The state is always uncomfortable. One day later, Li Langyu asked her what day it was today, and they talked about the end of the year. It will be New Year's Day soon, and it is time to prepare the New Year's goods at home. When it comes to some snacks, there are After the chatterbox, people take food as their heaven, and people in Peiping ask "Have you eaten?"
Cheng Hanliang was less and less at home, and he didn't know what he was busy with. Li Langyu opened the newspapers, and half of them were covering the Northeast War. He also saw that Peiping was going to establish Northeastern University, hoping to recruit exiled students. On the other hand, the national army had insufficient funds, bank notes were overprinted, inflation all over the country, and finally You can't even buy half a box of matches for a hundred francs.
He looked at the black-and-white photos of the people fleeing in front of the camera with gloomy clouds and bleak faces, as well as dilapidated houses and schools, and his heart was suddenly lost. Will the city that gave birth to him and raised him suffer again one day? Thinking of this, he gave birth to endless pity and sympathy, for those days that could not go back, for that innocent panic.
Who doesn't want the time to be peaceful, and who doesn't want the world to be peaceful
But after all, good things are rare, and half of life is still immersed in darkness.
Days hurried on, and in the cold winter night, Li Langyu was awakened by the coldness. He walked to the window with his slippers on, and opened the dark green curtain, only to realize that it was snowing.
The first snow in Peiping.
He opened the window, the whistling wind slashed over, and the snow shavings floated into his hands and disappeared quickly, as if merging into the skin. The stone floor of the courtyard gradually turned into white catkins, and the dim yellow street lamps shone all the way to the end of the street, and finally condensed into a small spot of light. Looking back to his hometown and going to Lu Yao, he stood in front of the heavy snow and suddenly remembered this lyric, and finally knew why everyone said that "Night Run" was difficult to sing.
Li Langyu opened the door, intending to find some water to drink. Before going downstairs, he saw Cheng Hanliang sitting in the center of the hall, with an old gentleman sitting across from him. His thin figure was wrapped in a black robe, and he did not take off his hat. The two spoke in low voices, and the old gentleman was probably in his fifties.
"The lieutenant general is young and promising. He is a sensible man. It is a foregone conclusion. The general situation is in sight. It is up to you and me to serve the people." After that, he took out a paper-wrapped object from his arms, and Cheng Hanliang opened it and took a look. , couldn't help laughing, and said, "You have always prided yourself on innocence and integrity, why are you doing things to please people?"
It was a dagger. The sheath was covered with black rust. The blade was dull enough to cut through the paper. The workmanship was really poor.
"Such a piece of rubbish copper was turned over by you."
The old gentleman echoed and smiled: "Chinese people are all reminiscent of the old days. In the past, Emperor Xuan of Liu Xun called hundreds of officials to search for the sword. In the end, it was because the sword was deeply in love. The lieutenant general lost it involuntarily, how could he have no feelings?"
Cheng Hanliang held it, with a rare gentle smile in his eyes, "I took it with me when I was an orphan, as a self-defense, at that time I could stab people and kill livestock, but I didn't use it later, and I accompanied me for 20 years. Years, ten years ago, I was penniless, I used it as an urn, and I thought I would never see it again."
"Isn't it back now?"
"Yeah, I'm back..." He raised the corner of his mouth and sighed, "So the sword is deeply in love, and there is not a day when I don't think about it."
After he finished saying this, he suddenly raised his head and looked towards the second floor, just in time to meet Li Langyu who was looking down from a distance.
This glance was extremely plain and long, but as she walked in the dim light from bottom to top, Li Langyu panicked because of this glance. It was as if a scale had fallen into the water, and the circles of ripples excited people's hearts. He took a passive step back and hid behind the brown wooden wall post.
Cheng Hanliang and the other party chatted about something else, and the voice gradually became smaller and could not be heard clearly. Later, the old gentleman said goodbye, Cheng Hanliang took him out through another door, the old gentleman walked around the corner, and suddenly said: "Lieutenant General, you This pot of asparagus is really good.”
The bamboo is placed on the small table at the door, and the branches are long and beautiful, and they keep growing upwards.
Cheng Hanliang said: "Cut off the side branches, there is no other way to go except the road at the top."
Li Langyu touched the room while they were out.
Soon after, the bedroom door was gently pushed open, Cheng Hanliang came in from outside, and there were water stains on his coat after the snow melted. Li Langyu was lying on the bed on his side, with his back to him, pretending to fall asleep. Cheng Hanliang walked over, sat for a while, then lay down and put one arm around his waist.
Li Langyu shook his shoulders, grabbed his hand and wanted to break it apart, but Cheng Hanliang held it back, and whispered behind his neck, "Don't move, I just want to say a few words to you."
He couldn't see Li Langyu's face, only soft hair covered a small section of his neck, which was very flat. Cheng Hanliang hugged him, leaving a slight gap, and felt the body heat of the two mixed together and passed on to his hands.
"I still remember the way you looked when you were young. When I first met you that year, I felt that this was really a carefree young master. The mistress cares about you, and other people dote on you. Before I came back, Zhou Huaijing told me not to. Cold, in fact, I am the most afraid of children. You asked me to carry you to pick up a kite from the tree. That was the first time I held a child. At that time, I was very nervous, and my palms were sweaty. fell."
"Time flies so fast, so many years have passed in a blink of an eye." He sighed, "I often feel that your coming back is unreal these days, I think it is a dream, I am afraid that you will not be there after I wake up. "
Speaking of this, Cheng Hanliang hugged him unconsciously, and buried his face in Li Langyu's neck, "It's not that I don't hurt you... I do."
The hoarse voice rose and fell in the silence.
"Feng's family treats you next week. I want to thank you for Guangzhou. What do you want, I'll bring it for you?"
Li Langyu didn't say anything, which made Cheng Hanliang continue: "I know you blame me, in fact, you don't have to worry, you will have what you want. You were a child crying, and when you cry, you are the stars and the moon, and I will think about it. Find a way with you."
His breath penetrated into the thick hair of the other party, as if a wind from many years ago was released from the bottom of his heart, and he saw a vast forest, the deep is not green, but the breath of returning home.
Cheng Hanliang hugged him like this, like the years in the mountains, quiet and peaceful.
"Go to sleep." After a long time, he sighed slowly, leaving his coat over the quilt and walking out the door.
Li Langyu looked back and couldn't see his back.
Outside the house was blizzard and snow, but in one night, Peiping turned white.
Chapter twenty four
At the end of the year, every household is busy one after another, and the servants of Cheng Mansion are not idle. They clean inside and outside all day long. Although there are snowstorms outside, it does not affect the taste of the new year at all. Cheng Lan told Li Langyu that A Jing in her room had been at Cheng's house for seven or eight years. Now that the girl was getting older, she didn't want to delay others, so she let her go back to her hometown. It's just that as soon as people leave, the vacancy has to be filled.
Li Langyu thought for a while, and said, "Then make a notice and recruit someone." Recently, the number of people from Peking has increased, and the position of the girl from the Cheng family is a good one.
After the two agreed, they quickly wrote a recruitment letter. Young people can do things, have quick hands and feet, and have no disease. There is no special emphasis on other things. They asked Butler Zhang to send it to the newspaper to be published in the daily, and within a few days, a bunch of people came to sign up. Cheng Lan did not expect that there would be so many people, and they would queue up one by one.
On this day, Cheng Hanliang was also at home when Li Langyu and Cheng Lan met, so he sat next to him for reference. Several of them were not very satisfied. Some of them couldn't speak well, some brought their younger siblings and wanted to respond together, and some had too heavy accents, making it difficult to hear them clearly. In a blink of an eye, the whole morning has passed, and there are no favorite candidates. At noon, Butler Zhang called the last one in.
It was a very young girl, not tall, wearing a big red flower jacket with neat bangs.
"What's your name?"
"Miss Hui, my name is Yue Qiao, the moon of the moon, the ingenious Qiao." The voice was as clear as a bell.
Cheng Lan felt that her eyes were good, and asked other questions. The little girl was clever and answered all of them. At the end, Cheng Lan asked Li Langyu and Cheng Hanliang for their opinions, and it seemed that it was almost the same. Cheng Hanliang followed her and did not intend to interfere, and Li Langyu had nothing to ask. Since she was in Cheng Lan's room, she should be the master.
Nayue Qiao blinked a pair of round almond eyes, and his eyes swept back and forth between Li Langyu and Cheng Lan. After Li Langyu noticed it, he said a little unhappily, "What are you looking at?"
She smiled shyly, and her eyes were quite energetic: "I just found out that the uncle and the young lady are married!"
She said it very happily. This is a clever saying. In her hometown, when matchmakers match mad men and women, they often talk about this sentence, and they can even ask for some money. She came to Peiping from below, but don't put your mouth down.
Li Langyu frowned lightly, and then heard Cheng Hanliang ask: "Then tell me, where is it like?"
"Well... eyes, mouth, and face shape."
After Cheng Hanliang listened, he looked at him carefully, and smiled for a long time: "It's quite similar."
Cheng Lan covered her mouth and smiled, but Li Langyu was unhappy and said with a straight face, "Since we live under the same roof and have the same living habits and diet, our faces naturally tend to be similar."
When Yue Qiao heard this, she let out her previous complacency as if she was hit.
Cheng Hanliang looked at him and said in a leisurely tone, "It's just a joke, why take it seriously." Li Langyu opened his mouth slightly, but was speechless.
Butler Zhang handed over the coat, and the Feng family invited guests in the afternoon. It was about time. Cheng Hanliang got up and looked at Yue Qiao and said, "It's a good thing for the little girl to be able to speak at a young age. Hold on, if you really want to be smart, don't be in a hurry."
Yue Qiao blushed with embarrassment, she buried her head and did not dare to speak again. Seeing this, Cheng Lan kindly summoned her to him.