Chapter 2 Liu Huixiang(1/2)
"Don't worry, sir, you will get better slowly." Tofu Xishi comforted.
Su Xian felt that the bed was really fragrant and soft, so he hugged the embroidered quilt, rolled around twice, closed his eyes and said vaguely: "Madam, is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry!"
lady?!
Tofu Xishi was stunned, her bright eyes flashed with confusion, shame, anger, and confusion.
Although Su Xian used to call her "Mrs. Liu" in the past, she was so delicate and sensitive that she couldn't understand that "Mrs." represented his wife.
The woman with a sinister face walked to the bed in a few steps, lifted the quilt and pulled him out of the bed, and said angrily: "Who is your wife? Come down!"
"What? You're not mine..." Su Xian was dragged out of bed, dumbfounded, was he being sentimental?
"Mr. Su, it has been six years since my late husband passed away, and I have been a widow for six years as well."
Tofu Xishi seemed sad, excited, weak and helpless, "Today Mr. Su was unconscious in the street, so I came up with this plan... but I didn't expect that Mr. Su would actually say the words of a mad wolf, please... please respect yourself!"
A flash of lightning flashed across Su Xian's heart, and he remembered.
This tofu beauty is named "Liu Huixiang", but she is actually a widow!
Six years ago, although Liu Huixiang was a young lady from a wealthy family, her parents promised to marry a patient. On the night of their wedding, the groom died before entering the bridal chamber.
The etiquette at this time was not too strict, and soon after, matchmakers came to arrange marriage arrangements again.
As a result, two days before the wedding, the groom was robbed and killed by bandits.
Later, he was planning to get married again, but a few days before the wedding, the groom and his family were all imprisoned...
This happened several times, and all the people the matchmaker helped match up either died or suffered disaster.
So for six years, Liu Huixiang still didn't get married.
The matchmakers who came to visit also had accidents one after another. They either fell into a pond or were hit by a carriage...
Later, people in her natal family died abnormally one after another, or became bedridden, which was very evil. It was not until Liu Huixiang was kicked out of the house that the situation improved.
So now Liu Huixiang is not only a "killer", she is also a matchmaker and anyone close to her.
As a result, although Liu Huixiang was only twenty-five or sixty years old, and she was still a pretty girl, no one dared to approach her anymore, let alone a matchmaker.
Thanks to the loyal protection of the man with a waist as big as a bucket and a fleshy face, she was able to set up a tofu stall in Leshou County, and her days became more and more prosperous.
But her bad reputation of "killing husbands, matchmakers, and anyone close to her" became more and more mysterious, and her neighbors near and far were afraid of her.
Liu Huixiang rarely went out, leaving almost all the management of the tofu stall to that female man...
And Su Xian is Liu Huixiang’s neighbor!
The two houses are next to each other!
After thinking about this, Su Xian hurriedly bowed and apologized, saying: "It was abrupt, it was abrupt, Mrs. Liu, don't blame me, I forgot a lot of things, and I didn't think of it for a moment, don't blame me..."
Under the gaze of the man with a sinister face, Su Xian ran away from the door and came to the street.
It was already dark, there was no one on the street, it was quiet.
A gust of cool wind blew, and Su Xian's whole body trembled and he woke up.
He glanced left and right at the unfamiliar yet familiar streets, and finally, his eyes stopped on a two-story wooden building, which was his home.
He walked over quickly, took out the key and opened the door.
Fumbling to light the oil lamp, looking at the familiar rotten wooden stools, old tables, broken doors and windows, the original memory gradually emerged——
It turned out that Su Xian came from a wealthy family in the capital.
But since his father, he has been an inconspicuous bastard.
After Su Xian was born, he became a concubine's concubine and was very unpopular.
Later, being marginalized by the family, my parents decided to start their own business independently and moved to Yingzhou to settle down.
A few years ago, his parents passed away one after another. Their wish was that Su Xian could study more and preferably get admitted to the "Jinshi" or "Mingjing" examination, so that he could avoid the shame of being ostracized by his family!
Su Xian is really a nerd. As expected, he focused on studying and was not familiar with worldly economics. As a result...
He stood there for a long time holding an oil lamp, and finally the growling of his stomach woke him up.
"I'm so hungry. Let's make some porridge first."
Based on my memory, I went to the kitchen on the first floor and opened the lid of the rice jar. It turned out that it was clean without a grain of rice inside.
Su Xian was stunned for a moment, remembering that his family had run out of food a few days ago!
The last copper coin at home was used by him to buy a steamed cake two days ago...
Su Xian didn't give up. He held an oil lamp and searched the house inside and outside, but he couldn't find a single copper plate.
"Oh my God!"
Su Xian looked up to the sky and sighed: "After all, I, Su Xian, am also a landlord who earns tens of thousands a month in college, and I am also a well-known scholar in the local cultural circle... Why do you want me to come to this place!?"
"Forget it, let's sleep until tomorrow."
Walking up the creaky wooden stairs to the second floor, opening the door, you can see a bed, a set of chairs, and a wardrobe as high as one person.
Approaching the bed, there was a tattered quilt with holes on it, and the bed board underneath could be seen through the holes.
"Rubbish!"
Su Xian pulled up the tattered quilt and threw it on the ground.
As a result, all that was left on the bed was a bed board made of multiple wooden boards and a pillow that had not been washed for many years.
Fortunately, the weather has been hot recently, so Su Xian lay down without a quilt and forced himself to close his eyes to sleep.
The night is as cool as water.
"Dang Dang!"
"The sky is dry and the earth is dry, be careful with the candle..."
The sound of the watch was heard in the distance, occasionally mixed with a few dog barks.
The faint moonlight came in through the window, and the mottled spots on the wall were faintly visible.
"well!"
The more Su Xian slept, the more awake he became. He gritted his teeth, rolled over and got up, cursing: "This bed board is made of steel. It hurts my back."
Su Xian was used to sleeping on soft mattresses, but when he first slept on a flat and hard wooden bed, Su Xian was not used to it.
He got up and put on his Confucian shirt and cloth shoes, glanced at the tattered quilt on the ground, resisted the urge to pick it up, opened the door and went downstairs with an oil lamp.
He was going to borrow a quilt from his neighbor and put it on the bed board which was as hard as a steel plate.
In the process of going downstairs, more memories came to Su Xian's mind, related to the current situation in the world:
"This is Yingzhou of the 'Daliang Dynasty'. Across a 'Cangzhou' to the east is the Bohai Sea."
"Qinling Mountains, south of the Huaihe River, there are three countries: Shu, Nanchu, and Nanchen... This obviously does not match the names of the dynasties in history!"
After going downstairs and placing the oil lamp on the old wooden table, Su Xian suddenly understood: "Oh, since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the trajectory of history has changed."
"According to the time trajectory of official history, Wu Zhou should be the emperor now with Wu Zetian..."
"Wait a minute, the current emperor of Daliang is really a queen..."
"In the feudal era, there was no sense of security, but now I have trouble eating and sleeping!"
Open the door and come to the street.
Su Xian made up his mind: "I'll live in peace now that I've come, let alone having a bunch of wives and concubines, and live a life without shame. But at least I have to ensure my personal safety. I don't want to be arrested for no reason."
behead."
Leshou County in Yingzhou is a "middle county", but perhaps because it is located in the southeast corner of the city, Su Xian did not see anyone on the street.
He glanced at the door of Liu Huixiang's house, turned and walked to the other side.
At the same time, he thought to himself: "For now, let's not worry about so many things, let's find a way to solve the problem of food and clothing."
Bang bang bang!
Su Xian knocked on a neighbor's door and shouted: "Uncle Liu, Uncle Liu, open the door."
"Who is it, this late at night..."
"Uncle Liu, I am Su Xian."
"Su...Su Xian? Oh, I'm sorry. I fell down and lame my leg just now. I can't get out of bed. I'm sorry..."
Su Xian knocked for a while, but no one in the room answered.
He scratched his head and knocked on the next neighbor's door: "Shopkeeper Luo, open the door. Student Su Xian has something to ask for."
"No one is in the house!" Shopkeeper Luo pinched his nose and shouted.
"I'm going!"
"Uncle Zhang, I have something to ask of you. Please open the door."
"Nephew Su Xian, you can go with peace of mind, I will burn paper for you... Bodhisattva bless you, Buddha bless you, Nephew Su Xian, you can go with peace of mind..."
To be continued...