Chapter 8: The Old Man with a Silver Hair
Bell ...... Bell...... Bell......
Hearing the wind chimes, Zhu Qiu turned around and took a pot of wine from the wine rack behind him, stretched out his hand and put the wine on the right hand side opposite the bar, and the guest entered the door!
"Welcome to the Forgotten Worries Tavern!" Zhu Qiu smiled at the guests, then turned around and walked to the bar to adjust the height of the next chair, and then returned to the bar!
The guest was a silver-haired, gaunt old man!
The old man smiled and nodded to Zhu Qiu and said, "Thank you!"
I sat down on the chair very elegantly, looked at the wine jug but no wine glass, smiled, picked up the wine jug and took a sip!
"The feeling of fruit wine, but I can't taste what kind of fruit it is made of?" looked at Zhu Qiu and asked!
"Three color fruits. "She kept smiling all the time!
The old man's smile deepened a little, and his eyes were also very serious when he looked at Zhu Qiu, and then he looked down at the wine jug and muttered, "Only when you meet a good winemaker can you make them so mellow and rich!"
After that, I picked up the flask and took a sip!
"Isn't it strange that I didn't choose to be reincarnated at my age?
Zhu Qiu thought about it, and he really hadn't seen it, so he nodded!
The old man looked at Zhu Qiu and nodded, smiled and continued, "Reluctantly! I can't bear to have this memory full of my head" as he spoke, and nodded his head!
"My life! I am happy because I met a noble person, and I am so happy that I don't want to be reincarnated to start over after I die!"
The old man glanced at Zhu Qiu, as if he saw her doubts!
"I happened to be 18 years old that year, my family belonged to a large family in our village, and I grew up under the extreme pampering of my father, so I was disobedient and arrogant! On his 18th birthday, my father invited the whole village to a banquet, and I took a fancy to him at a glance in the vast crowd!" The old man smiled, and his face was smeared with a layer of red!
"At that time, I had so much care, so I ran to my father at night and told him that I had fallen in love with that man and wanted to marry her! My father was very angry when he heard me say this, but he still patiently explained to me! He said that he was a little older than me, and he was still a young man who had just been transferred down from above, and he didn't know much about him, so let's talk about it later! I didn't follow, so I was making trouble somewhere, and my father had no choice but to agree to me!"
"I don't know what method my father used, the educated youth actually agreed, three months later I married him as I wished, I was very happy, but he was not very happy, he was seven years older than me, that night he hastily opened the hole, he didn't pay attention to me, I didn't care, anyway, it's already a cave room, I will be his person in the future!"
But then he never touched me again, and he didn't talk to me, and my anger became bigger and bigger, and I quarreled with him almost every day, and then he slept directly with me in a separate room, and my father also came to persuade me a few times, telling me not to worry, and slowly cultivating feelings, but I was not convinced, I was not ugly, and even one of the best in the village, why did he treat me like this! Later, the trouble became more and more serious, and he was going to become the laughing stock of the whole village, and he proposed to divorce me! I picked up the broom next to me and beat him up! Later, my dad couldn't help but send me to the city and let us both calm down!"
"I work in a restaurant in the city, and I have experienced a lot of ups and downs, every time I want to go home, my father will run to the city to comfort me or something! I also hold my breath in my heart, it's been four months, I didn't go home and he didn't come to see me, and then I asked for leave to go home, I didn't see him for nearly five months, he didn't want me at all, and didn't want to see me, I was very sad, I cried to find him to reason, was stopped by my father, my father looked at me and said, or you agree to divorce him! Dad can definitely find you a better one, I didn't agree, and I went back to the city disheartened!"
The sadness on the old man's face began to fade gradually! Zhu Qiu listened carefully, and also observed the old man's expression seriously!
"I came to the back door of the restaurant for lunch as usual, and I happened to see a middle-aged woman with a very temperament watering the flowers, her actions were very elegant, and I was deeply attracted by her!"
"Later, I would go to the back door to talk to her! After getting acquainted, I told her about my unhappy marriage! She looked at me with a smile and said, he is a Baoyu, he has his own pride and is remembered by many people, and he is not in you, how can you keep him? I don't want to lose him, so I asked her how can I keep him? She replied to me, "It's very simple, you can turn yourself into a pearl!" The old man smiled at the corner of his mouth, took a sip of the wine jug, and continued!
"Later, she gave me a lot of advice, I learned etiquette from her, I applied to the boss to be a greeting, and then I went to the library to borrow books and read the books she recommended to me! I persisted like this for half a year, I came to the back door to see her when I was ready to go home for the New Year, she taught me a lot, I was very grateful to her, I bought a small gift for her, she knew that I was going back, so she pulled me to her boudoir, I saw it for the first time, so neat and clean, and very emotional in the room with flowers all over the room, she just looked at me like that and looked at her room carefully, and then she took out a dress, which she wore when she was young, and then also combed my hair in a bun and applied some rouge!"
"After being replaced by her, I was shocked, I was very beautiful and temperamental in the mirror, she said, you must remember, control your temper, and tell yourself that she is an elegant woman who knows everything!
"After returning home, my father was both happy and relieved to see my change and sighed, you finally have the appearance of your mother! He was behind me, but I didn't talk to him, I saw the shock in his eyes, but I didn't see the same as passing by him, I always reminded myself, I was very tired at first, and then slowly got used to the changed self, just like a rebirth!" she looked at me with a smile, "You should have thought of the ending!
After speaking, the old man picked up the flask, drank the last sip, smiled and left!
Zhu Qiu looked at the colorful water droplets in the wine jug, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the old man was indeed very happy and contented! Why didn't he meet such a person in the first place?