Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Past
Tong Yuqing called "Yoyo", but she walked straight to Qiu Zeyuan as if she hadn't heard it, stood still in front of Qiu Zeyuan, and stared at him for a long time, but Qiu Zeyuan leaned back on the chair with his eyes closed, refusing to open his eyes.
I don't know how long it took, Qiu Yiyou suddenly stopped looking at Qiu Zeyuan, and turned to look at Dai Yi who had tears in her eyes, Qiu Yiyou looked at Dai Yi who bit her lower lip and forced herself not to cry, and her eyes gradually blurred, but she also held back her tears and asked with a smile: "Auntie, how did I dance this white silk dance?" ”
Hearing Qiu Yiyou's name for herself, the last line of defense in Dai Wei's heart was completely defeated. Years of forbearance, years of grievances, and years of pain turned into a sea of tears in an instant, and they couldn't stop pouring out.
Qiu Zeyuan heard Dai Wei's initial dripping cry gradually turn into a stormy wail, and his heart felt like being pierced by thousands of fine and dense needles, and there was no bloodstain, but it was already full of holes.
Tong Fengyi's face was pale, and the fists in his sleeves were clenched tighter and tighter, and before he knew it, his palms were already black.
Tong Yuqing and the others held their breath when they saw such a scene, for fear that if they said the wrong thing and did something wrong, they would never recover.
When Dai Wei's mood gradually calmed down, Qiu Yiyou turned his head to look at Qiu Zeyuan again, knelt in front of him with a plop, and kowtowed to him three times on the ground, and every time it fell in Qiu Zeyuan's ears, he felt terrified.
After that, Qiu Yiyou stood up and said to Qiu Zeyuan clearly: "Father, those three heads just now are to thank you for your kindness to me for sixteen years. I know in my heart that just three rings are not enough to repay you for your kindness to me, but I can only repay this kindness later. That 'father' just now was the last time I addressed you like that. ”
Yiyou paused, took a deep breath, and continued, "Overseer, I want you to tell me in person, who are my biological parents?" What is their relationship with you? How did he pass away? ”
Qiu Zeyuan leaned back in his chair, all thoughts were lost, but there was a smile on his lips, "You already know, and you still come to ask me what to do?" ”
"I want to hear your explanation with my own ears." Yi Yu replied firmly.
Tong Fengyi saw that a good Chinese New Year's Eve night was ruined by this girl in front of him, and the resentment that had been pressed in his heart for many years was condensed on the white dance dress in front of him. He flipped the tea table in front of him suddenly, letting the hot tea pour on his hand, scalding a little scar, and regardless of whether the scattered fragments would cut him, he rushed straight to Yiyou.
Yiyou was startled by Tong Fengyi's sudden outburst of anger, and was so frightened that he retreated straight, but Tong Fengyi didn't want to spare her at all, and forced her step by step: "Explain? What does he need to explain to you? Who are you to question him about the truth? Who is in a position to treat your aunt who treats you like your own? If it weren't for them, you would have died in your mother's womb! Not only are you unthankful, but you also unite with outsiders to use this matter against them! You are indeed a virtuous man with that adulterer*, and you are all ungrateful! ”
Not to mention Tong Yuqing and others, even Qiu Zeyuan, who grew up with Tong Fengyi since childhood, and He Yanjun, who is as close as a husband and wife, have never seen Tong Fengyi get so angry and say such vicious things.
Tong Fengyi frightened Yiyou so much that he fell to the ground and trembled, and wanted to continue to scold Yiyou, but he was pulled back by a person behind him, and slammed a punch into his face, the man grabbed his tie and said fiercely: "What are you doing?!" Yoyo is just an innocent child, why do you bother her?! ”
Tong Fengyi looked coldly at the angry man in front of him, and suddenly sneered: "She is innocent? She is innocent, but how innocent are you? What is the innocence of Xiao'er? Why should you be blamed by her for her lonely life? ”
As soon as Qiu Zeyuan was about to reply, he heard a weak voice not far away: "Brother Feng Yi, you are wrong, even if you don't have Youyou, Zeyuan and I are destined to be lonely for the rest of our lives." ”
Tong Fengyi and Qiu Zeyuan heard Dai Wei's words as if they understood everything, and their hearts suddenly became sad and speechless for a long time.
There was a sudden silence in the hall, so quiet that they could hear each other's breathing. Tong Yuqing was shocked by the scene just now, and her whole heart was trembling, but after all, she didn't know what was going on, so she calmed down first, walked to Yiyou's side and helped her up, and she didn't know if Yiyou's body was shaking badly, or if she was trembling herself, Tong Yuqing only felt that she was shaking constantly, like a fallen leaf that was blown in a rainstorm, and she didn't rely on it.
It was just a short moment, but Qiu Zeyuan felt like a year had passed, and he suddenly smiled and said, "The year has passed, I'll go back to the room to rest first." Mrs. Sister-in-law, please stay with Dai Yi for one night. Feng Yi, what do the children want to know, you can tell them. ”
Tong Fengyi wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Qiu Zeyuan: "Everyone here has the right to know the truth, no need to avoid suspicion, no need to deceive." ”
Qiu Zeyuan walked up to Yiyou again, stroked her bun, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, whether you recognize me as a father or not, I won't blame you," and then he held her shoulder hard, and said word by word: "I will never, never blame you......"
After the three of them left, Tong Fengyi's gaze swept over the faces of every junior in the hall, and finally, his gaze fell on Yiyou.
Zeyuan was destroyed in her hands after all......
After a while, Tong Fengyi retracted his gaze, but when he turned around, he tripped over the fragments of the teacup on the ground, but fortunately, the shoes he wore in winter were thick enough and did not hurt his feet.
He lamented silently, carefully bypassing the debris to get the broom, Tong Yuqing and Tong Yuhao saw this and hurriedly helped their father clean up the mess.
After the father and son cleaned up, they each sat down, Tong Fengyi rarely lit a cigar, he looked at the smoke he spit out, they first became thicker and thicker, and then circled, a little bit scattered, the distant memories came to him little by little in the fog, where to start? ...... year
Back then, forty years ago, no, Chinese New Year's Eve had passed, it should have been forty-one years ago, Qiu Jiyuan, who was then the overseer of Pudong, won a great victory in the battle against the Puxi bandits on the border of the Pujiang River, and just as the prisoners were counted, a woman suddenly rushed over and knelt in front of Qiu Jiyuan and cried and begged him to spare her husband. Although his husband scolded her angrily in the crowd and told her to get out of here, Qiu Jiyuan could clearly feel that the man did not love her, but wanted to protect her. So he ordered someone to gag the man's mouth, leaned over and asked the woman kneeling in front of him: "Your husband disturbs my Pudong border and is my Qiu Jiyuan's enemy." If you can't give me a reason to forgive him, I'll deal with you with you. ”
The woman cried even more, how could she understand these political events as a woman? But for the sake of her husband and children, she still sobbed and said: "My husband does these things for me and my children, if he doesn't grab food, my children and I will starve to death, if you want to kill me, kill me, spare my husband......" Then she kept kowtowing to Qiu Jiyuan, and kept saying "Please".
Qiu Jiyuan looked at the woman in front of him coldly, suddenly turned his head to look at her husband, and motioned to the soldier to take the cloth from his mouth, "Your wife didn't give me a reason to give in, I'll give you another chance." If you can convince me, I'll let you and your family go. If you can't, I'll kill your whole family. ”
"Overseer Qiu, you obviously don't plan to kill us people, why bother to scare us?"
Qiu Jiyuan didn't expect this man to see through his plan at a glance, he couldn't help but feel curious, and asked with a smile: "Why do you think I won't kill you?" Don't forget, you are my enemies. ”
"Since you succeeded as the Overseer, Pudong has gradually entered the good situation of politics and Qingren, and the only hidden danger is Puxi, so you should not be willing to let us Puxi thieves die without saying anything. And we, the common people, are not your real enemies, and I know some precedents for other captives to be released. ”
Qiu Jiyuan saw that this person was not chaotic in the face of danger and spoke clearly, not like a person who had no ink on his chest, so he took him to the room alone and talked with him in detail.
That conversation gave Qiu Jiyuan an extra strategist by his side, and also made Xin Zhaoxun find his soulmate. The two of them had a good conversation, but they were bitter and waited outside the door for a long time for the soldiers and prisoners. When the two walked out, it was already dark, Qiu Jiyuan said that all the people captured this time would be filled into the army, and they would return to Yejin with him, and from then on they were all Pudong soldiers, and their families were all Pudong people.
After that, Xin Zhaoxun soon won the favor of Qiu Jiyuan and Tong Guangting's appreciation by virtue of his extraordinary courage and full of knowledge, and only half a year helped Qiu Jiyuan kill eight Puxi generals on the Puxi battlefield, captured thousands of soldiers, and made great contributions to the Ji army, so the Xin family became the third largest family after the Qiu and Tong families.
What's even more staggering is that two months later, Qiu Jiyuan's wife and Xin Zhaoxun's wife went into labor on the same day and at the same time, giving birth to a baby boy and a baby girl respectively. Qiu Jiyuan, who was established at the time, had already given birth to six daughters, and his expectations for this child were naturally extraordinary. And this time, as he wished, there was a successor to the Qiu family. Overjoyed, he attributed all the happy events of the year to the two children who had just been born, believing that these two children were blessed by God to Pudong and Qiu. Qiu Jiyuan and Xin Zhaoxun hit it off and set a family affair for the two lucky stars, making them happy and blessed. These two children are Qiu Zeyuan and Xin Daixun.
Ozawa Yuan inherited his father's Yushu Linfeng temperament since he was a child, and Xiao Daiyu also inherited his mother's alluring appearance.
Xiao Zeyuan has never been as stubborn as Xiao Fengyi, if he is naughty, he must not be able to withstand Xiao Fengyi's soft grinding and hard bubbles plus coercion and temptation, so if the two of them make any trouble, the first one to be beaten must be Xiao Fengyi. In addition to Xiao Dai's appearance, she is also very outstanding in female popularity, piano skills, and dance skills, and she and Xiao Zeyuan are humble and give each other each other, and they get along very well.