I smiled at him, "It's okay, I'll have a few more stitches." If you don't rush a little, in case you can't deliver the goods, the boss should not use me. ”

After that, I rubbed my eyes, wiped my sweaty fingers on the rag, and continued to embroider slowly.

Liu San'er looked at me for a while, then turned around and walked out.

I didn't care, and continued to embroider the butterflies under my hands.

After a while, another one was embroidered, and I raised my head and moved my sour neck, only to find that Liu San'er was gone.

Did he go back to rest?

Since I arrived at his house, he has built a small hut in the corner of the yard and slept by himself, usually as long as he has eaten dinner, he will not stay in this room anymore, and I know that he is to avoid suspicion, although I feel that it is very troublesome to him, but at the moment there is nothing to be done.

I just hope that I can help him more, and it will be fine.

Thinking of this, I turned my sore wrist and twisted the needle again to continue embroidering, when I heard a rush of footsteps outside.

When I looked up, I saw Liu San'er running in front of me panting, with a lot of grass clippings in his hair.

"What did you do?"

He smiled and took out the hand that was hidden behind his back.

Suddenly, a flash of fluorescence flashed in front of my eyes.

I was stunned for a moment, and when I looked at it, he was holding two small gauze bags in his hands, the gauze had long been as thin as cicada wings because it had been washed too many times, and the inside was emitting a faint fluorescence, which illuminated my eyes for a while.

"It's—"

"Fireflies!"

He smiled and said, "I just went to the field to catch it." How, do you see it a little more clearly now. ”

As he spoke, he eagerly brought the pack of fireflies in front of me.

I was stunned.

The light of the fireflies was actually very faint, so flickering and flickering, and there was a feeling of flickering and flickering, but it illuminated the young, handsome face in front of him, and the warm smile on his face.

I looked at him and shuddered.

"How? Is it bright or not? ”

"Bright ......"

"Then don't embroider this piece after you finish embroidering, I'll take it for you."

With that, he stood on the other side of the table, carrying the two gauze bags in both hands, like a lantern stand.

Although there was a little more light in front of me, for some reason, my eyes were a little blurry.

He looked at me and said, "I'm almost done embroidering, rest early." ”

"Oh......" I gently rubbed my eye sockets and lowered my head to continue threading the needle.

When the last stitch was finished, it was already late, and I couldn't help yawning, and when I looked up, I saw that the man who helped me illuminate was already dozing, although he was still barely standing there, but with an ignorant expression, his head was still little by little, like a chicken pecking rice.

I couldn't help laughing, and I had a little idea of playing tricks on him, so I quietly stood up and walked to him, and while he was dozing off, I suddenly heard a "wow" in his ear.

"Wow!"

He screamed louder than me, and the whole person jumped a little, and even lost the gauze bag.

"Hahahaha......"

Looking at his appearance, I couldn't help laughing, and he came back to his senses in ignorance, and when he saw my narrow expression, he couldn't help laughing: "What are you doing, you scared me to death." ”

I was laughing when suddenly, a starlight floated in front of me.

Both of them were stunned, and when they looked at it, it turned out to be a firefly.

The gauze bag was thrown to the ground by him, and the opening opened, and the fireflies inside flew out. After a while, those fireflies surrounded the two of us, and the little fluorescent light kept flickering, bright and extinguished, as if countless stars were lingering around us, and at this moment, we were like being in the Milky Way.

What a beautiful view!

I looked at the scene in front of me and suddenly I was in a trance.

Once upon a time, there seemed to be such a night, such a flickering light, and I was completely oblivious to this scene, but I did not know that I had become someone else's landscape.

It has also become the prey of others.

What if there weren't those nights, those fireflies?

One qiē, will it be different?

Can I always be a little palace maid in the inner pavilion in obscurity, stay up until I leave the palace, use my savings to do a little business, marry an honest man, maybe I can't eat enough and don't have warm clothes, but when I can't eat enough, he will leave rations for me, and when I can't wear warm clothes, he will warm me with his chest.

I slowly raised my head and looked at the young and clean face in front of me through the fireflies in front of me.

He also looked at me, and there was a firefly in his clear eyes, and there was an indescribable clarity, like a clear spring, clean and clear, and even reluctant to stir up a little ripple.

In the middle of the night, I heard him murmuring, "How beautiful! ”

“……”

For some reason, when I heard this compliment, I suddenly felt a sense of sadness, and my eyes turned red all of a sudden.

Liu San'er was also startled, as if she had suddenly woken up from a dream, she hurriedly took a big step back, and said crampedly: "Light, I'm sorry, I-"

“……”

"I-I, it's not too early, you should rest early."

After saying that, he ran out in a hurry.

I stood in place, surrounded by a field of fireflies that were frightened by the wind, as if a still lake suddenly stirred up ripples, and I stood in the flickering fluorescence, but for a long time, I did not leave......

In the next few days, I helped people write letters during the day and do needlework at night, and the boss gave a lot of work, if I didn't hurry to do it, I might not really be able to pay it, so I only stayed up late every day, maybe because of staying up late, I felt that I had been a little lazy, and my spirit became a little weak.

But in order to catch up with this batch of goods, there is no way, so I can only stay up first.

Since that night, Liu San'er has always been a little cramped when she sees me. I know he doesn't have bad intentions, but after all, the two of us are lonely men and widows, and it is inevitable that we will be embarrassed to get along like this, so these days, intentionally or unintentionally, although we are in the same courtyard, we have less time to meet.

In a hurry, I finally got the goods ready after half a month, and I still followed him to the market that morning. The wound on his hand has healed, leaving only a scar, and in the past few days, he has been bold enough to go down to the river every day, and touched a few big fish in the ditch, all of which he kept this time to sell.

When he arrived at the market, he went to the old place to set up a stall, and as soon as he sat down, I said to him, "You are here to watch, and I will go to the embroidery workshop to deliver the goods." ”

He looked at me and said, "Do you want me to come with you?" I don't think your face is very good. ”

"It's fine."

I smiled and went to the embroidery workshop alone with my baggage.

The boss took the burden and opened it to take a look, and his face suddenly showed a satisfied look: "Not bad, not bad." ”

I wiped the sweat from my forehead, and finally let go of my heart a little.

"Girl, your craft is really good, have you ever worked somewhere before? Your craftsmanship is hard to find even in Yangzhou City. ”

I smiled at him, but didn't speak.

In fact, my rhetoric has already been made up - I was originally from Xiangxi, and I used to work in the embroidery workshop there, because my hometown was flooded, so I came here to take refuge with my aunt. There is no problem with this set of rhetoric, but I don't know if it's because of staying up late last night, I just walked too long on the mountain road, I now feel that my body has been in a cold sweat, and my lower abdomen is also slightly painful, so I don't want to speak.

The boss also saw that something was wrong with me, and said carefully: "Girl? What happened to you? ”

"It's okay, I'm just a little tired."

I said, wiped the sweat from the corners of my forehead, and smiled reluctantly: "Boss, do you have any work for me this time?" ”

"Oh, a good errand for you this time."

The boss smiled and took out a burden and said, "There is not much work this time, but it must be embroidered finely, which is used by the master of a large family in front." I don't stick to any pictures, as long as the embroidery is simple and elegant. I looked, and we are really the only ones here who dare to do your craft. You take it back and embroider it well, and the reward will be yours. ”

"Thank you boss, for taking care of you!"

I thanked him, and the boss told me a few more words, and then calculated the wages for the previous batch of goods, a full two hanging money, and carried it in my hand, I stuffed it into the cloth bag and thanked him gratefully, and left the embroidery workshop to find Liu San'er.

As soon as I walked out of the door of the embroidery workshop, the sun shone in front of me and turned white, and I was suddenly a little dizzy, and hurriedly held on to the door before I eased up.

Somehow, the body is getting more and more uncomfortable, I can't tell what's going on, every step is like stepping on cotton, the lower abdomen is also faintly painful, I hold the stomach step by step forward, although gritting teeth, but the cold sweat still wants to break the thread beads, drop by drop from the forehead.

At this moment, on the road ahead, an official rushed over on horseback.

While riding his horse, he shouted to the people along the street: "The government has an order, and the household registration will be verified from tomorrow!" The government has an order to verify the household registration from tomorrow! ”

Checking the household register?

As soon as I heard this, my body suddenly went limp, and I almost fell, but at this moment, a pair of big hands reached out and grabbed me.

I stumbled for a moment, and as soon as I looked up in a hurry, I met Liu San'er's concerned and anxious eyes.

"Lightness, what's wrong with you?"

"I ...... I ......"

I can't say it, I feel as if I have become a prey about to fall into a trap again, there is a sadness that there is nowhere to escape, and the same as the depression in my heart, is the physical torment, I only feel more and more uncomfortable, grabbing the placket of his chest, gritting his teeth and saying: "I, I'm a little uncomfortable." ”

"What? Under the weather? When he heard this, he immediately beat me and hugged me horizontally.

I was taken aback and looked at him with wide eyes.

He didn't speak, but strode forward with me in his arms.

After all, this is a crowded bazaar, and when everyone sees us like this, they all look sideways, but he seems to have no feeling, with a stern expression on his face, he walked to a medical center, and he walked directly into me and hugged an old doctor: "Doctor, you hurry up and see her!" ”

"It's—"

"She's not feeling well, can you help her see if she's sick?"

The old doctor glanced at me, saw that I was pale and sweaty, and hurriedly said, "Come on, come on, sit down." ”

Liu San'er carefully put me in the chair, and her two hands were still at my side. The old doctor carefully checked my pulse, and suddenly frowned.

When Liu San'er saw it, he immediately said nervously: "Doctor, what's wrong?" ”

The old doctor looked at him, then at me, frowned, and said, "What's the matter with you two?" This little lady is three months pregnant, why don't you know at all? ”