Xiao Mu wiped her tears and snot, revealing a kind of strength that she should not have at her age, she said: "The doctor said that you can get good by taking medicine on time, and there is still a lot of silver, I will decoct the medicine on time for you every day, and we will wait for the opportunity to see the prairie in your hometown." ”

Ye Yu used to be as strong as she was in the face of her illness, but every time the illness tortured him in a hopeless manner, this ridiculous strength was gradually weakening.

Now he saw Xiao Mu's sparkling and sincere eyes, and this strength seemed to have returned.

That night he fell asleep again with a cough, and when he was at his weakest, the nightmare took him to a past he did not want to recall.

It was from that day on, that his cough became more frequent and more intense.

It was a gloomy night, the rain washed the sky and the earth spotless, the air smelled damp and moldy, and the wet roads were full of mud.

The dart game was soaked in a deathly silence, waiting for a requiem.

Everyone was asleep, and there was only one room where an oil lamp was lit on the table, which shone dimly on the faces of Ye Yu and the eldest lady.

Mrs. Tang, who had been crying for several days, had blank eyes, her face was wet and dry, dry and wet, revealing a roughness that should not have appeared at her age.

She seemed to be much older because of her emaciation, and there were even a few more gray hairs on her temples.

It could be seen from her expression that she had thought carefully before talking to Ye Yu.

"I married him when I was twenty years old, and now it's been thirteen. He was the only man I had, he was strong, he was brave, he was sincere, he dared to love and hate, he got all my love, and this love, even after I had a child, has not diminished even a bit. ”

Mrs. Tang said very calmly: "He is a prodigal man, if he is still alive, he will definitely marry more concubines." But I still have no regrets, and I still love him. ”

"Even if I am old in the future and he doesn't want me anymore, my feelings for him will not change. ”

Ye Yu didn't understand this kind of woman's feelings: "Why bother?"

"Although he is unwilling to give up everything for me, he is a man who is willing to fight for me and die for me at any time. Now it's for my young beauty, and when I'm old in the future, he will still take risks for me for this decades of affection. ”

Ye Yu understands this, life is not the most important thing for men.

"He opened a dart game, married seven concubines, he killed himself to save everyone's lives, I have no hesitation in all the decisions he has made in his life, I have no complaints, I believe him. ”

Ye Yu listened quietly.

But this time, he was wrong. ”

"What's wrong?"

"He shouldn't have entrusted us eight women and two children to you, it won't end well one day. Madame Tong paused and continued: "I loved his body during his lifetime, and after he died, I could not let his reputation be ruined. ”

"Why didn't it end well?"

Mrs. Tang's gaze became a little softer: "You are as brave and smart as my husband, but you are still young and you don't understand many things. ”

Ye Yu waited for her to continue.

Mrs. Tang said: "The second lady entered the door a year later than me, but she is six years older than me, and in terms of appearance, she is the most beautiful of the eight of us." You know, women need men at this age. She can hold on to a moment of loneliness, maybe a year, maybe two years. But what about five years and ten years? Will she be able to keep it? If one day she finds another man, my husband will become a cuckold ghost. ”

"I can be widowed for him for life, but the sixth and seventh aunts are not yet twenty years old, and they say now that they can be widowed for my husband for life, but what about the future? ”

Ye Yu said: "You think too much. ”

Mrs. Tang's gaze was very determined: "Even if these women are loyal and martyrdom, they can't stand the concerns of some stinky men, after all, the appearance of several of us is not bad." ”

This is true, Tang Jianli's women can all fall into the city.

"My husband is gone, and I don't know how many people will think about us, such as the owner of the Heimiao Village, who is a timid person at first glance, that day in the mourning hall, my husband's bones are not cold, and he dares to despise us in such a solemn place. ”

Ye Yu clenched his fists: "If I have the chance, I will definitely kill him." ”

"He wants to get us, and there are many people who will think, coercion and temptation, I can't guarantee how long we eight women can last. ”

"With me, no one dares. ”

There was no contempt in Mrs. Tang's eyes, and her tone revealed the care of a sister-in-law: "Child, you can't do many things alone, you can protect us for a while, but you can't save a lifetime." Or, you can keep one person for a lifetime, but you can't keep everyone for a lifetime. ”

"Take 10,000 steps back, if you are there, no one will dare to hurt us. After a long time, what will outsiders think of us? Rumors are spreading, saying that you have occupied eight sisters-in-law, saying that our husband has just died and followed other little white faces. ”

Ye Yu said: "People are not afraid of words. ”

"I'm afraid, my husband has lived all his life, not for anything else, just for a good name, and not to live up to others. He sacrificed his life not only to save everything, but also to not leave an infamy after his death, so that others would not be called a coward. ”

Ye Yu said: "Then what are you going to do?"

Mrs. Tang's way to avoid Ye Yu's gaze again was not to turn her head, she closed her eyes, and two lines of cold and piercing tears slipped down her cheeks.

Her tears this time were not like the sadness of the loss of her loved one in the mourning hall before, these two lines of tears were written on her face with poignantness.

Outside the window, in the night of the black hole, the distant requiem seems to have sounded, soothing the lonely ghosts.

"After dinner, I boiled a pot of lotus seed soup to replenish my haggard sister and children. Tom choked up, she burst into tears, with a kind of despair, and with a sense of relief, and said intermittently: "Everyone has drunk it, and I have drunk a bowl, and I have secretly put a sufficient amount of poison in the soup." ”

Ye Yu's pupils dilated, his cold hair stood up, and he was speechless in surprise.

Mrs. Tang hid her face and cried: "I'm afraid that he will be lonely on Huangquan Road, I will accompany him, and my sisters will also go." In doing so, it is also for him to save his reputation and our reputation. ”

Ye Yu looked at Mrs. Tang as if he was looking at the most vicious woman in the world: "He did not hesitate to sacrifice his life in order to save you, but you did this, making his sacrifice worthless." ”

Mrs. Tang said: "Only when our family is dead will they let go of the dart game, and his sacrifice will be truly valuable." ”

Ye Yu said: "But for him, you are the most important thing. ”

"I know. It was because she knew that she cried bitterly, and if she could, how much Madame Tang wished that the person who died would be herself.

"Do you want to say, why don't I even spare the children?"

Ye Yu nodded, one child was Mrs. Tang's flesh and blood, one child was born to Mrs. Four, and the seventh and eighth aunts were still pregnant.

"He is everything to us, and everything to the children, if we are not with him, how will the children live? It is better to let them go with us in peace, but it is a relief. ”

Ye Yu wanted to say something, but he couldn't say a word when he opened his mouth.

"Finally, I have a request to put my and my husband's bodies in the same coffin. ”

Ye Yu couldn't understand Mrs. Tang's inner struggle, and she could never understand it.

That night, he was drunk, as if he had drunk all the wine he had missed in the past twenty years.

He went from being drunk to dying in a dream, and the dew of that morning fell into the dirt, and he played a requiem mournfully.

Eight beautiful women are lying neatly in front of them, their beauty has not disappeared due to the loss of life, their eyebrows still have the melancholy of yesterday's pear blossoms with rain, and the eldest lady still has yesterday's rouge makeup on her face.

Two children, less than ten years old, lay beside them, their young faces not looking like they had just died, but not yet awake.

This picture has been frozen in Ye Yu's memory for a lifetime, and it always appears in his nightmares, forever and ever.

The musty smell in the humid air seemed to never be able to dissipate, Ye Yu woke up from the nightmare with a splitting headache, and subconsciously shook his head, as if this could quickly forget the memories in last night's dream.

In addition to the cold sunshine, Ye Yu was also greeted by a night of medicinal soup brought by Xiao Mu.

Ye Yu's throat was dry and on fire, and he felt much better after drinking the decoction.

"Big brother, you finally woke up, do you know that you have been in a coma for two days?" Xiao Mu looked a little haggard because he was taking care of Ye Yu.

Ye Yu was a little surprised, and immediately came back to his senses, and the feeling of sleeping for two days and sleeping for one night was not too big.

Xiao Mu asked again, "Are you feeling better?" The doctor said that this medicine is very effective. ”

Ye Yu said: "It's better, give me another bowl of medicine." ”

Xiao Mu said: "Okay, you wait for me, the medicine I caught last time has been drunk, I'll catch some more." ”

Ye Yu said: "Is the silver enough?"

Xiao Mu smiled: "It's enough, don't worry." ”

She grabbed Ye Yu's baggage at random, took the silver and ran out of the inn.

As the exhaustion brought by just waking up made Ye Yu lie down on the bed again, he didn't notice the subtle changes in Xiao Mu's body.

Many men lose this woman because they don't pay attention to the subtle changes in women, and Ye Yu is no exception.

Xiaomu was wearing a pair of broken shoes that she had picked up from nowhere, which were a bit big for her, and she would fall out if she walked a little faster.

The pair of lilac-colored embroidered shoes that Ye Yu bought for her are gone.

The first time she put on those embroidered shoes, she was happy in place, how she wished she would never grow up, so she wore them for the rest of her life.

Xiao Mu deceived Ye Yu, the silver was not enough for a long time, and the little hand she stretched into the burden actually didn't take anything. The last piece of broken silver was settled yesterday, and in order to buy medicine for Ye Yu, she sold the shoes that were not too old at the price of a few copper plates in the pawnshop.

She didn't want to tell Ye Yu this, she only hoped that her eldest brother could recuperate quietly.

But now, the young Xiaomu has nothing to do, and she discovers the importance of money for the first time.

She knelt at the doctor's feet in confusion, prayed for a long time with tears in her eyes, and the kind doctor sighed and gave her another packet of medicine.

Xiao Mu happily took the medicine and ran back to the inn in a hurry, and the autumn wind poured into the hole in her knee that had been worn out by kneeling for too long.

Of course, Ye Yu didn't notice this, he drank all the medicine that Xiao Mu had just boiled like an alcoholic who hadn't drunk for several days.

Ye Yu said that it was better, but his body told him that it was actually not any better.

No matter how small the hope is, Xiao Mu is unwilling to give up, as long as Ye Yu still has a breath.