Peach Blossom Shop

Chapter 41 Letter

"You left something?" Lin Manlu threw away the leaves in his hand, adjusted his glasses in surprise, "What is it?"

The gardenia tree replied softly, "I don't know what it is, I just saw that one early spring, that man buried a box in the soil at Xiyue's feet. Xiyue didn't know it, until she left, the box was still there. Buried here. This place is about to be overturned, and I will also be removed. I wonder if you two can dig out that box and bring it to Xiyue?"

Lin Manlu looked up, looked at Zhang Zeyu, and asked, "Where is that thing buried?"

The gardenia tree shook its branches and said, "Two steps behind you to the right."

Lin Manlu turned his head to look, pointed behind him, "Where?"

Gardenia replied, "Yes."

Zhang Zeyu nodded, picked up a steel bar from the ground, walked to the location pointed by the gardenia tree, squatted down, peeled off the gravel, and started digging.Lin Manlu also ran over, squatted down with her knees hugged, and watched Zhang Zeyu's movements with some expectation.

Because it had just rained, the soil was still quite loose. Before Zhang Zeyu dug for a while, he felt that the steel bar in his hand touched something hard, and there was a metallic sound of "clicking, clicking".

The two looked at each other, and Lin Manlu urged, "Yuyu, dig it out quickly."

Zhang Zeyu nodded, moved the steel bar to the side, then inserted his force into the soil, and suddenly dug up. With a "wow", a rusty iron box full of soil was dug out.

Lin Manlu hurriedly took out a pack of tissues from her handbag, picked up the box and wiped it, wiped off the dirt on it, then looked at Zhang Zeyu, Zhang Zeyu also looked at her, and nodded slightly to her.

Lin Manlu stretched out his hand, and with a "click", gently opened the iron box with the upside-down lock. The two of them looked into the box together, and saw an envelope wrapped in a red plastic bag inside the box.

Lin Manlu reached out, took out the plastic bag and the envelope, and looked at Zhang Zeyu again.

Gardenia Shu's voice was a little anxious, and asked beside him, "Did you find it? Is there anything?"

Lin Manlu stood up, "I found it, there is a letter."

Gardenia Shu felt relieved, "That's good..."

Lin Manlu looked at the gardenia tree, then at the plastic bag in his hand, and said, "Then I'll take this letter back. I'll give it to Xiyue, don't worry."

The leaves of the gardenia tree swayed slightly again, seemed to smile slightly, and said, "Thank you both."

Lin Manlu looked at the gardenia tree again, then took a plastic bag, supported Zhang Zeyu, and walked out of the construction site.The gardenia tree was behind the two of them, shaking its emerald green leaves gently, as if saying goodbye to them.

After the two returned to the store, Lin Manlu immediately called Xiyue with a sound transmission talisman. The night was very dark, with dark clouds in the sky, and there was a hint of tide in the summer wind blowing up in the alley. Come on, it's going to rain again.

Xiyue was still holding on to the yellowed oil-paper umbrella, and rushed to the Peach Blossom Shop in a hurry.

"Boss Lin, tell me, you found what he left for me. What is it?" Xiyue entered the shop and asked straight to the point.

Lin Manlu waved her hand and asked her to sit down at the Eight Immortals table, "Don't worry, I will give you the things. It's just..."

"Just what?" Xiyue asked with a hint of anxiety on her stunning face, interrupting Lin Manlu's words.

Lin Manlu adjusted his glasses and said with a smile, "It's just that there are too few clues for the person you're looking for, so I'm afraid it won't be easy to find for a while! However, it will take some time, and you should be able to find it."

Xiyue looked at Lin Manlu, and smiled wryly, "I know, there's only one common name in the vast sea of ​​people, so it's not easy to find it. Boss Lin, don't be embarrassed..."

Lin Manlu nodded, "Well, then you can just say so. Yuyu, where are the things?"

Zhang Zeyu, who had been standing behind the counter, heard Lin Manlu call him, then came out from behind the counter with a red plastic bag, put the plastic bag on the table, and sat beside Lin Manlu.

Xiyue's winking eyes immediately looked closely at the plastic bag, "This is..."

Lin Manlu smiled, pushed the plastic bag in front of Xiyue, and said, "The thing we dug out from the ground where you practiced before seems to be something that man specially left for you."

Xiyue looked at the plastic bag for a long time, then slowly raised her hand, reaching for the plastic bag, Lin Manlu looked at the back of Xiyue's plain white hands, trembling faintly.

With great difficulty, Xiyue pulled out the envelope from the red plastic bag. There was nothing on the envelope, and the corners had begun to faintly turn yellow.Xiyue turned to the back of the envelope, took a deep breath, peeled off the wax seal on the cover, then reached in and slowly took out a piece of neatly folded letter paper.

Lin Manlu clenched her fingers, held her breath, and felt a little nervous.Zhang Zeyu hooked the corners of his lips, stretched out his hand, covered Lin Manlu's fist on his knee, and patted it lightly. Lin Manlu turned to look at him, and continued to look at Xiyue.

At this moment, Xiyue had pulled out the letter paper, biting her lower lip tightly, and slowly opened the old letter paper.

In the peach blossom shop, the peach blossom candles with anise anise are burning lightly. The fragrance of peach blossoms in the shop, mixed with the damp summer wind blowing from outside the door, invades everyone's spleen and lungs. No one speaks. For a while, inside the shop It was so quiet that not a single sound could be heard.

"Clap, clap."

Suddenly, drops of crystal clear teardrops rolled down from Xiyue's eyes, and landed on the Eight Immortals table next to several people, making a burst of dripping sound.

Lin Manlu and Zhang Zeyu looked at each other, and it was hard to talk, so they could only watch Xiyue staring at the letter paper quietly, and kept crying.

At the back door, Xiao Hua was lying on the side of the door frame, poking her head, not daring to make a sound—the pretty sister was crying.

After about a quarter of an hour, the tears in Xiyue's red and swollen eyes finally stopped gradually. She smiled a little shyly, folded the letter paper, put it beside the Eight Immortals table, and said, "Thank you, Boss Lin, for helping me. Get this letter."

Lin Manlu blinked, not knowing what to say.

Xiyue took out a handkerchief, wiped the corners of her eyes, and calmed down, then turned to look at Lin Manlu, and said, "Boss Lin, there is no need to look for that man."

Lin Manlu opened his eyes wide, "You don't need to look for it anymore? Why? Although there are relatively few clues now, if I spend some time and energy, I should be able to find them!"

Xiyue smiled, "Thank you, Boss Lin. It's just that I'm satisfied now, and I don't want to see him anymore. I've worked hard for Boss Lin during this time." As she spoke, Xiyue's fingers flashed, and a moist swaying , Something similar to teardrops appeared in the palm of Xiyue, "This is the reward for your hard work during this time."

Lin Manlu took a look, a little surprised, "No need, I didn't find someone for you, I can't take this drop of virtue."

Xiyue smiled and handed the Yinde in her hand to Zhang Zeyu, and said, "Please Xingjun accept it." Zhang Zeyu was not polite and accepted it directly.

Afterwards, Xiyue got up, blessed the two of them, went to the door, picked up the oil-paper umbrella, propped it up, and walked into the deep alley.

"Hey, Xiyue, your letter!" Lin Manlu saw the envelope and letter paper left on the table, quickly picked them up, ran to the door, and shouted to Xiyue who left.

Xiyue didn't listen to her footsteps, and her soft voice came with the cool wind, "Boss Lin can handle it by himself!"

Lin Manlu was stunned, looked down at the letter paper in his hand that was blown away by the wind, and saw a meticulous painting on the letter paper, black and white branches, leaves and flowers, and only a woman in red, like an elf, lying on the ground On a blooming rose, squinting lazily, it is very pleasant.

"Wow!" A torrential rain fell suddenly, and the letter paper in Lin Manlu's hand was immediately wet, and the only red spot on the black and white picture was gradually wet and fainted by the rain.

"Lulu, come in! Don't get wet." Zhang Zeyu's warm voice sounded behind him,
Lin Manlu suddenly understood in her heart - when she first saw Xiyue, the sadness in her eyes was originally called... Missing.

Lin Manlu let go of his hand slightly, letting the letter paper fall slowly, wet in the rain, then with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he turned around and walked into the peach blossom shop full of the fragrance of flowers.

I've seen you before, but you don't know it.Looking back now, the past is unbearable, it is better to leave the missing and never forget each other...

　It's crooked, I originally wanted to adapt it based on the answer, but I didn't expect to completely change it to a story I described...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)