Chapter 358: A Similar Story
The day after tomorrow is the day of marriage, Feng Qingfang got up in the morning and sat alone by the window, looking at the blue sky with his cheeks back, and he was in a daze, and even forgot to eat early.
It wasn't until there was the sound of footsteps behind him that he gradually came back to his senses, and when he turned his head to look, he saw Jiang Mingche pacing with a smile on his face.
"I heard from the maid, you didn't eat breakfast again?" He frowned lightly and asked softly.
Feng Qing looked at his face wildly, and suddenly he was in a trance.
When she first met him many years ago, did she think that she would marry him years later? And forced?
"I'm not hungry."
"If you're not hungry, you have to eat as much as you want, don't starve your body." With that, Jiang Mingche pulled Feng lightly to the outer side hall and sat down at the table, where the hot breakfast was set up again.
Feng Qingfang really didn't want to eat, but he didn't bother to listen to his nagging, so he only drank a small half bowl of porridge and ate some side dishes.
"I'm full."
Jiang Mingche had been watching her, and when he saw her put down the dishes and chopsticks, and was about to leave, he hurriedly pressed her hand on the table, and called softly: "Frivolous ......"
"What's wrong?" Feng Qingfang asked coldly.
"Can you sit down and talk to me?"
"I don't have anything to talk to you about." Feng Qingyan said the truth, not angry words, in the face of a person who was infatuated with herself and made herself miserable at the same time, she really didn't know what to say to him.
Jiang Mingche sighed and said: "We are going to get married, if we have nothing to say every time we meet, how will we be husband and wife in the future?" ”
This also makes sense, if he really marries Jiang Mingche, husband and wife can't help but talk, right? So she sat back down.
But she really couldn't find a topic, so she had to give the difficult task to the other party: "What do you want to talk to me about?" ”
"How much do you expect from our big day? Even a little bit? Jiang Mingche wanted to ask this sentence in a relaxed tone, but unfortunately as soon as the words came out, he became serious, and even his expression was solemn.
If there is no answer at all, it will definitely break his heart, right? Although Jiang Mingche forced her to marry, it was a bit excessive, but he also gave an antidote, besides, the road was chosen by herself, whether she was happy or depressed, she had to bear it alone, and she shouldn't be angry with the people around her.
"Yes, sort of."
Jiang Mingche is not stupid, of course he can see that she is perfunctory, however, he doesn't care, she is not as indifferent as a few days ago, isn't she? That's a great place to start.
"The wedding dress ordered by the fresh clothes shop has been delivered yesterday, do you want to try it on? If there is something that does not fit, you can also send it to change. ”
"No, the tailors personally measured all the dimensions of my body at that time, and it must have fit." How can Feng Qingmad have the heart to try on the wedding dress? I wish I didn't have to wear it on the day I got married.
"What about jewelry? Do you want to check it out? ”
"No, I know you're going to pick the best."
Seeing that she was so absent, Jiang Mingche was inevitably a little lost.
When he was sad, Feng Qingfang suddenly grabbed his sleeve and asked eagerly: "Jiang Mingche, the weather is good today, I want to go out for a walk, and enjoy the scenery outside the city to relax, is it okay?" ”
"Of course, I'll tell my subordinates to prepare the car, and I'll go with you."
Jiang Mingche wanted to get up and call someone, but Feng Qingfang hurriedly grabbed his hand and said, "You don't have to accompany me, I want to go by myself." ”
"Going alone?" Jiang Mingche's voice turned cold, obviously displeased.
Feng Qingyan understood what he was worried about, and immediately explained: "I just want to go and relax, I won't run away, you can send people to follow in the dark, as long as they don't come out to disturb me, it doesn't matter how many people there are." ”
Hearing her say so frankly, Jiang Mingche's heart gradually relaxed.
"If that's the case, then so be it."
"Thank you." Feng Qingfang's eyes lit up, and his mood instantly improved, and he got up and went out.
After leaving the house, she went to the market for half an hour before going out of the city, and instead of riding in a carriage, she walked on foot, intending to go wherever she went.
Outside the city is a plain, the lush meadows nearby, the mountains in the distance, and the flowers everywhere, all come into view, the wind blows, bringing the fragrance of grass and flowers, which is mixed with the slightest smell of earth, the haze in Feng Qing's heart has been swept away a lot.
She walked alone on the plain paths, and from time to time she could see one or two farmhouses, or a few people working with their backs to the loess, stopping when they were tired, and continuing to wander when they had rested, a sense of calm and comfort permeated her heart.
If you can live like this for the rest of your life, even if you can't see your beloved again, it doesn't seem that bad, right?
Mulian City, Mu Liancheng ......
Feng walked lightly, silently reciting the name over and over again in his heart, his eyes fell on the willow moon knife that was pinned to his waist, and his eyes were still unconsciously filled with tears, blurring his vision.
She stopped, sighed suddenly, raised her sleeves and silently wiped away her tears, looked back into the distance, and couldn't see the city wall, only to realize that she had walked so far.
Let's go back, lest you break your leg and not go back.
When he turned around and was about to return to the city, there was a sudden whimpering sound not far away.
Who is crying?
Curious, Feng Qingfang walked over in search of crying, and saw a secluded path through a grove of trees, and on the other side of the path, a woman was kneeling in front of the grave and burning paper.
She walked slowly over and found that it was an old tomb, which looked to have been erected for more than ten years, and the tombstone had the words "Deceased Husband" written on it, and the woman was in her forties, and her eyes were red and swollen from crying.
When he heard someone coming, he wiped his eyes indiscriminately and said in a hoarse voice: "Girl, are you ......?"
"I was passing by, and when I heard your cry, madam, I was attracted by curiosity for a while." Feng Qing smiled kindly, "The deceased is gone, and the lady still needs to mourn, I think your husband is in the spirit of the sky, and he definitely doesn't want to see you wash his face with tears for him." ”
Hearing her say this, the woman was stunned at first, then laughed at herself, shook her head, and said, "Husband? It's not my husband who is lying here. ”
"Huh?" Feng Qing was embarrassed, obviously this monument is engraved with a deceased husband...... Could it be that this woman has secretly come to worship the deceased husband of someone else's house? "I'm sorry, I misunderstood."
The woman smiled and waved her hand, stood up with her hands propped up, and did not care about the dirt on her knees, and raised her sleeves to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and then said slowly: "He should have been my husband's, but unfortunately due to some things, I left him and married to a foreign country, and when I came back many years later, he was already lying in this lonely tomb, and I did not even see his last face." ”
Speaking of this, two strings of tears rolled down again, "Now that he has passed away for eleven years, the remorse in my heart is accumulating deeper and deeper, and I often dream of getting along with him when I was young at night, crying heartbreakingly, sometimes I think that it is better to die, but I turn my head and think, I was the one who lost him, it was I who caused him to end up hateful, and when I got to Jiuquan, what face did I have to see him?" ”
It does sound like a sad story, Feng Qing shook his head and sighed wildly, seeing that the other party's two sleeves were wet with tears, Feng Qing took out a handkerchief and handed it over.
That's all in the past, and it's useless to think about it, and the woman must understand this truth, but it's hard to really see it, maybe what she needs now is someone to talk to, right?
"Madame, can you tell me the story you told me about him?"
The other party was slightly stunned, looking at her for some reason.
"You want to hear it?"
"Yes." Feng Qingfang helped her to sit on the clean grass next to her, "It would be great if you were willing to tell it, you see, what about me, I can hear a touching story, what about you, you can also pour out the bitter water that has been accumulated for many years, isn't it great?" ”
The woman tore the corners of her mouth, laughed softly, and began to talk about the events of the past.
"I was originally the daughter of a merchant in Huai County, and when I was fifteen years old, I secretly went out and met a handsome young man who sold calligraphy and paintings on the street, that is, him."
At that time, he was a talent, brilliant in literature, ambitious, and his greatest wish was to go to the capital to gain fame and glory, but his family was poor, and his old mother was sick, so he couldn't raise money to go to the capital, even if he sold calligraphy and paintings, he could only barely make a living, and because of this, he delayed the imperial examination.
The woman often went to him, and gradually the two fell in love, and in order to make his wish come true, she took out all her savings and stole dozens of taels of silver from her house, and prepared to give them to him.
Unexpectedly, the maid next to her reported to her parents, the relationship between the two was exposed, the woman was locked up, and Na Xiucai was beaten by her father and almost didn't survive.
Needless to say, the two will definitely not be able to see each other again, only bitter lovesickness in the air, and the woman's parents even set a family affair for her, asking her to marry as soon as possible.
The woman refused, and in desperation, she chose to hang herself, but because she was found early, she did not die, so in order to prevent her from seeking death again, her father gave her two ways.
It's okay to want to be with that poor Xiucai, but from now on, you have to cut off the relationship with your family, and with him in the official mansion, that Xiucai doesn't want to take any fame for the rest of his life, and can only be poor for the rest of his life.
The woman couldn't let Xiucai lose her future because of herself, so she chose the second way - to marry the son of the county magistrate in the next county, and forever cut off the relationship with Xiucai, in addition, she also begged her father to give Xiucai a coil to go to the capital, and asked someone to send it over.
She didn't go to see him again.
Soon after, the woman got married and went away for six years.
"Until my husband died, I returned to Huai County, went to the place where he used to live, and finally learned that he had passed away, it turned out that he did not receive the money that my father gave him, he had been serving his mother here, married a wife, and later became a teacher in the county school, after his mother passed away, he died of illness in a few years, and his wife remarried and went to other places two years after he left, and never came back."