Chapter 47: The Weeping Widow
Shen Yeling still can't forget the scene when Xu Man sat in front of him, hiding his face and giving up tears, that was when she was touching the child in her belly, crying silently, her face was beautiful, even if her eyes were red and filled with two lines of tears, it still did not affect her beauty, Shen Yeling only knew what it was called pear blossoms with rain.
Even if she cries, she will not be like Luo Yunsheng, looking up to the sky and shouting pain, she has to cry out the pain in her heart with a 'woo' cry to count, her crying is silent, all the pain is floating on the surface, even with red eyes, and her hands have every time to wipe her tears. Her crying was held back in her heart, making people feel from the bottom of their hearts that she was the most wronged person in the world. Those who can bully her and make her cry so aggrieved are all bad people.
She cried tears and didn't speak, she only listened to Zhou Lin next to her, Zhou Lin was the wife of Shen Yeling's senior brother Zhang Changxin, it should be said that it was Shen Yeling's sister-in-law, the sister-in-law was a warm-hearted woman, I saw her put Xu Man's hand on her lap.
While complaining: "Oh, I just said that the eldest young master of the Xu family is a heartless person, didn't he just look good at you when he took a fancy to you, how do you know that the picture made you have, and he is not responsible for you... ”
Zhou Ling patted Manzhi's hand and said: "Hey, I really haven't seen a person like him, how did he tell you at the beginning, what did he say for a lifetime, and now let's see how he does it."
"He's an amorous boy, he likes this today, he likes that tomorrow, hum pity my girl."
She sighed again, she was also angry with herself, and lowered her head to wipe her tears and comforted Xu Man, who was still crying: "You don't have to be embarrassed, if you still recognize me as a sister-in-law for a day, I can help you for a day, you can rest assured that I will help you send you to a secluded courtyard, no matter what people outside say, you just need to give birth to the child in peace." We're still good girls after we were born."
Zhou Lin said so much that Xu Man still didn't say a word, she still lowered her head and wiped her tears with a handkerchief, her pear blossom with rain was deeply seen by Shen Yeling.
Knowing that Xu Man was leaving, leaving Zhang Changxin's troupe, and giving birth to the child alone, Zhou Lin specially boiled eggs for her, and told her a few words not to move the fetus, only to see Shen Yeling, who had not seen her for a long time, suddenly appeared in front of them.
Long and jade, simply wearing a slim white gown, without any makeup, some are just the gentleness that a teenager should have, Shen Yeling at that time was upright and youthful, although he was not a big man in Liyuan, but it was also a rising period for his opera career, so he was more persistent than other men: "Manzhi doesn't have to go."
"What", the two of them wiped their tears and looked at Shen Yeling together.
I only heard that Shen Yeling's eyes were straight, and he still said with a little persistence in his eyes: "Manzhi doesn't have to go, I will marry her and enter the door, I will protect her, and she will give birth to the child in good health."
Zhou Lin hurriedly got up, slapped the table, and said excitedly: "What kind of Laoshzi are you sick, you will raise the child after birth."
Shen Yeling clenched his fists, he glanced at Xu Man, then at Zhou Ling, and finally lowered his head to show his confusion about the future, but his tone still remained determined: "Well, I'll raise it."
Zhou Lin got Shen Yeling's answer, and called Zhang Changxin out like crazy to let him see if his junior brother was sick, and the room was empty with Xu Man and the burden on the table, as well as Shen Yeling in front of him.
Shen Yeling had actually thought about it a long time ago, he couldn't watch Xu Man give birth to the child by himself and look too much like his mother, and he couldn't watch the child be born like this and become the second sixteen, so it was better to marry Xu Man and give her a home, so that their mother and son would be safe.
So he was young and energetic at that time, and after nine years, he was mature and steady, and his promise to Xu Man has not changed with the ups and downs of these nine years.
Now Xu Man has gradually become no longer as crying as before, because she is no longer the beauty she was back then, and what has accumulated over time in her is showing a bit of maturity, and this maturity is what she said to accept her fate.
She pretends not to care about the outside world's comments on her every day, pretends not to care about the strange way the disciples around her think of her, and pretends to be indifferent in front of others.
So every time I walked in front of Xu Man's door, I could always hear a beautiful singing voice, and then there was a burst of clapping, which was taken by Zhang Shangzhi and Xu Ruliang, Shi and Duan Changqing, a new character.
They had just finished listening to a song from Xu Man's big drum book, and Xu Man was originally going to sing it to the four fragrant aunts, but those aunts always didn't come, so she had the strength to sing it to a few people close to her.
Xu Man is fortunately not lonely, at least he can get the sincerity of a few of them. They were worried that Xu Man would not be able to think about it, so they took turns to stick to Xu Man day and night.
So sometimes on a whim, she will sing songs to them, tell stories from the past, and have time to paint Hua Dan makeup for Duan Changqing.
I saw Duan Changqing holding a chair alone, making a face opposite Xu Man on the bed, closing his eyes with a look of enjoyment, and letting Xu Man paint Hua Dan makeup on his face.
Waiting for the painting to be finished, he looked carefully in the mirror, watched the makeup Xu Man painted for him, and praised him with a kind of praise: "This makeup painting is really fine, it looks better than my painting, and it is almost close to what Boss Shen painted."
Xu Man just pursed his lips and smiled faintly, the days have changed these days, and even the apprentices who insisted on letting him paint his face before did not come to the door to ask her to paint.
So he simply drew a face for Duan Changqing, and Duan Changqing, who looked satisfied after removing his makeup, was ready to say goodbye to Shen Yeling, and then went out to leave.
He saw it with his own eyes, how could Xu Man be as unsightly as he thought outside, she was gentle and kind, and she was still a good wife of Shen Yeling, which Xunyang people never could see.
Duan Changqing, with the resentment in his chest for Xu Man, decided that he must help them, help Shen Yeling, and use all the good of his ten layers.
After Duan Changqing left, there was another shouting of stones in Xu Man's house: "Master, give me the scissors quickly, it's dangerous", and then snatched the scissors that Xu Man was holding tightly, and put them behind his back to prevent her from taking them again.
Xu Man pushed his hand and explained: "I'm not as serious as you think, I don't want to commit suicide." Then they said kindly that they wanted to cut the thread on their quilt with scissors, but they misunderstood it as suicide.
Xu Man smiled casually, acting more than them, but after laughing, the tears in her eyes flowed unconsciously, and she continued to cry like the pear blossoms with rain back then, full of grievances and pain.
At that time, outsiders said that she was the eldest lady, and then she became dignified and virtuous, but now outsiders say that she is a geisha, and when she enters the door, she is humbled to the dust. There are still people who say that he is indecent, and she has broken other people's children behind her husband's back, and she has no choice but to break her teeth and swallow it in her stomach, knowing that she can't swallow it now, the tears of indisputability slipped down, and she also put down her disguise, leaving only crying.
The stone looked at Xu Man who was fine, but this cry came like a hot summer rain. He found the wording to comfort Xu Man for a while, put away the scissors stupidly, and put away the mirror by the way, there was nothing to make Xu Man look for death, and slowly retreated, but one accidentally bumped into the oncoming Shen Yeling.
Shen Yeling leaned against the door and looked at Xu Man for a long time, and seemed to see the scene of Manzhi wiping tears while pregnant with a child. Once again, he took her crying back to heart, but he didn't know if he still had the ability to say what he had said again.
Accustomed to crying, one day Xu Man sat alone in the rocking chair basking in the sun, the winter sun is already pitiful, but she wants to bask under the big tree with the most branches. It's just that the sunlight penetrates the layers of branches and falls sporadically on her face, and I see that her face is full of traces of the reflection of the branches crisscrossing and crisscrossing.
Her head is covered with branches and forks, and her body is also covered with waxy yellow firewood. I saw that the few catties of meat she had just looked like a few days ago had disappeared, and from a distance, she looked like a leather man in a jacket.
Shen Yeling slowly walked in front of her and sat on the chair opposite her, and then she also opened her eyes and sat up, but it seemed to be a bit laborious for her, her waist was injured, and her body was weak, so she struggled twice but didn't struggle, so she had to wait quietly to lie down.
Shen Yeling sat down steadily, he hadn't slept well these days, just being troubled by these people outside, his whole face was haggard: "If you feel that it is difficult, I can send you south, and then choose a house with good scenery for you to live in, and send two or three servants to you, you can rest assured that no one knows you there, you can still calm down and recuperate, you can just treat everything here as a nightmare."
Xu Man looked at Shen Yeling, and then looked at his own body bones, the last time she cried and asked Shen Yeling to marry her, now she cried out and asked Shen Yeling to send him away. She shook her head: "I know what you mean, Erlang, it's just that I was abandoned when I was pregnant with the child of the Xu family's man, and it was Erlang who unswervingly left me behind and gave me the name that I have always cherished, and since then I have sworn that I can't leave you."
She half-hung her slightly tired eyes, Mu Guang showed a persistent and unyielding demeanor, her whole body was empty, but her fists were clenched, as if to tell Shen Yeling that she was resolute in staying, and that she was very good not to worry.
Shen Yeling finally knew what Xu Man said to herself that day, 'If she is a prostitute, then she can only accept her fate', it seems that she is really ready to accept her fate.