Suzaku

Gardenias Bloom

“In the first month plum blossoms fight the snow, in February apricot blossoms herald the coming of spring, in March peach blossoms bloom joyously, in April roses bloom on window sills, in May gardenias are as white as frost, in June lotus ponds are born, in July pomegranates are red like fire, in August osmanthus blossoms ten Lixiang, chrysanthemums bloom in September, epiphyllum blooms in October, no flowers bloom in winter and twelfth lunar month, and snowflakes float down at night, float down”

This ditty is the theme song of a TV series. After so many years, I don’t know how many people still remember it.

At this time, it was the season when the gardenias were white and frosty in May, and at the corner of a quiet and clean street, someone was humming this song softly. The voice humming the tune was a very beautiful and moving female voice, and the voice came from the inconspicuous little bookstore at the corner of the street.

thump thump thump, with the sound of stiletto high-heeled shoes hitting the ground, the little song was also cut off.

Mo Sha, who was wearing a simple and elegant black suit, gently stroked his red hair at the temples, smiled slightly, and apologized to the young girl leaning against the door: “I’m sorry, please continue.”

Zou Leilei turned her head and flattened her mouth. She was very cute. She wanted to show a little grievance, but she turned into a naughty girl: “If you interrupt my thinking about your husband, how can you compensate me?”

Mo Sha was taken aback for a moment, she was always straightforward, after thinking for a while, she frowned and said, “I can’t accompany my little teacher.”

Zou Leilei giggled, bent her index finger, and tapped Mo Sha’s beautiful forehead lightly like a joke, then took Mo Sha’s hand, and went back to the small bookstore affectionately. A bald monk came from the bookstore Li walked out, holding the heavy wooden door, and closed the bookstore.

The bald head wore ordinary clothes,He didn’t look like a monk, with his head down, but even so, the crystal-clear jade jaw betrayed his true appearance.

With a burst of cheers, a large group of young girls rushed out from the side alley, and started sprinting towards him with various cameras and autograph books.

With youthful breath, fragrance of makeup, and seductive youthful gaze, the frightened monk flashed away and rushed into the bookstore, leaving those little girls full of grievances wanting to cry but not daring to knock on the door hard.

No one noticed that the door of the bookstore was closed, so the monk turned into a puff of smoke and got in.

Outside the bookstore, a nameless little yellow flower unique to the provincial capital was slowly falling from the two-person tall trees and sprinkled on the heads of the little girls. She’s getting more and more cute, but she’s also getting more and more timid

In the small bookstore, Zou Leilei was pulling Mo Sha to sit on the sofa, looking at the results of the two people’s shopping in the past few days. Leilei chattered non-stop, holding those flowery red clothes and leather bags in her hands, and kept gesturing towards Mo Sha, trying, that image has completely degenerated from the bright and bright girl back then. middle-aged women.

Of course, one day in the sky, not one year on the ground, please rest assured, Lei Lei is still just a wonderful girl in her early twenties, she has only been a “mother” for a few years, and she has to control the adults of a small bookstore and return to the old man in Yuan Temple. The daily life of the ancestors, so although the heart and surname are still sparse, it is unavoidable to be a bit wordy, and young and beautiful, but it is unavoidable to be a little aunt.

Oh, Maigard, is it always so confusing to grow up as a woman?

“Hey, the bag I bought yesterday is quite beautiful.” Zou Leilei stood up, tilted her head slightly, admiring Mo Sha who was at a loss and was carrying a red bag, and said with a smile: “But The name is quite similar to foreign wine, that’s not good.”

Mo Sha looked down at the little red envelope, raised his head, and said seriously: “Louis Vuitton, v is not Louis XIII.”

Zou Leilei stuck out her tongue and smiled awkwardly: “You know I rarely buy brands, maybe they are fake.”

Mo Sha has always spoken very little. When traveling with Yi Tianxing in the past, he often popped out a word for a long time, but the appeal of Zou Leilei, the little teacher’s wife, is really strong, and it actually makes Mo Sha, who cherishes words like gold, become He talked a lot better than before, although the words still felt cold, but after all, he could stay with her in the small bookstore and chat about some trivial topics between women.

Ye Xiang stood in the corner, watching the chat between Zou Leilei and Mo Sha with a smile on his face, and he admired this female Bodhisattva in his heart.

It’s okay if he doesn’t smile, but with this smile, Zou Leilei immediately found the target of teasing, and walked over with a smile, stretched out her hand to Ye Xiang’s bald head and touched it delicately for a long time, and asked: “Little Ye Zi Ah, you have more and more admirers, it seems that you have deliberately maintained a sense of mystery in recent months, which is very helpful for improving your image.”

At this time, Mo Sha’s ears suddenly became quiet, but he suddenly froze for a while, as if he was not used to it, and then from the corner of his eye, he saw the little teacher’s wife touching the teacher’s uncle’s bald head. , but was able to escape the entanglement of the boring teacher’s wife, she was optimistic, so she hurriedly stepped on her high heels and rushed into the kitchen like a gust of wind.

Ye Xiang’s neck was stuck in place, and he didn’t dare to move in embarrassment. Feeling the fragrance of jade coming from the top of his bald head, he dared to chant Buddha all the time: “I said Miss Lei Lei, the poor monk is not for promotion image, just afraid of those little Bodhisattvas.”

Ye Xiang has always enjoyed a great reputation in the Mohu Lake area of ​​the provincial capital. Several female students in junior high and high schools around know that there is a beautiful and extraordinary monk selling books in this small bookstore, so some little girls often come around Fat nymphomaniac, these days, the noise has become more and more serious, Ye Xiang had no choice but to go back to the backyard honestly, and gave the salesman’s job to Chen Shuping, who had a gentlemanly face.

Today’s Pengfei Industry and Trade is already the leading private enterprise in the provincial capital, and the Lin family in Taiwan is still making a steady stream of money, so this family didn’t need to open such a small bookstore to attract attention, but everyone has a tacit understanding No changes have been made to the site, and there is no thought of closing this small bookstore.

Because this small bookstore was opened by Yi Tianxing, it represents his past, and it also represents an ideal life and attitude towards life that Yi Tianxing once had.

Now that Yi Tianxing is far away in the sky, those who stay in the world will definitely keep this small bookstore open, not for anything else, just to leave traces of Yi Tianxing when Yi Tianxing is not in the provincial capital.

This point is especially important to Zou Leilei.

A scent wafted over, and Chen Shuping came out of the kitchen with a plate of dishes. Seeing Lei Lei bullying Ye Xiang, the expression on her face was amazing. On the Gobi in the west, Chen Shuping first saw the unfathomable strength of Ye Xiang, a great Bodhisattva. A “dog” who was beaten in the face gnawed mud. Now, looking at Zou Leilei, a seemingly ordinary woman, It is no wonder that he is a little unnatural to be so disrespectful to the “Bodhisattva”.

Smelling the fragrance, Zou Leilei turned her head and said with a sweet smile: “Mr. Chen, your skills have finally improved a lot.”

After running away from Yi Zhuqiao’s house when he was a child and going straight to the heaven, the small bookstore was a little deserted, and the group of people from the Gu family saw that the situation had calmed down, so they moved back to Gaoyang County.All affairs are now handed over to Chen Shuping.

Chen Shuping replied with a wry smile: “The fried fish yesterday was still mushy. How can I have such a good skill? Miss Mo did it.”

No matter whether it is a fairy, a god or a ghost, as soon as he enters this strange place like a small bookstore, he will naturally become more human. Thinking back to how Chen Shuping was cold and handsome, domineering and arrogant when he was in Jiujiang, he had no trace of what a human being should be However, today’s Chen Shuping is wearing an apron, holding a dish, smiling wryly, like a middle-aged man who is nearly forty years old, there is no trace of immortality at all.

The small bookstore is open for dinner.

Without the father and son surnamed Yi, the dinner table seemed a lot more silent. Although Lei Lei was still making some cold jokes, the other three people still tried their best to smile, but it was similar to something like “the female driver in the car “Ask your boyfriend why he doesn’t wear a condom” This kind of slip-of-the-mouth joke is really easy to get cold.

Seeing that everyone’s reactions were a bit reluctant, Lei Lei coughed a few times in embarrassment, and then began to eat without taste.

After eating, Zou Leilei moved the small bench and sat at the door of the small bookstore. It was the time when gardenias were blooming in May, and there were women selling these flowers everywhere on the street. She took out three yuan from her pocket and bought a few flowers from a woman, and then held them in her hand. Sniffing carefully, she felt a delicate fragrance straight into her nostrils, which made her sneezed.

Like a thorn, she gave a very cute chirp, rubbed her nose, muttered a few words, and then looked up to the sky.

It has been almost a year, and she has developed the habit of looking up at the sky. After Yi Zhu left, this habit became more fixed.

“Gardenias are as white as frost in May, lotus and peanut ponds in June, pomegranates are red like fire in July, osmanthus flowers are ten li fragrant in August, chrysanthemums are blooming proudly in September, epiphyllum is planted for a hundred years in October, no flowers bloom in winter and the twelfth lunar month, snowflakes float at night come down, float down”

She hummed softly, and above her head was a dark, dark blue sky. It had just entered the night, and there was a large smear of thick red near ink in the west, and the stars all over the sky hadn’t started blinking. Here, it is also very difficult to see the sky full of stars.

The night sky looks very high and vast, and if you look at it for a long time, it is easy to make people feel helpless and empty in their hearts, as if they want to grasp something but can’t grasp it.

“I don’t know how the two of them are doing in heaven.”

Lei Lei smiled slightly, with soft curves on the corners of her lips, she stretched out her index finger and tapped the somewhat blurred moon in the night sky above her head, as if she was touching or knocking on someone’s forehead.

“According to the senior brother’s surname and the little guy’s ability, he shouldn’t suffer too much in the sky.”

Ye Xiangseng walked to Zou Leilei’s side, followed her slender index finger, and cast his gaze to a corner of the night sky. The moon in that corner was like a girl who gradually lifted her veil, revealing her bright face inside.

Lei Lei raised her eyebrows and said indifferently: “I hope so.” Then she turned around and was about to ask Ye Xiang why he dared to go out for a walk when it was not early in the morning and late at night, when she suddenly saw Ye Xiang’s attire, she couldn’t help but haha Laughed loudly, the flowers trembled wildly, covering her mouth endlessly.

Ye Xiangseng said aggrievedly: “My dress is really so funny.”

“It’s really funny.” After holding back for a long time, Leilei finally swallowed the smile in her stomach, and said out of breath, “You are a great monk, pretending to be a master of art, and your laughter is indeed better than my jokes. Much stronger.”

Ye Xiang had too many fans of young girls in the Ink Lake area, so he had always been going to the hospice, and he would sneak out in the middle of the night. Today, it was only seven o’clock, and he came out. Naturally, he put a lot of effort into dressing up.

I saw this beautiful boy-faced monk wearing a black windbreaker, and a European-style aristocratic hat with a thin brim on his bald head. Most importantly, he also wore large sunglasses on his face.

Ye Xiangseng smiled wryly and said, “I just realized now that it is also a painful thing to imitate Wong Kar Wai and act cool.”

Lei Lei looked him up and down, confirmed that this sentence came from his mouth, she couldn’t help but pursed her lips and smiled, and said: “You are more and more like a Bodhisattva, but you are less and less like a Bodhisattva.”

The former seems to say that Ye Xiang is in such a state, but the latter does not mean that Ye Xiangseng is now much more active and comfortable than before.

Ye Xiangseng pushed his sunglasses, looked at her with clear eyes, and said, “Miss Lei Lei is still like Miss Lei Lei, which is the most enviable.”

Zou Leilei waved her hand and said, “Come back early in the evening. I was watching the dishes yesterday. I fell asleep in that Yucheng forest. I will continue to watch it later.”

Ye Xiangseng had already walked a few steps away, and after hearing this, he hurriedly turned his head, frowning frowning on the sunglasses: “I don’t want to watch it a second time, and besides, there are some things in Guiyuan Temple tonight, so I might not come back to sleep.”

“Whatever.” Leilei held a white gardenia, stood up and patted her buttocks, and added with a smile: “But then again, if you want to go up, remember to tell me in advance, I will Let Mo kill Jiacai.”

To be continued: