Chapter 16: Old Things
An Yuanfeng looked left and right, a little unbearable: "Big girl, second brother, he didn't mean it, are you ......?"
Before he finished speaking, he was pulled by Hu's sleeve, An Yuanfeng turned his head to look at his wife, and his wife shook her head at him slightly, and the rest of the words were swallowed into her throat and silent.
Some people stood up and accused, saying that An Yuanshan was An Qingming's second uncle, how could he do such a thing, and some people were old shopkeepers after all, and they were just punished with a small punishment.
You say a word to me, and you don't argue about the result.
Shopkeeper Xu frowned at this farce, and said coldly: "The reputation of 'Moon Drink' can't be bad, no matter who does such a thing, it can't be said and passed." The old shopkeeper is the uncle of the eldest girl, and the eldest girl cares about her relatives and respect, and some things are not easy to say. The old man is not afraid, the 'moon drink' is supported by the old man and the old shopkeeper, and he can't be blasphemed by others. Big girl, this can't just be done. ”
Shopkeeper Xu, as a well-deserved veteran of "Moon Drink", spoke, and all his eyes looked at An Qingming.
An Qingming sighed, looking very embarrassed: "Qing Ming has been in charge of the family for more than five years, and has always been grateful for your help, my uncle is Qing Ming's relatives, and he should be the most trusted person in Qing Ming, my uncle was confused for a while, and he shouldn't be too guilty of being a niece, but the state has national laws and family rules, and today Qing Ming does not punish his uncle, and others will follow suit, how can Qing Ming manage his family?" ”
She looked at An Yuanshan: "In this case, I will remove my uncle from his position first, and Wang Hao will take over everything he is in charge of." ”
The one who was named was a fledgling boy, who was still sorting out the accounts under the hands of the shopkeeper Zhang, and suddenly a piece of cake smashed on his head, so that he couldn't find the north, or the shopkeeper Zhang pushed him, and he went out to thank the eldest girl for her attention.
An Yuanshan swallowed: "Big girl...... I've been in charge of these things for four or five years, and it's all my hard work! ”
An Qingming said coldly: "If the second uncle doesn't do anything wrong, he will continue to be in charge for ten or twenty years." ”
The implication is that you deserve what you have done wrong, and what are you struggling with.
An Yuanshan gritted his teeth and stopped talking.
An Qingming explained a few things in general before letting everyone disperse.
An Yuanshan's family didn't leave, Fang stood with An Yuanshan in his arms, An Yuanshan brushed her hand away, stepped forward and looked directly at An Qingming, not like the cowering appearance in the past, but with a bit of a broken decision: "Those letters, how did the eldest girl get them?" ”
An Qingming did not shy away from looking at him: "The second uncle is clean, he should burn it all, right?" But there are always people who hide their careful thoughts, afraid that someone will cross the river and tear down the bridge, so they can't leave something to save their lives? ”
She said that the messenger of the letter was delivered on behalf of both parties.
"Impossible!" An Yuanshan subconsciously retorted, those were all his henchmen, and that person still had a handle in his hands.
An Qingming glanced at him, and that look couldn't be said to be sad or pity: "What the second uncle can find, Qingming can naturally do." The benefits that the second uncle can give, Qingming can naturally too. The handle that the second uncle can handle, Qingming can naturally do the same. In that case, what reason does that person have not to choose me, who is a legitimate family member? ”
"Second uncle," An Qingming said, "I really took you as my second uncle." ”
An Yuanshan sneered: "When did you treat me as your second uncle?" Have you ever given me the slightest trust in restraining me at every turn, guarding against me as a wicked person? An Qingming, don't think that I don't know what you have in mind, don't you just want me to leave 'Moon Drink'! You want to kick me out and keep a good name and splash me with dirty water! How can you get all the good things done! ”
The words were sonorous, full of righteous indignation, as if he thought he had been wronged by An Qingming.
An Qingming smiled and laughed angrily: "Second uncle, you did everything yourself, but I forced you to do it?" Which of these things is not worth punishing? Did I get the wrong penalty? is also an uncle, why do I treat you differently from the third uncle, and the second uncle doesn't want to think about it? In the eyes of the second uncle, Qingming's fault is everywhere, so I don't know if the second uncle still remembers what he did wrong. ”
Her voice suddenly cooled down, and An Yuanshan was stunned for a long time.
At that moment, he really thought that An Qingming knew everything.
But looking at it again, An Qingming had indifference and disbelief in her eyes, but there was no hatred, and An Yuanshan put his heart at ease.
He sneered: "I did the right thing with the conscience of heaven and earth, even if I didn't pay attention and did something wrong today, so what?" I admit it! ”
With that, he brushed his sleeves straight away, and the Fang clan hurriedly followed. An Qingyun, who was forgotten at the end, subconsciously glanced back at An Qingming who was standing on the steps, the breeze blew across her face, An Qingming had no expression on her face, but the complicated hatred in her eyes erupted in an instant, almost drowning him. Sensing his gaze, An Qingming rolled her eyes, An Qingyun was stabbed by her eyes, trembling, she didn't dare to look anymore, and hurried after his parents.
An Qingming stood in place for a while, the sun was very hot that day, the housekeeper came forward to persuade her to go back to the house and sit, An Qingming said, "I'll stand for a while." ”
She is not hot, her bones and blood are cold, basking in the sun also warms her cool heart.
The housekeeper said that he couldn't move her, and he knew that she was not feeling well today, so he sighed and left, and came back after a while.
"Big girl, Xu Gongzi is squatting outside."
An Qingming didn't react a little, and said, "Who?" ”
"Young Master Xu," after thinking about it, the housekeeper added truthfully: "It's been a while, he came when you confronted the second master, I said that you have something to do, so let him go back first." Who knows - I just went out to take a look, and I'm still at the door. ”
If he had been at the door, he wouldn't have been able to guess something, even if he had already seen the group of people who had gone out.
An Qingming said to the housekeeper: "Go out and take a look, if he is still here, invite him to come in and sit down." ”
An Qingming did not entertain Xu Huai'an in the front hall this time, but went to the backyard, the backyard of An's house is not as elegant as the Xu family, but it has another style.
There is an old tree in the courtyard that has grown for more than 200 years, which has witnessed the rise and fall of a dynasty, and its branches are bald when the war is even in the sky, and the new emperor has slowly survived after ascending the throne.
Later, An's father fell in love with this old tree, so he circled it to build a new courtyard, and An Qingming learned to speak, walk, drink tea, and learn to ...... when she was a child Calculate.
This time, there was no tea on the table, but wine.
Xu Huai'an's originally smiling face slowly sank when he saw the wine glass in front of An Qingming's eyes, he sat down in front of An Qingming and said, "You are not happy." ”
It's not a question sentence, he said it categorically, and An Qingming was embarrassed to refute it.
Of course, she didn't intend to refute either.
"Sort of," she said. ”
Xu Huaian asked, "Why?" ”
An Qingming said: "Who will be happy if they are betrayed by their relatives." ”
"But," Xu Huai'an took her glass a little farther away, "you won't solve anything if you're unhappy, but it will make the people who care about you very uncomfortable." ”
"Someone who cares about me?" Because of Xu Huai'an's touch, there were slight ripples in the wine glass, and An Qingming could see that his face was reflected in the wine.
"My mother doesn't know."
Xu Huai'an was a little angry in an instant: "Except for your mother?" What about the others? For example......
He was a little discouraged, but insisted on finishing his words: "For example, me." ”
An Qingming raised her head to look at him, she looked very seriously, as if she had seen him for the first time, she asked very sincerely, leaving no room for it, which made Xu Huaian a little confused: "Young Master Xu, where am I good?" ”
"This ......"
Xu Gongzi, who had a lotus tongue, was stunned.
He couldn't answer this question for a while.
Where is An Qingming?
looks good, but he still likes An Qingming's change of appearance. Is your temperament good? Not necessarily, his cold treatment and her resistance were all in his eyes.
Where's that good?
Time suddenly pulls back to five years ago.
That year, Xu County Ling took office, and his family left Beijing to go south, which was the first time Xu Huai'an saw Sanjiang County.
It is said that "fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March", Xu Huaian feels that Sanjiang County in March is not much worse than Yangzhou, the bluestone slabs are full of green, the girl by the stream in the rain and fog is full of yarn, the water is warm, the child is holding it with his hand, and the willow is bubbling with new green, hooking whose handkerchief.
Stepping over the stone bridge, walking through the hills, looking at the sprouting greenery, and then walking forward, through the old street, through the new lane, I don't know which one hung the vegetarian.
The people in front of the door scattered in a swarm, revealing a girl the age of cardamom, with plain clothes and black hair, cold eyes, cooler than the water by the bridge, and black pupils, as if to suck people's souls in.
As soon as Xu Huai'an raised his head, he met her eyes, tenacious and resolute, like a sharp sword split in the air, and pierced straight into his heart.
Whose girl is this?
Xu Huai'an thought.
Later, he met this girl again, on the street, he fought with the thieves who robbed people's purses, he was injured, leaning against the corner of the wall and panting, the woman was still dressed in white, pinned a Sumei on the neckline, and handed him a handkerchief: "Wipe it." ”
The ice in her eyes melted and turned into spring water.
Later, he had seen her many times, and in the shop, he negotiated with people from the beginning without changing his face; On the ridges of the field, she bent over to weed, looking at the seedlings one by one; On the bridge, she walked slowly, talking to people with a smile, dyeing half of the sunset.
Some people say that her name is An Qingming, the eldest girl of the An family, which is amazing.
An Qingming, Xu Huaian chewed on the name carefully. It's good, like the name of his future daughter-in-law.
Pulling the story line back to the present, Xu Huaian frowned and thought for a long time, stumbling and praising An Qingming, praising and feeling that it was wrong, An Qingming is like this, but An Qingming, who he likes, is not like this.
An Qingming is An Qingming, it is an inseparable An Qingming, where she stands is painting, sitting there is poetry, and any one that is taken out alone is not An Qingming.
Her goodness cannot be summed up in words.
An Qingming saw that he was stumbling, and Qi Er laughed: "It turns out that in the eyes of Xu Gongzi, I am like this. ”
Xu Huaian laughed twice: "No, in my eyes, you are better." ”
An Qingming's fingertips seemed to be burned, and she stared at Xu Huai'an directly, like a little girl in plain clothes five years ago, her eyes were black and black, like beads and ink, and she was breathtaking.
Xu Huai'an was looked at by her like a man's back, and he touched the wine glass and stuffed it into his mouth.
Before he could swallow the wine, he heard An Qingming say, "Then what do you like about me?" ”
Xu Huaian coughed directly and half died.
The word "like" was solemnly hidden in his heart, covered in the palm of his hand, and he didn't dare to show it easily, for fear that he would suddenly surprise the person he liked, so he took An Qingming and said it casually and unabashedly.
Without a hint of banter or complacency, she was simply curious, so she simply asked.
Asking questions directly and simply is sometimes the most provocative, more passionate than all words.
Xu Huai'an seemed to have been poked in the heart, and the peach blossoms all over the trees fell one after another, building a castle on his heart.