Chapter 162 See You Again (Side Story 4)
After a few months of traveling from south to north, when I returned to the north, it was the midsummer of the year again.
The closer he got to home, the more anxious and worried Xie Yuduo became.
It is clearly a broad road in the Central Plains, but why is it more unsettling than the mountain road on the cliff edge in the southwest?
After he recovered, he rode his horse at full speed, and finally arrived at Baihe Town.
When he reached the bank of the Luo River again, he dismounted and looked into the distance. He saw that the water flowed gently but the river was extremely wide.
Fortunately, the boat was not far away.
The boatman saw people waving and rowed the boat over.
One man and one horse, boarding a boat to cross the river.
The water flowed slowly, creating ripples, and the boat gradually moved towards the center of the river.
Xie Yuduo stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the rippling water, his mood also feeling uneasy.
He wanted to find out, but didn't dare to ask directly, so he pretended to be casual.
"Master, what's the name of the town on the other side of the river?"
The gray-haired boatman was rowing the boat, thinking he was just chatting.
"White River Town."
"I remember there's a yarn shop in Baihe Town, right?"
"have!"
"What's that family's surname?"
"Surname Shen!"
"How many children are there in the Shen family?"
"Three children. Two brothers and a daughter."
Xie Yuduo's heart was beating like a drum, but his tone was calm.
"Oh, has my daughter got an in-law?"
As soon as he finished asking, the boatman suddenly found that there seemed to be a fish in the fish bag on the side of the boat. He quickly put down the oar in his hand and went over to check.
There really is fish.
“Hey, got it! Got it!”
Xie Yuduo's back stiffened and he felt a pain in his chest, as if someone was holding his heart in their hands, rubbing it casually, then throwing it to the ground and stepping on it hard.
I am really late!
If I had known this, I should have rushed home two years ago, prepared gifts, and went directly to propose marriage!
He closed his eyes and clenched his fists.
"Young man, come here and help me. There's a fish in this net! There's a fish!"
Xie Yuduo immediately turned around and saw the old boatman bending down to pull the net, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
It turned out to be a fish.
He helped catch the fish in no time. Seeing the boatman hurriedly putting the fish into the wooden barrel without answering, he could not bear it any longer and asked again.
"Master, does the daughter of the Shen family have a husband?"
The boatman then remembered his question, and seeing that he had asked it twice in a row, he became a little alert.
"Young man, why are you asking this?"
“…”
I felt guilty for a moment.
Xie Yuduo laughed at himself in his heart, what am I afraid of? Am I afraid of being laughed at?
A scoundrel like yourself is the least afraid of being laughed at!
He stood up straight, with his hands behind his back, looking calm and confident.
"I want to marry her."
After hearing this, the old boatman looked up and down and chuckled.
"Oh, you are lucky!"
…
When he got off the boat, Xie Yuduo felt very happy and put all the loose change he had on him into the wooden barrel used to catch fish.
Leading the horse into the reeds on the shore, he walked briskly, feeling relaxed and happy, and even couldn't help laughing out loud twice.
Ha ha ha ha!
Oh my God! You are finally kind to me!
…
I have dreamed of her so many times, I must go and see her with my own eyes first.
It was noon, midsummer, and there were few pedestrians on the South Street of Baihe Town.
He was leading his horse past the door of the Shen family's woolen yarn shop. Seeing that the person behind the counter was her father, he went to the bakery next door to buy some cakes.
"Two meat patties."
"Okay, the meat patties are freshly made and still hot! Take them!"
This time it was quick, Xie Yuduo didn't want to buy it and leave so quickly.
"Um... do you have any other cakes?"
"Yes, yes! Except for the hawthorn cakes, which have to be made fresh, everything else is available."
"Okay, I want hawthorn cake."
"ah?"
"I want... twenty."
"So many...it'll take a long time!"
"That's all right. I have plenty of time."
After rushing all the way here, he was no longer in a hurry.
When the first batch of hawthorn cakes came out of the oven, Mr. Shen, who had been sitting behind the counter, suddenly stood up.
It turned out that it was my daughter who came to bring me food.
As usual, Chen Qi brought lunch from the backyard and gave it to the father who was in charge of the shop.
"Dad, take your time eating. I'll watch you for a while."
"good."
As soon as Chen Qi took over for her father, a guest came to visit.
A young man, very tall and handsome.
She often helped her family run the shop and was used to doing business, so she greeted everyone with a smile as usual.
"Guest, what would you like to order?"
She has never been able to remember strangers and had long forgotten having met this person.
The young guest glanced around briefly and began to speak in a clear and sharp voice.
"I want to buy some cloth."
On the counter were several pieces of newly arrived fine silk cloth.
"Okay, what color do you want?"
"……red."
In that pile of fine silk cloth, the most abundant and eye-catching color is red.
"Okay."
Chen Qi quickly took out several kinds of red cloth and placed them on the counter for him to see.
"What is the guest going to do with it? To make clothes or to get married?"
The young guest didn't look at the cloth, but just looked at her and smiled gently.
"If we get married...how do we use it?"
"Getting married, then there are many places to use this red cloth!"
Chen Qi smiled, her eyes and eyebrows lit up like spring water, and she enthusiastically introduced the uses of the red cloth to the guests.
"For example, there's the red silk for tying, the red veil for the head, the betrothal gifts, and the red silk draped over the groom's wedding attire—they're always necessary!"
The young visitor looked at her for a long moment and then nodded.
"really……"
He stood with his hands behind his back, a smile on his face.
"...I want them all. I'm getting married soon, and there's a lot of room for red cloth."
Since he had no loose change on him, he took out a whole silver ingot.
There is so much money, it will take a long time to find the change.
Chen Qi didn't mind the trouble and smiled.
"Okay! Please wait a moment!"
She was quick and efficient, sorting the documents into categories and folding them neatly. She tied each one with a red ribbon before handing them neatly to him.
A large pile of red cloth was sold to the young customer.
He is preparing to use it for his wedding.
Wedding Theater
A few days after the wedding, Chen Qi took some time to pack up the things she would use for the wedding.
The couple's wedding attire, the bride's veil, the groom's red silk, the red silk they held together when getting in and out of the bridal sedan...
The whole thing was made of bright red fine silk cloth.
Chen Qi thought that since these were things she would use only after getting married, she would naturally never use them again in the future. However, she couldn't just throw them away. She planned to organize them and put them in the box that came with her dowry, so that she could use them to do some odd embroidery work in the future.
Xie Yuduo finished his work in the shop and came back early, but unusually he did not help her clean up. Instead, he sat aside and quietly observed her expression.
Chen Qi didn't notice it, and his expression remained normal, as he continued to fold the things neatly.
Seeing that Chen Qi had almost packed up the things and was about to put them into the box, Xie Yuduo reached out and pressed down a corner of the red ribbon.
"Yue'er, take a look, does it look familiar?"
Shen Qi blinked.
"Looks familiar, isn't this the one I was holding hands with on the day we got married?"
"...Does your shop also have this kind of red silk?"
"Yes, but they sell for a small amount. These look like the same cloth I use at home. However, all the families getting married within a few dozen miles around use this kind of red silk."
"oh……"
Xie Yuduo pondered for a moment.
On the second day of their marriage, he discovered that she could not remember the people she had just met. She always followed him or followed Yu Jing, ready to ask in a low voice who was about to come over to talk to her.
It's normal for her to have trouble remembering people she's just met a few times.
Naturally, I didn't remember it either, as I had only seen myself a few times.
On his wedding night, he married the girl he had been thinking about day and night, but others thought he was marrying a stranger he met for the first time.
Chen Qi put a stack of red cloth in the dowry box, and just as she walked back, she was pulled into someone's arms.
"Yue'er, do you remember that before we got married... you had already met me?"
Shen Qi nodded seriously.
"I remember. I saw him once when we met, and once when we gave him the betrothal gifts. Unfortunately, I didn't see him clearly. If I had to be honest, I saw him clearly on the wedding day."
Xie Yuduo smiled with relief and kissed her cheek.
Since she doesn't remember, forget it.
If they said that they had met a long time ago, they would have to have been to her shop, talked about how they had been thinking about her day and night, talked about the quarrel in front of her shop, and talked about the rumors about women bringing bad luck to their husbands in Baihe Town.
She was newly married and a new wife. It would not be good if she knew that her husband had heard gossip about her.
Forget it, it’s better to have less trouble than more. Why should I let her feel uneasy?
What's more, she is now the wife in his arms.
An old dream comes true.
What more could I ask for?
*
More than a month after the wedding, in the red brocade tent.
She had just learned to look down on others, and when she was enjoying herself, she suddenly stopped, leaned over, and stroked the scar on his chest with her slender hands.
The two broken ribs had long since healed, leaving only this scar on the heart.
"What... is this?"
She had seen this scar before, but it was hazy through the brocade curtains and not as clear as it was today.
Xie Yuduo was panting, and seeing her almond eyes rippling and her cheeks flushed, but asked this, he couldn't help but frowning slightly.
At this moment, in this situation, in this scene, how could she still have the mind to ask this! It seems that she is not cruel enough.
"This is... my heart."
Yes, it is indeed the position of the heart, and it is beating so fast because of the passion.
"I'm asking, how did this scar come about?"
"Just, my heart... moved a little."
"Ah? Your heart was moved?"
"Yes, it moved violently."
She was about to ask more, but he suddenly turned over. Soon, she no longer had the energy to ask more questions.
The more I feel, the more cruel I become.
The waist too.
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