Chapter 185: Windmills
Ruojun finally didn't need to be helped by others, he could walk slowly on his own, and his hair slowly grew back, but there was still not much progress in language, and he could only pronounce it in monosyllables.
In the end, Xu Mengru still couldn't resist Meng Shuzhi, so the project of transforming the small attic into a wedding room began, Meng Shuzhi didn't care at all, he said anything casually, only Xu Mengru was actively arranging.
The second elder of the Xu family came to the shop once, and after seeing the environment, he just shook his head frequently, but firstly, both of them were intellectuals and more cultivated, and secondly, he also knew that his daughter was desperate for Meng Shuzhi, and if he objected at this time, he would simply want his daughter's life, so he would helplessly acquiesce.
They admired Meng Shuzhi's appearance and talent, but they were very worried about his unruly, eccentric and stubborn personality, and they were afraid that their daughter would suffer a lot of grievances in the future. But Mengru pounced on Meng Shuzhi wholeheartedly, and it was already a situation where the arrow had to be fired.
Ruojun also somehow suddenly remembered that he had saved a sum of money for Shu Zhi for marriage, so he hurriedly walked to the house, turned over the old for a long time, and finally took out a passbook and handed it to the second elder of the Xu family.
Shu Zhi was taken aback, he didn't expect Ruojun to suddenly take out the passbook and pull her to stop her, because he knew best how Ruojun saved the money bit by bit.
"No, sister, don't, don't. This money is left for Nian An and you to spend yourself, I don't want it. He held her hand tightly.
Ruojun looked at him in confusion, shook his head, pulled away his hand with a smile, and handed the passbook to the second elder of the Xu family. Comparing and explaining, this is Shu Zhi's dowry gift to the Xu family.
Although this was originally a reasonable courtesy, the second elder of the Xu family was too embarrassed to accept it when he saw Ruojun's thin and delirious appearance, and then saw the crowded and narrow space in the small shop, and was about to be polite.
Shu Zhi had already taken the passbook back from the second elder of the Xu family, and put it into Ruojun's hand with a frown. said to the second elder of the Xu family: "I'm sorry Uncle Xu, Aunt Xu, you have also seen my sister's situation, this money is the money for her treatment, and the money for my nephew's school in the future, I can't take it." I know I owe Mengru, but this is the situation in our family, if you are not satisfied, I will not force this marriage. ”
The second elder of the Xu family was unhappy, and Mengru's father snorted coldly: "If it weren't for Mengru to marry you, we wouldn't agree." As he spoke, he stood up and left in a huff.
Ruojun saw them leave angrily, thinking that they were too little, so he nervously ran back to the house to look around, and wanted to take out the money that Nian An had saved and put it on first, Shu Zhi left the second elder of the Xu family, followed her into the room, locked the door, pulled her tightly into his arms, excited, and hugged her tightly.
"No, sister, don't look for it, I won't ask for it, I'd rather not get married, and I won't ask your hard-earned money to marry a wife." He couldn't hold back any longer, he couldn't hold her in his arms anymore. "Besides, I don't want to get married at all, no, I want to get married, but I don't want to marry anyone else. You and I have a two-year covenant, do you remember? You promised me that I would graduate...... Do you remember? ”
Ruojun was hugged very tightly by him, and his words churned in her ears...... She vaguely seemed to remember that there was such a thing, but she couldn't remember it clearly, everything seemed to be shrouded in a thick fog in her mind.
It's just that she likes the feeling of being hugged by him, and she can't help but want to hug him, but a voice in her heart is shouting: "No...... You can't ......", she slowly turned the hands that were about to hold him into those who gently pushed him away.
She pushed him away again, which made him feel depressed again, yes, how did he forget, she didn't love him, he always remembers, that day they rode back to the store, when she saw Zhou Ruikang, she didn't want him anymore, yes, she didn't want him anymore, his heart throbbed, although he knew all the causes and consequences, what happened, but the taste of being abandoned was always uncomfortable.
He frowned deeply, shook his head and said, "I don't want your money, you keep it, she will marry me if I don't have money." He threw her passbook on the table and turned away coldly.
She looked at the passbook on the table in a daze, sat on the chair helplessly, picked up the mirror on the table, looked at herself, she was still wearing a hat, she was very thin, her thin eyes were deep-set, her cheeks were shriveled, only a pair of eyes were still quite bright, cough, she felt so ugly, when she thought of Xu Mengru's beautiful face like a rose, she couldn't help but feel inferior.
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The small attic was newly furnished, and the furniture inside was put back in place, and the single bed was reluctantly replaced by a double bed.
The furniture was pasted with big red happy characters, and the red forged gold dragon and phoenix quilts and pillowcases sent by the Xu family were pasted. Everything has been set up.
No one would have thought that this little loft would go through so many stories and be dressed up as a beautiful new house today.
Ruojun is making the final preparations for Shu Zhi's wedding room in the small attic, tomorrow will be a good day, tomorrow Shu Zhi will get married, and she will be able to do it tomorrow but it has been a matter of concern for many years.
Ruojun patted the beautiful pillow and touched the soft futon, she was happy and sad at the same time.
Her memory has always been intermittent, like fragments, but from these fragments, she can actually piece together some pictures, and these pictures are actually related to Shu Zhi, Meng Shuzhi, he is not her younger brother, she can already confirm this.
Something unexplainable had happened between them, Ruojun stood up and walked down the attic, thinking in her heart that she would lose him, he would belong to another woman, and she could only be his sister.
At dinner, the people at the table, Mrs. Chen was quite excited, talking about the next day's wedding, Ruojun smiled quietly on the side, Nian'an looked at his mother and then at Shu Zhi, just shook his head, and ate by himself.
Meng Shuzhi didn't have the joy of the groom at all, he just ate with his head bored.
"Shu Zhi, will you go to the woman's house early tomorrow morning to pick up people, and then go to the Civil Affairs Bureau together?"
"Hmm." He snorted.
"Have you informed your colleagues, classmates, and friends?"
"Nope."
"What?!" Mrs. Chen stared at him widely, put down the chopsticks in her hand, and was shocked that she didn't know what to say, so she hurriedly said, "Yo, how many of us will go tomorrow?" ”
"No, I'll do it myself."
"What?" Mrs. Chen didn't know what to say with her mouth open.
Ruojun also blinked at him, Shu Zhi glanced up at her, threw down his rice bowl irritably, stood up and ran back to the small attic.
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This night, no one in the Chen family's small building can sleep peacefully, Mrs. Chen is lying on the bed is tossing and turning sighs, in fact, she also understands in her heart, but she still hopes that Shu Zhi can find a girl of the same age to start a family, although she is also moved by Shu Zhi's infatuation with Ruojun, but after all, she is the first to know Ruikang and Ruojun, and always hopes that Zhou Ruikang can come back and reunite with Ruojun's mother and son. And Shu Zhi can also find a suitable woman.
Nian An was also very irritable after finishing her homework, and she didn't want to sleep at all, so she stayed in her mother Ruojun's room, watching her mother lie on the table and concentrate on repairing a broken windmill.
She didn't remember where the windmill came from, all she could remember was a few flickering images of her re-gluing a leaf that had fallen apart with paste.
Nian An sat on the side and looked at her and asked, "Mother, do you like this windmill very much?" ”
Ruojun smiled and nodded, she picked up the wooden handle of the windmill, and gently waved it in the air, the windmill bones turned around, Ruojun looked at the turning leaves, looked, looked, and a picture appeared in front of him:
Sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, holding a small windmill rotating in the wind, watching the windmill rotate rapidly under the blue sky, she gently wrapped her arms around his waist, put her face on his back..... there was also a rotating windmill on the head of the bicycle, he looked back at her from time to time while riding, how young his face was, how gentle his eyes were, how charming his smile was...... She seemed to feel the oncoming wind and the temperature on his back...... She gently waved the little windmill over and over again, and each time it spun, her memory became clearer.
With a "click", the leaves of the windmill in Ruojun's hand bounced off again, and Ruojun put the windmill on the table in discouragement, looking helplessly at the broken windmill.
Nian An looked at her mother with a disappointed and sad face, thought about it and said: "Mother, it's okay, the teacher taught us in this handicraft class, this paste can't stick, we can nail it up with nails, you wait, I'll go up and ask my uncle to get a thumbtack." ”
Saying that, Xiao Nian'an opened the door, ran up to the attic to find Shu Zhi, and when he pushed the door open, he saw Shu Zhi sitting alone at the desk, holding a windmill in his hand, waving it in the air, only the sound of the windmill hula-la turning in the room, and his mind was also flying with the windmill, and he didn't even notice Nian'an coming in.
Nian An walked to the desk, tilted his head, and asked strangely, "Huh?" Uncle, you're also playing with windmills? ”
Shu Zhi sighed, stopped the windmill in his hand, glanced at Nian'an, and asked casually, "Are you also playing?" ”
"It's not me, it's my mother."
"Huh?" Shu Zhi was stunned for a moment.
Nian An continued: "Her windmill is broken, she sticks it with paste, but she can't stick it, and it's sad to be alone there, so I came up and asked you for a pushpin to nail up the leaves......"
"What did you say?" Meng Shuzhi sat up straight, looked at Nian An with deep and bright eyes, and nervously held Nian An's shoulder, "You say it again." ”
Nian An didn't know why Shu Zhi suddenly became nervous, and he was stunned and repeated what he had just said.
Shu Zhi's heart was like a lit firework, his eyes bloomed with a strange brilliance, making his whole face vivid and enthusiastic, he held Nian'an's little face and kissed it, stood up with a pout, and walked downstairs with a windmill.
Windmills, she's playing with windmills too? Did she remember something? Did she remember all the joys and feelings they had in the past?
When he got to the second floor, he didn't bother to knock on the door at all, he just pushed the door and went in, without saying hello to Mrs. Chen, he rushed into Ruojun's room in three steps and two steps, and locked the door with his backhand, he didn't want anyone to disturb them, he had something very important to ask her.
Ruojun is still working hard to stick to the little windmill with paste. Meng Shuzhi suddenly felt sad, distressed, the frenzy in his heart was burned, and he shouted in a dry throat: "Ruojun! The windmill is here. ”
Mei Ruojun looked up at him, she saw that he was sobbing, his eyes were full of mist, he rushed up, stacked his windmill on top of hers, picked her up from the chair, put her on the bed, squatted on the side of the bed, looked at her excitedly, seriously, and reverently, held her hands tightly, and rubbed them in his own hands.
His voice was choked and chopped, and he lowered his head to kiss her hand and asked her: "Ruojun, you must listen carefully tonight no matter what, I can speak slowly, but you must answer me sincerely, because this may be our last chance in this life." You've got to tell me what you really mean, okay? ”
She looked at his face, yes, the young face in those fragmentary pictures was the face in front of her, his face connected the fragmented images bit by bit, and she remembered everything he had done for her. She had a sore nose, tears streaming into her eyes, and she nodded.
Meng Shuzhi tried to restrain the surging tide in his heart, and asked her as slowly and clearly as possible:
"Tell me, do you know who I am?"
Ruojun looked at him gently and nodded.
Shu Zhi smiled, holding her hand and trembling, and then asked, "I married Mengru, are you happy or sad?" ”
Ruojun's eyes slid on his face, and after a long time, she nodded, Shu Zhi's heart sank, but suddenly Ruojun shook his head again.
Shu Zhi was confused, thought for a while, and changed his question: "I married Mengru, are you sad?" Sad? ”
Two crystal tears fell from her eye sockets and dripped on his hand, and she took a breath and finally nodded.
He smiled in horror, stroked her face excitedly and asked, "You...... Love...... I...... Is it? ”
All kinds of past events floated in front of her eyes: on a rainy night, in order to save her name, he bravely lifted a stone and smashed it at Guo Xingquan, one person worked two part-time jobs, showed people the warehouse late at night, in order to give her mother and son a food and clothing, he used his hard-earned money to buy her rouge, sold his watch to buy her a woolen sweater in difficult times, when Nian'an was kidnapped, he bravely stepped forward again to protect their mother and son, when she was heartbroken, he gave her love, gave her joy, gave her hope, in order to make himself no longer inferior, he shaved his hair, Growing hair with her, he accompanied her, helped her, loved her, and insisted on giving her a simple and ordinary happiness.
She remembered their kiss in the little attic, their two-year appointment, he remembered that he rode her through the streets and alleys, enjoying nature in the lake and mountains, dancing in the woods, and he whirling around her, kissing passionately.
Oh...... God, how sluggish, hypocritical, and stubborn she is, so many years of dependence on each other, so many years of bits and pieces, she can't count them at all.
Her tears kept falling, and finally, she pointed to herself, her lips trembled, and she opened her mouth slightly and said, "J-u--n"
He pointed at Shu Zhi again, trembling, hard, and hard pronunciation: "Z-h--i"
“A—i--”
Shu Zhi's face bloomed with a smile that was better than spring flowers, and he said excitedly: "Oh dear Ruojun, baby Ruojun, what you said is great, great, but the order is wrong, say it again, put 'Ai' in the middle and try it." ”
Mei Ruojun's face was flushed, and she tried to open her mouth, and said very slowly: "J-u-nA-IZ-h-i."
Fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, but after some difficulties, challenges, and efforts, she finally got it right, just like her life......
His whole body was trembling slightly, he was so excited, he was too excited, so many years of heart and bitterness, finally in exchange for her confession of love, he pulled her up, hugged her tightly into his arms, this time she also hugged him, his beautiful, soft, sexy lips kissed down, kissed her whole body trembled, the more he kissed, the more emotional, the deeper the kiss, the tip of his tongue gently probed into her mouth, kept entwining with her, he found that she was responding to him, he was even more happy and passionate, and took off the hat on her head with one hand, Five fingers were inserted into her soft short hair, and she kissed her distressedly.