Qingzhou trip

Li Suyue's parents were originally blacksmith couples in the craftsman camp, and they both came from the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.Hook-toothed rakes were originally what their family was good at. After entering the craftsman camp, they mainly made spears and spears.

Li Suyue was able to swing a sledgehammer in the shop when she was only 12 years old.Many men in the same industry were amazed: the sledgehammer in the blacksmith shop often requires the strongest male apprentice to swing it.Rare female apprentices only swing two hammers or lightly chisel three hammers.Li Suyue swung the hammer, holding back her strength every time, hitting every time without missing.The old blacksmiths all said that the boy was calm.A natural piece of blacksmithing material.

The blacksmith shop of the Li family is in the east of Shahai City.Li Suyue, who had no feet bound, wore black tights and socks, and had a ruddy arm exposed outside a tight-sleeved narrow shirt, covered the charcoal fire of the central stove.Regardless of sweating profusely, he greeted his younger sister Li Shancui, "Okay, let's stop here today. Is the back kitchen ready?"

Working in the back kitchen is Li Suyue's younger brother Yan Yunhan.In the past, he swung the hammer three times and let him cook when the shop was not busy.This is unimaginable in Li Suyue's hometown in the south of the Yangtze River: women are fine if they don't bind their feet, widows dare to show their arms and swing hammers, but men are close to the kitchen.

After returning to the room, Li Suyue wiped the sweat off her body with a facekerchief dipped in water, pulled back her sleeves and changed her clothes, and then combed her hair again. When she looked at the bronze mirror, she saw a box of fragrant cakes on the table.

"Shancui?" Li Suyue called to her sister, "You put this here?" Pick it up and smell it, it's her favorite hollyhock scent.

"This..." Li Shancui turned her head to look at the backyard of the blacksmith's shop, and Li Suyue understood.Throwing the suitcase into the arms of my younger sister, "Throw it back." Then I went to the back door of the shop to look, and tried to pull the sealed door with my hand, "How did you get in?"

"The one who climbed the wall and broke into the shop. I saw it, and said that he only gave some common gifts to the neighbors and didn't bother us." After returning to the city this evening, my sister didn't rest, and worked in front of the shop for another two hours until it was completely dark.The cloud egret touched the wall of the backyard and rolled down, wearing a tattered dress, mixed with the smell of alcohol, and adding rouge from the Wang's rouge shop in the capital to Shancui, this etiquette is complete.

Although he came from a craftsman background, Li Shancui has long been used to seeing good things in Beijing: rouge and snails, sugar meat flower cakes, hairpin hairpins and combs, all these things were brought by the young lady of Yunfangjiang's family a few years ago.

When Li Suyue was just a female blacksmith waiting to be married, Wu Zhaoan, who was engaged to her, rarely came to the house because of the busy affairs of the military camp.It is Yun Bailu who often comes to the shop.

It is said that there are many right and wrong in front of widows.Everyone in Shahai knows that the place where Yun Bailu visits is even more troublesome.

Li Suyue believed her girl ignorant at first, because Yun Bailu just used an excuse to study medicine and often came to the medical clinic next door, and then went to the blacksmith's shop to watch Li Suyue swing a hammer.Others only find it noisy when they hear "Ding Ding Dang Dang", but Yun Bailu doesn't seem to get tired of listening to it.

Later, the noodles made by the chef in his own handsome mansion were not as good as a bowl of noodle soup from the blacksmith's shop.I don't ride horses anymore, and I don't shoot eagles anymore. The best thing to do is to go out of the city with Li Suyue incognito to sell pots and utensils.

And later...

The trouble started a month before the battle. Yun Fangjiang, who couldn't be distracted, still secretly sent someone to call Li Suyue, and asked her if she wanted to go to Jiangnan, her hometown?If he wanted to, he would send someone to send the two sisters back to their hometown, and then find a stable job for Wu Zhaoan in the south.

Li Suyue said that she didn't want to go back to her hometown. She left home with her parents when she was eight years old, and she has adapted to the Northwest Sand Sea.She doesn't want to surround her husband's pot with her feet bound all day long.She would rather stay in northern Xinjiang to forge iron, sharpen a bunch of spearheads and hit one more arrowhead, and she can also avenge her parents who died tragically at the hoof of the enemy.

I still regret it now.If he agreed to Yun Fangjiang, Wu Zhao'an would definitely get his life back.At that time, Yun Bailu came to the door and said bluntly that he wanted to beat Linniao, "Wu Zhaoan is not worthy of you, why not cancel the engagement with him and marry me." .

Although the folk customs in Shahai are simple and generous, Li Suyue will never do such a thing of disliking the poor and loving the rich.Besides, she only considers Yun Bailu, who is four years younger than herself, as her sister.But her marriage was finally interrupted by that battle: the dead died, and the captured were captured.

On the day of Jingli's decree, Yun Bailu walked out of the commander's mansion with a long shackle on his shoulders.Before leaving the east gate, he deliberately stopped in front of the blacksmith's shop, "Yue Niang..."

Li Suyue closed the door, pretending not to hear.

Forget it, the one who broke the family broke the family, and the widow lost her husband.Li Suyue also no longer wondered why Wu Zhaoan, who belonged to the reserve battalion, was sent to the front line.Let's make a living in the sea of ​​sand for the time being, and let go of obsessions when the world is in a mess.

When that slap was made today, Li Suyue realized how much resentment she had in her heart.At this moment, her rough fingers were holding the door knocker of the back door, and no matter how hard she tried, the door remained motionless like a mountain.That's good.

"Shancui, she's still an exile. Regardless of the past, you have to think about me. I don't want to cause trouble again." Li Suyue was still secretly poked in the back by the Shahai people, saying that she had harmed Wu Zhaoan.If God hadn't opened his eyes and let Yun Bailu's family be ruined, maybe she, a blacksmith lady, would fly to a branch to become a phoenix.

After all, the past two years have calmed down the rumors a lot.All this was disrupted by the news that Yun Bailu had returned to the city.Xie Penglai, a bookworm, still needs to place her behind his shop.

The yawning of Yun Bailu and the creaking of the old well can be heard through the door.Yun Bailu seemed to say "hey", and a lot of water leaked out while carrying the bucket.

The smell of burning cooking next door also wafts over. Two years ago, Yun Bailu, who never touched the spring water with ten fingers, was heating himself bath water.Half bucket of boiling water and half bucket of cold water, she buried her head in the water and didn't come out for a long time to take a breath.

The cruelty of the border of Xiliao, the wind and frost on the way back to the sandy sea, the defeated commander's mansion, familiar people and scenes came one after another, and Yun Bailu, who closed his eyes tightly, was afraid of opening them.

The slap that made her tinnitus rang again in her heart.She stroked her face and was suddenly choked in the water, coughing and coming out of the water for air.The sound of a foreign object falling into the yard made her look sideways.After jumping out of the tub, Yun Bailu casually grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on.Water dripped from his body all the way to the basket of fragrant cakes.

Bending down to pick up a fragrant cake, Yun Bailu kept shaking her head. This was exchanged for the few valuables she had left on her body when passing by the capital.With a twist of the fingers, most of them were smashed into pieces.But it still works.

Yun Bailu dropped the dirty clothes to the ground casually, and the light red welts on his back and shoulders undulated under the moonlight.He grabbed the wine bag and jumped into the bathtub again, drank half of the bag and slept until the water was cold.It seems to dream that the blacksmith widow next door is next to the bed, and it seems that her mother Bai Zhi teaches him to ride a horse and shoot an arrow.Yun Bailu smiled, took a deep breath, slid into the barrel, and was choked awake again.

"Your slutty appearance is too outrageous." Xie Penglai entered her yard at some point, and was reading the "Examination Collection" by an oil lamp.

"Master, when I went to drink wine earlier, there were still people chewing their tongues, saying that I proposed marriage to you. You come in quietly, are you not afraid of people gossiping?" Yun Bailu looked at Xie Penglai from the edge of the barrel, Two lights flickered in the light eyes.

"If I'm afraid I can stay in the sandy sea for another twelve years?" Xie Penglai closed the book and said excitedly, "It's a good book." She walked to the bucket, looked at Yun Bailu's black face that was half swollen, and her throat suddenly swelled. Choking, "Take a rest early, and follow me to the outside of the city to look at the river tomorrow." Following her gaze, Yun Bailu saw a pile of neatly folded clothes.

"The top two are new, and the bottom two are old. I modified them a little according to your size." Xie Penglai is taller, and these days, apart from being busy with business, he spends his nights changing clothes for Yun Bailu.

Before leaving the door, she hesitated to speak, "Really... I don't know why I sent you back?"

Yun Bailu smiled, "Probably to marry Yueniang." He was hit on the head by Xie Penglai, "If you are so frivolous, be careful that Li Suyue's hammer smashes you."

Blinking her wet black eyelashes, Yun Bailu touched her cheek, "If you want to hit me, I was killed two years ago."