XIII. Between the world
"Girl, are you awake?"
"Where is this? What is it? Surrounded by the smell of grass from the feces of unknown animals, Li Qi woke up and found himself lying on a simple bed, covered with a coarse cloth quilt, surrounded by a crowd of people, dressed in half-used cotton and linen clothes (Chapter 103 of the Legend of the World). Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
"Girl, what's your name?"
"Li Qi."
"Where are you from?"
"I ...... I don't remember. β
"Where is your home? What about family? β
"Home, I don't have a home, and I don't have a family."
Really don't remember? Really don't remember? Or do you not want to remember it at all, and choose to escape and forget?
"Seeing that you are so well dressed, your skin is so white, your hands are so tender, and you look like the daughter of a good family, how can you be a person without a home? It seems that your family must love you very much. β
"I ...... I don't remember. β
"There's no home, there's no home anymore, that's not my home, he's not my family, not before, and not in the futureβ"
"Maybe you forgot, you know? Yesterday the tengu eclipse, the wind blew, and you were blown over like this, and fell on the haystack on our ridge......"
In this family, an aunt babbled and said, this is a rich peasant, surnamed Zhang, some land in the family, in addition to their own farming, the rest is rented to hired farmers to farm, the family is quite solid, but even this situation, in Li Qi's view, it is also simple, this woman who speaks is only in her thirties, but she looks like an aunt, like the world, these poor people grow old and die quickly, so they often marry wives and have children at the age of fourteen or fifteen, she has two in-laws, two sons, and her husband has just died. Including the little uncle's family of nearly ten people in total, this big family Li Qi is the first time to see it, humble and small, even in Li Qi's eyes, they are like ants, but their lives are full of warmth, just like the human family that the mourning general said.
"Sister, you're a fragrant roe deer." Auntie's eldest son now looks like Li Qi is a few months old, since Li Qi fell from the sky, he is the most excited, he is the eldest son of the family, the rural people are good for the child to raise, the name is very cheap, and now it is also the age of marrying a wife, because the family in the village is quite solid, and he is the only talent in the village, so the girls in the village are vying to marry him, but his eyes have grown to the sky, the girls in the village are all tanned, their teeth are not even, and they can't even find a makeshift one, and now their father is dead again, I have to keep filial piety for three years, so the family wants to prepare one first, and then marry three years later, no, there is really one from the sky.
"I'm a snake." Li Qi smiled bitterly, there was a strong smell of night on her body, but in addition to the demon, the other creatures smelled the fragrance, which made Li Qi involuntarily think that even if he had left and had nothing to do with the night anymore, he still had his smell on his body, which was so indelible.
"My sister is sad, isn't she?" Goudan said that he liked Li Qi very much, because Li Qi's skin was very white, although it was not as beautiful as a fairy, but it was also a rare sign, and the people in this village looked like fairies, at that moment, Goudan finally had an urge to marry Li Qi.
"Because I don't have a home, I don't have a family!"
Looking at Li Qi's lost appearance, Goudan was very distressed, and hurriedly comforted: "My sister doesn't have a home, this is your home, and we are your family." β
"Fake, no blood relationship, everything is fake."
"Fool, if you marry me, you will be my person, if the girl gets married, it has nothing to do with her mother's family, and her surname will follow her husband, then of course you are a member of the Zhang family, your child is his mother, and if he dies, he will be buried with me, how can it be okay?" Dogan blurted out and said.
"Life is the Zhang family, death is the ghost of the Zhang family." Li Qi said as if he had just woken up from a dream, "This life is a family, a real family, is it really possible, is it really possible?" β
"Of course!" Goudan said excitedly, "Grandpa, grandma, mother, uncle, aunt, I have decided, I want to marry Li Qi!" β
"Oops, the dog has finally opened his mind!"
"Great......"
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The family was as happy as if it were the New Year.
"Okay, after three years of filial piety, Li Qi will also have a monthly letter, just in time to marry you......" The aunt bit the dog's ear and said with a smile.
Three years later, the dog was eighteen and Li abandoned fifteen.
"Li Qi is eighteen years old now, why don't you have a monthly letter, it won't be a stone girl, right?"
"Wait, wait......"
Ten years have passed, Goudan is twenty-five, Li Qi is sixteen, that year Goudan was lifted, became a small official in the county, and there was an endless stream of door-to-door proposals, forced by the pressure of the family, Goudan was forced to marry a concubine at the age of twenty-eight, but the position of his wife, he has been left to Li Qi, and he firmly believes that he can wait until the day when Li Qi.
Twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye, Goudan is thirty-five, Li has abandoned seventeen, Goudan's concubine has given birth to one son after another, the concubine thinks that she has a son, and she will naturally be corrected, but the inexplicable position of the vacant wife deeply stings the concubine's heart, although she is said to be a concubine, and she is not badly treated as a concubine, but after all, she is also the daughter of a petty official, why is she under people, let alone a person who does not exist at all, maybe the woman is dead, maybe the woman is the dregs wife of the dog, a peasant woman, A humble man.
Jealousy, deep jealousy, and finally one day, the woman, who had been silent, spoke:
"Husband, whose position is your wife? Why haven't I seen her yet? Whether she's gone anymore. β
"No, I'm waiting for her." Dogan said.
"Who the hell is that?" The concubine and her curiosity.
"The one you know, it's Li Qi, she has already said that she wants to marry me, I'm waiting for her to grow up." Dogan said naturally.
"Li Qi!" The concubine laughed when she heard this, "So you are waiting for Li Qi?!" Then you can't afford to wait for the rest of your life! β
"Why?!" Goudan was very angry, he didn't expect that the woman he had married for many years was also a jealous woman.
"After all, Li Qi is a disciple of the clan, and he only grew one year old in ten years, yes, there are many old husbands and young wives now, and it is not impossible to see how many years there is, but after that, we are ordinary people, and our life span is more than seventy years at most, and you will be buried in forty years at most, and she is only twenty-one years old."
"Twenty-one!" Goudan's heart was shocked, this question, he had never thought of it, it was too cruel, too cruel for himself.
"Then I can go with you." The concubine said almost proudly, "And the young Li Qi has become a **, she has to be widowed for the rest of her life, even if she remarries, she is a second-hand goods, and she will live miserably for a few hundred years, or she can give up her clan identity and change from a few hundred years old to dozens of years old." β
"Hundreds of years! How many decades old? Goudan's heart was miserable, he sighed and said: "'The morning fungus does not know the obscurity, and the cockroach does not know the spring and autumn. In Li Qi's eyes, our lives are like ants to her, a completely different person from me, and marrying me can only be burdened by me. β
Finally one day, Li Qi's monthly letter finally came.
"Brother, brother, I can marry you! I can finally marry you! Li Qi happily ran to the dog, twenty years have passed, she has finally waited for this day, she is justifiably going to become a member of the Zhang family! She can finally have a real home.
"But I'm old...... "Dog Dan stroked Li Qi's face and said sadly, this is the first time he has touched Li Qi, how many years have passed, and he is looking forward to the arrival of this day.
"Why?" Li Qi looked at the dog egg differently, the young man who used to be, but now he has gray hair on his sideburns, twenty years have passed, she is only seventeen, and he is already thirty-five, at that moment, she has the same heartache as the dog egg.
"I'm an ordinary person, I'll get old soon, and then I'll die soon, and you're different, you're a clan, in our hearts, you're a human being, you're a completely different person from me, you should have your own life, and not be dragged down by me and my family."
"Different people, his home, yes, it has nothing to do with me...... Li Qi's tears hit the ground drop by drop, in order to find a home, in order to find her own home, she had to get up early and be greedy for darkness when she was out of the night, in order to be able to officially become a member of this ragy family, she recklessly contracted all the housework, fetching water, chopping wood, cooking, weaving, except for going to the field, she learned to do everything, she could do everything, she used to have ten fingers not touching the spring water, but now her hands are also thickened, and she has become a peasant woman, What is she for!
Li Qi doesn't love dogs at all, and he doesn't know what love is, and he said overnight that a combined life without love is incomplete, but she would rather choose an incomplete life, stay here, and marry him without hesitation, in order to have a home to take her in.
"Don't cry," the dog wiped away Li Qi's tears, "I ruined your youth, I don't want to hurt you for the rest of my life, you are still my good sister, you can live in this family for as long as you want, brother will find you a better one." β
Who is ruining whose youth? Who was tired by whom and almost got to have a child, originally his child should be as old as Li Qi now. Since he can't marry him, Li Qi has no face to stay in this family-
"My parents have forsaken me, God has forsaken me, even mortals have forsaken me, am I destined to be an outcast forever like my own name?"
Li Qi thought to herself, she looked at the west, passed through the big grassland, climbed over the snow-capped mountains, there is the legendary ancient country - Xuanyuan, I heard that there is a place where there is no strife, the people there are kind and enthusiastic, many people there are clans, Li Qi is going there, she is not big, maybe there, she can find her parents, find her real home......