Looking at the paper money floating in the air, the air was still filled with the familiar smell of gunpowder. Xu Lin sat on the frozen snow pile, holding his little hands together, looking at the people coming in and out of his yard, his eyes His eyes were empty and dull, as if his soul had been sucked out.
At this age, he has gradually realized what happened, but now he is more like a wandering soul floating in the air, becoming out of tune with the world. He doesn't know what he should do, and now, no one has time to come over. Pay attention to him.
At this moment, a cold little hand suddenly stuffed into his neck.
"Hiss!" Xu Lin's expression instantly twisted in pain, and his body didn't even tremble anymore. He rushed forward suddenly and slapped his hands on the frozen snow. He turned around and looked at the red face. Wang Zhixia looked at each other angrily.
Wang Zhixia didn't look at him, but looked around as if nothing happened.
Xu Lin was probably in a bad mood and didn't want to argue with her, so he sat on the snowdrift again.
In the blink of an eye, he returned to his previous state.
But at this moment, Xu Lin felt cold again. He quickly reached out and took out a piece of snow from his clothes.
"You...what are you doing!" He finally couldn't suppress the anger in his heart and stretched out his hand to push Wang Zhixia.
Wang Zhixia leaned back and fell to the ground. She said "It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt." She got up and patted her butt. She looked at the angry Xu Lin and didn't mind what he had just done. Instead, she His lively eyes revealed a smile.
"Can you talk? It scared me to death. I thought you were stupid!"
Xu Lin: "..."
Wang Zhixia moved her body forward and stuffed her hands into her clothes. She also shivered.
Xu Lin looked at her doubtfully.
This kind of confusing behavior is really difficult to understand.
It's okay to torture him with Xiao Bing's hands, why should you torture yourself?
What kind of fetish is this...
However, Xu Lin soon knew Wang Zhixia's purpose.
She stretched out her hot hand, and then held Xu Lin's cold hand.
"Isn't this very warm?"
Xu Lin looked at her blankly, seeming a little surprised.
"My grandpa used to be like this when I was cold, and... grandpa's hands seemed to be warm at all times!"
Xu Lin didn't speak, just turned his face and continued to look at the courtyard door where people were coming and going.
Wang Zhixia continued: "Actually, I am also very sad. In the past, my aunt would make me little skirts and tell me stories, but she will never do that again..." Wang Zhixia saw Xu Lin's mother, She has always been called aunt. In fact, the two families are not related at all. It just happens that Xu Lin's mother and Wang Zhixia's mother have the same surname, and they happened to be married from the same village.
Suddenly, Xu Lin burst into tears.
He cried louder and louder, just like his mother's cough. Once he started, he couldn't stop.
A sudden emotional breakdown is like a sudden breach in a dam.
"Niuniu, from now on...I will never have a mother again, and no one will make me new clothes anymore! Wuwu..."
When Wang Zhixia saw Xu Lin crying, he breathed a sigh of relief and patted him gently.
"It doesn't matter. From now on, my mother and I will learn how to make clothes, and I'll help you make them, okay!"
Xu Lin turned his face, the tears and snot on his face were all mushy.
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As the days passed, Xu Lin grew up day by day.
Xu Laosan, on the other hand, is visibly old.
Since his wife passed away, Xu Laosan has become both a father and a mother, and Xu Lin is now a half-grown boy living in poverty. Of course, the Xu family's biggest expense is to let Xu Lin study.
He remembered that when Xu Lin's mother was still alive, she kept mumbling about how her son was the Wenquxing descended to earth, and she probably heard it from the old gentleman with the same surname.
And when she thought about it, the old man was the most literate person in the village. Although he had never been admitted as a scholar, children did not fall from the sky. I heard that he had to take some exams.
Since the old gentleman said so, his son must be Wenquxing!
In fact, after Xu Lin's mother passed away, there were many matchmakers trying to rekindle Xu Laosan, but Xu Laosan seemed determined to be an old widower.
Slowly, there are fewer and fewer matchmakers. In the early years, Xu Laosan was still somewhat good-looking and strong, but in the past few years, Xu Laosan has been working day and night, and he looks too old. Even the sales pictures are gone...
What's more, it has been delayed until now, and I am really old.
Sitting at the dinner table, Xu Laosan suddenly glanced at Xu Lin.
"Lin'er, you and I will go to Wang's house in a few days."
"Hmm...huh?" Xu Lin was stunned for a moment and asked doubtfully, "Wang Zhixia's family?"
"Yes, dad will go to the city to buy some cloth later, and then pick out two wild geese. It just so happens that dad also shot a deer before, and he still keeps the deer skin..."
Xu Lin didn't think anything about it at first, but as he listened, he felt something was wrong.
This deerskin and wild goose are both betrothal gifts in Jingguo's etiquette.
"Dad, are you going to renew your relationship? Wang Zhixia's father is still here..."
Xu Laosan slapped Xu Lin on the back of the head.
"You bastard, what nonsense are you talking about! You and Niuniu...oh no, Wang Zhixia has also reached the age of marriage. When your mother was here, she helped you arrange a baby kiss. Although it was a joke, but you Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang also mention it often, which shows that they care about it." Xu Laosan said seriously.
Xu Lin's scalp felt numb for a moment.
Wang Zhixia's parents really liked Xu Lin.
Although Xu Lin is only fourteen years old this year, he has already passed the county examination and became a boy student. Two years later, he passed the examination and entered the county school to become a student. He is often called a scholar.
What's more, Xu Lin is still young, and with his profound knowledge, he is well-known in all the villages. Although he has just obtained the qualification of a child student, it is already a certainty that he will enter the county school. After ten years of hard work, he will obtain the honor and become a civil servant. That would really make you stand out.
Therefore, even if the Xu family is now impoverished, a matchmaker has already come to the door and wants to match Xu Lin.
Xu Lin has never been interested in this kind of thing. He just wants to obtain fame as soon as possible and comfort his mother's spirit in heaven.
"Lin'er, what do you think?" Xu Laosan suddenly asked.
"I think there's no need to..." Xu Lin said with a bitter smile, "I'm still young, so I can't get married now, right? Besides, Wang Zhixia is younger than me."
"This is a marriage proposal, and we don't have to get married right away. If you wait two years, it won't be too late for you to get married." Xu Laosan said, "It's not too early to get married at sixteen."
Xu Lin always felt a little weird.
But in my heart, I didn't seem to be so resistant.
Thinking of Wang Zhixia, Xu Lin also showed a smile on his face.
He and Wang Zhixia can be considered childhood sweethearts.
When he was young, Wang Zhixia would fight with him, but starting from about four or five years ago, Wang Zhixia started to look like a girl, a bit like a lady, but the two of them had a lot of contact. Wang Zhixia Although he has not enrolled in school, he still likes to study and will pester Xu Lin to talk about what he has learned in the school.
Other than that.
Since the age of twelve, Wang Zhixia has made Xu Lin a new suit of clothes every year.
Before the age of twelve, Wang Zhixia learned how to make clothes from her mother.
That's what she said at first.
That's what she does now.
