Qinghua Town Series

But the person lying on the bed didn't respond. Pei Shude's wife walked to the bed with the box in her arms and called again, "Grandma, here's the butterfly cup for you..."

As soon as I heard the word butterfly cup, the hand resting on the edge of the bed moved its fingers, and then seemed to lift it up with great effort, as if to take the butterfly cup.

Pei Shude's wife looked back at Qin Can and the others, and Qin Can nodded towards her, so Pei Shude's wife sat down next to the edge of the bed, opened the wooden box and handed it to the old man, "Grandmother, look, this is the old man you Butterfly cups that I want to see."

Qin Can saw that Pei Shude's wife's hands were trembling. In fact, he was also very nervous. Suddenly, his sleeves tightened, and a heavy force pulled them down. Qin Can looked down and found that Yan San was pulling his sleeves.

Looking sideways at him with doubts, I found that Yan San was also looking nervously at the direction of the bed, his brows were slightly knit, his eyes were full of uneasiness and worry, but he was concentrating on it.So grabbing Qin Can's sleeve was probably just a subconscious move.

Qin Can was also nervous, but felt that Yan San's small movements at this time were very interesting, and unconsciously the corners of his mouth curved slightly, and he smiled lightly, and let him tease him.

The old man turned his head to look at the wooden box in Pei Shude's wife's hand. When his eyes fell on the things inside, his dim eyes froze for a moment, and then he showed surprise and disbelief.

Sure enough, there is no way to hide this from the old man... How can he be so easily deceived by other substitutes when he is obsessed with what he loves even before he dies?

The force that pulled the sleeve loosened, probably Yan San also knew that it would not work, Qin Can heaved a sigh of relief, turned around and wanted to leave.

"Butterfly... Butterfly..."

An angry voice sounded behind him, Qin Can suddenly stopped his strides and turned around, looked at the bed, and saw the old man struggling to raise his hand, fingers gently caressing the fake butterfly cup in the wooden box, dimly There was water in his eyes, sparkling under the dancing candlelight.

It was not a sad expression, but a kind of joy after being lost and found again, such love and nostalgia, but also a kind of extremely satisfying happiness.

It was as if what she saw was a real butterfly cup, as if the simple cup in the box was something she loved all her life...

Then Qin Can heard the old man humming something weakly, but he couldn't hear clearly intermittently.

The room was very quiet, occasionally the lights would explode, leaving only the voice of the old man, as if from a distant country, cleansing people's hearts, but without any sadness.

Qin Can always thought that parting was sad. When he confirmed Cen Xi's death, he couldn't accept it for a while and fell into confusion and pain. But at this moment, he felt that the old man was very happy, and he didn't know where her joy came from. Come, it seems that after seeing the butterfly cup, something in her body left the old body and floated out without restraint.

The old man's voice became lower and lower, and after the lights in the room exploded again, the dry hand that was touching the butterfly cup dropped down.Qin Can saw that the corner of the old man's mouth was slightly bent, walking calmly and serenely...

"Did the old man really not find out?"

On the way back, Yan San asked Qin Can like this, but he couldn't tell. Maybe it was really like what the kitchen man said. By this time, he couldn't tell the difference. All my likes are pinned on that, maybe at that moment, the old man really saw the butterfly cup she has always loved.

Qin Can raised his head and took a breath of the slightly cool air in the middle of the night, raised his hand and rubbed his shoulders, and felt relieved. Although he failed to protect the butterfly cup, the old man showed an expression of no regrets, and passed away so peacefully. The heavy stone was still put down.

In the middle of the night, Qin Can was lying on his bed, hearing the hoarse and out-of-key singing of the old man in the kitchen.

"It turns out that there are so many beautiful purples and reds blooming all over the place, and they are all ruined like this. What is the sky for the beautiful scenery on a good day, who's house is the place to enjoy the pleasure... Flying in the morning and evening, Yunxia Cuixuan, rainy wind, smoke and waves painting boats, Jinping This is such a cheap time for people to see..."

Qin Can recalled that before the old man left, he seemed to be humming this song intermittently, but he was too tired and sleepy to think about it now.

"The cuckoos are singing red all over the green hills, and the shreds of tobacco outside the tea are drunk and soft. Although the peonies are good, how can they take advantage of the spring return... I have no doubts, and the words of the swallows are as clear as a sword, and the sound of the warblers is round..."

The hoarse and out-of-tune tune seems to last until dawn, lingering around the bridge, even Qin Can's dream is full of this tactful and affectionate, as well as inexplicable grief and sadness.

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In the early morning of the next day, Qin Can was still asleep when the door slammed and he jumped up in shock.

Putting on some clothes and getting up, Qin Can was disturbed from sleep, with a look of annoyance on his face, and saw a person standing at the door with his back to the light, but it turned out to be Yan San.

When Qin Can saw that it was the ancestor, although his expression was not good, he was suppressed from getting up, "What's the matter?"

Yan San looked solemn, and said in a deep voice, "Old man... is dead."

Yan San got up early in the morning to practice, and heard the dog officer kept making a sound like crying, so he went to the kitchen to see what happened, and then saw the old man lying on the kitchen floor , foaming at the mouth, already out of breath.

"The old man died of taking arsenic." Qin Can straightened up and said after examining the old man's body, and then caught a glimpse of a cup on the stove beside it, with a little wine in it, and some white wine scattered on the stove. powder.

Qin Can took the cup up to his nose and smelled it, then dipped his fingers in some white powder scattered on the stove and observed it carefully.

Yan San and the others looked at him, and the dog officer squatted beside the old man as if he already knew that the old man was no longer alive, making a "woo woo woo" sound, sticking out his tongue to lick the old man's hand from time to time.

"There are no traces of fighting or struggling on the old man's body. There is dirt in his nails, which may be left when the poison kicked in and he grabbed the ground with his hands..."

There was still a jug of wine on the stove, half of which was left, Qin Can took it, tested it with a silver needle, and confirmed that there was also arsenic in the jug, "If someone commits a murder, they should hide this jug and cup, so... ..."

"You mean the old man can't think about it?"

Qin Can turned to Yan San, nodded, and saw Yan San frowned and raised his hand to punch the door frame, tilted his head slightly, and glanced at the yamen servants with a sinister look, "Whoever bullied the old man on weekdays should stand up... Don't make me do it."

Those yamen servants waved their hands repeatedly, "Three, three heads, don't bully old and young women, this is the village's rule, we haven't forgotten it even when we go down the mountain."

"Yeah, the third family, we usually treat the old man as filial as our own father, and we always go to the street with the old man to buy groceries, and give him a trailer."

Qin Can walked over, put his hand on Yan San's shoulder, and patted him twice, "It's probably not because someone in the county government bullied him..." Then he asked those people, "When you accompany the old man on the street, Is there anything unusual about him?"

Those people thought about it hard and shook their heads. Only one of them said, "The old man is a little strange. No matter which vegetable stall he goes to, he always passes by Dongdajie. They always go out at this hour, rain or shine.”

After hearing this, Qin Can didn't notice anything strange about it. Maybe the old man likes to walk like this, so he should practice his legs and feet.

He wanted someone to contact the old man's family, but found that no one knew where the old man came from, who was in the family, looked through his belongings, and found nothing like letters.

The old man's life is very simple, his clothes are mended again and again, but there is a cloth bag hidden in the back of the closet. Inside the cloth bag is a simple golden hairpin, which is probably something that the old man cherishes.

In a pile of old clothes, the cloth wrapped with this golden hairpin is very new and clean.

"Why can't the old man figure it out?"

Yan San stood on the ladder and took off the lantern and replaced it with a white one to go up, while Qin Can helped support the ladder from below, but in fact according to Yan San's skill, what he did was just superfluous.

The other people in the county government office were either sent out to buy things, or they were setting up the mourning hall. The old man had no relatives and was alone. They had been together in the county government office for so long, so they were considered relatives of the old man. Thinking that the old man had been lonely all his life, they It's his junior, who wants to help him hold a beautiful funeral, so that the old man can walk with dignity.

In fact, Yan San's question has also troubled Qin Can for several days. He seemed to feel that he knew something crucial, but he was one step short, so he just lingered in his mind like this, ready to come out, and was trapped again.This feeling of being able to think of it but not being able to think of it, like a stone pressing on his chest, made him restless.

"I also want to know why the old man would do this. He was fine the day before..."

As Qin Can said this, he felt his nose sour and his eyes filled with warm moisture, so he lowered his head, and then heard a faint voice above his head.

"Qin Can..."

It is rare to hear Yan San call himself that. Usually he is either a dog official or a stupid monkey. Qin Can was stunned before he realized it. He tried his best to suppress the sourness lingering in his nose, and then raised his head, "What's the matter?"

Qin Can saw Yan San looking at him, although the expression on his face was still so indifferent, but there seemed to be something hidden in his eyes, and he wanted to know for himself.

But after Yan San's gaze stayed on his face for a moment, he just stretched out his hand, "Pass me the lantern."

Qin Can was taken aback for another moment, and then came back to his senses. Seeing Yan San stretching out his hand waiting for him, he quickly lowered his waist and lifted the lantern on the ground and handed it to him.

The moment he handed the lantern over, Qin Can understood that Yan San called himself just now, and looked at his eyes, probably trying to comfort himself... It's just that he is not good at that kind of thing, so he asked himself to hand it over. Give him a lantern to relieve the embarrassment.

Qin Can thought in his heart, Yan San is actually pretty good at heart...

only occasionally.Added another sentence.

"My lord, Pei Shude's wife is outside, and she wants to see you, my lord."

Yan San just jumped off the ladder, and when he heard that Pei Shude's wife wanted to see Qin Can, he couldn't help wondering, "What is she doing here? Didn't she already pay them something equivalent to the value of the butterfly cup?"

Qin Can shook his head, and Yan San walked to the front hall.

When Pei Shude's wife saw them coming out, she went up to greet them and saluted, "The women have seen the elder."

"What's the matter?" Qin Can asked her.

Pei Shude's wife put a cloth bag in front of Qin Can with both hands.

"Before, the old man helped the old man to leave without any regrets. Shude and I have never had the opportunity to thank the old man. In the past few days, we have sorted out the old man's belongings and found that the old man's things were left in the grass people's house. Come and give it back to the elder.”

After Qin Can took the things, Pei Shude's wife blessed again, "The woman is leaving first." Then she turned and walked out the door.

Qin Can looked at her in surprise and frowned, impressing that he had left nothing behind.

"Did you forget something in someone's house?"

Hearing Yan San's question, Qin Can lowered his head and opened the cloth bag, and found that inside was the cup that was used to deceive the old man.

Qin Can raised the cup up to his eyes, his hands trembling, then turned around and ran into it while holding the cup.

"Qin Can...Qin Can?"

As if he didn't hear him, Qin Can kept running towards the back, and his figure disappeared around the corner. Seeing that he was suddenly so strange, Yan San hurriedly chased him.

Qin Can ran into the room where the old man in the kitchen used to sleep. The old man's belongings were all arranged and placed on the bed. Qin Can almost rushed over to search.

When Yan San ran to the door of the room, he saw Qin Can take out a cup from the old man's belongings, which was exactly the same as the one in his hand.

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"Perhaps the cup that the old man used was bought from a stall on the street. Mrs. Pei also bought one. People in the Pei family didn't know about it and thought you didn't bring it back."

Qin Can looked at the two identical cups on the table with a tangled expression, "Is this really the case?"

On the night Mrs. Pei passed away, Qin Can brought the cup back, because he felt relieved, exhausted and sleepy, so he didn't return the cup to the old man immediately.

But the next day, it was discovered that the old man had committed suicide by drinking arsenic. When sorting out the relics, Qin Can thought that this was the cup the old man had been using all his life, so he put it together with the relics.Then when the Pei family sorted out the old lady's belongings, they also found a cup. They thought Qin Can had forgotten to take it away, so they returned it.

Although what Yan San said was correct, the cup was very common, maybe the two just bought the same cup, but Qin Can felt that there seemed to be something strange in it.

"Don't think about it so much, let's eat first."

The food on the table was made by the new cook, and it was said that the county magistrate had to taste it to see if it was suitable for him, so he cooked a little of southern and northern dishes and put them on the table.

Yan San seemed to be interested in the delicacy of southern dishes, he pinched a little with his fingers and stuffed it into his mouth, the soup almost dripped on the skirt of his clothes, after Yan San wiped his mouth with the back of his hand carelessly, he wanted to taste The next one was facing Qin Can's gaze.

Qin Can didn't say anything, just stared at him with resentful eyes.

Yan San stopped his outstretched hand, then took it back and put it in his mouth for a sip, then turned and went to the kitchen, "I'll bring a jug of wine."

In fact, Qin Can didn't plan to care what Yan San wanted to do, and he had already made it clear to Yan San at that time that he would no longer treat him as Cen Xi, but looking at such a face and acting so ugly, Qin Can Chan only has resentment, but it seems that this trick is quite useful.

Yan San brought a jug of wine from the kitchen, sat down, took two mouthfuls of food with chopsticks, then lifted the jug and raised his head slightly, the spout of the jug was about to be poured, Qin Can coughed lightly there, Yan San Hearing this, he stopped moving his hands, then put down the jug angrily, and stared fiercely at Qin Can.

However, this coughing was not intentional by Qin Can, it was just that one of the dishes was too spicy and he choked on it.

Yan San glanced at the table and found that he didn't have a wine glass, then noticed the two glasses in Qin Can's hand, got up and walked over, "Borrow the glasses for a while."

Qin Can casually handed one to Yan San, and then held up his chopsticks to see which dish to try next.

Suddenly, Yan San who was beside him uttered a frightened low cry, "Butterfly!" At the same time, he took a step back, slipped the flagon in his hand, and hit the ground with a "pop", which scared Qin Can too. Jump, almost choked a mouthful of food in his throat.

Beating his chest and coughing hard twice, Qin Can tilted his head, "What are you making such a fuss about, haven't you seen a butterfly?"

Yan San's eyes were wide open looking at the cup in his hand, his chest was heaving and heaving. Hearing Qin Can ask him this, he looked at Qin Can, then at the cup in his hand, and held the cup in front of Qin Can. Fang, "I... I may be dazzled..."

Qin Can frowned, looked down at the cup, and suddenly jumped up with an "ah", and the chair was knocked over.

In the wine in that cup, there was a colorful butterfly fluttering its wings, which was lifelike.

"The "Butterfly Cup" is a family heirloom of the grass-roots. It is said that as long as the cup is filled with wine, butterflies will hover in it and linger..."

Qin Can looked at the cup on the table, shook his head, then suddenly looked up and looked around, found the teapot on the side coffee table, stumbled over to get it, then poured the tea into another empty cup with trembling hands .

When the clear tea is poured into the cup, a colorful butterfly slowly floats up from the bottom of the cup, as if it is spreading its colorful and gorgeous wings little by little. Wings bloom, like flying to stop in it.

"This is the real...butterfly cup." Qin Can murmured, staring at the cup in front of him without blinking.

Yan San walked over with a calmer expression on his face. He looked at the cup on the table with disbelief in his eyes. He reached out to take the cup and looked at it carefully for a while, poured out the wine, took the teapot and After refilling it, the brows that had been tensed all the time relaxed a little, and sighed softly, "So this is the real butterfly cup... It is really exquisite, it can be said to be superb."

After surprise, doubts followed.

This is the real butterfly cup, why did the old lady give Pei Shude a fake butterfly cup?Did she know that someone would come to steal the butterfly cup?But Pei Shude doesn't seem to know that this cup is the real butterfly cup, is it because the old lady passed away before she could say anything?

Then why does the old man in the kitchen have a butterfly cup?And it's exactly the same as the old lady's, it looks like a pair...

A series of questions, the two of them stopped eating and sat there to study.

"Pei Shude said that this is the dowry of the old lady. Maybe the old man and the old lady are actually lost brothers and sisters?"

Qin Can shook his head, "Do you remember the expression on the old lady's face when she saw this cup? Obviously she recognized it at the time, and she also knew that it was not her own butterfly cup. If the old man is her lost brother, she should let him People brought the old man here instead of saying nothing.”

In fact, Qin Can had an answer in his heart.

Both the old man and the old lady had hummed the same song, and each had an identical butterfly cup, and the old man also had a golden hairpin, which was obviously something he treasured.

The servants also said that at the same time every day, the old man would go to Dongdajie in the name of shopping for vegetables, and Pei’s house was on Dongdajie. It was the first time he saw the old man at Pei’s house. Under the window, facing the East Street...

"I know someone... must be hiding something from us!"

As the night gradually deepened, the sound of "Knock Knock", accompanied by the instruction "Be careful of fire and candles when the sky is dry and the things are dry", echoed in the empty streets.

The yamen servants patrolling the street walked through the street carrying lanterns. The two of them were joking while walking, but they didn't notice a figure flashing past on the roof beside them.

There is a stall selling sesame seed cakes in the side alley. The peddler has closed the stall and is humming a little tune to arrange things. There are a few leftover cakes on the stall. When the peddler turned around, a black shadow slipped down from above, and when the peddler turned around, Before coming back, it slid up again.

The peddler hummed a little tune and turned around, "Huh?"There were two missing biscuits on the stall just now, and a few cents more on the side.

The peddler looked around with the copper plate, but he didn't see anyone passing by here. He scratched the back of his head in doubt and continued to pack his things.

Yun Zhongyan jumped from one roof to another with a sesame seed cake in his mouth, with a very relaxed expression on his face, but suddenly the roof tiles under his feet collapsed, and Yun Zhongyan fell down before he could react in time.

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Standing still, Yun Zhongyan was about to pat his chest to calm down, when suddenly a large net fell from above and covered him tightly, and at the same time there was the sound of iron chains.When a small fire was lit in the room, Yun Zhongyan found himself tied up like a rice dumpling by iron chains. Looking up, he saw Qin Can holding a candle and looking at him with a smile.

"What do you want to do?" Yun Zhongyan asked while secretly moving the hand under the chain, hoping to break free.

Qin Can approached him with a candle, and put the candlelight close to Yun Zhongyan's cheek, "I want to know who hired you to steal the butterfly cup?"

Yun Zhongyan turned his face to the side to avoid being burned by him, "The rules in our business are to keep the employer's secrets, you don't want to ask a word from me!"

"Oh?" Qin Can raised his eyebrows, then slowly backed away holding the candle, "I want to know how tight your mouth is, how can I make you speak..."

After Qin Can's words fell, the room behind him suddenly lit up. It turned out that all the candles in the room had been lit.

Yun Zhongyan saw Ada sitting at the table with his shoulders pressed by two people, with his right hand resting on the table, Yan Sanyi beside him tucked into his belt, one foot on the stool, playing with a bright dagger.

Yun Zhongyan couldn't help being surprised, "What are you going to do?"

Qin Can put the candle in his hand on the table, and then took Ada's hand that was resting on the table.

"I think you should know better than me how important Ah Da's hand is. I've always been famous for being patient. Let me ask you again. If you don't tell me, I will chop off one of Ah Da's hands." Finger, ask again, if you still don’t tell, then chop off another finger, if you insist on refusing to tell the truth, we still have Ah Da’s left hand and toes to chop off.”

"Dog officer!" Yun Zhongyan scolded him loudly with red eyes.

Qin Can frowned and backed away a little, showing a look of being frightened by him, and then regained his composure, "Officer Dog is sleeping in the county office, I can't hear you calling him."

"You..." Yun Zhongyan was choked up, and then turned to Ah Da, "You are innocent, now they have involved you, why don't you resist?"

There was no fear on Ada's face, and he said in a calm voice, "From the day I went to Yunlong Mountain, I have been from Heiyun Jiulongzhai. If the third master wants me to die, I will not live."

Yun Zhongyan was so angry that he lost his voice at this moment, looking at Ada's expression as if he wanted to go up and nibble on him, and seeing Ada's resolute expression, he turned to Qin Can again.

Complacent, Qin Can raised his hand to signal a movement. Behind him, Yan San bent down and pressed Ah Da's hand with one hand, and raised the dagger with the other...

"Yun Zhongyan, do you want to say it or not?"

Yun Zhongyan's gaze wandered back and forth between Ada and Qin Can.

Yan San was holding the knife, seeing Qin Can release his hand, he threw the dagger into the air, the bright silver blade circled in the air, the cold light was dazzling, and when it fell, the point of the knife was pointing down, Yan San stretched out his hand to stop it The handle of the knife stabbed down with the force of the knife falling.

"I said!"

Snapped!

The dagger in Yan San's hand had already been stuck on the table.

Yun Zhongyan seemed to be stuck in his throat, his face was flushed, his eyes almost popped out of his sockets, and he saw Yan San slowly pulled out the dagger from the table, but there was no blood on the knife, so it turned out that the knife passed through Ah Da The little finger and the ring finger of the little finger are inserted into the table.

Just like a drowning person getting fresh air, Yun Zhongyan took two breaths before recovering, and then gave Qin Can a hard look.

"The one who hired me to steal the butterfly cup...is Mrs. Pei."

Ah Da and the others were all surprised, but Qin Can was not too surprised, as if he had already guessed it, but he was short of confirming it, "Don't say half and half."

Yun Zhongyan thought for a while, and said, "The thing is like this..."

A few months ago, Yun Zhongyan passed by Qinghua Town and ran out of money, so he wanted to find a family with a good family to borrow some money to spend, and finally chose the Pei family.

He entered Pei's house in the middle of the night, but found that the house was just an empty shell but had no valuables at all. When he was about to leave, he saw the master walk into the old lady's room from the beam, and then coaxed the old lady again. He also persuaded her to give him a thing called a butterfly cup for safekeeping.

Yun Zhongyan is from Jizhou, so he guessed that the butterfly cup should be one of the dowry gifts that were widely circulated when Miss Jin's family got married.He was curious to take a look, and after Pei Shude coaxed Wuwang to leave and the old man lay down on the bed to sleep, he touched it quietly.

But the old man was not asleep, and he was not in the dazed look he saw on the beam. He looked very clear, and he got up quietly, standing behind Yun Zhongyan who was busy searching for him from the box, but gave him Startled.

"At first, the old lady thought I was called by Pei Shude, but I explained clearly that it was because I had no money and wanted to find some money. She took out a box from the side of the pillow and said that I could buy the silver and gold jewelry in it. Take it away, it's useless for her to keep it, but she wants me to do one thing for her..."

"I want you to steal the butterfly cup?" Qin Can asked.

Yun Zhongyan nodded.

"She said that the butterfly cup is not only her dowry, but also a token of love from the only person she has ever loved in her life and is still in love with her deeply. It is a pity that they cannot be together in this life...

"She believes that as long as she has a butterfly cup, she will go to the poor and fall to the underworld, and even if she drinks Mengpo soup and crosses the Naihe bridge, she will be able to take her to find him in the next life... But her husband, son, and grandson are not up to date, and they are defeated. She has acquired the family property, and now she has moved her thoughts to the butterfly cup. She doesn't want to give them the butterfly cup, so she keeps pretending that she is old and stupid.

"She was afraid that after her death, the butterfly cup would still fall into someone else's hands, so she gave up on Pei Shude's idea. I was very moved by hearing this, so I promised her to fulfill her wish..."

After Yun Zhongyan finished speaking, he raised his head, "That's it, I've said it all, can you let me go?"

There was silence in the room. A Ding sniffed hard, probably because he was moved. A Bin on the side looked at him like that and reached out to pat him on the shoulder to comfort him, but A Ding pulled him by the arm and dragged him He blew his nose hard on his sleeve.Seeing this, A Bin decisively withdrew his hand and slapped him on the back of the head.

Qin Can came back to his senses, "That is to say, you knew from the beginning that the butterfly cup was fake?"

Yun Zhongyan nodded again, seeing Yan San behind Qin Can suddenly raised his eyebrows with a little deep meaning, thinking that he was probably upset at being tricked, so he shook his head quickly, "I was entrusted by someone, and I didn't see him either. What does Guo really look like, the old lady told me that people must know that the butterfly cup is gone, otherwise it is not in this world, and in short, don’t return it.”

Qin Can frowned and thought for a while, then raised his hand to signal them to loosen the iron chain and fishing net on Yun Zhongyan.

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Qin Can asked people to go to the county where Jin's family was located to inquire about the old man's situation. He learned that the old man was not a cook when he was young, but a craftsman specializing in porcelain with good craftsmanship, and the Jin family opened a porcelain shop. .

Things are basically clear.

The old man should be the lover that Mrs. Pei has always loved but not together. After all, the status and family background are very different, and the butterfly cup may be fired by the old man when he was young and given to Miss Jin. , that's why there are two identical cups, and the golden hairpin that the old man has been collecting should also be a gift from Miss Jin's family.

It's a pity that God's wishes failed, and the Miss Jin family finally married into the Pei family under the arrangement of the family. The butterfly cup was boasted by the Jin family as their family heirloom because of its magic. another one.

It is not known how the old man came to Qinghua Town later on. The only thing that is known is that the old man worked as a cook in the county government under his name. He never revealed everything in the past. He lived silently like this, carrying the most precious Things, I only dare to quietly take them out to recall in the dead of night.

Thinking of this, a picture appeared in Qin Can's mind.

On the street where the smog has not cleared in the morning, a trolley is piled up with fresh vegetables and is being pushed slowly through the street.

Although the daughter-in-law of the Pei family is a lady of a rich family, she is already sitting in front of the window every morning and starting to dress up, and then a cart will pass by her window, and the young man pushing the cart will walk to her window When you are in love, look up and take a look, just a look, and don't dare to ask for too much.

Then the figure of the pushcart disappeared into a place where it could no longer be seen along with the sound of "creaking" wheel wheels.Decades have been like a day, red makeup on the window, yellow decals on the mirror, just for a hasty look.

"That's why Mrs. Pei was so excited when she saw the cup we took. Only she understands that this is the butterfly cup she really wants in her heart."

Facing the candle, Qin Can sighed softly.

Yan San stood aside with a butterfly cup in one hand and looked at it. Qin Can stretched out his hand to him, intending to ask him to give him the butterfly cup. "What are you doing?"

Qin Can was stunned for a moment, then took his hand back, "Take it if you like it, and keep it well. It is entrusted with the unfinished yearning and love of the old man and the old lady."

Yan Sanyuan was still looking at the cup with extremely happy eyes. After hearing what Qin Can said, he held back a little bit, and then asked, "Old lady Pei said that as long as there is a butterfly cup, she will be able to find the old man in the next life." , do you believe such a thing?"

Qin Can had no interest in replying to him, and had already shifted his attention to other things, "If you believe it, you have it, if you don't believe it, you don't..."

pat!

Qin Can raised his head and found that Yan San was gone, and the door of the study was still swinging.

The funerals of the old man and the old lady were held on the same day, which was intentional by Qin Can.

The funeral teams from both sides arrived at the cemetery together, lowered the coffin together, raised the head of the grave together, and then there were two new graves on the cemetery, just one step away.

When they were alive, the two could only meet face to face without knowing each other, but now, they are so close that they can see each other beside them with one side of their heads, and they can say whatever they want to say slowly, for a whole day Late, say the whole year, until the next life, the next life.

After the members of the Pei family left, the mourners from the county government also packed up and prepared to leave. Qin Can lagged behind and urged Yan San to go back, but Yan San was still standing there.

Qin Can took two steps and turned his head, seeing that Yan San had two more cups in his hands at some point, then squatted down, dug up the mud between the two graves with his hands, buried the cups in, and carefully covered them with the soil.

"That way... you won't be afraid that you won't find it..."

The wind carried his very soft voice to Qin Can's ears. The corner of Qin Can's mouth slightly curved, and then turned around as if he didn't see anything.

After walking two steps, he saw two unremarkable cabbage butterflies flapping their wings and flying past him, dancing lightly, inseparable...

The matter of the butterfly cup can be regarded as the truth.

One day Qin Can got up early in the morning and saw Yan San practicing sword in the yard, thinking that since he had accepted Cen Xi's death, what would happen to Yan San's future, and he had no time to restrain him, so he planned to let Yan San go back to the cottage, probably he would also prefer to stay there.

But after having this idea, Qin Can felt a little bit reluctant. He thought maybe it was because he missed Cen Xi.

After hearing Qin Can's meaning, Yan San was beyond Qin Can's expectation. He didn't immediately go to pack up and go back to the mountain. Instead, he looked at himself silently for a moment, and then said, "Do you really want me to go back to the mountain?" Go back?" There was a bit of displeasure in his tone.

Qin Can thought that it must be his own illusion that Yan San was not happy, "Yes, you are the head of Yan San's family in Heiyun Jiulongzhai, and going back is not in line with your wishes."

Yan San was silent again, and then said, "Last time you said you wanted to give me a name, but you haven't yet."

He couldn't remember it without mentioning Qin Can, but last time he just said it casually.

"Actually, Yan San's name is quite good, and everyone is familiar with it. What other names do you need? It's not as ugly as Ah Er's original ones."

But Yan San kept looking at him, looking at him, looking at Qin Can without saying a word, seeing Qin Can's back with a chill, and said to himself: "My ancestor, it's a waste of you not to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy." up.Then shrink back behind the desk to unfold the paper and grind it.

What should I take?

You have to compare yourself with him.

Yan Shan thief?

Will he be hacked to death?

Yan black?

If you don't get hacked to death, you will be stuffed into a pig cage and rolled down the mountain, right?

What is better?

Qin Can racked his brains and thought hard, only to realize that he was really asking for trouble for himself.

"It took so long to think of a name?" Yan San was obviously a little impatient.

Qin Can poked his scalp with the pen, and glanced at the ribbon hanging on Yan San's belt