#268 - The depth of peach blossoms blows off white clothes
Peach blossoms, light and deep, like makeup of varying shades.
The spring breeze aids the heart's breaking, blowing off a white garment.
The wind passed through the small courtyard, lifting Youjia's graceful white skirt and the golden hairpin with a peach-shaped pendant, half-hidden in her dark hair.
I like it.
Youjia generously admitted her feelings, but Xu Qingwan remained silent for a long time.
She wasn't jealous of the former, but was reminded of the same question she had asked Wei Changtian before.
"Changtian, do you like Miss You?"
"I have no interest in her... You'll understand later."
"..."
Although Xu Qingwan didn't know Youjia's true identity, she knew that neither Youjia nor Wei Changtian had lied to her.
For a moment, she felt sorry for Youjia.
"Sister Xu, what's wrong?"
On the other side, Youjia noticed her strangeness and asked with a smile, "Could it be that you're jealous of me?"
"No..."
Xu Qingwan took a deep breath and shook her head: "I just don't know what to say."
"If you weren't jealous, why would you be like this?"
Youjia moved closer, trying to ease the atmosphere: "Alright, alright, I won't say such things in the future, okay?"
"Sister Xu, please forgive me this time!"
"You..."
Xu Qingwan bit her lip, just about to speak, but at that moment, a little maid suddenly ran over from not far away.
"Miss, the shopkeeper of Jijintang has arrived, saying that your wedding robe has been made and would like you to personally take a look at it."
Jijintang was the largest and most expensive cloth shop in Shuzhou City, and also did "custom clothing" business.
Now that the shopkeeper had personally come to the door, he undoubtedly wanted to please Wei Changtian, the future concubine of the "King of Shuzhou."
"Oh, please invite him in."
As it concerned her wedding robe, Xu Qingwan was naturally very concerned. After giving the instruction, she looked at Youjia again.
After hesitating for a moment, she didn't continue the previous topic, but softly asked: "Miss You, can you help me with some ideas?"
"Okay."
Youjia nodded with a smile, and together with Xu Qingwan, returned to the house, and soon waited for a pot-bellied man and a very gorgeous wedding dress.
A dark-patterned ke silk wide-sleeved shirt with python patterns, the edges embroidered with mandarin ducks and pomegranates.
The shopkeeper of Jijintang stood aside respectfully, asking with a smile: "If there is anything you find inappropriate, I will immediately go back and alter it, ah no! I will immediately remake one!"
"..."
Hearing this question, Xu Qingwan and Youjia exchanged glances and shook their heads.
Although the two women had never worried about food and drink since they were young, they had never seen such luxurious clothes, let alone be able to offer any suggestions.
"Shopkeeper Liu, the clothes are already excellent, thank you for your trouble."
Xu Qingwan first said politely, hesitated for a moment, and then whispered: "But I have something I want to ask the shopkeeper..."
The man immediately became highly tense: "Miss, please ask away!"
"Okay, I actually want to ask how much silver this set of clothes costs?"
"Huh?"
The shopkeeper initially thought he had misheard, but seeing Xu Qingwan's serious expression, he hurriedly rubbed his hands and said with a flattering smile: "Miss Xu, what are you saying!"
"Being able to make a wedding robe for you is already a great honor for me! How dare I ask for silver!"
"Oh?"
A trace of joy appeared on Xu Qingwan's face.
"Shopkeeper Liu, is this true?"
"True!!"
The man repeatedly patted his chest to guarantee: "Absolutely no falsehood!"
"That's good..."
Xu Qingwan finally felt relieved, and the love she felt when she looked at the wedding robe was even greater than before.
However, Youjia on the side was a little dumbfounded at this time.
She knew that Xu Qingwan loved money.
But according to the rules, the money for this wedding robe should be paid by the man, that is, Wei Changtian.
But the latter was not short of money, so why was Xu Qingwan so happy?
"Sister Xu, you don't have to spend any silver on this wedding robe."
Unable to resist her inner curiosity, Youjia asked in a low voice: "Why are you so happy?"
"..."
A blush appeared on Xu Qingwan's face, and after stammering for a long time, she pinched the corner of her clothes and said very embarrassedly in a low voice:
"B-Before, my silver was my silver, and Changtian's silver was Changtian's silver."
"But now I'm about to get married."
"If he spends too much silver, I... I will feel sorry for him too."
"..."
Youjia: "? ? ?"
Shopkeeper: "? ? ?"
The two of them had a dumbfounded expression, looking at Xu Qingwan for a long time without saying a word.
The afternoon sunlight shone through the window, illuminating the wedding robe held by several shop assistants of Jijintang, making it even more luxurious and dazzling.
The peach blossoms in the courtyard were full of branches, complementing this beauty.
At this moment, somewhere far away in the depths of Jiuding Mountain, there was also a small peach blossom forest.
However, hidden in the forest was a completely different scene.
"Drip, drip..."
Bright red blood twisted and turned, drawing a strange pattern on a bluestone.
The pattern seemed to contain great water, strong winds, and heavenly thunder, various elements connected together in an obscure and profound pattern, the overall look was quite terrifying.
And this pattern was not only here, if one counted them one by one around, there were actually as many as ninety.
"Husband, you must be hungry, right?"
Kneeling beside a rotting corpse, a pale-faced woman tore off a piece of meat from the deer carcass beside her, and then sent it to the mouth of the rotting corpse that had already revealed its bones.
"Pa ta!"
The venison fell to the ground from the big hole in the corpse's chest, emitting a nauseating stench.
"Husband, why don't you eat it?"
The woman looked at the corpse suspiciously, and after a long while, she suddenly clapped her hands and laughed sharply:
"That's right! Husband likes to eat fish!"
"But, but where can I find fish here..."
"Eh? I am!"
"Giggle, husband, I am the fish!"
A trace of internal force passed through her fingertips, gently stroking her arm covered in mud.
Fresh blood suddenly gushed out from the wound, but the woman turned a blind eye to it, and once again sent a piece of tender meat that was still twitching into the corpse's mouth.
"Pa ta!"
"Pa ta!"
"Pa ta..."
"..."
After feeding it four times in a row, finally this "fish meat" did not fall out of the big hole, but hung on the corner of the skull's mouth.
"Husband, eat slowly."
The woman stood up staggeringly with satisfaction, picked up a finger of blood constantly flowing from her arm, and ran to the bluestone to continue drawing the unfinished strange pattern.
"Rumble!"
Overhead, the dark clouds gathering near Jiuding Mountain were becoming more and more numerous, almost to the point of covering the sky and sun.
Several peach trees crookedly bloomed a few withered peach blossoms, appearing equally strange in the surrounding strange array drawn with blood.
Peach blossoms, light and deep, like makeup of varying shades.
The spring breeze aids the heart's breaking, blowing off a white garment.
