Chapter 42: Bring this boy with you
The sky is beautiful, there is wind on a sunny day, Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu played happily for an afternoon, flying kites, climbing trees, washing feet by the river, picking up stones, at first Yu Xiaoxiu, who was still a little unable to let go, gradually let go of his smiling face and played with her under Yu Shu's continuous teasing.
The two of them frolicked by the river for a while, Yu Shu ripped off Yu Xiaoxiu's hair rope with long hands and long feet, rubbed his hair three or two times and turned his head and ran, and Yu Xiaoxiu, who was wearing a cloak, chased her all over the riverbank.
"Come, come! Little short legs, running slowly! β
"Give it back!" Yu Xiaoxiu chased her frantically, screaming angrily.
"Ha Lu Ha, don't give - alas!"
Le Ji was sad, Yu Shu ran backwards with the hair rope, grinning with big teeth, accidentally tripped over a stone, fell to the ground with a buttocks, and the laughter turned into a cry of pain.
"Sister!"
Yu Xiaoxiu stopped and hurriedly ran over, hurriedly trying to help her. Yu Shu waved his hand, gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay", and lay back on the soft lawn, panting:
"Don't play anymore, I'm tired to death."
Yu Xiaoxiu saw that she was fine, so he sat down beside her, snatched the hair rope in her hand by the way, and was about to comb her hair, when Yu Shu pulled the back collar and pulled it back, and lay down on the ground, the grass was very soft, and the small blades of grass rubbed his ears, itchy and comfortable.
"Look." Yu Shu pointed to the sky for him to see.
The sun sets, a cluster of sunset steames in the sky, burned red by the sun, like a fire, the clouds on the horizon are ignited, emerging the last moment of life, looking at the magnificence of this dusk and sunset, people's hearts seem to be stirring.
Yu Shu turned his head and looked at Yu Xiaoxiu, perhaps her transformation reduced his burden, he rarely showed a gloomy expression in the past few days, at this moment, his immature and clean face was flushed by the sunset, and his eyes flashed with brilliance, more like what an eleven-year-old boy should look like.
With her hands behind her head, she suddenly spoke:
"I want to learn Yi well, open an easy restaurant in the future, make endless money, eat whatever you want, play whatever you want, and be respected, no one wants to lock me up again, smoke my rattanββ"
Hearing this, Yu Xiaoxiu couldn't hold back his laughter, and heard Yu Shu ask him:
"Xiao Xiu, what do you want to do in the future?"
Yu Shu opened the conversation box first, Yu Xiaoxiu's head moved, and after thinking seriously for a while, he replied awkwardly:
"We have our own house, we support ourselves, we are not bullied, we are not looked down upon."
"Good!" Yu Shu responded vigorously, touched Yu Xiaoxiu's hand and grabbed it, held it high, and announced loudly:
"Then our sisters and brothers will study Yi hard from now on, open a Yi restaurant in the future, make a lot of money, eat and drink spicy food, live in a big house, be respected, not bullied, and no one dares to look down on us!"
She turned the wishes of the two people into the wishes shared by the two people, Yu Xiaoxiu did not hear the difference, looked at the hand that was raised by her, turned his head, and met Yu Shu's shining eyes, enthusiastic, cordial, sincere, and so different from the previous sister looking at him, as if realizing that this was not an ordinary agreement, he quickly made a choice, moved his fingers, held her hand tightly, and said hard:
"Okay."
Sister and brother, look at me, I look at you, they couldn't help grinning, Yu Shu sat up, and pulled the thin Yu Xiaoxiu up from the grass.
"Let's go, I'll take you to something delicious."
"My Hair"
"Hehe, I'll tie you up."
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"Let me tell you, the one on Changmenpu Street that sells wontons is very delicious, the skin is thin, and the filling is fragrant."
Yu Shu promoted the wonton sold by Sister Zhao to Yu Xiaoxiu along the way, not only told Yu Xiaoxiu's glutton, but also sang two empty city plans on her stomach, and there were still two cakes left in the bag.
The two of them walked back to Changmenpu, it was already dark, lanterns were hung in the streets and alleys, people came and went, tea and rice were fragrant, and the street market at night was not lively.
Sister Zhao's business is as good as ever, the three sets of tables are full of guests, Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu stood on the side and waited for a while before they got to the seat, Yu Shu because he had come to Cao Zixin once, and talked to Sister Zhao again, he was afraid that it would cause trouble if he recognized him, so he deliberately wore Yu Xiaoxiu's short robe when he went out in the afternoon, and he almost didn't paint his eyebrows, but fortunately, it was dark, and he couldn't see any difference.
Sister Zhao had good eyes, and sure enough, she recognized her, stepped forward to wipe the table, smiled at her, and said:
"Sit down, why didn't you see Shopkeeper Cao?"
"The shopkeeper has something, the store is not open today, I will bring my brother to eat wonton, and my aunt will bring us two bowls of chicken soup."
Last time, Yu Shu came to dinner, and followed Cao Zixin to call the proprietress Sister Zhao, and she laughed at her, saying that her thirty-year-old couldn't afford her to call her sister, so she only let Yu Shu call her aunt.
Yu Shu greeted her, and Yu Xiaoxiu sat on the side with some restraint, not moving, and not looking around.
Sister Zhao responded while reaching out and touching Yu Xiaoxiu's brain, "This is your brother, what's your name?" β
Yu Xiaoxiu lowered his head uncomfortably, and Yu Shu replied for him: "Call Xiao Xiu, Xiao Xiu, call someone." β
"Auntie." If Aunt Liu was here, she would have stared in shock, how could Yu Xiaoxiu listen to Yu Shu's words so much before.
Sister Zhao should like children, and glanced at Yu Xiaoxiu softly:
"Really good, sit down, I'll go and give it to you, there are a lot of stuffings packed today, keep it delicious."
Sister Zhao turned back to the pot, and Yu Xiaoxiu whispered to ask Yu Shu: "How much is a bowl?" β
"Why are you still afraid that you can't afford to eat, oh, let's settle the account first," he said, took out the money bag, took a dime of silver and put it on the table, and gave the money bag to Yu Xiaoxiu, "Take the money for you." β
Yu Xiaoxiu pushed it to her, she didn't want it, so she had to continue temporarily, took out two copper plates from it, and threw them on the table to play, Yu Shu was bored, so he turned his head and looked around, and was attracted by the magnificent restaurant across the street, pointed to the plaque on the door on the first floor, touched Yu Xiaoxiu, and asked:
"Is that what it says is 'Drunken Fragrance Building'?"
Yu Xiaoxiu glanced up, and continued to bow his head and throw the copper plate, "Hmm." β
Coincidentally, as soon as Yu Shu recognized the plaque, he saw a group of teenagers and girls walking out of the restaurant surrounded by a person, standing at the door to say goodbye, and after looking carefully, they were all "acquaintances".
"Xue Shao, today's meal is really comfortable, the meal at your house during the day is boring, there are many elders and you can't drink, it's better for us to come out by ourselves, that drunken duck, I haven't tasted it for two months, next time I have a treat, I have to pick it here."
"Hey, did you invite it, set up that table just now, let alone twenty taels of silver, your mother won't give it to you."
"I'm talking to Xue Shao, what are you talking about?"
"Okay," Xue Wenzhe was surrounded by a group of people, drank too much wine during the banquet, dizzy, waved his hand to tell them not to quarrel, and said with a big tongue: "It's all gone, go home early, hiccup." β
Seeing them come out, a few carriages immediately came in front of the door, those who sat in the carriage, those who walked, and the people scattered, leaving Ji Zhu, who looked at Xue Wenzhe who was standing on the pillar worriedly, and said:
"Why didn't anyone come to pick you up, why don't you take my car and go first?"
"No," Xue Wenzhe waved his hand, his eyes were already spent, and he squinted at Ji Zhu's two heads, "Uncle is eating wine nearby, and said to come and pick me up, you go back first, no, don't send me." β
The person who drove the car urged, and Ji Zhu was helpless and reluctantly left him in the car and left.
Yu Shu compared the drunken appearance of Young Master Xue holding the pillar with the arrogant appearance in the private school, and thought it was funny, so he took a few more looks, and in a flash, the guests eating wontons at the next table got up and strode towards the opposite restaurant.
She watched the tall and thin man walk towards Xue Wenzhe, her vision was blocked, I don't know what he said to Xue Wenzhe, and when she looked at it again, Xue Wenzhe had been carefully supported by the man and walked over here.
"Hmm"
"Young master, go this way, beware of tripping."
The two of them passed by Sister Zhao's stall and walked directly into the dark alley behind. Yu Shu didn't turn his head, but just followed the two of them until their backs disappeared, and then frowned, feeling that something was wrong.
Listening to Yu Xiaoxiu, Xue Wenzhe is the cousin of the Liu family, his father is a high-ranking official in the capital, in order to learn easily, he lives in the Liu family, this is a young master, it takes more than half an hour to walk from Changmenpu to the east of the city, why is there not even a carriage to pick up people, so Ji Zhu and a concubine have a carriage to pick it up.
It's weird.
"Two bowls of wonton, slow use." Sister Zhao took two large bowls full of two and put them on the table, not a drop of soup was spilled, and there was incense wafting in the bowls, which was more than the normal amount of two or three.
Yu Shu came back to his senses and was about to say thank you, when he heard a "ding", the copper plate in Yu Xiaoxiu's hand was empty, jumped to the ground, and rolled backwards with a grunt.
"Eh," Yu Xiaoxiu let out a low cry, stood up and chased after him, and ran into the alley in the blink of an eye.
Yu Shu was stunned, smiled and lowered his head, picked up the spoon, lowered his head and drank two mouthfuls of soup first, raised his eyes to look at the alley, there was a faint sound in his ears, and he panicked inexplicably, put down the spoon, stood up and rushed into the alley.
"Minor repairs?"
She let out a low scream, no one responded, she intuitively felt that something was wrong, ran forward a dozen steps against the wall, and suddenly saw a few faint figures in front of her, squinted her eyes and looked hard, not far away, under the dim light, the tall and thin man, carrying a person on his shoulders and a person under his arm, was talking to another person in a low voice.
"It's here, why do you have one more?"
"It's seen, let's take it with us, it's a boy, maybe it's useful to keep it."
"Shhhh
The hair stood upside down, Yu Shu wanted to shout at the first time, this is Changmen Street, people come and go, shouting out is the safest way at the moment, but in fact, as soon as she opened her mouth, she was slammed from behind by someone to faint.
"You two, you were too careless."
"Brother Feng, we-"
"Silence, let's talk about it in the car, bring this kid with you."