"What happened to my sister that day must be thrilling!" Helping Yu Niangzi to sit down, Bai Li turned around and poured a cup of tea for her. The tea is brewed with wild chrysanthemum flowers, and a few small wild chrysanthemums bloom in hot water, but also reveal a little spring.

Yu Niangzi stared at the tea cup, not knowing what she was thinking, and only after a long time did she say softly: "Thank you Sister Baili." What happened back then was not thrilling, but I was incompetent, and I couldn't even keep the only thing my husband left me. Sometimes I wonder what I am like now if those two people were not only seeking money, but also life. ”

"Sister must not think like this, people can only have hope if they live, and if they die, they will have nothing. My sister thinks about it carefully, is it the reason that my sister said? Many years ago, my sister's jade pendant was taken away by the bad guys, and I didn't meet a similar one after many years. Maybe...... Maybe it's not just similar, the jade pendant in my sister's photo may have been sold by those two bad guys back then. ”

Bai Li was in a hurry to say this, but she didn't want Yu Niangzi to raise her head and look at her in a daze: "Sister thinks the same way?" ”

"What?" Bai Li took a sip of tea, and the tea soup was slightly bitter with a hint of the unique sweetness of wild chrysanthemum.

"Don't hide it from my sister, I had the same idea as my sister when I first saw that jade pendant. My husband's jade was fished out of the water, and he asked a craftsman in the town to carve it. Both the quality of the jade and the craftsmanship of the craftsmen are average. Even if there are similar jade pendants in the world, it is impossible to be similar to this extent. I took a closer look at the jade pendant, and even the defects were very similar, and I wanted to buy it back. ”

"Since it is an ordinary jade pendant, why should others rush to buy it with my sister?"

"Maybe the other party likes it." Yu Niangzi sighed lightly: "If only I had the money to buy it when I saw it for the first time." ”

"Sister?"

"My sister didn't know, I saw the jade pendant when it was just taken back to the store. The shopkeeper asked for three taels of silver, but I couldn't make up a tael of silver. I really didn't have a way, so I asked the shopkeeper to help me keep the jade pendant, and I went home to find a way to make money. The shopkeeper hesitated, but agreed. I went home and sold some things, and helped people do more than half a year's work, and finally managed to scrape together enough three taels of silver, but the shopkeeper said that the jade pendant had been favored by the guests next to me and set. The other party offered twenty taels, and the shopkeeper said, "If I am sincere, I will come out with twenty-five taels of silver." ”

Yu Niangzi's face was full of bitterness, and the hand holding the tea cup was trembling slightly.

"Sister, don't panic, in my opinion, it's the shopkeeper of this jade shop who is making trouble. It's just an ordinary jade pendant, where is it worth so much money, he clearly just looks at his sister and wants to use that jade pendant to make money. ”

"Even if it's true as my sister said, we can't do anything about it. The jade pendant is in someone's store, and the shopkeeper said that if it is set to go out, it will be set out. It's a pity that no one wants my old house, and if someone does, they may be able to make up twenty-five taels of silver. I've been waiting for my husband for twelve years, and I can't wait any longer, so I wonder if we'll see you there. If we meet, he asks me where the jade pendant is, and I can't take it out, so what should I do? ”

"Sister—"

"Sister Baili doesn't have to persuade me, and she doesn't have to comfort me, I've been sick for many years, and I've seen a doctor in the middle. At the beginning, I was still thinking about living, thinking that I could wait for my husband to come back. But now, I'm looking forward to leaving soon. Maybe my husband is long gone, but he is standing by the bridge waiting for me. I'm not afraid of death, I'm just afraid that after so long, without Yu Pei with him, he won't recognize me. ”

"How can you not recognize it, my sister forgot, my sister is his wife, how can anyone not recognize his wife." Bai Li comforted, reached out and patted the back of Yu Niangzi's hand twice.

Yu Niangzi looked at the back of her hand and fell into deep thought, everything seemed to go back to twelve years ago.

At that time, she was busy preparing things for her husband to go to Beijing for the exam. From pen, ink, paper, inkstone to daily wear, everything is very small. I first sorted it out, and I felt uneasy, so I took it all out again, and then carefully sorted it out a second time. When the last thing was put in place, I heard footsteps. The footsteps seemed to be deliberately lightened, she lowered her head, pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "Husband is back?" Did the meeting go smoothly today? The stove warmed the decanter soup for you. ”

"Thank you, ma'am."

"As a wife, these are all things that should be done, why work hard." Yu Niangzi turned around, looked at her husband's slightly red face, sighed and said, "I've drunk so much wine again." What did you say to me when you went out, you said that drinking hurt your body, and you came back after a drink or two. Is this a drink? How I looked, it was as if I had poured all the wine into a jar. ”

"It's all the husband's fault, and please stop scolding the lady." The man gave it up, which made the lady a little embarrassed.

"Okay, you are a scholar, you have your own opinions, I am a woman, and what I say and do is not necessarily right. I was just...... Just worry about your body. Dad said that wine is a good thing, but drinking too much is easy to make mistakes and cause trouble. It's okay at home, people who meet each other in and out, even if they occasionally drink too much, others don't care about anything. But when you go out, it's a strange place, a strange person, and you're worried about you as a wife. ”

"I know, I know, I can't listen to the lady in the future."

"Okay, you sit down first, and I'll serve you a decanting soup." After Yu Niangzi finished speaking, her pretty face turned red and went to the kitchen with the corner of her skirt. Decanting soup, two small dishes, one meat and one vegetable. A bowl of porridge boiled with millet, and a plate of elaborate dim sum. The literati love to drink, and they also love to gather at three or five times, these things are all prepared by Yu Niangzi.

Putting things down and watching her husband gobble up the food, the kind of satisfaction that only a wife can understand.

Yu Niangzi remembers very well that that day, after the husband had eaten the meal, just like Bai Li had just done, he gently patted the back of her hand twice.

He said, "Thank you, lady! Madame, rest assured, I will come back to see Madame whether I am in high school or not. ”

The promise was still in my ears, but the man who spoke was gone. Twelve years, a whole twelve years, she waited day by day, and finally it was time when she couldn't wait.

Sometimes, she would ask herself why she refused to come back to see her husband if he was still alive. Could it be that as those people said, he was taken in by a young lady from a rich family, and entered Beppu to become the husband of another woman?

Every time, as long as she thinks of this, Yu Niangzi will feel a pain in her heart like a pinprick. She doesn't resent her husband's empathy, but she resents that he has already empathized, why is he dragging her, not even a clear word.