18 Heartbroken
◎She saw the embers deep in his pupils◎
At the hour of Mao, Tian Nongxi's biological clock rang on time.
The first second she opened her eyes, all she saw was the ceiling with a missing tile.
The surroundings were gray, except for that place where the sun was generously shining, carrying a little dust with it and shining down brilliantly.
Just like every morning when I stay in bed.
Even if she lived another lifetime, she still couldn't appreciate the joy of getting up early.
After lying in bed for more than ten minutes, Tian Nongxi gritted his teeth, kicked his legs, opened his eyes, and finally got out of bed.
The rising sun makes people feel lazy.
She has things to do and can't relax.
So he scooped up a handful of clean water and kept splashing it on his face.
It is not warm at all in early spring, and the mountain spring water is especially cold. It is so icy that the fields and streams are shivering, and the fingertips are slightly white.
After shivering slightly a few times, the water droplets wrapped around her eyelashes began to drip down, and she vaguely saw the person standing by the door.
Lin Luan is always like this. No matter when you see him, he always stands straight and dust-free, just like a cedar tree standing proudly in the world.
If he were in modern times, he would definitely be the role model that the dean of studies would mention in his weekly speeches.
Tian Nongxi straightened up uncomfortably, inexplicably not wanting to speak first.
Last night it was late at night and the dew was heavy. Tian Nongxi couldn't help yawning a few times and was then told to rest by Lin Luan in both obvious and subtle ways.
So much so that she only viewed Lin Luan's first masterpiece.
In my mind, rather than the slightly funny little flowers, there is more the crackling sound of burning candles, which is particularly noisy in the quiet night.
Perhaps because they were too close to the fire, their faces were burned slightly red.
When their eyes met, they looked away at the same time.
Their eyes met briefly, and she saw the embers deep in his pupils.
Tian Nongxi inexplicably became a little more awake, and her sleepiness seemed to be driven away by flames, but she still said goodbye to Lin Luan, closed the door, and forced herself to sleep.
I didn't know what time it was when I fell asleep, but I had already counted 8,732 dumplings.
After his stomach couldn't help but growl a few times, Tian Nongxi wanted to hit himself on the head and make himself faint.
After all, there is no takeaway here.
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"How is it?" Lin Luan interrupted the silent atmosphere, without taking his eyes off Tian Nongxi, his tone calm.
He was standing against the light, so people couldn't see his eyes clearly.
"What?" Tian Nongxi was a little slow to react. She racked her brains to think, but because her mind was still not awake, she had to give up and responded instinctively, "It's fine."
Lin Luan paused for two seconds, said nothing more, and turned into the kitchen.
There were still a few small cabbages left yesterday, but after a night of cold wind, they had become wilted, so Tian Nongxi simply used them to feed the chickens.
While she was squatting and tearing vegetables, Lin Luan brought out two bowls of something.
The mouth of the bowl was so deep that Lin Luan didn't know what it was until she walked in front of Tian Nongxi - a tray of small soup dumplings. Maybe there were too many of them, so they were divided into two bowls. They were bright yellow and looked like the crab roe filling that Tian Nongxi liked very much.
She was a little shocked and asked, "You did it?"
But then I thought about it and felt it was impossible because I didn’t have any leavened dough at home.
Lin Luan shook his head.
“I bought it.”
Tian Nongxi remembered that he had not paid Lin Luan yet, and the words stuck in his throat, "Why don't you take care of breakfast from now on," were forcibly changed into "You are so awesome."
After the two of them divided the soup dumplings, Tian Nongxi snatched the bowl from Lin Luan in accordance with the principle that the person in charge of meals should not wash the dishes, rolled up his sleeves and started working.
The clear water rushed to her slender fingertips, and after completing its mission, it was scooped up and put into the wooden barrel.
Their destination is the land.
After watering the plants, Tian Nongxi relaxed and turned back to the Tian family's fields.
Time flies during the day, she has to prepare the food around noon and then rush to the entrance of Ruoshui Academy to set up the stall.
After picking a few cabbages and lettuces, Tiannongxi passed by the stream and washed them on the way.
When I got home, I went straight to the stove to cut vegetables and arrange the dishes.
After such a busy day, it was almost noon when I took a break.
There was half a head of lettuce left on the stove, so Tian Nongxi made a stir-fried lettuce dish and prepared to have a quick lunch.
When she pulled out the chopsticks, she subconsciously pulled out three pairs. Then she remembered that Grandma Tian had not appeared all morning. She wiped her hands and prepared to go and call her.
Grandma Tian's room was inside the main house. Tian Nongxi passed by the main house and only then saw the sachet on the table.
Lin Luan made a lot of them. At first glance, they filled up half of the table. Although her stitches were not as good as those of a good embroiderer, they were still usable.
She couldn't help but stop and looked through the table. She saw a few sachets with loose stitching pressed against the edge, and an indescribable emotion surged in her heart.
It wasn't early when she went to bed last night, not to mention that Lin Luan was an ancient man, so he must have looked dazed after staying up so late.
Lin Luan happened to see it outside the door and thought that Tian Nongxi had discovered something. His usually calm expression collapsed for a moment.
He didn't know how much Tian Nongxi needed, and it was not easy to wake up the person who had gone to sleep, so he had to call Wen Xun to come in and help him.
Wen Xun was not troubled. He packed a few pieces of cloth and left with light skills. When he came back, he brought dozens of embroidered sachets.
Each one is carved into the moon and cut out the clouds.
All the ugly-looking sachets in this pile were made by him without exception.
Tian Nongxi caught a glimpse of Lin Luan out of the corner of his eye, and the guilt in his heart was about to overflow, and he kept praising him.
Lin Luan's expression grew increasingly stiff. He finally waited for her to pause for two seconds before finding an opportunity to casually ask, "Are you going to look for your grandma?"
The red lips that had been opening and closing finally closed, and the next second there was a knock on the tightly closed door.
After a long time, no one opened the door, so Tian Nongxi gave up and turned to Lin Luan and said, "Maybe he left a long time ago."
This dynasty stipulates that women can only marry at the age of 18, but the marriage age in the previous dynasty was 14, so it was very difficult to implement.
In places where the emperor is far away, ignorant families who want to have children early will try their best to find loopholes.
For example, the Huang family, that is, Tian Nai’s parents and Tian Er Niang’s great-grandparents.
Seeing that his daughter and the good-for-nothing son of the vegetable vendor next door were showing some signs of getting along, he discussed with the Tian family on this side of the mountain and sent his sixteen-year-old daughter to Tianjia Village.
Two years later, the couple, who had secretly married, gave birth to a daughter and a son.
Giving birth to two children in a short period of time greatly damaged Huang's health. She became pregnant several times after that, but each time she miscarried due to weakness. Until she was 33 years old -
The Tian family, whose daughter was mediocre and son was timid, finally welcomed their long-awaited youngest son.
Among the three children of the Tian family, only Tian Nong Le, who was born a year and a half later than his brothers and sisters, was a legitimate child recognized by etiquette and law.
Tian Nong Le has shown great talent and learning since he was young.
The Tian family then gave up and the entire family devoted all their efforts to supporting this child who had the opportunity to bring honor to the family.
Huang, who was illiterate, doted on her grandson and told him these things as bedtime stories.
Tian Erniang, who was sitting next to her, looked up from her needlework and asked her grandmother's name.
She was very curious because her name was not mentioned in her grandmother's daily stories.
But grandma just tucked the corner of the quilt for my brother, shook her head and said she didn't remember.
She couldn't understand how someone couldn't even remember their own name.
This doubt took root and did not disappear until she left this world.
Someone took it.
Tian Nongxi glanced at the room, which was no different from what he remembered, and closed the door.
"Let's eat first."
Because Grandma Tian gave birth to her child early, her actual age is not very old. She is only fifty-nine in terms of her age.
She is very nimble and often hangs out with friends and relatives.
I have been staying at the Zhuang family's house recently and have not had the chance to catch up with old friends. I may go out to meet friends today.
Tian Nongxi left a bowl of rice for his grandmother, ate his own portion in no time, and pushed the cart parked in the yard out.
She had ordered this from Carpenter Wang not long ago. He had been working very hard on it and had delivered the cart last night.
"Are you going today?" Tian Nongxi had something personal to attend to and really didn't want anyone to accompany him, so he pushed the cart and left without waiting for an answer.
"go."
The corners of her mouth drooped for a moment, and she smiled dryly, but she had already thought of a way to dump him in her mind.
"But I can't stay with you for too long." Lin Luan said.
Tian Nongxi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
It was not fast to push the cart, and when they arrived at Ruoshui Academy, school was almost over.
Tian Nongxi stopped at the same place as yesterday, said goodbye to Lin Luan, and waited boredly.
She told Lin Luan not to wait for her and went home first.
The reason was that she was going to buy groceries.
After the deep bell rang three times, the brass ring knocked heavily on the wooden door.
At the same moment the kind voice was heard, the student, with quick steps, slithered out like a snake along the door that the servant had only half opened. When he saw the stall at the door, his eyes lit up a little.
"It tastes good", "It's good value for money", "It's better than the one made by the stoker at home" - the students' praises poured in, and someone even gave Tian Nongxi a couplet.
Soon all the food was sold out, but the wooden box was still empty.
Tian Nongxi counted the neatly stacked food boxes, a total of fifty-three.
Eighty meals were prepared today, and they were all sold out within an hour. It was also confirmed that at least there would be fifty-three customers tomorrow.
Tian Nongxi was overjoyed.
The mechanical voice of "Eight hundred and forty-two coins deposited" came as expected, but she stopped smiling and blinked in confusion.
Everything must be based on evidence, and it would be too risky for her to just go there rashly.
Today she had been keeping an eye on passers-by, but she hadn't seen Tian Nong Le. She wondered if he had noticed something unusual yesterday, or if he was just a cautious person.
Tian Nongxi pushed the cart to Bu Qin to deliver mothballs. When he saw that the sun was about to set, he left the cart in Bu Qin's yard and set off on his own.
The banker's gate gleamed brightly in the setting sun, and two expressionless servants stood at the door.
Not long after Tian Nongxi approached, the servant standing on the left came up to her and bowed to her, "Miss Tian."
She had only been to the Zhuang Mansion once, but she was remembered.
Tian Nongxi nodded somewhat uncomfortably and said, "I can go by myself."
Passing through the corridor that wound like a sleeping dragon, she found the place in her memory.
The thriving weeping willows occupied some of the pond water, their branches floating on the surface. When the breeze blew, they rustled and cut the shimmering water into pieces of gold.
The koi fish swung its tail and played in the ripples, unaware of the entanglement and hesitation in the visitor's heart.
Across the pond, she met those cold eyes.
【Author’s words】
In a few chapters, I'll be writing the copy! (Finally!)
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