Chapter 18: Never Seen Again

Three years ago, because Biancheng was going to hold the annual Treasure Pavilion auction, a lot of people from other places came. At the age of fourteen or fifteen at the time, Yingqiu was punished as an apprentice in an iron shop because of his greed for fun. Yingqiu refused to give in, seized the opportunity and slipped away, and when she fled to the Qiushuang Tower not far away, she happened to see the master angrily coming out to look for her. At this time, a man walked by and asked her with a smile, "Miss, do you know where you can forge a sword?"

The man blocked her and helped her escape. But it also made her fall into another peach blossom catastrophe.

Therefore, she returned to the blacksmith shop, obediently became an apprentice, lit a fire, found fault with her master's craftsmanship, and longed to forge the most perfect sword in the world for her sweetheart.

After a long time, he came to fetch the sword, and she handed it to him. I thought it was just a ridiculous situation for her alone, but in the end it was just a game of falling flowers, but that night, a carrier pigeon took advantage of the moonlight and landed on her windowsill.

It had been he who had noticed her first that day, and she had seen her run out of the blacksmith's shop, and the sword-forging was just an excuse for him to get close to her. She also knew that he was from Miyang and his name was Jinghong.

That's how the two met.

At the end of the seven-day auction, even if Jing Hong repeatedly delayed, there was still time to leave, and in the end, Ying Qiu went to see him off with trepidation, and gave him the silk handkerchief in her hand before parting, and agreed to see him again at the auction the following year.

It's just that I don't know why, he was delayed, he didn't come as promised, in the past three years, she received his flying pigeon message, but never saw him again.

Until not long ago, he wrote that he would go to Biancheng for this year's auction and had something to say to her.

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Five days later, the Treasure Pavilion auction was routinely held. My mind was not there, and I decided to take another look at Shadow Autumn before attending the auction.

Yingqiu gave the person a silk handkerchief, which really responded to the scene, the horizontal is also silk, and the vertical is also thinking. I don't care who that Jinghong is, it's just that if he had his heart for Yingqiu, just like Yingqiu did for him, he should have arrived in Bianzhou a long time ago, and the meeting would not have dragged on until now.

From a distance, I saw Ying Qiu sitting on a stool next to the blacksmith, dressed in a pale pink Yunluo shirt, which looked out of tune with the surrounding environment. She looked at me and said sadly, "Hanqing, I'm just afraid that he won't find me when he comes, so I'm waiting for him here." ”

Recall, when we left Nanxi, she was in such a hurry to return to Biancheng, probably because of this incident. At the beginning, she was delayed for a month because of me, and she didn't leave by herself, and chose to stay to take care of me who was unconscious, although the two siblings took care of me in the wrong way, for me, it was a sincere intention, after all, we have known each other for too short a time. Seeing her like this now, I really can't bear it.

"Yingqiu, you say, will that person go to the auction first?

Listening to this, even I felt powerless. In the end, I refused to go to the auction with Yingsheng and waited with Yingqiu. Shadow Sheng said that I was messing around, maybe it really was, but Shadow Sheng probably will never understand what we are for.

I looked at Yingqiu's small figure and remembered the childlike innocence when I first met her. Now, her eyes are clouded with a haze.

I didn't understand her feelings, how could I, who had been locked up in the mountains for many years, understand this kind of feeling. I accompanied her, just because of Nanxi and her entourage, she took care of me. If I had to experience such feelings, I would have to think of a strange man, so that I might feel the same way, but who could I think of? I am afraid that it is only the strange man who can turn me into sand at a glance, after all, it has left too deep an impression on me.

People came and went on the streets, and we waited from sunrise until dusk.

At the end of the street, at the end of the street, a man in a royal blue brocade robe, carrying a long sword, leading a white horse, strolled through the street, slowly walking in the direction of the blacksmith.

His slender figure and the horse he was holding were exactly the same as the image of Jing Hong that Ying Qiu had described with me, if it weren't for the fact that he was also holding a beautiful woman dressed in light purple by his side, and the two behaved intimately, at a glance, I felt that they must be a pair of wall people, I really want to think that he is Jing Hong.

I looked at Shadow Autumn and realized that Shadow Autumn was also staring at the man. Maybe the white horse he led was too conspicuous, or maybe it turned out to be as people wanted, and the more you are afraid of something, God will send you something.

Not far from the shop, they stopped, the woman remained where she was, and the man took out a box from the package on horseback, let go of the woman's hand, and walked towards the shop alone.

I'm ready to wait for the man to come, just to see if he's the one or not, and just to see what he says.

I thought that the worst result was just that Ying Qiu met someone unladylike, Jing Hong was just a negative man who gave up after all, or what he saw in front of him was just a misunderstanding, and the person who came was not Jing Hong, or a little more self-deception, that woman was just Jing Hong's little sister.

However, God likes to joke, and the results are always unexpected.

He is indeed not Jing Hong, when he arrived at the shop, the first thing he said was, please ask which one is Shangguan Yingqiu, and then, he said, Jing Hong can't come. So far, it was expected, but in the end he said that Jing Hong died, and died three years ago.

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The name of the person is Jing Tan, and he is Jing Hong's cousin. Three years ago, the young owner of the Eight Scenic Villas in Miyang was stabbed on the way to the auction of the Biancheng Treasure Pavilion, and before he died, he told him that there was still an agreement that had not been made, and he was relieved, hoping that Jing Shan would reply to him for two years at most, and at the same time let him hide the news of his death, snub her, and hope that she could gradually forget this relationship.

I will always remember the disbelief at that time when Ying Qiu learned the news, she couldn't figure it out, why? she could still receive a reply from him, although it was only a few words, but it was indeed him. He also said that he was coming to see her, and she even thought he would come and take her away, but all she was waiting for was news that she never wanted to hear.

In the past three years, the carrier pigeons have actually flown to Jing Tan, and Jing Tan was entrusted by Jing Hong to imitate his handwriting to reply to him, and each time he didn't know the number. It's just that Ying Qiu didn't care about this coldness, and his thoughts about Jing Hong still never stopped. Jing Tan couldn't bear this, but there was nothing he could do.