Chapter 44: Guilt
Fang's eyes dimmed slightly, a trace of pain flashed, she didn't pay attention to Gu Qingwan, turned her head, and seemed to be about to leave.
"Auntie, I want to go see Cousin Yuan Zhan tomorrow, okay? I beg you! ”
Fang's body stiffened slightly, and after a long time, she nodded, turned around and left. Gu Qingwan looked at her back in a daze, and tears fell silently.
"Miss, don't be upset. It's not all your fault, why do all the people blame you for that? If it's Mademoiselle's fault, then I'm a sinner, too. Ziyu said guiltily and distressedly, poor young lady, she had taken on too much that she should not have bore it. God is so good at playing tricks on people.
"Don't say it, it's my mistake, it's my responsibility, let's go." Gu Qingwan shook her head, she would not escape, there were some things she should face.
Not far away, a figure watched this scene quietly, for a long time, and let out a heavy sigh.
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Flower lanterns, neon, lively crowds, young people in their prime, and cute girls. In the bustling crowd, it is like a beautiful scenery.
"Wan'er, let's go back quickly, there are too many people here, what should I do if I get lost in a while?" The handsome young man spoke anxiously, holding the girl's hand tightly, and persuaded him.
"Don't! finally came out to play for a while, and Wan'er didn't want to go back so soon! Cousin Yuan Zhan, let's go watch the fireworks! The girl pouted, shaking her head reluctantly. At this moment, the sky erupted in a burst of brilliant fireworks, which looked particularly beautiful in the night sky.
The girl's eyes lit up, and she took the boy's hand and ran towards the place where the fireworks were set off. It's just that I didn't expect that this time it would be an endless nightmare.
Dark, damp, vicious men, endless panic and despair. The teenager protected the frightened girl under him, endured endless punches and kicks. It wasn't until the men left that the boy collapsed weakly to the ground.
"Wan'er, these bad guys want to kidnap us and buy us somewhere else. So you're going to get out anyway, you know? I'll hold them back for a while, you have to run desperately, go and call someone to save me, be quick! ”
The girl nodded in panic, she ran wildly, and all she could hear was the whistling wind and the heart-rending screams of Yuan Zhan's cousin. To save him, to find someone to save him! The thought swirled through her mind as she stumbled forward.
There are some things that God may have destined to be arranged this way. She ran back to Li's mansion, but fainted at the door because she was too tired, and was carried back to her room by Ziyu, who didn't know it, and fell asleep for a day. When she woke up and struggled to inform everyone, Yuan Zhan's cousin was being carried back by the people of the government, dying, and his legs had been brutally broken.
Not only was she, the culprit, fine, but also resting in bed. The boy who saved him lost everything and became crippled.
"Wan'er, why didn't you call someone to save me?"
The boy's face was overflowing with sadness and disappointment, but she could only look up humbly under the condemning gaze of everyone. She hated herself so much, why did she faint, why did she fall asleep? Even if she was hanging on her last breath, if she had called someone earlier, things would not have turned out like this.
Her cousin Yuan Zhan is smart, handsome, funny, kind, and gentle, and he is the eldest young master of the Li Mansion, and his future prospects are limitless. However, from that day on, the young man who was as bright as the moon, his life had begun to fall silent.
I don't know when, Gu Qingwan's cheeks were already wet with tears. Once young and willful, how much she regretted and saddened. If she hadn't had to go out to see the lanterns, if she hadn't listened to persuasion, they wouldn't have been kidnapped by wicked people, her cousin wouldn't have had her legs broken, and she wouldn't have been estranged from her grandfather's family.
Everyone thought that she hid because she was afraid, and deliberately pretended to be asleep because she didn't want to take responsibility, and didn't report to everyone in time. Because of her selfishness, cowardice and cowardice, she ruined the most promising young master of the Li Mansion. She wanted to defend herself, but she couldn't say anything in the face of everyone's reproachful and hateful eyes.
It's not that she doesn't want to save people, it's not that she doesn't want to report the news, she just missed the time because she fainted. Such reasons, even if true, can only be used as excuses. In the final analysis, it was her willfulness that caused all these disasters.
At the age of nine, she didn't know how to face such a situation, and her mother took her to apologize and ask for forgiveness. But she hid and didn't dare to show up because she was afraid. Even, he didn't dare to see Yuan Zhan's cousin who was lying on the bed and couldn't move.
That's five years. In the past five years, she didn't dare to go to the Li Mansion, and her father also faced the Prime Minister's Mansion without face because of her affairs, except for the New Year's holidays, there was no such intimate contact as before.
In the dark night, Gu Qingwan hugged the quilt and cried silently. Who can see her grief and despair, such unknown forbearance and pain, but she can only bear it silently alone. The torture of conscience, the pain of longing for family affection but not being able to get close, her heart has been full of holes.
There are some things, as long as you make up your mind, muster up the courage, and take the first step, you will no longer feel difficult. In the past two days, Gu Qingwan not only went to find her grandfather, but also often visited the big house, no matter how cold her uncle and aunt, as well as Cousin Ice Butterfly, they reacted coldly to her, she did not show a trace of flinching.
didn't let Ziyu follow, Gu Qingwan came to Li Yuanzhan's Ming Garden alone, which was still a place with a familiar memory. When she was a child, she loved to come to Mingyuan the most, because here, there was her favorite cousin Yuan Zhan. And since the accident that year, this place has become a forbidden place for her. She didn't have the courage, she didn't have the face, and she continued to step into it.
Everything in Mingyuan has not changed, only their hearts have changed, and the little man guarding the door saw her from a distance, and the look on his face was angry and forbearing. Gu Qingwan still remembered him, Yuan Zhan's cousin's personal scholar Chu Jiu, who was loyal to him. In this Li Mansion, no matter who it is, when they see her, they will have such an attitude, right? lukewarm, not far away, not close, pent-up anger and hatred.
"Miss Cousin, what are you doing here?"
"I—I'm here to visit Cousin Yuan Zhan." Gu Qingwan spoke, her voice very low. With her status, this little guy was so disrespectful to her, she should have been angry and angry. However, she only felt shame. Although the little guy is unhappy for his young master, he also knows the identity of Miss Biao, and he can't be a subordinate at will.
"The eldest young master is in a bad mood, are you sure you want to visit?"
As soon as the little servant finished saying this, there was a sound of breaking the porcelain bowl in the Ming Garden, and then a low and hoarse voice sounded.
"Get out!"
"Young Master, just drink the medicine! If you don't drink medicine, your body won't get better. The eldest lady will also punish the slave and the maid. ”
The little maid's whispered prayers and sobs made the noise inside even louder, and the male voice became even more angry, shouting, "You all get out of here!" Get out! ”
"What a pill to drink! I've been drinking it for five years and it's not the same as lying here like a piece of waste! Are you all laughing at me? Hahahaha、、、、、、、"
Laughing at themselves in pain and despair, the people cowered and fell to their knees, afraid to speak. Since the eldest young master broke his leg, his temper has become more and more eccentric. The former young man who was as clear as the moon has become a decadent man with a weird yin and yang.
Listening to the voice coming from inside, Gu Qingwan only felt a pain in her heart, unbelievable sadness and sadness. It's all her sins, it's she who ruined the flourishing Li Yuanzhan.
The maids were kicked out, with tears on their faces. Gu Qingwan stopped them and said softly, "Go and bring another bowl of medicine, I'll send it in." ”
"This 、、、," the maids looked at each other, but finally nodded, "Yes, Miss Table." ”
Gu Qingwan took the medicine bowl and walked in gently. The door was wide open, and there were porcelain shards scattered on the floor. On the red carved lacquered bed, a man can be faintly seen lying flat. At this moment, the man raised his head, and a pair of eyes looked at the roof blankly, full of gloom and despair. His hair was disheveled, his face was handsome and thin, and his skin was yellow and lifeless. With a scruffy beard on his chin and chapped lips, he looks like a down-and-out middle-aged man in his thirties and forties.
Tears fell silently, and Gu Qingwan's body trembled uncontrollably. She never dreamed that she would see such a scene! That person, is it really Yuan Zhan's cousin? He is only eighteen years old, why is he like an old man on the verge of death at this moment?
Sensing the abnormal movement in the room, Li Yuanzhan frowned impatiently, he was crippled, even these subordinates dared to go against him, right! Turning his head in shame and resentment, Li Yuanzhan looked at the figure that appeared in front of him hatefully, and in an instant, he was stunned.
The person standing at the door was not the maid he thought he was, but a young girl with red eyes and a beautiful peerless. Tears fell one by one from those extraordinarily beautiful eyes, and the fairy wept, so pitiful that people only felt distressed when they saw it, and wanted to wipe away the tears on her face. That face was so strange and familiar that there were thousands of complicated feelings in his heart, and finally turned into anger and hatred that could not be concealed.
"You-"
With difficulty, he wanted to scold her, mock her coldly, a thousand words, but in the end he was relatively speechless. Li Yuanzhan turned his face away, not wanting to see the face that made him feel pain and hatred.
Gu Qingwan held back her tears, slowly walked to the bed, she put the medicine bowl in her hand in front of Li Yuanzhan, and said softly: "Cousin Yuanzhan, drink the medicine first." ”
"You get out! I don't want to see you! A rough voice sounded, and Li Yuanzhan's tone was indifferent, as if he was facing a stranger. His attitude was already much better than the situation Gu Qingwan imagined.