Flowers are expensive

Chapter 99 Accidental Encounter 1
"Ms. Guo is in a panic now, and she is worried about her Jin Xiu's marriage!" Matchmaker Wu sneered, "Who can blame this? Isn't it all because she didn't take good care of her daughter! At a young age, she learned from others Jumping into the river to force a marriage, hum! Don’t say that the men in this village don’t want to have it, even the people from other villages have heard about it and decided not to want it.” “What is the Jin family saying now?”

"It's difficult to marry out! She said it herself, it's better to hire another one, let me inquire more. Don't worry, we are trying our best to get more money from the Jin family. Anyway, her family is rich and likes to show off." Son. The Xie family should let go a little bit, so as not to really offend, it's hard to talk!"

Miao Zhu nodded with a smile, and said: "You are still considerate! Turn around and tell Mrs. Guo that her family, Jin Xiu, committed a fatal evil this year, and she has to come to the temple to donate lamp oil to resolve it. Got it?"

"Understood! How long have you and I been working together? Did something go wrong? By the way, Cao's housekeeper is outside. What is she doing here?"

"Who knows?" Miao Zhu rolled his eyes and said, "As soon as she came, she knelt in front of the Bodhisattva and muttered, and I was not allowed to disturb her. She is a rich master, but she is not as generous as Aunt Guo."

"I'll go and have a look, maybe I can get you some lamp oil money."

"Don't go, her complexion is really wrong today. It's fine to put on a bad face on weekdays, but today she stares at you as soon as she talks, maybe she has something on her mind, so don't start this fire."

Matchmaker Wu talked to Miao Zhu for a while, and when she came out, she saw Mrs. Cao just getting up, so she went up to meet her and said, "It's rare for Housekeeper Cao to be free, so she's willing to go to the temple to offer incense?"

As expected, Cao's complexion was not good, so she reluctantly agreed.Matchmaker Wu hurriedly supported her and asked, "Don't be thinking about Ma Liu, are you? Looking at your face, it looks like you haven't slept well!"

"It's okay, I just have a stiff neck," Cao asked with a perfunctory smile, "Is your old man here for business again?"

"Who told me not to pinch my fingers for fortune-telling? I can only come here if I have fortune-telling."

"Whose relatives?" "The Xie family, Xie Moxiang and Tian Yisheng's."

"Hey!" Cao said with a sneer, "The one that has been a disaster for thousands of years is taken by Xie Moxiang, which is good, so as to save those unmarried daughters in the village from making a fuss. Alright, let's talk later, I'll go first gone."

"Don't you need me to send it?"

"No need, old man, you'd better be busy with your work!" After saying that, Mrs. Cao walked out of the temple with a bamboo basket in hand.Matchmaker Wu looked at her back and muttered: "You still have a knife head, are you going up to the mountain to visit the grave? Whose memorial day is her family today? Why don't I know?"

After leaving Haizi Temple, Mrs. Cao walked all the way up the nearby slope.She walked for a long time, walking for about a stick of incense in the weeds and dense forest, but she didn't know that there were two people, one big and one small, following behind her.She finally stopped beside a yellow fruit tree and put down the basket in her hand.

It doesn't look like a place with graves here, but Mrs. Cao took out the fruits of the knife heads one by one and put them under the roots of the tree.She squatted down and placed the plate while muttering: "It's your memorial day again, uncle, have you been reincarnated or not? I didn't see you entrust me with a dream. You should tell me anyway, so I can feel relieved. You are a good person, if you choose someone who can vote for a good family, don't compete with Lord Yan, and reincarnate as soon as possible!"

After reading this, she began to burn paper money, toast, and then bow.After finishing all the etiquettes of respecting the grave, she breathed a sigh of relief, as if she had completed another very important thing, she slowly stood up, stared at the pair of black ashes and said, "Uncle, Haitang has left the mountain, you If you haven’t reincarnated, go and bless me, and don’t have an accident like a year ago. Otherwise, I won’t be ashamed to see you when I go to the underworld.”

"Is his name Cao Haitang?" A man's voice came out like a stab in the back.Cao was frightened into a cold sweat, and when she turned her head and was about to scream, a small and icy dagger was pressed against her neck, and she almost fainted from fright!

"Don't make a sound, I won't kill you."

"It's you!" Mrs. Cao immediately recognized that the little girl holding the sword against her neck was the one who gave her the bracelet yesterday.She was stunned immediately, she couldn't think of this sharp dagger and this childish face at all.

There was a young man standing five steps behind the little girl, dressed in green clothes, he didn't look like a local.He waved at the little girl and said, "Pull the sword away, don't be scared to death before you finish asking."

"Brother, I'm afraid she will run away."

"Her legs are so frightened that she can still run? If she can run away, your brother's two legs will be cut off and given to you." The man said it very easily and humorously.The little girl laughed with a snort, and obediently withdrew her dagger.

Cao Shi fell to the ground with a thud, as the man said, her legs were really weak.She looked at the pair of brothers and sisters in front of her with a look of panic, and really couldn't remember that she knew such a person.

The man's smile was soft, not at all like a gangster or a flower picker.He knelt down in front of Mrs. Cao, and asked with a smile, "Let me ask you, is your Cao Haitang still alive?" Mrs. Cao nodded timidly.The man smiled again: "What about the bracelet? You should have received it, right? Then you should understand the purpose of our visit."

"You..." Mrs. Cao looked back at the pile of black ashes, and asked the man anxiously, "Who are you?"

"Who did you worship here just now?"

"No...no one..." Mrs. Cao shook her head vigorously.

"I just want to tell you that you don't have to come to worship every year in the future. It's not that he refused to reincarnate, it's that he didn't die at all."

"Uncle isn't dead?" Cao blurted out in surprise, but immediately regretted it, how could he say so easily.

The man smiled, stood up and lowered his head, and said, "Think about it, if it weren't for him, how could I have given you a string of lovesickness beans? He said that he took your string of lovesickness beans back then, and it was agreed , In the future, he will use this bracelet to find that child. The child should be as old as me now? It should be called Cao Haitang, who gave the name?"

After hesitating for a moment, Mrs. Cao said, "I did it. When my uncle left, he didn't name the child, so I just said it."

"Thank you for giving him such a nice name, what about others?"

"You... who the hell are you?"

"When you met your uncle, didn't you ask who he was? So now you don't have to ask who we are."

"But I should have an explanation to Haitang!" Cao said anxiously.

"The person who needs to explain is not you, but your uncle. You just need to tell me where Cao Haitang is now, and that's enough."

Cao looked at the man with unfamiliar and fearful eyes, always felt that his smile was very gentle, but there seemed to be something hidden behind the smile.She was hesitating whether she should trust this man, after all, she had witnessed his uncle jumping off the cliff, but how could the bracelet explain it?
"Don't you believe me?" The man seemed to see through Cao's mind at a glance.

"It's normal not to believe it," Cao said with a little courage, and slowly stood up from the ground, "After all, I always thought that uncle was dead. If he wasn't dead, why didn't he come by himself?"

"You don't want a person without legs to travel so far, do you?"

"Did uncle have a broken leg?" Cao asked in surprise.

"Jumping off such a high cliff, you're lucky if you don't die. What's the point of breaking two legs?"

Cao's heart sank, did he even know about this?Is uncle really not dead?
The man smiled slightly and said again: "I know it's hard for you to believe it for a while, but I really don't have time to spend too long with you here. I want to take Cao Haitang back to meet your uncle. Tell me, Cao Haitang is now where?"

"Going out of the mountain." Cao felt that this answer would not let the man find Haitang immediately, at least it could wait for a while for her to figure it out.

"Going out of the mountain? So we came here by accident, when will we come back?"

"One month." Mrs. Cao purposely extended the time by half.

"One month?" the little girl interjected, "We can't wait for him here for so long, brother, let's go after him, maybe we can catch up."

"That's a good idea!" The man took out a green satin brocade bag from his pocket and threw it to Cao Shidao, "This is your reward for raising Cao Haitang for 20 years. Keep it with peace of mind. You deserve it." " Cao Shi suddenly felt a little uncomfortable holding the kit, is this going to return Haitang?She was reluctant to give up, after all, they had been together for nearly 20 years.

"Don't feel cruel," the man said to her with a smile, "You should have known from the beginning that Cao Haitang was only temporarily placed here with you. After taking this reward, you two will be settled, and you will never see each other again in the future!"

"Wait!" Cao called to stop the man after two steps.

"What else?" Cao looked at the man's face for a few times, and asked with a slight frown, "I think you look familiar." The smile on the man's face paused, and he asked, "Where did you meet?" I?"

Mrs. Cao hesitated for a moment, then shook her head lightly and said, "I just feel familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it before." The man smiled lightly and said, "Maybe there are similar things and people are the same. Go back, we will find Cao Haitang directly." Take him away, although you will be sad, but you should have known that he was destined not to belong here."

"I understand..." Mrs. Cao pinched the kit sadly, and was not in the mood to open it to have a look. She just packed the things silently and walked away step by step with the basket in hand.

After Mrs. Cao walked away, the little girl played with the dagger in her hand and asked, "Brother, can this woman keep her promise? She won't tell the truth, right? Do you want to kill her?" The man shook his head and said, "She is a A trustworthy person, otherwise, she would not come to pay homage to the uncle she thought was dead 20 years later. Before leaving, the third uncle had explained that she could not kill her, so you should give up your little mind! "

"Oh, I see. You said she would go crazy with joy when she suddenly got so much money?"

"Crazy or not has nothing to do with us, the most important thing now is to find Cao Haitang, let's go!"

After the man finished speaking, he took the little girl's hand, walked through the dense forest, and walked down the mountain.

On the way, he suddenly heard a series of laughter like copper bells, followed the sound, and saw a young daughter-in-law and two girls walking up the mountain, talking and laughing.He suddenly felt that the young daughter-in-law looked familiar. Before he could speak, the little girl spoke first: "Brother, isn't that the sister in the attic last night?"

He remembered that last night when he was standing outside Xie's courtyard in a daze, the window on the attic was suddenly pushed open, and the person who appeared by the window was the young daughter-in-law in front of him.At that moment, he avoided it naturally, and looked at the person in the attic curiously, wondering who could that person be?
"Brother, don't you recognize her?" the little girl asked.

"I don't know, she didn't seem to be there when I was here." He shook his head lightly and said, "Maybe she is the daughter-in-law of one of the sons of the Xie family."

"Brother, are you really going to leave like this? Don't go to see the grandma you mentioned? Maybe you won't have a chance to come back here in the future. "

He looked at the young daughter-in-law who was chatting and joking under the slope, and said with a sour smile: "If you don't go, it's useless to watch, it will only add to each other's sadness, and I will use endless lies to cover up my identity. Why bother? The Xie family seems to be living a very good and peaceful life now, all the sons are married, and there are more people I don't know, I don't need to bother them anymore, let's go!"

(End of this chapter)