dumb ashamed

I finally understood why the kid made up such a life experience for Le'er after the shopkeeper chatted with me for half an hour.

"This girl is well-educated, and she speaks well." The shopkeeper was picking out the wedding items in the warehouse. good boy."

I nodded with a straight face, looking proud.

"It's just that she doesn't have a natal family, this dowry..." The shopkeeper touched a porcelain vase, frowning in thought.

I hastily interrupted him.Don't want him to bother, draw on his hand: Boss Liu's adopted daughter.

The shopkeeper was stunned and then smiled: "That's right, Miss Le'er lives in Yazhai anyway, even if it's ten days, we can't neglect her. Xiaoqing, what are you thinking?"

I had a conditioned reflex, shook my head, and sighed in my heart, what a ridiculous wedding.

"Speaking of which," the shopkeeper suddenly turned his head to look at me, "what's the matter with Mr. Xia?"

"..." I laughed dryly, slowly squeezed the shopkeeper's hand, and just realized when I was about to let go, labor and management are dumb, just write a few words, and the shopkeeper will not let me write a report to explain it in detail, decisively Write: Encounter by chance to thank the escort.

The shopkeeper did not doubt him, nodded and continued to pick things.

I also thought about whether I should tell the shopkeeper about me and the child, but I couldn't bear to stimulate him with homosexual love in this mental state of the shopkeeper. Family harmony makes him happy.It's as if I couldn't bear to force him to stay, separated from my father.

Before, I never thought that whoever left would be unable to live. Now that I am in a relationship and have someone I like, I can vaguely feel that feeling. It is probably that the food is still edible, but the taste is like chewing wax, and the feeling is not bad. Sleeping is just a series of nightmares.

Ten days later, the wedding was held normally, and I could barely hold back my smiling face in the end. I breathed a sigh of relief after hiding in the new house. The child was sitting at the table drinking tea and smiling at me casually. Leer had already lifted her hijab and nestled in the mirror. Remove the ornaments before the dowry.

I also got discouraged and lay down on the table. The child helped me up and stuffed a hibiscus cake into my mouth. I arched over and hugged his waist and pretended to be dead.

The child stroked my hair twice, and said in a low voice: "I'll be leaving tomorrow, and I'll be relieved when things on your side are over. Xu Qing, I'll take you out for a walk."

I was silent for a moment, then nodded, he helped me sit down, put a few pieces of pastries into my hand, and was about to get ready, when Leer suddenly stopped me: "Wait!"

Le'er stared, and said angrily: "Leave me alone and run out to play, you guys come here for bloodletting."

"..." I was stunned for a moment, and I was embarrassed for a moment. I was already held by the child, and his hand slipped down somewhere, and blood dripped on the bed.

Only then did Le'er let us go with a grunt, and the child seemed a little embarrassed, and without saying a word, jumped out of the window with me in his arms, turned over and climbed into a tree.

I buried my head in his arms, the shopkeeper's smiling face was still in front of my eyes, but this absurd wedding reminded me of the shopkeeper's body all the time, I knew that looking from this place happened to be the backyard of Fuzhitang.

The child understood my intentions, hugged me, and said some gossip: "I was supposed to watch the ceremony outside, but I just hid in the room because I saw the person I was interested in wearing a wedding dress, even knowing that it was fake."

I wanted to laugh a little bit, thinking that the kid would not mind helping me take care of everything from beginning to end, silly boy.

"By the way, Wenchang wrote back, saying that Miss Yuan met Zong Haochu." The child arranged me and sat on a tree branch, "Don't worry, the atmosphere is okay. As for hate."

I quite agree, although the little girl agrees very tragically, but according to her petty temperament, if the other party really doesn't get her eyes, it probably won't get her any favors. .

"Master Zonggu is cold, but he has a rare good temper. It may not be a good thing." He suddenly tightened his arms while speaking, "The shopkeeper Wang vomited blood."

"..."

"Uncle Zhao is here, and helped shopkeeper Wang into the house," the child comforted my suddenly stiff back by stroking it.

I straightened up and looked at the small yard, only the chaise longue and jug, and the moonlight.

I didn't expect Le'er to cook a few side dishes, not to mention that even if she is not proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she knows how to play music. She can make the shopkeeper happy every day. It's much better than me, a semi-literate person. It's terrible, even though Le'er will pinch my neck to vent at night, the roar can't be contained anymore.

A month later, when the shopkeeper was playing chess with Leer, he suddenly vomited blood, red beads fell all over the chessboard, and he couldn't help leaning back. Yell for someone to come.

The shopkeeper was in a coma for three days, and finally opened his eyes on the third night. I rushed to hold his hand, and Le'er knelt down beside me meekly.

There was a trace of blush on the shopkeeper's pale face, and my heart ached. I knew it was a flashback. He stopped the apprentices from taking the pulse, and said: "I won't live until tomorrow. The King of Hades kindly asked me to say goodbye to you."

My throat seemed to be blocked by something, and I put the shopkeeper's hand on my forehead, and after listening to his flat tone ordering the things behind me, I breathed a sigh of relief after a long while: "Xiaoqing, I was most worried about you at first, but now you are happy If I take care of you, I will be more at ease, Fuzhitang will let your senior brothers watch over you, you have a dumb house, and you will not have to worry about food and drink when you have children in the future."

The shopkeeper started to pant a little while talking, Le'er choked up and said, "Don't worry, shopkeeper, Le'er will definitely take good care of brother Xu and help him with everything." I showed a little, but I was inexplicably calmer. I don't know if the shopkeeper saw the old man coming to pick him up.

The shopkeeper walked very peacefully, until I trembled and went up to test my breath, and the crowd surrounded me, surrounded by crying for a while, I was stunned for a long time, retracted my hand, got up in a daze, staggered to my room, and took out the shroud.

In the past three days, all the funeral utensils have been prepared, and the shopkeeper has no father, brother, nephew, so I will hold the ceremony for the son.

I personally scrubbed and changed the shopkeeper’s clothes, and wrote the obituary all night. The next day, please return the birthday materials, make arrangements and open the mourning hall.The shopkeeper's medical skills are quite prestigious in Yongmiao Town, so many people came to express their condolences. I kowtowed for a day and continued to keep vigil at night.

After the funeral three days later, I carried the banner all the way through the Fuzhitang to the city gate in the direction of Wangshan. The busyness of the past few days minimized my sadness, and I was able to calmly pack up the relics and make decisions about the funeral with Uncle Zhao and others.

After the first seven days, the funeral was almost over, and everyone returned home.

I walked out of the backyard of Fuzhitang with a heavy burden on my back, where the shopkeeper's big apprentice family had already lived there.

I stood on the street, stunned for dozens of seconds, physically and mentally exhausted, and at the same time bewildered. In front of me was a scene I was already familiar with, and the modern times in my distant memory were already blurred. Passing away seems to push me back to 11 years ago, no, it's not like, at that time, I had no connection with this world, fear and rejection, but now the shopkeeper's father has left one after another, I did my best for it before My worries disappeared, but there was still a note in my arms, with four words written by a child on it: Take care, take care.

I pushed open the door of Ya She's room, and the child was sitting upright, and smiled at me: "I'm back."

"?" I walked over to him to put down my burden, and looked over with a puzzled face, not understanding what he was doing since Zi Yiqi came back at this time.He pulled me to sit down, opened the earthen pot in front of him, filled the soup bowl and pushed it over: "This is the famous stewed duck in Ming County, try it."

I took it and drank it slowly. The soup was milky white and sprinkled with chopped coriander. The taste was rich and delicious. The child touched my head and said: "His family claims that they only add fine salt and no condiments. I don't understand this. I just think it tastes good, how is it?"

I squint and nod,

"There is still one month before the martial arts conference, and Yiqi is getting more and more lively. Before I came back, I saw Miss Yuan and Master Zonggu shopping," the child smiled, "Miss Yuan was very unhappy about this It looks like it's keeping up with it."

I smiled knowingly, almost thinking of the awkward look of the little girl.

"By the way, a few days ago, there was a fight at an inn looking for something to do, and there was nothing to see. The fight was full of rapeseed, and in the end they didn't even put down the money for the tables and chairs, but a few spectators more or less left some for the little one. two."

I silently looked at the sky, who wants to watch the local hooligans fight, what the Lord wants to watch is face slapping, okay, it's really annoying.

The child changed the pair of chopsticks to pick up duck meat and various mushrooms for me, and kept saying, "Be careful these days, don't forget to close the window at night, it's already cold."

I nodded in response, and my mouth couldn't stop, the duck meat was fat and stewed until it was off the bone, and the taste and texture were great.

The child stopped talking and looked at me with a kind face. I slowly stopped eating and looked at him condemningly. Damn, how can people eat this.

The child laughed, wiped the corner of my mouth with his fingers, paused for a moment, and said in a low voice, "Thanks for your hard work."

I was emotional for a while, and the eye circles were hot, and I immediately lowered my head and stirred the soup bowl with a spoon, trying to cover it up.

If the child felt something, he touched my head again, leaned over and hugged me: "The medicine grinder you put next to shopkeeper Wang is old, right? What's the matter?" come over.

I let him hold it, freed one hand and wrote: The shopkeeper sent it to my father.I paused and couldn't help but want to laugh. This medicine grinder was given to my father by the shopkeeper many years ago as a birthday present. I don't know how they are doctors, so they actually gave such a thing on their birthday.

I don't know much about my father's life experience. I only know that he seems to have no relatives alive. After his death, I asked me to bury him near the cemetery of the shopkeeper's family. The fence and the ground are two fingers thick of soil, maybe it won't be long before the two of them will sleep in the same hole.

This was the father's idea. He said that he had spent his whole life obeying the old shopkeeper's instructions, and now that he was about to die, he didn't care about it.

I suddenly thought of half of the elegiac couplet he wrote for himself among the shopkeeper's relics: I am deeply in love and can't live long enough to see you.