Bystander

The younger brother today is different from usual, there is nothing in his eyes, like a pool of stagnant water, the younger brother is a person who can read eyes, before the younger brother can speak, he consciously makes a pot of jasmine tea and sends it to the younger brother. I didn't see it, and stared straight at the table without saying a word.

"Shopkeeper, why do I feel that the scholar is not normal today?" The little Er'er leaned against Chu Yao's table and said, "As usual, he was a little bit mournful, but today is really scary? Look at him. His face looks like he hasn't slept for several days. Didn't he run into a female ghost? I heard that there are a lot of fox demons recently, and I just like them as weak scholars. They are good-looking and gentle. Don't you think it's scary to suck their energy?" Xiao Er'er looked serious.

"Hurry up and work, all the guests will come in a while, have you not read the storyteller, have all the masters come?" Chu Yao didn't want to hear Xiao Er'er talking nonsense here, so he hurriedly sent him to work.

"Look, you still don't believe it." Xiao Er'er took out the rag from his waist and put it on his shoulders, "There are no surprises."

Chu Yao whispered to Xiao Er'er's back, "You have never seen anything more strange."

The number of people in the teahouse increased one after another. The storyteller Xingmu patted the teahouse, and the teahouse immediately became lively, but the little brother was out of tune with the surroundings, and he was still sitting there in a daze.

Suddenly the sound of beating gongs and drums outside overshadowed the voice of the storyteller in the teahouse, and everyone scrambled to squeeze out the door to watch the excitement. It turned out that today is the day of Yang Ke, the young lady of the silk and satin village, and she married the prefect’s nephew. , I heard that the magistrate's nephew is handsome and noble, and he is a perfect match with Miss Yang. Not only are the two happily married, but even the spectators in the streets and alleys can't help being happy for the new couple. Only the younger brother heard The festive sound of beating gongs and drums began to cry loudly, as unscrupulous as a child, but no matter how loud he cried, he was drowned in the sound of gongs and drums outside, no one noticed him, only Chu, who didn't like to join in the fun, Yao saw it.

The louder the noise outside, the sadder he cried, as if it was better than the sound of gongs and drums, but his voice was hoarse, and he was the only one who could hear it. , the little brother seemed to have calmed down, lying on the table silently sobbing.

After that, the little brother still came every day, sitting in the old place with an unshaven beard, but he didn't come to wait anxiously, and was replaced by endless loneliness.

Chu Yao couldn't help being curious, brought a pot of high-quality West Lake Longjing and sat next to the little brother, and brewed a cup for him, "When will you be so overwhelmed?"

The little brother looked at Chu Yao, and ignored people if he didn't drink tea.Chu Yao patiently said, "Try it, this is the best West Lake Longjing made by the best tea master in my tea house. There is no other semicolon, only this one."

Maybe because Chu Yao looked a little embarrassed, the little brother picked up the teacup and savored it carefully, "Well, good tea."

"Then does this tea help you?"

The little brother sighed, "Thank you."

"Can you tell me about it? Seeing that you are always sitting here, alone, at first you were anxious, but now you are lonely." Chu Yao asked cautiously.

The little brother smiled bitterly, "Yeah, I started to be anxious because I was waiting for someone, but now I am lonely, because the waiting person will not come." Chu Yao didn't speak, waiting for the little brother to continue. "My name is Jiang Jingtang, and I am a poor scholar, but I can't read I actually fell in love with the young lady of a rich family, and now the young lady is accompanying the young master, I, a stinky scholar..."

"You're talking about the young lady of the Yang family who just got married a few days ago." Chu Yao asked.

The little brother nodded, "Miss Yang and I got acquainted at the Lantern Festival last year. I still remember that there were so many people that day, and the flow of people was longer than the street. My classmates took me to guess the lantern riddles, saying that it would be lively. We wanted to squeeze through the crowd. But it was crowded, I thought it was just right, anyway, I didn't really want to join in the fun, I walked back against the flow of people, and saw a woman in a goose yellow dress with a bun in her hair, holding a She was holding a candied haws that seemed to be bought just now. She looked around and looked around, somehow, I saw her anxious look so cute, and I couldn't help snickering. Maybe I found out that I She was snickering, the woman stared at me, and kept wiping her face with her hands, she must have thought I was laughing at something on her face. She suddenly ran to me and asked me why I was laughing, I said nothing, she still She stared at me like a puppy about to bite, and said, "Hey, find someone for me!" I asked her, "Aren't you afraid that I'm a bad person?" She said, "There are bad people who look so stupid, I just know how to giggle.” I asked again, “Who do you want me to help you find?” She said, “You are tall, please help me see if there is a woman wearing a light green gown with a maid’s sideburns.” That's how we got to know each other. I thought that we could only have this one-sided relationship, but who would have thought that half a month later, at the temple fair, I would see her again. I was so happy that I trot forward to follow her She said, "It's you again, why is there you there when it's so lively? The ladies in that family are like you." She glared at me again and said, "That's because other girls are not as cute as me. I'm so cute. I'll come out and you Can you meet me?' I'm so happy to hear that. Are you waiting for me?' She turned her head away. 'I didn't. I'm waiting for my silly girl. She's lost again.' Looking at her, I just Inexplicably happy." When the little brother talked about this paragraph, his face was full of tenderness, and the corners of his mouth were unconsciously raised, "That's how we went from acquaintance to meeting and then to falling in love. I thought we could be together when I won the exam. , but before the township examination, her father found a marriage for her."

The younger brother was suddenly lonely, so he poured himself a cup of tea and drank it all. "So I hurriedly brought all my belongings to the door to propose marriage, but what I got in return was ridicule and insult. Master Yang said, 'What are you, and you want to marry my daughter? Don't say that you are just a scholar now, even if you pass the Juren examination, I will not let my daughter marry you. Look at your own house, and you brought these things when you came to the door in advance. How can you support my daughter? ?Ke'er has never touched Yang Chunshui since she wanted to marry you, do you want her to wash and cook for you?' I hate Master Yang, but I can't do anything, because everything he said is right .I am like an eggplant beaten by frost. I shut myself in the room for a few days without going out. One night, I heard someone knocking on the door. The sound was so soft that I couldn't hear it unless I listened carefully, but I just knew that there must be A Ke coming outside the door. Looking for me, I opened the door and saw Yang Ke wrapped herself like a rice dumpling. I hugged her in my arms and said a lot about missing her. She gently pushed me into the room and said to me, "I am secretly If you run out, you have to go back quickly, or you will be found out. Long story short, do you love me?" I nodded, and she continued to say, "Then I said you take me away, do you dare?" I widened my eyes and couldn't believe it This is what A Ke said, and she asked again, "Do you dare?" I held A Ke tightly in my arms again and said, "I want to take you away, I want you to marry me." A Ke buried her head in my chest The former said, "Tomorrow you pack up your things and wait for me in the teahouse, and you take me away!" That night, A Ke left in a hurry, leaving me alone in the room. I was nervous, scared, and excited. The next morning I I came to this teahouse to wait for her, but I waited for one day, but she didn't come, I waited for two days, and she still didn't come, I waited for five days, and she still didn't come, I couldn't sit still, I went to Yang's mansion to find her. She, but what I thought of was that the person who vowed to go with me at the beginning saw me like a stranger now, and told me that she married the magistrate's nephew voluntarily, and they were in love with each other. Xiangyue? What about me? "The little brother was talking, the hand holding the teacup showed blue veins." I was kicked out of Yang's mansion, but I didn't give up. I called Ake outside the mansion all night, but ah Ke didn't answer me. I wandered to the teahouse like a ghost, as if this was my home. I sat in the teahouse, thinking that Ake would come back, but I didn't expect Ake to come, but I just sat and greeted the relatives The sedan chair is going to pay homage." The little brother burst into tears on the table, looking very pitiful.

Chu Yao patted the younger brother on the shoulder, not knowing how to comfort him, saying that Yang Ke wasn't worth it?Say there is no fragrant grass in the end of the world?Or is it that a man should aim everywhere?It's not suitable at this time, maybe he just needs someone to pat on the shoulder at this time.

Every time Jiang Jingtang came to the teahouse, Chu Yao would chat with him a few words, maybe because someone listened to Jiang Jingtang and chatted, Jiang Jingtang's condition was obviously much better, and he still smiled today, "Thank you, I have been talking to you all this time. Willing to listen to me, speak out is so much better."

Chu Yao waved his hand, "It's nothing, just listen to the book, you can write a story book even when you have emotional ups and downs, definitely buy the number, "Chu Yao seems to be really proposing" or let our storyteller polish it for you, Let the people in the town know this sad love story?"

Jiang Jingtang pursed her mouth, "No, this is not good for A Ke. A Ke is very happy now, so don't bother her. I don't want to ruin her current life because of me."

Chu Yao raised his eyebrows and said, "You are really infatuated."

On the surface, Yang Ke's life is pretty good now. Her husband's family has a little money because of the prefect's relationship, but Keke is far behind the Yang family. Of course, Master Yang married Yang Ge to their family for another reason.I heard from my gossip-loving youngest son that the magistrate’s nephew is actually a sick man. He is a good man, good-looking, good-natured, but what’s the use of being in poor health?When they reached the marriageable age, girls from rich and noble families looked down on them, and girls from poor families still looked down on them because of their relationship with the magistrate.It just so happens that the Yang family's silk business has been in a downturn recently, and the imperial court has another silk and satin order to be tendered. The Yang family wants to bribe the magistrate. The young lady of the Yang family congratulated his nephew. People and money will belong to his own family in the future. There are a lot of sons in the Yang family, and there is a missing daughter. Master Yang gritted his teeth and agreed.

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