dhibooks Chapter 62
Chapter 62
Autumn goes to winter, the snow melts and flowers bloom, and midsummer comes again, and it is spring and autumn in a blink of an eye.
Tang Xiaoshi has made a lot of progress, and many regular customers who come back are trustworthy in her tailoring skills, and will take the initiative to ask her for tailoring.
At noon in the dog days, the sun was scorching, and the skin seemed to be peeled off. The streets were few and far between, and there were no customers in the tailor shop.
My aunt took Min'er to take a lunch break in the back room. She sat in the hall and played the cattail fan. The fine sweat was still overflowing from her forehead. She drank bowl after bowl of herbal tea, but it still couldn't cool down.
She was not in the mood to work, and leaned on the counter to ponder the poem she had inserted.She kicked out Yan Wangui, a scumbag, and her relationship with Jiang Lang has also progressed steadily. Since she had a frank and honest talk with Shu's father and Shu's mother, they have no intention of stopping it.They will get married only after Jiang Lang gets rid of his filial piety, and all of this is a matter of course.According to past experience, this time and space should have ended, but she still stays here.
Could there be any other variables?She couldn't help but wonder.
He frowned and closed his eyes, thinking hard, when he suddenly thought of something, he opened his eyes suddenly.There is one important thing she overlooked, which is which poem she transcribes, she has not guessed it yet.
Is it because of this reason that she has been staying in this time and space?
She began to worry, if because of this, she couldn't figure it out for the rest of her life, would she have to stay in this time and space for the rest of her life?
Decades!
She looked outside at the bluestone street that was scorched by the sun like a teppanyaki, and then looked at the big cattail fan in her hand, and couldn't help wiping the sweat from her forehead, her heart stopped for a while.She had to miss the air conditioners, watermelons, hot dramas and idols in the real world again.
"Alas—" he sighed, picked up the herbal tea in front of him and drank half a bowl in one go.Now the only thing that can relieve her from the summer heat is this bowl of herbal tea besides the cool water from the two wells.
"Why are you sighing, lady?" Jiang Lang stepped over the threshold and came in, his face was covered with sweat, his chest was wet with sweat, and he was holding two big melons in his hands.
"I just took it out of the cold well, and it's still cold!" He patted the two melons tied with straw rope, and there was still a thin layer of water mist on the surface.
"Bought it at the street corner?"
"Yes, I brought it here to relieve you from the heat."
Tang Xiaoshi stretched out her hand to touch it, the body of the melon was cold and comfortable, she couldn't help putting her face on it to cool down the heat.
"The government office is so far away from here, why do you come here at noon, it's so hot outside, and you're not afraid of heatstroke?" Pushing the melon away, poured him a bowl of herbal tea, got up and took a wet towel to wipe his sweat.
"It's because of the heat that I leave work early. I want to come and see you when I have nothing to do."
"Can't you wait for the weather to cool down?"
"In midsummer, you can't cool down until it gets dark." He drank half a bowl of herbal tea in one go, "Where are Erniang and Min'er?"
"Lunch break in the back room."
Jiang Lang glanced at the back room.But Tang Xiaoshi set her eyes on the cold melon, hesitated and turned to look for a fruit knife to cut the melon.Jiang Lang also got up and went out with the water bucket used to cool down the shop, went to a nearby well and brought back two buckets of cool well water, and put a melon in it to freeze.
The two of them sat down at the small table, chatting while eating melons, whether it was because the melons were cold or for some other reason, neither of them could feel the heat.
After a while, Zhao Erniang and Min'er woke up. Since there were no customers, they sat and chatted all afternoon.Min'er liked Jiang Lang more and more, and pestered him to teach him to recite poems and essays.Jiang Lang didn't go back until the evening when the sun set and the evening breeze blew up, which made him feel refreshed.
Jiang Lang would come to the tailor shop every now and then when he was free, and he was familiar with the shopkeepers of the left and right shops, everyone knew that he liked Tian Niang.
Tang Xiaoshi also gradually got used to his presence, sometimes he would only come over after more than ten days when he was busy, and she even missed him a little.
The days are like running water, and the flowers bloom and fall twice.
The autumn is bright and refreshing, she carries a basket and takes Min'er to buy rice, and meets Jiang Lang on the way back to the small courtyard.He had a smile on his face, but there was a trace of melancholy in his eyes.After asking each other, I learned that he will go to the capital next month to rush for the exam, and he won't be able to come back until next year. At least it will take half a year, and the separation is too long. He is worried.
"What are you worried about?" She asked curiously.
"I'm worried that you've forgotten me for so long."
She chuckled and joked, "Have I reached that forgetful age?"
"That's not what I meant." He hurriedly said, "You know what I'm talking about."
"I don't know." She shook her head deliberately, waiting for him to take the initiative to say that clearly.
At this moment, Min'er interjected, "Min'er knows that Uncle Jiang is afraid that his aunt won't like him and will marry someone else."
The two looked at Min'er, Jiang Lang stroked his head, then looked at Tang Xiaoshi, and said seriously: "Wait for me to come back."
Tang Xiaoshi pondered for a while, then joked to him, "Don't be fooled by the prosperity and beauties of the capital."
"No matter how bewitching the beauty of flowers is, it won't disturb my heart." He replied with a smile.
Tang Xiaoshi lowered her eyebrows and smiled, it's too early to say, it's meaningless to say too much, she likes to see the result.
On the day when Jiang Lang was sent off, she and the younger sister of the Jiang family broke willows to see him off.
Half a year passed in a blink of an eye, and there was no news of Jiang Lang's return, only two long letters sent back by someone he entrusted, half of which said anecdotes and half of lovesickness.
When she returned to Heping Town that day, Shu's mother worriedly told her that if Jiang Lang was admitted to the imperial examination, he would be able to achieve great success in the future, and he would definitely have a young and beautiful lady by his side.
She didn't answer, and Shu's mother complained again: "In the first few years, you should have married when you came back from Yan's house. You were young and beautiful at that time, but now you are a few years older. It is not as good as before. Ladies, who is not greedy and forgetful?" So..."
When she heard this, a poem suddenly popped up in her mind: Cherish beauty yesterday, fear old age today. [1]
She immediately recited the poem silently from beginning to end, and the more she thought about it, the closer she felt to this short story in time and space.
She hasn't found this poem in "The Collection of Boudoir Poems", so it must be in the second half of the book.The reason why I can think of it is that there is this question in the poetry appreciation of a mock exam in the third year of high school.She memorized all the poems that appeared in the test papers if she liked.
Because the time is a bit far away and my memory is not deep, I haven't thought about it for such a long time.
Although it is not entirely certain that it is this one, but so far, it is the closest one among the boudoir poems she can think of.
Shu's mother was chattering with her again, just when the sister-in-law came back from outside and told her that Jiang Lang was back.As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the tall and thin figure entering the door following behind the sister-in-law.
Dressed in dust, the moment he saw her, he grinned at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were hot and gentle.
She froze, staring at him blankly.
He smiled and walked quickly towards the main room, saluted Shu's mother, couldn't restrain his joy and said: "Your junior is abrupt, if you have time to invite a matchmaker in the future, you will go to the door to propose marriage to your aunt first, and ask Tian Niang to be your wife."
Shu's mother glanced him up and down, and immediately asked him to sit down and talk.
——Lovesickness——
The early spring wind brought a hint of coolness, lifted the curtain and blew into the carriage.
Tang Xiaoshi slowly opened her eyes in the swaying carriage, a ray of sunlight came in through the window and spread on her face, causing her to tilt her head to avoid blinking a few times.
"The lady is awake?"
The maid sitting next to her reached out to help her sit up straight, turned around and poured a cup of hot tea from the small stove in front of the carriage door and handed it to her.
She took two sips to moisten her throat, slowly accepting the memory of her new identity in her mind.
After a long time, she looked out the window, and the branches beside the official road sprouted buds, and the spring grass also began to turn green.The green wheat fields spread from near to far.
"Where are you?"
"I just saw the Luoyang Boundary Monument, and I can enter the city before dark." The maid was afraid that she would catch a cold just after waking up, so she pulled a blanket and covered her body.
She grabbed the blanket and tucked it away, and suddenly thought of something, and took out a small square white jade pendant with rounded corners from the collar, with orchid grass carved on the front, and Xun characters in seal script on the back.
This is Xun Lan's jade pendant.
When she was a child, the two families got engaged, and both parents gave jade pendants to each other as tokens. She was only two years old at that time, and now the engagement has been 16 years old.
"Could it be that my lady misses Xun Erlang again?" the maid Weier teased her.
She smiled, stroked the jade pendant a few times, and put it back into her collar.
"Mistress, there is no need to worry. Master Erlang asked the lady to go back to arrange a marriage for the lady. I think Xun Erlang can't wait to marry such a gentle beauty as the lady!"
She smiled slightly, glanced at Wei'er and said, "I haven't seen him for more than ten years, and I don't know what he looks like."
In the original Mu Yue's memory, the last time I saw Xun Erlang Xun Lan was 12 years ago. At that time, he was just an eight or nine-year-old boy, mischievous and mischievous.At the banquet of the two families, he and Mu Yue went to play with the other boys without saying a word.
The next year, her father died suddenly, and her mother was heartbroken and unable to get sick. Later, her grandfather and uncle took them to Hezhou in the south of the Yangtze River. Relying on, life is inevitably hard, and grandma and grandpa feel distressed.But the mother finally died of depression in the lovesickness for her father.
Grandma Weng felt sorry for her even more, and was reluctant to let her go back to Luoyang, so she never saw Xun Erlang again.
If it weren't for her getting older and having a marriage contract with the Xun family, the nephew would not be willing to let her go back to Luoyang, and planned to find a relative for her in Hezhou.
On this trip back to Luoyang, my nephew was afraid that she would be neglected by the Mu family when she had been away from the Mu family for too many years, so he ordered his second cousin to see her off and brought some people over, and ordered him to stay until she got married. Come over to marry her off before allowing him to return to Holland.
Thinking about it, she felt a little "sympathetic" to this second cousin.
The carriage bumped and swayed, she leaned against the wall and closed her eyes to rest, but Jiang Lang's figure flashed in her mind.
He suddenly appeared at Shu's house that day and proposed marriage in person. When Shu's father learned that he had passed the imperial examination, he immediately agreed to propose marriage.On the night when she was diagnosed with pregnancy, she left Shu Tian and entered this time and space.
She didn't expect that the nonsense words she said to Shu's mother and the matchmaker at the beginning would become a prophecy.
With a helpless smile, Shu Tian finally had a happy beginning.
I don't know what kind of heroine Mu Yue is now.
With such a little clue now, she can't guess which poem it is, and she doesn't know what will happen next.
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[1] Quoted from Liu Jia's "Abandoned Wife" in the Tang Dynasty.