Red apricots make spring

Chapter 143
Coaxing away Mum Wen, Rourou held a cup of tea, teasing mynah absent-mindedly until Xiaohuan came back, watching her walk over thoughtfully from afar, Wenrou couldn't sit still any longer, went up to her and asked, "Man How to say?"

"He said that an uncle driving a car had visited Mei Xiang twice recently, and each time the two had to hide from others and talk for a long time before the uncle left." Xiaohuan raised her eyes to look at Rourou, then lowered her head and said: "I've done the math. He said that the uncle's two visits were both during the period when we were in and out of Shen's residence."

Gentle and pondering: "Did the guy hear what they were talking about?"

Xiaohuan shook her head and said: "I said I didn't hear clearly, I only vaguely heard the words 'home' and 'grandma', every time the uncle left, Mei Xiang would hide in the inner room by herself for a long time before coming out At that time, her eyes were red, as if she had cried."

So-

Rourou walked a few steps silently, then sat back on the red lacquered railing.She could guess that the uncle driving the car must be Wu Tiancai, he would stop by every month or two to bring Mei Xiang's wages home.This time, something must have happened to Mei Xiang's grandma, maybe she got sick or died. After all, the old man is getting old, and the living conditions of the Mei family are so poor...

"Sister, what should I do about this matter?" Xiaohuan sat beside her and said hesitantly, "I think Mei Xiang also has difficulties. Do you want to ask Uncle Wu again? Find out what happened to her family."

"No need." Gentle shook his head and said: "Let this matter go, you and I just don't know, don't mention a word in front of Mei Xiang, how to live life, it is still the same."

Xiaohuan opened her eyes wide, staring at her without saying a word.

"Pay more attention to the accounts, and if there are any mistakes, please tell me as soon as possible." Rourou leaned slightly, straightened her crumpled skirt and said, "If there are no more mistakes, just forget about it." .”

Xiaohuan lowered her head and pondered for a while, then smiled and said, "I've made a note."

"Good job—" Immediately, the starling started jumping up and down in the cage again. Xiaohuan was startled at first, but when he saw that it was a bird talking, he found it funny again and couldn't help it. He reached out and knocked on the birdcage, causing the starling to yell, "Don't mess with me—"

"Pfft—" Rourou was drinking tea, before she could swallow it, she sprayed Xiaohuan's skirt.

Not to mention Ruan Wen and Xiao Huan have already made a plan, but at this moment Mei Xiang is uneasy for a moment, when she thinks of what happened at home, her eyes become sore, thinking of doing something sorry for Wen Wen, she feels guilty again.Looking at the situation, Xiaohuan already noticed that the account was wrong yesterday, otherwise she wouldn't have questioned her like that.

Just now, when she was making cakes in the back room, she heard Xiaohuan gossip with the clerk, even though she didn't hear clearly, she knew it was her own business, she almost couldn't hold back, she wanted to stand up and admit that it was she who took the money from the shop.However, thinking of how difficult the family is now, if she loses her monthly salary of [-] wen, she might not be able to live on, so she stopped her steps again.Just as he was hesitating, he heard Xiaohuan greet her outside, saying that he was going back. When she rushed out, she only saw a figure going away.

"Miss Mei Xiang, do you have something on your mind these two days?" The clerk saw her standing at the head of the shop in a daze, so he couldn't help asking a question.

"No...it's nothing..." Mei Xiang forced a smile, and hid in the back room again.

When the shop was closed and she walked back to Lu's residence, she felt that her steps were even more heavy.Ruan has been kind to her family, but she has done such an ungrateful thing, what face does she have to go back and have dinner with Wen's family?How to face the smiling faces full of warmth under the candlelight?
After thinking about it, she dragged her pace more and more slowly. She didn't know how long she walked before she moved to the gate of Lu's mansion. Then she saw a person standing there against the wall by the side of the house, looking up at the two lanterns hanging high in front of the mansion's gate daze.

"Brother Ye?" Mei Xiang was extremely surprised, she never thought that Ye Yu would be here.

When Ye Yu heard her call, his body trembled slightly, and then he turned his head slowly and said, "It's you!"

"En." Mei Xiang responded, and couldn't help but wonder: "Why are you standing at the door and not going in?"

"Well, I'm out today to do some errands, passing by here, stop for a while, and I'm going back to the martial arts hall." Ye Yu said absent-mindedly, and then said: "You don't need to mention that you saw me when you go in later. .”

"Oh." Seeing that he seemed unwilling to see her, Mei Xiang couldn't help lowering her head, wanting to take a step forward, bypass the main entrance, and enter the mansion through the side entrance.But after walking a few steps, she raised her head to look at the two high hanging lanterns, and for some reason, she stopped again and said, "Brother Ye, do you have time to chat with me?"

In fact, she doesn't know Ye Yu very well, because he always lives in the martial arts gym and rarely goes back to Wen's house, but only when facing such unfamiliar people, can she not be overwhelmed by the guilt in her heart .

Ye Yu was very surprised that she would want to talk to him, and after being taken aback for a moment, he still nodded.He's also in a bad mood, maybe it's better to chat with someone than to think about it alone.

A while later, Ye Yu bought a jar of wine from nowhere, and took Mei Xiang to drink and talk in a very secluded place at the foot of the city wall.There are almost no pedestrians passing by here, so there is no need to worry about others casting strange glances at them.

"Brother Ye, you said that if someone does something wrong to others, but he has a hard time, what should he do?" Mei Xiang sat down on the ground with her head down, picked up a small stone, and scratched it on the ground.

Ye Yu glanced at her, then took a sip of his wine sullenly and said, "Whether there is a reason or not, I always feel sorry for others. If you can apologize, please do so."

"If he apologized, what if others won't forgive him?" Mei Xiang's voice gradually dropped.

"That means he hurt others too badly, and he had to bear the guilt of himself." Ye Yu lifted the wine jar and took a sip of wine, leaned his back against the city wall, and looked up at the stars in the sky.

Mei Xiang frowned and pondered, and didn't speak for a long time.

Ye Yu put down the wine jar and said suddenly: "For example, my hometown was flooded, and many people escaped with their lives, but they had no food to wrap their stomachs, no clothes to keep out the cold, so some of them robbed others in order to survive. , In their view, I have my own difficulties, but how innocent are those people who were robbed by them? If they want to live, others don't want to live?" He said with a muffled snort: "Those If people appear in front of me, I will not spare any of them!"

Aroused sadness, Ye Yu added to his sorrow, and took a few more sips of wine.

Mei Xiang saw that his face became paler as he drank more, so she couldn't help worrying: "You drink less, you will be drunk later, how can you go back?"

"Drunk?" Ye Yu said with a sneering smile on his lips: "If you don't get drunk after drinking, it's better to drink water. Drinking is just asking for the word drunk! When you're drunk, you fall asleep and it's dawn when you look around. No more." As he spoke, he raised the wine jar in front of Mei Xiang and said, "Would you like to have a sip? I see that you also have something bothering you."

"I——" Mei Xiang originally wanted to chat with Ye Yu, and borrow some courage to go back and confess to Wenrou, but what he said made her even more worried, for fear that she would admit her mistake, Wenrou would not forgive her, that would be terrible. how goodSeeing Ye Yu say that drunkenness can forget troubles at this moment, he couldn't help but feel a little eager to try, hesitantly said: "Then let me have a sip and try."

The wine jar was very heavy, and when Mei Xiang took it, it almost fell to the ground. Ye Yu reached out to support the bottom of the jar, and said, "Be careful, if you smash it, where will you buy it?"

Mei Xiang took a big sip by the wine jar, and after swallowing, she felt a pungent pungentness go straight to her forehead, as if there was a fire burning from her throat to her stomach, which made her very uncomfortable, and she frowned for a long time , and when the pungent taste lessened a little, he let out a long breath and said, "It's so unpalatable!"

"This is wine! It's not the sugar water that children drink. Of course it won't taste very good, but it tastes good after you get used to it." Ye Yu took the wine jar back and took another two gulps by himself. He didn't hear Mei Xiang's voice, but in a blink of an eye, he saw that her face was flushed and her eyes were misty, and she couldn't help laughing: "No way? You're drunk after just one sip?"

Mei Xiang shook her head, and involuntarily showed a trance smile, and said, "I'm a little dizzy, my body seems to be floating. Brother Ye, can you give me another drink?"

Ye Yu was also slightly drunk at the moment, but his head was still clear. Seeing her like this, he knew that she was already a little drunk, but suddenly remembered that men and women were different, so how could he dare to give her another drink?If he drank any more, he didn't know how to send her back. Besides, if she talked nonsense in front of Wen Rou, wouldn't it be even worse?So he refused: "Let's both stop drinking, and sit and talk again, and I'll take you back."

"Brother Ye, I did something to be sorry for my sister." I don't know if it was because of her courage after drinking, Mei Xiang lowered her head, and said with a crying voice: "I... I stole the money from the shop, And lied...you said...will my sister forgive me?"

Ye Yu heard her tell the whole story, and was silent for a while. He didn't say anything to comfort her. He just stood up and handed the wine jar to her, "Take another sip, and I'll take you home. You'd better do it yourself." Make it clear to her first. I don't think she cares about the money, what she cares about is how you treat her. "
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(End of this chapter)