CHAPTER XVIII

Lu Changyu didn't say anything when he got the clothes given to him by his eldest brother, called Dongling over with a cold face, took a pair of scissors and cut them to pieces.

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The backyard is simple, just a main house, and the book lives.

A side house is Song Shuyu's, and there is a simple broken firewood house.

A bald tree stood alone in the courtyard by the firewood house.

The person in charge of the matter actually gave them some charcoal rice grain and a little silver, and last night, Song Shuyu took it back with some furniture and luggage.

It's past noon, Shutan is hungry, and no one even pays attention to Shuyu after shouting several times.

There was no one in the yard, and Shutan trotted to the firewood room.

The firewood room was full of cobwebs and paper windows with holes, and the room was dark and smoky.

The spicy smoke suddenly drilled into the face of the scholar, and she coughed and retreated.

After waiting for a while, Shutan wiped away the smoked tears, and took a closer look into the firewood room, only to see Song Shuyu's figure vaguely.

He was holding his knees to refill the pot when tongues of fire came out of the stove as if they were about to lick his cheeks.

"Girl—ahem—wait a little longer, and then you'll be fine." Mixed with the sound of coughing, Song Shuyu shouted outside intermittently.

He regretted a little that he didn't learn how to do work with his mother-in-law that day.

Shutan waited outside for a while, and Song Shuyu came out like a little cat, with black ash on his face.

handed the tray to Shutan, and Song Shuyu went to fetch water to wash his face.

When he entered the house, Shu Tan had already packed up the table and sat there waiting for him.

"It's the New Year in a few days, and I'll go outside to buy some New Year's goods when I'm empty."

Shu Tan nodded.

She is most looking forward to the Chinese New Year.

Every time, Granny Chunzhi would bring her a few pieces of halva from the street to eat, and cut cloth to make clothes for her.

In those days, she could also eat well, there was oil and water at once, and sometimes a few pieces of minced meat were turned out of the dish from time to time, and she could be happy for a long time.

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Song Shuyu went to the capital of Chu for the first time, and when he was waiting in the shop selling halva, he couldn't help but stretch out his head curiously to look at the street outside the shop.

In recent years, people have come and gone on the street, juggling and selling goods. He was dizzy for a moment.

"Little boy, your things are wrapped."

The young man who was doing chores in the halva shop bent his eyes, respectfully presented a piece of halva over his head, and handed it to Song Shuyu.

Song Shuyu took it and thanked him, and carried it out of the shop.

"Listen to my ninth grandfather of the Chu State, this Chu State has been canonized as the crown prince."

"Oh? I don't know which prince it is? ”

"You don't know this, is there any other candidate besides the second prince Lin Nanyu?"

"Huh? But listening to my cousin in the court, there seems to be some contradiction between Lin Nanyu and my Prince Chen......"

"Hey! What are you worried about this, the gods in the sky are fighting, we can only watch with our eyes open! It's just that we have to be careful, and when it rains and it affects us pond fish, we don't know how to die......"

"Hey......"

The two rough-clothed men squatting in the corner of the wall were wrinkling their faces and sighing.

Their words all entered Song Shuyu's ears, but his expression remained unchanged, and he walked towards the butcher shop across the street with halva.

Fu Guier came to the backyard to shout Shutan.

"Just now a sister came to tell me that the young master Shuhuai was waiting for the girl at the west wall of the front yard."

"Why is Shuhuai looking for me?" Shu Tan felt strange, Shu Huai looked for her, and he came directly to her yard and never wanted the people below to pass the word.

And he was afraid that his father would scold Sister A, so he didn't take the initiative to come to her.

"Who knows? But that sister is quite raw. ”

"I see, and I'll go."

Fu Gui'er nodded and left.

Shutan walked around the west wall, but he didn't find half a shadow of Shuhuai.

Just as she was about to leave, she was hugged by someone.

Restrained to be exact, a pair of thick and powerful arms trapped her firmly in the man's chest, one hand tightly choked her waist, making her unable to move, and the other hand covered her eyes.

This situation made Shu Tan panic and tremble in her heart, didn't someone want to take her away?

Want to sell her for money?

Slaughtered like a pig and sold for meat?

The thoughts frightened her into screaming, a biting chill from the top of her head to the soles of her feet.

She's been splashed with a bucket of water!

Thoroughly watered, in the cold wax moon roots that make people shiver.

The man holding Shutan also slammed his rock-hard chest forward, and Shutan lost his support and fell to the ground on his feet.

When she slowed down and looked around, there was no one left.

Only the dead leaves swirled with the cold wind.

Shutan's teeth clicked, and his clammy hair was clinging to his cheeks, and his whole body trembled like a bumpy dustpan.

Shu Tan walked back step by step, not too fast, otherwise the swishing cold wind would drill into her even more unscrupulously.

Walking slowly, she was frozen for a long time.

Shutan went to the courtyard quickly and slowly......

Song Shuyu didn't know that the money was spent so quickly, and after buying such a little thing, the money bag bottomed out.

He looked sadly at the few copper coins in the money bag, Song Shuyu shook it, and a few copper coins jumped up and down in the empty money bag, and he couldn't even hear the sound of collision.

Song Shuyu sighed in his heart, turned his head and left the rouge shop, and went home with the big bag in his hand.

There was a chicken in front of him walking strangely into his yard......

Song Shuyu walked in only to find that it was her own girl!

"Yikes!" Song Shuyu threw the big bag on the ground, ran over and asked her, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"Cold ...... Cold ......"

Shu Tan shook his teeth, his face was white and haggard, and his mouth was frozen purple and black.

Song Shuyu hurriedly picked her up and ran home with a whoosh.

The whistling wind brought up by the running did not fall into Shutan's clothes, and Shutan trembled even more.

Song Shuyu glanced down at her, quickened his pace, and rushed forward harder.

Shutan glanced at Song Shuyu deeply, and he didn't know if it was water or tears, falling from the corner of Shutan's eyes.

Song Shuyu entered the inner room of the scholarly room, put her on the bed, and wrapped her tightly with the futon on the side.

"Girl, you change into clean clothes first, and I'll go get the New Year's goods that just fell."

Shu Tan nodded.

Song Shuyu turned around and walked out and closed the door tightly.

Shutan was quiet on the couch for a while, and waited until his body was not so cold before he found other clothes to change into.

Like every time from childhood to adulthood.

It's so frustrating for no reason.

Of course she knows what's going on.

Lu Changyu has always been like this.

As long as others make her unhappy, she will return it badly.

She misses Granny Harue so much.

If the mother-in-law is there, although she can't give her back. But her mother-in-law would always coax her in distress, so she aggrievedly got into her mother-in-law's warm arms and wiped away the chill on her body and heart......

There was a knock on the door.

Shu Tan answered.

Song Shuyu walked in with a bowl of ginger soup.