Chapter 4: The Meng Family (II)
To return to the ruined temple, one must pass through a gloomy cemetery. The sky gradually darkened, and the dark clouds in the distance gradually approached the direction of the capital, and the black crows creaked by, leaving a silence.
The wind rustled in the bamboo forest, and Meng Yuyun couldn't help but shrink her body and hugged the food in her arms tightly. Fear enveloped her heart like an invisible web. The tombstones on the side are like mountains one after another, and the strange names engraved on the tablets seem to be a pair of eyes glaring viciously at her, an alien intruder.
Meng Yuyun gritted her teeth, stood on tiptoe and ran quickly, she sweated in pain as she ran, the hot burns and the erosion of sweat made her face blue. And the bamboo forest in front of him swaggered his body gloomily, and the road seemed to have no end in sight.
The tiles on the ruined temple were almost gone, and a few pieces of rotten silk cloth were wrapped around a decolored Buddha statue, leaving a small shelter for the two sisters.
The Buddha statue stared ahead with a compassionate gaze, the smile on her lips made Meng Yuyun a little shaken, and her anxious heart calmed down under Xiangning's gaze, she put down the dishes and chopsticks, and bowed respectfully three times.
Under the offering table in front of the Buddha statue, a pile of ashes lay quietly on the ground, half-burned branches scattered, and there was a broken blanket wrapped around a person, which was her sister, the eldest girl of the Meng family, who was famous for her beauty and talent.
"Ah Nan ......"
The faint sound of mosquitoes came from the blanket, Meng Yuyun licked her dry lips, tried to pull out a smile, and responded softly. Walked over and ripped the blanket open, revealing a burned body
My sister's beauty has long since ceased to exist, and the burned skin is left and right, like patterns on a turtle shell. Those eyes rolled like dead fish, and the smell of sweat on their bodies made Meng Yuyun's heart a little sour, just two days ago, they were still the eldest lady in brocade clothes and food.
When she was a child, she often ran out to play with the boy next door, played until it was dark, and when she came home, she was chased and beaten by her father holding a ring ruler. She screamed whimper-whimper, and A-Niang was distressed on the side, but she was ruthless not to help her. Only Sister Ah stood up to help her speak every time.
Her sister has never been so embarrassed.
"Sister, come, eat." Meng Yuyun retracted her thoughts and tried to make herself smile. She poked the braised pork into a thumb-sized piece and carefully fed it to Sister A's mouth, trying not to hurt the burned skin on Sister A's face.
Meng Yuhuan looked at her sister who was dressed as a little beggar in front of her, her eyes were red, and her fingers trembled and wanted to lift it, but she repeated it several times, but she really didn't have the strength.
The rice that was handed to her lips was still warm, and she tried to open her lips, the dry food mixed with the fishy stench, which made her stomach churn.
Meng Yuhuan shook her head with blurred tears in her eyes, her hair sticking to her broken skin, and it was pulled out as soon as she moved.
"Sister, you eat!" Meng Yuyun was anxious, but she still gently suppressed her temperament.
Meng Yuhuan whined from her throat, her eyes were bloodshot, something in her body was obviously speeding up, and the blackening in front of her eyes from time to time made her heart panic.
The face of the younger sister in front of her gradually dissipated, and countless black spots occupied her entire line of sight, Meng Yuhuan held back a few words with all her might: "Brother Hao......"
Meng Yuguan watched her sister faint coldly, Douda's tears fell into the bowl silently, and she reached out and probed under her sister's nose. The faint breath steadied her heart, like a ship in a storm that had found a place to rest.
Meng Yuguan curled up beside her sister, and fed the food with chopsticks into her mouth with tears in one mouthful.
His cheeks were full of food, tears were slowly falling down the sides of his cheeks, and his dirty little hands trembled as he held the chopsticks. She has not been afraid of the sky since she was a child, and she is still smiling when her ass is slapped by her father. After experiencing the destruction of her family, she just wanted to keep her sister, but her sister's body couldn't stand it......
Thinking of her sister Fang Cai muttering Jiang Fanghao's name, Meng Yuwan couldn't help but pull her lips and laugh. The man, for fear that the Meng family's extinction would implicate him, found a woman from a small family early in the morning to marry into the family, saying that it was Chongxi.
She had long known that Jiang Fanghao was not a good thing. On the surface, he pleases his sister with sweet words, but behind the scenes, he kisses me and me with my sister's eldest girl, and does some slutty things like stealing chickens and touching dogs.
The girl was taught a lesson by Meng Yuguan, and there was an iron scar on her white and tender face, and she honestly stopped making small movements after that.
Sister didn't know that the injury was caused by her, but she said that the girl was accidentally disfigured, and she didn't take it to heart.
She wanted to teach the man a lesson, but her sister liked it, and she was afraid that her sister would be sad, so she kept being patient and silent.
After eating, Meng Yuguan took some water from the lake and carefully wiped the filth off her face. While wiping, she listened to Sister A's unbearable whimper in pain.
The evening breeze rose, and the icy rain fell to the ground, like the pearl necklace that she had broken when she was a child, one after the other.
Meng Yuhuan felt the fear of the girl beside her, and she struggled to lift her heavy eyelids. The originally obscure eyes brightened up again at this moment, and they were as beautiful as the previous eyes.
Both of them knew that it was a return to light, a sign that a person was about to die. Meng Yuguan smiled and held Sister A's hand, her thick eyelashes were stained with tears and turned into fly legs, "Sister, you got up too late, I finished eating." ”
Meng Yuhuan pursed her lips and smiled, her voice weak: "Ah Nan, I'm leaving."
"Cut, where are you going? The earth is so big that there is no place for our sisters for a long time. Meng Yuguan didn't understand Sister A's words, she pretended to be unhappy and blocked her ears with her hands, refusing to listen to Sister A.
"Grown-ups say, I'm smarter than you." Meng Yuhuan's smile was ethereal, and there were more and more black spots in front of him, "But they don't know, you are pretending to be heartless." Nan, without me, you still have to live well. ”
Meng Yuguan couldn't pretend not to hear, and his dry lips moved, as if he wanted to say something. But before she could say anything, Meng Yuhuan's breathing stopped. She trembled with her hands to feel her pulse, but it didn't beat.
Sister Ah had a bag of tears in her burned eyelids, and as soon as her eyes were closed, tears flowed out. Meng Yuguan wiped her tears for her, and hugged Sister A's body in a daze, her eyes full of disbelief. She didn't believe in the saying that a red face has a thin life, but now she does.
"Sister, can you not leave Ah Nan alone, Ah Nan has no sister, what should I do if I am bullied......" Meng Yuguan didn't have to worry about whether she would hurt Sister A, she hugged Sister A's body tightly. Stirring the bridge of his nose. The crying was very ugly, and the hot tears fell on Sister A's skin, and it became cold along with Sister A's body temperature.
Outside the ruined temple, a master and a servant stood in the rain, two yellow oil-paper umbrellas crumbling by the wind.
"Master, why don't we go in and have a look?" The little guy with good facial features stood behind the master with an umbrella, and asked the man next to him a little strangely.
"Nope." The man lowered his head slowly, his delicate lips pulling out a sarcastic smile. The daughter of the Meng family, if she can't even stand life and death, how can she be qualified to be his pawn.
Sister Ah hated sloppy people the most during her lifetime, and she must be allowed to be buried in the ground with dignity. Meng Yuguan wiped away her tears, put Sister Haosheng down, and rushed out in the pouring rain.
The cold rain stinged and stinged on her body, and the slippery mud under her feet made her fall several times, and her jaw hurt very much, but she still got up regardless of it. He wiped his face indiscriminately and ran again.
In the middle of the night when lightning and thunder roared, there were strange birds and insects in the cemetery, making eerie calls, the tombstones were wet with rain, and the weeds stood stubbornly upright.
Meng Yuwan's legs were weak, almost half-kneeling, knocking on the door of a large family and shouting in a dumb voice.
When the butler who came to open the door saw that she was a little beggar, he spat in disgust, and without hearing her request, he struck her viciously with a broom.
"I beg you, please give me a garment!"
This is the first time Meng Yuguan has opened her mouth to beg for someone, begging someone to give her sister decent clothes, even if it is old, it doesn't matter, as long as it is clean, this is also the first time she has realized how ruthless people in Chang'an can be.
Not a single person in the whole street was willing to give her charity.
The old wound was not healed and a new wound was added, Meng Yuguan sat on the bluestone road in despair, she looked at her fingernails, which were full of wood chips. When she was beaten, she clung to the pillar.
"Auntie, I'm so tired......"
The rain fell from her hair and rolled down her cheeks, merging with tears. With a dizzy head, she closed her eyes and fell lonely and lonely in the street, let the wind and rain blow.
This night was the nightmare of her life. No matter how strong she is later, she will never forget the humiliation of kneeling on the ground and begging for help.
"Little girl, you're really stubborn!" A red shadow appeared silently on the street, he squatted down with an umbrella, and carefully observed the fainting little girl. The white fingers ripped through her dirty hair, revealing a ruined face.
That's it!
He chuckled, casually and chicly threw the umbrella in the wind, and easily picked up the girl. The girl was drenched, like a frightened bird, trying to bury her head in his chest, sucking the heat from him.
Meng Yuguan was dazzled and noticed that someone was holding her, her eyelids were heavy, she tried to squint a slit, but she only saw the man's resolute chin.
"Daddy, are you here to pick me up?" She murmured softly, and cowered back into her warm embrace.
The man raised his eyebrows, his inky pupils deepened, and he didn't answer in the end. He hugged her, drenched in heavy rain, and felt Chang'an's indifference and ruthlessness together.