After a pause, he replied: "I don't like to communicate with people, I have hardly been out of the house since I came here, and then some people rumored that I was a fool." [”

Biography is one thing, but after getting married, he pretended to be cute and stupid. I didn't say this, I didn't care, who made me preconceived to see him and inertly assume that he was mentally incomplete.

It's a shame to say, but it wasn't until I first discovered this underground secret room and saw the whole wall of books that I really became suspicious of him. At that time, I didn't say anything, but I was still uncertain, and at the same time, I was vaguely aware that Ah Ping was hiding something from me.

The second question: "What is the relationship between Uncle Mu and you?" ”

Ah Ping: "Master and servant." ”

I hooked the corners of my mouth, and sure enough. So, "What about the widow Liu?" ”

No longer called "mother-in-law", what mother in the world would kneel down with her son? I didn't hear Ah Ping's response for a long time in the past, so I couldn't help but look at the past sarcastically and asked: "What?" Hard to answer? ”

He has not let go of my hand since he sat down by the wall, and then his fingertips gently rubbed my palm prints, and suddenly remembered a sentence: I thought it was fate that made us rub each other's palm prints, but reality proved that the fingerprints were too shallow, and fate was not strong enough.

I can't remember when I saw it in my mind, it suddenly flashed in at this moment, is the encounter with Ah Ping also the arrangement of fate?

"She's my nurse."

I was thinking about it when I suddenly whispered unexpectedly. was stunned for a moment before he reacted, he said that Liu Widow was actually his nursing mother? When you think about it, it seems like that.

The nurse is also a mother, from the details of life can be observed that Ah Ping is very dependent on the widow Liu, the same widow is really caring for Ah Ping, those true feelings can not deceive people, and it is precisely because of this that I have noticed many times that Liu widow is unusual, such as the dispute between the two is always Ah Ping is losing her temper and she compromises for the end, such as the fear she occasionally inadvertently revealed. I don't know this relationship, these unusualness can be explained by a mother who cares too much about her only son, and it all makes sense.

And now that the truth is known, everything is clear.

Uncle Mu is the master and servant, and the widow and wife are mother and son in another sense, and I feel that something is missing. There was a pause in my mind, yes, there was another person, "Is Dr. Jiang also with you?" ”

The corners of Ah Ping's mouth curled slightly, and his tone was a little helpless: "Lan, you are too smart." ”

That's it, the servant, the nurse, Langzhong, plus Ah Ping, this is a complete system. Uncle Mu is responsible for keeping him safe, Widow Liu is responsible for taking care of his daily life, and Lao Langzhong is in case of illness.

As for Apricot, is it a maid? Or a child bride?

I asked in a different way: "Is Xing'er really the granddaughter of Lao Lang?" ”

"She is. But she didn't come with her, Dr. Jiang missed his granddaughter, so he took her over after coming to the village. ”

So neither a maid nor a child daughter-in-law? I was a little relieved at this point, but then a new question came out: "Then why Liu ...... Your nurse wants to do everything possible to arrange for Apricot to enter the door after you marry me? If she liked Xing'er from the beginning, why would she let you marry me? ”

"She didn't arrange it, I wanted to marry you."

I was directly stunned, a little suspicious of my ears, he said that my marriage with him was not arranged by widow Liu, but he proposed to marry me? How is this possible? Ah Niang's Batou Village is separated from this ginkgo village by nearly ten miles, and it takes more than an hour to walk, and he has never intersected, so he shouldn't have proposed this marriage.

Could it be that ...... "matchmaker took a portrait of a girl from a neighboring village and asked you to pick it?" ”

He shook his head lightly, his eyes fixed on me, his hand tightly clenched.

"And how did you know about me?"

In this era, men and women mostly get married by the words of matchmakers and the orders of their parents, and it is almost impossible to fall in love freely, not to mention that I had a Jin Aniu as a lover before him.

His dark eyes were as deep as a pool of ink, and there was no end in sight, he lowered his eyes and bit the words lightly: "You really forgot me." ”

His heart skipped a beat, and his reaction meant that I had really known him? But the memories are completely unimpressive.

If it was something else, I could still ask directly, but I was weak in my own mind about things related to memory, and I was afraid that Alain had crossed paths with him before I came, and how could I know? If he is really a stupid boy or can fool around at will, but this kid is not only stupid, but also shrewd, and he has been calculated by him for most of the year.

After thinking about it for a while, I had to say vaguely: "Maybe it's been too long." ”

The longer his eyes were fixed on my face, the more bottomless my heart became, and finally he lowered his eyes and nodded: "It was indeed a long time ago." It seems to be a little lonely and regretful, and it confirms my previous guess, it turns out that Alan and Ah Ping have really had entanglements, and I don't know what makes him miss it all the time, and he still thinks about marriage in the past many years, but he doesn't know that the person who met him at the beginning has replaced his soul and become me.

A little bit ...... The feeling of providence making people, is it counted, doves occupy the magpie's nest?

I don't want to think about this question anymore, and I turned back to the present, since marrying me is not the meaning of widow Liu, it makes sense for her to want Xing'er to enter the door in the back. Her dislike for me was laid from the day she entered the door, Ah Niu's snatching of relatives, Xi Po's fanning of the flames, and later Ah Ping's repeated disputes with her for me, whether it was from her own position or Ah Ping's position, I am afraid that there are thousands of things that are not in my body, and I will not be able to enter her eyes again.

With Ping's heart shifting in my favor because of my arrival, she is desperate to find someone to regain her balance, and that person is Xing'er. Lao Lang's own granddaughter, who knows the roots, has a sweet mouth, is capable of housework and can serve people, these are all highlights in the eyes of the widow Liu, and the most important point is that she can master it.

After sorting out the cause and effect of this incident, I can't let go of it, but I can understand it a little. Then only the most current matter is still in doubt: "Last time you said that your grandfather sent those two people to call you back, is this true?" ”

Seeing him nod, he asked, "Then why did both of them kneel in front of you just now?" I want to persuade you to go back? ”

"They want to persecute me in the name of my father."

Hearing this, I couldn't help but be stunned: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Do you think it's me who kneel to them? They knelt on my father's tablet to warn me that filial piety should come first. ”

I looked at him silently, just now he could have told the truth and continued to choose to conceal it, because the biggest impact on me was to open the wall of the book and see Uncle Mu and Widow Liu kneeling in front of him, and immediately all kinds of thoughts flashed in my mind, all thoughts pointed to them not mother and son! But the truth is that they are actually kneeling on the tablet in the coffin, in order to force Ah Ping to return to where he should be.

This led to something that really made me panic, and I opened my eyes and asked, "Is it that if you go back, it means that you will abandon me?" ”

His hand tightened, and his tone was rare eager: "Lan, I won't." ”

Seeing that I was silent, he turned my face and forced me to look at him, looking at me very seriously and repeating: "Lan, I won't give you up, believe me." ”

I believe, but Ah Ping, if you have been in this village all along, just an ordinary country boy, then I have nothing to fear; But if your roots are never here, even if a moment of stubbornness leaves you behind, one day you will not be able to restrain your wings and return to the place where you should have been. The point is, even you know that that there is no room for me in that big place.

I don't need to say these words, even if Ah Ping denies it now, it doesn't mean that he really doesn't understand. is not a fish in the pool, how can this small world trap him? I seemed to foresee the future, and bitterness crossed my mind.

The two of them sat silently for half the night, and then I was really tired, and leaned against the wall, but he grabbed me in front of me, and surrounded me tightly from behind, and listened to him whisper behind his ear: "Lan, you are my daughter-in-law, no one can separate us." ”

I tugged at the corners of my mouth, trying to pull a smile out but failed, I'm afraid that looking in the mirror my smile is worse than crying.

Overnight, the originally peaceful and occasionally chaotic life has been stretched and distant, but tomorrow it is full of unknowns. But something has changed, and I used to be afraid of the two of them coming back, but now I have learned to wait for that day in peace and silence.

In hindsight, the boat would naturally go straight to the bridge, and I couldn't stop walking because I was afraid of seeing the bridge. Some things don't know how to deal with them until they are really at the time, and all the plans before that are utopian.

Ah Ping looked at me very closely, almost everywhere I went up, he followed him, there was no worry in his eyes, but his behavior said a lot. When the firewood at home gradually ran out, Widow Liu did not send me out to pick dry branches, but contracted it to Uncle Mu to make it. One day, I was sitting in the courtyard, watching Uncle Mu pile up the firewood in the corner one by one, and wondered where he had gotten all this firewood.

Life seems to be back on track, as if nothing happened before. Day by day, so calm that people think that what happened before is an illusion. Although the door is clear in my heart, this is just a façade, but there is no reason to deliberately break it, until one day, the people who should come and those who should not come walk through this door, and all the peace is broken.

On that day, I finally understood that everything was predestined, and fate never let me go, it never wanted to make my life peaceful, and how strong the wind would set off the waves.