Beauty in his mirror

Chapter 18
Gu Yan played outside for six days in a row.

On the seventh day, I flew back by plane, and it was already afternoon when I got home.

He went back to the room and took off his coat, lay down on the bed with ease, rested for a while, thought of the mirror, turned over and got up, opened the locked drawer, and took out the bronze mirror——

The scene in the mirror changed slightly.

There are pictures on the wall, a few more plates of snacks on the table, and four or five wooden boxes with red paper on them stacked in the corners. The old house, which was originally simple and desolate, now has more festive atmosphere.

I didn't see Yan Lanxi, but I could hear her voice, as if she was talking to someone.

Gu Yan waited quietly for a while, then saw Yan Lanxi walking in with a maid with an unfamiliar face.

She said to the maid: "There is hot water in the kitchen, you go and wash it first, take a rest for a while, I have nothing to do here, I don't need you to wait on me."

The servant girl was not polite at all, said "yes" softly, then turned and went out.

After the maid left, Yan Lanxi called the woman in the kitchen into the room, and together they peeled off the red paper on the wooden box - which contained eggs, wedding cakes, peanut snacks and so on.

The two divided these things into more than a dozen parts, wrapped them in square red paper, and tied them into simple gift bags with red strings.

Although the mother-in-law is a little deaf, her hands and feet are very nimble, and she finishes the work in a few strokes.

While gesturing, Yan Lanxi told her mother-in-law: "Send these things to the neighbors. It's almost Chinese New Year, so it's my kindness."

Seeing that she acted steadily, Gu Yan sighed in his heart: Although she is young, she does things with style.

After the old woman left, another old man with a white beard came in. Yan Lanxi took out the copper coins she had prepared and asked him to distribute them to the workers in the village.

After chatting for a while, the room finally became quiet.

She closed the door of the room, sat down at the table and poured herself a cup of hot tea, sipped it, and stayed quietly, not knowing what she was thinking, lost in thought.

After a while, she sighed faintly.

Gu Yan couldn't help laughing and asked, "Why worry?"

Yan Lanxi was taken aback for a moment, with a look of astonishment on her face.

"...Shenjun?" She seemed to be in disbelief, stood up in a daze, not even knowing that the water in the cup had spilled out.

Her reaction made Gu Yan a little confused.

"What's the matter?" he asked, "Did something happen during my absence?"

Yan Lanxi's eyes turned red, and tears suddenly fell down. Before she could say anything, she choked up.

Gu Yan was frightened by her: "Why are you crying?!"

Yan Lanxi kept shaking her head, crying so hard that she couldn't speak.

"Don't cry..." Gu Yan was panicked by her crying, "No, no, why are you crying?..."

Yan Lanxi sobbed and said, "Shenjun hasn't been here for a few days, I thought... I thought... Shenjun left..."

Gu Yan was slightly taken aback.

It's true that he didn't tell Yan Lanxi about his going out to play, so it's no wonder she would have such a guess... But, don't cry like this...

Gu Yan looked at Yan Lanxi in the mirror and remembered his dream.

He had always felt that there was a weird relationship between himself and Yan Lanxi, and now seeing her crying like this, the feeling of weirdness was even stronger.

It shouldn't be like this...

Yan Lanxi sobbed: "If the god is gone, I won't even have anyone to talk to..."

After she said this, she seemed to have offended Gu Yan, and quickly knelt down to explain: "The believer girl has no intention of disrespect! The believer girl just... just... wants to... always be with the god, and serve her all her life..."

Gu Yan listened in silence.

After Yan Lanxi's maid had an accident, he was with him almost every day, so it was normal to feel attached to him.He also understood that the service that Yan Lanxi said was absolutely different from the service he thought of.

Gu Yan thought for a while and asked her, "Do you like me?"

Yan Lanxi, who was kneeling on the ground, turned pale in panic when she heard this, and hurriedly lowered her head, "Don't dare to blaspheme the god!"

(End of this chapter)