Little Xiucai's Flowery Love History

Xuzhou is a place where the north and the south meet, where water, land and boats travel. There are many merchants and merchants, and it is very lively.Just after February, the spring was still thin, but suddenly it rained heavily. It rained for several days in a row. It was very cold and muddy everywhere, so there were few pedestrians on the street.Even those who had to go out shyly held their bamboo umbrellas, stomped around in spiked shoes, and cursed the damn weather loudly.

This kind of weather is not suitable for going out, but there is a handsome young man of eighteen or nineteen years old, holding a stack of thick paper and holding an umbrella, hurrying along.

The owner of Huaxiang Cloth Store, Qiu Hui, smiled and called him to stop him: "Brother Tao, are you going to deliver scriptures to the temple again? The road is not easy to travel, so let's go another day."

Tao Linghua laughed back and said, "No, I'm waiting for the money to be used. My sister is weak, and the doctor said that she needs to mend it. I rushed to send it to collect the money so that I can buy some fish and meat when I come back."

Qiu Hui hurriedly went out to grab him, and forced him into the store: "It's only a few hundred dollars, I'll advance it to you first, and you can pay me back later. The mountain road is muddy, if you fall, your sister and mother are reliable." Who is it? Let's go another day, come in and have a bowl of hot tea first. Look, your face is blue."

Tao Linghua smiled embarrassedly, agreed, and took his seat.After a while, shopkeeper Qiu brought him a bowl of hot tea, but the tea in this place is not tea made with tea leaves, it is called "tea noodles" to be precise, it is flour fried with oil and salt, and eaten Just rinse with boiling water when it's time.

Shopkeeper Qiu's "tea face" is different, he also added sesame powder and glutinous rice flour, soft and mellow, full of taste, Tao Linghua likes this kind of thing very much, it can be used as tea and rice, and it is very fragrant, drinking a bowl of it is delicious No need to eat.He himself sometimes learns to make it for Fang Ye, but he doesn't do it often. Sesame is very expensive, and money is always tight.Fortunately, I have recently found a few jobs to write couplets and calligraphy. To Tao Linghua, he is quite familiar with it. It is not a celebrity calligraphy and painting that needs to be very delicate, but what ordinary people need. The days are still shallow, and the money saved is not much.Even this job was mostly introduced by shopkeeper Qiu, and I was really grateful to him in my heart.

After eating the face of tea, shopkeeper Qiu whispered: "Didn't you ask me to find someone for your sister last time? I did. Shopkeeper Hu from the tea shop on West Street wants to renew her, but this child is not his own after all. , look... Although I didn't say it clearly, I guess they don't want to bring their children there." Tao Linghua first came here, he only lied that he and Fang Ye were brothers and sisters, and they fell down without meeting their relatives, but they haven't been naturalized yet. After all, I don't know what the future will hold, so let's just make do with it.

Seeing what shopkeeper Qiu said, he lowered his head and thought for a while before replying that he would keep the child for himself.In fact, there is no need to think about it, he and Fang Ye have already discussed it, and the child will stay.

Fang Ye married a woman with an oil bottle, and her future was bleak, so he should keep it by himself. Anyway, he didn't plan to marry in the future, so he just had to raise the child by himself.

But after all, the child is still young, and being away from his mother is the hardest thing, but after much deliberation, there is no expedient solution, so we have to discuss it after the child is weaned.

Shopkeeper Qiu said with a smile: "Then shopkeeper Hu, you also know him. I have known him since we were young. He has a good temperament and a good family life. Even if his wife died early, I think it is quite suitable."

Tao Linghua nodded. With the help of shopkeeper Qiu in this matter, there must be no mistake. Fangye has been trusted for life, and he has relieved a little burden, and can lead the child to live a peaceful life.Thinking of all the past, my heart was suddenly as cold as the heavy rain outside the door, and there was a bitter taste in my mouth. I didn't want to say more, so I quickly got up and said goodbye.Shopkeeper Qiu took a sling of copper coins and stuffed them into his hand, and stuffed a jar of cooked fried noodles. Tao Linghua gratefully took it, said goodbye and went out.

The house that Tao Linghua rented was only one alley away from the shopkeeper Qiu's house, in the alley behind his shop, very close, just a few steps away.When I was chartering a boat on the canal, I happened to meet the shopkeeper Qiu to visit relatives in the capital, so I came to Xuzhou with my companions. I have to say that I was very lucky, and I was able to settle down smoothly with the help of him, a local merchant.

Back home, he took off his spiked shoes and put the bamboo umbrella in the main room before walking to the door of Fang Ye's room, but he didn't hear the child crying or laughing, and asked, "Is Hui'er asleep?"

Fang Ye's voice in the room: "No, just lie down and play, brother come in."

Only then did Tao Linghua lift the curtain and go in.

Although they have been together for more than half a year, they are still a bit reserved and awkward, but Tao Linghua can't abandon her mother and child, so he has to endure it.

Fang Ye was patting the child, who was sucking carelessly with his small fists in his mouth.Tao Linghua put down his tea face, took a closer look and said with a smile: "I'm still very good today, I didn't cry."

Fang Ye also turned her head to look at it and said with a smile: "Yes." Then she asked: "Did brother not go to the temple? He came back soon."

Tao Linghua said: "I didn't go, the shopkeeper Qiu next door borrowed a lot of money first, and then go up the mountain when the weather is better." After a pause, he said: "The shopkeeper Qiu said just now..."

Fang Ye looked up.

"Shopkeeper Qiu said that he found a home for you. It's Shopkeeper Hu from the tea shop on West Street who wants to renew. Look... I've met Shopkeeper Hu. He looks very upright and has a good temperament."

Fang Ye was silent.It took a long time to reply: "But let my brother make the decision. I can do whatever I want."

Tao Linghua could only nod his head and arrange things by himself.

In fact, when Fangye and Fangye went to Xuzhou together, Fangye once knelt down in front of Tao Linghua with tears in her eyes, hoping to marry him and have a home.

But Tao Linghua has lost all hope, how can he accept her?So he didn't agree no matter what, and only agreed to take care of her as well as her brothers and sisters until she got married.Fang Ye had no choice but to obey.Although the two of them got along very awkwardly, Tao Linghua always tried his best to earn money to take care of her mother and child, and did not abandon them and run away.Fang Ye sighed deeply in her heart, accepted this arrangement, and secretly sighed that her life was cheap, and she shouldn't be accompanied by such a good man.

Tao Linghua asks shopkeeper Qiu to help with Fangye's marriage, and spends money to hire a nanny, and at the same time feeds Huier with Fangye, and sets the date of marriage when Huier can leave Fangye.It was now May.

Although Fang Ye was very reluctant to give up, she couldn't help herself, so she had to put on her wedding dress and marry with tears in her eyes.

The child cried and fussed for several nights, because he was still too young, the so-called mother who has a milk is a mother, and he accepted the nurse very quickly.

The nanny was less than 30 years old, she was a widow who had a new husband, and she left behind a posthumous child, who was less than two years old, and moved here with her. Tao Linghua added another burden, and worked hard day and night to support the family.

After dismissing Fang Ye, he was relieved. Although he was tired day and night, he was better than before, and he ate too much. He often hugged Xiao Huier and laughed, but occasionally when he was standing in the yard with the child in his arms, he looked at her. Staring in the direction of the north in a daze.

"Dalang, why are you in a daze? I just made glutinous rice chicken, come and try it!" Nanny Wu Niang called him from the room.

Tao Linghua rolled Hui'er's quilt back and smiled and said, "Okay, Miss Zhou, I'm really sorry that you are tired every day."

"Why are you being polite? Come and eat." Wu Wu Niang is a cheerful woman, very capable, and a master at home and abroad.Tao Linghua has her to help with the housework and take care of the children, which saves her a lot of worry.

Although Fangye came back to look after the child from time to time, Tao Linghua thought it was better to find a chance to move away and leave here, so that Fangye could not suffer any trouble because of the child.

While they were discussing, the courtyard door was slammed suddenly, and Tao Linghua hurried out to have a look. Just as the door opened a crack, he was squeezed in by a huge horse's head.

Tao Linghua was startled, and almost shouted, it's Ugin!

Knowing that it was either Zhao Hua or Zhao Tai, or the two came together, Tao Linghua was really ashamed to see each other, so he wanted to close the door, but Wu Jin was so powerful that when he squeezed hard, the door was all pushed open.Zhao Hua was smiling and standing behind his hands behind his back. Seeing Tao Linghua standing there with a face full of shame, Zhao Hua said with a smile, "Ugin misses you, so I'll bring him to see you."