At the spring banquet of the twelfth year of Yongning, Shen Yanci, the dullest young man in the capital, met Su Lingyi, the straightest girl in the south of the Yangtze River. He sat alone in a corner and no one cared about him, so she sat opposite him and said that the sweet-scented osmanthus cake was too greasy. He pushed a cup of almond tea away by accident, and she took it generously. From then on, a sweet marriage of "a boring gourd and a straight-ball girl" began.
He remembered every word she said casually - he thought the sweet-scented osmanthus cake was too sweet, so he ran ten miles to buy fried cherries; he was afraid of thunder, so he quietly sent some soothing incense. She said, "It is a wonderful thing to be able to love others." He remembered it and did it all his life. "Today's six questions" before going to bed every day, one question is a lifetime.
But the sweetness ended abruptly. Shen Yanci impeached powerful officials in the court and was poisoned and assassinated by his political opponents. Before he died, he only had time to say, "I will come back to you in the next life." The Shen family fell apart and her parents-in-law passed away one after another. Su Lingyi returned to Yangzhou with five-year-old Nian An.
After thirteen years of forbearance, she trained her son to study while doing business, building an intelligence network, and collecting evidence. Nian'an won the first prize in the examination, complained about injustice in the Golden Palace, and made an inkstone to clear up the injustice. And after she finished all this, she went to find him with a smile.
"I'll wait for you in the next life. Come early."
Dead trees meet spring, and spring is never too late. This is a story about remembering and waiting. If someone remembers your casual words for a lifetime, it is worth your lifetime to respond.
