Xing Ruyi held an oil-paper umbrella in his hand, its umbrella bone was red, but the umbrella surface was white, and a shallow juhua pattern was outlined with ink lines.

"Still nosy?" The fox looked at the umbrella, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked, revealing a warm smile.

Xing Ruyi hummed softly, tapped the blood-red umbrella bone with his fingers, and said, "Since I met, I can't ignore it, right?" ”

This oil-paper umbrella was purchased when passing by a paper shop.

The paper shop is a town, and most of the people in the town make a living by making paper crafts, and the most they make is oil paper umbrellas. Northerners don't like it, they always feel that this umbrella is childish, especially the things that shelter the wind and rain are still painted, it's a waste, but the southerners like it, especially those ladies and ladies, in their hands, there is a special taste.

Therefore, most of the oil-paper umbrellas in the paper shops are sold to the south, and as for the merchants who sell the goods, there are people everywhere regardless of whether they are north or south.

This paper oil umbrella was picked up by a young man halfway through, and he refused to say where he picked it up. It's just that Xing Ruyi likes it, and it's an old umbrella, so he sold it to her cheaply.

The reason why Xing Ruyi bought this umbrella was because she saw the woman in red attached to the umbrella. At that time, the woman lay on the young man's back, and looked at her with a pair of pitiful eyes, as if to say, "Please, buy me!" ”

Xing Ruyi has always been soft-hearted, so he bought this umbrella.

Fingers tapped seven times on the umbrella bone, and the woman attached to the umbrella appeared with a lazy waist.

"Have you arrived?"

The woman was like a well-slept cat, stretching her waist, squinting her eyes, and contentedly asking the small questions she cared about, as if she was not asking, "Have you arrived?" Instead, he asked, "What about the food?" ”

"Not yet!" Xing Ruyi said, lifted the curtain and let the woman look at it: "Now, you can always tell me, your name, right?" ”

"My name is Qianqian, Su Qianqian, and I am the youngest daughter of the Su family. I also have three older brothers, the eldest brother Su Jingbo, the second brother Su Jingliang, and the third brother, named Su Jingrui. I was born to the same mother as my eldest brother and second brother, and the three were not, they were born to my aunt. But we all have a good relationship, and my three brothers love me very much. ”

"What about you? And why do you live on this umbrella bone? ”

"I don't remember!" Su Qianqian held his chin and shook his head: "I really don't remember, I just remember that I seem to have slept for a long time, and when I wake up, I have become like this." In a ruined temple, there is also a stone statue inside. The ruined temple was surrounded by a courtyard, but the walls were all down. There was a pine tree in the yard, very old, very old, with strips of red cloth hanging from it. It's just that the red cloth strips are also very old, and the faded color is particularly ugly. ”

"It should be a pine tree that has been wished, and as for the ruined temple in your mouth, it sounds very much like a ruined Yuelao Temple!"

"Yuelao Temple?" Su Qian frowned and thought for a while: "What am I doing when I go to Yuelao Temple?" ”

"Naturally, I went to the Yuelao Temple to ask for marriage, but according to what you said, the temple is dilapidated to that state, and it is estimated that it will not be very effective." Xing Ruyi looked at his fingertips. Since the ghost magic has been refined, she has been able to see more and more things, such as the red thread on her hand, which is slender and long, which happens to be connected to the fox's.

Xing Ruyi once asked the fox about the origin of the red line, but the fox just pouted and said that he didn't know. With the intuition of reading the code words for many years, Xing Ruyi believes that this red line is the legendary marriage line, and she and the fox are a predestined husband and wife.

Su Qianqian's fingertips also had a red thread, but the strange thing was that this red thread seemed to have been torn apart.

The Su family's compound is not far from Zhidian Town, and it is only half a day's journey to speed up. They walked slowly, and arrived in the afternoon of the second day. I got out of the car, handed over the post, and soon a young man came out.

"May I ask which one is the torture girl?"

"I am!"

Xing Ruyi got out of the carriage, and as soon as he took a look, he heard Su Qianqian's excited voice.

"This is my second brother Su Jingliang, he is the best at hospitality and is also very good at talking, so whenever there is a guest in the house, he comes out to greet him. By the way, most of the external affairs of the Su family are also in charge of my second brother, he is still a genius in business, unlike the eldest brother, he always likes to read, write, draw or something, which is very boring. ”

Xing Ruyi smiled and saluted lightly: "Looking at your appearance, you should be a shallow second brother, right?" I often heard her talk about you earlier, but I only met today. ”

"Yes, I'm Su Jingliang. It's just that I've never heard Xiaomei say that there is such a confidant as a girl, and she is still from God. ”

"It's normal that you didn't talk about me. Because I have only met a few times with Shallow Shallow in the calculations. I run a Ruyi rouge shop in Shendu, and I need to come out to buy often, and that time I also met by chance, and the two chatted very speculatively, so they left each other's contact information. Usually I just use letters to communicate, which is a little secret between our boudoir women. This time, I returned home with my husband, and I happened to pass by here, so I stopped by to see the shallow. I don't know if it's convenient? ”

Su Jingliang didn't answer, but looked at Xing Ruyi in a daze, and asked, "Just now, the girl said that what kind of shop she runs in Shendu?" ”

"Ruyi Rouge Shop, a small shop specializing in selling rouge gouache, naturally has no way to compare with the Su family's business."

"Could it be that you are the torture girl that the gods are spreading everywhere?" Su Jingliang showed a hint of joy on his face.

"The torture girl that God is preaching everywhere? I'm sorry, I don't quite understand the meaning of Second Brother Su's words! ”

"Look at me, everyone knows that the torture girl in the Ruyi Rouge Shop has a fairy-looking fiancé, just now this son stood beside the girl for a long time, and I ignored it." After Su Jingliang finished speaking, he smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, Jingliang was really excited to see the girl." Don't hide it from the girl, my little sister is seriously ill and has not been up for many days. I once sent someone to the Shendu to invite Doctor Liu of Ji Shengtang, who knew that he actually closed the door to thank the guests, don't say that it was me, even if the emperor's relatives went, he would not open the door.

In desperation, I had to inquire in the divine capital, and after inquiring and inquiring, I inquired about the girl's place. I hurriedly visited the house, but was told by the girl's family that the girl had returned to her hometown with her husband and would not return until a few months later.

Originally, I didn't have any hope, but I didn't expect the girl to appear in front of my Su family today, and she is still an old friend of my little sister. Girl, please, son, and these friends, please! ”

When Xing Ruyi saw Su Qianqian's ghost, he thought she was dead, but at this time, listening to the meaning of Su Jingliang's words, this Su Qianqian seemed to be alive, but her soul was out of her body.

She secretly flicked the umbrella bone with her hand, and Su Qianqian replied in a daze: "Ah! I wasn't dead yet! ”

Xing Ruyi couldn't help but roll her eyes.

Su Jingliang heard the voice, turned around, glanced at Xing Ruyi inquiringly, his eyes fell on the red bone umbrella in her hand, and he was slightly stunned: "This umbrella in the girl's hand is newly bought?" ”

"It's new!" Xing Ruyi said, and smiled politely back: "A few days ago, I passed by the paper shop and saw a lot of beautiful oil-paper umbrellas, especially this one, which won my heart, so I paid for it." How? Second Brother Su also likes this umbrella! ”

"Oh no! It's shallow, and there is also an oil-paper umbrella that my brother bought from a paper store on her fourteenth birthday. The umbrella was very similar to the one in the girl's hand. ”

"No wonder I hit it off at first sight, it turns out that our preferences are so similar!" Xing Ruyi said, turned the umbrella in his hand, then looked at Su Jingliang and asked, "What about the shallow umbrella, but it's still there?" It would be nice if it was here, and when it rained, we could hold on to enjoy the rain together! ”

"Whether you are there or not, I'm afraid you can only know when you wake up. Speaking of which, I haven't seen that umbrella in a long time. Su Jingliang said, stopping at the door of a side room, "This is a shallow bedroom, since she was sick, she has never left people here, and the room is often closed, so the smell inside may be a little unpleasant, please don't care about it." Speaking of which, I shouldn't have brought a few of them here, but I should have led them to the front hall or guest room, where I could prepare some good food and wine for a few distinguished guests. But as a brother, I'm really a little anxious in my heart, and I ask for a few forgiveness! ”

"Ruyi came to visit today, originally to see shallow, since she is sick, she should come to see her first. Second Brother Su doesn't have to feel anything embarrassed. As for the meals, we already used them on the road and didn't need to prepare them separately. ”

When the girl said this, it seemed that Jing Liang didn't know the rules more and more. Su Jingliang's face was embarrassed.

"Ruyi is a woman from a small family, and she never cares about these so-called rules, and I am friends with Qianqian, so I won't pay attention to these false etiquette. The meal was indeed used on the road, and if it was useless, it would naturally trouble Second Brother Su. Right now, Ruyi just wants to take a good look at the shallow illness and see if she can cure it. ”

Xing Ruyi said, motioning for Li Mao to open the door. There was no unpleasant smell in the door, but there was a faint aroma of juhua flowers. Xing Ruyi suddenly thought of the umbrella surface of the red bone umbrella in his hand, which was also outlined with ink with a faint juhua flower. So he looked up and asked Su Jingliang: "Qianqian, but you like juhua very much?" ”

"Ju flowers?" Su Jingliang shook his head: "The girl's family, I always pay special attention to these flowers and plants, but shallow, I don't seem to particularly like one of them, as for this sentence, I can't say I like it very much, but I can't say I hate it." ”

"I just asked casually, because as soon as I opened the door, I smelled a faint scent of juhua flowers in the house."

"Ju flower scent?" Su Jingliang sniffed carefully: "My nose has never been very bright, but I haven't smelled any fragrance." However, the girl said that it was the fragrance of ju flowers, and it should be the smell of ju flower pillows. Speaking of juhua, but I think of my deceased sister-in-law, she is a person who loves juhua very much, so she also planted all kinds of juhua flowers in the yard of her eldest brother, even embroidered patterns on clothes, and also love to embroider juhua styles, especially the small, yellow wild juju.

When the sister-in-law was there, she was always tired of her, and she also moved a lot of juhua back from her yard. The juhua sachets and juhua pillows in her room were also given to her by her sister-in-law, and they are still kept. ”

"But" Xing Ruyi turned around and swept his eyes around the courtyard: "I haven't seen juhua in this courtyard!"

"Oh! That's because after the death of her sister-in-law, she was also sad and sad for a while, and she didn't care about those flowers herself, and she didn't allow others to touch them, and she slowly died. Su Jingliang pointed to a few vacant flower pots in the corner, and on the flower pots, he also outlined the shape of the ju flowers with lines: "Although the ju flowers are dead, this flower pot has always been kept." My little sister seems to have no heart and lungs, but in fact she is very emotional, and her deceased sister-in-law is more like a sister, and sometimes even my eldest brother can't help but be jealous. ”

"What about your sister-in-law? Why did he pass away? ”

"Accident! Sister-in-law, she has been in poor health since she was a child, and later suffered from eye diseases. In the autumn of the previous year, because of the rain, she hurriedly came out to pick up the juhua flowers that were resting in the yard, accidentally fell to the ground, hit her head on the flower pot, and went immediately. For this reason, the eldest brother was sad and angry for a long time, and he couldn't wait to shovel all the juhua flowers in that yard for the sister-in-law to be buried with. Still shallow stopped him. said that those juhua flowers are the sister-in-law's beloved things, and if the eldest brother destroys them, the sister-in-law will be sad underground. ”

"Just seeing things and thinking about people, especially that thing also killed his beloved, I'm afraid your eldest brother's life will not be easy."

"That's what the girl said! Although those juhua stayed, the eldest brother never entered that courtyard again. Su Jingliang said, shaking his head: "After the sister-in-law died, the eldest brother moved to the temple outside the city, and it was only a year away. A few days ago, I just asked someone to deliver the letter, saying that it will be the winter solstice in a few days, and he must come back for a trip, so as not to worry about his father and mother. ”

Xing Ruyi sighed softly, and raised his feet into Su Qianqian's bedroom.

(Education 123 Literature Network)