The sky is as blue as washing, and the wind is like a bath.

The scattered flowers swept a pile beside the steps, fragrant and brilliant.

Silver candle stands on the edge of the falling flower with both hands holding the broom, with a green skirt and a white skirt, thin eyebrows and long eyes, deferential and restrained.

Her voice was gentle and gentle, blending into the hustle and bustle of the early morning, without a trace.

Xia Hui, who had a pen and ink under the tree, looked up at this side, then lowered his head and continued to be busy, probably only seeing but not hearing.

Only Tsing Yi, who was standing under the porch, heard it, and while raising his eyes to look over, his footsteps moved slightly, and he changed his posture slightly.

Silver Candle didn't seem to notice Tsing Yi's movement, and still looked at Chi Tang with a smile.

"No, what's wrong?" Chi Tang only replied as an ordinary greeting, but his eyes looked at her with a good look.

"The maid wants to take the girl to meet someone." Silver Candle said softly.

Chi Tang tugged at the corners of his mouth and said, "Why are you suddenly in a hurry?" ”

Silver Candle lowered his gaze and said, "If you don't go, it's too late......"

……

The place where Silver Candle was going to take her was outside the city, in a village to the west of the city.

By the time Chi Tang arrived, the guards had already explored the entire village.

The village is very small, from the head of the village to the end of the village, there are more than 20 families sparsely distributed.

Chitang is going to the last household at the end of the village.

The one had only one dilapidated hut, and a small courtyard was fenced off.

When Chi Tang walked into the courtyard, Xia Hui came out of the house, followed her and whispered, "The doctor has seen it, and it is indeed dying......

Chi Tang nodded and continued to walk inside.

The inside and outside of the house seemed to have just been cleaned, and even smelled a smell of flowers, but when I entered the house, there was still a trace of rotten smell penetrating my nose, which made people feel uncomfortable.

The inside of the house is dark and short, there is no separation between the inside and the outside, and standing at the door, you can see the situation in the house at a glance.

There was a bed against the east wall, and on the bed lay a man, his gray hair gathered together like a mess of grass.

Silver Candle saluted Chi Tang and said, "Girl, wait a moment—" Then he walked to the side of the bed, bent down, and called softly: "Aunt Fang, I brought Miss Chi here." ”

Xia Hui suddenly raised his head, looking stunned.

"Aunt Fang?" Chi Tang muttered and repeated, looking at the person on the bed in disbelief.

The man on the bed rolled his eyes with difficulty, and the moment she saw Chi Tang, her originally lifeless eyes suddenly lit up faintly, and her body seemed to struggle, but then there was a heart-rending cough.

Chi Tang unconsciously took a step back, grabbed Xia Hui's hand, and muttered, "Is it really Aunt Fang?" Is it really Aunt Fang? ”

Fang Gu and Yun Gu are both maids who followed Ah Niang when she was unmarried, and later they both got married, although Fang Gu was not as good as Yun Gu as her nurse, she also walked around Ah Niang.

When A-Niang died of illness, she went south with her father, but Aunt Fang did not accompany her husband because her husband's family was from Beijing.

After that, the mountains were high and the road was far away, and Chitang was still a child, and gradually forgot such a person.

But in her vague memory, she vaguely remembered that Fang Gu was a lively and smiling and ingenious woman, who made good use of colorful silk to make various silk flower headdresses for her, and she could always win the praise of her father and mother with a smile.

She couldn't relate to the withered man in front of her.

"After returning to Beijing, I visited Aunt Fang, but I heard that after we left Beijing, she moved away with her husband's family and didn't know where to go." Xia Hui said, she was not sure of the identity of the person in front of her.

After the man on the bed coughed up a mouthful of phlegm, he leaned on the silver candle and gasped, but his eyes suddenly brightened.

"Ah Tang...... You don't recognize Aunt Fang, do you? She smiled weakly, "Do you remember, when you were five years old, we were hiding in the main room, I hid under the bed, you couldn't find me, you thought I was lost, and I cried in fright......"

Chi Tang said embarrassedly: "I don't remember ......"

At the age of five, where do you remember so much?

The man coughed twice more and said, "Madame is dying, I want to see Ah Lang's hairpin peach blossoms, I tied the peach blossoms, do you remember?" ”

Remember this!

Chi Tang's eyes were hot: "Are you really Aunt Fang?" How did you...... How is this so? ”

She remembered that Aunt Fang was about the same age as A-Niang, no matter how she counted it, she was only about thirty this year, but in front of her, she looked like a wind and candle in her old age, old and twilight.

Fang Gu smiled and stretched out her hand to her: "This is my retribution...... Finally, I saw you before I died......"

……

Zhu Xian didn't want to smell the rotten smell of the thatched house, so he sat on the roof to bask in the sun, listening to the people in the house intermittently.

Although her voice was quite soft, her ears were so good that she could hear most of them, except for the dying man.

After Miss Chi confirmed the identity of "Aunt Fang", it was mostly the "Aunt Fang" who spoke, and she couldn't hear a few words clearly.

When Zhu Xianzheng hesitated to enter the house and eavesdrop, he saw Tsing Yi and Silver Candle retreating.

She jumped off the roof in surprise and asked Tsing Yi, "Why did you come out?" Xiao Tangtang won't let you listen? ”

Tsing Yi glanced at her and didn't speak.

Zhu Xian turned to the silver candle: "What is the origin of your Aunt Fang?" An old servant of the Chi family? ”

The silver candle did not speak.

Zhu Xian pursed his lips boringly, and couldn't help but stretch his neck to look in, so curious: "Really? It's not a lie, is it? What did she do? What retribution did you suffer, did you do something sorry for Xiao Tangtang and repent when she died? Or ......"

Although he guessed heart-scratching, Zhu Xian did not come forward to listen again.

It's clear that there is a secret that people don't want to listen to, and it's not appropriate for her to listen to it.

The house didn't say much for long, and after about two quarters of an hour, Chitang came out.

She was so quick that she tripped over the threshold and nearly fell.

Zhu Xian hurriedly rushed over to support her, complaining: "Such a big person, I don't look at it when I walk-" Suddenly stunned, "What's the matter?" ”

The little girl's face was as white as paper, her eyes were red, and there were tears rolling in her eyes.

She wiped her eyes vigorously and beckoned to Mo San and Mo Qi.

The two of them hurried forward and were surprised to see her appearance.

"You go in and see—" her voice was so hoarse that it was hard to hear, "go and see if it's Aunt Fang." ”

Mo San and Mo Qi's faces changed again and hurriedly entered the house.

Chi Tang Gu got into the car.

Xia Hui also followed: "Girl-"

"Don't say it!" Chi Tang stopped in a low voice.

Xia Hui closed his mouth, but he couldn't help crying, remembering what he heard in the room just now, he was shocked, angry and scared.

Zhu Xian leaned over and asked, "What's wrong?" Who is that Fang Gu? What did she say? ”

No one answered.

Zhu Xian was annoyed and angry: "If you don't say that I won't help you!" ”

Still no one answered.

Zhu Xian brushed his sleeves away.

After waiting quietly for a while, Mo San and Mo Qi came out.

"It's Aunt Fang-" Mo Sandao, "It's gone......"

Chi Tang suddenly lost his strength and leaned on Xia Hui.

His gaze passed over the people in front of him and slanted into the distance.

The sky is blue, the wind is like a bath, and the yellow leaves are rolled down in front of the car, inadvertently bringing out a trace of coolness.

"Girl......" Xia Hui's voice trembled slightly.

Chi Tang quietly clenched her hand and whispered, "Let's go home!" ”