Chapter 87: Red Makeup
Xiang Lincheng has always remembered those two letters back then.
The road paved for him by his brother Xiang Ju'an is also the only way, which is to enter the military camp in Beixin. In fact, even if he continued to complete his studies at Moyun Academy, he would still return to Beixin in the end, and now it was just a matter of time.
He never thought that he would have any future with Jin Cicada, he hadn't thought about it before, and if he had to think about it now, he couldn't imagine it.
Xiang Lincheng quietly replied to Jin Chan with a letter, saying, "The flowers bloom and tie up, and a good relationship is concluded. I wish you and Liu Jian raised their eyebrows, spent a good full moon, and lasted a long time."
Xiang Lincheng has never promised Jin Chan anything, maybe a momentary favor can't support anything, plus Xiang Lincheng is still young, he doesn't know what the future is, and he never thought that he would stay in a foreign land.
His home is in the North Heart, and he must return to the North Heart.
It's just that since then, there has been no news of Jin Cicada in Xiang Lincheng. Two years later, Xiang Lincheng had already made a name for himself in the Beixin military camp, and under Xiang Ju'an's training, he was fighting for himself, and the capital was full of praise for this young general for a while.
Everyone said, "Bianguan is a good son, and the two gods are both Xiang" to praise Xiang Ju'an and Xiang Lincheng, the brothers.
When Xiang Lincheng returned to Beijing, it was already the time to receive the reward. He specially went back to Dao Moyun Academy to visit Mr. Mo Yun, who had taught him, and everything in the academy had not changed, except that the two rows of bamboos on the side of the road in front of the academy were gone.
Xiang Lincheng suddenly remembered the little girl who carved his name on the bamboo that year.
He still remembered her bright appearance, and he still remembered her smile and smile.
Xiang Lincheng suddenly had an idea in his heart, he wanted to go to the medicine field of Jin Cicada's house on the outskirts of Beijing to have a look.
When I inquired about the place all the way, I didn't see anyone in the medicine field, and when I asked the villager next to me, the villager said, "Originally, Uncle Jin was taking care of the medicine field himself, but now he is not in good health, and he really can't take care of these things himself, and his youngest daughter is married again, who can help him, so he has to take these medicine fields out for others to do."
Xiang Lincheng looked at this large area of medicine field, and remembered that he used to see Jin Bo and Jin Cicada in the academy, one simple and the other smart.
That simple peasant atmosphere, he never saw it again in the days to come.
"Do you know where Kimber's daughter got married?" Xiang Lincheng asked the villager again, "I heard that I married into a family surnamed Liu, do you know where it is?"
The villager immediately replied, "Yes! Why don't you know, there is a family surnamed Liu in the next village, and when Jin Bo married his daughter, many people went to the next village to eat dinner." Speaking of this, the villager gushed and revealed more: "The Liu family was good a few years ago, and they opened a cloth shop in the capital, and the business is doing okay. It's just that in the past two years, I don't know what's going on, business is getting worse and worse, there are several more shops in the capital, and a lot of the materials in the store are imported from the south, so the things of the Liu family naturally can't be in the front."
"Anyway, I heard that I lost money, you said that this Kimber, I want my daughter to marry a good family, but I don't want people to be as good as the sky, the Liu family's business is not good, and I can't even enjoy any blessings with the cicada girl."
After hearing these words, Xiang Lincheng felt very heavy. He thought that Jin Chan would at least be able to live a plain but happy life if he got married, but he didn't want this to be the result.
The Liu family's cloth shop was opened in the capital, but Xiang Lincheng didn't have time to look for it, and His Majesty rewarded him with a set of mansions when he returned to Beijing this time, and the craftsmen who decorated it and the people who were responsible for ordering the materials used in the new house were already waiting for him to go back to get ideas, Xiang Lincheng didn't stay long, and went back.
There are not many people in the new home in the capital, they are all girls and mothers-in-law found in this neighborhood, among them, the most belongs to a girl called "Yuezhi" is lively and clever, although she is young, she can do things with two brushes, and she is comfortable with all things at home.
The door of the house was full of people in and out, and I saw that she was carefully placed in the dining room with the people who sent the chairs and tables, and the people who sent flower pots and flower seeds outside came again, and Yuezhi called the two girls to go over the penalty together.
Xiang Lincheng looked at the busy crowd in the new house, and he didn't know where he should stand for a while.
"Childe, aren't you happy?" Yuezhi passed by him and said playfully, "If I were you, with such a big mansion, I'm afraid I would be smiling from ear to ear, why don't you see a smile on your face?"
As soon as Yuezhi said this, Xiang Lincheng realized that he really didn't have a little happy look on his face. He reached out and touched his face, only to find that the flesh on his face was stiff.
"Sister Yuezhi, the person who delivered the cloth is here, please come and order a little bit!"
There was still someone outside calling Yuezhi over, Yuezhi was so busy sweating profusely that she wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead and said, "Come here!"
Xiang Lincheng had nothing to do, so he followed Yuezhi to the gate. Outside the door, the delivery people are all surrounded outside, unloading, counting the number, noisy and lively.
Yuezhi wanted to take a penalty and help hold the cloth, but she saw that her thin arms were struggling to hold a few pieces of cloth, and her swaying eyes were about to fall, Xiang Lincheng hurriedly strode over to help.
"Be careful!"
"Be careful!"
Xiang Lincheng blurted out "be careful", and at the same time, a voice said the same thing as him.
This voice felt very familiar to him, and Xiang Lincheng couldn't help but look at the owner of this voice in the crowd.
It's that person!
The people that Xiang Lincheng thought of countless times in the barracks, the little girl he always cared about, the person who cared for him when he fell ill with a fever, the person who made shoes for him to wear, and the person who carved his name on the bamboos in front of the academy......
Golden Cicada, Golden Cicada! Golden Cicada......
Xiang Lincheng also fantasized about the situation when he saw the golden cicada again, the golden cicada in his fantasy, or the golden cicada he dreamed of in his sleep, was still the little girl with black braids, she was lively and enthusiastic, simple-minded, fresh and lovely......
In any case, it was definitely not the woman in front of her, wearing a red cloth shirt and a royal blue cloth skirt that was extremely unsuitable for her.
Her long braids were casually curled at the back of her head, the messy hair on her forehead was soaked with sweat, and strands stuck to the sides of her cheeks, and the slightly rounded face was powdered, it didn't look like a good quality rouge gouache, and the makeup technique was also very ordinary, the two originally thin eyebrows were depicted a little thick, she was sweating while working, and the powder on her face was soaked in sweat, which made it even rougher.
From head to toe, from dressing to dressing, it is full of tackyness.
If it weren't for that voice that made him feel familiar, Xiang Lincheng would not have thought that the woman in front of him would be a golden cicada.
Xiang Lincheng was also surprised in his heart, incredible, such emotions were quickly swept away, and he returned to the most primitive guilt in his heart, he took this guilt and said with difficulty, "Yes...... Golden cicada?"
His voice trembled slightly, and he pretended to be calm, waiting for her answer.
Jin Cicada's eyes were obviously shocked, but soon she also returned to normal, and she said calmly, "Yes."
It's silence again, some feelings are pressed in my heart, and there are thousands of words, but it has become an unspeakable silence.
Yuezhi counted the numbers and beckoned someone to help carry them together: "Carry me to the back storeroom, you can be careful, these cloths are for us to make clothes."
Another girl, who helped carry the cloth, asked, "What about Childe's?" Where is the cloth used by Childe?"
Yuezhi pointed to the other side and said, "Over there!"
Xiang Lincheng's eyes looked in the direction pointed by Yuezhi, and the delivery over there was as if it was someone from another store, and the quality of the goods delivered was of high quality, and a discerning person could see the nobility at a glance.
Jin Cicada lowered his head and said nothing.
Xiang Lincheng felt her embarrassment, so he tried to change the subject, and said, "Are you here alone? Or with your husband?"
Jin Chan said, "He's guarding the store, and I'll come out and keep an eye on the delivery."
In fact, Xiang Lincheng still wanted to ask, "You are not guarding a woman's house in the store, he is a man, but he asked you to come out and do this?"
He didn't ask after all, there were many people outside, and he knew that it was inconvenient to say this. Just said, "What a coincidence, I didn't expect it to be again."
See you."
Jin Cicada smiled tiredly and said, "It's my blessing, I didn't expect you to be so beautiful today, general, in my ordinary life, it's my blessing to know a noble person like you."
Xiang Lincheng frowned, was silent for a moment, and said, "Cicada, don't say that......
When Yuezhi came out after he was busy, Xiang Lincheng called Yuezhi and said, "You know Boss Jin's shop, right? In the future, all the cloth used in our house will be ordered from Boss Jin's shop."
Jin Chan stood aside, just acquiescing to his arrangement, she didn't say anything about this arrangement, let alone thank you. It was only when Yuezhi and the others left that she asked lightly, "Is everything okay in Beixin?"
Xiang Lincheng nodded and said, "Everything is taken care of by the eldest brother, everything is fine."
"That's good." Jin Cicada smiled genuinely and said, "After you left, I was worried about you for a long time. I've heard that the winter in Beixin is very cold, and I regret that I didn't make you two pairs of cotton shoes......
This sentence made Xiang Lincheng feel even more uncomfortable.
He whispered, "No, Cicada, you have no reason to do anything for me, you don't owe me."
The golden cicada's gaze fell on his feet, the shoes on his feet were of high-quality fabric, sewn with gold threads, and the moire embroidery on them was also very exquisite. She laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "Lincheng, it's not that it's without reason, it's that I'm not qualified, and I'm not qualified to do anything for you anymore."
Xiang Lincheng said, "It's because I'm not qualified...... Now that you are married and you have become a relative, you can only think about your husband. Cicada, I still say the same thing, even if you get married, I hope your life is peaceful and beautiful."
Jin Cicada sniffed and said, "My father was very sick when you left, and he felt that he didn't live long, urging me to get married quickly so that he could rest assured......" Her eyes looked at his face and said, "I have been waiting for you, including the day of marriage."
She said bitterly, "Lincheng, that day was my big day, I was wearing a red wedding dress, and no one could see my face clearly under the hijab. I cry all the time, you know? I'm sad and reluctant to lose hope."
"I'm still expecting you'll come back to me. If you come to me that day, I can just follow you."
Jin Cicada said abruptly, "But you didn't come after all, perhaps, this is my life." How can I be worthy of being your bride?"