Tao Yao hurriedly said: "How can there be a mother in this world who doesn't want her daughter?" It's just that in life, there are many people who can't help themselves, maybe your mother also has her own body that can't help herself. ”

Zheng Qiaoyan smiled bitterly: "Yes, I can't help myself." Everyone can't help themselves, and if I can't help myself according to my own body, I should promise my father at this moment, whatever kind of person my aunt finds for me, I will marry hastily, say good to everyone, and then rest my life. ”

Tao Yao nodded helplessly and said: "Yes, this world forces women to be like this, isn't that what 'the words of the parents' matchmaker' mean?" How many people can really break through the shackles?

It's just that, for you, what makes you sad may not be the 'words of your parents', but the nightmarish memories that your aunt gave you when you were a child. ”

Zheng Qiaoyan turned around, she wrinkled her eyebrows and looked at Tao Yao, as if she was a little puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”

Tao Yao said slowly and patiently: "The same thing, whether it is me or Wanrong, who has become a relative, in fact, for us, I still think it is okay, because we know that this is a good thing for us to say that the hearts of those who are close to each other are good, and we must consider it again and again and choose a good family for us."

Because the world is like this, and so are we, we will not feel so heartbroken as you are that we will break up with our families.

I heard you say that as far as you are concerned, it is not the marriage that makes you sad and angry, but your aunt and person.

If you think about it, not only your marriage, but also anything that has anything to do with your aunt, will you not be happy in your heart, but it is not as big as this matter. ”

Zheng Qiaoyan thought about it carefully, and sure enough, even in previous years, every time she went to her aunt's house for the New Year, she felt as if she was going to be punished, and every year she thought of finding an excuse to avoid it.

The people of their family, their family's affairs, they don't want to get involved in half of it.

And now this time, his family affairs are in their hands, which directly touches Zheng Qiaoyan's scales.

Looking at Zheng Qiaoyan's contemplative appearance, Tao Yao slowly continued: "So, if your aunt's matter can be properly resolved, your marriage may also be happy." ”

When Zheng Qiaoyan heard this, she said disdainfully: "Whether there is my aunt or not, it is impossible for my father to agree to my marriage with Mr. Wei." ”

Tao Yao nodded, but hesitated a little before saying, "Qiaoyan, let me say something that you may not like to hear, in fact, I was originally quite surprised, why do you like Mr. Wei."

But later, when I heard about your family affairs, I understood. ”

Zheng Qiaoyan looked at Tao Yao curiously when she heard this: "Do you understand?" What do you understand? ”

Tao Yao said patiently: "I understand, why do you like Mr. Wei." ”

Zheng Qiaoyan was interested when she heard this, but in fact, even she didn't know why she liked Mr. Wei.

He was widowed at a young age, alone with a little daughter, his career was not smooth, his life was miserable, and he was full of poetry and books, but he could only be forced to live in the rivers and lakes to tell stories.

But you will be attracted to him, admire him, like him, if it is because of his talent, you have seen many people who are talented, and it may not be that there is no talent to beat him.

However, his situation is very similar to that of your father when he was young.

Therefore, you fall in love with him, want to marry him, and want to be a stepmother to his young and poor daughter, not necessarily because you love him, but because you want to marry him, help him, and even redeem him, to return to your own childhood, give your father a wife, give yourself a mother, and give your young self a complete home.

You pity him as much as you pity yourself and your helpless father.

You want to marry him, just like you want your mother to return to your father, so that you can have a complete home and no longer need to send people under the fence.

The tragic experience on him attracts you and makes you fall in love with him.

Actually, perhaps, Qiaoyan, you don't love him, you just want to redeem and heal that scarred young self. ”

Zheng Qiaoyan looked at Tao Yao in front of her in a trance, her lips were slightly open, but she couldn't say a word.

Is that so? Is that really the case?

Indeed, what do you love about him?

She had never thought about it, but she was hopelessly attracted to the feelings in him, by his stories and tragic experiences, to want to save him, and always felt that as long as she could marry him, she would definitely be able to save him.

Tao Yao gently comforted Zheng Qiaoyan and said, "So, I don't worry about your marriage at all, as long as you can get out of what happened when you were a child, you won't love him anymore, and you won't want to elope with him anymore."

In fact, to comfort yourself when you were a child, you may not only marry him and live again, you can also try to comfort yourself on this road. ”

"Myself?" Zheng Qiaoyan looked at Tao Yao in confusion.

I only heard Tao Yao continue to say slowly: "When I was young, I remember that my grandfather's ancestral house had a hawthorn orchard, and there would be a lot of hawthorn every year.

When I was a child, I used to follow my cousin and cousin to fish in the river, and I once accidentally fell into it once and almost drowned.

Outside the door of my grandfather's house, there is a very high mountain, when I was a child, I used to follow my cousin to climb the mountain secretly, because I was afraid of being seen by the family, so I did not take the main road to climb the mountain, but followed the wild road that my cousin walked to climb the mountain, the mountain was very steep, and I almost fell down the mountain several times.

However, the mountain was so much fun, and every time I had the chance, I would fool my cousin to accompany me to climb the mountain. It's as if you can't get tired of playing with that mountain. ”

Zheng Qiaoyan furrowed her brows, not knowing what Tao Yao was talking about: "What are you talking to me about this?" ”

Tao Yao only smiled and said: "So, look, this is my memory of my grandfather's ancestral home, where do you think my grandfather's family lives?" ”

Zheng Qiaoyan said: "Orchards, big rivers, big mountains. Did your grandfather's family live in the suburbs or in the mountains? ”

Tao Yao smiled when he heard this: "Later, my grandfather's family made a fortune and changed to a new house, and I am old, I can no longer run around like when I was a child, and I must follow the rules.

A year ago, when I worshiped my ancestors and swept the court, I happened to have the opportunity to follow my cousin back to the ancestral house once, and suddenly found that in fact, in the yard of my maternal grandfather's house, there were actually only two hawthorn trees, and there was a small ditch in front of the door, and the water in the ditch was not as deep as my calf, and there was a small mountain bag in the distance, and it was possible to walk from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain without a cup of tea, but it was a little higher than the rockery of ordinary people. ”

Zheng Qiaoyan looked at Tao Yao in surprise: "Huh? How so? ”

Tao Yao nodded and said: "Yes, that's it, because when we were young, the small yard of the two trees seemed to be very big, and we couldn't run to the edge, and the small ditch one foot deep was like a big river, and the small fish in it were very small, and in our eyes they were also very big, bigger than our little hands." A small dirt bag is also the highest mountain that we can't climb to the end.

However, as we grow up with our age and size, the things that were originally big in our eyes have become smaller in our eyes, until now we look ordinary and worthless. But in our young eyes, it was really a great river that was difficult to cross, an insurmountable mountain.

In front of you when you were a child, your aunt was indeed able to dominate everything about you, your every drink, food, and every move was in her hands. Her words, you can't be swayed and disobeyed, she is like a giant, even a demon in your memory, extremely terrifying, unshakable, so that you can only fear and tremble, you can only use yelling and arguing to vent the fear and dissatisfaction in your heart, but helpless, powerless.

But, Qiaoyan, now you're grown.

In the eyes of you and me today, she is just the wife of a rich and noble family of some age, you have a father who loves you, a good family background, and a brother, your aunt does not have the power to kill and take away you, many things, you are clever and resourceful, there is still room for turnaround, and it can also be under your control. ”

Zheng Qiaoyan seemed to be a little shocked to look at Tao Yao, she has been struggling to get out of her aunt's control for so many years, even if the fish is dead and the net is broken, even if the jade is burned, she has thought of the most extreme way, but she has never thought about it, in fact, she has grown up, and her father has already gained a firm foothold in Hangzhou.

In fact, my father also knew that he had never disliked his aunt, although his father always taught himself a lesson, did not know gratitude, did not understand filial piety, and was disrespectful to his aunt, but the family affairs in his own house, my father has always been in charge of himself over the years. One is to teach myself to take care of the family affairs of the back house, so that I can marry into my husband's family in the future and be the housewife to prepare, and the other is to follow my own will and let my aunt interfere in the affairs of my own back house.

Three, also because he always misses his mother, his father has lost two wives, although his aunt instigated and persecuted, his father because he didn't like it, so many years, he was alone, and he never married a wife again, which is also a strange story in Hangzhou.

In fact, perhaps, as Tao Yao said, his father is very fond of himself.

And what shocked Zheng Qiaoyan even more was that perhaps, as Tao Yao said, she had already escaped from her aunt's control. My own marriage and my future are actually never in my aunt's hands.

Tao Yao said slowly: "I once saw that in the village, they tied the big yellow ox to the plough, and only used a very thin wooden wedge inserted in the ground. When it grows up, it will be tethered there again, and the cow will only be unbreakable in that wedge, and will no longer think of breaking free, even with its strength at the time, but with a slight force, it can break free. ”

Zheng Qiaoyan suddenly realized that her aunt was too terrifying in her young memory, so she frightened herself and felt that there was no way to escape, but in fact, just like the wood that tied the ox, as long as she was light and forceful, things would have room to turn around.

(End of chapter)