The sky was gray, like a silent mood, Hu Zongxian was doomed to fall, and the blow to him was more than anyone could have imagined. The frustration was overwhelming, making him feel like lead all over his body, difficult to breathe, difficult to behave, looking at the lead heavy clouds, he was even a little discouraged that everything he had worked hard to manage was actually just a castle in the sand, an attic in the sky, no matter how beautiful it was, it was just a soap bubble, it was punctured by someone, and there was no room for struggle.

He didn't even want to go home, so he was carried around the streets and alleys of Beijing, not looking for a solution for the first time, but just wanting to escape everything in front of him.

It was getting dark, and the sound of a drum in his belly finally brought Shen back from his state of distraction, and he had eaten a bowl of porridge this morning, and had been too busy to talk about it all day. Coming back to his senses, he pressed the center of his ear to suppress the feeling of hunger, and he apologized to the palanquins: "It's me who is a bastard and let you carry it for so long." "Such a heavy sedan chair is carried by four people, and no matter how strong the physique is, it can't stand it.

The sedan chair drivers smiled and said, "We are carrying it instead, and we are not tired at all." Although their shoulders were worn out, they felt content when an adult could say this.

"Get out of the sedan car." Silently stopped the sedan chair, went down to the ground to move his sore legs, looked around, and found that he had arrived at Mingshifang in the east of the city, and there was a quiet alley in front of him.

"How did you get here?". An indescribable feeling welled up in Shen Mo's heart.

Sanchi and the others all held back and didn't answer, the old brothers of the past ten years, they know the hearts of adults, and they know what to do if they are not allowed to be told, of course, they must not be broken.

"When you get there, go in and sit down." Seeing that there was a light inside, Shen Mo seemed to say to himself: "Forget it, let's go home and eat." Just when his heart was itching and contradicting himself, his guards and palanquin bearers were hidden and in the darkness, leaving only three feet to follow him.

"In that case," said the silent pretentious.

"Then go in and sit down, Xiao Sanchi whispered.

"I want you to talk more." Shen glared at him silently, but walked down the alley.

When the two of them were about to walk to the innermost house, suddenly the door of the house rang from the inside, and the two who were already thieves quickly dodged and hid in the door hole of the house next door, and then looked out, and saw a line of light getting wider and wider, and a long figure was projected on the wall.

Then came a deep voice in the alley, which was quiet and could be heard clearly, but it was Su Xue's younger brother, Su Zhijian's voice: "Sister, you think about this matter again, don't refuse it in one bite." ”

Then Su Xue said in an unhappy voice: "If you join forces with someone to betray me, you won't come again."

"How did he betray you?" Su Zhijian raised his voice and said: "I said this because your own brother cares about you, who will care if you are alone?" ”

These words made Su Xue a little silent, Su Zhijian thought that he had talked about his sister's vital point, so he took advantage of the victory and pursued: "This year is the year of Jiazi, after February, sister, you will be twenty-five, other people's children can make soy sauce, but you are still struggling alone." Women, after all, still have to get married, and the later they are, the less valuable they are

Not to mention, Su Xue's voice trembled a little and said, "I'm good like this."

"Okay? What is good? Su Zhijian's voice became angry and said, "What do you think?" Is there a stupid woman like you in the world? Don't you see it yet? The surnamed Shen didn't mean to marry you at all, he was just bored at home, so he came to you to relieve his boredom! Who did he treat you like a human being? It's just a dispensable toy! His shadow was cast on the wall, like a crab, with his teeth and claws, and said: "Now that you have handed over the canopy, you have been favored by Mr. Cangming, Mr. Cangming is a giant in the literary world, a master of craftsmanship, in terms of appearance, talent, and reputation, which point is not as good as the surname Shen?" It's even more rare that he is infatuated, and it wasn't until his wife passed away last year that he dared to come to me to say kiss" and almost shouted: "It's Ming Media who is marrying, and you are the stepwife when you marry!" This is a pie in the sky, a good marriage that is nowhere to be found with a lantern! ”

"I like it so much, it's better for you to marry him." Su Xue's voice was hesitant and said, "Don't mention this matter again." ”

"Did I hear me right?" Su Zhijian raised his voice and said: "It's not appropriate to put the main room, but you are a widow here, do you think you can wait for his wife to die before taking you there?" Dream on, people have already played with you enough, throw it away like a broken shoe, is there still a stupid woman like you in the world? .

"Shut up!" Su Xue couldn't help it, snapped on the ground, seemed to slap Su Zhijian, and forcibly suppressed her anger and said, "You go quickly, don't shout at the door." I don't want my neighbors to hear it." His voice trembled with anger.

When I heard it, I heard Su Zhijian say disdainfully: "You are all like this, are you afraid that the neighborhood will hear it?" As he spoke, he raised his voice and said: "The neighbors have come out to take a look, a woman who has not been seen in five hundred years, who knows that before the words fell, the change was abrupt, and she turned into a short howl that changed her tune and said: "Oh" and collapsed to the ground like mud. Su Xue looked at her hideous younger brother with a pale face, listening to him wantonly slandering herself and venting her perverted dissatisfaction there, she was almost skeptical, this is really her brother who is willing to sacrifice his life to fulfill it, could it be possessed by the devil?

When she was in the dust, she was shocked to see her younger brother slumped to the ground, and quickly took a closer look, and saw a big man standing there, holding a big palm, obviously the murderer who knocked down Su Zhijian.

Su Xuewang was about to scream, but the man said in a low voice: "Master Su, it's my voice that she is really too familiar with, isn't it exactly" He, the inseparable guard chief?

Su Xue's heart was relaxed and tightened, and she hurriedly stepped forward to check her brother's breathing, but fortunately, it was still very stable, and it seemed that he had just fainted. I heard Sanchi whisper: "I heard him speak disrespectfully, so I couldn't help but teach him, but don't worry, I have a measured hand." ”

Su Xue glared at him fiercely and said, "Don't carry him in yet, how cold is it on the ground." ”

The three feet pouted, but they still complied, and struggled to carry the tall and tall Su Zhijian. Stuffy followed Su Xue into the courtyard, leaving the adults behind.

Although the silence was ignored, it was not the slightest unpleasant, on the contrary, he was now full... According to Lu Li, Su Zhijian's words were all about his own talents, and he said to Su Xueming, Yuan Fang Buddha slapped him in the face of the eavesdropper, making him eager to find a crack in the ground to drill down" To tell the truth, if it weren't for Su Zhijian's words being too ugly, I was worried that Su Xue would be angry, and he might not let Sanchi make a move, and chose to slip away quietly.

But it's too late to say anything now, the result of impulsiveness is to face such an embarrassing time, standing silently in the courtyard, looking at the dim and bleak moon in the sky, and saying that I didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out today, it must be inappropriate, or why would I have been troubled from the morning to the present?

Just as he was hesitating to leave, Sanchi came out of the room and whispered, "That kid can only do it tomorrow morning." As he spoke, he squeezed his eyes at Shen Mo and ran to the gate with a puff of smoke.

At least you have to look like a man" sighed silently, straightened his clothes, and walked into Su Xue's room, "On the round table in the middle of the room, in the white porcelain vase on the table, there is a lone plum blossom, the branches are clear, the petals are thin, but you can smell the faint fragrance. In addition, in the elegant room, the furnishings are the same as before, the tables, chairs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, there is no change in the slightest, even the black and white on the chessboard, the individual placements are so familiar.

Shen Mo still remembered this unfinished game of chess, when he had just come back from Jiangnan, brought some tuyi to Su Xue, came over to sit down, played two games, and then because of something suddenly, he left without finishing the game, "But that was more than half a year ago." His gaze lingered on the endgame for a moment, and he reached out to touch the chessboard, but it was so clean that there was no trace of dust, and his heart couldn't help but twitch heavily.

Gentle footsteps sounded, and when she looked back silently, Su Xue had already arrived at her side, she stretched out her hand, and seemed to wipe it on the chessboard at random, and completely disrupted the chess pieces, and wanted to cover it up: "I am idle and bored to put up chess games, and I can't get into everyone's eyes." ”

He smiled silently, he couldn't get cheap and behave, so he smiled dryly: "Don't invite me to sit down." ”

"If you want to sit, who can stop you?" Today's Su Xue is a little unstable.

Shen Mo sat down embarrassedly, and said with a smile: "Begging for saliva,"

"It didn't burn." Su said, "Bear with it." ”

"Oh, okay." Shen Mo nodded, not knowing what to say.

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Although Su Xue spoke, she still got up to boil water for him, and said silently: "Let the maid do it."

Su Xue ignored him, got busy by herself, sat the small copper kettle on the charcoal stove, and stayed by the stove for a while.

silently scratched his cheeks, so he had to go to the couch too, sit on the futon, and sit opposite her through the small charcoal stove.

Both of them sat in the dark, the fire shone on the ceiling, forming a very round and hazy red halo, which also made the expressions of the two of them appear much softer, Su Xue seemed to be looking at the silence, and as if she was looking at the fluttering flames, gently fanning the fan, and said in a somewhat fluttering voice: "You heard it." ”

"Hmm," Shen Mo nodded, "I heard it all." ”

"I guess I didn't hear it." Su Xue adjusted her breathing and smiled reluctantly at Shen Mo, but that smile was deeply heartbreaking.

"What you hear is what you hear." Silent and soft, Su Xue was silent.

Silent for a moment, the water boiled, Su Xue got up and carried a pot to make tea, the development of Chinese tea culture to this time, can already be called tea art, and you have to be a beautiful woman to brew, in order to show its charm vividly, and Su Xue has completely evolved it into an art, the whole process is like mountains and flowing water, the clouds are light and the wind is light, as if playing a brisk movement.

Watching her movements silently, the heavy, frustrated, guilty, and sad negative emotions in her heart disappeared without a trace as the golden tea soup was poured into the cup.

Su Xue also regained her usual calm and calm bearing, and said lightly: "Drink." ”

Shen Mo took it, drank it all, Su Xue poured it for him again, and drank it again, if it was two cups, after saying enough "good tea" and the like, after the unnutritious praise, Shen Mo finally whispered: "Although Zhijian's words are ugly, I think that you might as well consider that proposal."

Su Xue's complexion had already regained a little flush, but when she heard this, she turned pale again, and explained silently: "Don't get me wrong, I just blame myself, I have delayed you for so many years, but I can't give you what I want, you should have your own happiness, I will sincerely bless you."

Su Xue's tears swirled in her eyes, but she didn't stay after all, a difficult smile pulled up at the corner of her mouth, and she forced herself to calm down: "After eating this bowl of tea, you can go back, there are still people waiting for you to eat at home." ”

"Don't be angry," saw that she gave an eviction order. Shen Mo continued to explain: "You know what I mean, don't I also want to solve the problem? You can't put it off like this, can you? Shaohua is fleeting..."

Su Xue bit her lower lip tightly, suddenly reached out to take the teacup in his hand, and said silently: "I haven't finished drinking it yet" He also reached out to block it, Su Xue's movements sped up in vain, grabbed the teacup in front of him, and the next moment knocked it to the ground and shattered.

"It's a pity, how can I drink tea in the future" Shen Mo looked down at the debris on the ground. That is Su Xue's ancestral Ruyao teacup, I don't know when, every time Shen Mo comes, she uses this cup to make tea for him, from Suzhou to Beijing, it has always been like this, Shen Mo is used to having such a wine cup, now that it is gone, it is really distressing.

At this time, she heard Su Xue sobbing, looked up silently, and saw that Su Xue's eyes were overflowing with tears, and then she looked at her original Bai Zhe's right hand, which was scalded red by the hot tea.

"Ah, you're hurt" Shen Mo tensed up suddenly, grabbed her wrist, and examined it carefully.

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