With that heavy silver in my arms, I felt that my steps were easier and I didn't seem to be so uncomfortable.? After a while, I returned to the street and walked to the place where I just met Ye Fei. Ping'er had already gone back. There were still many people here looking around at the portrait on the wall and talking in a low voice. I looked at my portrait again, and without saying anything, I was going back.

Just as I was about to turn around and leave, I saw a young woman in front of me looking at the portrait on the wall. Her back was a little familiar. At this time, she turned around and met me upright.

Although I haven't seen each other for many years, I recognized the familiar face at a glance.

"rue?"

Before I realized it, I had already called this name - wasn't she the girl from the Zhao family living next door to Liu Saner's house in Jixiang Village?

When she heard someone calling her name, she immediately raised her head and looked at me. She was startled by my face, stared blankly at me for a while, and then came over subconsciously: "Are you calling me? You are--"

I also froze for a moment, completely forgot about my current situation, but suddenly I saw an acquaintance and couldn't help but lose my composure.

Seeing that I was stammering and didn't speak, Yunxiang frowned, looked at me for a while, and the more I looked, my brows became more and more violent, and I said embarrassedly: "Yes, I--"

She remembered something, turned to look at the portrait on the wall, and her eyes widened in shock: "You, you are - Qing-"

"Shh!"

I hurriedly reached out and covered her mouth and pulled her into an alley on the street.

Yunxiang was still a little overwhelmed and kept staring at my face, then said for a while: "It's really you? Why are you-why are you?"

I pulled the scarf up a little embarrassedly: "I'm sick."

“…”

She looked at me in disbelief for a while, and her brows did not stretch.

Reunion does not mean that she will be happy. I also know that she doesn't like me. Although she didn't say it in person, I know that her feelings for Liu Saner are extraordinary. She is afraid that she will be the one who handed the Geng letter to Liu Saner. Otherwise, Aunt Zhao would not be so cold whenever she saw me. As a childhood sweetheart, she was never present except for someone to send me a hand-embellished embroidery piece. In the following days, she never saw her go out.

I was not a good appearance for her.

Thinking of this, I don’t know whether the name I just rashly called her is right or wrong.

The two of them stood in the alley, and after a while, no one spoke, the atmosphere became a little awkward.

After a while, she turned around and looked at someone selling sweet porridge at the other side of the alley, and said, "Let's go and have a porridge."

I nodded and followed her.

In this way, the street stalls are naturally not as good as restaurants. The weather outside is also cold, but a bowl of steaming sweet porridge is still warm in my hand. I held the fragrant sweet porridge but didn't dare to drink it. Now my body is getting more and more uncontrollable. I don't know if it will be embarrassing after taking a sip, so I can only hold it in my hand to keep warm. However, Yunxiang, I don't know if the porridge is very warm, her face turned red after drinking it.

After a while, she looked up at me as if she had to raise her courage: "He - third brother, do you have -?"

I know she must ask.

“He’s fine now.”

Yunxiang looked at me: "You two are still together?"

I was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered that any normal man would never forgive me for what happened before Liu Saner and I left Jixiang Village. She asked me, it was just a test.

Looking at Yunxiang's surprised eyes, I thought for a while and said, "In the past few years, he and I have experienced many things, and these things are hard to describe in any way. But what I can tell you is that he is now very good, and he has also become a very important official in the capital."

"Ah?! He became an official?"

"Um."

Yunxiang lowered her head and didn't say anything. Her long eyelashes trembled slightly. There was a look on her face that she didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow. She murmured: "He's doing well... that's good. Actually, I knew for a long time that he would have a future... I knew since I was a child that he was different from us."

I looked at her and felt sad and speechless.

After a while, Yunxiang raised her head and looked at me: "I just saw the portrait on the wall - what's going on? Why did I hear someone say, you are the person around the emperor? You guys -?"

I was a little embarrassed and nervous.

I did not intend to let her know that Yunxiang was just a quiet woman in a fishing village and should not be exposed to the unbearable things that filled my life. But now what is even more troublesome is that as long as I expose me and hand me over to the government, I can get a thousand taels of gold. Looking at Yunxiang now, I don’t seem to be very wealthy, if I don’t-

Feeling my nervous gaze, Yunxiang immediately understood and her face turned red.

I subconsciously said, "You, don't tell me the news."

“…”

"Please."

Yunxiang looked up at me, with a slightly angry look: "Who do you treat me?"

When I heard her words, I felt a little relieved. No, maybe, I believe in a person's self-esteem, especially in front of me, she is even less willing to be looked down upon.

I smiled awkwardly and then changed the subject. Seeing her outfit, her black hair was already tied up and was slanted by a wooden hairpin behind her head. Although it was simple, it made her delicate face look a little bit different. This dress was obviously not the dress of the unmarried girl. I asked, "Are you married now?"

"Yeah." She nodded, but for some reason, a shy expression flashed across her face. Before I could figure it out, I heard her say softly: "I'm married Gou Er."

"Gou Er?" I was stunned for a moment, immediately remembered the ignorant person, frowned, and immediately understood why she had such a shame just now.

How could you marry him?

Although it is hard to say that flowers are placed on cow dung, Yunxiang understands it herself when she looks at me and only smiles bitterly: "It's the end, I'll get married."

“…”

In the end, it's just getting married.

A simple sentence, but for some reason, I felt a soreness in my heart.

For many women, their life is actually two and half-life. The first half of their life is given by God and the second half of their life is given by man. Whoever they meet and who they marry determines the joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness of the past half of their life.

If you meet the right person and can be together in love, then your life will never be in vain; if you can't meet or miss it, your life will be difficult to end. Some people may insist on living alone, while others may just accept their fate and make up for it.

Looking back on my life, countless people have told me countless times that I should accept my fate.

But who is really willing to do it?

After Yunxiang said that, she seemed to have no idea what to say, so she just lowered her head silently. After a while, she raised her head to look at the sky and said, "It's late, I'm going back. Otherwise, he wants to--" As she said that, she glanced at me and stopped.

Although I heard something, I didn't ask, but just said, "How did you come to the city?"

"I'll sell some needlework and food at home. I won't let you go into the water these days, so many people in the village can't carry it."

"ah……"

As she said, she remembered something again and said to me, "Can you still come out tomorrow?"

"tomorrow?"

"Well, I have something to hand over to you. I'll be here to wait for me sooner tomorrow, okay?"

Although I didn't know what she would give me, I nodded immediately. Yunxiang drank the remaining sweet porridge in the bowl, put a few dollars on the small table, nodded at me, then got up and hurried away with the basket.

.

When he went back that night, Qi Sao and the others didn't show anything. They still trained the child as usual, kneading the dough and combining the filling, and preparing to make the ingredients for buns the next day. Ping'er tried several times to ask me what happened today, but I changed it.

The next day, when Sister Qi left, I left Ping'er who had been pestering me and asked questions, and also went out.

As I made an appointment to wait at the sweet porridge stall on the corner of the street. After waiting for a while, I saw Yunxiang coming. As soon as I stepped forward, I immediately saw that her face was slightly red and swollen, and even her eyes were still a little red.

I hurriedly said, "Yun Xiang, what's wrong with you?"

She kept lowering her head, and when she heard my question, her face turned redder. She subconsciously wanted to cover it with her hands, but she knew she couldn't cover it, so she could only pull me to the hutong palace. I kept asking: "Why is your face swollen?"

"Don't ask."

She said, taking out a small cloth bag from her sleeve and stuffing it into my hand: "For you."

The cloth bag was heavy, I almost couldn't hold it. What was it? I touched it and seemed to be hard inside. I untied the rope in surprise and saw that it turned out to be a big bag of broken silver!

I looked up in surprise and asked her: "Why, this is-"

Yunxiang still lowered her head and said, "Don't get me wrong, this is not what I gave it to you."

"That--"

"The third brother had already booked the land behind the village, but the land was taken back and the government paid the money. The money was taken down by the village chief, and I kept helping him - to collect it for you."

I looked at her in amazement.

There is not much silver here, but there are also seven or eight taels, which is a treasure for an ordinary family. But I didn't expect that Yunxiang would actually keep it like this, just keep it, and after seeing me, she would give it to me.

No.

Looking at her lowered face and the flashing eyes under her eyelashes, I immediately understood.

She kept the money for Liu Saner.

At this time, I also understood: "You were beaten, are you?"

“…”

"Who hit you? Gou Er?"

“…”

"Is it because you want to take out these silver, so he hits you?"

"Don't ask."

When I said this, Yunxiang's voice was already choked up. She quickly turned her head to avoid my eyes, but I could see the clearer the fingerprints slightly swollen on her fair face, even her ears turned red. I couldn't help but gritted my teeth: "How could he hit someone like this?"

Yunxiang reached out to caress her face gently. Her fair and thin hands made the redness and swollen face look so ferocious, but she just sighed helplessly: "He is not wrong, either."

“…”
To be continued...