Chapter 046: The Story of Cinnabar (15)
"I agree."
So crisp and decisive, so without a trace of hesitation? Xing Ruyi stared at the stone door in front of him, angry.
I haven't seen him for more than half a year, even if I don't have a deep master-apprentice relationship, I shouldn't have agreed so happily.
What she just said was that she - wants to marry - someone!
An hour ago, Xing Ruyi asked Yin Yuan to take her to the fox's retreat. I thought that this place should be pleasant, if not beautiful, but now there are only stones. The stone mountain, the stone cave, even the small stream at the entrance of the cave is dry, and there are only stones in it.
"Did the master really agree?"
"Since it's someone you like, the master agrees."
"Won't the master help take a look? What if I get lost in that rhetoric and fall for it? β
There was silence in the stone cave for a long time, and just when Xing Ruyi thought that the fox would not answer again, the door of the stone cave was opened.
I haven't seen him for half a year, and his appearance hasn't changed at all, but his expression is more cold than before.
Eyes collided, and each dodged away. Xing Ruyi did it on purpose, but the fox did it on purpose.
"Tell the master, do you like him?"
"I like it."
"And does he like you?"
"I don't think I like it."
"Don't like it?" The fox hesitantly repeated: "Why do you want to marry him when you know he doesn't like you?" β
"Because I like him." Xing Ruyi said angrily: "Does the master remember what he once said to Ruyi? The master said that if Ruyi met a man with a cinnabar mark on his heart one day, he would have met his own husband. Since he is a destined husband, what does it matter if he likes Ruyi or not, Ruyi just marries, anyway, he picks and chooses, hides and hides, and after all, he can't escape the arrangement of fate. β
His eyebrows furrowed slightly, but the fox didn't say anything more.
"Master, don't you want to say anything more?" Xing Ruyi's eyes were blazing and he told him: "I'm going to get married, I'm going to marry the man with a cinnabar mark on his heart, doesn't the master want to know who he is?" β
"It's good if it's someone you like, as for him...... Sooner or later, I'll like you. β
"Master so sure?"
"Yes!" The fox nodded, because he knew that as long as it was the person he liked, no matter what method he used, he would make the other party like Ruyi too.
The master replied so simply, is it that no matter who the other party is, he will agree to marry as he wishes? Because, the master hates Ruyi and doesn't want Ruyi to continue to stay in the fox hole. β
"It's not!" The fox was silent for a moment: "Fox hole, you can stay as long as you want." The master promised to raise you for a lifetime, and he will definitely support you for a lifetime, no matter whether you marry or not, no matter who you marry, this promise of the master is always there. β
"So, what the master means is that if Ruyi has a bad time in the future, he can still come back to the master, right?"
"Yes!"
"That being the case, why didn't the master help Ruyi find a reliable Lang Jun in advance. The master is not afraid, Ruyi marries someone, and his heart is broken, he would rather die than never come back to the fox hole? β
"No, it won't."
"The master is not wishful, how do you know that wishful will not. You know, the most hurtful thing in the world is a love word. Xing Ruyi turned his back and sat on the stone: "When I was a child, I lived in the town, and my mother-in-law's house next door had a sister who was ten years older than me. That sister has a very nice name called Yingge, because she was born in the spring, and when she was born, her mother heard the cry of the yellow warbler. The voice was as graceful as a song, so she had such a nice name Yingge.
In my memory, Sister Yingge is the kind of small and delicate woman, and when she speaks, she speaks softly and gently, which is in stark contrast to my aunt's big voice. At that time, my aunt always asked me to learn from Sister Yingge, hoping that when I grew up, I could be a gentle and virtuous child like Sister Yingge. When I was six years old and Sister Yingge was sixteen, she was out of the cabinet. A yellow warbler was also embroidered on the red wedding dress when she left the cabinet, which is said to have been specially embroidered by her future father-in-law.
At that time, the people in the town were very envious of Yingge, thinking that she had a good life, and married a man who knew cold and hot and was very attentive to her. Sister Yingge was married outside the town, and she never came back for a year after marriage. Everyone thought that she must be living happily. But a year later, she returned, with a wound on her face and a baby in her womb.
The man who used to be very good to her changed soon after getting married, he stopped going out to work, saying that he was too tired to work, and he earned less money, and wanted to follow others to learn to do business. Sister Yingge supported him very much, secretly sold her dowry without telling everyone, and gave all the silver taels to the man, but he didn't make the sale, but the silver was lost. Later, he became addicted to gambling and always said that he would go to the casino to get back the money he had lost. Ten bets and nine losses, not to mention the silver that was lost, even the savings of previous years were all folded into him.
The man who gambled on the red eyes not only did not reflect on his mistakes, but instead sprinkled his anger on Sister Yingge's body. In order to cheer him up again, Sister Yingge went to help people work in private, and gave him all the money she earned from her work. But this man, not only was he not moved, but he thought that Sister Yingge had something to hide, forced her, beat her, and asked her to earn more silver taels for her own squandering.
He not only gambled, but also drank. not only drank, but also went to the flower building to find women. When you have money, you go out in the wilderness, and when you don't have money, you come back and toss things. The reason why Sister Yingge went back to her parents' house with a big belly was to ask her parents' father to borrow money. β
"Did you borrow it?"
"Naturally, there is none. Sister Yingge's mother-in-law is as loud as my mother-in-law. On the day Sister Yingge came home, her aunt stood in the yard and yelled at her, saying that the man she married was already desperate, and if she wanted to save her life, she should leave her. According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, not only men could divorce their wives, but women could also propose and divorce. Sister Yingge has a cousin who works in the yamen, if she really wants to reconcile, this matter is not difficult to do. But Sister Yingge refused, she said that her man was just a ghost for a while, and there will always be a day when he comes to his senses. It's a pity that we couldn't wait for the man to wake up, but waited for the news that Sister Yingge was beaten to death by the man along with the child in her womb.
Sister Yingge came back again, lying in the coffin. Her belly was flattened, and the child who had been beaten to death, wrapped in swaddling clothes, was placed beside her. Sister Yingge's father and mother cried for many days, crying so much that her eyes were almost blind, and only under the persuasion of others did she bury Sister Yingge and the child, and at the same time, the letter of resignation that the man wrote to Sister Yingge before he was arrested. β
"That manβ"
"Because he killed Yingge's sister and the child in her womb, he was sentenced to exile by the government, and it is said that he was killed by a robber halfway through. At that time, I was still young, and I didn't care much about why that man died, but I was curious, curious why Sister Yingge refused to leave him even though she knew that the man had changed her mind, and knew that the man had become so bad. I asked Ah Niang, and Ah Niang said that it was because Sister Yingge liked that man. Women always have fantasies about the men they like. Now, I understand, it's not that women have illusions about the men they like, it's that women know they should give up but can't give up, and they know they should leave but can't leave. This is probably the most elusive, incredible, and unpredictable part of the word "love". β
"Ruyi, what do you want to say?"
"It's nothing, I just want to tell the master that Ruyi is a very dead-eyed person. Before you get married, you may be able to keep a cool head, but once you get married, you will be dead set on that man. If he is a good man, it is a blessing for Ruyi, but if he is also the same as the husband married by Sister Yingge, Ruyi will probably die quietly like Sister Yingge. β
"Ruyi!"
"Is the master worried? Is the master nervous? Xing Ruyi turned around, saw the fox frowning, and hurriedly asked, "Is the master still the same attitude just now?" Or do you agree to marry Ruyi without looking? β
"Masterβ"
"It doesn't matter, the master is just a master after all, no matter what, it is impossible to think about Ruyi in everything like Ruyi's father. The master can rest assured, Ruyi will get married, and he will leave the master's fox hole as soon as possible. β
"I went to see that man, and I saw the man who Ruyi liked, but didn't like Ruyi, but Ruyi had to marry."
"The master is still in retreat."
"The master has already been released."
"Master doesn't have to force himself."
"The master didn't force himself."
"Master-" Xing Ruyi suddenly rushed to the fox, pointed his hand at his heart and asked, "If the master also has a cinnabar mark here, will you also be the husband of Ruyi's destiny?" If the master really has a cinnabar mark here, will the master marry Ruyi as a lady? β
"I'm your master!"
"I've checked the rules in Qingqiu, and none of them say that apprentices can't marry masters, and none of them say that masters can't marry apprentices."
"My heart belongs." Without thinking, the fox spat out those words.
"Who is it?"
"My lady, the only lady in my life."
"Where is she?"
"She'......"
She died, but the master used Qingqiu's forbidden technique to retain her soul, and begged the Immortal to send her into reincarnation. Because the master had some personal relations with the Immortal King, she did not drink Meng Po soup, nor did she lose her memories of the past, but because her soul was damaged, she still forgot everything when she was reincarnated. The master was unwilling, he kept looking for her, and finally found her, and brought her back to Qingqiu, but he was unwilling to accept her because of his sudden heart disease. Because, the master doesn't know that the woman in front of her is not the original her. β
"Ruyi ......"
The fox just wanted to speak, but Xing Ruyi suddenly grabbed the fox's clothes and pulled his front placket open.
"Cinnabar! The master even has a cinnabar mark here!