Chapter 10: The Past
When the lockdown went all the way from the sun to the doorstep, the body had actually begun to dry.
The door of the house was hidden, and it seemed that it was the daughter of the old shopkeeper of Ning Hetang.
Previously, because Xie Yi's external wound medicine needed to be changed every day, the city closed and invited her to come over to help, and in order to facilitate her comings and goings, she specially left the key in Ninghetang.
Afraid that his watery appearance would scare other girls, and he was afraid that there would be something abrupt in rushing in, so he knocked on the door specially in the city, but after waiting outside the door for a long time, he didn't see a response inside, and tried to push the door in, but there was no one in several rooms, but the sound of the girl laughing and chatting came from the yard.
The two girls chatted happily, listening to the creaking sound of the wooden floor in the house, and then opened the curtain of the courtyard and looked this way. The sun was just right, and as soon as the city was closed, I saw Xie Yi's pale face, which was almost transparent under the light, and I was stunned.
It's no wonder that he was surprised, he was always embarrassed to be in the same room without acquaintance, so he always avoided Xie Yi intentionally or unintentionally at home, and when the old shopkeeper's daughter came, he simply didn't come downstairs, and naturally he didn't know what Xie Yi's current injury was.
Seeing the embarrassment of the lockdown, the old shopkeeper's daughter was also stunned, she anxiously asked what was wrong with the lockdown, if she wanted to go to the pharmacy to get some medicine and come back.
The lockdown answered one by one, he took two steps and stood under the sun, Xie Yi's face looked still weak, but it was clearly vivid, and when he looked at the lockdown like this, he felt that there was a chord in his heart.
seemed to have a thousand words, but I didn't know where to start, I stood stiff for a long time, and only asked, "Are you awake?"
Xie Yi didn't have much strength, she nodded slightly, the warm orange light flowed between the tips of her hair, and a picture suddenly popped up in the mind of the lockdown.
It was many years ago in the summer, and he climbed the wall of the backyard of the imperial historian's house, and in the shadow of the dense trees, he saw two girls sitting on the swing and talking, one of them looked sick and weak, and the other was full of energy with her hair hanging down.
While chatting, the girl with her hair in a bun suddenly looked up and saw him, and in the exclamations on both sides, his feet slipped and he almost fell off the wall.
After the lockdown boiled water, took a shower, and changed clothes, most of the afternoon had passed.
The warmth of the sun has not yet subsided, and the lockdown city is also sitting in the courtyard, this is the first time he has taken a closer look at a girl, seeing Xie Yi's soft cheek lines, which seem more and more blurred in the warm light, the lockdown asked himself in his heart, why did he suddenly remember something so far ago.
It was a family affair set by his father, and the other party was the daughter of the imperial historian, he had not seen it, but he had only heard from the outside world how dignified and beautiful he was, and how he was so talented.
He remembered that there was a saying that the girl in that family was no matter how good she was, but she was not very good at birth, and she would fall down when the wind blew, and she was raised by decoction every day and every year.
Xiao Fengcheng listened to these words with his ears open, but he never felt that he was talking about his own daughter-in-law.
As for the matter of marriage, to tell the truth, he is not very happy to marry a girl he has never seen, but the ignorant teenager is always thinking about luck, what if she wants to be really good-looking?
It is said that people can't have evil intentions, and the idea of locking down the city, which is not too bad, was used by the county lord who was also young and lucky.
Under the encouragement of the county master, Xiao Fengcheng climbed the courtyard wall of someone else's house for the first time in his life, but he was hit by a little maid before he had any experience.
Later, at the family banquet of the imperial historian, he saw the little maid again, and he didn't remember the specifics, but he remembered the little fat fist that the little maid waved, and she pointed to the nose of the closed city and said I recognize you, it is you who peeked at my young lady and saw how I beat you.
At that time, the closure of the city could only be a flushed face, unable to say anything, the county lord was about to faint with a smile next to him, and the lockdown secretly took his eyes in embarrassment, and when he looked at it, he felt that the girl was a little cute.
Later, then there was nothing, and I still don't know what crime my father committed when he locked down the city.
He still remembered the day of the accident, when a fire broke out in the backyard of his house, and he watched the servants and maids flee in all directions, only to be escorted back one by one by the soldiers in armor.
He stood in the middle of the kneeling crowd, as if everything had nothing to do with him, his mother held him, trying to cover his eyes, he struggled out, he wondered why I couldn't see.
He was glad he did, for it was the last time he saw his mother, and the days of exile with him seemed incomparably long.
He knew that the county lord had begged his old man thousands of times in order to save him, and he knew that many of those former smiling faces were holding back their efforts to harm him, but he also knew that as long as he didn't pursue it, he could always live in Tianyu Town, as if he were a matter of course.
In fact, I am a little tired, even if it is only occasionally, I will feel tired.
Xie Yi was still sitting there quietly, she didn't know the complicated emotions in the heart of the lockdown, she just sat silently, like a painting.
Lockdown had many impulses to ask her, and he remembered that there was a teenager who climbed the wall, but he finally held back.
There is no point in having it or not, he thought, he lowered his eyes, looked at the sun a little dim, he thought, it is over, there is no meaning.