Chapter 8 Family
Kuizhou Road, Pengshui County, Qianzhou, located in the north of the county, occupies almost half of the city, and the intricate Xie family mansion has become lively.
Standing on the highest pavilion and pavilion in it, you can clearly see that in the courtyard of the house with carved beams and painted buildings, the nine-curved corridor is scattered like a chessboard, and there are many people from all directions in the middle, just like a stream of water, making the whole house alive.
But Xie Roujia couldn't see this scene, she hid on the bed, wrapped in the quilt and covered her head, shivering.
"Second Miss, Second Miss, don't be afraid, you can say it well."
Jiang Ling's voice rang out loudly outside the tent.
Say it well? Say that they don't listen, they don't believe it, they all forget, they all forget how they died, even their father forgets.
She did, but they all looked at her like crazy, and they invited several doctors to watch around her and feed her medicine.
There were still a lot of people pouring into the house.
"What's wrong? Why is the second sister crazy? ”
A tall, majestic, gray-haired old man said in a loud voice.
This is the grandfather, and the grandfather also died, a year after the grandmother died.
"Uncle, no, Jiajia is not crazy, but evil."
The woman, who was about thirty in a red dress, said with a worried expression.
This is the second aunt, the eldest daughter-in-law of the second uncle's grandfather's family.
No, is she dead too?
Xie Roujia's eyes were dumbfounded.
Jiang Ling said that the fifth uncle died, the third uncle and the fourth uncle were put in prison to be executed, Zhou Chengzhen said that his mother was dead, and his father was to be beheaded after the autumn, no one mentioned the second uncle, and Jiang Ling also said that the second uncle sent the third uncle and the fourth uncle to prison, so the second uncle's family is fine? Why is the second aunt also here?
"What nonsense, how can anyone in our family fall for evil? What evil dares to come to our house? An old woman who looked like her mother in a chair pulled down her face and was displeased.
As soon as she was upset, the room was full of people who did not dare to speak loudly anymore.
Xie Roujia's gaze turned to the old woman again.
"Jiajia, don't be afraid, tell your grandmother, who scared you? Grandmother broke his leg and threw it to feed the snakes. The old woman looked at her and said with a smile.
The old woman was about fifty years old, with a round face and thin eyebrows, and was a baby-faced like her mother, who looked festive when she was young and kind when she was old.
But what this kind old man said was not kind at all.
But it was not surprising at all, and the people in the room did not show strange expressions, but took it for granted.
For a former Dan Lord, who is still a good person in the Xie family, it is not uncommon to break a person's leg and throw a person into a snake cave, and she did it more than once when she was young.
Xie Roujia looked at the approaching old woman and could clearly smell the wine.
Yes, my grandmother was not only arrogant, but also an alcoholic, and in the winter after my sister's accident, she never woke up after a drunken experience.
"These girls must not be able to take care of them." Grandmother sat up straight, snorted, looked at Xie Roujia and said with a smile, "These useless things, grandmother pulled them all out and beat them to death to make Jiajia angry, okay?" ”
Kill?
Grandmother wasn't joking.
After my sister died, these girls were thrown to the back mountain and burned alive, and most of them were ordered by my grandmother.
They've already been burned to death once, and they're going to be beaten again?
"No!" Xie Roujia shouted sharply, turned around and ran back to pull down the tent, and hid on the bed.
"Mother, don't make a mess."
There was only one person in the room who dared to say that, thank the old woman.
"Jiajia is a nightmare."
Old Madam Xie pouted.
"It can be scared even if you dream, how can the girls of our Xie family have such guts." She said, "It's all your wrong way of raising children, and you detain the children for life." ”
"This method is not what Yuanyuan wanted." The grandfather on the side heard the busy interjection.
Xie Roujia's mother, a celebrity, is not what she thinks, then it can only be thought of by Xie Yuan's husband.
Hearing this, the people in the room looked strange, either looking down or looking out.
Grandfather didn't like father.
Xie Roujia, who was hiding in the quilt, thought.
It's no secret at home, my grandfather's name on the family tree is Xie Huaying, his real name, or the name before he joined the Xie family, is called Wang Songyang, and Xie Roujia's great-grandfather is a relative.
Xie Roujia's great-grandfather's name is Xie Cunzhang on the genealogy, and his name before entering the family is Zhao Mingyi, and he is the son of the Zhao family, the largest cinnabar lord in Kaiyang.
This can be regarded as a generational marriage.
The grandfather originally thought that the husband of his daughter Xie Yuan would also choose from the relatives of the Zhao family, so that the interests of the two families could be combined more closely and for a longer time.
It's just that I didn't expect this arrangement to be disrupted by Xie Roujia's father, who is called Xie Wenxing on the genealogy and whose real name is Liu Xiuchang.
Liu Xiuchang is a person from Kyoto, not a big family, his ancestors have been scholars for generations, to his generation except for the name of the Qing Dynasty has nothing, Liu Xiuchang at the age of seventeen packed his bags to study around the hermit saint, but the hermit saint was not found, in a tree and people debated with people, was seen by Xie Yuan, who rode a horse to the mountains, love at first sight, he did not marry.
Naturally, my grandfather was violently opposed, and the rest of the clan also disagreed.
But helplessly, Liu Xiuchang not only charmed Xie Yuan, but also pleased his grandmother, and with his grandmother to speak, other people's opposition finally came to an end, so Liu Xiuchang replaced Zhao and entered the door of the Xie family, becoming the big man of the Xie family's generation.
It's no wonder that such a father can be liked by his grandfather, and he has been at odds with his father all his life, so later his grandmother died, his mother officially became the Dan master, his father became the eldest master, his grandfather abdicated, and the rights held by the clan were also taken away, and his mother was not close to his father because of the rules of the Xie family's upbringing, and the Zhao family's support for him faded, and his grandfather died of illness after only one year.
All died, all died, and the dead relatives got together, but they didn't think they were dead, but they thought she was crazy.
Xie Roujia buried her head in her knees and wept silently.
In fact, this is good, they forget the mistakes they made, forget what happened later, those are all bad things, and it is better to forget them.
But she still felt sad.
The chatter in the house continued, and the mother and grandmother were arguing whether to ask the master from the temple to come and see them.
"The Mage of the Qu family is very powerful, specializing in treating children's convulsions."
"Phew, it's our family's cinnabar that specializes in treating children's convulsions, and the Qu family is a piece of bullshit."
"Mother, Jiajia is a soul loser, and she wants to summon a soul."
"Spiritualism is also the power of our ancestors, I'll dance a spiritualist dance for Jiajia."
"Mother, you drink so much that your feet are soft, let alone summoning Jiajia's soul, you can jump without a soul yourself."
As they spoke, no one in the room interjected, even though there were only two people talking, and there was some commotion in the room.
"Okay, okay, I'll ask what's going on."
A male voice interrupted their argument.
It's the father.
Xie Roujia couldn't help but prick up her ears.
More inquiries rang out in the outer room, but soon the footsteps were chaotic.
"Are you okay?" This is the muttering of grandfather.
"Don't you really need to find a mage?" This is the mother's worried inquiry.
"No, don't worry, I know what's going on." Father said in a clear voice.
The room gradually quieted down, and footsteps approached the inner room.
"Jiajia."
Father's voice rang out outside the tent.
"Jiangling told me, it turns out that you have such a terrible dream."
Xie Roujia lifted the quilt.
"Nope." She cried, "It's not a dream, it's real." ”
The tent was lifted, and the father sat on the edge of the bed and took her hand.
"Father, what I said is true, but you have all forgotten and don't remember." Xie Roujia cried, looking at her father's young face, the young and somewhat unfamiliar face, and the full love that she had never seen before.
It's love, it's worry, it's not disappointment, it's not indifference and disgust.
Father looked at her and smiled, nodded, and squeezed her hand.
"That's for later, isn't it?" He asked.
Xie Roujia nodded tearfully.
"In the future, my sister will die, and your mother and I will die, won't we?" Father asked again.
"I killed you, and if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have died." Xie Roujia cried.
"Will Jiajia still harm us in the future?" Father asked.
Xie Roujia shook her head.
No, no, she won't die.
"That'll do." The father smiled and patted her hand, "Jiajia won't harm us in the future, and we won't die, then, what is Jiajia afraid of?" ”
Xie Roujia was stunned.
"But we're all dead now." She cried again.
"No, the present is the present, we are all alive now, and it is the past that is dead." The father said seriously, "It's over, it's over." ”
Right now? Past?
Xie Roujia was stunned again, and her father took her hand.
"Come, Jiajia." He said, "Father will show you the present." ”
Look at the present?
Xie Roujia was pulled out of bed by her father in a daze, walked out of the house, first looked at the flowers and plants at home and walked around the pavilion, then went out of the house, went to the market, and took her to ride a horse uphill.
She bought a freshly tied rabbit lamp on the street, ate hot candy man, rode on a horse and galloped with horse hair, felt the summer wind, looked at the thick green of the mountains, dug up wild vegetables, and braided garland belts.
Then her father took her to see the family.
The girls no longer avoided her, and greeted her with a smile and a smile, she ate with her mother and sister, took a nap together, and at night her father and mother would accompany her and her sister to watch the stars in the yard, and her mother would sleep with her, fan her and sing witch songs.
A few days later, she began to follow her father, mother, and sister to greet her grandfather and grandmother, who grabbed a handful of candy for her and gave her the sword hanging on the wall.
Her father would take her when he went out to talk about business, and she met the second uncle and grandfather and the third uncle and grandfather in Xifu, and watched them snoring and drinking tea with a teapot, while listening to the big shopkeepers with half-squinted eyes.
She sat behind the screen, playing with the puppet doll given by the third uncle, while listening to the fourth uncle laughing in a low voice, which big shopkeeper said the wrong thing, which big shopkeeper sat in the back and dozed off, and which big shopkeeper secretly raised a room outside.
"What do you say?" The third uncle drank the fourth uncle, "Jiajia is here." ”
The fourth uncle, who had just become married, laughed at her and asked the little girl to buy her more food and toys from the street.
No one said she was sick, no one said she was evil, no one said she was crazy, everyone seemed to have forgotten what she said, a month later, Xie Roujia stood in the yard, looking at her sister who was surrounded by a little girl to go to school, listening to her father and mother laughing in the house, and also felt that she had a dream.
Now, her father showed her the real present.
My sister is still alive, my father and mother have not been disappointed in her, the family house is stable, and the clan is harmonious.
This is what she has always dreamed of now, and she has got what she wants.
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