Wei Linjuan nodded very obediently, and then followed me to her house.
Her home is in Xiaokan Village, a place I haven’t been to yet.
The two of us walked side by side on the gravel road, feeling the breeze of the summer night and feeling particularly comfortable.
"Wei Linjuan, are you still cold?" I turned to look at her. She was only wearing a thin dress. The shoes should have been given to her by Liu Ruxiang. They were a little longer than the ones she was wearing before. Thick clothes and thick pants look much better.
"I, it's okay, um... very comfortable." Wei Linjuan's little face showed a feeling of enjoyment.
What does she enjoy? Is it because being with me makes her feel comfortable?
With the sound of crickets lingering around us, we walked through the cornfields along the sheep intestine path, crossed the field ridges, and passed the rice fields, all the way to Xiaokan Village.
At the intersection of the village, under a tall old locust tree, a middle-aged man leaned against the trunk and smoked a cigarette.
When he saw the light, he turned his head and looked over.
"Dad!" Wei Linjuan walked past me.
"Lin Juan?" The man was stunned for a moment, rubbed his eyes, and seemed unrecognizable.
He looked at the beautiful daughter in front of him, and then at the snow-white and clean arms and calves. He couldn't calm down for a long time.
"I have waited for you until now, and now you are back. Are you cured of the dark spots on your body? You also have a new set of clothes. Who bought them for you?" The middle-aged man knocked on the cigarette pole and stood up. .
He saw me standing behind Wei Linjuan, and then asked: "Are you Wei Linjuan's deskmate, Liu Wenshan?"
"Yes," I nodded in agreement, thinking about what to shout, "Hello, uncle, my master asked me to send Liu Ruxiang back."
"Well, you are a good kid, not bad."
Wei Linjuan stuttered and said, "It was Liu Wenshan and his master who cured me. My master said that all my thick clothes were stained with poison and could no longer be worn, so he found me a pair of these clothes."
The middle-aged man let out a long sigh when he heard this.
"The scar on your body is nothing, and it's not a big problem. I used to be worried that you wouldn't be able to get married, but now it's fine. My daughter is so beautiful, I think she will be able to cross the threshold for marriage proposals in the future. Haha."
"Young man, your master is a great benefactor to our family. Come in, sit down and have a sip of tea." With that, he pulled me towards his house.
Wei Linjuan's family is neither poor nor rich, just a normal farming family. I asked him before. His father and mother are farming at home, and they have an older brother who works outside and can send some money back, so the conditions are pretty good.
Some flowers and plants were planted in the yard. After walking in, Wei Linjuan's mother also came out.
"Mom, this is classmate Wei Linjuan, the one sitting at the same table. He was his master who helped Wei Linjuan treat his illness before. Now the scars on the child's body are healed, please take a look."
Wei Linjuan's mother is a relatively thin middle-aged woman, with a look of hard work and vicissitudes of life on her face. When she walked out of the house and saw Wei Linjuan, her eyes were about to light up.
"My daughter." Wei Linjuan's mother hugged her daughter and looked at her carefully, her words full of disbelief.
"Hey, little classmate, sit inside and I'll pour you some tea."
"No, Auntie, I'm not thirsty..."
Not long after, Wei Linjuan's mother brought a bowl of water with white sugar in it.
Wei Linjuan's father sat next to me and chatted with me.
"Your master is from Yumen, so are you?"
I nodded.
"Your master is a female master, which is rare."
This is true. Liu Ruxiang also said before that she is probably the only woman in the entire Guangxi Province. In this industry, men are passed on to men rather than women. When performing rituals, she even encounters women pretending to be women. At that time, it was also done by a male teacher wearing a skirt and stockings.
"However, my master's ability is not weak. Our Yumen Liu family is based on the master's method. My master is among the best among generations."
"Well, I know this. To be honest with you, I was a master for a period of time when I was young. At that time, I studied for more than half a month, followed the master, and memorized many textbooks and songs. I just thought about it later. Just working part-time to earn more money to build a house and marry a wife is just a waste, and I haven’t even taken the precepts.”
After chatting for a while, the water in the bowl was drained.
"It's getting late, you should go back first, so as not to worry your master and come here to play often." He looked at me with a straight face, and I always felt that his attitude was a bit unpredictable.
He patted me hard on the shoulder and sent me out of the yard.
…
the next day.
Because I had finished all my homework, I didn't worry. I left home relatively late, but I didn't expect that I would meet Wei Linjuan on the way.
She was standing at the intersection with her schoolbag on her back, looking in the direction I came from.
She was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday afternoon. After all, she had worn thick cotton coats and thick cotton trousers for so many years. Now the weather was very hot and it was no longer suitable to wear them. Besides, she was the only girl in the family, so she probably didn't have any other clothes.
"Why don't you leave and wait for me?"
She was a little embarrassed and nodded.
"Today, why don't you explain it to me? I, I'm afraid other students will ask me."
"No problem." I agreed readily.
It was almost as I expected. As soon as Wei Linjuan came to school, her classmates felt strange when they looked at her. But when she walked into the class, they all looked at her with wide eyes.
"Who is this? Why does he look so familiar?"
"Isn't this Wei Linjuan? Why aren't you wearing thick cotton pants?"
"Hey, I heard that she used to have a strange disease, black spots all over her body, and she was always cold."
"Then why is she wearing a skirt today? Don't tell me, she looks really good."
"Why is she prettier than me? Isn't she an ugly girl?"
The male and female classmates all whispered, after all, at this age when love is just beginning, they all pay more attention to their own dressing, and it is very common for them to occasionally admire each other.
The morning reading class has not yet started, so there is still free time for activities. Some students are doing homework, some are playing marbles at the back of the class, and some are eating steamed buns from home.
Several female classmates who usually like to dress up walked to Wei Linjuan's seat with a smile.
"Wei Linjuan, your dress is so beautiful. Where did you buy it? It's beautiful."
"Yes, the shoes are also good and the style is very fashionable."
"Why don't you wear those thick clothes today? Have you recovered?"
Wei Linjuan nodded, a little shy, said a few words and then looked at me.
I coughed twice: "It's like this. Wei Linjuan got sick when she was very young, which caused the root cause of the disease. However, my master is a famous grand master with great magical power and omnipotence..."
