028. Dowry

He threw me to the ground, turned around and stood up and said: "He is just a cheap life, you are raised by me with so much effort, how can you be compared to him, you give me a good reflection here, and then come out after the reflection is clear!" ”

Then he left the room, and I cried so hard in the back that I wanted to rush out, and I wanted to continue to plead with him, but I didn't even touch a corner of his clothes, and I was slammed shut in the room by the door.

Zhou's mother's pleading voice was still heard outside, but no one paid attention to her.

He's going to kill Song Ol, I know, I know him better than anyone else, and this time it's really non-negotiable.

I cried day and night in my room, I smashed everything in the room, I screamed, I screamed, I begged him to let him go, but there was no response, I was like I was locked up on an empty island, and no one paid attention to me.

Later, I couldn't even cry, I just leaned on the door and knocked on the door, and said in a hoarse voice: "Open the door, Mother Zhou, you open the door for me." ”

Zhou's mother was crying or crying outside, she told me that the drugged maid had been killed, and she said that letting me protect myself is the most important thing, let me not make trouble, let me be obedient, and let me and Mu Jingchi admit their mistakes.

But I didn't reply to her at all, just banged on the door repeatedly and said, "Mother Zhou, I beg you to let me out, I beg you......"

After that, the door opened, but the person who came in was Wang Shuyi, who was standing at the door with food.

At this time, I was very embarrassed, the clothes on my body were still a few days ago, I had never changed them, my hair had not been combed, my face was full of dried tears, mixed with the makeup that had already been spent, and it was a little miserable.

She looked at it for a long time, and finally sighed, squatted down, squatted in front of me, and said, "Miss, eat something." ”

I ignored her and just said, "Let me see Mu Jingchi." ”

Wang Shuyi said: "My husband is not at home, even if I want to see him, I have to wait for him to come back at night." She helped me up and said, "You haven't eaten for three days, what is the matter with your body, eat as much as you want." ”

Before I could stand still, I pushed her hard, and the food she was holding flew out of her palm and flew against the wall, and I shook my body and looked at her with red eyes, "I don't want you to care." ”

Wang Shuyi was not angry, she just walked over silently, picked up all the debris in the ground, and packed up all the food, she stood up again and said to me: "You are just asking for hardship like this, then Song Yu is dead, it is useless to cry and shout, I warned you early in the morning." ”

She turned around to leave, and I tried to hold her back, but before my fingers touched her skirt, my eyes turned black, and she fainted.

When I woke up from my sleep, Zhou's mother was sitting next to me, she was wiping her tears and looking a lot haggard.

I tried to speak, but found that the syllables were hoarse.

Zhou's mother cried and asked, "What do you think, Miss?" ”

I said weakly, "Water...... Water ......"

Zhou's mother understood, and immediately picked up the water on the side and fed it to me, and when the cold liquid invaded my throat, I said the first sentence completely: "What about him?" ”

Zhou's mother said, "Mr. is not home again. ”

I lowered my eyes, and after a while, I asked, "Has he ever come to see me?" ”

Zhou's mother didn't speak, I knew what it meant, so I stopped talking.

Seeing this, Zhou's mother comforted me and said, "My husband is not very well these days. She stroked my head: "My poor young lady, why are you so stubborn, is the gentleman not good to you?" You want to do such a thing to make him sad, you don't know, my husband vomited blood yesterday, why do you bother? ”

I closed my eyes and said, "Mother Zhou, I don't know. I cried and said, "I don't know, but he doesn't believe me." ”

Zhou's mother said: "I know, I know, I believe in you, I believe you are." ”

But she believed that I was useless, useless, useless.

I talked to Zhou's mother for a while, and I fell asleep again, very tired, and my whole body was up. I don't know how long I slept, I felt someone coughing in the room, and when I opened my eyes, he was sitting next to me, thinly dressed, with a handkerchief in his hand and his lips covered.

He noticed my gaze and looked up at me, his face was very pale, and his lips were even darker.

Soon, though, he wiped the corner of his lower lip and asked me with a familiar smile, "Awake?" ”

I didn't want to pay attention to him, I just turned my back to him.

He also expected that sitting there did not disturb me, I lay on my side, silently weeping, those hot tears slipped silently into the pillow, the fabric against my skin, it was so cold.

At this time, Wang Shuyi walked in and whispered in Mu Jingchi's ear, "Sir, it's time to take medicine." ”

Mu Jingchi coughed twice and said, "Wait a little longer." ”

Wang Shuyi could only retreat.

Immediately after that, he pulled the cotton on my body and pulled it on my chin, and he asked, "Are you hungry?" ”

I didn't speak, I closed my eyes.

Mu Jingchi coughed twice more, and when Wang Shuyi saw this, she walked up again and said, "Sir, let's take medicine first." ”

He sighed, mumbled, and left the room.

After that, Zhou's mother walked in again and whispered beside me, "Drink some porridge." ”

I moved my eyelids, opened my eyes, and asked Zhou's mother, "Is he okay?" ”

Mother Zhou saw that I was asking about Mu Jingchi's situation, so she replied with a smile: "It's okay, it's a little more stable today." ”

Zhou's mother helped me get up from the bed, and after I drank a few mouthfuls of porridge, I asked Zhou's mother: "Where is Song alcohol?" ”

Zhou's mother hurriedly replied: "I just killed the maid's cane, but the rest is not." ”

I was a little incredulous and asked, "Really?" ”

Zhou's mother said, "It's true." ”

I don't know why, I was relieved, I remembered something, I hurriedly touched my body, and finally felt the handkerchief embroidered with bamboo from the pocket of my pajamas, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Mother Zhou has been with me for a long time, so she can guess my thoughts, she said: "I know that you embroidered for Mr., so when you change clothes, put them in your pocket for you." ”

She whispered, "Do you want to give it to Mr. now?" ”

I shook my head and said, "No, it's not for him, it's my own." ”

I spent the next few days lying in bed to recuperate, and Mu Jingchi occasionally came to see me a few times, but the two of us didn't speak, he just sat for a while and left. I don't know how long this situation lasted, after such a scene, Mu Jingchi didn't seem to be grounding me anymore, one day I saw that the sun was just right outside, and the snow didn't know when it stopped, so I asked Zhou's mother to help me go downstairs to the living room to sit.

But when I walked downstairs, I saw Mu Jingchi sitting on the sofa at a glance, I turned around and wanted to leave, so he whispered: "I haven't been out of the room for many days, come and sit with me." ”

There was a fireplace burning in the room, and the tea boiling on the table made a gurgling sound, and the white air was rising and falling in the light.

Zhou's mother pushed me and signaled me not to be angry, and then I was helped down by her, and when I arrived in the living room, Zhou's mother took me to sit down next to Mu Jingchi.

He poured me a cup of tea, and when he saw that I was pale, he asked, "How do you feel today?" ”

I said, "That's good." ”

Mu Jingchi said: "You are old now, I can't keep an eye on you all the time, you have to know how to take care of yourself." ”

He was so strange during this time, he always said something like this, and some time ago, he was a female red, and it was the same, it seemed to remind me that the older I get, the more strict I will be?

I didn't speak, holding the cup of tea he handed me and blowing the hot air in it.

Mu Jingchi asked again: "Eighteen this year, right?" ”

I didn't look up at him, I just took a sip of tea and said, "Don't you know?" ”

He laughed, added some firewood to the stove where the tea was boiled, and said, "People as old as you say that they are married." ”

I had a sigh in my heart, I always felt that Mu Jingchi had something to say today, I raised my eyes to look at him and asked, "What?" Do you want to marry me? ”

I originally just asked casually, but who knew that Mu Jingchi didn't deny it, but he didn't say yes, his eyes fell on the bright red coke and said: "You didn't think it was young before, but now I feel more and more that I am getting old, but you are growing up day by day, at the speed that I can't catch up, I always think, if the time is slower, slower, it will be good." ”

Maybe I've been with him for a long time, I don't think he's old, only thirty years old, just the most glorious age of a man, but his tone reveals an old age and sigh that I can't understand.

I thought he was weird today, so I took a sip of the tea in my cup and said, "I'm a little tired and want to rest." ”

He didn't keep it, and asked Zhou's mother to help me go up to rest and take care of me.

After Zhou's mother took me back to the room, I uncovered the quilt and was just about to go to bed, but I always felt that Mu Jingchi's words were wrong, and I was a little tempting.

I said to Zhou's mother, "Do you think his words are strange?" ”

Zhou's mother tucked the quilt for me and said, "What's wrong?" ”

I couldn't say it, so I shook my head and said, "No, maybe I'm thinking about it." I suddenly thought of another thing and asked Zhou's mother: "By the way, why do women want to learn from women?" ”

Zhou's mother replied casually: "Embroider a wedding dress for yourself." ”

I pushed Zhou's mother from the head of my bed with my backhand, and rushed out of the room without wearing shoes, Zhou's mother didn't know what was going on, she chased her out behind and asked, "Miss!" What's wrong?! ”

I ignored her, just looked for her in a panic in the living room, and Mu Jing, who was still sitting there making tea, was gone.

No, there must be something wrong, he must be planning something, what he said to me today, he asked me to learn to be a girl, he took me to Yuan's house, I rushed to the door of his study in one breath, and was just about to push open the door, Wang Shuyi's sentence: "The Yuan family set the marriage on the day of the Lantern Festival, and the dowry list was also sent, do you want to take a look......" was lost in my opening of the door.

Everyone in the room looked sideways at me.

My eyes fell on the booklet that Wang Shuyi was holding, I rushed over and snatched it from her hand, which was the Yuan family's employment, all the dowry gifts, all kinds of gold, silver and jewelry, and real estate title deeds.

I looked at him in astonishment: "You're going to marry me?" ”

I laughed out loud and said, "So you're really going to marry me?" ”

Mu Jing didn't expect that I would suddenly break in, he slowly got up from the desk, he seemed to want to speak, but soon he turned his back to me, and finally responded silently.

I looked at Wang Shuyi again, Wang Shuyi lowered her head, and the silence in the room, that is, it was true, everything became true, I didn't guess wrong.

I laughed out loud, took a few steps back, my eyes fell on his indifferent back, and suddenly I realized: "You let me learn to be a girl, what you just said turned out to be true......"

Mu Jingchi said: "Eighteen, it's time to marry someone, instead of letting you mess with people at a reckless age, it's better for me to choose a good family for you." He turned to me and said, "You've grown up, and you're not a good fit for me." ”

I sat down on the ground, staring at it all in a daze, his face so cold in the light, so cold that it made me feel creepy, and the pamphlet fell out of my hand, rolled around the ground twice, and finally settled on the list of dowries on that side.

Zhou's mother rushed over, she wanted to help me up, she cried and said, "Miss, don't be like this, you get up first, you get up!" ”

I cried and laughed, like crazy, no matter how Zhou's mother helped me, I just sat stupidly like that, and I didn't have any strength in my body.

He walked up to me, wiped my tears from my eyes, and said, "This will always be your home, as I had every time I had a little temper with him." ”

I moved my eyelids to look at him and asked suspiciously, "Home?" I grabbed him by the collar with trembling hands and roared with all my strength and asked, "My home!" Wasn't it ruined by you?! ”

I cried and said, "I had no home when I was seven years old!" Both my parents are dead! My sister died on your wedding day with her! Where do I still have a home, I don't have a home, is this my home? Is this my home?! ”

I pushed him away, like pushing away the devil, and said, "No, this is not my home, I'm leaving, I'm leaving here, I'm going abroad, I'm going to find Daddy and Auntie." ”

I was crawling in a hurry underground, and he took me in his arms, clasped me in his arms, and comforted me over and over again: "Ono, be good, don't be like this, be obedient, calm down." ”

I tried to break free, but he hugged me too tightly, as if he wanted to insert me into his body, I couldn't break free, and all my strength finally turned into breaking down and crying in his arms, and I shouted in despair: "You said you wouldn't marry me, you said mine!" You can't break your word, you don't break your word......"

Later, what happened later, I don't know, I fainted, I passed out completely, and I hope I never wake up for the rest of my life.

I thought I was different, I thought I could get rid of the sorrow of women in this era, I thought I could make my own decisions in my life, I thought, I thought, everything I thought.

But in the end, I was caught off guard, and I came to this day.

Finally here, this day.