in a profuse sweat again, his clothes were wet. He is a very particular person, so he couldn't sleep well when the bedding was stained with sweat.In this way, every morning, after Su Qingchi got up, Su Baoer and Hua Jingzhao would change the sweaty sheets and bedding for him, put on a clean set, and then wash and dry the changed ones for later use.

The far door of the siheyuan opened with a creak, and Hua Jingzhao saw a man in a gray mansion robe coming out of the courtyard from afar. Due to the distance, he couldn't see the face of the other person clearly. Before he left, the man stood at the courtyard door and said two words to the inside. After saying something, he bowed his hands and said goodbye.

Su Qingchi looked at the figure of the man, his brows tightened and loosened.

He gathered his robe, coughed twice, and was about to close the door when he saw Hua Jingzhao walking quickly from the entrance of the alley with a lunch box and a pot of wine.

"Are you back?" Su Qingchi's complexion was slightly pale, and his voice was imperceptibly weak.

He is naturally someone who cannot be stronger, now that he is so weak due to illness, he is naturally depressed and embarrassed, but usually he does not want to worry the people around him, so he has been holding on, and today he probably finally couldn't hold on anymore, so it is rare to show some weakness Come on.

Hua Jingzhao entered the house with him, and they had been boiling herbal soup for the past few days. Later, the smell of the medicine was so strong that it was unavoidable to suffocate people, so they lifted the stove for decocting the medicine to the ear room next door, chopped and pounded the medicine, boiled and stewed it, all of which were also in the room. This is the case, there is still a faint lingering smell of herbs in this room, probably those smells have left behind, and the pear wood spring stools, mahogany round tables, and rosewood wardrobes in the room are also stained. Medicinal fragrance.

Putting the hot dishes on the table one by one, the two of them sat down, and Su Baoer had already returned from the outside, holding two packs of medicine in his left hand and a bunch of candied haws in his right hand.

Once seated, Su Baoer talked to the two of what happened outside as usual, such as Dongtou Wang's wife took her grandson into her arms, Xitou Li San'er's daughter-in-law ran back to her mother's house, and the tofu seller Huang The little girl was touched on the face, and her father chased the man for two miles with a shovel, saying that next time he was caught, he would put a bit on him and let him grind soybeans for his family like a donkey.

Hua Jingzhao began to pick up vegetables in Su Qingchi's bowl, "You still don't have an appetite?"

Su Qingchi shook his head, "I'm feeling better today, and I should be cured of this illness. If this continues, I will definitely become a sick child."

Su Baoer picked up a piece of fish-flavored eggplant with his chopsticks and put it into Su Qingchi's bowl, "Brother, you should eat more, you will have the strength to recuperate when you are full. Look at me, how strong I am now."

Su Qingchi glared at him, "Don't clean your own chopsticks first when serving food for others."

Su Baoer looked down at the vegetable leaves on his chopsticks, blushed, and picked up the vegetable leaves on the chopsticks, "Brother, do you think I'm dirty?"

Su Qingchi's tone was indifferent, "When have you ever been afraid of being disgusted by others? Behavior is not well-bred, so it's no different from a rough man."

Su Baoer's cheeks became more and more red, and she muttered a few words without refuting, probably knowing that his brother was telling the truth.

"A man has his own great ambitions, why bother to stick to these small details, just let him go." Hua Jingzhao rarely said a word for Su Baoer, and as expected, Su Qingchi rolled his eyes, so he honestly lowered his head to eat, and smiled at Su Baoer I winked.

Su Baoer smiled, and took a big mouthful of rice, "That's right, brother, I'm going to be the No. [-] in martial arts."

Su Qingchi's hands paused for a moment, Su Baoer didn't notice it, but Hua Jingzhao saw it clearly.

Indeed, since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there have been regulations that advocating excellent families and those who have been released are not allowed to apply for the exam, and the Qing Dynasty has even more regulations that advocating, excellent, soap, and official are not allowed to take the test, probably because they are afraid that "miscellaneous streams" will tarnish the name of the imperial examination.

Su Qingchi had already made a plan. There was a minister in the court who was childless. He entrusted Baylor to make a deal. The man thought twice and agreed to accept Su Baoer as his adopted son. After three years, Su Baoer will be allowed to take part in the martial arts exam. , but now that the other party's concubine has given birth to a son for him, it is difficult to mention this matter.

Su Qingchi frowned secretly, and said in silence for a long time, "If people from your family come to find you, are you willing to go back with them?"

Su Bao'er didn't understand at first, but when she realized it, she didn't know how to answer in a daze.

Su Qingchi's expression was calm, without any abnormality, and his words were calm and breezy, "Someone came to the door today, saying that you are his long-lost parent and son, and intends to let you recognize your ancestor and return to your ancestor."

"This, this is impossible. I was clearly born in Wangjia Village, which is thousands of miles away from the capital..."

Su Qingchi took out a piece of broken jade from his bosom, "It was given to me by my wife that day, and she said it belonged to you."

Su Baoer knew that jade. He had seen it since he was a child. He asked Su Qingchi where the jade came from, but Su Qingchi never told him. After leaving Wangjia Village, he never saw the jade again. Lost by Su Qingchi, who would have thought that Su Qingchi has stayed until today.

When Fan Qingji came to look for him today, he was also holding a piece of broken jade in his hand, which could be put together into one piece. Can you argue?

There is no man in the world who doesn't have many romantic affairs. The young and frivolous young master of the Fan family, Fan Qingji, was passing through a small mountain village. He met a beautiful woman in the mountains. The two fell in love at first sight. She had a private meeting there, and after a few nights of dew, the bead was darkened.It's just that Fan Qingji left in a hurry and didn't have time to say anything. He just smashed the jade he was carrying with him and left a piece for the woman, saying that he would give her a title in the future.

A few years later, Fan Qingji sent someone to look for her in that small mountain village, only to find out that she was married and gave birth to a son. The fetus had a birthmark on its arm, which turned red when exposed to water.Fan Qingji counted the time and knew that the baby was probably his own flesh and blood, so he went south to look for it himself, but he didn't think that the woman had disappeared, and the baby was gone, so he regretted and grieved, so he could only look around. The child fell.

Su Qingchi recalled the situation when he picked up Su Baoer that day, and sighed secretly, the man who raised the spade to kill the baby was probably Su Baoer's father in name.

How can a woman survive without marriage in such a small feudal mountain village?She is young and beautiful, and bent to marry a wild man in the mountains. When the man knew that the fetus in her womb was not his own, how could he swallow his anger, throw the baby to a mass grave, and die with a shovel , is also a matter of course.

Thinking of this, Su Qingchi felt mixed feelings.

"Fan Qingji has been looking for you for more than ten years. If you go with him now, he will definitely not make you feel wronged. With the Fan family as the backing, if you work harder, what's the difficulty in becoming the number one martial artist in time?"

"Brother, have you... accepted him?" Su Baoer looked at Su Qingchi bewilderedly.

Su Qingchi avoided his gaze, "I just said to discuss it with you and give him an answer in three days."

Su Baoer clenched her chopsticks tightly, bowed her head and said nothing, the dinner table fell silent for a moment, Su Qingchi was silent for a while, put down her chopsticks and entered the room, the room was filled with unstoppable coughing, which made the two people outside feel uncomfortable.

"Brother Hua, I only have my brother as a family member. Even if I follow him and fail the martial arts exam, I will accompany him to open this opera house or open a shop to do business in the future. Serve him." Su Baoer stared at the table full of dishes, in a daze.

Hua Jingzhao told him that he felt uncomfortable, and reached out to pat him on the shoulder, "If you really think so, your brother will not force you. No matter what he says or does, he is always thinking of you. Although he Blame you for being unpromising and unfulfilling, but when did you really leave you outside the door? He has a sharp mouth and a bean curd heart. Others don't know, and neither do you?"

"I know, I'm just afraid that he won't want me anymore. If he really doesn't want me, I'll bump my head to death in front of Zhengyang Gate."

Hua Jingzhao knocked on him, "Fang wanted to say that you are sensible, but now he is talking nonsense again. If you are really killed, who will be happy or sad? Fortunately, you said this to me. If Qingchi hears about it, he will kick you out heartily."

"I'm speaking from the bottom of my heart." The corners of Su Bao'er's eyes were slightly red, "You only say that I'm full-tempered and heartless, but I have grown a heart after all. Even though I was a little confused before, now I have experienced some things. Things will always come to understand, if nothing else, just talk about Bai Ming, I didn't understand his heart for me at first, but now that he's gone, half of my heart is lost, and I only have one heart in total. Half of my heart is on my brother, and half has already been taken by him at some point, once he left, I no longer have the desire to like people."

Su Baoer wiped away the fiery teardrops rolling out of the corners of her eyes, "My brother gave me my life, but I owed Bai Ming. If anything happened to either of them, I would take half my life. Now that Bai Ming is gone, we This heart is hung on my brother, if he says a word that he doesn't recognize me and doesn't want me, I'll just hit my head and die, and I will be reborn as a tortoise, and I will carry my brother's tombstone in the future."

Seeing his dementia, Hua Jingzhao couldn't utter a word, and at the end of the day, he just took a hard look at his forehead with his fan bone, "I don't blame your brother for saying you are stupid."

Three days later, Fan Qingji really came, and Su Qingchi stood under the verandah, watching the father and son quietly through the window.After a long time, Fan Qingji came out of the house, took a look at Su Qingchi before leaving, said to him, "Excuse me," and strode away.