"I wish to have one heart, and my head will not be separated!"

By the Luo River, the reeds were swinging, and Li Nan gently hugged the red flower in his arms.

"What if one day the safflower goes first?"

Honghua asked shyly, feeling her whole body freeze.

"If you go first, I will not live alone. On Huangquan Road, by the bridge, I will accompany you! ”

"Really?"

Honghua raised her head and looked at Li Nan's eyes, from those eyes, she didn't seem to see any hesitation.

"Of course it's true! I, Li Nan, live for you in this life and this life. What is the point of you going first, leaving me alone in this world? Li Nan took Honghua's hand, put it to his lips, and kissed it gently. Honghua, I, Li Nan, swear here, what I say today is my Li Nan's heartfelt words. If you disobey it in the future, you may be thundered by heaven! ”

"There is no need for the sky to thunder, if you really forget it in the future, Honghua will only think that she has seen the wrong person."

"Nope! If one day I forget, you will return from the underworld and take my soul with you. ”

……

All kinds of things are still in my ears, and the scenes of the oath are also clearly emerging in Li Nan's mind.

Li Nan looked at the slightly upturned corners of Honghua's mouth and the coldness flashing in her eyes, and finally realized that Honghua had come to bring his soul back to the underworld according to what she said back then.

"Red flowers! I'm sorry! Li Nan closed his eyes slightly, his lips trembled and said, "I beg you...... Please let me go for the sake of our old days...... Will you let me go? ”

"Li Gongzi, what's wrong with you? Don't just kneel on the ground on a cold day! Even if you don't want to get up, you old mother, you have to help you up quickly! ”

Li Mao gently patted Li Nan's back with his hand.

Li Nan instantly felt that the coolness on his body dissipated, and his hands, which were originally cold and stiff, gradually regained consciousness. When he opened his eyes, there was no more red flower in front of him. It's just that there seems to be something more in the injured eye.

At Li Mao's urging, he had no time to care about more, struggled to get up from the ground, and with Li Mao's help, carried his mother to a wing of the rouge shop.

Xing Ruyi was sitting by the fire, holding a bowl of porridge and eating. The fox was playing chess with Yin Yuan on the side, and it seemed that he was having a good time, which made Li Nan, who suddenly walked in, feel a little uncomfortable from head to toe.

"The shopkeeper, this is Li Nan Li Gongzi, and this is Li Gongzi's mother. According to this Li Gongzi, his mother had a sudden illness at home, so she came to seek medical treatment. If the shopkeeper finishes eating the porridge, please help me take a look. ”

"It turned out to be Li Gongzi, we met in the wine shop of Siniang's house, do you remember?"

Xing Ruyi drank porridge while talking, but there was no delay in both times.

"It turned out to be a wishful girl? Aren't you the shopkeeper of a wine shop? ”

"Sort of, right? But this rouge shop is my real belongings! Xing Ruyi handed the bowl to Li Mao: "Go and tell Aunt Lu that I have finished eating this porridge, dim sum or something, and I will send it later." Well, are this Li Gongzi and Mrs. Li falling into the water or raining, why are they all ** all over their bodies? Let Aunt Deer boil a bowl of ginger soup! ”

"Thank you, Miss Ruyi!"

Li Nan said in a trembling voice.

"I just heard my little guy say that your mother is sick, and since she is sick, why do you still let her wear such ** clothes? Could it be that Li Gongzi's family doesn't have clean clothes to change for your mother? ”

"The girl didn't know that this dress was changed before she went out, but for some reason, it became like this again." Li Nan thought of the situation when he first saw the red flower, and his heart suddenly felt cold, but he didn't say the word haunted.

"Can I take a look?"

"Of course, you can come tonight, just hoping that the girl can help me see what kind of illness my mother is suffering from? Not only did he not wake up all the time, but water was coming out of his body. ”

"This symptom is indeed a little strange, to be honest, Ruyi was unheard of and unseen before." Xing Ruyi said, and opened Li Nanniang's eyelids with his hand, "I don't know if the safflower wine, whether Gongzi Li has given it to Mrs. Li, I look at Mrs. Li's appearance, it looks like a cold invasion, and my mind is disturbed." ”

"When the girl sent the medicinal wine, I was not at home, and when I went back, I saw the medicinal wine lying in front of the door, with the pattern of the fourth mother's wine shop and the daily drinking method on it. It is not only the wine of the fourth mother's family, but also the Ruyi girl, you personally concocted it, Xiaosheng naturally did not hesitate, and sent it to his mother's room on the same day. It's just that I haven't had time to ask my mother, have you ever taken the medicine and wine? ”

"Mrs. Li was caught by evil, and her soul was hooked into a dream." Xing Ruyi said, and put down the hand that checked the pulse: "This matter may be a little mysterious to say, Li Gongzi is a scholar, and he may not be willing to believe these remarks." But if my wife had drunk my safflower wine before going to bed, she would not have fallen asleep like she does now. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Literally!" Xing Ruyi said, walked up to the fox and Yin Yuan, looked at the game of chess, and then pointed to the middle piece and said to Yin Yuan: "You lost, your fox father won!" ”

Yin Yuan didn't raise his head, and replied: "Before he came to a dead end, how could his mother think that her son had lost?" ”

"If you lose, you lose, the dead game is decided, and it won't help to struggle hard, it's better to mess up this chessboard and start over, maybe before dawn, you can still win a game."

"My son doesn't believe it!" Yin Yuan said, still stubbornly leaving.

When the sunspot lands, it is indeed a total loss!

Xing Ruyi smiled, pointed to the chessboard and said to Li Nan: "In fact, life is like this chess game, every step taken before is a calculation for the final outcome. In the process of playing chess, you may think that the wrong move or two is nothing, but you don't know that the game has already recorded everything about you. ”

"Xiaosheng is depressed, and he can't quite understand the meaning of the girl's words."

"Actually, you understand!" Xing Ruyi pointed at Li Nan: "When I just said that your mother was caught in an evil spirit and was hooked into a dream, there was obviously a trace of fear in your eyes. This shows that you know very well why your mother is like this. ”

"My mother is a little anxious, and she is a little harsh on people on weekdays, but she is not a wicked person in nature, and she has not done anything evil. Therefore, Xiaosheng doesn't understand, why is my mother entangled by a demon? ”

"You understand, it's just that you don't want to admit it, because you are also an accomplice in the things your mother did." Xing Ruyi said, clasped Li Nan's hand, and then pressed his hand on Li Nanniang's cold forehead: "I found the cause of your mother's illness, but whether you can save your mother depends on you, the son." Remember, after you go in, you will see what your mother is going through, don't hesitate to take your mother out directly. ”

"Bring it out? Where to bring? ”

Li Nan only felt that his arms were getting colder and colder, as if something was sucking his body, and he dragged it vigorously to one place. He was very scared and tried his best to struggle, but his body seemed to be frozen by someone, and he couldn't move at all.

"When the time comes, I will light a lamp, and after you find your mother, don't say anything, don't ask anything, and run straight in the direction where the light is on. Remember, you can't look back while you're running. ”

"What if you turn back?"

"If you turn back, you will stay in the dream and never get out."

As soon as Xing Ruyi's words fell, Li Nan felt that he had been sucked into a black hole. It was scary, there was no sound, and no temperature was felt. I don't know how long it took, but there was finally a glimmer of light in his eyes, and then the light became brighter and brighter, and he saw clearly, it was his own courtyard, and at this time he was standing under the eaves.

He saw "Red Flower" kneeling in the courtyard, the cold rain hitting her delicate body. In her hand, there is also a steamed bun, a steamed bun that has just been gnawed a few bites, hard and yellow.

He had seen this scene before, but at that time, he was not standing under the eaves of the porch, but sitting in the bedroom. At that time, what was he doing? He's reading? No! He was looking at the red flowers through the window. Distressed? No! He didn't feel distressed, but complained a little about her, complained that she didn't listen to her mother, and went to the kitchen to steal steamed buns.

In this way, it may not be important to others, but it will affect his reputation as a scholar. So, when Honghua raised her head and looked at him with a pleading gaze, he just closed the door and window indifferently. After that, Honghua fainted and was diagnosed as pregnant by the doctor who came to see her. What about him? I didn't have the surprise of becoming a father soon, but thought that Honghua couldn't go out to work for a while. If Safflower doesn't work, there is no money at home, and if there is no money, where will his pen, ink, paper, and inkstone come from? Where will the money for food and tea come from when he goes to the city to exchange knowledge with the students next to him?

Thinking of this, Li Nan couldn't help but feel a little guilty. He looked at the "red flower" kneeling there in a daze, and then moved out from under the eaves step by step.

"Red Flower!"

He cried cautiously, lest he see a grimace.

"Red Flower", who was kneeling in the courtyard, heard his voice and slowly raised her head. It wasn't a saffron face, but a face covered in pleats, looking a little snarky, even ugly.

Li Nan was full of disgust, but he still couldn't control the words: "Mother? ”

"Nan...... Nan'er? Save...... Save my mother! ”

"How do you get on your knees?"

"It's all my mother's fault, my mother shouldn't have stolen your father's and your grandmother's sacrifices, so they came to punish my mother!"

"My father's and grandmother's offerings?" Li Nan lowered his head, only to find that what was rolling aside was not a steamed bun, but an apple that had been bitten a few bites.

"Not a safflower?"

"Safflower? No! Not safflower! Li Nanniang trembled: "Nan'er, when my mother just knelt on the ground, I thought a lot. It's my mother's fault, and my mother is sorry for the red flower. My mother never thought that kneeling on the ground, being beaten by the cold rain would be so uncomfortable and so offended! ”

"What's the use of talking about it now?" Li Nan helped her mother up: "Go!" I'll take you out! ”

"Get out? Where to? This is our home, Nan'er! Li Nanniang shook her head violently: "I'm not leaving, this is my home, even if I want to leave, I should let your dead ghost father go with your dead ghost grandmother!" ”

As soon as Li Nanniang's words fell, she was hit to the ground with a cane.

"Mother!" Li Nan first screamed, and then opened the remaining half of his eyes. Through that half of his eyes, he saw his grandmother, the one who had died years earlier.

At this time, she was wearing a cheap shroud, with a white face, and stood face to face with Li Nan. There was still a cold light in those slightly squinted eyes.

(Education 123 Literature Network)