Chapter Twenty-Eight: Licking the Calf
Zheng Pei tossed the firewood so that the fire burned more vigorously. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Ba Niang and the old woman sat on the bamboo bed, both crying non-stop. The old woman was crying, and she couldn't stop sighing: "My hard-working boy, ......" while Ba Niang leaned on the old woman's arms in a daze, silent.
I don't know how long it took, and the two of them finally stopped crying. Ba Niang slowly sat up straight and held the old woman's hand in her hand.
"I'm relieved to see you." Ba Niang sighed, "Then I don't have anything to worry about." ”
The old woman's eyes suddenly widened, and she asked sharply, "Is it that bastard?" Isn't it? Isn't it? ”
Ba Niang smiled bitterly and did not answer. She lowered her head and said guiltily: "Eminem, I haven't seen you all these years, and I know that you have suffered because of me." ”
The old woman wiped her tears, sighed and said, "Alas, I'm an old woman, and I don't want to do anything anymore, I just hope that you will live well, and I will be content." But," the old woman's tears rolled down her cheeks again, "look at the way you are now, and alas, why are you disobedient?" ”
"Alas, I brought it all upon myself, and now I don't have a chance to regret it." Ba Niang's face was gloomy, and her remorse was not visible.
The old woman had tears in her eyes and asked, "How have you spent all these years?" ”
Ba Niang stared at the starry sky blankly, and her sad look took her back to the past. She sighed, as if telling someone else's story, and said faintly: "Eminem, do you know, back then, because I was a girl, everyone was afraid of me and ignored me. Only he talked to me and amused me. He also knows how to hurt people and loves me very much. You didn't promise us to be together, so I had to run away with him. ”
The old woman wiped away her tears and said, "You were only seventeen at that time, what a young man." ”
"Later, I followed him everywhere, from the city to the countryside, and from the countryside to the mountains. We didn't even have a marriage certificate, let alone a letter of introduction, and we were driven around as a blind stream. But as long as he's good to me, I'm willing. "Ba Niang said very firmly, and I could hear that she did not regret that experience." Once, when we were digging bamboo shoots in the mountains, we dug up some copper coins, and we sold them to buy smoked chicken, and he gave me all the meat and ate the chicken heads and feet himself, and I vowed to let him live a good life at that time. We prayed and found a lot of antiques from the mountains, and slowly he stopped suffering, and he slowly started his own business. Every time he asked me to help him perform spells, I was willing, even to curse those who threatened or hindered him, even if it hurt my own soul, I wouldn't tell him," Ba Niang became a little excited, "I am willing for him. But," Ba Niang paused, her brows bent sadly, "I thought that with money, we should be able to live a good life, but why did he change his mind and leave me?" ”
The old woman stared blankly at the fire, her mind as if she had gone back to the past.
Zheng Pei saw Ba Niang start to hide her face and cry, he also felt aggrieved for what happened to her, and he could understand her determination to sacrifice everything for her family. Because if he can, he is also willing to sacrifice everything to make his mother's life happy.
"Because of the murder, my body was too badly injured to have children." Ba Niang said while crying, her shoulders were still shaking, "I understand him, so I was so happy when he took his son over, I treated his son as if he was my own, to care, to love, I thought that this would make him restrain himself." Twelve years, a full twelve years," Ba Niang's sadness turned into grief and indignation, "I raised his son as an adult, but he never took good care of our mother and mother again, every time he gave me money, every time he was money, everything he did was money, and it was money to go home for the New Year's holiday!" Ba Niang broke away from the old woman's hand, waving her hands angrily, as if she wanted to tear up the money and throw it away, roaring hoarsely, but in the end she still hung her arms weakly, crying sadly, "In the end, he beat me to death for other women, I hate it so much......"
The old woman hugged Ba Niang in her arms again, and cried sadly with her.
This night was a sad night, and Ba Niang and the old woman told each other about the years of each other. Zheng Pei sat on a bamboo chair by the fire and listened silently. It turned out that Ba Niang was the adopted daughter of the old woman and a member of a sect, and the old woman was a leader in the sect and also Ba Niang's master. Because Ba Niang eloped with a man, the old woman was greatly affected, although she did not receive the punishment of the sect, but she could no longer serve in the sect, she could only choose to live in seclusion here, looking forward to seeing Ba Niang again every day. Zheng Pei didn't remember what happened later, he was sleepy and dazed, and he didn't know when he fell asleep, and when he was woken up by the old woman, it was already dawn.