Chapter Ninety-Five: Concubines
Yan's mother now has a different yard to live in, and the new yard is smaller, but it is better than seeing things and thinking about people every day, and worrying is heavier.
"I'm here, come and sit down, Yan Rui is not at home today?"
Yan's mother took Li Tianyan's hand, feeling that her hands were still a little cold.
"He is at home, Nan Xiangzhai's account books and lists are all taken to the house to deal with, and now I am not done, I want to accompany my mother." Li Tianyan sat down beside Yan's mother as he spoke.
"You have a heart, I see that your face is a lot better, but why is this hand still so cold?"
Li Tianyan shrank her hand when she heard this, but she was still held in her hand by Yan's mother, she didn't feel cold herself, and Yan Rui never mentioned it, but she liked to hold her hand more and more recently.
"Maybe I came from outside just now, and some wind blew." Li Tianyan replied with a smile.
When Yan's mother saw her say this, except for being a little distressed, she didn't say any more.
The two chatted for a few words, and Li Tianyan began to talk about the meaning of this time: "Mother, I came today, and I really want to get my mother's approval." ”
"What's the matter? You seem to be a little embarrassed, do you have anything to say to your mother? ”
"Mother, daughter-in-law wants to let Yan Rui take a concubine." Li Tianyan looked into Yan's mother's eyes and said.
As soon as these words came out, Yan's mother was immediately stunned, she never thought that they would be so affectionate, and they would come to her and say to her, let Rui'er take a concubine, what about her?
Li Tianyan continued: "While I am still here, let him take a concubine and leave an heir for him, otherwise when I go, he will ...... Mother, you know Yan Rui's temperament, what he does, no one can stop him, with an heir, even if it is not me and him, he will have a memory. ”
Yan's mother heard her words, and also figured it out, if the words were gone, Rui'er's stubbornness, where would she care about anything else, she would only go with the words, and she accepted that the words only had half a year to live, if her son followed...... She couldn't think about it anymore.
Yan's mother was stunned for a while before she said, "Are you really willing to let Yan Rui take a concubine?" When she said this, she also felt a little unbearable, the relationship between the two worlds is not just anyone, how can this love not be deep.
"If you don't want to, how can you come to my mother to mention it, I just don't want to see Yan Rui make him stupid, if I can give him someone who can make him care, it would be great."
Li Tianyan said with a smile, she had been thinking about this for several days, and she only came to tell her mother today, but she was also selfish.
"Rui'er can marry you, which is the luckiest thing in his life." Yan's mother pulled her hand closer, but there were tears in her eyes, I don't know if it was for Yan Rui or the person in front of her.
"Mother, this matter has to be faster, I don't know if my mother can have a favorite woman, don't be rich and noble, look good, but ask for simplicity, good looks, and take care of people." Li Tianyan said and thought of the scene where another person was taking care of Yan Rui next to him in the future.
"What kind of person is good and can take care of people?" Yan Rui walked in and said, "Mother, what are you talking about?" But if you want to find some maids for Brother Qu, he is not small. ”
Yan Rui smiled and moved a round stool to sit next to Tan Yan, he finished the matter as quickly as possible and hurried over.
As soon as she saw Yan Rui and heard his question, she didn't know how to answer for a while, it was difficult to say bluntly and then discuss the matter of taking a concubine for you, but she wanted to wait until her mother prepared everything before telling him, and at that time Yan Rui would not be able to refuse, and she must not say it now.
"That's what you guessed......"
"I'm discussing with you about taking a concubine."
"Mother, how are you?!" Li Tianyan looked at her mother, who spoke with her, but told the truth.
Yan Rui thought that he had heard it wrong, the smile on the corner of his mouth disappeared, and he said, "Mother, what were you talking about just now?" ”
"Zhi'er is like a mother, no matter when this matter is said, he will not agree, and saying it later will only make things bigger, and he will still follow his heart when the time comes, you are a fan of the authorities." Yan's mother ignored her son, but clapped her hand and said first.
Li Tanyan looked at Yan Rui as if he was awake and did not speak.
"Mother, what are you discussing?" Yan Rui saw that his face was sad, and asked again, he seemed to hear the word concubine just now, but he didn't ask clearly, he couldn't believe that this thing would appear in his house and on his body.
Yan's mother looked at him and said, "I want to take a concubine for you, and I came to discuss with me, but I am afraid that you will not agree." ”
"How could I agree to such a thing!" Yan Rui stood up and approached her, looked at her in disbelief and said, "Why?" Why do you think that such a meaningless and impossible thing is impossible? ”
Looking at his somewhat stinged eyes, she tilted her head and said, "How can it be meaningless?" I'm going to die, and when I'm dead, you'll have to find someone to live with, so I'll help you find a ...... Find one that I can also look like. ”
As he spoke, tears fell from the corners of his eyes like rain.
Yan Rui stretched out his hand to wipe the tears off her face for her, he didn't want to see her cry, but no matter how he wiped it, there were still tears on his face.
He looked at her and said, "Don't cry, I know, you think that if I have a child, I won't, I won't go with you as you think, you want me to live well, but even if I have a child, you are gone, I will not live in this world." ”
He thought about it some time ago, and said that he would go to Guanyin Temple to ask for a son, and now he came to his mother to say that he wanted him to take a concubine, just to let himself live well.
But he couldn't do it, he didn't dare to imagine the days when he didn't talk, if she died, he wouldn't live, he had searched all over Hangzhou recently and didn't hear of anything to continue his life.
Yan's mother listened to her son's words and wept on the side.
Li Tianyan reached out to hug him, biting his lip to prevent his crying from being louder, buried his head in his chest, and sobbed quietly.
Yan Rui wrapped her in his arms with one hand, lowered his head and touched her hair.
A choked and dull voice sounded from his chest: "You shouldn't be, you shouldn't be like this, Mother Qu Brother and Nan Xiangzhai all need you, don't do such a thing for me." ”
"Brother Qu is older, he doesn't need me to take care of him, he will take good care of the Yan family and his mother, as for Nan Xiangzhai, if Brother Qu wants to manage it, give it to him, if he is dedicated to studying, he will buy it." He had planned everything in his heart, hugged her and said quietly.
"God is really unfair to us, I have made you wait for me for three hundred years, but why do you still let you live a short life, I am unwilling, unwilling." Yan Rui's eyes were slightly red, and he lowered his eyelids and looked at the people who were close together.
"But after all, let me wait for you, not year after year, day after day under the tree to watch, but unfortunately now even the osmanthus tree is gone, otherwise, you will bury me there again, maybe I can still be by your side again, turn into a breeze, turn into cinnamon, wait for a few hundred years, and be with you, worship and get married." Li Tianyan wiped his tears, looked up at him and said what he was thinking.
Yan's mother had already gone out, she was outside the courtyard, looking at the nearby yard full of plum blossoms, now this month, the plum blossoms have withered, the person who planted the flowers has passed away, and the flowers are gone.