Yundu, late autumn and September, the weather is getting cooler, and thunderstorms are showing.

In a three-entry courtyard in the north of the city, a warm charcoal fire was burning in the hall, and an old man with gray hair was sitting beside the charcoal fire, sewing clothes stitch by stitch.

"Aunt Yun, you quickly put down the needle and thread, just leave these jobs to me."

Xiao Liu came in from outside with his toes in the wind and rain, shaking the rain on his body while stopping Aunt Yun.

"Do you think I'm old and useless?" Aunt Yun smiled, but the work in her hands did not stop, "When I was young, I was a famous embroiderer in Yundu, this needle and thread, even if I closed my eyes, I could pinch it and embroider it accurately." “

Koyanagi smiled, rubbed his hands, walked over with a sigh of relief, picked up the needle and cloth on the side, and skillfully flew the needle and thread.

"Isn't the jade girl coming back today?" Aunt Yun asked.

"Girl, every time she is in the Qingming Festival, she has to sit in the Cloud Pavilion for one night, no matter who advises her, she doesn't listen, hey, it's raining so hard outside, Ming'er can't get caught in the cold? No, I need to make a bowl of ginger soup and prepare ......."

Koyanagi said as he put down his needle and thread, got up and went to the kitchen.

Aunt Yun stopped what she was doing and let out a stunned "sigh".

Five years ago, when General Gu was given a cup of poisoned wine to death, he was in the Cloud Pavilion, and he heard the sound of wind and rain outside, and also heard the heart-rending cries of several girls.

However, the ten-year-old girl lost her parents in an instant, and the desperate sorrow made her, an old man who was over the age of sixteen, also despair.

Not only that, but the emperor also charged the general's wife's maiden family with "rebellion", and sent dozens of men from the Duan family to the extremely desolate underworld, and the female dependents to Yundu, and also said that he took pity on the orphans of the Gu family and let their families take care of them together.

A good plan!

This trick not only made the people of Kyoto praise the saints and virtues, but also made the people of the world feel that the Gu Duan family deserved it.

When the old lady of the Duan family heard the news, his blood surged, his eyes were closed, and he never woke up.

The huge Duan family ceased to exist in an instant, and the once prominent General's Mansion had long been covered with silk.

Aunt Yun continued the needlework in her hand, winter was coming, and she made a few beautiful jackets for a few girls before it got cold.

When people are old, they are always idle.

Besides, what others do, how can they do it with their own hands?

In the west wing, the current old lady Duan and her two daughters-in-law quietly looked at the account books, five years ago, their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were assigned to Yundu, and they were taken in by Aunt Yun, so they lived in the Yun family.

This stay is five years.

Although they opened their own pharmacy in Yundu during this period and had their own source of livelihood, Aunt Yun was already like their relatives, and this courtyard was already too familiar to be familiar anymore, so she had no intention of moving out.

"Rui, what time is it?" The old lady looked out the window and asked casually.

"Mother, it's already time."

"Huaiyu she ......"

Mrs. Duan closed the account book and came to the old lady to pinch her legs: "She is in the Cloud Pavilion tonight, maybe she won't come back." ”

"The cloud pavilion is shady, let Chunhong go and add more charcoal."

"I've already explained, mother, don't worry." Mrs. Duan replied.

Mrs. Duan's surname is Qin Mingrui, she was originally the daughter of a teacher in Linzhou Mansion, and she fell in love with Duan Wenjing at first sight and married into the Duan family, which is considered a high marriage.

I never thought that now the Duan family would fall into this step.

She actually has some resentment in her heart, but life is not only sweet, but also suffering, and when suffering comes, she has no other way but to accept it.

"Chi Chi and Shen Shen, are you still in the pharmacy?" The old lady rubbed her temples and asked softly.

"I've already asked Chunlu to pick them up, it's raining heavily, and I don't know how to come back early."

"The child is sensible, if it weren't for them, our Jielu pharmacy wouldn't be able to open." The old lady sighed, "In the blink of an eye, Chi Chi is seventeen years old, I see that Yunxiao kid is sincere to her, take the time to choose a date and handle their marriage." ”

"Mother......

Mrs. Duan hesitated, no matter how down-and-out her daughter was, she was also everyone's daughter, how could she casually marry a rural villager like Yunxiao?

Old Madam Duan didn't wait for her to speak, and beckoned to Second Madam Duan, who was keeping accounts: "Ah Huan, you can rest too." ”

Only then did Second Lady Duan put down her pen, moved her wrist, and said, "It's really an autumn rain and a cold, as soon as the weather is cold, this wrist hurts for a while!" ”

"Why don't you come over and warm up."

The old lady said angrily: "You are sick from hard work, and the root of the disease that has fallen over the years should not be well maintained...... she said and suddenly stopped, a holy decree, the men of the Duan family are all soldiers, leaving them a group of old and weak women and children, these years are just living with Coptis chinensis, so there is still leisure to maintain?

"Mother, the people of our Duan family, no matter men or women, no matter what kind of circumstances, must live a flowery life!" Second Mrs. Duan comforted, "Even if there is no master, we can't give up on ourselves, one day this Dayou will change the world, and our Duan family will be able to meet again." ”

When the old lady and Mrs. Duan heard Second Mrs. Duan's words, they trembled and wiped away their tears.

"Yes, the daughter-in-law of our Duan family, no matter how hard it is, we must not let the Duan family break up!"

The heavy rain outside the house is still there, the thunder is gusting, the rain hits the melon shed in the yard, but the melon leaves stand up vividly, and continue the heavy rain without admitting defeat, the north wind blows, the melon leaves are gently crooked, and the rain is dumped to the ground from the other side of the leaves.

Outside the Wangjiang Tower, two black-clothed people stood at the door wearing hats, and one sighed: "There is such a big thunderstorm in late autumn, it's really four o'clock!" ”

The other was silent.

"Awei?"

The man who sighed that the four o'clock was wrong looked at Ah Wei, who was silent beside him, and sighed slightly, and said: "Ah Wei, the banquet master has already exempted you from your mistakes and withdrawn your punishment, you don't have to blame yourself so much." ”

Ah Wei still didn't say anything, and only looked at the Cloud Pavilion, which was pitch black and couldn't see anything.

"Are you going to stand here for the night?"

Ah Wei retracted his gaze and looked at the woman beside him with a sullen face, there was no expression on his face, and he only said casually: "Please go back!" ”

Saying that, he turned around and walked into Wangjiang Tower without hesitation, leaving the woman in black outside the door, neither entering nor retreating.