CHAPTER XLVII

It was late at night when I got home yesterday, and I didn't have time to say a lot of things. When I walked out of the hospital gate www.biquge.info my father asked me, "Ah Zhao, have you thought about the future of you and Gu Shaoqing in the future?" ”

After asking this, my father stopped looking at me and sat straight in the car and hung his head. This was the first time I had seen such a father in many years, the year the Qing Dynasty fell, and the first time I saw him at the age of nine, my father, who had just cut his braids, was wearing a gray robe, tired but not decadent. He is the eldest son of the Hanlin family, and when he was a child, he followed his grandparents in the northwest to suffer cold eyes but was not depressed, and later returned to the capital, and his father, who was dedicated to studying, was admitted to the Beijing Normal Tongwen Museum, and accepted the new influence of Chinese and Western teaching. It was the time when my family was in full swing, and the stormy Qing Dynasty affected every family in the late Qing Dynasty in its precarious form, but my family was thriving because of my grandfather. After his father completed his studies, he also followed his grandfather into the Hanlin Academy to start as a waiter, and then the second uncle entered the Hanlin Academy, and the Jinling Liu Mansion produced three Hanlin at the same time, which was said to be comparable to the glory of the Su father and son in the Song Dynasty. In the hearts of readers, being able to compare the glory of the Su family and his son, even if it is just a metaphor, is enough to be satisfied. As the years go by, many of the bold words of the year, education to save the country have become empty talk because of a change, my grandfather died, the Qing Dynasty perished, and a new era is coming in turmoil. My father went through ups and downs in middle age, returned to Nanjing to do the study of idle clouds and wild cranes, and accompanied my grandmother to enjoy her old age.

Although he was heartbroken when his grandmother passed away three years ago, he also knew that parting in life was inevitable. Later, although he was reluctant, he had no reason to stop his brother from flying solo. Only this time, seeing that the third uncle died unexpectedly, and the servants in the family were killed for no reason, my sister and I had an unclear relationship with the Gu father and son......

My mother said that my father had grieved more than once, but I was not born at that time. Originally, in addition to my sister, I should have a sister-in-law's eldest brother Hua Zhao. He is the longest child of our family "Zhao", he has a bright starry name, his grandfather praised him as "gifted and beautiful, with the style of Cao Zijian", his grandmother loved him as his life, regarded him as the hope of the next generation of the Liu family, but unfortunately the sky was jealous of the talent, the eldest brother died at the age of nine because he fell into the pond and could not be rescued.

As I get older, I can't get a glimpse of my father's expression when he learned of this from my mother's detailed description, but I must have understood the sadness and sorrow of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man.

We always say that the joy of family, the deep love of licking calves, the love and hate of this world, birth, old age, sickness and death, it turns out that this kind of creation makes people.

I don't know what kind of judgment and decision my father made to me and my sister after this incident, but the moment I left yesterday, it was clear that there was a trade-off.

Gu Shaoqing said that Gu Rulin was called by him, and Shike called someone to call him, because it involved the Police Department, so he had to use his father's power and influence to turn the situation around as soon as possible, but what about the black hand hiding behind us? Who is this person who started laying out early in the morning?

The cold winter night is extremely cold, and the waning moon after the wind and snow is like a sharp blunt knife, so cold that it does not have any temperature. Mother couldn't support going to bed early, the second aunt and the second uncle stayed in Yuehuazhai, where they originally lived, only the third aunt was not at ease, and waited in the living room to wait for us to return. From afar, I saw that she was still wearing the half-worn Tianshui blue robe from the morning, with different shades of pink azaleas on the shirt, and somehow, at this moment, I suddenly felt the urge to rush forward and hug her. We weren't close to each other, especially after my grandmother left, and they quarreled about separation, and I had a heartfelt complaint against them, but maybe it was the conversation this morning, or the frequent empathy of accidents, and seeing her waiting there like a real family member, the whole whole person got a little peace from the panic and tremors. After all, I care about the feelings of my family, whether in the past or in the future......

When the third aunt saw us, she hurried forward and wanted to ask, but she cried first.

"What kind of evil has this created, which black-hearted one wants to harm us?"

The father also sighed in a deep voice, with a faint anger surging: "Check, must check, I wanted to endure it for the safety of the children, but now that they have stretched out their hands to Ah Zhao, I have to use all my strength."

The third aunt stopped crying when she heard this, and said, "Big brother, I'm waiting for you to do the same."

"Brother and sister, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

"I suspect that the person who framed Ah Zhao today is the same person who killed Laifu and Xiaoqing."

"Oh? What do you mean by that? ”

There were sticky beads of sweat slipping down my palms, and I quietly clenched my hands and shivered unconsciously.

"I don't know exactly what that is, but I just feel it. Not long after I came home, I heard my sister-in-law say that the family began to have accidents during the time when the Zhusong accident began, first Ah Zhao found that someone used Xitang to pass on family information, and then the sister-in-law did not have time to clean up the murder of Laifu, and then Chen Qing was wronged, Xiaoqing was killed in Xitang, and Han Ma poisoned and planted a false accusation to Ah Zhao, you didn't find that everything was Ah Zhao who first found out that something was wrong and someone was killed, and now it is directly aimed at Ah Zhao, so what does it mean? ”

"It means that the person is the person next to us." Father took a deep breath and frowned, "Brother and sister, since you have already participated, I, as a big brother, simply ask you for something." ”

"Please."

"Since Ah Zhao has been targeted, Xiulou is not going back for the time being, so let her and Ming Zhao live with you temporarily, do you think it's okay? I will arrange for a few more people to stay in the courtyard in case of accidents. ”

"Since my eldest brother trusts me, it is absolutely incumbent on me as an aunt."

So, at the insistence of my father and sister, I, who had been living alone for many years, finally lived with my sister in the third aunt's Hua Courtyard on this bleak and cold night.

After yesterday's wind and snow, Nanjing's winter is gradually solid. Haizhu called in Guangzhou, she had heard Shike say what happened yesterday, although she was in a hurry, there was nothing she could do at the moment. I didn't want her to worry too much, so I simply diverted the topic and asked about the customs of Guangzhou. When Brother Chengyun came back from Guangzhou, he would always bring us some fresh gadgets. The things that we cherish today have been sealed away as we get older, but the friendships we have built up when we are young have endured. This was the only time she could call me before she left the country, and after that, from Hong Kong to Europe, the long ocean crossed between us, and it will be infinitely long.

When Gu Shaoqing arrived, I was sitting in the atrium with my mother to enjoy the flowers, the spirit of these **** was extremely trance-like, and I would always think of the eldest brother who died young, my father and second uncle went to the police station, and the second aunt temporarily returned to her own home. My sister was invited away by Mr. Gu early in the morning, and after yesterday's events, my father has acquiesced to their exchanges, but he has not restricted my freedom. It's just that this scene makes me more and more unable to understand my father's thoughts.