Chapter 2: The Past—Smoke and Clouds
"Yes, sister-in-law, let's drink some porridge first."
couldn't help but be stunned, Liu Rong heard her nephew's voice, and suddenly felt uncomfortable, took a step back, wiped away her tears in disguise, and was shocked to find that she and her sister-in-law were not only out of control, but the embarrassed appearance was also bumped into by her nephew, and her face suddenly burned red.
Do people still need to eat until they die? Or hot food?
An Ruyi passively let her son lead her to the table, looking at the bowl of porridge on the table that was still steaming, her brain was almost confused, she was completely overwhelmed, and she didn't know what to say. Sitting at the table in a dream, until the bowl of rice porridge stuffed into his hand exuded an attractive rice fragrance, wrapped around the tip of his nose, An Ruyi felt a deep hunger enveloping her, and her whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.
Probably because hungry people are particularly incapable of resisting the aroma of food, at this moment, An Ruyi can't think of anything else in his heart, and he can't help but pick up the bowl of porridge. The habit she has developed over the years has made her never forget the etiquette of eating even when she is extremely hungry, and although she eats elegantly but extremely quickly.
A bowl of porridge quickly bottomed out, and An Ruyi felt that she had eased up a little. Only then did she have the energy to look at the smaller version of her eldest son, her eyes widened, and before she could take a closer look, she saw her son with red eyes, almost rudely snatched the bowl from her hand, and hurriedly dropped a sentence, "I'll go and fill another bowl." "I ran away in a hurry.
Liu Rong looked at her sister-in-law's stunned appearance, and thought that she was uncomfortable for the same reason as her, and she couldn't help but feel a little heartache in her heart. Both sad and happy, "Sister-in-law, don't be like that in the future, what if you don't take care of yourself and let Huai Ran and Yue'er?" It's good that nothing really happened this time, if, if you ......."
Liu Rong said and said, but she was glad and began to be angry again, and the tears that had just been stopped so easily were gushing again, and the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and she lost the respect and meekness she usually had when she faced her eldest sister-in-law, like an angry little lion, "I know that my sister-in-law actually doesn't regard me as a family member in her heart, and she is just a face-saving love for me, and she is hypocritical." I've always taken my sister-in-law and sister-in-law, and my sister is general, so I turned out to be amorous. So the family has no money and no rice, and I really can't get by, and my sister-in-law Ling Ke starved to death and didn't want to let me know...... Treat me as an outsider, but we still grew up together since childhood, and the relationship for so many years has been fake......"
Uh-
An Ruyi was stunned and watched her sister-in-law, who had always been good-tempered, and began to go crazy, and for some reason she felt a burst of weakness in her heart, so that she didn't dare to refute a word, only dared to accompany her smiling face.
Why is this scene so familiar? It's almost exactly the same as the scene I remember decades ago.
Rong Niang's temper is excellent on weekdays, she is gentle and gentle to everyone, as long as she doesn't really anger her, she can do almost anything, and the only time in her life she loses control and gets angry with herself is only once.
An Ruyi thought incredibly, now that everything has reappeared, isn't she dead but back to the past?
The spring rain in February and March was dripping, and it was endless, wet and cold, and the stickiness was uncomfortable. Even the wind in the air carried a trace of moisture, damp. It's actually very annoying.
But An Ruyi likes this kind of weather the most.
Once my father said that there is a kind of "wet clothes, apricot blossom rain, blowing cold willow wind." The poetry of the word.
So she also likes apricot blossoms. Sitting under the eaves of the porch while embroidering while watching the apricot blossom trees in the small courtyard falling flowers with the wind and rain, An Ruyi has a sense of relaxation that temporarily forgets all her troubles, and her ears seem to hear the gentle voice of her father.
But today, she still sat under the porch with an embroidery job in her hand, but most of the time she was in a daze.
Watching the apricot blossoms fall, he repeatedly recited these two verses in his heart, trying to calm his mood but without the effect of the past. I didn't feel the same sense of relief in my heart, but I was obsessed with thinking that apricot blossoms could also be eaten. I was so hungry that I almost died, why didn't I remember to pick the apricot blossoms in the small courtyard and eat them?
How could such a good thing as being reborn fall on her?
In so many lonely days, so many midnight dreams, she also fantasized about how good it would be if God could let her go back to the past and start again. But now, after the initial surprise, she is more confused, and she still has the feeling that she is in a dream.
If she really had to do it all over again, what would she do? Can she change anything? In these almost two lifetime poorest years, do you still have to rely on the sister-in-law and his wife to rack their brains and shrink their clothes and diet to help her get through?
It is said that it is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, and it is difficult to move from luxury to simplicity. After more than 20 years of pampering, she suddenly returned to many years ago overnight, and that unreal feeling made her feel very awkward.
But she is not afraid of hard life. After experiencing it, she realized that if people lose themselves, they will live a rich life more tormented than a hard life.
It's just that she has lived such a lack of food and clothing, but she doesn't want her Huai Ran and Yue'er to experience it again, even if everything in the previous life doesn't exist for the two children now.
Since God has given her the opportunity to do it again, then she must change everything in this life and find ways to give them the best she can give.
But how?
It's better to fill your stomach with ideas before you can have the energy to think about anything else.
The husband has only been gone for two years, and according to the situation in the previous life, he will have to wait seven years before he can hear back.
Seven years!
Although the days are a little longer, but if there is no buffer of these seven years, she really doesn't know how to face him, she hid in the small courtyard in her last life and didn't want to see people, why wasn't she afraid that he would avoid him?
The contradiction of loving to the extreme, hating to the extreme, resenting to the extreme, but thinking of the extreme, made her choose to hide herself and never see anyone.
Once reborn, let everything have a chance to start over, her heart is still worried, she doesn't even know what kind of mood she should have at this moment when she returns to the past and knows everything in the future? Should we be glad that we are not only alive, but also many years younger? Or is it desperate that I won't be able to change anything, and I will have to go through such unbearable days all over again?
Reluctantly restraining herself, looking down at the purse embroidered in her hand, fortunately for so many years, because she didn't want to let herself think too much about her idleness, she never put down this craft, and even had a famous teacher to teach her in the days when she was shrinking in the courtyard.
Now the only thing to pay attention to is to make the needlework look clumsy again, and then slowly return to proficiency little by little, and then to refinement.
After slowly embroidering a few stitches, I couldn't help but look up at the apricot blossom tree in the small courtyard again.
This is the season of apricot blossoms.
Apricot blossoms, spring rain, Jiangnan.
What a familiar beauty this is, when she was a child, her father would often take advantage of his free time to teach her to read and write, and when he was interested, he would chant poetry, paint, and even take her to fish in the rain in a coat.
So she has loved rain since she was a child, and when she listens to the sound of rain, she seems to have no worries.
Especially after her father's early death, every rainy season, she would recall her father's love for her, in fact, when she was very young, she knew that her father and mother were not her biological parents.
It is said that she was abducted by a kidnapper and was about to die and was discarded, but it happened that her father and mother met her and picked it up and raised her. The memory of being a child is actually very vague for a long time, and everyone thinks that she doesn't remember anything, but she actually vaguely remembers her biological father, and only remembers that when she woke up, her father and mother disappeared, and then she didn't remember anything.
She could only vaguely remember that her mother once hugged her and gently called her "Ruyi" in a very gentle and gentle voice, but as time went by, her mother's face became more and more blurred.
Later, as her husband arrived in the capital, she never saw the unique scenery of the south of the Yangtze River again. I gradually forgot that I like rain