Chapter Ninety-Five: Sin
"You call me to come this long time, and my life is enough."
Dong Changlin remembered the time of the Xu Mansion back then, and she either called him Brother Shen or Brother Kyushu. He spent the best season of the city full of apricot blossoms with a false identity, and he wished that he would become Shen Yuji. But the reality is the most cruel, but in the end, he secretly helped his father kill the Xu family with the consistent obedience of the Dong family's heirs.
He took out a check from under his pillow that had been prepared earlier, a hundred thousand ocean shares.
"My father promised you 50,000 oceans, and I kept it for you privately, and I wanted to go to Yuji in person to redeem your deed of sale, but now there is no need. Here is 100,000 oceans, I added an additional 50,000, it should be regarded as a meeting gift for the child, this child is also related to me, you take it well. He put the check into Ping Yan's palm, quickly withdrew his hand, turned his head, and stared indifferently at the painted peonies on the wall, as if he didn't want to say more.
In line with his wishes, Ping Yan did not have any words of refusal, only if she accepted the money, he would live the few remaining days with peace of mind.
She wanted to be as kind to him as she could.
In the corner of the wall, there is a half-person-high Western self-striking bell, which is ringing like a slow beat of farewell, and it is sad and big.
Ping Yan sat on the edge of the couch, Dong Changlin was already lying down, sideways, his eyes closed, seemingly asleep, but his eyelashes couldn't stop shaking. They are like two silent ornaments, carefully and quietly gnawing on sadness in the heavy shell, accompanying each other's last cup of tea.
The snow fell more fiercely, and the wind whistled through the cracks in the window, and the apricot blossoms withered violently like snow on a puffy branch.
Ping Yan said: "I'm leaving." ”
Dong Changlin was really asleep, and he didn't move at all, but he clutched the quilt under his hand as if he had a nightmare.
Ping Yan sighed, "You take good care of yourself, I'm really leaving." ”
The bell of farewell rang again, dull and piercing, and the shouting pierced the flesh and blood.
Later, her footsteps sounded, like spring thunder in the depths of Yunshan, gradually moving away, shaking his heart to pieces.
Because of the extreme pain, I didn't feel uncomfortable, but I choked in my throat in one breath, like a fire that burned the plain, the thick fog suffocated, the scorching heat dried up, and I was caught off guard and burned to death.
There was a sea of dizziness and roaring in his ears and eyes, but he could clearly hear the sound of her opening the door, just waiting for the door to close, it should be the secret of this life.
A tree of apricot blossoms seemed to bloom in his mind, full and enthusiastic, and he saw the little girl running after him in a circle around the trunk, and the sound was like a silver bell.
Tears fell, and he stood on the edge of the crumbling realm of death, whimpering, screaming, and shouting, "Sister! ”
Ping Yan paused suddenly, and shook her back a few times like chaff before she stood still.
It seemed that the old things from many years ago had come to the fore, and she hadn't heard anyone call her sister in years.
Dong Changlin turned around, and there was a strange blur outside his vision, and he could only desperately catch a faint back of her, like satin cut by moonlight, faint.
He stretched out his hand, as if touching her body temperature, and the air passed through his fingers, hot and soft, like her green hair.
"To be happy, to be happy in this life." He muttered.
Ping Yan shook off the messy thoughts in her heart, lifted her steps, closed the door and left.
The door was like a heavy coffin board, cut off from the world, and he was a skeleton in the earth, exhausted of flesh and blood. It's just that it should be thankful that she closed the coffin with her own hands and gave him a ride in person.
He lay down quietly, a tear in the corner of his eye, flowing smoothly, along the corner of his forehead and into his hair.
He sang slowly, his eyes rolling in tears, not knowing whether it was tears or twilight, "Horses run, horses run, horses run, run to the east mountain to eat grass, run to the west mountain to chase the sun, carry the moon back to hometown, carry a big girl...... Packing...... A big girl. ”
The horses were tired and could no longer carry the girl.
He coughed violently, blood spilled from his lips in an instant, and a few apricot blossoms were blown and dotted on him, splashing black and red blood. He picked up the remnant of the flower, clenched it tightly into his palm, and his expression gradually calmed down.
The inkstone pushed the door when he heard the sound, and he was so frightened that he dropped the tea cup in his hand. He ran over, knelt beside the bed, hurriedly wiped the blood on his face with a handkerchief, and cried heavily, "Young master, young master, I'll go find a doctor." ”
Dong Changlin shook his head slowly, "No need, I'm fine, I'm just a little tired and want to get a good night's sleep." ”
"Then I'll go and chase Miss Tao Yan back, she has such good medical skills, there will definitely be a way to save the young master." He wiped a handful of tears with his sleeve and said that he was going to chase after him.
Dong Changlin stopped him, his eyes glazed, "It's useless." This time, she couldn't save it. ”
"Young Master, if you hadn't threatened the commander with your life and knelt in the snow all night, Miss Tao Yan would not have been saved, why didn't you want to tell her, as long as you said it, what contradiction can't be solved?" If it weren't for the young master's earlier order, he would have been eager to tell the young master all about her life.
Dong Changlin was extremely tired, closed his eyes, and his tone was empty, "I can't solve it in this life, this is what I owe her." ”
He had a dream about the small town of Meijiao, located on the border of Beiping. It seems to be isolated from the extravagance of the outside world, and it also blocks the smoke of gunpowder and war, everywhere you can see the curling smoke on the chimney, the apricot blossoms dancing quietly in the streets and alleys, when he was ten years old, only saw the intrigue in the mansion, and the people were warm and cold. And every grass and tree here, every brick and tile is warm and warm, and it was in this fairyland-like place that he met the girl who was like a fairy.
She loves to laugh and be close to people.
She likes to run after him and call him Brother Shen.
But he is not surnamed Shen.
He didn't know how he woke up and was sent to such an inexplicable place by those people. He only remembered that he overheard what his father was saying to his subordinates in the study the night before, saying that he would threaten Shen Wei with Shen Yuchen's life, forcing him to dismiss his official position and return to the field and hand over the military power of the Yuhu Army.
Dong and Shen were old friends, and Shen Yuchen was his best brother and playmate, and he was living at his house at this time. He was frightened, but he had been timid since he was a child and didn't dare to reason with his father in person, so he took advantage of the heavy rain and dark night to exchange clothes with Shen Yuchen and told him to run away quickly.
Then, a strange man came in through the window, looking vicious, he thought it was a killer sent by his father, and he resisted the fear of standing up, the man glanced at him, and carried him away.
He was in this big courtyard when he woke up again.
The male owner of this family is surnamed Xu, called Xu Beiye, is a middle-aged man with gray temples, not smiling, upright, and his father who is good at clever words, the hostess is gentle and demure, every move is like a lady in the painting, kind and kind, and those aunts in the family are more different. But their daughter is more like a monkey, lively and active, not idle for a moment, and every day she has to climb back to the apricot tree under the patio of the yard.
It turned out that the man who kidnapped him was sent by Shen Wei, and he learned of his father's actions earlier, so he secretly rescued Shen Yuchen and placed him in Xu's mansion.
It's a good mistake.
The first night, he had a high fever, and he also resisted in a daze, saying that he was not the Shen family, but they only thought that he had burned nonsense, and took care of him even more meticulously.
He had never experienced such warmth, nor had he ever seen such a smart and lovely girl. So he crossed his fingers and secretly made up his mind to lie only for three days, and after three days he told the truth, three days and three days...... He couldn't control the warmth and harmony of this family, and he couldn't let go of this girl like a little fox.
Until one day, he took her to the street to buy sugar gourds, but he accidentally saw a pair of eyes quietly watching them, and that person was his father's most powerful subordinate.
The man led him to his father, and he was so frightened that he could barely stand upright.
But his father, who had never treated him well, stretched out his hand and hugged him affectionately, in a kind tone, and asked him if he knew where Shen Yuji was.
He shook his head, still timid, but standing in his father's arms, his heart was about to go crazy with joy.
The father touched his head, looked at the girl who had been holding a sugar gourd outside, and asked him, do you want to be with her forever?
He was ecstatic and nodded heavily.
The father took a small bottle of fine jade wine from his subordinates, and said with a smile, "Okay, here is the wine I brought from home, you bring it back, and let her parents taste it, it is a meeting gift, and I will visit in person another day."
He smiled more kindly, and whispered that Changlin should remember to pour it into their cup secretly so that no one would notice it. They are the fate of the Shen family, and our family and the Shen family have not completely untied the knot, and now you can't reveal your identity, otherwise I won't be able to go and kiss you.
He regarded it as a treasure and walked in the alley, hoping that every breath was full of joy. The little girl who followed beside him was dipped in half of the syrup on her face, and followed behind him, and kept asking what was in the bottle.
He blushed and didn't answer, only stopped and wiped her face, muttering shyly, this can be regarded as a meeting gift for the children and relatives.
It happened to be her birthday, and there was a sumptuous table of chicken, duck and fish in the evening. He went to the side to wash the glass, secretly poured two glasses of wine from the pot, and gave it to her parents with courtesy.
When she wrapped her chopsticks around longevity noodles, suddenly many people with guns broke in from outside, and without saying a word, they killed a serving girl, and then the dozens of spears were all pointed at her parents.
He recognized the person who took the lead, wasn't that his father's henchman. There was a thunderclap outside the house, and it cracked and made him cold.
He was no longer as afraid as he was at this moment, afraid that his identity would be exposed in front of their family, afraid that the leader would say something that should not be said, and he didn't know where a brute force drove him to drag her hand and run away.
Later, who lit the fire, the thunder and lightning rolled down, and the fire was raging......
He covered her mouth and hid herself in the stack of wheat until the gang searched around and could not find them, and then hurried outside.
Her small thin body was about to rush into the fire, but he hugged her tightly, and she refused to let go of a piece of flesh that she bit off alive.
The gentle and beautiful hostess hugged the baby tightly in her swaddling clothes, and her whole body was covered with devouring fire, and the majestic and resolute man hugged his wife and children under the tongue of fire, as if an axe had fiercely split his throat. He said, Ping Yan, live well, don't take revenge, don't hate the Shen family, as long as you can live comfortably and happily, your mother and I will die without regrets.
The fire was like blood pouring into the sky, surging and surging, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be mixed with color. However, he could clearly see the man standing up to the sky, and he looked into his eyes before he slowly fell to the ground.
Disappointment, grief, hatred, murder, helplessness...... It made him slump.
Later, he learned that they had the opportunity to escape from the fire, but they were softened by the two glasses of sweat-soaked wine.
His father, who was as ruthless as a jackal and a tiger and leopard, was powerless to deal with the Shen family, so he vented all his anger and resentment here, and the leader forced Shen Yuchen to find out his whereabouts, so he burned it clean.
Later, he finally understood Xu Beiye's last look at him, and at that time he already knew his identity from the leader's mouth.
Set the fox to keep the geese.
Families are ruined.
He still remembers the rain pouring down in the middle of the night, the fire was extinguished, and piles of ashes were scattered under the ruins.