Chapter 22: The Past in a Dream
When the sky was slightly bright, Rong Guogong instructed the housekeeper to go to the ancestral hall to take Mu Xu and Mu Yang back to the courtyard.
Ming Ran got up early in the morning and heard about it, and wanted to go and see them, but then he thought that they had knelt down all night last night, and they must rest now.
She sat in the gazebo in the courtyard of the moon, looking up at the falling snowflakes.
Her mind recalled Xiao Yichen's words yesterday, he said that he had also lost his way in that forest when he was twelve years old.
Ming Ran thought about it, when Xiao Yichen was twelve years old, the first emperor was still there, and she remembered in her memory that it should be the autumn hunt that year, and she was also in the accompanying team.
At that time, she was only nine years old, just to follow Xiao Yiqian. At the end of the autumn hunt that year, no one noticed that Xiao Yichen was missing, and everyone had left the hunting ground, and now the queen mother, who was still the queen at that time, was the first person to find that Xiao Yichen had not returned to the palace.
Later, it seems that the first emperor sent the forbidden army to the hunting ground to find Xiao Yichen.
Ming Ran couldn't help but sigh slightly, Xiao Yichen at that time, life must be difficult, otherwise a dignified prince would not be in the team returning to the palace, and no one would notice.
Thinking of this, she remembered that when she was a child, Xiao Yiqian was made the crown prince early, and everyone in the palace surrounded him, including herself at that time.
Xiao Yichen saved her yesterday, and it was obvious that he didn't want people to know, but who did he want to know? Don't want to let everyone yesterday? Or Xiao Yiqian? Or Guo Yuxi?
She reached out and rubbed her forehead, looking down to think about it again.
A cold wind blew, and she coughed softly.
Lan Ling heard her cough and immediately persuaded her to go back to her room.
When she returned to the room, Mingran coughed even more severely, and by noon, she was hot all over her body and coughed incessantly.
All of a sudden, a lot of people poured into the courtyard month by month, and after the two doctors and Ming Ran finished taking the pulse, the two stood aside and discussed the medication.
Lu has been sitting on the edge of the couch, changing the towel on her forehead.
Ming Ran felt that her body was hot and cold, she wanted to hug her body tightly, but she found that her whole body could not exert half of her strength, and she fell into a dream.
A grand engagement ceremony on the beach, the bride-to-be is Meizen, and the groom-to-be is the son of Meizen's father's business partner.
Dressed in a noble and elegant dress, Mingran stood in the distance of the engagement ceremony, the sea breeze blowing the tail of her skirt, blowing her hair and her struggling and hesitant heart.
She didn't dare to step forward, and she didn't want to go forward.
This city-wide engagement is a business marriage.
There were many reporters outside the venue, and the audience was full of upper-class people from all over the city.
There are many speedboats docked on the beach, and many people who come to the engagement ceremony come by speedboat.
Mingzen's wrist was suddenly pulled up from behind, and a man pulled her in the opposite direction of the ceremony.
Mingran shook off his high heels and obediently let him pull him to the docks.
The person who pulled her was Xiao Mo, the president of the Shaw Group, who came back from the UK to take over the Shaw Group when his father died in a car accident two years ago.
The Shaw Group and the Ming Family Group are commercial rivals.
Not only are they rivals in business, but in life, the Ming family and the Xiao family are also incompatible.
Since she was a child, Mingran's father didn't let her have contact with Xiao Mo, even if Mingran occasionally looked at the Xiao family after the garden in the villa, her father was not allowed.
Sometimes, she is very curious, her father accommodates her in everything, but in addition to contacting the Xiao family, since he wants to keep her away from the Xiao family, why does he live in the same area, why don't he move?
Later, she was in the same university as Xiao Mo in the UK, and the two had a relationship with their elders without it.
But those exchanges are the simplest greetings, concerns, and Ming Ran will occasionally ask him some questions about learning.
Until two years ago, Xiao Mo returned from England, and Ming Ran also came back a year later, and his father arranged this engagement.
His hand took her wrist and kept running.
The two ran to the dock and got on the yacht.
Ming Ran watched her father run from the direction of the ceremony, and she couldn't help but hesitate.
The yacht quickly started up and left the dock.
She sat at the end of the deck, staring blankly at the figure farther and farther away.
Oh my God, what is she doing? She actually ran away with Xiao Mo, if her father knew, she wouldn't dare to think about it.
But when she regretted it, it was too late, because the yacht had already sailed to the surface of the sea, and the endless sea was all around.
She walked up to Xiao Mo and asked him to send her back.
Xiao Mo sneered: "You want to go back and get engaged to him?" ”
Mingran bowed his head and was silent, "Whether you are engaged or not, I have to go back first, if my father knows that I was taken away by you, he will definitely be mad." ”
Xiao Mo took her hand and said, "You love him?" ”
"I don't love it."
"If you don't love, why do you have this engagement ceremony today?"
Ming Ran looked up at him, and she realized at this moment that his eyes were full of herself, and she saw that his eyes flashed with anger and ...... that could not be ignored Affectionate.
"You ......," she said, not knowing how to speak.
Xiao Mo looked at her with blazing eyes and said, "Why do you think we are in the same university?" Why do you think I was right outside the gate every time you came home? Do you think that those suitors around you give up pursuing you for no reason? All of this, you thought was a coincidence? ”
Ming Ran stepped back, she reached out to cover her mouth, surprised and overwhelmed.
Xiao Mo pressed step by step, and said word by word: "I went to England for you, every time you go home and see me, it's because I've been waiting for you at the door, those suitors of yours, I forced them away." ”
"Why?" Mingran asked incredulously, she had never thought that this was all deliberate on his part.
Xiao Mo sneered twice and asked rhetorically, "Why?" Then why are you coming with me today? ”
Mingran ran away from him, got on deck, and shouted, "Because I don't want to marry, because I ......"
"Because you love me too." Xiao Mo followed from behind, his eyes meeting hers.
Ming Ran shook his head desperately, "No, no, I don't love you, I hate you, my Ming family and your Xiao family are incompatible." ”
"You don't even know what the grievances of the previous generation are, how do you know that they are incompatible?"
With a boom, the sky was already cloudy, and lightning flashed above the sea level.
The torrential rain poured down, and the bean-sized rain fell in an instant.
Xiao Mo pulled Ming Dye over, trying to take her to the cabin.
Ming Ran shook off his hand and said angrily, "I want to go back." ”
The rain fell on the two of them, and the yacht was beaten by the waves, and the two stood in the rain, falling down the yacht that was swaying left and right.
For some reason, the cabin slowly entered the sea, and the hull of the yacht began to sink rapidly.
The waves surged and crashed against the yacht, and Ming Ran fell into the sea with the spray, and she struggled twice, being hit by the waves one after another.
She couldn't swim, and the waves had made her drink a lot of seawater, and her body was no longer able to sink slowly.