【Ice Nine】Cage

The winter in Changping Mountains is usually wet and cold. It is so cold that people's bones ache, but they can't condense a few snowflakes. It just loves rain.The rain was as cold as the snow.

Rainy days always seem to be restless, just like the restless sound of ticking on the roof, leaves, and grass tips.

Since ancient times, there have been many discussions between idiots and women who complained, either starting with heavy rain or ending with light rain.This rain, left and right is not what makes people happy.

Changping Ridge is neither a ridge nor a mountain, it is just a casual name. There are people from different places gathered here, each of them is different, and even the style of the houses is uneven, but it has been considered peaceful for many years.

In an exceptionally rainy place here, the constant rain all day and all night is really annoying.

Butcher Zhang went out early in the morning to set up the stall. It was very cold and rainy. He had not paid attention to the cause of his illness before. Now he only feels pain in his kneecap and wants to scold his mother. He only hopes that the fresh pork will be sold out soon. You can take it back.

The cold wind was howling and the rain was heavy, and it was useless to shout. He simply stopped screaming, and shivered with his hands tucked into his sleeves to keep warm. His eyes were full of rough white air.

Li Shusheng, who lives in a thatched house at the head of the village, is a poor and desolate man. He wants to read all the books in the world, but he stays in the village all year round and does not go out. It's not clear.

Butcher Zhang looked up at the man's tattered clothes, and snorted disdainfully: "If you don't buy it, then don't read it, you can't afford it even if you read it."

Li Shusheng became angry, stabilized his broken and leaking umbrella, raised his fingers and cursed: "You vulgar and reckless man, don't look down on me!"

As he spoke, he angrily took out a few copper coins, slapped them on the chopping board, and said, "I'm going to eat meat today!"

I don't know how long he kept those shiny copper plates. Butcher Zhang was blinded by the thin oily light. He quickly wiped them over with his quick eyes. He quickly picked up the knife and chopped off a small piece of meat. Said, no more, no less, just right.

He threw the wrapped meat to Li Shusheng, waved his hand and said boldly: "Take it away."

"you you……"

Li Shusheng put his arms around the meat that was thrown to his chest, obviously scoffing at his rude and rude behavior, but he couldn't help him, rolling his eyes and gesticulating with anger.The two have never been very confrontational, although they will never fight, but they will inevitably exchange a few words.

"What are you?" Butcher Zhang unceremoniously pushed away his finger pointing at his nose.

Li Shusheng stared at him and muttered a few words such as "vulgar person" and "unsightly", etc. He only said a few words, and he always felt puzzled.

After a long while, his eyeballs rolled suddenly, and he smiled a little frivolously at Butcher Zhang who was sitting on the chair, and leaned closer and whispered: "Oh, I heard that you delivered meat to the guy at the end of the village yesterday, why, man Is it reasonable to you? Tell me, if I tell your mother-in-law about this..."

With a sound of "dong", the wide butcher's knife was firmly nailed to the cutting board. Butcher Zhang stared round, blushed and choked, "I just can't bear to see her alone!"

Li Shusheng was so bluffed by his blow, he came back to his senses and continued to sneer: "If it wasn't for the beautiful parents, you would go there?"

"you!!"

Butcher Zhang almost raised his knife to chop people up. He thought to himself that these scholars were full of bad things, and they were really hated.

"Can't speak anymore? She is a hundred times more beautiful than your mother-in-law, so it's not surprising that you are courteous for nothing." Li Shusheng snorted.

But soon, he couldn't laugh anymore.

Butcher Zhang sat back in his chair peacefully, his bushy beard gave him a bit of aura, he said with a sneer: "I heard that someone wrote a basket of sour letters to them, but was It's a pity that people burned it face to face, tsk tsk."

With a bang, Li Shusheng's face suddenly turned completely red, and he struggled to death, saying: "I'm that...I'm not..."

He was confused and didn't know what to say.

"You are obviously also greedy for that leather face, and you have taken a fancy to him."

"I do not have……"

"Dare you say it?"

"I……"

The rain is still heavy, and occasionally a few people are in a hurry on the street. This ordinary dispute is really insignificant.

……

The winter rain gradually fell on the umbrella and made a dull sound, and then fell along the umbrella surface and shattered on the bluestone slab, mixing with the accumulated water on the ground.

It's cold and sad.

The water droplets splashed and wet the outsider's dark clothes corners, just like the chaotic thoughts crawling across, which are also hard to find in the luxurious clothes corners.

The cold bluestone path is paved with a layer of water color, with patches of water splashing on the surface, reflecting the blue and gray sky, which is quite lonely.

The sound of two footsteps set off ripples on the ground, gently and calmly, with the same steps and movements.

pat- pat-

It's the same sound of trampling on rainwater and footsteps hitting stone slabs.

The two figures, one in front of the other, are neither far nor close in the misty rain and fog, but they always maintain a certain distance, as if an invisible barrier keeps the two of them in an inseparable and inaccessible situation, and it seems that there is a rope that binds the two. People are imprisoned together, it is difficult to separate.

Under the vast blue sky, among the white walls and black tiles, there seemed to be only these two figures left.

Suddenly, for a moment, the breeze pierced the rain curtain, disturbing the momentum of the raindrops falling straight to the ground, and a few drops of rainwater that had been diverted from the path fell on the two people's robes with the coldness of deep winter.

——The figure behind caught up and broke the silence first.

His slender and cold fingers grasped the wrist of the person in front of him, his voice trembling slightly soaked in the cold air.

"Shen Qingqiu..."

The person who was caught seemed to be terribly frightened, and his body wrapped in thick winter clothes shook suddenly. Seeing that the hands of the people behind him did not show signs of letting go, he had to turn his umbrella to the side, and turned his head to look at the person who was holding it suspiciously. own people.

The people behind her were shocked when they saw her face. The astonishment on her face might be the unbelievable misidentification. When they saw that the person whose wrist was grabbed by him was still full of belly, it was more like grabbing a hot potato. .But still did not let go.

That is a very beautiful woman.

The slightly rouged face had just the right amount of brilliance, and in the cold wind and rain, there was a bit of aloofness, with curved eyebrows and phoenix eyes, but soft outlines.Even if you wear heavy clothes, you can still see a somewhat thin figure.

Because a hand pulled her wrist up, when she turned her head, her swollen belly could be clearly seen.

Obviously, this is a beautiful woman who is pregnant.

At this time, the woman was trying to pull out her wrist in doubt, her face full of confusion.

The icy rain hit the sleeves of the hands and sleeves of the two of them, creating a patch of cold dampness that staggered between the blue and black clothes.

The woman opened her mouth, struggling to free her hand from the stunned man, she looked a little annoyed, but couldn't make a sound.

In the end, she had no choice but to let him hold her, and the two of them were deadlocked in the torrential rain.

"Niniang!"

A rough roar made the man's hand tremble, and after a few hesitations, he finally slowly released the woman's hand.

Another human voice was inserted into this side of the misty rain, which ended the two people's unseemly dragging.

Jiuniang was obviously a little angry, but still shook her wet sleeves, nodded Zhili, and walked towards the butcher with an umbrella, leaving only the person in gorgeous black clothes lingering in the cold water.

Butcher Zhang cut off a large piece of the best meat without hesitation, wrapped it carefully and handed it to Jiuniang.

He obviously saw the tugging between the two in the rain just now, and he said with hatred: "Jiu Niang, if you have any difficulties, you can tell the big guys, some people just bully you so you can't speak, don't feel wronged Own."

"Some people" are still standing upright in the bleak winter rain, their expressions are hidden under the umbrella and cannot be seen clearly.

Jiu Niang picked up the meat, took out the silver taels from the hidden pocket in her sleeve, and nodded to him to show that she knew.

Butcher Zhang refused to ask for silver taels, and made gestures with a red face.

Jiu Niang ignored him, she carried the meat, put her thin white fingertips on the handle of the umbrella, and walked slowly into the heavy rain while supporting her belly.

Zhang Butcher was so excited that he had nowhere to vent his emotions, so he said loudly to the thin figure who was gradually disappearing in the rain: "Jiu Niang! You are inconvenient, so you don't have to come out in person next time. I will send the meat home for you! Jiu Niang !"

The hoarse voice penetrated the pouring rain and fell into the Qingshi Lane, and was suppressed by the rain, disappearing in the dripping water.

Zhang Butcher blushed and roared thickly, his mind was still hot, but when he was about to sit down, his whole body froze.

If he felt something, he raised his head and saw a pair of dark red eyes. The extremely handsome young man in black held an umbrella and looked at him with a half-smile.

……

Damn, that look, why... a little scary...

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★Happy New Year's Day^Time flies so fast, 2019 is here

★Both chapters have timeline jumps, and both are three months.In the first three months, Jiumei was particularly miserable, running with the ball all the time, exhausted.For the last three months, I raised my baby in this private place called Changpingling.Also, Brother Bing didn't look for Jiumei these days. As for what he did, I will write it in the episode later.