Retrograde for thousands of years

Chapter 178: Peach blossom at first sight

The next day, the girl came to the bookstore, returned two books, and brought Zhou Huan a pastry.

Zhou Huan didn't say anything, saying that girls can read books in the store or rent books, everything is free.

The days passed like this, and every day the girl would come to the bookstore, borrow books, return books, and then... Slowly she got used to it. Every day at noon, she would come to the bookstore and sit on the most remote table. Read a book.

Zhou Huan didn't care about her, but the pastries she brought every day were delicious. It's good that Westerners are good at making desserts.

Sometimes the girl came here with wounds on her body, and she could still smell the smell of gunpowder and ointment, but she insisted on coming every day, but she was always like a frightened rabbit, not daring to contact outsiders.

According to the information obtained by the two shop assistants, this girl is called Helen, and she is Lei Dongtian, the master of Perak Hall. Although Lei Dongtian is a blond and blue-eyed foreigner, he went to Daliang and gave him a Chinese name. This daughter was born to his ex-wife. Daughter, and Lei Dongtian’s second-day wife is from Daliang.

Lei Dongtian was not kind to his daughter, so he developed a timid and fearful character in her. On weekdays, she was a craftsman at the Perak Hall. Simply put, she did the most dangerous work of assembling Perak.

The assembly of Pilizi in Pilitang is a very dangerous job. If you are not careful, someone will die. There is also various research and development work. It is said that this girl's face is scarred.

"You can't do that."

One day, Zhou Huan frowned.

"You talk to your father about changing to a safer job, or let him come to me and I'll talk to him."

The girl shook her head desperately and said after a long time: "Mr. Wang, no need."

"Then be careful. If that doesn't work, I'll go talk to your father."

"Why are you helping me?"

"You are very good."

Zhou Huan stared at the various books she was holding, her heart filled with admiration for the top scholar.

"Hasn't anyone ever told you that you're great?"

……

"Are you still alive?"

After waking up from bed, she stared blankly at the spider webs on the roof.

A small insect on the spider web is struggling hard, but no matter how hard it struggles, it can't get rid of the web.

What about yourself?
Her mother was a princess of a certain Western country, but after the country's demise, she became a dancer and became a plaything of her father. She died when she was six years old.

"Your fate is a bit like Chen Yunying's."

Someone once laughed at her like this. Chen Yunying's mother was also a princess of a small country and died when she was six years old. But that girl was lucky. She eventually became the emperor of the empire, but what about her?
Her father had many children, and she was just an inconspicuous one among them. Especially after his father married Liang Guo's wife, he ignored her.

She grew up silently like this, and then became a technician at the Perak Hall, responsible for assembling Perak and other tasks on weekdays - but this is a very dangerous job, and people die or become disabled every year. She saw demons in her eyes, and those transparent liquids would explode and kill people if they accidentally collided with them.

When she was 12 years old, a piece of her face was burned. When she was 13 years old, there were scars on her arms and chest. Then, she suddenly became afraid. A child became an adult, and she had an incomparable fear of death.

She cried and begged her father not to let her do such a thing again, but his father just took her to the slums in the capital coldly, looking at the misery inside and the pity of some girls younger than her.

"You are not as good as them. Look in the mirror and see what you look like. Where can you go after leaving Perak Hall?"

She became silent and looked at herself in the mirror like a ghost. She burned the copy of Chen Yunying's biography and wore the veil from then on.Slowly, she became a 16-year-old girl, and her former companions all got married, but no one paid attention to her at all, and they just did the same job every day.

but……

She pulled out a book, which was a book she borrowed yesterday. It was a literary novel with many short stories in it. There was one story in it that impressed her deeply.

The girl is 14 years old. What she likes most is to see the peach blossoms on the tree at the entrance of the village.

The peach blossoms were very good, beautiful and gorgeous. That is to say, one day, she saw a beautiful boy under the tree. It was a neighbor's child who came back from the city.

The boy's face was so beautiful, and his smile was so bright, that she forgot about the peach blossoms, but her heartbeat was speeding up, as if something was pinching her throat, making her unable to breathe.

"Hello."

"Hello."

This is the first time the two people meet.

The girl was abducted the next day, tortured, and thrown into a land of fireworks. Later, she became a good person, but her husband died and she was kicked out of the house. She lived a wandering life and experienced all kinds of things in life. Painful, at the age of 60, she returned to her hometown again.

The peach blossoms on the tree were in full bloom, and the boy in the past became a gray-haired old man.

The two met under the peach blossom tree, and then she smiled and said to the man.

"Hello there!"

Everything has passed, only the first meeting back then is still so warm.

The story ended here. Helen shed tears suddenly as she watched.

This girl is lucky, at least she can return to her hometown and see her loved one, but what about her?

There was a note inside the book, which was a letter written by the young shop owner to her.

"If you can't stand it or want to leave Perak Hall, come to me."

This note had been stuck in her book for a month, and she had never been to a bookstore again, because she knew very well what the consequences of going to the bookstore would be!
The various sects outside are trying to find out the secrets of Pilizi, using all kinds of despicable methods. The shop opened by the young boss has been noticed by Pilitang from the beginning.

After she went there several times, an elder specifically warned her that there was definitely something wrong with that store, and it was 100% fishy. He hoped that she would be careful and careful, and never be deceived or tempted.

Perak Hall has encountered a similar case. A female disciple was seduced by a handsome young man and eloped, and then turned into a floating corpse in the river. And she, the elder told her with contempt, that even a ghost like her would be afraid of her. With such a beautiful face, no one would like her at all, let alone elope with her for her sake.

"You can test him, and remember to report him when he tempts you."

She knew that what the elder said was right, but when she received the note, her heart felt as if she had been struck by lightning.

If it were true, that would be great.

She told herself over and over again, just like the abducted girl in her tragic time, she would always think of the sunny boy and the reunion under the peach blossom tree.

It was the best day of my life and I will always remember it.

But what about yourself?
Sometimes she wished she could just crush the thunderbolt and smash herself to pieces!
After inserting the note into the book again, Helen made up her mind.

She knew very well that the final result of this adventure would be tragic, but when the time came, she would still have the last option to die, wouldn't she?
(End of this chapter)