Chapter 1 Small Bridges and Flowing Water
Small bridges and flowing water, apricot blossoms and bamboo fences, the isolated village is quiet and peaceful.
It was noon, and the white smoke rose from every house, attracting Ding Zhuang, who was working in the fields, and the children who had returned from the school to stop and gaze.
"Hey, borrow it to play!"
Caught off guard, the bamboo dragonfly in Su Xuezhu's hand was snatched away by Gu Nian, the little overlord in the school.
ββ¦β¦ Feed! You pay me back! Angry and helpless, she stomped her foot at the swift back.
Looking at her empty palms, she pouted aggrievedly. This is the third time this month that the bamboo dragonfly has been snatched away by that little overlord, and Sister Ah will definitely be unhappy.
"Snow bamboo?" A tall figure walked towards her.
"Brother Cang." Su Xuezhu's eyes lit up. Hey, hey, the big boss is coming~
"Xuezhu is in a hurry to go back to eat, right?" The young man smiled at Su Xuezhu, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth, and his sunny and handsome face made people feel particularly kind.
"Mmmm," Su Xuezhu nodded, carrying her small bookbag and about to walk forward, "Today, Gu Nian snatched my bamboo dragonfly again, if I come back late, Sister Ah should scold me." β
"Your sister won't scold." Ji Cang did not hesitate for a moment, and subconsciously replied. After speaking, I found out that I had fallen into this little girl's trap.
"Wow~" Su Xuezhu tilted his head and pouted and snickered.
Ji Cang was already thin-skinned, and he couldn't hold back his face when he was ridiculed by a little girl who was less than seven years old, so he simply got straight to the point, took off the back basket, and took out two bright-colored hares.
Su Xuezhu exclaimed slightly. This season, such a fat hare is not common.
"You just rebuilt the firewood house a few days ago, and you have to go up the mountain to collect medicine these days, your sister must be so busy that her feet don't touch the ground," Ji Cang scratched the back of his head, and his face was a little unnaturally red.
"I was lucky enough to catch two rabbits today, and you can take them back to make up for your sister." It was as if the person who had spent the past two days searching for the traces of the hares was not himself at all.
"Alas," Su Xuezhu pretended to be helpless, "Brother Cang, you know, Sister doesn't let me accept other people's things casually." Last time, the eldest brother of the Li family in the east of the village, I helped to send a hairpin to my sister, and my sister found out, but she didn't pay attention to me for two days. β
"Then, then I'll help you get the bamboo dragonfly back?" Gu Cang was anxious.
"Okay, I'll send it for you." After finishing speaking, Su Xuezhu quickly took over the two fat hares, spread out the two little short legs and ran in the direction of home, shouting as she ran,
"Three, that little overlord surnamed Gu robbed me of three bamboo dragonflies, Brother Cang will help me come back tomorrow!"
"Okay!"
"That's right! Recently, the mountains and forests in the west are not very peaceful, so I asked you to go less. β
"Got itβ"
Hahaha, Brother Cang is so easy to talk. Su Xuezhu was dark.
From afar, she saw her sister standing under the apricot tree at the door and looking out. Goose egg face, cherry mouth, curved willow eyebrows, linen plain clothes can't hide the slender figure, eyes like autumn light, really a worldly beauty.
People are beautiful and skillful, no wonder they are so missed.
"Sister." She quickened her pace and ran to Su Ran and hugged her arms.
"How old are they, and they're still coquettish." Su Ran steadily caught the little girl's body and said angrily.
"I just saw the apricot blossoms falling with the wind, and Sister Ah seemed to be about to fly up in the wind, so I was busy grabbing it, so as not to let the fairy Sister fly away." Su Xuezhu's eyes were rolling, and her serious appearance made Su Ran laugh.
"It was sent by your brother Cang again?" Su Ran nodded at the ears of the two hares in Su Xuezhu's hand and raised his eyebrows.
"Hey, hey......" Su Xuezhu chose to pretend to be stupid.
"You." Su Ran shook his head with a smile, "Do you know that there is no love for no reason, you come and go, and you always have to pay it back." β
Su Xuezhu hugged Su Ran's arm and nodded ignorantly.
"You'll understand later, let's go inside."
After eating, Su Ran put the little girl to sleep, and put the sweet soup that had been boiled and cooled into a food box, and sent it to her father and brother who were working in the fields.
Before it was dark, Su Ran moved a stool to the yard to do needlework, rummaging through medicinal herbs, and his movements seemed to have been rehearsed thousands of times.
Three years is enough time for the fourth lady of weaving, who has been on the battlefield and walked through the desert, to adapt to the life of this village.
The father and brother of the Su family are very precious to this delicate-looking girl of their own, and they never let her do heavy and dirty work, and there is a quirky sister who relieves her boredom on weekdays. It was because she lived a very comfortable life in the country, and she was less attached to all the things in her past life, only occasionally dreaming back at midnight, and sitting for a while when she remembered her increasingly blurred face.
She knows that her soul is still in the village girl Su Ran, and she also knows that it is now the twentieth year of Jiayuan - she has been dead for seven years, her father and mother have already died of illness, and her only brother who is concerned about her has become the commander and the commander of the party. As for Qin Yunfu, I heard that she had contributed to the rehabilitation of the imperial court, and now she is the prime minister above 10,000 people under one person, and naturally has nothing to do with her, a small village girl.
Never seeing each other may be the best ending.
That night, after listening to today's bedtime story, Su Xuezhu was about to fall asleep in a daze, but suddenly recalled Ji Cang's advice in his mind.
For the sake of the two rabbits being so delicious, she forced her sleepiness and opened her mouth when Su Ran got up and was about to leave,
"Brother Cang asked me to bring a message to my sister, and said, ......"Huh?" What did you say......
"What did you say?" Su Ran leaned over to tuck the quilt for her.
South? North? No, no, west, east...... East, yes, east. Su Xuezhu thought dizzily.
"He said that the mountains and forests in the east are not very peaceful, and he wants you to go less, Sister." I can finally sleep peacefully......
"Is it east......" Su Ran remembered a nest of fungi he saw when he went up the mountain to collect medicine yesterday, and he should be able to pick them tomorrow, but it's a pity......