671 Fifty years of waiting
Early in the morning of the second day, Hua Tian took a car to visit Dufu.
There was an old woman waiting at the gate of Du's house, dressed in luxurious clothes, and she was not inferior to the lady in charge of a small family. When she saw Hua Tian coming, she hurriedly stepped forward to lead Hua Tian to sit in a sedan chair.
The sedan chair didn't walk long before it stopped, saying that it had arrived at Old Man Du's garden.
Jiang Da Shao's wife Du Shi and several young daughters-in-law were waiting at the gate of the garden, saw Hua Tian, and hurriedly came forward to greet him, and introduced Hua Tian out.
Everyone knew what Hua Tian was doing when he came today, so he didn't delay much, and soon led Hua Tian to see Old Man Du.
Old Man Du was seriously ill and couldn't get up, but when he saw Hua Tian in the bedroom, he changed his clothes and was taken to lie on the couch in the inner room.
Hua Tian was taken inside, and he could still smell the strong smell of medicine.
Her brows couldn't help frowning, now that she was double, it was very uncomfortable to smell the medicine.
When Du Shi saw this, he hurriedly ordered someone to bring a screen to cover Old Man Du's couch, and opened the window again, so that the wind outside the window blew in, blowing away a lot of medicinal smell.
Seeing this, Hua Tian became more and more fond of Du Shi in his heart, and sat down on the small stool in front of Old Man Du's bed.
This old man, when he attacked and killed her before, seemed to be in good spirits, but when he saw it at the palace banquet later, he didn't see a decline, so for some reason, he suddenly became seriously ill.
She looked at the old man Du on the soft couch and sighed in her heart, but in two or three years, this old man will be too old, and he looks so weak that he seems to be out of breath at any time.
"You are her disciple......" Old Man Du looked like he was about to die, but spoke. It's quite fluent, and there is no miserable situation that spit out word by word.
Hua Tian nodded, "Well, I am a disciple of Mother Lan, and when I was five years old, she followed me, which means that she brought me up." She and I are like mother and daughter. ”
Old Man Du's old cloudy eyes flickered, and he looked at Hua Tian, "After you met her." How is she doing? ”
"Except for the first few years, a bit of terring. It's been fine since then......" Hua Tian said thoughtfully.
Old Man Du nodded, as if sighing, "You are a young lady of the family, and she follows you." It's always better than being outcast. In the tone. With remorse and sadness.
"My generation. The Hua family has declined, and I am not a young lady of the family. However, Mother Lan's life is indeed better than being in the rivers and lakes. Hua Tian said a little against his will. Mother Lan is on the rivers and lakes, although she is not valued by the officials, she is free and happy.
It's just that now that Old Man Du is like this, she doesn't want to say that it's too real and makes him too sad.
Old Man Du sighed, and said to the Du family and the young daughters-in-law next to him, "You all go out, and Liu Silan will accompany you here." ”
When Du Shi and several young daughters-in-law heard this, they quickly withdrew.
For a while, only Old Man Du, Hua Tian and the old woman who had just brought Hua Tian in at the gate were left.
Old Man Du coughed, Silan hurriedly stepped forward and held the spittoon to him, and when he finished coughing, he wiped his face with a wet handkerchief and covered the spittoon.
"I've been looking for Lan for fifty years, and when I was young, I consoled myself that there was still a lot of time, and I would always find her. But she didn't want to, fifty years have passed, we are all old, but she still doesn't want to see me. ”
Old Man Du said very sadly, and there was deep nostalgia in his tone, as if he remembered everything that happened when he was young and frivolous.
Hua Tian listened, and his heart also became sad.
Looking for someone, looking for 50 years, what kind of mood is it? Will he be in tears during the search? On a sunny day, would he wish in a trance that the past was just a dream and that person was still by his side?
However, no matter how sad she was, she couldn't feel that feeling.
With sadness, with hope, but day by day despair.
"My Du family, the Xiao family of Jianlan, and the Mu family, the three of us are world friends, and we have grown up together since we were children. We are not only a scholarly family, but also have profound martial arts. The set of palm techniques you once used to make me recognize is the Xiao family, I have fought with Jianlan since I was a child, and I am very familiar with this set of boxing techniques. ”
Old Man Du slowly talked about the past, Hua Tian moved, and soon became at ease again.
Since the old man wants to talk, then she just listens.
"I'm the same age as Jianlan and Mu Rou, and I've been good since I was a child. When I grew up, my father and mother were a little worried, and they didn't know which girl to marry for me. Seeing that Lan is strong and Mu is weak, I don't know which one I like when I was a teenager. ”
He seems to like both, and both are reluctant to give up. But the two families are similar to his family, and it is impossible for him to marry both of them.
Xiao saw that Lan had a strong temperament, and she didn't like him to be so hesitant, but she still didn't say anything in the end, she liked him and hoped to marry him. However, she is too strong and often quarrels with him.
Mu Rouzi is very weak, as if made of water, what he says, she regards as a holy decree, and will never disobey him. Seeing that he hesitated, Mu Rou's tears would flow down like a stream.
Because of his hesitation, Mu Rou often cried sadly, while Xiao Jianlan wanted to quarrel with him forcefully, hoping that he would make a choice.
He was caught in the middle, in great pain.
But everyone is old, so he can't help it. In the end, he made a choice, married the Xiao family, and married Xiao Jianlan.
Mu Rou learned that she cried to death and fell ill. The people of the Mu family had to beg to come to the door and let him go to see Mu Rou and comfort Mu Rou.
The three families are good at all, so there is not much defense between men and women. He saw Mu Rou, who had a sick face and was weak, and was deeply shocked.
Mu Rou cried and said to him that she was willing to be his concubine and begged him not to leave her. If she didn't have him, she would have died.
Beauty tears have been difficult for people to bear since ancient times. He couldn't bear it either, so he found Xiao Jianlan and discussed it with her. The three of them have been good since they were young, let Mu Rou intervene between them, and Jianlan should not object.
It's a pity that Xiao Jianlan objected and scolded him bloody. She had a strong face. Another look of disappointment.
And he was also disappointed, why was she unwilling to accept Mu Rou? Mu Rou's background is comparable to her, and she is willing to be a concubine, isn't that enough? This was what he thought when he was young, and he felt that Jianlan was too strong and too unsympathetic.
Xiao Jianlan is strong and strong, even if he is alone, he will definitely be able to live well. And Mu Rou is too weak, she will definitely die early without him.
The two women have different personalities. made him can't help but favor Mu Rou.
So the quarrel was fierce. He said unscrupulously that he wanted to withdraw from his relatives and marry Mu Rou.
Xiao Jianlan was not a willing to give in, and he was stunned for a moment when he said that he would quit. There is no compromise either. Let him make a choice on the spot. Or marry her. No concubines. Either quit her relatives and leave her home immediately.
He left, holding his back and walking out of Xiao Jianlan's garden step by step.
The autumn wind blows behind him. He vaguely heard the sound of the autumn wind whimpering, but he was angry and didn't look back.
At that time, he was full of anger, and he didn't expect that this would be the last time he would see Xiao Jianlan in his youth. From then on, he went to heaven and earth, and he could never find her again.
Then overnight, something happened to the Xiao family, his parents broke off the relationship with the Xiao family, and the Mu family also broke off the relationship with the Xiao family.
The Xiao family was besieged overnight, and then quickly sent to the frontier.
He was crazy and wanted to find Xiao Jianlan, but he was locked up. When he was released, the Xiao family had already been sent to the frontier.
He went to the frontier and only found a few young side branches of the Xiao family. They said that Xiao Jianlan's parents and younger siblings, as well as their parents, all died of illness on the way. And Xiao Jianlan, who buried the youngest sister, fled.
After she left, many officers and soldiers chased after her, but they did not chase anyone back. They spent all the valuable things on their bodies to inquire, only to know that Xiao Jianlan had strayed into the territory of the thief, and they thought they were dead.
He looked crazy and found those officers and soldiers, and went crazy to kill the thief's territory, but he couldn't find Xiao Jianlan, and he couldn't even get news of Xiao Jianlan.
He didn't want to believe that he had wandered around that area for a long time, but he had found nothing.
His and Mu Rou's wedding date is approaching, and the two brothers come to pressure him to go home and get married.
He was pressed back like a beggar, but he didn't want to get married. Xiao saw that Lan was gone, and he no longer had the intention of getting married.
Father and brother beat and scolded, mother cried, Mu Rou cried, Mu family's parents reasoned with him, but he didn't say a word, he just didn't want to get married.
When his family saw that he no longer spoke, they thought he was crazy and did not dare to force him.
Mu Rou waited for him for two years, saying that she would wait for him all the time and marry him.
But two years later, he was willing to speak, and the first thing he did was to tell Mu Rou that he would not marry her. He just wants to marry Xiao Jianlan, the Xiao Jianlan who was let down by him.
Mu Rou cried and forced each other to die, but he was unmoved. He already knew that after he fell out with Xiao Jianlan, Mu Rou said something to Xiao Jianlan when he went to Xiao's house.
Mu Rou is a weak beauty, but she is full of spikes, and it is not the man who stabs her, but the woman who is her enemy. After Xiao Jianlan was injured by him, she was stabbed all over her body.
He worked hard to study and become a scholar, and his family could no longer force him.
He thought that his life was so long, he would definitely be able to find Xiao Jianlan, and when the time came, no matter how old they were, he would definitely marry her.
Mu Rou stubbornly has always been reluctant to get married.
She said that since he was waiting for Xiao Jianlan, then Mu Rou would wait for him to see who could survive whom.
However, fifty years later, everyone lost.
What they have survived with each other is just a white-headed year.
He once thought that there were two women, one strong and the other weak. The strong one can hurt and let down with impunity, while the weak one needs to be well cared for and accompanied.
At one time he thought that even without him, the strong one would still go through every day with a smile. And the weak one, without him, he will not be able to live.
But no one thought that the strong one chose to disappear. From then on, no one knew whether she was smiling strongly, or crying sadly.
The only thing he could think of was that in the late autumn when the cold wind blew, and the days and nights when the first snow fell, the strong Xiao Jianlan, when he buried his father, his mother, his younger brother, and his sister, he must have been crying silently.
Hua Tian looked at Old Man Du, who was deep in thought and faint, and he didn't know what to say.
What can make him cry when he recalls it must be deep love.
I don't know how shocked and ecstatic he was when he recognized the palm technique of his former lover.
"It's me who failed Jianlan, it's me who failed her. If I hadn't wavered and asked her to agree to take Murou as a concubine, she would definitely come back to find me even if she was exiled. Old man Du hissed, old tears.
Because she knew his choice, because of the treachery of the Du family, her heart was cold. When she buried her youngest sister, she must have felt that the world was so big that no one cared about her anymore.
When the snow fell, she was alone, and she didn't know if it was cold or not?
From the official lady to the rivers and lakes, she is alone, I don't know if she is sad or not?
Hua Tian was stunned, and the original heart was full of emotion and sadness, but suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Conquest? Exile?
Old man Du wanted to take a concubine when he was young? And Mother Blue was exiled?
A wave of anger burned from Hua Tian's heart.
Since you are a young man and have had the idea of taking a concubine, why do you pretend to be so affectionate?
You failed her, she was in a family change at that time, what to forgive you?
Fifty years of waiting is precious, but it is no longer what she wants. No matter how the world changes, the vicissitudes of life, she can no longer change back to the original Xiao Jianlan.
Hua Tian felt that he shouldn't stay any longer, but when he saw the sad white-headed man, he finally sat down.
"As far as I know, Mother Lan's temperament is that since it can't belong to her, then she doesn't want it. What can be shared with others is definitely not her beloved. Hua Tian said slowly.
Old Man Du was stunned for a moment, and he laughed miserably for a while, as if he had no strength, "Yes, that's how she works...... It's me, it's me who has always thought ...... be."
"After fifty years of waiting, I couldn't help but be moved to tears. But I don't know, after Mother Lan found out, whether she cried or laughed. She continued.
She couldn't help but be resentful, so she couldn't help but speak, making this old man uncomfortable, as if it was to get a little justice for Mother Lan.
When I don't love anymore, those fifty years of waiting, in the eyes of Mother Blue, are nothing.
"County Lord, please be cautious-" The old woman named Silan next to her looked at Hua Tian with some anger.
"I'm just talking about things." Hua Tian said, but his eyes looked directly at Old Man Du.
Old Man Du said, "By her, she is right...... Back then, I failed to see Lan, even if I had waited for fifty years, what was it? Maybe it's a joke in Jianlan's heart. ”
After saying that, he coughed frantically, as if to cough out his entire heart and lungs.
Hua Tian sighed, maybe she did something wrong. Why bother with such a dying old man? He's made mistakes, but he's made up for them.
It's just fate that he can't make up for it. (To be continued......)