Chapter 14: On the Road
Song Shuyu came out of the firewood room with the meal and entered the house. Place the bowl on the wooden table and pull out the stool.
"Girl, it's time to eat." He glanced at Qianying, who was lying with his back to him on the bed, and spoke nonchalantly.
His hands were burned by the oil fire, and he carefully touched them with his fingers.
Hiss - it hurts!
In the past few days, Harue's mother-in-law taught him to cook.
From adding water to boiling the pot to cooking, a puff of oil smoke hit his face, choking him.
Where did he do that? Even in the worst of days, there were people who served him.
It's not a human job!
Just now, Chunzhi's mother-in-law stared at him suspiciously: "You are not a rich boy, can't you do these jobs?" ”
Song Shuyu touched his dusty nose, didn't say why, just laughed.
"Okay, I wouldn't have kept you if I had known...... You went to the capital with the girl, just like you, how can you serve the girl! Granny Chunzhi shook her head and snatched the spatula from Song Shuyu's hand......
But it's also quite strange, it seems that the master and servant are deeply affectionate, this mother-in-law is leaving, and I don't see the girl staying, but she looks stunned all day long.
Shu Tan responded to Shuyu, and stared faintly at the two dark circles under his eyes and got off the bed.
She picked up the chopsticks and took the dish and filled it into her mouth, but before she could swallow, she hurriedly puffed and spit on the ground.
Shu Tan twitched the corners of his mouth and asked Song Shuyu, "What about my mother-in-law?" ”
"Granny Harue is packing her belongings in her house......
While talking, he also took a chopstick and sent it to his mouth.
"Do you really plan to follow me and be my subordinate?" Shu Tan frowned slightly as he looked at Song Shuyu, and his face turned dark.
He swallowed it reluctantly, his mouth still salty, picked up a bowl of soup on the table, and drank it up as soon as he looked up.
Song Shuyu wiped the water stains on his mouth and asked, "I have nowhere to go, why don't I follow you?" ”
He turned his light and cold eyebrows, faced Shutan, squinted his eyes, and said faintly: "Isn't it that the girl plans to discard the small one?" ”
Song Shuyu's red spots have faded a lot, and several layers of scabs have fallen off, leaving a pink red paste on the jade face, like a faint birthmark.
"You don't know how to do the work, what should I leave you for? Besides, I don't have any money, so I can't feed the two of us. Shutan lowered his head with chopsticks and pulled the rice bowl, and his tone was not cold.
While they were talking, Granny Harue came in with a cloth bag.
Xu had cried outside, but Granny Chunzhi's eyes were still red.
"The girl will leave Beijing in a few days, and I will also leave my mother-in-law. Say goodbye to the girl here, and hope that the girl will have a smooth journey and all the best in the future......"
"Is my mother-in-law leaving today?" Shutan stopped his chopsticks and lowered his eyes to hold back tears.
"Chunwang has already come from my hometown to pick me up, and I don't want to stay at Lu's house again, so I want people to see it, but it seems that I can't leave......"
Mother-in-law Chunzhi bowed her head, smiling kindly, looking at Shutan's lonely figure, her heart was full of reluctance.
"I still have some silver taels left over from workmanship, and the girl and Shuyu took them to Beijing first to patch up the ......," said Granny Chunzhi, looking for it in her baggage.
"Mother-in-law, don't do this!" Shu Tan was anxious, his eyes were red, and he stepped forward to hold his mother-in-law's hand.
"My mother-in-law has taken care of me for more than ten years, not only did she not get any benefits, but she also worked hard for our livelihood every day, and was humiliated and looked down upon...... I don't want to go to ...... Now my mother-in-law can enjoy the blessings, but my mother-in-law still has to give me money, this, isn't this tearing my face! ”
"The girl loves her mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law knows it! But when I went to Beijing, I inevitably had something to add, and it was inconvenient to have no silver in my hand...... Please don't let me worry about it every day, take these silver taels to make me feel at ease...... Besides, there is not much money for this, and Madame also said that she will let me go to the front yard to get the money for nearly a year...... Don't worry about me, girl! ”
Mother-in-law Chunzhi didn't care about Shutan's obstruction, and should stuff a small bag of money into Shutan's hand.
In the end, when he was leaving, he endured the tears that came out of his eyes and asked Song Shuyu: "You must take good care of the girl!" ”
Chunzhi's mother-in-law left, and Shutan didn't go out to see him off, but went into the house for a long time and held it for a long time.
A few days later, Mr. Yun heard the news that the Lu family was going to move to Beijing and came to see him off.
Lu Shiting arched his hand: "Before I had time to go to Mr.'s house to thank him, Mr. came, I am really ashamed!" ”
"Master Lu is rising step by step, and there are many opportunities every day, I want to come to congratulate me." Mr. Yun returned the salute, stroked his slightly upturned white beard, squinted and smiled.
The two drank tea and laughed, and for a while, Mr. Yun held the tea cup, pursed his mouth slightly, and stared at the floating leaf stalk in his eyes.
"A few days ago, I heard some people from outside talking nonsense, saying that there is another girl in your house, and I think it is ridiculous, it is ridiculous! I've been here so many times, and I've never seen ......."
Lu Shiting's face changed, and he smiled embarrassedly: "I do have a second girl at home...... It was from my original Qin family, and it was the sister of my youngest son. Why is it that the body is not good, the body is delicate, and I recuperate in that remote courtyard all the time......"
"From the Qin family? I remember that the lady in your family had a difficult birth more than ten years ago, and the little maid once called me over...... As a result, before I arrived at the house, I heard that the mother and son were safe......
But this woman? ”
Lu Shiting nodded in agreement, but didn't say anything more, just busily diverted the topic and passed by.
When Mr. Yun saw him like this, he didn't ask any more questions, his eyes flashed slightly, and the meaning was unknown.
The next day, the Lu family set off.
Long carriages and horses, servants crowded the alleys, and a group of old and young people who watched the excitement stood on tiptoe and looked at the door of Lu's house.
Lu Shutan was still at the end of the line, but she was the only one left in the car.
Song Shuyu was wearing the clothes of the Lu family's little servant, the blue coarse linen clothes, which were found for him by Chunzhi's mother-in-law in the front yard before leaving.
Liu deliberately glanced at him from a distance before getting into the car.
Thin and tall, with a clear and jade figure. She didn't seem to see it clearly from a distance, only vaguely looked at his face, which was obviously jade-white, but with patches of pink birthmarks, which looked red and white, a little crazy.
What kind of subordinate is worthy of what kind of master.
It was already in the middle of the wax moon, the weather was cold, and the group walked cautiously, but it was fast.
When it was time to eat, a grandmother brought a naan cake to Shutan.
Shutan took the cake and thanked her, but frowned again: "Mama, don't you have to eat Shuyu?" ”
Mama's face was cold, and she said impatiently: "Lu Yuan is cold, how can there be so much food to eat?" Madame said, "This is only the first day, and this inferior servant will be exempted from today's food." ”
Chunzhi's mother-in-law is old, and there are few people in the house who embarrass her. Song Shuyu is different, the newcomer is the lowest, the softest persimmon, and it is best to handle it.
Hearing this, Song Shuyu raised her head and glanced coldly at the cold-faced woman in front of her.
The mother-in-law looked at his thin and upright figure, but was looked at by his strange face and cold eyes, her heart was unhappy, her face showed displeasure, she leaned down slightly, and walked away with her head held high.
Seeing that the mother-in-law was gone, Shutan got into the car and tore the naan in half, looked at the half of the slightly larger cake and hesitated for a long time, and handed it out from the side of the car.
Song Shuyu looked at her with a puzzled face, as if she didn't know what she meant.
"You have to walk, it's cold and the road is far away, eat some mats to make up for it......"
Song Shuyu didn't answer, but still stared at her with Qing Lingling's black eyes.
"You don't want half of it, do you? Don't overdo it! Shu Tan guarded another piece of cake and looked at him in surprise.
"Why did the girl give it to me...... As the mother-in-law said, I'm just an inferior person. ”
"Why...... You follow me, you're my man. I naturally have to take care of my people! Shutan's face turned red and his neck was stalked.
Song Shuyu's expression was indifferent, and he looked at her again, but he also took the half of the naan cake unceremoniously, turned his back to the crowd in front of him, and ate it one bite at a time.
He was very hungry, and if he didn't eat, he would be a fool.
Song Shuyu eats very elegantly, not as rude as other men, let alone a delicate cherry swallow.
Shutan stared at him for a while, lowered the curtain of the carriage, and muttered a word as he burrowed his head back into the carriage.
"I'm trying to please you......"
The words were very soft, and they were almost scattered in this icy and cold land.
She wanted to please him and be nice to him.
When he will get tired of living in embarrassing and embarrassing days with her in the future, when another master will pick him up and run to a more comfortable life.
He can be a little slower and a little hesitant.
Don't throw her away so quickly, so ruthlessly.