It is also the annual Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, and for a long time, in addition to going out to make money, Liu Xiucai, who is desperate to study, has a rare leisure, and walks with Yuqing among the lanterns of various colors.

"Liu Xiao, do you know where I met you?" Yuqing raised her head, her delicate side face flushed by the lanterns.

"I don't know, I've always been curious?"

"Last year's Lantern Festival, I met you there. Yuqing pointed to the dumpling stall not far away and said, "At that time, you were going to buy half a bowl of dumplings." ”

"Huh, the next day~~~"

"Yes, I decided to marry you the next day~~" Yuqing looked at the scholar firmly, his eyes as bright as the stars at night.

"Then you are really brave!" the scholar smiled slightly, and touched Yuqing's nose lovingly.

"That's right~~ because I'm a monster!"

Yuqing confessed his identity to the scholar for the first time, a little worried, but a little inexplicably excited.

"Oh, I know!" the scholar replied softly, and then gently took Yuqing's hand: "I've been to Santai Mountain!"

After a year of getting along, although I know that it will definitely be the result, it doesn't matter if I can let him say it in person, Yuqing still feels unprecedentedly sweet, and it would be good if it could go on like this~~~

"Liu Xiucai~~Liu Xiucai~~~Go back~~~ Your mother seems to be dying~~~"

Looking at the panting neighborhood, the scholar's heart chuckled, he had always known that his mother was suffering from an old disease, especially in the past six months, which had become more and more serious, but this afternoon, he obviously saw that his mother's face had improved significantly, otherwise he would not have taken Yuqing out to see the lanterns.

"Hold on to me. Yuqing snorted at the scholar.

The scholar instinctively grabbed Yuqing's hand, and there was the sound of galloping wind in his ears, and the scene in front of him suddenly became blurry, and when he regained his eyesight again, he had already returned home.

"Mother~~Mother~~" The scholar's voice was already mixed with crying.

Hearing the scholar's voice, the old woman on the bed opened her eyes with difficulty, her lips moved but only spit out two vague words: "Xiao'er~~"

"Mother~I'm here~I'm here~" The scholar knelt on the ground at the head of the bed, holding the old woman's hand tightly, and responded one by one.

A lot of people slowly came in the house, including Third Uncle Wang, Fourth Uncle Yu, Second Aunt Sun, Uncle Ge, and Third Brother Zhang~~~ all of whom have been old neighbors for many years.

The old woman on the bed seemed to feel that there were more people in the room all of a sudden, pursed her lips vigorously, and spit out two words again: "Yuqing~~~"

"Auntie, I'm here~~"

The old woman's mouth struggled to move, but she couldn't utter a syllable anyway.

"What's wrong with my mother?" the scholar looked at Yuqing helplessly, and then at the surrounding neighborhood.

Second Aunt Sun looked at the old woman on the bed, then at Yuqing, and then tentatively said to the scholar: "Liu Xiucai, I see, your mother wants to see you marry Yuqing." ”

The corners of the old woman's mouth moved, as if she wanted to laugh but lost her strength.

"I think that's what it means~" It was Uncle Ge who spoke, he sighed and said to Yuqing: "Miss Yuqing, I will ask you because you are old and thick-skinned, are you willing to marry Liu Xiucai, we all know that it is too wronged for you to let you pass through the door at this time~~~"

"I was his daughter-in-law!" the girl's crisp but firm voice interrupted Uncle Ge's words, but no one would think that she was rude to do so.

When the old woman on the bed heard this, a hint of ruddy appeared on her face, and she even regained some strength to speak, but everyone knew that this was a return to the light.

"Xiao'er, box~~~"

The scholar knew that his mother had a big mahogany box under the bed, but no one knew what was in it, and when the scholar asked her, she just smiled and told him that sooner or later he would know.

The moment the box was opened, everyone present was stunned by the contents of the house, what a beautiful wedding dress it was, red satin, gold partridges, even the silver honeysuckle on the cuffs and the sparkling moire on the skirt seemed to be about to live.

"I have heard that Sister-in-law Liu's family is a big family, which seems to be wrong. "I don't know who said it.

"Don't worry about it, let's hurry up and help Zhang Luo, although we are all poor people and don't pay much attention to etiquette, but we can't wronged Yuqing girl. "Third Brother Zhang is the most anxious.

Watching everyone looking for candles looking for candles, and looking for happy words, the scholars' hearts also had a little more warmth.

After a while, Yuqing, who had changed into his wedding dress, walked out again, with a phoenix crown on his head and a ring around his waist, the scholar always thought that he was used to Yuqing's appearance, but he was still amazed, he gently took the girl's hand and said: "It's just a pity, there are only the bride's clothes." ”

"I think your robe is the best. Yuqing, who hadn't felt the burning of his cheeks for a long time, actually felt this way again.

"Come and show my mother~~" The scholar turned around and pulled the girl who had changed into her wedding dress to the bed.

"Xiao'er, help me up~~" The old woman didn't know where she got the strength from, and struggled to sit up.

Yuqing and the scholar hurriedly went up to help, and it happened that at this time, Zhang Luo's neighbors also returned to the small courtyard. There were many other neighbors who came back with them, and everyone knew what this sudden wedding was for.

Kind-hearted people laugh more happily than ever, as if they already had a tacit understanding.

The wedding was held very simply, but the whole process was the congratulations of the neighbors and the children jumping and shouting: "Aunt Yuqing is so beautiful~~"

The old woman sat down in the main hall, and Yu clearly changed her mouth and called "mother", and the tea she toasted was held tightly in the old woman's hand, but she touched her lips lightly and seemed to use all her strength.

The scholar's mouth kept grinning, maintaining a smiling expression, and many people in the crowd quietly turned their heads back to wipe their tears, and then turned their heads with happy faces.

The next day, before dawn, the old woman was gone, but it was not difficult to see from the smile on her face that she was satisfied.

After dealing with the funeral, the scholar was unusually calm, looking at the courtyard blankly, and only after a long time did a word come out!

Yuqing, from now on, I will only have you left!

Seeing this, Zirun and Shi Qinyuan among the few little girls had already cried, clenching their little fists vigorously, their lips were tightly pursed, Yinglian's expression was the most calm, but the tears were also the fastest flowing! The surrounding picture fluctuated like water ripples, Bai Ye turned his head to look at a few little girls, and sighed lightly: "Life in the world is like being in a thorn forest, if the heart does not move, people will not move, and if they do not move, they will not be hurt; If the heart moves, people move recklessly, they hurt their bodies and bones, and they experience all kinds of pain in the world. ”

There seemed to be a magical power in Bai Ye's words that made people feel calm, and everyone broke away from negative emotions, and the picture in front of them also regained stability.

From that day on, Yuqing sat by the desk, propped his head, and quietly watched him read.

When the scholar reads, he is very serious and very desperate, sitting in front of the case, often all day, he occasionally raises his head in the Four Books and Five Classics, takes a bowl of water handed over by Yuqing, a piece of bread, and then smiles at her, Yuqing will return him with an encouraging smile.

And more time, the scholar has no time to pay attention to her, and Yuqing has never minded, she knows the bitterness in the scholar's heart, and she also knows the anxiety in the scholar's heart.

When he lifted the pen, Yuqing studied ink for him, the night came, Yuqing held the lamp for him, until he fell asleep at the desk due to physical exhaustion, Yuqing silently put on the only cold coat for him, and when he woke up the next day, the thin but warm rice porridge had been boiled and placed in front of the desk.

The days of those times were quiet and happy, from the day of the wedding, Yuqing took off the wedding dress and put it away, and it has always been a coarse cloth skirt, even the coarse tea and light rice that can only satisfy the stomach rely on the help of the neighbors.

But Yuqing is very satisfied. The sunlight shone down through the skylight of the hut, and she could see the subtle fluff on the scholar's face, as well as the slightly furrowed eyebrows when he was thinking, and the long gown that had already turned white, but could not be seen enough.

Approaching the autumn season, the scholar wants to take the exam, which coincides with the season of falling leaves of Yang Huai, a Sichuan tobacco, green with yellow. Dozens of neighbors stood on the embankment, and the scholar pulled Yuqing to stand in the boat, carrying the bags they had compiled for him all night.

He waved his hand to the shore in the passenger boat, and shouted at the top of his voice:

"Third Uncle Wang, Fourth Uncle Yu, Second Aunt Sun, Uncle Ge, Third Brother Zhang~~~ When I am named on the gold list, I will definitely return to my hometown! You must take good care...... Thank you!"

After saying that, he knelt on the deck and kowtowed three times towards the shore.

The sound faded away, and the boat had already gone with the river, becoming an unreachable point. The kind man stood in place and watched for a long time, as the wind on the embankment gradually rose, and the fallen leaves flew and tickled on his face.

I reached out to wipe it, only to find that my cheeks were already wet with tears.

"Mr. Liu is gone~~"

"Aunt Yuqing is also gone~~~"

"They'll be back, right?" I don't know whose child's voice it was.

The inn in the provincial capital is surprisingly expensive, and the little silver taels on their bodies can't last for a few days, so the two of them simply live in a broken temple in the suburbs, counting the ~~~~~ the day they are waiting for the exam

On the seventh day of the ninth month, Yuqing got up early in the morning, and rarely went to buy a pound of meat, and carefully cut the crockpot into three parts after cooking: "Today you have to enter the examination room, and the first test is three days, you must eat better, otherwise the body will definitely not be able to stand it." ”

"Okay!" The scholar smiled at the corner of his mouth, quietly looked at his wife in front of him, and thought in his heart that once he was lifted, he would definitely compensate her a thousand times over.

When the scholar left, Yuqing looked at his back vigorously, only by remembering it clearly, could he support the extremely long wait even though it was only three days.

During the day, Yuqing will sit in front of the door of the broken temple, leaning on the door, while boringly pinching a fallen leaf, while looking at the end of the road, at night, the broken temple lights up an oil lamp like a bean, Yuqing lies in front of the window, while listening to the owl chirping overhead, while staring at the dark night.