Chapter 13: The Slaughter of Fate
Early the next morning, in Yihong Courtyard, Sanniang watched me practice dancing in the back hall.
I was opening my waist and crotch and wailing miserably, and Rainbow Butterfly trotted all the way to call me.
"Miss Lanyue, Young Master Qing is here to visit you. He'sβhe's surrounded by his sisters!
Sanniang looked at me half angrily: "Who is Young Master Qing?"
I endured the pain in my bones and explained, "My distant nephew. β
Sanniang's face gradually softened: "Since relatives are here to visit, let's go and see it." Half an hour later, I came back and continued the rehearsal. β
"Thank you Sanniang. I shuddered, braced my legs and barely stood up.
Caidie immediately carried me to the front yard.
I saw Nian'er's green shirt flowing elegantly, sitting quietly on the guest chair with a face, and letting the girls of Yihong Courtyard huddle back and forth.
"The little boy is so handsome!"
"Childe, don't be so serious. β
"Little boy, sisters, let's accompany you to the drinking order. β
One hand gently stroked Nian'er's face and chest, and her voice was soft and numb.
......
"Nian'er!"
I was anxious to protect the calf, and I quickened my pace and stepped forward: "What are you doing around him!"
A group of girls with heavy makeup and powder saw that my brows were angry, and they all retreated, got up and dispersed.
Nian'er stood up respectfully, her black eyes as black as obsidian, and smiled at me: "Aunt Bai, I'm waiting for you." β
This smile is innocent and clear, and it is still my well-behaved and simple thought.
I softened my heart and said, "Nian'er, why are you here? This is not a place for children. β
Nian'er childishly explained: "Aunt Bai, I was idle in the deserted house, so I came to see you." The sisters here seem to welcome me. β
I knocked on Nian'er's head with a chestnut slap: "Stinky boy, you want to enjoy the blessings at such a young age?"
"No. Aunt Bai, I'm hungry and want to drink the fish soup you boiled. β
Nian'er likes to drink fish soup, I know. But at this point in time, Sanniang is still waiting for me in the back hall to go over and dance for a rehearsal, how can I get fish soup for him.
I looked at Nian'er in embarrassment, with a guilty face: "Nian'er, I'm very busy now, or I'll be later."
"Young Boy, I'm free! Why don't I go buy fish and make fish soup for Childe." Caidie seized the opportunity and said with great hospitality.
Nian'er was completely ignorant, her eyes were bright, and the comer nodded in thanks.
I watched from the sidelines.
Seeing Caidie's smile full of joy, Mud Feet is deeply trapped in a hopeless relationship.
In a trance, I saw that the shadow of Sister Green Snake overlapped with her across time, as if another moth was going to put out a fire.
My heart sank, it seems that the bell must be tied to the bell.
I pretended to agree and said with a smile: "Caidie, then you wait outside the door, and Nian'er will go with you to buy fish later." β
Caidie shyly rolled under her eyelashes and obediently turned away.
I sighed, hurriedly called Nian'er to my side, and had something to say.
"Nian'er, Aunt Bai asks you, you have to tell the truth, what do you think of Caidie. β
Nian'er looked at me blankly and replied, "She loves to laugh." β
"Nian'er, Caidie likes you. "I got straight to the point.
"Huh?" Nian'er raised her eyebrows in surprise.
"But you can't like her. I said the most important second half of the sentence.
Nian'er looked at me in a daze, completely unable to keep up with my rhythm.
"Nian'er, your father's relationship didn't end well, because they had different paths. You and the butterflies are also humans and demons. She has affection for you now, and if she expresses her affection for you, you must not deal with her, and you must categorically refuse her. Otherwise, it will hurt yourselves. β
Nian'er smiled with a complicated face: "Aunt Bai is too worried." Nian'er would rather be alone and miserable for a lifetime than repeat the mistakes of her father. β
I looked at Nian'er distressedly, trying to comfort him for something, but I couldn't say anything.
I could only watch him turn around lonely and walk out the door.
I stood on the side of the door, watching the backs of the two of them leaving.
Caidie laughed vividly all the way, tentatively pulling Nian'er's arm, but Nian'er walked indifferently, unmoved.
I thought that this would prevent a tragedy, but I underestimated fate.
The two of them had gone and had come back in the middle of the night.
I leaned in front of the window pavilion on the third floor of Yihong Courtyard, and saw with my own eyes that Caidie took off the green robe she was wearing and draped it on Nian'er.
Caidie reluctantly turned around, Nian'er stood in front of the door, and looked at it stupidly for a long time, until she couldn't see Caidie's figure anymore, and then turned to leave.
I sat on the edge of the couch in disappointment, watching Butterfly cautiously push open the door like a thief and slip in.
"Why are you back?" I said, accentuatingly.
Caidie stood up tight and turned her head, seeing that I hadn't fallen asleep yet, she smiled awkwardly, and cleverly changed the topic with me: "Today Ah Nian and I saw a girl on the street who looks very similar to you. We all mistook her for you, but the girl suddenly glared at us with a strange and frightening look. β
I didn't listen to what Caidie said at all, I only heard it piercingly, she called Nian'er Ah Nian.
This, this trip, and even the name has changed when I come back!
"What did you do today?"
I've rarely been so cold, but I'm really worried about these two children.
Caidie has always been good at nonsense, but once it is exposed, she will habitually nervously retreat until there is no way to retreat.
"We, we just went to buy fish, and then I stewed fish soup in the deserted house for Ah Nian to drink. β
"Then why did you come back wearing Nian'er's clothes, did you do something you shouldn't have done!" I looked slightly angry.
Caidie's expression was even more embarrassed: "No, no, no! Yes, the weather is cold, and there is no fish seller on the street, so Ah Nian went to the marriage river to fish." β
"And then!" I said again.
Caidie immediately became confused and confided the truth: "Then I accidentally fell into the river from the broken love bridge, and it was Ah Nian who saved me." He saw that my clothes were wet, so he took them off and put them on for me. β
My heart sank, and I felt a faint pain. reminds me of the scene when Sister Green Snake first set foot in the red dust and met Zhang Tianshu.
"Butterfly, you fell into the river on purpose. β
I rubbed my aching temples helplessly, unwilling to speculate.
Caidie looked at me in shock: "You, how do you know." β
A sense of frustration that is powerless to return to the sky gradually spreads all over my body, and I am really angry that my blood surges, "Caidie, do you know that you are not jumping into a river, but a bottomless abyss." β
Caidie looked at me inexplicably, and said emotionally: "You are Ah Nian's Aunt Bai, but do you know? When we were roasting the fire at night, I could happily see the stars twinkling in the sky, but Ah Nian could only see the boundless night. Ah Nian is very lonely, you don't know him at all, and you don't care enough about him. Even if Ah Nian is a bottomless abyss, I am willing to be a star to illuminate him, and I am willing to jump down and fall into his heart to warm everything for him. β
I was obstructed, but I wasn't angry, I wasn't angry, I was just speechless for a long time.
It seems that in the dark, you, me and him, who are alive in the red dust, are all being ruthlessly slaughtered by fate.
Seeing that I was silent, Caidie said sincerely with tears: "Ah Nian said, you will not agree to him being with me, and you are his most important relative, he only listens to you." Miss Lanyue, please, allow us to be together, Ah Nian he needs me. β
I don't want to be the evil person who beats the mandarin ducks, but there is really no room for negotiation in this matter.
"No! You can't be together!