Chapter 45: Selling Myself to You

There was a stall selling oil-paper umbrellas in front of the bench where Jun Youyao was sitting, and a gray-haired grandmother looked at her with a look of embarrassment on her back, and her vicissitudes of life were pleading: "Can you help your mother-in-law take a look at the stall, I'...... I'll be back soon......"

Jun Youyao nodded hurriedly: "Grandma, don't worry, I'll help you watch it." She stood up and squatted down in front of the stall.

"Thank you, good girl." The old grandmother left movingly.

Probably because of the beauty and good looks, the stall that was originally popular with people came to the booth not long after she squatted, and he was a young man with a pimple on his face.

"Little sister, how much is your oil-paper umbrella?" The young man picked up an oil-paper umbrella casually, but his eyes looked directly at Jun Youyao.

Jun Youyao glanced at the umbrella in his hand, and said with a chuckle: "One hundred." ”

"Young lady, your umbrella is so expensive, there are up to twenty at other stalls."

Jun Youyao raised her head and smiled at him: "Then do you want to buy it?" ”

"Buy, buy, buy." The pimple guy immediately paid for it.

"Thank you for your patronage." Jun Youyao unceremoniously accepted the money.

She probably thought it was fun, Jun Youyao, who had successfully completed a single transaction, began to sell it boldly, she was already beautiful, with a smile on her face and a crisp voice, she was naturally more attractive, and soon her stall was crowded with people.

Gu Lihan stood on the street watching this scene, and suddenly an irrepressible smile welled up in his throat.

I've never seen this like this.

He walked over, squeezed into the crowd of people buying umbrellas, picked up an oil-paper umbrella and said to the little girl who was busy with business: "One hundred is too expensive, can it be cheaper?" ”

"Ah, so handsome!" The guests crowded next to the stall screamed when they saw Gu Lihan.

Hearing the familiar voice, Jun Youyao raised his head and looked at him with some surprise, but it was rare to have a big heart, and smiled warmly at the beautiful man, "How cheap do you want?" ”

"Ninety-nine dollars is good, okay?"

"It's not good, I don't do business at a loss."

"And what if you add me?"

"Deal."

The conversation between the two made the men and women on the side scream again, shouting, "Handsome guy, I'll buy you!" "I'm going to sell you the beauty too!" Wait a minute.

But Jun Youyao and Gu Lihan were not affected by the outside world at all, Gu Lihan stood up with the oil-paper umbrella, and really handed Jun Youyao ninety-nine yuan.

Then he opened the oil-paper umbrella and stood quietly behind Jun Youyao, holding the umbrella for her to block the sun overhead.

A beautiful woman, like water.

I don't know whose years have been gentle.

When the old grandmother came back from the toilet, the two had already sold most of the oil-paper umbrellas in the stall, and the old woman took a stack of 100 yuan from Jun Youyao's hand with wide eyes.

"Girl, you earned all this money for me? This...... This ......"

"Grandma, I don't know how much you price, so I shouted a hundred yuan a handful, I don't know if I sold it to you at a loss, if you say it, I will make up the difference for you."

"How can you lose? I'll only sell for twenty yuan, girl, you are really capable, you can sell so much after five times multiplied. Wife, I usually set up a stall for a few days, but I don't necessarily sell so much. ”

She said again excitedly, "Girl, you are really capable. ”

"It's your oil-paper umbrella." Jun Youyao waved her hand and scratched her head embarrassedly, anyway, she didn't have to work hard, there was a handsome guy like Gu Lihan as a living signboard, no matter how expensive these umbrellas were, there were people who wanted them.

"These umbrellas are made by the old man of my family, and he likes to tinker with these knick-knacks." When the grandmother mentioned her wife, her old eyes were full of sweetness.

"Grandpa's craftsmanship is very exquisite, so many umbrella painting patterns have not been repeated, and many of them are original works, and the idea is high, in fact, a hundred yuan is sold at a loss."

Jun Youyao said this sincerely, regardless of the quality of the oil-paper umbrellas sold by this grandmother, the painted flowers on the surface of those umbrellas are very exquisite, which can be called masterpieces.

"Girl, and this boy." The old grandmother naturally also noticed Gu Lihan, who had been standing behind Jun Youyao, "You guys are here to play, if you don't dislike it, go to the house with the old woman to have a look, in fact, making oil paper umbrellas is still my old man's hobby, what he really likes is paper fan calligraphy and painting, but he doesn't like me to sell his treasure, so I made up oil paper umbrellas for my livelihood." ”

Jun Youyao was a little interested when she heard this, they originally came to play and see.

She tugged at the sleeve of the man next to her and looked up at him with an inquiring look.

Gu Lihan half-lowered his head and stared at the girl who was looking up at him with a look of hope, a doting light flashed in his cold and waveless eyes, and he nodded slightly, "um".

Jun Youyao immediately said happily to the old grandmother: "Thank you grandma for inviting us, then let's help grandma sell the rest of the umbrella first." ”

"Okay, okay." The old grandmother was not polite to them, mainly because she also saw that these two children were handsome, and with them, I am afraid that it will not take long for these umbrellas to be sold out.

Sure enough, an umbrella for 100 yuan was sold out in minutes.

The two helped the grandmother clean up the stall and followed her to her house.

The old grandmother's surname is Li, and she lives in a stilted building on the bank of Yangliu Lake in Xiangzhou, with pink walls and tiles, and a lake in front of the street, which is a very typical ancient building in the south of the Yangtze River.

Gu Lihan took the camera to be his competent videographer, and the smile of the girl under his lens was brighter than a flower, and more dazzling than the sun in the sky, making people reluctant to look away.

"Old man, I'm back." Grandma Li pushed open the old mottled wooden door, like pushing open a door to history.

The shadows of the trees in the small courtyard are swaying, from the eaves to the treetops, the courtyard is full of red, green, and green oil-paper umbrellas.

In the courtyard, an old man in a plain coat was sitting in front of a rectangular table, and was painting with a pen, when he heard Grandma Li's voice turn his head, his eyes were full of tenderness, "Why did you come back so early today?" Are you tired? ”

"I'm not tired, it's just that I met two good boys who helped me sell out my umbrella." Grandma Li said with a smile and took Jun Youyao's hand and introduced it to Grandpa Li, "It's this girl and this handsome boy." ”

The old man followed his gaze and caged the figures of the girl and the man into his eyes, his expression was slightly startled for a moment, and he looked at Gu Lihan with a taste of nostalgia in his eyes.

He stood up and walked towards Gu Lihan, who had a cold expression, and asked under the unexplained gaze of several people, "Are you ...... The children of the Xue family? ”

Gu Lihan frowned, looked at the gray-haired old man in front of him, and replied in a low voice, "My surname is Gu." ”

The old man was stunned, "Gu? How could it be Gu? ”

Li Qing was very surprised, he looked at the face in front of him, and seemed to suddenly realize that he said: "By the way, the young grandmother is surnamed Gu, yes, you look very similar to the young grandmother, but why did you follow your mother's surname?" Chief, can he agree? ”

At this time, Jun Youyao also felt amazing, and dared to love them This is a foreign country, but obviously this did not make Gu Lihan feel happy, but on the contrary, there was a faint suppressed anger in his body that was constantly spreading.

"They have divorced a long time ago, and I have nothing to do with the Xue family."

Gu Lihan's face has always been cold, but now he looks even more ruthless, and even with a bit of murderous intent, Jun Youyao's heart jumped, and he reached out to hold his hand on the side of his trouser leg.

She felt that Gu Lihan at this time needed the comfort of the opposite sex's body temperature.

Gu Lihan glanced back at her, and his eyes became warmer.

Li Qing has been a soldier for many years, even if he is old now, he will not notice the change in Gu Lihan's momentum, thinking back to some of the things he has heard in the past few years, he has some understanding in his heart, sighed and changed the topic: "Thank you for helping my mother-in-law, don't stand outside the door, come in." ”

Everyone, including Grandma Li, didn't mention the topic of Fang Cai anymore, Jun Youyao kept holding Gu Lihan's hand, and the two walked around this unique stilted building under the introduction of the old couple, admired Grandpa Li's paper fan works, and took one moving and beautiful photo after another here.

The night of Xiangzhou was quietly approaching, and the two elders of the Li family left the two of them for dinner, but they did not refuse, and the two elders happily prepared to go.

Jun Youyao sat in front of the attic window covered with ivy, tilting her head and looking at the umbrella courtyard below, the crimson sunset reflecting her side face, which was picturesque.

Although Gu Lihan has a fear of heights, the location of the attic is not high, he did not resist, he squatted not far away and kept pressing the shutter, as if he was addicted to shooting, or he was reluctant to bear the girl in the camera.

"Come here, let's take a group photo." Jun Youyao turned his head and stretched out his hand to him, his eyes reflected the fire in the sky, so warm that people couldn't take their eyes off.

Gu Lihan nodded, set up the camera, and then sat down beside her according to her instructions......

Under the red sunset, green vines entwined the mottled old wooden windows, where beautiful girls and delicate men sat side by side and took their first group photos.

Since then, the mountains and rivers have been thousands of miles, and the best period is like a dream, stacked into a picture of constant beauty.

"They are family marriages and have no feelings for each other." He sat beside her, his eyes looking in the direction of the camera, and spoke without warning, Jun Youyao quietly as a listener.

His tone was flat, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

"My mother married into the Xue family for three years and didn't come out with anything, so they divorced with the support of the two patriarchs."

"Not long after they divorced, my mother was found to be pregnant."

"She is a very stubborn person, so regardless of everyone's persuasion, she disagreed with the Xue family's request to remarry, and then gave birth to me as an illegitimate child, so I have nothing to do with the so-called Xue family, I have always been surnamed Gu."

So Grandpa Li said that he was a member of the Xue family at the beginning, but he was not wrong.

"The surname is good, you see my surname is Jun, the surnames of the two of us are combined, that is, if you are Jun Gu, hehehe! If your surname is Xue, won't we become a combination of military boots? That's ugly! Jun Youyao joked, and at the end he laughed.

Gu Lihan turned his head to look at the smiling girl beside him, suddenly raised his hand to hold her smiling little face, and pressed his lips up.

The kiss, hot as fire, ignited the fiery clouds churning behind the two.

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