When Lin Tong was 6 years old, he picked up a baby girl from the riverside who was waiting to be fed. He struggled to pick her up and staggered home. His father, a rouge-skimming fat painter, saw him bring back a baby and angrily reprimanded: "It's hard enough for me to feed you, where can I have the money to raise another doll?" Hug it back! ”

Lin Tong stood stubbornly at the door, looking at his father stubbornly: "She will starve to death if she takes her back, and many people by the river just look at her and don't want her." Seeing that his son was pinned to his head, the rouge maker stretched out a slap the size of a fan, which was about to fall on the top of his son's head but took it back. He sighed and said, "Your mother is gone, unless you take care of her." I don't have time. ”

Seeing his father's promise, Lin Tong nodded happily and said that he would take care of her and take care of her for the rest of his life. A wry smile appeared at the corner of the rouge's mouth, and he said that he should be a child daughter-in-law, and if he picks up a daughter-in-law, he will have to hurt well.

From that day on, he became her little nanny, feeding her rice soup, sleeping with her, and bathing her. Her little blushed and he named her Rouge.

By the time Rouge was six years old, Lin Tong had already learned how to wet rouge cream from his father. Children from poor families can't afford to read as usual, and only sons inherit their father's business.

Sitting in a clean small stone house, Lin Tong put the whole red and blue flowers he had carefully collected into the stone bowl and repeatedly pestled the mallet, while Rouge squatted on the side and held his little face with both hands. When he returned to the house with the flowers, he saw that Xiao Rouge had already put his hand into the rouge tank, and the red, red, yellow and yellow rouge juice flowed down her little face. Looking at his sister with oil paint on her face, Lin Tong couldn't help laughing. Rouge looked at his brother and giggled.

After breakfast, the father took his daughter to deliver rouge to the family. Lin Tong is also going.

Juren's son is the same age as Lin Tong. He liked rouge, and said to rouge with his hands on his waist: "Are you Lin Tong's little daughter-in-law?" But I don't want you to be his daughter-in-law. In two years, you will marry me. ”

Looking at the domineering young master, Rouge was so frightened that he retreated again and again. Seeing this, the little young master stepped forward and hugged Rouge. Seeing this, Lin Tong pushed down the little master, and the two scuffled together.

On that day, the father punished his son severely. Tell him to kneel on the washboard, and kneel all night. The son caused him to lose money, and he also lost his old customers, and the rouge craftsman was angry. Rouge watched his brother kneel on the washboard, quietly walked over, and knelt beside him. Lin Tong told her to go back to sleep, and Rouge shook her head with tears in her eyes. Lin Tong scared her, and she was caught by the tiger without sleeping. Rouge cried in fright, and said, my brother doesn't sleep, what if he is captured by the tiger?

When Rouge grows to 12 years old, he can already wash good rouge.

On August 15, Rouge put the rose petals he had collected by himself into a clean stone mortar, and slowly scooped the petals into a thick pulp. Then use the spun yarn to filter the juice, and put the newly reeled silk into the flower juice to soak. The silk is completely soaked and taken out to dry, and it becomes a good rouge.

Rouge did all this, and fine beads of sweat secreted from his face. Lying on the bamboo chair, she fell asleep unconsciously. Lin Tong came back from buying flowers, and saw that Rouge was sleeping soundly, so he secretly took a piece of good rouge and put it in her dressing box. Rouge has also reached the age of beauty, but he has never used a good rouge. She only uses pomegranates and mountain flowers to wash out the rouge, where is the rose rouge fragrant?

When I woke up, I saw that a piece of rouge was missing, and rouge panicked. The father was even more furious, he thought that Rouge had stolen it for his own use, and found the dressing box, which was really inside. Rouge was speechless and was scolded by his father. When Lin Tong heard this, he hurriedly came out to argue, saying that he had stolen it by himself and had nothing to do with his sister. Believing that he was protecting rouge, his father locked the two in a dark room in a fit of rage and ordered them not to eat for a day. That's the rouge sent to the wife of the governor, it's already set, and the rouge is also used?

Sitting in the corner, Rouge cried in fright. Lin Tong coaxed her and said that it was okay, there would be nothing wrong with him. In order to coax Rouge, Lin Tong began to tell her stories, searching her intestines and scraping her belly, and told one after another, until Rouge fell asleep sleepily. In the moonlight, rouge fluttered her eyes, and her eyelashes were like butterfly wings. Lin Tong stroked her hair, feeling like a fairy in the sky.

Lin Tong is older. He was not willing to be a rouge for the rest of his life like his father. He's going out there and out into the world. Some southerners wanted to go to the Jinsha River to pan for gold, and Lin Tong left without saying goodbye with his burden. Before leaving, he silently stood beside the sleeping rouge and whispered, "You must wait for me." Wait until I come back and marry you. ”

With that, Lin Tong walked out of the door. Rouge lying on the bed, tears oozing from the corners of his eyes. She knew that she couldn't persuade him, he wanted to leave, and no one could stop him. In his baggage, she secretly put ten hard-boiled eggs and a few hundred dollars stolen from her father.

Time flies quickly, and four years have passed, and Lin Tong has returned.

However, when he returned to Rouge Town with two hundred yuan in his arms, his home was gone. The town is no longer what it used to be. In the past, the sound of mallets and rouge could be heard everywhere, but now the eyes are full of unfamiliar shops. He went to his former neighbors and asked about the whereabouts of his father and sister. The neighbor sighed and said that his father had died two years earlier. My father was seriously ill and spent all his savings, and in the end he didn't even have the money to buy a coffin. It was rouge who stuck a grass label on his head and sold himself to bury his father. His father was buried in a small cemetery in the mouth of the rock, as for rouge...... The neighbor stopped talking.

"Where's Rouge? Where is she? Lin Tong asked eagerly.

"She has sold her body**, and now she has become the top brand of Xingchun Building."

The neighbor's words hit Lin Tong's heart like a hammer. Rouge in**? Became the top brand of Xingchun Building? He couldn't believe it. That's the sister he brought up with his own hands, that's his rouge. If he hadn't gone, they would have been rounded up a long time ago. He just wants Rouge to marry him in style.

went to the grave to worship his father, and Lin Tong walked into Xingchun Tower. When I saw rouge, I asked for five taels of silver, two hundred taels of silver, which was only enough to cover her for one night. took out all the money he had saved for four years, and Lin Tong finally entered the embroidered account of Rouge.

Rouge sat on the edge of the bed, and the lake-green gauze was worn on her body, like a cloud of green mist. I haven't seen her for a few years, and she is already a slim and graceful girl. It's just that there is melancholy locked between her eyebrows. Seeing Lin Tong, a spark flashed in Rouge's eyes, and he called out in surprise: Brother!

That night, the two just sat down, and Rouge talked about his father's illness, about selling the house, and about his father calling his name on his deathbed. At the end of the conversation, Rouge couldn't hold back anymore and started crying. Tired of crying, Rouge pillowed his head on Lin Tong's lap and fell asleep with tear stains. Lin Tongmu was stunned, and after a while, he hugged Rouge to the bed, and whispered in her ear that he would definitely come back to redeem her, definitely.

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