Chapter Seventy-Six: The Dust Has Settled
He always knew that Mei Ziyan had a hazy love for him that was between a brother and sister and a lover, and in a fit of anger, he drew an insurmountable gap between the two. She left with a dead face, and she was too sad to resign to defend the Longxia Fortress......
For two years, it wasn't until this year's Qingming that he went back to Lian Ya's grave, and heard her personal maid chattering about the past in front of the grave, and he was surprised to know that it was Lian Ya who insisted on going her own way and blackmailed Mei Ziyan to hide it for her and asked her to let her child be born safely.
She didn't explain a word at first, and the reason is clear when you think about it.
She would rather he hate her than stain his beautiful nostalgia for Lianya.
So, he wanted to find her and bring her home. He and she had been wandering outside for too long.
It's been so long that she has forgotten that he used to take care of her like that, and she used to secretly look at him with such passionate eyes. On Qinglin Mountain, in Xuanbi Lake, she smiled and shouted, while splashing at him:
"Brother Suisheng, why are you so afraid of water? Mei Bao taught you to make water?......
Now seeing Xiao Jinqing's appearance, he remembered his anger that day, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh silently. When Mei Ziyan leaves the Hibiscus tent, her own people will follow her, and let her calm down by herself, but this Xiao is close to her...... He went over, sat down across from him, straightened the flask and glass which had been knocked over on the table, and said:
"It's the same person who has fallen to the end of the world, Xiao Gongzi, how about we have a drink?"
Mei Ziyan walked out all the way, the bustling street was full of people, all the bustle and noise had nothing to do with her, the first time she saw Suzaku was like yesterday, she was dressed in a scarlet dress, standing in front of her and smiling heartily and naturally......
She slowed down when she walked to the Qiushui River, and at some point it rained like sorrow. The frost is heavy in late autumn, and the autumn wind sends away the withered yellow leaves with the flowing water, which is clearly close at hand, but irretrievably flows away around you, no matter how earnest you are, you will not stay.
An oil-paper umbrella was quietly blocking the rain from falling on her head at this time. Mu Cheng was dressed in a green shirt, his clothes were in the wind, lined with the slightly dark mountains in the distance, and the cold winding water under his feet looked like a blurry ink-splashed landscape that had just been painted in the vast smoke and rain.
"I killed Lian Ya and made my brother lonely all his life, and I even affected Suzaku and made Xiao Jinqing lonely for life...... He prides himself on being smart, but he is unkind. And you, why can't you give up such a me?"
Mu Cheng looked at the white splash in the Qiushui River and said, "Ziyan, do you think that if you think like this, will it make them feel better or you yourself a little better?" Right and wrong have become empty in the blink of an eye, and you have already endured too much...... Everything has its own certainty, and I am only glad that you are standing in front of me intact. ”
Mei Ziyan's eyes were sour, and Mu Cheng said again:
"Boasting of being smart and ruthless, are you sure you're talking about yourself and not about me? If you can give it up, why let you go in the first place? Just lock you around and let you hate me for the rest of your life. ”
"Persimmon," she said, looking at the gray sky, "we do seem to be somewhat alike......
He gently held her hand, clasped his fingers, and asked, "Ziyan, am I as heavy as you in my eyes?"
She was silent for a brief moment before she took something out of her bosom and spread her palms in front of him. Mu Cheng looked at the round and flat piece of wood and said strangely:
"What is this?"
"Wood persimmons. "The persimmon she has always kept in her heart is an out-and-out wood.
At the moment of sudden realization, his heart beat wildly in his chest, and he took her waist and took her into his arms, and the oil-paper umbrella in his hand fell to the ground, and the rain fell on their hair like light mist and dust, and they seemed to be unconscious.
"So," he said, "forget the dumb slave, and remember me only in your heart, and I am the only one, shall you?"
The rain was falling softly, and the wind slipped through her dress, his voice drifting through the cold air, but every word was so clear. She laughed, laughed and fell into tears, and said:
"Good. ”
He lowered his head, and the small kisses fell on the center of her eyebrows, the corners of her eyes, kissed away the tears on her face, and finally covered her soft lips accurately, and gently tossed and turned, and expressed his lovesickness in the rain curtain of flying flowers in the still night......
In the distance, Sima Suisheng held an umbrella and quietly watched the scene of them embracing, the drizzle was falling, and the expression on his face was blurred, and he couldn't distinguish the feelings. He put down the oil-paper umbrella in his hand, turned around and left slowly without saying a word, the lonely figure wet by the rain was so bleak in the autumn wind.
Those hurtful pasts, betrayals and misunderstandings, perhaps, are just to fulfill the meeting of these two people.
........
"What about later? Did Mei Ziyan marry Mu Cheng?" The story went on for several days, and I sat in the corner pavilion opposite the Flower River, and it had just rained in autumn, and the air was full of the smell of fallen leaves. Min Sikong coughed a few times, he seemed to be suffering from the cold in the past few days, and said:
"Madame thinks, should this Mei Ziyan marry Mu Cheng?"
"If Mianyuan City and Mei Ziyan can only choose one of the two, will Mu Cheng give up his wish for many years?"
This sentence was later asked by Sima Suisheng to Mu Cheng, and Mu Cheng said that if he wanted him to give up Mianyuan, then he should let Mei Ziyan marry him, let him be beautiful and spend his ambitions, and no longer try to break the peace between the three kingdoms now......"
"Sima Suisheng, did he ever like Mei Ziyan?"
However, when Sima returned to the East Court with his life, he took Xiao Jinqing with him. ”
"Mu Cheng can fall in love with the daughter of the enemy, but can he regard his enemy as his father?"
In order to marry Mei Ziyan, Mu Cheng later suffered a lot in Qinglin Mountain. He first had a big fight with Mei Ziyan's father in Fufeng Academy, and was hit seventy-seven and forty-nine times on his body by the thick green bamboo with a bowl mouth. During that time, he learned to make plum wine, learned to peel crabs for her, took her to Xuanbi Lake in a dinghy in summer, built a beautiful snowman for her in winter, climbed with her on Chinese New Year's Eve. And his father-in-law, Sima Jiyao, the former king of Xuanyang, allowed him to seek revenge on the Mid-Autumn Festival in August every year, and the two fought to the death, but Mu Cheng never pleased, so he could only secretly decide to fight again next year......"
"I don't want to hear it. I resolutely interrupted him.