Chapter 014: The Past
"The slave maid heard that there is no one next to the courtyard, so I just raised such a few people......" As soon as the conversation box opened, Hong Ying talked endlessly, and after a while, she talked from the Jinzhou Courtyard of the Lin family to the fourth wife Lin, and after a while, she climbed to the fourth room.
Ruosheng nodded, listening as usual, and seemed to be very focused, but in fact, his mind had already flown to the side.
Lian's family is in her father's generation, and there is only one girl and four boys. Here, only the third uncle is far from being born by his aunt, and the rest are all conceived and born by Ruosheng's grandmother in October. But among the five children, there is only one Mrs. Yun Zhen who grew up with them. When her grandparents died, her father and several uncles were still young, and they were still ignorant, let alone supporting the court. As the eldest daughter, my aunt had to take over the burden first.
However, it is not easy for her to take over the ancestral business of Lian family on the one hand, and on the other hand, she has to be distracted to teach her weak brother.
Lian Sanye and Lian Siye were younger at the time, and Tai grew up with his nurse for half of the time, so he was not unfamiliar with her, but he was far from being close.
However, the relationship between the brothers has always been good. In the end, it was the brother who broke the bones and tendons, and lost his parents when he was young, so he naturally relied on each other tightly. Even if her father is not an adult now, the few little ones at the bottom also respect him as an elder brother, and shouted "second brother, second brother" when they met, and there was never a time when Hu came.
Ruosheng also remembered very well that the closest to her father was the fourth uncle Lian Zening.
The fourth uncle is the eldest of the Lian family, her father is only three years old, he has a smiling face, and he is a person with a bright tongue and a lotus flower, which is very likable. If you liked this fourth uncle very much in your previous life, every time you see the fifth sister of the fourth uncle's family raise her head and smile and say that my father has won the emperor's appreciation in front of the palace today, or my father said that he wants to take me on a cruise...... She was very envious.
It doesn't matter if it's a cruise or a kite flying, but as she gets older, she feels more and more that this is the way father and daughter get along.
Unlike the second room, she is growing up day by day, but her father is still a childish.
So she always went to the fourth room, under the pretext of looking for the fifth sister to play, but just to get a compliment from the fourth uncle by the way, it seems that she can live the life of the fifth sister.
What a fool......
Recalling the past events that should have been lost in the long river of time, Ruosheng sneered.
Red Sakura was just talking about the happy place, when she suddenly heard her sneer, she couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and hesitated to ask, "Girl...... But what did the slave and maid say wrong? ”
Ruosheng lowered his eyes, chuckled, and said, "Did I ask you to inquire about the fourth room?" ”
Red Sakura was stunned.
"You really don't have any sense of proportion." The girl's expression suddenly became unpredictable, and her thick and slender eyelashes were like a small fan, casting a shadow under her eyes.
Sakura looked at it, and her heart beat violently.
"Pounding-pounding-pounding-"
In the silence of the night, her heartbeat was loud.
She retorted in a low voice: "The slave didn't deliberately inquire about the fourth room. ”
The girl, who sat there in a leisurely and lazy posture and listened to her, looked up at her as if she had read her thoughts, and the corners of her mouth turned up, but she did not speak. A pair of apricot eyes, clear and clean, but seem to be bottomless. Just by looking at it, it is as if people are about to fall into it.
Looking at her like this, Red Sakura's breathing gradually became heavier.
It was so quiet that she didn't dare to plead her words again.
Wakasheng did not speak.
Sakura's head slowly lowered, and her body on the embroidery stool shrank down.
Punishment and scolding are not terrible, what is really frightening is often such cold silence.
The more time passed, the more frightening the silence became.
After a long time, the lamp burning in the corner suddenly "crackled" and exploded a light flower.
Sakura was startled and almost jumped up from the stool, but it was easy to hold it down, forcing herself to sit still. But the soft and comfortable cushion under the body seems to be cold and hard at the moment, making people feel like they are on pins and needles. She couldn't sit still, but Ruosheng, who was sitting on the hot kang, yawned slowly, and finally said, "Go down." ”
"Yes." Red Sakura let out a long sigh of relief and got up to leave.
She was about to leave, but she was stopped again.
Ruosheng still looked like a smile, and said, "Wait until March, and you'll be in time, right?" ”
It is quite a shameful thing to be able to ask the master to remember his birthday. When Sakura heard her ask like this, her heart became more and more relaxed, and she smiled.
Ruosheng bowed slightly, did not speak again, only smiled and waved his hand to signal her to go out.
When the figure disappeared behind the curtain, she smiled on her face, turned her head and instructed Lu Jiao: "Ming'er will go and find the red cherry blossom and her mother when it is dawn." ”
Lujiao was puzzled, but the master didn't say that she didn't ask, so she had to retreat.
Ruosheng looked at her back, but sighed silently.
Green Banana is more than loyal, but unfortunately he is not a smart and capable person. If it weren't for the lack of people around her back then, and the nurse felt that the newcomers outside were not as good as those who were used to staying in Muxi Garden, I was afraid that the position of this big girl would not have a share of green bananas.
She thought wildly, and had no intention of turning the book again, so she ordered someone to blow out the lamp, lay down and close her eyes.
However, as soon as she closed her eyes, she remembered the fourth uncle.
Among the brothers, the fourth uncle looks the most similar to her father. But when her father smiled, the wine vortex on her cheeks was so brilliant that people couldn't help but be happy, but there was no wine vortex on the fourth uncle's face.
In general, the temperament of people also has some to do with their appearance.
Her father and fourth uncle are both laughing people, but one is so true and the other is so fake.
In the dark time, she occasionally wondered, if it weren't for the fourth uncle, wouldn't the Lian family have fallen so quickly?
Lying in the quilt warmed by the soup woman, Ruosheng suddenly felt a little cold, so he curled up his body into a ball and buried his head in front of his chest.
The night breeze was blowing outside, and there was a soft sound, and she listened and took a deep breath.
The last time she saw the fourth uncle, Ruosheng couldn't remember what the look on his face was, but she still remembered what he said.
On that day, he stood high on the platform, dressed in the finest materials that his family was accustomed to, against the light, and his face was unfamiliar.
Ruosheng and his stepmother and younger brother Ruoling stood under the platform. She held her father's tablet in her hand, a new one, and even the lacquer had not yet been painted.
She clasped the piece of wood tightly, almost embedding it in her body.
The wind in the middle of summer is so hot that people sweat.
In the palm of her hand, it was cold.
The fourth uncle stood there, looking at them condescendingly, and threw the mean and shameless words in front of them one by one.
"Ah Jiu, don't blame the fourth uncle."
"Those who know the times are Junjie, and I just chose the right path for the fourth uncle."
"If you want to blame, blame yourself for being born into a family......
The wind was so strong that it blew his sleeves with a hunting sound, but it couldn't blow his words away.
The scattered hair blown up by the wind obscured her vision, Ruosheng couldn't see the person standing on top at all, but she knew that he was definitely not the man she pestered to call the fourth uncle in the past, let alone the appearance of the father in her heart.
She shuddered, bit her lip, and her mouth was full of fishy sweetness, and then she threw the tablet in her hand and smashed it straight on his forehead.
The head broke and the blood flowed for only a moment, and the well-dressed Lian Siye covered his head with a sigh and lowered his head.
Ruoling was frightened and cried in Zhu's arms, but she only looked at the people on the platform coldly and laughed twice.
Her father treated the fourth uncle as a good brother for life, and he never did anything to him in his life, so he really cheapened him.
But laughing and laughing, she cried again, gritting her teeth and swallowing the tears into her stomach. From the moment she walked out of Lian's house, she knew that she could no longer cry loudly like Ruoling.
Thinking of what he did that day, Ruosheng's body curled up in the quilt moved, and sighed faintly.
Her father was not wrong, she was indeed an unfilial daughter.
He didn't treat him well when he was alive, and when he went, she smashed all the tablets.
But if her father could see the big hole she threw on the fourth uncle's head, he would be happy, right?
Ruosheng sniffed the faint aroma on the quilt, closed his eyes and thought about his father, his stepmother, and his young brother......
I couldn't help but tears.