Zhuoying

The evening primrose in the fenced yard has sprouted, and Zhong You carefully turned the soil with a shovel while squatting.Shi Yu crouched next to him holding a ladle to pour water, and occasionally pointed out his movements.

Shi Yu didn't say a word about the morning.

"In a while." Zhong You concentrated on his hands, and said casually: "It will be autumn, and this is the beginning. I don't think we will see flowers this year."

"If it grows well this year, it will bloom and prosper next year." Shi Yu poured out the last drop of water in the ladle, got up and said, "I'll pick it up again."

He went to the water tank on the other side of the fence, and there were two crucian carp in it, which Su Zhou caught for Zhong You.Shi Yu sank the ladle in, and as soon as the slightly cool water touched his skin, it reminded him of the feeling of last night.

He was in a daze, when Zhong You over there said loudly: "Brother, just come in."

Su Shuo is here.

Zhong You stood up, and his half-rolled sleeves fell loosely. He smiled at Su Shuo, "It's hot, brother, come in for a cup of tea."

Su Shuo responded, and walked in together with him. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Shi Yuli by the water tank, and for some reason, suddenly remembered Shi's widow's voice.He froze, and raised his voice: "You come too, I have something to discuss with you and Mr. Zhong."

Shi Yu nodded, moved over, and rolled up Zhong You's sleeves that had fallen from the back when he entered the room.Zhong You turned around and smiled at him.

After entering the room, Su Shuo and Zhong You sat down, while Shi Yu leaned against the desk.Su Shuo looked at Shi Yu again and again, and then Zhong You said: "Actually, I came to ask you sir."

Zhong You immediately said: "Brother, you are welcome, just give orders."

Su Shuo nodded Shiyu, and said: "Our Xiaoliu is now nineteen, logically should be the age to go out and take charge of the family, but there are some of our senior brothers in the hall to support him, so there is no rush for him. He is a good boy, Although we have followed us all over the world, but we have not been able to study things quietly. Mr. will open an academy next spring, what my master means is, Mr. please accept Xiao Liu as well."

Zhong You was slightly startled, and turned to look at Shi Yu.Shi Yu also looked over, but he couldn't look away, and said quickly.

"I can't be Shi Yu's teacher."

Ever since he became acquainted, Zhong You felt that in Dalan, anyone who knows a little bit of writing can be called a master, but a teacher is not.As the so-called teacher, preaching, accepting karma and solving doubts.Anyone who can afford to be a teacher must have both talent and virtue.He has so little ink, he dares to call him a teacher, but he definitely can't be called a teacher.Besides, although he is six years older than Shi Yu, he has no virtue, no conduct, no official name, so why dare Shi Yu call him a teacher.

not to mention.

Under the gaze of those eyes, he actually felt very inappropriate.As long as I think of Shi Yujiang calling him teacher in such a gaze, it will be like.

It seems that something is out of place.

"I'm also past Ah Zhou's age." Shi Yu took the words in a deep voice, and said to Su Shuo, "But if elder brother wants my husband to supervise me on my behalf, it's still okay."

Zhong You nodded, "Exactly, I will do my best."

Su Shuo hesitated a little, but felt that there was some reason, besides, he couldn't force it, so he could only say: "This is also good, but I will trouble you, sir."

"No." Zhong You said seriously, "It should."

In the end, Shi Yu and Su Shuo bid farewell together, and the two walked out of the courtyard together.

Su Shuo also mentioned the matter of Shi's widow going to the town, and said to him: "With your sister-in-law watching, she can't be too out of line. Besides, I asked your sister-in-law to bring Dao'er. When the old man sees the child, he always..."

"Don't let her see Dao'er." Shi Yu stopped, looked sideways at Su Shuo, and repeated firmly, "Brother, don't let her see Dao'er."

Su Dao is Su Shuo's first child, and Shi Yu also hugged him.

Su Shuo also stopped, silently watching the road in front of him soaked by the setting sun, which made his eyes hurt.The two were so silent for an unknown period of time, he stretched out his hand, and embraced Shi Yu's shoulder vigorously.

"Shi Yu." He said: "You have to be good, just go like this."

Shi Yuwei raised his head, the setting sun hit his eyes, dyed them in color.He usually would not answer such words, but today he hummed slowly.

Slow but sinking.

Things are certain, Mrs. Su came to Shi Yu's house the next day to pack the luggage for Widow Shi.Although the widow Shi didn't look like Shi Yu, she didn't make things difficult for Mrs. Su.It's just that he doesn't make much noise, and he doesn't sing the tune he used to hum. He just sits on the bed and listens to Mrs. Su talking.Most of them talked about Su Dao's affairs. The child was just a toddler, so there were many interesting things.

The widow just kept listening, and if Mrs. Su was too busy cleaning up and forgot to continue, she would snort to signal Mrs. Su to continue.

But it was only for a while, when he saw Shi Yu, he was like a chicken whose feathers had been plucked, playing tricks aggressively with every word.Until he got into the carriage, he didn't forget to look back at Shi Yu, and said sneeringly.

"That thing in the mind of the little beast." She said with a sarcasm, "I'm afraid I won't be able to see anyone. When that gentleman comes back to his senses, he will hate and be disgusted! Just do your best, little beast, reincarnation of heaven, Both you and Shi Tingzhou are not good people..."

As the carriage moved forward, her frosty white face was cold and cold, and she stared at Shi Yu with hole-like eyes, as if she wanted to tear her skin apart.

Shi Yu suddenly smiled, it was obviously a young and sharp face, but in this smile, all evil spirits were vented.

He obviously didn't say a word, but he seemed to have provoked the widow's words and deeds, with invisible indifference and madness.

When the widow suddenly leaned against the side of the car, she wanted to yell something, but her words seemed to be stuck in her throat.The wooden board she buckled was scratched, but she couldn't speak a word.

Until the car turned and could no longer be seen.

Shi Yu began to go in and out of the fenced courtyard more frequently, along with Su Zhou.Every day, he practiced calligraphy and read books in front of Zhong You. Su Zhou had a lot of questions, and most of the time Shi Yu was watching from the sidelines.After the widow left, he seemed to relax a lot.

Summer came to an end slowly like this. Zhong You woke up one morning and saw the peach leaves around the courtyard covered with a thin layer of frost, only to be surprised that the morning mist was slightly cold.

Autumn is long.

It was still warm in the first few days, and then it started to rain gradually, as if it couldn't stop for several days in a row.The Bailong River in Dongshan began to flood, and I heard that the Changhe River is also rising rapidly.Changhe Town is right next to the Changhe River, and people from Qingping Mansion have visited it several times. Fortunately, the Empress Dowager has been diligently repairing the dams, and now they are not afraid of the swells.

People from Qingping Mansion also came to Lianti Village. It was raining heavily that day, Zhong You didn't let Su Zhou come, only Shi Yu came as usual even after being drenched in water.

Shi Yu took off his outer shirt in the room, Zhong You gave him a clean towel to wipe the wet hair, and did not forget to say: "Yesterday I said it was going to rain heavily, why did I still come here?"

Shi Yu sat on the stool and bowed his head, letting Zhong You rub his hair with a towel.He said, "It's okay." He shook his hair again, and said, "I'm on the left and right at home alone."

Who did you learn this move from?

Zhong You only felt that his ears popped out again.I don't know how many times during this period, I feel more and more that Shi Yu is really like a big dog when he is obedient.

Zhong You coughed lightly, let go of his hand, and said to him: "It's almost done, you can wipe the rest yourself."

Shi Yu hummed, tilted his head to take the towel, but didn't wipe it any more, just put it on his neck, took the book on one side, and looked down.Zhong You saw that his lining was loosened, revealing his collarbone.

Zhong You coughed again and sat down on the other side.

In the morning, the two of them passed away peacefully. At noon, Zhong You was cooking stewed chicken with chestnuts in the kitchen, calling Shi Yu in the main house through the window.

"Shi Yu." He shouted, "It's time to eat."

Shi Yu heard the sound and closed the book and went out.

The village chief was accompanying the young official from Qingping Mansion to finish the inspection of the Bailong River, holding an umbrella for himself all the way, and walking towards the village through the rain with flattering words.The young man who had been silent all this time stopped suddenly and looked towards the fenced yard.

"Who is that?" Through the rain, he saw a tall man in black in the fenced yard pushing the door, as if sensing his gaze, he turned his head and looked over.

It was a pair of strange and sharp eyes.

"My lord said him?" The village head looked around, "That's Shi Liu in our village, he is still calm at a young age. He should be studying now. This is the yard of the village gentleman. Do you want to take a look at it?" ?”

The official's eyebrows were slightly loose, and when he heard the name Shiliu, he was also unfamiliar, and it was not someone he had just thought of.He turned his gaze back and said, "No need."

The village chief didn't dare to ask more questions, and then he walked quickly while holding an umbrella.

The official had just brushed the fenced courtyard when Zhong You opened the kitchen window to let in air.He raised his eyes and saw the official robe passing by vaguely, and was a little dazed.

When Shi Yu entered the room, he saw that he was holding up half of the soup spoon, looking out of the fenced courtyard, concentrating on something.

"gentlemen?"

Shi Yu supported his arm holding the ladle with one hand from behind, lowered his head and tasted the soup on the ladle, and said: "It's delicious."

Zhong Youfang came back to his senses, and saw Shi Yu looking at him with the rim of the spoon in his mouth.He suddenly panicked, and wanted to take a step back, but unexpectedly, he bumped into Shi Yu's arms, and Shi Yu quickly put his hand on his waist.

"What are you staying for?"

Zhong You shook his head, and felt that this posture was not good. Just as he was about to say a few words, Shi Yu shook his hand holding the spoon, pinned it along the simmering soup, lifted it to his lips, and said, "You Taste it." Then he said, "What's wrong?"

Zhong You sipped a little, and said, "Add more salt." Before he could pull Shi Yu's hand away, Shi Yu had already backed away, and turned to get the bowls and chopsticks.Seeing Shi Yu focus on wiping the bowls and chopsticks from the corner of his eyes, Zhong You breathed a sigh of relief, and felt that the grip he had just had on his waist was still there.

It's really... weird.

In the afternoon, Zhong You reorganized the books on the bookshelf, and found some scrolls behind the books on the inside.A few of them are already damp and need to be spread out.Most of them are landscapes, birds and beasts, but there is only one pair spread out on the table, revealing the delicate and charming complexion of a woman.

Shi Yu on the opposite side of the table paused, and asked: "Is this also drawn by Mr.?"

"Yes." Zhong You smoothed the painting, and smiled at him, "I only learned to paint when I was learning Danqing."

The woman in the painting is smiling like a flower, with her sleeves lightly drawn, she is tilting her head to look at the painting with soft eyebrows and eyes.

Shi Yu's fingertips flicked on the pages of the book, and suddenly he came over from the opposite side, as if he was looking at the painting carefully.He inadvertently brushed Zhong You's forehead, giving Zhong You a pause.

Shi Yu lowered his eyes to the painting, and asked, "Am I familiar with Mr.?"

"Hmm..." Shi Yu's eyelashes were a little long, but they didn't look soft and gentle.Zhong You wondered in a daze, not knowing how the long eyelashes touched his fingertips, and then said: "Familiar."

"Madam?" Shi Yu raised his eyes suddenly, and said slowly, "Or Qingmei?"

The eyes are too deep, making the tip of Zhong You's tongue dull.He quickly turned his eyes away and said: "That's not true." After a pause, he explained: "It's my younger sister."

Shi Yu didn't speak, just smiled, sat back and lifted the book again.Although Zhong Yousiwen's face was calm and composed, the fingers caressing the corner of the painting curled up at some point.

But Shi Yu didn't do anything, he was just asking questions.

Later in the evening, the pouring rain blocked people's vision, and Zhong You saw that Shiyu had put on his coir raincoat and was about to go out without even holding an umbrella.He folded his sleeves and looked around under the eaves, saying: "It's raining too much, let's go later."

"It's okay." Shi Yu pushed down his clothes and said, "It's only a few steps away."

Zhong You put his hands behind his back, and said seriously: "What if you catch cold? It will delay your school hours. Why don't you just stay here tonight."

Shi Yuzheng coir raincoat's hands stopped, and he said almost decisively: "No." This time he didn't even give himself a chance to see Zhong You, and stepped directly down the steps with his long legs, into the rain.

"See you tomorrow sir."

People shake out of the fence yard in the heavy rain, and disappear into the water in a hazy way.Zhong You stayed under the eaves for a while, and suddenly said softly.

"Talky."

On the way back, Shi Yu met the village head holding an umbrella, and they walked for a while together.The village chief babbled on to him.

"The adult who came this time is young, and I thought nothing would happen. Who knows that he not only went to Dongshan in person, but also promised to make up for Dongshan next spring when he came back." In the coming year, our village can also grow persimmons, so the vacant space on Dongshan Mountain will be filled. Brother Liu’s family can see how much land is allocated, so that his mother and I can live on the mountain.”

Shi Yu hummed, "Good thing."

"Oh." The village chief stepped into the mud pit excitedly, but he didn't care, he pulled it out and continued to talk to Shi Yu: "You went to study at Mr. Zhong's today, didn't you? Let me tell you a coincidence, you know this time What is the name of this adult who came?"

Shi Yu had already seen the top of the low wall of his house, dumped the crooked umbrella to the village chief, and said casually, "What?"

"My surname is Zhong!" The village chief clasped his hands together and rubbed his hands together, "I have the same surname as Mr. Zhong! It seems that our village lacks noble people surnamed Zhong. Look at this, and there are two more here!"

Shi Yu's foot that had already stepped out was stagnant, he turned his head and asked slightly: "Is your surname Zhong?"

"Hey, Zhong, the surname is Zhong!" The village chief said, "What is the name, Ruchen, Zhong Ruchen! Do you think this name is elegant or not? When you hear it, you will... Hey Xiaoliu!"

Shi Yu opened the courtyard door, waved to the village chief and entered.He entered the house and took off his coir raincoat, took off the wet clothes, and wiped his hair.

Zhong Ruchen?

He remembered Zhong You's words "There are many brothers and sisters in my family", and he also remembered the indifferent eyes of that person at noon.Although he couldn't see what he looked like, he could already smell a completely different aura from Zhong You.

Shi Yu collapsed on the bed, staring at Liang in the dark.

After a while, he suddenly turned over and took out a small porcelain bottle from under the pillow. It was the one given by Zhong You, and he had never used it.He gently rubbed the belly of the bottle with his fingertips. He didn't close his eyes, but just looked at the porcelain bottle in the dark and thought about something.

This porcelain bottle is smooth and warm after holding it for a long time, very much like the touch of the back of Zhong You's hand.

Shi Yu rubbed his pillow, and the words that Zhong You said solemnly, "It's better to stay tonight", rolled in his throat, and he rubbed his broken hair irritably.

He exhaled heavily.

I feel like I'm clamoring somewhere, desperate to die