Chapter 4: The Initial Quietness
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Xi Xiaoying was about to say something, as if she felt uncomfortable in her chest again, and wanted to turn her head to avoid Ling Shuangshuang and cough again, but it was too late.
Ling Shuangshuang suddenly, she felt a slightly fishy breath spray onto her face.
In a short period of time, the daughter of the Xi family had coughed for the third time, and each time it came more and more sharply, and it seemed that the little girl's illness had reached a serious point that could not be underestimated, but it was annoying that her family did not take good care of her, and let her run around in the rain alone.
However, despite her illness, this simple girl is still not afraid of anything, and she can still smile so clearly and innocently.
- My name is Ying'er. It was the first time I left home, with longing and novelty, but also frightened, like a forest deer breaking into the deep forest, I only know that there is a place called "Tanting" that is waiting for me, and when you will one day enter my heart, you may feel sorry for me so much love for you.
In the eyes of outsiders, I have always been well-behaved and sensible. I've deceived everybody, and I've tried to be self-willed and justified, but what's the solution? I'm just an orphan girl, and when I was very young, I was abandoned by my biological parents because of this strange disease, and it was my adoptive parents who took me in and worked hard to raise me as an adult. They have broken their hearts for my immortal disease, where is my reason to be willful, and where is my right to be right?
The wayward behavior of slamming the door and leaving in a fit of anger is probably only qualified to be done by those who are loved.
My cousin Kerr has a black dog, I call it "Little Black", usually just eat leftovers, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter night sleep locked out of the door, no one treats it as a pet dog, and will not gently pet it. But when it untied its chains during the day, it didn't escape once, and I think it must have been scared to leave, and no one would look for it.
Every time I go to my cousin Kerr's house to play, I will go to talk to the local dog "Xiao Hei", I don't know if it understands my words, it just listens to me quietly, occasionally wagging his short tail, whimpering a few times. "Little Black" is my friend, the only friend.
If one day I leave the house willfully, no one should be looking for my "medicine jar...... No, I know......
Well, listening to my aunt and uncle, Cousin Ke'er is about to marry far away to "Jiangnan", and her husband's Meng Gongzi is a registered disciple of the Xiao family in "Suzhou", and "Xiao Hei" is also leaving me...... It's Cousin Kerr's, and it doesn't belong to me...... Well, I understand that I can't rely too much on others, and in the darkest times, even the shadow will leave me.
Looking at Xi Xiaoying's lost appearance, Ling Shuangshuang suddenly couldn't help but smile slightly, but the smile was a little bitter. She took the girl's cold little hand hard, pulled her into her arms, and gently patted her back, which was heaving from coughing.
She was only twenty-one years old, and yet, at this moment, she looked down at the fourteen-year-old girl in her arms with motherly eyes.
- Actually, at that moment, I felt like I was holding myself, the same self that used to be like a bud.
At that time, I suddenly realized that I hadn't been hugged for a long time, really long, long...... Liangyu went out early every day, fooled around outside late at night before coming back, there are also people who don't return at night, he said that men are okay to socialize, I just smiled, and later, I didn't even have the strength to smile.
The rain decreased slightly, and at Xi Xiaoying's insistence, Ling Shuangshuang accompanied the girl and went to the "Tanting" one after the other.
When she was about to walk to the "Talking Pavilion", there was still a drizzle in the sky, but Xi Xiaoying was not wet at all, Ling Shuangshuang stretched out her coarse cloth coat with branches, and made a curtain like an umbrella, so that she could hold it to protect her from the rain. A weak daughter of everyone is holding a nondescript thing, although it looks a little funny, but it works very well.
At the intersection, in the rain and fog in the distance, a red pavilion corner sticks out of the bushes, and the "talking pavilion" is already in sight.
"Talking Pavilion", as the name suggests, is a gazebo for conversation. It's a quiet place in the middle of nowhere, making it the perfect place for young couples to have a tryst.
"Sister, I'll know the way here...... Youโyou don't have to send me anymore, front...... Someone in front of me is waiting for me......" Xi Xiaoying suddenly stood on her feet, lowered her head and smiled slightly, her beautiful eyes blinked, and she couldn't stop glancing ahead.
Ling Shuangshuang shifted the burden to the other shoulder, and said nonchalantly: "It's okay, Miss Ying'er, it's all here, I'll just send you to the place." โ
She continued to walk forward by herself, and after walking a few steps, she found that Xi Xiaoying behind her did not follow, she stood on her feet and looked back, only to see the fourteen-year-old girl with slender eyebrows and eyes, standing in the spring grass with a cloth curtain, for the first time there was a shy and shy look on her face, and she was a little indescribably anxious, but as if she didn't know how to say it, she just pursed her lips and smiled.
Ling Shuangshuang suddenly understood, smiled bitterly, and secretly thought: "It seems that I am really troublesome." โ
โโThis daughter, who is everyone's daughter, ran to this wilderness place, and it won't be as simple as just coming to enjoy the mountains and rivers, I'm afraid that I will secretly come out to meet a handsome lover brother, right?
However, for some reason, her heart sank.
Oh, my God!
This girl, why is it like her yesterday?
"Okay, Miss Ying'er, then my sister will go back, and from here she will go all the way south, and after half a mile you will arrive at the 'Talking Pavilion'. She sighed imperceptibly.
-- Everyone's path is chosen and walked by himself, so where can others influence the end? How can he listen to the advice of others in the first place?
"Hmm!" Xi Xiaoying responded happily, almost jumped over, took off the clothes on the curtain and returned them to Ling Shuangshuang, and then said sincerely: "Sister Shuangshuang, if it wasn't for Ying'er's luck to meet you today, I would really be lost." As she spoke, her eyelashes flickered, and her eyes narrowed, as if they were filled with sweet honey.
"Yourself...... Be careful. I couldn't help it, Ling Shuangshuang suddenly blurted out a few more words, but Xi Xiaoying jumped and walked away, suddenly turned around in the drizzle, and smiled: "Sister, Ying'er will visit your house another day!"
Ling Shuangshuang just smiled faintly and silently, nodded slightly out of courtesy, and didn't take this sentence seriously, but Xi Xiaoying was serious, standing still under her feet, tilting her head and asking: "So, sister, where does your family live?" You tell me the detailed address, Ying'er is a little confused." โ
Seeing the girl's big eyes looking at her without blinking, full of anticipation, Ling Shuangshuang had no choice but to sigh and say with a smile: "You go north from the pavilion just now, and the third household at the entrance of the 'Baijia Village' village is my house, there is a plane tree in the yard, but it is not a phoenix that falls on the tree, it is a crow." โ
"Okay, Ying'er will come to see my sister next time!" Xi Xiaoying laughed, then lifted the hem of her skirt, trotted happily, and disappeared at the bend of the path.
- What am I going to warn Ying'er to be careful? I'm really ...... Alas, how can there be so many sad stories in the world......
When he returned home, he opened the chain on the firewood door, and before he had time to take a breath, Ling Shuangshuang put down the bean curd bucket and went to the stone mill to soak in water and grind beans.
By the dim residual lamp, when Ling Shuangshuang finished grinding the second pot of beans, she heard a familiar humming sound in front of the door. She knew that her husband Wen Liangyu was back, but she didn't let go of the push to open the door to greet her.
"Frost, I'm back. The door creaked open, and with a faint smell of wind, Wen Liangyu walked in with a smell of wine.
- It seems that he is in high spirits today, hehe, if he sees that I do not welcome him in the door, as he did in the past, he must sink his face and scold me a few words.
Ling Shuangshuang raised her hand in the grinding, swept away the hair that hung down on her forehead and was soaked with sweat, and glanced at Wen Liangyu with a heavy face, only to see him humming a little song, the green cloth robe was straight, and there was a proud color on his handsome face.
- Hehe, I don't know which house I went to eat and drink today, and when I came back, I was so full of grumbling that I didn't have to meet it.
"The meal is hot in the pot outside, I'll go get it for you. Ling Shuangshuang sighed slightly, let go of the push, wiped her wet hands on the placket of her clothes, and went to the outside room to get food; after all, it was her husband, even if he often went out and didn't return, even if he never took a copper plate to the house, even if he often beat and scolded himself, however, every time Wen Liangyu came home, Shuangshuang was waiting for him with a hot meal and serving him.
-- In any case, the man in front of me was determined by me. It is said that "poor couples mourn everything", I have to endure until the bitterness is exhausted, and I will survive until the flowers bloom and become rich.
Wen Liangyu sat down at the table, crossed Erlang's legs, and didn't move a finger as if he was an uncle, waiting for Ling Shuangshuang to bring out the food in the pot outside and put it on the table.
A plate of fried pork slices with bamboo shoots and a big bowl of winter melon soup, although life is tight, Ling Shuangshuang would rather cut down on food and clothing by herself, but also spend a lot of thought, every meal and every meal try to let her husband eat well, and herself, over the years, has never been reluctant to eat a bite of food.
However, Wen Liangyu, as usual, began to complain as soon as he saw the dishes: "Why is this soup so light? And where are the few pieces of meat in this fried pork slices with bamboo shoots? Alas! In the end, it is a daughter from the prefect's family, and it is not tasteful to cook a dish until now. โ
While talking lukewarmly, he kept picking out the few pieces of meat in the green vegetables with chopsticks, put them in his mouth and chewed them, and took a spoon to take a big gulp of soup, eating with relish and drinking soundly.
Ling Shuangshuang didn't say anything, smiled slightly, returned to the stone mill by herself, picked up the stone pestle and began to pound the naughty beans in the eye hole in the center of the grinding disc hard, very hard, very hard.
-- Liangyu, you don't want to think about it, but you are also the man in charge, every day you just go out to make Western banquets, eat and drink together, eat with a round belly and mouth oil, and never take a penny to go home, six years, how have I been a wife to survive until now? I have fallen from the daughter of the dignified prefect's family to the current Douhua Niang, and now I have to work all night to support you, who is the big loss? Hehe, it's really funny!
However, Ling Shuangshuang didn't say anything after all, she followed Wen Liangyu for more than five years, fled all the way from "Yunnan" to "Saibei", experienced strong winds and waves, her heart was light, not only was she no longer as delicate and weak as when she first met, but many times she didn't even have the strength to blame anything.
- Liangyu, you have changed, I don't know you more and more, where did you go to the gentle and elegant you at the beginning? Where did you go to that considerate you? Liangyu, if you have a next life, can you change your pride and like me to the point of madness?