My apprentice is not easy

Chapter 182 He promised me a lot
When the old lady spoke, a color called Hope flashed in her cloudy eyes.

The bird fluttered its wings.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, we are not from Kyoto, we just came here today."

"Oh……"

The old lady nodded, with a look of disappointment visible to the naked eye.

Afterwards, he nodded embarrassingly at Ling Yun.

"Thank you son!"

"No...it's fine."

Ling Yun answered.

But listened to the little bird's words.

"Auntie, who is this He Yingyi? You don't want us to talk about it carefully."

It flapped its wings and flew down.

Ling Yun hurriedly raised his hand, took it in the palm of his hand, and held it in front of him.

"The two of us probably stayed in Kyoto during this time, maybe we met?"

"He..."

The old lady looked emotional, and was about to talk about it in detail.

But was interrupted by the bird.

"Ma'am, don't rush to talk. There are tables and chairs over there. Let's sit there and talk slowly, Ang?"

The old lady turned her head and looked at the tables and chairs on the second floor of the inn.

nodded.

"well."

The old lady leaned on crutches, took small steps, and moved over there.

After Ling Yun was stunned for a moment, he chased after and helped the old lady.

First, she took care of the old lady to sit on the chair, and then sat opposite by herself.

After thinking about it, he put the bird in his hand on the table again.

The little bird tried it out, sat in a comfortable position, and pretended to be listening.

The old lady looked at it and couldn't help smiling.

He raised his head, a look of remembrance appeared in his eyes.

"He Yingyi, he is a scholar, a scholar who has studied the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, and his goal is to be number one."

"He was born in a place called Xiaolin Village. His father was a down-and-out scholar, and his mother... was an ordinary peasant woman."

"His father, although he is down and out, still has something in his heart. So since he was a child, he was not allowed to do farm work. Besides reading, he is reading."

"At that time, he was the boss who didn't want to."

As the old lady spoke, she couldn't help but shook her head and laughed.

"At that time, I was still a girl from an ordinary wealthy family, because I was in the same village as him, so contact was naturally unavoidable."

"Because he doesn't go out often, the children in the village don't play with him."

"It's just me... I fell in love with his face and followed him, but a lot of jokes were made."

The little bird was shocked when he heard it.

"How old you are depends on your face, aunt... you are really good!"

The old lady laughed.

"Didn't you know what to do at that time? Even though you clamored to marry him every day, you didn't even understand what marriage was."

"Because he didn't want to study, he often sneaked out from home and took me up the mountain to catch hares and down the river to fish...that's what he should do and what he shouldn't do. He did it all over again."

"Every time, he was found by his father and brought back by his ears."

With that said, the old lady sighed lightly.

"Actually, I know that he is making such a fuss not because he is just playing, but because... he doesn't want his parents to be too tired."

"For a small village in the countryside, the annual harvest depends on the few acres of land. If God is in a good mood, the harvest will be good; if God is in a bad mood, he will starve and suffer from cold throughout the year."

"In such a situation, it is a problem for a family to even eat, let alone provide for a scholar."

"He wanted his father to give up early, and made his father feel that he was not suitable for studying, so he continued to force him to study... There is no good result."

Hearing this, the little bird clicked his tongue lightly.

"too naive."

His eyes were too shallow, and he only saw the tiredness of his parents in front of him.

But I never thought that reading a book represents the possibility of changing the fate of a family.

"Of course, this is what he did when he was a child. At the age of 12, he made a change."

the old lady recalled.

"I can't remember why he changed."

"It seems that... I went out for a long trip, and after I came back, I stopped messing around like before."

"Before that, every time he saw me, he would say: 'Hey, I saw a nest of birds in the back mountain yesterday, let's go?'"

"Later, it became: 'Let's find a quiet place, I study, you stay with me, okay?'"

After saying this, the old lady seemed to be caught in some memory.

His eyes were blank, and he didn't continue talking.

The little bird raised his head, pretending to be listening and watching carefully.

In fact, it is a pity in my heart.

The ending of this story should not be satisfactory.

He secretly sighed, and while the old lady was distracted, he paid attention to Ling Yun.

I saw Ling Yun's body was straight, his eyes were dull, and his lips were slightly parted.

There are a few large characters all over the body:
What is she saying?
The little bird was silent for a moment, then raised its wings and patted its head.

This guy is really stupid.

Shorter words can be understood and given a response; this kind of words can't be understood directly when others say more.

"Ugh……"

The old lady sighed and looked up.

Ling Yun belatedly put away his dazed expression, blushed, and lowered his head in embarrassment.

The little bird clicked his tongue.

He hurriedly stood up, walked to Ling Yun's hand with a shaky step, and patted his hand.

"Auntie, keep talking, are we all listening? Looking at him, we are all moved!"

Ling Yun who was forced to be moved: (ω)?

The old lady smiled softly, her eyes narrowed, and even the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes became obvious.

"It's good enough if you are willing to listen to my old lady, thank you..."

"No, no need."

The little bird fluttered its wings.

"We love to hear your story, don't you, Xiao Yunzi?"

After a bird's claw tightly gripped his finger, Ling Yun finally stopped staying.

Nodding vigorously.

"Yeah, love to hear it!"

The old lady's gaze was on the bird's retracted paw.

Squinting, smiling very kindly.

"Okay, I love to listen, the old lady will tell you."

"That man, He Yingyi, promised me a lot when he was young, what... he wants to be with me for the rest of his life, he wants to give me the grandest wedding in the whole village, he wants to make me the happiest person..."

"Most, I can't remember exactly."

"It was the last time, I still remember it clearly."

The old lady smiled.

"That year he was 16 years old, and in the name of the youngest scholar in the town, he went to Beijing to rush for the exam."

"Before I left, I went to see him off, and gave him a purse embroidered by myself, with a red bottom, golden thread, and... two mandarin ducks embroidered on it."

"He accepted it, and then told me..."

The old lady paused and raised her hand on the head of the cane.

Facing the air, he made a hugging motion.

"Wait for me, when I become famous, I will come back and marry you."

"He left and... never came back."

"I waited from the age of 15 until I was 20, until my father got rich, until the matchmaker broke through the door, until the end...and I didn't wait for him."

"People in the town say that he is dead, I don't believe it...but, but..."

The old lady withdrew her hand and covered her face, tears rolled out of her eyes.

"In the end, I followed my father's arrangement, recruited a son-in-law, and worked hard for decades..."

"Now, I have half a foot into the coffin, and I am not far from death, so I want to come here to have a look."

"See you if you find it, or not...it doesn't matter."

(End of this chapter)