[54] Lost happiness
Standing outside the door, I looked ridiculous in the old woman's outdated faded wedding dress. Everything seems so ironic.
The sound of drums in the Taishi's Mansion came clearly from the open door, creating a festive and peaceful atmosphere.
"The bride is here!"
Standing outside the gate, I heard someone shouting. Through the open door, I saw that the house was full of guests, and I saw the bride in a bright wedding dress walking gracefully......
Dong Zhuo said that he wanted me to be the happiest bride.
The red hijab covered the bride's face, and I couldn't see the amazing and gorgeous new lady in Guo Yan's mouth.
Who is it? Dong Zhuo's ...... Who is it?
Frowning slightly, my heart began to hurt, as if someone had pulled it out of my chest......
I looked at the woman whose face was covered by a big red hijab, obviously in a festive atmosphere, but why could I feel sadness in her body?
Who is she? Could it be that it is connected to my heart? Isn't it me who is ridiculous and sad? My fingertips sank deep into my palms, but I didn't feel any pain.
Is everything fake?
Fifteen years of careful pampering, fifteen years of life and death dependence, that whole box of birthday gifts, that heart-to-heart contract, that unfinished wedding, that pain of life and death, that kind of hopeless search at the end of the world, that reunion that has been bitter and sweet...... All the joys and sorrows, all the love and hatred, all the everything, are ...... Is it fake?
Crawling out of the grave, is it ...... Is it just to witness this scene?
For some reason, my vision was a little blurry.
A crimson robe stung my eyes, and I saw Dong Zhuo's figure. He walked forward quickly, he carefully took the bride's petite hand, and the look in his eyes was happiness that could not be mistaken.
It turned out that his happiness ...... Not only because of me, at least for now, his happiness has nothing to do with me.
I, beyond his happiness.
"Have you seen enough?!" My thoughts were a little dazed, and the impatient angry reprimands on the side failed to wake me up.
Guo Yan didn't look at me again, turned around and walked in.
The big red door slowly closed in front of me. The door separates the two worlds, and at the other end of the door is countless joys and happiness; On this side of the door was my endless despair.
Suddenly awakened, I rushed forward and slammed the heavy door hard.
"Zhong Ying! Zhong Ying! "Pounding on the heavy door, I shouted.
Impossible, impossible, I don't believe it, even if I see it with my own eyes, I still don't believe it.
What would it be like to be abandoned by the person you believe in the most? However, anyone will abandon me, Dong Zhuo won't, I don't believe it! Can anyone tell me what exactly happened? What exactly is going on!
"Take down this crazy woman!" Someone in my ear shouted angrily, my shoulders tightened, and I was grabbed by arms and pushed hard.
Crazy woman? Thinking about my embarrassed appearance at this time, I must be no different from a crazy woman.
"Let go of me." I opened my mouth, biting my lip, feeling a fishy sweet taste in my mouth, and my mind suddenly became much clearer, "Let go of me, I won't make trouble." ”
Shoved by the guards guarding the door, I was thrown across the street with my hair disheveled, and the surprised or disdainful gazes of passers-by seemed to pierce me...... Come to think of it, tomorrow the whole Luoyang City will know that there is an ugly madwoman in a wedding dress who has passed away in Luoyang City.
After living for so long, why do you feel that this winter is particularly cold? It's just early winter, but I'm so cold that my teeth are shivering, and it's so cold that even my heart is frozen...... Sitting on the street, I was so cold that I didn't even have the strength to stand up, and in the face of the crowd of people coming and going, I suddenly thought about a question very seriously.
Next, what should I do? I can't even get into the Taishi's Mansion, what should I do? What do I do with the rest of the time?
This is a very serious question. In the past, my life seemed to be a circle, and Dong Zhuo was the center of my circle. Happiness, or pain, laughter, or tears, all because of that center.
Now, the center of the circle is gone.
So...... In this different time and space, where should I go? Will I go back to my own world? If I go back now, it won't be a perfect ending, I didn't witness Dong Zhuo's death with my own eyes, but I witnessed his happiest moment, at least, I saw happiness on his face, go back now...... I guess that's good, too.
If one day I might leave, then how can I be so selfish to subvert Dong Zhuo's world......
"Ahem......" A light cough sounded in my ears as a long, pale hand reached out to me.
I looked up into a pair of clear eyes.
"Ruoruo." There was unmistakable pity in his clear eyes, and he stretched out his hand to help me up.
"No, I can get up myself." Almost as a reflex, I jumped up with a smile on my face, revived on the spot, patted the dust on my body, and raised my hand to hit his chest hard, "Stinky scholar, long time no see." ”
My expression changed so quickly that my parched lips cracked with that grinning grin, and a faint smell of blood ran through my mouth.
Knocked by me, he took a step back, his face changed slightly, he lowered his head and coughed for a while, and smiled bitterly: "Lighter." ”
"I'm sorry......" shrugged my shoulders, I looked sorry, and then pulled the old wedding dress that was a little loose on my body, "Stinky scholar, look at you, isn't my dress very strange?" I smiled and narrowed, laughing at myself for the embarrassment I was looking like now, trying to ease the strange atmosphere.
"Hmm." According to me, Guo Jia responded lightly.
"yes, yes, I think it's weird." With the look of finding a soulmate, I nodded violently.
Or, acting is my instinct, as long as there is an audience, I will act. Now, Guo Jia is my audience. Therefore, I have become the An Ruo who is three feet thick, invincible to all poisons, and incorruptible to King Kong. Hehe, it's already so miserable, I don't want him to feel like I'm pitiful.
"Huh." I giggled, I didn't even know what I was laughing at. Laughing and laughing, I heard a low, inaudible sigh, but I chose to turn a deaf ear.
"Ruoruo, I've learned to make rouge cakes." Guo Jia changed the topic, his voice was still so clear, but there was a hint of expectation in this clarity.
Rouge cake?
I was about to speak, but a cool voice came from my ears.
"Jingle ......"
My face stiffened slightly, Wang ...... Wang Yun?! The reflex was normal, and I turned around and wanted to run away.
"Don't look back." The hand was grasped, Guo Jia pulled me into his arms, raised his hand and gently pressed the back of my head, and let my face bury in his somewhat thin arms.
I realized that he was much taller than me, but his chest was slightly thin, and he could hardly feel the warmth, and his body was ...... It seems to be getting worse.
"Don't be afraid." He whispered in my ear.
That's when I realized that I was shaking lightly and spinelessly...... The sound of silver chains was getting closer and closer, and I subconsciously tightened Guo Jia's somewhat loose robe.
"Lord Situ." The respectful voice of the guard at the door came from his ears, "The villain will go and report it." ”
That kind of attitude is very different from what I just treated me.
"No need." Wang Yun's voice was still so gentle, and he replied, "Have you ever seen a girl who looks flawed? ”
"A girl with a cripple?" The guards at the door were visibly stunned.
The heart was pounding, and he said, could it be me?
How would he know I wasn't dead? I've just returned to Luoyang City! Sometimes, I almost wondered if he was human, how could he be so ghostly......
"She is the official's righteous daughter Diao Chan, she left the house a few days ago, and the official is very worried, have you ever seen it?" Wang Yun's voice was always calm.
I was terrified.
Wang Yun ...... What the hell is going on? What is he calculating?
"I didn't ...... I haven't seen ......," the guards guarding the door shook their heads in unison.
Why are they lying when they have seen me? After thinking about it carefully, it turned out that they had just treated me badly, but they did not expect that the "handicapped girl" would actually come to find Wang Situ himself, and for them, this woman must be unusually favored, so they did not dare to tell the truth, for fear that I would retaliate in the future.
"That's the case, I won't bother Master Taishi, if there is news, I also hope to tell Situ Mansion, and this official will be heavily rewarded." Wang Yun's faint voice came into my ears.
It wasn't until the sound of the silver chain tapping faded away that I came to my senses.
"Let's go now." Taking my hand, Guo Jia turned around and left.
"Wait a minute, I still have something to do." Hold your feet, I said urgently.
Guo Jia looked back at me: "You can't even enter the Taishi Mansion, what else can you do?" ”
Ignoring his blow, I was thinking about another thing: "Lu Bu's eyes are blind, I brought an antidote, and it must be delivered to him." ”
"Since Wang Yun knows that you have returned to Luoyang, he must know that you will come to find Dong Zhuo, so even if he doesn't find you just now, he will secretly send people to guard here, if you don't leave now, you won't be able to leave." There was clarity in his eyes that saw everything.
Without waiting for me to speak, he pulled me out of the Taishi's Mansion.
I looked back at the heavy door, and felt that something had been dug out of my chest, and I didn't feel any pain, but it was horribly empty.
The streets of Luoyang, the bustling crowd, I sat on the threshold, bored.
"Rouge cake, newly baked rouge cake ......" With wide sleeves, Guo Jia very skillfully began to solicit guests.
I watched Guo Jia make a fire, steam the cake, and then put it on the shelf hot, and began to sell it. When he looked sideways, the thin little hair was grinding, and he was desperate to run forward, turning the stone mill fast.
"Miss, buy a box of rouge cakes." Guo Jia stepped forward with a smile and said to a passing woman, her delicate and pale and slightly shy face made people can't bear to refuse.
Sure enough, the woman's face was slightly red, so she lowered her head and took out money to buy a box of rouge cakes, and left in a hurry with a red face.
Sitting idly in a daze, I realized that I was really wasting my life. I've been living here for more than a month, and I didn't kill the Taishi Mansion to ask for the guilt, nor did I cry, make trouble, and hang myself three times, and publicize Dong Zhuo's evil deeds to the world...... I didn't do anything, I just watched Guo Jia sell rouge cakes every day.
On that day, Guo Jia dragged me all the way out of the Taishi Mansion and became more and more familiar, and finally found out that this was actually the pastry shop I had rented with him. I remember that day at sunset, he smiled at me and said, "I can make rouge cakes too." ”
I'm no stranger to here, this pastry shop was originally my idea, and then I was "robbed" into the palace by a little poisonous tongue, and I only did business for a day, and then I didn't do it. I just didn't expect him to be here all along......
Enter the palace, leave the palace, and enter the palace again...... Until now, I've been busy, tossing and turning, and I don't know what I'm busy with in the end. It's just that he has been taking care of this shop all the time? Keeping this pastry shop and staying where it is?
I reached out and took a piece of rouge cake and put it in my mouth, and immediately raised my eyebrows slightly, although it was not very delicious, but it could be swallowed. Shouldn't scholars believe in the saying that "a gentleman is far away from cooking", how could Guo Jia be born a freak?
"Ruoruo, close the stall." At some point, Guo Jia was already standing in front of me and showing me what he had gained.
In the slender palm is a small bag full of five-baht coins, it seems that Guo Jia's charm index is not low.
I smiled and narrowed my eyes and reached out to him.
Guo Jia stood in place, blinking at me, looking blank.
"Didn't you say it, division of labor and cooperation, you are in charge of the front desk, and I am in charge of finance." I said it as a matter of course, and I was shameless.
"Uh-huh." Guo Jia nodded hurriedly, and obediently presented a small bag full of five baht coins.
I smiled so much that I couldn't see my eyes, what a good boy.
"Little Mao?!" Looking back at the hairless monster donkey, Guo Jia's voice unconsciously rose an octave.
At this time, the little hair was still rushing forward desperately, and the mill was pulled by it to spin fast, and the efficiency of grinding rice flour was unprecedentedly high. Ah, I forgot to mention that the reason why it is so desperate is because I tied a stick around its neck, and a piece of braised pork knuckle hung from the top of the stick......
"You're bullying Xiaomao again?" Guo Jia looked at me helplessly, and that look made me feel like a sinner for the ages.
"Well, there's motivation when there's a goal, I'm just giving it a hope, and letting it keep moving towards hope......" I nodded, very seriously.
Guo Jia stepped forward to appease Xiao Mao, untied the pork elbow and sent it to Xiao Mao's mouth, seeing that Xiao Mao was eating very happily, he looked back at me again: "Didn't you say division of labor and cooperation, you came to grind?" ”
"Alas, poor me, lonely, and my face is ruined...... "I closed my eyes, and I was in a broken voice, crying, and began to think in pieces.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong, don't be sad......" Guo Jia's slightly panicked expression immediately enlarged and came into my eyes.
"Uh-huh......" I got a satisfactory answer, I put on a long note, clapped my hands and stood up, and was about to enter the house.
Hehe, this trick has been tried and tested.
"Dong Zhuo will die, you don't like him." Behind him, Guo Jia suddenly said softly.
I was struck by lightning, and my face suddenly became stiff.
Turning around, I stared at those clear eyes, and in those eyes, I saw a woman who was extremely embarrassed.
"I know." My voice was a little cold.
"I'm sorry." He said abruptly.
"What?"
"If it weren't for my poor health, you wouldn't have been forced into the palace, and you wouldn't have encountered so many things......"
I laughed, "It's none of your business, maybe it's predestined by God." ”
At some point, I became a fatalist. Perhaps, it is because I don't believe in the sky, and the sky has made me experience this cruel life......
That night, I slept soundly and had nightmares all night, but I couldn't wake up.
I dreamed that Princess Wan was drenched in blood and looked at me miserably, and she said, "As a princess of the dynasty, it is my duty to ...... it."
I dreamed that the little white rabbit was in a different place, and his eyes were foggy, and he said, "I am not the emperor......"
When I finally woke up, there was cold sweat on my forehead, and the sky was bright.
The winter sun does not feel the slightest temperature, and it makes people's hearts chill, and it is strange that there is not even a single snow in such a cold winter.
Glancing at the all-purpose antidote pill placed on the corner of the table, it was already covered with a thin layer of dust, but it had never had a chance to be delivered to Lu Bu.
After getting up and washing, I didn't see Guo Jia in the house. I exercised my muscles, fed Xiao Mao by the way, and then opened the door and looked at the lively street opposite. Suddenly, a familiar figure caught my attention.
"Lu Bu?" I was slightly stunned, is that Lu Bu?!
I saw that across the street, Lu Bu was dressed in brocade, carrying a Fang Tian painting halberd, sitting on a red rabbit horse. Although he held the reins in his hand, he let the red rabbit horse lead the way. Stunned, I saw him riding his horse and slowly walking towards me, his eyes were always bright and unfocused, and he was much thinner.
"Give me a box of rouge cakes." The red rabbit horse stood in front of my shop, and Lu Bu did not get off the horse, and said.
"Bong-first." I opened my mouth, but before I could finish my sentence, I was interrupted.
"You cunning, repetitive, mercenary villain!" A shout of rage rang out out of thin air, drowning out my voice, drowning out all the voices in the street.
It seemed to be commonplace for such things, and in a moment the streets were much wider, and the pedestrians parted ways, without squinting, and no one wanted to get into trouble.
About dozens of masked men came out of thin air and surrounded Lu Bu.
"Waste." Lu Bu turned to ride his horse to the middle of the street, his expression was grim, he sat on the red rabbit horse and did not move, "Even if Lao Tzu is blind, you will also be sent to death." He spoke, his expression full of disdain.
A blind person can have such an oppressive force that cannot be underestimated.
The halberd was lightly picked up, piercing straight into the chest of a masked man, Lu Bu raised his hand, and the masked man was picked on the halberd in the chest, he was on the ground with both feet off, struggling desperately, bleeding like an infusion.
Lu Bu sneered and put away the halberd, ripped off the dead and mutilated body, and stroked a masked black scarf, he sneered coldly: "You are really so unsightly, and you have to cover your face in front of a blind man? ”
"Lu Bu! You are in cahoots with Dong Zhuo, and everyone will be punished! In this world, there are countless people who want to take the lives of dogs, even if we are buried in your hands today, you will definitely die a good death tomorrow! The masked man at the head cried out in grief.
"Hahaha." When Lu Bu heard this, he actually laughed, "A bunch of waste, Lao Tzu's life is here, just come and take your life!" As he spoke, he lightly clamped the horse's belly, and the red rabbit horse seemed to know that his master was blind, and where there was a masked man, he would drill there, and for a while, wherever a man and a horse went, blood was splashed, and the stumps and arms were broken, and they could be seen everywhere.
But in an instant, dozens of masked people had all turned into a pile of flesh and blood on the ground with unrecognizable faces and incomplete limbs.
Lu Bu sat on his horse, his face covered with blood.
"Bongxian!" Skirting the shop, I ran to him a little out of breath, stood under the horse, and looked up at him.
"Who are you?" Frowning slightly, Lu Bu looked straight ahead without focus, his face was not good.