Chapter 64: New Life
For another five days, Hanshui Town was still as noisy and busy as ever, as if the passage of time had not brought them any troubles. Day after day slash-and-burn farming, male ploughing and female weaving, leisure and nature.
What about Koai House?
Everyone has never given up looking for their brother, but the naked reality forces them to recognize the phenomenon.
During this period, Uncle Naiwen came once, perhaps because he knew about his brother. After visiting my father and mother and visiting Xuanyan's sister-in-law, I never came again. It is as if the daughter who marries out is really like the water that was spilled, life and death are fateful, and wealth is in the sky.
I still clearly remember what Uncle Shi said to Xuanyan's sister-in-law when he left Ai Mansion and the look in his eyes when he spoke, "Be a good daughter-in-law, a good wife, and a good sister-in-law, and strive to be a good mother in the future, open up branches and leaves for the Ai family, and don't care about other people's worldly eyes." You will always be a good daughter of my teacher and a good daughter of your mother. "Full of affection, reluctance and determination.
If my brother has not been heard from all the time, what is the difference between Xuanyan's sister-in-law and a widow? What father is really willing to let his daughter embark on this road of no return at a young age. Uncle Shi is like this, but he has to be like this.
Until noon that day, our family of four was sitting together for lunch. Mother, sister-in-law, me, and father. For the first time since my brother's disappearance, my father had lunch at home today. faded, and the father slacked off the search for his brother. It's been eight days, and who would insist on doing something they can't be sure of? Time doesn't stop to keep you entertained. The scene of eating is naturally indispensable.
But what about me? I would pick up vegetables for my mother, eat Hese with a big grin, and pretend that I was okay, and I had no heart or lungs.
Of course, Xuanyan's sister-in-law is also constantly picking vegetables for her father and mother, but she looks unusually mature. Occasionally, I will be given some vegetables and meat that I love to eat, and I will swallow them all in my stomach.
I'm like a clown, a loser, playing the role of an immature and ignorant erector. Keep eating, keep picking up vegetables. I was afraid to stop, I was afraid that I would inadvertently create a gap for talking, I was afraid that I couldn't help crying. I miss my brother, and I think about the bits and pieces of me and my brother when we were children. But I didn't dare to let others know what I thought, and tears could not be shed, which was what my brother taught me since I was a child.
"Sir...... Master. ”
We were being woken up by a series of hurried shouts. They all raised their heads and looked out of the door.
These days, Uncle Li, the steward of the Ai family, and Brother Li's father, who was sent out by his father to find his brother's whereabouts, are trotting over here.
"Steward Li, why are you back, but is there any news of Yang'er?" Father said overjoyed.
Although Steward Li is Brother Li's biological father, he is not as pampered and presumptuous as Brother Li. From ancient times to the present, even though "the son is not the fault of the father" is deeply poisonous, it is not Li Guan who really spoils Brother Li, but "Ai Jianfan", a man like half a father.
Steward Li was as strict with Little Brother Li as his father was with me and my brother. My father's indulgence of Little Brother Li is just like Steward Li's indulgence of me and my brother.
It is this delicate relationship between servants and masters that has created the weakness of our generation.
Steward Li has a short and capable beard, and he usually smiles constantly, giving people an inexplicable kindness. However, at this time, he made me feel cold.
I saw Steward Li take out a letter from his sleeve and hand it to his father. Said: "This is an urgent letter sent from Haoyang Town, saying that a young man who claims to be a friend of the eldest young master sent it to the silk village of Haoyang Town. ”
The father opened the letter and naturally handed the envelope to the mother. Then I read it carefully, and after a while, I laughed inexplicably.
"Steward Li, go and call all the people who are looking for Yang'er back! Including those sent by the Tang family and the Shi family to help find them. Give them a good reward, and don't neglect them. ”
"Yes, I'll just tell you to go down, and I'll take care of things."
After Steward Li finished speaking, he retreated.
"Master, what are you?" Mother asked, puzzled.
"Frost, Yang'er is fine. Yang'er was rescued by the elders of the Yuantan faction that day, and this letter was written by Yang'er himself, don't believe it. The father said and gave the letter to the mother. The joy on his face was heavy and frivolous.
Mother couldn't wait to take the letter and read it excitedly.
"Jian Fan, it's Yang'er...... It's Yang'er, Yang'er is fine, our Yang'er is fine......"
"Jian Fan" and "Frost Lane", the father and mother call each other by name, this is something that has never happened, and only that day the tea ceremony, the clan mother shouted these two names. Otherwise, a few of us juniors can smell it. Xuanyan's sister-in-law has married into the Ai family, and today's father and mother bluntly shouted these two names, which also marks that Xuanyan's sister-in-law has officially become a member of the family.
What about me?
Before I took the letter, I thought I could feign to be strong. But as soon as I read the first sentence of the letter in my mind, I was defeated, so quickly, in an instant.
I ran out of the room crying, and slipped the letter into my sister-in-law's hand before escaping.
In fact, it was not only me, but also my father, mother, and of course, my sister-in-law, who was about to cry, all lost in the hands of a letter today. A move that was eight days late was even more hasty......
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Father, mother, and Cheng'er, I hope you will not dislike Yang'er for being lazy when you read this letter.
On that day, in the cave behind Baizu Mountain, Yang'er was not good at learning and couldn't save Cheng'er. can only make this decision, trick Cheng'er out of the hole first, and then improvise.
But unexpectedly, the cave collapsed, and he couldn't get out.
Just when I thought I would never see the faces of my father, mother, and brother again, the rubble instantly drowned everything.
When the child opened his eyes again, it was already three days later. At this time, I was already lying in my own room.
It turned out that it was the elders of the sect who happened to pass by and save me.
Qingcheng is my brother's fault. But you can't blame me, after all, I'm doing it for your own good. If I, Ai Qingyang, are born for one day, I won't let you be hurt, and I won't let my father and mother work. This is a vow I have made since I was a child.
In fact, the reason why I went home a few days late this time was because the "Capture the Flag Conference" in the sect was delayed. The child lived up to his father's expectations and won the top three places in the conference. I originally wanted to surprise my father and mother, but because of the suddenness of the marriage, I didn't have time.
Father, mother, children are not filial, this time I will not go back to the sect. When Yang'er won the position of the first disciple, he must ask the sect master for his life and go home to visit.
Qing Yang respectfully.
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I ran desperately towards the backyard, my brother's every word echoed in my heart. I ran to the crystal lake and looked at myself in the water, the tears in my eyes couldn't stop flowing, sliding down my cheeks and dripping into the water, causing ripples.
"Brother, thank you. I, Ai Qingcheng, will not forget everything today if I am born for one day. ”