"Help me." I said softly: "Although so far, I haven't asked what the reason for the old man's death is, but I know with my feet that it has nothing to do with that person named Xie Yifan, and even he killed him directly." I won't, and I can't let the old man die in vain, since he hasn't been able to clean up the portal and maintain the righteous path of painting spirits, then this portal should be cleaned up by me, and I need help. ”

After taking two deep puffs of cigarette, Yuan Jinzhu looked up at me and said: "Help is definitely going to help, even if you don't say this, I can't stand idly by, from the moment I found out that there was a snake on your body, even when my old man was angry, everything was already doomed, you and I will be tied together after all, no matter who is in trouble, the other can't be picked up." ”

"But how to help, how to do this, you have to think about it first."

After a pause, Yuan Jinzhu looked at me again and said, "Now you have just experienced such a big thing, and you have come one after another, and you haven't closed your eyes and slept well for more than ten days." At this time, it is not advisable to think too much, and it is difficult to come up with a result, so it is better to rest and adjust first, so that the spirit and body have fully accepted everything that has happened now, and calm down from it, and then think about how to proceed, continue to stretch like this, I am afraid that the portal has not been cleaned up, but I will clean myself up first. ”

"I know, so I'm going to talk to you first, and I'll be relieved to have you say this." I nodded and said, "It is estimated that you have not been tossed around during this time, and you have rushed back from thousands of miles away urgently, and you are very tired to help manage it for the past two days." Since you don't want to talk more about you, I won't ask more, take a good rest for a day or two before going back, and if there is a need to employ people, you can also open up to me at any time, don't always feel that you are very good, and you like to play with everything and keep it secret. ”

"Don't worry, when you really need help, I will naturally speak, if there is nothing else, I will accompany you for a day today, and I will go back tomorrow. If you have any ideas here, you can also tell me at any time, the three stinky people will be Zhuge Liang, and it is much better for two people to figure out a way together than to think about it alone. Yuan Jinzhu smiled lightly.

I glanced at him, went back to smoking, and said no more.

Although this Spring Festival is completely gray for me, no matter what, today is still the first day of the Lunar New Year, so anxious to go back, needless to say, I also know that it is to finish my own things as soon as possible, and come back to help me wholeheartedly.

"By the way, there's something I need to tell you about." After a moment of silence, Yuan Jinzhu spoke softly again.

"What's the matter?" I asked.

After looking at me with some hesitation and smiling, Yuan Jinzhu replied, "There is something about Xiaowei's sister......

I was slightly stunned, then my brow furrowed, and a wave of complicated and boring emotions welled up in my heart.

When I couldn't find it before, I desperately wanted to get even a little bit of news, but with the burial of the old man's ashes, it seemed that the news was finally coming back, but I suddenly didn't know how to face it, and I didn't know what mood to use to face it.

I don't know why it's so good, she suddenly went so ruthlessly, even I almost whispered down to beg, the old man was suddenly gone, and still refused to come back, even if it was just to come back to see me, tell me the reason, that she didn't want me anymore, it was far better and happier than no response, and all the messages sent to her seemed to sink into the sea.

It's because I can't understand it at all, I don't know why, so I don't know how I feel about her now.

didn't rush to ask anything anymore, but took out another cigarette, threw one to Yuan Jinzhu too, lit a moment of silence, and said with a wry smile in a self-pitying, self-deprecating and self-deprecating tone: "You say, buddy should really go to someone to calculate it, is it the life of the orphan?" If it is true, buddy will simply admit it. ”

"How?" Yuan Jinzhu asked.

"How else can you say that at most, others are cooked ducks and fly away, but buddies can still fly away from cooked ducks that have been eaten in their mouths, what do you say is not fate?" Shaking my head and smiling very helplessly and sadly, I said: "Maybe I really shouldn't have said the words "I love you", in his mother's place, these three words are not his good things, poisonous, extremely poisonous, more effective than a curse, everything is fine if you don't say it, as soon as you say it, even if you have already agreed to the proposal, just a woman who is completely legal will turn around and don't want me, just say go, there is no reason, it's really tried and tested............"

"This ......" Seeing that I was smiling so bitterly, Yuan Jinzhu couldn't find anything to say for a while, and after hesitating for a while, he said, "What's the matter, can you tell me about it in detail?" ”

"Forget it, there's nothing to say." How could I be in the mood to mess up the mess, let out a long breath, and after exhaling a little of the resentment that had been pressed in my heart, I looked at the dead grass in the cracks of the stone slabs on the ground and fell silent.

Although I don't want to admit it, let alone face it, one fact is that the possibility that my little daughter-in-law will return to me is quite small, so small that it can be completely ignored.

For so many days, he refused to come back even for such a big thing as the old man's death, how could he come back now?

In my impression, in the past three days, my mother-in-law didn't come to see it, and I didn't even say a word of greeting. Even if my daughter and I are not officially married, according to the communication and integration of the two families for so long, it will not be the case at all, since this is the case, it means that they are very likely to already know something, or at least realize that this time the little daughter-in-law suddenly said goodbye, far more than just a conflict between the young couple.

I no longer have a master, and at the same time, I no longer have a little daughter-in-law, and the possibility of returning to me is not much higher than that of the old man coming back to life, this is the truth.

Although it is completely unknown why.

So now, I don't know how to face the news about my little daughter-in-law, and I'm afraid to face the news about her.

"Actually...... You don't have to be too upset, things aren't as bad as you think. Seeing that my expression became sad a little bit, Yuan Jinzhu sighed: "Because in the past two days, Sister Xiaowei has come back." ”

I looked up at him.

"When?"

After looking at me and hesitating for a moment, Yuan Jinzhu replied: "I came back last night and the night before yesterday, between four and five o'clock, but I didn't enter the door, and I was ...... outside."

"Why didn't anyone tell me?" I frowned.

Yuan Jinzhu smiled bitterly, did not answer positively, and sighed: "Actually, the night before, it was the little white face who first found out that Xiaowei's sister was back, this girl is really not easy, and it's really a pity." The little white face in his mouth refers to the white-faced scholar Qingci.

"Why didn't anyone tell me?" I asked again, and began to realize that it was not Yuan Jinzhu who hid this matter from me, but probably a whole family chose to hide it from me.

It turns out that my feeling is right, not an illusion, the little daughter-in-law has really come back.

"Brother, what can you tell you?" Yuan Jinzhu smiled bitterly, looked at me and was silent for a while, and said: "This matter has nothing to do with anyone, except for Xiao Qinghe and the little white face, and the old ghost surnamed Wu, I am the only one who knows that Xiaowei's sister has come back, and your family and Zhou Yun don't know at all, so don't think about it, I did it, and the three of them didn't tell you that it was also my request." ”

"Why?" As soon as I heard that this guy was hiding it from me, I suddenly began to feel a little uncomfortable in my heart: "It's not that you don't know that I have a hard time looking for her, so I can't figure out why you are doing this." ”

Yuan Jinzhu smiled bitterly and said, "It's still the same sentence, what can you tell you?" ”

"At least I can ask her to give me another chance, no matter how bad it is, I should always be able to tell me why." I mean it.

Yuan Jinzhu asked rhetorically: "Are you sure that you saw her in person at that time, and after meeting her face to face, you could still bear that kind of consequences?" When you're almost at your limit, it's hard to withstand the blow of the worse, and she doesn't know how to face you and tell you the result, is it really that heavy if you can't see it? When you and she are not ready, why bother to make both of you feel broken, they are already sad enough. ”

I was slightly stunned, and suddenly felt a little flustered in my heart, and looked at him blankly.

"Brother............ Give it up and let it go...... Believe me, there's no chance. It seems that when it comes to sadness, this guy's eyes that are always thieves are extremely rare to see a strong sadness, and he smiled extremely bitterly: "I don't know what happened to you, I don't know what she was thinking, but please believe that I won't be mistaken, this woman has really flown away from your arms, and it is impossible to fly back." Even if you can soften her heart for a while and stay with you temporarily, the result will only be that when you are not paying attention, she will quietly walk away again, so it is pointless to meet at this time, even if you leave her behind. So brother, believe me absolutely not mistakenly, this woman is gone and will not belong to you anymore, you know? ”

I hid my face and was silent, as if a knife was scraping.

"Do you think I'm talking to you about this, when I saw Xiaowei's sister coming quietly alone with her tears wiped her tears, and then wiped her tears and walked quietly, my brother felt good? It's not good at all. It's true that this woman used to be your woman, but brother, I really like her, and I really want to treat her as my own sister, do you think that what I said is false? Brother, I really hope so, I hope to see you live a good life, and you are truly the best in the world. But it can't be helped, brother, sometimes this is fate, who called us blessed and shallow, I didn't have the life to really recognize such a good girl, and you didn't have the life to really get such a woman? ”

"Anyway, now that the old man has been buried, you also know that there are more important things waiting for you to do, so I don't have to worry so much about it, I will talk to you at one time, and if it hurts, it will hurt enough. Anyway, the truth is already like this, it's better to finish the pain sooner, and it's better to get back up as soon as possible after it's over, what should you do, I believe that after this time, it will be difficult for anything to make you suffer like this......"

In the last few words, this guy almost jumped out of his mouth word by word, which shows that at this time, his heart has also reached a certain peak.

We all know that good medicine is good for disease, but sometimes, this bitterness is really hard to swallow, so bitter that people really want to contain a piece of sugar, even if they know that this sugar is poison, they can't help it.

And at this moment, I am the one who has to forcibly swallow this large bowl of bitter medicine, without sugar, not even sugar-coated poison.

I don't know how long it took, the pain in the soul that seemed to be able to penetrate into the bone marrow of the heart was dispersed to every corner of the whole person, so that it was evenly distributed, and it seemed to be better, raised his head, looked at the other side and couldn't help but say, and suddenly poured me such a big bowl of bitter medicine, no, a big bowl of bitter water guy, smiled bitterly.

In response to me, this guy smiled faintly, but also with an extremely strong bitterness.

"What the is that, you say? I really wanted to break my head, and I still couldn't figure it out at all. ”

"I don't know, but it's okay, I'll know someday."

"How long is the day?"

"I don't know, maybe it's time you can put it down......"

"When did you speak so mysteriously, saying the same thing as not saying it?"

"Dao Ye has always been like this."

“……”

"Cheer up, I believe that Sister Xiaowei will suffer no less than you, since every woman can survive, and there is no one around to complain about it, we can't be too sparse as a big man, and we can't give women a flat look when the time comes."

Dumbfounded.

After a few moments, I asked softly, "Are you hungry?" ”

Yuan Jinzhu replied: "I'm hungry, what's wrong?" ”

"It's good to be hungry, what I'm afraid of is that you're not hungry, and you don't want to go back now, anyway, the mood is similar to going to the grave, just stay here with me, and go back together after dark."

Yuan Jinzhu: "......"

When night fell, Yuan Jinzhu and I left.

The next day, the second day of the Lunar New Year, shortly after dawn, I came to the old man's "new house" again, toasted with incense, lit three cigarettes and put them on the tombstone, walked two steps to the side and squatted down, and picked up a fist-sized stone that had been placed here when I left last night.

Under the stone was a piece of paper torn from a cigarette case, and when I picked it up, I saw that there was a line of delicate and graceful words on it.

"I regret not promising you on the day I said I got my license."

And above that, there's a line I left last night.

"I regret not forcing you to say yes on the day I said I got the certificate."