Qin Shan's Foreign Biography: Chapter 16, The Romantic Past
Two quarters of an hour passed. Zheng Ergou sat in front of the wide coffee table and boredly nibbled on a green date that was not too fresh, while He Yue was full of worries, thinking about this heavy matter, suddenly sighed and lowered his head.
When the crazy woman finished grooming and put on a new red cheongsam, Zheng Ergou's eyes were in a daze at the woman who was crazy a moment ago. Not only that, but even Heyue is the same. The graceful figure of a woman in her twenties is outlined by this well-restrained cheongsam. The bright red color perfectly makes the delicate and small facial features on her face and the just right face shape look more full of style. That kind of beauty is the beauty of the innocent and innocent girl next door who can make people feel happy. Cuteness and maturity go hand in hand. It's no wonder that she is the wife of the lord of the city, or the wife of the clerk Changshi, and her temperament and appearance are extraordinary. And Heyue, who was already preoccupied, saw the beauty in front of him, and also swept away the heaviness on his face, and praised sincerely: "Madame is really a rare beauty!"
When the woman heard this, she was so happy that they were not expecting, and she smiled brightly and beautifully, and her face turned red with cooperation. He thanked him again and again, as if he hadn't heard any words of praise for a long time.
She sat on a bamboo chair with a backrest on the left side of the coffee table, but she straightened up and didn't lean down. His hands were cramped, and he didn't touch the stale fruit on the table. It's as if she were the guests and the two were the hosts.
Seeing this, He Yue hurriedly pushed a plate of cantaloupe in front of her in front of her. Cautiously asked, "Madam, Yuncang, is he your son?"
The woman tied a piece with a bamboo stick, and was about to put it in her mouth, when she heard her question, as if it was an extremely profound problem, she put down the bamboo stick, and frowned in thought. After a long while, she raised her head and looked at the two of them with confused eyes, and said, "No...... Wrong, Ah Cang is my son. ”
"That ......"
Before He Yue could say a word, the woman hurriedly shouted: "No, no, he is not my son, I forgot, I forgo......t! He's not my son, who's who?"
"Wrong! Wrong...... He is the son of that slut!" The woman's face suddenly became hideous, but immediately it became soft again full of maternal love: "Although Ah Cang is born from a slut, he is my son!
He Yue was confused when she heard this, and just wanted to ask again, but the veteran Zheng Ergou had already seen the clue and hurriedly waved his hand to stop her.
"He Yuncang has been educated in Confucianism since he was a child, and his concept of etiquette is deeper and deep-rooted than anyone else. He must not be able to watch Mrs. Shen occupy the position of the main room, and the main wife is beaten into the cold palace. So I think he must be estranged from Mrs. Shen and get close to this lady!" While the woman was immersed in emotion, Zheng Ergou said very quickly in He Yue's ear.
"It seems to make sense. But looking at Yuncang's young age, he actually knows so much about these things...... Alas, I can't even see the estrangement between this mother and son in the past few days. He Yue thought to herself, so she changed the question: "Madam, are there other sisters-in-law in the Hefu Mansion?"
"Hmph, you know that He Kang, right? He looks like a white and innocent scholar, but he is actually a dirty and shameless gentleman! However, this guy is really similar to his uncle's dead ghost when he was young......" She didn't seem to notice He Yue's question, and listening to this tone, she seemed to have something to do with He Kang.
"Wait, you say, sister-in-law?" The woman's mood and thoughts changed very quickly, and when she mentioned Yuncang, she looked sad and tender, and when she mentioned He Kang, her face was full of anger, and she pricked several pieces of fruit into her mouth and chewed it heavily. Now he was confused again, with an indescribable desolation in his voice. She also spoke as if talking to herself, often answering questions that were not asked, and only now did she notice the "sister-in-law".
"Sister-in-law, is that my son?" she asked with a straight look at He Yue and with great seriousness.
"Uh...... That's right......"
"Uh......h That's because of this, that's because of this! I don't have children....... is it great that she has a son? Do I deserve such a sin if I can't be born? Zhe, Zhe said that he wants to wait with me, and he wants to work hard with me...... Why, why did you regret it so quickly, why did you not want me so soon!" The woman cried out in grief, and the makeup on her face immediately lost its color.
This time, Heyue and the others understood everything. He Yue hurriedly sat down beside her voice and comforted her. It turned out that the lady in front of him was unable to have children for some reason, so He Zhe was moved by the younger and more beautiful Shen Danhe, but in order to maintain his reputation, he still had the status of husband and wife with this woman, and placed her in the deep courtyard. Presumably, there was such a claustrophobic place in the original capital! The abandonment of her lover and her loneliness made her inevitably go crazy. Only He Yuncang, this little nerd is good to her.
While He Yue's heart was heavy, he couldn't help but wonder if his adoptive father, the city lord of Hezhe, was really such a negative man.......
The woman kept crying, and He Yue couldn't persuade her. She could only reach out and wipe away the endless tears from the woman's face. But the miraculous thing is that the moment He Yue's hand gently touched her cheek, the woman's crying immediately decreased a lot. With the gentle caress of her little hands, the woman actually stopped crying.
He Yue was stunned for a moment, only to hear the woman sigh and say with self-pity: "Forget it, forget it." It's been five years. Don't tell Tetsu that you met me today, and don't tell me everything that happened today. Even if he treats me like this, even if ...... In this way, don't let me leave here, and I don't want to never see him, without him, without Yuncang, I ...... I don't want to live anymore. ”
Listening to her heavier sigh, He Yue's nose turned out to be sour, and Zheng Ergou also lowered his head.
"Okay, you two, what are you frowning for? Your name is Heyue, right, my name is Mo Ying, with a smiling face, that's the word Ying. Be happy!" A second ago, he was sighing with great grief, but now with an elegant and beautiful smile, he comforted Heyue and them.
"Well, what a pleasure to know Mrs. Mo. Miss, huh?" Zheng Ergou pretended to laugh, but it was always a little unnatural.
He Yue nodded slightly, but felt extremely heavy in her heart. Mo Ying smiled and said, "Do you want to hear my previous story?"
is obviously the deepest hidden pain, but this "crazy" woman now takes the initiative to talk about it. Zheng Ergou looked at the sun outside the window, and Mo Ying immediately said understandingly: "Is there anything else?" Then forget it, I'll send you out." ”
"No need, Madame Mo. I really want to know the story of such a beautiful woman as you!" He Yueqiang raised his head with a smile, Zheng Ergou wanted to say something, but seeing the attitude of the eldest lady, he nodded with a smile - just let her be!
"Good boy, what a sweet mouth. Mo Ying listened to the praise, and her face was not as red as it was just now. She said with a hearty smile.
"Tetsu and I first met on the island of Ayrou in the imperial capital. Our Mo family is also a medium-sized family in the capital. That was eight years ago, and I was seventeen. I still remember that it was the twenty-seventh day of April, the height of spring. He was twenty-seven years old at that time, which was the age when men talked about marriage. My father took our family on a trip, he was a servant of the fourth rank of the court, and he had just taken a month off for some reason. Later, I learned that this matter was to prepare resumes for Zhe's recommendation of Wupin officials. My father had known Tetsu for a long time, and Tetsu was the commander of the Liupin Forbidden Army at that time, but I didn't know who Hezhe was at all. Now that I think about it, meeting him at that age is the best encounter, not sooner or later, it's good. ”
"It was the sunniest day I've ever seen. My father took me, my brother and my mother to Lake Ayro. In the center of Lake Ayroy there is an island of Ayro, which is full of exotic flowers and plants. At noon, my father hired a boat, and we were going to look for the famous hotel on the island of Erou. Not long after we disembarked, still looking for a shop, I met him for the first time. Guess what he was doing? He was dressed lightly, and he was actually picking flowers with a bamboo basket on the shore! There were so many tourists next to him that he was a six-grade official leisurely picking flowers there!
"And my father was angry when he saw it, and at noon that day he had arranged a meeting for Zhe with some of the officials of the five grades of the DPRK and the central government, but he was picking flowers here. In the face of my father's anger, he said so lightly that his sister was sick and had been lying in bed for several days without going down to the ground, and wanted to see the flowers of spring in the capital, so he came. As for the meeting, he had already taken a leave of absence due to illness. The father, of course, was angry, and educated him on the shore, and the tourists did not dare to approach either of them when they saw it. Even the mother's docile temperament followed the lesson. My brother only thinks it's funny, and it's just me, how attractive, how considerate, and how romantic this man is. If he picked the flowers for me, how nice it would be!"
"Later, because of several coincidences, because of my father, Tetsu and I met a few more times and got to know each other. Just like me, he likes me. He writes me a letter every day, but as a daughter, I don't go out for no reason on weekdays, so I don't reply to letters. But he didn't care, he just wrote it every day. He has a great sense of humor, is well-informed, and has a good network among the officials of the six grades, and often makes me laugh when he writes in his letters. Then one day, the day before, I was writing back to him. However, that day was the most important and beautiful day of my life! I remember that day there was a light snow, and according to the daily custom of going to the gate of the house at noon to wait for the arrival of the messenger. On that day, Tetsuta told me that he liked me, to the point where he couldn't wait. He can lose everything just to be with me. He said that writing a letter like this really made him too tormented. He said that we should meet immediately and never be apart, no matter what happens, never be apart. ”
"That day, the people in the house said that I had changed. Originally, I had always been indifferent in the mansion, but that day I took the initiative to find a servant boy who was sweeping the floor, and asked him to help me bring out my reply and hand it over to He Zhe, the lord of the Hefu Mansion in the western suburbs of the imperial capital. It was the first time I had stuffed such a large piece of silver into my subordinate, and it was also the happiest time in my life, and I had been standing at the door and smirking in the direction of the Hefu, looking forward to his surprise and happiness when he saw this letter. ”
"When my father came home that night, he actually noticed something strange about me. So when I told my father that I wanted to marry him, the lord of the Dutch mansion, the head of the Six Rank Forbidden Army, he was not surprised at all. Zhe was promoted by him, he just said so lightly, then wait for the Lantern Festival Emperor's holy decree this year, if He Zhe has been successfully promoted to a five-grade official, he will agree to this family business. I was ecstatic to hear that sentence. Because I know that my lover, my lover, will do his best to fight for this official position for me, even if time is running out, but he will definitely do it, no matter what method is used. ”
"After receiving my letter, Tetsu swore that he would fulfill Tarzan's request. He used the word 'Tarzan' and my heart melted completely. It was the best, most anxious, and most hopeful and fearful wait of my life. I just feel that the usually lively and rich Chinese New Year's Eve these festivals passed so quickly all of a sudden, and it was the Lantern Festival all of a sudden. ”
"On that day, in addition to countless lanterns and lantern riddles, everyone in the court was waiting for the emperor's promotion decree. Sure enough, Lang Jun lived up to my expectations, and he really succeeded in doing it! A five-grade official, a man who could raise his head in front of his father and say that he must marry me, my husband! A month later, on the fourth day of the third month, the legend in the capital was the day when the phoenix and the phoenix first met, and we got married. Tetsu invited almost all of his friends, and his father made a big splash. Guests who came to the banquet said it was the biggest wedding they had ever seen. But in my eyes, there is only my Langjun, my Hezhe, I love him, and he loves me. Alas......."
He Yue and the two were listening very fascinated, moved by this beautiful love story. At this time, Mo Ying stopped and sighed.
"The candle in the cave room, oh, sounds like a beautiful story, maybe I don't deserve it. That night was the happiest in my life, and now I regret it the most. Later, he and I tried many times, but it didn't work, and it never worked. I was so young at that time, I thought that this man next to my pillow would be with me for the rest of my life, and that he would have infinite patience for me. But people always change. Zhe's father was originally a member of the third rank of the court, and died in an assassination attempt when he was still a child. He has been the head of the house since he was a child. Such a man must understand the importance of offspring. And I can't even give him a child, so why should I want him to accompany me for the rest of my life? If I want to complain, I can only complain about God. ”
Sadness and self-deprecation appeared on Mo Ying's face, but she didn't complain about He Zhe's abandonment, but now it became self-blame and remorse. He Yue felt heavy when she saw it, what happened to this twenty-five-year-old woman made her envious at first, but finally gloomy and sad. She was eager to say something to comfort Mo Ying, but Mo Ying had completely lost her initial madness, and she didn't give He Yue a chance to interject, so she talked to herself.
"Don't blame him, really don't blame him. But why, on earth, God wants me to be like this? How many famous doctors in the capital have he hired, and how much money he has spent on me, but no one can say why I can't have children. Later, I watched him gradually lose weight for my business, maybe I was too disappointed and sad, and the original powerful commander of the forbidden army also became a weak document with a long history. I told him that I should not live any more, that I would not waste your money any more, that I would give me a letter of resignation, and that I would marry another eldest lady. That was the first time he was angry with me, he said that he would never give up on me, he would wait with me, he would work hard with me, no matter how difficult it was, he would not let go, until the day of the miracle....... I cried, and I cried more tears that day than in the past five years combined.
"Zhe he is really a very good person, but, maybe Shen ....... Danhe is better than me, maybe I am not good enough at all. I haven't been forcing myself for a moment in the past five years to forget how Tetsu met her and fell in love, but I can't, just as I can't do my first encounter with him. They are very affectionate together, although Shen Danhe entered the Dutch Mansion as a concubine, but she can bring happiness to my lover. But Tetsu's happiness no longer resonates with me. I'll admit I'm not good enough, I'm even a woman who doesn't even talk a word.
I used to ask for a resignation for the sake of Zhe's happiness, sacrificing everything I had as long as he was happy. But now I can't see him happily with another woman. But I really can't help but be jealous, I'm crazy with jealousy, even if Tetsu still treats me gently with the attitude of the past, but I still hate that woman, and later, I hate him, hate this man named Hezhe. I shouldn't be like this, I know, I didn't do anything bad to Danhe in those six months? Now I feel blushing when I think about it.
But she didn't care, and neither did Hezhe, he just loved me with apologies and passion every day, and this alone tormented me for five whole years. How ridiculous, you say, and then I may have been really insane, talking gibberish all day long, going insane, and unable to appear in front of people as a main room. Later, I learned that I happened to see Yun Cang, who was four or five years old, that day, and I knew that He Zhe had already had a relationship with that woman. Even when he wrote me about those wind and snow, Yuncang had already fallen to the ground. I'm crazy, I can't remember what I did in those days to get to this end. But this is not to blame him, that dignitary and noble man has not been to the Qinglou restaurant a few times? He and Shen Danhe may have only had a dewy relationship before, and then they revived. At least...... At least he didn't really pedal two boats.
"He loved me so much at that time, how could he do something that hurt me. It must have been like this, he must have done everything to love me when he loved me! I thought so about it all these days, but I couldn't do it! I couldn't let go of it all, I couldn't watch him be dragged away from my pillow by another woman and into that woman's bed. He said that he would wait with me, and work with me until he died! Did he forget these words? Why, why did God do this to me?" Mo Ying's face became extremely excited again, as if he had been mad again.
But he changed his words and said: "However, now I really don't blame him, even Shen Danhe, I don't blame them, and you don't blame them." Especially Heyue, he is a good husband and a good father, she is a good lover and a good mother. Everything has passed, it's all my fault, it's fate, it's all my fate. My life, watching him be happy........"
He Yue pursed her lips tightly, her little hand gently patted Mo Ying's back excitedly, and the corners of her eyes were slightly red. Zheng Ergou sat up straight, his expression was lonely, he didn't say a word of gag, and lowered his eyelids.
"Don't blame him, don't blame her....... it's my fault, everything ......."