Chapter 81: Hesitation (I)
On Chinese New Year's Eve, we sat together and listened to the old man talk about his past.
He said he had a daughter who had gone out to the mountains to collect medicine at the age of 16 and never returned. Many people said that he fell off the cliff, so he searched for more than ten years, and searched all the corners of the mountain, but he couldn't find it.
So now, he lit a lamp in front of the door, hoping that one day she would see the way home when she returned.
Chinese New Year's Eve was supposed to be a lively and happy day, but we all knew that after today, it was time for us to leave this place.
I feel sorry for him, and I feel sorry for myself.
The old man put down some broken silver, and sighed: "Two days away, these should be enough, and it is difficult for you to cook for me for so many days, after you leave, don't forget the old man." ”
I was silent, then got up and fell to my knees. Beiyu Jinchen also knelt on the ground with me, and the old man was dumbfounded, watching us kowtow respectfully three times.
"We can't repay you for saving your life."
The old man laughed, then burst into tears, tears welling up from the corners of his eyes, and he quickly wiped them away. "It's the New Year, and I don't have much money like you." After a pause, he said, "Rest early, you have to hurry tomorrow." Old man, I slept first, I don't like this sad parting mood the most, don't call me when you leave......."
He trembled back to the back room and closed the door.
Gloom and sadness spread in my heart, and I stood up on the table.
It was getting late, and it was pitch black outside, and nothing could be seen.
Beiyu Jinchen was packing up his things, and the room was quiet, no one spoke, and even the sound of breathing could be heard.
I looked outside, mentally calculating the time little by little, calculating how long we could still be together.
After a while, he walked up to me and looked at the bright moon outside the window.
The moonlight shone brightly, like frost all over the ground.
I carefully leaned my head sideways on his shoulder, and my right hand held his hand tightly, with all my might.
He was silent and let me toss.
"Jinchen, you say, is this a dream I had, I can't believe that these days are real." Exhale, and the ethereal white temperature is in the window, gradually spreading and disappearing.
He grabbed me with his backhand, his palms burning.
But he never spoke, not a word.
The long night was cold, and it passed by.
...........
As soon as it was getting dark, I put my hair in a high bundle, and I needed to hurry up today, so I had to pack up some money.
We didn't have anything with us, except for a broken iron sword he bought before the New Year.
The old man's door was still closed, perhaps he had woken up, but he just didn't want to come out.
As I went out, I bowed deeply in the direction where he lived.
Our lives were saved by him, and his kindness is greater than heaven, and there is no way to repay it.
When I walked, I took my steps very slowly, so slow that Beiyu Jinchen had to stop and wait for me to follow.
The day I don't want to face is still coming, and I have to go back to that cold palace again, and I have to seal my heart with ice.
"Beiyu Jinchen." I called his name, and he paused, hesitating not to turn around.
"Do you regret meeting me?" I asked him, like every innocent girl, to ask the stupidest questions in such a childish tone.
He just tugged at my sleeve and replied lightly, "Let's go, it's almost noon." ”
I froze in place, motionless.
"But I regret it."
He finally turned around, his eyes cold, and there were no ripples.
"I regret meeting you. If it weren't for you, I would still be the cold-blooded and heartless Night Pavilion Master, and if it weren't for you, I would still be planning what I should do step by step. But you have disrupted all my plans, and I am less and less like myself, and I have become unrecognizable......" I said incoherently, and as I spoke, tears rolled from my eyes.
"Silly." He rubbed my hair, his fingertips brushing over the corners of his eyes, tenderly tangled.
I finally couldn't hold back and cried, choking up and sobbing like a child who can't get sugar.
Holding him, I didn't feel at ease, as if I would say goodbye forever in the next moment.
I'm just, unwilling to lose, unwilling to be a passerby in your life......
Shadow asked me what I would do if I fell in love with someone in the future.
I laughed at her for being unambitious, but in the end she became the object of my own ridicule.
He became my weakness, it became pain, it became a source of heartbeat, what should I do, what should I do?
The mountain road is rugged, and I thought that each section would take a long time, but it was also fleeting, and I could count the time we could still be together with my fingers.
"Jin'er." He suddenly called out like this, and I was stunned.
For so many days, he has never called me like this, he only calls Luo Yu in his dreams, calls her Yu'er, and I am just two simple words - Su Jin.
"Hmm." I didn't know what he was going to say, so I didn't know what to say.
"In the future, take good care of yourself, the harem is dangerous."
I replied in a bright tone: "What is there to worry about, my Liu Su Jintian has a hard life and can't die." ”
He stopped and stood quietly, behind him was a mountain road paved with withered yellow leaves, and each fallen leaf was a butterfly that had lost its life, playing with a swirling stumbling.
"Leave, leave the palace, and never come back."
"And what about you, will you come with me?"
He was silent again, and the hand that had been holding me was released.
I finally realized what a stupid question I was asking.
The author has something to say: Thank you Yueyang for the red envelope, just enough for five ~ So today's two more ~ Mu Mu has no manuscript at all, but he will still fulfill his promise to make two changes today, and the second one is expected to be after ten o'clock~