Wei Shu

Chapter 21
Wei Shu lay quietly, the sky outside was gloomy, and the sound of rain on the eaves was loud, just like yesterday.

Why is it raining endlessly?
Wei Shu thought, feeling a little sad gradually in her heart.

The spring rain in the Central Plains is rarely so straightforward.

During the startling season, there are gusts of wind and thunder, and the momentum is astonishing; when it comes to the solar term of Grain Rain, it will be drizzle, willow banks and bridges, but the sentiment is extremely lingering;
It's clear and bright, the rain is sparse and the wind is rustling, and people plant willows to sacrifice, which is not a ecstasy; then it is Huangmei weather, the sun is in the east and it is raining in the west, and the city is filled with smoke and fog, that summer It is also close at hand.

But in this foreign country far away from Middle Earth, there are no 24 solar terms.The spring and summer rain here can only be summed up as a "rainy season", and it also falls without ups and downs, monotonous and boring.

Tired of lying on the bed for a long time, Wei Shu just lazily got up, washed up and took two mouthfuls of dry food, then leaned against the window and continued to be in a daze.

The bean-like raindrops hit the eaves, like a bad-tempered person beating pots and pans, and it was very annoying to hear.

However, the young lady and brother who were rubbing the hemp rope under the broken corridor on the opposite side made this noise a little bit smarter.

The boy was only two or three years old, with a thin braid to the sky, and his withered yellow hair was tied up in countless knots with red headbands, which set off his sunken cheeks and sallow cheeks.

There is a very old long-lived thread hanging on his chest, it should be bright red at first, but now it has turned white and yellow. Judging from the weaving style, it doesn't look like a local item of the Kingdom of Jin, but rather a style of the Central Plains.

The girl was several years older than him, taller and stronger, with two croiss braids on her head, dark skin and watery eyes, but she was a beauty.

The siblings are the children of a Song couple across the street. Now the husband and wife are working elsewhere, and they can only go home after the errands are over.

The two children were very obedient, and when their parents asked them to do things, they rubbed the rope obediently without arguing.Parents said that when the hemp rope is twisted long enough, they can exchange it for some money, and if there is any leftover, they will buy milk nests for them to eat.

The two children were thinking about the milk, and they rubbed the rope very vigorously. Their little hands were red, but they still smiled with their mouths open, as if they had already eaten the sweet milk.

Wei Shu was almost engrossed in the eyes of the window.

She had never seen anyone twist twine before.Naturally, she had never lived in such a small house.

The courtyard is actually not small, and the layout is also regular. The main room faces south with three bright and two dark rooms. There are three rooms on the east and west sides respectively. , There is also a plantain planted in the corner of the courtyard, and half of the stone stool remains under the plantain.

Many years ago, this must have been the residence of some well-to-do family, but now there are nearly ten families squeezed in, with a total of fifty or sixty people. Brooms, crooked stoves, etc., were so crowded that there was almost nowhere to stand.

Wei Shu's room is located at the westernmost end of the main room, which is the west end room. Because the room is of decent size, it is divided into two rooms by wooden boards.

The roof was originally high, but the landlord didn't want the space, so he built a beam in the hollow, and made the upper half into an attic, where he put a lot of his own sundries, and Wei Shu's house was plain and low. Go down a chunk.

Yesterday at noon, Wei Shu woke up once, and felt a strange smell in the room in a daze. She just got up and looked for it, and found that the smell was seeping from the cracks in the bricks.

The 20 years of time have dimmed the blood color soaking through the cracks of the bricks, leaving only a rust-like smell that lingers.

Wei Shu thought, most of the residences in this city are like this.

These two rooms were rented by Akis, and the rent was paid until the end of this year.

Wei Shu still doesn't understand why this Aqi girl is a slave of a wealthy family, but why she doesn't live in the master's house, but wants to rent a house outside?
When washing up last night, Wei Shu finally realized something, and she also realized that the identity of "Arrow Eleven" was very strange, and there were quite a lot of secrets in her body.

In the vicinity of "Li Nufang" in the north of the city, houses like Zayuan are considered excellent, with a roof covering the head and a relatively complete brick floor underneath, and because the people living here are all Song people. And poor families of all ethnic groups, there are not many people to disturb them.

Just this latter point is much better than the situation where people in Li Nufang are not as good as dogs.

Wei Shu has now gotten used to the identity of Akis, although there were a lot of jokes last night, and she even almost made a mistake with the toilet, but she managed to get it right after bumps and bumps.

Correspondingly, several pages of that book, which was hidden in the darkness, lit up.

It is right to insist on going home.

Wei Shu picked at the wood by the window, thinking, the people in this courtyard are much easier to fool than those two smart and ghostly spies from the Song Dynasty.

"Swipe la la—"

Suddenly a gust of wind blew up, and raindrops splashed into the window, splashing Wei Shu's head and face, she suddenly recovered, but saw that the two children under the eaves might as well have been hit by the wind and rain, and their clothes were all wet .

He yelled "Wow, wow", picked up the rope ball and moved it in quickly, but unexpectedly bumped into each other head-to-head. The elder sister staggered a few steps and managed to stand still, but the younger brother fell on his back. I fell a big somersault.

He immediately covered the back of his head in grievance, his mouth was flattened and he was about to cry, his sister didn't care about the pain in her body, she hurried over to rub his head for him, and scraped his cheeks with her fingers shyly, coaxing him with a milky voice he:

"Good baby, good baby, don't cry, don't cry."

The soft and glutinous child's voice is as pleasant as singing.

The younger brother was coaxed by the older sister, so he really stopped crying. He just blinked his two big eyes and looked at the older sister, and then he covered his mouth and laughed "giggling".

It turned out that my sister's braids had come loose, but my sister didn't know it, and she was still laughing with her head full of chicken coops.

After laughing for a while, the boy grabbed his sister's hand and stood up unsteadily. He stood on tiptoe and opened his little hand, catching those naughty strands of hair here and there, and helping his sister tidy them up.

Only then did the girl realize that her hair was messed up, and seeing that her brother was so sensible, her black grape-like eyes widened, and imitated the grown-ups, she patted the boy's head and praised him, "What a good boy. "

The two little people laughed "Card Card Quack", Wei Shu looked at them softly, and two thin figures appeared in front of her eyes.

If she could be reincarnated, her Zhenzhen and Brother Huan must still be a pair of younger sisters, well-behaved, sensible, and lovable.

Wei Shu's expression brightened for a moment, then dimmed again, the corners of her trembling lips seemed to be twitching or smiling.

Or maybe, neither of the two, just like so many things in this world, they happen as they happen, and there is no reason to follow, but it happens when it happens.

(End of this chapter)