Ning Ningqing stopped Ning Yongda and asked, "Dad, where are you going?" ”

Ning Yongda hurriedly said, "Oh, there's something to do, go out for a while." ”

Ning Xia Qing asked, "Is Dad's lunch finished?" Didn't you just come back, why are you in such a hurry to go out again? Ning Xia Qing sighed and persuaded: "Dad, no matter how important things in the shop are, they are not as important as your body." You've been busy all morning, so take a break at home. ”

"Anyway, it's a little urgent, don't ask, I'm in a hurry, I'll go first." After Ning Yongda finished speaking, he hurriedly walked out, suddenly turned around, looked at Ning Xia Qing, smiled honestly, and said: "Qing'er, Dad has a way this time, and the business of our shop is going to get better. ”

Ningxia Qingyi was stunned.

In her memory, for so many years, she had never seen Ning Yongda show such a happy expression.

Ning Yongda immediately said with some distress: "The matter of the Shen family and the Gu family...... Let you be wronged. ”

Ning Yongda is not good at words, this kind of comfort is already the limit, he changed his words: "But don't be discouraged, when the business in our shop is good, no one will dare to bully you anymore, and things like the Shen family before will never happen again, and when the time comes, there will definitely be many good people rushing to propose." You have to wait a few more days, waiting for Dad to turn over the shop. ”

Ning Xia Qing only felt that she never seemed to have seen such brilliance in Ning Yongda's eyes, and couldn't help but have a sour nose, and then said with a smile: "Dad, I'm fine." ”

Ning Yongda patted Ning Ningqing's shoulder with a smile and said, "Okay, go find your mother, your mother has a bad appetite recently, you remember to persuade her to eat a few more persimmons, I'm leaving!" ”

After speaking, Ning Yongda turned around and left in a hurry.

Ningxia Qing carried persimmons and was stunned in place.

In her memory, after so many years, she had never seen Ning Yongda with such a radiant look in his eyes.

Her deepest impression of Ning Yongda was when Ning Yongda stood in front of the counter in the shop with a cowardly smile, and talked to the guests with low eyebrows. As if for decades, Ning Yongda has never changed.

Because the business in the shop has been cold for many years, Ning Yongda's face always has a tired frustration.

It was only in the last few days, as the ship from the south got closer and closer, that a smile of hope gradually appeared on Ning Yongda's face. Cao also told her that in the recent days, Ning Yongda couldn't sleep at night, and he had been thinking about the ship, excited for a while, and worried for a while.

Father and daughter are connected, even if Ning Yongda never says it, but she knows that for so many years, Ning Yongda has been holding her breath in her heart, hating the bad luck, hating herself for being useless, failing to let his wife and daughter live a good life, and failing to keep the family business left by his father, this is the many years of depression in Ning Yongda's heart, and she understands the father-daughter connection.

She suddenly felt that the matter of going on the boat was really worth it, no matter whether the business could improve or not, for her, what she was most happy about was that Ning Yongda could be happy because of it.

Ning Xia Qing walked into Cao's house, saw that the rice in the bowl opposite Cao's barely moved, and the chopsticks on the side were obviously hurriedly put down, and asked, "Mother, hasn't Dad even finished eating?" What is so urgent? ”

"Miao Laosan is looking for your father, that's why your father is in a hurry to go out."

"What's wrong? Is there any news about the ship? ”

"Like."

"Didn't Dad go out to inquire in the morning, did you find out something?"

Cao Shi sighed and said, "I don't know very well, I just heard your father say a word or two casually just now." Your father said that he had been running all morning, and he had not heard too much about it, but he had heard that his boat had been delayed on the road for a few days and had not yet reached the Meigong River, so it was not detained. I guess Miao Laosan has heard something again, anyway, we'll know when your father comes back. ”

After speaking, Cao Shi waved his hand for Lan Ying to come over and put Ning Yongda's bowl away, and then frowned again and said: "This person is really, he doesn't even eat, and he is still running around outside, at this age, can his body stand it?" Eh, I don't know when he'll come back, I'll prepare some snacks for him later, and if he hasn't eaten when he comes back, let him eat a few bites of snacks to cushion his stomach. ”

Ning Ningqing put five persimmons on the table and said, "When I first met my father, my father said that my mother had a bad appetite during this time, so I asked my mother to eat more persimmons." I'll put a few more, my mother must eat it, and if you can't finish it, wait for your father to come back in the evening to eat. ”

Cao picked up the persimmons on the table, looked at them, and asked with a smile: "Where did you get the persimmons?" It's quite fresh, was it bought from the kitchen? ”

"That's right."

Cao Shi looked at the persimmons, suddenly sighed, and said: "Your father used to like to eat persimmons the most, but in recent years, his health has not been good, and he feels cold stomach when he eats persimmons, so he doesn't dare to eat more." Cao Shi said as he put the three persimmons back into Ningxia Qing's basket and said, "I'll eat one, leave another one for your father, and take the rest to eat." ”

Ning Ningqing thought for a while and said, "Mother, I remember that the honey in the kitchen is gone, so I'll go out and buy some honey later, add some warm water with honey, mix it with persimmons and eat it, and my father shouldn't feel cold in his stomach." ”

"Okay."

"Zi'er loves sweets the most, and if she eats these persimmons mixed with honey, she will definitely be happy." Ning Ningqing said, while taking a persimmon from the basket and putting it on the table, saying, "Mother, you eat two, leave one for your father." Dad specifically told me that I must let you eat more, if you don't eat more, Dad may blame me for not doing things well. ”

"You kid ......" Cao smiled and said with emotion: "My Qing'er has really grown up, sensible, and can help her mother share her worries, it's ......"

"Mother, don't worry about my family affairs anymore, I think it's okay, fate hasn't arrived, it's useless for us to be anxious, and when fate arrives, we will naturally meet the right person." Anyway, I still want to spend a few more years with my mother, and I don't want to get married so early. ”

"My mother doesn't want you to marry so early." After Cao finished speaking, he also looked at Ning Xia Qing and smiled.

Ningxia Qing lowered her eyes, knowing that there was an insurmountable gap between herself and her parents, and her parents' expectations for her were just to marry a good family and live a stable life for a lifetime, but she knew that a stable life needed too much luck, she didn't have that luck, she had to fight to grab it, in order to protect herself and the people she cared about.

Ning Xia Qing came out of Cao's house, and was about to go out to buy honey, so Mrs. Chen left a message for the old lady who had already taken a nap, and then went out with Cuiyu.

Ah Zheng drove the carriage over, Cuiyu helped Ningxia Qing to get into the carriage, Ningxia Qing was just about to take a step, but suddenly her head was dizzy, and her heart was pounding, as if she was about to jump out of her throat, so that she almost fell!

Jade was frightened: "Girl! You...... Are you okay? ”

Ning Ningqing eased his nerves and said weakly, "No...... It's fine, just a little dizzy. ”

When Cuiyu heard this, she was anxious: "How can a good person be dizzy?" Or...... Let's go back and ask a doctor to take a look. ”

"I'm fine, maybe it's just that the midday sun is too poisonous and shaking me. Alright, let's go. She only felt as if the blood in her whole body was inexplicably flowing violently, and her temples were swelling desperately.

Ning Ningqing's original plan was to buy honey first, and then go to the teahouse to find Zhao Xiang'e, but although the panic before getting into the car had gradually subsided, it still made her feel palpitations, so she changed her mind and asked Ah Zheng to drive directly to the teahouse, where she waited for Zhao Xiang'e, and sat in the teahouse to rest for a while.

Ning Ningqing leaned weakly on the back of the car, the feeling of swelling at her temples was still not gone, and she felt that her head was groggy, as if she had stuffed a lot of things in her head, as if she was about to pop up. Although the intense dizziness had disappeared, the feeling of nausea gradually spread through her abdomen, making her feel that the lunch she had just used seemed to be clogged in her stomach, and it was very uncomfortable.

Cuiyu was so frightened by the scene before getting into the car that she was about to cry, her eyes kept choking with tears, and she always looked at Ning Ningqing with extreme worry, and said, "Girl, are you okay?" You really scared me to death just now, you don't know, just now your face and lips turned completely white, and now you have eased up a little. ”

Ning Ningqing was so uncomfortable that he didn't even want to shake his head, but said lightly: "I'm much better than just now." Alas, I don't know what's wrong, how it came to ...... all of a sudden"

"It must have been troubled by a marriage." When Cuiyu said this, she finally couldn't help crying: "One is a marriage that has been set for many years, and the other is a high-ranking family who came to propose, but all of them were blown up, who can stand it?" How much the girl suffers in her heart, the girl must have been dizzy just now because of the fire in her heart. Those two families are really, how can they treat girls like this? ”

Ning Xia Qing smiled slightly bitterly and wanted to explain to Cuiyu, but he was uncomfortable and really didn't want to spend his strength talking, so he quietly listened to Cuiyu's tearful nagging, and at this moment, the carriage suddenly stopped.

Jade was stunned for a moment, and muttered suspiciously: "Is it here so soon?" Then he wiped his tears, lifted the curtain, and was stunned again, and asked Ah Zheng in surprise: "Where is this?" Why did you stop here? ”

"There are a bunch of people stuck in front of me, and the car can't pass." Ah Zheng Dao.

Ning Xia Qing heard something strange and asked out loud: "Ah Zheng, what's wrong?" There's something wrong with your voice. ”

Ah Zheng replied in a deep voice: "I don't know what's going on in front of me, I just smell something not very good." You two are waiting for me here, and I'll go see how it goes. After speaking, Ah Zheng jumped out of the car, but turned around again, and solemnly instructed Cuiyu: "You must watch the girl, don't let the girl get out of the car, you two must wait here for me to come back." Then he hurried away.

In the car, Ning Ningqing's eyes flashed, her eyelashes fluttered a few times, she frowned, and suddenly said, "Cuiyu, let's go and have a look." ”

"Girl, Ah Zheng asked us to wait for him here......"

Ningxia Qing had already jumped out of the car, and Cuiyu had to follow.

Ning Ningqing's footsteps were still a little frivolous and weak, and he stumbled forward, squeezing into the crowd, and heard many voices next to him-

"Oh, that's scary......"

"yes, I'm scared to death too...... I don't know how? ”

"I heard that I stepped on the stairs and rolled down from above, and I was supposed to stand up, but before I could stand firmly, I was about to go down the steps, but I fell again, and I didn't die, and there was a big stone next to the steps, and my head hit the stone......

"It's really unlucky, blood was shed all over the ground in an instant."

"I was on the other side of the road, and I watched him roll down the stairs, get up, and fall again, and the whole thing was a blink of an eye, and I didn't react at all, and I can't believe it when I think about it now......"

"A good person, how can he ...... in the blink of an eye"

"Didn't you say that you have already gone to ask for a doctor, when will the doctor come over? What a desperate person! ”

The eyes were closed on the pale face, there was no sign of survival, and half of the face was stained with bright red blood.

"Daddy?" Ning Ningqing stared, his voice was very soft, but it was like thunder smashing into the crowd.

She suddenly sat down on the ground, and Ning Yongda's smiling and hopeful words "I'm leaving" were like a curse, buzzing and circling in her head.

On the seventh day of the stoppage, Ningxia Qing helped Cao back to the house. Cao's body was not good, she cried for so many days, fainted several times, couldn't even speak, and refused to speak at all, with a white face, her eyes staring straight ahead, she didn't know when others called her, as if her soul had gone with Ning Yongda.

Ning Ningqing leaned on the door frame of Cao's house and looked at Cao quietly, and the mother and daughter confronted each other silently for a long time, and no one spoke.

Ning Xia Qing sighed, turned around and walked out, and hugged Zi'er over.

Zi'er's little body was chubby, and now she was wearing a white filial piety dress, her little belly bulged like a rice ball, and she walked to Cao's bed with a grunt, and shouted cautiously: "Mother." ”

Cao's godless eyes moved to Zi'er.

Zi'er tilted her head seriously, and according to the words of Ningxia Qingjiao, she said word for word: "Mother, I'm still young, you still have to take good care of me, you can't have anything, you have to cheer up, you still have grandma, sister and me." ”

Cao stretched out his arms like branches, used all his strength, trembled and picked up Zi'er, held Zi'er in his arms, pursed his lips, and bit his lips fiercely, but he still couldn't hold back, his whole face was trembling, his lips were desperately cracking to both sides, and tears like beans fell like no money.

Zi'er was hugged tightly by Cao's family, squirming a little uncomfortably, but she soon stopped moving, and let Cao's hold herself very sensibly, twisted her little face to the door, and looked at Ningxia Qing who was standing at the door, and Ningxia Qing also looked at Zi'er.

Cao Shi cried while stretching out his hand to the door, Ningxia Qing walked forward knowingly, Cao took Ning Ningqing's hand, put Ningxia Qing's hand on Zi'er, took the handkerchief that had just been washed and dried, wiped the tears on his face, stabilized his mind, and said softly: "Qing'er, you have been busy in the past few days, you have worked hard." ”

There were a thousand words swirling on Ning Ningqing's lips, but he just said lightly: "Mother, I'm fine, you ......"

Hearing this, Cao said, "Don't worry, my mother will persevere." Qing'er, you've been working too hard these days, go and rest. ”

"Hmm." Ning Xia Qing agreed, and then asked the Cao family to close his eyes first, and left the Cao family's house with Zi'er.

She took Zi'er's hand and walked out of the house, and Zi'er suddenly asked in a low voice, "Sister, is my father dead?" ”

Ning Xia Qing was stunned, looked at Zi'er, and saw that Zi'er's innocent eyes were full of fear and doubt, Ning Xia Qing squatted down, held back her tears, nodded and said, "Hmm." ”

Zi'er asked, "What will happen when you die?" ”

"After you die...... It won't come back. ”

Zi'er thought for a moment and said seriously: "So, Dad won't come back, I won't see Dad again, will I?" ”

"Hmm."

Zi'er's confused eyes gradually filled with small tears, Ning Xia Qing hurriedly hugged Zi'er and instructed: "In front of grandma and mother, don't mention your father, don't mention death, remember?" ”

Zi'er burst into tears and nodded ignorantly: "Hmm." ”

Ning Xia Qing knew that Zi'er didn't understand the true meaning of death, all Zi'er was sad was that she would never see Ning Yongda again, and she could no longer be picked up by Ning Yongda and beaten Yoyo, and it would not be until many, many years later that Zi'er would understand what she had experienced today.

Ning Xia Qing wiped Zi'er's tears and said softly: "Don't cry, go find Shuangxi to play." ”

"Hmm." Zi'er nodded, ran away sullenly, looking at Zi'er's round little back, Ning Xia Qing finally covered her mouth, and couldn't help crying again, crying so much that even her fingers were trembling.

Cuiyu came up, Ningxia Qing couldn't speak, and gestured to Cuiyu with her eyes, Cuiyu was stunned for a moment, then understood, and asked, "Is the girl going to ask where the old lady is?" There are a few grandmothers in the clan, and they are talking to the old lady. Immediately, Jade said, "Girl, I'll help you back to the house and sit down for a while." ”

Ning Ningqing nodded, and let Cuiyu carry her weak self back, crying for a while before calming down, and commanded Cuiyu in a dumb voice: "You go to the old lady to have a look, are those grandmothers still there?" ”

After a while, Cuiyu came back and said, "Those grandmothers have left, and the people who came to mourn have also left. ”

"What did the grandmothers say to the old lady?"

Cui Yu said while thinking about it: "Mrs. Chen heard that those clan grandmothers seem to have mentioned what clan property and what contract ......."

Family property, contract ...... Sure enough, as soon as Ning Yongda died, the people in the clan couldn't wait!

Many years ago, I don't know under what circumstances, Mrs. Ning made a contract, which said that if the incense of Mrs. Ning's vein was broken, the mulberry garden under her name would belong to the clan. Because of this contract, over the years, I don't know how many people in the Ning clan are looking forward to Ning Yongda's death!

Now that Ning Yongda is really dead, and he didn't leave a son, this just fulfilled the wishes of those people, those people couldn't wait to swallow Ning Yongda's mulberry garden to the end, and they didn't even plan to leave it to the orphans and widows of this big family, no, these people have come to the door!