There is a restaurant in a small county named Lujiang in the south of the Yangtze River, and people inside are coming and going at this time.

A maid in a coarse cotton skirt was busy washing dishes and chopsticks in the backyard of the restaurant.

Her name is Yan Qiuluo, and she has been working in this restaurant for many years, and she has always done her duty.

But today is the last day she is busy in the restaurant, last night she has quit her job with the restaurant proprietor, settled the account, and finished today, and went home.

Then wait for that person to appear, that person to come.

The business of the restaurant is very good, there is a private room on the second floor, and the dishes made by the proprietress themselves are varied and delicious.

As the name suggests, Lujiang County is surrounded by mountains and rivers, there is a river running through the whole Lujiang County, there is a wharf in the suburbs outside the county, and the flow of people is not small, so this famous restaurant is quite popular, and there are many guests who come and go to eat per person.

Busy until the afternoon, Yan Qiuluo greeted the proprietress and resigned.

She picked up the luggage she had packed last night and left, walked to the county, walked to the south corner, and finally arrived at Yan's house.

Yan's family is in the southernmost part of the county is a small courtyard with one in and one out, the yard is not too small, there are three main rooms, and one stove room on the left.

The vacant place on the right was planted by Yan's father and mother of the year, there was a well in the middle of the courtyard, and behind the courtyard was a large open space, which built thatched houses and miscellaneous houses, and the vacant land left in the middle planted some melons, fruits and vegetables by Yan's father back then.

Yan Qiuluo felt a bitterness in his heart, standing in a somewhat desolate home, looking at the bricks and tiles inside, as if he was still that little person, his parents were alive, and the family was happy.

She sighed, a line of tears fell, this yard was when Yan's father and mother were there, she was born here, and sent away Yan's father and mother here, and now it has long been a thing.

When she was 12 years old, her parents both died of illness, and the funeral cost a lot of money to see a doctor and take medicine, and there was not much left in the family, so she packed her baggage and went to the county to find work.

Then she worked as a maid in the restaurant for three and a half years, she was mainly responsible for chores, washing dishes and chopsticks, cleaning, etc., and the salary was not as much as the maid and the little two who served the food and poured the wine, but it also saved a lot of unnecessary trouble.

The restaurant has a complex source of people, and there are a few guests who are transferred to stay at the wharf, what kind of people have, in the early years, the restaurant proprietress saw that she was in a county town with her, and she was also acquainted with her father and mother in the past, and she was not very old, so she did a miscellaneous job.

She is also grateful to the owner and the proprietress of the teahouse, they are all kind people, and they have treated them well in the past three and a half years, and they have never deducted their wages or scolded them.

Yan Qiuluo wiped his tears with his sleeve, cheered up, and began to clean up his home.

Packed up until dark, lit the candles that he prepared when he went home for the New Year every year, until the sky gradually brightened, he completely cleaned up, lit a fire and boiled hot water, washed his whole body with his hair, and wrapped the undried green silk with the clean and dry cloth brought back in the package and slept until noon.

Still awakened by hunger, she cheered up, got dressed, took some money, and went to the street to buy some things, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, melons, fruits, vegetables, seeds, and so on.

After buying it back, she put it in the stove room one by one, and began to make a fire and boiled some white porridge to drink at night.

The fire in the stove room was burning, and it was already mid-October, and the small county town in the south of the Yangtze River had a lot of rain, and the winter was wet and cold, so she had to prepare some charcoal.

There was rice porridge boiling in the stove room, she took a hoe from the backyard miscellaneous house and turned over some of the backyard ground, wanting to plant some cabbage and radish for the winter, she didn't have much money on her, and the salary she saved after working for a few years was only 10 taels of silver, plus the remaining 5 taels from the previous home, this is already all the belongings, and the person was about to appear in more than a month, and she had to prepare something before this.

Yan Qiuluo thought that if she wanted to prepare something, she would need silver taels, and she thought about it for a long time, but she only came up with a way to do a small business.

The suburbs of Lujiang County are docks, there are many people coming and going, and you can make a little money by making some food to sell it, but there are already women over there who have made all kinds of food, and the methods she can think of today have already been thought of by others, Yan Qiuluo sighed, and thought about it, do you want to make some pastries to try?

In the restaurant for many years, I have also seen a lot of pastries, Dong Shi can also make some pastries that are okay to follow, and the dock transit, can not all be rich and powerful to go to the county town to eat in the restaurant.

Just do it, Yan Qiuluo went to the street again and bought some glutinous rice flour, sugar, red beans, etc.

She boiled hot water, began to try to make glutinous rice ordinary pastries, there is a steamer at home, although it is a long time, the washed one can still be used, tried for two days, only one or two at a time, her own teeth are a little sweet, but in the end made a good red bean glutinous rice dumplings.

She bought a little oil paper, found a bamboo basket at home to wash and clean, dried well, three days later, began to sell red bean glutinous rice dumplings at the dock, she sold 2 wen a, 3 wen 2, 5 wen 3, business one after another.

A month later, she also earned 1 tael of silver, Yan Qiuluo was very happy, this is much better than her workmanship, she took out two taels of silver from her private money to buy two pale green coarse cloth, a white cotton cloth, a cyan coarse cloth and some cotton, bought some ordinary medicinal materials, and bought some food and charcoal, and then began to make clothes for herself at home.

It took about 10 days to make a few sets of ready-to-wear clothes, and while making clothes, I took advantage of the sun to dry and dry the old quilts and sheets at home, and dismantled and washed them.

It wasn't until the cabbage and radish in the backyard that the cabbage and radish had grown tender green shoots that were not short, and finally ushered in the middle of November.

On this day, Yan Qiuluo cleaned the house early, put on a clean and newly sewn light green Luo skirt, she looked like Yan's mother, a small face was washed clean, very beautiful and gentle, and because of the hard work in the past few years, the figure remained slender and slender.

If it weren't for the death of her parents and her orphanage, her life would be like that of other girls in this town, but unfortunately life never knows when an accident will happen.

In the evening, she deliberately warmed a pot of porridge on the stove, and still warmed the hot water, she took off the hair grate, sprinkled 3,000 green silk and combed it quietly in front of the oil lamp, and waited for a long time.

The night became thicker and thicker, and finally she heard the sound of falling, she hurriedly put down the wooden comb and ran to the backyard, where a man who was unconscious fell into the open space in the backyard.

She ran over to support him and choked up, "Chen Feng." ”

Chen Feng, the man she waited for wholeheartedly, the man she liked in her previous life.

She helped Chen Feng up with difficulty, helped him on his big bed, and fetched hot water to wipe him.

She touched the man's handsome face over and over again, muttering in her mouth, Finally waiting for you, finally waiting for you.