Chapter 286: Obsession
readx; That night, Tao and Cao took the letter left by Vice General Zhou and cried all night. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Apex Novel... xstxt.. They watched the lights in He Huan's room go out and on, and turn on and out. They didn't dare to knock on the door, let alone sleep, for fear that He Huan wouldn't be able to open it for a while.
The goose feather snow overnight decorated the entire Jizhou City into a silver and white world. When Tao and Cao heard the sound of the door opening, they hurriedly opened the door, and were so excited by the oncoming cold that they were struck by the cold air. They sneezed, turned their heads to look, and saw He Huan looking up at the red morning glow. Her pale cheeks were flushed with the morning glow.
Cao gently nudged Dow. Tao took a step forward and said with a reluctant smile: "Huan'er, you rest for a while, we will call you after we make breakfast." ”
"No need, let's make breakfast together." He Huan retracted his gaze, his face was as usual, and said calmly: "There are still a few days before the New Year, let's take advantage of these few days to clean up and go home before Chinese New Year's Eve." By the way—" She turned to Cao and said, "Aunt Cao, go to the street to see if the yamen are helping everyone shovel snow as in previous years." If there is a carriage on the street, I want to go to the Lin family and the Shen family. Uncle Zhang is old, and on this snowy day, it seems that he has to trouble Uncle Wang to help hire a car. ”
"It's the right to go, it's the right to go." Dow muttered to himself and sighed softly. Xie San didn't find Shen Nianxi, and naturally he didn't find Dahan, Lin Nuoyan and others. Today's Lin family only has the old lady Lin who is paralyzed in bed, and the Shen family only has the blind old lady Shen. Tao sighed again and said tentatively: "Count it, your third uncle should also be released from the prison, I don't know ......"
"The third uncle has hands and feet. We don't need to worry about it. He Huan walked towards the kitchen.
The next few days. He Huan and others were busy moving. I had to take care of Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Shen again, and I was almost so busy that my feet didn't touch the ground. None of them mentioned Xie San, as if the rebels were still fighting at sea, and they could only wait in silence.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, He Huan and the others finally moved back to He's house. Everyone worked together to clean up, and even the Wei family no longer picked and choose, and silently did what they could.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone in the He family made a table of wine and food according to custom. I wrapped another wonton and sent one to Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Shen respectively.
No one knew what He Huan said to them before this, and everyone only saw that she dismissed most of the servants of the Lin Shen family, leaving only a few old people to serve them. Old Lady Lin and Old Lady Shen didn't seem to know that they were the only ones left in the two families, and they happily ate the wontons sent by He Huan.
Late at night, when the first cannon sound sounded in Jizhou City, He Huan and He Jing also lit firecrackers in the courtyard.
Looking at He Huan's smile, Tao and Cao could only sigh deeply, not daring to say half a word of comfort.
Early in the morning on the first day of the first lunar month. The He family ushered in the first batch of guests, and He Bohai brought his children to pay New Year's greetings and bid farewell. They decided to go to the north to earn a living.
looked at He Baihai's head full of silver threads. He Huan just politely invited them to drink a cup of tea and said a few auspicious words. He Xin wanted to say something to He Huan, but he still didn't say it, and left with his father.
In the next few days, in addition to writing and calculating in the house, He Huan was a relative and neighbor who came to the door for entertainment, and occasionally went out to visit Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Shen. Until the eighth day of the first lunar month, the street gradually became lively, wine shops and tea houses opened one after another, and the He family ushered in an uninvited guest, Mrs. Lin.
To be honest, if it weren't for the other party's large reward, Mrs. Lin would not be willing to go through this New Year. She had long heard that the eldest lady of the He family and Third Master Xie were very good, and they had already talked about marriage. Isn't it annoying that she came to talk about the matchmaker at this time? can think about it from another angle, Xie San is dead, He Huan is eighteen years old, and she is also thinking about He Huan's future.
Mrs. Lin thought that even if He Huan was just making a show, she would take a broom to drive her away as soon as possible, after all, it only took half a month from the 24th day of the lunar month to the 8th day of the first lunar month.
To her surprise, the He family not only invited her in, but also let her finish her words. Just when she thought that this might come true, He Huan smiled and told her that she had already made a marriage last year, and the wedding date was set for this year's acacia flowers.
Mrs. Lin has been a matchmaker all her life, and she is used to observing words and feelings. She immediately understood, maybe Tao and others hoped that He Huan would marry someone else, so they would be courteous to her, but He Huan just wanted to tell everyone through her mouth that she would only marry Xie San.
Mrs. Lin left, and Tao watched He Huan walk back to the West Cross Courtyard, silently wiping away tears.
Cao Shi looked at the closed door of the West Cross Courtyard, and then looked at the tearful Tao, thinking of his eighteen years old. She understands how hard it is to live with a man who doesn't exist, she regrets it, she doesn't want He Huan to regret it like her in the future.
"Big lady, what about the letter left by Third Master Xie?" Cao asked Dow.
"What do you want to do?" Dow is still wiping away tears. These days, everything is He Huan's decision, without her, she doesn't know what to do in the future, but she doesn't want He Huan to be an old girl for life.
Cao Shi looked at the door of the West Cross Courtyard again, and sighed: "Big lady, you also think that the person Mrs. Lin said is good, right?" The eldest lady is eighteen years old, and many people know about her and Xie Sanye, if you miss this time, I'm afraid there will be no such suitable person in the future. ”
Tao silently took out Xie San's letter from the drawer and handed it to Cao, and couldn't help but advise: "Don't take your words too seriously, she may not know how sad she will be at this moment." ”
"I'll save it." Cao Shi nodded, picked up the thick envelope, strode towards the West Courtyard, pushed open the courtyard door and walked straight in.
"Aunt Cao, what's the matter with you." He Huan looked up from behind his desk.
"Miss, Third Master Xie is dead, dead!" Cao slammed the envelope on the desk.
He Huan pursed his lips to look at her, but did not speak.
Cao Shi took a step closer, pointed to the envelope and said, "I haven't read the book, and I understand the meaning of the letter, don't you understand?" Xie San's meaning, if he dies, you can marry someone else......"
"Aunt Cao, please take it away." He Huan's voice was like droplets of water dripping from the ice cubes on the eaves, cold and biting.
Cao Shi had already let it go, shouting at the top of his voice: "Even if you are angry again." I'm going to say it too. That's right. I have beaten you, scolded you, it is because I resent, I hate, I feel uncomfortable. More than ten years ago, knowing that your father was dead, I still stepped into the door of the He family, because I had nowhere to go. I have no way out, but you still have a choice, and you still have most of your life! ”
"Aunt Cao, please go out!" He Huan's face became more and more ugly.
Cao Shi just didn't hear it, beat his chest and said, "Is it so easy for you to be a widow?" No matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, you are alone in the house, no one asks you when it's cold, no one knows when you're sick, sometimes you just want to find someone to talk to, and you can only talk to yourself in the mirror......"
"Enough!" He Huan stood up abruptly. "He promised me that he would come back."
"He's dead. Won't be coming back! ”
"No, he looked for Shen Jinglun just to fulfill his promise and find Nian Xi for me......"
"In the sea in December, even if he could swim, he would have frozen to death......"
"Shut up!" He Huan shook his head hysterically, "He's not dead, he must be on his way back." He promised me that he would do it. ”
"He's dead, and he doesn't want to."
He Huan grabbed the teacup on the table, threw it at Cao's fiercely, and shouted loudly: "Don't talk nonsense, we will be married in four months." It's only been four months, I have to get things done earlier, I have to recalculate the business of Lin and Shen, and find a proper shopkeeper. I also have to find a good gentleman for the promise, a good doctor for Mrs. Lin, and then a southern goods store for you. You are so good that you will be able to send the money to Brother Jing to Beijing to take the exam. By the way, I have already agreed with Mrs. Shen, she promised to let Nianxi recognize me as a godmother, and I will take Nianxi to Beijing together. He promised me that we could adopt Nian Xi......"
"Miss, wake up, Third Master Xie is dead, it is impossible to take you to Beijing and marry you!"
"You talk nonsense, I won't believe you." He Huan shook his head vigorously, "You don't understand, no, even I don't understand......
"Miss!" Cao Shi stepped forward, pointed to the envelope on the table and said, "It's Xie Sanye's intention to let you marry someone else, don't you want to fulfill his last wish?" ”
He Huan didn't seem to hear Cao's words, she sat back in her chair in a distraction, and muttered to herself: "Although he saved me at first, I hated him very much. But I don't know when it started, every time I saw him, my heart beat so fast. I knew that he was not an ordinary person, and I couldn't climb him, so I said to him selfishly, I don't want to know who he is, I and he are Xie San and He Huan......
"We had a lot of fights in those days, but I'm happy. I can say anything to him, he will listen carefully, and he will also say what is in his heart to me, as if we are really just Xie San and He Huan. At that time, I thought that he was like an epiphany, not leaving any trace in my life, at most, let me remember that there was such a ......
"For the sake of Nianxi, I could only marry Shen Jinglun, so I became strangers with him. I thought he had gone back to the capital, but I saw him again in Lingcheng. That day, when we passed by, I felt like I was going to die, but I endured it. I tried to force myself to forget him, I thought I had done it, but when I mistakenly thought he was dying, I realized that I could never forget him in my life......
"I did a lot of wrong things. While saying that I can only marry Shen Jinglun, I covet his tenderness. I swore that there would be no result between me and him, but I never really pushed him away. No matter what happens, I'm always the first to think of him. I even wanted to say to Shen Jinglun that I couldn't marry him because I was hopelessly in love with someone else. ”
Cao looked at He Huan in shock. Outside the room, Dow couldn't stop crying.
He Huan sat dumbfounded, whispering like a wandering spirit: "When I know, he may resist the order; When I knew that it was very dangerous for him to venture out to sea to suppress bandits, there was only one thought in my mind, even if I died, he would live. I'm not even afraid of death, so how can I care about waiting a little longer. ”
Cao didn't understand the love in He Huan's mouth, she muttered in a low voice: "It's not about waiting a few more days, waiting a few days less, it's not waiting at all, there's no end to ......"
"How can there be no end! This year's acacia flowers are gone, and there will be next year; Thank you for next year, and the year after. Every year there are flowers blooming, and every year there is new hope. ”
"But ......"
"Nothing." He Huan forced back the mist in his eyes and smiled lightly, "Maybe five years later, maybe ten years later, maybe twenty years later, when I no longer look forward to the flowers blooming, I may marry a widower and find someone to live in partnership, as for now, letting me marry someone else will only harm others." (To be continued.) )
ps: Woo, I don't have the face to face everyone. Originally, it was written yesterday that Shen Jinglun was dead, and the finale can be released after writing the last paragraph today. As a result, I thought about it today, and finally rewrote that paragraph, alone in the study, crying while writing, and I don't know where to poke my tears, I obviously love Xie San more. Alas, in short, after writing about Shen Jinglun's death, I have no way to continue to code words. I can't guarantee that I'll be able to finish the last point tomorrow, but now it's like depression...
Classmates who are curious about how Shen Jinglun died, you can go to the slag wave to see, I have been stabbed countless times by other authors, alas~~~~