An Xiu'er raised her head and met Zhang Zhen'an's gaze, he was wearing a hat, his eyes were covered with black gauze, only revealing a firm nose bridge, a resolute chin, An Xiu'er couldn't see his expression clearly, so she didn't speak, only smiled at him generously, and her half-curved eyes reflected the green mountains and green waters in the river, but her eyes were clearer and purer than the river.

Zhang Zhen'an was looked at by this look, and felt that his face was faintly hot, and hurriedly turned his head to continue rowing, while An Xiuer continued to enjoy the scenery on both sides of the river.

I returned home smoothly, and just stepped in the door, but I found an unexpected visitor, who turned out to be Gu Linlang.

What is he here for? An Xiu'er frowned, said hello to the Liang family, saluted Gu Linlang again, and went back to her room without waiting for him to speak.

"Xiu'er has always been spoiled by us, Mr. Gu should not blame her for her faux pas." Liang poured tea for Gu Linlang, and looked very grateful: "Thank you, Mr., for coming this time, let Mr. bother." ”

"It's just a gesture." Gu Linlang smiled slightly, his face was kind, his demeanor was calm, and he said: "Rong He is a very clever child, but he still needs a lot of teaching, don't let him take a detour." ”

"Thank you, sir, for your teaching." Liang's demeanor is respectful, and nowadays scholars have always been noble, especially rural people, who have great respect for scholars.

Gu Linlang talked to Liang about something again, and after he left, An Xiu'er came out of the door and asked, "What is Mr. Gu doing here?" ”

"It's not for Rong and that stinky boy to come, Mr. said that he didn't study well in the school, and he was watching the birds, and the angry Mr. Gu slapped him on the spot, and came home to tell me."

Liang Shi was a little angry when she said this, she scolded angrily: "The family is only enough to pay for his tuition, he doesn't listen well, look at him when he comes back, I won't clean him up!" ”

"Okay, mother, don't be angry." After An Xiu'er understood the reason, when she saw Liang's angry appearance, she smiled slightly, took out the blue-burning copper hairpin from her arms, shook it in front of Liang, and said, "Look, what is this?" ”

"Hairpins? Where did you come from? Liang's eyes were immediately attracted by the hairpin in An Xiuer's hand, only to see that the hairpin was coppery and yellow, very simple, and there was a blue peony at the end of the hairpin, which was lifelike, much better than the wooden hairpin with a missing head on her head.

"I bought it for you in town today." An Xiu'er took Liang's hand, put the copper hairpin in her hand, and said, "Haven't you always envied the hairpin of the aunt next door?" I'll buy one for you today. ”

"You ......" Liang saw the copper hairpin in the palm of her hand, this cold touch made her instantly forget her previous anger, she looked at her daughter's eyes, the pair of water-cut eyes were softly glowing, but the layer of black green under the eyelids was like a spot on the white jade under the white skin, how to look at it.

She originally thought that she had worked so hard to embroider the veil these days just to save some dowry for herself, but she never thought that she was actually buying something for herself.

"Well, and this cigarette stick, I bought it for my father, what do you think?" An Xiuer didn't give Liang a chance to be sentimental, she took out this cigarette stick from the basket and handed it to Liang.

"Pretty good." Liang touched the smooth shaft, nodded, and said, "Why did you remember to buy a cigarette stick for your father?" He didn't smoke for many years. ”

"Buy him to beat someone, and whoever doesn't obey him will let him smoke him with a cigarette stick." An Xiu'er said with a smile.

Father An used to smoke, when he was a child, An Xiuer remembered that he always had a cigarette stick pinned to his waist, and when he was in a good mood, he took it out and smoked two sips, but at some point, there was one less cigarette pouch on his waist, only the cigarette stick was left, and he also changed all the money for the cigarettes to eat.

It seems that last year, because An Ronghe skipped school to catch crickets, he was very angry, and knocked the cigarette stick on the table heavily, and in anger, the cigarette stick was also broken in half, and there is still a pit on the table. Later, he never bought it again, An Xiuer always remembered this incident, in order to buy this cigarette stick, she saved money for a long time, but in that yellow dream, all this money became her entanglement.

Since she came back on Zhang Zhen'an's boat today, it was still early, and Liang had just cooked the meal, so she went out to look at the sun outside, and saw that the sun was almost out of the corridor, so she knew that it was time to cook.

It was the time when the green and yellow crops were scarce, and the food at home became scarce, and even An Ronghe, who was going to school, only had half a bowl of rice plus a sweet potato with a little rotten taste and some pickles.

However, the Liang family prepared another bamboo basket, a bowl full of rice, two boiled eggs, and a small plate of steamed bacon with pickles for An Xiuer to bring to Gu Linlang.

An Xiu'er was puzzled, and Liang said: "Mr. Gu is doing his best to our Ronghe, and he also came here today, we should thank him, you wait and tell him, our family is poor, let him not be surprised." ”

"Got it." An Xiu'er nodded, she couldn't be angry with Gu Linlang because of a dream, maybe he wasn't that kind of person.

I went to the private school with the food box, and the private school just got out of class, and some of the children who lived nearby went home to eat, and a few of them were sent by their families, and some of the people from the next village were eating the dry food brought from home in the morning, and those with better conditions went to buy food from the people near the private school.

An Xiu'er looked at An Ronghe who ran towards her with a smile, touched his head, handed a food box in her hand to An Ronghe, and said, "Bring this to your master, go and come back quickly, I am still waiting for you in the backyard." ”

An Ronghe nodded, and happily ran away with his things, while An Xiu'er walked to the backyard with his things.

Just approached the stone table, there was already a person sitting on the clinker stone table, looking at this posture, it was Gu Linlang.

An Xiu'er frowned slightly, but Gu Linlang had already seen him, he greeted her very calmly, and said, "Xiu'er, are you here to bring food to Rong He again?" ”

"Yes." Seeing that he had discovered him, she also generously walked over with the food box and said, "Thank you Mr. Gu for your hard work in teaching Rong He." ”

"It is the duty of a teacher to be a teacher." Gu Linlang smiled slightly, full of bookish smell, handsome and flawless.

"Mr. Gu is of noble character." An Xiu'er said against her will.

Now she is sitting with Gu Linlang, she only feels very embarrassed, remembering that in the past, she wished she could be alone with him at that time, but now, it will never be again, she sees him and just wants to escape.

But on the contrary, he looked at her with burning eyes, making her restless.

Fortunately, An Ronghe's voice came from far and near: "Auntie, the master is not here. When he crossed a clump of bamboos and saw Gu Linlang, he was a little surprised, and his flying expression instantly converged, and he said respectfully: "It turns out that Master, you are here." ”

"What's the matter?"

"This is what my aunt asked me to give you." An Ronghe put the food box on the stone table, Gu Linlang looked at An Xiu'er in confusion, An Xiu'er opened the lid of the food box, brought the food to Gu Linlang, and said, "My mother asked me to bring it to you, the family is poor and poor, and please don't dislike the simple lunch." ”

As she spoke, she took out the food in another basket, brought it to An Ronghe, touched his head, and said, "Hungry, eat." ”

Gu Linlang saw An Xiu'er bringing him food, thinking that she had changed her mind, and happily took a bite of rice, but who expected that the mouth only felt extremely rough, and swallowed it with difficulty, he felt panicked in his throat, and then looked at the blackened fat and pickles in the bowl, he frowned, and couldn't eat it anymore.

He has always been unaccustomed to eating this kind of brown rice, and on weekdays, he has a scholar who cooks for him, and the food has always been white rice, and the food is also very fine.

But after all, this meal was given to him by An Xiu'er, and it's not good not to eat it at the moment, during this time, for some reason, An Xiu'er has been a little cold to him, if An Xiu'er knows that he dislikes these meals, he will definitely be even more cold to him.

Just when he was in a dilemma, he unintentionally caught a glimpse of An Rong and the pickles in the bowl, he thought about it, flicked his sleeves, pushed the dishes and chopsticks, and his tone was with a hint of indignation: "You give me such a good meal, but give Rong He such food, I really deserve it, you take it back!" ”

An Xiu'er and An Ronghe saw him suddenly, they all looked at each other, he looked at the two of them, sighed again, softened his voice, and said seriously: "Tell Lingtang, don't do this in the future, I feel her affection for me Gu Linlang, and I am ashamed of it." ”

"Got it." An Xiu'er nodded, but her heart was slightly cold, she had been to An's house in a dream, but although he was not considered rich, but he was also worry-free, he said this, not that he really thought so in his heart, presumably because he disliked the rough food.

But it's not good for him to help save some food for his family.

An Xiu'er thought about it and stretched out her hand to clean up the food in front of Gu Linlang, but unexpectedly her hand was grabbed by Gu Linlang, "You come with me." ”

Before she could react, he had already stood up and dragged her into the bamboo forest on the side.

He didn't stop until there was no one on the bamboo forest path, and An Xiu'er broke free of his hand and said, "Mr. Gu's actions just now are really rude. ”

"It's so lovely, I can't take care of it." Gu Linlang said that seeing An Xiu'er still slightly angry, she came over to take her hand again, An Xiu'er took two steps back, his eyes were full of injury, and said calmly: "Xiu'er, are you still angry with me?" ”

"Mr. Gu laughed, how dare I be angry with Mr., besides, has Mr. done anything to make me angry?" When An Xiu'er saw Gu Linlang's appearance, she pinned her head to the side, when she used to be, how much she liked this man, but since she had that dream, now every time she thinks of him, her heart is bitter and unspeakable, and she is bored.