Chapter 37: Begonias
In the evening, Gao Yang sat in the study on the side of the main room. Before dinner, he sat down by himself. But as soon as I raised my eyes, I saw the begonia flower.
Because it is properly pruned, the fiery red petals and emerald green leaves blend together, and it is heartbreakingly beautiful under the sunset.
In his mind, he was the bright girl again, and for a few years, he regarded that girl as his future wife, and he respected her every thought and seriously experienced her. Until, when his friend ran to tell the emperor that he was in love with Man'er.
He didn't see her again when he came home that day, and that day, he sat at his desk and looked at the begonia flower.
At that time, she had just come to study, and she heard Man'er say that when a new person enters the family, a tree will be planted. When Man'er was born, her parents planted kapok for her, hoping that she could be like kapok without fading or wilting, even if she left the world, she would be as magnificent as a hero.
"Big brother, what about you, what kind of flower are you?" That day, she leaned on her desk and asked, at that time, she was only five or six years old, right?
"The men of the Gao family all grow pines and cypresses, no exceptions." Man'er replied for him.
"Then do you like pine and cypress?" The girl turned to look at him again.
At that time, they were actually still young, and for the first time, someone asked him if he liked pines and cypresses. Of course he should have said he liked it, but in the end, he didn't. Because at that time, he really didn't know if he liked it. Besides, how can a child's heart and boring pine and cypress be liked by children.
"And what do you like?" The girl felt that she had an answer and hurriedly asked a second question.
He froze again, what did he like? No one had ever asked him this question, what did he like? It seems that all the qiē are chosen by his parents for him, whether he likes or dislikes, no one has asked him, and then he takes it for granted that the men of the Gao family should be like this.
The next day, the girl planted a small begonia on the edge of the study, and did not dare to plant it in the middle, for fear that her father would be angry, so she dared to plant it in the corner, but when digging the tree pit, she ran back and forth with great difficulty, and Kubi did it, facing his desk.
Later, his sister entered the palace, and he also got married, and he didn't tell his wife, the story of the begonia.
His wife sometimes thinks about whether to move, but he didn't let it, he only let the subordinates carefully prune, although his study has occasionally changed over the years, but the position of the desk has not changed, reading tired of reading, as soon as he looks up, the begonia is quietly staying in the same place.
He didn't ask the girl, "Is this what you like?" Do you know that begonias are also known as 'acacia grass' and 'broken intestine flower'? ”
It turns out that all the fruits have long been planted with causes. The girl inadvertently planted their ending in his heart.
"Daddy!" Yaqing came in with tea, they didn't have time to talk for a day, just Yaqing took her brother's expenses to look at the collection she moved back from the Liu family, and she came to see her father.
"Thank you!" Gao Yang took the tea and smiled at his daughter.
"Daddy!" Yaqing was disgusted, no matter how much daughter gave her father a cup of tea, she had to say thank you.
"Seriously, how did you think to change that letter? How do you know there is that letter? This is also what Gao Yang wants to talk to his daughter, and he doesn't even want to sue his son about this.
"My aunt said that no matter what my cousin sends, he will destroy it." This is the statement she thought of yesterday, her aunt is no longer there, and there are some things that cannot be verified.
Gao Yang nodded, he believed that when the emperor died, he and his sister had met, and Gao Man had said something similar. They have lost the opportunity, and the Gao family has been self-defended for two hundred years, and has nothing to do with the military at all.
If Lao Qi wants to get justice, it is almost impossible. There are some things, don't hit the stone with an egg, but if the Gao family is here, there is still a glimmer of life. They have a clear stream in their hands, they have the edict of the emperor, and they are temporarily dormant for the sake of future counterattacks.
He lowered his head and sighed softly, and his brain was automatically made up, and the secret box in the study was also the one that his sister sued her daughter, and he lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and looked up again.
Did she do it on purpose? It was planted in the corner outside the outer study, and that angle was his desk, as long as he looked up, he could see it. Now she is planted in the middle, no matter which room he lives in, as long as he is by the window, when he looks up, he can see it. She has to remind herself all the time, has there ever been a person who broke her heart because of lovesickness?
"Is Daddy's wish to teach and educate people?" Yaqing saw her father's distraction, she understood the flower language of begonias, otherwise she would not subconsciously ask her father during the day, how old was the eldest princess at that time.
Just Hu Mama has already told her, when the eldest princess planted begonias, she was five or six years old, it was also autumn, the flowers were blooming, she found the most beautiful one in the imperial garden and dug it up, and moved to the Gao family.
Yaqing could only sigh lightly after hearing this, so it was doomed, and it was destined that there would be no possibility between her father and the eldest princess. Now seeing her father's amazement, she couldn't help but recall her father's attention, she didn't want to see her father's heart, it turned out that there was another person besides her mother.
"That's your grandfather's wish, he often said that the best thing the Gao family does is to teach and educate people, so that I don't want to be flashy and get out as soon as possible. Be a true reader who is educated and classless. Gao Yang chuckled.
"And then?" Yaqing felt a little strange, if it was her grandfather's wish, why did the eldest father build such a academy for his father?
"What happened?" Gao Yang looked back at his daughter, and for a while, he didn't understand what his daughter wanted to say.
"Daddy doesn't like to teach, does he?" Yaqing looked at her father expectantly, she hoped that the eldest princess was wrong, and her father didn't like to do this.
"No, I like to teach, but the Gao family can't have a teacher anymore. Your grandfather has done it to the extreme, and if you teach it in the future, it can only make people feel that the Gao family is ambitious. The Gao family has come to this point, and there is no way back, so your grandfather asked your father to do the imperial history. Taizu is famous and lawful, and he does not kill the official, as long as his father does not commit the crime of great rebellion, no one can do anything to his father. At least the Gao family will not be extinguished in the hands of his father. Gao Yang smiled bitterly.
A young girl once asked him, do you really want to teach? At that time, he had just gained fame, and at that time, the crown prince and his sister, who were not yet emperors, had not yet shown affection.
He said the same thing to her, and the girl laughed and said, "Then make a royal history, and when you are forty years old, you will not resign, and no one will dare to kill a retired imperial history." At that time, I bought a small yard, taught only the smartest children, and no one would take you. ”
He smiled that day and said, "Okay, when the forty-year-old child should be able to make the trip, it will be good to retire to teach and tease his grandson at that time." ”
That day, there was her in his dream, and I believe she also knew that his dream included her. She sat beside him, quietly looking at the begonias outside the window, at that time, their hearts should be full of warmth.
That's why there is this house? It was a retirement home she had prepared for herself, and even though they later married, she ended up making one.
PS: I think I wrote this chapter very beautifully, and I was moved by myself, the two of them can't be together in their lives, they marry each other, and they can never see each other again. But with each other, there is still a slight entanglement. Of course, you can also dislike it, it's okay!