Chapter 7 The Embarrassment of Cotton
Cotton has excellent moisture absorption and breathability. The cloth surface looks soft and feels extremely soft, but it is not very smooth and is easy to wrinkle. But even so, in this era, for women, it is already favored by them because of its moisture absorption and breathability.
So when Bai Chun closed the door and entered the room with the package, she had already been almost certain before she opened it. The cloth inside the package was definitely "that kind" cotton cloth.
Involuntarily, Bai Chun began to become embarrassed and hot all over her body. Anger and nervousness instantly rose from the bottom of her heart. Her white cheeks suddenly looked like a piece of red cloth, and she was so beautiful that she was about to drip out of water.
My heart was beating violently, and the sound of dongdong was as if it would jump out of my throat in the next second. A layer of sweat had already oozed out of my forehead. I stood in the room with the cotton cloth in my hand and didn't know what to do.
There was only one question mark in his mind at this moment: "How did he know? How did he know my... period of menstruation? How could he know so clearly? How did he know that I wanted to buy this kind of cloth when I went out today!"
Thinking of her in the yard today, Ye Qing asked her if she needed to bring something back for her, and the strange smile before turning around, Bai Chun wanted to find a crack in the ground at this moment.
It was so embarrassing, how could she meet people? The woman's private affairs were actually known by her brother-in-law. This feeling was like standing in front of Ye Qing naked, letting him look at him unrestrainedly!
Someone under the mulberry tree sat on the recliner and did not dare to move. He looked nervously at the silhouette that was shining in front of the window, and was also motionless. He didn't know what would happen if Bai Chun guessed his purpose?
Should I drive myself out of the house? Or did I hang myself in shame and anger? Or did I rush from upstairs to the kitchen, pick up a kitchen knife and chop myself up and feed myself to the dog? Or... I suddenly screamed motionlessly, and then started crying heart-wrenchingly in the room alone?
The night was like water, silent. The breeze that was originally wandering around in the yard seemed to be frozen by the awkward atmosphere in the whole yard. Two mulberry trees stood quietly in the yard. At this moment, it seemed that even a piece of branches and leaves had lost their former agility, and they hung their heads and stared at everything in the yard.
Just like Ye Qing on the recliner, like Bai Chun in the room, like everything in the yard, motionless, and the whole yard seemed to be stopped by time.
Ye Qing, who was frozen on the recliner, didn't know how long it had passed. Just when his arms that supported his body began to tremble, he saw that the light in the room on the second floor suddenly went out silently, and then the whole yard seemed to be completely buried in the darkness.
Bai Chun's heart was still beating, and she even suspected her heartbeat. Even the dead man outside could hear it. He held the package in one hand and stretched forward in the darkness with the other hand. He leaned against his memory and moved slowly into the inner world.
Until he touched the edge of the bed, Bai Chun seemed to have finally found a shelter, gently took off his shoes, and then hurriedly lay on the innermost side of the bed, curled up his body without any notice. He was still holding the wrapper tightly in his arms, nervously pricking up his ears to listen to the sound outside.
I don’t know how long it took again. Just as Bai Chun’s mood gradually calmed down and his heart stopped beating as pounding as before, Bai Chun realized that he seemed to have been fished out of water, as if his whole body was covered with a layer of fine sweat, and he felt a sense of indescribable discomfort.
"Bah." Bai Chun noticed that he was still hugging the package tightly in his arms, so he hurriedly spitted with a red face, and then quickly threw the package aside.
"Ouch...dum..."
It was like she threw the package not a package, but Ye Qing. As soon as she threw the package to the other side of the bed, she heard Ye Qing's complaints coming from the yard, and then there was a clamor, as if something had been knocked down.
Bai Chun's whole heart seemed to be pulled up again, holding on to his clothes tightly, feeling embarrassed, angry and funny at this moment.
The next morning, Ye Qing got up early. What happened last night was not awkward for him. After all, after throwing the package, the two of them did not meet again, so it was not very embarrassing for him, but they were just a little nervous.
I looked at the kitchen without the familiar figures I was busy on weekdays, and then looked up at the second floor and saw that the window was still tightly closed and the door was tightly closed.
Even though he stood in the yard to fetch water and wash, coughed loudly, no matter how loud the noise came, there was still no movement on the second floor.
Ye Qing, who had cleaned up, looked up at the second floor, looked around the yard that was not big for a week, and then shouted to the second floor: "That... I'll be a job first, breakfast... I won't have to prepare it for me."
After saying it awkwardly, there was still no movement on the second floor. Ye Qing could only look at the second floor, which was silent and involuntarily touched his nose to relieve his embarrassment.
But he was not worried that Bai Chun would seek short-sightedness. After all, she was very calm last night. It was impossible for her to remember to feel embarrassed and embarrassed after a night of sleep, and then she got up to find a rope to seek short-sightedness.
Standing suspiciously in the yard, looking at the second floor where there was still no movement, someone whose eyes were turned, raised their voices, and said to themselves, "It's not that I'm just trying to be a fool, right? If I hang myself, my tongue is stretched out, and I'm so scary..."
"Go to die!" A cold shout came from the second floor, and then I saw the window suddenly open and a black thing flew out.
With a "bang", the window on the second floor was also closed, and the dark thing fell down. Ye Qing, who had avoided him, looked down and saw that it was a square of inkstone.
Just as I was staring at the inkstone that had a pit smashed out of the ground, when I was looking at it, a voice suddenly sounded behind me: "Why are you staring at an inkstone stupidly early in the morning?"
"Ah!" Ye Qing, who was completely forgot about me, was startled by the sound behind her. When she turned around, she saw that it was Li Heng and immediately became anxious: "You are so fucking walking without sound, you are a cat, you know that scary people will kill people? By the way, how did you come in? Didn't my house close last night?"
"I came in as soon as I pushed the door. Why are you staring at a piece of inkstone?" Li Heng remembered Ye Qing's focused expression just now, and couldn't help but continue to curiously.
"Oh, no... nothing. I practiced that brush calligraphy last night and became obsessed with it. As the saying goes, if you don't have a madness, you won't survive. That's it... that. In short, my calligraphy is very progressive now." Ye Qing said, pushing Li Heng out without saying a word.
Bai Chun on the second floor listened clearly to Ye Qing and Li Heng's words, especially when he heard his brother-in-law making a fool of himself at Li Heng, Bai Chun hid in the room on the second floor and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Dish from the east gate, water from the west gate, firewood from the south gate, rice from the north gate. Fish hangers outside the Wulin Gate, silk baskets outside the Genshan Gate, horse racing outside the Fengshan Gate, salt hangers outside the Qingtai Gate, vegetable hangers outside the Wangjiang Gate, wine jars outside the Houchao Gate, manure hangers outside the Qingchun Gate, firewood hangers outside the Qingbo Gate, boating outside the Yongjin Gate, fragrant hangers outside the Qiantang Gate..."
I don’t know who made up the songs of the ten main gates of Lin'an City. Every morning there are some children singing happily in the neighborhood. Every time I hear the fragrant basket outside Qiantang Gate, Ye Qing would ask Li Heng: "Is the fragrant basket outside Qiantang Gate singing like this because of Liu Lan'er, the third daughter of Old Liu?"
Qiantang Gate is opposite to Dongqing Gate, one is in the east and the other is in the west of the city, so Ye Qing and Li Heng walked out of the square and came to Yu Street, basically every time they met Lao Liu and walked out of the streets opposite.
Aunt San opened a tavern at the corner. It is said that her man was also an imperial guard at the time and had been a vacancier in the Fajiuku. Then one day she drank and died of drinking, leaving Aunt San and a son to depend on each other.
The Fajiuku also makes wine, but it also sells wine from the market. Its main responsibility is to provide the royal palace, or sacrifices, and reward ministers.
So working in the Fajiu Warehouse is a good job, not a good job. Who knows if the emperor also asked these imperial guards to try new wine, and then if it were the man of Aunt San, he would just die of alcohol.
In front of Old Liu, Ye Qing naturally did not dare to say such a guess. Although Old Liu loved Aunt San, he always respected the man who had passed away.
So Ye Qing did not dare to randomly guess the cause of his death in front of Old Liu's head.
The three of them strolled on the slightly clean Imperial Street. The straight and spacious Imperial Street was the central axis of Lin'an City. At the end of the south, it was the north gate of the palace: Hening Gate. If you turn around and walk back, you will pass Dongqing Gate and Genshan Gate, you will be the water gate of Tianzong in Lin'an City.
Therefore, there is a huge Lin'an City between the place where Ye Qing and the others live and the north gate of the palace. At the same time, we can know that these people are actually the people at the bottom of the entire Lin'an City, with their social identity and status.
"Build Jiuli Imperial City and open Shili Tianjie." Ye Qing and his three men took a certain amount of time to walk from North City to South City in the early morning.
What's more, Nancheng is relatively unfamiliar with them and some new places. After all, their daily activity areas are basically designated in the North City, so it is difficult to have the opportunity to wander to the South City.
Just like in my previous life, people who lived in the south of Beijing could not go to the north a few times a year.
Lin'an City is now extremely developed, both east, west, south and north, and there is no shortage of all kinds of daily necessities, but the level is different.
So for them, they satisfied their daily living expenses in North City. After being self-sufficient, there was no need to go to South City to do anything. But now they are taking errands to South City, and everything in their sight seems to be full of freshness.
Chapter completed!