Chapter Eighty-Four: Farewell
Xin Yi was worried for a while. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info She hurriedly ran into the rain, moved the bamboo umbrella to block the rain for her, and wanted to blame her for a few words of "what a fool you are doing, so don't care about your body", but her throat was so sore that she couldn't speak.
After a long time, Xin Yi handed her the ginger soup that was still steaming in his hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "Although I can't let you enter Xinfu, I can at least send you a bowl of ginger soup." ”
Gao Wanxiu's eyes lit up, and then returned to pitch black: "I think about seeing my relatives and friends again at the end, it is not in vain to meet my relatives and friends in this life." But my father and mother kicked me out of the house, and the eldest grandsister closed the door, and the other sisters either got the news early, and before I entered the door, I was kicked out by the little girl like a dog. Miss Xin is the only one who still wants to see me. ”
Gao Wanxiu's voice was like a dream, with an ethereal hint of idiot, and it made people's hearts go up and down, if they weren't careful, they really thought it was the whisper of the fox fairy on a rainy night.
"Miss Xin, I only found out today that the daughters of the family, in the face of the trade-offs of interests, are no different from those wild dogs with dirt and leprosy in the corners. Gao Wanxiu grinned, water droplets flowed down the corners of her lips, and she couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain, "It's worth it in exchange for this moment of sobriety in your life." ”
Xin Yi's heart trembled when he heard this, and he tried his best to squeeze out a sneer: "What are you saying to bluff people." There is no definite verdict on the Furong Garden turmoil, so don't scare yourself. ”
"Why is Miss Xin pretending to be confused?" Gao Wanxiu shook her head, her face was almost blue, "Isn't this verdict standing in front of you now?"
Xin Yi's pupils shrank: "What does this mean?"
"Twenty years ago, except for the Gao family's own people, the world has probably forgotten about it. Miss Xin is also right not to know. Gao Wanxiu's eyes turned into a trance, as if she had fallen into a nightmare that was too far away, "Twenty years ago, the five surnames Qiwang and the Gao family made an agreement: as long as the Gao family did not hold the lives of the children of the five surnames and seven wangs, they would ensure that the Gao family would not be removed from Great Wei. ”
Xin Yi pondered his memory. Twenty years ago, she was not born yet, and she could only look up some folk history in her mind, and all she could remember was hearing about it when she was a child, and the gentleman knocked on the board and spat on it, "I want to think about that agreement, the five surnames are a total agreement, and it is the Danshu iron coupon given by the Jade Emperor to the Gao family......
Gao Wanxiu's faint whisper brought Xin Yi back to reality, like a thousand-year-old storyteller at the end of the years, and the board knocked on people's hearts.
"The reason for this agreement is him, and the price is also his. At that time, there were only two choices, either the five surnames and seven hopes destroyed the Gao family, or he accompanied the ancient Buddha for a long time, and the compensation was the paper agreement...... What kind of compensation, to put it in a high-sounding way, is essentially to force him with the survival of the entire Gao family, and force him to exchange his life for a paper agreement. From now on, even if you live, it is as if you were dead. ”
Xin Yi's eyes flashed. Her mind subconsciously popped up two old things attached to the "Yuanhe County Atlas".
First, one day 20 years ago, the Gao family donated a Guangong Temple in Kunshan Mountain. The reason is that when the eldest son of the Gao family was playing in Kunshan, he encountered mountain bandits on the road, and the thieves were interested in wealth and brutally killed him. Therefore, the Gao family made a big fanfare to worship Guan Gong, mourn the eldest son, and pray to the heavens to punish evil and promote good.
The second is that one day 20 years ago, the old presiding officer of the Gangji Temple adopted an orphan and designated him as a closed disciple to pass on his mantle. Give the Dharma number round dust, may its merits be complete, and cut off the thoughts of dust.
The difference between the two anecdotes is only one day.
One is hiding from the world, and the other is Li Dai Taozhuang. Since then, the tanuki has been exchanged for the prince, and the monk has been replaced by the son.
Xin Yiwu thought to herself, but Gao Wanxiu didn't care how much she understood, and just followed the storyteller's board at the end of time, knocking on the board one by one.
"He said, Trouble begins with him and ends with him. He was once unparalleled, but he was as obedient as a dog with sharp teeth and paws flattened. Gao Wanxiu smiled miserably, "He will return to Gaofu in a year and a half in the name of doing things." The older people in the Gao family knew who he was, but they only dared to call him a master like everyone else. Miss Xin, do you know the pain? It's like you've been choked by the neck in life. ”
Gao Wanxiu paused, and a cold smile spread, covering her entire little face with a layer of gray death.
"My only brother-in-law, I respect the perfect brother of the gods. I was born for 16 years, and I didn't dare to call him a brother, and I had to pretend to be deaf and dumb for 16 years. ”
Xin Yi had already understood seven or eight points in her heart, and she sighed heavily: "Since he got the paper agreement, the Gao family shouldn't worry about the turmoil in Furong Garden this time." ”
Gao Wanxiu shook her head: "The agreement only says: Bao Gao's family will not be removed." That is, only to protect the Gao family from being exterminated. However, there is always a punishment. Tomorrow morning is the deadline. ”
Xin Yi was taken aback. suddenly remembered what Gao Wanxiu's sentence "Isn't this verdict standing in front of you now" meant. Now I understand it, but it is more embarrassing than not understanding.
Her heart instantly sank to the bottom.
The punishment in front of him is only the life of this woman. One person to protect the family, one life to exchange for the Gao family. It was such a bargain that no one could refuse.
Human life is counted on the scale pole in two or two, and the centith is clearly weighed, no one will make a loss-making transaction, and the sentiment is too cheap.
"Miss Xin, you don't have to pity me, and I won't blame you. You're not cold-blooded and ruthless, you're just too helpless. Gao Wanxiu suddenly smiled, "In the chess game, fate is like a string, and you can't help yourself." I can't be the Lord, and neither can you. ”
"Miss Gao, what are you going to do?" Xin Yi had a bad premonition in his heart. Instinctively, she reached out and grabbed her coat, as if trying to hold the butterfly that was about to fly away.
Gao Wanxiu gently took Xin Yi's hand away, and her smile became brighter: "I know about Furong Garden, the eldest grandson sister blames me for dragging the eldest grandson, and Miss Xin is afraid that I will blame me for being reckless and bad." However, if I had turned back the clock, I would probably have done that even if I knew the end. The Gao family can bear the anger, I can't bear it. A choice that reason should not make...... So what, in your eyes, I, Gao Wanxiu, am not originally an impulsive brainless woman?"
Gao Wanxiu left Xin Yi's umbrella and slowly retreated, and the autumn rain poured down, washing away the dead air on her face, and glowing a gentle and clean smile.
It was like a moth to a fire, and the last smile left in the world.
"Miss Xin, I'm finally going to see my brother! I'm going to go from here to the Gang Ji Temple, from the long night to the dawn, and then my favorite brother will become the last and most beautiful sunrise in my life!
She was like an innocent child. On an ordinary day, I visited my brother and eagerly pulled the meeting gift that the sisters in my boudoir chose for my brother. Before she walked out of the door, she imagined her brother's gentle palm on the top of her head, and she blossomed with joy.
However, the woman's silver bell-like laughter and childish red eyes seemed too strange on such a miserable and cold autumn rainy night.
It's like a dream that shouldn't exist in the first place, and it will disappear in an instant.