Yan Gui's home is in a shabby alley in the county town. A small courtyard and a house with a few tiles missing from the roof were all the belongings of this poor young man.
Although there is not a single piece of decent furniture in Yan Gui's home, and there is even only one bed, it is clean, tidy, and orderly. A leg was missing in the corner and on the wooden table padded with blue bricks were placed the memorial tablets of Yan Gui's parents and master Yan Shiliu. Only when Yan Longyu entered the room and saw these memorial tablets did he realize that Yan Gui's original surname was Yan. Maybe this is the fate between him and Yan Shiliu!
Yan Gui gave up the only bed to two young men with extraordinary status. He found some wheat straw from outside, spread a ragged mat on top of it, and slept on the ground. Yan Longyu was helpless about this: I can’t persuade him! The old dog named "Huang Yan" was lying at the door with his tail curled up.
All the noise in the county town seems to have nothing to do with this small courtyard. It is quiet and harmonious, and no one disturbs it.
The night was already deep, Dugu Haodang and Yan Gui had already fallen asleep. Only Yan Longyu, who was lying on the bed, opened his eyes and looked at the roof in the darkness, unable to fall asleep for a long time. A young man will not dwell on one thing. He is always happy when he should be happy and sad when he should be sad. He rarely suffers from insomnia when he is carefree. But tonight, no matter what position Yan Longyu changed or what method he used, it was still difficult to fall asleep. He recalled the words of the old man and the woman surnamed Wang in the inn during the day, and thought of a very special person to him, "The second son of the county governor's family, the person he wants to marry will not be Sister Tao!"
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When Yan Longyu was twelve years old, he ran away from home to learn swordsmanship and get angry with Hua Fengju. In the winter, he crossed the Gunlong River alone and ran to the county town.
Yan Longyu, who didn't know where to go and refused to go back, spent most of the day walking throughout Fulong County, then walked out of the county town and came to a small village in the southern suburbs of the city.
It gets dark very quickly in winter, and in a blink of an eye you can't even see. Yan Longyu, who was cold and hungry, smelled the tangy aroma of food and came to the door of a house. Just when he was hesitating whether to go in, a girl's gentle voice suddenly came out in the dark night, "Little brother, why don't you go home so late! My family will be anxious."
In the moonlight, Yan Longyu looked intently in the direction of the sound - there was a tall woman standing in the yard, looking towards him. The hungry Yan Longyu no longer had the energy to be angry with others, and he said bitterly to the tall silhouetted figure in the yard as if he was grasping a life-saving straw: "Sister, my family and I ran out in anger. It’s dark and I haven’t eaten yet, can you give me something to eat, and I will pay you back in the future.”
"Sister?" The girl was a little wary at first, but maybe because she also had a younger brother at home, she relied on a woman's unique feeling to feel that the child outside the hospital did not seem to be lying. So the girl walked up to Yan Longyu lightly and took his cold palm, "That's it, let's go, go inside, my sister will take you to dinner."
Still a child, Yan Longyu's heart felt warm. This was the first time he could hold a girl's hand since he could remember. The slender palms were warm, and the girl's faint body fragrance entered his nose, and he was pulled into the room by the girl in a daze.
Her home is not big, but very warm. Unknowingly, Yan Longyu, whose face was already flushed, saw the blind old woman and a boy several years younger than himself at the small table in the room under the dim light.
He also saw the girl's face clearly.
The woman has just reached the age of hairpins, with willow-leaf eyebrows, peach blossom eyes, thin lips, a strand of blue silk half-covering her face, white embroidered shoes, and a few thin patches on her body, which makes her tall and tall. figure.
Yan Longyu, who had never seen many good-looking women in his life, kept staring at the pretty girl with haircuts, her pretty face flushed slightly, and she said with an embarrassed smile: "My sister's house is a little rough, don't dislike it."
Yan Longyu babbled incoherently, "No, no, that sister, my name is Yan Longyu and I live on the mountain. What's your name?"
The woman in front of the small table put down a pair of bowls and chopsticks, covered her face with a smile, "My name is Tao Wanqiu, from the autumn of autumn. My brother's name is Tao Jingsong, from the pine tree."
Yan Longyu saw Tao Wanqiu's every frown and smile, and couldn't get it away. Yan Longyu smiled naively and said, "Then I'll call you Sister Tao!"
The woman looked at this strange "brother" who had handsome features but was a little dull and cute and smiled again, and waved her hand gently: "It's up to you, come and have a meal together. Come, you and my brother sit together."
Only then did Yan Longyu realize that there were two people in the room. He hurriedly said hello to the blind old woman at the table, waved to his little brother, smiled, and walked to the small table shamelessly.
After the girl explained in the ear of the old woman, the blind old woman smiled. Although she could not see anything, she was very enthusiastic about Yan Longyu. The little brother was a little shy. When Yan Longyu spoke to him, he kept hiding behind his sister because the child had never seen such a good-looking big brother.
With Yan Longyu's warm and attentive nature, he had a general understanding of Sister Tao's family in just one meal. Five years ago, Sister Tao's father died on the battlefield in the North. After giving birth to this younger brother, her mother did not want to be a widow and left cruelly. Sister Tao and her younger brother then had to live with this little brother who was born blind. The unmarried aunt lives together.
The burden of supporting a family has already fallen on a woman who has just grown hair. Because Tao Wanqiu is naturally beautiful, she is often teased by street gangsters when she goes out. She has no father or mother, and no one is willing to stand up for her. She can only silently endure the malicious humiliation and slander from the world. Gradually, she no longer dared to go out, so she thought of staying at home during the day to make some nymphos and asking her older brother to exchange them for some copper coins. At night when there was no one around, she could grow some vegetables or plant food in front of the house. These animals are like this to make a living.
Fortunately, there is a Mr. Xu in the village who does not charge her family tuition and is teaching her younger brother to study, and he takes good care of her family. Only then did the woman have some hope in despair. Her only hope was that her literate brother would be able to succeed in the future and no longer suffer like she did.
The woman lived a very hard life, but she took good care of her brother.
Tao Wanqiu took Yan Longyu, who was three years younger than herself, into his home for one night. It was also after that night that Yan Longyu, who was only twelve years old, seemed to have suddenly grown up. He obediently returned to Qishan alone and began to study seriously with Mr. Qin. He carefully studied and practiced the book "Moving Flower Steps" and rarely made the adults angry again.
The young man kept that beautiful sister who was kind, strong, hard-working, and optimistic in his heart. In the next six years, whenever Yan Longyu came down the mountain, he would go to Sister Tao's house alone to help her with some physical work that required men. Tao Wanqiu, who has gradually matured mentally, also understands Yan Longyu and accepts this "younger brother" who has no ill intentions. It was also because of Sister Tao that Yan Longyu accidentally met the nerd who was young but already married - the teacher Xu Zhiqing.
Tao Wanqiu seems to have become a name that Yan Longyu always thinks of but doesn't want to mention to others. He is the only one who understands that feeling.
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At this moment, the young man was lying on the bed, and the moments he spent with Sister Tao were constantly in his mind. Although he usually talks dirty words, Yan Longyu, who actually doesn't know what love is, has trouble sleeping all night. He always had a bad feeling that something was going to happen!
May I ask, what is the meaning of the word love? There is no way to eliminate this feeling, indeed there is no solution!
