Chapter 14: Heavenly Heart (2)
Hearing this, Zhang Linfan interrupted me: "That heart trick, isn't it the kind of spell that can peek into people's minds, and there are also spells called heart peeping spells?"
Nodding slightly, I took advantage of this time to drink some hot wine to moisten my throat, and said, "Mr. Zhang is really well-informed!" I do have a good impression of him, not because of anything else, just because he didn't keep asking about my identity.
"Don't interrupt!" Lin'er didn't know when she had an extra plate of puffs in her hand, and she was dissatisfied while eating, "Continue listening!"
"Okay!" Zhang Linfan nodded slightly, and then stopped talking.
So, I cleared my throat and continued: "I pinched my heart, looked at her inner world, and then ......"
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This trick can clearly penetrate people's hearts, so the thoughts in her heart at the moment are really sad and sincerely admired.
While eating, Mrs. Chu thought of these words in her heart: If such a delicious fruit is brought back, she must be very happy to bring it back to her father-in-law and mother-in-law, but I don't know if the girl will agree to it this day? However, she is really a good person, with these five taels of silver, this year's goods will be settled, and then make two decent winter clothes for her in-laws and father-in-law, buy a piece of coarse cloth to make up for this dress, and be able to deal with it for another year, which is really good!
"Miss, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that I was settled, Lin'er gently pushed me.
After taking back the secret of the heart, I hooked my hand to Lin'er and whispered in her ear: "You go and wrap all the glutinous cakes that you keep privately, and give them to Mrs. Chu in a while, do you understand?"
She understood very well, turned around and went to the back hall.
"Mrs. Chu's strings are always so good!" Holding the strings in the basket in my hand, I stroked them one by one, "The palace strings use five hammers, the commercial strings use three hammers, and the strings are not entangled in the palace silk, and the two strings of civil and military are rubbed and closed on the small bamboo tube, wrapped and put the water in the copper bell, and boiled with the wheat half-together, and when the wheat is ripe, the strings will be ripe!"
"The girl smiled, it's just that you usually take a lot of photos, and other instrumental music stores don't like to accept my slightly higher price of rough strings!" Mrs. Chu had finished eating, leaving a few glutinous cakes on the plate, and stopped talking.
It happened that Lin'er came out, holding an oiled paper bag in her hand, and handed it to me without saying a word, and the thing was also transferred into my hand.
"If you don't think that the little woman's craftsmanship is mediocre, these long cakes will be given to Mrs. to thank Mrs. for her hard work day after day, okay?" I put the paper bag into the empty basket and handed it back, I looked at her with a gentle smile.
"Where is this?" said Mrs. Chu, whose face flushed.
Lin'er was a little anxious when she saw it, jumped over and stuffed the basket into her hand, pouted and said: "Oh, don't be polite to us! In our place, you just let go of your belly to eat, since you have your father-in-law and in-laws, in fact, that Chu Gongzi eats fragrant and spicy all day long, and there is no shortage of mouth!"
"Talky!" Seeing that Mrs. Chu's face showed a little sadness, I quickly interrupted her, "This girl has made me spoiled, please don't be embarrassed by Mrs., life will always be better, after all, it is not too peaceful these years, and it is a great luck to be able to eat three meals!"
Mrs. Chu took a sip of tea, and her face softened slightly: "What the girl said is very true, then I will thank you for this cake, there is still something to do at home, I will go first, if you need strings again, someone will come to carry a word!"
Seeing that her expression changed, I followed her gaze and looked out, and saw a pair of men and women walking from the south of the street to the north of the street, hugging each other and hooking their shoulders, but the man was dressed as a scholar, and he looked very familiar.
"Isn't that Chu Gongzi?" Lin'er chased out of the store in a few steps, and soon turned back again, "I didn't catch it, but that figure is really similar!"
Hurriedly waved her hand, Mrs. Chu's face seemed to be frozen, so stiff that even her smile was very far-fetched: "Miss Lin'er must have seen it wrong, my father-in-law invited someone to the study today, how could he appear on the street again!"
Although Lin'er rushed, she was not stupid, I gave me a look, and she obediently closed her mouth.
"Go to the back hall and clean up, don't tell you not to come out!" I pretended to be angry and supported Lin'er, "Go quickly!"
Nodding her head, she stretched her neck out the door again, and she had to leave with the strings on her face.
I got up and walked into the counter, gently fiddled with the abacus, and said with a smile: "My Lin'er is usually the most frizzy, and she has a lot of mouths and tongues, maybe she is wrong, after all, the people dressed as scholars are almost the same!"
After a long time, Mrs. Chu was serious about turning into a soul, and sighed slightly: "The girl said very well, my family treats me so well, how can he lie to me, hehe, Miss Lin'er must have seen it wrong!" Her words to herself sounded a little lacking in confidence, "I, I'll go first, thank you girl!" With that, she got up and hurried away.
Staring at her slender back as she quickly disappeared around the corner, I sighed and turned back to the store, where I saw Lin'er lying on the counter, her eyes full of disgust.
"Princess, you obviously saw it, why didn't you call me?" The abacus beads in her hand were plucked by her, and her voice sounded a little aggrieved, "That Chu Liang is really a wolf-hearted thing, this Mrs. Chu worked so hard for him, he actually took this hard-earned money to fill other women!"
After pouring a glass of wine and sipping it slowly, I sighed again and said, "As the saying goes, infatuated women are thin and lovely, but it's really true!"
"Then, princess!" jumped from the counter to the couch with a "bang", Lin'er said curiously, "You say, this Mrs. Chu, is it true that she doesn't know about that bastard?"
Ordering the mouth of the wine glass, I raised my eyes to look at her, and said lightly: "I don't know each other more than the person next to the pillow, how can she not recognize the two people who are opposite each other every day?"
"She can leave like this, if it were me, I would have to beat those sluts all over the ground to find their teeth!" Lin'er was so angry that she bit her heart, "No, I'm going to follow and take a look, if that guy dares to bully someone, I must let him taste something!"
Before I could stop her, she had already disappeared, and she should have escaped with a trick.
Shaking my head, I picked up the glass again, and drank it one by one, the wine was really good, and when I got drunk, I didn't know anything. How can it be like the word "love", a shallow taste is only as sweet as honey, if it is to the deep roots of love, you know that the knife hidden in the honey is more hurtful!
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Speaking of this, my tears unconsciously slipped out: "I'm sorry, I'm so out of shape!"
"Hmm!" Zhang Linfan had already pulled out two tissues and handed them to me, "So it sounds, Mrs. Chu is really a rare good woman!"
Nodding, I took the paper and gently wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes, soothing my inner emotions by the way.
"Miss Lin'er, did you really chase after you?" poured a cup of Baihua Brew to Lin'er, Zhang Linfan seemed to be very fascinated by it, although his face did not change much, but his tone was a little eager.
"Don't Miss Miss's call, you can call me Lin'er in the future!" Lin'er was not polite, took a big sip of the wine glass, "Then it is naturally chasing, can it be fake?" took another sip, she continued, "Not only me, but even my young lady also closed the shop and chased after her, don't look at her cold appearance, in fact, she is really good!"
I was embarrassed to be praised by her so straightforwardly, so I had to wave my hand and say: "Don't listen to her nonsense, I'm just afraid that she will cause something else with her hairy hands, so I will follow!"
The corners of his mouth rose slightly again, Zhang Linfan smiled without saying a word, his eyes were full of expectation.
"Okay, okay!" I was almost relieved, and I squeezed the tissue into my hand and continued, "Then, we will follow Mrs. Chu all the way......
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"Lin'er, you slow down!" Fortunately, I'm much faster than Lin'er, and it's not difficult to catch up with her, "Follow too closely and she'll hear her!"
"Princess?" she was very surprised to see that it was me, "Hehe, I knew you couldn't rest assured!"
Nodding her head vigorously, we quietly followed behind Mrs. Nachu one after the other.
Mrs. Chu's mood seemed to be very untidy, and she walked staggeringly along the way, as if she would faint at any time, and she even ignored the greetings of acquaintances on the street, as if she had lost her soul.
At the moment, everything in this world seems to have nothing to do with her, and she can't hear all the noise and excitement.
After walking for more than half an hour, she finally stopped, and when she looked up, she saw a desolate house, which was her former home.
As she entered the house and into the backyard, she stopped at a well and looked into it.
Afraid that she would not be able to commit suicide for a while, Lin'er and I hurriedly appeared and grabbed her: "Madame, why should she be like this?"
As a result, she was seen scooping up a long oilcloth bag from the well and looking at us with a puzzled expression.
The three of them picked up a clean step and sat down, Mrs. Chu slowly opened the oilcloth bag, and a jade pipa with a whole white body appeared in front of us, and even the strings were crystal clear.
"What a piano!" Lin'er rubbed her eyes vigorously, as if she was afraid that she would see it wrong, "It's really rare to build it all in jade!"
Reaching out and touching the clear strings, I had another answer in my heart, this pipa is not a vulgar thing, but the worm of the 10,000-year-old piano, and this handle will be priceless.
Before Lin'er and I could talk again, Mrs. Chu actually told her own story-
This is her family's old home, although it is not too dilapidated, but it carries all her good memories.
Before leaving the cabinet, she was the only daughter in the family, and followed her parents to farm, and the family of three had a hard life, but she was also happy to be free.
At that time, Mrs. Chu was still called Mo Yin!