Chapter 45: The Childe Goes North, and the Little Woman Looks South

"Husband, long time no see. ā€

While Zhou Tai was constantly brewing words and thinking about countermeasures, the short words that came out of the mouth of the woman's ghost instantly shattered Zhou Tai's rationality.

"Willow... Liu Li... Be.... Is that you...?"

Chaitai trembled his lips, looking at the young woman in a purple dress in front of him, with red lips and bright teeth, willow eyebrows, and a pair of eyes as clear as a lake, looking at Zhou Tai with a little sadness, as if there were endless words.

"It's me, and it's the real me, not someone else's pretend. ā€

Liu Li took a light step forward, wanting to get closer to Zhou Tai, but when she saw Zhou Tai reflexively move forward, she still pulled back gloomily.

"Did you come here to snatch my soul? Come on, I'm ready, this is what I owe you and my mother, and it's a sin that should have been atoned for. ā€

Zhou Tai looked at Liu Li and Liu Anxin, who was silent on the side, closed his eyes, spread his hands, and plucked up the courage to say loudly.

"Do you think we have come to ask for your life? ā€

Liu Li looked at Zhou Tai, who was not afraid of boiling water, shook his head with a smile, and said softly.

"Doesn't it mean that the ghost has to pay one life to one life before he can enter the underworld and reincarnation? It's okay, I'm big, and when the time comes, the ghost may be able to count me into two heads, so you can go to reincarnation with peace of mind." ā€

Zhou Tai opened his eyes and looked at Liu Li, then gritted his teeth and said.

"Why are you sure that our mother and daughter are ghosts. ā€

Liu Li asked out loud.

"Because... Because... In the end, it was all because of me, and you must hate me, so you stayed in the world and refused to leave. ā€

Zhou Tai's voice was a little hoarse, and he buried his head and said.

"Do you remember the day we first met? ā€

Liu Li was silent for a long time and said suddenly.

"I remember, I was sitting in the box and I saw your performance, we looked at each other, and then I was fascinated by you. Zhou Tai said frankly.

"It's a story about us that you see from your perspective, but in my memory, it's not like that. ā€

Liu Li paused for a moment and continued: "Because at that moment, I looked up and saw you chubby, and I liked you too. ā€

"No... No way, I'm so ugly... How is that possible..."

Zhou Tai hugged his head and said incoherently.

"Although it was my first time performing on stage that day, I had been in Dongchun Building for a long time, and I had seen countless men, their smiles were more or less obscene and shameless, and their aggressive eyes looked at my chest wantonly, as if they wanted to rip off my clothes. But you're different from them. ā€

"That day, because of my mother's request, I wore a short skirt on the upper body, in order to attract the hot attention of men. And the moment I plucked the strings and met your eyes, you just stared at my face a little blankly, and even quickly turned away, and I thought that you were probably different from other men. ā€

"Later, you contacted other people privately to ask them for news about me, and you thought I was kept in the dark, but my heart was as clear as a mirror. But you are a nobleman, I am just an ordinary Qinglou woman, and I understood at that time that the two of us could not walk together. I also know that you have been working hard since you were a child, and you are considered a big man, so I also directly declared that I like men with poetry and books, hoping to cut off your thoughts. ā€

"It's... This..."Zhou Tai touched his ears a little nervously, this was the first time he had heard of these things.

"After that, you didn't come for a month, I thought you had suffered and retreated, although I occasionally remembered your appearance in my heart, but I also understood that this was good for both you and me. But a month later, you returned to the Dongchun Building again, with a big smell of ink, let me avoid three points, in fact, what I hated the most was the smell of ink, and then I realized that you had read the book for a long time for my jokes. ā€

"You invited me to dinner that night, and I didn't refuse you, and I could see at a glance during the banquet that you were desperately trying to show off the words you had learned, but unfortunately it seemed that you were too nervous to make up for a month's worth of learning. ā€

Recalling the warm times in the past, Liu Li said with a smile.

"As for the back, you took me around, and those days were really happy. Do you remember the Lingxin Temple in Makue Prefecture, when I was worshipping the Buddha in the main hall, you secretly ran to the inner courtyard and paid the monk to ask me for a good marriage sign, and after I entered, the abbot returned the money to me and told the truth, of course, I didn't accept your money, but donated them to Lingxin Temple. ā€

"What do you mean... That marriage lot...," Zhou Tai muttered.

"That is God's arrangement and instructions, and later you confessed to me, and we walked together. However, your ex-wife's father tried his best to hinder our marriage..."

"I really want to settle you well, but you..."

"I know your good intentions, but I can't pass this level in my heart," Liu Li raised her head, the gentle moonlight flowed on her body, and tears seemed to pass across her face: "But until now, you still don't understand, I really like you, not because of those things outside my body, even if you are a street vendor, a seller, or even a butcher shop, I am willing to follow you." ā€

"I... I... I—" Zhou Tai clasped his hands crampedly, and there seemed to be tears glistening in the corners of his eyes.

"I just want to tell you that I didn't blame the events of that year, or that it was because of my own insistence that the tragedy was brewed, so I was the one who should apologize. Come here in peace, you tell your father, do you hate him? ā€

Liu Li took the little girl beside her and asked softly.

"I hate. Liu Anxin hugged Liu Li's thigh tightly and said in a low voice.

"I hated why my father didn't come to see us often, and I always missed him. ā€

Zhou Tai stretched out his hand and wanted to apologize, but he didn't expect Liu Anxin to answer like this.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Zhou Tai slammed his head on the bed and kowtowed to the two, already crying like rain, crying and his heart and lungs were tight.

"I've been in the world for too long, and if I hadn't been obsessed with it too much, I would have already returned to the underworld. Liu Li said.

"What is it, you said, Rao wants me to go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire, and I will not give up. ā€

Hearing Liu Li's words, Zhou Tai hurriedly agreed.

"That's what I said before. Liu Li chuckled and said-

"I know what kind of person you are, and I am worried that you will continue to live in guilt about the past after I leave, so I have been wandering in the world and have not left. ā€

"Just... That's it?" Zhou Tai said in disbelief.

"Yes, it's important, isn't it?" Liu Li stomped her foot lightly, feigning anger.

"Okay, okay, I hear what you say now. ā€

Zhou Tai's hands trembled, and tears had blurred his vision.

"Now that the obsession has been resolved, I have been wandering in the world for so long, it is time to go back to the underworld, and there is still a little time before leaving, I will sing you a song that we sang when we first met, but now I don't have a pipa in my hand, and there is no accompaniment. ā€

Liu Li floated to the right, sitting on the pear flower bench beside her, she cleared her throat, and then sang softly-

The little woman is not talented

Not favored by the son

Disturb the son for a long time

Don't blame Childe

Childe headed north

The little woman looked south

This life is over

Unforgettable

May you be warm in three winters

May you not be cold

May you have a light when it's dark

Umbrella in case of rain

May you be well-giving

May you meet your beloved

Singing and singing, with the sound of Zhou Tai crying, Liu Li's singing voice became smaller and smaller, and her and Liu Anxin's figures became thinner and thinner, and finally turned into white mist and disappeared.

Zhou Tai, who was left staggered to his feet, lay down under the bench where the ghost of Liu Li had sit, and gently pressed his face on it.

In the small courtyard outside Zhou Tai's bedroom, there was a young man's sigh, and then a white robe was gently raised, and the quiet courtyard once again returned to the silence of the night.