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Fuzhitang is open for business, and the shopkeeper is writing prescriptions at his desk.

I sneakily pulled the child behind the people waiting for Fang Zi, the shopkeeper gave some instructions, the people in front left, and I sat down with an upright face and stretched out my hand.

"Xiaoqing, you're messing around again." The shopkeeper raised his head and said happily.

I rubbed my head and smirked, and patted my chest to signal that I was back. The shopkeeper pulled me up and looked at me: "It's good, this is still fat."

Babies don’t like to hear these words, if they are strong, they will be strong, how can they say they are fat?Even if I've been eating well, it's still hard work.

"There's no one watching right now," the shopkeeper ignored me, I looked around, and called an apprentice, "Look at me, I'll go to the back hall first."

When the shopkeeper saw the child walking back with me, he looked at me in surprise but didn't ask, he just said hello.

In the main hall at the back, a few people sat down, Uncle Zhao also saw me coming back, and brought tea and snacks up, the shopkeeper chatted all the way and asked me what I had seen on the road, those who could nod and shook their heads, and the children answered if they couldn’t, he was very knowledgeable. Proper, said everything he could say, and opened his mouth when he couldn't say it, his sentences were coherent and logical, and he was not afraid of being proud if his wit was 100 points.

While talking over there, the child suddenly stood up and apologized, saying that he needed my help, I nodded in cooperation, and followed the child out in a daze, before he took two steps, and even before he could reach the child's clothes, he was caught Turning around and hugging her in her arms, she quietly slipped back under the window of the main hall.

"?"

Children point to ears and windows, eavesdropping?I was puzzled, but I also knew that he was not joking with me, so I leaned over to listen:

Cough sound.

Uncle Zhao: "Master's medicine," he hesitated, "Aren't you going to tell Young Master Xu?"

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "No, he has a girl he likes now, and I have settled my mind. When they get married, I have nothing to worry about. It's just that I don't have many days left. Don't miss him because of me. "

I was so horrified that the child grabbed my arm and fled away. I was put down by the child in a daze, and he said softly, "Xu Qing?"

I raised my eyes slowly, and he looked worried, holding my hand: "I felt that shopkeeper Wang was out of breath when I entered the door, and I was short of breath just now when I was chatting, and my breathing was shallow and fast." The child paused, and then said, "I I don't understand medical theory, I'm just guessing, ask Uncle Zhao?"

I took a deep breath, nodded, and the child stroked my hair: "Go to Yazhai first, and I'll invite Uncle Zhao to come over." His tone was gentle and calm, and he jumped back after getting my response.I entered the room step by step, reluctantly greeted Boss Liu, and went back to the room, just like I left, I sat down in a circle, feeling a little exhausted.

Half an hour later, the child entered the room eagerly. He looked around and saw me before he relaxed a little. Uncle Zhao came out from behind him and sighed, "Master Xu."

The child closed the door and said, "Say it directly."

"Well," Uncle Zhao sighed, and I helped him to sit down at the table, "Master's health has not been very good, he knew it himself, but he let it go. Not two days after you left, the master went to the doctor overnight and got cold in the rain. He came back He started to cough, and it got worse day by day, hemoptysis and qi deficiency, the master himself said that he probably wouldn't survive this winter."

I was silent, and the child said: "What if you just got cold?" I raised my head and smiled bitterly, and said silently: "The oil is exhausted and the lamp is dry."

At that time, what Uncle Zhao said: "Once Mr. Zhang died, the master will be depressed. I'm afraid it's... alas." Desperate.The child was speechless, and stretched out his arms to hug me. I let out a long sigh of relief and leaned on him.

"It's not been a day or two since the master has such a heart," Zhao Bo said, I put down my hand to look at him, and he sighed again, "Master Xu, the master doesn't trust you anymore."

I pursed my lips and nodded, sat up straight on the child, and wrote: Go back first, pretend I don't know.

Uncle Zhao nodded, and the child helped me see it off.

I sat there, feeling a bit erratic for a while, and didn't even notice when the child came back. He called out to me: "Xu Qing, do you need a gentle and virtuous fiancée who is well-matched?"

Probably because my expression was too sad, he walked up to me, held my hand and said solemnly: "If you don't want to, you can go to the people from Baicao Pavilion, I can save your life for you, but Xu Qing... ..."

I withdrew my hand, walked to the window and looked away, half of Yongmiao Town was in view, it seemed to be more lively than 11 years ago, but maybe it was my illusion, after all, it has been so long, but I still remember On the second street ahead, my father carried me to find the shopkeeper for treatment.

The child stood behind me without saying a word. I looked at him for a long time and turned my head. He was handsome, but now his face was heavy and dignified, "Xu Qing." He said.

I looked at him and forced a smile, and suddenly there was a desire to talk that I had never had before.I rushed to the table quickly, swept the tea tray down with my hand, and wrote quickly amidst the sound of cracking, writing about the shopkeeper and my father saving me and raising me, writing about their love and separation, and writing about the pain of the shopkeeper after the death of my father. I wrote more and more slowly, I have wiped the board several times, and my phalanx hurts, but I don’t want to stop writing. Tears soaked into the words: the shopkeeper suffers from insomnia all night, starts drinking, calls daddy’s name in his dreams, talks and sighs, and just sits there. It is the grief that others cannot melt into.

I was stunned for a while, and I cried at my desk, and the charcoal was dropped.

The child hugged me in front of me and let me cry silently.

I cleaned up my emotions as quickly as possible, the child twisted a towel, I took it and wiped my face, and I felt much more comfortable venting this way.The child looked at me very nervously, maybe I scared him just now.

This tossing was exhausting, my feet felt numb, and I supported the table to sit down. The child dug out a new tea tray from nowhere and poured a glass of water. He stroked my hair and asked with concern, "Is it better?"

I nodded in embarrassment, he took the towel I used to wipe my face and washed it off, then took my hand and soaked it in the water, and scrubbed it gently. After entering the warm water, the crisp and numb pain came up.

After the child finished washing, he wrapped my hands with a towel. I probably had a broken nerve, so I let him wash my hands like a dead thing, and put my hands back on my lap.He collected the washbasin towel and rubbed my palm with his fingers. He didn't know how to make his fingertips cold, and it was very comfortable to rub.

"In a while, I'll help you find someone, pretend to be interested in you, and rush to get married," the child said slowly in a low voice.

I turned over his hand and wrote: Thank you.

The child's mobility is amazing. After more than an hour, I have already sat back in the main hall of the backyard of Fuzhitang. The child is sitting opposite me. With flushed cheeks and just the right amount of shyness, she was talking about how I saved her from the dudes, and how I used the money to buy medicine for her father, and then told how her scholarly family declined.

She bit her lower lip and glanced at me, lowered her eyes again, and said in a soft voice: "Le'er's family is really high, it's just that Le'er treats Brother Xu..." She got up and was about to bow, and the shopkeeper immediately Take a half-step forward and help: "The girl is serious, the girl has a heart and a heart, which is Xu Qing's blessing."

Le'er was shy, and I looked at the child blankly, but the child ignored her and drank tea quietly.

"Le'er's parents are gone, she's alone and she doesn't have any elders in her family, I don't want those imaginary things, I just want to be with Brother Xu soon..." She lowered her head and touched the corner of her clothes but said embarrassedly.

As expected, the shopkeeper's complexion improved a lot, and he didn't stop laughing, obviously very satisfied, but he was taken aback when he heard the words: "Didn't it mean that the girl was wronged, even if the Ming media is getting married, it is natural to take it step by step."

The child put down his tea and said to the shopkeeper with a smile: "The shopkeeper Wang is too worried. Miss Le'er knows the general idea, so naturally she won't have any complaints. Besides, she is a girl who came here alone, and if she doesn't get married sooner, I'm afraid it will be a lot of trouble." inconvenient."

I retracted my gaze and looked at the shopkeeper with an expectant expression. After hesitating for a while, the shopkeeper finally agreed.

Since the two parties can't meet before marriage, I naturally want to stay here and let Le'er settle down in Yazhai. Fortunately, the shopkeeper doesn't know about Yazhai, otherwise it will be a hahaha. The wedding is settled, we say goodbye, and I send Leer and Xiaoer to Yazhai.

The three of us went out together, Leer felt a few steps behind us, and the child didn't know what he was thinking and didn't speak, so he was speechless all the way.

After entering the Yazhai, the child said goodbye to Le'er with a smile, Le'er closed the door, and the child took me back to the room on the third floor.

The child eagerly closed the door and leaned against it, looked at me and slowly laughed: "When we get married in ten days, I will go back to Yiqi, and Miss Le'er will accompany you."

I nodded.

The child blocked the door with a look of hesitation.

"?"

"Although Miss Le'er is from Quhualou, she has never shown her true colors to others. Don't worry."

I nodded, I am still very relieved when children do things.

He couldn't help laughing, hesitated for a while: "You..."

"?" I was a little puzzled, not knowing why the child was so entangled.

The child licked his lower lip, softened his brows and eyes, and hugged me with a sigh: "Do you still want to cry?"

His voice was very soft, but I could hear my whole body tremble. I grabbed his clothes, buried my head on his shoulder, and shook my head.