"Thank you for exculpating me in the restaurant that day, if it weren't for you and Mom, I wouldn't have escaped so easily." Xiang Wanqing's eyes flashed brightly.

Huo Yujue still apologized in his heart: "That's what I should do, besides, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have fallen into that predicament, in the end, I hurt you that time, not only did you not blame me, but thanked me, how can I deal with myself?" ”

"But you are kind, how can I blame you?" Xiang Wanqing asked rhetorically.

Huo Yujue smiled "hehe" and said: "Okay, then according to what you said before, the two of us will be even, and we will not owe each other from now on, okay?" ”

But he was thinking in his heart that what the Huo family owed to Wanqing might not be able to settle it for the rest of his life.

At this time, seeing that Xiang Wanqing was in a good mood, Huo Yujue didn't want to let the heaviness in his heart make the atmosphere dull and depressing, so he wanted to change the topic and say something relaxed, he asked: "By the way, second sister-in-law, do you know where I first met you?" ”

Xiang Wanqing frowned: "No...... Is it by the river? ”

Huo Yujue shook his head.

"Where is that?" Xiang Wanqing was puzzled.

Huo Yujue wanted to sell Guanzi, but looking at the doubts gathered in Xiang Wanqing's eyes, he felt a little unbearable, so he said: "It's on the street." ”

"On the street?" Xiang Wanqing Nahan.

"Yes," Huo Yujue's eyes were smiling, and he continued, "I was in a bad mood that day, wandering around the town, walking and walking away, and I don't know where I went, and then on a street, I was suddenly hit head-on by someone, but the result was that I was hit by no problem, but the person who hit me fell a big head." ”

He laughed out loud after saying "poof", and then pursed his lips and secretly laughed.

Xiang Wanqing was surprised at first, but immediately she remembered what happened after she ran out of her house on the fifth day of the third lunar month, before running to the river, on the street of Xiangjiazhai, she seemed to really collide with someone, and then she fell and fell to the ground.

But what she didn't expect was that the person she bumped into would be ...... Huo Yujue.

"It turned out to be your ......" Xiang Wanqing blushed unconsciously.

"Haha," Huo Yujue couldn't help but smile again when he saw Xiang Wanqing's embarrassment, he continued, "That day, I saw that you looked lost and depressed, and I thought that there were people in this world who were more depressed than me, Huo Yujue, and I was surprised and curious, so I followed you all the way to the riverside, but I didn't expect to see you......

"At that time, I was really puzzled, I didn't understand how much pain could make such a young girl choose to end her life by suicide, until the day you and your second brother got married...... I get it. ”

Huo Yujue lowered his head as he spoke, and raised it again after a while: "I'm sorry, I ......"

I wanted to say something happy, but I didn't expect to mention Xiang Wanqing's sadness again as he spoke, and he couldn't help but blame himself even more.

But to his surprise, Xiang Wanqing not only did not show any sad emotions, but laughed "poof" just like he had just done, and then pursed his lips and secretly laughed.

"How?" This time, Huo Yujue was puzzled.

"Haha," only to hear Xiang Wanqing laugh and say, "Who said I was going to kill myself?" ”

"Isn't it?" Huo Yujue Nahan.

Xiang Wanqing smiled bitterly and shook her head, and then she said that from the time she came home from school and was notified of her marriage until she had the idea of escaping marriage by the river, and then in the process of looking for hairpins, she was unexpectedly rescued by Huo Yujue as a person seeking death.

"Actually, our village is close to the river, and the villagers are very good at the water, and the big river is a place where I have been playing since I was a child, in other words, if I really want to commit suicide by jumping into the river, I'm afraid you won't be able to 'save' me out, because I am more familiar with that water area than you."

After finishing speaking, Xiang Wanqing continued to smile, because of the "five-year covenant", she has now completely let go of her marriage with Huo Yujin, so at this time, when she talks about the painful part she thought before, she no longer feels painful.

She just felt that all this might be a necessary process, but fortunately the ending would be good, and because the ending would be good, the pain experienced in the middle was also worth it, for the sake of the Xiang family's family, all of this was very worthwhile.

But Huo Yujue didn't think so, because he didn't know the agreement between Xiang Wanqing and the old lady, so he was shocked when he heard Xiang Wanqing restore the truth of what happened that day!

"So that's it?" His eyes widened, "How could this be?!" ”

He couldn't believe what Xiang Wanqing said, or rather, he didn't want to believe it, he couldn't believe it, because in this way, he really became a sinner!

In the past, he only thought that he had pulled back Xiang Wanqing, who was about to die, causing her to come to the Huo family to be a walking corpse and live this life in pain, but only now did he know that it turned out to be ...... It turned out that she had a way to live that day, maybe a good way to live, but she was destroyed by herself......

No wonder...... No wonder she yelled at herself in such anger, saying that he had harmed her life, and that she had hated him all her life...... I see!

"I'm ......" Huo Yujue's brows tightened, looking at Xiang Wanqing, the guilt in his eyes was a hundred times stronger than before.

"I didn't know it was like that, I really didn't know it was like that...... If I knew, how could I ...... Ay! What the hell have I done......" Huo Yujue closed his eyes in pain and slapped a palm on his head.

"No, you don't want that." Xiang Wanqing hurriedly said, "I don't blame you anymore, why do you still blame yourself so much?" Besides, what happened that day was a misunderstanding, you are kind, how can I not see it? All this ...... Maybe it was all fate, and now ......"

Xiang Wanqing wanted to say the "five-year covenant", and remembered that the old lady had told her to keep it secret, so she said: "It's good now, really, I don't think there's anything wrong." ”

"Really?" Huo Yujue looked directly into Wanqing's eyes, he didn't believe what she said at all.

"Of course it's true," Xiang Wanqing said affirmatively, "Mom is very good to me, you are also very good to me, you all take care of me and are willing to help me, I just had hatred and resentment, and now it no longer exists, and you really don't need to feel guilty anymore, I have accepted the reality, you still bless me." ”

Huo Yujue smiled bitterly, Xiang Wanqing's words were all to comfort him, but why did he feel more ashamed in his heart.

He sighed again.

Xiang Wanqing changed the topic and asked, "By the way, Yujue, what were you in a bad mood about that day?" How did you go from Xile Town to Xiangjiazhai? You know, it's not close. ”

Isn't it? On the day of marriage, it took nearly an hour for the family send-off team to complete that part of the road.

"I ......" Huo Yujue was "relieved" from one kind of depression, but immediately fell into another kind of depression, this time, he remembered his sadness.

"Alas!" He sighed again, stopped talking, his two thick eyebrows frowned tightly again, and the fists resting on the stone table were also clenched, and after a long time, he said: "Actually, after all, how many people in this world are truly happy?" You have your problems, and I ...... I also have my troubles. ”

As he spoke, he stood up, paced to the corner of the veranda, and inadvertently turned his hands behind his back, showing a maturity that did not match his age, and looked into the distance.

"Actually, I just came back from Peking a few days ago, and I was deceived by my mother on the grounds that she was seriously ill and married to her second brother. Over there in Beiping...... And I still have unfinished schoolwork, and I've missed the final exams for several important subjects, but my mother is ...... But she wouldn't let me go, she wanted to force me to stay at home......"

"Oh, I see." Xiang Wanqing suddenly understood why Huo Yujue didn't know the inside story of her marriage with Huo Yujin, and when he argued with Ning Jinxiu for her in the restaurant that day, Ning Jinxiu would ask him how much he knew about the family affairs and so on.

"I was sent to Peking by my mother when I was nine years old, and I was still a child at that time." Huo Yujue continued, his tone was full of sadness and helplessness, "I don't want to leave home, I still remember the day I left, I grabbed the corner of my mother's clothes, cried into tears, begged her not to send me away, but no matter how much I begged, it was to no avail......

"Beiping, so far, it takes a few days and nights to take the train, there is no one in Beiping, the accent of people is not the same as ours in Jiangnan, and the eating habits are also very different......

"I went to the best school in Jeonpyong, but I didn't feel happy or happy at all, because I lived there alone for 11 years......

"Eleven years, eleven years, I've only been home a handful of times, can you imagine? Even the few times I had the opportunity to go home, I was in a hurry to go back and leave in a hurry, I don't know how many times when the school was out of winter and summer vacations, I wanted to go home for a while, but my mother didn't allow it.

"I asked her why, why she didn't let me go home, and the reason she gave was that she wanted to train me well, and let me exercise my ability to live independently from an early age, and she said that she didn't want me to be distracted and wanted me to learn cultural knowledge well......"

"Hehe......" Huo Yujue sneered, his voice full of sadness and pain.

Although Xiang Wanqing couldn't see his face, he could feel that his eyes were already foggy at this time.

At this time, I only listened to his words: "But when I finally adapted to the environment in the north and had the studies and goals I liked, my mother tried all kinds of ways to get me back." ”