(ps: The poor monk came back to the bird, with 400,000 words of manuscript and full of sincerity.) The poor monk vouched for the monk's personality and swore to Zhang Zhenren that from today until the end of "Liangcheng", he would never stop the change! Thank you for the support of the donors during the suspension period, what is the ...... At the beginning of the month, the donors gave the monks a few monthly passes!)

In this world, the most elusive thing is not only women, but also the weather.

The rain suddenly began to fall without warning.

The weather in June in "Saibei", like the face of a shrew, became extremely fast, and it caught people off guard. The sky was still as blue as a wash, but in the blink of an eye, it was cloudy, rainstorming, and there was a white water vapor between the sky and the earth.

Ling Shuangshuang hurriedly covered the two bean flower buckets, and was busy for a while, and when she packed up her picks and rushed into the small pavilion on the side of the road, she was already soaked in a patched coarse cloth green shirt.

Frost carefully placed the heavy burden on a flat place, stood under the eaves, and began to wring the rain from her dress vigorously.

After grinding the beans all night, my fingers were already white in the water, and the skin was swollen and peeled off one by one, and it hurt to touch anything. Ling Shuangshuang used her swollen hand to wring the wet placket of her clothes, and felt that it was not the rain that came out, but the blood juice on her hands.

- Is this still your own hand?

In the past, these hands, soft and white, as tender as spring onions, were coated with kodan, reflecting the bright light of precious stones.

It was the hand of the second lady of the Ling family, the prefect of "Yunnan".

- If I hadn't met Wen Liangyu, maybe these hands would still be like that now......

- How long is this life? How bitter is the rest of my life? I keep telling myself to hide my sharpness, not to hurt others, let alone myself. Instead of remembering the pain that came later, it is better to remember the fleeting warmth at the beginning. The path I chose was to be completed even if I knelt down.

Ling Shuangshuang tried hard to drive away the bad mood, and when she raised her eyes, she saw herself six years ago, running from the rain curtain outside the pavilion to her current self in the pavilion.

Ling Shuangshuang shook her head vigorously and rubbed her eyes, only to see the girl who hurriedly ran into the pavilion in the rain and mist, a thin, small, delicate, and weak girl.

This thin and delicate little girl is only fourteen or fifteen years old, with delicate eyebrows, skin like snow, a milky white dress, and a Fang Xuebai handkerchief in her hand, but her hands are whiter than handkerchiefs, and she has a crystal clear jade wrench on her thumb.

She obviously came to avoid this torrential rain, and she was slightly embarrassed, but as soon as she saw Ling Shuangshuang, her clear sight immediately moved to her.

"Dare to ask this big sister, how do you go to the 'Talking Pavilion' here?" The girl seemed to have seen a savior, and while carefully avoiding the rainwater leaking from the holes in the roof of the pavilion, she hurriedly came up and asked.

Ling Shuangshuang picked up the burden, subconsciously took a step back, and said stiffly: "Oh, from here, go west, and when you reach the intersection, turn south a short distance." ”

"But...... Where is the west, where is the south!" The girl laughed awkwardly, and her snow-white cheeks showed a shallow pear vortex, delicately like a jade porcelain doll.

Seeing that Ling Shuangshuang's attitude was a little indifferent, the girl politely blessed her, and said with a smile: "The little sister's surname is Xiaoying, and the small character Ying'er turned fourteen years old yesterday. ”

Xi Xiaoying? Ling Shuangshuang couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, Miss Ying'er, the adopted daughter of the old man Xi Qinggu, the county master of Chengzhong County? By the way, isn't the female student that Liangyu is teaching now called Xi Xiaoying?

——Xi Qinggu is the protégé of Cai Jing, the number one celebrity in front of today's son and the minister of power in Beijing, and his family background is rich, so he is already the leading and hot family in the city of "Beiliang County".

Xi Xiaoying's two good-looking fingers, gently tugging at Ling Shuangshuang's sleeves, with a pink mouth, and flexible eyes under her long eyelashes looked at the rain curtain outside, her eyebrows were a little anxious, and she said to herself: "I secretly ran out of the house to date him today, but I got lost when I walked here, and it rained beautifully, so I couldn't find anyone here to ask for directions...... Oops, no, he's going to be angry if I'm late today. ”

Ling Shuangshuang smiled slightly, alas, this girl is dressed in luxury and bumps around like a deer in the wilderness, what if she meets a bad person? Hehe, such an innocent and unguarded lady is really a deep boudoir who can't go out from a big family.

Xi Xiaoying chirped and said to herself, laughing while talking, the dimples on the powder were deep and shallow, and she smiled, so cute that people had the urge to take care of her for the rest of her life when they saw her for the first time;

"My surname is Ling, and my name is Shuangshuang. Facing an innocent girl like Xi Xiaoying, Ling Shuangshuang's precautionary heart decreased slightly, and replied with a smile: "My husband and I live in the village in front." ”

"Sister is a big beauty...... Xi Xiaoying's big eyes blinked, looking at the falling tear mole in the corner of Ling Shuangshuang's eyes, and said: "Sister's 'rouge tears' are very beautiful...... Well, how can I say it, I have a lot of wealth and nobility......" As she spoke, she suddenly took a step back, covered the corners of her mouth with her sleeve, coughed slightly for a while, and then looked at Ling Shuangshuang with some apologies and smiled sweetly.

Hearing the girl's words, Ling Shuangshuang's eyes couldn't help but darken, and a slightly desolate smile appeared on the corner of her lips.

At that time, the financial status of the "Yunnan" Ling Mansion was far superior to that of the "Beiliang" Xi family, right? However, today I am just a Douhua girl who walks the streets and alleys and shows up to sell her face to make a living, and the second Miss Ling six years ago, since the moment she was expelled from the house, she is no longer qualified and embarrassed to live in this world again.

I fled all the way from "Yunnan" and Xianggong to "Saibei", until I learned a year ago that the Ling family was robbed by the Jiangyang thief Yuan 13 and my father was killed, I never dared to look back at the way I was.

- The wind and rain in "Liangcheng" always make me feel particularly desolate, or maybe the road I am walking is desolate. I have always been willing to believe that the hell I stepped on was only a reflection of heaven, and the story at the corner of my lips was just the ashes of time.

The girl in front of her, from her personality to her family background, is very much like herself six years ago, and even her eyebrows and eyes are almost as long as she laughs. No matter how long time passes, I still vaguely remember my quiet appearance at the beginning.

It's good to be young......

Ling Shuangshuang felt a pain in her heart: "Huh, how could I have such thoughts? I'm only twenty-one years old...... Is your heart getting old......"

"It seems that the rain is getting lighter, Miss Ying'er, I'll take you to the 'Talking Pavilion' first, okay?" Not wanting to continue chatting with Xi Xiaoying, Ling Shuangshuang turned her head to look at the rain curtain outside the pavilion, her expression a little anxious.

There are three large jars of beans waiting for her to grind at home, and the flower shopkeeper of the "Liangcheng Inn" in the town will send someone to fetch it early tomorrow morning.

"Oh, it's still raining outside, good sister, let's go back when the rain stops, okay?" Xi Xiaoying looked at the rainy sky, half embarrassed and half coquettish.

- This porcelain-like person can't afford to suffer at all.

Ling Shuangshuang didn't speak, glanced at the young lady of this big family, and said coldly: "I'm really sorry, I have to rush home to catch up with work, I want to beg for a living, I can't afford to delay." ”

If it weren't for the fact that I hadn't looked at you innocently and lovely, I, a hard-working person who couldn't even take care of myself, wouldn't even bother to take care of you! Although I am now in a foreign country, and my husband is teaching in the west of your mansion and looking at your face, I can't please a powerful family like you.

Hearing the other party's faint answer, Xi Xiaoying's pretty, white and tender little face turned red, she seemed to want to say something, but she coughed sharply again as soon as she opened her mouth.

She hurriedly turned her head away, covered the corners of her mouth with her sleeve and coughed for a long time, and her little face that had been coughing was pale and bloodless.

Tuberculosis?!

This terrible word flashed in Ling Shuangshuang's mind, her heart jumped suddenly, and she looked at the girl of the Xi family with some surprise.

Xi Xiaoying turned her head and coughed for a long time, and only when her breath calmed down did she dare to turn back and talk to her, but her expression was still smiling, she said: "Shocked my sister, right? It's okay, I've had this disease for more than two years, my little sister feels that there is nothing wrong except coughing and night sweats, but the doctor Mei in the house and the Jin imperial doctor from the Jingshi are all talking about the same day, and they have prescribed a lot of disgusting home remedies, my father is nervous, and I am not allowed to come out to see the wind, alas, a person is locked in the house, either reading a book, or embroidering, and he is stuffy and suffocated!"

Ling Shuangshuang lowered her head, she didn't know what to say, seeing that this girl was so innocent, bright, kind and lovely, she just had such a haunting disease.

- I watched my hard-working mother get this disease, tried all kinds of remedies and didn't work, and finally the whole person who coughed was rickety, day and night low-grade fever, and finally died at the age of twenty-seven, the day my mother left, it was the day when my prefect's father's eleventh concubine entered the door, hehe, I only saw the newcomer smile like a flower, who saw the chaff and cry blood?

Well, I still remember that Dr. Liu told my mother not to catch a cold...... No wonder...... This disease, presumably the doctor in the Xi family's house also told her not to get caught in the rain easily, right?

Suddenly feeling a little more pity and kindness in her heart, Ling Shuangshuang put the burden on her shoulders back on the ground, sat down on the broken wooden bench in the pavilion, and said with a smile: "I see that the rain is getting lighter, let's wait a little longer and go out." ”

Xi Xiaoying was a little uneasy, and her face was also red: "My sister is busy, and she is delayed for Ying'er, Ying'er is really guilty...... Well, it's better to ...... like this" After thinking about it, her white little hand shrank into her sleeve, squirmed for a long time, took off a jade jasper bracelet hidden in her sleeve, put it in Ling Shuangshuang's hand, and said: "This gadget has the right to guide Xie Yi, sister, don't think Ying'er's gift is light." ”

The jade jasper bracelet in Xi Xiaoying's palm is exquisite in texture, exquisite in workmanship, and worth no less than a thousand gold, even Ling Shuangshuang, who was born in a large family in Yunnan and Guizhou, saw that the girl in front of her shot was so bold and casual, and she couldn't help but feel slightly stunned.

"No need, Miss Ying'er, it's just a little help, it's not necessary. She smiled faintly, raised her hand and pushed back the gift that Xi Xiaoying stretched out.

- This jade and jasper bracelet is a rare thing, but this girl is saying that she will give it away, not so much with innocence and openness, but because her adoptive parents are too pampered by her in this regard, how can this girl have no concept in terms of money...... Oh, didn't I often hide from my family six years ago and secretly give my precious jewelry to Liangyu to drink flower wine and gamble with fox friends and dogs...... Hmm, damn it, how can you remember the past again for no reason......