The next day, Konoha went to Guo Yan and begged him to take her on a horse, but Guo Yan did not move, only looked at her and smiled. Konoha was a little anxious and pulled his sleeve: "Third brother......"

Guo Yan finally stopped laughing and said, "My good sister, you have forgotten that your future husband is the famous King Shu in the court, and he can't rest every day!" ”

Konoha realized that he had lost his temper and was a little embarrassed, so he had to grin: "Then the third brother will teach me." ”

Guo Yan pulled her over, but said in her ear: "We are not going to ride horses today, there are other things." ”

"Something else?"

"The third uncle is sick and wants to see you."

Konoha jumped up: "I won't see a doctor again!" ”

However, then she remembered her previous guess, could it be that the third uncle saw her for Aunt Wei's old things?

Konoha felt a sudden pain in her heart, dull, sharp, jagged pain that she almost couldn't breathe. It seems that there are countless past events, like mushrooms after the rain, rushing to drill out, blooming all over the damp and rotten forest that has been silent for more than 30 years, and one by one it makes my heart hurt.

It wasn't her past, but it was clear.

Because the third uncle is the head of the Guo family, he still lives in Fenyang Mansion, which was the mansion given to his grandfather by Sheng Shangqin in the early years, and there is a path in the backyard with Princess Shengping's Mansion. She was ignorant and knew that she was pulled by Guo Li through the waterhole, through the large area of osmanthus, through the small door in the backyard, and into Fenyang Mansion.

The grievances of the previous life are gone, but those who refuse to step out of the past are still standing in place and watching.

Aunt Wei is one of them, I don't know if the third uncle is like this.

The main house of Fenyang Mansion also has a closed door during the day, probably because the elderly need to keep warm, and the windows are also hung with thick brocade curtains. Konoha paused in front of the slightly mottled mahogany gate, hesitating slightly.

Guo Yan informed the little maid at the door, and the little maid quickly came out and said that Master Shangshu invited them in.

The heavy wooden door creaked and slowly opened a crack, and there was no smell of decay and mold as expected.

The room was dim because of the curtains, but it was warm and clean, and the incense burner slowly exuded the smell of mint and musk, as if unwilling to be baptized by the years, and forced to hold out a small piece of the freshness and charm of early summer.

At that moment, Konoha had an illusion, as if the man in white sitting on the sickbed at the moment was still the young, brave, and handsome young general from more than thirty years ago, with sword eyebrows and bright and sharp eyes that flew obliquely into the sideburns, and would bend a beautiful arc at the corners of his mouth, and would blow Jasper's piccolo to his lips to play a tactful music to accompany the beautiful woman's dance.

She suddenly found that Aunt Wei had told her too much, about every look in that person's eyes, every gesture, and every smile on the corner of her mouth.

So at this moment, Konoha looked at him like this, as if he had brought all the memories of Aunt Wei with her, and slowly looked at it through her eyes, through a young body, through the vicissitudes of more than thirty years.

Guo Xi has been waiting for a long time. His hands trembled violently as the door slowly opened.

The sun shone in suddenly, and a woman stepped out of the white light, like a daughter of the sun, her hair shining with colorful light, stinging his eyes.

He narrowed his eyes, and all he could feel was a flood of memories from more than thirty years ago.

The woman's smile, the woman's flying dance, the woman's exquisite cooking skills, the woman's dexterous hands, the woman's pathetic eyes when she left, a thousand words could not be spoken, and only one word was "cherished" when she came......

In this life, he has failed her too much. He led thousands of troops and horses to kill and save the people from fire and water, but he couldn't save his beloved woman, and he couldn't even keep her by his side. The memory came so violently that it made a fishy sweetness rush in his throat.

The woman in my memory was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and she was stepping on the dew of the autumn sunset. The light behind him was too strong, he couldn't see the woman's face clearly, he only felt that the steps, the gestures, were all her.

For more than thirty years, she never returned, but her soul seemed to have followed the child back, back to him, with sadness, resentment, and ...... He was reluctant to admit that it was an unforgettable love.

He stared blankly, as if time had just gone back. He wanted to wait for her to come to him, to see her clearly.

The door behind her slowly closed again, slowly, slowly, the light disappeared until the woman's form merged with the darkness.

It took a while for Konoha to adjust to the light in the room, and she slowly looked into his face. It seems that at that moment, thirty years have been lost, and the vicissitudes of life have been lost in an instant.

is still white-clothed and snowy, but wrapped in a face full of wrinkles, with pale hair and lingering breathing. Only the eyes still retain some of the sharpness of the sword, but they are no longer bright. He still sits upright, maintaining the demeanor of a former military general.

Guo Yan pulled Mu Ye to kneel down slowly, and shouted, Third Uncle.

At this moment, she finally fell back to reality, she was not Wei Taozhuo, she was Guo Muye. Aunt Wei didn't have any resentment towards him, only concern, but Guo Muye complained that he had pushed all the desolation to Aunt Wei.

She knelt down and kowtowed.

Still immersed in his own world, he said hoarsely as if he was surprised, but incredulous: "Taozhuo......"

Konoha stubbornly corrected him: "Third uncle, I am Konoha, your niece Guo Muye. ”

"Konoha?" He was silent for a moment, as if he had finally tried to pull himself out of his memory, and asked slowly, "Tao Zhuo, is she okay?" ”

Okay? Konoha didn't know. Over the years, Aunt Wei has lived in nostalgia, self-contained, without friends, and those memories are the strength that supports her to live, but also the shackles that imprison her new life.

Konoha thought about it for a moment and said in a low voice: "She has no worries about food and clothing, and she grows flowers and trees in the courtyard to live. ”

Guo Xi nodded, and Liang Jiufang sighed: "It's all my fault." ”

Previously, Konoha still had some admiration for this loving uncle, but his performance like this made her puzzled and even a little disdainful. Throughout the ages, men and women have been separated, and there are only a few reasons, such as the opposition of parents, or the empathy of one party.

Aunt Wei once lived in the teaching workshop, presumably she would not fight for the identity of the main room, and the Guo family would not tolerate a concubine who was born in the teaching workshop, so it must have been the third uncle who broke her heart to make her go so decisively.

It's empathy, and why bother to reminisce so affectionately decades later!

Konoha raised his head, and there was no sarcasm in his tone: "The third uncle fought in the north and south back then, and he wanted to come to Yangzhou not far away, but he never went to visit the old man, so why sigh again after many years!" ”

Guo Xi was slightly stunned, but smiled bitterly: "Girl, you must complain that I will give up from the beginning, but things are not as ...... as you think."

Konoha didn't give up: "So, what are things like?" ”

Guo Xi sighed: "It's a long story, I'll listen to you when I'm free in the future." ”

Konoha persistently: "There is no story in this world that cannot be told in three sentences. ”

Guo Xi paused, and his thin fingers gently patted Konoha's shoulder, "One life and one death are two words, and it will take a lifetime to live." ”

Konoha chewed on this sentence, inexplicably mixed feelings, and couldn't help blurting out: "Did you ask King Shu to visit her?" ”

"King Shu?" Guo Xi seemed to think about it for a long time and said to himself: "Oh, it's Yi'er, he seems to have been to Yangzhou ......"

But there was no follow-up.

Li Yi and he both reacted like this, and it seems that the person entrusted by him is not the third uncle. But why did they all look secretive, as if no one wanted to mention it?

When I saw the third uncle, the doubts in my heart were not solved, but deepened.

Guo Xi didn't speak for a long time, and suddenly turned his head to the maid next to him and said, "Is it getting dark?" How is it so dark? ”

The maid went to open a small corner of the curtain to let in some light, but Guo Xi still said that it was dark. The maid pulled the curtain a little more, and a little more, until the whole room was filled with bright light.

The elderly master of the Guo family groped for his feet in a daze, wanting to take another look at the child whose silhouette seemed to be exactly the same as Tao Zhuo's, but what he saw in his eyes was still a boundless blackness.

Guo Yan rushed up to support him, and found that his gaze was cloudy and distracted, so he hurriedly called Lang Zhong loudly. As if pouring out from under the ground, many people rushed into the house one after another, surrounding the head of the house in groups, and some people ran in and out in a panic, and almost no one noticed Konoha who was still kneeling on the ground.

It wasn't until Guo Yan was also squeezed out by the crowd that he thought about pulling up the Konoha on the ground. At that time, the other principals of the Guo family came, and several uncles under the command of Renlang Zhong diagnosed and prescribed medicine and decoction, thinking that these two children were in the way, and sent them back.

That day, Guo Xi's eyes went blind.

Konoha heard him say that the last image he saw was sixteen-year-old Momota coming out of the golden light and smiling at him.