Chapter XII
I followed Li Chengmei for a few more meals, during which I complained about Li Yan's various evil deeds. He just laughed and didn't answer.
"I'm like a thug." Maybe the moonlight is too bright, and I suddenly realized that I have grown up mixed all these years.
"You're good, aren't you?" Li Chengmei said.
"Hahaha, you can see this."
“......”
"I can't mess around like this anymore, and I have to do something big. It's like opening a flower building. ”
"Poof." Li Chengmei squirted out a mouthful of wine. "Ahem, this is also a big deal? By the way, I haven't heard you mention Qile for a while, aren't you going to look for him? ”
"Of course you have to look for Qile, but the flower building also has to be opened."
"Ah Sheng, are you serious? What kind of flower building does a girl have? ”
"Hahaha, tease you."
"If, as ......"
"What if?"
"Forget it, don't talk about it."
“......”
Li Yan is right, I really didn't make my position clear. I'm just a flat-headed commoner, and I still have to draw a line with the princes and nobles. As for Qile, just like Mu Xin said, there will always be a chance to meet.
I'm almost eighteen years old, and I'm not in a hurry to get married and have children. I just want to do what I love to do. Of course, it's definitely not the Blossom Building.
I quietly went home to live, and Daddy and Auntie kindly didn't ask me.
I couldn't be more satisfied.
Hua Muyan hasn't appeared for more than half a month. Business in Fuk Man Lou is deteriorating.
I decided to find a master and study medicine hard, and in the future, Fumanlou will be closed, so I can take my father and aunt to make a living.
Li Chengmei used his strong connections to find me a master in Chang'an City. Every time this old man saw me, his eyes were respectful, as if I were his master.
I went for two days and didn't go again.
I still have to find it myself, find a master who scolds and beats, and forget it. I know my inertia, that is, I eat hard and not soft, and if the master can't stop me, I will definitely not learn anything.
On this day, I finally found a pharmacy. The people who saw the doctor lined up from the door to the street, and all right! That's it.
I pestered the old man for seven days, and he didn't teach me.
"What kind of medicine do girls study? At your age, you should go home and pick up the doll. ”
"Why don't you tell the difference between good and bad words? I said I don't accept apprentices, let alone that you are a girl. ”
"Squat here again, and I'll let the dog bite you."
"Close the door."
"Why are you here again?"
"Leper skin, are you leaving?"
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In the meantime, I have been squatting at the door of his house, not noisy or noisy, I am a person who can bend and stretch. Although I do get a little ruffian a lot of the time, if I get serious, I can't believe it's me.
I squatted in front of his house for a month.
One day, he finally said, "Okay. Come in."
I fainted in excitement. I took a half-bite of the bun in my hand and rolled out in circles.
Damn, I haven't eaten well for a month, and I'm sick from hunger. Also, the winter in Chang'an City is really fucking cold.
I lived a life of two points and one line. I came out of the house before dawn in the morning. I went to the master's house to boil water and cook, and at night the stars hung in the sky, and the pharmacy was closed, so I rode my little red horse home. I never saw Li Yan again, but Li Chengmei saw him twice in three days. From time to time, he brought me something delicious, and the guys at the pharmacy said that I was a toad and ate swan meat, and I didn't know how to stay at home with such a good blessing, and I came out to study medicine to suffer this sin.
Every time I pleaded it, but no one believed it. I asked myself if I coveted other people's beauty when I mixed with Li Chengmei, but I clearly knew that he was so good, I never thought about it. Of course, he certainly was.
My life was full all day long, and my master set me a goal, how many herbs to recognize every day, how many medical books to memorize every day, and if I couldn't finish it, I wasn't allowed to eat. I am indeed very busy, if there are many patients, I still have to grab medicine, decoction medicine, but I suddenly feel that there is a corner in my heart that is very empty, empty for no reason. It's like eating the cold mints made by Shiniang, and there is a cold abruptness in my mouth and heart.
On that day, the master said that he would not open the door today, and told me to go to East Street to buy some mutton and bring two pots of wine, and our four apprentices were about to fly happily.
After the meal, a few of us were bombarded by the master, saying that he wanted to live a two-person world with the master.
It's a two-person world, indeed. They don't have children, and the master's biggest regret should be that he is a doctor but can't cure his wife's infertile disease. But what I admire most about the master is that he has loved his wife for decades. I have no children, and I have never thought of taking a concubine. Sometimes I think about it, the people around me are still very happy.
My aunt often says: In this life, the wishful and the unsatisfactory account for half, and people still have to learn to be content and cherish those who have. Don't be obsessed with what you lose, time will always leave the important things behind.
After the meal, it snowed in Chang'an City. It was the first time I had seen snow. So pure, so immaculate. I drank a little bit of wine and felt warm in my body. The snow fell playfully on my eyelashes, on my hair. I suddenly miss the little fox Qile, if it is still alive, there will be many small footprints like plum blossoms on the snow, I still miss Mu Xin a little, I don't know if the snow in the Temple of Mercy and Grace is big, when she rings the bell, it is not cold, my thoughts are flying all over the sky like snowflakes.
I bought A-Niang's favorite almond cake from East Street, and imagined how happy A-Niang would be when she ate it. She will definitely say: Ah Sheng has grown up and knows that she loves Ah Niang.
Before I entered the door, I shouted loudly: Daddy, Auntie, I'm back!
By the time I entered, the tables, chairs, and plates in the backyard were shattered, and through the curtains, the carved staircase on the second floor hung crookedly in the air.
There was a burst of fighting from the second floor.
Trembling, I picked up my whip and walked up to the second floor, where there were innocent people lying on the stairs, the chef who was full of blessings, the little two who delivered food, and the women whose names I couldn't even name.
"Daddy!" I saw with my own eyes that the men in black surrounded my father, and when they saw me coming up, they quickly surrounded me again.
"Ah Sheng, you go quickly! Come on! ”
"I'm not leaving."
"Bastard! See that I don't kill you. ”
Those people, who are killed, know at a glance that they have been professionally trained.
My whip was wrapped around the neck of a man, and he cut it with a sword. Daddy's large and small wounds are still bleeding, and he is fighting with a person, and a person behind him is about to stab Daddy's body with the sword in his hand while Daddy is unprepared.
"Daddy!" I was surrounded and couldn't move, and was about to leap over to block the sword for him.
In the flash of lightning, he flew in through the window on the second floor. The snow-white light and shadow were behind Daddy, and a sword pierced the body of the man in black. The man in black fell to the ground with a bang, kicked his legs, and died.
The three of us were huddled together. The blood in Daddy's chest began to flow in large streams, and he couldn't hold it anymore and knelt on one knee.
"Daddy, Daddy, don't scare me!" I grabbed him.
At this moment, in front of my eyes, a sword gradually grew larger, as if it was about to pierce my eyes. I didn't have time to dodge, I forgot to react. A touch of snow white, blocking the sharp sword.
When I opened my eyes again, Li Yan kicked the man in black away, and the sword that was supposed to pierce my eye pierced his left arm. The sword was pressed tightly in the flesh, as if it had grown inside. Blood poured down his white sleeves.
"Li Yan!"
"What's it called, I'm fine." He was still smiling at me, and I saw the cold sweat on his forehead like droplets, and his lips began to turn iron.
At this time, a large number of officers and soldiers squeezed up the stairs.
Qi Yue also came, she took a few steps up to support Li Yan, tears welling up. kept shouting the king.
Daddy lay in my arms, breathing slowly.
When Li Yan was in a coma, he asked my father to be carried to Yingwangfu for treatment. Let those officers and soldiers guard this place.
Everything happened in less than a quarter of an hour, like a dream, but the blood and the traces of the fight around me told me that it was not a dream.
The wound on my body was burning and painful, but my chest was like a few big stones, and I couldn't breathe, I wanted to cry, but I couldn't cry because of the shortness of breath.
What about A-Niang?
My legs were so weak that I almost crawled into the backyard, the snow was still falling, and my aunt slept in the snow in the backyard, which had been covered by snow, and the blood under her body stained half of the yard red. I hurriedly pulled the snow to the side and hugged the already cold A-Niang, "A-Niang, A-Niang, A-Niang!" "I don't know how many times I screamed and she never woke up.
"Auntie, look at the almond cake I bought for you. It's still hot, I'll tear it down for you, oops, I've crushed it, I'll buy it for you again, okay? Okay, Auntie? Will you open your eyes and look at me? Good no good? "I know that A-Niang will never answer me again, and she will never be able to eat the almond cake I bought again.
I always run to tell my mother when something happens, for example, which girl my brother hooked up with, I saw a person with yellow hair and blue eyes, and my father doesn't wash his hands when he eats......
I always go to the thatched house to report to A-Niang: A-Niang, I'm going to the thatched house. My mother, I'm going to untie my hands. Auntie, I'm going to pee. Whenever this happens, A-Niang will always say: Are you annoyed, you can solve this kind of thing quietly by yourself, don't tell me.
I am always disgusted by A-Niang and can't be a female celebrity, every time she says, I will tell her: I have a clever A-Niang, what am I afraid of? Anyway, whatever I want to wear, A-Niang will always make it for me.
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My aunt slept in the snow in Chang'an this winter and never woke up.