By the time Daiyu finished writing her eighth essay and could slowly distinguish two different ants, she found that some parts of her originally soft and boneless hands had formed calluses.
What was even more frightening was that although she was still weaker than a normal person, she could carry a small wooden bucket of water back to her room without panting.
Thus, she stared at her hands for a long time. It was as if the sky had collapsed and the earth had sunk.
Lin Ruoshan looked at her expression and laughed until he slapped the table. He didn't feel any heartache at all.
Daiyu was so angry that she cried and ate half a bowl of rice.
When Daiyu's face gradually became rosy, Lin Ruoshan decided to take Daiyu all the way back to Suzhou to visit the ancestral graves.
They went all the way south and passed by Yangzhou.
For Daiyu, this place was half wind and rain, half dust, half sadness and half longing. She grew up in Yangzhou. Her parents died, and she became a lonely person. It was also in Yangzhou.
Because Daiyu wanted to visit the old house again, and Lin Ruoshan also wanted to visit a friend, they got off the boat in Yangzhou.
The green hills were faintly discernible, and the grass in Jiangnan had not withered at the end of autumn.
The scenery in Yangzhou was still good, but the old house was sparse and lonely.
Daiyu looked around. She looked at the spider webs in the corner and the weeds in the garden that were half the height of a person. She smelled the musty dust floating in the air.
Finally, she sniffled and suddenly grabbed the corner of her uncle's clothes. With a heavy nasal voice, she said, "Uncle, let's … sell this place."
Lin Ruoshan was surprised for a moment.
He heard Daiyu say, "Although grandmother gave us ten thousand taels of silver, if we use it carefully, according to what I know, if the people are like Granny Liu's family who came to the Jia family, they can't spend more than twenty taels of silver a year. This amount of silver is enough to be a rich man for the rest of his life. However, we can't just sit and eat. If we sell this house, we can get some money and buy some land … "
Lin Ruoshan heard Daiyu's heavy nasal voice and suddenly calculated the economic accounts. He was stunned for a moment and then burst out laughing.
Daiyu rubbed her eyes and angrily called out, "Uncle."
After all, she had been in a noble family for a long time. These days, she had to dress herself, fetch water, and eat. Although she had gotten used to it and didn't really suffer, she still felt that she had implicated her uncle. That was why he brought it up.
Lin Ruoshan patted his niece, who had never been too worried about money. He laughed and said, "It's fine. Although I'm a prodigal son who 'doesn't refine gold pills, meditate in meditation, and don't make evil money in the human world', at least I haven't fallen to Tang Yin's level. There was no need to sell the house and tear down the walls. I have my ways. "
Although Lin Ruoshan taught Daiyu how to dress, eat, and do some light chores, he only wanted her to get rid of her past life. He didn't really want her to be poor for the rest of her life.
'But … it's good to sell it.'
The buyer Lin Ruoshan found was a noisy family of the old and the young.
They didn't care about the people who had passed away here. After all, although the people of the Lin Family lived short lives, most of them didn't die in an inauspicious way. In the present day, a forty-year-old could be considered a grandfather. They could even be considered to have died of old age.
Of course, the most important thing was that it was sold cheaply.
There were children in the new family who moved in. Dressed in bright and lively clothes, they were jumping around and chattering.
There was also a pregnant woman who was about to give birth. Not long after she moved in, she smoothly gave birth to a fat child.
There was an old man with white hair and beard. His children and grandchildren lived in the same house.
The joyous atmosphere that filled the room completely dispelled the loneliness and sadness of the house.
Daiyu later followed Lin Ruoshan to visit and see the fat child.
She stared blankly for a long time. The new mother wondered if her child had offended this little girl in some way. Only then did she hear Daiyu's sigh. "That's great."
Really. A house should be lived in by living people. It should be lively.
She heard her uncle ask her in a low voice, "Will you never come back again?"
Yes. Never come back again.
In the end, Lin Ruoshan said, "I once spent my childhood here, revisiting my youth, but I never really saw this place. Isn't it a pity? Let's see all of Yangzhou, then go to Suzhou. "They toured all of Yangzhou.
On the night of the Twenty-Four Bridges, the withered peonies by the Slender West Lake.
Almost half a month later, Lin Ruoshan brought Daiyu to meet his friend.
Lin Ruoshan's Yangzhou friend happened to be surnamed Yang.
His family was also a noble family in Yangzhou. They were a family of scholars.
Daiyu followed her uncle. When they arrived at the Yang Family's house, they saw a comical scene.
The Yang Family's mighty stone lion was painted in five colors. The Yang Family members were running in and out. One person shouted, "Master's illness is acting up!"
Another person shouted, "The East House is burning!"
Everyone looked like they were smoking and burning. The noble family was disgraced.
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