Shen Yeling was forced by Uncle Lou to stay for dinner, Uncle Lou said: This is a thank-you banquet, and it is just a home-cooked meal made by Xiuzhu, which is not comparable to any delicacies from the mountains and seas, which can be regarded as a show of affection.

The front room was chatting, Xiuzhu was already cooking the dishes on the stove outside the door, the dishes she made were all green, and there was no hue at all the meat foam, and the dishes on this table were shabby and untouchable. So thinking about it, he took out a few catties of bacon that his family treasured and put it in the shabby dish. I felt that it was still not enough, so I went to the tavern and ordered a roast chicken to come back, but the roast chicken alone was not enough, and I went to the tavern and brought a pot of soju back. It's just a table of wine and food that can only be eaten during the New Year.

The official meal is already 1 p.m., and it is held together with the afternoon snack time. The four of them gathered around the small square table and happened to make one place each, Uncle Lou sat on the upper seat, Shen Yeling sat on his right, Xiuzhu sat opposite him, and Shen Yeling was just next to him, and Shi Shi could only sit opposite Shen Yeling.

Shi glanced at the sister next to him, thinking that he should have sat in her position, but he didn't expect to be snatched by the unusually positive sister, and he was very indignant but there was no way, so he only ate one bite after another.

Uncle Lou was at the time when his addiction to cigarettes and alcohol broke out one after another, but it happened that his daughter was very sensible and bought a pot today, and excitedly added wine and drank a glass. Just as he was about to pour a third cup and put it to his lips. Someone's foot hit his leg, and according to the pain in his leg, he looked up at his daughter opposite.

I saw Xiuzhu pointing in the direction of Shen Yeling with a fierce face. He probably understood, although it was to invite Shen Yeling's thank-you banquet, this apprentice ignored it, and the apprentice's Lao Tzu was still eating solo wine. It is inevitable that it is a little unreasonable to leave the master here alone. Uncle Lou picked up the wine and poured a glass on the cup in front of Shen Yeling's table.

Shen Yeling hurriedly pushed and said, "Brother Lou, I don't know how to drink."

With a sense of wine, Uncle Lou also opened his heart to Shen Yeling, and said good things together: "Mr. Shen, you are really good, you don't want us to be rich and powerful, and you don't want us to give us any thank-you gifts, and you sincerely accept my son as an apprentice, we really don't know how to thank you, you can do a good job, give a sip of face."

Uncle Lou said with a little grievance, as if he wanted Shen Yeling to drink this little wine, he needed to beg for persuasion. Seeing that his father spoke inappropriately, Xiuzhu hurriedly explained to Shen Yeling, who was in a dilemma: "Mr. Shen, my father is too happy to drink some wine today and is confused, don't be surprised if you say the wrong thing." But that's what he means, you can drink some, we're embarrassed not to drink it."

Shen Yeling smiled, was persuaded to shirk again, picked up the wine glass, poured wine into his mouth, and the wine entered his throat and smoked his throat a little painful. He swallowed his saliva to slow down, still boasting that the wine was good.

Looking at Shen Yeling's performance, Xiuzhu put her heart on her own dishes and chopsticks with satisfaction, she had to make two bites of the green vegetables that she could usually eat in one bite, and she also sandwiched some green vegetables, and the meat would never touch her dishes and chopsticks.

Shen Yeling could see what Xiuzhu's habit of eating differently from the previous way of eating meant, but he turned his head to see that Uncle Lou had not poured wine into his wine glass again.

He began to ask: "Brother Lou, let me ask you about something, in addition to the head of the Luo family, do you know that there was an eldest lady named Luo Yunsheng in the Luo family before?" ”

"Huh"? Uncle Lou smelled of alcohol, and the strength of the wine had already made his face slightly red, why is it not enough for the Luo family to have a Luo Xiaoqi, and there is another Luo Yunsheng.

He thought calmly for a long time before talking to Shen Yeling about his trance-like memory: "The Luo family is the richest man in Xunyang, and the family has a big business, this eldest lady, there are several Luo families of the eldest young master, but this Luo Yunsheng, I also seem to have a little influence on the name, is it the daughter of Luo Yunsheng, the head of the Luo family ten years ago, hello!" They both read the same name, and I happened to remember that."

Uncle Lou knocked on his head, thinking if he could knock out some tricks: "But this Miss Luo is miserable!" This was already ten years ago, after her father died, her concubine was in charge of the Da Bo Luo Zhengting, and at that time she seemed to be removed from the Luo family genealogy, originally she was a female streamer who relied on his father to be the former head of the Luo family to make a note on the genealogy for her, and then his father was gone, so he was naturally removed."

When Shen Yeling heard this, he was a little frightened, frowning thoughtfully: "Then do you know what happened to Luo Yunsheng and where she went?" ”

Uncle Lou scratched his head, the wine had just precipitated and came up again, the blush on his face was almost catching up with Xiuzhu on the other side, and he shook his head after thinking for a long time: "No one knows, after she is removed, the Luo family should not want her, maybe she will be incognito, and then this eldest lady will gradually disappear in our memory, if it wasn't for Mr. Shen to mention it, I still forgot." ”

He smoked his brain with alcohol, but whenever he used his brain, he felt a little pain, and simply shouted not to recall these things that turned into sesame seeds and rotten grain: "How can I know so clearly about these rich idlers, and that's all I can know about Mr. Shen." If you want to say this Luo Xiaoqi, I can talk to you for three days and three nights, this Luo Yunsheng, ouch! There's really no trace of her."

'No trace' is like disappearing from the world, no news, no trace. Shen Yeling looked for Luo Yunsheng for so many years, and revisited his hometown and finally died without a problem, Shen Yeling did not answer, and was silent for a long time.

Xiuzhu looked at him and asked sadly: "What's wrong with Mr. Shen, could it be that this Miss Luo used to be Mr. Shen", Xiuzhu said a tentative word, and raised her own heart to her throat.

Shen Yeling nodded slightly, and answered her words seriously: "Yes, someone I met thirteen years ago."

Uncle Lou was stunned, glowing with wine, and his originally fluttering eyes looked at Shen Yeling even brighter, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly: "Mr. Shen originally had this relationship with the Luo family, then you can recognize Luo Xiaoqi, who has the most head in the whole Xunyang." He estimated in his heart that Shen Yeling's status had been promoted. I thought to myself: The master of the stone is really not in vain.

Shen Yeling shook his hand and corrected: "It's not the Luo family, it's the eldest lady of the Luo family, Luo Mansheng, I came to Xunyang to find an old one, I am very worried about her unknown whereabouts in the past ten years, as for Luo Xiaoqi, I have never seen or heard of it ten years ago."

Uncle Lou shook his head, obviously dissatisfied with Shen Yeling's second half of the answer, but he had to pretend to be warm-hearted: "This Miss Luo Yunsheng is honest, and only those of us who are twice as old as ten years ago know, but we love to inquire about the affairs of the Luo family but no one wants to care, so let's do it, I will also help you find it, I have connections on West Street to help you inquire about it."

Uncle Lou said boldly, drank the wine happily, his eyes were hazy, and he happily accepted Shen Yeling's thanks. But the gossip was overflowing, and he asked Shen Yeling again: "Mr. Shen is really persistent, does your wife know that you are looking for a lady from a big family."

Shen Yeling lowered her head and spit out a sentence lightly: "She, I know." If I don't know, I'll keep looking, but I just hope that the young lady is safe and happy, and I won't ask much about the rest."

"Oh, so this young lady is an important person in Mr. Shen's heart", Uncle Lou touched the remaining beard at the corner of his mouth and said, but he didn't observe the look on the table Xiuzhu.

Shen Yeling nodded, and said with nothing to hide: "It is indeed an important person, and I hope that Brother Lou will bother more", so he turned his head to Xiuzhu and said: "Miss Xiuzhu is good, she is still young, she can find a better one, maybe there will be someone who is looking for a girl like Shen."

As he spoke, he turned his head again, his eyes were blank and looked down on everything, and he said as if he was saying to himself: "Shen has very little expectations in this life, and he can only pretend to be two people in his heart, or sing a lifetime on the three-foot stage, which is enough."

After saying that, Xiuzhu was slightly stunned at first, and then nodded with a shocked and embarrassed smile, and the father on the other side listened to Shen Yeling's words, snickered and pointed at him: "Mr. Shen is also a temperamental."

Shen Yeling felt it, smiled embarrassedly, and before he could pick up the vegetables on the plate again, Xiuzhu accidentally dropped the vegetables on her clothes, covered with oil stains, red face and red eyes, and lowered her head, quickly saying the reason why she wanted to go back to the house to change clothes first, and ran away without giving others an answer.

They ate almost, Xiuzhu still didn't come out of it, Shen Yeling was leaving, and the remaining two sent Shen Yeling, only to hear the dazed Uncle Lou facing Xiuzhu in the next room, pointing to the door and shouting: "Xiuzhu, Mr. Shen is leaving, why don't you come out to send it off", there was still no sound in the house. After a silence, Uncle Lou had no choice but to send Shen Yeling out of the door with a stone in embarrassment.

Uncle Lou, who just couldn't hold his face, kicked Xiuzhu's door after Shen Yeling left, knowing Xiuzhu's reaction, and also knowing that he had seen the activities in his eldest daughter's heart since he was a child, but Xiuzhu's thought and reaction made him feel ashamed.

So Xiuzhu, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, said: "Don't think that your father really can't see it, you want to be a little one for him, and you want to be someone's aunt's wife." Stinky beauty, you have a wife in your arms, and you still remember the old friend ten years ago, so you will also remember it."

Then Xiuzhu's cry came from the room, crying very miserably, very sad, this is a complete cry for a person. Shi watched the scene in front of him and didn't speak, he ran forward and gently patted his sister who was holding an embroidered handkerchief to wipe her tears, the action was very considerate, enough to cover up his comforting words, he and his father had different ideas, and it was not ashamed to like Shen Yeling, because he felt that there were more people who liked Shen Yeling, so why should his sister cry to death.

Shen Yeling, who continued to walk home, was always worried about the news that Uncle Lou said that Luo Yunsheng had no news, and he began to check the whereabouts of this girl in recent years, but he still didn't know whether she was dead or alive.

He walked home in a lost state, looking at the dead trees in the distance, and there was not a single leaf left. The tree is good for climbing, but not for hiding, that's what the girl told him.

Who would have known that one day thirteen years ago, the girl was holding his hand and calling for his uncle. And now that time has passed, his temperament is also tempered by the winds and waves he has experienced, like a cold pool outside his window.

But I can inadvertently think of the girl's two uncles. The cold pool in his heart rippled like a spring breeze.

Those two uncles are the reason to find her for the rest of her life.