47. Jade pendant
The candle flame quietly spitted flames in the middle of the night, and the wax tears that burned away gradually covered the dilapidated wooden table with a thin film, and only a little remnant was about to burn out.
The woman took advantage of the light to put the jade pendant she had been holding in her hand for a long time on the table and wiped it carefully, and the sideburns that had begun to grow a few strands of gray hair were particularly obvious in the light of the candlelight.
In the three years since he left, this jade pendant has become a substitute for him, and whenever he misses it, he will always take it out to see things and think about people, and then he will stop thinking about him.
There are many things that can be done in three years, such as her transformation from a cardamom girl to a woman on the pan, the money that was once barely enough to make ends meet, and he should have come back long ago when he went to Beijing to catch the exam.
I think that at the beginning, she met him before she introduced the official lady who had no worries about food and clothing, and she fell in love at first sight and was affectionate again. Despite the obstacles at home, he married him who was still a little talented, and he gradually became proficient in untouched family affairs.
After several years of hard life together as a husband and wife, one day he rushed home and told the woman with great interest that he was going to Beijing to take the top prize!
So, he went. He went to the capital with half of his family's money.
Before he could finish his thoughts, the child on the bed next to him suddenly began to cry loudly. The woman hurriedly withdrew the jade pendant on the table and turned back to take care of her child, who was not yet three years old.
I don't know what the child's expression will be when he comes back.
The woman lay on her side on the bed, gently coaxing the child to sleep, and looked at the child with eyes moistened by missing as if she was looking at him.
The night passed in a hurry, and the sky was bright in the blink of an eye.
The next morning, the good news reached the woman's ears.
It turned out that he had finally returned to his hometown in high school, and despite the hunger that had not been much water and rice for a few days, the woman rushed out of the crumbling wooden door with the white and chubby child in her arms, and waited for him on the road he had to pass.
As a result, the person waited, and the indifferent look on the familiar appearance was not the man who was always smiling before the woman.
The man asked the attendant to blow the woman away, and before he could execute, he saw a good-looking woman in a red robe with beads on her head lifting the curtain of the carriage, looking at the man and her holding the child shyly, and the smile on her white face that could pinch out the water became the most stark contrast.
The woman couldn't believe that he would let people drive her away, and hurriedly tried to deliver the child she was holding in her arms to him.
However, the child has not yet been lifted. The man had already returned to the carriage, leaving her alone in the center of the crowd of people's fingers and cold.
Not knowing how to get back home, the woman put the child on the bed. She took out the jade pendant again, and the red fish surrounded the inky lotus, which he had said in this life, and he would turn into this fish and swim around her lotus forever.
Now it seems to be unusually ironic, and the inexplicable smile rushes straight to his chest.
It's just that I am smiling and laughing, but the tears can't stop falling.
In the days that followed, the men held feasts to celebrate the top students in high school, and feasted on the people of the towns and villages for days, but those who once looked down on him now looked up at his face with a smirk and said the most humble words.
The man is very satisfied with the current qiē, but it is the woman!
It was just a mistake made by a young man, he was now on a smooth official journey, why should he give up his great future for a village woman with a rude behavior and appearance, and the man could not bear it just thinking about the ridicule he would be made when he introduced his wife to other officials in the future.
Looks like she has to be dealt with!
That night, the man took advantage of no one's attention to sneak back to the old house where he had lived for more than ten years and saw the woman in a daze, and the withered face made him feel that his decision was correct.
"I am not a suitable relationship with you now, and if you agree to a letter of resignation now, I will arrange for you to have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life."
"You know I don't care about that! Back then, you swore to me that you only loved me in this life! Now it's like yesterday when the loess was buried in the ground, and you have completely forgotten about it? ”
The woman burst into tears and pulled the man's sleeve in refusal to admit it.
With a snap, the man waved away the woman's hand with disgust on his face, and then hurriedly looked down to check whether the clothes he had spent a lot of silver taels to make had been touched.
"That's all I have to say, you can do it yourself!"
The man didn't wait for the woman to say anything more, and hurried out of the cabin. Before leaving, he hesitated a little and glanced at the crying child on the bed, and then still walked under his feet.
"I won't agree, you don't want to leave me for the rest of your life."
Behind her, the woman's mournful cry resounded through the silent mountains and forests in the middle of the night
And then, what happened? The woman slowly thought about the fire with the child in her arms, as if to confirm that the family tree needed a family token, and her jade pendant was what the man needed. When she sent someone to ask for it again, the woman refused to give it alive or dead, and then there were hooligans and bullies
The woman didn't want to reminisce anymore, the jade pendant had long been taken away by the man. Just like the full love for him back then, it also turned into flowing water and flowed down the dry mountain road to dryness.
Are you too persistent? The woman was almost suffocated by the smoke, and the young child in her arms was already blue and out of breath.
No! It's not her fault, it's all the man's fault.
Even if he is reincarnated in hell for eternity, he doesn't want a man to live happily in the world! The soot-covered fingers that had clutched the charred furniture to ward off the fire lightly stroked the child, leaving a dark mark on his white face, which roughly looked like a black tear trail slowly flowing down the corner of his eye.
The woman put down the child, whose body was already cold, got up and looked for the jade pendant in the fire with difficulty, and after the jade pendant was robbed, she couldn't help but miss the cheap jade mixed with impurities, red and black.
Even if one is beautifully carved, the other is rough and simple.
Finally found the piece of jade bought, but there was no trace of red fish and ink lotus on the stone of the same color, but the woman stubbornly thought that this was a jade pendant that only belonged to her.
Until she was hit by the cantilevered beam that burned off the house, the woman was still holding the jade pendant tightly in her hand.
I hope there will be no poor person in the world who has been abandoned like her! I hope that people who love each other will have a heart that will always like each other! I hope that a lover will eventually become a couple!
Otherwise, you will be accused for the rest of your life until you die!
When a mouthful of resentful blood sprayed on the jade, the woman's last consciousness gradually became dark with this mouthful of blood.
Child, this life has nothing to do with you, but I hope you will have a good future life.