Chapter 63: Disillusionment

"Dad, Guard Lin said you have something to look for me?"

The door was not closed, and before Xiao Huang stepped into the study, he could see Jimo Liyun with his back to him, standing in front of the desk with a heavy figure.

The afterglow casts into the cracks in the tiles, and through the window lattice, the whole room is half-lit and half-dark.

“…… Do you have something to say to me? ”

Hearing someone call him, Mo Liyun's brows tightened unconsciously, and he turned around, with an unpredictable severity on his face.

The majesty of a loving father, Xiao Huang is unfamiliar, to her, that is, Mo Liyun has always loved her, even when talking about his daughter's past stubbornness, his tone of reproach is more helpless.

And at this moment, the look in his eyes made Xiao Huang feel a very uncomfortable sense of depression.

With a slight movement of her eyes, she couldn't help but be a little stunned, and her suspicious gaze instantly condensed when it touched the side case behind him......

In the next moment, Xiao Huang looked at the person in front of him suddenly, his apricot eyes were slightly open, like a dumb boy who had lost his voice, and his lips and teeth were opened and closed, and he couldn't spit out a word anymore.

Her undisguised reaction wiped out the last bit of hope in Jimo Liyun's heart.

He casually handed over the tray on the desk, "This strange dress is what you wore when you were unconscious on the edge of the cold pool at the foot of the Qisheng Cliff. ”

Exotic? Hearing his name, Xiao Huang's eyes began to focus on the blue and white, zipper hook and English letters, as if mechanically, little by little...... Denim trench coat.

One thing, something that should have gone with the flow in the trend of later generations.

After half a year, Xiao Huang didn't expect that when she went down to the tomb with the archaeological team that day, the coat she was wearing would appear in front of her without warning.

For a while, she didn't know how to describe the dullness in her heart.

Is it the panic after the illusion is exposed? Or is it the unwillingness to give up?

After a few hesitations, she finally reached out and took the wooden tray in the denim suit, "So you always knew." ”

Seeing that Xiao Huang did not show the anger after the conspiracy was revealed as he expected, and even the shock at the beginning seemed so bleak.

Jimo Liyun couldn't help but lose a little solemnity, he shook his head, and recalled: "The news that Xiao Er is still alive is an unexpected surprise for us, at first I was carried away by that 'surprise', and I didn't have time to think about it in the future. ”

He turned his gaze away, and there was a hint of silence in his words, "Later, even if I realized it, it only increased the confusion, because you ...... It's so similar. ”

The eyebrows and eyes are the same, and the smiles are still the same, which has long made people unable to distinguish the true from the false.

"Didn't you doubt it?"

Xiao Huang's expression was gloomy, she knew that she and that person were ...... It must have been carved out of a mold.

"Naturally, I thought you knew the art of disguise, but the fake is always fake, even if the appearance is similar, there will always be flaws in the long run."

Jimo Liyun closed his eyes, and his heart couldn't help but have mixed feelings, "Although the art of disguise has always been mysterious, and there is indeed no shortage of Qimen masters on the rivers and lakes, you didn't deliberately disguise, from the beginning, you and Xiao Er are too different." ”

I remember that Ying'er once recited to him with a sad face, saying that her daughter was afraid that she was scared, and since falling off the cliff, she has not only become extremely cheerful, but also obedient and sensible, but she is vaguely not so close to people.

He was quite relieved to hear it at that time, but he joked about Lian Huaying's sentimentality, but said that Xiao'er has grown up, how can he be as pestering people as when he was a child?

However, according to Xiao Er's eccentric style of acting, when will it make him worry?

Now that I think about it a few times, I realize that I also had an indescribable fear at the beginning, and I didn't want to investigate it deeply, so I had to avoid it......

"That'...... What convinces you that I, not her? ”

If it were just a later dress, she should have been debunked a long time ago, and in the end, this denim trench coat is just a sign of suspicion.

Jimo Liyun looked at the corner of the bookshelf, and after a long time, he said, "Do you remember the letter written in Chiyi?" ”

Xiao Huang was silent, revealing a slightly puzzled gaze.

"Do you know Xiaoxiang's name, how did it come about?"

Although he didn't know what he meant by asking, Xiao Huang still nodded, "I heard...... It's a meal. ”

"That's right, after she was brought back to the camp, she refused to speak, Xiao Er teased her in many ways, and finally failed, just when everyone thought she was born dumb, but in front of a table of coarse food brought by the husband, she muttered the word 'good fragrance' in a slurred voice."

As if remembering some comfortable scene, a few wisps of laugh lines faintly appeared on Mo Liyun's face, "Xiao Er thought it was funny at the time, so she named her so hastily, listening to others call her so unfamiliar, Xiao Xiang was still indifferent and didn't respond at all."

Xiao Er was depressed for a long time, and later she learned that Xiao Xiang didn't really want to deal with her, nor did she want to play with her, in fact, Xiao Xiang couldn't understand what others were saying at all. ”

Hearing this, the corners of Xiao Huang's eyebrows moved, and he said uncertainly: "Xiaoxiang...... Is it a foreigner? ”

Jimo Liyun sighed lightly, "Back then, there was a famine in Chiyi, and half of the tribe was abandoned, and Xiaoxiang was one of the surviving children.

The basis of the language she knows now is that Xiao Er once took the trouble to learn the language of the Chiyi tribe, and then translated it into the vernacular and taught it to her word by word. ”

So...... Jimo Xiaohuang is not only familiar with the Chiyi script, but also can be said to be proficient!

"......I see," she smiled, her first smile after entering the door, the corners of her mouth hung lightly, her eyes drooped, and there was a hint of sourness in her eyes.

Finally, it was the moment when the warm fire burned through the tough paper, but Xiao Huang didn't feel it at all, and he was as relieved as he imagined.

"Since the general knows that I am not your daughter, why did he not find out until now?"

"Because I want to know, what is the purpose of you pretending to be Xiao'er?"

When Xiao Huang heard this, his heart turned a thousand times, the sourness in his stomach turned into a bitter smile, and he swallowed his stomach but didn't know what it tasted like, "If I say it's a mistake, the general is credible?" ”

The warm breeze outside the window is warm, swaying the banyan leaves in the courtyard and dancing, and the flying figures cross between the light and shadow, shaking into mottled stars on the screen window.

"Let's go."

After a few breaths, Jimo Liyun turned his back and said, "I will ask Ji Lin to prepare enough coils for you, and tomorrow morning, you will leave." ”

"Okay."

Almost at the same time, Xiao Huang deserved no hesitation.

Only the fingers that clasped the edge of the tray were so stiff that they were numb and still didn't know it, "There is one thing, I hope the general can agree." ”

For a long time, but I didn't wait for a word.

The father-daughter relationship for most of the year, after losing the traction of that layer of blood, is so cold that it is not as good as a stranger.

Xiao Huang tugged at the corners of his lips, and a bitterness rolled in his heart, "Please don't tell your mother about this matter yet...... Madam, she loves her daughter so much that she can't stand it. ”

After speaking, she raised her feet and walked out of the study, and her resolute figure did not show a trace of nostalgia.

But if it weren't for the tears that fell from the ground, who could see the escape of the wind under her feet?

Listening to the footsteps in the distance, Mo Liyun subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, but just as he turned around......

"Ma'am?!"

There was no sound, no movement, Lian Huaying just stood quietly by the screen, like a lifeless zombie puppet.

Jimo Liyun walked over and took her in his arms, and the thousand words in his stomach suddenly seemed to be in his throat.

"Why did you want to get rid of her?"

Feeling the light tremor of the person in his arms, Mo Liyun was so distressed that he lowered his voice and said helplessly: "Didn't Madam hear it?" ”

"Yes, I heard you, but so what?" Lian Huaying raised her head and looked at him, with unconcealed grief in her eyes.

Jimo Liyun was stunned, surprised and quickly relieved, "Xiao Er can't come back, no matter how much we deceive ourselves, she ...... After all, it's not our Xiao'er. ”

At this point, the child can only ......

"But I'd rather stay confused!" Lian Huaying took a few steps back, and in an instant, her face was covered with wanton tears.

She didn't know that God had already taken away her daughter in that disaster, and cruelly gave her a chance to be lucky.

Now, the truth has been revealed, and the wound that has finally healed in her heart has been torn again, and it is bloody, she doesn't dare to admit it, and she doesn't want to admit it!

"She and Xiao Er have the same eyebrows, the same smile, and the same call for my mother, she is our child...... Why are you, why are you ......" Before the words were finished, she couldn't cry.

"Ma'am, calm down." Jimo Liyun wanted to step forward and grab her.

"Calm down? What the hell is that?! ”

Lian Huaying waved his hand away, and said with tears in his eyes: "That day, I watched Xiao Er's carriage fall off the Qisheng Cliff, you asked me to calm down, and then took the whole army to avoid danger without looking back." ”

"Later, I insisted on going to the bottom of the cliff to find someone, and you asked me to calm down, saying that Xiao Er had no hope of surviving nine times out of ten, and he could no longer risk the lives of the soldiers."

"Now, because of Jimo Qianyao's one-sided words, you are going to take away my daughter who I finally got back, you still want me to calm down, how should I calm down?!"

In the face of her misunderstanding and criticism, Mo Liyun was speechless, "Could it be that in the eyes of Madame, Li Yun is such an unbearable father?" Xiao Er is also my daughter, if I can, I would rather exchange my life for her peace and joy! ”

Hearing the sadness in Jimo Liyun's words, Lian Huaying seemed to have regained some of her senses, and she looked back at the person a few steps away in a daze.

"I ......"

Jimo Liyun stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on her face, and said softly: "People are not plants and trees, how can a husband be such a ruthless person, let that child leave us, and for her, it is the safest." ”

"What...... What do you mean? Lian Huaying couldn't help but feel a little relieved, she asked, "...... What do you mean by that? ”

"Alas, I wanted to hide it for a while, but ......"

Jimo Liyun was speechless for a moment, and then sighed helplessly: "Madam, I can bear the accusations of the whole world, but yours, I can't bear it."

How can outsiders' provocation in a few words make me not distinguish between black and white, right and wrong? The kid ...... I believe that she is the best gift Xiao Er has given us, why don't I want to watch her grow up and listen to her call me a father for life? ”

"Then you ......"

Knowing what she wanted to ask, Mo Liyun uncharacteristically pulled her around the desk, then opened the dark compartment on the shelf and took out a handkerchief, shook off the four corners, and the broken arrow wrapped in it was immediately revealed.

"It's ...... Cangling arrow?! ”

With just one glance, Lian Huaying exclaimed, and she looked up in disbelief, wanting to get a negative answer from him.

But in response to her, there was only a dark and deep light.

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"Is it fifteen again......" Looking at the full moon swaying with a pale toad light in the pitch-black sky, Xiao Huang looked a little dazed.

On the night without a star, the silver platform hanging high in the sky became more and more dazzling, and after staring at it for a long time, the eyes could not help but be a little pantothenic.

"Woohoo......"

A big plush head suddenly came over his left shoulder, and Xiao Huang turned his head to meet a pair of pitiful dark blue eyes.

She glanced at the food bowl at her feet, and spread her hands, "If you want a piece of meat, there is enough cold water." ”

Seeing this, Lan You still rubbed her arm without giving up, "Woo... Whew......"

"You've already exceeded the limit for today." Listening to the low howl as if he had been wronged, Xiao Huang was still unmoved.

Raising her eyes to look at the half-human-tall "behemoth" beside her, she said very seriously: "Although the word 'thin' is not the patent of wolves, the word 'mellow' should not be synonymous with your species." ”

“…… Whining. ”

"Little one, you have to be restrained, you can't 'develop horizontally' anymore, you know?"

As she spoke, she rubbed Lan You's belly, bulging like a ball full of hydrogen, "Eat less at night in the future." ”

"Woohoo......"

"It's not good if you get obesity......"

"Whew......"

"If you understand it, you have to do it, it's useless to howl." Seeing that no matter what she said, Lan You would respond in a timely manner, and Xiao Huang's expressionless face rarely bloomed with a smile.

Unconsciously, the moon has risen to the middle of the middle, and the two figures in front of the threshold of the courtyard corridor are sitting and lying on the sidelines, which seem to be extraordinarily coordinated.

"I heard Professor Yin say that on the night of the full moon in the ancient oriental country, there are many beautiful legends, and one of them seems to be a story about reunion......"

Retracting his thoughts, the regular low howl did not sound, and Xiao Huang lowered his head to see a circle of silver-gray hair rings curled up in a ball, and his eyelids were sleepily half-open and half-closed.

She slowly stretched out her hand, gently smoothing the soft hair on the back of its neck, "You've been with me for so long, you're tired." ”

Thank you, Lan You.

I never thought that in the end, the only person I could say goodbye to would be you......