Chapter 40: Autumn Nights
Li Zhuoran still had a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, but there was a trace of tenderness in his eyes, and he said: "Changfan can't persuade her, but she just eats it, she's always so reckless." Yunhua saw Li Zhuoran's emotion, and thought to himself: It turns out that such a free and uninhibited person also has the affection he cares about. He smiled slightly and poured himself a glass of wine, but vaguely saw Su Mengtang's shadow in the wine in the glass. "Drunk." Yun Hua sighed in his heart and drank the wine. Li Zhuoran stood up, looked around, took a plate of fruit cake from the chest of drawers behind him, put it on the bamboo table and said: You still have this here. Yunhua nodded, picked up a piece and handed it to him and said, "Sister Jinshu eats that meal, it doesn't matter if your body is fine." ”
Li Zhuoran stuffed the fruit cake into his mouth, recalled and said: "She said that she boiled the two antidotes before eating, put them on the table, and after eating them, she felt that her body was tight, and it didn't look like a symptom of sweating. Yunhua nodded slightly reassuringly, and asked again: "What about Qingzhou, how was Qingzhou when you came?" ”
Li Zhuoran said with a smile: "Qingzhou has a good foundation, and after drinking Chinese medicine for seven days, it will be alive and well." Yun Hua repeated the words "living dragon and tiger" softly, and said with a smile: "That's better than before, he is getting older and more serious now, and I haven't seen him lively and vigorous for many years." Li Zhuoran filled his wine cup and said, "Lao Zhang, if you were asked to use one word to describe Qingzhou, which one would you use?" Yun Hua smiled, dipped his fingertips in the wine spilled on the table, and said: Let's write it down. Li Zhuoran also dipped in wine, and the two of them wrote down their own words.
After Yunhua finished writing, he put his hand on the words and hid it, but saw that Li Zhuoran was erasing all the handwriting he had written with his sleeve and rewriting, so he had to continue to wait. Li Zhuoran wrote four more words in a concealed manner, covered himself and looked at it for a moment, and once again waved his sleeves in annoyance and wiped them off. "Huh? What are you doing. Yunhua couldn't help but ask. Li Zhuoran was already slightly drunk, and the more he wrote, the more angry he said: "I haven't practiced calligraphy for a long time, and I can't write well, I'm afraid you'll laugh." Yun Hua smiled dumbly when he heard this, and said while laughing: "Why bother, I have seen your handwriting, and I have already seen what you are going to write, whether it is Guangfeng Jiyue." ”
Li Zhuoran raised his head in surprise when he heard this, and asked, "How do you know?" Yunhua said: "I'm counting the gestures you write for each word, and it should be this." Li Zhuoran heard that what he wrote was guessed, so he went to look at the handwriting that Yunhua had concealed, but because it had been too long, the handwriting had dried up and was difficult to read. Li Zhuoran sighed: "Hey, I don't know if what we wrote is a word." Yun Hua shook his head slightly, poured the wine on the table a little, and wrote it again. Li Zhuoran laughed and said, "Yes, Lao Zhao is a person, and it is indeed unforgettable." ”
The wooden window in the house was suddenly blown open by a cool breeze, and the fresh smell of autumn rain lifted the spirits of the two people. Li Zhuoran looked at the rain dripping on the eaves of the window and said, "If Lao Zhao is also here, it would be good to talk and laugh with you and me." Yunhua got up and walked a few steps, closed the wooden window, and took out the pen and inkstone from the chest of drawers, and said, Then we will write to him and send it to Yaosi. Li Zhuoran was interested, got up and looked around for the letter, and after looking around, he suddenly remembered something and said: "The paper is all Xiaoqiu is just leaving, Yunhua, do you still have anything here?" ”
Yunhua said: "I didn't bring much from the mansion at the beginning, only that stack, I'll go find Xiaoqiu to get it." Li Zhuoran smiled and said: "Xiaoqiu's paper, ink, pen and inkstone are all ready-made, let's go over and write directly." So the two men put on their clothes and went to the chamber in the rain. At this time, Ximen March had already finished copying the punishment a hundred times, and said to Qiuqiu: "Xiao Qiu'er, I have finished writing a hundred times, and put away a few of the sheets you wrote, so as not to let Uncle Yunhua see it." "Lest I see anything?" I didn't see Yunhua outside the door, so I heard it first.
Qiuqiu glanced at Ximen March complainingly, and hid behind Ou Jinshu: she made mistakes again and again, she didn't know how to explain to Yunhua, and she felt very uncomfortable. Yun Hua and Li Zhuoran had already walked outside the door, and Yun Huali asked Ou Jinshu outside the door: "Disturb so late, I don't know if it's inconvenient for Jinshu's sister." Ou Jinshu smiled and beckoned them to come in and said, "It's only one watch, it's not too late, the two brothers come in and sit." Li Zhuoran squeezed in first with a smile when he heard this, and said, "I'll just say, Jinshu must not have slept yet." Ou Jinshu slapped him with a smile, suddenly raised his sleeves, and tiptoed to help him wipe the rain from his forehead, and Li Zhuoran grinned and smirked.
Yunhua also walked in, picked up a stack of papers on the table, and asked Qiuqiu, "Xiaoqiu has finished writing?" Before Qiuqiu could speak, Ximen March hurriedly said: "Xiaoqiu has finished writing, the paper is not enough, and the last twenty times are still written on the back." Yunhua looked at the paper in his hand, looked at the two children one by one, and said, "You guys tell the truth, I can see who wrote this word." Ximen March was just about to explain, but Qiuqiu preemptively said: "I told Simon to write it for me, and the master will punish me." She didn't want Simon to help her with any nonsense.
Yunhua was a little displeased, and said, "If I punish you a hundred more times, or someone writes it for you, what's the point?" Qiuqiu didn't know what to say, so she just stood angrily to hide the uneasiness in her heart. Yunhua looked at Qiuqiu's stubborn expression, sighed and said, "Let me say something good about you." If you're so disobedient now, I'm afraid I won't be able to teach you. Hearing this, Qiuqiu raised her eyelashes, looked at Yunhua in disbelief and said, "Is Mr. going to abandon Qiu'er?" Yunhua knew that what he said was inappropriate, so he only turned his eyes to the side and stopped looking at Qiuqiu. Ou Jinshu and Li Zhuoran were busy pushing Yunhua behind when they heard this, asking him to say something soft.
Qiuqiu remembered that when she was young, every time she made a mistake, her mother always used words like "I don't want you anymore, go pick up individual children" to scare her. At that time, she was still young, and she believed such words as true, and she was so sad that she cried, thinking that the end of the world had come. Now that she has grown up, when she hears such an adult intimidating a child again, she only feels angry and aggrieved, and she can't help but say to Yunhua: "Since you have adopted a child, you have to be responsible for her life, instead of finding an excuse in the middle and getting rid of her if you can't teach her with a single sentence." Even if you don't have this idea, aren't you afraid of breaking your child's heart by saying such things? She said as if she wanted to avenge herself back then, but she didn't know if it was Yunhua or her mother who said this.
Yunhua looked at Qiuqiu in surprise, his eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he asked in a muffled voice: How could I ever say that I would get rid of you like this?
Ximen March heard Qiuqiu and Yunhua quarreling, and cried anxiously on the side. Qiuqiu turned around and asked Ximen, "Did Aunt Mengtang say such a thing to you?" Ximen March shook his head and cried and said, "Xiao Qiu'er, I was wrong, I shouldn't have copied it for you, don't quarrel with Uncle Yunhua." ”
Qiuqiu remembered the grievances from childhood to adulthood, tears burst out of her eyes, she rubbed her eyes and said: "During the day, Ximen fell into the water, and I was also frightened, but you only cared about punishing me, how could you have comforted me?" You are the most trusted adult in this world, why can't you tolerate me, why do children have to punish when they make mistakes? Why do you always scare them with the things they care about most? "Xiaoqiu, don't say it." Ou Jinshu stopped Xiaoqiu's accusation and wanted to come forward to explain to her, but Zhuo Ran hurriedly grabbed Jinshu with his hand and signaled her not to intervene at this moment.
Yunhua slapped his hand on the table, but he was so sad that he couldn't speak, Qiuqiu's words were like a knife, and he slashed at his heart: he thought that the family affection that had depended on each other for eight years was enough for this child to understand his good intentions, but today, Qiuqiu couldn't even understand it. Seeing Yunhua's expression, Qiuqiu felt a little unbearable, but she still said angrily: "I don't need Mr. to punish me this time, I will punish myself myself." After saying that, she crossed the clouds and ran quickly into the autumn rain outside. Ou Jinshu and Ximen March reacted and were about to chase out, but Yunhua swept the items on the table to the ground, and said with red eyes: No one is allowed to chase it!