Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 12
"I brought hot water over..."

Gu Sixiao just called out, and Sun Tiancang's anxious voice came from behind the curtain: "Don't, don't come in - I don't need hot water now..."

"Oh," replied, Gu Sixiao turned her head to think about it, and couldn't help but smile.

With her back turned, she looked at the broken door that had been lost, and then turned her head to look at the dilapidated statues on both sides where she had long been unable to tell who she was.

This dilapidated temple, I don’t know if it’s an earth temple or what kind of temple. It’s a small main hall, and even the statue on the incense table can’t tell who it is. God can't even bless himself.

However, it was this small temple that gave shelter to homeless people like them.

Hearing the sound of tiptoeing, Gu Sixiao turned her head, and before she could see anything clearly, she heard Sun Tiancang's cry: "Don't look..."

A dark leg flashed behind the invisible curtain, and Sun Tiancang grabbed the half bucket of hot water like he was grabbing something, and returned it behind the statue.

Hearing the sound of rushing water, Gu Sixiao couldn't help laughing.

As if she would peek!Really, what's so nice...

Thinking of this, she blushed first.Although Sun Tiancang was several years younger than her when she was reborn, she had never seen a man before...

With a fever on his face, Gu Sixiao covered his face, shook his head, just touched the old purse in his sleeve pocket, and his expression became a little gloomy.

Standing up, she went out of the main hall, squatted by the well, wrung out the dirty clothes she just washed, and tiptoed to put them on the bamboo poles beside her.

"Wait, I'll hang it."

The hair of the boy who ran behind was still wet, with a scent of soap locust.Gu Sixiao didn't look back. After the young man stretched his arms behind him and put the old clothes on the bamboo pole, he glanced back at Sun Tiancang.

After washing it clean, this half-grown boy actually looks handsome. Although he is not as gentle and refined as his elder brother and Chu Mengsheng, he has thick eyebrows and big eyes, full of heroism, and is very eye-catching.

It's a waste to just be a little beggar in the market all the time like this.

Turning around, taking the dry handkerchief, Gu Sixiao beckoned, seeing Sun Tiancang awkwardly approaching him, she didn't say anything else, but patted Sun Tiancang on the shoulder, motioning him to squat down.

Holding a handkerchief and wiping Sun Tiancang's wet hair, she said in a low voice, "It's so good, it's clean and fragrant..."

"A man, what does it smell like..." Sun Tiancang muttered, but the corners of his mouth turned up slightly unconsciously.

Gu Sixiao smiled, and didn't say any more about it, she just said in a low voice: "Stop being a beggar—" she patted the boy's tense shoulders, although she felt his displeasure, she continued, " Being a beggar is not so easy. Being laughed at, scolded and even chased by dogs is too hard, too tiring and too hurt...Tiancang, you are still young, and you can still pretend to be pitiful with a shy face, etc. How about getting older? If you have hands and feet, it’s better to find a job to make a living..."

Before Sun Tian could speak, Gu Sixiao had already taken it out of his sleeve pocket and put it in his purse.After pouring more than half of it, she handed the drunken silver to Sun Tiancang.

"You take the money, whether you want to find a shop to be an apprentice to learn a craft, or buy some candied fruit, fruit and so on to sell in restaurants-in short, everything is good, don't be a beggar anymore."

Raising his head suddenly, Sun Tiancang stared at Gu Sixiao, his face turned blue, "Where did you get the money? You, you can't be..."

He knew what place Gu Sixiao entered just now, but he didn't expect Gu Sixiao to do that without even saying hello.

"I must go back to that house..." Without arguing or explaining too much, Gu Sixiao forced the money into Sun Tiancang's hands, stood up and was about to walk into the hall.

Sun Tiancang stood up suddenly, stepped past Gu Sixiao to stop her, and directly stuffed the few pieces of silver coins into her hands, "Although I am a little beggar, I am not shameless enough to spend my sister's money... ..."

"Angry?" Looking at Sun Tiancang's angry expression, Gu Sixiao felt a little helpless, "I'm just kind, Tiancang, I know you're angry and I didn't discuss it with you, but there are some things that I have to do no matter what you think It's—that's my own business..."

"It's also my business!" Sun Tiancang's eyes widened, "Since I carried you back, your business is my business! If you want revenge, I will help you! No matter what it is, I can help you I did it—well, I’m going to find that toothmaid now! Anyway, isn’t the Gu family going to buy slaves? I also sold myself.”

"Tiancang!" Pulling Sun Tiancang, Gu Sixiao was both moved and annoyed, "is it such a good thing to be a slave? If it wasn't really impossible, why would I sell myself as a slave? Sun Tiancang, you plan for you wholeheartedly , I just told you what I just said, if you don’t appreciate it, forget it. But if you insist on meddling in my affairs, don’t blame me for breaking the relationship with you..."

Roaring out of anger, Gu Sixiao threw the silver on the ground, ignored Sun Tiancang, turned around and went into the hall, "The silver, if you don't want it, throw it away, anyway, I'll leave right away, out of sight is for nothing. "

"Alas..." After chasing into the hall, seeing that Gu Sixiao was really packing up and leaving, Sun Tiancang hurriedly stopped him, but Gu Sixiao threw his hands away several times. He was angry and anxious, and after thinking about it, he ran out to pick up the bag Holding a few silver coins in his hands, he turned them back.

"Don't be angry with me - this money, I, I just accept it..."

Seeing Gu Sixiao put down the patched clothes under his hand, he breathed a sigh of relief, leaned closer and said with a smile: "Isn't it just a day to leave? It's almost dark..."

Seeing that Sun Tiancang softened his clothes, Gu Sixiao's eyes also softened.

"You're not like me, you..." Lowering her eyes, she murmured in a low voice, "You really shouldn't get involved."

"I just want to help you—but how can I help you?" Sun Tiancang whispered, looking at Gu Sixiao with an indelible gloom in his eyes.

For a while, the two sat there blankly, but no one said a word.

After a while, Sun Tiancang jumped up suddenly, "Ah, you want to go, do you want to take your baby with you?"

Gu Sixiao was surprised, watching Sun Tiancang go around behind the statue, couldn't help but look around.

After a while, Sun Tiancang turned out holding a wooden box with a big hole in the lid that had been eaten by worms.Half-kneeling in front of the wooden board, carefully opened the wooden box, "Hey, your baby..."

baby? !
Grasshoppers made of straw, hairpins cut from wood, a dried butterfly corpse, and half of a red-headed rope that has faded badly...

These messes - baby!
Gu Sixiao's nose was inexplicably sour, and she was about to shake her head when Sun Tiancang picked up something and held it in front of her, "This, the treasure you have been hiding..."

It was a pendant, small, slightly yellowish, with tassels that had faded and were no longer visible.

Holding the pendant in her hand, Gu Sixiao raised her eyebrows unconsciously. Compared with the others, this one is really a treasure.

This kind of pendant, when she saw it, she knew it was a fan pendant, moreover, it was carved from ivory, small and exquisite, only the size of a copper coin, but the hollow pattern was in the shape of a peony flower.Just by looking at the handwork, one can tell that it is a master's handicraft.

It's also really strange that there is actually a baby!Although old, it is still a good thing.

"Where did you pick it up?" Gu Sixiao asked with a casual smile.

Sun Tiancang glared at her, "You forgot, isn't this the treasure you have been hiding close to your body?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he stopped talking again, his eyes darkened, he muttered, and after a while he smiled wryly: "I forgot..."

Although he knew it was not, he still often regarded the girl in front of him as the little sister he had been protecting all along.

"Is it the girl who has been hiding close to her body?" Gu Sixiao didn't seem to notice Sun Tiancang's strangeness, and just asked with a smile.

Sun Tiancang said "ah", and gradually calmed down, "Yes, she said that this is her mother's treasure, and it must be well hidden. Maybe one day, his father will find her."

"Girl's father—is he still alive?" Gu Sixiao tilted her head, looked at Sun Tiancang, and wanted to ask a few more questions, but she still kept her voice.

She had heard from Sun Tiancang before that he was picked up by an old beggar, he was beaten and scolded when he was young, and later when the old beggar died in an accident, he lived alone until he found a girl.Taking it for granted, she thought that the girl's parents also died, but she didn't expect that the girl had a father.

The girl must really want to find her father, right?It's a pity that she, Gu Sixiao, is the one who is alive now. Although she is a bit selfish, she doesn't want to add other troubles.

I'm sorry, girl...

"I won't hold this thing anymore..." She smiled and wanted to throw the ivory fan pendant in the box, but for some reason, she was about to let go, but Gu Sixiao's fingertips curled up again.

She shrank her hand and put the fan pendant in her sleeve pocket. She smiled bitterly and said, "I'll help the girl to hold it, just like she used to, and she also hid it on her body..."

Sun Tiancang was silent, and nodded with Zhong Chong for a while.

He really wanted to say something to Gu Sixiao again. It would be best if he could persuade her to change her mind, or sell her body to get back the contract, or bring him into the Gu family together.

But for some reason, seeing Gu Sixiao's indifferent expression, he couldn't speak.I could only be silent for a long time, and then I scratched my head habitually, "Well, go to sleep..."

For the last night, the two of them remained silent like this.

Falling down on the bed made of bricks with door panels, Gu Sixiao curled up, although she couldn't sleep, she was still motionless.

Hearing Sun Tiancang turning over and over on the haystack not far away, she just pretended not to hear it.Just like that, I gradually became sleepy.

Half asleep, half awake, she vaguely felt someone standing in front of the bed, whispering: "What should I do to help you?"

What a silly child, it's just that knowing that there is someone on her side who believes that she supports her is already helping her...

The corners of her mouth were slightly raised, Gu Sixiao slept very peacefully that night.

(End of this chapter)