It was the time when the plum blossoms in the cold snow were gone and the spring breeze returned to the willows. Lin Jinrong stood in the small attic of his new home and saw a awning boat going down the river, crossing the stone arch bridge in front of his house, and stopping in front of the door.
On the pier, a man in Tsing Yi held an oil-paper umbrella in his hand and took a teenage boy lightly off the boat. He stood in front of her house and looked up.
It was mid-afternoon, the sunlight clearly illuminated his slightly raised face, and the wind blew his green cloth robe up and down. He was actually still young, only twenty-six or seventeen years old, and he was actually very tall.
She is pretty, but there is an indescribable loneliness between her eyebrows.
The branch of red plum held in Lin Jinrong's hand fell to the ground. Then, regardless of Lychee's scolding, she rushed down from the attic with her skirt and ran towards Lu Mian's study: "Erlang, Erlang, hurry out and greet me."
guest!"
Lu Yan was lowering his head to write a letter. After hearing this, he hurriedly put down his pen and raised his head and said, "Who is here? Looking at you, could it be someone from the Tao family or the Lin family?"
"No." Lin Jinrong was slightly out of breath after running, and said with a smile: "I just wanted to decorate the attic so that I could bask in the sun, read books, share tea, and do needlework. I was just about to put the red plums in the bottle, and then
When you see a boat coming down the river and it stops in front of your house, you can’t guess who’s getting off the boat.”
Lu Yan said: "I can't guess, could it be Yang Mo? Didn't it mean that it's not convenient for her to go out these days?"
Lin Jinrong hugged his arm and said with a smile: "I guessed half of it, guess again!"
Lu Yan suddenly thought of a person, and felt both fond and a little sad at the same time, so he just shook his head: "I'm not clairvoyant, so how can I guess? I can't guess, I can't guess, I won't guess anymore!"
Seeing that he was not cooperating, Lin Jinrong had to say: "It's Wu Xiang!"
"It's him! Then I have to pick him up quickly." Lu Yan smiled and looked at Lin Jinrong: "Are you planning to follow me to the gate to greet the guests? Go and prepare tea and meals!"
Lin Jinrong clapped his hands gently: "That's right, he came all the way, and I have to ask someone to clean up the house!" After saying that, he walked away.
Lu Yan stood there for a moment and said loudly: "Come here, prepare some water and wash yourself with me!" He hurriedly changed into new clothes that were 70% new, looked at himself in the mirror again and again, and then hurried out to greet him.
Wu Xiang had already been welcomed in and was watching an old plum blossom in full bloom in the garden alone. The fiery red plum blossoms lined his green clothes, giving him a sense of loneliness as he stood alone. All Lu Yan's little thoughts suddenly disappeared.
Wu Cun cautiously called out: "Mao Hong?"
Wu Xiang looked back at him and smiled: "Min Xing."
The two looked at each other for a moment, then took a step forward and bumped their fists together. They even said the same thing: "It's so good to see you!" They were so sad.
Lin Jinrong happily prepared the meal, and then suddenly remembered that Wu Xiang was still in Xiaozhong and could not eat meat, so he withdrew again and asked someone to make a table of exquisite vegetarian meals. After a while, he led someone to send it over.
Lu Yan had already brought Wu Xiang to meet the elders of the family, and brought Yi Lang out to kneel down.
After Yilang saluted, he clasped his two fat little hands curiously and looked up at Wu Xiang: "Uncle, where are you from? Why haven't I seen you? Where is your home? They said you took a boat.
Come on, I’ve also been on a boat, a big boat.”
Lu Yan couldn't help but darken his face: "No rules!"
Wu Xiang didn't take it seriously. He rubbed Yilang's hair and said with a smile: "Your son's temperament is unlike anyone else's. He is so familiar with everyone?"
"No, maybe it's because you have a good face, so you talk a lot." Lin Jinrong came in from outside, smiled and greeted Wu Xiang: "Brother Wu, I'm so happy to see you." I wanted to ask Wu Xiang how his eldest brother was doing.
But he didn’t dare to ask, so he could only ask: “Is everything okay at home?”
Wu Xiang smiled and looked at her silently, and said softly: "Everything is fine. Now they are living in Hu*ting* County. I have a shop over there. My elder brother's injury is almost healed, and there is nothing serious.
Even my grandmother...is not allowed to return home."
The current situation in Pingzhou and Qingzhou is in chaos, and we don't know when it will return to peace. Lin Jinrong sighed and said, "My condolences."
Wu Xiang smiled freely: "Birth, old age, illness, and death are natural, and it doesn't matter. I just thought that her old man might be in pain, and she still suffers from that at such an old age."
Lin Jinrong's words made him feel sour, and he quickly covered it up: "I must be hungry, let's eat first, the wine is plain wine, it doesn't matter, you can chat slowly. When you come, stay longer, I will clean the house for you
." Then he told Yilang: "I will salute your uncle from the Wu family and say goodbye."
Yilang didn't want to leave and was about to make an excuse when Lin Jinrong coughed slightly and peeked over, only to see Lin Jinrong's expression was very ugly. He immediately took advantage of the situation and saluted Wu Xiang in a decent manner, smiling.
Said: "Uncle, please stay at my house for a few more days."
Wu Xiang couldn't even laugh or cry. She knelt down and looked at him and said, "Okay. But I like to eat sweets. Are you willing to do that?"
Yilang twisted his fingers and hesitated for a moment, then said with a smile: "Ask my father! I can't control it."
Several adults couldn't help but laugh, which dissipated some of the sadness.
After Lin Jinrong and his son walked out, Lu Yan invited Wu Xiang to the table. The two talked about their farewell for a long time. The dishes at the table were changed to cold several times, and they were still drinking until the moon was high.
Although the vegetarian wine is weak, it is still intoxicating after drinking too much. Lin Jinrong was worried, so he had to make a sobering soup and deliver it in person. When he walked to the corridor, he heard Wu Xiang said: "Erlang, do you still remember the letter you wrote to me when Yilang was just born?"
That letter?”
Lu was silent for a long time before saying, "Remember."
Wu Xiang suddenly laughed and said: "Erlang, I'm not laughing at you, you are really a bit petty sometimes. That letter of yours was so well written..."
"Are you drunk? I don't care about you." Lu Yan was a little angry: "It's not that you gave her some gold and white jade plum blossom hairpin for no reason. I would say that? You are not doing things properly!"
Wu Xiang burst out laughing: "Erlang, Erlang..."
Lu Yan said rudely: "If you have something to say, say it quickly. If you have something to say, say it quickly. Don't pretend to be crazy while drinking!"
Wu Xiang whispered: "I'll tell you why... Do you still remember that year, when Ah Rong and you were engaged, there were suddenly rumors that she was doing well in business, and you had to get married in advance? Yes.
I. At that time, I heard people say how powerful so and so was. I was not angry, so I added another word and said that it was Ah Rong who did it. My original intention was that it was a good thing. She was talented and capable, but I never thought that it would be exposed to someone who wanted to do it later.
It turned out to be like that. I regretted it very much afterwards, but I didn’t have the courage to admit my mistake to her, so I had to take advantage of my cousin’s opportunity to give her a makeup gift and gave her the pair of hairpins... I didn’t expect that it would take ten sentences to tell a lie.
Block..."
It turned out that this was the reason. Lin Jinrong listened calmly, but Dou'er was filled with hatred: "Master Wu, please don't have any nerve in your head!"
Lin Jinrong smiled, ordered Shuangquan to bring in the sobering soup, and conveyed her words: "Although the vegetarian wine is weak, it will still be intoxicating. After you two have finished what you have to say, just say a few drunken words less, and take a break early."
.”
Back in the room, Lin Jinrong didn't wait for Lu Yan, and took a shower first and lay down on the bed. Not long after lying down, he heard Shuangquan salute Lu Yan outside and said hello, so he simply closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
"Are you asleep?" The bed sank slightly, and Lu Yan lay down next to her and hugged her waist from behind.
Lin Jinrong said calmly: "Come back after washing."
Lu Yan said flatteringly: "I washed it before I dared to come here. If you don't believe me, just smell it? You just sent people to send sobering soup, and we dispersed."
Lin Jinrong said "hum" without saying much.
Lu Yan rolled over in the dark and lay face to face with her, muttering to himself: "I just talked a lot with Wu Xiang."
"Uh-huh." Lin Jinrong ignored it.
Lu Yan's hands consciously dug into her clothes: "He met a girl in Hu*ting* County. She was from a local prominent family. He had already informed his family that he wanted to hire someone, but he encountered that girl.
This time we have to wait until he shows his filial piety before we can discuss it." After thinking about it, he added: "He seems quite satisfied."
"That's good." Lin Jinrong became really happy when he heard this. He held Lu Yan's hand and said, "I'll send you the hangover soup. I seem to have heard what you said about the white jade plum blossom hairpin?"
"Yeah." Lu Yan said vaguely and perfunctorily, "I'm afraid we have to send someone to pick up grandma."
Let's just leave things in the past. Lin Jinrong had no intention of arguing with him, so he just followed his words and said, "Okay. My mother was also talking about my grandmother to me a few days ago. She said...
My second uncle and the others didn’t write any letters, and they don’t know how my grandmother is doing there. Since I want to pick her up, I’ll go pick her up. How could I suddenly think of this because I’m so busy?”
Lu Yan successfully diverted her attention, breathed a sigh of relief quietly, and whispered: "Wu Xiang told me that a few days ago, Lu Jing led his three younger siblings and Li Lang to move to Hu*ting* County, planning to work alone.
Prepare to do the shipping yourself.”
Lin Jinrong asked curiously: "Why is that? Isn't it good?" The second roommate has always been a team and is open to the outside world.
Lu Yan took the opportunity to get close to her and kept making small moves: "Do you remember the shop that my grandfather specially left for my fifth brother? That shop was the cause of the trouble."
It turns out that Lu Lun wrote to Taiming Mansion asking for his shop, but Lu Jianzhong refused to give it to him, and he didn't force it. However, brothers Lu Shao and Lu Jing fought over the shop. The second family's vitality was seriously damaged, and now it's hard to do business.
, that shop was the most profitable, and everyone wanted it. Lu Shao criticized Lu Jing for poisoning his own brother, with evil intentions, saying that he did not dare to live with Lu Jing under the same roof. Lu Jing was so angry that he wanted to separate the family.
After more than two months, Mrs. Tu also jumped out to make trouble, raising old and new accounts to speculate. Song and Lu Jianzhong tried their best to suppress it, but they couldn't do it. Mrs. Lu said, let's divide it, otherwise they will become enemies. Lu Jianzhong
Although they had no choice but to separate, they were so angry that they couldn't get up even now. But the family was divided, but the brothers really became enemies, and the foundation of the family was shaken in the first place. Now that the family business has been divided again, it's...
It cannot be compared with the past.
Lin Jinrong could not have predicted that the second room would come to this stage, but it was also expected. After hearing this, Lin Jinrong said, "I will arrange for someone to pick up grandma early tomorrow morning." Mrs. Lu and Lin Yuzhen were with her.
, not bad.
The moonlight filtered through the window lattice, coating the furnishings in the room with a layer of pale silver. Lu Yan sighed, hugged Lin Jinrong tightly, gently kissed her between her eyebrows, and whispered: "Mother told me, you don't have to worry about me."
Wherever I go after I recover, I will ask you and Yilang to accompany me to have more children. She is taking care of her at home, so we don’t need to worry, but don’t forget to go home and take a look when you have time."
Lin Jinrong stretched out her hand and tried her best to hug Lu Yan back, put her face against his chest and laughed softly: "Is my husband satisfied with the situation at home now? I feel that it will be good if this continues. I think the war will subside in the future, and we can return to Pingzhou.
The time will come when people will be prosperous."
"Very good." Lu Yan nodded vigorously. He was indeed very satisfied with the current situation at home. Maybe it was because he believed that he and Lin Jinrong would not let him go. Maybe it was because he had experienced life and death. Maybe it was because Lu Jianxin was ill and had no hope and support. Lin Yuzhen's
She has changed a lot. Although she can't be as close as flesh and blood to him and Lin Jinrong, she can still treat him with courtesy. She loves Yilang even more. She still can't stand Tu, but she is willing to endure it and knows how to behave.
But he can avoid saying unpleasant things. His life is peaceful and stable. Although Lu Jianli's condition has not improved greatly, he is in a very good mood and his face is a little rosy. Lu Geng can study hard and learn to take care of the housework. Probably
Because she had left her hometown and felt uneasy, Tu still loved to cry and pretend, but she did not dare to be too presumptuous. She would occasionally praise Lin Yuzhen and treat Yilang first-class.
They were originally the closest people. Because of him, they should be closer, instead of becoming more alienated or even hostile. When they are alone in a foreign land, the two families should rely on each other. As long as they can work hard to do their part,
, don't cause trouble, don't cause trouble, and can maintain it even if you bump into each other. It doesn't have to be intimate, as long as you respect each other and think about each other, that's enough.
Thinking about the past, Lu Yan was flooded with thoughts. Looking at Lin Jinrong's gentle eyebrows in his arms, he couldn't help but reiterate: "Arong, let's live a good life in the future."
Lin Jinrong nodded firmly: "Definitely!" Otherwise, he would not be able to live his life again.
Lu Yan smiled: "Give Yilang another younger brother!"
The moonlight was like water, making the two people's brows and eyes look peaceful and calm.
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