Yan paused and replied to me in surprise, "My mother taught me." ”

"Your mother seems to know a lot of things, but she is really a talented girl." Yes, I just tried my best to please Yan Cuo and praise the mother he cared about the most.

Yan gave me a blank look, but his eyes were not so fierce: "Do you need to say it?" Naturally, there is no comparison with you, an illiterate village girl. ”

"Yes, yes, you have to say." It seemed to work, and I nodded in agreement.

"By the way, I saw that you have a blue shirt, which she also sewed for you, it is double-sided embroidery, which takes a lot of time and energy."

I can imagine Ye Xin's expression of sitting in the courtyard where the sunset is shining, sewing this dress for Yan Sao with a stitch and a thread, although life is difficult and not easy, but the happiness of every mother when sewing clothes for her child is equal and cannot be taken away, she must be meticulous in her heart to rub her child's appearance as an adult, how tall will it be, what kind of angular face will it look like, is it like her a little more, or like his father? That feeling must be very sweet.

Yan Cuo stared at me and said, "When did you sneak into my room and see my clothes?" ”

I waved my hand and said, "No, no, I just glanced at it—I'm also an embroiderer, and I can see it at a glance—and I also saw that there were stitches in the corners of the sleeves of your shirt, and your mother must have hidden some fabric in it when she made that dress for you, in case you grew too fast and the corners of the sleeves were too short, and the stitches were removed and the fabric was released, and the sleeves and tails of the shirt would grow a lot." ”

Yan Cuo didn't seem to understand this, and frowned: "Really? ”

I nodded and said, "Of course, if you don't believe it, you can take that shirt and I'll help you remove the stitches, and I will embroider it on both sides a little bit, and by the way, I can help you make up for the loose thread and feet - double-sided embroidered clothes are too rare, can't waste your mother's hard work......"

Yan Cuo hesitated, almost nodded, but refused very vigilantly, glanced at me and said, "It's okay to offer this courtesy, it's either a traitor or a thief." ”

I waved my hand and explained: "No, no, if it is a sea drift, I will do the same - if you don't want to benefit from me, then take it as if I thank you for helping me take care of Xia Xia, don't you owe each other?" Otherwise, I will let Xia Xia pay you back this favor. ”

Yan Cuo glared at me fiercely, turned around and left, leaving behind a sentence: "I'll wear it early tomorrow morning, and I'll talk about it later." ”

I laughed.

I didn't go back to my room to sleep that night, but curled up next to Xia Xia, and fell asleep holding her arm like when she was a child holding my arm to warm my bed.

Early the next morning, I heard the sound of Xia Xia walking in and out in a daze, and when I saw that I was blinking and about to wake up, her laughter came: "I woke up in the morning and was startled, Sister Fei, why did you run to the room and sleep?" How? Did you have a nightmare in the middle of the night and didn't sleep well, so you ran to me to hide? ”

I opened my eyes, she helped me to sit up, the pillow behind me was not high or low, the pillow was very comfortable, I looked at her face carefully, as usual, radiant, not the slightest look of fatigue and anxiety.

I smiled and said, "Yes, yes, I slept too much in the first two days, and I woke up in the middle of the night yesterday, and I was really scared when I was awake in the middle of the night, and I wanted to come to you to chat, but you slept like a dead pig, and I didn't want to go back in the cold, so I slept in your room." ”

Xia Xia had already made a wash of her face, and even put my red dress away, and there was a stove on the side to roast it, so that I would be warm as soon as I put it on, but it was really distressing.

Xia Xia waved her hand in front of my eyes, drawing my attention back, and her dark eyes were shining: "Then it's good to start washing and dressing up, today I want to dress up Sister Fei to go to the banquet." ”

I asked tentatively, "I'm busy with this and that early in the morning, don't you feel tired and sore?" ”

Xia Xia shook her arm, frowned, and said: "It's really a little, maybe I let Sister Fei squeeze you yesterday, my hands and feet are really a little sore when I wake up early in the morning, and my eyebrow bone is so painful, did you hit me in a dream last night?" ”

I rinsed myself while getting up, and said: "It's because you can't sleep by yourself, and you blame others - don't patronize and dress me up, you should clean up yourself, don't always tie two braids like a little girl and throw them around, you have to learn how to dress up the big girl's house when you have time, save yourself a time, others say I treat you as a girl." ”

Xia Xia smiled: "A girl is a girl, I like to be Sister Fei's girl and serve you." ”

I looked at her beautiful face in the mirror, and I felt a little uncomfortable.

Xia Xia helped me comb my hair, handed me hot steamed buns, and complained: "I obviously remember taking twenty-five buns yesterday, and I ate seven yesterday, and there are eighteen left, but this morning, when I looked, there are only ten left, and it must be the guy who is Yan Cuo, who went to the kitchen to find food in the middle of the night, and ate half of our three-day breakfast as soon as he ate it, and he didn't say a word, hum." ”

At this time, I rolled my eyes and saw that Yan Cuo had just come out of the water room, and I saw and heard our conversation. The weather was so nice today, the sun was shining warmly from his face to his shoulders, and his eyes, which were always cold, seemed to be much warmer.

I smiled and said, "Maybe it's not Yan's fault, which kitten who loves to get into trouble at night was taken away?" ”

Xia Xia was carefully tying my hair, naturally she didn't see Yan Cuo, and said to herself: "Where are so many kittens, except for him, it's him, and it's not that he doesn't give him food, why are you always so sneaky." ”

I laughed and said loudly: "Oh, I said, in the past, twenty was always enough, why did you suddenly take five more, it turned out that it was ready for him to eat—you, when did you learn Song Lingjian's mouth, can't you treat him like I did, really, meticulously, everyone lives in peace and is happy?" ”

Xia Xia pursed her lips, turned her head over me and said, "Who wants to have fun with that wood, Sister Fei, when did you also learn the third brother's kung fu that hurts people, this is really unbelievable." ”

I smiled deeply, and the corners of Yan Cuo's mouth picked unnaturally, turned his head and pretended to leave as if nothing happened.

I looked at myself in the mirror, wasn't this the same hairstyle that I didn't know who gave me the hair when I came back from the yamen that day? Why did Xia Xia give me such a hairstyle?

Xia Xia saw my eyebrows frowning slightly, and smiled knowingly: "This hairstyle is fresh, that day I saw Sister Fei come back with this hairstyle, and I kissed it, and they all said that changing my hairstyle is like changing my face, this time I really feel this way." I pondered like that for a long time, and finally I knew, and I saw if my face was much more energetic? ”

I looked at myself in the mirror, red clothes and black hair, and light makeup, I felt a little strange, and I couldn't help but think of the dream of the pre-wedding wine I had that day, in that dream I wore my father's blessing and reluctance to get married, and I was also dressed in a red dress, but there was no Song Lingjian and Han Sanxiao in the world of that dream, and there was no Xia Xia to pull my hair and drape for me.

I looked at Xia Xia's serious appearance and said warmly: "It's good to have Xia Xia by my side." ”

Xia Xia glanced at me and said with a smile: "Sister Fei, what's wrong?" Where did you get so much emotion, hasn't Xia Xia always been by Sister Fei's side? ”

I laughed and said, "Give me your little notebook." ”

Xia Xia looked strange, but still obediently took the booklet from her bag and said, "What's the matter?" Does Sister Fei want to check on my daily affairs? ”

I glared at her with a smile and said, "I'm not interested in the dense little insects on you, you left something in my room yesterday, I'll put it back for you." ”

Xia Xia tilted her head with an expression that she couldn't remember what it was, and I smiled and took out yesterday's fire leaf from the drawer and carefully placed it in the unwritten blank page of the booklet.

Xia Xia pursed her lips and frowned: "It's just a broken leaf, it's everywhere under the fire tree, and it's rare to put it back!" ”

I gently stroked the beautiful dried fire leaves, and said with a smile: "There are indeed countless fire leaves, floating everywhere in the town, every autumn and winter—however, each leaf is unique, you see that this leaf is beautiful and round, and the stems on it are very neat and symmetrical, as if they were drawn—this leaf must not have fallen from the branch in the wind, but as if it had been plucked by someone from the high branch." ”

Xia Xia snatched the booklet, closed it indifferently, threw it in the bag and said, "Do you think that all of them are Haipiao brothers, and they will be so thoughtful to pick beautiful fire leaves on the high branches." ”

I wondered, "Really?" Have you ever been to sea drifting? ”

Xia Xia nodded and said, "Yes, I picked a lot, and said that I would press them into dried leaves and use them as books for Sister Song." ”

I laughed: "Oh? Is it really so hearty? Did you send it? ”

Xia Xia shook her head: "Then I don't know - sometimes I think that Brother Haipiao is like the shadow of Sister Song, but he is obviously a sun-like character, smart and gentle, why can't Sister Song see it?" She suddenly said this sentence with empty eyes and sadness, blowing away the joyful atmosphere of the morning.

My heart sank, thinking of the loneliness that couldn't be erased from Hai Piao's smile, and the cold alienation of Song Lingjian's eternal indestructibility.

I muttered, "You said it would be nice if people could foresee what was going to come, and I really wanted to skip so much torturous time and see what we would be like in the future." ”

Xia Xia smiled, pushed my head, and said, "If you know what it will look like in the future, then how will you live this day?" It's like reading a book, it's obviously delicious, if anyone tells you the final ending, who still wants to read it seriously - Sister Fei is childier than me, and she says these stupid things. ”

I didn't think so, looked thoughtfully at myself in the mirror, and said: "Don't you think that sometimes there are some pictures, as if you have seen them in previous dreams, maybe the mystery of the future has already given us a hint from God, put it in a dream, or in a trance of napping, but we didn't pay attention, or forgot, don't you say?" ”

Xia Xia rolled her eyes helplessly and pushed my head like a big sister.

"What about people? I'll go...... You won't wait for me to go first, will you? Han Sanxiao's voice sounded miserably in the courtyard, we were all staying in Xia Xia's room, he estimated that he didn't see my window open when he entered the courtyard, thinking that we had left.

Xia Xia replied loudly: "In my room, the third brother came in. ”

Han Sanxiao's shredded complaint floated from the outer courtyard to the inner corridor: "My mother, I have to waste my strength to take a few more steps...... What are you grinding, don't you go on the road quickly, what are you doing in the summer girl's room? ”

I watched him get closer and closer, his eyes were still not all right, sometimes clear, sometimes blurred, and said with a smile: "Come here when you think of it, what are you doing, you are as tired as if you have just caught a mouse all over the street?" ”

Han San smiled and waved his hand, but without answering me, Kara leaned against the window, looking like she was about to die of exhaustion.