"Miss, have you already been to the Sacrifice Cliff?"

I already understand all of this sentence.

Sure enough, it was her!

It's really her!

Feeling my breathing suddenly tense, as if even my eyes were dyed with the temperature of the flames and were about to burn her, Tang Ting sighed lightly and said in a low voice: "That's right, the Bodhisattva temple on the cliff was built by me." ”

At this moment, I can't say what I feel.

The mystery that had been haunting me for a long time seemed to be about to be revealed, but I suddenly felt that there was more confusion in front of my eyes, and I didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

I looked at her face that was getting paler in the light and sighed, "Sure enough, it's you." ”

She looked at me, "Miss guessed it was me?"

"I didn't guess it was you, I just kept thinking, searching, I think, most likely, it's you. ”

"Why?"

"It costs a lot to build a Bodhisattva temple," I said lightly: "Even ordinary ladies can't afford the monthly fee; ”

She thought for a while, nodded and said, "Indeed, if you think about it like this, there are really not a few people left in Xichuan." However, a few of our playmates who were together when we were young, they also have a lot of money and similar temperaments, and they are all uncontrollable by our parents, why doesn't the eldest lady guess that it is them?"

"Because I heard that the young lady who repaired the Bodhisattva temple was injured. ”

I said as I looked at the mech's arm she had placed on the table.

She herself glanced down.

After a moment of silence, she finally said softly: "That's right, I did have my arm amputated because of that accident, and I only installed this mecha arm later. ”

I let out a long breath.

The night is deeper.

She and I gathered around this small candle flame as if it was the last bit of clarity in the world.

After being silent for a long time, Tang Ting said softly: "Miss, I didn't mean to hide it from you, it's just that I promised others to keep it secret." ”

I said, "Well, it's now, Tang Ting, you should make it clear to me." ”

“……”

Tang Ting raised her eyes and looked at me: "I want to know, how does the eldest lady know, who built that Bodhisattva Temple, and who sued you?"

When I went to the cliff to pray for him, I met an old woodcutter, and the story he told me, Tang Ting listened to it, a faint smile appeared on her face, and said: "It's really a lie, how can it be spread like that." ”

I took a deep breath to calm myself down, then looked at her and said, "Since it is a lie, what is going on, what happened back then, you tell me carefully from beginning to end!"

She nodded, and then said, "That woodcutter is right about one thing, I did go to the cliff of sacrifice, and it is true that I went to my marriage, but I am not as weak and incompetent as they say, and I am not really going to jump from there. ”

"Your marriage?"

I came back to my senses a little: "What kind of marriage has your family arranged for you?"

Tang Ting's face sank slightly, and said, "They decided to marry the An family." ”

"An family?" I was surprised: "Prince Anyang?"

"Yes, that's him. ”

"......" I couldn't react for a while, and the appearance of the bearded prince with a face like a crown of jade and a graceful demeanor appeared in my mind, and said, "You don't agree with this family business?"

"Hmm. ”

“……”

I blinked, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Both of them are a few years younger than me, when I was a child, I also served as the head of the eldest sister, with them to fight, I haven't seen each other for more than ten years, when we meet again, there is indeed a feeling of seeing the golden boy and girl, a pair of beautiful people, according to the two of them have the same family background, appearance and age, all of them are not in harmony, and when I helped me in the past few years, I can almost see the two of them standing side by side, this is really a pair made in heaven.

She doesn't like this family business?

I subconsciously said, "Why don't you agree?"

Tang Ting glanced at me, and raised her eyebrows slightly: "Why does the eldest lady ask that?"

"I think you two are really...... It's a good match. ”

"It's a good match, that's what others see, not necessarily what I think in my heart. She chuckled, looked at me with some playful eyes, and said, "Miss, I thought that people in the whole world didn't understand, but Miss Big Miss must be able to understand me, why is even Miss so roundabout?"

I was dumbfounded by her, and I didn't know what she meant, she said, "I heard Su Su say, eldest lady, you and that Pei Yuanxiu - you have to separate from him." ”

"Yes......"

"That's it, the eldest lady can leave what she doesn't love, why can't I refuse what I don't want?"

“……”

"I don't want to get married. ”

I was a little more confused: "You, do you not want to marry him, or do you not want to marry someone?"

Tang Ting looked at me calmly: "I don't want to get married." What's wrong with not marrying a man for the rest of your life? ”

“……”

I didn't know how to respond for a while, I just wanted to ask about the Bodhisattva statue, but I didn't expect to ask her such a private question from her mouth, which made me a little overwhelmed, and Tang Ting, she was more direct than anyone else, and smiled more calmly than me at the moment, and then said: "However, at that time, they were the same as the eldest lady now, they couldn't accept my idea at all, and even my father and mother wanted to force me." ”

I frowned slightly: "I remember, they love you very much." ”

"Well, but at that time, it seemed like this marriage was very important, so they also put a lot of pressure on me. ”

That's when I came to my senses a little bit - marriage.

The An family and the Tang family want to marry, which is actually a big thing in Xichuan, especially, if the time is not wrong, I remember that Qingchen once told me that after he was eighteen years old, his father seemed to have the idea of retreating, and began to hand over the affairs of the Yan family and Changmingzong to him.

I looked at Tang Ting - maybe as a junior, she was still young at that time, maybe she didn't understand it too much, but obviously, the elders of her family and the old man of the An family were very sensitive to the matter of her father's resignation, as soon as her father retreated, the head of the Yan family would be handed over to Qingchen, and Xue Qian, as the mother of the head of the family, was more powerful than when she was a wife.

Therefore, the two of them should want to marry and strengthen their own power to maintain a certain balance in Xichuan.

It is also because of such a purpose that even the Tang family couple, who love their daughter so much, have to put pressure on Tang Ting regardless of her own wishes.

I then asked, "Then what happened to you after you went to the cliff?"

She looked at the candle flame in front of her, pondered for a while, and then said: "Actually, I didn't have any plans, I was too young at that time, I just knew that I was angry and angry, and I cried there for a while, I didn't really want to jump off a cliff or something." ”

"Hmm. ”

"Later, by the time I finished crying, it was getting dark, and I remember that fog began to rise on the mountain. ”

"And then?"

Then, suddenly, I saw a figure on the opposite hill. ”

My breath choked and I looked at her nervously.

Tang Ting's face also became a little tense, even if the lifeless mecha hand was placed on the table, it seemed to tremble slightly with her heartbeat, she said: "At first, I thought it was fog, because that figure was snow-white, I thought it was fog, it looked like a figure, but after a while, the fog did not disperse, but became clearer and clearer. ”

“……”

Then, feeling that something was wrong, I took a step forward, trying to see what it was. ”

"And then?"

"And then," she said, after a pause, "I was so distracted that I stumbled and fell." ”

"Huh?!"

Although I knew that she was in front of me right now, as soon as I heard this, I was still frightened, and even Tang Ting herself, her face suddenly turned pale, as if she had returned to that time in an instant, and the blood on her face was gone, she shuddered, and then said: "It was at the moment of falling down that I saw it clearly." ”

“……”

She looked up at me, the corners of her eyes slightly reddening: "It's Madame." ”

“……”

"It's the Great Lady!"

“……”

"She was snow-white, like a bodhisattva, standing on the top of the mountain. ”

“……”

"At that time, it was already late tomorrow, but I felt as if her whole body was glowing!"

“……”

"Miss, you know that I have often run to the Yan family since I was a child, and I often see the eldest lady, the eldest lady is the most - the most - " She stammered a little, as if she didn't know what to say, and said after a while: "The most extraordinary woman." ”

“……”

"People in Xichuan often say that the eldest lady of the Yan family is as beautiful as a fairy, but I don't think so, I think the eldest lady is like a bodhisattva. ”

“……”

"At that moment, I really thought I had seen a bodhisattva. ”

I was completely stupid.

Since listening to the "story" told by the woodcutter and seeing the statue in the Bodhisattva Temple, I have had countless speculations and delusions in my heart, but no matter what, I never thought that it was Tang Ting who saw her the moment she fell off the cliff.

My mother!

Is it really her?

I only felt that my breathing and heartbeat were about to freeze, Tang Ting herself was also very nervous, she raised her eyes to look at me, in such a cold night, her forehead was covered with fine sweat.

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "So, what's next?"

“……”

"How did you get rescued when you fell?"

Tang Ting took a deep breath and said slowly: "I originally thought that I was certain to die, but the moment I saw her, I suddenly had a power from the bottom of my heart. ”

“……”

"I sue myself that I must not die!"

At that moment, I also seemed to have experienced what she had experienced, falling from the cliff, but the stubborn belief in survival was born spontaneously in the bottom of my heart, Tang Ting gritted her teeth and said: "I pulled out the dagger in my arms and stabbed it into the cliff fiercely, trying to stabilize myself." ”

“……”

"That stab, the dagger really pierced into a gap in the cliff wall!"

“……”

"However, my arm was also broken hard and hit a solid rock on the mountain wall. ”

“……”

"Later, the dagger broke, and I fell again. Luckily, I slowed down when I stabbed my dagger into the cliff, so when I fell down again, I crashed into a few more trees that grew out of the cliff, so I didn't fall to my death immediately. ”

“……”

"But my hand—"

When she said this, she glanced down at the hideous mecha hand, and a trace of coldness slowly appeared in her eyes: "When they found me, the muscles and bones had been completely shattered, and it would be difficult to treat if it dragged on, so I could only amputate this hand, and later, grandpa made this mecha hand for me." ”

“……”

"That's why they didn't push me anymore. ”

I didn't know what to say for a while, it was so long ago, and now I have to comfort her, I don't think a woman like Tang Ting is needed, I looked at her mecha hand, looked at it for a while, and said: "You can survive stubbornly and refuse to give up in that situation, you are really an amazing person." ”

Tang Ting blinked her eyes and looked up at me: "I heard that the eldest lady never gave up when it was more difficult. ”

I shook my head slightly: "I gave up. ”

She was stunned and her eyes widened: "When?"

"In the second year of Tiansheng, the emperor once toured the south once. When he returned to Beijing from Yangzhou, he also took me with him, "I was a little light, compared to Tang Ting's nervousness when he talked about his experience of nine deaths and a lifetime, I seemed much more indifferent:" When his dragon boat crossed the Tiger Leaping Gorge, I-I jumped into the river, and it was the same, and I met Liu Qinghan later. ”

“……！”

After saying this, I heard Tang Ting take a big breath of cold air.

I looked up and looked at her with a puzzled look - what's wrong?

Tang Ting's face was even more solemn than just now, she almost glared at me, and said, "Same day." ”

"What?"

"On the same day!" she said, "the emperor bombarded the thief's ship in the Tiger Leap Gorge, and it was the same day that I happened at the Sacrifice Cliff!"

“……”

"I only found out about it after I went back. But it did happen on the same day!"

“……”

I looked at her stupidly, speechless for a moment.

I didn't expect that when I jumped down in front of Pei Yuanhao on the dragon boat in Tiger Leap Gorge, and resolutely wanted to end my entanglement with him, thousands of miles away in Xichuan, on the cliff, Tang Ting actually fell off the cliff, and she saw my mother!

Is this qiē a coincidence?

I only felt that countless of the same thoughts kept surging in my mind, as if they were rushing against me, I raised my eyes to look at her, my heart beat like thunder, and said: "Tang Ting, can you be sure that what I saw at that time was really my mother?"