Chapter 2 Encountering a benefactor
Although I was familiar with every street in Songin-gun, I was sad and sad, and I couldn't avoid panicking and somehow walking into a forest. The leaves of the trees are full of life during the day, like patches of ghosts. When the wind blows, it rustles and is eerie.
Don't think I'm not afraid of anything, in fact, I'm very timid, especially afraid of the dark, and even more afraid of the dark trees, as terrifying as ghosts.
I won't tell you how much I hope Lu Shang will appear to protect me at this moment.
The next moment, you will be amazed at how tacit understanding there is between people who love each other.
I looked at the trees around me in horror when I heard footsteps behind me.
When the moon is dark and the wind is high, there are few good people to see, but it is very likely that the scoundrel who robs money and lust will appear, but fortunately, I have prepared a weapon with me, so I took a knife from my waist. You can hear footsteps getting closer, and you can hear my heart beating faster.
I grabbed the hilt of the knife and slowly turned around, but it was Lu Shang who I saw.
I was frightened, and left the book, left him, forgot all about it, threw the knife and rushed into his arms, he stroked my back and hugged me tightly. Although he didn't speak, you could see the concern on his face, and you could see the helplessness and reproach from his frowning brow.
Whew!
Just as I was immersed in his warm and safe embrace, I suddenly heard a terrible wolf howl from not far away. Based on my experience of running away from home and spending a year in wolves as a child, listening to sounds should be a cub.
Lu Shang thought it was an adult wolf, and you could tell from his nervous expression that he was afraid.
He grabbed my hand: there are wolves, let's run!
I said very calmly: it was a wolf cub, as if it was injured. Surely someone is here to put the clamp.
You're going to save? What if it doesn't, you save it, and it bites you instead? How do you know it's not a conspiracy?
I said, "I've been in wolves, but they're not as sinister and cunning as we think, and they're very simple and innocent compared to us humans."
Then I can't let you go on the adventure.
At this time, the miserable cry appeared again, I was definitely not hallucinating this time, and it was clear that I had been a cub all along. I didn't listen to the dissuasion and walked in the direction of the sound, and sure enough, more than a hundred meters away, I saw a one-month-old wolf cub, its left front paw was caught in a clamp, and it was trying to pull out.
I stepped forward and squatted down and said gently: "Be good, don't be afraid, I'll help you."
The clamp was so tight that I couldn't break it no matter how hard I tried, and I shouted without looking back: Lu Shang, come over and help me.
If you were at the scene, you would see Lu Shang walking over slowly with a reluctant face, squatting down without a good look, helping me break the clamp, and looking at the poor wolf cub unkindly.
The wolf cub's front paws are afraid that they have been broken, and the clamped part has been necrotic, and seeing its dark fur and lack of energy, it should have been here for several days, perhaps because it smelled the smell of humans, so it risked being hunted and cried out for help.
I've seen wolves with injured feet and bite off the necrotic part in order to escape. Will this cub do the same? Moreover, you can tell from the frightened look at Lu Shang with an unkind face that it doesn't trust us and thinks that we have a purpose in saving it.
As soon as Songren County enters the beginning of autumn, it often blows, especially at night, and people's faces are dry.
You can see Lu Shang standing up, his moon-white clothes blowing waves.
Xiaoguan, let's go home.
I tentatively reached out my hand, and it curled up and looked at me with a wary expression.
Lu Shang said unhappily: You have already saved it, do you want to bring it back? I disagree!
No matter how good-tempered a person is, in some respects he cannot accommodate unreasonable demands.
But I saw it, how could it be reasonable not to be saved when I saw death. I didn't seem to hear what he was saying, so I picked up the wolf cub, and he didn't speak, so he came over to grab it, and just as we were fighting, the eldest brother who saved me came over.
When I was ten years old, because my father misunderstood that I had taken my second aunt's pearl hairpin, I was wronged and beaten, and I ran away from home and strayed into the wolves. We've been together for about a year, and even after sixteen years, I'm still impressed with him.
It's you, Brother Qiu.
Qiu Yue smiled and touched my head: The little girl has grown so big. Although he smiled, I could see the bitterness in his eyes: This is your husband, what a talent, you are blessed.
I said to Qiu Yue: This is my husband, Lu Shang. looked at Lu Shang again: This is what I told you, my benefactor, Qiu Yue.
You should be able to see Lu Shang's jealous look, and glanced at Qiu Yue without saying a word, and pouted disdainfully.
I haven't seen you all these years, are you okay?
I haven't seen you for many years, it seems that the first sentence is this line, you don't have to think I'm cliché, if you haven't seen anyone for many years, I think the first sentence is also to ask this. Definitely not ask, have you eaten?
He smiled lightly: It's okay.
You've already married and had children, haven't you? Is my sister-in-law also from your area? How old must the child be, right?
He only laughed and said nothing.
No matter how familiar I was, there were some things that I couldn't ask casually, and he didn't want to say it, and I couldn't delve into it.
After a while, he said: This little wolf was adopted by me, and it ran out a few days ago while I was not paying attention, so leave it to me.
I was surprised to hand the little wolf into his hands, to hear him say goodbye to me with a smile, and to watch his back fade away.
I went home in despair, and as soon as I sat down, Lu Shang asked me: Wen Guan, you said, you want to leave, is it for the man just now!
I said: Qiu Yue has been kind to me, in the past sixteen years, I have always been very grateful to him, and I am also looking for an opportunity to repay the kindness, but I will never betray you in order to repay the favor.
It's true?
I took off the earrings: you don't trust me, why should you care about the real or fake?
Lu Shang said aggrievedly: Xiaoguan, this is not the first time that you have asked me to write and leave a book, and I have met your benefactor again, I am really afraid that you will leave me like this.
I took off my makeup, took off all the ornaments on my head, and the three thousand green silk hung down, and I was really gentle and moving in the mirror. However, you can see my moth frowning slightly, and said lightly: This is also the last time.
Lu Shang looked at me in the mirror: Xiaoguan, promise me, from today onwards, don't say anything that makes me sad again, and do things that make me sad.
He hurts, I hurt more than him!
I hesitated and nodded.
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Grandma Sanshao, there are not many guests these days, and some guests have checked out, you see. Guy Li Cheng pointed to the list of check-outs on the small notebook: there were about 20 people checking out.
I glanced back at the only few guests who were eating: they were all gone, why did you suddenly check out, was it because you were lazy and didn't clean up the room for the guests.
Li Cheng cried out for being wronged, saying how he served carefully, how he cleaned up the guest rooms wholeheartedly, how he dutifully maintained the inn's business, and how he kept the guests.
I was so annoyed by his babbling that I asked him to serve the food to the guests.
Unexpectedly, Li Cheng actually said: Third young grandmother, with all due respect, since you made that trouble three days ago, the guests have left one by one.
He didn't say it explicitly, but you could tell from his face that the guests were scared away by me.
I was thinking of scaring Lu Shang, but I didn't expect to scare away the guests. But was my image that day really that scary?
I asked this question, and Li Cheng said: It's a little.
So why don't you run?
Li Cheng did not hesitate to express how loyal he was, and would never betray me and Lu Shang, as long as we didn't let him go, we would stay at the Wenxin Inn for the rest of our lives.
He was so loyal that it warmed my heart, but I frowned: No.
Li Cheng wondered: What's wrong.
It's not like this for a day or two, aren't they all used to it? Why is it still scary?
Li Cheng said: Those who scared away were all outsiders.
I:......
I promise never again.
I wanted to open the inn, and I discussed it with Lu Shang for half a year before he agreed. I didn't make much money in the past six months, not to mention, I lost so many guests at once. Lu Shang will definitely scold me again if he finds out.
You don't have to be surprised, Lu Shang has a good temper, but he also has a temper, but it's not an insult. You don't have to worry about him being violent to me.
Sure enough, as I expected, when I went home at night, I was ruthlessly counted down by Lu Shang.
It's not to make room for his third young grandmother's position, it's not to let him marry a woman who can give birth to him, give him a child and send him to his old age, I'm all thinking about him, but you see the way he looks at me, I don't know how to do it. Pity me for being kind enough to be a donkey's liver and lungs, he shouldn't be the same thing!
After counting me (actually, not as loud as you think), he hugged me into his arms, you may think that he finished scolding me and wanted to comfort, wrong. He said: Xiaoguan, what is your original intention of opening an inn?
I said: make the best dishes and let the guests eat and drink well. Clean up the room and let the guests stay well. Say the most sincere words to make guests who are staying in Songin County feel warm.
My original intention was as simple as that, but it had nothing to do with making money.
Lu Shang said: Yes, that's what you told me at the time, and said that you don't care about how much money you make, you just want to make the guests feel at ease. You say, how can you dress up and intimidate guests?
Am I intimidating a guest, am I intimidating him?
I shrank into his arms, very aggrieved: Don't scold me, I won't be like this again in the future?
It's me who did wrong, and I have to be wronged and coquettish.
Lu Shang didn't answer, and it took a while to let go of me and look at my face: Xiaoguan, you have always been crazy, shouldn't they get used to it? How is it possible to be scared away?
You see, we husband and wife have a tacit understanding, and even the lines are almost the same.
Of course, I can only grab Li Cheng's lines.
The people who scared away were all outsiders.
However, unlike me who didn't know how to answer, Lu Shang said: Outsiders have also lived in our inn for a long time, and they have also seen what you looked like when you were a little madman. Besides, I looked at the list of people who checked out, and there were locals too.
Although the inn business is not too good, it is not overcrowded, but the biggest feature is to retain guests, especially the meals of our inn, almost every other day will be changed to new dishes, the inn, can keep the stomach of the guests, but also will keep the hearts of the guests.
I wonder if it's because I haven't been back for a few days and the dishes are too simple, so the guests will leave.
Lu Shang said: If you want me to say, I was not scared away by you, but because of ......
Third brother, brother and sister, you haven't slept yet, have you?
I was about to speak, but Lu Shang whispered: Ignore her, just don't hear it. Then he blew out the candles on the table.