"When did you arrive?" Gu Shiba Niang asked with a smile.
"This morning." Xin Chaoyang said with a smile, pointing at his face, "It's eight hundred miles to hurry up. You can't change horses but people... Look, it's so dusty."
He has grown a beard in the past two years, and his eyes are now blue. The warm and moist atmosphere of the past few years has faded a lot, and he has gained a bit of wind and frost.
"I feel so bad..." Gu Shiba Niang curled her lips.
Xin Chaoyang smiled, stretched out his hand to stroke his short beard, "Okay, stop teasing..." He stretched out his hand to her.
"What?" Gu Shiba Niang asked, looking at the hand stretched out in front of her, she was stunned for a moment and then looked away.
"Where are the dog bones and ashes I want?" Xin Chaoyang asked, "If you don't know how to make them, you don't have to leave without even saying a word."
After leaving Lizhou, she indeed left quietly, saying to the outside world that she was going to Haozhou. In fact, she just passed by Haozhou to purchase Haosiao and went north without stopping.
Unexpectedly, Xin Chaoyang followed her as soon as she arrived here. She must have walked a lot...
"Young Master..." Gu Shiba Niang sighed softly and looked at him with a smile, "Yes, I left without saying goodbye. I was wrong..."
"You must be touched." Xin Chaoyang once again stretched out his hand to stroke his short beard and said with a bit of pride.
Gu Shiba Niang couldn't help but roll her eyes.
"Yes, I am touched. I will not deliberately exclude you Da Yousheng in the future. I will treat everyone equally, and I will give medicine based on the price. I will not raise the price or sell it short..." She said repeatedly, "The old grudges have been wiped out..."
"That's what you said..." Xin Chaoyang said with a smile, and immediately pulled a piece of paperwork from his sleeve, "... The delivery date for the dog bones and ashes can be filled in."
Gu Shiba Niang laughed, turned around and found a pen from the counter, but there was no ink.
"I'll come..." Xin Chaoyang came over, holding his sleeves with one hand and studying ink.
"Okay...I'll make it in this day and give it to you..." Gu Shiba Niang dipped her pen lightly in ink and wrote the words "the second day of April" on the document.
"Thank God, the dog bone ashes are rarely used, but if you really want to use them, it's really hard to find someone..." Xin Chaoyang shook the document carefully and said with a smile.
"It's not easy..." Gu Shiba Niang replied, looking at him and smiling, "Young Master, go back..."
"I'll leave in a moment..." Xin Chaoyang said.
"Go back to Jiankang..." Gu Shiba Niang said again, smiling slightly, "I know your thoughts in the past few years... Go back..."
Xin Chaoyang also smiled slightly and shook his head.
"If you miss it, you miss it..." Gu Shiba Niang sighed softly.
"But who said you were wrong and you can't do it over again?" Xin Chaoyang said with a smile, "Since you have the opportunity to do it over again, why not try it? No matter what the result is, as long as you try it and try your best, it will be better. How can I regret it in the future? Didn’t do that…”
"Can we do it again?" Gu Shiba Niang raised her eyebrows and shook her head gently.
"It's not too late, isn't it." Xin Chaoyang smiled, "Speaking of which, I'm so lucky that you came over and woke me up that day...otherwise..."
He spoke in a long tone, with a bit of sadness and a bit of joy.
"Otherwise...it would be too late to regret it, then it would be too late..." he said.
Gu Shiba Niang also smiled when she heard him talk about what happened that day.
"I was a little too much at that time..." she said, feeling a little sad. Looking back on that day, she felt a little want to laugh. At that time, she was so young and arrogant. Four years have passed in the blink of an eye, "Four years..." so fast….."
"I'm leaving. I'll go back and take a nap for a while. I'll see you another day..." Xin Chaoyang waved his hand and started walking away.
"Believe in Chaoyang." Gu Shiba Niang called him.
Xin Chaoyang looked back at her and curled his lips, "What do you want me to do?"
"I know that I am special in your eyes, so you are very curious. Everyone wants novel things..." Gu Shiba Niang looked at him and said slowly, "But if it is possible, I don't think anyone would want it." To be a special person, if possible, I would rather be like all living beings, mediocre and boring..."
Xin Chaoyang turned his head without moving or speaking.
"So that's it..." Gu Shiba Niang continued.
Before she finished speaking, Xin Chaoyang suddenly turned around and walked over, his eye circles slightly red.
"Baba Niang, don't say that..." He whispered, his expression was not as relaxed and free as before, but rare and solemn. He stood in front of Gu Ba Niang, but did not look up at her, but lowered his head. Eyesight, "You are like this... It makes me feel very sad... Yes, at first, it was curiosity. I always thought it was just curiosity. Until that day, you stood in front of me, smiled and said congratulations to me. You were smiling, but I saw It's so sad in your eyes... Eighteen Niangs... From that moment on, I have only one thought, I want to spend my whole life to warm you... Even if there is no result in the end, you can know that there is a person in this world I am willing to spend my whole life repaying your sorrow at that moment..."
Gu Shiba Niang felt her throat was sore and she couldn't help coughing.
"I see that you are really tired from the journey..." She frowned and said, "Why do you listen to this, as if I hate you because of my love..."
Xin Chaoyang lowered his head and seemed to chuckle, "I'm not tempted, where does the hatred come from."
"You!" Gu Shiba Niang bit her lip and raised her eyebrows, then snorted and smiled again, "Okay, even if it is, what's wrong with being tempted? If the heart can move, can't you die?"
"Okay..." Xin Chaoyang raised his head, a smile appeared on his face, "Okay... I won't bother you anymore... Whatever you say is whatever you say. If I make you feel uncomfortable, I will leave for a while... Don't be angry... ..”
As he spoke, he stroked the short beard on his lips.
Gu Shiba Niang finally rolled her eyes and said, "I said, can you shave off your beard? You are not young anymore...it makes you look older..."
Xin Chaoyang laughed, waved to her, turned and left without saying another word.
Standing in the empty shop, Gu Shiba Niang stood silently for a moment and rubbed her sore eyes.
"People often say that your eyes get dry as you get older, but why do I get smaller and smaller as I grow older, and I feel like crying every now and then..." She said to herself, laughing at herself, "The more I live, the more I go back..."
She shook her head, closed the door gently, and went inside.
"These are the four great medicines..." Gu Shiba Niang curiously picked up a handful of chrysanthemums and looked at the ripe land aside. Some of the purchased medicinal materials were delivered and filled half the room.
"What are the four great medicines?" the little maid asked curiously.
"The rehmannia glutinosa, yam, oxtail, and chrysanthemum in Huaiqing Prefecture are the best and are of the highest quality, so they are called the four great Huaiqing medicines..." Gu Shiba Niang explained, looking at them carefully one by one, and nodded. "Yes, it is indeed top quality, I want it all..."
"Okay, thank you, Mrs. Gu, for the compliment. Our Huaiqing Medicine has become more famous..." The steward in green clothes smiled and said thanks.
"No, it's the medicine." Gu Shiba Niang smiled and ordered the check.
"Ms. Gu, our Qinhuai Guild Hall is on Yaowangmiao Street. Mrs. Gu, please go and sit down while you enjoy your time..." the steward said with an apologetic smile, handing over a gold-plated name card.
"Okay." Gu Shiba Niang nodded lightly, and the little maid beside her reached out to take it after understanding.
The manager's smiling eyes were slits, and he thanked her profusely before leading the person away.
"Miss, I heard that the Qinhuai Guild Hall is very well built. There is a big theater inside. People say that the Thirteenth Gang is a large area, and it is not as big as the Huaiband." The maid clapped her hands happily, "But They won't let in with the door closed...even rich people..."
Gu Shiba Niang smiled, "Rich people, their Huailai gang is a big drug dealer, aren't they rich people? Do they care about other rich people?"
"Yes..." The little maid also giggled, "They rarely appreciate a great pharmacist like Miss..."
Gu Shiba Niang smiled and knocked her head, "Go and ask people to move all the medicinal materials to the warehouse..."
The little maid answered with a smile.
Gu Shiba Niang stood at the door and subconsciously looked to the opposite side. She saw that the shop there was open and people were coming in and out, but Xin Chaoyang was not there. It seemed that she had left. . . . .
"Is Master Xin sick? Why haven't we seen him for a long time..." Someone suddenly stood next to him and said softly.
"Sister-in-law...you just say someone is sick when you can't see them?" Gu Shiba Niang turned around and said.
The woman covered her mouth and smiled, "Didn't I guess this for you? Sister, you look out several times a day..."
Gu Shiba Niang frowned and looked at the woman in front of her with some helplessness.
She is in her early twenties, has high sideburns, wears a colorful embroidered skirt and a moon-white embroidered skirt. She has an oval face and a smile with two dimples. She looks dignified and virtuous.
"Sister-in-law, after all, you are also the rich daughter of the magistrate's family, and now you are a mother. Can you stop being so reserved and reserved..." Gu Shiba Niang pretended to be helpless.
"Hey, why are you so reserved? Sister, there are no outsiders here. Don't believe those words. Be reserved. If you are reserved, I can still be your sister-in-law..." The woman covered her mouth and smiled, raising her hand to push her, "Go and take a look. , go take a look..."
"Sister-in-law, if you keep doing this, I will suspect that you are rushing me to get married..." Gu Shiba Niang avoided her and raised her hand to stop her.
"No doubt, sister-in-law, that's what I think..." The woman simply grabbed her and pushed her out the door, rushing back and shouting, "Wu Ni'er, why are you dawdling? Come out quickly with your things..."
A little girl ran out carrying a basket and kept saying yes.
"Gao Lanmei, I'm going to get really annoyed if you keep doing this..." Gu Shiba Niang was blocked by her, a little panicked, and stamped her feet.
"It's annoying, it's annoying. You can't annoy the other person a few times. It's no big deal. You just think too much about things. You're so long-winded and careless. You've figured out everything. What's the point of living your life? ...." The woman was still laughing and hurried to the girl, "Be quick and go out with the lady..."
"Yes, young lady..." the little maid smiled and took Gu Shiba Niang's arm, "Miss, let's go..."
"It's so easy to say..." Gu Shiba Niang smiled bitterly, not wanting to understand that it was not certain whether she could survive her life. She looked at the woman's smiling face and couldn't help but sigh softly, with a trace of envy flashing in her eyes.
"It's so easy to begin with, but you think too much!" The woman waved her hand at her and simply closed the door.
"How can there be such a sister-in-law!" Gu Shiba Niang was helpless and wanted to laugh. Seeing the curious looks from passers-by around her, she couldn't help but feel a little ashamed. She turned around quickly and hesitated to lift her feet.
"Let's go, Miss...you see, others are watching the fun..." The little maid obviously had a good eye for words, and she hurriedly said.
As expected, Gu Shiba Niang didn't dare to stand still, so she walked a few steps, and when she saw she crossed the middle of the road, her steps slowed down again.
Isn't this good... I just drove him away, and after not seeing him for a while, I kept visiting him again. This is too...
"Miss, I gave you that dog ash last time..." the little maid said as she thought of something.
"It's dog bones and ashes..." Gu Shiba Niang corrected.
"That's it... I didn't give enough money..." the little maid said.
"Why didn't you give me enough? Pay the deposit first and pay for the delivery, but there is no precedent for defaulting..." Gu Shiba Niang frowned and stared at the little maid, "You have been following me all these days, and you have followed me in vain?"
"Miss, the shopkeeper said that we have just opened and the capital turnover is not working well. Please give me a period of grace... we all know each other so well..." the little maid said a little aggrieved.
"It's so familiar! When he asked me to pay back the interest on the loan of three million taels of silver, it didn't feel familiar at all!" Gu Shiba Niang said with a snort, and immediately quickened her pace and ran towards Da Yousheng, "It turned out that Dare to pay!"
The little maid chuckled and quickened her pace to follow.
Watching the two figures walking towards Da Yousheng, the two people who had been standing under the eaves of the street corner slowly turned around. They both wore big hats, covering their faces, and wore dusty clothes. A man and a woman can be seen above.
After walking along the street for a while, the woman gently lifted her hat, revealing Lingbao's face.
"Brother..." She reached out and shook the man's arm hard, her voice choked with sobs, "...it's better to go see the lady..."
Lingyuan was silent for a moment and shook his head.
"Actually, we should have left since Miss saved you and me from the snow that day..." He said slowly, his hat covering half of his face, only revealing Dun Dun's lower jaw.
I was just greedy for the warmth I had never had before, and lost my way step by step.
"Miss, you are right. Everyone has their own path. It is ultimately up to you to decide how to take this path..." He held Lingbao's hand with his backhand, "Now, we should go Our way…”
Lingbao burst into tears, biting his lower lip and nodded.
"Brother, where are we going?" she asked, reaching out to wipe away her tears and looking at Lingyuan.
Lingyuan slightly lifted the brim of his hat and looked north.
"How lucky I am that I can still survive such a catastrophic disaster..." He said with some emotion and firm eyes, "Let's go back to our hometown..."
"But the golden dog still occupies that place..." Lingbao asked in confusion.
"Yes, I'm going to join the army and drive away the golden dog, and then we can go home..." Lingyuan said with a smile.
Lingbao nodded and held his hand tightly.
When he reached the end of the street, Lingyuan looked back again, took out the piece of jade tied to the red rope from his collar, and held it tightly in his hand.
"Let's go." He said, turned around and strode away.
Lingbao also withdrew his gaze and followed with small steps. The figures of the two brothers gradually faded away.
Gu Shiba Niang was already a little uncomfortable when she walked in. When Xin Chaoyang, who was wearing a brown cloak, walked out of the room and looked at her with a hair-raising smile, she could no longer sit still.
"...I'm really sick, I'm really sick..." Xin Chaoyang said hurriedly.
"It is inevitable for people to eat whole grains..." Gu Shiba Niang said in a low voice, hesitated for a moment, and sat down.
Xin Chaoyang sat opposite, stroking his short beard and started laughing again.
Since growing this short beard, he has made this subconscious move more often.
No one spoke, and the atmosphere in the room was a bit strange.
"Why do you owe the dog bone ashes?" Gu Shiba Niang asked first with a dry laugh.
"Owed? Who owes money? That's so bold..." Xin Chaoyang immediately frowned and asked the boy standing beside him.
"Master, you are sick, and the shopkeeper didn't dare to disturb you..." the boy replied hurriedly, "without your bracelet, the money would be a few days late..."
"Send it to Mrs. Gu quickly." Xin Chaoyang said.
The boy hurriedly went down in response.
Gu Shiba Niang looked at him for a moment and saw that his expression was indeed a little sluggish and his face was a little pale.
"What's the disease? How long has it been?" she asked.
"It's nothing, that's fine..." Xin Chaoyang did not answer directly, but laughed.
"Then take good care of yourself," Gu Shiba Niang didn't ask any more questions, smiled, stood up, "Take care..."
"I'll send you..." Xin Chaoyang stood up.
"It's windy and cold outside, stay here." Gu Shiba Niang shook her head.
Xin Chaoyang looked at her and smiled.
"Why are you laughing?" Gu Shiba Niang frowned, "Isn't it abnormal for me to say this?"
Xin Chaoyang laughed loudly, "No, no."
As he said this, he stepped past her and went out. Gu Shiba Niang pursed her lips and followed.
As soon as I walked out of the house, I saw a boy running over.
"Master, Miss Yuan is here..." he said.
"Which Miss Yuan?" Xin Chaoyang asked casually, then stopped, "Didn't I say I was sick and wouldn't see guests?"
"Miss Yuan, Commander-in-Chief of Quzhou..." the young man said hurriedly, looking up, "That's the one we saved on the way..."
Before he finished speaking, Xin Chaoyang noticed the strange aura of the person behind him and hurriedly turned around to look.
"Eighteen Mother?" He couldn't help but ask.
Gu Shiba Niang's face was slightly pale, her eyes were stunned, and she seemed to be dull.
"The Yuan family in Quzhou..." She murmured, her eye circles suddenly turning red, "But...Yuan Sufang..."
"I really don't know what it's called... I encountered bandits when I walked to Caizhou. This young lady from the Yuan family was trapped... They said that my family is a general here..." Xin Chaoyang said, frowning and looking at her, " Do you...recognize her?"
"You said you saved her?" Gu Shiba Niang looked at him with a strange expression.
Xin Chaoyang nodded, "It doesn't count as a rescue. Everyone is besieged... What's wrong?"
Gu Shiba Niang shook her head and said nothing. A strange smile appeared on her face, which seemed sad and sad.
"It was you who saved her this time..." She murmured, taking a deep breath.
Xin Chaoyang smiled and asked jokingly: "Then who saved her that time?"
Gu Shiba Niang did not look at him, but focused her gaze in the direction of the door.
Shen Anlin…
Also in Caizhou, he was also a bandit. He saved her majestically. She gratefully came to express her gratitude. It was not convenient to meet the man, so the one who invited him was naturally his mistress...
Watching movies... visiting parks... talking and joking... that kind of hand-in-hand joy and sisterly love...
For Gu Shiba Niang in that life, living in solitude, it was undoubtedly the rain from heaven...
"Eighteen Mother, what's wrong?" Xin Chaoyang stopped joking, looked solemn, and watched a tear fall from the girl's face.
"It's okay..." Gu Shiba Niang stretched out her hand to wipe it and smiled, "I just thought of something and lost my composure..."
Xin Chaoyang looked at her, reached out and patted her shoulder gently, smiled, and said nothing.
"I heard that Master Xin was ill, and Su Fang came to visit our benefactor..."
There was a soft sound outside the door, and the graceful figure of a woman appeared.
Gu Shiba Niang watched the woman slowly walk in, her face as beautiful and bright as a water lotus gradually enlarged and became clear in front of her eyes.
As if she was aware of the scrutiny, she also looked over, turned her spiritual eyes, hesitated for a moment, smiled slightly, and nodded in greeting.
Gu Shiba Niang also smiled and looked away.
There will always be things like this in life, whether it is fate or fate, what does it matter
She had let go, let go of her fear.
As my brother said, there are countless twists and turns in a person's life, and the road is unpredictable. Since you embark on this road of life, don't be afraid, whether it is bumpy or bumpy, it may be flat and smooth. Live with an open heart, live happily and joyfully, without fear of life or death.
Even if you try your best, it is called learning, and the Master calls it learning.
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This is the ending I wanted to write.
Of course, there are still stories to come, but Gu Shiba Niang has let go and is no longer afraid. It can be believed that she will make herself live a good life, truly reborn, and truly live. Everyone involved in the whirlpool of fate, Cai Wen, Gu Yu, Ling Yuan Ling Bao, Shen Anlin, and Xin Chaoyang all found their own way and went their own way.
Therefore, I will not write the next story, because at this time, Gu Shiba Niang will definitely be living well. Next, I will slowly write the extra stories about their marriage, children, and pharmaceuticals. Each story will be very short. Friends who like to read it can come and read it from time to time, but there is no need to watch it every day.
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Some readers said they couldn’t understand what I was writing and what I wanted to write. They had no clue and the main line was confusing. Some readers saw the worship of money and power, some saw the power of Goldfinger and there was no logic, some saw the Virgin, and some Seeing Yinhan, there is actually no need to say what I want to write. My writing skills are limited, and what everyone sees and understands may not necessarily be what I want to express. In the eyes of a thousand people, there are a thousand different things, haha.
I hope that all girls can be strong and don’t give up on themselves, especially their lives, just for a failure, whether it’s a relationship or a life. I hope that I will never see suicide again, especially suicide for love. The message is that there are many things worth cherishing in life, and love is not all.
I hope that all girls can be brave. Life is unfair and rough. When you are desperate, you must persevere and believe that you can go on. As long as you want to go, there must be a way. Go, wait until you have passed by, look back, those things that once made the world collapse and the world ended, are actually nothing more than that. When it is over, it is over. There are no obstacles that cannot be overcome.
I hope that all girls can be kind. The world is complicated, with darkness, conspiracies, and all kinds of ugliness. But everyone must believe that darkness, complexity, and ugliness are facts, but they are not truth. We cannot abandon justice just because of facts. , we must believe in love and beauty. The reason why people are human is because we are so complicated, and our experiences and feelings are also so complicated.
So, thank you for following along, girls, see you again, or maybe not.