As she expected, as soon as Mei Ruojun returned to the chrysanthemum garden, she was notified to go to Yilan Xiaozhu to see Mrs. Zhou, Yilan Xiaozhu was still so cold and elegant, and the fragrance of flowers was overflowing, Yanxi looked at her with disdain, raised her eyes upstairs, and said coldly: "Mrs. is waiting for you upstairs." ”

Mei Ruojun carried her skirt and walked the stairs step by step, the old wooden staircase made a creaking sound, and Yanxi followed behind her.

On the second floor, Mrs. Zhou was kneeling in front of the shrine, her fingers constantly twisting the agate rosary, muttering that she didn't know whether she was reciting scriptures or praying.

"Ma'am, she's coming." Yan Xi replied.

"Hmm!" Mrs. Zhou didn't look back, looked up at the statue of Guanyin in the shrine and the tablet of the ancestors of the Zhou family, kowtowed three times, and Yan Xi stepped forward to help her up.

"Where's the master?"

"The master is in the hall discussing with Zhou Fu and a few old village heads in the village, will he come back for a while and a half."

"Good. You go out. Shut the door. Mrs. Zhou's voice was a little weak, and Yan Xi took the order to go out.

"Mother----" she called out in a low voice.

"Don't call me mother! You are not my daughter, and I do not recognize you as my daughter-in-law. Mrs. Zhou sat down on the chair, raised her eyebrows upside down and said, "You are so shameless, you have seduced my two sons, made them fascinated for you, and violated human ethics." This is intolerable under national law and family rules. Her voice wasn't high, but every word was so clear and stern.

Mei Ruojun knelt down in silence.

"Well, good, good, you seem to be prepared."

"It's all up to my mother."

"Okay, I don't want to say anything superfluous, I'll give you two ways. One, I'll have a round room with Ryan tonight, I don't care if you have filial piety or not. Two, die! The word "death" was squeezed out from between Mrs. Zhou's two rows of teeth, with an overwhelming amount of resentment, she really hated this Mei Ruojun, this vixen, this demon, this scourge, she wanted to destroy Ryan and Ruikang, she absolutely couldn't let her succeed.

Mei Ruojun seemed to have been ready for a long time, looked at Mrs. Zhou calmly, raised her hands to her forehead, bowed to Mrs. Zhou respectfully three times, and said lightly: "Thank you, mother, I choose to 'die'." ”

"What?! What the?! Mrs. Zhou stood up, staggered to Mei Ruojun, grabbed her little face, and looked at her in disbelief, she would rather die than have sex with Ryan? Why, why?

"Are you that disgusted with Ryan?" She clutched her face tightly, gritted her teeth, and wanted to pinch her to death with her own hands.

Mei Ruojun shook her head, her face was pinched by Mrs. Zhou very painfully, but her heart hurt even more, and she said with tears: "No! Mother, you are wrong, I like Ryan and appreciate Ryan, but I love Ryan, and I have no regrets in this life. ”

"You, you, you...... You shameless woman! Why do you love Ericon?! Mrs. Zhou stared at the woman in front of her, the pent-up anger burst out in her body, raised her hand, and waved it towards her face with all her might, after a crisp slap, Mrs. Zhou slumped in the chair, her chest kept rising and falling, her eyes were red, her whole body trembled, the anger in her heart did not weaken, she was holding for Ryan, her two sons are her sweethearts, whoever is hurt, she will do her best to protect it, not to mention that Mei Ruojun hurt her two sons at once, she can only destroy her and make her disappear, Let her disappear completely, so that the two sons can be given the greatest protection.

"Do you know what the consequences will be if the master finds out about your adultery? The master will beat Ruikang hard and expel him from the house, do you know what the consequences will be if people outside know about your adultery? Ruikang will be despised and spurned by all people, he will not be able to hold his head up for the rest of his life, and he will not be able to gain a foothold in this world for the rest of his life! You're going to kill him! You're going to kill him! ”

Mrs. Zhou grabbed Mei Ruojun's collar, shed tears, gritted her teeth, shook her wildly, slapped her, tired, she gasped and said:

"So I don't care if you're really great or falsely great, really brave or falsely brave, you must die, hurry up! Only if you die can you save the reputation of their brothers. ”

Mrs. Zhou sniffed, her eyes were filled with tears, but her face became extremely cold, she pushed Mei Ruojun to the ground heavily, stood up and walked out staggeringly, walked to the door, paused and turned around and said, "Don't think you can escape, it's not that no one has died in this family." ”

Mei Ruojun fell to the ground, her whole body was in pain, and she didn't delve into the meaning of Mrs. Zhou's last sentence, because she did have the determination to die, and there was no possibility of escape.

//

Mei Ruojun didn't know how she got out of Yilan Xiaozhu, along the path in the garden, she passed by the study, the light in the study was on, giving people a sense of tranquility, serenity, and warmth, she wanted to go in to see Ryan, but she couldn't face his affection, she couldn't afford it. After the study, it is the Yongmei Garden where her soul lingers, what is Ruikang doing? She wanted to go in and see him, but she couldn't, if she saw him, would she still have the courage to die?

Like a wandering spirit, she went around the garden and returned to the chrysanthemum garden, Cuiliu was playing with Xunmei in the yard, and when she saw her, she only said, "Grandma, dinner has been put on the table." Eat as much as you want. ”

Dine? Oh yes, I haven't eaten all day, isn't there a saying that it's better to be a full ghost than a hungry ghost, so eat a little.

Back in the house, she closed the door, plugged in the deadbolt, put three incense sticks in front of her father's spirit, and suddenly she felt a little comforted, she should be able to see her father again after she died, father and daughter reunited in the underworld, it is better than yin and yang, she wants to go to the underworld to confess to her father, it is because of her own sake, Ruoli will leave home with hatred.

After eating some food casually, she sat there in a daze, thinking about how to die, arsenic? Where to get arsenic at this time? Work. After a while, she turned to the beam with a dull look in her eyes, and hanged herself? It's a good way to die, three-foot white silk is here, she got up to look for white silk, but no, by the way, last time Xunmei took it out to play, learned to make clothes, hinged. Rope? Where to find rope? She frowned, trying to think, it turned out that it was so difficult to die, and finally, she thought, yes, the big lotus pond in the back garden, I heard that there was a girl who drowned in it back then. Fortunately, "red face like flowers chasing water" is also quite elegant.

After thinking about how to die, she looked at the pendulum clock, the time was still early, and she had to wait for everyone to fall asleep before she could implement it, so she began to prepare for her posthumous affairs, chose her favorite set of white satin embroidered red plum dresses, and took off the "Yue Linglong" in her hand, put it on the dresser, sighed, shook her head, she really did not deserve to wear this pair of bracelets that represented the chastity of the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family.

She took out the yellowed pearl necklace that her mother had left for her and put it on, and since she was going to die, she was going to die beautifully, she opened her bun, spread her long hair, and combed it carefully......

After dressing up, she looked at herself in the mirror, she was beautiful, her eyebrows were curved like the moon, her eyes were like stars, her long eyelashes, her white skin, her nose was straight, and her lips were small and full, except for the five finger prints on her face that Mrs. Zhou had rewarded, she was almost perfect.

In fact, Mrs. Zhou is right, she can't struggle and sway between the two brothers Ryan and Ruikang forever, she and Ryan have been decided, whether it is to avoid the world, or to divorce Ryan and marry Ruikang, she and Ruikang will never get rid of the notoriety of incest between her uncle and sister-in-law. She didn't want him to be hurt because of this relationship, he was such an excellent and outstanding young man, his life had just begun, how could he be ruined because of himself. Fame is so important to a person, especially to Ruikang.

She is neither willing to break the oath between the two of him, nor is she willing to ruin his life, so she can only die, and death means a complete disappearance and a complete end. Maybe he will be sad for a while, but sooner or later he will pick himself up again, get married, have children, and have a perfect life. As for Ryan, she owes it, and she can only repay this debt in the next life.

After sorting out her things and poems, Mei Ruojun looked at the pendulum clock on the table again, and finally, it was two o'clock in the morning, and there was already silence outside, and the Zhou family was already asleep. Mei Ruojun glanced at Mei Xuefei's spiritual seat again, and said secretly in her heart: "Daddy, my daughter will come down to accompany you......"

Gently opened the door bolt, floated out of the chrysanthemum garden, looked up at the night sky with sparse moon stars, tonight is a beautiful night, she thought, time flies so fast, spring to summer, it is early summer, strolling in the garden by moonlight, quiet night, quiet garden, the fragrance of nightshade, so that she suddenly has some nostalgia for this world, there are beautiful flowers in this world, bright moonlight, brilliant stars, and sweet love, yes, love, what a sweet thing.

Although she and Ruikang love very bitterly, but when she hugged him and kissed him, how wonderful the moment was, like a bright fireworks, gorgeous, his hug was so powerful, his kiss was so affectionate, she had his love, Ruoli didn't get it, Cheng Jiaqi didn't get it, and the woman who kissed him with lip prints on his face didn't get it, only she got it, yes, she was lucky, she comforted herself, tried to let herself forget her pitiful, miserable, and short life, Try to let yourself die happily.

She walked to the gate connecting the back garden, and just wanted to reach out and pull out the deadbolt, who knows, the bolt has already been pulled open, the door is hidden, Ruojun was stunned in his heart, this door is usually closed at night, could it be that Mrs. Zhou has long thought about letting herself die in the lotus pond? So deliberately let people open the door?

Walking into the back garden, the shade of the trees obscured the moonlight, and it was suddenly a little eerie, but for a person who was about to die, there was nothing to be afraid of.

After passing through the flower garden, she finally came to the lotus pond, one side of the lotus pond is a rockery and a small wooden bridge, surrounded by a few willow trees, at this time the lotus flowers in the lotus pond have produced small buds, the lotus leaves stretch out like a jade plate, there are many carp shuttling back and forth under the water, and the moonlight is reflected on the water surface, like a white jade plate. Everything is so beautiful. She was a little reluctant to spoil such a beautiful view.

But thinking of Mrs. Zhou's order, Ruikang's reputation, Ryan's happiness, and the future of the entire Zhou family, a lonely Mei Ruojun is really not a pity to die, and the Zhou family can return to calm after she dies, she walked to the edge of the pool, closed her eyes, and threw herself into the cold pool with the hellish alliance with Ruikang.

//

Fire, crowds, shock, silence, grief, pain, remorse...... Gather in the back garden.

"She's dead......" Cuiliu trembled all over, biting her fingernails, her face was pale, and she almost fainted, she was so frightened because she heard Mei Ruojun open the garden gate of the chrysanthemum garden, she saw her floating away from the window of the house, but she didn't open her mouth to stop her, she let Mei Ruojun go to the point of no return, why Mei Ruojun died, she knew better than anyone else, it was she who told Mrs. Zhou everything about the Mei family, at this time she felt that she was no different from killing Mei Ruojun with her own hands, The guilt in her heart had expanded infinitely and turned into great fear.

"No, she's not going to die!" Zhou Ruikang roared loudly, kneeling beside Mei Ruojun soaking wet, his hair dripping with water, and his hands kept squeezing her stomach and chest.

"Child, she's dead...... Let her go," said Mrs. Chow.

"Nope! She won't die, she won't die, she won't die! She won't leave me! He kept shaking his head, his eyes red, "I don't believe it, I don't believe it......"

The firelight illuminated the entire backyard, and the Zhou family gathered around the lotus pond, watching Ruikang almost frantically try to regain Mei Ruojun's life.

But her body was cold, without any warmth, and he kept giving her cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hoping for a miracle.

"Ruojun, please, come back to life, come back to life, if you die, I will go with you, do you want me to die too?" He held her head and trembled and said, "We said we were going to hell together, how could you go alone?" ”

"Ruikang, she's dead." Mrs. Zhou was so frightened that her whole body trembled when she saw her son's almost crazy appearance, she didn't know that Ruikang would really be so infatuated.

"Nope! She won't die, she won't die, and if she dies, I'll go with her. He glared at his mother, and he couldn't tell the difference between relatives and enemies.

He turned her body over, patted her on the back, hoping that she would spit out the water, and flattened her again, and gave her artificial respiration, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, he cried out frantically in his heart, and everyone looked at this picture with nervousness and fear.

Master Zhou's face was shocked, he couldn't believe his eyes, he couldn't believe his ears, Ruikang's expression and actions had already exceeded an uncle's concern for his sister-in-law, he was stunned, his head was blank, and at this moment he completely understood that the turmoil in the family for more than half a year was because Ruikang fell in love with Ruojun. His eyes widened, and his mouth was half-open in shock.

Mrs. Zhou's face was panicked, she didn't expect Mei Ruojun to really have the courage to die, her conscience made her feel remorseful, Ruikang's pain broke her heart, she was afraid that Ruikang would really die with Mei Ruojun, she hoped that Mei Ruojun could miraculously survive, but at the same time she hoped that she would really die, she deserved to die, she let her two sons struggle so painfully, she deserved to die. Let her die! She struggled and frowned, her hands clutching her handkerchief tightly.

Next to a pillar in the corner of the corridor, Zhou Ruian leaned on crutches against the pillar, quietly watching his younger brother give Ruojun artificial respiration, without any expression on his face, no one knew what he was thinking, maybe no one noticed his existence, he was always easy to be ignored.

She still didn't react, he began to collapse, began to despair, frantically hugged her body and kissed, oh my God, she was dead, really dead, he hugged her tightly, cried, he couldn't stand it, he couldn't stand it, they were still in love in the afternoon, she swore an oath, she said she loved him, and she would never live up to him in this life, and now how did she become a cold corpse? He straddled completely, and he cried out to her like crazy: "Ruojun! Come back, come back! ”

Mrs. Zhou has never seen her son cry so much, even if he was beaten by the family law since he was a child, he didn't say a word, she panicked, at this moment she knew that her son's heart was broken, his dream was broken, he would really go with her, she was very scared, she was very heartbroken, if Ruikang had three long and two short, she would not be able to live, she trembled and walked towards her son.

Ruikang didn't look at her at all, just hugged Ruojun tightly and pressed her face against her, crying constantly, like a child.

"What a system! What a system! Master Zhou yelled, "Ruikang! Let go of Ruojun's corpse! Then he stomped his feet and shouted, "Someone, pull him away for me!" Opened! Opened!! ”

Zhou Fu and Zhou Gui glanced at each other in embarrassment, and before they took two steps forward, Ruikang suddenly picked up Ruojun and stood up, roaring: "Don't come here!" I've had enough, you forced her to death, you forced me to death! Since you can't tolerate us, I'll take her away. ”

After speaking, holding Ruojun's body, he quickly strode towards the back door.