Do you love her? ”

"How much love?"

Xu Cheng has lived for twenty-four years, and no less than ten people have been asked the same question.

The Xu family and the Nian family are world friends, Xu Cheng's father Xu Chong and the old man are partners who play together with bare butts, although one goes to join the army and the other starts a business, but the relationship has always been good.

However, when the old man was doing business in his early years, he met a bandit and was seriously injured, and his body has not been recuperated, and when his youngest daughter Nian Jiaojiao was born, the old man was already in his early forties, and Xu Cheng was already eight years old.

The eight-year-old Xu Cheng was led by his mother to drink the full moon wine at home last year, looking at the future lady in the cradle, the little face was pink and tender, and the big eyes were watery, like a delicious crystal bun, so he was very satisfied.

In addition, the Xu and Nian families are not shy about this family business, and Xiao Xu Cheng is like getting a gold ingot, and he has a little lady when he meets people.

Xu Cheng's father is not at home all the year round, and the old lady is quite imposing, and after the marriage, he repeatedly instilled in him that he should be good to the lady in the future, and he can no longer be unclear with other women, so Xiao Xu Cheng remembered it in his heart, and after that, the friends played together, and he refused to play the groom when he died.

"I already have a wife, and I can't marry another woman." When he was named to play the groom, Xiao Xu Chengyi sternly refused.

"The bride" is the most popular Xiao Chunyan in the village, how many boys usually compete to play the groom and worship with her, she can't look down on it, but she has a soft spot for Xu Cheng, Xu Cheng has a good temper, but the fight is also first-class and powerful, so no one else is unconvinced.

But today, it's strange that the groom official actually quit.

Xiao Chunyan has never been rejected, and immediately pouted: "I don't!" I'm going to marry you!" ”

Xiao Xu Cheng replied with a righteous face: "No, my mother said that a man can only marry one woman." ”

Xiao Chunyan cried as soon as she wowed, sat on the ground and began to play tricks, crying while shouting I am going to marry you, I will marry you, and the rest of the friends hurriedly separated to comfort her and comfort her, accusing Xu Cheng of accusing Xu Cheng.

A boy who looked at Xiao Chunyan and worshiped Xiao Chunyan angrily pointed at Xu Cheng's nose and asked, "What's wrong with Chunyan, why don't you marry her!" ”

Xiao Xu Cheng repeated the words again without being humble or arrogant, and the boy said: "Then you will divorce that woman and marry us Chunyan." ”

Of course, Xiao Xu Cheng would not agree to this kind of thing, so a group of heroes rushed to the crown and turned into a red face, and their words were not in line with their fists and feet, and in just a while, Xiao Xu Cheng was knocked to the ground, and all kinds of fists and feet, stones, and sticks were all beckoned to him.

Xiao Xu Cheng was beaten without saying a word, but Xiao Chunyan was frightened and shouted in a hurry: "Don't beat him, don't beat him!" ”

In the end, it was the adults in the village who came to tear the children apart, and Xiao Xu Cheng was sent home with a blue nose and swollen face, and when Mrs. Xu came back from the field, she saw her son's face swollen like a pig's head, squatting in the yard to wash clothes, and instantly went crazy: "Who beat you like this!" ”

Xiao Xu Cheng told what happened, Xu Lao Niang choked up, touched her son's cheek and said, "Good boy, you did the right thing, come, put the clothes on my mother for a while to wash them, come in and my mother will rub some medicine for you." ”

The mother and son sat on the edge of the bed, Mrs. Xu took a bone-setting wine to wipe her son, Xiao Xu Cheng pursed her lips and remained silent, Mrs. Xu asked, "Does it hurt?" Xiao Xu Cheng nodded, and Mrs. Xu asked again: "Then do you regret it?" Xiao Xu Cheng shook his head.

Mrs. Xu held him in her arms and said in a gentle voice: "Son, you have to remember, if you don't like someone, don't marry her back, so that she has no hope for the rest of her life, and if you like someone, no matter how much others try to break you up, you have to carry it, you are a man, you know?" ”

Xiao Xu Cheng didn't understand it, and nodded obediently.

In the next few days, he was recuperating at home, and Xiao Chunyan came twice, but Xu Lao Niang locked the door and didn't let her in.

When a girl encounters a problem that cannot be solved, the most direct way is to cry, when she eats the closed door for the third time, sits at the door and wipes her tears, Xiao Xu Cheng finally can't stand the condemnation of conscience, and opens the door: "You go back, I'll come back to play with you when I'm better." ”

Xiao Chunyan looked at him with blinking: "Then can you still be my groom official?" ”

Xiao Xu Cheng shook his head: "No." ”

Xiao Chunyan was about to cry again, but Xiao Xu Cheng hurriedly said, "Aren't there still many people vying to be your groom's official?" ”

"But if I don't like them, I like you." Xiao Chunyan said very stubbornly.

"Then it can't be helped." Xiao Xu Cheng shrugged and closed the door again.

Xiao Chunyan slapped the door with her face and asked loudly, "Do you love her?" ”

Xiao Xu Cheng opened the door again with an inexplicable face: "What did you say?" ”

Xiao Chunyan had two packs of tears in her eyes: "Do you love her?" Your bride. ”

Xiao Xu Cheng tilted his head and thought about it - what does love mean?

Xiao Chunyan sobbed and said, "Do you love her?" How much love? Why did you abandon me? ”

Xiao Xu Cheng: "......"

After a few days, he heard from Mrs. Xu that Xiao Chunyan's father was doing business in the city, fell in love with a Qinglou woman, abandoned their mother and daughter, and eloped with the Qinglou woman with all the money in the family. How much love? Why did you abandon me? ”

Chun Yanniang cried heartbreakingly, but the man who had changed his mind couldn't pull ten cows, Chun Yan's father held the only property in the family, kicked his ex-wife hard, and walked away, leaving only a letter of resignation.

That was the first time in Xiao Xu Cheng's life that he felt what the family was broken, and therefore he better understood why his mother wanted him to marry only one woman in his life, because a man's change of heart and leaving is a wound that can never be healed for a family.

In the next sixteen years, many people asked him, do you love her, how much you love her, but they are all rivals in love.

Nian Jiaojiao herself is lively, cute and likable, Nian's family is wealthy, she is a well-known wealthy businessman in Yanzhou, and the people who want to marry her are lined up in a long line, and they are very disdainful of Xu Cheng, a poor boy, who picked up his father's cheapness for nothing.

Nian Jiaojiao said: "What about them, the mouth grows on people, and the asshole also grows on people, can you still control people?" ”

Xu Cheng's rugged face turned red: "No...... You can't say that......"

"Why can't you say that? They just fancy my father's money, what do you care about them? ”

"I mean, girl, don't asshole...... Something on the side of the mouth......"

“……”

Nian Jiaojiao pouted, rolled her eyes, and said, "If you don't like it, then I won't talk about it in the future." ”

The prospective lady is really an impeccable good girl, although she is a little smaller, but she has been particularly protective of him since she was a child, and she must give him a copy of what is delicious and fun, and she learned to do needlework, and embroidered a handkerchief for Xu Cheng, the stitches on it are crooked, and the boss has a peony flower, so that he doesn't dare to take it out in front of people.

Old man Xu said that age is not a problem, but in fact, age is still a little problem, the man of Da Chu should be married at the age of twenty, but Xu Cheng has to wait, during this period, there are many fox friends who want to drag him into the kiln, Xu Cheng can push it off once or twice, but he can't stand a large group of people to pull hard, a few cups of spring wine poured down, and he has been in trouble when he feels it.

Normal men go to the kiln but it is ordinary, but Xu Cheng ran to apologize to Nian Jiaojiao as if he had made a mistake, and Nian Jiaojiao waved her hand generously at him: "Forget it this time, don't go again in the future, these people are not clean, they will dye all the people around them black, you are not allowed to go out with them again." As soon as he turned around, he asked someone to clean up the group of guys who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic.

Xu Cheng was moved by her generosity - if he was his father, his leg would have been broken a long time ago.

While swearing in my heart, this is absolute! Right! No! Yes! Again! Yes! Finish!

Absolute!

However, it backfired, and it was another morning of a hangover, Xu Cheng looked at the people lying next to him, and then looked at the scratches on his body, and almost vomited blood to death.

Why is that!!

Thousands of precautions, all the women around him, but ignore the original medicine This kind of thing is not only done by women.

Shan Jian himself was very calm, looking at his expression of being about to die, he knew that he must be unacceptable in his heart, so he consciously disappeared for a few days.

For him, after Cui Huan's death, everyone around him was just a pastime, there was nothing to say that he was not serious, and when he was lonely, he went to find it, but the other party didn't accept it, so forget it.

But Xu Cheng is different from other people he has pastime after all, this upright rough man still treats him as a brother despite his secret calculations, and he should have tacitly erased this chapter, but when he learned that Shan Jian drank flower wine and drank in the small building of Xuanzhou Mansion and didn't move his nest for three days and three nights, Xu Cheng ran to find someone.

"Don't drink so much." The drunk man couldn't tell the difference between east and west, north and south, but he was still shouting for wine and beauty, and Xu Cheng felt deeply helpless about this.

Shan Jian burped and pushed him away: "Don't bother, the city has been taken, and I am not allowed to entertain and entertain?" ”

Xu Cheng sighed: "Drinking hurts your body, the injuries on your body are not complete, drink so much wine, don't you die?" ”

Shan Jian lay on the table and snorted: "Wutong treats each other old, and the mandarin ducks will die...... It's not interesting for me to live alone, it's good to be drunk, it's good to be drunk......"

Xu Cheng didn't know much about his past, and he didn't usually like gossip, so he asked, "Do you have someone you like?" ”

Shan Jian replied in a daze: "It's dead, it's dead...... Let him not drink...... He just ......"

It turns out that the person he likes is dead, no wonder he always has a lonely expression, his mouth is so damaged, his heart is so poisonous, Xu Cheng is simple in his heart, it's not that he can't understand this kind of cynicism, the person he likes is dead, and if he looks at the whole world, he is an enemy.

After that, Xu Cheng deliberately took more care of him, sent him things, asked him to drink, and said some words of encouragement and comfort. In the head of the rectum general, as long as people live, there will always be hope, not to mention that Shan Jian is still so young, if he loses one, there will be another.

But he never thought that this other one would be himself.

When Shan Jian begged him for pleasure through wine, Xu Cheng suddenly realized that things were too far away from his expectations, and when he said the word no, the expression on the other side instantly froze, and the drunkenness disappeared.

Shan Jian dropped the flask and left without saying a word.

Xu Cheng thought hard for a few days alone, and then went to him to clarify his intentions, but Shan Jian refused to accept it.

"Do you love her?"

The same problem is once again being put in front of us.

Shan Jian has always been indifferent to the things around her, but at the moment she seems aggressive.

Xu Cheng nodded, even if he answered him.

"Do you love her? How much love? Have you ever slept with her? Has it ever given you true happiness? What do you want yourself, do you really know it? ”

Xu Cheng swallowed his saliva and replied honestly: "No matter what, I will marry her." ”

Shan Jian asked again, "Do you love her?" ”

Xu Cheng had no choice but to say: "Love." ”

Shan Jian seemed to be stabbed in the heart by this word, and didn't say anything for a long time.

Xu Cheng stood up on his knees: "The emperor has ordered you and me to return to Beijing and leave in three days." ”

Shan Jian said coldly: "Will he not know that I don't want to go back?" ”

"The emperor said in the letter that if you don't want to go back, you can stay in Yanzhou, or you can go wherever you want," Xu Cheng walked out, "but I have to go back, Jiaojiao is still waiting for me." ”

Shan Jian was choked again, and waited until he walked out of the door before he seemed to use all his strength to ask, "Then are you still coming back?" ”

Xu Cheng paused and shook his head: "If you don't come back, we won't meet again in the future, and we won't contact each other again." ”

This is goodbye, Xu Cheng swore in his heart that he would never see him again in this life.

As a result, it was really never seen again, Cui Yi announced the bad news in public in the court, everyone sighed, only Xu Cheng stayed in the Ming Hall in shock.

He actually died?

Because I rejected him?

The person he loved in the past was the prince, he was such a person in Zhilan Yushu, and he was so different from himself, he was still able to live strong after Cui Huan's death, but he was rejected by himself, and he would seek death?

Why? Xu Cheng didn't even dare to think about it, because he ruthlessly extinguished his hard-to-germinate desire to continue to live well, or was it ......

After separating from his eldest grandson Zhiying outside the Ming Hall, Xu Cheng returned home, closed the door of the study, and tore out the unopened envelope of the crumpled letterhead thrown in the corner.

If you refuse to come back, then let me come back, if you refuse to see me, it doesn't matter, let me die in exchange for seeing you every year.

Xu Cheng held the crumpled letterhead and wept silently.

The two short lines on the letterhead soon bubbled in the dripping tears, turning into a pool of thick and faint ink stains, and what was written on them would never be known again.

I don't see it for a day, and I think like crazy.

I shall not be allowed to fly, and I shall be destroyed.