344, the past of plum blossoms
When he was ten years old, he left Kyoto and was sent by his parents to his grandmother's house far away in Suzhou.
Youqing remembers that Suzhou arrived in the twelfth lunar month of that year, she lived there for a year before she was taken back by her parents.
When she first arrived in Suzhou, Youqing spent all day in the house and rarely even went to the yard. Several cousins often came to her to relieve her boredom, but they rarely saw smiles on her face.
During the Chinese New Year, the whole mansion was lively and she was alone in desert.
After the Chinese New Year, it was the Spring Festival. After the Chinese New Year, my cousin got married, and the wedding was one after another.
Youqing's grandfather was originally from the north, so he still abides by the rules of the north. The matter of "bearing a burden" must be both children.
The boy has already made a seven-year-old cousin. The girls in the family are all older. Youqing is the youngest, she is small in size and has a small face, and looks about the same age as her seven-year-old brother.
Therefore, the errand was sent to carry a bag, which was very simple. The two children followed the bride's trip and sat in the sedan chair. Each of them carried a small red satin bag, which contained the bride's clothes.
When the sedan chair arrives at the in-laws' house, there will be a special person coming up to invite two young guests to get out of the sedan chair, holding candy gold, and other things that attract children to come down. If you can't keep getting out of the sedan chair, you can get more benefits.
When Youqing was about to get into the sedan chair, her grandmother kept instructing her: "But when someone else called her, she would get out of the sedan chair! Don't be too heavy, and she wouldn't go down even if she called her eight times. In the end, she would be carried into the sedan chair and it would be bad."
The young man nodded his head, sat in the sedan chair, and listened to the lively rumbling gongs and drums outside, but he was still absent-minded.
"Sister, my mother asked me to get a few more gold ingots!" The younger brother bit his ears with him, "What are you going to want?"
"If I want to get the gold ingot, can I give it to you?"
"Hey!" The younger brother smiled happily, and then felt a little embarrassed: "What does the sister want? I'll help you find them!"
Youqing thought for a while: "My grandmother asked someone to cut down all the red plums in my yard. Now I want to see the red plums."
"This is not simple." The younger brother grabbed the red bag in his hand, "Then do you want even candy? I gave it to me all?"
"Give it all to you."
I swayed along the way and arrived at the man's house.
The sound of firecrackers only makes people feel upset.
After a while, someone said outside the sedan chair: "Come on these two little ancestors first, otherwise the bride can't get out of the sedan chair!"
As soon as the curtain was lifted, an ugly face came in: "Children, I'll give you a hundred candies, hurry up and get down!"
His face was so ugly that my little cousin was frightened and cried: "Ugly!"
After a while, he changed to a slightly handsome guy with a flattering smile on his face: "Come down, each person and a pair of gold ingots with happy characters!"
"Hey!" My little cousin was happy when he heard that there were gold ingots and forgot the reserve that my grandmother had told him before.
Youqing looked at the person in front of her and suddenly wanted to tease the other person in her heart. She looked at the two gold ingots and was unmoved.
After a while, I heard someone outside the sedan chair say, "It's a girl who refuses to come down... Candy must not work, please bring some good things!"
After a while, a pair of gold earrings were sent. Youqing still did not move, and there were golden horns and small gold bracelets behind him. Youqing still did not move at all.
The other party finally became a little anxious, but the happy days had to coax my mother's family, so he asked his cousin repeatedly: "Why don't you, your sister?"
My little cousin is also naughty and rolls his eyes: "I think you are ugly!"
The curtain of the sedan chair was lowered and he heard it anxiously outside, "Hurry up and find someone who looks good to me, they still think I'm ugly!"
After a while, someone seemed to call a nice person over: "You can do it, you can do it! You are the best among these people today! You are just coaxing children. You are not old, so you must know what children like!"
It seemed that I had gone to invite a nice person to come over. Youqing smiled secretly, thinking that teasing these wedding guests was also quite interesting!
The man did not directly lift the door curtain in front of him, but lifted the curtain of the sedan chair from his younger brother's side and handed him a candy.
When my cousin saw that the candy looked fresh and beautiful, like a rose. When she ate it in her mouth, she felt it tasted even more, so she even asked the person for it.
I don’t know what the man whispered with my little cousin, but my younger brother actually got out of the sedan chair on his own initiative.
Youqing laughed in his heart, but he was still unmoved. What can they do?
That so-called beautiful person was gone.
The surroundings became quiet, and the onlookers did not discuss the bride, but instead began to discuss the difficult sister-in-law of the groom.
Youqing was alone in the sedan chair, feeling a little uneasy.
Could it be that I have been too much in my hands? It would be bad if the bride could not get out of Taiwan.
I felt that it was rare to be happy today. Since the twelfth month of last year, my heart was like a pool of stagnant water. Today's vulgar lively made my heart turbulent.
Just as I was thinking about it, the curtain of the sedan chair was suddenly opened. I felt a faint fragrance coming, and I saw a large ball of dazzling red color breaking into my eyes, which turned out to be a big red plum blossom!
Youqing's heart was pounding, and her eyes were looking at the flowers for a moment, and the people holding the flowers were looking at the flowers.
He was a 15 or 16-year-old boy. He didn't have to listen to others' comments. Youqing also knew that he must be the best person at today's wedding banquet.
Good to see...
Youqing frowned and thought for a while.
It's good to see... only he deserves to be a plum blossom.
No one in this world deserves it.
Only he is worthy.
His face was a little cold, but it was a crystal cold, like snow on the top of a mountain. His eyes moved and the corners of his mouth raised, the snow turned into spring water, submerging the clear world and even submerging the entire Suzhou.
He smiled and said, "I'll take you to Merlin."
Youqing had thousands of words to say, but at this moment he couldn't say a single word.
Later, I didn't know how to get out of the sedan chair in a daze, holding the plum blossom he gave me in my hand, and followed him into the gate in a daze and joyful manner. The noise next to me turned into silence, and the beauty next to me turned into nothingness, only the back of the boy in front of me and the back of the silver fox cloak.
For a long time later, whenever Youqing saw someone wearing a silver fox cloak, he would mistakenly think it was him.
Afterwards, I learned that the plum forest was actually very small, just a dozen plum trees, but at that time I felt it was very big, as if there were plum blossoms all day long!
The boy didn't speak, but stood beside Youqing to watch the plum blossoms.
That moment was short, but long.
It was not until Meilin that Youqing knew that the plum blossom appreciation was about to end.
He said to him incoherently: "Because the family cut off all the red plum blossoms, I want to see the red plum blossoms! And because..."
"Does it look good?" As soon as he spoke, the world became quiet.
"Good-looking." Youqing originally wanted to say that because last year, his own sister hit her death by a red plum tree, and the family never allowed to plant red plums. Today, she is not willful, but just misses her sister.
Before he could say anything, he smiled and left.
Youqing only hated himself and didn't even ask the other party's name.
Every day after that, I would think of him more or less.
Until I returned to Kyoto, I still remembered him.
As time passes, this person gradually becomes the person in his dream.
A few years later, in the first lunar month, there were lanterns that had not been removed from the Lantern Festival on the street.
That scene was the same as the day my cousin got married.
Youqing bought rouge at a powder shop in Muqin Lane. He was caught off guard and met him.
It's still so clear and so crystal cold.
He smiled politely at himself and went to introduce Xianglu to another guest.
Youqing couldn't move away for a long time, and she felt a sense of surprise that she had lost and regained her regained surprise. After the surprise, she felt a sense of loneliness.
He looks better.
But I am becoming more and more ordinary.
Sometimes, it is better to not meet.
It is common sense that Youqing smiled so bitterly that he didn't remember himself.
But that plum blossom has been kept.
Chapter completed!