"No, no, it's all for the dead, and it doesn't make a difference. Besides, my husband, son, and grandson don't know a few words, and my husband's letter is so well written, I don't know if they can read it. Well, send it to me first, and if you really don't understand it, I'll tell them more when I go by myself. The old grandmother looked at Xin Mingjie's injuries and couldn't bear it: "It's all my fault, if it weren't for me, Mr. wouldn't have been beaten by those people." ”

"It has nothing to do with the elderly, it is the inaction of the county officials here that causes these people to be powerful." Xin Mingjie helped pat the soil on the old grandmother's body: "If it inevitably affects the elderly, I won't send you, you walk slowly all the way, take care of yourself." ”

"Thank you, sir, if Mr. He passes by in front of my house on the other day, please don't be polite, come into the house for a cup of tea, it can be regarded as a thank you for the kindness of Mr. today to write a letter on my behalf."

"Yes!" couldn't bear to refuse, Xin Mingjie lowered his head and watched his grandmother leave.

Just as he was about to get up, there was an extra handkerchief in front of him, which looked like that kind of girl's home. The veil was folded, and a faint touch of purple could be seen.

"You're bleeding from the corners of your mouth, wipe it with this."

"No!" Xin Mingjie declined, looked up, and saw a beautiful girl.

"Wipe it, it's a scholar, it's not good to make yourself so embarrassed, and it's not good to be looked down upon again. Don't worry, my handkerchief is not expensive, and you don't need to pay for it. ”

The girl shook off the veil, and Xin Mingjie saw a string of wisteria, embroidered on the corner of the veil.

"Multi-...... Thank you, girl. "On the street, an unknown girl stood in front of you with a handkerchief, Xin Mingjie had never encountered this situation, and he felt a little embarrassed inexplicably. In order not to let more people notice the situation on their side, he quickly took the handkerchief and wiped the corner of his mouth twice.

The snow-white veil was stained with bright red blood, and even the string of wisteria flowers was stained with blood a strange color.

"You are a scholar, why don't you study in the academy, but come here to help someone write letters on your behalf?"

"It's nothing, I'm shy in my pocket, and I need to make money."

"I was there when the old lady first came." The girl said in a cheerful tone, "She has very old clothes and many patches on her body, and she looks like a poor person who has no money." You helped her write letters, and I didn't see you ask him for money, so what kind of money did you make? I look at it, not only did you not make any money, but you also pasted your pen, ink, paper and inkstone upside down. ”

"That old woman is not rich, but do you know why she is poor?"

"Why?"

"For his husband, and his sons, and his grandsons, all went to war, and none of them returned. If they hadn't gone out to fight, but had stayed in the town and found a job to do, they would have made some money in a month. She is poor because the state made her poor, because the country took away her husband, son and grandson. In a family, without a man and a backbone, it is already not easy to barely survive just by relying on a group of women. I just helped her write a letter and it was nothing. ”

"I don't know about the affairs of the family and the country, but I know that you are a good person." The girl stared at his belly and smiled, like a wisteria flower rippling in the wind. "Didn't you eat when you went out in the morning? My stomach growled with hunger. In other words, when I was a picky eater and didn't like to eat, when I was confined by my parents, my stomach was called the same. Uncomfortable, right? You wait, I'll help you find something to eat. ”

"No...... No need. Without waiting for Xin Mingjie to finish speaking, the girl got up and disappeared as soon as she slipped through the smoke.

Xin Mingjie didn't chase it, but he didn't think that a delicate girl would really find food for him, he stayed where he was, carefully picking up the things that had just been knocked over by the ruffian, until he smelled a fragrance at the end of his nose, and then he found that the girl had just come back, and she was still holding a few cakes in her hand.

"Oh, vine cake, I searched for a long time to find it." The girl handed over a piece of bread: "In the courtyard of my hometown, there is a large wisteria tree, and every spring, many wisteria flowers bloom. This wisteria flower is different from other flowers, and its fragrance is that kind of tranquil fragrance. When it blooms, the whole garden is fragrant. My grandmother was very skillful and knew how to make cakes, and the best one was the vine cake. ”

The girl said, and stuffed two rattan cakes in her hand to Xin Mingjie: "I'm very lazy, and the last thing I like to go into is the kitchen, but only in the spring, because I like to watch my grandmother make rattan cakes for me." Add the sugar to the flour and stir it with the water first, then mix the flour with the oil. My grandmother had big hands, and she would look up at me from time to time when kneading dough and make me laugh at the cat. Actually, I'm not greedy, I don't eat much else, but only this vine cake can't be enough to eat. Later, when my grandmother died and my father had to move the family business elsewhere, we left our hometown and came here. I thought that I wouldn't eat rattan cake here, but I didn't think that I would buy it, but the taste was far worse than what my grandmother made. ”

The girl said that it was far away, but she took several bites of the vine cake with satisfaction.

Xin Mingjie has never seen such a strange woman, her clothes are obviously beautiful, but her behavior is like those unruly children of the legendary rivers and lakes. He really wanted to see her clearly, but because everyone met for the first time, and there was a difference between men and women, even if he had that kind of thought, it was not good to look at others directly.

When the girl finished her bread, she clapped her hands and stood up. Xin Mingjie hurriedly got up, but heard the girl say: "Brother Mingjie, goodbye!" ”

Brother Mingjie, how did she know that his name was Xin Mingjie.

The girl seemed to know the doubts in his heart, so she smiled and said to him, "Curious, isn't it?" Actually, I not only know your name, but I also know where your home is and who your future lady is. Brother Mingjie, we'll meet again. ”

Xin Mingjie also thought about whether he would meet this lovely girl on the street again, but since that day, he has rarely been on the street. Approaching the scientific expedition, he has been studying for more than a year. Later, when I went to Beijing to take the exam, I met Su Su's mother, quit her family, and the shadow of the girl who gave him a veil and bought him rattan cakes in the depths of my mind gradually faded.

It was only then that he realized that the girl who had given him a handkerchief, bought him vine cakes, and said that he would see him again in the future was Wang Zi Kite, the girl of the Wang family who had made a marriage contract with him since he was a child.