After the tenth day, it is time to catch the exam. At dusk on this day, Li Brown was listlessly strolling in the courtyard with a scripture book, and suddenly heard a slight and trivial footsteps outside the courtyard gate. The footsteps stopped in front of the door. Li Brown was suspicious, let alone thinking about it, and hurriedly approached the door quietly and looked at the crack in the door.

Taking advantage of the sun setting in the West Mountain, he saw an anxious girl wandering in front of the door with her head down, and several times wanted to press her hand on the door knocker, but she was afraid that she would be alarmed by Mother Li's sight, so she paced back and forth.

Li Brown's heart was bright, just like seeing Guanyin Bodhisattva who rescued the suffering. He sighed through the crack in the door, and the girl was shocked, and now her eyes looked at each other through the crack in the door.

It turned out that the girl took the opportunity to go to the toilet and sneaked out. Because I don't have to worry about the spring, and I have other things to explain, I went all the way here.

"Su Li!"

"Phew, you're scaring me again. Did you see me coming, hmph, I won't come to you in the future!" the girl looked coquettish.

"Don't blame me? Don't come, I'll be happy when I see you. ”

Li Brown opened the door as he spoke, but saw Su Li holding a burden in his hand. Su Li opened the baggage, and it was a pair of Xinna's shoes.

"I'm afraid you've worn out your feet for a long time, so ...... I don't dare to do needlework during the day, so I secretly sew it for you overnight, so you can put it on and try it!"

Li Brown took the shoe on his right foot in his hand, took off the one sewn by his mother, and replaced it with Su Lixinna's. The shoes are not too big or too small, and they just fit well.

"How is it, does it fit?" Su Li asked with concern, "If it doesn't fit, I'll change it." ”

"It fits perfectly. Su Li, how do you know the length of my shoes?"

When asked this, Su Li giggled for a while, and she said, "There is a puddle of mud in front of the door, and you don't know it when you step on it, so I took straw paper and rubbed it on your footprints." ”

Li Brown felt a burst of gratitude in her heart, and seeing the care in her eyes, a warm current instantly swam all over her body. Before he knew it, his nose was starting to sour. If it is said to be a prosperous age, people's energy must be greater, and there is no lack of warmth, so they do not feel particularly touching when they are displayed. And when Ji Shi, all the feelings were cramped, and the warmth and care were gone. If people who are not relatives and people can take you so seriously, either righteousness is heavier than Mount Tai, or they can form a marriage. There is a saying that husband and wife are originally birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes, and like this, they still support each other in difficult places and keep you in mind, and it is difficult to cultivate a good couple in ten lifetimes.

Li Brown took off his shoes, and his body was bent, and he didn't feel tears dripping down. In such a cold spring season, Su Li still wears a single shoe under the coarse cloth skirt, and the upper is also patched. He wanted to put his hands on those delicate and lovely feet, and wanted to take them in his arms to give him some warmth, but reason and etiquette restricted his movements, and with a snort, he raised his head and put on his old shoes.

"Su Li. Don't always remember me, you ......" He wanted to hold back, but he couldn't hold back, and finally couldn't cry, hiding his face and crying. Thousands of words poured into his mouth, but his tongue was not smooth, and he couldn't go on.

"Li Brown, you ...... Take the exam well, I'll wait for you to come back. I will recite the sutra for you day and night, and I will definitely bless you in high school. When the girl said this, there were tears in her eyes, and she began to roll down one by one.

Li Brown put his hand on Su Li's face and wiped away her tears one by one, those tears like pearls.

"I wanted to go to the short pavilion to see you off, I know that my mother is definitely unwilling, I can't send you in person when you go to Japan, and if you have these shoes, I will accompany you to catch the exam. One day I see Chang'an flowers, I will wait for you to come back. ”

Li Brown said sadly: "I will." "Actually, he wanted to say about the blind man, and about the fact that he already knew the outcome in advance, his hope was dashed, he had already tasted this ice-like taste, and he did not want to continue to destroy her hope, which was her only hope.

"Su Li, I will. Don't worry, wait for me to come back. ”

There was silence.

Hearing the sound of the door in the courtyard, Li Brown knew that it was his mother who came out. Su Li hurriedly got up and walked away, and as she walked forward, she turned around and opened her mouth and said, "I'm waiting for you to come back." ”

Li Brown nodded, waved his hand at her, and watched her back run out of the alley. At this time, Mother Li walked over slowly.

"Brown, who are you talking to?"

"Nobody, I'm looking at ......" Li Brown said slowly, "It's good to look at this sunset." He calmed down.

"Yes, my wife can rest and look at the sunshine, and she will be satisfied. If you marry a family, I can hold my grandson, and I have no regrets in this life. Mother Li slowly grabbed the courtyard door, stepped out of the door, sat on the threshold, and looked at the end of the alley. At that time, the sunset was still the last dazzling, and everywhere the horizon pulsated, there were scattered gold. In addition to the gold, there is a layer of melancholy and melancholy.

"Huh?" asked Mother Li, "how can there be a hint of aroma?" It's like fat powder, but it's not like it at all. Which little daughter-in-law came to see you? I wish you had married sooner!"

Li Brown was stunned, and sure enough, her mother was still very fine. Ginger is still old and spicy.

After a long silence, Mother Li closed the door, and the smoke from the cooking stove in the distance rose in twos and threes, and the fragrance of food began to fill the alley and spread to every corner. Li Brown put the candle in his hand, the room was bright, and the sorrow and fear in his heart hit again. He was afraid that he would not be able to face his mother's lost gaze, and he was even more afraid that he would be sorry for what Su Li had done for him. At this time, he felt that being a man was so tiring, and sometimes it was really not for himself to live, but mostly for the sake of others. At this time, no major principles work, such as "gentlemen are not instrumental", such as "motivation and forbearance", have become boring. And the sorrow in the heart is sorrow, which cannot be relieved or removed.

My heart is sad, and I don't know how to mourn.

After the meal, Li Brown memorized the scriptures for a while and began to turn off the lights and go to sleep. He seemed to hear the squeeze of rats, and for a while, he heard strange noises, and he couldn't tell what was strange. He began to fall into a groggy sleep. In his closed eyes, there seemed to be light shining in, and he saw a bronze mirror, in which Su Li was combing her hair. Li Brown was pleasantly surprised, he wanted to lean over slowly, pull Su Li to say what he had been saving for a long time, and suddenly, there was a feather sound, and a piece of blood sprayed on his face, he was startled, but the bronze mirror was broken before the meeting, and a clear sound was broken in the air.

He kicked his feet violently, and woke up, and the night fell in all directions.