The sedan chair was put down in the inner hall, and outside the sedan chair stood Mrs. Jun and Ao Xue, who had already coiled her hair, and I couldn't help but smile: "Who tied up Miss Ao Xue's long hair?" ”

"Young lady!" Aoxue jumped to her feet in shame, it seemed that she was still a child, and I smiled even more.

"It seems that the husband is very good, the young lady is so cute, the husband is very fond of the young lady!"

"It's yourself who spoils yourself." Mrs. Jun glanced at her daughter and looked back at me, "The young lady has cleared." ”

I smiled wryly and looked at Mei Niang: "Do you still know the young lady?" ”

"I want to call my aunt!" Ao Xue hurriedly corrected it, I was stunned, the title of aunt can be my mother's sister, or my father's concubine, there should be a reason why she corrected it like this. I looked at Mrs. Jun, she smiled, and looked down at Mei Niang: "Go play with my aunt, grandma will talk to my mother." ”

"You're not my grandmother!" Mei Niang said softly that she also likes Mrs. Jun, and her tone is not so sharp.

"I am, so you're going to call me Grandma in the future!" Mrs. Jun took out a gold collar and hung it lightly around Mei Niang's neck, I thought I knew the reason, and exhaled softly, looking at Ao Xue.

"Do you still call me young lady?"

She stuck out her tongue and saluted me, "Sister-in-law! ”

I sighed secretly in my heart, the second brother actually married Ao Xue, what kind of fate is this? Ao Xue took Mei Niang away, I looked at Mrs. Jun, she pulled me into the small hall, and Shi Ju was waiting for me inside. When he saw me, he shook me deeply, and I was about to cry, and it took me a while to think of returning the gift.

"Sister-in-law has always been good?"

"What about you? Although I know that you will be good in the Jun family, I still want to know how you are? ”

"Three years ago, the lord saw my uncle in Shudi, and they came back together, and my uncle took care of him all the way when he was sick on the road, and my uncle took care of the business in the past few years, which saved me a lot of effort for my lord. Of course, thanks to the net worth that the young lady gave to her uncle back then, the old man was accidentally killed by a traitor last year, if it wasn't for the uncle's net worth, the Jun family would be over. ”

"So Miss is like Madame back then?"

"It's different, Ao Xue has always liked her aunt very much, but her uncle was too lazy to pay attention to her, so Ao Xue ran to the temple and said that if her aunt didn't get into trouble, she would go as a sister-in-law. My aunt still ignored her, and our old couple ignored her, letting her make trouble, thinking that she would be honest in a few days, and then later, my aunt went to the temple to talk to Ao Xue, and when I came back, I told us, wait for Mei Niang and her mother to talk about it after three years, and the master's business has not gone wrong at that time. I asked my uncle why he agreed, and he told me that he wanted to live here, and he also liked the Jun family, and felt that the master was a gentleman, and this family was very good, and Ao Xue was naughty but also very good, very real, and he wanted to be a part of the Jun family. ”

I noticed that he didn't speak the whole time, and I looked at him and smiled.

"Why is my sister-in-law laughing?"

"Laughing fate, what happened in Daye Temple back then is still vivid, that day Aoxue gave Mei Niang a bracelet, and there are eight characters of her birthday on it, I was still thinking, how can this thing be messed with people, but I can't refuse for Mei Niang, so I had to give her the jade plate given by my mother, remember, it was one of the two things that my mother passed on to her daughter-in-law."

"That's right! Later, I often thought about it, and I felt that there was a destiny in the dark. Mrs. Jun also laughed and looked at us, "You must have a lot to say, I'll go and see the kitchen, and Mei Niang." ”

Mrs. Jun left, leaving the space for us, I still smiled at Shiju, and I deliberately ignored the slight sourness in my heart.

"Happy?" Shi Ju finally spoke.

"Your eldest brother loves me very much, and he has been working hard to spoil me for the past three years, making me feel that I am a very happy woman. Do you know, he is also very fond of Mei Niang, if you have the opportunity to ask Mei Niang, you will know how good Mei Niang is at studying now, he is like a proud father every day, teaching Mei Niang to read I don't know how happy I am......"

"Sister-in-law...... "He stopped me, and before I knew it, I was already in tears. He handed me a handkerchief, I buried my face in the handkerchief and began to cry, he stayed quietly there and listened to me cry, I don't know how long it took, I cried enough, I looked up, he still looked at me quietly, but his eyes were full of worry. I sniffed and choked up.

"I didn't lie to you, really, Shi Tong was really nice to me, I cried because ...... I ...... the other day Miscarried. ”

"You just have to live." He nodded and glanced at me, "For the eldest brother, you are the most important, and of course it is better to have children, but if you are exchanged, there is no point in giving him ten biological children." If you want to give her a concubine, he'll be angry. ”

I looked at him stunned, he didn't say that I was still young and could have another life, he should have known everything in his words. He smiled and poured me a glass of water, "I've seen my parents when I go home, and they know that I'm married, so you don't have to worry too much that they will force you to take a concubine for your eldest brother." They said that you have done well in the past few years, and you treat Li Niang and the three of them as if you have done it, maybe you have done too well to make ......" He paused, "Big brother loves you very much, and I feel really happy when I see the three of you hugging each other in the bow of the boat." ”

I looked at him, and for a while, I finally knew why I had that feeling of thorns in my back on the ship that entered Shu three years ago, because Shi Ju was always there, and the eyes behind me really existed.

I smiled, and I heard Aoxue's laughter from a distance, "How can you accept Aoxue?" ”

"There is a sentence she has in Daye Temple that touched me, she doesn't care if I love him or not, she just loves me. Yun Niang loves big brother, our family affair is a mistake, I don't know if I can fall in love with someone else, so I really want to have a wife who loves me. Besides, isn't the Jun family the family that my sister-in-law has always valued? After the past few years of contact, the Jun family is really good, which makes me want to stay and be one of them. ”

"You complain?"

"No, I know that my eldest brother doesn't love Yun Niang either, a lot of things can't be said with resentment, now I'm happy, really, sometimes I am very moved when I see Ao Xue smiling at me, her smile is only for me, and it feels really good to be loved."

I can imagine that the enthusiastic Aoxue brought him a new experience, and Yun Niang's three-year married life was too depressing, recalling that time I felt sorry for him, I sighed softly, "Go and love Aoxue, try to love her, maybe you already love her, the feeling of falling in love is more different from being loved, that happiness is ten million times better than being loved." ”

"I'll try."

"Let's go see Mei Niang! She'll be happy to see you. ”

"She's already your daughter, just leave."

"She's your daughter, it's just ......" I thought for a while and exhaled, "Mei Niang will not be ordinary in the future, sometimes I feel that I am holding her...... Pile up artillery battles, and if you are not careful, it will explode. She's too strong, she's too smart, and sometimes I can't do anything about her. The second time I asked you to leave the house was not entirely because of Shi Tong, I was a little scared, so I wanted you to leave Mei Niang. All I can say is that your daughter will be a great woman, but I still want you to watch her from afar. ”

Shi Ju was a little confused, but after thinking about it, he nodded, "Do you want me to do something for you?" ”

I thought for a while, "Do me a favor, I'll ask Sister-in-law Xiang to send some money tomorrow, you help me find a piece of mountainous land, I want to be buried there with your eldest brother in the future, no feng shui is good, just want the mountains and rivers to be beautiful." And then......," I thought for a moment, "and besides, not far from the cemetery, help me build three rooms, sturdy and practical." ”

"Why?"

"Whoever I or him goes first, the other person can stay there and spend time with the other." I smiled wryly.

He looked at me deeply again, nodded, and I smiled at him again, "Thank you, second brother." ”

"Why?"

"Originally, I wanted to say that because you didn't ask me why, but you asked anyway." I smiled and thought for a moment, "Thank you for trusting me completely. Really, there are many things I don't dare to tell Shi Tong, but I can tell you. I let out a long sigh, walked to the window, opened the lattice window, and saw Ao Xue and Mei Niang having fun from a distance, their smiles contrasted with each other, I quietly looked at Mei Niang's smile, and my heart moved: "Mei Niang was not so happy when she was with me." ”

"Because she loves you, she can't be happy because she's worried about you, but with Aoxue, she doesn't have such concerns." Shi Ju also stood in front of another window and watched, "She has really grown up a lot, and she is really becoming more and more like you." ”

"Is there one? How can I be so beautiful, she should be like Yun Niang! I smiled and shook my head, but I couldn't remember what Yun Niang looked like, I could only remember the pale face that filled the house with the smell of medicine but couldn't remember the facial features, "Do you remember Yun Niang's appearance?" ”

"You forgot?"

"I can't remember it, it's really scary, it's only been three years, and I can't even remember her appearance."

"I remember when I was a child, she loved to laugh and ......was very cute," he thought for a while and smiled bitterly, "I don't remember what she looked like after marriage." It's like I'm ......" He shook his head, I understood what he was trying to say, and laughed.

"It's like she never really existed. In fact, she died on the day Shi Tong married me, second brother, look at Ao Xue, how beautiful and healthy and real a woman, you chose the right one this time. ”

He didn't speak, but I knew that he listened, and this woman really loved him, and he cherished it.