Xia Houluo sent Shen Jue home, the air was cold and cold, and it was cold in his nose. The moon hung high in the sky, and the moonlight washed the alleys into silvery white. Xiahou Lin held Shen Jue's hand and walked on the road. The gray courtyards on both sides retreated one by one, and in front of them were dark houses and streets. The night market is far away, no human voice can be heard, only sporadic barking can be heard. His mood slowly improved, but he became melancholy again, because Shen Jue was going home soon.
When Shen Jue arrived at the door of the house, the two stone lions were two big black shadows, crouching awkwardly in front of the door of the Shen residence. The two stood at the door to say goodbye, and Shen Jue took off the power fence, revealing the face that had been hidden all night. There were two lanterns hanging under the eaves, and in the shadow of the lights, his eyebrows and eyes were lowered, and he had a gentle demeanor that he did not usually have. Xia Houlin looked at him quietly, Shen Jue was always so good-looking, there was a painting wherever he stood, and standing in a mud pond could turn into a pond full of lotus flowers because of him. Standing beside Xia Houlin, Xia Houlin's heart was full.
Shen Jue was afraid that it would be unsafe at night, so he had to dispatch a few long attendants to Xiahou Lin.
Xia Houlin said no, "Go in, I'll leave when I see you go in."
"I see you go, you go." Shen Jue said.
"Hey, go in!" Xia Houlin gently pushed his shoulder.
The two of them stood there grinning, and after pushing for a long time, no one moved. The factory guards were standing in the distance blowing the cold wind, not knowing what was going on with them.
"Let's talk for a while." Shen Jue finally said.
In fact, they can meet tomorrow. To be precise, it will be four hours later. As soon as their eyes are closed and opened, it will pass in a flash. On weekdays, they always think that four hours are not enough to sleep. But Xia Houlin was still reluctant. He always felt that this person should be placed by his side, and he would be comfortable if he could reach out and touch him. Before thinking about it in my heart, my mouth agreed for him first: "Okay."
So the two of them sat down on the steps, Xiahou Lin put a silk handkerchief under Shen Jue's butt. The two of them looked at the moon shoulder to shoulder. The sky was bluish-grey, with occasional grey-white cloud shadows. The moonlight dripped down, and the world seemed to be wet, rippling in the water.
Shen Jue asked him, "Has your knife furnace been built yet?"
"Jian is built, but Tie can't fight." Xia Houlin had a headache. "I only have time at night. The neighbors said that I was ding ding bang, and the noise made them unable to sleep. Every time they kicked my door and said Report to the officer."
"Officer? Aren't you the official?" Shen Jue squinted at him.
"Then you can't bully others." Xia Houlin said.
Shen Jue was helpless, Xiahou was dying to save face, and last time he taught him to be a fox and a tiger, and to use his name as a superintendent to do things. So many days have passed, never heard of him using it. If it weren't for the surname of his "godfather", he would have to check Garan, how could he be so unimpeded? Shen Jue said: "You built the knife stove into the house. My house is big, and the sound of your hammering won't reach the neighbors."
"Alright." Xia Houlin touched his arm, "Would you like to have a look at the pulling wire, and I will show it to you when I forge it. It's very fun, it's like weaving cloth, you need to install thread buttons, both warp and weft. , it's just that the weave can't be so dense."
"Can you weave flowers?" Shen Jue asked him leisurely.
"Yes." Xia Houlin took it out in his arms, and pulled a red rope from his purse. He wrapped the red rope around his hand, turned his fingers, and the red rope gradually formed a shape. While weaving, he said: "The principle of pulling silk array is a bit similar to this one, but a little more complicated. If you want to learn, I will teach you. You are so smart, you can learn to weave in two days."
It ended up being a three-petal orchid. He put the little orchid in Shen Jue's palm, "Send it to you."
"You are a big man, and you can weave cloth." Shen Jue held the little orchid and poked its tiny petals with his fingertips.
Xia Houtong said: "Isn't there any way? My mother can't, so I have to know. Otherwise, what should we do with our clothes? Speaking of which, I know a lot of things, such as cooking, cooking, spinning, weaving, weaving dustpan My mother forced me to cut bamboo poles to build a house."
"Oh," Shen Jue said, "I know none of them."
"What would you do with that?" Shen Jue thought that Xiahou Rong was going to say that he was rich and rich and had thousands of servants, so he didn't need to worry about it. But Xia Houlin said, "I will do it."
The moonlight is quiet, everything is quiet. Somewhere far away, someone was setting up a Kongming lantern, which rose into the night sky and turned into a second moon. Xia Houlin said, "Master, let me make a sachet for you."
"Are you good at craftsmanship? I'm going out and entering the temple, don't let me be ashamed." Shen Jue had some doubts.
"Don't underestimate me, okay?"
Shen Jue looked down at his toes, and suddenly remembered that all the girls in the capital like to make sachets, and when they embroidered downstairs and walked past the man he liked, they would throw the sachets to him. From then on, I will never forget it for a lifetime.
There was a secret thought in his heart, as if Xia Houlin gave him a sachet, and he was his person from now on. A small smile floated on the corner of his mouth, he said: "Okay, I want orchid fragrance."
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The candle was burning, and the red candle dripped down and fell on the saucer, slowly drying up into small flowers. Bailiyuan stared at the candle in a daze, the red candle body and the yellow candle flame blurred, blurring the boundaries and turning into a beautiful halo.
She wondered why she met that Xunsheng back then? As if it was destined, the ghost of destiny took her by the hand and went to the garden to meet that Xunsheng. It's like she is the evil spirit of destiny, and finally wants to kill her parents and brothers, and no one in the family survives except her.
It would be many years before she met Chi Yan again. She was already the Yama of the Baili family, and all the assassins bowed their heads to her. For the first time, she expanded the business of Bliss Fruit to Zijingguan. The local snake in Zijingguan was disobedient and wanted to swallow her goods and kill her people. She got angry and buried him in the snow, revealing only a bare head. She saw him cry so hard that it froze on his face. The next morning, I went to see him again, and he was frozen into ice cubes, and he still had that pitiful expression on his face.
She asked her subordinates to do errands, and she went to the city to play by herself. It was there that she saw Chi Yan, and he was also pitiful, wrapped in a very torn gray sheepskin jacket, wrapped in rags in an instant, and worn around his waist. He bought a hard bun and ate it while standing under the eaves of an inn. He looked like he was in his twenties, but he still had the expression of a child, the same as before.
She hid in the crowd to watch him, he was watching the children playing on the street, the children were wearing a rattle in front of him, and someone pushed an ox cart past him, with a lot of cattle and sheep skins piled on it. The sun shines on the ground, sparse and faint, the sun in Shuobei is not strong, it will always be as faint as white water, and there is no feeling when it shines on the body, but because there is a layer of bright yellow color, it seems to make people warmer.
The crowds shuttled between them, and they were like two rocks, maintaining a non-existent tacit understanding, and neither of them moved. The streets were bustling and bustling, and everyone had a smile on their faces, but it had nothing to do with them. They are just onlookers, outsiders. She thought it was good, he was still as lonely as she was back then.
Ah Chu removed her makeup and walked over with her skirt in hand. Without red fat and white powder, she has a clean face, a pair of long eyebrows as pale as a distant mountain, big black and white eyes, and a little light red lips. Ah Chu squatted on the edge of the bed and asked her if she was better.
She didn't answer, she reached out and touched Ah Chu's face and asked, "Sister Ah Chu looks good after taking off her makeup."
Ah Chu covered her mouth and laughed, scratching Baili Yuan's nose, "Just your sweet mouth!"
"Better than that Shen Jue." Bailiyuan said.
"It's as if you've seen him," Ah Chu said with a smile. "Be careful if the Dongchang fanzi hears you and asks you to go over and make soup. I heard that the eunuchs in the palace like to catch children to make soup. Tender, you can beautify your face. Maybe Eunuch Shen will stew the children every day."
"Sister Ah Chu, don't wear makeup anymore."
"Why, I still have to do business, how can I do without makeup?" Ah Chu tilted her head to look at her.
"Stop doing business. Do you have the rules of combing cages? I have money, and I will cover you." Bailiyuan took out the purse in her arms, poured out a lot of gold coins, and piled them on the bed.
Ah Chu was stunned, "My God, I recognized a God of Wealth as my sister." She shook her head vigorously, put the golden coin back into Bailiyuan's purse, and stuffed it into her jacket, "The money Hide it well, don't take it out, if the thief sees it, you will die. God, what is your family doing?"
"My family sells medicine." Bailiyuan said.
"Selling medicine makes so much money! Oops, the owner of a crude drug store came to the show last time, and I thought he was fat, so I didn't like him." Ah Chu sighed, "Forget it, it's all good luck! Come on! Come on, get up, let's put the lights on."
Ah Chu pulled Bailiyuan up, put on her dirty knee pants, fastened her skirt, and finally wrapped her scarlet cloak, and dragged her to the yard. Chi Yan stood at the corner with the oil paper of the sky lantern, and had been waiting for them for a long time, snow on his shoulders and head.
Ah Chu happily ran over, picked up the ink pen, and wrote a wish on the oiled paper. Bai Liyuan was watching, and what A Chu wrote was "make a lot of money, find a rich, powerful and handsome man, and redeem himself to be a concubine".
Bailiyuan: "..."
She didn't read what Chiyan wrote, and she didn't need to read it to know that what Chiyan wrote must be "find my brother", "brother is safe" and the like. Brother, brother, she really hates that brother, she wants to find him as soon as possible and kill him. Chiyan can only have a younger sister, not a younger brother.
"Okay, it's time for you to write!" Ah Chu handed her the pen.
Bailiyuan picked up the pen and wrote her wish on the yellow paper. Ah Chu looked at her blankly, and murmured, "A Yuan, your handwriting looks good." Her handwriting is indeed the best-looking among the three.
Holding on to the fire, the Kongming lantern quickly expanded, leaving the three people on the ground looking up, rising higher and higher. The raging flames were burning with a chi chi, and the Kongming lantern slowly turned and drifted away in the wind. The fire burned the side where Baili Yuan was writing, and Chi Yan saw her wish.
"A Yuan wants to be together with Brother Chiyan and Sister Ah Chu forever."