Chapter 9: outlander
The silver-white moonlight slanted down, it was only spring, the temperature had not yet risen, the animals and insects that were noisy at night did not come out of their nests, and the village was quiet.
When Lin Qingxu passed by the small living room, he glanced at the miserable white moonlight coming in through the window, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his palms.
It's not a guilty conscience to ask Fang Xiu a question, but she has a very deep heart.
Lin Qingxu shook his head and forced himself to cheer up.
In today's era, primitive candle lamps are still used, and there is no modern convenience for a light bulb to illuminate a small piece of the sky. Lin Qingxu slumped his waist and leaned against the crack of the door like a thief, and saw the faint candlelight coming from the crack of Fang Xiu's door.
She swallowed hard, and just stood up to knock on the door when Fang Xiu's faint voice came from inside.
"Why are you standing outside, being a thief?"
Lin Qingxu twitched the corners of his mouth, and once again felt A-Niang's poisonous tongue.
Fang Xiu hadn't slept yet. By the weak candlelight, he was arranging a pile of embroidery threads on the bed. The orange-red candlelight smeared circles and circles, coating Fang Xiu's fair side face with a soft layer. halo.
Unfortunately, softness is an illusion.
Seeing Lin Qingxu come in disheartened, Fang Xiu gave her a wink in disgust, and got up to light the candle.
"Auntie." Lin Qingxu deliberately ignored Fang Xiu's aggressive eyes, smiled, wrote ink to the side of the bed, and sat down beside the bed with both hands twisted.
"Don't smirk!" Fang Xiu opened and closed the corners of his mouth, opening his mouth mercilessly. The movement of arranging the embroidered cloth in his hand did not stop at all. "If you have something to say, go back to sleep if you don't."
Seeing Fang Xiu's stance that she didn't speak again, and could yell at her to go out in the next second, Lin Qingxu didn't dare to delay any more time. Seeing the moment when Fang Xiu's hands slowed down, she said solemnly: "Auntie, I Want to know why the eldest young master of the Su family married me? Obviously, our family backgrounds are so different?"
After Lin Qingxu finished speaking, he sat down properly and waited for a reply with a serious look on his face.
Fang Xiu was not at all surprised by her doubts.
She slowly retracted her hand, lifted her eyelids and looked at Lin Qingxu quietly.
Just when Lin Qingxu took a deep breath and pursed his lips tightly, thinking that he would get a thunderous/bullet-like heavy news, Fang Xiu smiled.
"Don't you really like the eldest young master of the Su family?"
Lin Qingxu's heart skipped a beat, and the seriousness that he had saved instantly collapsed.
"Auntie" She was defeated, her face turned into a big bitter gourd, and the tone dragged the elders, "I'm asking you what you are doing?"
Fang Xiu's smile did not change, and she even winked at her in a very good mood: "A-niang is also serious."
Lin Qingxu evaded and covered her face with her hands, unable to hear, she couldn't hear anything.
Fang Xiu chuckled, and the movements in his hands quickened. With a few efforts, he sorted the embroidery on the bed into different boxes beside the bed, and then looked at Lin Qingxu again.
"What's the matter, Ah Xu doesn't want to get married again?" Fang Xiu said this in a casual tone, as if Lin Qingxu's performance for the past two days was deliberately struggling.
Lin Qingxu pursed her lips, because she couldn't tell whether Fang Xiu was changing the subject or whether she really thought so, so Lin Qingxu had to answer her words.
"No, I just want to know the situation. The family background of the Su family, and Madam Su's attitude towards me, it's hard for me not to think about it too much, right?" Lin Qingxu retorted weakly.
When she said this, she deliberately put Su Yan aside.
After seeing the real person, Lin Qingxu's previous characterization about Su Yan Zuojing's existence was completely overturned.
As far as she was concerned, Su Yan should be regarded as a landscape, and she would be happy to see her a little closer. But distance creates beauty, and Lin Qingxu still feels that she and Su Yan should keep their current relationship close to each other.
Fang Xiu's eyes were sharp, she couldn't see that Lin Qingxu's brain circuit had gone 18,000 miles off the line, but from her evasive eyes, she could clearly see the maintenance of Su Yan.
Fang Xiu's eyes trembled slightly, and it was fleeting.
"The Su family will marry us because of your father. He once saved the life of the eldest young master of the Su family. In return, the Su family will help us and marry you after your father's death."
When Father Lin passed away, the three mothers and daughters had a difficult time because the pillar was absent overnight. Later, Fang Xiuqiang propped up the family, rushing embroidery products day and night, and sending them to the town to sell them at a good price.
It was also at that time that the Su family appeared, took the initiative to explain the reason, and wanted to buy embroidery at a high price...
Lin Qingxu frowned and puzzled: "But even if it's for repayment, there's no need to get married? After all, I didn't have a good brain before, so I'm not worthy of Young Master Su, okay?"
Su Yan has a good personality and looks, coupled with the Su family's rich family background, she is a foolish village girl, no matter how beautiful she is, the Su family looks at her, and her brain is rusted, right?
Fang Xiu looked at her as if she had seen a ghost, and gave her another look angrily.
"I brought up the engagement." Fang Xiu said lightly.
"Ah?" Lin Qingxu was startled, staring at Fang Xiu like a frightened deer, his big bright eyes flickering.
Fang Xiu was still calm.
"Why, A-Niang?" Lin Qingxu couldn't help but question, "How can you speak like a lion like me? What's more, yours is a big mouth!"
Fang Xiu, who had a big mouth with blood, stretched out her hand and slapped her forehead with a slap: "Did you say that to your mother?"
Fang Xiu shook the numb palm, feeling that the bear child should be beaten violently!
Lin Qingxu shriveled into a ball, completely surrendering to Fang Xiu's lewd power.
"You don't even think about it. Who would dare to marry you when you were like that?" Fang Xiu said, giving her a stern look.
Lin Qingxu's body trembled from being cut, and a small head was buried lower and lower, and he could only wish to get under the bed of A-Niang.
Fang Xiu was angry and laughing when she saw it, she patted the bed board to make her sit up straight, and then she continued slowly: "Anyway, you are stupid, marrying into the Su family, an empty title of the eldest young lady of the Su family is enough for you to live in peace. For half your life, compared to marrying an old man like you, a fool or a widower, and living a pitiful life, you should burn high incense to thank you, mother, and my wisdom!"
Lin Qingxu twitched the corners of his mouth and echoed insincerely, "Auntie is really wise."
From back to now, Lin Qingxu had always thought that about her and Su Yan's marriage, there was a huge secret buried, just waiting for her to come and find it out.
But I don't think so, the truth is...
"But A-Niang, Mrs. Su seems to be very enthusiastic about me?" Lin Qingxu asked again.
It stands to reason that her mother cheated on the Su family, and the people of the Su family should not laugh at them. One by one enthusiastically and really the same, why are they contradictory?
Fang Xiu directly gave her a "are you an idiot" look this time.
"If you want to know this question, go to the Su Mansion and ask them whether they are being nice to you because of your grandfather, or because you are so stupid to please?"
Lin Qingxu lowered his head silently, feeling that it was a big mistake to come today!
Fang Xiu could see the sadness that was flowing against her face from her face, but she couldn't hold back, and sprinkled some coarse salt on her wound.
Lin Qingxu watched Fang Xiu lean over and **** in the box containing the embroidered cloth, her heart skipped a beat, and her intuition was not good.
Unfortunately, Fang Xiu had already stuffed a bulging package into her arms and motioned for her to take a look.
Lin Qingxu opened the cloth bag in horror and looked at it, and instantly wanted to die.
Fang Xiu smiled and said in a tone of 'I'm sorry, you hit the muzzle': "I originally wanted to wait for Awan to go to the Immortal Cultivation Realm before giving it to you, but you happened to be here, so take it away in advance, you can also think about it early. What do you want to embroider?"
There was nothing else in the package Fang Xiu gave her. It was just a few small belly pockets that were so red and bright that they could blind the eyes, but the cloth surface was bare. Fang Xiu meant, of course, that the next task would be undertaken by her.
Lin Qingxu: "..." No, she refused.
However, in front of Fang Xiu, the refusal was invalid.
Lin Qingxu slowly moved back to the room holding the small cloth bag. Lin Qingwan, who was in the same bed, fell asleep early, with a bare arm sticking out of the quilt, sleeping happily.
She looked Lin Qingwan up and down with envious eyes, and successfully caused the sleeping piglet to retract her cool arm into the quilt, and then Lin Qingxu sighed.
Thinking of what A-Niang said before she left, she felt a pain in her head again.
Fang Xiu said slowly: "The Su family has already prepared the wedding dress, but the apron still needs to be embroidered. It just so happens that you have a good mind, so you can do it yourself. Anyway, on the wedding day, what will be embroidered? You wear it all by yourself, and you don't want to show it to A-Niang!"
Lin Qingxu: "..." Actually, being a fool is quite a lot!
After a night of entanglement and depression, when Fang Xiu knocked on the door the next day, Lin Qingxu could not wait to be integrated with the bed.
Fang Xiu pushed open the door and came in. The two quilts were pulled open, and the two people on the bed shouted coldly.
"What time are you still sleeping, I think you are waiting for the red hair to come in!" Fang Xiu sneered.
In Lin Qingxu's mind, the appearance of a big red-haired rooster showing off his might suddenly appeared in his mind, and he sat up excitedly.
Lin Qingwan's reaction was faster than hers. She had already slipped out of bed to put on her shoes, and hurriedly said to please, "Hehe, Aniang, don't be angry, my sister and I will get up now!"
Fang Xiu did what he said and did it without any ambiguity.
Lin Qingxu didn't want to be slapped by chickens in the early morning, and the speed of getting up and dressing and washing was not known how many times faster than usual.
Fang Xiu waited for the two sisters to scramble to comb their hair before leaving the room.
As soon as Fang Xiu went out, Lin Qingxu and Lin Qingwan breathed a sigh of relief.
"A-niang is so cruel!" Lin Qingwan stretched her neck and looked towards the door, expressing their feelings.
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Lin Qingxu finished combing his long hair quickly, threw the comb to Lin Qingwan, ran into the kitchen like a little bird, served meals and dishes diligently, and made a good impression in front of A-Niang.
Fang Xiu didn't know the little tricks in her heart, so she was too lazy to care about her.
Before the dishes were fully cooked, Lin Qingxu, who was holding an empty plate, suddenly heard a soft female voice outside the house.
"Is Aunt Fang here? I'm Yuying from the Cui family." Cui Yuying stood outside the door, looking at the smoke billowing from the roof of the Lin family, and shouted loudly.
Fang Xiu's terrain is good, she can see the people outside the door at a glance through the window, and waved Lin Qingxu to bring people in.
Lin Qingxu had no objection to the temporarily arranged work, and happily walked out of the kitchen with the joy of escaping from the fireworks.
As soon as she stepped over the threshold, Lin Qingxu raised her head reflexively, and the moment she saw the person coming, the smile on her face suddenly froze.
"It's Sister Lin, I'm Yuying from the Cui family. I'm here to ask Aunt Fang for an embroidery job." Cui Yuying didn't seem to notice the strangeness on Lin Qingxu's face at all, her voice was soft, and she had a good temper.
Reach out and don't hit the smiling face, not to mention that the other party has no actual entanglement with her at all.
Lin Qingxu restrained the unreasonable weirdness in his heart, and walked to the gate of the courtyard to open the door for her.
"Sister, who is it, who's here?" Lin Qingwan, who had finally combed her hair, ran out with a touch, and the moment she saw Cui Yuying, her expression changed.
Isn't this the girl in blue that my sister deliberately paid attention to the day before yesterday?
Not a foreigner? Why are you running to her house?