Chapter Forty-Eight: Painful Determination
It was late at night, but I don't know who was visiting, and there was only a faint sound of horses beating their noses outside the wall, Ah Bao hesitated a few steps inside the door with apprehension, but decided to open the door to greet him. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Father, why are you?" When Ah Bao saw that the person standing straight with a lantern outside the door was his father, his expression still showed a lot of surprise.
Dressed in a silver-gray gold-rimmed outfit, Li Zongming looked extremely cold, his elderly face was no longer handsome, but his whole body still exuded a powerful and suffocating aura. Li Zongming didn't look at Ah Bao squarely, but turned his back on his face very angrily, and after neatly moving the horse to the stable, he said to him firmly: "Come with me to the study!"
Luo Ying was still drinking porridge in the hall, and she didn't notice that anyone was coming in the courtyard, but the shrewd Dian Dian immediately became restless, her eyes looked at the dark courtyard cautiously and frightened, as if she saw an enemy, and her mouth hairs stained with rice cereal stood up as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. Luo Ying didn't know what was going on, and thought that she didn't like to eat today's food, so she had to ask herself: "That's right, how can cats like to drink porridge?"
Luo Ying hurriedly stroked her soft little brain melon and said with concern: "What's wrong with Diandian, why are you so excited, hurry up and drink porridge obediently, come, be obedient." ”
The more Luo Ying comforted her, the more excited she became, it was really childish. Luo Ying simply stretched out her arms and held it in front of her, looking directly into her eyes, her pupils were many times dilated than usual, and she was stubbornly looking in the direction of the study.
Suddenly, Luo Ying didn't pay attention, she broke free of her hand, jumped off the chair, and the pale yellow millet porridge spilled all over the ground with a bang, and as soon as her white claws touched the ground, she desperately rushed to the study with faint candlelight.
"Ah, where are you going, there are guests in the study, don't run around, be careful that Po beats you!" Luo Ying chased anxiously while threatening.
The screams became more and more poignant, and the movements sped up by several beats, exactly the same as the usual appearance of being bullied, she frantically grabbed the threshold of the study, and kept scratching the door with sharp little claws.
"Do you have a cat?" Hearing the meow of a cat outside the house, Li Zongming thought that there was a cat playing outside, so he asked Ah Bao curiously.
"Yes, a friend just sent it. Po responded.
Master Li was obviously too engaged in the conversation, so he just asked lightly and began to continue the topic just now.
Luo Ying saw that no one came out of the study, she couldn't help patting her chest and breathing a long sigh of relief, she quietly stood on tiptoe and walked to the back of Diandian, and her stretched out hands instantly clamped her like small pliers, and Diandian frantically kicked her four legs to break free, Luoying untied the padded jacket on her body and said proudly while covering her head: "Next time you are so disobedient, I will throw you away, and Ah Bao will not look for you, hum!"
Cats who can't see and smell with their heads covered are really obedient a lot. Luo Ying wanted to hide behind the door and observe if anyone inside had noticed the little bit that had just been playing here. Suddenly, I heard Master Li's stern angry rebuke from the study: "You rebel, do you have to force me to a dead end before you give up?"
Under the candlelight, Ah Bao, who sat with his head bowed and silent, faced him was the angry Lord Li.
"From the very beginning, I warned you, stay away from that girl, not only did you not listen, but it intensified, have you ever taken me as a father in your eyes? But now, you are actually working against the emperor for that slut, in the future, what will the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty think of me, a father, do you know?
"It's not me who shames my family, it's you. Bao's words finally broke the silence of the night, and also broke Li Zongming's self-righteousness all along. Luo Ying's back trembled in the cold windless night, and she looked at the room, wishing that someone would notice her, and then, not going on, but the people in the room could not see her.
Po finally stopped being silent because he felt that he couldn't bear it anymore. Luoying is right, he is not wrong!
"I rescued Bai Luoying, it has nothing to do with you, I exchanged it with the emperor myself!" Ah Bao had a faint expression, he didn't want to argue with anyone.
"It has nothing to do with me? Okay, then the blood relationship in the future, the relationship between father and son is gone!" Li Zongming pointed at himself, his eyes were red, as if he had lost his mind, and his jealousy made him fall deeper and deeper. He thinks that it is my son, who I raised single-handedly, and that he should listen to my instructions and accept my arrangements in everything he does, because only I am truly good for him.
Hearing his father's angry words, Bao's heart throbbed like it was torn for a moment, he looked at his father's angry red face, which had already been engraved with traces of time, he suddenly remembered the days when he was a child and chased Daddy everywhere, tears kept rolling in his red hot eyes, but he couldn't let them fall, not crying, it was the common tacit understanding between these two men. He opened his slightly quivering lips and responded, "You have always been my most beloved father, so I thought you would respect my choice, and there is no woman in the world who can give me the best warmth like her, like you and my mother." ”
Li Zongming was speechless when he said these words, yes, who doesn't crave warmth? This has nothing to do with status, status, appearance, and money, it is a matter of heart's choice. A thousand words seemed to be choked in my throat, and I never had the courage to say them again. It was the child's choice, he said, that he had found the warmth of life.
"Very good, your choice. The father seemed to smile in submission, but hung his shoulders in despair, and Po would rather see him angry than this, because at least that kind of father would not show vulnerability, and at least he would not let himself be shaken.
"I hope you take care, the child will do his best to make up for her in the future. ”
"You know it all. Master Li looked up at the window, tonight, there was not a single wind blowing, and even the dead branches that had not yet sprouted were sleeping in the air, unwilling to wake up.
"Mother, I have already told me that I will hide from her, I finally found her heart, there is no way back, and I don't want her, because of the grievances between my fathers, I will also draw a knife against me in the future. Ah Bao smiled, with a wry smile on his face, there is nothing in the world, it is more heart-wrenching than falling in love with Bai Luoying!