Night.

Under the bright light of the two clear oil lamps, the two mothers of Chang and Qin Er sorted out piles of clothes, fabrics and bits and pieces. The kang is full of various wedding supplies.

Under the bright light, it is clearly visible that there are a few traces of helplessness and anxiety left in Qin'er's eyes that have not been washed away by the joy of the wedding.

Change in tidying up clothes and fabrics, etc., and wrapping up burdens. From time to time, I picked up a piece of fabric and compared it up and down on my body, and even posed for it, and praised it, such as, "Look." How good is this, cut a summer dress with short sleeves, and wear it out to make your aunts and sisters-in-law envious" and other pleasant words.

Every time she changes something, Qin'er will answer, "Mother, if you like it, stay it." ”

I don't want to leave a few pieces for myself.

However, she understands that these are all given to Qin'er by the Qi family, and if she leaves a few things for the Qi family to know, she will not only look down on herself, but also affect Qin'er's face. After all, the Qi family is a rich and powerful family.

Qin'er, as if she didn't seem to have much interest in these brocade silk fabrics, kept rummaging through the boxes and opening the boxes to find something.

She found the necklace that Dou Ya'er gave her when she first met Dou Ya'er; found the rouge and incense powder that Mengyuan bought for her in the county seat last spring and had only used it a few times; found a small bamboo whistle, a whistle that was blown from a small size to a large one, and once blew at the scene of the scientific examination and martial arts test to cheer for Zhou Mengyuan.

Qin'er held these things in her hand, took them to the lamp and looked at them one by one, as if she had never seen them before.

"Alas!" sighed lightly, picked up the necklace and said to Gaigai, "Mother, keep this necklace for you to give to others in the future." ”

"Let it go. It was silver. I took the time to go to the county seat to exchange a few small dollars. ”

changed his baggage, didn't raise his head, and didn't look at it.

Qin'er casually put down the necklace and came to the front of the kang, and was about to squat down to open the door of the kang eye, burning these painful memories.

"Fourth aunt!Qin'er!Have you slept?"

Suddenly, Zhou Mengyuan's voice came from the courtyard.

The two of them were stunned at the same time, their eyes touched, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

Gai raised his hand and shook it, signaling Qin'er not to make a sound. He said, "It's Mengyuan! It's late at night, go back quickly." Qin'er will get married tomorrow, and it will be inconvenient to let you into the house tonight. ”

"Fourth aunt, please raise your noble hand and open the door, so that I can see Qin'er for the last time. ”

"What's so good to see. From tomorrow, Qin'er will be the daughter-in-law of the Qi family. Let's go!"

Taking away the door of the kang eye, Qin'er did not throw the rouge, incense powder and whistle into the ashes, but gently placed it on the side of the kang eye, closed the door of the kang eye, and stood up.

Qin'er lowered her eyelids, frowned, and had mixed feelings in her heart.

"Squeak!"

The door opened. was pushed away by Zhou Mengyuan unreasonably.

"You! how ······?"

Gai Gai stopped what he was doing and wanted to be angry, but instead he thought about Zhou Mengyuan's financial support for her family and the half of the gold bar, swallowed the words stuck in his throat, and turned back to continue his work.

"Qin'er!" Zhou Mengyuan stepped over in two steps and eagerly pressed his hands on Qin'er's shoulders.

"Don't touch me!"

Qin'er shook her shoulders, twisted her waist, and gave Zhou Mengyuan a sideways. At the same time, nameless tears had already flowed out of his eyes.

Zhou Mengyuan's hands slipped down. Controlling his excitement, he didn't continue to raise his hand.

"Qin'er! I know that I have treated you slowly before, and I can't live with your care and care for my grandmother, and I can't live with your support and trust in me since I was a child. However, please bear with me, I am bent on revenge, and I am a little distant from you, grandma, and all the people I love, but after taking revenge, Zhou Mengyuan will definitely double the compensation. Please believe me!

Gai Gai's hands stiffened, his lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't make a sound, slowly shook his head a few times, helpless, and continued to be busy.

Qin'er lowered her head and said, "I don't know, what are you talking about." You ······ Let's get out. ”

The voice was flat, the speed of speech was slow, and Qin'er's mood didn't seem to fluctuate much, but two tears smashed on the ground and turned into two huge exclamation points.

From childhood to adulthood, every time he saw Qin'er crying silently, Zhou Mengyuan was very distressed. He understands that this kind of silent tears of suppressed emotional outbursts are very hurtful to the body, especially heartbreaking, hurting the liver and kidneys.

Zhou Mengyuan's heart welled up with infinite guilt. He hated himself for being cowardly, hated his wife for lacking manhood in his bones, hated Qi Yue for being wise, and dead on his face.

"Qin'er, now that it's over, I don't want to continue to hide it from you. Zhou Mengyuan said frankly, "I have been busy arranging the ring for the past few days, and I only found out that you were going to get married in the afternoon, so I came over overnight and wanted to inform you, while the sedan chair had not yet come, I quickly changed my mind and canceled this family business." ”

Qin'er didn't understand what Zhou Mengyuan meant by this, her tears didn't lift, her mouth didn't open, she just shook her head a few times.

Hearing this, Gai Gai was angry, pushed the work, turned around and glared at Zhou Mengyuan, and said sharply: "Young Master of the Zhou family, please go out quickly! I'd rather demolish a temple than a marriage." You're misleading for life. Iniquity!"

In the face of the reprimand, Zhou Mengyuan was indifferent. He understands that he must remain calm at this time, and he must be cheeky and speak clearly, otherwise, it will hurt Qin'er, hurt the change, and hurt his own heart.

Zhou Mengyuan, who came to persuade with good intentions, looked at his changes and stared at his changes, but instead leaned closer to Qin'er and got closer. Stretching his neck and lowering his head, his mouth close to Qin'er's ear, he continued to speak to Qin'er. But at this time, his voice was very small, and what he could hear was only the beginning.

"Qin'er, no matter what, you have to listen to me······"

Qin'er kept her head down, didn't make any verbal statements or body language, and didn't seem to care. In fact, she listened to every word of Zhou Mengyuan very carefully and carefully, and scrutinized and judged it in her heart.

She believed that Zhou Mengyuan did not make up this appalling lie in a panic for the sake of currying favor, for the sake of the last struggle, and for the sake of self-peace of mind; she fully believed that Zhou Mengyuan would definitely be able to do what he said. It is both a failure and a loss.

Because, she knows too well the cowardly, hesitant, and unfamiliar Brother Mengyuan in front of her who is cowardly, hesitant, and doesn't know how to express emotions.

“······ I'll be waiting at your door tonight, no matter when you make a choice, tell me at any time that I'll go to Qijia's village to finish my work. When you are afraid, you are afraid of Mao. ”

After saying that, Zhou Mengyuan turned around and left.

Gai Kai quickly closed the door. Both doors were closed tightly.

When he came to Qin'er, he asked in a low voice, "What did he say to you just now?" A tricky gut liar. ”

Qin'er raised her head suddenly, turned her gaze to the door, and then walked over, "Bang!

"What are you going to do? Don't go out!"

Seeing this, he stepped over and grabbed the sleeve of Qin'er's arm.

"Leave me alone, mother, I'm going to finish my last word to him. ”

Qin'er shook her arm, broke free and changed her hand, turned around, bowed her waist, stretched out her hand to open the door of the kang eye, picked up the rouge and incense powder box, looked at it and put it back in place, and finally only took a small bamboo whistle, went out, and ran towards the gate.

Gai Gai knew that these gadgets were all related to Zhou Mengyuan, but he didn't understand what he meant, what was Qin'er going to do with that broken whistle?

Blow it to Zhou Mengyuan, blow out a beautiful childhood memory, blow out a painful breakup goodbye······

None of this is possible. Qin'er is not so romantic.

However, she still only took the whistle to chase Zhou Mengyuan.

Perhaps, Qin'er wanted to use it to explain something to Zhou Mengyuan.

Children's hearts are incomprehensible to adults.

"Alas!" he sighed, frowning and shaking his head, not stopping him again.

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It's night, the moon is hidden and the stars are bright, and the night wind has not risen.

The sky is high.

It was as if the countless stars were twinkling and blinking, their eyes were curious, peeking at the movements and changes in every corner of the world.

Although it is not as clear as under the silver light of the moon, the earth under the reflection of countless stars can vaguely distinguish the outline shape of anything, and at close distances, you can even see the surface level of virtual or real and even color.

Zhou Mengyuan squatted on the side outside the gate of Qin'er's house with his head in his arms.

The construction of the ring for days and the various plans and schemes after the ring began, exhausted the young man, and he dozed off when he was quiet.

Isn't it?

Zhou Mengyuan squatted down and didn't have enough time for Qin'er to change a few words and a short time to take the whistle, and his eyelids began to fight.

"Brother Mengyuan!

Qin'er's still crisp and sweet voice woke up Zhou Mengyuan, who was hazy but had clear ears.

"Hey!"

Zhou Mengyuan promised to play up.

"Brother Mengyuan"!

For many days, Qin'er has not called Zhou Mengyuan so affectionately and sweetly.

He was so eager to return to the same relationship with the well-behaved, tear-loving but incomparably strong little sister in front of him back to the same two years ago, back to the innocent era when he was a child, listening to classes together, playing and frolicking by the pond, and blowing around with a small bamboo whistle.

"Oh oh! Qin'er! have you thought about it?"

Qin'er lowered her head, and the two butterfly feet consciously moved towards Zhou Mengyuan, just enough distance for Zhou Mengyuan to take a small step and open his arms into his arms.

Zhou Mengyuan's hands trembled quietly, why didn't he want to take Qin'er into his arms all of a sudden.

At this moment, however, his arms were too heavy to bend, his hands were bound to his legs as if they were bound by an invisible rope, and his feet were so nimble that he instinctively took a few steps back.

Maybe it's because these two feet really know their owners too well, and from childhood to adulthood, although they are learning to play with the girl opposite, the red line between boys and girls is drawn thick and bright and very clear.

Seeing this, Qin'er also moved her feet to the side. The courage when he came out and the fantasy of a superego jumped out between the eyebrows of the willow leaves condensed into a bag, and fell to the ground, under the earth.

"This whistle······ Give it back to you. Perhaps, the son of Ganoderma lucidum will like it. ”

"Oh oh! Hairy egg likes, I can make one for him. ”

Zhou Mengyuan thought to himself, don't you dare to refuse Qi Yue, let me take you away and hide you tonight?

"Qin'er has grown up, and she will be an adult from tomorrow, so it's really useless to keep this. Qin'er said, stepped forward in a few steps, raised the little hand holding the small bamboo whistle, and stretched it out in front of Zhou Mengyuan's eyes.

It must be certain, this is the last time in Qin'er's life that zero distance gives Zhou Mengyuan a chance to break out.

Under the bright starlight, it was clearly seen that the little hand holding the whistle was trembling slightly in the air and in front of Zhou Mengyuan's eyes.

Staring at the small half-whistle exposed outside his little hand, Zhou Mengyuan scratched his head, grinned awkwardly and boringly, and said, "Hehe! Then, I'll take it." ”

Carefully raising his hand to take the whistle, Zhou Mengyuan twisted it on his fingertips, twisted it to the few small holes that could change the tone, and twisted up a piece of childhood memories.

suddenly woke up, but saw that the little hand that handed him the whistle was still frozen in front of him, and he couldn't help but remind him for a while.

"Take your hand back. I've taken the whistle. ”

Stop, look up, turn around, and get started······ A series of actions is done almost simultaneously.

Under the bright starlight, Zhou Mengyuan clearly saw that just as Qin'er turned around, two strings of tears reflecting the starlight seemed to erupt with a "swoop", and half a circle was drawn brightly along the arm, and they fell to the ground with a crystal splendour.

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