Fallen Leaves Return to the Sycamore Chapter 24 At the Banquet
Hearing this, Bai Taoli raised his head and saw that it was the city lord Su Qu standing in front of the group. Na Su Qu was wearing white and red matching clothes today, with a bright crown on his high erected hair, and the whole person looked much more energetic than when he saw it before.
With a smile on his face, he exchanged a few words with Xun Liang and brought a few people into the banquet.
Xu Qi'an floated in the air and looked at his smile, his eyes were full of sadness, this dress was made by her own hands for him, and every stitch and thread was sewn by herself.
"Tao Li, in a while, if you want to ask something, I will say a word, and you will learn a sentence." Xu Qi'an said.
Bai Taoli nodded, and followed Master Xun Liang to find a seat and sit down.
said it was a banquet, but there were only a few of them, and this banquet was just for you to ask me to answer, or for me to ask you to answer. There was no laughter in the whole banquet, and everyone seemed to be expressionless in unison, even if they laughed like an awkward smile. Everyone is waiting for a moment.
"Hey, I said that you are really, there are so many delicious things at a good banquet, and you can't eat them happily, you are so restrained." Xu Qi'an sat next to Bai Taoli, and on the other side sat the wood ghost, who wanted to make the wood ghost change back to its original form, but the master said that it was not necessary......
The wood ghost looked at Bai Taoli and then at Xun Liang, who was closing his eyes and meditating. Looking at the city lord Su Qu again, sitting on the main seat, looking at the door opposite him, as if a person could walk in from that door in a while, his eyes were full of anticipation and uneasiness. You don't have to guess to know that he is waiting for Xu Qi'an.
"Master, the hour has come, let's start the banquet......" Seeing this, Nanfeng whispered in Su Qu's ear.
Su Qu smiled faintly, his smile was full of bitterness and desolation, if he hadn't heard some things Xu Qi'an said, I am afraid that everyone present would be melancholy about this situation.
"Then let's get started, everyone, please eat!" Su Qu came back to her senses, she still didn't come, she waited for three years, and she didn't come to the Jade Dragon Festival for three years.
Su Qu raised the wine glass on the table: "Thank you for your willingness to come to Su's humble house today, so that this place can flourish, Su is grateful." After saying that, they drank it all, and several people also raised their wine glasses and drank it all.
"City Lord Su, there is already some news about what you did to Xun last time, and we have also found Miss Xu's soul." Xun Liang slowly spoke, looking at Su Qudao.
Su Qu's hand holding the wine glass trembled slightly, he hurriedly put the wine glass down, and looked at Xun Liang eagerly: "Mr. Xun, when does Xiao An say she is willing to come to see me?" ”
Su Qu's voice trembled.
"She doesn't want to see you yet, but she has a few questions she wants to ask City Lord Su......" Xun Liang said, "I also asked City Lord Su to answer them one by one before Miss Xu was willing to show up." ”
"Mr. Xun, you ask." Su Qu didn't notice that Xu Qi'an was on the seat of this banquet at this time.
Xun Liang asked, "The first question, how did Miss Xu leave back then?" ”
Everyone's eyes were focused on Su Qu's body, and at this time, the candlelight on the banquet was flickering, and a gust of wind blew in, and the banquet was bright and dark.
"I guess Xiao An also told you about the things back then, when I just sat in the position of the city lord, I went to Manxiang Lou once, and Xiao An fell in love at first sight, she was the singer there, and I ransomed her back. At first, Xiao An was only greedy for her beauty like those men who went to Manxianglou, so I didn't want to have more contact with me, so I asked my subordinates to take care of her more. Over time, she became so prejudiced against me, and accepted me, and the two of them were happy, morning and twilight," Speaking of this, Su Qu seemed to be caught in that good time back then, with an obvious smile on her face and eyes, "I built Qi'an Xuan for her, and it was named after her." She likes the sycamore tree, so I planted a sycamore tree for her in the yard, the sycamore blooms in summer, she is hearty and lively, and when she arrives, she loves to sit on the tree, dangling her legs, and calling my name on the tree...... "Speaking of this, Su Qu had tears in his eyes, and his eyes were slightly red.
Xu Qi'an listened to what he said beside Bai Taoli, and subconsciously said: "Yes, but now, she has no legs, and she can no longer sit on the tree with her legs dangling...... The plane tree will never bloom again......"
"They're all dead." Xu Qi'an frowned and sighed.
Bai Taoli felt a little sad in her heart, so what happened later, what happened later......
The wood ghost quietly changed back to his original form and walked to Bai Taoli's side, lying down, squinting slightly, but his ears were pricked up to listen to Su Qu continue to speak.
"Not long after, I told her that I wanted to marry her, and I wanted to give her a name so that people would not look down on her. And just like that, we got married. But after getting married, Xiao An was found to have a strange disease...... The doctor said that Xiao An would have fantasies at night, at first I thought it was nothing, what could fantasies have? But I thought wrong, Xiao An's illness became more and more serious, and finally one day, even the medicine couldn't control it......" The despair in Su Qu's eyes became bigger and bigger, and Xu Qi'an, who was in the banquet, looked at Su Qu with wide eyes, his face was full of incredulity, even she forgot about herself, she forgot that she had this strange disease...... Except for Xu Qi'an, the rest of the people also seemed to suddenly understand why Su Qu and Xu Qi'an were different.
Both of them are the truth, but Su Qu is telling the real situation, while Xu Qi'an only remembers the things in his fantasy......
Three years ago.
The night was full, and a strange aura lingered around the City Lord's Mansion.
In the east courtyard of the Castle Lord's Mansion.
"Woooooooooo......oo Woo woo woo woo ......" Xu Qi'an hid in the corner of the room and sobbed in a low voice, and said inarticulately, "Don't hit me, don't ......" Her face was full of fear, her eyes looked ahead, but there was no one in front of her, and her eyes were full of tears.
Su Qu pushed the door in, and after seeing Xu Qi'an's thin body curled up in the corner, he hurriedly ran over and hugged her into his arms: "Xiao An, Xiao An, what's wrong with you!" He knew that her hallucinations had happened again, and he didn't know what strange things she had seen again, which made her so afraid.
Xu Qi'an in his arms was quiet for a while, trembling all over, and suddenly his eyes showed a fierce murderous aura, and he took out a dagger out of nowhere and stabbed at Su Qu.
"You go to die!" Xu Qi'an stabbed Su Qu in the chest, Su Qu dodged the dagger sideways, and he grabbed Xu Qi'an's wrist holding the dagger with his backhand.
"Xiao An, what did you see?!"
I don't know that Xu Qi'an's strength suddenly became much greater than usual for some reason, and he opened Su Qu's hand and stabbed at Su Qu again!
The situation is critical.
"Hiss-" Su Qu's arm was cut by Xu Qi'an, and blood gushed out.
"Hahaha......" Xu Qi'an smiled like a madman, his appearance was extremely terrifying, and his messy hair was messily stuck to his face with sweat, "Finally...... Finally dead......"
Su Qu, who fell to the ground, covered her arms and looked at Xu Qi'an, thinking that she would gradually calm down, but who knew that the next second she grabbed the dagger and stabbed it fiercely towards her heart, and for a while blood splashed everywhere, gushing out of her heart, she looked at Su Qu and smiled at him, a line of tears slipped from her eyes, and she opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something to Su Qu, but she didn't say anything. Hearing only a swaying sound, Xu Qi'an fell heavily in a pool of blood, lifeless.
Su Qu was stunned for a long time, and opened his mouth wide: "Ah...... Small...... Xiao An...... Xiao An? Xiao An! ”
He picked up Xu Qi'an from the ground like crazy, hugged him tightly in his arms, stroked all the hair on her face to the back of her head, held Xu Qi'an's face in his hand, and choked in a voice: "Xiao An, Xiao An, wake up, wake up!" ”
Finally sure that she was silent, he cried, tears fell down a lot, and he kissed Xu Qi'an's cheek in a panic: "Xiao An...... I ...... "I can't cry anymore, what to do, what to do, what to do......
Xiao An, Xiao An, wake up......
You wake up, wake up, wake up......
"Xiao An, wake up quickly, when you wake up, we'll go to Qi'an Xuan, okay?"
"We Qi'an Xuan, I'm no longer the city lord, we'll live there."
"Then every day I went out to make a living, and when I came back, you sat in the sycamore tree in the yard, singing, and waited for me to come back."
"You love to eat osmanthus cake, I make it for you every day, you like snow, I will show you every year."
"Are you going to wake up?"
"Huh? Xiao An, if you don't wake up, I'm going to be angry...... I'm angry...... I won't make you osmanthus cake, and I won't take you out...... Play...... ......" Su Qu cried with grief and hugged Xu Qi'an tightly.
Outside the house, the wind blew open the windows of the house, the candles flickered, the veils danced wildly, the blood on the ground was dazzling, and the eyes of the piercing people hurt.
"City Lord!" Mr. Zhou pushed the door and entered, looking at everything in front of him and stunned in place, "This ......"
Su Qu picked up Xu Qi'an, put her on the couch, lowered his head and kissed her forehead.
Turning to look at Manager Zhou, he said, "The order goes on, my wife has been ill for a long time and has passed away." ”
"Yes!" Manager Zhou sighed, turned around and left the door, after all, it was still the case......
Three days later, a solemn funeral was held.
Everyone who came sighed, it was really a pair of hard-working mandarin ducks.
Xu Qi'an was buried under the plane tree in Qi'an Xuan.
Later, after everyone left, Su Qu stood under the plane tree, holding Xu Qi'an's jade bracelet in his hand, seeing things and thinking about people.
He had learned from others that if the dead were buried in the place where they remembered the best, the soul of the dead would linger.
Su Qu did that in order to see Xu Qi'an again. But he didn't know that Xu Qi'an's death had always been related to Su Qu, and she was killed by Su Qu, so he was reluctant to see him.
So she hated him, resented him, and thought that he wanted to imprison her here, and never be able to live again.
It turns out that she is the one who has been misremembering?
In the end, the sycamore leaves fell one after another, blowing away a pair of lovers.
"I've been waiting for you for three years, and every year on the Jade Dragon Festival, I will come to Qi'an Xuan, and I stand under the tree, hoping to look up and see you sitting on the tree singing, looking at me with a smile, and saying to me, 'Su Qu, are you back?'."
"But you don't seem to want to see me......"