Chapter Twenty-Three: The Return of the Dead
But this time Dai Yi didn't leave, He Yanjun looked back at her, and found that there was already a sea in her eyes, and for a while He Yanjun couldn't find any words to comfort her, but her nose was sour. Qiu Zeyuan saw Dai Wei lowering his eyes slightly from a distance, and his heart was also sour. She has been like this since she was a child, and whenever she is sad, she is always used to pressing back her sad emotions. He went from being the one who protected her from any harm to the one who hurt her all over her body.
Xin Cheng saw the peerless woman standing not far away, and tried to overlap the vague shadow in his heart with the person in front of him, but unfortunately the sixteen years of light still took away a lot of beautiful things, such as a woman's youth.
The short distance from the Jiuqu Pool to the main hall of the new building, Xin Cheng felt that he had walked a long road as long as ten Pujiang rivers, and when he stood in front of Dai Wei, he felt that he was trembling from head to toe, but fortunately, Chu Yan held his hand tightly beside him and pulled him to kneel, and he came back to his senses slightly.
Xin Cheng slammed his head on the ground, and couldn't stop choking anymore, unable to even say a word of greeting.
When everyone present saw Xin Cheng like this, they were all sad, and even Qiu Zeyuan and Tong Fengyi, two men who had experienced the world, had red eyes.
He Yanjun supported Dai Wei with tears in one hand, stroked Chu Yan's back with the other, and said to Chu Yan: "Child, help your husband get up, let's go over there and sit down." ”
Chu Yan took out a silk handkerchief from his arms and wiped the tears on his face, stroked Xin Cheng's arm and wanted to pick him up, but Xin Cheng gently pushed her hand away, knocked his head three times on the cold ground, and said in a choked voice: "Nephew Xin Cheng visits his aunt, aunt Wanfu." ”
Seeing this, Chu Yan followed her husband to pay tribute to Dai Wei's nephew, "Nephew Xin Chuyan visited her aunt, and her aunt was blessed." ”
Dai Wei took a deep breath, showed a strong and forbearant smile, bent down deeply to help the two up, and said with a smile: "I finally looked forward to you, let's eat first." Xiaocheng, my aunt remembers that you loved to eat green bamboo shoots when you were young, and prepared a lot, but I don't know if your taste has changed now? ”
"It hasn't changed, frying, steaming, cooking, no matter how you do it, as long as there are green bamboo shoots, he always eats the happiest." Chu Yan said softly.
"That's good. I don't know what you like when you meet for the first time, so please bear with me if there is anything wrong. He Yanjun said to Chu Yan with a smile.
"Uncle, you are polite, my husband's preference is Chu Yan's preference." Chu Yan smiled sweetly.
The four elders felt very relieved when they saw their young husband and wife singing and following their wives.
After dinner, He Yanjun said to everyone: "You go upstairs to talk, I will guard in the hall, and wait for Ling Ji and them to come back." Let's let Yoyo come to our house tonight, right? ”
After Tong Fengyi and Qiu Zeyuan glanced at each other, Tong Fengyi said to his wife: "It's okay, you ......."
"Don't worry, I'll settle you." He Yanjun said.
Tong Fengyi laughed and teased: "Of course I know that you can handle it properly, I want to say that it is windy outside, you can wear an extra cloak and then take them home." ”
"Got it."
Although He Yanjun didn't say it, his heart was still warm. has been married for many years, and she couldn't be clearer about Tong Fengyi's character. After the dinner was over, she snuggled up on the sofa and remembered some old things......
That year, under the pear blossom tree, the man hugged her tightly and begged her not to leave, but unfortunately her father's fate was difficult to disobey, and she still sat in the sedan chair that married Ye Jin.
That night, she cried and trembled, but found that the person outside the hijab also had a depressed face, she waited for a long time with hatred and fear, only to hear a hollow voice floating from nowhere, "You are He Yanjun?" ”
She thought he would ask her why she was crying, she thought he would be furious because she was wailing like a mourner on her big day, but she didn't expect him to ask such a sentence, she forgot to cry, and asked viciously: "Who are you marrying, don't you know yourself?!" ”
"I knew I was going to marry the eldest daughter of the He family, but I didn't know it was you." His answer instantly restored her composure, and after a while, she smiled miserably and exclaimed, "Me too." I knew I was going to marry the eldest son of the Tong family, but I didn't know it was you. ”
After a sentence, there was silence, her eyes stared at the person who had separated her and her lover, and found that in addition to a dead silence in this person's eyes, she could not be shocked by any emotions cast into his eyes, and after a moment she seemed to understand a little, and there should be a sad past behind him......
I don't know how long it took for Tong Fengyi to sit beside her, "After tonight, you and I will be husband and wife, I want you to promise me a word." ”
"What?" She had a vague sense that the promise he was asking for would also work in her favor.
I saw him holding his heart tightly, and his voice was hoarse, "I don't think much about you and don't ask too much, let's spend the rest of our lives together?" ”
She stared at the man who was coldly looking at the cold moonlight outside the window, and suddenly her hatred for him was not so strong, maybe he also reluctantly accepted the order of his parents, maybe there was such a person in his heart who was difficult to let go. is also a fallen person at the end of the world, why should she embarrass him?
"No matter what you think or do, I won't ask, but can you promise me the same thing?" She asked coldly.
This time Tong Fengyi no longer looked out the window, but looked back at her, she was a little frightened by the coldness in his eyes, and just about to change her words, she heard his hoarse voice, "Yes." But no matter what you do, you must think about the consequences before that, otherwise even if I let you go, my family will not let you go, and I won't let your family go. ”
Afterward......
"Madam Tong, Miss, they have come back, they have already walked to the corridor, you can see ......" He Yanjun's thoughts were interrupted by Steward Hu, who came to report.
She hurriedly got up and put on her maple leaf windbreaker and walked out quickly, stopping them before they appeared in the courtroom, and when she explained her intentions, everyone asked:
"Mother, is there something going on in the house? Why do you want to go to our house? Tong Yuqing looked puzzled.
"Yes, Mother, is Father okay? What about Uncle Qiu? Tong Yuhao also followed her sister.
"Auntie, where's my aunt? Isn't she in the house? "In the past, even if I didn't see my father and Uncle Tong, my aunt would always be by her side. But this time, even her aunt was gone, and Qiu Yiyou's heart seemed to have been dug out of a bottomless pit.
Qiu Lingjian raised his eyes and looked at the attic in the distance, and saw that it was still brightly lit, and there was nothing unusual, and he felt strange in his heart, but thinking about Qiu Zeyuan and Tong Fengyi's actions today, he vaguely guessed that it should be related to the person who visited today, so he didn't say much. Just secretly remind yourself not to be careless if you come into contact with this person.
Bai Qiaoxuan saw that the three people in front of him asked so much, and He Yanjun only replied, "Everything is fine, you just go back to the house to rest." He didn't ask anything more, but he frowned like everyone else.
Bai Jiayin looked up at her brother's face like bitter melon, and then looked at the faces of others, and said strangely: "Isn't it just to invite Sister Youyou to stay in Tong's Mansion for one night?" Why are you all bitter and hateful? I've been living in Yejin for almost a month, and I haven't seen my father and brother worrying? ”
"Mouthy!" Bai Qiaoxuan was just about to teach his sister a lesson, He Yanjun hurriedly picked up this little lucky star and praised: "Ayin is so right! Isn't it just going to our house for one night? It's not like you haven't lived there, is it worth all the fuss you guys about? Go back, and I'll take you home myself. ”
He Yanjun alone couldn't control what the five people thought, and he could only tease Xiao Ayin and adjust the atmosphere along the way.
Back in Tongfu, He Yanjun was about to lie down and rest after setting up Qiu Yiyou, but when he was about to close the door, he saw his daughter standing at the door in pajamas and holding a pillow, and after seeing her, Tong Yuqing smiled sheepishly: "Mother, I want to sleep with you tonight." ”
"You're here to sleep with me? If I let you in, I'm afraid I won't have to sleep tonight, right? Go back to sleep! Tomorrow you'll know everything. ”
Tong Yuqing was frustrated and worried, but He Yanjun no longer gave her a chance to argue and locked her out directly.
Just returned to the room dejectedly, Tong Yuqing was suddenly startled by a shadow, and only then relieved her mind after looking at it.
"Yoyo, you're really scaring me!" Tong Yuqing lowered her voice and exclaimed. She carefully looked at Qiu Yiyou's outfit again, and asked tentatively, "You...... Are you trying to sneak back to the Overseer's Palace? ”
Qiu Yiyou grabbed Tong Yuqing and nodded in response: "Hmm! I really can't feel at ease if I don't go back to see me, can you accompany me back to my aunt? ”
Tong Yuqing frowned and said after thinking for a while: "It's not proper, not to mention that we can't avoid the guards in the two mansions, even if we avoid it, Uncle Qiu, Aunt Dai and my father may not be in the Overseer's Mansion." After all, we don't even know what's going on now, and if an accident happens, it will be difficult for me to get out by myself, let alone take you with me? For now, we can only wait, I listened to my mother, and by tomorrow we will know what happened, and now all we need to do is sleep! ”
Qiu Yiyou walked around, very anxious, "I don't know what you said?" But how can I sleep now? ”
Tong Yuqing went to Qiu Yiyou's room and took her pajamas, asked Qiu Yiyou to change them, and found a very thick book in the bookcase and threw it to Qiu Yiyou, and then she covered the quilt for Qiu Yiyou, and after settling everything, she also got into the quilt herself.
Qiu Yiyou looked at her inexplicably, and she motioned for Qiu Yiyou to open the book, "Volume one and five, you read it to me." ”
"The General Guide to Governance? You actually liked this book? ”
Tong Yuqing said lazily: "I don't like it, my father wants me to watch it, I have to watch it." ”
Qiu Yiyou thought of Tong Fengyi's strict discipline of Tong Yuqing, and once again congratulated himself that he had a good father who was unparalleled in the world, but his father was ...... now
Tong Yuqing also knew what she was thinking, and urged: "Read it quickly!" I used to fall asleep just looking at it. ”
"Spring, the first month, Qin Lu Guangfa Chang'an, with Shanshan King Xiu Mi and the front of the chariot Wang Mijiao as the township guide......"