Chapter 64: Marriage
As far as I am concerned, the viciousness of Hu Dabao's wife can only make me think of Hu Hui's death for the first time. In the end, Hu Hui still died, still at the age of twenty-five or sixteen, and was buried in the coffin again at the age of flowers. And now, I am very likely to have entered the prophetic dream at Hu Hui's own request, and no matter how stupid I am, I can guess that Hu Hui's death is strange.
After bringing Hu Xiang back, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, Hu Hui is already eighteen years old, at this time Hu Dabao's business is getting bigger and bigger, I don't know when he became the richest man in Qingyun Town, after all, I don't have time to check the property of rich people in Qingyun Town one by one.
But on Hu Hui's eighteenth birthday, in order to celebrate his daughter's birthday, Hu Dabao invited friends from all walks of life to attend his daughter's coming-of-age ceremony, and it was at this time that Hu Dabao personally wrote a few big words on the invitation he sent out.
Hu Dabao is the richest man in Qingyun Town, and then Hu Hui is the daughter of the richest man can basically be hammered, thinking of this, I also have some emotion, to say that this fate is really wonderful, I just ran for my life, avoiding the pursuit of Bai Impermanence to get into the coffin, but who knew that this coffin was the coffin of the richest man's daughter, and the richest man's daughter had a long-standing relationship with my grandfather?
On Hu Hui's eighteenth birthday, Hu Hui met her own catastrophe - she fell into the pond, and Hu Hui, who couldn't swim, almost drowned. No, to be precise, Hu Hui should be dead, because Hu Hui doesn't know water at all. And Hu Xiang, as the initiator, of course knew that his sister couldn't swim.
For more than ten years, Hu Xiang has never attacked Hu Hui, really not once, but this time, when he made a move, Hu Xiang's expression and attitude were so calm, watching Hu Hui struggle painfully in the pond, and the corners of his mouth were smeared with elegant arcs, as if he was watching a drama.
I looked at Hu Xiang like this, and I also felt a little emotion in my heart, this Hu Xiang is estimated to be so big, I have already thought about Hu Hui to death no less than 10,000 times in my head, right? Because, this is the original intention of Hu Dabao's wife to bring back her adopted daughter at the beginning. Hu Dabao is a simple character, he doesn't know—no, maybe he knows, he can feel it, but he doesn't want to believe it.
Although Hu Hui's memory has not awakened, this child's talent is unique, although Hu Xiang and Hu Hui are only two years apart, the talent gap between the two is estimated to be difficult to make up for Hu Xiang for another 20 years. In addition, Hu Hui's child is very sensible and kind, and the entire Hu family, except for Hu Dabao's wife, is almost on Hu Hui's side.
I thought that according to Hu Xiang's plan, Hu Hui would definitely be drowned here, but I watched Hu Xiang walk away leisurely and disappear into the beautiful garden, but I was not worried about Hu Hui in the pond.
I quietly looked at Hu Hui, who was constantly struggling, and watched her struggle for a while, and then sank into the pond as if she had broken away. The surface of the pond calmed down, and this calm lasted for about a minute, and then, the figure of Hu Hui in the pond appeared again.
- Hu Hui knows water, and even swimming is much better than Hu Xiang. It's not that Hu Hui has been deceiving Hu Xiang, but because Hu Hui's memories of his past life have awakened. At 12 o'clock in the morning on Hu Hui's eighteenth birthday, Hu Dabao found Hu Hui who had fallen asleep early, and then asked her not to ask more, and under her curious gaze, he hurriedly put the pill in the jade bottle into his daughter's mouth.
Hu Hui didn't know what kind of medicine it was, but since it was her father who let her eat it, she took it. Not long after eating, Hu Hui's memory woke up, and he hugged Hu Dabao and cried for a long time - Hu Hui's memory in his previous life did not wake up, not that Hu Hui's soul has been sealed.
This is actually a ring of insurance for Hu Hui's safety, and when he was eighteen years old, as an adult, his body also ushered in maturity for the first time, which is also called "opening the sky". And at this time, the fit between the soul and the body will also reach a perfect level. Hu Hui's soul is growing little by little, but after all, he was still a toddler when he died, so the three souls and seven spirits are not consolidated enough.
And through this practice, grandpa can let Hu Hui's body and soul fuse at the most perfect time, and the pill he left to Hu Dabao is also a pill that can consolidate the three souls and seven spirits.
Hu Hui in this life can't swim, but Hu Hui and her father in the previous life don't know how many times they caught fish in the river, children learn things quickly, and it is difficult to forget, Hu Hui's memory has awakened, this is the secret of her and her father, Hu Xiang naturally can't know.
So when Hu Hui appeared at the dinner party safe and sound, Hu Xiang was completely panicked, she knew that since Hu Hui was not dead, as long as she opened her mouth, she would completely fall into hell. Hu Xiang was the only one who turned pale during the whole dinner, but Hu Hui didn't have anything unusual, and he treated Hu Xiang very naturally.
That night, Hu Xiang tossed and turned, and finally found Hu Hui, and Hu Hui seemed to have known that she would come, the lights in the house were always on, and when he saw her coming, he pulled her to drink tea and eat desserts, chatting about family life, and did not say a word about her pushing herself down the pond.
When Hu Xiang finally couldn't bear this torture and took the initiative to bring it up, Hu Hui reached out and gently covered Hu Xiang's mouth, and said with a gentle smile From now on, you forgot, I forgot, it has never happened. Sister, you're my own sister, right?
Hu Xiang didn't expect Hu Hui to be so generous, so he immediately knelt in front of Hu Hui and cried bitterly, feeling very annoyed by his stupid behavior. As I watched this scene, I couldn't help but let out a deep sigh. Hu Hui is an angel, a real angel, really a child who is kind to the bones.
But Hu Xiang is the opposite, she is not a good thing in itself, plus there is Hu Dabao's wife, the woman who has become a poisonous woman at some point, teaches training day and night, Hu Hui's approach of smiling and hating, I don't think Hu Xiang's sincerity will be at all, on the contrary, it will only make Hu Xiang's next plan more difficult to guess and discover.
After that, time passed, and I watched the two girls, Hu Hui and Hu Xiang, grow up day by day, and finally, the time came on the day when Hu Hui had passed her twenty-fifth birthday. Just as I thought when I looked at Hu Hui when I was a child, the twenty-five-year-old Hu Hui was slim and elegant, wearing a milky white brocade cheongsam with peach blossom pattern in the light rain in autumn, and her slender and graceful figure was hazy in the rain and fog.
Hu Hui was born with a natural beauty, but she was born with a simple personality, her long black hair was simply tied up, and when she lifted the sideburns around her ears and pushed back, a round goose egg face was displayed without concealment, exuding a pure and clean temperament all over her body. On the contrary, Hu Xiang, this girl seems to be asserting that she has no blood relationship with Hu Hui, dressed in a purple and red lady's dress, with heavy makeup and dark eye shadow, which makes people feel very cold when they look at it.
I don't know what has happened between the two since they reconciled when they were eighteen years old, but looking at the way the two of them look now, the relationship is definitely not harmonious. It is estimated that Hu Hui also encountered a lot of things after that, I think according to Hu Xiang's character, it would be strange to be really impressed by Hu Hui's kindness.
It didn't take long for me to figure out why the Prophetic Dream had jumped straight to this point in time. The two of them went out at the moment, seemingly to choose a gift for Hu Dabao's upcoming birthday. At this time, Hu Dabao was already a lot older, his mellow body was thinned a lot again, his sides were slightly sunken, his sideburns were snow-white, and the Sichuan characters like knife marks between his eyebrows also illustrated the vicissitudes of life.
On Hu Dabao's birthday, many relatives and friends came, including the Lin family. Hu Dabao seemed very affectionate when chatting with the head of the Lin family. This Lin family does not belong to a merchant family, it is a scholarly family, but after the heirs of the family are famous families, they have a high-ranking relative in the capital, and their status is more than one grade higher than that of Hu Dabao's family.
And the reason why the two are talking so eagerly now is obvious, and I understand after listening to two sentences - these two people seem to be discussing the marriage of their children now. Hearing them mention this marriage, I also suddenly remembered that when Hu Hui was very young in the past, Hu Dabao seemed to have seen this old man surnamed Lin.
Although the two have no common language in terms of knowledge, Old Man Lin likes Hu Dabao's straightforward and simple temperament very much, so the two have always maintained a good relationship.
Although Hu Dabao's era is not a feudal society, the customs of feudal society are seriously preserved - Hu Dabao's family is two daughters, and the Lin family happens to be all sons, so the two old men are drinking two glasses, and they decided to have a baby kiss for a while, and when the children grow up, they will be together directly.
Of course, Old Man Lin is a literati, and he probably didn't take things seriously, not to mention Hu Dabao, he doesn't care what Hu Xiang is, but Hu Hui is his heart, if he really lets him marry someone casually and use it as a tool for political marriage, it is estimated that Hu Hui will not agree to Hu Dabao.
But now listening to the two old men chatting, it seems that they are seriously considering this matter. I have seen the son of the old man Lin before, he is very handsome, and he also follows his father, full of knowledge and easy-going, and it is estimated that he will also be a talent who will join the party and eat national food in the future. If Hu Hui likes it, marrying him seems to be a good choice.
In the end, the two chatted for a long time, and the conclusion was that Old Man Lin's son fell in love with Hu Hui at first sight, but Hu Hui didn't seem to have that mind, and Hu Xiang seemed to be obsessed with Old Man Lin's son. Old man Lin wanted to ask Hu Dabao's opinion and was willing to marry his daughter to his son.
And Hu Dabao gave the statement that you have to ask Hu Hui first, if Hu Hui also likes it, then of course you will marry, there is no need to stop you from being a parent if you love me, but if you don't want to, then try to make do with Hu Xiang and Old Man Lin's son, if it doesn't work, forget it, don't force it, anyway, peace is precious, don't hurt harmony.
When he turned around, Hu Dabao found a time to walk and chat in the garden with his daughter, which was the happiest time for the elderly Hu Dabao. Finally, when he sat down in a hexagonal pavilion to rest for a while, Hu Dabao ate the flower tea and osmanthus cake that Hu Hui prepared for himself, and also took out the topic.