Chapter 32, the stars are shining
"He loved to fight since he was a child. Li Ruoxing always smiled when he talked about Fang Chenyi, "I heard that when he was five or six years old, he beat up the little boy near our alley because of one person. He always refused to admit it later, but I knew it. Li Ruoxing looked at the clouds and mist gathered by water vapor at the mouth of the cup, "I remember everything." ”
"I saw him when I was very young, when my bamboo horse was broken and I didn't dare to go in front of my house, he was seven years old at the time, and he was a whole head taller than me. I remember that he looked down at me with mud and blood on his face. But I wasn't scared at the time. Later, he intercepted the little boy next door, beat him, and robbed me of his bamboo horse. Li Ruoxing laughed out loud when he said this.
After a cough, she continued: "The little boy next door is called Ding Yuheng, and he is a good friend who has played with me since childhood, but I watched very happily when Fang Chenyi hit him. Ding Yuheng's father was on an errand in the Yamen of Taishan County, and because of this incident, he was sent to an orphanage. ”
Li Ruoxing looked at Xu Ming, who was sitting on the side and listening attentively, "At that time, I knew that he was actually an orphan, and he was brought up by Aunt Wang, who lived in the innermost part of our alley, Aunt Wang is a widow and usually helps some poor children." ”
"It was 10 years before I saw him again. Li Ruoxing coughed a few more times. Xu Ming hurriedly helped her and let her lie down in the bed.
"I moved because my father joined the Muyun family's chamber of commerce, and our family gradually became wealthy. Ding Yuheng's family also moved with our family, and his father became the prefect's master. My original little boy who helped me to grab the bamboo horse will not show up again, but God still let him come to me. Li Ruoxing lay in the quilt and looked at the ceiling blankly: "That day, I went home with Ding Yuheng, and when I passed by an alley, I met a group of robbers, who took a fancy to our money, and even wanted to insult me." Although Yu Heng has always protected me, he has been weak and sickly since he was a child, and he is no match for the splashes at all. We gave away all the valuable things on our bodies, but they didn't give up, they said my clothes looked good and should be worth a lot of money. Li Ruoxing looked at Xu Ming, "At this time, he appeared." He sat on the wall next to him with a dog's tail in his mouth. He said, 'You guys are bullying a sissy and a girl, that's good!'"
Xu Ming saw tears flickering in the corners of Li Ruoxing's eyes. Her voice choked: "I've never liked boys who fight, but I don't hate it that much when he fights, and I even like it a little." ”
"Fang Chenyi, he is very domineering when he fights, but people are cowardly to death. When the girl said this, the corners of her mouth rose slightly, and even the tears in the corners of her eyes were happy.
"He always came to my house after he knew where I lived, quietly, sometimes until midnight when he climbed over the wall. Every time he came, he would always bring me something fun and delicious, and this habit has not changed until now. Li Ruoxing took out a bamboo dragonfly from under the pillow, which Fang Chenyi brought to her last time. "He is a man who loves to be strong and loves face, and when he mentions our affairs, he is arrogant and cowardly, and I have asked him several times about our relationship, and in the end I took the initiative. ”
Li Ruoxing's face blushed when he said this: "I asked Yu Heng to write me a love letter, and that time when he came to look for me, I sneaked out of the room and deliberately let him see the love letter." Who knew he was really an elm head, and then what did he say, I understand your mind, we are just friends or something. Li Ruoxing's tone was full of resentment, "Later, I directly pulled his ear and asked him if he would like to give me a future." ”
Li Ruoxing said that he would never forget the scene where the boy stammered and said he was willing, and then cried cautiously, for fear of being discovered by others.
However, although Jingguo in this world does not value business, it does not suppress business, and it is almost impossible for Li Ruoxing and Fang Chenyi to do so. Fang Chenyi knelt in front of the Li Mansion all day, and Li Ruoxing was angry with his father at home all day. Finally, Father Li relented, and he promised that as long as Fang Chenyi had the ability to take care of Li Ruoxing, he would not oppose them. However, this criterion for judging whether you are capable or not is Father Li's decision.
"My mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to me, and my father didn't continue the strings, and he pulled me up alone. I know he doesn't want me to have a hard time in the future. Li Ruoxing said: "I know that it is not easy for my father. ”
Later, Fang Chenyi tried all kinds of professions, did all kinds of things, and even cultivated immortals for a while, but he always didn't get the approval of Father Li, and gradually he became a little disheartened. Li Ruoxing always had tiredness and boredom in his smile when he saw him: he used to be a dashing boy like an eagle! Later, the boy's words often changed from "I will work hard" to "I have worked hard". Maybe they weren't supposed to be people of the same world in the first place, just like the eagle and the stars in the sky, no matter how hard the eagle flutters its wings and flies, it can't reach the sky.
But Li Ruoxing was unwilling, she obviously liked that boy like that, in all the stories she had heard, love could always overcome everything, and she believed that they could too.
Li Ruoxing went to plead with his father: "He will work hard, even if he doesn't succeed, but I am willing to live a hard life with him!"
Father Li shook his head: "Of course I saw his efforts, and I know that he really likes you." ”
"Then why are you?" Li Ruoxing looked at her father's gray hair, which was the first time she noticed that his father was old. Father Li said: "Some things can have results if you don't like them, you love each other, but you are not suitable, this should be called fate!"
Li Ruoxing's tears burst out of his eyes: "I don't care if it's suitable or not, I will only marry him in my life!"
"Impossible, I have already agreed to Dingfu's proposal, and when I come back from this trip, I will organize a wedding for you after the New Year. Father Li rarely showed an angry and serious look, "I think that kid from the Ding family is good, and you have played since you were a child, and I don't have to worry about his character." Li Ruoxing was locked in the house by Li's father and banned her feet.
"If I can't be with him, then what's the point of my life. When Li Ruoxing said this, his eyes were dull and his eyes were dull. "Later, my father went out and left me at home alone. Fang Chenyi still comes to see me every day, Ding Yuheng also comes, they always stagger the time, and my life is not boring. Although he was still smiling, I could see that the tiredness and boredom in his eyes were getting heavier and heavier, and he didn't even smile at me anymore. He said he was tired. Li Ruoxing waited for Fang Chenyi all day that day, but he didn't come, Li Ruoxing's long-accumulated negative emotions finally broke out, she silently shed tears and cut her wrist with scissors.
"Actually, I'm lying here with suicidal thoughts right now. Li Ruoxing exhaled a breath of turbidity and stretched out his left hand, revealing the twisted and terrifying scar on his wrist, "Actually, I had it on the first day I came." But, but. Li Ruoxing's tears that had just stopped came out of his eyes again: "He always smiled when he came to see me, which reminded me of the old days, although the tiredness in his eyes was deeper, but I lied to myself that the present is no different from the past." I remember when he fought the ruffians for me, and he kept me in the back and said, 'Don't be afraid, I'm still here.' ’。 ”
Xu Ming cautiously stretched out his hand and gently stroked the head of the crying little girl in front of him, he said: "Maybe, he is just really tired, you have known him for so long, don't you know who he is?" Xu Ming looked at the girl who was crying and looked at him suspiciously, and continued: "He loves you very much, serious and cowardly, although he is not very careful, but he has been working hard for your future! He may just have some things that are inconvenient to tell you now, you have to believe him." ”
Xu Ming pointed to the starry sky outside the window. The night sky in winter is bleak and bleak, but tonight the night sky is star-studded. This was the first time Li Ruoxing looked up at the sky in so many days, and he was shocked by this beautiful starry sky for a while, unable to speak. "You must know that when it is dark to a certain extent, you can see the stars shining in the sky!" Xu Ming said softly to the girl: "Whether it is your illness, or your love, or this plague, it will be better." It's going to be fine. ”
"You little girl always lie about the military situation!" Xu Ming raised his hand and looked at Guan Chunuan in front of him who was protecting his head with both hands: "Where did you commit suicide, isn't it good?"
"I kept telling her that she wouldn't answer, so I reached out and probed her snort, and when I found that she wasn't breathing anymore, I thought she couldn't think of killing herself. Guan Chunuan's eyes were red, and he looked at Xu Ming with an innocent expression.
Xu Ming still didn't give up, put down his hand and sighed: "Storytelling hurts people! Remember it in the future, the storyteller said that if he didn't detect his snort, he would be dead, which is false, so you can feel her pulse!"
Guan Chunuan whispered to herself: "Aren't I too anxious!"
"She hadn't eaten for a long time, she fainted from hunger, just eat something, it's fine. Ouyang Nanshan checked Li Ruoxing's pulse and said to Fang Chenyi, who was guarding the side. While Fang Chenyi was holding Li Ruoxing's hand and saying some inappropriate words for children, Ouyang Nanshan pulled Xu Ming and Guan Chunuan out of the door again: "You cured that little girl's hysteria?"
"How do you know?" Ouyang Nanshan smiled: "Although her pulse is weak, it is caused by physical weakness, but the stagnation has been cleared, and the hysteria has been cured!"
Xu Ming nodded: "It's the juniors who are not talented, and it has been so long that she has been enlightened." ”
"Hysteria is the most difficult to treat, and it deserves to be a master disciple of the Ziyang Sect!" Xu Ming looked at Ouyang Nanshan, who said a few words and left in a hurry, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Your old man's medical skills are outstanding, is it okay to praise people, what does it have to do with me curing depression and being a person from the Ziyang Sect?"
Xu Ming and Guan Chunuan returned to the ward. Fang Chenyi was whispering something to Li Ruoxing, and both of them had smiles on their faces, looking bright and warm in the sun. "Did you see that?" Xu Ming asked Guan Chunuan. "What do you see?" Guan Chunuan looked around and didn't notice anything unusual. "Look, the stars are shining!"