Chapter 164: Asking for Forgiveness
"But no, even if I don't cry or make trouble, I listen to everything he says, and I can't make him like me much. When I pestered him, he often kicked me away. Later, he became an alcoholic. It is said that once, when he came back from drinking outside, it happened that the Shengshang Weifu came to look for him, he was not there, and his mother and the housekeeper entertained him, and when he came back, he saw his mother offering tea for the Shengshang, so he stepped forward to knock over the teacup, and poured the hot tea in the teapot on his mother. The Holy One was furious and punished him for a year's wages, and he had no money to eat and drink, so he whipped his mother and asked her for a dowry to buy wine and drink. When I was a child, all my memories were of my mother being beaten and bruised, hiding in bed and crying secretly. The maids and sons brought by the mother from her mother's house were all sold by the father. There is not even a person in the house who can help my mother. So I started practicing hard when I was four years old, and I just wanted to grow up and become strong as soon as possible, so that I could protect my mother and not be abused by my father again. When I was eight years old, my mother secretly boiled me a red birthday egg, but my father found out that he snatched the egg, trampled it to pieces, pushed my mother to the ground, and punched and kicked her. I couldn't help but step forward and confront him. Only then did he suddenly realize that I had grown up, knew that I had resisted, and that I had the power to resist. I told him that if he dared to hit my mother again, I would fight him! Hehe! β
Li Xuanyi sneered, "I later learned that I was still naΓ―ve at that time. He finally stopped beating his mother, but took back one room after another of concubines, and a large group of warblers and swallows in King Rong's mansion were so lively. My mother was depressed all day long, and even though I studied diligently and practiced hard, it was still difficult to make my mother happy. As I grew up, I started to hear some gossip. I finally understood what my father's displeasure, my holy grace, and the strange way others looked at me...... Once, in front of me, someone scolded me for being a wild seed, and when I turned around, the person was found wrong by the saint and cut off his head. I no longer feel that the grace of God to me is a good thing. I ran back to my mother and asked her if she was sorry for her father. Whose son am I? My mother burst into tears at my questioning, and let me scream as hard as I could, but she didn't say anything. When I woke up the next day, I saw that my mother had committed suicide by hanging herself. When I hugged her down, her body was already cold and hard, I called her, she couldn't look at me anymore, she couldn't touch my head anymore and said, Xuanyi is amazing! You can't secretly hide food for me anymore, and you can't cook birthday eggs for me anymore. She left me a letter full of her apologies to me. She said that she didn't want to, she didn't want me to bear the talk of others, and she didn't want me to carry the dirt of the world at a young age. She had never done anything to be sorry for her father. She had never seen the saint in the East Palace, and later she found out that the saint would watch her from a distance and guard her from a distance when the crown princess invited her to go, until she left. After she found out, she refused to go to the East Palace again. β
Li Xuanyi's voice paused for a while before he slowly exhaled a breath.
"She died, and I sat for a long time with her cold body. I killed her. I shouldn't have questioned her. Even if everyone doesn't believe her, I shouldn't doubt her. β
Liang Yan reached out and hugged Li Xuanyi tightly.
She never knew that Li Xuanyi, who seemed to be infinitely beautiful on the surface, would have such a childhood.
His childhood memories are filled with domestic violence, gossip, and the shadow of his mother's suicide. In such a dark growth environment, it is really rare for him to grow up well without being crooked.
Liang Yan's face was cold, she raised her hand to touch it, and she didn't know when she had burst into tears.
"Okay, it's all over...... It's all gone......"
She caressed his back slowly.
Li Xuanyi also hugged her tightly, "You're going to laugh at me, right?" Laugh at me for being so stupid and naΓ―ve, and I would actually want to use the method of asking to marry a princess to prove my mother's innocence? β
Liang Yan nestled on his shoulder, shook her head incessantly, and felt sorry for him.
Li Xuanyi chuckled, "Mother is gone, and my father has never believed her." The only one who can prove this clearly and can prove this is the saint. I have always naively told myself that as long as I marry the princess, as long as the saint agrees to give marriage, then the rumors that have been added to my mother for so many years will be self-defeating, and the humiliation that my mother has borne for so many years will be washed away. β
Liang Yan's heart was overflowing with sourness, she used to think that he was a child who was spoiled by the Holy Grace, but now she knows that he was born noble but grew up in the discussion and white eyes of others. Without fatherly love, there is no warm home. How desperate should he be when he watched his mother being whipped and abused by his father, holding his mother's cold corpse? The only person who was good to him in the house was gone......
The divine grace that others could not ask for was a great burden to him.
Without the grace of God, he might not have lived today. But with the grace of the saint, it can only make it more embarrassing and difficult for him to obtain.
Liang Yan sighed, wiped away the cold tears on her face, and hugged him tightly.
"With me with you in the future, don't be afraid of any gossip, your mouth grows on others, let them say what they like! The dead are gone, and the living will live. β
Li Xuanyi nodded, "Yes, before I met you, I had been living in the past." After meeting you, I dared to look up at the future, dare to fight for the future, and look forward to the future. β
"Yes, people can't just live in the past! Look forward, stride forward, and when you look back, you have no regrets! Liang Yan nodded.
"Grandma...... "Grandma" he reached out and hugged her tightly, sniffing the fresh fragrance in her hair, "I feel a lot more relaxed." β
Liang Yan nodded, "I feel like I'm getting a lot closer to you, I used to think that you were far away and unreal, but now it's even more real." β
Li Xuanyi was above her head and laughed sullenly.
Liang Yan suddenly said: "Is King Rong always drunk?" β
Li Xuanyi nodded, and the mention of King Rong made his face sink slightly.
"King Rong is so drunk, and he didn't go to the banquet tonight, but the news is known very quickly!" Liang Yan sighed.
Li Xuanyi snorted lightly, "Someone must have reported the news." Do you think I'm still at his mercy now? I don't even want his title of King Rong! How can you be controlled by him now?! β
Liang Yan nodded, her heart was heavy, and she still pretended to be Li Xuanyi's heavy past. It is estimated that it will take a while for her to settle this matter in her heart.
"I won't let go, Grandma, no matter what obstacles are in front of me, I won't let go. I've seen it clearly, I'm not dwelling on the past, I just want to have your future. Li Xuanyi looked at her tightly in the moonlight and said.
Liang Yan hooked the corners of her mouth and nodded heavily, "I know, I believe in you!" β
Liang Yan looked up at the moon, and was about to joke that this was an oath in the moonlight, when she suddenly remembered Lin Sanniang who was waiting at home.
"Oops! It's not too early! Auntie, she is still waiting for me at home, she has been hit again and again, and now she is just holding on to her spirit and putting all her thoughts on me. I won't go so late, I'm afraid she'll be worried again! β
When Li Xuanyi heard this, he flew down the roof with her, "Don't worry, I'll send you back." β
There is a celebration banquet tonight, and after the curfew, the doors of the street are closed two hours later.
The carriage was delayed, but I was afraid that if I didn't run back, the door of the shop would be closed, so Li Xuanyi directly asked people to lead a fast horse out. hugged Liang Yan and flew on the horse.
The two of them rode on horseback, galloping in the night wind.
Her back was pressed against his warm chest, and she was unusually stable and steady, and although the horse was flying on all four hooves and running fast, she only felt the refreshment of the style that came to her face.
There is no fear in her heart, it is not that she is skilled in horsemanship now, but that the people behind her make her willing to rely on.
Li Xuanyi finally rushed to the square where the medicine garden was located before the door was closed.
Many families in the workshop have already slept.
The two did not gallop again, but dismounted and held the reins, and slowly walked on the bluestone road in the middle of the market.
When I came to the door of Liang Yan's house, I saw that the lights were still on in the courtyard.
"It feels good to have someone waiting for you." Li Xuanyi said softly.
When Liang Yan heard this, she remembered his huge but deserted Shizi Mansion, the Shizi Mansion that had no taste of home at all.
She reached out and took his hand, "In the future, you will wait for me, and I will wait for you, okay?" β
Li Xuanyi chuckled, leaned over and imprinted a warm and long kiss on her forehead, "Okay, let's go in." β
Liang Yan nodded, stretched out her hand and knocked on the door, but the door opened as soon as she pushed it, she turned back to Li Xuanyi and smiled: "A-Niang waited for me, I even forgot to bolt the door!" If the door is locked, you can make do with it in the medicine garden tonight, right? Anyway, there are many houses in the medicine garden! β
Li Xuanyi nodded, "Okay, I'll watch you go in first." β
Liang Yan nodded, and looked at him reluctantly, before closing the door and latching it.
"Auntie, I'm back!" Liang Yan called in, and strode towards the main room with the lights on.
But she didn't hear Lin Sanniang's response, and she couldn't help but be a little worried. It's not that she came back late, so Lin Sanniang did something she couldn't think of, right?
She strode towards the main room, and as soon as her front foot stepped into the threshold of the main room, she was stunned.
Lin Sanniang sat on her knees on the wooden couch, her eyes lowered, her hands hanging in front of her, she couldn't see her expression clearly, and she couldn't guess her mood at this time.
And there was a person kneeling upright in front of her, it was Liang Mingyuan who Liang Yan met in the palace.
Liang Mingyuan heard the voice, looked back, a pair of red eyes, and looked at Liang Yan with great grievance, "Sister ......"
Liang Yan took a deep breath, and wanted to sarcastically say a few words to him, but she was afraid that Lin Sanniang would be sad when she heard it, so she couldn't help but say nothing, stepped forward, and helped Lin Sanniang up, "A-Niang, something is delayed, I'm late to come back, why don't you go to sleep first?" β
Liang Yan didn't expect Lin Sanniang to take care of her, didn't Liang Mingyuan kneel and ignore her?
Unexpectedly, Lin Sanniang patted her hand and said, "A-Niang doesn't worry about you, watching you come back, can you sleep peacefully." It's not early, it's time to go to bed! β
Liang Yan helped Lin Sanniang through the back door of the screen and walked to the backyard.
Liang Mingyuan saw it, immediately stood up from the ground, and chased two steps, "Auntie, sister, I know it's wrong, I came back today, I just ask you to forgive me......"