Chentan's Memories

The first time Mr. Ao resigned angrily from Jinling City, and the warriors went to Jiangnan Township

——"Lin Lang, are you playing with birds again!"

Lin Yuan walked around the carved willow screen angrily, and stopped in front of the desk: "What are you doing with your hands under the table? Do you think you are playing with birds again!"

"I didn't!" Lin Lang denied it, and stretched out his hands from under the desk, raising his head above his head in an attempt to prove his innocence, but he saw a golden parrot flying out of his sleeve and landed on the animal-patterned bird beside the table. On the pole, the silver bell was jingled.

Lin Lang, who had been betrayed by his pet, felt embarrassed.

"Shun'er—Where is Shun'er!" Lin Yuanwai slammed his fan on the table, his mustache moved because of anger, he wanted to find Lin Lang's accompanying servant to ask his crime: "Let you keep an eye on the young master's reading, What did you do?"

Shun'er, who was sleeping soundly in the back room, was awakened by a start, and immediately raised both arms at a slant, ran out with small steps and knelt down on the ground, out of breath, and cried sharply: "Master! It's all Shun'er." It's my fault, Shun'er failed to watch the young master study properly! Regret and hate, I hope the master will punish Shun'er severely..."

Then she fell to the ground crying and motionless.

Lin Yuanwai couldn't digest this sudden yet commonplace scene.

Lin Lang felt that there were three or four drops of sweat oozing from his temples, so he had to wink at the other servants and order "Take it down, take it down..." Then he turned his face and smiled apologetically, and explained to his father: "By the way, this is from the opera troupe. I was born as a petty official, and there are many dramas, many dramas..."

"The day after tomorrow is September [-]th, the mansion exam, have you warmed up your books?" Not expecting that the unfilial son in front of him could give any satisfactory answer, Lin Yuanwai babbled dejectedly: "Look at you Surrounded by...all such messy people! If you don't stare at you to study hard, they will encourage you to eat, drink and have fun all day long! Your mother in the spirit of the sky will cry when she sees it!"

"My mother is not angry."

Lin Lang breathed out a leisurely breath, rolled up the Four Books and Five Classics spread out in front of the table, leaned back on the jade birch chair, and rubbed his sore shoulders: "By the way, my mother bought it herself back then. A servant in the mansion. Besides—my mother said when she was alive: I just hope that I can live happily and live according to my own ideas..."

Mr. Lin, who was contradicted, was furious: "What do you think? What do you think, you little brat! Let me ask you—yesterday I arranged for you to have a banquet with Governor Hua's daughter, and you made excuses halfway through, Why didn't you come back once it came out? How difficult it is for you to make dad do it in front of others, what do you mean?!"

"Father... I don't want to marry a wife yet. Besides, the eldest lady of the Hua family definitely doesn't like me!"

"You also know that people look down on you!" Lin Yuanwai hated iron and steel: "Do you know how much money your father and I spent to organize this banquet, you just slip away!"

"Don't talk about father - anyway, I don't want to marry her - and I don't want to be an official!" Lin Lang sat in an undignified manner, and he put his feet on the desk after a few words, shaking his head and boasting: "I But people who have walked the Silk Road! Such a good experience in shopping malls, it is for you to save your son to inherit your father's business... What a waste of being an official!"

"Among the scholars, farmers, businessmen, merchants have always been the most despicable!" Member Lin coughed angrily, "I shouldn't have let you and your brother-in-law go on the Silk Road in the first place, just to learn some ghosts of the foreign school! The family is the minister of the brachialis in the imperial court, if we can gain a relationship with him..."

"--stop!"

Only then did Lin Lang get really angry: "Since you want to build a relationship, you can marry if you want to marry, and you can be an official if you want to! I have my own life, don't force your vain dreams on me !"

Lin Yuan couldn't breathe for a long time after this pause, "...you" for a while, and finally lost his focus in his eyes, and even the strength of the scolding was a little weak, and he just cursed "Zhuzi" like a muttering Unteachable", but I don't know what to say.

The old man turned his head, and only came back when he stepped out of the threshold. He laughed at the people who came from the room and shouted: "Otherwise, do as I say! Otherwise, don't eat my Lin family's meal, pack up your things and get out of Lin's house as soon as possible." !"

When he approached the room with backbone, Lin Lang heard Shun'er's voice whispering outside the window: "Master...Master..."

Pushing open the window, he caught a glimpse of Shun'er carrying some food, Lin Lang rubbed his hungry stomach and whispered, "Come in, come in."

"Master is too ruthless...you actually forbid the young master to eat!" Through the dark light, Shun'er's eyes were full of tears, and the thick rouge on his face was shining brightly: "It's really impossible...it's really impossible, young master...you just married Hua Miss!"

Lin Lang said "no way" while wolfing down.

"Master..." Shun'er took out a embroidered handkerchief, and gently pressed it to wipe away tears as if he was afraid of getting his makeup off: "Shun'er knows that the young master doesn't want to marry a wife, but it's because he loves me so much. He's afraid of marrying a young mistress." Bullying me, whipping me, poisoning me... Shun'er is also reluctant to part with the young master, but..."

"Stop, stop --" Lin Lang stopped Shun'er's improvisation in time: "Where did you come up with all this nonsense?"

Shun'er pear blossoms with rain: "It's all sung like this in the operas—have you heard of "Liuglass Cup"?" After Lin Lang shook his head, Shun'er explained to himself: "It's about a son who married a wife, but The story of the poisonous woman who was jealous of the young master's love for her maidservant, and finally killed her maidservant... After the maidservant drank the poisonous wine, the lyrics were the saddest, and I sang it to you young master... Cough cough—Qingqiu Lengyue, The dead leaves and chrysanthemums are all paid for by the cold river..."

Lin Lang hurriedly covered the mouth of Shun'er who was crying out of tune: "Enough is enough."

After finally coaxing this worldly treasure, Lin Lang patted his full belly and lay back on the bed: "The gown my mother sewed for me—the red brocade—is it okay to keep it?"

"In the cupboard, up there—what do you ask for?"

"It's nothing, I miss my mother..." Lin Lang rolled his eyes and calculated: Will he show his feet by continuing to ask?But after thinking about it for a moment, I still asked, "Where's the pair of boots my mother sewed for me? ——the black suede pair."

"Put it in the cabinet as well." Fortunately, Shun'er was not that quick-witted, so he didn't become suspicious, and only cared about picking up leftovers.The lingering grief has not yet dissipated, and there are pitiful tears hanging from the corners of his eyes: "Shun'er misses Madam too, hey...but what's the use of just thinking about it, so I can only live up to the entrustment—to take care of the young master."

After hearing this, Lin Lang's heart gradually warmed up: "I still have a conscience, and I don't love you for nothing on weekdays."

This sentence doesn't matter, but after hearing that, Shun'er burst into tears again: "Young master, you and your wife rescued me back to the mansion, and gave me food and clothing to prevent me from wandering. Your kindness , Shun'er is willing to show her body..."

"Stop-stop--" Lin Lang stopped Shun'er's improvisation again, cleared his throat twice and said seriously: "Then the young master... has something to ask for you."

The hand that was picking up the chopsticks suddenly twitched, and the chopsticks fell to the ground.I saw that Xianshibao turned his face, the rouge on his face was a little thicker, he had to hold back his excitement because he was holding on to the expectation by mistake, so even his voice trembled: "...what, what is it..."

Wanting to know what kind of bizarre romance this guy was having in his head, Lin Lang touched the folding fan in his hand and hit Shun'er's head heavily: "What are you thinking! I want you to be more obedient in the future, don't Make the master angry again! Maybe one day the master will drive you out of the Lin mansion, I can't protect you! —— And there is: take good care of... the master."

Shun'er faintly felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't turn it around in her head, so she just agreed with a blank face: "Of course..."

"Okay, go out, I'm going to sleep..."

When Shun Er woke up the next day, she figured out the meaning behind Lin Lang's "asking for something".

Sitting up in shock from the couch, before even applying the rouge, he rushed to Lin Lang's bedroom and turned around, then fell down in the courtyard and began to cry loudly.

——"Ah—young master, get out of the Lin residence!"

September twenty-eight.

It's almost the end of the unitary hour when I go home from work.Greeting one by one the street vendors who were getting acquainted with each other in front of the door, Tang Yushu closed the door of the house casually, and took off his thin shirt while walking towards the west wing where he lived.

After moving goods and sweating all day, Tang Yushu felt a little smelly.

Suddenly I remembered that I found a big wooden barrel half a person's height at the back of the house yesterday, and I kept doing it -- rolled it into the courtyard, boiled two barrels of hot water, picked more than ten sticks of saponins, and put it on Chen Tan. A beautiful sunset and a comfortable bath.

——"Bashi."

He said it in his mouth, but he felt empty in his heart - he was the only one living in the huge house.

"But everything will get better..." Tang Yushu murmured.

It has been more than [-] days since I moved to Chentan.

Although the local accent is difficult, he gradually integrated into this place with his simple and simple temperament.He also successfully found a job to move goods on the pier, which can be regarded as a job.In my spare time, I sometimes help orphans and neighbors share some physical work, and sometimes tell children about the heroic past of killing the enemy on the battlefield... everything finally came to life.

As for how to live in the future... Tang Yushu never dared to think about it.

"Let's take one step at a time..." Tang Yushu murmured.

The setting sun sprinkled a thin golden thread from the crack of the house gate, and fell on his face. With his eyes closed, he could feel the gentleness of this light.

The exhaustion all over his body was evaporated by the hot water in the bucket, and in the chaos, a "squeak--" came into the ear canal, and the thin light that settled on the eyelids suddenly turned into a dazzling whole. piece.

Confused, Tang Yushu opened his sleepy eyes, turned his head to the source of the sound without hesitation, and saw a noble boy wearing black suede boots and a bright red brocade gown standing in front of the open door. In front of the house.

A gust of evening wind passed through it, blowing away the two tufts of dragon beard and hair on the young man's forehead, and his cold and unruly eyes became clear.

The word "handsome" sprouted from the bottom of my heart sincerely, but when I was about to blurt it out, I was blocked back by the quick awakened consciousness.Tang Yushu, who was completely awake, quickly stood up from the barrel, patted his head and shouted at the uninvited guest:

—— "Who are you?!" The boy in red shouted a moment earlier than himself.

——"Why did you break into my house?" This time the questioning of the two reached synchronization.

——"This is my home!" It's the same this time.

——"Don't say the same thing as me!" This time too.

Then the air was silent for a long time.

And the dozens of pairs of eyes of the street vendors clustered behind the young man in brocade clothes, followed by another gust of evening wind, roared all the way through the gate of the mansion, blowing a cold place in the lower abdomen.

Tang Yushu was startled, and quickly sat back in the bucket.

That night, Tang Yushu and Lin Lang knocked on the door of the Chentan County Government Office, which had not opened for more than ten years.