Before Gu Mang could finish his thought, the light around him began to twist again, but this time the scene did not settle down quickly. He could only see some blurry, flashing fragments.
"I said, I don't want to go to the temple fair. I want to learn plain weaving from my godmother." The girl's voice was tender and soft, but very stubborn, "You go by yourself."
"What's the point if you don't go?" Lin Yun muttered, "Let's go, I'll buy you some candy."
"I don't want to. Hmph, who's like you? Godfather has been teaching you for a month, but you still can't make indigo dye. "She made a face at him," Hahaha, you pig brain. "
The scene changed again. It was the willow bank, and the community theater was jubilant. Golden red fireworks bloomed in the night sky, and then rippled out little bits of light like the tail of a carp. The two who were older looked at the fireworks in the sky, the reflection in the lake, and the dragonflies flying low around them.
Su Qiao sat on the edge of the bridge, swinging her yellow embroidered shoes, and moving her petal-like soft lips. She was telling a joke with Lin Yun, but every time she was in the middle of it, she would have a stroke first. Her joke was like this:
"Hehehe, I'll tell you, haha, there was once a person, he hahahaha … Then because he stuttered, hahahaha, you know! Then he hahahahaha, oh my god, it's so funny, I'm about to cry from laughing, hahaha! "She really wiped the corner of her bright eyes," Hey, why aren't you laughing? "
Lin Yun really cooperated with her and smiled. Su Qiao was satisfied and rubbed Lin Yun's hair, "That's right, I'll tell you another one, this one is even funnier, hahahaha …"
This kind of innocent, innocent and innocent scene in front of Gu Mang was like a passing river. The young man and the young girl were like shadow puppets, becoming more and more mature.
From a young child to a young man, in Lin Yun's memory, he had always secretly admired Su Qiao, but from the beginning to the end, Su Qiao had never understood his thoughts. She laughed with him, drank with him, and talked to him. She treated him as the closest person in the world. As for the things outside of family, she didn't seem to understand.
"Sister Qiao, let's go out for a walk, the weather is so good. Don't work so hard all the time. It's not good if you tire yourself out. "
But Su Qiao always said, "Forget it, forget it. I'm so busy."
"Why do you always work so hard? It's not like I'm so poor that I can't even afford to eat. "
She shook the spinning thread on the machine and lowered her head with a smile. "I'm afraid of being poor. I'm scared of being poor. "
She was afraid of being poor. She had no spiritual root, no money, and could only make do with health and fashion. However, once there was an illness or disaster, people like her could only wait helplessly for death.
There were ways to save lives in this world. In the Shennongtai Clinic in the Chong Hua Imperial Capital, there were elixirs that could cure all kinds of illnesses and immortal herbs that could prolong one's life. They were accompanied by prices that ordinary people could never afford.
The residents of the town were born in batches and died in batches. In the barren miasma, those who could live to the age of 40 should go to their ancestral graves and burn incense. Su Qiao saw this and often felt inexplicably anxious. Especially when she heard the helpless cries of the young children when their parents died, she couldn't stop spinning in her hands, as if the slender thread was the only life-saving straw she could hold tightly. For this reason, she was willing to bow to the rich young masters and smile apologetically to the young ladies.
"Order some clothes? Our family's craftsmanship is very good. "
She always worked so hard to attract business, tirelessly working in front of the machine.
Her shoes were the most beautifully embroidered and sold the best, so she repeated this series of actions all year round: bending down, kneeling in front of the customers, carefully holding their noble feet with her slender hands, patiently measuring their feet.
She was more unfortunate than Lin Yun, more mature than Lin Yun, stronger than Lin Yun, but she was also much more anxious than Lin Yun … Day after day, she became more and more paranoid and anxious.
The last scene of this memory was that Su Qiao was arguing with Lin Yun about something.
"When will you be sensible!!"
"What about you? When will you understand that I … "The young man's lips trembled, his usually docile eyes were slightly red," I … "
"You what? You only know how to play all day, what's wrong? You can't even speak clearly now?! "
Lin Yun choked on a cold steamed bun that had been left overnight. Suddenly, not only her eyes but also her face were red. His face was flushed red as he glared at her. He seemed angry and sad, but in the end, he was still too weak. His anger and sadness turned into a gulp in his throat.
"Okay." He finally said awkwardly and awkwardly, "I'm sorry. It's my fault for holding you up. "
The scene fell apart. This kind of argument had happened too many times. Every time during the argument, her angry voice would be intertwined at this moment, like a boulder falling into water. All the light and beautiful scenes were shattered, the foam scattered, and darkness rose.
When the scene in front of Gu Mang's eyes became clear again, Su Qiao's figure was no longer there.
Lin Yun appeared alone in the capital of Chong Hua. He carried a shabby cloth bag and looked at the traffic coming and going in a panic. He stood there for a long time before he trembled and walked forward.
"Shopkeeper, are you hiring?"
"Shopkeeper, are you still short of people in your shop?"
He walked around a few times like a spinning top. It was not easy for him to muster up the courage to walk into the magnificent shops in the capital and ask a question, but he was reprimanded and left. This made his already nervous tongue stutter even more.
Gu Mang noticed that when he stood at the door of the third pastry shop, his feet were a little swayed. However, the waiter in the shop did not have good eyesight and thought that he was a customer. He shouted at him, "Flower cakes, flower cakes, bean paste, sesame, peanut, almond and eight treasures. What do you want, sir?"
Lin Yun waved his hand repeatedly, "I'm not a sir …"
Hearing his serious and dull answer, a few customers found it funny and glanced at him while they were choosing the cakes.
The waiter was still smiling and asked, "Oh, then – what do you want to buy, sir? The freshly steamed flower cakes are delicious. Do you want some? "
Lin Yun was even more nervous. He originally wanted to say, "I'm not a sir, I don't want to buy flower cakes." Who knew that he stuttered and said, "I'm not a flower cake, I don't want to buy sir."
After he finished speaking, he reacted and his neck immediately turned red. Among the customers who bought the cakes, there was a girl wearing a peach pink jacket and an apricot yellow horse skirt. Hearing this, she laughed and looked at him with interest.
Lin Yun looked at the girl in panic and seemed to be even more embarrassed. He almost murmured, "I'm just here to ask if your shop needs any help …"
When the waiter heard that he was here to steal his job, his face turned black instantly, "Go away, you can't even tell the difference between 'sir' and 'cake'. You want to steal my job? If you don't want to buy, just go away."
Lin Yun walked out with his head down and didn't go far. Suddenly, he heard the crisp sound of a ring behind him and a crisp female voice called him.
"Hey, wait."
Lin Yun turned around and saw the girl who laughed just now. He bowed his head and said honestly, "Hello, Miss."
The girl smiled and said, "You just came to the capital and want to find a job?"
"Then where are you from?"
"Lotus Town."
"Oh, what a bad place." The girl curled her lips, "You want to make money here?"
This time, Lin Yun didn't answer immediately. He was silent for a long time and said with difficulty and embarrassment, "I …" He bit his lips and almost talked to himself.
"I came to the capital to, to have some success."
After he finished speaking, his ears were almost bright red. He lowered his head and waited for the girl to ridicule him.
But after waiting for a long time, he didn't hear any mean or derogatory words. He slowly raised his head and saw that she was looking at him with some amusement and curiosity.
"You're not careful? If you are, it just so happens that my family's shop is going to open a branch. That shop is under my management. I just need a bookkeeper. I think you're quite honest and interesting. "
The girl blinked.
"Are you coming?"
Seeing this, Gu Mang understood that this girl must be the daughter of the Bai family, a big merchant in the capital. She was also Lin Yun's later wife, Bai Rouxia. But this was once again beyond Gu Mang's expectation.
Although the Bai family was not a noble family, they were very good at doing business. They collected treasures from all over the world for the cultivators, and in return, the cultivators sold them some raw materials for magic tools at the lowest price. Gradually, the Bai family opened many branches in the Chong Hua towns and became a big merchant among the Chong Hua people.
In Gu Mang's impression, the Bai family was very cold-blooded. They only sold the dispelling magic tool for 100 shell coins, but they sold it for 500 shell coins. Those who could afford it would use it, and those who couldn't would die. Anyway, there was no other place to provide better magic tools for the common people. Like the Yue family and Pharmacist Jiang's mansion, they usually only provided things for the nobles. So Gu Mang thought that Bai Rouxia should be a stingy person before. He even guessed that the reason why Lin Yun's relationship with his biological parents became weak after he married the Bai family might be because of Bai Rouxia's fault. And he wondered why the daughter of the Bai family would give herself to such a poor boy, but everything in front of him made him understand more or less.
The dull poor boy and the curious rich girl probably had something in each other's lives that attracted the other.
The picture kept changing, showing the days and months when Bai Rouxia and Lin Yun met and accompanied each other, and from being accompanied to knowing each other.
Bai Rouxia was bright, kind, and playful. She was very different from Su Qiao. The light and shadow related to her was always warm and golden, accompanied by her carefree laughter. In Lin Yun's memory, the stubborn embroiderer rarely had time to rest, and she was rarely gentle. Su Qiao was not unkind. She often went to the street to buy a lot of biscuits after earning embroidery money and gave them to the orphaned children from house to house. But Su Qiao saw the hardships of life too clearly. Perhaps because she had been immersed in this kind of hardships, she had to be clear-headed, so she could not rest at all. Her figure seemed to be sewn together with the machine, so that a fire was always burning in her eyes. Looking from afar, a line of words seemed to be deeply engraved on her face: I don't accept it, I want to be outstanding.
They were both as beautiful as flowers, but one was full of thorns, and the other had a gentle stem.
Lin Yun held the thorny flower for so long, hoping that it would bloom, but its bud was always closed, and its beauty did not appear. In the end, he could not hold it anymore.
No one knew which year it was, but when the dust settled, Lin Yun and Bai Rouxia finally got married.
On the night before the wedding, Lin Yun clumsily and seriously counted the bridal gifts in the old house of Lian Sheng Town, which were almost laughable to the Bai family. His marriage with Bai Rouxia naturally did not go smoothly. Her parents had already passed away, and the one in charge now was her elder brother. Her elder brother was very disgusted with his sister's insistence on marrying such a poor and stupid boy who only had a good face. After he failed to stop her in every way, he angrily threw out a word:
"You're the one who's blind! He's so cute and stupid! " Bai Rouxia angrily argued with her elder brother, "I've always seen you scheming against each other in the business field. I've seen you curry favor with Pharmacist Jiang and Master Yue. It's so annoying. I like honest and simple people."
Bai family's elder brother coldly said: "Then why don't you just marry a pig? A pig is more simple."
But even so, in the end, he still agreed to his sister's marriage with this poor boy. But he did not forget to ridicule his future brother-in-law:
"I've always been curious, what kind of hard material can make your face so thick that you actually have the face to marry my Bai family's people? Other than your tender little face, what else do you have to offer? "
Lin Yun actually really thought that this young master Bai was questioning her sincerity, so she blushed and stuttered: "Big, big brother, I, I, I still have a sincere heart …"
Bai family's elder brother was speechless: "Okay, rich."
Until the night before the wedding, Lin Yun was still confused and did not understand that he was despising her for being poor.
Her parents were very happy, but they were also worried: "They didn't like the betrothal gifts before. Although you're marrying into the family, you're marrying into the family. Aren't these gifts too little … Alas, we still feel like we're in a dream. Although the Bai family is not a noble family, among the commoners, it's a big family … How did their daughter fall in love with you?"
"Mother …"
"Yun 'er, do you think they'll kill you and sell you?"
Just when he was about to mumble something awkwardly, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps upstairs.
Gu Mang looked up together with the family and saw Su Qiao walking down the stairs. Maybe it was because the light was dim, or maybe it was because Lin Yun was in a complicated mood, she did not dare to remember Su Qiao's face too much. So Gu Mang could not see her expression clearly.
Until she came in front of them and walked out of the shadow.
Su Qiao was actually smiling.
Her smile was as heroic as before, but it seemed to have some gentleness that was rarely seen before. The candlelight made her cheeks red.
She was really as beautiful as a heavenly peach.
"Look at you! Didn't I always say that you're lazy and don't ask for anything good? It's so embarrassing that you can't even give a decent gift to your wife. "She laughed and scolded, and then she put a beech box in his arms.
"Take it! You want me to put gold on your face, you stupid wood … "
When the box was opened, there was a bride's robe embroidered with gold and silver threads. The robe was decorated with colorful butterflies, and it was decorated with pearls and pieces of jade. The material was the best Sichuan brocade, and it was as smooth as flowing water when he touched it.
"How is it? Does it look good? "
Lin Yun looked at her in a daze, and after a while, he said, "This … is very expensive …"
"Yes, I know it's very expensive. I've saved up for so many years, and it's all gone." Su Qiao nodded, "I'll give it to you."
The Lin couple also came back to their senses and murmured, "Qiao 'er …"
"How can this be, this robe, how many years of work have you done in vain …"
Su Qiao looked impatient, "Aiya, okay, okay, what does it matter." She patted Lin Yun's chest and said with a smile, "Our Little Lin is going to be the Bai family's son-in-law, do I still need to worry about this little money? Hey, you have to remember my good points. Later, I have to let Miss Bai remember my good points too. " The more she said, the happier she became, and she was in high spirits, "I'm rich, I'm rich, in the future I can lean against a big tree and enjoy the shade, hahaha!"
Lin Yun silently looked at her, and then silently looked at the robe in the box.
With this kind of embroidery, he did not know how long it would take to sew every stitch.
He said, "Sister Qiao …"
"Don't be so polite, you're treating me like an outsider." Su Qiao covered his mouth and hit Lin Yun's head twice, "Good brother, let me hit you again. When you become the Bai family's son-in-law, I won't be able to bully you anymore."
Her eyes were sparkling under the light, as if there were too much broken light.
"Really … I've been bullied since I was young, and suddenly I'm not used to it, haha."
She let go of the hand that covered Lin Yun, and Lin Yun said slowly, "I'll still let you hit me."
"If you don't hit me, I probably won't be used to it."
Su Qiao's smile froze, and the light in her eyes swayed more and more. The Lin couple looked at each other and went out with an excuse. In the small embroidery room, only the former childhood sweetheart was left.
"Look at you, you said it." Su Qiao smiled reluctantly, "Come, come, I'll teach you. Listen, only your wife can hit you in the future, other girls can't hit you, do you remember?"
Lin Yun honestly did not know why, but he still nodded. After a while, he looked at her and said, "Sister Qiao, in the future, bring father and mother to the capital to play often. You can come to see us whenever you want, and we'll accompany you for as long as you want to stay in the capital. "
He still used the same dull and almost silly tone when he was a child, clumsily inviting her.
It's just that the "I" in the sentence has become "we", and the person in this "we" is no longer Su Qiao, but another girl.
"As long as you're happy."
Su Qiao listened and smiled. She lowered her head and rubbed her fingertips with her hands behind her back. Gu Mang noticed that her fingertips were broken, probably because she was in a hurry to embroider the set of bridal clothes.
Lin Yun was still seriously promising, "As long as you …"
Su Qiao was silent, but at this moment, her mood suddenly changed, and she suddenly interrupted him. She raised her face, and a strange light flashed in her eyes. Her voice trembled a little, "Then, then if I —"
Then, she saw the bridal gown in his hands. The light in her eyes froze for a moment before it slowly disappeared. She no longer had the courage to continue.
Lin Yun said blankly, "If what?"
Su Qiao was silent for a while, and finally shook her head, "Nothing."
She tried to change the topic, so she smiled and said, "By the way, in the future, when I buy magical weapons from the Bai family's restaurant in the capital, can it be cheaper?"
"Of course."
"That's great, with a person like you in Lotus Town, our bitter days are over." Su Qiao was very happy, "In the future, there shouldn't be people who die of illness because they're infected with evil spirits …"
"I'll take care of your parents, they're like my biological parents, you don't have to worry, don't come back often, and spend more time with Miss Bai."
"Girls like to be accompanied." Su Qiao paused for a while, and suddenly said such a sentence.
When she said this sentence, she was a little stunned, but she quickly recovered, bowed her head and rubbed her hands, "That's about it, you should prepare more, and rest early. I'll also go to work, tomorrow I have to help carry the gifts, you know, I've been strong since I was young. "
Lin Yun looked at her silently, and then said, "Sister Qiao, there will be someone to accompany you in the future."
Su Qiao was stunned, "Me? Forget it, what kind of temper do I have, hahaha, no, I'm busy. "
"I don't go to the market, I don't know how to joke, I'm fierce all day, and I only care about money." Su Qiao said as she walked upstairs. "I …"
Her voice suddenly choked, she paused her footsteps, and then suddenly sped up, as if she was escaping upstairs, "I'm busy … I'm too busy …"
I only have a pair of hands, but I have to embroider the sun and moon, and the mountains and rivers.
But you see, it's worth it, because people are different, I have too little, I can only do my best to fight for it, so that when you need it, I can say, "I can give it to you."
Only then can I take care of myself, take care of godfather and godmother, and have a little extra money to buy luxurious new clothes for the bride who marries you, this silly boy.
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