"What a rotten wood!"
A ruler greeted Su Ting on his back, and he jumped up from his doze in shock. When he came back to his senses, all the classmates and scholars beside him were laughing at him. Mister is angry. Sitting down again, he didn’t have the heart to read. All he could think about was how to make money and how to treat Haitang’s illness, but he was dizzy thinking about it.
After Haitang fell asleep last night, he sneaked out and temporarily took over the drudgery of night work for someone, just for that handful of coins.
Although it is said that a living person can't be suffocated to death by urine, but without money, it is really difficult to move an inch. Su Ting is being suffocated here now, and he can't think of a way out. After school, Su Ting walked out of the academy in a daze, and was kicked on the ground again. They picked off his cloth bag and laughed at him for being so poor.
The man raised his hand and threw the things into the ditch next to him. Su Ting was stepped on the ground by another person. He saw them throw the two books in the water into the water, and then dug out two more books from his cloth bag. Cold nest, and an egg, and then a group of people burst into laughter. When Su Ting saw the food, he couldn't help but widen his eyes - he cooked it yesterday and left it for Haitang. When did Haitang stuff it into his bag? He broke free from the grip suddenly, jumped up and grabbed his own things, and with a sideways swing of his legs, he pushed the flamboyant son into the ditch.
The ditch was not deep, and the water level was only knee-high, but there was a layer of mud on the ground, which was disgusting. Naturally, the young master didn't suffer any injuries, but Su Ting was kicked out of the academy because of this.
The master has been dissatisfied with him for more than a day or two, and today he just uses an excuse to not teach such foolish children as him.
Su Ting stood outside the academy, thought carefully, and climbed into the courtyard wall of Mr.'s house overnight.
Su Ting came back very late that day, the snow outside shone like daylight on the street, Bai Haitang was wrapped loosely in a piece of clothing, and looked around at the entrance of Houxifang Hutong. a familiar figure. "Ting Lang!", he hurried up to meet him, almost fell down, but actually startled Su Ting.
"Haitang, why did you come out?"
Su Ting took off his clothes and wanted to put them on Haitang, but Bai Haitang was unwilling to do so, and kept a distance of one or two steps from him, and followed slowly, seeing that he was dirty, his face was injured, and the cloth bag was also taken by others. Torn apart, nervously said: "What's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, I accidentally fell and the book fell into the water. Tomorrow the academy is on vacation, so I won't go to study anymore, I will stay with you at home." Su Ting conjured a plum blossom out of nowhere, red plum, very happy It was Jiaoyan, he led Haitang back to their little house, and happily led Haitang to the bedside, "Haitang, come here."
Bai Haitang sat on the bed anxiously, seeing that he was about to touch her cheek with his hand, she dodged it suddenly, and whispered: "Don't touch..."
"Don't move." Su Ting pursed his lips, dipped the red plums picked from Mr.'s yard in the snow, and then tore off the petals one by one to catch the wetness on the petals , carefully pasted it on Bai Haitang's head and neck with herpes, and after it was done, he hurriedly filled a pottery bowl with water and held it in front of Bai Haitang, "Look, does it look good?"
Bai Haitang vaguely saw a face covered with petals through the water in the bowl, he smiled and dropped two or three pieces: "It looks beautiful."
Su Ting put away the water bowl, and Bai Haitang got out of bed, took out the soaked book in Su Ting's bag, and carefully opened it to dry. Looking at the words on it, he suddenly pointed to it as if he had found a treasure. One said: "I recognize this, Ah Ting's Ting."
Seeing that he was looking at the word Ting with relish, Su Ting asked him suddenly: "Why did the rice I left for you get into my bag?"
Bai Haitang seemed to have been exposed for doing something bad, she held the hem of her clothes with both hands, and secretly went to see Su Ting: "It doesn't matter if I eat or not, you have to eat more, so that you can read well."
Su Ting wanted to say that he had a falling out with his husband just now, and went to someone else's house, so he was beaten up by the doorman of the husband's house, not only begging for nothing to return his bundle repair, but also broke the other's Plum Blossom Tree, after listening to the "little bastard", said that if he dared to appear in the academy again, he would be tied up and thrown into the river.
"Haitang," he looked closely at Bai Haitang seriously, but said, "I want you."
This important word has thousands of meanings, but there are absolutely no other possibilities in this situation. Bai Haitang turned pale with fright, and almost ran away from the door, but staggered and fell to the ground, and the plum petals on her face rustled. The ground fell on the ground, he couldn't help picking up flowers, he crawled a few steps into the depths of the room on all fours, and when he turned his head and saw Su Ting chasing him again, he was so frightened that he was about to cry: "Ting Lang, please... "
"Why can't I?" Su Ting was even more sad than him.
Bai Haitang shook her head again and again: "I can't do it, Ting Lang, I really can't."
"...I'm sorry." Su Ting got up, didn't say much, took out the eggs from the bag and peeled the shells. He knew that Haitang wouldn't want to use it alone if he didn't eat it, so he took a bite before handing it to the other party. , "Eat this, just treat what I just said as a naughty joke."
Bai Haitang just took the egg and ate it mouthful.
At night, Su Ting was woken up by a moaning sound. He opened his eyes and saw a thin spine bowed up on the bed. He hurriedly looked at it, and asked him where the pain was and why it suddenly hurt.
"Sorry, Ting Lang, I woke you up." Bai Haitang wrapped herself in the quilt and said, "I'm fine...you go back to sleep."
Su Ting was out of breath: "Why do you call it okay, you screamed so hard!" He suddenly realized, could it be that every night is so uncomfortable, but he has been enduring it? Tonight, I couldn't help but make a sound.
He was driven back to sleep by Bai Haitang, lying on the plank bed, when he heard a muffled groan from behind the quilt from time to time, he felt uncomfortable and wished he could take care of Bai Haitang's pain, but he had no choice but to use the quilt I covered myself up, huddled in the darkness, and gritted my teeth hard.
It wasn't until the middle of the night that Bai Haitang slowly fell asleep. Su Ting lifted the quilt and got up, twisted a half-dried towel, carefully avoided his rash, and gently wiped the other party's forehead that had been sweating all night.
Afterwards, he made up his mind, blew out the lamp and locked the door, took the scimitar and Shuxiu that he got back from his husband, and went out overnight.
As the wind and snow intensified, red lanterns were hung in front of the merchants along the street. The lanterns were written with the words Lucky Fortune and Five Blessings, reflecting the bright red of the long street. The snow on the ground was so slippery that it creaked under your feet. sound. While walking, Su Ting took out the silver taels in his sleeve pocket and counted them. Although there were not many, it should be possible to see a doctor...
Besides, it will be the twenty-seventh day at dawn, and it will be New Year's Eve soon. When the market opens on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, he won't have to go to the academy to study, and the pen and ink money saved will be a big surplus. Then he will go out to find some work without telling Haitang. Do it, there will always be a way to live this day.
Before his family fell into decline, he only read books of sages and sages, and never worried about money. Although he became poorer later, he was raised by Haitang. He didn't suffer much. Now he suddenly became the pillar of the family. , I just tasted the hardships of the world for the first time, and I also understood how absurd my previous posture was.
Su Ting made a big fuss in the academy today, which can be regarded as a break with the previous muddle-headed life. After today, he hired a doctor for Haitang, and he will honestly find a job. He will do anything, even if it is a coolie. To touch that sneaky thing... It's his turn to support Haitang.
Thinking of this, Su Ting's heart lightened faintly, as if he had seen the dawn of the next day. He was just about to trot to a bowl of noodle shop, but he saw a black shadow flashing in the alley on the right side for a moment. Hit him hard on the back, knocking him down into the snow.
Su Ting lay on the ground and was in a daze for a while, then he heard the sound of footsteps, at least three or five people.
"who are you… "
"It's your grandfather!" The man with the stick swung him on the back again, then squatted down and ripped off his clothes, and said viciously, "I don't know who offended you? Take out the money!"
Su Ting thought of his young master who was pushed into the water during the day, he defended his chest and argued: "No—"
"Put your mother's shit on!" The man spat, urging others to search Su Ting's body, while he himself walked around Su Ting twice, raised his foot again, stepped on the back of the man's head, and He stomped his whole face on the ground, "There is a popular actor supporting you, will you have no money? Stop talking nonsense, if you don't give it, you will be beaten to death!"
How could a group of gangsters be merciful, they just punched and kicked Su Ting.
There are many people on the other side, Su Ting knows that there is a huge difference in physical strength, and the chances of winning the fight are very small, so he refuses to get up, let others step on his head, curled up on the ground like a turtle, and hides close to his body With a small machete on his chest, the gangster was out of breath, dragged him forward by his hair, and dragged him for more than ten steps, his limbs were scraped on the ground, and the skin was bleeding, and the white snow under his body was flowed out along the trousers The blood stained red.
The other party lifted his head and poohed again: "Bitch, I've been playing with that actor for a long time, and I don't even look like a man!"
He laughed and said: "Don't say it, that Bai Haitang is really a stunner, she is obviously a girl with a handle, but she is more delicate than that girl. But it's nothing unusual, it's not a product that has been spoiled by others, and it's just You are such an idiot, you are so eager to pick up other people's broken shoes! What's the matter, today you don't want the dignity of a scholar because of a scumbag?"
Su Ting stared at him with fire in his eyes: "Shut up!"
"Yo, are you still angry?" The gangster laughed. He took money from his employer to humiliate Su Ting. Naturally, he picked up any unpleasant words and said, "The rich businessman who sells rouge can play with you." Do you know that everyone is crying for their father and mother? They have done all kinds of dirty things, three, five, or a dozen people? Who knows!" He pointed the tip of his shoe at Su Ting's hand On the forehead, "Hey, I heard that he took the money to change your current academy?"
Su Ting had never heard of such a thing, and he stared at the other party with glaring eyes: "What are you talking about... What are you talking about! You are the one who is farting!"
"Tsk tsk, good scholar, why is your mouth so smelly? Daddy will teach you!" The gangster kicked him, then grabbed his hair and slapped his mouth left and right, slapped him dozens of times, and then shook his hands neck, "Phew, it's a pleasure to teach you scholars a lesson!"
Su Ting was already stupefied by the beating, and the group of people wanted to make another move, but a watchman abducted from a distance. They didn't want to cause trouble, so they kicked Su Ting each, and spat at him, "Don't forget to eat or beat! ", and then dispersed.
The watchman in the distance saw a man lying on the ground, and hurried over to check it out, he was startled and said, "Call you a doctor?"
"No need." Su Ting waved the watchman's hand away, got up by himself, the scimitar was still in his arms, and then touched the cuffs, the clothes were torn to pieces, and all the silver in the sleeve pockets were taken away, leaving only Two dirty copper plates.
The watchman shook his head and shouted at his back: "Little brother, it's New Year's Eve, you'd better go home early!"
Su Ting walked forward step by step, the scimitar jingling, jingling.
go home? What to take home
Su Ting ran all the way with his head depressed, staggered a few times and fell to the ground, then raised his head, and saw a pair of oval orange lanterns above his head, with big blessing characters written on them, the handwriting was beautiful and powerful, and underneath were Draw a small bowl. The cold wind made the little lantern shake slightly, and the wick inside throbbed harshly, almost extinguishing it a few times.
He raised his hand on tiptoe, wanting to help, but saw his blood-stained palm clenched pitifully with two copper coins, as if laughing at his incompetence. He thought of Haitang again, and thought about those rumors that he had heard from the bastards, but he didn't know whether it was true or not.
wandering all night.
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On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, New Year's Eve is approaching when you open your eyes and close your eyes. Most of the shops on the street are closed, except for some shops that are still open, but they also open much later than usual. The laziness of not wanting to work after the annual leave has existed since ancient times, and there are not many people who even get up early in the morning to sweep the snow.
Another night of wind and snow, the ground in front of a bowl of noodle shop was covered with snow, Yu Jinnian woke up from the cold, opened his eyes and found that he was sleeping dishonestly, stretched out an arm, and the small stove in the room had already been burned out, Fortunately, he was warm like a stove under the quilt. He retracted his paws, and arched into the arms behind his back, coveting the inseparable temperature for a while, before he had to get up to clean up.
He refilled the small stove with charcoal fire, placed it in the room, filled Mrs. Tang with hot water and stuffed it into Ji Hong's bed, and then tiptoedly took it out the door, and went to the kitchen to cook morning porridge.
There is a freshly slaughtered chicken in the kitchen, and he boils a pot of broth on the stove. He uses the chicken broth, skims the upper layer of slick oil, and slowly boils it over a low heat, and cooks it with diced winter bamboo shoots, fresh mushrooms, and choy sum. cooked. Yu Jinnian went outside to fetch water, and was shivered by the cold wind. When he came back, he hurriedly threw two pieces of fresh ginger into the soup, and stirred a bowl of thick batter with clean water at hand. At the mouth of the bowl, pick out pieces of batter nimbly and throw them in the boiling soup, making noodles for mice to eat.
Not long after, small noodles of different shapes in the soup floated up and were pushed around by the boiling water, really like little mice hiding around.
Before going to bed last night, he asked Qing Huan to bury some taro in the ashes in the stove, but he didn't know if Qing Huan heard it, but now he squatted down and picked it up with a fire stick, and there really was! He happily took out a small one. He piled up the ashes overnight and baked all the taro. The taro that was simmered in this way was soft but not rotten. It tasted slightly different from the steamed one. The meat melts in the mouth, with a faint burnt smell of firewood, it is so fragrant!
The ancients called the taro as Tuzhi, and the small taro eggs simmered like this are called Tuzhidan, and it is said that "the taro is cooked, and the emperor is not as good as me." Yu Jinnian ate taro around the fire, dipping some sugar from time to time, In this kind of cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, he was able to stretch his body, but he would not change it if he took the throne.
There are few people in a bowl of noodle restaurant, and they don't pay much attention to it. They have made New Year's goods and prepared firecrackers, red paper and other things, so they have nothing else to do. With a meow, he suddenly became happy, ran out and looked up at the roof of the eaves. As expected, a fat cat came back stepping on the tiles.
"Little Ding Dong!" He stretched out his hand to pick it up, and Ding Dong jumped down, hitting his chest and almost spitting blood out of him, "Where did you steal it again? If you grow back like this, you won't be able to get married!"
Cat squinted at him blankly, then broke free from his arms, and swaggered into the kitchen.
Yu Jinnian followed him like a dog, and fed the cat with preserved fish and dried shrimp. He stretched out his evil palm and rubbed the thick fur of Tinker Bell. Somehow it is so powerful, but which of these things in the yard has not been harmed by it
"Alas." Yu Jinnian sighed, resigned himself to his fate and went out to repair the flower stand, and fixed it with a rope to prevent it from falling down and hurting others. After packing away his tools, he suddenly thought of the two lanterns in front of the store. After being devastated by the wind and snow all night, he didn't know how many of them were blown out of order.
At this time Ji Hong got up, Yu Jinnian said: "There is warm water under the kitchen, you use it first, I will open the shop."
As he said that, he went forward, and heard a series of trotting sounds, the creaking sound of the lower panel of the door being removed, and a horrified voice: "——Hoo!"
Ji Hong wiped his face with warm water, but didn't clean it off, and hurried to the front hall: "What happened?"
I saw a man poured in on the ground, plain clothes, dressed as a scholar, covered with wounds, blood stains sporadically dripping out of the clothes, the snow on the hem of the clothes and the tips of the hair was blown by the night's wind, and the wet blood condensed into ice , frozen solid on the body. His face was pale, his lips were blue, and he seemed to be frozen stiff. He fell on the young man's feet and shivered. He opened his eyes after a long time, as if remembering, but his feet didn't listen to him, and he moved a few times, but only from the left. The difference between creeping to the right is nothing.
Yu Jinnian was surprised: "Why is it him?"
Ji Hong asked: "Know?"
"I met Mr. Luo once. It seems that I went to seek medical treatment, and I didn't say a few words. I don't know why I fell here, and I was injured like this." Yu Jinnian dragged Su Ting in as he spoke, and ran to Two thick blankets were brought from the room, one was placed under Su Ting's body, the other was wrapped around him, and a small heater was brought over to roast at a distance.
Frozen people should not be exposed to heat suddenly, otherwise they will be roasted and will be extremely painful in the future. It is necessary to proceed step by step so as not to cause the root cause of the disease.
Yu Jinnian brought a basin of warm water, and mixed it with the body temperature, soaked it with a towel and wrung it dry, wrapped Su Ting's hands and rubbed them slowly. After a long time, Su Ting felt that his hands and feet had slowly regained consciousness. Yu Jinnian Seeing this, he said: "Ah Hong, there is a mouse in the pot to help me fill a bowl, and bring two yams on the stove, and white sugar."
Soon Ji Hong came back with a plate of food, and Yu Jinnian helped Su Ting to get up: "Eat it, we can talk when it's warm."
Su Ting looked at the fresh and hot rice on the table. It was obviously just ordinary simmered taro, but he always felt that it exuded a strange fragrance. Subconsciously, he wanted to hide the taro in his arms and take it back to Haitang to eat, waiting for him to grab it When a taro was about to be secretly put into the skirt, he suddenly realized what he was doing, raised his head, and saw Yu Jinnian looking at him strangely, he was instantly ashamed.
I just robbed someone of something a while ago, and today I want to steal someone else's taro.
Su Ting, Su Ting, you are such a bastard.
He secretly scolded himself, and silently took out the taro under Yu Jinnian's probing gaze, and put it back on the plate. He swallowed, rubbed his hands on his clothes, and finally suppressed his desire for the fragrance of the food. Said: "I'm sorry."
Yu Jinnian read his embarrassment, remembered his previous consultation with a doctor, and guessed that there might be another patient in his family, so he said kindly: "Take it if you like, it's not an expensive thing."
Su Ting was so ashamed that he couldn't lift his face, he just wondered how could there be such a kind person in this world, he read sage books in vain, but he did all kinds of nasty things. Thinking of this, he suddenly sank, knelt on the ground, and took out the scimitar from his pocket.
Yu Jinnian was shocked: "My knife!" He took the lost machete and caressed it so much that he forgot to ask where it came from, let alone question why the machete was in Su Ting. there.
Su Ting confessed by himself: "I'm sorry... I stole the things from my husband."
Surprised, Yu Jinnian observed Su Ting carefully, and finally saw a shadow that gradually overlapped with that little ghost from that day on his swollen face like a pig's head. He couldn't help but widen his eyes: "It's you ! A thief steals!"
Just when Duan Ming came to work, Yu Jinnian shouted, "Brother Duan, throw him out!"
Although Duan Ming hasn't figured out what's going on yet, he also knows that in this room, Ji Hong speaks first and the young master speaks second. How dare he ask the reason in detail, so he hastily rolled up his sleeves, lifted Su Ting up and threw him outside the door. .
"Little genius doctor, little genius doctor!" Su Ting hugged Yu Jinnian's feet all of a sudden, regardless of face, raised his head and said, "I'm a bastard, I deserve to die for stealing your things, but I really I don’t have the money to treat Haitang... Little genius doctor, you are a good person, I will repay you like a cow and a horse, please go and see Haitang, I will definitely pay back the consultation fee... "
Yu Jinnian kicked him, hugged his scimitar and hid directly beside Ji Hong, and laughed angrily at himself: "I'm a good person, so I deserve to be bullied by you all the time? I haven't caught the wool yet." It’s a plucked one! Brother Duan, get out!”
"I, I..." Shu Xiuju, who was going to come back, was snatched away by gangsters, and now there are only two copper coins left on his body. Su Ting wanted to cry for a while, and then he realized what it meant to be self-inflicted. He robbed Yu Jinnian of things , Someone came to snatch his things, the reincarnation of heaven, the retribution is not good. He was held under the arm by Duan Ming, and he threw out a bowl of noodle shop like a torn rag, and rolled a few times in the snow.
Yu Jinnian ran out himself, threw the two taro at him, and closed the door angrily.
"You're mad, young master. Throw taro, don't you beat a dog with meat buns?" Duan Ming said, "Why are such people so polite? In my opinion, they should be sent directly to the government. Stealing people's money is punishable by law." Ten, two years of service, and another hand!"
Because of the loss of the scimitar, Yu Jinnian didn't think about tea and food these few days. It was because of his anger. If the scholar stole only money, he wouldn't take it seriously, and maybe he would sympathize with the other party's experience, but Su Ting was unreasonable. Stealing his little scimitar is either tolerable or unbearable. He was about to agree with Duan Ming's two-year servitude, so that the thief would suffer for it, but when he heard Duan Ming said that he would chop off his hands, he hesitated again.
"Young master is soft-hearted." Duan Ming sighed, packed up the tables and chairs in the front hall, and prepared to open the business.
A group of people got busy, and several diners came to the store one after another. Yu Jinnian didn't have a chance to think too much, so he went to the back kitchen to prepare food. Because it was Chinese New Year, most of the dishes ordered in the front hall were meat dishes. Yu Jinnian kept his knife in his hand and was so busy that he quickly forgot about the unpleasant things in the morning.
Ji Hong accompanied him in the kitchen, wet the cloth with a jug of spirits, carefully wiped the machete clean, every gemstone was polished, and then wiped it with clean water before putting it back on the young man's waist.
Yu Jinnian said: "Don't wear it, it's easy to come back."
Ji Hong laughed at his inconsistency: "Wear it if you like it, it's no big deal."
Having said that, Yu Jinnian was still a little bit reluctant, but fortunately he was nestling in the backyard all day today and didn't see any outsiders, so he didn't have to worry about his little baby disappearing suddenly. After noon, Yu Jinnian took a nap before getting up to check the two cloth rice bags hanging in the yard. In the pocket are the rice milk that Duan Ming has worked hard for the past two days, one is glutinous rice milk and the other is white rice milk.
At this time, the two cloth pockets were all drained of water. Yu Jinnian took them off, spread them out in two dustpans, and patiently crushed the powder in the pockets with a small mallet, and sifted it again. Glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour. The two kinds of flour are mixed with water. The taste of the rice cake depends on the amount of glutinous rice and sticky rice flour. The more glutinous rice is added, the more springy the steamed rice cake will be.
Yu Jinnian didn't like to eat such hard ones, so he used two parts of sticky rice flour and one part of glutinous rice flour to make them. After steaming, he greased them with oil, beat them with a wooden mallet, and kneaded them into strips to dry in the cold. These rice cakes are not only made for my own family, but also for the young master of the Jiang family. Since the gingerbread man became a family with Shi Xing, and because Shi Xing belongs to Ji Hong, he seems to regard a bowl of noodle shop as his own. It's the back kitchen, running over every three days to take care of Yu Jinnian's food.
He thought he was tired of eating rice cakes from his house. He heard that a bowl of noodle shops also made rice cakes, so he insisted on mixing them in. He asked for sweet-scented osmanthus mincemeat cake, which means adding sweet-scented osmanthus and other crushed fruits when kneading glutinous rice balls. Ren, the flower rice cake steamed from this.
Yu Jinnian couldn't hold back him, so he had no choice but to agree, but he refused to suffer in vain. He even made a list to catch Shi Xing's hard work - five liang of dried ginger, five liang of salted dried white plum, and one liang of Gansong, Two taels of sandalwood, and five servings of licorice, asked Shi Xing to take the medicine to Shou Ren Tang, grind it into powder, and bring it back to him.
This is a recipe of five beautiful gingers. It was originally eaten with thin slices of ginger buds and pickled with other medicinal flavors. It has the effect of dispelling wind, dispelling cold and warming yang. However, Yu Jinnian thought that Ji Hong was a nobleman, so he didn't like to eat it. This kind of thing has a strong and strange smell, even the tenderest ginger buds in ginger feel dirty, so the pickling method is changed to powder.
Take the last third of the medicine and brew it with tea, which can not only maintain health and help Yang, but also have a refreshing taste.
Yu Jinnian had steamed the rice cakes in this room, and Shi Xing came to deliver the medicine with a tacit understanding. He entered the door together with a big monk. , as a gift to the Buddha, he threw it into the monk's bowl with a bang, cut another piece of rice cake for him, and said, "Auspicious!"
The great monk also said: "If the donor is successful, he will be blessed and live long!"
After seeing off the monk, Shi Xing came in and said, "Young master's medicine." He went to the backyard, talked to his master about something, then turned back to Yu Jinnian and said, "My little evil star will be here soon."
Yu Jinnian was lying on the counter, looking at the store, and cooking tea with a small stove. As soon as the tea boiled on the way, Jiang Bingren came bouncing around. His face was ruddy, white and translucent. The slippery little fox walked happily to the front of the shop, when suddenly a man in purple blocked his way.
"Master, may I ask if you have seen..."
Yu Jinnian heard the sound and looked, and saw that the person who stopped Young Master Jiang covered his head with a gray cloth, covering half of his face, standing staggeringly in the wind. The man's clothes were quite old, but it could be vaguely seen that they were the skirts that the little actors in the theater loved to wear. There were a few pink butterflies embroidered on them, which were gender-neutral, so they looked a bit nondescript, but he didn't I love to judge people by their appearance, so I was just curious and didn't take it to heart.
Jiang Bingren was stopped by him for a long time, and suddenly he said happily: "Bai Haitang?"
The other party was taken aback, and took a few steps back, covered his face with a cloth mask, and was about to escape, but was surrounded by a circle of spectators. He was also once a little red, because of his soft voice like a brocade, and because of his unbearable waist, someone spent a lot of money to buy him a golden house, but he was mocked and scolded After a meal.
It happened many years ago, but it is undeniable that the name Bai Haitang has indeed become popular because of such romantic affairs that have been embellished by others. Because of him, the small theater troupe that wandered around was able to gain a foothold in Xin'an County, and even set up a shop and opened a theater.
In order to support the theatrical troupe he grew up with, Bai Haitang, since he first appeared on the stage at the age of ten, never stopped his voice from morning till night. He is no longer as clear and bright as he was when he was young, not to mention that his illness has come down like a mountain, and now he has long been unable to sing.
But people's heart for gossip will not be diminished by this. Instead, it will be diverged by the rumors of various charming stories about him. I wish I could peel him off on the spot, and see what's going on under this beauty's surface. How many dirty lice and dirty fleas.
Bai Haitang loved beauty all his life, and couldn't bear it the most. He suddenly became at a loss and took off his costume. He didn't know how to face this group of onlookers who wanted to gouge him out. into the eyes of a young man.
Just looking at each other for a moment, he quickly lowered his eyelids, Yu Jinnian walked out of the counter, pretending to be angry and said: "Master Jiang, why don't you come in, why are you blocking my business?"
Jiang Bingren came in reluctantly, and turned back to look at Bai Haitang. Seeing that the dilapidated beauty was about to be surrounded by people, Yu Jinnian tore through the crowd and went straight in. Haitang brought it in: "Since you are acquainted with Young Master Jiang, let's come in for a sip of tea."
Everyone saw that Bai Haitang had entered a bowl of noodle shop, and since Bawang Jiang was inside, they didn't dare to come in to make trouble, and dispersed one after another.
Bai Haitang withdrew her hand in shock, and said timidly, "Go and wash..."
"What's the matter?" Yu Jinnian smiled inexplicably, put half a renminbi of Wumei ginger medicine powder in the teacups, brewed it with freshly brewed tea, and gave each of Jiang Bingren and Bai Haitang a cup, "Sit down , Nuan Nuan. Listening just now... Who are you looking for?"
Bai Haitang was stuffed with a teacup in his hand, he refused to sit down, as if standing in a bowl of noodle restaurant would have stained the floor tiles of others, his cold fingers were steamed by a cup of steaming ginger tea, he carefully Looking at the cup in his hand, seeing that it was just an ordinary small white porcelain cup, he dared to ask: "...can you give me this cup?"
He suddenly felt a pain in his body, he didn't hold his hand, and spilled some tea, Yu Jinnian hurriedly took a towel to wipe his hands, Bai Haitang snatched the towel away, and asked in a mournful voice: "This, this rag give it to me..."
Yu Jinnian thought it was funny, and teased him: "You have stood on my brick before, do you want to pry it back together?"
"..." Bai Haitang looked at the back of his feet, as if he was really thinking about the possibility of prying the floor tiles back. Fortunately, he was still a little rational, knowing that this was impossible, and a look of distress appeared on his face.
Jiang Bingren took the opportunity to say: "I love listening to your operas the most! Have you recovered from your illness, and when will you perform on stage again?"
Bai Haitang said depressedly: "Thank you. From now on... I won't sing anymore."
Jiang Bingren was a little disappointed: "Who did you find just now?"
Bai Haitang hurriedly said: "My name is Su Ting, a scholar. He is not very tall, has bright eyes, and looks very honest. He always gets lost. He is mine, mine..." At this point, he slowly closed his mouth , He rejected Su Ting last night, and Su Ting disappeared this morning. He had promised to stay with him at home, but now he is nowhere to be seen. The academy is empty, and the bookstore Su Ting often goes to is also closed.
Su Ting never went to other places, let alone leave the house without saying a word, so his first thought was if something happened to Su Ting, but he calmed down and thought about it again, maybe—
Maybe, Su Ting didn't want him anymore.
That's right, who wants a burden that doesn't hug or sleep, but only gets sick and drags people down.
Bai Haitang turned around and felt a sense of despair. He felt that the sky was falling, and he was panicked and at a loss, so he heard Yu Jinnian say: "Stretch out your hand. If you don't stretch out, I will touch you!"
Hearing this, he hastily stretched out a palm and handed it to the other party, whispering, "Don't touch me, really don't."
Yu Jinnian took out a Tusu bag from behind, and gently put it in his palm: "The illness will be cured."
"Ah." Bai Haitang sighed softly, "I..." He wanted to say that he had seen it before, not only had he seen it, but he already had two at home. He thought of the kind boss that Su Ting had mentioned before, so he had another look. Yu Jinnian in front of him hurriedly bowed his head and said to him, "Thank you, thank you."
Jiang Bingren also said "ah": "Why don't I have this!"
He was angry that Yu Jinnian would give it to others and not to himself, so he jumped up on the spot to touch it, but Yu Jinnian grabbed his hand in the air, and lightly reprimanded: "What are you grabbing, I will give it to you later."
Jiang Bingren felt that he was abnormal today, but he didn't know what was wrong, so he sat down sleepily.
Before Bai Haitang even raised her bow, there was another sound outside the door: "—Haitang!"
Several people turned their heads at the same time. Su Ting ran in panting, with anxious face and two buns in his hands. He came in and checked Bai Haitang up and down, and only swallowed the buns hanging in his throat when he saw that he was not injured. With a heart, he blamed: "Why did you come here, it's hard for me to find."
"You..." Yu Jinnian became angry when he saw him, and when he heard him call Haitang again, he suddenly realized in his heart that the sick crabapple in his mouth was the white crabapple in front of him.
Su Ting saw that he was holding a bowl of noodle shop teacups and a dishcloth in his hand, and hurriedly said: "Give back the things, we are going home." Then he apologized to Yu Jinnian, "I'm sorry, I didn't know he came here."
"Give this to me." Knowing that he didn't want her, Bai Haitang couldn't help being happy, but she still clenched her hands stubbornly, and repeated in a low voice, "The boss gave it to me."
Su Ting felt guilty, and was embarrassed to take another bowl of things from the noodle shop: "There are cups at home, what do you do with others?"
Bai Haitang refused: "It's really for me."
"If he likes it, just take it." Yu Jinnian didn't care about it, the owner of the shop had already spoken, and Su Ting couldn't say anything, but his momentum was greatly shortened, and he hurriedly led Bai Haitang home.
Bai Haitang asked: "Where did your injury come from?"
Su Ting said: "It's okay, go home and talk about it."
"Hey, that little bastard." The two walked out of the noodle shop, and Yu Jinnian cursed suddenly. He thought about the thief's name, "Su Ting, wait a minute."
Su Ting led Bai Haitang to the door of the store, told him not to walk around here, and ran back to Yu Jinnian. Before he could stand still, he said sorry, "I really didn't know he ran out. , I forgot to tell him when I went out that Yue Mo came out to look for me."
Yu Jinnian was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so he became serious and asked directly: "Do you have any illnesses?"
"Ah?" Su Ting was puzzled, and it took him a long time before he said, "No."
"You really don't have those rashes on his body? Show me his hands and feet." Yu Jinnian ordered.
"Foot?" Su Ting stretched out his hand to show him, Bai Nennen slapped her twice, without even a mole, then hopped on one foot, took off her shoes and socks in front of Yu Jinnian, and gave him the foot After some appreciation, "What do you want to see? Do you want to take off your clothes?"
Seeing that Su Ting's hands and feet were really clean, Yu Jinnian was still puzzled: "Aren't you two together?"
Su Ting didn't expect him to say this, and his face turned red immediately: "Yes, we are together, we are in love, we are in heat, we are in love..."
What he said was elegant, but in fact, it has nothing to do with it.
Yu Jinnian heaved a sigh of relief, the sentence "little bastard" was off the mark. Although this scholar is a thief, he is not a bastard. He waved his hand and chased people away: "Hurry up and put on your shoes, go away! I Let me tell you first, don't think about what you have and what you don't have, and be your gentleman. Don't read your sage book into the stomach of a dog!"
"It's already been dug out from the dog's stomach, so remember it!" Su Ting jumped on his shoes, and left with Bai Haitang who had been anxiously waiting outside the door.
Jiang Bingren saw that the two of them were chattering away, and didn't know what they were talking about, so he asked Brother Nian, but Brother Nian refused to say anything. He was so angry that he squatted in a bowl of noodle shop and ate two large plates of fried rice cakes, and then shouted Followed Shi Xing to make a pot of sweet wine to eat.
Yu Jinnian opened the curtain and went to the backyard to wash his hands, when he bumped into Ji Hong, he was startled for a moment: "Why are you so used to hiding here and listening to people's walls?"
Ji Hong brought fat beads to him: "What kind of disease makes you face such a catastrophe."
Rubbing a few fat beads made his palms turn red, Yu Jinnian was stunned, then sighed, and said with a gloomy expression, "It's probably bayberry sore."