Chapter 29: The Old Things Revisited
Chao Rong moved to Yun Niang's door step by step, and when she saw that they were half-hidden, she suddenly lost the courage to push the door.
However, Yun Niang in the house had already noticed the footsteps outside the door and asked loudly, "Is it Changying?" β
Seeing that he was discovered, Chao Rong had to enter the house and walk to Yun Niang and sit down.
Yun Niang was embroidering a colorful brocade in the cubicle, and the tail feathers were not finished.
Chao Rong watched Yun Niang's fingertips jump up and down, and she wanted to speak again, Yun Niang embroidered more than a dozen stitches, but she couldn't speak.
Yun Niang raised her eyes and swept her eyebrows tightly locked at Chao Rong, and the movements in her hands did not stop: "Changying, what's wrong with you?" β
Chao Rong finally spoke: "Ah Niang, do you have something to hide from me?" β
"How so?" Yun Niang asked with a smile, not paying attention to Chao Rong's question.
"Ah Niang, I saw the contents of the cellar box...... Chao Rong locked his eyes on Yun Niang, observing her reaction.
Yun Niang's embroidery hand paused for a moment.
"A-Niang, why does our family have so much silver?" Chao Rong took Yun Niang's change in movement into his eyes and continued to ask.
Yun Niang put down the work in her hand and looked up at Chao Rong, the smile on her lips couldn't tell what it meant, she only heard her: "Those ...... It's my mother's dowry and savings over the years, Changying, and you're disobedient and running around! Who allowed you to go to the cellar? β
Yun Niang's words hid a little reproach, deliberately pulling away from the topic.
But Chaorong didn't give her this opportunity: "A-Niang, who are we?" Why haven't I seen any other relatives since I was sensible? β
"We are just ordinary people, when my mother gave birth to you, there was a natural disaster in my hometown, my mother took you to Xinghua Village, and those relatives were all lost in the natural disaster." For the heartless Mu Changying's questions that had never been raised, Yun Niang was caught off guard by the question, but she still coped with it without flaws.
"Didn't that dad also die in that disaster?" As soon as Chao Rong heard it, she knew that what Yun Niang said was not the truth, and she threw out the last person Mu Changying never dared to mention after she was five years old - Mu Changying's father, Yun Niang's husband.
Chao Rong remembered that when Mu Changying was five years old, she was bullied because she didn't have a father, so she ran home crying and ran home to Yun Niang to ask where her father had gone, but Yun Niang was in tears and couldn't cry anymore.
Later, no matter how much Mu Changying envied others for enjoying her father's love, no matter how many people she was bullied, she never mentioned her father who she had never met in front of Yun Niang.
However, Chao Rong doesn't understand Yun Niang's past, and his feelings for Yun Niang are still in a semi-unfamiliar state, and he thinks that more than ten years is enough to calm a woman's pain, so he can tear apart the old wounds that Yun Niang is unwilling to touch without changing his face.
The words landed, the two sides were silent, and the air seemed to freeze.
Yun Niang's eyes visibly dimmed, and the originally warm gaze became indifferent, as if covered with a layer of thin ice, and the curvature of the corners of her mouth became cold and hard.
This beautiful woman looked at Chao Rong, and her gaze seemed to extend through her to the world beyond her reach.
Chao Rong looked into Yun Niang's eyes, and spied out the small grief hidden under her coldness, through the gap in her eyes.
At this moment, Chao Rong felt that he was too naΓ―ve. The woman in front of her, the aunt on her body, the pain she hid could not be soothed by time, the wound in her heart had never healed, and others could get fresh blood as long as they touched it lightly.
Chao Rong suddenly felt flustered and blamed herself, she hurriedly grabbed Yun Niang's cold hands: "A-Niang, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked, I ......"
"He's dead."
Yun Niang blurted out three words that made Chao Rong stunned in place.