Life: II

Year after year, the wine of Shiqiujia Distillery has returned to its previous taste, and old customers have come back to buy it, and business is getting better day by day.

Therefore, Shi Qiu's uncle made a lot of money, sorted out the daily wine and meat feast, came out and went in, and became a rich man.

The people in the winery, now when they see Shi Qiu, they will still call a little shopkeeper, this is just a false name, Shi Qiu's uncle didn't pay attention to it, but Shi Qiu's sister Shi Juan took it to heart, and insisted that those wine workers also call her a little shopkeeper.

These are all small things, Shi Qiu feels that everything in the family has been taken away by them, she lives in her own home, like a parasitic fence, how can she care about the name of a vain head.

In the past few years, Shi Qiu's heart has not necessarily deviated from his uncle's family, at least when dealing with the winery that killed his father, Shi Qiu and his uncle's family, because of the same surname and the same interests in the same boat, have also been unanimous to the outside world.

Perhaps, to deal with scoundrels, you have to use scoundrel methods, Shi Qiu's father reasoned with those people, and was beaten to death in a small alley, her uncle is completely different, the scoundrel can't bear a little loss, and the local hooligans gang up to bribe lustful and money-greedy officials behind their backs, seeing the unscrupulous means, doing one thing after another, compared to the person who killed Shi Qiu's father, it is not much better.

At the beginning, there was a conflict between the two wineries, but because Shi Qiu's family had good wine, they robbed a lot of business, and the other party thought that Shi Qiu's father was killed, and Shi Qiu's family had no one in charge of wine, and the business would plummet, and people would come to his house to sell wine and drink when they turned around.

At the beginning, it was indeed as they expected, Shi Qiu's winery was indeed worse day by day, but later, the taste slowly returned to the past, and the recognition of many ordinary people was not fake, so they robbed the business again.

Back then, her father was kind-hearted, and felt that the same people who loved wine and wine, so they were willing to leave each other some way to live, and when they met which family used wine for marriage, their own winery was too busy, so they would help recommend other wineries, but Shiqiu's uncle didn't have this idea at all, and he hated to sell all the wine in the cellar, and he hated to take the entire Huainan wine business into his arms.

Such a toss and a mistake also made the business of the wine shop that killed Shi Qiu's father miserable and ruined, and killed a person, not only could not improve their own business, but also took on countless debts.

For this reason, Shi Qiu's uncle was proud for a long time, and for a time, Shi Qiu's winery was famous in the entire Huainan and was in the limelight.

After making a lot of money, Shi Qiu's uncle's behavior became more and more ridiculous, and he spent a lot of money in the brothel and gambling house, and he was drunk half of the day except for sleeping.

Shi Qiu and Shi Juan are the same age, and soon they will reach the age of mentioning family affairs, and there are countless people who come to talk about Shi Juan, but there are very few people who come to say kiss to Shi Qiu.

Thousands of choices, Shi Qiu's uncle and aunt, for their own daughter, chose a big family in Huainan, that family has a big business, the business is several times better than the winery, in the same clan, there have been officials, this is the former uncle, I can't think of the family that can climb.

And Shi Qiu, her uncle and aunt were also picky, and finally chose a family with the most bride price to settle down, Shi Qiu heard about the family, and specially asked the familiar wine worker to inquire, but the wine worker came back angrily, and told Shi Qiu indignantly that the family that her uncle set for her was a loser who spent the family business on her ancestors, and that person was idle and idle, and had married a wife and a concubine.

On this day, Shi Qiu didn't think about it, and that night, he packed up his baggage, took the coils he had saved for many years, and with the help of an old winemaker, he escaped from the winery where he had lived for more than ten years, and also let go of the place where he had worked hard.

Shi Qiu ran on the road with his burden on his back, and after running for a long time, he stopped and stopped, and finally got some distance from Huainan City. At this time, it was already a little dark, and it was gloomy and seemed to be raining, Shi Qiu thought that a girl's house was rushing at night, and if she ran into a villain, it would be more dangerous, so she thought about finding a place to hide for the night, and then hurry at dawn.

After a while, the rain fell, although it was close to summer, but the rain still carried some spring cold, Shi Qiu took the burden in his arms, looked up and saw that there seemed to be a dilapidated small temple not far away, so he hurried and ran towards the temple.

Pushing open the temple door, Shi Qiu took a look at the light outside, although the temple was full of dust and the tattered objects inside were crooked, but the bricks and tiles on the roof were quite tight, and there was not much rain leaking.

Shi Qiu patted the water droplets on her body, thinking that she was not far from Huainan now, and she didn't dare to hire a carriage, for fear of running into someone who was familiar with her uncle. If the inn is lived, if the uncle brings someone to arrest her, the inn in the four places will definitely be able to arrest her, so tonight, it is better to hide in this broken temple to make do, and when she is far away from Huainan, hire a carriage to hurry, and when she arrives in the town, she can also live in the inn.

After walking a few steps back and forth, Shi Qiu took a closer look, and saw that this place should be a Yuelao Temple, but perhaps the surrounding people built a new temple for Yuelao, and the statue of Yuelao's immortals has been relocated, leaving only this tiled house, which has not been demolished.

Finding a place next to the tribute platform, Shi Qiu collected the sundries on the ground, and when he was about to sit down, he suddenly heard a slight movement coming from the back of the tribute platform, and then, a slight cough reached Shi Qiu's ears.

Shi Qiu was startled, hurriedly picked up his baggage and retreated to the door, and just wanted to run out, he heard a voice that seemed to be laughing, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I scared the girl." ”

Shi Qiu looked back and saw a young man standing up from behind the tribute platform, his clothes were a little wet, and his hair was also stained on his neck and face, but his face was not obscene, but full of righteousness and calmness.

Looking at the heavier and heavier rain outside, Shi Qiu hugged the burden, thinking that this young man might be the same as her, he also came in to take shelter from the rain, everything has a first come and come later, it should be the night she came in, disturbing him who was resting.

"Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't see anyone in there across the tribute, I'll leave."

As he spoke, Shi Qiu turned his head and was busy walking into the rain.

"Girl, wait." The other party spoke in time to call Shi Qiu, and said politely: "This temple was built here, and it is not mine alone, how can I drive the girl away." Saying that, the young man hurriedly said: "It's dark outside, and it's raining heavily, and the girl is afraid that it will be more dangerous to go out in the rain, so it's better to stay, and when the rain is over, I'll go." ”

Shi Qiu hesitated for a moment, then looked up again, and saw that in the faint balance, the face of the young man opposite was vaguely revealing a bit of pain, as if he was unwell and endured the pain. Sniffing the air, Shi Qiu did smell a faint trace of blood.

"You're hurt?" Shi Qiu wondered.

"Hmm." The young man helped the tribute platform to sit down slowly, and the high tribute platform hid his figure, only the voice was barely calm: "When I was in a hurry, I saw that the weather was bad, so I ran a few steps, but I was still wet by the rain, and my old wounds were broken." ”

Shi Qiu thought for a moment, returned to Gongtai to open his baggage, took out the gold sore medicine that had been prepared a few days ago just in case, went over to the young man, handed it to him, and said, "I have medicine here, you use it first." ”

The young man didn't take it, and he was a little embarrassed when he looked at Shi Qiu, but he still said: "Thank you, girl, but I'm afraid I have to bother the girl, my injury is on my back." ”

This time, Shi Qiu hesitated, after all, men and women have precautions, it is not good for them to be alone in the same room, if there is a skin kiss, it will not be good for anyone, but now the smell of blood is getting heavier and heavier, the young man's face is very painful, and she can't see death without help, but for a moment, Shi Qiu still decided: "Then you turn your back." ”

The young man looked grateful, slowly turned his back, and pulled off his clothes.

Shi Qiu was already nervous, as soon as he stretched out his hand, he touched the solid backbone of the young man, and retracted it like an electric shock, his face was so red in the dark night that he panicked, but he still stretched out his hand again, but he trembled and groped a few times, but he didn't find the wound there.

At this moment, Mo said that Shi Qiu was flustered, and even the young man couldn't bear it anymore, so he took out the fire fold from his arms, handed it to Shi Qiu behind him, and said: "Girl, there is dry firewood in this temple, it is better to light a fire and take care of it, you haven't been able to touch the right place these few times." ”

Shi Qiu took the fire fold embarrassedly, and in the darker and darker broken temple, according to the memory he observed when he entered the door, he touched the approximate location of the dry firewood, and tore off a piece of the rotten linen cloth from the tribute platform, and worked in a hurry, and finally lit a pile of fire.

"It's on." Shi Qiu watched the flames burn, pointed to the firelight and said happily to the young man, turned his head to look at the young man who was close by the firelight, only to find that the eyebrows of this life were upright and handsome and masculine, and the fire light beating on the ground flashed in his eyes, adding a ray of vividness to the young man.

It seemed that the other party also had her idea, Shi Qiu was embarrassed for a moment, lowered his head, but listened to the other party's words and suppressed a little smile, and said to Shi Qiu: "If the girl doesn't save her life, I'm afraid I'm going to die." ”

When Shi Qiu heard this, he remembered the purpose of making a fire, and hurriedly took the medicine bottle over, and when the young man turned around again, Shi Qiu's hands shook and he almost dropped the medicine bottle in his hand.

I saw that on the young man's back, there were several scars vertically and horizontally, alternating between the old and the new, very terrifying, and the cracked one was the most serious, the original wrapped medicine cloth had been stained with blood and slipped off the side, and the flesh and blood of the wound were turned over and drenched in blood, and it seemed that it had been partially healed.