The next day, we returned to Chengdu from Gutao, Feng Cheng did not go with us, he wanted to go to Liaodong to explore clues related to Hou Gong, to see if he could find some clues.

It was already night when we returned to Chengdu, everyone was exhausted, and Tian Ji's whole body was almost on top of me, saying that even if the sky fell, he would sleep for three days, and it was the general who had just arrived at the door of the house in the east of the city.

He rarely came here, and before he could ask him why he was there, when he entered the door, he saw Ye Zhiqiu squatting in the courtyard burning paper, and the ashes of the dark coin were flying in the brazier in front of him, and I saw tears on her face like rain in the firelight.

My heart sank, this time has been running around non-stop, and I forgot about it, no wonder the general said a few days ago that he would not accompany us to Gutao, and now I remember, the general has been glancing at the calendar on the counter, and I know the date he is looking at.

The third day of September.

"Where's the shopkeeper?" My voice was low.

The general didn't say anything and nodded to the house on the east side of the courtyard, that was Ye Jiuqing's room, but he rarely came back, since I came to the Sifang pawnshop, Ye Jiuqing would only lock himself in the room on this day every year.

And one pass is three days, no one is allowed to disturb without eating or drinking, even if Ye Zhiqiu is so arrogant in front of him, he doesn't dare to provoke Ye Jiuqing in these days every year.

That house is Ye Jiuqing's thunder pool, no one is allowed to trespass, including Ye Zhiqiu, I remember when I was a child, I took Ye Zhiqiu to go in and have a look, but Ye Jiuqing found out and slapped Ye Zhiqiu's nosebleed, at that time, Ye Jiuqing was fierce and vicious as if he was going to kill someone, and I still remember his irrepressible anger.

Later, I learned that the third day of September was the death day of Ye Zhiqiu's mother, and I had never heard Ye Jiuqing say anything related to women before we met us, but I could see that Ye Jiuqing was affectionate, and I couldn't understand Ye Jiuqing's sadness, but I understood very well that this woman, who had left him for at least ten years, had never gone far, and had always resided in Ye Jiuqing's heart.

"Leave it to me here, you take the palace lord and Tian Ji back to the pawnshop in the four directions to rest, and stay with the shopkeeper." I said to the general.

"Brother Ye made an old problem again a few days ago, and he has been coughing badly, this level is three days, and if he doesn't eat or drink, I'm really worried about whether he can resist." The general nodded and said to me worriedly. "The shopkeeper said nothing, but he never bothered with you, so he tried to find a way to let the shopkeeper drink the medicine."

Gongjue and Tian Ji probably also knew the severity, and went to the Sifang pawnshop with the general, after they left, I squatted in front of Ye Zhiqiu, and saw her pear blossom crying with rain as painful as when she was a child, wiping away the tears on her face but didn't know how to comfort her.

Growing up with her since childhood, although there is no blood relationship, but also like brother and sister, every year on this day I will be by her side, when I was a child, she was lying on my stomach and crying, and when I was older, I would turn around, lean my head on my back, listen to her sobbing until tears penetrate my clothes, and when I was tired of crying, she leaned on me and fell asleep.

I got up and went to the kitchen to make her a bowl of omelette, Ye Zhiqiu shook her head and asked me to sit with her for a while, I sat next to her, thinking that it had been a long time since I had meditated with her like this, her head slowly leaned on my shoulder, looking at the flames in the brazier, and suddenly felt so peaceful.

"People can't be resurrected after death, how many years have you been, why can't you let it go, your mother will not feel at ease when she sees you like this." I took the paper money from her hand and slowly added it to the brazier.

"I'm not worth it because of my mom, if it weren't for my dad, she would still be alive by now." Ye Zhiqiu's voice choked.

"I was afraid that you would be sad before, and I never asked about your mother, what happened?" I put my arm around her shoulder and patted her. "It's not that I'm talking about you, I've been looking at things for more than ten years, the shopkeeper treats you as a treasure, and everything depends on you, you just don't know the blessing in the blessing, no wonder the shopkeeper said that you are the enemy of the previous life, you are so old, you should also be considerate and considerate of him."

"He owes my mother, and now he can't pay my mother, so he wants to make up for it on me, who is rare, if he keeps to himself, I won't be without a mother since I was a child." Ye Zhiqiu did not relent.

"The shopkeeper is affectionate, your mother has been gone for so many years, and the shopkeeper can't let it go, he is estimated to be more uncomfortable than you, the shopkeeper pulls you hard, I don't expect you to share the family under your knees, I just hope that you are safe and sound, what about you, have you had a good eye for him over the years?" I said to Ye Zhiqiu in a flat voice. "If I were the shopkeeper, I would have married you off earlier, and I would be upset to look at it, I really don't know where his patience came from has been worn out by you for more than ten years."

"You're so looking forward to me getting married?" Ye Zhiqiu straightened up from my shoulder, wiped away the tears on his cheeks, and bit his lip and asked aggrievedly.

"Nonsense, with your temperament, who dares to ask for it, even if a fool marries you, it may not be treated by others." I smiled playfully. "But don't worry, whoever dares to treat you badly in the future, my brother will break his leg and bury it with his own hands, and our mother's family is not no one."

"Gu Chaoge......" Ye Zhiqiu stood up with a face full of anger, stared at me speechless, turned around indignantly and walked out of the house.

I was stunned in place, and I didn't say anything wrong before thinking about it, I was really pampered by Ye Jiuqing, I got angry at every turn, and I was a very well-behaved girl when I was a child, but now that I have grown up, I don't know what she is thinking at all.

cough cough cough ......

Ye Jiuqing's difficult and rapid cough came from the room, this was his old problem for decades, and when the general left, he asked me to find a way to let Ye Jiuqing drink the medicine.

I went back to the kitchen to fry the medicine, and when it was not hot, I brought it to the door of Ye Jiuqing's room, and saw that there was still a cold meal outside.

"How old you are, you have to know in your heart, not to persuade you to drink medicine, not to think about yourself and Zhiqiu, if you have three long and two short, she will not be able to stand it." Knocked lightly on the door, and after speaking, he put the medicine by the door.

"Chaoge." When I turned around, I heard Ye Jiuqing coughing and calling me. "You come in."

I was stunned for a moment, I have been here for more than ten years, I have done everything, but I didn't dare to think of entering this room, I hesitated for a moment at the door or pushed the door in, the light was not turned on in the room, there was a strong smell of wine, and in the dim light I saw Ye Jiuqing's lonely face.

He held a glass of wine in his hand, shaking it, half of it was spilled on the table, no matter how he looked at him, he looked like a drunkard, not the powerful scoop handle rumored outside.

This is the first time I have walked into Ye Jiuqing's room, which is simply furnished but well arranged, but it is covered with thick dust.

I stepped forward and put the medicine in front of him, Ye Jiuqing glanced at it, raised his head and drank the wine, and began to cough violently again, but his hand reached out to the wine bottle again, and I saw that he had drunk a lot of everything on the ground.

I snatched the wine over, and said in an accentuated tone: "If you want Danfan to be five years younger, I absolutely don't care about you, you are a person with half of your body in the soil, don't toss, just think about Zhiqiu." ”

"Let go." Ye Jiuqing was full of alcohol, but his voice was still majestic.

"If you want to drink it, you're in the same mood now." I held on tightly and pushed the medicine in front of Ye Jiuqing. "I'll drink with you, you drink medicine, I'll drink."

Ye Jiuqing didn't know if he didn't have the strength or didn't want to fight with me, his hand slowly let go and looked at the medicine in front of him, suddenly smiled coldly, trembled and picked it up, and fell to the ground without a drop.

"I don't want to live for a long time, if it weren't for Zhiqiu, why did I hold on until now, it would be better to close my eyes and be quiet, I promised her mother to take good care of her, otherwise...... I had thought about going down to accompany her. ”

Ye Jiuqing coughed so badly that his waist was arched, and he took care of his majestic appearance, and now in my eyes, he was just a depressed and old man, I walked up to him and patted him on the back.

"How easy it is to die, it's over as soon as you close your eyes, it's hard to live, you're not an ordinary person, don't say anything that makes me look down on you, Zhiqiu is sad enough, don't let her come back and see you like this, I'll go and boil medicine for you again......"

"You were brought back here by me when you were seven years old, what could I ask of you in the past ten years?" Ye Jiuqing suddenly asked with a serious face.

"Nope." Not only did he not ask me to do anything, except for teaching me skills with others, he didn't even care about me about other things, think about it, Ye Zhiqiu was used to being coquettish by her, and I was arrogant by his connivance.

"When I was still the shopkeeper, everything was done today, and I sat down to drink with me."

...... "I wanted to persuade again, but Ye Jiuqing never begged anyone, and it was the first time I heard a helpless plea in his words." Cheng, since the shopkeeper has spoken, I will listen, but you have to drink the medicine after drinking. ”

Ye Jiuqing nodded, I sat down again, poured him wine, Ye Jiuqing didn't move for a long time, and suddenly his voice was melancholy and low: "When I met Zhiqiu's mother, I was younger than you now, and at that time I was still a grave robber......

Ye Jiuqing said as he took out a handkerchief from his body, and uncovered it layer by layer, and there was a yellowed photo inside, his eyes were full of tenderness and incomparable affection, and finally put the photo in front of me.

The photo is a young woman, I can recognize this as Ye Zhiqiu's mother at a glance, the two look too similar, and Ye Zhiqiu's appearance can be vaguely seen between the eyebrows, this is the woman who has not let Ye Jiuqing put down for decades.

I know why he doesn't allow anyone to come to this room, presumably every grass and tree here still has traces and bits and pieces of this woman in the photo, so that Ye Jiuqing didn't dare to step into this room, for fear of touching the scene and remembering the past, he would only come back when this woman died, although yin and yang are separated, but presumably in Ye Jiuqing's heart, that woman has never been far away.

"I heard Zhiqiu say that her mother's death was related to you, what happened that you and Zhiqiu couldn't mind for so many years?" I asked.

"At that time, I was young and vigorous, and I emerged at a young age in this industry, who doesn't want to become famous at a time, but I don't know that I understand until I am old, wealth is like floating clouds, simplicity is gold, but unfortunately I don't know how to chase fame and fortune at all, this house was bought by me at that time, you must know that I was only nineteen years old at the time." Ye Jiuqing picked up his wine glass, and his voice was as gloomy as that of others. "Zhiqiu's mother is beautiful and wise, and her temperament is much better than Zhiqiu, I Ye Jiuqing should be content to have such a woman in my life, she persuaded me to stop, but I thought about working a few more times to make enough money, but after all, I didn't listen to her advice, and the result was ......"

Ye Jiuqing closed his eyes and sighed heavily, was silent for a long time, and then raised his head and drank all the wine in the cup, I didn't interrupt him, and poured him full of wine, knowing that he was uncomfortable in his heart, but he just wanted to get drunk and relieve a thousand sorrows.

"As a result, I went to a big tomb, at that time, Zhiqiu's mother tried her best to dissuade me from going, I didn't listen to her to wait at home, who knew that something went wrong in the tomb and was trapped in it, the general who stayed outside hurriedly went back to find someone, Zhiqiu's mother knew that I had an accident, worried that I would be in danger, and went to the tomb to save me desperately." Ye Jiuqing's voice became weaker and weaker, and I heard his choking. "I came out, but she didn't...... But it was gone, Zhiqiu was still young at the time, she stood by the grave and asked me, where did my mother go, I couldn't answer, Zhiqiu cried and wanted to find my mother, slapping me in the face one after another, and my heart was dripping blood at that time. ”

I didn't know what to say after listening to it for a long time, no wonder the estrangement between the father and daughter was so deep, Ye Zhiqiu blamed her mother's death on Ye Jiuqing, and Ye Jiuqing has been carrying lingering shackles and regrets for decades.

I sighed silently, poured wine for myself, and served it in front of Ye Jiuqing.

"I won't advise you today, I'll accompany you as much as you want, and you don't have to think about anything when you're drunk."