After the fourth watch, there were far fewer guards outside the city.
Nanxiu turned around and looked at the huge fire, "You didn't set this fire, right?"
Cui Ying shook his head, "No, but you don't need to ask anymore. Those things from now on have nothing to do with you and me."
Hearing him say that he was not responsible for the fire, Nan Xiucai felt relieved, but she still remembered the embroiderers and servants who took care of her on weekdays.
After leaving Bolu City, I slept in the open air and stayed at night in Xiaoxing. After traveling for more than a month, I came to Li'er County.
The two settled down, and Cui Ying said to Nan Xiu, "This place is more than a thousand miles away from Bolu. We are out of Bolu's territory. If the county prince wants to find us again, it will be like finding a needle in a haystack. I still have some friends here. If If there is any trouble, they will inform me and we will flee elsewhere.”
Nan Xiudu responded one by one, but was unhappy.
Cui Ying knew what she was thinking. He had been inquiring about the county government's mansion for several days, and after finding out more about it, he told Nan Xiu, "There was a fire in the mansion that night, but no one was injured or killed. The fire was extinguished at dawn. Now you can rest assured."
Nam Soo asked back, "Are you the roundworm in my stomach?"
"How can I not see through your thoughts?" he said.
Time flies, the sun and the moon fly by. It has been a full year since Nan Xiu and Cui Ying left the county government's mansion.
Outside the house, there is a bamboo fence around the morning glory, and between the sparse fences and thatched huts, the moonlight filters in from time to time. The two of them lie together, talking about the interesting things of the day under the moonlight, and fall asleep peacefully while laughing.
Cui Ying relied on his superb carving skills to open a small jade shop in less than half a year. There was an endless flow of new and old customers every day. He put his arms around Nanxiu and said that next year he could open the sesame cake shop next to the jade shop. Take the plate and expand the Nianyu Pavilion. As for Nanxiu, at first she only used embroidery as gifts of jade, giving it back to old customers who came many times to ask for jade. Over time, her embroidery also became famous among the guests, including vivid butterflies and lifelike peonies. , any small thing can be embroidered as vividly as life under her hands. Half of the people who go to Nian Jade Hall are people who come to ask Miss Nanxiu to embroider patterns.
One day, Cui Ying came back to his home. Plum wine, fermented chicken, and vegetarian food had been laid out in the house. Nanxiu took out a drawer of sugar packets, picked out three or four and put them on the basket, "You're back? Wash your hands, sit down." Let’s eat.”
He had been carving jade all day long, and his long and delicate hands had become calloused. Sometimes there would be jade chips in the gaps between his fingers. If they were hidden deeply, they would bleed, so Nan Xiu asked him to wash them. The clean hands were sitting by the window, shining in the sunlight, and he carefully cleaned them with a horsehair brush. After they were clean, they applied grease to protect his hands. In other people's jade shops, the hands of the waiters were all covered with small cuts, but Cui Ying Apart from the calluses, there were not many wounds on his hands. If he was cut by the rasp, Nan Xiu would ask him to wait until the wound healed before starting again, fearing that the jade powder covering the wound would slow down the recovery.
"Nan Xiu." He called her over.
"What's wrong?" She handed him the sugar bun. "It's just come out of the pot. The brown sugar inside is very sweet. Try it." She smiled and broke it open for him. "Be careful not to burn your tongue."
He held his chin and looked at her. The older Nan Xiu grew up, the more docile and cute she became. Sometimes she was dull. When she saw words she didn't understand, she had to copy them down and ask him. She also wrote down the poems and articles she couldn't understand. Ask him for advice in the evening.
If you get a wife like this, you will live up to your years.
"Nanxiu, let's get married." He put the wooden box he took home behind him in front of Nanxiu.
"What is this?" Nanxiu asked him.
He pouted and let her see for herself.
Nan Xiu had no choice but to ask, "What fun things did you bring back to me?"
As soon as I opened it, I was surprised, "Feng Guan Xia Pei?"
"Yes, I wanted to marry you as soon as I got out of the house, but I thought, I am penniless, how can I open my mouth... and... I..." He did not dare to say the next words to her, and she often talked to him about it. Her past, the joy of walking around the streets when she was a child, but he didn't dare to say those words. He was even afraid that she would hear them when he murmured them at night. She always thought that he was like an immortal, but only he knew it. Even if it is a piece of beautiful jade, it has become a hard rock that has been soaked in the mud for many years.
How should he say things to her that should never reach her ears
He simply stopped mentioning it, "I have been waiting until now. Today is your birthday. If you agree, we will worship tonight."
"But... there are no elders, no guests..."
He was afraid that she would disagree, "How about facing the heaven and earth and you and I worship each other?"
Nanxiu smiled and said, "You always think of something as it comes out." She was complaining, but she was already smiling as she spoke.
"I'll put it on, and you'll put it on too."
That night, they worshiped heaven and earth in front of the moonlight in the courtyard, and the couple smiled brightly.
The wedding candles were lit in the room, and Cui Ying couldn't wait to pick up the hijab.
The man under the hijab said with a smile, "Brother."
"It's time to change it now, right?" he hinted to her.
"Um?"
"It's time to call me husband." He was a little anxious.
"Hey, husband."
"Yes, madam."
They both laughed. Cui Ying held her knees and came close to her and said, "Nanxiu, from now on we are husband and wife and family. Are you happy?"
Nam Soo said, "Of course I am happy. From the day I left Wu Sangqiao, I have been happy every day with you."
"Then do you regret leaving the county mansion with me?"
"No, it's because my grandpa wanted me to go to the Duke's Mansion, so I've been staying there. The Duke's Mansion is not my home. Madam promised you and me, so from now on, wherever you are, This is my home.”
After hearing this, he suddenly no longer hated those hardships. If he had to go through all those hardships just to meet her, now it seems that it was all worth it.
"Madam, there are some things I haven't told you. I always suspect that if you find out one day, you won't be with me anymore." He lowered his eyebrows and cast his long eyelashes behind him under the reflection of the light. The wall reflected a long-winged butterfly, flapping its wings.
Nanxiu remembered that he passed by the night market a few days ago and saw a brothel in the distance. His face turned blue at times. For a moment, he didn't know how to comfort him. If he spoke, being very comforting might become a bit of ridicule in his ears. , the remaining three points would probably turn into a knife and stab into his heart, and she was reluctant to hurt him.
Nanxiu took his hand and led him to sit beside her. Without saying anything, she raised his hand and kissed the back of his hand gently.
"You..." He raised his head and his eyes turned red in a daze.
Nam Soo said, "In my heart, my brother is the best. I want to thank my past brothers for bringing this current brother to me."
He went to find her warm hand and held her tightly.
At dawn, Nan Xiu was drowsy and heard him whispering in her ear, "I will never let you down in the years to come."
(End of chapter)