man in apricot forest

The author has something to say: So the late codewords were also spelled, and finally rushed to the new homepage of Guyan, cheers first, but this bleak click still hurts when I think about it.

The last chapter was less than [-] words, so I added it again. If you haven’t seen it, you can read the previous chapter again. Xiaomeihua’s lines should be too cryptic and superficial.

If you like it, please collect it, please comment, the author needs encouragement for shaking M, (づ￣3￣)づ╭?～

There is no human habitation along the way, which is also the reason why people don't like to go out at noon.

When they were about to reach Wuzhen, they got off their horses. It would have taken two or three hours to walk, but it took less than an hour to get there by riding a horse.

"It's here, have you smelled the fragrance?" Mei Shuao was a little happy, "We arrived just in time, and the sweet-scented osmanthus in Wuzhen is in full bloom."

Ji Yu couldn't help admiring this refreshing sweetness.

"Look for an inn first."

Seeing that Ji Yu's face was not looking well, Mei Shuao went to help him.

"No need." Ji Yu took his luggage and walked beside Mei Shuao.

"Junqin, most people will feel uncomfortable after riding a horse for so long."

Ji Yu shook his head, "Let's go, find a place to live, I can still stick to it."

Mei Shuao didn't speak any more, glanced at Ji Yu's pale face, and hurried on her way with her head sullen.

In the end, the two found an inn. Although the conditions were not as good as those in Yongyu City, it was the only place in Wuzhen where they could stay.

After Mei Shuao settled Ji Yu, she went to the store to ask for some hot water.

"Soak your feet." Mei Shuao put the wooden barrel beside the bed, "I met an acquaintance downstairs, and I'll be back in a quarter of an hour. If you're tired, go to bed first."

"it is good."

After the water in the wooden barrel became cold, Ji Yu dried his feet, took off his coat, and got into the bed.

Riding the horse was so violent that his legs were still a little weak.

When Ji Yu woke up, Mei Shuao still didn't come back.

Ji Yu had no choice but to go downstairs and ask Xiaoer.

"The young man said that if you ask, he will tell you that he has some things to settle, and he will come back later."

"Did he leave alone?"

"The little one only cares about that young master."

Ji Yu thanked the waiter in the shop, ordered some food and went back to the room.

The food was completely cold, and Ji Yu started to pick up the bamboo chopsticks. As usual, after eating, he asked the waiter to collect the bowls and chopsticks and sat on the bed with his eyes closed to rest.

Until Ji Yu who fell asleep suddenly woke up, put on his shoes and walked to the next house, knocked on the door but no one answered.

It seems that Mei Shuao still hasn't come back.

Ji Yu had no choice but to fetch some hot water, wash and then fell asleep.

On the second day, Mei Shuao still did not return to the inn.

Ji Yu was wandering around the small town alone, when suddenly a sweet smell of wine caught his attention.

Walking a few steps along the scent, it is a small wine shop under the guise of wine.

"Young master, do you want to buy wine?"

The shopkeeper put down his work and asked Ji Yu,

"Is this aroma brewed with sweet-scented osmanthus?"

"Yes, the shop picked the wine made from osmanthus flowers at this time last year, and now it is fragrant with golden osmanthus, and it is time to drink the wine." The shopkeeper is an elderly woman, "Young master, come here pot?"

Ji Yu looked at the wine gourds on the wine shelf and said, "Give me a pot."

"It's all homemade, fifteen dollars." The old woman took down a wine gourd, "I see that you don't have any utensils to hold wine, so I will charge you three pennies for this gourd."

Seeing that Ji Yu didn't object, the old woman scooped four spoonfuls of wine from the big wine tank with wine raisins and poured them into the gourd, then sealed the wine gourd and handed it to Ji Yu.

After collecting the money, the old woman said with a smile: "Young master, go away and come back after a good drink."

Carrying the wine gourd, Ji Yu walked around Wuzhen, and he found that there are many wine shops in the town, and it is possible that sweet-scented osmanthus brewing is also a special feature of the town.

Ji Yu went into a restaurant and asked for some food, only to realize that he had ordered too much when the food was delivered.

Just a little surprised, Ji Yu still picked up the chopsticks and ate slowly, unknowingly eating the amount of food for two people.

Back at the inn, Ji Yu knocked on Mei Shuao's door first, but still no one answered.

After being stunned at the door for a while, he returned to his room. Ji Yu sat at the table and took a sip of the wine in the jug. The wine was mellow and sweet.

Ji Yu frowned, he didn't like the taste very much.

After staring at the jug for a long time, he put the jug in his hand on the table.

Ji Yu found out the skin jug bought in Yongyu City, and slowly poured the wine from the wine gourd into the jug, spilling some of the wine.

Looking at the wine on his hands, Ji Yu couldn't help but smile wryly, the same sweet-scented osmanthus stuffing doesn't matter where it's served.

This reminded him of when he lived in seclusion for two years, when he dried the collected medicinal materials, he always liked to grind them bit by bit with a pestle, and sometimes a basket of medicines could last a whole day.

Porcelain vases containing medicine can be placed back and forth for a long time, according to the pattern or height.

Sometimes the sun-dried medicinal materials are changed back and forth, from the bamboo basket to the wooden lattice, and then put back into the bamboo basket when they feel something is wrong.

At that time, I didn't think there was anything, but of course I felt a little boring.

Ji Yu wiped off the wine that dripped on the table, put the wine jug in Mei Shuao's room, washed up briefly and then rested.

In the middle of the night, Ji Yu was suddenly awakened by the movement around him.

"Don't be afraid, it's me."

Mei Shuao got into the quilt and hugged Ji Yu.

Knowing that it was Mei Shuao, Ji Yu said calmly: "I'm back..."

"Juanqin, are you in a hurry?" Mei Shuao rubbed against Ji Yu again.

"No, you said you would come back."

Mei Shuao held Ji Yu's head with his right hand, looked at Ji Yu and said, "I miss you."

Mei Shuao lowered her head slowly, and rubbed Ji Yu's face with her lips, this time she didn't stop at it, Mei Shuao narrowed her eyes and slowly searched for Ji Yu's mouth.

The tongue lightly licked Ji Yu's lips, trying to get into his mouth.

At first, Ji Yu's body was stiff and resisted, but she slowly opened her lips to cater to Mei Shuao.

The sound of swallowing saliva is particularly obvious in the silent night.

Ji Yu felt that Mei Shuao's hands were fixed behind his head, lifting his whole body up, but the weight on his body did not decrease.

Mei Shuao's lower body also kept rubbing against Ji Yu's body.

Even the slightest movement became unusual in the dark night.

"Junqin..."

After an unknown amount of time, Mei Shuao put his arms around Ji Yu and buried his head next to his neck.

"Let's get married."

When Ji Yu heard Mei Shuao's words, he chuckled lightly.

"I understand that you and I are both men, but..." Mei Shuao didn't know what to say.

After a moment of silence, Mei Shuao said: "Why didn't you ask me where I have been these two days?"

"If you want to say it, of course you will."

"Close your eyes, and I'll tell you." Mei Shuao said softly, "Some things about the Mei family, if you're tired, go to bed."

Ji Yu hummed, but did not close his eyes.

Mei Shuao couldn't see Ji Yu's face, took a deep breath of the smell on Ji Yu's neck, and said: "I saw the old butler of Meizhuang yesterday, surnamed Wu."

"Uncle Wu's family left Meizhuang several years ago. I was still young at that time, um... only fourteen..."

"The old steward's family is very nice. Usually, I don't want to practice martial arts, so I hide in his room. He will also help me hide it from my parents."

Mei Shuao seemed to have thought of something interesting, smiled and said: "However, Uncle Wu is really old now, he almost didn't recognize him in front of the inn."

"Uncle Wu said that they have been living here since they left Meizhuang, and they stayed here for seven years without knowing it."

"He must let me go to his house and see Aunt Wu. That's why I asked Xiao Er to tell you to go back later."

Mei Shuao's tone was a little turbulent, "When I arrived at his house, Aunt Wu kept pulling me to talk about their affairs in the past few years, but she accidentally slipped her mouth, so I realized that the reason they left back then was not all because of getting old. "

"I asked again and again, and the old housekeeper told me something that I might never know in my life."

That year Mei Shuao was in Mei Yue, Mei Tian's only younger sister, Mei Shuao's aunt's house.

He didn't know about some things that happened in Meizhuang, and Mrs. Mei and Mrs. Mei deliberately kept it from him. The old housekeeper left, only saying that he was getting old and wanted to go back to his hometown to live.

In fact, it was at that time that Mei Tian fell in love with a woman from an ordinary family. The mother and father of that woman were both killed. Mei Tian was moved by compassion and wanted to take her back to Meizhuang as a concubine.

Mrs. Mei was displeased, but she was powerless to object.

But within a few days of bringing her back to Meizhuang, the woman was diagnosed to be pregnant.

Mei Tian had just met her not long ago, and it was obvious that the child in her womb was not Mei Tian's, so she had no choice but to drive her out of Meizhuang after asking the woman.

The housekeeper was indeed old at that time, seeing that the woman had a good heart, and had already knelt in Mei Zhuang for two days begging Master Mei and Mrs. Mei to take her in, he couldn't bear it.

The old housekeeper offered to return to his hometown to provide for the elderly. It happened that the couple had no children and raised the woman as a daughter. After death, there would be a mourner for them.

Mrs. Mei was having a temper tantrum at the time, and Mr. Mei couldn't hold back his face. Seeing that the housekeeper insisted on leaving, he had to give Uncle Wu and Aunt Wu a large sum of money, which was regarded as the reward for working hard for Meizhuang all his life.

But when Mei Shuao went to the old housekeeper's house, she didn't see the woman. After questioning, she found out that two years ago she had married to someone who owned an iron shop in a neighboring county. The real scale, the elders are also at ease.

Although it is not close, women will come to Wuzhen to live for a few days every month.

However, the woman has not come to visit Uncle Wu and Aunt Wu for more than three months. The two old men have gray hair and weak legs and feet. But he said he couldn't find that family.

At first, Uncle Wu thought it was his daughter who was delayed by something, but now he can't even find anyone.

These few days, Uncle Wu was looking for a carriage that would take him to a neighboring county, when he met Mei Shuao.

Mei Shuao saw Uncle Wu and Aunt Wu, who had served her for many years, both start to cry while talking, and felt uncomfortable.After asking about the name and place, he promised Wu Bo to go to the neighboring county overnight.

Mei Shuao went there to inquire many ways and spent a lot of money to find the blacksmith's shop. When he went there, he saw that there were other shops built on top of the shop.

I only found out after asking the neighbors that a fire broke out in this house three or four months ago. The neighbors all came to put out the fire, but no one came out when the fire stopped.

People died in this place, and the coffin shop was rebuilt some time ago, and no one mentioned the blacksmith's family anymore.

"Junqin, the first time Uncle Wu saw me, he said that what he regrets the most is that he didn't see the young master again back then."