Delicate Flower - Chapter 1

[Chapter 1 Fire]

The fire raged into the sky, and the sky was red with a crackle, and the heat wave rushed over and over, surrounded by people who rushed to tell each other: “The water is gone! The water is gone!”

Yu Tang’s legs were weak, if it wasn’t for the maid Shuangtao supporting her, she would have fallen to the ground.

“Miss, Miss!” Shuang Tao was so frightened by the scene in front of her that she couldn’t speak. “How could this be? It’s not that the nursing home of the Pei family would get up in the middle of the night to inspect their shop with the people from the yamen, the third master of the Pei family. It is said that this summer is very enthusiastic, the weather is dry and the things are dry, and I am afraid of fire. A few days ago, I specially set up 38 large water tanks on both sides of Changxing Street. Every day, the shopkeepers of various shops filled the tanks with water. , How could Changxing Street get caught on fire? Then, what about our shop?”

yes!

What about their shop?

Yu Tang’s eyes were wet, and the image in front of him became a little blurry.

She was reborn!

And they were reborn on the evening when their shop was burned down.

Her family is beautiful, her siblings are close, and she has grown up to the age of 9.

Before that, the most disappointment in life was that her parents didn’t let her climb trees and rivers, and they kept her from going out when she was studying female celebrity. The memory seemed smooth and warm because of this, but it was not impressive.

Only this summer, a sudden fire destroyed all the shops on Changxing Street.

The lacquerware shops of her family and her uncle’s family were not spared.

Not only the materials in the shop were burned, but the warehouse and workshop in the backyard of the shop were also burnt clean. The goods that were about to be delivered were gone, and the precious templates left by the ancestors were gone. As a result, the Yu family was at a loss. Begin to despair.

Not far away, someone was about to rush into the shop to put out the fire, but was buried in the fire by the suddenly collapsed beam.

“The head of the house! The head of the house!” The woman ran over to save people, but was at a loss and didn’t know what to do, and was stopped.

There were also men who fell to the ground, clapped their legs and cried, “How can this make us live?”

Yu Tang and Shuang Tao were bumped on the shoulders by the people who rushed over after hearing the news, and Shuang Tao recovered.

She hurriedly pulled Yu Tang aside and said eagerly, “Miss, the wife is still ill, and the master is not at home. You ran out without saying a word…”

Yu Tang also came back to his senses.

For Shuangtao at this time, she was just wandering and did not stand firm, fell from the air, and was in a coma for a long time; but for her, she had already experienced a family downfall, her parents died, her fiancé died early, and her widow lived in a feast. Coveted by her uncle and brother, she managed to escape from her husband’s house, but was killed in the nunnery that sheltered her.

This fire is important, but more importantly, her mother’s illness.

Her father Yu Wen and mother Chen’s flounder are deeply in love. Even if her mother was injured when she gave birth to her, her body and bones are nowhere to be found. His father also loves her mother and her like a treasure. There has never been a gap. It’s just that after her mother was born Lingering sickbed, seven days out of ten days on medication.

A few days ago, his father learned from a friend that Yang Douxing, the imperial doctor, was returning home from old age, and he went to Suzhou City to seek medical treatment for his mother.

In the previous life, his father returned without success, and his mother was frightened because she fell on the swing, her condition worsened, and she was bedridden.

His father made up his mind to take his mother to go to another imperial doctor, Wang Bai, who lived in seclusion in Putuo Mountain for treatment.

“Let’s go, go home quickly!” Yu Tang was in a hurry, pulling Shuang Tao and running home.

“Wait a minute, wait a minute!” Shuang Tao ran after her panting and said, “Where are you going? Home is over there!”

Yu Tang stopped and was silent for a moment.

She hadn’t returned to the house in Qingzhu Lane for ten years, and she didn’t even remember that there was a path like this from Changxing Street to Qingzhu Lane.

Perhaps it was because Changxing Street had gone into the water, and there were people walking around this secluded alley on weekdays, but everyone was in a hurry.

He looked up at her and passed her with a heavy expression on his face.

The courtyard of the back hall of Yu’s house was quiet, and a few tall and straight bamboo branches and leaves of Concubine Xiang stood quietly in the moonlight. The noise and chaos of Changxing Street seemed to be something from another world.

The mother’s cough was clearly audible, with a faint hissing voice cracking her lungs: “How is A-Tang? Are you awake?”

The woman who answered her mother was Mrs. Chen, who was serving her: “I woke up early in the morning and said that I want to eat fried chestnuts with sugar. You said, where do I go to find sugared chestnuts for her at this season? You lied to me with a bowl of sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus water. Now, I ate three more pieces of peach cake, and then I stopped.”

Yu Tang’s tears welled up.

In her previous life, she was heartless. Her mother was sick all the time. She didn’t think it was a problem. Instead, she used herself to fall off the swing to cheat food and drink, and did everything her mother didn’t let her do on weekdays. over and over.

When her father took her mother to ask for medicine, before going out, she still clamored for her father to bring her two packets of Poria powder back, otherwise she would not endorse it.

“Mum!” Yu Tang shouted uncontrollably while standing in front of her mother’s door.

The door opened with a creak.

Madam Chen stuck her head out, winked at her, and said, “What do you want to eat, Miss? At this time, the fire in the kitchen has been extinguished. At most, I will make a bowl of fried rice to cushion your stomach. But not anymore.”

Yu Tang was stunned.

She is no longer the little girl who was held in the palm of her father’s hand, carefree and didn’t know anything.

Madam Chen’s expression was different, and her mind was spinning rapidly.

Could it be that at this time in the previous life, the mother’s condition was not very good?

Yu Tang’s face sank, and when she looked at Madam Chen, she couldn’t help but look solemn. She gestured towards Madam Chen to come with me, but her voice was a little girlish: “My mother’s mother. Are you feeling better? I’m not hungry, I just want to have a word with my mother.”

Such Yu Tang made Mrs. Chen very unfamiliar and surprised.

She didn’t have time to think about it, she nodded towards Yu Tang, but what she said was to stop her: “My wife has just taken the medicine and has already washed and rested. If you have any business, please come back tomorrow!”

Yu Tang stretched his neck to look at the wing.

The mother, who was still talking to Mrs. Chen just now, didn’t say a word.

Obviously didn’t want to see her.

Yu Tang’s heart was heavy, and she tried her best to imitate the tone of her speech at fifteen: “That’s good! I’ll go back to sleep first. Remember to tell my mother that I’ve been here.”

“Remember! Remember!” Mrs. Chen smiled and pointedly said, “It’s cool and dewy, I’ll take the eldest lady back to the house!”

How can there be wind and dew this season?

Just looking for an opportunity to have a few words with her in private.

Yu Tang responded and went to his own wing with Mrs. Chen.

Because he was in a hurry, the quilt was thrown on the bed in a mess, and the soft shoes were scattered, one in front of the bed and the other in the center of the room.

Mrs. Chen scolded Shuangtao in a low voice: “How did you serve the eldest miss? The house is messy. If the wife sees this, I will teach you again.”

Shuang Tao blushed and turned to clean up the room.

Yu Tang took Mrs. Chen and said, “What happened to Mu’s mother? Don’t make fun of me. I know that Liu Sandie from Jimintang is the one who often comes to our house to see her. I will go to Jimintang to find out. he goes.”

Madam Chen glanced at Yu Tang in surprise.

Yu Tang was raised by her family. Although she was not raised crookedly, she was not a strong girl either. It was the first time that she was so aggressive.

Madam Chen couldn’t help but hesitate.

Yu Tang knew his own business, and if it was good, it meant that he had no scheming, and if it was bad, he had no brain.

If something happened at home, of course she didn’t rely on it, and everyone wouldn’t tell her.

She simply said to Mrs. Chen: “Look at my appearance, unkempt, I ran out just now, and Changxing Street was flooded, and our shop was also burned.”

Only then did Mrs. Chen realize that Yu Tang’s clothes were not neatly lit by the pea-like light, and she said in awe, “What did you say? Is Changxing Street flooded?”

Yu Tang nodded: “The goods in the shop are gone, and the fields will not be profitable until after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I have to see a doctor for Mu’s mother, and the family has no money.”

It’s not that she fooled Mrs. Chen.

It was like that in the past.

The Yu family had little money, so the two shops were not destroyed by fire.

But this time, a batch of goods ordered by others in the warehouse was also burned. When it was time to give money to “Fish Lake Fishing and Hidden Picture”, my mother didn’t want my father to be disappointed, so she decided to sell the 30 acres of top-grade fertile land in the family. Twenty acres of fertile land… After her parents died, she sold the remaining 50 acres of fertile land for a decent funeral.

The property that her grandfather gave to her father was gone, and her uncle was also in trouble, so there was no way to help her.

Only then will she agree to the marriage of the Li family.

The thought flashed, and Yu Tang’s expression became a little heavy.

She said with a cold face: “If there is anything wrong with Mu’s mother, Dad will not forgive you when he comes back!”

Mrs. Chen was dumbfounded.

She is Chen’s roommate and Chen’s nursing mother. Chen’s bad, she is more anxious and distressed than anyone else, and the eldest lady threatens her.

But seeing such a young lady, she felt inexplicably relieved.

She thought for a while, and told Yu Tang: “The weather is too hot, my wife has a hard summer, I can’t eat anything, I’m worried about your injury, and I’m worried that the master is running around outside, can’t eat well, can’t sleep, and you lose weight. Circle, I dare not let you know.”

Yu Tang felt guilty and remorseful.

In her previous life, she always worried her parents, and she never became her parents’ caring little padded jacket, let alone relying on her.

Thinking of this, Yu Tang couldn’t help clasping his hands together and reciting “Amitabha Buddha” towards the west.

In the past life, she was not a devout believer, but the Bodhisattva took pity on her and let her go back to the present, back when her parents were still there, she would cherish the present time well, and not let the hatred of the previous life repeat itself, and do not let this The family is fragmented, the relatives are separated.

Yu Tang burst into tears.

[End of this Chapter]