Chapter 40: Hurry up
Hua Mei's attitude was simply a 180-degree turn, which made Li You unable to adapt for a while, but since she was already sitting beside her, it didn't hurt to talk about it.
After listening to Li You's short and tasteless love story, Hua Mei's performance was beyond his expectations, and she looked at him with tears in her eyes, as if she had just watched a tear-jerking movie.
"You, you're okay." Li You asked her tentatively, originally thought that she would be sleepy after speaking, but she didn't expect that this seemingly strong flower girl also had a sentimental side.
In order to alleviate the awkward atmosphere, he tried to recall the comforting stories that had happened in the first twenty years so that he could tell her. But when he thought about it, he felt as if he hadn't really been happy once.
"Tell me about you, I'd love to hear it." After Li You finished speaking, he seemed to have compromised with fate, and he might be more suitable to be a listener.
Hua Mei brushed the hair scattered on her face, but she was blown around by the wind, and her somewhat haggard and sick face could no longer make Li You think of her sister.
"In the sixth year of Zhongping, when I was only dying, my father fled Luoyang with me in order to avoid conscription, and planned to move to Chang'an. Unexpectedly, on the way, my father contracted a stubborn illness and died in a foreign land. Then the Li family came to the rescue and was able to survive. β
Li You is not good at going to school and studying, listening to Hua Mei talking one by one, she asked her in a confused way: "The year of the drooping hair?" Seven or eight years old? Can we put it simply? β
"Yes, it's not much different", she rolled her eyes, this action was very similar to her own rude and willful sister. "Since then, I have been living in the Li family, and the adult is a military attachΓ©, and I want to teach a martial art to the young master. But the young master is kind and unwilling to dance with guns and sticks. β
"My lord? Are you talking about his father? He didn't want to learn, so he passed on his martial arts to you and asked you to protect him? β
Hua Mei nodded and continued: "You are really similar to the young master, but I mean here. After speaking, she pointed to her head, and Li Youxin said, you are scolding people around the corner.
But then again, he really doesn't look as handsome as No. 3. After glancing at him who was asleep, Li You continued to ask Hua Mei, how could a famous family be sent here?
Seeing that Hua Mei shook her head and sighed, but did not speak, Li Youxin said that it might be who his father had offended, but Hua Mei's explanation surprised him.
"You mean, No. 3, no, Li Yu ran away from home by himself?"
"Yes, the adult made a marriage to the young master, but the young master didn't comply, so he escaped by himself, and then he was sent here by mistake. When the lord learned of this, he became seriously ill and ordered me to come and find out the whereabouts of the young master, which led to these later things. β
Rich people really know how to play, but they have to go to the depths of this desert to suffer, and in the end, they are not "forced to marry"?
While chatting, the sky gradually brightened, and Li You thought that he would have to hurry tomorrow, so he leaned against the door and fell asleep. Probably tired from tossing and turning during the day, this short sleep, I didn't even have a dream. When I woke up, I found that Hua Mei was lying on her lap, dreaming non-stop.
He wanted to go back to see if No. 3 was awake, and found that No. 3 was grinning at him, this was probably the first time Li You had seen No. 3 smile like this, and a layer of goosebumps suddenly appeared on his bare arms outside the leather jacket.
"Brother Ren, the younger brother has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not."
"But it doesn't hurt to say it." Li You seems to be getting used to this kind of dialogue, and although he is awkward, he seems to be very cultured.
No. 3 tiptoed into Li You's ear and whispered: "I see that you seem to be interested in Hua Mei, why don't I be the matchmaker and become a benevolent brother?" β
"What!" Li You subconsciously shouted and woke up the flower girl who was dreaming. "No, me, I really just think of her as my own sister."
"What sister, what are you talking about?" Hua Mei wiped her mouth and looked at the two of them suspiciously.
No. 3 didn't hide it, and when he opened his mouth, he said, "I want to broker the two of you to get married." β
"Eh, young master, you are making fun of me again!"
Although this sentence said by No. 3 was really rare in ancient times, and there were few ladies who could accept it. However, this flower girl has a cheerful personality, generous and decent, but her face is a little red, she didn't say anything, and then walked out of the door.
"Brother Xian, let me tell you, in fact, I am not from this era, I am from another world."
"What do you mean, you're saying you're not a big man? However, your appearance is obviously no different from that of a Han Chinese? β
Li You tried his best to explain to No. 3, but the way of thinking of the ancients was different from that of modern people, so he couldn't understand it at all, so he had to sigh and say: "I, let me say this, this flower sister may really be my own sister, how can close relatives get married?" β
"You just said that you are not from this world, and now you say that Sister Hua is your sister, if Brother Ren does not accept my good intentions, you don't have to humiliate me."
Seeing No. 3's elongated face, Li You didn't know how to explain it, but suddenly he felt that what No. 3 said seemed to make sense. hurriedly apologized to No. 3, saying that he really didn't mean to humiliate him, but he just felt that the two were not very familiar with each other, and that they could let go of the matter of getting married.
"Can't you go?" When Hua Mei passed by the shack from outside, she whispered, and secretly glanced at Li You a few times, and the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were indescribable.
Seeing Hua Mei peeking at herself with autumn in her eyes, Li Youxin said Isn't this nonsense? If you don't look like your sister, even if you're related, you don't know.
But although there is a difference, but on the chromosomes or something, the two people also have a blood relative, he just walked out of the shack so well, and he checked three times whether the "key" was charged, and it was the king to leave here quickly.
After a day and a night of sandstorms, the outside has completely changed to a different scene. Originally, I remembered that the river was only a few steps away, but I didn't know when I ran behind a sand dune, and after a long sigh, Li You walked to the river.
After grooming and dressing, everyone was ready to go, Li You quickly climbed the saddle and rode on the flower girl's horse, but his hands began to have nowhere to put them.
"You've got to sit still, you're going to get up this time." After Hua Mei finished speaking, she grabbed the reins with one hand, and grabbed Li You's hand with the other and held it on her waist.
No. 3 drove to their side with bad intentions, and whipped the horse's buttocks with the reins in his hand, Li Youhao was thrown off by the horse that ran out, and subconsciously wrapped his hands tightly around Hua Mei's waist.
"Drive!"
Two sweaty and bloody horses galloped on the vast desert, leaving a long series of horseshoe prints behind them, which were soon buried by the wind and sand.