Without Ding Xiaohui, although Mei Ruojun is lonely and hard, she is also calm, but in the middle of the night, the beasts in the mountains let out all kinds of screams, which are quite terrifying, but fortunately, there is Nian An by her side, and she is finally a powerful spiritual pillar. Being a mother is strong, Mei Ruojun is always afraid, as long as she hugs Nian'an, she will have incomparable courage.

Song Yuanyang didn't come again, she didn't go to the "Homesick Garden" again, she needed to calm down, and she also needed to think seriously, Ding Xiaohui's departure, she was still very sad, not used to it, she tried to gradually adjust her life, and then calmly thought about where to go with Ruikang.

In the past few days, there has been a heavy rain in the mountains, the thatch on the roof of the cabin has been blown away by the wind, the bark has been blown crooked, and the house has begun to leak.

Early the next morning, Mei Ruojun fed Xiao Nian'an, put him in the baby chair made for him by Ding Xiaohui, rolled up her sleeves, carried the ladder, climbed up to the roof, and began to repair the roof.

Xiao Nian'an watched her climb up and down with dark round eyes, knocking and knocking, very curious.

Mei Ruojun climbed down the stairs, patted the soil on her hands, gently pinched Nian'an's little face, and said with a smile: "Mother is amazing, isn't it?" Will you repair the house? ”

Xiao Nian'an's eyes bent, revealing that smile, Mei Ruojun's heart moved, the longer Nian'an looked, the more like Ruikang, she missed him very much, she really wanted to think about it, but she didn't want to go to the "homesick garden" anymore, it was not such a beautiful thing to possess someone else's husband, and her conscience was deeply condemned.

Looking at her son, she smiled: "You, when you grow up, I don't know if you will be like your father and provoke girls everywhere." Cough! ”

Xiao Nian'an giggled, amused Ruojun, nodded his little nose, shook his head, and thought to himself, this guy must be a hurtful guy when he grows up.

After repairing the house, Mei Ruojun carried Nian'an on her back again, went to the waterfall to wash clothes, and then went down the mountain to buy vegetables and cook, busy, after going down the mountain, she bought some colored silk threads and rags, and after returning to the cabin, she put the things in place, recorded the account, and then calculated how much money was spent while cooking.

Without Ding Xiaohui's protection and care, she must rely on herself, she has grown up in poverty since she was a child, she is not afraid of life, and careful thinking is a skill she has cultivated since she was a child.

In the afternoon, Xiao Nian'an fell asleep, and she began to work, making all kinds of cute tiger head shoes, tiger head hats, and cloth shoes for adults, and beautiful handkerchiefs, and she had to have income before the savings were used up.

The vegetable field reclaimed by Ding Xiaohui really helped Mei Ruojun a lot, at least saving a sum of money for vegetables, Ruojun carefully planted every vegetable seedling, and if he couldn't finish it, he would pickle it and make pickles.

After a while, she built a fence outside the house by herself, and just after the summer, there were two more hens and a few chicks in her little yard. These were once the homes that Ding Xiaohui envisioned for her, and now she has built them by herself. She found that she could do many, many things.

Her hands became rougher, and she was pierced by wooden thorns several times and bled several times, but each time she bleed, she became more resolute, like a thicker and thicker calloon on her hands, but her heart became more and more stable.

The income is not very good, but it is enough to feed and wear, and peace and stability are better than anything else for Mei Ruojun, and she has nothing else to think about except Ruikang's condition.

What's even more amazing is that she actually learned to use planers to cut wood and saws to see wood, and also learned to use all kinds of clumsy tools, splitting, sawing, planing, and knocking, and actually designed and made a very beautiful chicken nest by herself.

"Nian'an, look, how capable is my mother?" Ruojun wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with his arm, picked Nian An out of the baby chair, and helped his toddler son, proudly letting him appreciate his achievements.

The days are difficult, but they are also full of hope, but when the night comes, her thoughts about Ruikang will be as turbulent as the rushing tide.

The night was long, and under the lonely lamp, she took out a pen and paper and wrote a poem:

"The moon is hazy and shining on the cold window, and the lonely lamp shadow only refers to the frost,

The night is affectionate and cold, and the lovesickness has become two lines of tears. ”

This poem is not very well written, but it is just a sustenance of lovesickness, how is he now? She can only express her lovesickness through the hazy moonlight.

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She didn't know that Zhou Ruikang in "Homesick Garden" was like an ant on a hot pot at this time, he couldn't restrain and suppress his inner emotions like Mei Ruojun, he was like suffering in a fire every day.

But there is no one around him to help him, he is imprisoned by everyone's "kindness and morality", almost every day, Master Zhou, Cheng Jiaqi, Cheng Jiawei will take turns to brainwash him in their own way, Master Zhou's father-son affection, family style said, Cheng Jiaqi's husband and wife kindness, the past oath said, Cheng Jiawei's sincere friendship, men's responsibility said, every day in and out of his ears, the power is no less than the Japanese cannonballs.

He was very irritated by them, he wanted to go to the cabin in Jinyun Mountain, he wanted to know how their mother and son were doing? He wanted to hug her, kiss her, have her, but he couldn't see it, and now he needed to rely on crutches or other people's support to get out of the house, let alone climb the mountain.

"When will your Master Song come back?" Ruikang asked the little girl next to him while drinking the medicine, and he asked this question almost two or three times a day.

"Colonel, our lord went to Shanghai, and he didn't say when he would come back. Our lord is busy. ”

"Shanghai ......" a place full of memories, Ruikang groaned and fell back to bed.

The girl took the empty bowl and walked out of the room, Ruikang took out a paper bag from under the pillow, opened it carefully, took out a small piece of plum blossom cake, put it in her mouth, and was enjoying the sweet taste, the door was pushed open, and Cheng Jiaqi walked in.

Ruikang's whole body was shocked, and he wanted to hide the paper bag in a panic, but he was frightened, his eyes couldn't see it, his hand shook, and the remaining four or five plum blossom cakes in the paper bag fell out and fell on the bed.

He hurriedly looked for the scattered plum blossom cake on the bed, Jiaqi walked to the bedside, picked up a small and exquisite, white plum blossom cake from the sheet, looked at it and looked, she recognized it, and also eaten, that year in the "Yongmei Garden", and later his brother Cheng Jiawei also took some home and shared it with her.

"Plum Blossom Crisp ......" Cheng Jiaqi held a small white plum blossom and looked at it carefully, it was really delicate and fragrant.

Ruikang was nervously stunned, he found that he was more and more afraid of Jiaqi, and he was becoming more and more like a schoolboy who had made a mistake in front of her, and he could be interrogated, questioned and criticized by her at any time.

Jiaqi was really annoyed with everything related to the word "plum", her heart was furious, and she reached out and swept all the plum blossom cakes scattered on the bedding and sheets to the ground.

Ruikang was shocked, he didn't expect her reaction to be so violent, and hurriedly grabbed her: "Jiaqi, what are you doing?" As he spoke, he was about to turn over and go to the ground to grope, but Jiaqi grabbed him, pushed him back to the bed, and said sharply:

"From now on, you can't have anything related to Mei Ruojun by your side. For the sake of our marriage, for the sake of our family, I must do this, I can't let my marriage be ruined, I can't let my family be disgraced, I can't make myself a laughing stock, and I can't let Dingbang lose his father. ”

Ruikang's head began to ache faintly again, he knew that he couldn't be angry, as long as he was angry, his head would hurt, he held his forehead in pain, but Jiaqi's torture of him was only the beginning.

After a while, Jiaqi walked to the window and lit a cigarette for herself: "Ruikang, I won't divorce you." We have sworn for the rest of our lives, and our marriage will last until the day we leave this world. So you don't have to beg me, and you don't have to talk to me about divorce. I have followed you in this life, and I will never abandon you. ”

Hehe, Ruikang just wants to smile bitterly, for a lifetime, never give up, shouldn't it be a word for men and women to complain to each other? Shouldn't it be a love story when love is strong? How can it come out of Jiaqi's mouth, but it is so ironic and sad?

He knew that it was redundant to say more, he didn't know why Mei Ruojun didn't come to the "Homesick Garden" to see him again, he quietly asked the little girl who served him, and confirmed that Mei Ruojun really never came again, but he didn't know when Song Yuanyang would come back, his heart was really as anxious and depressed as if he was roasted by fire and flooded.

"There's one more thing I'm sure you're interested in." Jiaqi turned around, opened the closet, took out a handkerchief from the zippered pocket of one of her coats, pinched it in the palm of her hand and rubbed it.

"What a beautiful plum blossom, what a beautiful willow body 'Kang' word, the embroidery is so exquisite, the color is so exquisite, although it is just a small square handkerchief, but she embroidered it like a handicraft, it is really rare." Jiaqi took the handkerchief in her hand and admired it carefully.

Ruikang's whole person stiffened, and he opened his mouth and asked urgently, "What did you say?" Handkerchief, is it my handkerchief? ”

"I guess that's what you're looking for every night."

Ruikang didn't care what she said, he had already rolled over and got up, barefoot, searching for her location in the blurred light and shadow.

"Give it to me, Jiaqi, give it to me." He tried his best to keep his eyes wide open, and his arms stretched out to look for her in the room, but he couldn't see, he couldn't see, everything was blurry.

"No, I'm going to burn it. I'm going to burn everything between you and Mei Ruojun. She felt an indescribable pleasure in torturing him, and all these years he had been hypocritical, indifferent, cold, and merciless to her, and how much more than a handkerchief could make up for it? She turned on the lighter, and with a flash of fire, he finally figured out where she was.

"No!" He shouted, "No, Jiaqi, give it back to me, our marriage is still saved." I won't abandon you, believe me, I will persuade Ruojun to be small, she will agree. You will always be my original match. If you burn it, we're really finished. He tried to persuade him to go around the table and grab her.

"Haha, be small? She promised me that I wouldn't! Jiaqi smiled bitterly loudly, and her laughter was full of pain: "She can make your soul haunt you thousands of miles away, if she comes to your side, is there still a place for me Cheng Jiaqi?" ”

"Jiaqi, give it back to me, it's very important to me, it's good, I won't mention the matter of the second room, Ruojun didn't agree to it. But please give me back the handkerchief anyway. It's just a handkerchief, and it won't get in your way. ”

His head began to hurt again, and he held the round table with one hand, and his whole body tensed.

"Ruikang, I have to help you forget the past, only if you forget the past and forget Mei Ruojun, your illness can be cured."

Ruikang wondered how Jiaqi could have such a strange idea and forget the past? I can't forget the past when my head is so badly injured, how can I forget? How can they forget each other's hearts that have been deeply imprinted in each other's hearts since they first saw each other? Not to mention that there is already a Nian'an between them, how can they forget?

His temples were bursting, and he knew the terrible headache was about to begin.

She lit the handkerchief embroidered with the love of Mei Ruojun and Zhou Ruikang, the firelight ignited his eyes, he saw it, and saw that the plum blossom handkerchief that he had carefully treasured by his side for many years quickly turned into ashes in the flames.

"You...... You ......" He trembled all over, he couldn't speak, his arms were shaking and even the table was trembling, his face was red from headache and excitement, his eyes were bloodshot, he stared at Jiaqi, slapped his palm on the table, lifted up a whole set of teapots and cups in the center of the table, and smashed it at Jiaqi.

Cheng Jiaqi took two steps back and dodged, listening to the sound of those teapots and teacups smashing on the floor, like the sound of her heart shattering.

She had never seen him so angry, and the anger in his eyes was like a fight for his life.

His nose opened and closed, he breathed heavily, his chest kept rising and falling, his lips were very tight, and after a while, he burst out from between his teeth word by word: "I'm done ---- ----- ---------"

These four words made her soul fly, he said it so resolutely, just for a handkerchief, he left all his kindness, all his vows, and all his husband and wife's love.

He slowly straightened up, walked to the window, turned his back to her, and said coldly: "I'm sorry Jiaqi, I love Ruojun, she is the only woman I love in this life, she was, is, and will be, whether she is my sister-in-law or someone else's wife, it can't change the fact that I love her."

I should have confessed to you. It was because I wasn't honest enough and resolute enough that I got to where we are today. I can accept everyone's criticism and scolding, I don't care, Ruojun won't care, I'm going to find her.

I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for Manlin, I'm sorry for Ruoli, I'm sorry for Jiawei, I'm sorry for my eldest brother, I'm sorry for my parents, I'm sorry for everyone, I've been punished, and now I'm a waste, I admit it, because I'm sorry for you. Especially you, I know the price you pay, I'm sorry, Jiaqi, I can care for you like a friend, like a relative, take care of you, accompany you, but I can't be your husband.

If you don't want to get divorced, then keep your status as husband and wife. I will find another place to stay, or go back to the army. At this point, I am sorry for you, I will try my best to make up for what I owe you in this life, and if I can't make it up, I will pay you back in the next life. ”

After that, he picked up his crutches and slowly left the bedroom, from that day on, Ruikang lived in another bedroom, they separated, no one thought that this point would be a lifetime.

Cheng Jiaqi looked at the debris and handkerchiefs that had been turned to ashes all over the ground, she didn't regret it, she hated Mei Ruojun, she hated everything related to Mei Ruojun, she just felt very heartbroken, her own deep affection, the marriage exchanged for blood, would come to this point, Zhou Ruikang was too affectionate, too ungrateful, it was simply a beast, she would never let them get their way, she would never let them succeed, she clenched her fists tightly angrily!