I smiled at him: "It's okay, I just have a few more shots. If I don't hurry up, if I can't deliver the goods, the boss will stop using me."

After saying that, I rubbed my eyes, wiped my sweaty fingers on the rag, and continued to embroider slowly.

Liu Saner looked at me for a while, then turned and walked out.

I didn't pay attention and continued to embroider my butterflies.

After a while, I finished embroidering another one. I raised my head and moved my sore neck, only to find that Liu Saner was missing.

Did he go back to rest?

Since I arrived at his house, he built a small hut in the corner of the yard and slept by himself. Usually after dinner, he would not stay in this small room again. I also know that he did it to avoid suspicion.

Although I find it troublesome for him, there is nothing I can do about it at the moment.

I just hope that I can help him more.

Thinking of this, I turned my aching wrist and picked up the needle to continue embroidering, when I heard a rush of footsteps coming from outside.

When I looked up, I saw Liu Saner running up to me panting, with a lot of grass clippings on his hair and body.

"What did you do?"

He smiled and took out the hand hidden behind his back.

Suddenly, a fluorescent light flashed in front of my eyes.

I was stunned for a moment and took a closer look. He was holding two small gauze bags in his hands. The gauze had been washed too many times and was already as thin as cicadas. There was a faint fluorescent light inside, which illuminated my face.

Eyes suddenly brightened.

"This is——"

"Firefly!"

He said with a smile: "I just went to the field to catch it. How is it? Can you see it clearly now?"

While talking, he eagerly put the pack of fireflies in front of me.

I was stunned.

The light of fireflies is actually very weak, flickering and flickering, with a somewhat uncertain feeling, but it illuminates the young and handsome face in front of me, and the warm smile on his face.

I looked at him and felt a tremor in my heart.

"How is it? Is it bright?"

"Bright..."

"Then don't embroider this piece until you finish it. I'll take care of it for you."

After saying that, he stood on the other side of the table, holding the two gauze bags in both hands, standing like a lantern stand.

Although there is a little more light in front of my eyes, I don’t know why, but my eyes are a little blurry.

He looked at me and said: "The embroidery is almost finished, go to bed early."

"Oh..." I gently rubbed my eye sockets, lowered my head and continued threading.

By the time I finished the last stitch, it was already very late, and I couldn't help but yawn. When I looked up, I saw that the man who helped me illuminate had already dozed off, although he was still standing there barely holding on.

But he has a confused expression on his face, and his head is still biting, like a chicken pecking at rice.

I couldn't help but laugh, and I also had the idea of ​​teasing him, so I stood up quietly and walked to him. While he was dozing off and dozing vigorously, I suddenly said "Wow" in his ear.<

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"Wow——!"

He screamed louder than me. His whole body jumped and he even lost the gauze bag.

"Hahahaha..."

Looking at his look, I couldn't help but laugh. Then he came to his senses in a daze, and when he saw the narrow expression on my face, he couldn't help but laugh: "What are you doing? You scared me to death."

I was smiling when suddenly, a ray of starlight drifted past my eyes.

Both of them were stunned. When they took a closer look, it turned out to be a firefly.

He threw the gauze bag to the ground, opened it, and all the fireflies inside flew out. After a while, those fireflies surrounded the two of us, and the little fluorescent lights kept flashing and extinguishing, like countless stars.

Dots are lingering around us, and at this moment, we feel like we are in the Milky Way.

What a beautiful view!

I looked at the scenery in front of me and suddenly felt in a trance.

Once upon a time, there seemed to have been a night like this, with such a flickering light, and I was completely oblivious to the scenery, but I didn't know that I had become someone else's scenery.

I have also become the prey of others.

If there weren't those nights, where would those fireflies be?

Will everything be different?

Can I stay in obscurity and be a little palace maid in the inner palace until I leave the palace, use my savings to start a small business, and marry an honest man?

He would leave some rations for me, and when I ran out of clothes, he would warm me with his chest.

I slowly raised my head and looked at the young and clean face in front of me through the fireflies in front of me.

He also looked at me, his clear eyes reflected fireflies, and there was an indescribable clarity, like a clear spring, so clean and clear that it even made people reluctant to stir up a little ripple.

After a while, I heard him murmur: "It's so beautiful!"

"..."

I don’t know why, when I heard this compliment, I suddenly felt sad and my eyes suddenly turned red.

Liu San'er was also startled, as if he suddenly woke up from a dream. He hurriedly took a big step back and said awkwardly: "Qingqing, I'm sorry, I——"

"..."

"I - I, it's getting late, you should go to bed early."

After saying that, he ran out in a hurry.

I stood there, surrounded by a field of fireflies that were frightened by the wind and flying around, as if a quiet lake suddenly stirred up ripples, and I stood in the midst of the flickering fluorescence, but I didn't leave for a long time.

In the next few days, I helped people write letters during the day and did needlework at night. The boss gave me a lot of work. If I didn't rush to do it, I might not be able to hand it in, so I had to stay up late every day, maybe because of the habit of staying up late.

Relationship, I feel that I have always been a little lazy and my spirit has become a little weak.

But in order to catch up with this batch of goods, we have no choice but to wait.

Since that night, Liu Saner has always been a little embarrassed when he saw me. I know he has no bad intentions, but we are alone, and it is inevitable to be awkward when we get along like this. So these days, intentionally or unintentionally, although we are in the same room

We are in the same courtyard, but we spend less time meeting each other.

I hurriedly finished all the goods after half a month, and I went to the market with him that morning. The injury on his hand had healed, leaving only a scar, which had become worse in the past few days.

I had the courage to go down to the river every day and caught a few big fish in the ditch, all of which I saved for this time to sell.

When we got to the market, he went to the old place to set up a stall. As soon as he sat down, I said to him: "You watch here now, I will go to the embroidery workshop to deliver the goods."

He looked at me and said, "Do you want me to go with you? I think you don't look very good."

"It's okay."

I smiled and went to the embroidery workshop alone with my baggage.

The boss took the bag and opened it, with a look of satisfaction on his face: "Not bad, not bad."

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and finally felt a little relieved.

"Girl, your skills are really good. Have you done it anywhere before? Skills like yours are hard to find even in Yangzhou City."

I smiled at him but said nothing.

In fact, my excuse has been made up a long time ago - I am originally from Xiangxi, and I used to work in the embroidery workshop there. Because my hometown was flooded and ten rooms were empty, I came here to seek refuge with my aunt. It didn't last long.

It’s so easy to eat and drink for free, so I just go out and do some work. There is nothing wrong with this statement, but I don’t know if it’s because I stayed up late last night. I just walked on the mountain road for too long, and now I feel like I’ve been breaking out in a cold sweat.

, I also had a slight pain in my lower abdomen, and I didn’t want to speak.

The boss also noticed something was wrong with me and said carefully: "Girl? What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay, I'm just a little tired."

I said, wiped the sweat from my forehead, and said with a forced smile: "Boss, do you have any work for me this time?"

"Oh, I have a good job for you this time."

The boss smiled and took out a baggage and said: "There is not much work this time, but the embroidery needs to be fine. It was used by the master of a wealthy family in front of me. I told you not to stick to any pictures, as long as the embroidery is simple and elegant.

That’s good. I took a look and found that you are the only one here who dares to use your craftsmanship. You can take it back and embroider it well, and the reward will be yours.”

"Thank you boss for taking care of me!"

I thanked me, and the boss gave me a few more words, and then he calculated the wages for the previous batch of goods for me. It was two pounds of money, which was heavy in my hand. I stuffed it into my cloth bag and said gratefully to him again.

Thanks, he left the embroidery workshop to find Liu Saner.

As soon as I walked out of the embroidery workshop, the sunshine in front of me made my eyes white for a while. I felt dizzy and quickly held on to the door before I recovered.
To be continued...