Tong Sanniang was stunned for a while, then suddenly looked at Lu Youfu, smiled, and said softly: "Brother Fu, why don't you go and buy me rock sugar hawthorn?" ”

"This is going, this is going." Lu Youfu blushed, smiled, and said while undressing his apron: "I'll buy it back for you, you have to take medicine well." With that, he went out.

Looking at Lu Youfu's back and walking out of Tong's pickle shop, Tong Sanniang turned her head to look at Ning Xia Qing, and asked softly: "Before my family comes back, is Miss Ning willing to talk to me?" ”

Ningxia Qing is not walking, nor is it not going to go.

The appearance of Tong Sanniang looking at the teacup appeared in her mind again, before that, Gu Xuesong had also seen the cup like that, it was the two extremely god-like side faces, which made Ning Ningxiaqing's heart shake at that time, and guessed something terrible......

Ning Ningqing lowered his eyes, pondered for a moment, and finally whispered: "I really didn't mean to, when I found out, it was too late." ”

Tong Sanniang's gaze flickered slightly, like fragile glass, and muttered: "It's not about Miss Ning, in the final analysis, it's still the fate of the blood and blood between me and him, maybe it's all providence......

Ningxia Qing knew that it was her own business.

It was in his previous life that he learned the craft of making candied golden dates from Tong Sanniang, and in this life, he would get Gu Xuesong's attention at the beginning because of this craft.

And it was precisely in order to introduce this shop selling candied golden dates to Gu Xuesong that he brought Gu Xuesong here.

Ning Xia Qing remembered that before, in Nanmu Temple, Gu Xuesong clearly said that his biological mother had passed away, but how could he ...... Ning Xia Qing really doesn't understand this.

Ning Ningqing only knew that the mother and son really had no intersection in the past, if it weren't for themselves, they might never know, in fact, they all lived in this small Liu'an County.

If it weren't for themselves, the mother and son would always be like this, living in the same world, but living in two worlds. It was because of Ningxia Qing that he disturbed the minds of these two people who were already unrelated.

Tong Sanniang's eyes were foggy, and her long eyelashes were covered with heavy dew, and through the misty water vapor, a face that was tortured to the extreme by reality suddenly appeared.

Ningxia Qing understands that the joys and sorrows in this world never stop, and the sad stories between people never end.

She knew that she was not to blame for this, but she still had a feeling that she was about to run out of breath.

She wasn't worried that Tong Sanniang and Gu Xuesong would blame her for the exposure of the secret and the end of a decent life, because Tong Sanniang and Gu Xuesong probably only regarded this incident as a sudden accident.

However, she herself knew that this was nothing more than a circular cause and effect of past and present lives, and it was all because of her.

Ningxia Qing walked out of the door of Tong's pickle shop with a complicated mood, she stood at the door and looked at the sky, the sky was as clear as a wash, clear and flawless, but her heart seemed to be firmly bound by something on the ground, even if she longed for the clarity of the sky, but she was still bound by the world and could not get out.

Everyone in the world has sufferings that others can't see, she thought so, and then turned around, only to find a person with a tired face standing aside, as if he had been staring at her motionless for a long time.

The man's eyes seemed to be so tired that he couldn't turn anymore, and his expression was rare and unguarded, and he even looked a little pitiful at this look.

How could he show such an expression when he was proud of the spring breeze? Ning Ningqing turned his head and no longer looked at each other, and at the same time couldn't help but be surprised.

"I didn't expect Miss Ning to ...... here" His words made Ning Ningqing look at him suspiciously. Ning Xia Qing didn't understand, to this day, why did he still want to speak to himself in such a pitiful tone with surprise and helplessness, did he want to win her sympathy and coax her to relax her vigilance?

Thinking like this, Ning Ningqing couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart, only groaned slightly for a moment, and then said politely and distantly: "I heard that Mrs. Tan lost her beloved son, and I also ask Tan Ye to mourn." ”

Tan Wenshi was stunned, he didn't expect Ningxia Qing to say this. But at this moment, he also understood that Ning Xia Qing would not say anything else to himself except for this matter. The little bit of faint light in Tan Wenshi's eyes that was remnants and couldn't even be found without looking carefully was extinguished, and he said dejectedly, "I didn't expect Miss Ning's news to be so fast. ”

"It's not that my news is fast, but when Qiu Tong left me yesterday, she forgot to take the sandalwood from Nanmu Temple that my mother wanted to give her, so I asked people to send it to the house, and I heard about it." Ning Xia Qing said calmly.

Tan Wenshi was slightly stunned and sighed: "That's it, don't mention this matter." He seemed to want to avoid this sad reality, looked left and right, and happened to see the Hua Caiyuan branch hanging with the "Hua Cai Yuan" plaque and the guests who happened to be walking inside, so he immediately used this to start the topic: "Miss Ning's business will always be so good." ”

Ning Xia Qing naturally followed Tan Wenshi's gaze, but immediately withdrew his gaze, and turned to look in the direction of the south alley entrance of Jiucheng Lane and said: "I heard Qiu Tong say that Tan Ye opened his own shop, just in Siheng Hutong." ”

Tan Wenshi lowered his head slightly: "It's just to make a living." ”

Tan Wenshi paused for a moment, suddenly remembered something, with a bit of expectation in his eyes, and said hurriedly: "Since Miss Ning is here, let's go to my store to have a look, anyway, it's not far, just a few steps away." I just opened my own shop, and I want to ask Miss Ning to help me see if there is anything wrong with the store, and I also ask Miss Ning to enjoy it. ”

Ning Xia Qing couldn't help but glance at Tan Wenshi coldly.

She was a little difficult to decide.

Speaking of which, she is actually quite curious about what materials are sold in Tan Wenshi's shop, what kind of layout design the shop has, and what decorations are there. As a peer, it would be a lie to say that she didn't want to take a look.

But Tan Wenshi said, "Please Miss Ning to help me see if there is anything wrong with the store", which made Ning Ningqing think of the scene when he helped Tan Wenshi take care of business in his previous life.

If she went to Tan Wenshi's shop, and Tan Wenshi was in parallel with her, exchanging opinions on the business of the shop, this scene would be exactly the same as when she helped Tan Wenshi take care of the shop in her previous life.

The exact same scene alone made her instinctively want to escape.

"Miss Ning......" Seeing that Ning Xia Qing didn't answer for a long time, Tan Wenshi was about to say something more, but a voice suddenly came from the side: "I've been waiting for Miss Ning for a long time, why hasn't Miss Ning come yet?" ”

Tan Wenshi and Ning Xia Qing looked at the source of the sound at the same time, and saw that the well-dressed handsome boy was standing not far away, without any smile on his face, but he always looked at Tan Wenshi and Ning Ningqing.

Ning Xia Qing didn't think about it, so he said to Gu Xuesong: "It's me who is rude." ”

Immediately, she looked at Tan Wenshi, and said politely and undeniably: "I have made an appointment with Master Gu, I'm afraid I can only live up to Tan Ye's good intentions." After speaking, she left Tan Wenshi's front and walked to Gu Xuesong's side.

At that moment, although she didn't look back at Tan Wenshi, she could inexplicably feel the heartbreak in Tan Wenshi's eyes, but thinking of this, it made her involuntarily speed up her pace and escape from Tan Wenshi's side faster.

Even her back couldn't help revealing her deep dislike for Tan Wenshi.

In the private room of the tea house opposite Tong's pickle shop.

"Thank you, Lord Gu, for helping me out." She said this first.

Gu Xuesong didn't speak, the expression on his face was very serious, but he didn't look at her at all, he glanced at her, as if he wanted to say it but couldn't say it.

After a long time, there was the sound of children frolicking on the side of the street, Gu Xuesong was attracted by the sound and looked out the window, first stunned, then frowned, and muttered to himself: "I really hope that I can change with him." ”

Ning Xia Qing was a little puzzled, and looked at Gu Xuesong's gaze, only to see a thin boy less than ten years old with a muddy face happily running into Tong's pickle shop.

The child's clothes were shabby, and the mud on his head and face looked like the result of the poor family not being able to hire a servant to take care of the child, so they could only let the child run wildly outside, and the child's face still had blood marks that had just been scabbed over for a short time, I don't know if it was caused by a fall when he ran crazy, or a fight with the child next to him.

Lu Youfu also happened to come back from outside happily buying rock sugar hawthorn for Tong Sanniang, and when he saw the child, he gently slapped the back of the child's head with his hand, and counted the child and made himself covered in mud.

Tong Sanniang just gently held the child in her arms, glanced at Lu Youfu with disgust, and smiled patiently to wipe the mud on the child's face.

The child's eyes lit up when he saw the rock sugar hawthorn in Lu Youfu's hand, but Lu Youfu didn't give it to the child, but put the rock sugar hawthorn on the high cabinet that the child couldn't reach in the counter.

The child pouted when he landed, Tong Sanniang said a few more words to Lu Youfu, and then asked Tong Sili to bring the rock sugar hawthorn over, and fed the children one by one with a smile.

That child will be poor and ordinary all his life, just like his father Lu Youfu, who has been an inconspicuous little person all his life. But this kind of life is beyond Gu Xuesong's reach.

"When I was little, she never treated me like that." Gu Xuesong said gloomily.

When he was young, Tong Sanniang was busy entertaining those guests almost every day, and when there were no guests, Tong Sanniang always sat tired, her eyes full of emptiness and loneliness.

Gu Xuesong had an illness when he was a child, and he always refused to eat, Tong Sanniang never coaxed him, he always just coldly asked people to withdraw all the meals, and then Gu Xuesong would be hungry and sleepless night after night.

Later, when he grew up a little, he always asked Tong Sanniang for candy, but Tong Sanniang would only count him coldly. He doesn't have a long memory, and next time he will ask Tong Sanniang for candy, but the result is naturally another one.

It wasn't until many, many times later that he finally remembered that he couldn't ask Tong Sanniang for candy, he couldn't do anything, no matter what he wanted, Tong Sanniang wouldn't give it to him.

He doesn't have a father, and his mother doesn't like him, and even when his mother sees him, she will resent him and treat him coldly because she thinks of his negative father.

Therefore, Gu Xuesong was willing to exchange with the child, exchanging wealth for that poor and ordinary life. At the end of the day, everyone is just a child who wants to be loved.

But Gu Xuesong will never be loved, he is destined to be desolate for a lifetime.

Later, his mother asked him to leave, and asked him to gain fame, make meritorious achievements, and show his ambitions. But he didn't want to, he just wanted to stay with his mother, although his mother was not good to him, but he was the only one after all.

But what he didn't expect was that his mother actually committed suicide because he refused to leave.

He has lost his only relative, he no longer has any concern for the world, out of guilt for this relative, he chose to fulfill his mother's last wish, to get fame, to make contributions, to show his ambitions.

He once comforted himself and thought that his mother still loved him after all, so he would not hesitate to die, just to force Gu Xuesong to break out of a bright future.

Gu Xuesong has always thought like this, and whenever he thinks like this, his heart can not be so empty and helpless.

But when he saw Tong's pickle shop and saw that Tong Sanniang was so happy, Gu Xuesong finally couldn't lie to himself anymore.

Gu Xuesong had to admit that in fact, Tong Sanniang was just ...... I just don't want him anymore...... For Tong Sanniang, he is just a burden that must be thrown off......

Tong Sanniang wants to live an ordinary and simple life, and Gu Xuesong is the biggest obstacle.

That's why Gu Xuesong was told that Tong Sanniang was dead, and he lived with deep guilt for so many years. And Tong Sanniang has already married and had children after completely severing her relationship with Gu Xuesong, and she has lived a happy life.

Tong Sanniang probably thought that Gu Xuesong was in the capital, so she moved to Meigong County in order to avoid Gu Xuesong. Unexpectedly, Gu Xuesong was also in Meigong County.

It can be seen that Tong Sanniang really didn't inquire about Gu Xuesong, and she really didn't care about him at all.

Even his mother treated him like this, who else in the world would be good to him? After all, he is a man who is destined to live a miserable life.

Ningxia Qing had never heard Gu Xuesong say this, and couldn't bear to say: "Gu Gongzi ......"

She finally couldn't help it, and still called "Gu Gongzi".