Chapter 55: Unswerving in This Life
At noon the next day, Chongxiaoxiao changed into a new aqua blue robe, and along the way he was still thinking about the little yellow bird, and rushed to Xifu with a gift.
"Uncle, come on, come on, the eldest lady is looking for you everywhere!"
Chongxiaoxiao had to hand over the congratulatory gift to the family next to him, and followed the maid to the garden, only to see Xi Xiaocan sitting at the stone table in the pavilion, and the rice paper in front of him was blank.
"You're finally here!" Xi Xiaocan's face was pale, and the sneer on the corner of his mouth looked at the madman, "I'm in a good mood today, I originally wanted to paint a spring oriole, but ......"
Chongxiao followed her gaze uneasily, looking at the tree where the birdcage was hanging, however, the cage was gone......
Immediately afterwards, Chong Xiaoxiao found the debris on the ground, and his mind was suddenly confused, and beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his forehead.
"You killed it...... Chong Xiaoxiao recalled the injured appearance of the yellow bird, and could no longer control his anger, pointing at Xi Xiaocan's nose and asking, "If it refuses to cooperate with you in painting, you will kill it?"
"Poison?!" Xi Xiaocan was stunned, she wanted to ask the whereabouts of Chongxiao Laughing Bird, but she didn't expect that he would dare to talk to her like this!
You must know that no one has ever dared to contradict her like this, she was in a hurry, picked up the ink on the stone table, rushed towards Chong Xiaoxiao with a fierce attitude, and splashed him with her hand.
She then poked Chongxiaoxiao's forehead with her finger and scolded: "Even if Miss Ben kills that broken bird, then I am willing! What kind of thing are you, and you dare to come to Xingshi to ask for guilt! Chongxiaoxiao, let me tell you, you are just a dog raised by our family, and you dare to spill to bite the master?!"
The new robe on Chong Xiaoxiao's body became miserable, and he looked dizzily at Xi Xiaocan, who was roaring and scolding in front of him, as well as the housekeepers and maids behind her who covered their lips and snickered, and his vision was blurred, and those ink stains seemed to be distorted into countless smiling faces mocking him for being a coward.
He was born in a scholarly family, and now he has a full stomach, but he has no reason to sue. Just because the Xi family is rich and powerful, he can only be a man with his tail between his legs, like a stray dog all day long, begging for pitiful alms day after day.
If he really marries Miss Xi, who is like a femme fatale, he will live in a dark cage for the rest of his life, and the final fate will be like a yellow bird, being tortured to death miserably.
But he is also a man, and he also hopes to have a gentle and virtuous wife and a well-behaved and sensible child like everyone else.
Even if you live in poverty and work all day long, you can at least retain the self-esteem that you hold on to in your heart.
Later, Xi Xiaocan scolded how many vicious words, Chongxiao couldn't remember clearly, he stumbled out, and he didn't know what to say when he met Xi Xiaocan, but he felt that they were in a similar situation, and he couldn't help but be more sentimental.
He can't even save himself, so how can he have the strength to help others!
When Chongxiao came back to his senses, it was already sunset, and he was drunkenly wandering around the street, carrying a wine bottle in his hand, and taking a sip from time to time, but he was choked with tears.
"Ahem...... cough so badly that he almost had to cough up his internal organs, but the pain he endured in his body was far less than the torment he endured in his heart.
Chongxiao smiled and held on to the trees on the side of the road, and couldn't help crying softly, his thin shoulders trembling violently. There is a way that men don't flick when they have tears, but that extremely depressed feeling is like a pair of invisible hands, tightly choking his throat, making his whole person almost collapse.
At this moment, Chongxiaoxiao's ears sounded with melodious and tactful singing, and he couldn't help but sing in a low voice along with the lingering tune. The other party's singing voice seems to have a soothing power, making him gradually forget his frustration and distress.
The song was getting closer and closer, he slowly raised his head, and saw a pretty figure walking on the bridge, wearing a yellow gauze skirt, with a graceful posture like a fairy, but so beautiful and real.
They looked at each other as if they had known each other for many years, and they didn't need to say much to know their hearts, and he quietly watched her sing and dance, and she smiled at him. Everything seems to be destined, this delicate and lovely person is like the morning sun, taking him out of the gloomy gloom.
This romantic brief encounter freed Chongxiaoxiao from despair. Later, he bravely proposed to his parents to withdraw from the marriage, but was reprimanded for being a great rebel and insulting to the lintel.
At the much-anticipated engagement banquet, he was beside Xi Xiaocan, with empty eyes, like a puppet at the mercy of him.
It wasn't until Chongxiaoxiao heard the familiar singing sound from the banquet that he suddenly woke up from his dream. He rushed into the crowd and shuttled back and forth, escaping from Xi's house despite Xi Xiaoshen's dissuasion, and finally found the yellow-clothed singer who haunted him.
It's her, it's her! The woman who deserves everything he has to give, little yellow oriole!
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In the empty lobby of the nameless restaurant, in addition to the sound of weak abacus beads, it is Xi Xiaoshen's sigh from time to time. She pretended to look at the brand-new ledger, and after a few simple calculations, she still couldn't figure out a flower.
Jiang Ye felt funny: "The restaurant hasn't opened for a few days in a row, what are the accounts that can't be calculated?"
"Yes, Uncle Jiangye, thanks to you, we will soon drink the northwest wind. Xi Xiaoshen simply closed the account book and looked at the night meaningfully, "I, the shopkeeper, can't even take care of my guy's three meals a day now." ”
The smile on the corner of the night's mouth froze instantly, what Xi Xiaoshen said, could it be that he only ate and didn't work, and wanted to drive him out again?
Yu Xiao Ash sighed, got up and walked around behind Jiang Ye, and slapped him on the shoulder.
Jiang Ye couldn't help clenching his fists, come on, there is no place to stay here, and he is not a cheap, why do you have to stay here with a dead face!
"Little Gray ......" Mu Bai also thought that she couldn't tolerate Jiang Ye, but unexpectedly, Xi Xiao Gray changed his words: "What's so great about the cat demon, the snake demon has also been subdued by me." Therefore, you still have to listen to me obediently, and I will cover you in the future. ”
Jiang Ye was stunned, and looked up at Xi Xiaoshen incredulously, she bent the corners of her eyes slightly, smiling, as cute as a crescent moon. His clenched fists stretched out, his heart was mixed, his lips couldn't help but tremble a few times, and finally he didn't speak.
"However, as the main person responsible for this accident, you must find an effective way to break the current deadlock with no business to do as soon as possible. Xi Xiaogray was there, sitting opposite him and admonished, "The idea of hugging service like you thought of before, although it is full of gimmicks, but those diners are just greedy for beauty, which is not conducive to long-term operation, we still have to start from the basics......"
Gradually, a smile flashed under the eyes of the night, but he replied nonchalantly: "I have a lot of ideas." ”