The sky outside the window was dark. Before you know it, this last bit of leisure time is about to run out. The heating stove in the house was about to burn out, and the air was cold and cold to the bone. The snow wet the window lattice, and even the smoke seemed to hang heavily.

Su Ruoqing hung his head and clenched a chess piece in his hand. He said in a low voice: "Ah Song, can you not do this." ”

Ye Song's sleeves swept lightly onto the chessboard, clenched a chess piece that Su Ruoqing had held, and said, "Su Ruoqing, I'm leaving." If you are free, forget me. ”

"But I'm busy all year round."

Just as Ye Song turned around, Su Ruoqing said. Ye Song paused in his footsteps and tilted his head slightly, but he was so stubborn that he didn't want to look back at him more, only to see his lonely black silhouette under the window, and said, "That's just right, it's easy to forget when you're busy." ”

Eventually, a dead silence was left in the room. It was as if she had taken away all her anger with her departure.

She was now under the evergreen vines outside the chess hall, and the snow fell on her hair, and she raised her head, looking at the endless gray sky, and finally did not look up again, and turned away.

Obviously, as soon as she looked up, she could see Su Ruoqing by the window, looking down at her.

At this time, although the sky is not yet dark, ordinary people's slightly more comfortable homes will be lit with yellowish lamps.

There were no pedestrians on the street, and Ye Song walked alone on the empty street. She didn't feel cold, she didn't feel any of her body, she only knew how to move her steps forward mechanically.

Her skin was frozen white from the ice, and the tip of her nose was red. After a while, his hair was covered with a layer of snow, as if he had once turned into a gray-haired rickety old man.

Later, when he turned the corner, Ye Song was stunned. She saw another shed on the side of the street, and it was steaming hot, and it was a small street stall selling rice balls. A middle-aged lady inside was stirring the pot with a long spoon, and seeing that the guests coming and going were very rare, there would be no guests if it was too late. So after the last customer finished eating the hot dumplings, she was ready to clean up the stall. Anyway, there was another guest at this time.

The fat lady said enthusiastically: "Guest officer, please sit casually, do you want to eat mash rice balls or longan and red date rice balls......" She turned around as she said and happened to see Ye Song come in, shaking off the snow on her shoulders and hair casually.

Ye Song sat down casually and said, "Let's have a bowl of mash rice balls." "+Chess+Piece+Small+Say+Net.More and Complete""

"Okay, good ......" The eldest lady hurriedly turned around and went to Zhang Luo.

How could she not recognize Ye Song. In the past, Ye Song was a frequent visitor to her place. But that was before she did something sorry for Ye Song.

The eldest lady threw the rice balls into the pot, and a complicated look appeared on her face. She steadied herself and said, "It's so cold, and it's so late, why is the girl still wandering the streets?" ”

Ye Song said: "Ah, passing by, just about to go home." She obviously remembered the chubby lady, looked back at her busy figure, and asked, "Now you also sell dumplings here in winter?" ”

The eldest lady was stunned and smiled a little restrainedly: "Yes, life is not good, I think it's good to sell rice balls here to make two more money." Although there are fewer guests, it is better than nothing. ”

Ye Song said: "You have children at home, and the expenses will inevitably be larger." ”

"Girl, I'm ......" the eldest lady put all the rice balls in.

Ye Song interrupted her with a slight smile and said, "Put a little more mash, do you have wolfberries, add some too, otherwise it will still be cold after eating." ”

"Okay, okay."

The eldest lady put two large spoons of mash in the small pot and sprinkled wolfberries.

Ye Song suddenly asked, "How old is your son?" ”

The eldest lady's hand scooping the rice balls suddenly trembled, and the hot soup burned his hands, she quickly wiped it again, and sent a bowl full of rice balls to Ye Song's table, and said, "It's fifteen this year, study in the academy, and prepare to participate in the imperial examination in the spring of next year." ”

"Oh? What about the results? ”

"He is the best in the academy, and the master said that he will be able to make a difference in the future."

Ye Song took the spoon, and the heat fluttered, scorching her eyes. She said, "No wonder ......"

Seeing this, the eldest lady couldn't hold back any longer, so she knelt down in front of Ye Song with a plop, and blamed herself with remorse: "Girl, woman, I am an honest person, and I have never done anything hurtful to heaven and reason!" But...... But I hurt the girl with a clear conscience, there is no day in my heart that I am not tormented, I didn't expect to see the girl again, it is indeed God who opened his eyes and gave me this retribution, so that my conscience can be at ease, and the girl can punish me as much as she wants! At that time, they threatened my son's life, that is, I had to obey my life, so I gave the girl sweat medicine so that the girl was arrested by the bad guys! It was touching that she was crying and complaining, it had been so long, Ye Song remembered, but she didn't intend to embarrass her, Ye Song had already found Li Ruyi to get it back, and there was no need to embarrass her at all, she just wanted to eat a bowl of warm rice balls. But the eldest lady cried more and more sadly and loudly, "Please forgive the girl, even if something like that happens again, the woman will make the same choice without regrets, how can a mother watch her son be hurt!" ”

Ye Song said: "You get up, I don't mean to blame you." ”

The eldest lady said: "The girl is so gracious, I am really ashamed of the woman!" If the girl refuses to forgive me, I will kneel down here and say nothing! ”

Ye Song took a sip of soup and ate a rice ball, and the scenes of the past unconsciously floated in her heart like a horse watching flowers, the chance encounter in the pear orchard, the quiet relationship in the chess hall, and the fact that she ate too many cold rice balls and was held to see the doctor...... Those were like a pool of living springs, which were poured into her heart when she was about to dry up, and like the glutinous rice balls in her mouth, with a warm breath.

The living spring poured out of the warm eye sockets, ticked and ticked, and all rolled into the bowl of rice balls. She tasted, salty and sweet.

Ye Song took a breath and said, "I don't blame you at all, get up." If you feel guilty, just cook me a bowl of various flavors of rice balls, today's mash rice balls are not as delicious as in the past, is it salted, how to eat salty? ”

The eldest lady raised her head and looked at Ye Song, and saw that her face was full of tears since she didn't know when, and the tears fell into the soup, which was naturally salty. But the eldest lady is accustomed to human nature and is experienced, so she didn't debunk Ye Song, but only stood up and responded: "Okay, as long as the girl is willing to eat, cook a bowl!" ”

The night fell, and there was not a single figure on the entire long street. Only the dumpling shop on the corner of the street was still steaming, and an extremely faint lamp was lit in the shop and placed on the table where Ye Song was. Ye Song ate glutinous rice balls alone, and there were several empty bowls on the table.

But she tasted a common taste in every bowl, and that was salty.

The eldest lady couldn't stand it anymore, so she said: "Girl, woman, I don't feel sorry for my glutinous rice balls, it's just that the girl eats like this, and the glutinous ones are not easy to digest. ”

Ye Song hiccuped, looked up at the sky outside, and realized that it was so late. She casually put a silver ingot on the table, got up and prepared to leave, and said, "Don't get in the way, I have always had a strong digestion ability." It's just that I hurt myself today, and I may not eat rice balls for many years in the future. ”

Seeing that she had put the silver away, the eldest lady hurriedly stuffed the silver back into Ye Song's hand, and said, "The girl can't help it, these are the ones I made amends to the girl, how dare I take the girl's money!" ”

Ye Song glanced at her, but said, "Isn't your son going to prepare for the imperial examination in the spring next year, and you won't let him be fed and clothed?" At this time, your son should have already returned home from the academy and is waiting for you to go back, I stole a piece of your family fun, which can be regarded as compensation. Just take the money. After saying that, Ye Song wrapped the clothes on his body, and walked out of the shed without giving the eldest lady a chance to speak again, and walked into the dark night of the snow.

The eldest lady looked at her back, holding the silver in her hand, and felt extremely hot.

Then, when he turned around, he was stunned again. I saw another guest walk into the shed, as if he had been waiting for a long, long time in the wind and snow, wearing a black dress but his whole body was covered with a layer of snow white, just like a snowman, braving the cold.

He sat in the same position that Ye Song was sitting on, and his voice was cold and hoarse: "Are there still hot rice balls?" ”

When he brushed off the snow on his body and revealed his true face, the eldest lady was shocked again, and looked at the street outside, Ye Song had already drowned in the night and could not find a trace, the eldest lady still pointed to the direction that Ye Song left, and said: "The son is with the girl from Fang Cai, the girl has already left, you have been watching her outside before, why don't you come in and go with her?" ”

She also remembers this son, it was the son who reminded her not to sell cold rice balls but to sell hot rice balls. Because at that time, Ye Song had indigestion because he ate two bowls of cold rice balls.

Su Ruoqing's eyes were calm, and he said, "Let's cook rice balls." ”

The other party didn't say anything, and the eldest lady didn't want to ask much, so she had to turn around and cook rice balls. Su Ruoqing didn't ask for any flavor to eat, so she cooked the most commonly eaten mash rice balls, and said while busy: "That girl, I always say that this rice balls are salty, but in fact, she didn't pay attention to herself, it was her tears that rolled into the soup." I don't know what happened, but she kept crying, and she couldn't stop crying, so she must have experienced something sad......"

Su Ruoqing opened her mouth, but asked: "I heard you say that someone threatened you with your son's life to drug her in the rice balls, when did it happen?" ”

The eldest lady was shocked and said, "Does the son want to avenge that girl, if so, I have no complaints." It was probably before the end of this summer that someone kidnapped my son from the academy, as if he knew that the girl would often come to me to eat rice balls, so he forced me to give the girl sweat medicine. I was forced to do so, and then they took the girl away. ”

Su Ruoqing's face was as cold as snow, and she said, "Do you know who they are?" (Feng returns to the court, the demon prince, please give way.) /25/25926/)--

( Feng returns to the dynasty, please give way to the demon prince)