Chapter 60: Life is Missing
It's a clichΓ© story, so clichΓ© that even the storyteller in the teahouse won't tell it.
Tan Yushen and Shang Yunqian's acquaintance was in a winter.
It seemed that it was Xiaohan that day, and Shang Shang, a famous rich boy in Mirror City, brought two pots of wine, and talked with Tan Qing in Xuelu as usual. He was followed by the grandson of the Shang family who had just been picked up from Qinzhou, that is, Shang Shang's only son, Shang Yunqian.
Shang Yun was born beautiful but too sickly, just like the crystal and fragile glass, delicate and beautiful but fragile.
There was some light snow flying in the sky, and Shang Xiaogongzi was quietly watching the snow in the yard with an oil-paper umbrella with twenty-four bones, and Tan Yushen approached gently, afraid of accidentally disturbing him.
"What's your name?" Tan Yushen asked.
"Shang Yunqian, the girl is ......"
"My name is Tan Yushen, and the one sitting on the left side of Xuelu over there is my father," Tan Yushen smiled sweetly, his eyes were crooked like crescent moons, and his head tilted and thought about it, "There is a 'shallow' in your name, and there is a 'deep' in my name, which happens to be a pair." β
"......" Shang Yun's pale little face turned a little red, "Girl...... Don't talk nonsense. β
Tan Yushen scratched his head in confusion, "I'm not wrong." β
Seeing that Shang Yunqian didn't speak, Tan Yushen thought that he was unhappy, so he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and spread it out, "This is a walnut cake, it's delicious." β
Shang Yunqian was still stunned, and Tan Yushen had already stuffed a piece of walnut cake into his hand, "Let it cool down, it's not hot, and the taste is still not bad." β
"What is this ......?"
"Hu Tao crisp, didn't I tell you just now? Xiaohan, a person in Jingcheng, wants to eat walnut cake, haven't you eaten it? β
"I grew up in my aunt's house, and my aunt's family is in Qinzhou."
"Oh, no wonder. Then you can taste itβ"
Shang Yunqian pinched the walnut cake and looked left and right for a long time before taking a small bite, it was indeed fragrant and crispy, delicate and delicious, and the lips and teeth were fragrant.
"Is it delicious?"
"Hmm." Shang Yun nodded lightly and ate the remaining half of the walnut crisp.
"Na, if you like it, I'll give it to you," Tan Yushen gave him the walnut crisp with a handkerchief, "You can come and play often in the future." She smiled so innocently and cutely, her eyes sparkling with stars, full of anticipation.
Shang Yunqian couldn't help but agree, "Okay." β
But after that day, although Shang Shang often came, he didn't see Shang Yunqian coming with him.
Shang Shang said that Shang Yunqian is the eldest grandson of the long house, and he has a lot of things to learn, so he can't come out to play often.
Tan Yushen and Shang Yunqian met again on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, Shang Yunqian was dressed in a begonia red robe, like a little fairy child on the New Year's painting. He carried a red food box and handed it to Tan Yushen, "This is the plum blossom cake made by the best chef in the Shang Mansion, for you." β
"You're so nice," Tan Yushen took the food box, "I thought you forgot about me and didn't come." β
"No...... No, I won't forget the girl. β
After dinner, while Tan Qing and Shang Shang were drinking, Tan Yushen took Shang Yunqian to the courtyard to watch the fireworks.
There are no fireworks in Tanfu, but you can see fireworks and lanterns set off by other people's homes.
The boy looked at the sky, his eyes full of streamers.
The girl looked at the boy with joy in her eyes.
"Shang Yunqian, I think I like you."
I don't know who also lit the fireworks in the Tan Mansion, the voice was a little noisy, Shang Yunqian didn't hear it clearly, "What did you say?" β
"I said, the fireworks are so beautiful......"
The night was dyed red, the stars were much darker, and the eyes of the two children were still bright.
The third time Tan Yushen saw Shang Yunqian was on a midsummer night.
That night, the thunderstorm was very heavy, and Tan Yushen covered himself in the quilt and didn't dare to come out, but he couldn't help but want to go to his father.
In the pouring rain, even if I held an umbrella, I was still half wet, but there was no one in the study and the wings. Tan Yu was so anxious that he was looking for someone all over the house, "Daddy-"
"Daddyβ"
The door was suddenly opened, and Tan Qing was wearing a cloak and a hat, and she was very embarrassed. He was still holding a boy in his arms, the boy was covered in blood, his eyes were hollow, his face was extremely pale, and he grabbed Tan Qing's shirt tightly.
That's what I haven't seen for a long time, Shang Yunqian.
The merchants were wiped out overnight, and there were more than 100 people, none of whom were alive.
Only the merchant's Young Master Sun escaped and was taken in by Tan Qing and hid in Tan Mansion.
Shang Yunqian, who didn't like to talk, was even more silent, and Tan Yushen still talked to him often, even if he rarely paid attention to her.
"Yun Qian, the lotus flowers in the pool have bloomed, shall we go and see if we can see it?"
"Yun Qian, Daddy bought a few new carp and came back, let's go and see if we can see it?"
"Yun Qian, it's just the walnut crisp that the chef just made, can you taste it?"
"Yun Qian, thank you for the lotus......"
"Yun Qian, I picked the lotus pod, the lotus seeds are sweet."
Shang Yun said lightly: "The lotus seed heart is bitter. β
"Then give the lotus seed heart, I know it's bitter, why do you have to eat it!"
"Yushen, I don't have a father or mother, and I don't have any relatives anymore."
Tan Yu's hand that peeled the lotus seeds deeply paused, and then continued to remove the bitter core of a lotus seed, and the white and tender lotus seed rice was fed to Shang Yun's shallow lips, "You still have me." β
"You still have me," Tan Yushen repeated, speaking very seriously, "Since you live in our house, then we are a family." β
"I still have you ......"
Tan Yushen took advantage of him to speak and stuffed the lotus seed rice into his mouth, "Yes, you still have me, I will always be with you." β
Shang Yunqian bit the lotus seeds, the fresh lotus seeds were sweet and crisp, with a touch of lotus township.
The girl next to her was carefully peeling the lotus canopy and smiling like a flower.
Tan Yushen's mother was gone in the winter of that year, and Tan Qing kept watch by the corpse for three whole days, and since then, Tan Qing has been extremely cold to anyone, including Tan Yushen.
Tan Yushen leaned on Shang Yunqian's shoulder, crying so that his eyes were swollen like walnuts, and he was so choked that he couldn't speak clearly, "Yun...... Yun Qian, A-Niang is gone, Dad...... Dad, you don't like me anymore......"
Shang Yunqian wiped her tears distressedly, "And Yun Qian, Yun Qian will always accompany Yu Shen." β
Two lonely people are dependent on each other in a small corner, and two lonely people are snuggling up to each other, so it is not so difficult.
It's actually good to live like this.
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Tan Yushen took Shang Yunshallow to the bottom of one of the most spiritual wishing trees in Mirror City, and the not very upright words were written on the red silk ribbon - Yun Qian's Yunshen and Yun's Yushen have always been together.
Shang Yunqian stood on tiptoe and hung the red silk on the branches of the wishing tree, and the two closed their eyes and folded their hands.
The wind blows the red wishing strips all over the tree, and the figures of the two little people under the tree look particularly reverent.
Shang Yunqian's hands were white from the cold, and he gathered the cloak for Tan Yu and re-tied the tie.
What's wrong with time flowing like this? But the Ninefold Heaven Commander always seems to like to drip some thick sorrow on that joy.