Chapter Twenty-Three: There Is Providence in the Dark
In front of an antique building with a closed gate, a black car was parked on a mossy bluestone slab, and its arrival unexpectedly attracted the curious eyes of adults and children in the closed and backward remote mountain villages. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The six-year-old girl timidly looked up at the woman in the rearview mirror, collided with her gaze coldly, was shocked, retracted her head in pain, and apologized like a stream: "I'm sorry, Mom!" ”
The woman in the driver's seat was upset for some reason, her perfectly repaired willow eyebrows were slightly twisted, and when she saw her such a cowardly and timid appearance, her brows furrowed even tighter, and her bright red nails grabbed the steering wheel, and then she suppressed the urge to hit her, closed her eyes and slowly calmed down her irritable mood, and then said in a cold voice:
"From today onwards, you don't have a mother, call me Mrs. Xu."
The little girl was not surprised, and muttered a "yes." There was no fierce resistance as expected, and her calmness made the woman look in the rearview mirror twice.
She lowered her head and hugged the pink doll, her eyes filled with tears in the woman's blind spot, and she bit her lip flap and stopped making a sound.
The embarrassing atmosphere did not last long, there was a "creak" door knock, and a medicine boy in white came out sideways, holding an oil-paper umbrella unique to the south, politely knocked on the window pane, and asked softly: "Is it a thousand ladies from the north sitting in the car?" Grandpa, please come in. ”
The woman paused, glanced at the little girl in the rearview mirror who was silent, and finally got out of the car.
The little boy was only as high as her chest, and he stood on tiptoe to hold an umbrella for her with some difficulty, and looked a little funny.
After a long while, the little girl didn't come out, and the woman was really angry, and lowered her voice to warn: "I'll only give you one minute to think about whether to come out by yourself or whether I want you to come out!" The word "please" is particularly clear, and it seems to be a bit gnashing.
A minute passed quickly, and the woman really pulled the little girl out as she said, even if she hit the little girl's head with a "bang", she refused to let go.
The woman dragged her out and threw her to the ground, while scolding: "Your father is dead, your sister was lost by me, be realistic, don't think that you are still the eldest lady of the Xia family!" ”
The little boy was stunned by this unexpected scene in front of him, and he couldn't help but wonder what his grandfather said: Are these two really mother and daughter?
The woman seems to have a great hatred for the little girl's father, and now looking at the little girl being beaten silently, she saw the man's figure in her trance, and she was even more angry, but she didn't know that the little girl's forbearance aroused the hatred and ruthlessness hidden in the woman's heart, and she stretched out her hand and hit her for the first time since the little girl was born.
She only saw that the little girl in front of her looked like the man, but she forgot that the little girl had also breathed with her through an umbilical cord, and half of her blood flowed from her body, which was the daughter she gave birth to in October.
"Qianjiao, are you crazy? Tiger poison doesn't eat children. A gray-haired septuagenarian grabbed her wrist and snapped at her to stop her.
The woman smiled bitterly, shook off his restraints, turned her back to him, stood up straight, and sneered at each other in a tough tone: "Heh, surnamed Yun, you still know that tiger poison does not eat children!" ”
The old man realized that his words were a little heavy, his face was painful, his wrinkled face was full of contradictions, he wanted to say something, he moved his lips, and finally chose to be silent as if he had to accept his fate.
The woman looked at the little girl who fell in the mud like a queen, snorted coldly, stepped on the raindrops and went straight back to the black car, throwing down a simple travel bag and walking away.
The old man did not stop her departure, but only told the little boy to take a hand and help the little girl into the house.
The little girl protected the doll in her arms, letting the raindrops hit her face, and the cold rain covered the hot tears, covering her last vulnerability.
That day, the old man touched her head, held the boy's hand tightly with her, and said to her amiably: "From now on, this is your home, you are no longer the daughter of the Xia family, your name is Yun, and you grew up with Brother Yunqiu, okay?" ”
Turning his head again, he pretended to warn the little boy with a tiger face: "Yunqiu, you are eleven years old, you are a little man who stands up to the sky, now that you have a younger sister, you have to look like an older brother, grandpa is old, and the responsibility of protecting your sister will be handed over to you......"
From the moment he held that soft little hand, he panicked, as if he was facing a great enemy, and when he heard the old man say this, the little boy turned his face blushing, did not look at the two of them holding hands, and replied calmly: Yes.
Things are not as simple as the old man thinks, for more than three months, Xiaoyun drew the ground as a prison, locked himself in his own small world, without saying a word, not happy or sad. Yunqiu knew that she had a heart disease, and no one could cure her. But he doesn't give up, he believes that even if Xiaoyun doesn't speak, he works hard, one day Xiaoyun will come out of her airtight castle, forget her sadness, get a new life, and grow up healthy in the sun like a normal child!
He complained about their names in front of her: "I'll tell you a secret, in fact, grandpa is very lazy, I came to this house during the Mid-Autumn Festival, grandpa called me Yunqiu, my sister is after the Dragon Boat Festival, grandpa calls you Yunyun, the name is so arbitrary, is grandpa lazy?" ”
He combed her hair, clumsy, tore off several hairs, and stupidly cried for her: "Sister I'm sorry, my brother is calling for you, so it won't hurt." Don't tell grandpa. ”
He took her to watch a social drama, it was crowded, he lost her, one night looking around in vain, he came home without love, and found Xiaoyun sitting at the dinner table with an empty bowl in his hand, and when he saw him, his voice squeezed out a word: "Hungry!" He was angry and happy, raised the slap above his head to hit her and fell on his face, he helplessly hugged Xiaoyun tightly, and pleaded: "Sister, tell my brother next time I go home!" If you get lost, stand where you are and wait for me. ”
He fought for her for the first time in his life, even if he was outnumbered and had colors on his body, he still stood in front of her, correcting the older children word by word: "Yun is not a wild child, she is my sister, you are not allowed to bully her!" ”
He gave her a handful of dog tail grass, scratched her head embarrassedly, twisted it for a long time and ran away: "This is for my sister." ”
He caught a caterpillar and tried to scare her while she was squatting on the ground and didn't pay attention, but he was scared by the little green snake coiled in her hand.
He knew that she loved to drink honey water, so he had the courage to poke the largest hornet's nest in the town, but she was stung and had no skin, and she couldn't get better for half a month.
Maybe it's really in response to that sentence: sincerity is the golden stone is open.
Yun finally came out of his sadness, but it was on the day Yunqiu's parents picked him up and went abroad.
Grandpa told her that Yunqiu was entrusted by someone to foster him here, and now, his parents have settled down in their careers abroad, and they came to pick him up and come back to see her in the future.
But the clouds don't know how long it will be, tomorrow? Next week? Next month? The second year? Or longer...... In short, until Yun died of a heart attack at the age of twenty-two, she never saw her Yunqiu brother again.
Fate is so wonderful, what the cloud is trying to keep, always only in the end does he understand that it is just a firework, and it is empty in an instant; She never thought about fighting for it, but it inadvertently integrated into her life, and when she found out that she was used to dependence, the man withdrew from the curtain and became a regret.
The Buddha said: This is a whirling world, whirlwind is regret, no regrets, no matter how much happiness you give, you will not experience happiness.
When she discovers that Yunqiu has become her regret, she finally learns to experience happiness.
Even if her grandfather told her that her mother had given birth to a younger brother, Yun was able to smile and bless her. Even though he turned around and burst into tears.
Even if those boys pointed their noses and scolded her in front of her that she was a wild child that no one wanted, Yun could laugh it off and ignore it. Even if I was alone in the middle of the night and cried.
Even if everyone praises her as the most gifted medical genius, Yun can humbly excuse herself in the compliment. Even at four o'clock in the morning, the begonia flowers did not sleep.
In this way, after Yunqiu left, Yun has been living happily, with the happiness he left behind.
A year of getting along, whether it is long or short, she thinks that Yunqiu is the deepest memory in her heart, as long as she doesn't turn it over, it will always be dusty. But this is not the case, she narrowly escaped on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the white-clothed young man she saw in a drowsy manner was like a young Yunqiu brother, especially those gentle eyes, one look at the spring flowers, refreshing, and another look, just willing to sink for him and drown in his sea.
But Yun was really tired at that time, he only remembered those eyes, and his impression of him was too vague, and he couldn't remember how to remember these days when he woke up.
Yun beat his head decadently, and sighed on the stone table with a sad face, is it really the will of heaven in the dark?
"Miss, why bother yourself, don't worry, you'll always remember." Agarwood shook a fan on the side to repel mosquitoes, and couldn't help but worry when she saw her so masochistic.
As soon as she remembered that the young lady had been sent back that night, her face was pale and lifeless, and she was afraid for a while, but now that the young lady had finally rested in bed for a few days and survived, it was no big deal, and she had to wait more carefully.
"Agarwood, think about it again, who sent me back that night?" Yun herself was not impressed, so she hit the idea on Agarwood, she should always remember.
Agarwood bit her lip and twisted her eyebrows and thought about it again and again, and finally shook her head: "Actually, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the first person to find Miss was Steward Liu, he said that someone knocked on the door, and when he went out to look, he found Miss lying at the door, so he called the slave maid to take care of Miss." ”
"What about Banxia? Still haven't found it? "It's been almost ten days since I came back from the clouds, and I still haven't seen Banxia, and I feel faintly uneasy.
Agarwood shook her head, she also wondered, but there were rumors from some broken mothers-in-law in Xinglin Garden that Miss had always had a grudge against being trapped in the peach forest, and took the opportunity to take Banxia out of the house and sell it. Those people are reasonable, and she is the only one in the entire Xinglin Yuan who doesn't believe it.
Yun sighed, remembering what happened on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, she had to plan for the worst, if Banxia fell into the hands of the surnamed Shen, she would not be able to spare him!
"Why didn't the two of them come back?" The clouds are thinking about the day, it's time to come back, isn't there an accident too? Her four maids are all treasures, and they can't do without anyone!
"Someone brought a letter, saying that they would be able to rush back at the end of the month, but it was only three or two days, and the young lady was relieved." Agarwood Yingying said with a smile, Miss didn't say it, but in her heart, she valued the four of them.
It's not that she is not relieved, she felt that it was too hasty to make this decision at that time, and it was a little inappropriate to let the two girls' families go far away, and on the second day when Yun woke up, she sent someone to the old iron head to bring back the silver needle and scalpel as promised, and now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, but don't have any accidents.
I sat in the cloud for a long time, and I was really bored, so I yawned and stretched, and I was a little sleepy.
Agarwood thoughtfully accepted the fan and suggested softly: "Miss, go to sleep first, the slave is waiting here, and I will wake you up when Steward Liu comes back." ”
Shui Shengyi is strange in fact, she asked Liu Yun to inquire about the news in Jiangdu City these days, but she has not returned for a long time, she sent Chen Pi back early this morning to bring a letter, saying that she rushed back before lunch, this is past noon, and she has not come back, Yun is waiting in a hurry, if it is not for Agarwood to stop her, she is estimated to have arrived in Jiangdu City at this time.
The clouds were indeed a little sleepy, so I took a nap under the wisteria trellis.
Liu Yun's face was solemn when he returned, and what he said surprised Yunyun.