Chapter 145 Her Laugh, Her Voice and Her Gesture
According to the local customs, it was inauspicious to use needle or knife before the fifth of the first lunar month.
At the thought of it, Su Jiuyue decided to apply needles because seven or eight days passed after she applied needles to Xiyuan last time.
"It sounds good. Xiyuan didn't complain about his headache in recent days, perhaps he will be better in a few days!"
Su Jiuyue responded, looked at Wu Xiyuan and asked him, "Have you recalled anything lately?"
Though some fragments popped up in his head from time to time, Wu Xiyuan shook his head unexpectedly.
He didn't know why he shook head, but he subconsciously had a thought that he could not let others know.
Su Jiuyue heard from her master that the brain disease was the most complex disease, so she knew that they could only do their best and leave the rest to God's will.
She sighed and said, "Fine. I'll insert needles into the acupuncture points today, and the next course will be after the Spring Festival!"
With the approach of night, every family lit up kerosene lamps, even though they usually didn't light them to save money.
Liu Cuihua and the whole family were sitting in the central room to stay up late. There was enough charcoal fire in the stove, on which a pot of hot soup was placed.
Liu Cuihua said, "Don't slack off! Help me make dumplings. I stuffed one coin respectively in three dumplings. Let's see who can eat it! If you eat it, you will be lucky for the whole next year!"
They became very excited and were ready to hit the jackpot.
Coincidentally, Su Jiuyue ate these three dumplings stuffed with coins.
Liu Cuihua looked at Su Jiuyue and said cheerfully, "I knew Jiu Yue is the mascot of our family! She is so lucky."
Others tried to find other dumplings that may contain coins in their bowls, but found nothing even though they almost mashed the dumplings. So they became very annoyed.
At the moment, Liu Cuihua suddenly took out many red packets and said to everyone, "Don't be frustrated even though you didn't eat the lucky dumpling. I'll give lucky money to you."
The rule for paying a New Year call was that people kowtowed three times and spoke three auspicious sentences from the oldest to the youngest. What a bustling scene!
After receiving the lucky money from her mother-in-law, Su Jiuyue gave two red packets to Guoguo and Taotao.
The sound of firecrackers was heard outside after 1 a.m.. Liu Cuihua urged, "Hurry to set off firecrackers. We should finish it as soon as possible."
Guoguo and Taotao wanted to set off firecrackers too, but they were not allowed to go out. Though they acted in such a spoiled way for a long time, Liu Cuihua only agreed that they could lean on the window to see.
Su Jiuyue went out with her two elder brothers and Wu Xiyuan to set off firecrackers outside the room.
Dacheng set off one firecracker and went back to the room. He left the fireworks to Su Jiuyue and Wu Xiyuan, so that they two could have fun with the fireworks.
Wu Xiyuan covered his ears and didn't want to set off the fireworks. Finally Su Jiuyue summoned up courage and lit the wick, and then quickly ran back to the eaves.
When the wick was burned out, they heard a sound and then saw gorgeous fireworks overhead.
Many people ran out to see the fireworks after hearing the sound. Even though the two fireworks did not last for long, all the villagers in the Xiayang Village had never seen such beautiful things this winter.
Su Jiuyue stood under the eaves, and slowly put down the hands that covered her ears when watching the fireworks.
Wu Xiyuan, who stood beside her, suddenly asked, "Are you one year older now?"
Su Jiuyue was stunned that she was one year older when the New Year came.
"Yes! I'm fourteen years old!"
Wu Xiyuan smiled with curved eyes, "Me too. It's cool!"
They lit the kerosene lamp and made the dumplings to eat the next morning. Finally, they went back to their own rooms to have a rest.
It was said that you could not get up late on the first day of Lunar New Year. If you got up early, you would be diligent for the whole year!
Su Jiuyue enjoyed a sound sleep. She experienced a bustling night and received so much lucky money, which was totally different from the previous new years she had spent.
To her surprise, her mother-in-law gave her ten coins! Given that she found three coins in the dumplings, she eraned thirteen coins today! How wonderful!
But Wu Xiyuan didn't sleep well. Things passed hurriedly in his brain, and he seemed to have a long dream when he woke up......
He ranked first in the imperial civil examinations at the provincial capital, the national capital and the palace in succession. During the palace examination, he became a favourite courtier of the the emperor because of his outstanding appearance, and then worked in the cabinet.
Though everything was coming up roses for his official career, he was rather unlucky in the most important events of his life. His first wife was Yang Liu, who committed suicide due to a dispute with his parents. Su Jiuyue was his second wife, but died when he was the Magistrate of Yangzhou, and did not even give birth to any child for him.
After that, many warmhearted people were busy with matching him with girls. He was pestered beyond endurance, so he let everyone know that he was fated to bring bad luck and even death to his wife. In this way, he lived a quiet life again.
He blinked, and then looked at the dilapidated roof and the familiar and unfamiliar furnishings of the room.
When he turned his head again, he saw the young woman.
He had never been so young. The woman looked  like an overgrown schoolgirl, but her beauty was more than a person could describe.
He cried because he hadn't see her for a long time. Perhaps she didn't want to bother him, so she didn't appear in his dreams.
Was he dreaming now?
He reached out and gently touched her face. Her soft skin was so real......
Su Jiuyue was about to wake up, and opened her eyes when being touched by him.
She saw the handsome face of Wu Xiyuan. She smiled sweetly at him, revealing two dimples on her cheeks.
She reached out and took his hands off her face and asked him tenderly, "Are you awake?"
He was familiar with this voice. Her style was to speak with the last syllable rising slightly.
Over the years he had recalled her laugh, voice and gesture for countless times, and now he could see her again.
His memories gradually integrated, and he even remembered what happened several days ago when he was silly.
Wu Xiyuan was smart, and soon found that the recent events were different from what he had saw before. The biggest change was that Su Jiuyue married him last year.
According to his former memory, he had been foolish until he was twenty years old. When he was twenty years old, his mother invited a matchmaker to match him with Su Jiuyue, who was seventeen years old, in the Daxing Village.
But now his mother spent many coins to let her marry him early.
He wondered if the God gave him another chance because he had been serving the country and people devotedly.
Wu Xiyuan thought it was great! The parents of Su Jiuyue were not good to her and she suffered an incompletely cured illness when she was very young, so she died young.
With the help of their family, she could live better than the miserable days in the Su Family.
But she didn't complete the six steps leading to a feudal marriage, so she was only a child bride bought by his mother. Wu Xiyuan was afraid that she may feel wronged.
But he would make it up to her later......