Exquisite dice and red beans, when the acacia is endless.

The commotion of the wind and trees overnight left the whole courtyard more and more silent, and the congratulatory gifts piled up in the house, Baili Shangliang was too lazy to clean up, so he simply sat on the carved wooden railing in front of the porch and drank.

He reclined against the pillar that smelled of a faint wood, and his heart was enchanted by the jar of wine in his hand.

I forgot how I withdrew from the banquet, and I forgot how I lost my brother's face in front of my little sister in a panic.

The only thing I remember clearly is that on the seventh day of the sixth month, he was sentenced to water.

That stupid woman...... He didn't want to live so much, and he was so willing to give his life to others to deal with.

Baili Shangliang closed his eyes mockingly, and in the process of raising his neck, a delicate and beautiful face continued to enlarge in his mind, and his smile was very clear.

He had been looking at that face for many years, and he hadn't told anyone, he hadn't gotten tired of seeing it for many years.

In his heart, in fact, arrogance and viciousness are not what that person looks like. Her eyes have always been clear and clear, and she smiles at people, and she is also very soft and kind.

She should just be a kind and simple person, careful about her feelings, and like a treasure to her relatives.

And now she's sharpened like a knife, and it's his fault. It was he who failed her, it was he who made her rotten little by little.

Baili Shangliang drank Gu after Gu with arrogance, and all the things that he didn't dare to think about in his heart were swirling in his mind at this time, with unbearable bitterness. I regret that I was arrogant at the time, and I could only pretend to be myself, obviously my sister with the same blood in my body, but I treated her like a follower.

Later, from the obscure feelings to the sick peach blossoms, to the later, gradually bear rotten fruits.

What a cowardly and stupid idea to think that evasion would end it all.

When we get together, we will always follow a series of mistakes.

The summer breeze in the dead of night blows people cool and cool, and the drunkenness is getting stronger and stronger. From time to time, the wild cats on the eaves let out a mournful howl, and the moonlight fell on the cat's body through the gaps in the trees above the roof, and reflected on the strange black fur, which seemed to deepen the desolation of the night.

Baili Shangliang threw the empty wine jar in his hand into the distance, as if he was about to throw himself away, and with a snap, the broken residue splashed all over the ground.

He got up with a drunkenness that couldn't distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, and a smile appeared at the corner of his lips inexplicably, and then he staggered his steps and walked along the corridor in the direction of the main courtyard of the Baili family.

The long hair splashed with ink was generally messy in the night wind, making a human look like a ghost who had lost its way home.

——?——?——?—— courtyard is silent, dusty and windy. Bai Liye sat under the lamplight, rubbing his forehead and rubbing his head, and sighed fragile and useless.

Mrs. Liu Su came to accompany her for a while, and then left.

Regarding the matter of the third daughter Bailitang, she didn't say much, she just poured him a cup of tea by candlelight, and said softly: "The mistakes I have made should be borne by me, and I felt how angry it was to kill people at that time, and now I can't say such a thing as being thorough enough, and the punishment is a dream every night." ”

When he said this, Liu Su's voice was very soft and light, Bai Liye looked at his wife's face and felt that she had suddenly aged a lot, and even her youthful temperament was polished cleanly.

Liu Su's tone continued and unfazed: "Baili Tang is your daughter, I don't want to meddle in this, but I lost a son, and I don't want to lose a second ......"

Bai Liye trembled, as if he was poured ice water into his head, and his body cooled down little by little, from head to toes.

"Madame's meaning, for the husband to understand." Bai Liye's voice trembled, turned around and raised his eyes to look at the crescent moon outside the window, and lowered his gaze again.

"The husband will never do anything sorry for the lady again." He whispered.

Liu Su smiled lightly, and the scorching red candle on the high platform burst into a spark at the right time, and the light flickered in the eyes of the woman who was no longer in her prime, as if there was a crystal holy water about to overflow.

In the middle of the ring, she lowered her body to say goodbye: "It's not early, Ah Ye should go back to the house and sleep early, our son, he may not come." ”

Bai Liye walked out of the desk and waved his hand behind him: "I still have some things to say, and I haven't talked to him, so ...... He'll come. ”

He will come, Bai Liye thought in his heart, the corners of his mouth pulled out a wry smile, and he sat down at the desk.

The midnight was cold, and the body that was no longer young was eroded by the cold and coughed a few times from time to time, Bai Liye read the book for a while, put it down again, and looked up at the bright moon of today's dynasty, but then felt bored.

Finally, I regained some energy in the smell of alcohol.

He looked inquiringly out of the half-open door, and a water-colored robe embroidered with blue stripes suddenly caught his eye, with a cloudy smell of wine.

Bai Liye couldn't help frowning, it was only one night, his son was so decadent, it seems that he knows the Tao.

Thinking of this, a wave of disappointment flashed in my heart. It turned out that his eldest son, who had always been important, and the third daughter who came out of the side were involved to such a point.

And Baili Shangliang, who asked too much wine, was half clear and half confused, seeing that the road to be taken in his mind had come to an end, he staggered to protect the door frame and knelt in: "Ask for ...... begged her father to forgive Ah Tang, what did she say...... Those...... It's all crazy, believe it...... Cannot. ”

Bai Liye looked at his son who knelt down funny, flicked his sleeves, stood up and approached: "If my son didn't put on such a show tonight, your words would still be a little bit believed by my father." ”

"Father's ......"

Bai Liye sighed and interrupted: "No matter how you kneel, my father will not agree to your request." The drunk man who knelt on the ground instantly collapsed, Bai Liye paused, and his voice was generally cold and hard: "When people make mistakes, they always have to be punished, and your punishment is to bear this wrong past and protect the Baili family for the rest of their lives." ”

Baili Shangliang's expression was stagnant, he couldn't think about it, he didn't know how to think about it, he came to beg his father with empty sleeves, but now he wanted to take another sip of spirits.

Halfway, he trembled slightly, "If it is...... The child said that the ...... who was with the third sister Ah Tang that night "Baili Shangliang opened his mouth with difficulty, and when his words fell to this point, his expression faintly revealed a great pain, hesitated for a while, and said in a dumb voice: "...... That's the eldest young man of the Qi family whose father has always wanted to get married, does my father want to ...... too?"

Bai Liye trembled again, his eyes moved, and he shouted: "Shut up!" ”

The dantian blood and qi surged up, forcing an already old body to retreat a few times.

"But Ah Tang ......"

"Shut up for the Father!" Another shout. He looked at his son with the eagerness of a madman, and he tied it down with one palm. There was a crisp sound on the ground, and there was a sudden coldness in the boundless silence of the night.

"What do you want to be your father, the ancestors and ancestors of the Baili family are watching, and the people of the Baili clan are watching, they only know that you and your good sister have done that...... Such a reluctant thing. Bai Liye corrected his mind slightly, closed his eyes and said slowly, his white eyelashes fluttering slightly under the moonlight, like a butterfly with folded wings in pain.

"One wrong step, one wrong life, I was also young and vigorous back then. I was proud of the spring breeze for a while, but now it's a punishment......"

"Father." The drunken Baili Shangliang suddenly sobered up a lot, and called out in a dumb voice, much calmer than before.

It was just a call, and he didn't speak again. Ye Ye's candle flame swayed with the wind from time to time, and Baili Shangliang looked at his father's suddenly aged face under the lamp, and his heart was sour.

Bai Liye walked out of the door, his hands folded behind him, stubbornly clenched, as if he was supporting the strength of his entire body. He looked up at the lonely moon at the zenith: "I taught you to be a shrewd businessman for twenty years, but I didn't teach you how to behave. Being a human being is the most basic, but you have to learn to deal with the feelings that go deep into the flesh and blood. ”

The tone became more and more vicissitudes, and Bai Liye looked back at his son: "If you are still my child, don't meddle in this matter again." Ah Tang's life and death are in her own hands. ”

Baili Shangliang knelt on the ground in a daze, his red and decadent eyes raised his father's gaze, and he was silent for a long time.

Bai Liye sighed slightly, and his voice was a little lower: "Shang Liang, being a father is a worldly person. If my father asks you now, if I let Ah Tang go, can you swear that I will protect her in this life, regardless of the eyes of the world, and not be afraid of those cynicisms? It's a hard life, can you persevere? ”

In the candle flame that gradually dimmed, Baili Shangliang's drunken and reddened face turned white little by little, and the originally decadent eyes now turned out of bursts of fog that were too thick to see.

Dazed, dazed.

He moved his lips, and his mind quickly flashed the figure of Baili Tang who first appeared in front of him, and the small and childish face looked at him very firmly and told him "I am your sister", and the songs she sang in the dusk and rain were also very good, and ...... Many, many more.

He may have really thought about her, but is that kind of life what he wants?

He doesn't know the way, he really doesn't know the way.

The night was silent for a long time, and his father's voice slowly sounded again: "I don't even dare to answer, it's so cowardly...... Oh, it's really my son. ”

Baili Shangliang's face became more and more pale, and he couldn't see half of his drunkenness except for the smell of wine.

"Father, the child only begs you to spare Ah Tang."

Baili Ye propped up his temples with one hand, rubbed his aching head and said coldly: "The face of the Baili family has been thrown, and the punishment of sinking has been decided, if you have a way, you can save her yourself." He paused, closed his eyes as if tired, and said, "But...... Being a Father will hinder you. ”

It was like a sigh and a threat.

Baili Shangliang raised his eyes sharply.

Bai Liye brushed the wrinkles at the corners of his clothes, and said again in a long voice: "The family affair that was set last year, my son, I am afraid you have not forgotten it, the young lady of the Gongliang family is bent on marrying you, and the dowry has already been sent, so you should not live up to it." ”

Then he turned his eyes away, and Bailiye, who had lived for decades, took steps and walked away along the corridor, and the back of the vicissitudes of life gradually disappeared into the depths of the night.

The near-exhausted candle flame reflected the figure kneeling on the ground, reflecting a clump of black and loose shapes gathered together.

The young lady of the Gongliang family...... Baili Shangliang smiled sarcastically, it turned out that there was still such a family affair.