40. There is no blessing to suffer
I couldn't believe my ears, I couldn't believe that this man with a face full of words written on his face would say such a bastard thing.
I was so angry that my lips trembled, but he added fuel to the fire: "Yunzhi is right, you are wild and untamable, I shouldn't think about how to tame you, so now, I can only keep you by my side and take care of you." ”
As he spoke, he was about to kiss me again, and seeing his face approaching, I reached out between the two of us, and his lips fell on my palm.
It was soft, with a hot dryness, which scared me into popping back a few steps at once: "Don't come here!" ”
"Don't worry, I'll be good to you." Hu Dingtang pressed step by step, and soon forced me back to the edge of the bed, "When you become my woman, I will protect you for the rest of your life, and you will be able to take care of your heart." ”
"Hu Dingtang, don't force me." I pulled out the silver needle, first aimed at Hu Dingtang, and suddenly thought that I couldn't beat him at all, so I hit my neck again.
Hu Dingtang looked at me fixedly, and after a while, he sighed and said, "Okay, I won't force you, but you should also think about your own situation, and I will come again." ”
He turned to leave, and as soon as he raised his foot, he turned back and said, "Don't think about running, it me off, I don't promise that I will do anything more out of the ordinary than tonight." ”
……
It wasn't until Hu Dingtang left for about ten minutes and was sure that he was really gone, that I put down the silver needle in my hand.
It's horrible, I never thought he would use such a bad trick against me.
I'm not afraid of him speaking ill of me, and I'm not afraid of him doing anything to me, but I'm really afraid that he's going to do something out of bounds to me.
Wu Xin's matter can see how important chastity is to a woman, if it weren't for her body, she would have been ruined in the first place.
But after the incident, I didn't hear anyone condemn the abuser, but instead drove a little girl to a dead end.
If Hu Dingtang really did something to me, then I only had two ways to choose, one was to dip in the pig cage, and the other would be, as he said, to become his appendage.
I was unwilling, but helpless, and I couldn't think of any other way to get rid of him.
For two days in a row, I stayed at home and didn't go anywhere, and Hu Dingtang didn't come to me, I knew that he must be waiting for me to come to the door to ask for peace, so I wouldn't go.
What I didn't expect was that as soon as the door opened early on the third day, I saw Mrs. Wu standing at the door of my store, still dressed in that flowery dress, and the big red flowers on her head were dazzling.
As soon as I saw her, I would think of Wu Xin, and I was so unhappy that I didn't even say hello, I turned around and sat behind the counter.
Mrs. Wu was not annoyed, she followed, stood outside the counter and looked at me and said, "Miss Meng is overjoyed." ”
"Wu Xin's future affairs are done?" I didn't have the courage to question Mrs. Wu.
Her face froze, and she said, "Miss Meng, don't worry, everyone is sad about Xin'er, but since it has become a fact, we can't change it, and I will bury her well." ”
Hearing her say this, I feel a little better, Mrs. Wu is also a victim, and I can't blame her for this.
She saw that my face softened a little, and then she opened her mouth again: "I came today because I was entrusted by someone, Miss Meng is a blessed person, and someone sent me to the door to propose marriage." ”
"Door-to-door proposal?" What kind of peach blossom luck has I had recently, why do I always encounter this kind of thing, when even asking, "Who is it?" ”
"Miss Meng knows." Mrs. Wu said, "It's Hu Sanye of Mingyang Mountain." ”
Hu Dingtang?
Damn, I said, with his temperament, how could he just let me go.
I didn't go to him, he sent Mrs. Wu to the door to propose, if I didn't respond, what moths would he come up with next, I really didn't dare to think.
I pursed my lips, knowing that it was useless to struggle any longer, so I said, "Go back and tell him that I am willing to stay by his side and help him with his errands, and that he will never go west until he has finished using me." ”
Mrs. Wu smiled awkwardly, raised her hand hanging under the counter, put something wrapped in a cloth on it, and said, "Hu Sanye said, if you want, you can enshrine this, and then cut the middle finger of your right hand and drip blood on the tablet, and this matter will be settled." ”
I lifted the corner of the cloth bag, and with just a glance, I understood Hu Dingtang's intentions.
Wrapped in the cloth bag is a tablet, which is to accept me as his younger brother and officially do things for him.
I nodded and said, "You reassure him, I'll do it." ”
Mrs. Wu left satisfied, after all, Hu Dingtang found her, for her, the pressure is still very high, if I insist on refusing, she will have to worry about it.
The reputation of the Hu Mansion in the entire Lin'an City is very good, and Mrs. Wu is a small matchmaker, if she can climb the relationship of the Hu Mansion, it can be regarded as her creation, of course she doesn't want to mess up the things that Hu Dingtang handed over to her.
The cloth bag had been placed on the counter, and I didn't rush to open it, because I was actually a little repulsed from the bottom of my heart.
Tossed and turned into the evening, when the store door was closed, I accidentally saw the cloth bag again, and the whole person was very weak.
Resigned to his fate, he picked up the cloth bag and went to the backyard, pulled the tablet out of the cloth bag, put it on the table in the main hall, and then washed his hands, burned incense, bowed three times and bowed nine times, and then picked up the prepared sharp knife and slashed to the middle finger.
Blood oozed out, and I squeezed it hard, squeezing out more blood, and then raised my hand to drip it over the tablet.
As soon as this blood dropped, a contract was formed between me and Hu Dingtang, and from then on I was his younger horse, I did things for him, helped him accumulate merits, and he protected me and helped me cultivate the Tao.
But what I didn't expect was that when my blood just fell, out of thin air, a gust of wind rose from the ground, and I only heard a click, and the tablet actually cracked in the middle.
I looked at the tablet in half, stunned, and didn't know what to do for a moment.
The gust of wind was fleeting, and there was no abnormality around, but the tablet was completely broken, and the mana that Hu Dingtang poured into it was also gone.
Looking at my hand again, the wound from the sharp knife just now is still there, but the blood has coagulated, and I can't squeeze out the blood.
What the hell is going on?
I don't understand, but the contract between me and Hu Dingtang has not been completed, and he will at least send someone to question me, right? When the time comes, I'll explain it to him and re-conclude it.
After cleaning up the broken tablets and washing them, I went to bed.
I don't know how long I slept, the quilt was suddenly cold, something got in, I was so startled that I opened my mouth and was about to scream, but I heard Hu Dingtang's voice ringing in my ear: "Don't scream, it's me." ”
"Hu Dingtang, you give me down!" I pulled the quilt back into the bed, and he grabbed me and pulled me back into his arms.
With a wave of his hand, the oil lamp in the room lit up, and in the dim light, I met his condescending gaze.
I propped one hand on his chest, widened the distance between us, tried to calm myself down, remembered the tablet again, and explained: "I did what I promised you, but failed." ”
"I know." As he spoke, he reached out and picked up my right hand and looked towards his middle finger.
The wound was still there, and his thumb rubbed back and forth on my wound several times, before he let go of my hand and said, "In the end, I still underestimated you, you say, what should I do with you?" ”
I looked at him suspiciously: "Aren't you going to accept me as a younger brother?" ”
"I can't take it." Hu Dingtang let go of my hand, stroked my cheek again, looked at me with complicated eyes, and asked, "Meng Jiushang, what is your origin?" Who is behind it? ”
He asked me this question more than once, but this time it made my spine tingle in an instant.
The person behind it?
Hu Dingtang must have known that I was not the original Meng Jiusheng, if he continued to ask, should I tell him about borrowing my body to return my soul?
Before I could think about it, he said again: "Such a domineering backlash almost injured me, you say, how can you, a weak woman with no power, burst out with such great power?" ”
"I don't understand what you're talking about." I explained, "Everything was done according to the process, but when the blood went up, there was a gust of wind, and the tablet cracked. ”
"Okay, I got it." Hu Dingtang said, reaching out to cover my forehead, his hand was very large, and when it came down, it even blocked my vision.
A stream of heat rushed from my eyebrows to my head, and I tried to shake my head to avoid his hand, but he pressed me and said, "Don't move." ”
The heat flowed along my meridians, little by little, into my body, as if it were going to travel all over my body, and I lay there stiffly, allowing him to peep at me in this way.
I'd rather have him figure everything out on his own than let me explain it myself, after all, there are some things I can't explain.
For example, why did the enshrined tablet crack and almost eat him?
It took a while for Hu Dingtang to let go of me, but his eyes did not take his eyes off my face.
He looked at me, I looked at him, I thought he was going to say something to me, but he didn't say a word.
I had to look away, but he reached out and moved my face back, staring at my lips for a moment, that look made my heart panic, and the moment he pressed it down, I bent my knees and pressed it against his stomach: "Don't." ”
"You don't love me, you just want to subdue me completely in this way, but you don't have to." I hurriedly said, "But if you do this, you will destroy me." ”
"I told you I could marry you." Hu Dingtang said, "You are too screwed, I can't think of any other way to make you learn to be obedient." ”
"I'm good." I'm afraid, I'm really afraid, the disparity in strength makes it impossible for me to resist him, but let me lose my innocence like this, it's better to kill me, "Originally, I agreed to be your brother, but you can't blame me, but you should have seen my sincerity." ”
"Huh." He stroked my cheek again, and he seemed to be particularly fond of this action, "I prefer you to be so well-behaved now." ”
I'm covered in black lines.
"I hope it stays, otherwise," he smiled meaninglessly, "I said, I decided on you." ”
With that, he left.
I curled up and leaned against the wall, not daring to stand next to the place where he had been lying, panicking for no reason.
The fact that he was free to come and go in my private space made me feel less secure, and the last time he smiled at me, goosebumps immediately stood up all over my body when I thought about it.
He said the phrase 'I identified you' twice, the last time it was to scare me, and this time, I could feel that he was coming from the heart.
What did he get into my body?
……
I didn't sleep well all night, I was restless, and after so many years in the Yin Division, I had finally cultivated a steady heart of gravity, and after meeting Hu Dingtang, it collapsed in an instant.
He is the first man I have met in this world, and he is also the man who intersects the most, and he has saved me a few times...... Something different, right?
It didn't take long for this kind of muddy and nightmare days to come to Wu Yong's door.
Wu Xin is gone, his death is so terrifying, the blow to Wu Yong is particularly big, his whole person has lost a circle, and his spirit is not too good.
I let him in, but he waved his hand and said, "Miss Meng, I won't go in, you can come with me." ”
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"You don't know yet?" Wu Yong was surprised, "I thought that Hu Sanye should have told you." ”
I shook my head, and Wu Yong continued: "Hu Sanye accepted Grandma Wu as a younger brother, yesterday's incident. ”
I was really shocked, Hu Dingtang's appearance really surprised me.
"Third Master Hu said, he is busy, if there is anything on Grandma Wu's side, you can ask Miss Meng for help." Wu Yong smiled at me, "We are all Miss Meng's subordinates now, no, there is a list coming to the door this morning, and Grandma Wu can't decide it, so she sent me to pick up Miss Meng." ”
"I ......"
Damn Hu Dingtang, is this to catch ducks on the shelves?
But since I have said that I will obediently listen to him, I cannot disobey him, at least not now.
I gritted my teeth and nodded: "Okay, I'll clean up and go with you." ”
……
This is the second time I've come to Mrs. Wu's matchmaker's shop, and there is always a feeling that something is wrong.
Mrs. Wu had been waiting at the door early, and when she saw me from afar, she greeted me with a smile on her face, and said vigorously, it was great that Miss Meng could come.
When I entered the door, I paid special attention to the fact that the girl who was scared last time was no longer in the store.
The guys in the shop stood respectfully on both sides, and the housekeeper had already moved out of the Taishi chair and was about to help me sit over, making me uncomfortable.
"Don't be like this, you have something to say."
"My little aunt and grandmother, thanks to you, I climbed to Hu Sanye, but you are my noble Wu Honglian." Mrs. Wu pressed me on the Taishi chair, pulled me over the bench on the side, and then sat down and said business, "Besides, I really can't make up my mind about this matter today." ”
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"I have to blame Lord Xiao for this." Mrs. Wu said with a depressed face, "The matter of the Prince's Mansion, Hu Sanye solved it beautifully, and he was impressed by Xiao Wangye, he now admires Hu Sanye is a five-body throw, but even if he is Xiao Wangye, it is not so easy to see Hu Sanye, yesterday I just became Hu Sanye's younger brother, and this morning, he sent people from the house to invite us over." ”
"There's still something to do in his house?" I frowned too.
Wu Pozi shook her head: "If it was his family, I wouldn't be so embarrassed, it is said that it is an old friend of his, who had been a deputy general before, and in our Lin'an City, there is a little real power in his hands." ”
I immediately understood, no matter how noble Xiao Jinyu is, it is all a matter of the previous dynasty, he is now in this Lin'an City, and he has to rely on others to live a stable life, in the final analysis, we can offend Xiao Jinyu, but we can't offend this deputy general.
This is a hot potato, if you don't take it, it will save people's face, people are not happy, take it, if you don't do it well, a hat will be buttoned down, we still can't eat and walk around, no wonder Wu Pozi mentioned that Xiao Jinyu was so angry that her molars were clenched.
I asked Mrs. Wu: "Is his family's affairs tricky?" ”
Mrs. Wu put her hands into her sleeves and said eloquently: "I have also heard of the affairs of this deputy general's family, the deputy general has been working hard outside for many years, and he has made a lot of money, and has married the wife of the seventh aunt, but none of them will lay eggs." ”
"Today's spring, the seventh aunt's stomach has moved, the deputy general is overjoyed, spoiled lawlessly, just pregnant for ten months, the seventh aunt not only did not give birth to a son and a half daughter, it is said that she is seriously ill, this disease will be contagious, and none of the seven aunts and wives have been spared."
"What's so sick?"
"Strange diseases, they are all rumors, and no one has seen them with their own eyes."
Hearing this, I was a little curious: "According to what you mean, we have to take this matter anyway, so let's go and see." ”
"Ah, my little aunt, you're so open." Mrs. Wu successfully threw this hot potato to me, smiling red.
I shook my head helplessly, thinking, anyway, I took it, I can do it, if I can't do it, Hu Dingtang will clean up the mess for me, and I'm not afraid.
I agreed here, and over there, Mrs. Wu contacted the people from the Prince's Mansion, and after lunch, a carriage stopped at the door of the matchmaker's shop, and Xiao Jinyu walked down from it.
He was wearing a plain robe on his body, holding a folding fan in his hand, and walked forward with a smile: "Miss Meng, we meet again." ”
"Lord Xiao's complexion is much better than before." I got into the carriage by his wrist, and Mrs. Wu came up on her heels.
After sitting firmly in the carriage, Xiao Jinyu smiled and said, "I have repeatedly bothered Miss Meng, and I also invited Miss Meng Haihan." ”
"Lord Xiao is polite." I also replied with a smile, "It's just that the people of Lin'an City know that the doctors in the big city are helpless about the affairs of Vice General Lu's family, and I am a little woman, I am afraid that if I try my best, I will not be able to peek into its mystery, and I will ...... when the time comes."
"Miss Meng doesn't have to be nervous, in the past few months, Vice General Lu has no way to go to the doctor, and he knows that this matter is very tricky, and he will not anger anyone at will." Xiao Jinyu hurriedly said, "It's already a great honor for Miss Meng to take a look at it. ”
Hearing him say that, I felt a little calmer.
It's just that when I really arrived at Lufu and saw the seventh aunt lying on the bed, I was still surprised.
Aunt Seven's whole person is as thin as dry firewood, because she is thin, her eye sockets are deep, and her eyeballs are protruding, which looks a little terrifying.
Her limbs were excessively long, and her sallow skin was tightly wrapped around her bones, and the joints could be seen in shape.
But her belly was bulging high, as if she was about to give birth, and I reached out and touched it, and it was as hard as a stone.
Even if a stillborn baby is left in the womb, it shouldn't be like this.