Chapter 232: Later
It was a luxury for the two sisters to squeeze out a room in the small courtyard of the farmhouse where they boarded, and Xu Yu could only follow the boys of the master's family to lay on the floor in the hall.
In the dark of night, the two sisters huddled on the narrow wooden bed lay side by side, silent, but they were the same without sleep.
The world is chaotic, whether you humbly lower yourself or proudly turn away, it is difficult to settle down. Because I don't want to repeat the previous life that was low into the dust, the self-esteem that I care about in this life will simply bounce back as long as I encounter a little disdain, but now Manyin's sarcastic persuasion still messed up Manyun's heart again after all.
Maybe you're doing something wrong again? Maybe the complete letting go without setting any bottom line is not bravery, but another kind of cowardice that dare not face it? Zhou Manyun looked at the black roof with blank eyes, and sighed faintly.
A gentle slender hand grasped Man Yun's, and a scar across the palm of his hand was easily discernible at the touch.
"Fifth sister, this wound of yours ...... If I had a way to help you get rid of the scars, and I could make you forget about the past and the high ...... Do you feel good about starting over? The backhand grabbed Manyin's hand tightly, and Manyun turned over sideways, staring seriously at Manyin's black pupils beside the pillow.
Manyin's long eyelashes hesitated and struggled to flash for a long time before he answered softly: "Don't!" β
βweishenmeοΌ It's not a ......", Zhou Manyun carefully squeezed out an ominous language that both sisters could understand.
"Nothing to do with the man. Just I don't want to! Forget the past, so isn't the current Zhou Manyin back to the past? Forget about high ...... If you forget Gao Wei, maybe you will forget the suffering you have suffered, and you will be planted in the hands of the even worse Li Wei and Liu Wei. I forgot everything, my former life was vain and I died in vain! β
"Sister!" , Zhou Manyun's lips were astringent, and he leaned over his head to offset Manyin's forehead. Confessed: "I used 'Forget the Dust' for Xiao Hong, the kind of medicine that I originally gave you that can lose some memories......"
Zhou Manyin sat up with a bone turn, sat for a while, and waited for the words to be chewed through, and a pair of plain hands crackled and slapped on Man Yun's body indiscriminately.
"Stupid! It's stupid, stupid...... How can there be such a stupid woman as you in this world! β
Tears couldn't stop sliding down from the cheeks of Manyin, who was beating and scolding. The low sobs caught in the scolding were more sad than the stunned and shrunken Man Yun.
Facing the sisters who are not very enthusiastic in the boudoir, Manyin doesn't want to talk about sisterhood, but this scene reminds her of the two girls who held hands tightly in the dark room twelve years ago. They each stubbornly walked around, and they actually walked the same way back, which made Zhou Manyin unacceptable.
"Always together", the hand that I pulled up because of timidity in childhood should have been let go a long time ago, and there is no need to drag it together anymore......
The morning light spilled into the farmhouse, and the courtyard was as expected when Man Yun first woke up yesterday. Free-range flocks of chickens. A fat reed hen walked forward, followed by six or seven chicks with tender beaks and yellowish beaks, strolling leisurely.
Looking at the few points of tender yellow that hurriedly hid behind his mother when he heard the sound of footsteps, Man Yunfang, who had a pair of black circles under his eyes, softened the corners of his mouth and smiled faintly, and the steps of the carriage towards the door were much lighter. Kindness and compassion for the young, all life in the world is the same, and the delicate and fresh life is always easy to stir up a woman's heart.
"If you want to learn how to hold a hen's nest, you have to have a male!" , who was already sitting in the car waiting for Manyun's Manyin. With one hand on the curtain, his equally red and swollen eyes were full of indignation.
"Fifth sister. You're a lady from a famous family! Man Yun raised his eyebrows and sneered, and the village woman in front of him was dressed as Manyin really looked like a bitter little widow who she thought she had.
Xu Yu, who was leading the old horse, glanced at the two sisters sitting firmly in the car, and asked in a deep voice, "Where are you going to go?" β
"Of course, I'm back at home in Huocheng, Jiangnan!" , Man Yunlang's voice correspondingly, and his smiling face was as bright as a flower.
The carriage set off slowly. The trees on both sides of the road gradually receded, disappearing from thick to faint......
"I'll go back to Jiangnan, but I'm not going back to Huocheng Zhoufu." Manyin, who had been sitting quietly with his knees in the carriage, suddenly raised his voice and said, "Anyway, Zhou Manyin is dead." I guess the funeral news was also reported home. When I get to Jiangnan, just find a proper place to put me down, and I have my own money to buy land and buy a house. β
"Fifth sister!" , Man Yun persuaded softly: "It's better to go home and see the fourth uncle and four aunts first, and then say, it is difficult for a woman's family to save money and silver outside." Why bother to lose face, it is difficult to give up? β
"Back to Huocheng, if the two of you and me are found out by those old people in the clan and know the roots, they will simply let us die! Maybe there will be a name for the festival of the dead to provide the tablet into the Zeting Shaolian Hall Cizhen Pavilion. Manyin stared at her sister and sneered: "I am indeed a greedy person who is afraid of death, otherwise I would not have caused this mess in the past." β
"Good! Go back to Jiangnan, I'll help you find a place! Manyun reluctantly responded. The beautiful and weak Manyin is alone and doesn't look for trouble, and if the trouble is not guaranteed, it will come to the door, so it is better to put it in a place where it can be taken care of than to let it drift.
"Yes! Anyway, if I can't do it on my own, I won't refuse the benefits. It's just, Zhou Manyun, I don't want to stay with you! Just looking at you, I'm upset! β
"You can rest assured! I won't stay in Gangnam for long. Man Yun smiled at Man Yin, who had been in a little tantrum since last night, and said: "I also plan to walk around as I like in the future, go to Nanzhao, go to Mobei, or go south, go to Quanzhou to find the third uncle, and ask him to lead me to the sea where I can't see the edge......"
"Alone?!" , Manyin's teeth are still mocking.
"It's nice to be alone, too! Fifth sister! Man Yun smiled and grabbed Man Yin's hand and said sincerely: "I know you feel sorry for me, but I really thought about it." It doesn't matter if the Xiao family doesn't marry, his little mothers are in a group, and there are a basket of brothers and sisters, maybe if you take care of the relationship, I won't be able to do a good job. Therefore, it is a good thing to be able to get rid of this annoying marriage contract, maybe, I will walk alone, and I will meet a good man who is open-minded and pities me, and then I will marry! β
"Zhou Manyun, why don't you just marry me!" , Xu Yu's urn sound came from outside the carriage.
Zhou Manyun's hands froze on Manyin's wrists, and his eyes widened in astonishment.
The carriage came to a halt and the curtain opened. Xu Yu stared at Man Yun quietly, and said seriously again word by word: "Zhou Manyun, you marry me!" β
"Brother!" , Man Yun snorted, smiled awkwardly and turned his head away.
Xu Yu, who drilled into the car, directly squeezed Man Yin aside and straightened Man Yun's shoulders. There was nowhere to run from her evasive gaze.
"On the terms you mentioned, I don't think there is any other man in the world who is more suitable than me. I was born in Nanzhao, where the women of the Wuman tribe had no scruples about making friends before marriage, and even if they gave birth to children with others, their husbands would raise them as if they were their own. I already have a friendship with you when I met as a teenager, and if I am close to each other, whether it is my father or your mother, I will be happy to see it. And no matter where you want to go to the ends of the earth, I can willingly accompany you to the earth......"
is not as good as Xu Ne, the father who has a habit of cleanliness, although Xu Yu has always wanted to get married for some special reasons, but he is not a vegetarian, and his skin is not bad, and he has exhausted his youthful romance. Read the spring. The experiences of the past few days have been involved in each other, and it is enough for him to weigh and understand what Man Yun is doing.
"Brother! We are brother and sister! The seriousness revealed in Xu Yu's dark black pupils made Man Yun feel weak for a while, and the smile he tried his best to show was far-fetched.
"We are not related by blood!" , Xu Yu's hands holding Man Yun's shoulders tightened, and his eyebrows were full of ruthlessness. said: "If you want to refuse, give me another reason!" From your heart! Otherwise, I will marry you!" β
"I ......". Man Yun, who couldn't avoid it, bit his lip, closed his eyes, and roared honestly: "I don't think it's fair!" If I marry you, it will not be fair to you. I still have that person in my heart, if I accept someone else's marriage proposal, it will be purely harmful to others and myself! β
"Good! It's good to have your words! βγ With a sneer, the man who had been forced to marry like a vicious god just now suddenly let go of his hands and got out of the car curtain.
With a whip, the carriage turned sharply, and the horse's hooves trampled several times faster than Fang Cai's walking and walking as if he was preoccupied.
"Brother!". Holding on to the bumpy compartment wall, Man Yun reached out and lifted the curtain and asked sharply, "Where are you going?" β
"Help her sit back!" , Xu Yu, who only turned around, drank the sound of Man Yun revealing a corner of his hair from behind him.
The car was in a hurry, and in the oncoming wind, Man Yun clearly heard Xu Yu's answer, "Take you back to Puzhen to find him!" β
"It's not necessary!" , Sitting in the carriage, Man Yun looked at Man Yin, who held her hands on her knees, and her face was also significantly faintly happy, and she couldn't help but sigh angrily.
"It is necessary! As long as you still like it, go back! Go back and stay, the sooner I get tired of seeing him, the sooner I can marry you! Through the thin curtain, Xu Yu's voice could not distinguish joy and sorrow.
"I have chosen to leave ......"
"The poison of forgetfulness, huh? There should never be such a poison in the world. Zhou Manyun! From a man's point of view, I tell you honestly, if you poison me like this, I will hate you to the bone! How lovely is a woman who completely disrespects and distrusts herself? If you say it wrong this time, you will do it wrong! β
Listening to Xu Yu's voice coming from outside the curtain, Man Yun pressed his chest with a pale face, and stopped his questioning gaze on Man Yin's face.
"I didn't think he was your senior brother, and there should be a way to help you prepare an antidote." , Manyin, who directly confessed to betraying his sister, grabbed Manyun's hand, and his eyes flashed excitedly and persuaded: "Listen to us!" Turn back when everything is irreparable, and try your best to make it up for what you like! If he forgets what happened between you, we will help you testify. There are also many witnesses in his camp, and the sooner you make it clear, the better! β
Xu Yu's hoarse voice stubbornly helped outside the curtain at the same time, "Zhou Manyun, you can't be sure that the poison of forgetting dust is really unsolvable or has a statute of limitations. If one day in the future, the poisoned Xiao Hong remembers the past by chance, but he has another wife and children who are trapped in a new situation and cannot turn back, and you still have feelings for him at that time, you will hurt more people......"
The carriage jolted lightly, and Man Yun, who was clutching his chest, followed the file, and suddenly felt his heartbeat jumping uncontrollably.
"You persuaded me just now, 'Fifth sister, the woman is difficult outside, why bother to give up easy for the sake of indelible face! But what about you? Man Yun, is it easy for a person to walk alone until he dies, or is it easy to marry someone he likes, and the two of them live together? As long as a woman in the world marries, she has to face a bunch of strangers that her in-laws don't like. I am ruthless and loveless to Gao Wei, and I can take care of housework in the Gao family, and support the humility that a wife should have. You say you like it, what is it to show weakness in front of the person you like, and bow your head to his family......"
In Zhou Manyin's chatter, Man Yun hugged her neck and cried loudly......
A carriage unloaded and unloaded stopped on the hill outside Puzhen, and the old horse, who had just recovered from the rush, lowered his head and arched the yellow grass stalks on the slope, snorting from time to time.
The yellow leaves swayed and fell in the breeze, and two figures, one tall and one short, supported each other under the tree, looking down the mountain.
The shadows of the distant mountains and trees, the ridges of the houses and the ridges of the houses are the same as when Man Yun and Xu Yu first came six days ago. It's just that the tent sentry towers and fences that enclose the fence have all been replaced by an empty field.
The path up the mountain showed Xu Yu's figure in the distance, with his clothes open, panting. Zhou Manyin immediately let go of Man Yun's arm and greeted him in three steps and two steps, with hope in his eyes.
Xu Yu glanced at Man Yun, who was still standing under the tree, shook his head, and said softly: "It should be at the end of the tenth year of the first month, no one knows where to go."
In other words, the front foot will drive themselves out of the camp, and the back foot will also walk clean? No wonder the drums at that time were so urgent.
Man Yun, who was listening intently, blinked his dry and red eyes, and slowly walked towards his brother and sister who seemed to be more overwhelmed than himself, and stood still, raising his plain face and begging in a dumb voice: "We...... Let's go, too! (To be continued......)