Chapter Eighty-Five: Goodbye to the Gray Hair
Arrange for the old lady to live in the room in the boudoir, and several daughters-in-law and granddaughters-in-law take turns to serve on the side.
Sons and grandsons waited outside.
Nie Xiaofanzai carefully wiped the old lady's face and hands. Although the old lady was strict, she also took a lot of care of her, and she was very reluctant to let the old lady go.
The next day, the big guy was still quietly guarding the old lady. Nie Xiaofan and Pei's vigil were replaced to rest.
Nie Xiaofan and Pei Shi walked out of the courtyard and went to their temporary residence.
Pei Shi pulled Nie Xiaofan: "The old lady is staying up like this, and she is also guilty." “
Nie Xiaofan sighed.
Pei said: "Xiaofan, you are a sincere person, sister-in-law will have a word with you." When I look at the old lady like that, I hope she will go happily and suffer less of her sin. ”
"Old lady, this is something that can't be let go. Nie Xiaofan drooped his eyelids and said thoughtfully.
As he was talking, he saw someone come to report, and an old doctor came outside, indicating that he wanted to see Nie Xiaofan.
When Nie Xiaofan heard that it was the old doctor, his eyes immediately rose, and he said to Pei Shi, "I'll go out for a while." And he trotted out.
It was Mr. Liu who came. He was gray-haired, on crutches, and his wide robe swayed in the wind.
"Sir. Nie Xiaofan saluted.
"I..." Mr. Liu was stunned for a moment before he spoke: "I... I want to meet her. “
"I'm trying to figure it out. Nie Xiaofan said.
The two of them have been delayed for a lifetime, and now that she is critically ill, he just wants to see her again.
When Nie Xiaofan went back, he saw Zhou Shaoyang.
"Great uncle. ”
Zhou Shaoyang stood with his hands in his hands: "Have you gone to find a doctor?"
Nie Xiaofan paused, it seems that Zhou Shaoyang already knew what happened just now.
"The old lady is already dying, so the doctor doesn't have to look at it. After Zhou Shaoyang finished speaking, he turned around and left.
Is this not allowed to see?
Why bother?
Nie Xiaofan was puzzled, Zhou Shaoyang's father had been dead for so many years, he should know the secrets of the year, why should he oppose it so much?
Mrs. Zhou is dying!
However, in the evening, Mrs. Zhou was able to get out of bed.
"Old lady, what do you want?" Chen asked with a smile.
Old Madam Zhou shook her head and beckoned Nie Xiaofan: "Help me take a walk in the yard." ”
Nie Xiaofan helped Mrs. Zhou up, she was on crutches with one hand, and the two of them walked slowly to the courtyard.
"You don't have to come along. Old Madam Zhou said to the children and grandchildren behind her.
So everyone stopped, and only Nie Xiaofan helped the old man to the courtyard.
The ancestral house of the Nie family is incomparable to the Zhou Mansion in the capital, and it is even half smaller than the Nie Mansion. The courtyard is also very small, and because it is uninhabited all year round, the courtyard wall is overgrown with vines.
"When I was younger, I used to paint here. Old Madam Zhou looked at the vines on the wall and said.
"Grandmother, do you want to take a break?" asked Nie Xiaofan.
Old Madam Zhou shook her head and asked again, "Have you ever lived here?"
"No, I was in Changping and lived in Zhuangzi. Nie Xiaofan said.
Old Mrs. Zhou smiled, like a child. "Then you must not know the secret of this wall, right?"
She seemed to be very happy, and walked to the wall on crutches, looked left and right, pointed to the deepest part of the vine, and said, "Look here." ”
Nie Xiaofan went to pull it open, and there was a wall behind him. Nothing.
"Am I mistaken?" muttered Old Madam Zhou.
Nie Xiaofan helped her forward again. Walked to a place with a lot of vines: "Look here again." ”
Nie Xiaofan went to pick up the vines again, and there was still a wall behind him, but a few bricks seemed to be loose. Nie Xiaofan pushed it gently, and the place actually fell and was empty, revealing a half-human-high doorway.
"Heheha..."Old Madam Zhou smiled even more happily. "It's my secret, don't tell anyone else. ”
At this time, she was innocent like a child.
Nie Xiaofan's nose was sour, he turned around to wipe away the tears in his eyes, and quickly turned his face and said with a smile: "Of course." In the future, this will be my secret. ”
Old Mrs. Zhou still laughed, laughing and laughing, and tears flowed down her cloudy eyes.
"Back then... Hui'er and I... Let's play together. Mrs. Zhou looked at the doorway, behind it was their paradise, and Hui'er's family had only one daughter, so she was not strictly controlled. And she, her brother locked her up every day, like an animal...
What a good time that was?
Every day, she sneaked through here, or Hui'er drilled over, and they did needlework together, played chess together, and played all day long.
Until, Hui'er fell in love with that person, and she also met the person who made her worry about her whole life.
She helped Hui'er and her sweetheart escape. But something was lost, and one night, taking advantage of the good moonlight, she secretly crawled over to look for it, but met him.
"Demon!" the two said in unison.
The scholar looked at the startled girl who suddenly appeared in the courtyard, isn't it a demon?
And she saw a scholar appear in the mansion that had been empty, what is it if it is not a demon?
Since then, it has been a lifelong fate.
"That day, he said he was going to elope with me. That's where I got there. Old Madam Zhou looked at the vines on the wall and muttered to herself: "They grabbed me and covered my mouth, I heard him call me..."
Old Madam Zhou suddenly cried uncontrollably, she fell into Nie Xiaofan's arms: "I heard her call me...", she hugged Nie Xiaofan tightly: "Why didn't he come? I thought he would come and take me away..."
But he didn't, he was on the other side of the wall, and called her for a long time. They tied her up, covered her mouth, and threw her in the corner, listening to him call her across the street for the night.
But he just can't come...
She struggled, she cried, she cried in her heart, but it was useless. He didn't come.
"Yaoyao... Yaoyao..."
"That's what you call me, I listened to it all night, but he didn't come..."Old Mrs. Zhou stopped her tears and barely stood up straight: "I'm really old, even in my memory, his voice calling me is so real." “
"Not really. Nie Xiaofan said: "I heard it too." ”
"You too?" Old Madam Zhou looked at her stunned.
The two of them looked at the other side of the doorway.
"Yaoyao... Yaoyao..."The voice sounded again, like a whimper, and like joy.
Old Madam Zhou clenched Nie Xiaofan's hand, and decades later, she actually heard such a call here again.
And this time, the man came.
To be exact, crawling over.
He was old, moving slowly, and little by little he moved through the doorway.
Old Madam Zhou couldn't hold back her tears.
How many years have passed, she has gray hair, and she has seen him with white hair again.
"Yaoyao, are you still willing to come with me?" Mr. Liu got up little by little, looking at this old lover, he was no stranger at all.
He will always remember her at her best. It's what it looks like in his eyes.