Chapter Twenty-Five: Mask, Do You Still Want a Mask?
Is Shen Yue'er really so stupid? Too stupid to notice that the Seventh Young Master was so kind to her?
If you were her, think about what happened since childhood. When he was nine years old, his father died, and his home was raided, but fortunately, the emperor remembered that Shen Chen was the founder of the country, and his descendants were not allowed to attack the lord or take scientific examinations, so they were driven out of the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion.
The step-wife and aunts each left with their own children, but there was only one motherless Shen Yue'er, who shrank in the grass and cried when she was hungry for countless nights, and fell asleep when she was tired of crying. In her dreams, her father always teased her with food, but he didn't give her food.
At that time, my uncle was afraid that if he brought her back too early, people would catch some tricks.
After watching for a winter, when the spring flowers were blooming, and ten-year-old Yue'er could grab a handful of wild vegetables to fill her stomach, the man suddenly came and told her that he was her uncle and wanted to take her home. Seeing the correspondence between her father and her uncle, Yue'er believed him.
She saw her stepmother when she was asking for food, and she was accompanied by a little girl as old as Yue'er, and she told people that it was the eldest lady of the Shen family. But Yue'er recognized that it was her niece.
Yue'er didn't understand why her stepmother lied like this, but she wouldn't have gone to her stepmother without that little girl.
When she arrived in Guanzhong, she thought she finally had her own relatives. I threw myself into my grandmother's arms and cried in the dark, and my grandmother cried too.
But then it was not like that, and what her aunt had invited to teach her should not have been learned by a noble lady.
As she grew up, she understood, and at that time she began to hate her aunt and uncle.
Except for the two girls, Lan Xin and Hui Qian, no one has sincerely protected Yue'er.
She felt that she had found her relatives again, although sometimes she reprimanded and punished them, but no one was as good as her Shen Yue'er was good to these two girls.
Now that the Seventh Young Master is good to her, she doesn't dare to admit it or accept it. She was scared, afraid of being used again. When you don't have the ability to resist, and when you don't have the ability not to rely on, just pretend to be confused!
She tried her best to pretend to be innocent in front of him, afraid that he would not like it, and that he would take a step closer.
Yue'er thought about it carefully these days, and she didn't know whether she loved Xie Yanzhi or felt that it was a reliance she had known since she was a child. Maybe finding him is a belief support for her life, otherwise with her Shen Yue'er's situation, what hope is there!
But the Seventh Young Master is different, she doesn't even know who he is, and she has to cover her face when she goes out, and how much trouble he brings himself.
She was scared, she just wanted to huddle in one place and be quiet and not be noticed. She doesn't want to be caught in any whirlpool, she can't afford to be good to her, and it's a good thing with great danger.
Therefore, every time Shen Yue'er spoils the scenery, there is no time that it is not intentional.
If you still want to be naïve if you experience like her, you can only say that you are too naïve!
It's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Seventh Young Master hasn't come back yet. Yue'er will ask Xiao Chuan'er from time to time, and Xiao Chuan'er can only say that she doesn't know.
On the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yue'er pulled the Lantern Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival: "Put fruits and moon cakes in the courtyard, and we will worship the moon for three nights." ”
The cook cooked the dishes there, and when the Dragon Boat Festival was setting up the meal, Yue'er stood at the table and watched, and suddenly turned around and ran. After a while, she was with Xiao Chuan'er, she was holding a large casserole, and Xiao Chuan'er came back with a wind stove.
Yue'er poured all the dishes into the casserole, and said happily to a few people: "I just asked the cook to make noodles, and I will cook them in this pot later." ”
He sent Xiao Chuan'er to put the stove in the yard, went to fetch some firewood and grass himself, and then said, "Go and eat, don't worry about me." ”
She was alone under the moon, in the empty yard, sitting on the firewood and grass guarding the casserole on the stove, eating the delicious food from all kinds of vegetables, and sucking the noodles. She doesn't pick and choose, she eats whatever comes up.
It was once a delicacy that an old beggar invited them to eat on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Just like that, in the open space in front of the ruined temple, they all sat together on hay.
It was simply the most delicious thing Yue'er had ever eaten in her life, and it had never been so delicious. She even thought stupidly, it would be good if her father was here, and let him taste such a delicious delicacy.
Nowadays, there is no sour, no rancid, no food in this dish, it is very fresh. She thought of her father again, and muttered to the moon, "Dad, have you ever eaten such a delicious thing?" When an old man gave me food, I thought, if only my father were still here. ”
It's not that she hasn't complained in her heart, if her father and mother can live well, why let her become an orphan girl who is bullied. A child who is only nine years old can only beg for a living, who can understand the suffering at that time!
She smiled wryly and lowered her head, looking at the moonlight that sprinkled the entire courtyard. is miserable and white, and her whole person is blue and white, so much that she does not look like a person but a ghost.
A lonely ghost, wandering alone in this world, can never find a place to return.
In the end, there was no moon worship, because Yue'er drank plum wine, was drunk, and was drunk with a smile, so she went back to the house with a smile.
She slept on the soft couch and pulled the blanket over her body at will, and the white moonlight shone in through the half-open window, and she became more and more lonely and lonely.
The green fox who was dressed in black and hiding in the shadows, and the wine gourd was almost drunk before he got rid of the little master. He ran to the stove, sat down on the pile of firewood and grass, and ate the steaming pot.
Suddenly, a pair of chopsticks reached out in front of him, and the pair he was holding in his hand was also blocked. He smiled and didn't say anything, and hissed and ate. It is fragrant even if you have a hot mouth, and it is even more fragrant in your mouth after eating it for so long.
Xiao Chuan'er sat on the side and looked at the moon cakes and fruits on the stone table, sighing silently.
A gust of wind passed by the two of them, Xiao Chuan'er sat and didn't move, but the green fox was not afraid of hot hands, so he picked up the casserole and ran away.
Yue'er didn't cry when she woke up, but when she fell asleep, tears overflowed her eyes, and she just rolled down. She was uncomfortable with the wet pillow, so she twisted and lay still.
She hadn't slept in bed for a long time, and she had been restless since the day the Seventh Young Master left angrily. At such times, she was especially afraid to sleep in that deep tent.
The next day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, she woke up on the bed. When she opened her eyes, she saw the man sitting on the edge of the bed, although it was only a back, she could recognize it as him, and he had returned.
She was a little surprised, but she was afraid that he would find out, so she got up and asked very calmly, "Is the young master back?" ”
He didn't look back, but said to her, "Get up and eat." Then he got up and left.
Lantern Xiao came in to serve her to wash, and the Dragon Boat Festival cleaned up the bed and cleaned the room.
When she went out to eat, he was already sitting there but not moving. Without looking at her, he said, "Come and eat." ”
She sat down obediently and sat down across from him.
He didn't say a word during a meal, and she didn't dare to look at him.
Yue'er hurriedly finished eating, put down her chopsticks and asked, "Young master, Xing'er wants to go out for a while." ”
Seeing that the Seventh Young Master was silent, she added: "Xing'er doesn't leave here, just go to find Xiao Chuan'er." ”
He nodded, and she got up and ran out.
After a while, he came in with his hands behind his back, moved to his side and asked, "Young Master, the mask that Xing'er painted for you has been made, Young Master—do you still want it?" ”