“Jiang She, this is your pawn ticket. From today on, I’ll give it back to you. You’re free.” In the winter of
that year, he was sold to her family’s pawnshop by his gambler father. She was the “Miss Trick Face” that everyone in the city avoided
, but she was only good to him, but no matter how she paid,
all she got was his disgust. Finally, she wanted to give up. On the very
day of her birth.
She let him go, return your pawn ticket, two do not owe each other, from now on the sky is high and the clouds are wide, never meet again.
(1)
The day Mei Yue Wan went to the Escort Agency to look for Jiang She, she dressed
herself carefully for the first time in front of the bronze mirror. The person in the
mirror is very light in color, or white to transparent.
White hair, white eyebrows, white skin, white lips, even
the pupils are as white as glass, like a blind man.
But in fact, Mei Yue Wan could see, and she could see very clearly. She seldom looked in the mirror
at ordinary times, but now when she looked carefully, she could see that her whole body was white everywhere, and
even her fingernails were pale. It is so
white that it kills people, so strange, and so unlucky-like a white lantern hanging at the door of a funeral home.
She opened the Rouge box and looked in the mirror in a daze.
No wonder Jiang She hates her, she really. It looks like a monster. The sun was shining brightly
outside. After dressing up, Mei Yue Wan went out with a special bamboo umbrella and covered herself tightly.
She touched the thin piece of paper on her chest and thought, anyway, at least today, Jiang She should like her.
Because she wanted to give him something.
When she arrived at the Escort Agency, Mei Yueh-wan walked in slowly, her hands holding an umbrella as white as snow. Everyone in the Escort Agency stopped their movements and gave her a burning look, as well as a suppressed whisper of surprise:
“Is this the’Miss Shifty Face ‘of the Mei family?”
Yeah, why did she come out? The sun is so big..
“She’s here to see Ah She, isn’t she? That’s strange. It’s not so scary to look at it this way.”
……
Mei Yue Wan turned a deaf ear and went straight to the end of the courtyard. Jiang She was standing there, talking with a crimson figure. Mei Yue Wan recognized her. It was Jiang She’s little teacher in the Escort Agency who was aware of it. When Jiang She turned his head, Mei Yue Wan just walked up to him. His face changed.
The bamboo umbrella was lifted gently, revealing a snow-white cheek with fragrant powder, dark and slender eyebrows, beautiful red lips, and thick eyelashes trembling slightly.
However, with a little more color, the whole person is like a thoroughly reborn, emitting a stunning and incomparable light, beautiful as a fairy in Qiong Palace, and with an unknown coquettish atmosphere.
Jiang She was stunned for a moment. I don’t know when all the people in the Escort Agency came around. They all exclaimed. Even Gu Yao, dressed in red, stayed for a long time. The
sun was blazing, and Jiang She stepped forward imperceptibly. With his back against the sun, he bowed his head and said to the man under the umbrella, “What are you doing here?”
Mei Yuewan’s pupils were still as white as glass. She looked up at Jiang She and said softly, “Jiang She, today is my birthday. Will you go back and have dinner with me?”
“I..” “I’m afraid I won’t go back,” Jiang said after a pause.
His tone was not very natural, because he had said earlier that he would go to escort the dart that day, but he was chatting with his sister in the Escort Agency. The feeling of being exposed on the spot made him a little uncomfortable.
Mei Yueh-wan, on the other hand, didn’t care. She just smiled. “Yes, I knew you wouldn’t go back, so I came to see you.”
She slowly touched her chest, took out the thin piece of paper, and narrowed her eyes against the slanting wind in the courtyard.
“Jiang She, this is your pawn ticket. From today on, I’ll give it back to you. You’re free.” Every word
she wrote was very light and slow, but when it fell, it was like a huge thunder, which not only shocked Jiang She’s expression, but also caused an uproar in the courtyard. This thin piece of paper from
Mei’s pawnshop has held Jiang She back for decades. Because of the rules of pawnbroking, he could neither redeem himself nor ask anyone to redeem himself for him. The people of the Escort Agency could not stand up for him.
But now, Mei Yue Wan actually so easily took out, in front of him, said to return his freedom.
Jiang She managed to calm down her heaving chest and stared at the face under the umbrella. “What do you mean?”
Mei Yueh-wan shook her head. “It’s not interesting. It’s just because it’s not interesting..”
She smiled and sighed, but her glazed eyes hid a trace of sadness: “After all these years, I don’t think it’s any fun anymore. From now on, you can go wherever you want. No one will stop you anymore.”
When the ticket is tucked into the palm of Jiang’s hand, the figure under the bamboo umbrella suddenly looks so thin. “For you, you must not have prepared a birthday gift for me, but it doesn’t matter. It’s the same for me to give you.”
“Because it’s for me, too.” The snow-white face took a deep breath, and the dress fluttered in the wind, with a little disappointment, a little relief.
Jiang She, you don’t know, I like you. It’s really too hard. I don’t seem to have the strength anymore, and I don’t want to wait day after day. Just stop here. I’ll give you back the pawn ticket, and you can go anywhere you want. We’ll just pretend we’ve never met before. I won’t remember you anymore, and you won’t hate me anymore.
Jiang She held the pawn ticket in a daze and looked at the man under the umbrella motionless, his head empty.
He should have been ecstatic, but he could not say a word, but there was an unspeakable absurdity rising from the soles of his feet.
The scorching sun is scorching the back, but people are already in a trance, back to a winter day many years ago, with snow flying all over the sky and cold wind.
He heard a tender voice ringing in his ear, clear and shallow, smiling with soft goodwill.
“Dad, look, that little brother’s eyebrows are so beautiful.” With a
buzz, the mirror image fell into the snow, and everything stopped abruptly, and it stopped here.
(2)
In the winter of Xunyang City, the snow was three feet thick and colder than usual. In Mei’s pawnshop, two figures, one big and one small, were arguing under the counter.
The older one was a famous gambler in the city, and the younger one was his son, who was only seven or eight years old. He was dressed in thin and shabby clothes, but his eyebrows were very firm, and he held his father back.
“No, I can’t pawn it. Mother says it’s the last valuable thing in the family, and I can’t even celebrate the New Year if I pawn it.”
The gambler’s father was so irascible that he kicked his son away and said without mercy, “Go away and die. Don’t stop me from making a fortune!” As he
spoke, he raised his hand and shook it, and the counter was immediately covered with a mess of things. The boss frowned and shook his head, but the gambler didn’t care. He swept the broken silver and bills into his arms, and was eager to rush out of the door and change his luck to seek his “money-making plan.”. Seeing this,
the child turned pale and did not hold his father back. Instead, he threw him to the ground and sat down at the counter for half a day without getting up.
Just then a voice called out from one side of the hall:
“Dad, look, that little brother’s eyebrows are so beautiful.”
This not only made the pale child follow the sound, but also made the gambler’s footsteps in the snow turn around keenly.
Mei’s pawnshop has a frail young lady, who is the only daughter of Master Mei. He holds her in the palm of his hand and has everything he wants. People in Xunyang City say that they are afraid that the stars in the sky will try to pick her off. The
wind and snow were howling, and the gambler’s intuition was not wrong. The little girl who spoke was wrapped in a fox fur coat, holding the hand of a rich man. It was the young lady of the Mei family, Mei Yue Wan. Master
Mei lowered his head and asked his daughter, “Do you like it?”
The little girl is still young and doesn’t understand all the twists and turns. She just nods her head subconsciously and says, “I like it. It’s like drawing it.”
Black and dense, heroic as a sword, very handsome, unlike her, white. As she
spoke, she released her father’s hand and leapt forward like a deer, gently lifting the stunned little brother up.
On the other side, Master Mei had already looked at the gambler in the snow outside the door, and his eyes were complicated. This is.. Your son?
The gambler had already come forward, bowing and scraping, “Yes, yes, yes, it’s a bitch.” Out of the corner of his eye, Master
Mei looked at the two children, and when he saw the smile on his daughter’s face, he could not help but raise his lips slightly, and there was a measure in his heart.
You little boy.. Do you? A
slow sentence sounded in the cold wind, and the gambler’s eyes lit up. Without thinking, he suddenly nodded: “Dang Dang Dang, it’s rare that Master Mei likes it. It’s better to accept my child. It’s just that although he’s small, he’s clever, and his price is naturally different from other dead things. This price..” Master
Mei raised his hand and interrupted with a frown. He took out a money bag from his bosom and threw it into the snow. The gambler hurried to pick it up. As soon as he opened it, he saw a bag full of gold leaves. His eyes were going to flash.
“Go to the ticket counter.” A cold voice sounded overhead, and the gambler did not care about the disgust in the words. He was overjoyed
to take the money bag and answered it readily.
As soon as the pawn ticket was ticked, the pawn sale was done. Under the counter, the child in shabby clothes turned pale. He pushed
Mei Yue Wan’s arm away, and his voice changed.
“Dad!”
“What do you call it? I’ve made a fortune, and I won’t be able to redeem you!”
The gambler seemed to be afraid that Master Mei would regret it, so he put the money into the snowstorm and disappeared in a twinkling of an eye
. The child, who had been pawned by him behind him, was dragged by several assistants, who cried out in a
heart-rending voice,
“Dad, Dad, you come back.” Don’t leave me behind. “
Master Mei had already brought his daughter into the inner room and looked at the scene from a distance without much expression.”.
He just suddenly touched the top of his daughter’s head and said in a gentle voice, “Yue Wan, Dad has found you
a companion to talk with you and play with you. Are you happy?”
Wrapped in a fur coat, her little face stared at the lobby, her eyelashes trembling slightly. After all, she was too
young to understand the meaning of pawning. When she heard her father ask her, she quickly looked up, a little confused
: “I’m happy, but why, little brother..” Not happy? Master
Mei smiled silently and looked at the snow outside the hall. His eyes were long and distant. “It’s
enough for you to be happy..” In this world, God won’t make everyone happy. Don’t you also
have a strange disease? Everyone has his own destiny, and one day he will accept it.
(3)
Jiang She did not eat or drink for two days after she was in Mei’s house. Her eyes were red with blood. She said hoarsely that she wanted to go home, like a small animal that would bite people.
Home? Master Mei snorted coldly, “Where do you have a home? This is your home, and the young lady is your only master.”.
Jiang She breathed rapidly, his thin chest trembled, and Mei Yue Wan shrank behind his father, only to feel that the good-looking eyebrows suddenly became extremely fierce.
She seemed to understand something. She shook her father’s sleeve and pleaded, “I don’t want my little brother to play with me anymore. Let him go home.” After appeasing his daughter, Master
Mei looked at Jiang She, hesitated for a moment, and said in the tone of a negotiation between adults, “Well, I’ll give you a chance. You go to your father now, find him, and get the bag of gold leaves back. This pawn will not count. You can pay the money with one hand and clear the bill with the other, and you can go home right away.”
Jiang She stared at him for a long time. Like a wolf cub, he responded almost ferociously: “Well, that’s what you said!” In the world of
ice and snow, a carriage slowly followed the young man in front of him. Mei Yue Wan in the carriage poked her head out from time to time and looked at the thin and lonely figure with concern. There were many gambling houses in the
city, and Jiang She had obviously done this job of “looking for a father” many times. He turned into one house after another with ease and skill. Although his heart was burning with anxiety, his face was so calm and resolute that he did not look like a child. Seeing Master Mei in the car, he could not help nodding and sighing, and the idea of keeping this son with Yue Wan became more and more serious.
Finally, when he touched the twelfth gambling house, Jiang She found his father who was red-eyed in gambling. To be exact, they came out of the gambling house tearing.
“Where are the gold leaves? I’ve lost them all. It’s all your fault. I’ve lost several times in a row as soon as you came. Get away from me..”
Jiang’s father cursed and kicked Jiang She down in the snow, but Jiang She jumped up again, murderous and fierce, not like a child.
“I don’t care. It doesn’t matter if you borrow money. You can redeem me first. Only you can redeem me. I’ll return the money to you later. When I grow up, I’ll take Ah Niang and her brothers and sisters far away. It has nothing to do with you anymore..” Two figures,
one big and one small, wrestled and entangled. In the snow, there were many people watching the scene of bustle in the blink of an eye. Mei Yue Wan put her head out of the window and saw Jiang She dragging a thigh across the crowd. He refused to let him go. Jiang’s father, who was eager to get away, was also angry and red-eyed. He kicked him hard.
“Let go, let go of me!” In the
vast white snow, Mei Yue Wan’s eyes were sharp, and suddenly she saw a touch of red, which spread all the way from behind Jiang She. Her heart jumped, and she couldn’t control herself and wanted to jump out of the carriage.
The crowd was pushed aside by a doe-like figure, followed by a noble dress, and the voice sounded coldly in the snow.
“The man belongs to the Mei family. Will you pay for kicking him to death?” Father Chiang’s movements became sluggish. He turned his head and let out a white breath. His teeth were trembling. “Master
Mei, I’m trying to teach this disobedient bitch a lesson for you.” “Are you going to get rid of him?” Said
the handsome man with a wring of his eyebrows and a cold voice.
Father Chiang quickly waved his hand and said, “No, no, no. He can stay with Master Mei. That’s the blessing of several lifetimes
. I won’t redeem him. I won’t redeem him..” As if
he was really afraid that Master Mei would ask him for ransom, he suddenly saw a gap and took to his heels to
squeeze out of the crowd and run away. As soon as Jiang She’s face changed on the
ground, regardless of the pain, she gritted her teeth and wanted to struggle to get up: “You
come back, you don’t go..”
Wrapped in a fox fur, Mei Yue-wan quickly supported him, and his little hands consciously covered his gurgling
wound with blood. The pain was like on his own body: “Little brother, little brother, are you all right?” But
Jiang She pushed her away like crazy: “Get out of my way, don’t touch me!” The
staggering Mei Yueh-wan was caught by Master Mei’s big hand. He looked at the discomfited young man and said
in the wind
, “I’ve given you a chance. You heard what your father said. Do you
recognize it?”
(4)
Jiang She, of course, did not admit it. He was locked up alone in a dark room and did not
stop until the middle of the night.
It was Mei Yue Wan who carried a small lamp and quietly touched the door in the middle of the night. After listening to the door for a long time, she reached into her pocket. There was a small window under the
door, which was used for daily delivery of meals, but now a snow-white hand was put in, the palm of the hand was opened, and only a soft voice was heard.
“Little brother, I’ll give you some candy. Don’t cry.” The
door suddenly quieted down, I do not know how long, Mei Yue Wan felt that the candy was picked up, too late to be happy, but the candy was thrown out of the small window in an instant.
“I don’t want your candy.” After a pause, the man inside said hoarsely, “I’m not crying either.”
Mei Yue Wan was not angry either. Wrapped in a fox fur coat, she picked up the candy and returned to the door with a lantern. She sat down and blew it. She peeled it off and put it in her mouth. She did not speak for a long time.
She looked up at the stars in the sky, not knowing what she was thinking. After one sugar in her mouth melted, she took out another one and still handed it to the small window. As expected, after a while, Jiang She threw it out again.
Mei Yueh-wan pursed her lips and went to pick it up again. After picking it up and eating it herself, she handed it to Jiang She, who threw it away again. After repeating this cycle several times, the man at the door finally became impatient: “Are you finished?”.
Mei Yueh-wan leaned against the door, her long eyelashes quivering slightly like those of a deer, and her words were flattering: Little brother, I have a lot of candy. You can’t throw it all away, just like the stars
in the sky. The candy is sweet. My father said that if you eat it, you won’t feel sad and you won’t want to cry. I’ll give it to you every day, and you can stay with me. Is it all right?
*** off! Who wants your candy? Jiang She clenched his fist and pounded the ground. He roared and roared, but his tears were falling uncontrollably. He covered his eyes: “I want to go home, I want to go home..”
As if hearing the sound of crying on the other side of the door, Mei Yueh-wan put her hand in again, a little flustered: “Little brother, what’s the matter with you? Don’t cry..” As she
spoke, she suddenly gave a low cry. It turned out that Jiang She had bitten her hand fiercely. As he bit, he cursed vaguely: “White-haired monster, white mouse, white blind man, let me go home quickly!”
Mei Yueh-wan was in such pain that she burst into tears, but she didn’t dare to cry out for fear of drawing people to her, so she had to struggle: “Don’t talk about me like that. My father says that people who talk about me like that are all bad people..”
“Who told you I was a good man? If you don’t let me go, I’ll bite you every day!” Jiang She had never seen the appearance of Mei Yue Wan clearly before. After she was taken to Mei Fu and locked up, she saw her snow-white body at close range. The strange scene made him shudder, and he was even more reluctant to stay with her.
Now he grabbed her hand and bit it for a long time before he let go. He spat a mouthful of blood out of his mouth. Ignoring the sobs outside the door, he said in a vicious voice, “Go and tell your father to let him kill me. Even if I die, I don’t want to stay with a monster like you!”
Jiang She was determined to break the net, but what he got was an unexpected result. When the door opened, Master Mei had a calm face, and the wind and snow behind him made his face a little tired.
“Just this once, just think of me as making a losing deal, and don’t show up in front of me again.” The
sudden reversal left Jiang She at a loss, but he saw a head sticking out from behind Master Mei, his snow-white cheek wrapped in a fox fur coat, the wound on his hand carefully hidden in his sleeve, his eyes white as glass, timid, but smiling at him.
He understood in an instant, opened his mouth, and an indescribable taste rose in his heart.
A carriage sent Jiang She directly back to his home. Before leaving, Mei Yue Wan remembered something, took out another candy, caught up with him, and handed it to Jiang She in the carriage.
This time, Jiang She did not hesitate, took over, thin lips slightly pursed: “Thank you, free..” I will come to play with you.
But it wasn’t long before the “thank you” lingered in the wind, and at nightfall, the carriage sent Jiang back, but he was already burning and confused, lying delirious in the carriage, talking nonsense with tears on his face. How ridiculous can
things be? Jiang she is back home, but a step back late, the home is empty, already a person is not. After all,
the gambler lost all his money. In front of the creditor’s door for the second time, he fled with his family overnight and left Xunyang City completely. He never thought that he had a son who had been sold in a pawnshop. How cheap human life is in
this absurd world, and it can’t be the weight of a dice in a gambler’s hand. The rickshaw puller of the
Mei Mansion said that Jiang She was stunned and tottering. Suddenly, he fell into the snow with his head down and died. The rickshaw puller was so frightened that he lost his mind and hurried to bring him back. The wolf cub, who
had been full of vigor and vitality the night before, lay on his back on the bed as if he had lost his soul the next night, looking straight at the curtain overhead.
Mei Yue Wan secretly came to see him in the middle of the night, climbed into bed, reached out to wipe the corner of his eyes, and touched a trace of cool wetness. No one
will ever redeem me again. I have no home, no mother, no younger brother or sister.. I have nothing left.
Sound like a ghost, echoed in the cold night, Mei Yue Wan nose tip a sour, can not help but come forward, Jiang she has not yet reacted to come over, a touch of sweet has been sent into the mouth, soft little hand covered his mouth, do not let him spit out.
Jiang’s pupils suddenly widened, and he bit the thin white finger. Mei Yue Wan fell on him in pain, her head against his chest, but she clenched her teeth and did not let go of her hand.
She said, “Little brother, I, I can also be your family. This can also be your home. There are many people in our family who can play with you.” But
Jiang She hated him very much: “Who wants to play with you?”? Why do you say my eyebrows are beautiful? Why do you want to hurt me? The voice came from under the palm of Mei Yue-wan’s hand. Mei Yue-wan was full of tears, and her two thin
eyebrows were as white as frost and snow. “I didn’t hurt you. I really feel beautiful. I can’t see my own eyebrows when I look in the mirror
..”
“Shut up!” Jiang She gnashed his teeth. The more he thought about it, the more he hated it. “You
white-haired monster, white mouse, white blind man!” He cursed.
He scolded in the middle of the night, and Mei Yue Wan fell on him and listened silently in the middle of the night.
It was not until Jiang had lost his strength and the sugar had melted that he really accepted his fate and closed his
eyes.
“You know what?” Between the
curtain flying, every word he said, with a sweet breath, but fell on the fingertips of Mei
Yue Wan, like a fine silver needle, pricking her pain.
“Some people are born to bring disaster, like white-haired monsters like you.”
“If you don’t have what you don’t have, you have to covet what others have and take it for yourself.”
I really hate you.. Very, very annoying..
(5)
Mei Yueh-wan later learned that “hating” this kind of thing can also be like a
day for ten years. The same is true of
“like.”.
Jiang She lived in Mei’s house in this way, but he was unwilling. No matter how much Mei Yue Wan tried to please him, he would not give her a good look.
In fact, as he grew older, he already knew that most of the responsibility for his abandonment lay with the man he didn’t want to call his “father.” But where was his father and his family? He could not find any relatives, and there was always an outlet for his resentment, which was naturally transferred to the source.
This state of depression, in the encounter with Gu Yao son, finally changed.
Gu Yaoer is the daughter of a big Escort Agency in Xunyang City. She is about the same age as Mei Yue Wan. The kite she flew fell into the yard of Mei’s house. She was also informal. She climbed directly into the dog hole of Mei’s house and wanted to take the kite back, but as soon as she looked up, she bumped into Jiang She’s stunned eyes.
“Younger sister..”
Gu Yaoer was born to be smart and pretty. She looked very much like the youngest sister in Jiang She’s memory. As soon as he saw her, he seemed to go back to the past. The tip of his nose could even smell the fragrance of rice from the stove in his home. When
Mei Yue Wan came, it was dusk, a pair of young girls sitting in the setting sun, clothes flying, holding kites, talking and laughing, snuggling like a picture.
She stood in the wind with a special bamboo umbrella, and suddenly she didn’t know whether to come forward or not, but they looked up and saw her at the same time. The young girl
in the scarlet dress stood up briskly, patted her dress, and raised her eyebrows. “That’s all agreed. I’ll wait for you at the Escort Agency in the future, little brother!” When
she finished, she didn’t pay attention to Mei Yueh-wan’s reaction. She just grabbed the kite, bent down, and tried to get out of the dog’s hole. She was so surprised that Jiang she quickly shouted, “Hey, you don’t have to go through the hole any more. Just go through the front door.”
She waved her hand and smiled like a silver bell. “It’s so far away. It’s hard to get around. It’s much faster to get out from here. My father said that Jianghu people don’t care about trifles.”
She is also a “father said,” but it is very different from Mei Yuewan’s boudoir lady style. She is much more free and easy, and it is obvious that Jiang She, who laughs out loud, prefers this kind of temperament.
When the person finally disappeared completely, Jiang She turned around and looked at Mei Yue Wan under the umbrella, and the courtyard suddenly quieted down.
On that day, Jiang She seemed to use the tone of request to Mei Yue Wan for the first time, and the sunset glow filled the sky, dragging his figure very long.
“I want to enter the Valley Gate Escort Agency, learn martial arts, and become an escort.” In the
wind, Mei Yue-wan was silent for a long time before she blinked her snow-white eyelashes. “Okay, I’ll go and tell Dad..”
He approached her with a little joy, but suddenly she reached out and grabbed him by the corner of his coat. “So, will you come back?”
His long eyelashes quivered slightly, and his raised face was pale and delicate, like that of a nervous deer. Jiang’s heart suddenly softened, and he hummed in a low voice: “Of course I’ll come back. Before Mei Yueh-wan could crack a smile, his mouth was already habitually one step ahead of her:” Your family is still holding my indenture. Where can I go? “.
As soon as he finished, he regretted it. Sure enough, the snow-white cheek was stunned, loosened the corner of his clothes, and his expression dimmed again. Jiang She’s palm moved slightly, and his heart was secretly annoyed.
Again, always like this, why can’t you talk to her well? What you think is not slander and sarcasm, but when you say it, it always changes?
He couldn’t figure it out, and he didn’t want to think about it any more. Inexplicable irritability welled up in his chest. Like countless times before, he left her again and took the first step without looking back.
How to face it? Perhaps, she to him, from the childhood of the winter snow, has become a knot that can not be opened.
(6)
Stepping into the Escort Agency, Jiang She is like plunging into a new world. He has brothers of the same school, a family as kind as the youngest sister, more knowledge and skills, and more laughter.
He went to the Escort Agency more and more times, but came back later and later, often late at night. When he reached the door of the room, he suddenly found a dim light. Under the light sat a cold figure, standing by his door, slowly holding sugar in his mouth, waiting for him to come back.
That kind of Mei Yue-wan always reminds Jiang She of the childish words she used to say when she was young, when she was holding the door and comforting him. “It’s sweet and sweet. My father said that if you eat it, you won’t feel sad and you won’t want to cry..”
He didn’t want to think any more deeply, but each time he said to her, “You don’t have to do this. If you expose yourself more deeply, your body won’t be able to stand it.”
And every time, Mei Yueh-wan would raise her head and smile at him with her eyes as white as glass: “I’m not waiting for you. I’m looking at the stars. The stars at the door of your room are the most numerous and the brightest.” What else can Jiang She say with
such an answer?
There was only one time when the answer was different. That day, Mei Yue-wan seemed a little disappointed. She leaned against the door and sighed: Actually, I secretly went to the Escort Agency today, and I saw you practicing martial arts, archery, and talking and laughing with them. I really want to go there, but I can’t even get out of the umbrella in my hand. The sun is so big, and I dare not let others see me. Those ordinary things you can do every day, but I feel unreachable, maybe more envious..
As she grew older, her illness became more and more serious. Her whole body was white and almost transparent. Of course, she knew that she was weird in the eyes of the world, so she seldom went out. It was only when Jiang went to the Escort Agency that she was so lonely that she couldn’t help going to see him.
As if aware of Mei Yueh-wan’s state of mind, Jiang hesitated to speak. It took him a long time to sit down beside her and say,
“Your illness will be cured. There are thousands of elixirs in the world, but there is always one that can cure you.”
Mei Yue-wan lowered her head and said, “Um.” In fact, she would prefer him to say that he would come back earlier and spend more time with her, but Jiang She would not say these words. The Beginning of Autumn after studying in the Escort Agency for several years, Jiang She took over the task and left Xunyang City for the first time to escort the Escort.
This is Gu Yaoer’s father, Gu Da is in charge of a strong guarantee, will definitely bring people back to the Mei family as they are, Mei master just let go.
Unfortunately, when he left the city of Xunyang, Jiang She was restrained, his heart was calm, and he really had no idea of “running away.” On his way back after escorting the dart, he was so devilish that he could no longer suppress those surging impulses. On
this impulse, he quietly rode out of the team, and when the Escort Agency came after him, he rolled down the cliff in a panic and broke a pair of legs.
As if God had played a big joke on him, he was brought back to Xunyang City, lying on the couch, feeling no pain, and his heart was dead.
When Gu Yaoer came to see him, his tone was faint: “How could you not want to run away?”? I dream of finding Ah Niang and her younger brothers and sisters. Perhaps only Ku Yao-er, whom he always called his “youngest sister,” could understand
that deep-seated yearning for his family. She turned around, tears in her eyes, and suddenly pounded the brothers who had followed her: “Why are you going after him? Why can’t you let him go? Do you want to keep him trapped in Xunyang City for the rest of his life?”.
The brothers who lived with Jiang she day and night all bowed their heads, full of guilt: “Master has told me to bring him back. He made a promise to Master Mei that he would not break his promise to anyone..”
Disturbance, a delicate figure always hiding in the door, until everyone left, she gently walked out, step by step to the edge of Jiang’s bed.
Her snow-white eyelashes quivered slightly, and she looked at him from head to foot. I don’t know how long her eyes stayed on him until the figure could not help saying in a dumb voice, “Have you seen enough? I’m such a ridiculous useless person. What else is there to see?”
Mei Yue Wan sat down on the edge of the bed and held his hand slowly. As soon as he moved, she did not break away. She held it more tightly and even stuck it to her cheek. The warm breath overflowed her lips and teeth, word by word, with the strength of softness and firmness.
“You’re not useless. I’ll make you stand up. You can still walk, you can still run, and you can still go to the Escort Agency to practice your sword, just like before.”
A tear, finally at this time, fell down and fell into Jiang’s neck.
He blinked his eyes, and his heart was full, as if there had been a plum rain in the south of the Yangtze River.
(7) The
recovery process was so long that Mei Yue Wan personally took medicine for Jiang every day, helped him walk in the courtyard, massaged his unconscious muscles at night, and even went back to his room when he was tired, so he slept directly with him in his clothes. On the flower path in the
courtyard, Jiang She began to fall down again and again, and climb up again and again. His mood was sometimes good and sometimes bad. One day, when he finally reached a hundred steps, his legs suddenly trembled uncontrollably. Finally, he was so irritable that he pushed Mei Yuewan away: “Go away, don’t care about me any more, give up this useless person.”
Mei Yueh-wan held him tightly, shaking her head with a pale face. “Let go, let go!” Cried Jiang.
His body was tottering, and as he spoke, the two of them fell into each other’s arms. The dust was flying, and the tears of Mei Yue Wan fell in a hurry.
“I will not let go, I will never let go, even if you are really lame, I will take care of you for a lifetime.”
She fell on him, still holding his hand, I do not know how long, his other hand a little bit back to embrace her.
“What should I do? You’re still as annoying as you were when you were a kid..”
Day by day, in the dead of night, Jiang She would gaze at the sleeping snow-white face beside him for a long time by the moonlight sprinkled by the window lattice. Something has changed quietly
and unconsciously.
Just as Jiang She’s legs began to get better day by day and slowly recovered to 78%, Gu Yaoer came to Mei Fu and said something to Jiang She. When she left, Mei Yue Wan came again to give Jiang She tonic soup, but was frightened by Jiang She’s cold eyes.
“Did your father tell you that he was worried that when I recovered, he would go to the Escort Agency all day and ignore you, or that he wanted to run away, so that you could just drug me in my soup and make my legs limp forever?”
Mei Yueh-wan’s face turned pale, and her hand holding the soup bowl was almost unsteady. She thought of the way Gu Yaoer looked at her when she went out, and she knew in her heart that it was her father’s few words of complaint that told her, “No, no, my father is just talking nonsense. He doesn’t really want..” Before
she had finished speaking, Jiang She suddenly raised his hand and knocked over the bowl of soup in her hand. In the splashing of broken porcelain, she almost exclaimed, but he looked up at her and gritted his teeth bitterly: “Why can’t I escape?”? Do you have to stick to your house and be an eagle with broken wings in your cage? Even if it wasn’t really drugged, then what’s the difference between drugging and other things like withholding my pawn ticket, making a contract with my master, and trapping me in Xunyang City? Are these all fake?
A lot of things can not think can not mention, such as a fuse, the past has been turned over to the heart again, completely diluted the warmth that has been quietly bred. In
Jiang She’s roar, Mei Yue Wan’s body stiffened for a long time, her snow-white eyelashes trembled, and finally she did not say a word, but gently squatted down to clean up the broken porcelain on the ground.
“I’ll fill you another bowl, and you can calm down. Later I’ll massage your legs and help you walk around the yard two more times.”
“No, stop pretending. I don’t need anything anymore.” A
cold voice interrupted Mei Yuewan, and Jiang She looked at her and said, “The Gumen Escort Agency will come to pick me up tomorrow. You don’t have to do any of this anymore.”
Mei Yueh-wan’s hand trembled, and the broken porcelain ran across her fingertips. “But you’re not quite..”
Almost. Do you still stay here and be drugged and crippled one day? You can promise that you won’t do it, but can you promise that your father won’t? In a series of
sharp questions, Mei Yue Wan’s lips moved, but she didn’t make a sound. She lowered her head. Something fell on the broken porcelain, blending with the blood beads from her fingertips, glittering and translucent red.
Jiang She tried to turn his head away and grabbed the bedding with one hand. When there was no more movement behind him, he lifted the quilt to cover his head and face, and let out a painful sob in the boundless darkness.
Jiang She did not return to Mei’s home for half a month. Mei Yue Wan stopped her father who wanted to go to the Escort Agency to ask for an explanation. She quietly put up a bamboo umbrella and went out while no one was paying attention. As soon as
Jiang She stepped out of the Escort Agency, she saw
Mei Yue Wan fall to the ground. A group of naughty children surrounded her, throwing pebbles and singing songs of ridicule. What’s more, they even grabbed the bamboo umbrella she was holding tightly in her hand.
“Ugly monster, white-haired monster, there’s a ghost lady in the Mei family..”
Mei Yueh-wan curled up on the ground and dodged, protecting the umbrella in her hand for fear of being caught in the sun. “No, don’t take my umbrella,” she begged. “I’m not a ghost lady. Please..”
Jiang She’s pupils suddenly shrank, and his blood almost rushed to his head. Without thinking, he rushed forward, carrying several urchins and throwing them aside: “Go away, go away, don’t touch her!”. The
naughty children were frightened by Jiang She and scattered in all directions. Mei Yue Wan grasped the umbrella shaking in her hand. Before she could see Jiang She’s face, she was wrapped firmly in a robe falling from the sky. Jiang She covered her hand holding the umbrella. An exasperated voice sounded in her ear:
“Don’t talk. Who told you to go out alone? Do you know it’s dangerous?!”
Mei Yueh-wan was covered by Jiang She’s robe, and not a single ray of sunlight could come through. Finally, she felt more comfortable. After a while, she stayed inside and said, “I, I want to see if your legs are all right..” “Of course it’s all right,”
Jiang said habitually after a meal. “It’s not like the bones are all broken into powder..” But as he spoke, he unconsciously pulled Mei Yuewan into his arms and put his chest against her head. After a while, he said, “You put your umbrella up quickly. I’ll carry you back now.”
(8)
The setting sun sets in the west, the wind sweeps the long street, and the figures of two people overlap, swaying and dyeing the Phnom Penh, like a dream. On the way
back, Jiang She at least asked Mei Yue Wan dozens of times, the body is still difficult to feel uncomfortable, Mei Yue Wan every time tirelessly to answer him, his face is better, not yet, hum, I do not know who to blame.
“Your father gave you so much medicine, didn’t it help at all?”
Mei Yuewan was silent for a long time, but when Jiang She thought she wouldn’t answer, she suddenly said on his back, “It’s no use, because it’s not a disease at all.” It’s probably.. Cause and effect.
The long wind swept over Mei Yue Wan’s dress, her slender arm hooked Jiang She’s neck, and a faint sigh floated into the setting sun, revealing the secret that had never been mentioned on her own initiative.
In fact, Mei Yueh-wan was not born with “crafty illness.” Everything started with a white fox–a white-haired snow fox who came
from nowhere and snuck into her library. She sat in various corners, holding books and reading them with relish. She did not turn into a human form, but only used her fluffy paws to grab one book after another. The reflection in the moon under the window is very strange. When
Mei Yue Wan’s mother ran into her for the first time, she was scared half to death, and the white fox immediately threw away the book and ran away, but a few days later, the servants would panic to report that they had seen the white fox stealing the book.
At that time, Mei Yue Wan’s mother was already six months pregnant, and nothing could go wrong. The white fox stirred up panic in the house, and Master Mei could not sit still. He invited the heavenly teacher from Qishan to quietly set up the law array, and the white fox was really trapped.
That night the cold wind howled, the white fox desperately escaped from the law array, although picked up a life, one eye was shot blind by Master Mei on the spot, blood spattered, the shrill screams echoed over Mei Fu for a long time.
The white fox was wounded and fled. Before he left, he opened his other eye wide and looked at Master Mei with resentment, which made Master Mei, who had been in the market for a long time and was calm in the face of change, palpitate.
Since then, a few months have passed in a flash, the white fox has not appeared again, and the heart mentioned by Master Mei has gradually been put down, only when things are over and calm.
And Mrs. Mei’s delivery is also approaching, on the night she gave birth to Mei Yue Wan, everyone did not expect a thing happened, the white fox appeared again. The white-haired snow fox,
blind in one eye, obviously came prepared, saw the right time, bit the midwife’s hand, held the falling swaddling clothes in his mouth, and his eyes radiated a bitter light. When all the
people in the hall changed color, he bit the baby girl in swaddling clothes before Master Mei came in, and then jumped out of the window and fled without a trace.
That mouthful did not cause any blood to appear on Mei Yueh-wan’s body, but caused her to completely “turn white” from top to bottom in an instant! Mrs. Mei on the
couch only took one look, then screamed and fainted. Master Mei picked up his beloved daughter who had undergone a terrible change in swaddling clothes, and his hands trembled out of shape. In the
distance, the people of the Mei Mansion panicked and shouted that the fire was on fire, and that the library of the Mei Mansion was burning up overnight.
The white fox’s revenge was so heavy that everyone could not bear to see it. It was a small matter that the library was gone. The most important thing was Master Mei’s wife and daughter. Her daughter contracted a strange disease from birth, and her wife was too frightened. It was not long before she left. Master Mei suddenly became a loner, with her young daughter shedding tears on her skirt. On the one hand,
he hated the white fox, on the other hand, he blamed himself for being too impulsive and getting into trouble for his family, so he was full of guilt, and never continued from then on. He only took care of his only daughter and treated her in every possible way.
He also spent a lot of money to ask the heavenly teacher to catch the white-haired snow fox everywhere, but for many years, there was no follow-up, because of the resentment of the white fox family, let him make a lot of fox fur for Mei Yue Wan from an early age, in order to vent the fire in his heart. When she
was young, Mei Yueh-wan didn’t know the secret of this, and she loved the beautiful fur coat her father had given her. But since she learned the source of her “treacherous disease,” she has never worn those clothes again, and she has begged her father not to go around killing the white fox clan and stripping the skin and bones.
She only felt that there was a cycle of cause and effect in the dark, and after a lot of disturbance, she could not tell who was right and who was wrong, but she did not want to be entangled in it any more and could not extricate herself.
So, this is not a disease, but a cause and effect that no miracle doctor in the world can cure. I will probably spend my whole life.. You can only be a monster who doesn’t see the light of day. In the
setting sun, Mei Yue Wan fell on Jiang She’s neck. Tears flooded his eyes and soaked Jiang She’s heart little by little. Suddenly he gave a low roar, with indescribable emotion: “What nonsense, what bullshit cause and effect, there must be a way, there must be..” How dare you! Don’t let me catch that beast! In the
furious hate, Mei Yue Wan’s snow-white eyelashes trembled, and her chest was strangely filled with a warm current, so that she could not help but get closer to him.
Later, Mei Yue Wan has been thinking, if time can stop in the afternoon of the setting sun breeze, he has been carrying her, that road will never be finished, how good it would be.
Unfortunately, there is no if, floating clouds to the birthday of this day, she returned his pawn ticket to him, from then on the two do not owe each other, everything is over.
(9) When Mei Yue Wan went to the Escort Agency to return the ticket, she combed her makeup carefully for the first time. At the moment, her skin was red, swollen and festering. She sat behind the screen. She didn’t want to see Jiang She like this, and there was no need to see her again.
Jiang She will set off, leaving Xunyang City to find his family, really to the heart of this day, he did not know what it was like. Why did
you suddenly.. Is it because I didn’t promise to come back with you for your birthday?
In the end did not hold back, Jiang she holding the sword, the tone of some trembling to ask out. The other end of the
screen was quiet for a long time. Mei Yue-wan seemed to smile softly. “Maybe, maybe I finally found out that no matter how much I do, I won’t really wait for you. You know I’m not in good health. I’m tired now, and I don’t have the strength to do more..” Let it go.
Jiang she breathed, stepped forward, and moved his throat, but did not open his mouth after all. He was carrying in his
arms the birthday gift he was going to give her personally. It was a plum blossom hairpin he had carefully chosen. He thought it matched her very well, but he probably couldn’t give it to her any more. How could
he tell her that for so many years, he had never accompanied her on her birthday, just because of fate, her birthday happened to be the same day as his mother, how absurd, how could he tell her this difficulty, how could he completely put down this knot? After all
, it’s still him. Hurt her. “Everything is the result of cause and effect. When my father shot a white fox in the eye, he felt regret for the rest of his life. I had no intention of praising your eyebrows, and you were trapped in the Plum Mansion for decades. Today, I really don’t want to repeat the same mistakes. Instead of looking at each other, I’d rather let you go. The cause and effect end here. You won’t hate me anymore, will you?”. The tip of
Jiang’s nose was sour, shaking his head unconsciously, and something was about to blurt out, but it was interrupted softly by Mei Yue Wan. Jiang Shaoxia
, it’s getting late. Hurry on your way, before my father changes his mind.. The future cannot be expected. The mountains are high and the rivers are long. Take care.
She suppressed the ups and downs of her chest, trying to make her tone sound calm, but the pain on her body was overwhelming, reminding her that she was going to die soon, and that the matter of letting Jiang She go could not be delayed any longer.
“Don’t worry, Dad won’t let you be alone. Even if you leave, Dad will let Jiang She guard the grave for you all your life. You like him so much, and with him accompanying you, you won’t be alone in your grave..”
People are always going to die, but how can she be willing to let Jiang She guard her grave for a lifetime? He still has such a long life, so many unfulfilled wishes, should not be delayed by her, let him go, go as far as possible, for her to see the vast sky outside.
In the room, warm smoke filled the air, and a sad atmosphere filled every corner.
“Is there anything else you want to say to me?” Jiang She clenched the sword in his hand and opened his mouth word by word. “No more.” “Thank
you, Jiang Shaoxia, for accompanying me for so many years,” he said softly. The hand
holding the sword suddenly tightened, listening to this strange name, Jiang she in the heart of the waves of ink
surge, blocking him almost breathless.
Separated by a screen, no one could see anyone, Mei Yue Wan could not see the tears
in Jiang She’s eyes, Jiang She could not see the silent
grief under her festering face when she gently put a candy into her mouth. The wind chimes under
the eaves are crisp and swaying, as beautiful as a dream, and as warm as the stars in the sky that
young girls once snuggled up to each other.
On this day, Jiang She left Xunyang City with a pawn ticket. In the twilight,
he raised his sword and looked into the distance, secretly making a decision.
He wants to find his family first, and then come back together and return to Mei Yue Wan.
He doesn’t believe in cause and effect. He only knows that he can’t let her go.
(10)
Not long after Jiang She rode out of Xunyang City, she was caught up by a crimson figure. Gu Yaoer, who was on
the horse, shouldered the burden and looked prepared. She smiled beautifully and cunningly.
“Elder Martial Brother Ah She, wait for me. I’ll accompany you to find your family!”
Jiang She’s eyelids jumped. “Why are you here? Does Master know?” Gu Yaoer rode forward and stood side by side with Jiang She. “I know. It was my father who asked me to come to
you. Let me have some experience in Jianghu with you.”
Jiang she looked at the elated Gu Yao son, a long time, only to helplessly pull up the corners of the mouth.
Two people so together on the road, along the way, Jiang She will also speak clearly, he
only when Gu Yaoer is a sister, nothing else, let Gu Yaoer temporarily with a journey on the line
, as soon as possible back to the Escort Agency is serious.
“Brother and sister are brother and sister. After a long time, no one
can know what kind of relationship it will become.”
Jiang she dumb, just don’t turn your head, touch the hand to the chest, touch the close-fitting
plum blossom hairpin, a long sigh.
On this day, the two of them settled down at a tea stall. Jiang She took out the plum blossom hairpin again and gazed at it for a long time
. Gu Yaoer hummed, drank the tea in the cup, and was about to open his mouth. But from the next table
came the sound of a conversation:
“Have the rebels of the Thirteen Princes really invaded the city of Xunyang?”
“That’s not true. Attack the city and then go all the way north to attack the imperial capital. The thirteen princes have great ambitions
..”
“Then the defenders of Xunyang City didn’t resist?”
“How can we hold on? The city is already full of corpses, and several gold shops have been looted
. Thanks to my desperate efforts to pull a family to escape, otherwise I would have become a ghost under
the sword of the rebels.”
“Tut, no wonder I saw a lot of refugees on the way here. They must all be people who escaped from Xunyang City..”
The teacup snapped between his fingers, and the conversation at the next table stopped abruptly. Several people looked up together, only to see a handsome figure coming up to them at an unknown time, with a sword at his waist, his face white and his lips trembling. Are
you talking about Xunyang City? Do you know how the Mui family pawnshop is now?
No matter how Gu Yaoer dissuaded him, Jiang She was still determined to return to Xunyang City. His eyes were firm, and he never had a moment to confirm his mind.
“If something happens to her, I won’t be happy for the rest of my life, and there’s no point in finding my family, because that family is no longer complete.”
Gu Yaoer stamped his feet, hesitated to speak, and finally could not, so he had to watch Jiang She ride away. She made an appointment with him to meet her as soon as he rescued them.
It was an old house of the Gu family in the south. Gu Yaoer gave the address to Jiang She and drove straight in that direction. She was not worried about the safety of the Escort Agency, because she knew that her father and the brothers of the Escort Agency were already waiting for her in the old house.
As early as when her father asked her to follow Jiang She and leave Xunyang City, he had already told her her original intention. She didn’t understand at that time, but now she probably understands.
To avoid chaos, to avoid killing and war, to avoid the city of Xunyang has long been doomed to great turbulence.
Father is not missing, the only accident may be. Jiang Shehui accidentally learned of a change in the city and returned to save people regardless of his own safety. On the mountain path of
the setting sun, the dust was flying everywhere, and one man and one horse flew past, startled the birds to flutter their wings. In
the gale hunting, Jiang She’s heart was beating wildly. He pressed the reins tightly, and his pale face kept murmuring. It’s not too late, it must be too late.
(11)
Jiang She searched for more than half a month in the city of Xunyang, which was littered with corpses. The Mei family was already in ruins, and the charred corpses in the fire could not distinguish their faces. He rummaged frantically in the pile of corpses, and would never give up until the last moment.
Like losing all consciousness, the blood covered his eyes, and there was only the delicate snow-white figure in his head. Only then did he realize that she had been rooted so deep in his heart.
Unfortunately, no matter how to search, there is no clue, no trace, has been found to rehabilitate the army into the city, in one fell swoop to wipe out the thirteen Wang Ye’s anti-army, he still did not find Mei Yue Wan.
Led by the general called FanPingSheng, he not only caught the anti-army, but also stay to help Xunyang Satrap deal with a series of aftermath, gradually let Xunyang city to restore order in the past, regain peace, simply be worshipped as a God by the people in the city.
It was a pity that Jiang She had no time to think about these things. General Fan led the troops to beat the horse in front of him. He only looked at it in a trance. Then he went on to catch someone in the street and asked, “Have you ever seen a girl whose whole body is white, and even her eyes are white..”
The world seems to be upside down, he is looking for her day and night, forgetting tiredness, there is only one thought in his heart, he wants to find her, whether dead or alive, must find her, find her and tell her how much he loves her, will never leave her.. I don’t know how long after
this crazy search, that day, Jiang She asked everyone in the street again, but it was a car passing through the street, and the people around him lined the streets to welcome him. He had no intention of glancing back, but the whole person suddenly trembled and was shocked. The man sitting in the
car was General Fan, who was dressed in a black robe. He also snuggled up to a woman, slender eyebrows, bright red lips, beautiful hair, impressively is Jiang she has been looking for a long time Mei Yue Wan!
No, to be exact, Mei Yueh-wan is not so “white.” Her facial features are exactly the same, except that her hair is black, her pupils are black, and her body has the color of a normal person. She is no longer pale, but her skin is like congealed fat, just a little whiter than ordinary people. As soon as
the chariot passed, Jiang She’s heart was beating wildly. He pulled out the crowd like crazy, but he didn’t catch up with the chariot. Instead, he heard the people around him talking about it. They said that there would be a big happy event in the city recently. General Fan was going to marry at the celebration banquet. The bride was the beautiful lady who was riding in the same car with him.
As if struck by five thunderbolts, Jiang She tightened his grip on his sword and suddenly turned around. His expression was extremely frightening: “Is what you said true? Is General Fan really going to get married?”
The moonlit night was cold, the cold wind whistled, and a dark shadow silently sneaked into the general’s office.
When Jiang She saw the familiar figure again on the couch, his eyes were almost instantly moist, and he was too excited to control himself. He clenched his sword and staggered forward. As the curtain flew, the man on the couch got up and looked at him. It was the familiar face he was looking for.
But Mei Yueh-wan, who saw Jiang She, didn’t seem surprised. She sat between the curtains, sighing. “I knew you’d come looking for me. How are you, Jiang She?” She said faintly.
Jiang She stepped forward, and his hand trembled as he held the sword. “You saw me in the daytime, didn’t you?”? Why didn’t you recognize me?
He answered his own question, somewhat incoherently, “Did General Fan coerce you? Did he force you to marry him? You were afraid that if he found out about me, it would involve me, wasn’t it?”? Don’t be afraid, I’ll come and take you away now. When Jiang She came to find Mei Yue Wan,
these speculations had almost become a fact in his heart. He did not know what had happened in the middle, but he only knew that Mei Yue Wan was not willing to marry General Fan.
The more he spoke, the more excited he became. Just as he was about to take two steps forward and clasp Mei Yuewan’s shoulder, his slender body turned back and looked up at him.
“No, you’re wrong. No one is threatening me.”
Mei Yue Wan’s face was still as white as snow, but her eyes were as dark as ink. The moonlight sprinkled into the room through the window lattice. She paused and looked at the surprised Jiang She, as if with some unspeakable resentment.
“I won’t go with you either. I have nothing to do with you anymore.” Without General Fan, Mei Yuewan would have died in the hands of the rebels. Her first encounter with him was not in the midst of thousands of troops, but in the lane outside the Valley Gate Escort Agency.
At that time, Jiang She had just left Xunyang City. She missed him and couldn’t sleep. In the middle of the night, she couldn’t help carrying a lantern to the Escort Agency. But in the dark lane, she saved a man covered with blood.
At that time, she did not know who the man was, and the man did not say who he was, but when he recovered and left, he held her hand and said with deep meaning, “I will come back for you again. You wait for me.”
At that time, Mei Yue Wan did not care about this sentence, but when they met again, they were in the smoke and flames of war. When
the rebels entered the city, the Mei family was burned clean, and Mei Yuewan’s father was all killed, but the group of thief soldiers left behind Mei Yuewan, the “lady with a treacherous face,” as a strange thing like the “white-haired monster,” while teasing and watching the fun.
At that time, Mei Yue Wan was surrounded in the middle, his body was covered with the blood of his family, and the bamboo umbrella he held tightly in his hand was dyed red. When his heart was almost desperate, the sound of the horse’s hooves and the arrows were fired.
Fan Pingsheng, the rehabilitated general granted by the imperial court, appeared with his troops. A circle of rogue soldiers in front of
her fell to the ground with an arrow, and the black robe swept forward. The big hand reached out to her on the horse and came down like a God, rescuing her from the abyss of suffering.
Fan Pingsheng not only buried Mei Yue Wan’s family and settled her down, but also somehow got a magic prescription for Mei Yue Wan to take every day. Gradually, when the anti-army was almost
clear, the strange white on Mei Yue Wan’s body faded, and her pupils and hair and eyelashes began to show black.
Mei Yue Wan also know at this time, originally Fan Pingsheng will fall in the lane, is with intelligence, was the anti-army forces, she saved him, he had the opportunity to move reinforcements back to the emperor, in his words, is that she took credit, saved the people of Xunyang city, saved the whole world.
But Mei Yue Wan did not think so, she felt that she did not do anything, really saved the people from fire and water, is Fan Pingsheng, and gave her a second life, is also Fan Pingsheng.
So when the handsome black robe fed her medicine, suddenly opened his mouth and asked her affectionately to marry, saying that he was willing to take care of her for a lifetime, she was stunned and could not think of any reason to refuse.
“Jiang She, please leave. I’m going to get married soon. I won’t go with you.” In the
room, Mei Yue-wan’s voice seemed tired. She waved her hand and closed her eyes, but Jiang panicked and shook her head desperately: “No, you don’t like him. You’re just repaying a debt of gratitude..”
“But you’re late. You’re late, aren’t you?”
The dark eyes suddenly opened again and interrupted Jiang She, who somehow felt that there was some unspeakable hatred in her eyes when she looked at him.
“The Mei family pawnshop is gone, and your pawn ticket has been returned to you. We’ve already settled the matter. Why are you still here?” “
Don’t you, don’t you, don’t you like me?”
“Like it?” Mei Yue-wan seemed to sneer. She looked at Jiang She and said, “I’ve liked you for so many years. I’ve been tired for a long time. Don’t you always hate me?”? Why do you still come to me? Our cause and effect are already over. Don’t you know that?
This time, the hatred was even clearer. Jiang She was startled. He had never seen such an abnormal Mei Yue Wan. Suddenly, he realized that she had suddenly lost all her loved ones. He had not been with her at the most critical moment, so she naturally hated him.
“I’m sorry, I came late, and those years were all my fault. I’m sorry, please give me another chance to take you away and take good care of you..”
As he spoke, he took out the plum blossom hairpin in front of his chest in a panic and stretched it out to Mei Yuewan impatiently: Look, this is the birthday gift I prepared for you at that time. I didn’t mean not to accompany you on your birthday. It’s just that my mother happened to be born on the same day as you. I can’t get over my heart. I didn’t mean to hurt you. I’ll never leave you again. I’ve been looking for you for a long time. I’ve searched the whole city of Xunyang. I was wrong. I’m really wrong. I’ll make up for what I’ve done wrong. Please give me another chance.. In the sound
of incoherent regret, Mei Yue Wan suddenly grabbed the plum blossom hairpin and scratched it into Jiang’s hand. Blood gushed out, and a drop of blood even splashed on Mei Yue Wan’s eyelashes.
“Enough! Don’t say any more. It’s too late!”
Jiang She covered the wound in disbelief, but Mei Yuewan raised her hand again and threw the blood-stained plum blossom hairpin at him. Every word rang so clearly in the dark.
“The pawn ticket has been paid off, the man I’m waiting for..” It will never come.
(13)
After the war, the city of Xunyang gradually recovered and regained its peace. On this night, fireworks filled the sky, and the soldiers sat in the second place, drinking, and a celebration banquet was very lively. On the
long red silk road, the handsome General Fan, with a smile in his eyes, walked slowly with his bride. Under the veil, Mei Yue Wan’s face was quiet, neither sad nor happy.
Just before the sound of “worshipping heaven and earth” fell, a solemn and handsome figure fell from the sky and swept into the hall like the wind, causing an uproar.
Jiang She held the sword, his face was pale, his eyes were shining, but the corners of his mouth were smiling.
“Sorry, I came anyway.” As he
spoke, he was already close to the red wedding dress with the power of thunder, and with a long sword, he picked up the beautiful face under her veil.
“I thought about it. If you like my eyebrows, then I’ll let you see them every day. Not only that, I’ll paint your eyebrows all my life. You can’t help it if you don’t want to. Who told you to take my pawn ticket?” The thin piece of paper, which had been tossed and turned
several times, suddenly appeared and was stuffed into the red wedding dress, while the slender hand also took Mei Yue Wan’s waist at the same time, and the sword was like a rainbow, flying out of the hospital.
Everything happened in a flash of lightning, and everyone was caught off guard. Even General Fan in the hall had his eyes closed, and suddenly he reacted: “Jiang She, you are Jiang She!” A few steps after
him, the handsome figure had disappeared into the night with Mei and Yue, and the guests behind him were already screaming:
“Somebody, the bandits are robbing the bride!”
Mountain rolling, complex terrain, the most suitable for hiding away, Jiang she as early as before preparing to rob the bride, had planned to borrow this mountain to get rid of the pursuers.
As long as you get out of the mountains, you can leave Xunyang City completely, go south to the address given by Gu Yao’er, and meet her.
With this belief in mind, Jiang She took Mei and Yue Wan to sleep in the open air, and circled around the mountains with General Fan’s pursuers, fleeing day and night. He kept saying to her, “Yue Wan, just bear with me and hold on a little longer. We’ll be safe soon..” On the way to
escape, no matter what Jiang She said, Mei Yue Wan never responded. She was like a puppet who had lost her soul. She was at the mercy of Jiang She, but her eyes were always deeply tired.
Before she knew it, her long dark hair began to turn white, and the color of her skin and pupils became lighter and lighter. When Jiang finally realized something was wrong, Mei Yueh-wan had already changed back to
more than half of her former appearance. Jiang then panicked: “How could this happen? Aren’t you cured of your illness?”. In the
cave, Mei Yueh-wan did not turn her head and did not answer, nor did she eat the wild fruit that Jiang She had handed her. Jiang She leaned closer and said, “Is it true that if you leave the medicine, you will change back to your original shape?”
Mei Yue-wan still had no expression on her face, but there was a trace of sadness in her eyes. “I’m not afraid, I’m not afraid,” said Jiang She. “Let’s get out first. I’ll get the prescription back later..” As
he soothed her, he cut her hair and fed her a little bit of wild fruit in his hands, just as Mei Yue Wan had taken care of him.
“Even if you go back to the way you were, it doesn’t matter if you turn white all over. I’ll treat you well all my life. No matter what you look like, I won’t leave you. When we get back to the old house of the Ku family and settle down, we’ll get married, okay?”.
Hearing the words of Gu’s old house, Mei Yuewan’s body trembled imperceptibly. She was eating the wild fruit that Jiang had fed her, but at the moment she turned her head away and closed her lips tightly. Jiang saw that she was no longer reluctant to do so, but when two or three people finished eating the remaining wild fruit, she reached out and took Mei Yuewan into her arms and covered her tightly with her cloak. Shelter her from the cold.
“Go to sleep, go to sleep. It’s a new day when you wake up. It won’t be long before we can escape..”
Jiang She did not see, Mei Yue Wan in his arms, blinking absently, two eyelashes as white as frost and snow, glass-like pupils seem to hide bottomless sadness. As the days went by, Mei Yue Wan’s whole body had turned completely white, and her breath was getting weaker and weaker. When she was resting in another cave, Jiang She finally found something wrong.
He kept instilling True Qi into her, and at the end his voice trembled: “Why, how could it be useless?” Only then did
Mei Yuewan open her eyes, smile bitterly, and say to Jiang She her first words since she fled.
“Shaoxia Jiang, have you had enough fun?” The light of the
fire shone on the cave. Jiang She’s body shook and his handsome face turned white in an instant. “What do you mean?”
Mei Yueh-wan moved away from him and leaned weakly against the wall of the cave. She raised her eyes and smiled at him. “You haven’t had enough fun, but I’ve had enough. I don’t have the life to play with you anymore.”
This time, Chiang’s face was even paler, and there was not even a trace of blood in his lips. His voice was hoarse and eager: “What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean by dying?”
Mei Yue-wan still smiled: “No life is no life. I’ve liked you for so many years. I’m tired.” Don’t you want to know why I suddenly returned the pawn ticket to you?
The fire exploded, Jiang She slowly stood up, but his hands and feet were cold, as if he had returned to the world of ice and snow in his childhood.
“Because I was dying, my father wanted to detain you after I died and guard my grave for the rest of my life. I couldn’t bear it, so I decided to let you go. After you left, I ate a lot of candy, but no matter how much candy I ate, it was bitter in my mouth..” Later
, when I met General Fan, the medicine he gave me was not only to cure my illness, but also to hang my life. I had to take a bowl of that medicine on time every day. General Fan said that it would take him decades to get rid of the root. In order to take care of me conveniently, he was also sincere to me, so he asked me to marry him. He was a good man, and I didn’t want to let him down. But I didn’t really want to marry him that much. When you came to rob him, I didn’t know whether I was flustered or relieved. The
cool voice echoed in the cave, but Jiang She suddenly trembled and blurted out, “What will happen if the medicine is broken?”? What will happen if the medicine stops?
He asked the key, previously he only thought that Mei Yue Wan at most changed back to the original, even if the whole body was white, he would not dislike her, but now it seems. Sure enough, the voice smiled faintly:
“Don’t you understand?”
Staring at Jiang She’s eyes, his snow-white face curled its lips and slowly uttered eight words: “Qi and blood are retrograde, and the bones are dead.” With a
crash, Jiang She stumbled and fell to his knees.
But Mei Yue Wan’s long eyelashes trembled slightly, and her pupils were as white as colored glaze, and they were surprisingly bright, just like the return of light.
“Don’t let me go anywhere with you again, especially that old house of the Gu family. I’m not blessed to enjoy it, and I don’t want to enjoy it..” The words at this point, hate suddenly, Jiang she suddenly looked up, on the Mei Yue Wan extremely resentful of a pair of pupils. Don’t
you want to know where all the people in the Escort Agency have gone? Do you think they all escaped?
“No, your good master, your good brothers, have long been arrested by General Fan..” Because they are simply the rebels’ accomplices! Those people who died tragically
in Xunyang City, I’m afraid they never dreamed that the time-honored Gumen Escort Agency in the city, in fact, has always been a force placed in Xunyang City by the Thirteen Princes. For many years, in the name of escorting darts, it has transported intelligence and weapons for him, and done some shameful things to help him seize power.
Jiang she has participated in many times to escort darts, I do not know love has done a lot of things for thirteen Wang Ye, handed over a lot of intelligence, that Gu Da master even thought about a longer time, let thirteen Wang Ye will be under his income, formally become a member of the organization.. Even though he was kept in the dark, he really helped the rebels to attack the city invisibly, killing the Mei family and countless people who died tragically-
this is the reason why Mei Yue Wan was stuck in his heart and really couldn’t let go! Who would have thought of that after
all these years? Perhaps it is really an unfinished cause and effect, destined that you and I will not end well, can not turn back.
Mei Yue Wan smiled sadly, her vision became more and more blurred, Jiang She had rushed to her side, shocked and collapsed to cry into a tearful person, but Mei Yue Wan leaned on his shoulder and got relief. To die by your side now is probably all I can think of.. It’s the best ending
.
Love and hate were mixed, and she was in a dilemma. If she could die in his arms, it would
be a different kind of benevolence and redemption.
“No, no, Yue Wan, I was wrong. I’ll take you to Fan Pingsheng now. Don’t
sleep. Please don’t leave me..” In the
cave, Jiang She trembled all over and broke down in tears. She picked up Mei
Yue Wan, who was as angry as a gossamer, and staggered to run out of the cave, but Mei Yue Wan slanted her head and fainted
in his arms.
At this time, between heaven and earth as if frozen in general, time stands still, vegetation solidified. A snowflake fell leisurely
in midair. Jiang She raised his head and saw a man stepping on the flying snow all over the sky
, showing his figure quietly.
“It’s too late. Even if we find Fan Pingsheng, it’s useless. His medicine can’t save her
anymore.”
The man sighed lightly, his forehead was covered with silver frost, his black hair was flying, cold and beautiful, and his
whole body was indifferent to the dust, unlike the people of the world.
Heaven and earth are faint, and Jiang She seems to have fallen into a dream. There is only a cold voice
in his ear.
“Even if Fan Pingsheng drained his black fox blood all over his body, there is no way to save the day. All
this is still the original entanglement of cause and effect..” Mei Yue Wan may never guess that the bowl of medicine she drinks every day is not a magic prescription, but a bowl of black fox blood, mixed with her favorite sugar.
And the wounded person she saved in the lane was none other than younger brother of the one-eyed white fox, a black fox who practiced as a man and mixed with the government and the public.
The world is so coincidental that when Fan Pingsheng first saw Mei Yue Wan, he could hardly believe it. He almost recognized at a glance the little girl who was often talked about by Ah Jie and whose whole body turned white after a bite.
At that time, the one-eyed white fox took revenge on the Mei family in a fit of pique. Later, he regretted it and often talked about it in front of the younger brother. So the black fox, who was transformed into a human being, not only recognized the victim, but also had a feeling of love for the gentle woman who saved him and took good care of him. He decided to repay the elder sister and cure her strange disease. The bowl of medicinal juice
he gave her every day was actually the blood of the black fox, which could restrain the poison of the white fox she had suffered, so that the abnormal whiteness of her whole body slowly faded, and her pupils and hair turned back to black, a little bit back to their original state.
But the poison of the white fox has been accumulated for a long time, and the blood of the black fox has to be drunk for the same number of years, which can not be broken for one day, so when Fan Pingsheng asked Mei Yue Wan for marriage, he was ready to cut her wrists and bleed for the next few decades.
“The White Fox and the Black Fox are both brothers and sisters from the Golden Cup Valley. I am the Lord of the Valley, Xue Mingchuan. Entrusted by the White Fox, I have come to resolve this cause and effect..” In the flying snow, the wide-sleeved man’s eyes were cold. He looked at Jiang She, who was already shocked and unable to control
himself. He sighed with pity: “I came too late after all. You robbed
him and delayed him to this point. Even if Fan Pingsheng bled all over his life, he would not be able to save the day..”
Jiang She trembled all over in disbelief, hugged Mei Yue Wan’s hand tightly, and suddenly plopped. The
sound knelt down in front of Xue Mingchuan.
“Please, please save her, let me do anything, please..”
Xue Mingchuan did not move for a long time, but in the flying snow, the pity at the bottom of his eyes became more and more profound
: “If you had to pay for your own life, would you be willing?”
Jiang She suddenly looked up and breathed quickly. Xue Mingchuan stared at him, and every word echoed between
heaven and earth: “One life for one life, keep her footsteps with your life, and give her a
new life. Would you like to?”? That’s all I can do.
The flying snow rustled and the cold wind wailed. I don’t know how long it took for the figure
kneeling on the ground to show a pale smile. With tears in her eyes, she said, “If Yue Wan is gone, I will live alone
in this lonely world, and I will be a walking corpse..” I do.
“Valley Lord, after I leave, please give her to Fan Pingsheng and tell him that my
girl will ask him. Please be sure..” Treat her well. In the
difficult voice, every word spoken was simple and unadorned, but Xue Mingchuan suddenly felt
that this should be the most beautiful love words in the world.
He nodded his head and sighed imperceptibly as his wide sleeves flew in the snowstorm.
It was a final farewell that no one knew. In the
cave, Jiang’s body was like white fog, suspended in the air, gently stroking Mei Yue Wan’s cheek, his movements were so gentle, his eyes were so long, even if his body was dissipating a little bit, he did not care. He picked up the plum blossom hairpin in his
hand and gently inserted it in his hair for her. He smiled with relief. As expected, the
plum blossoms were a perfect match for her. Her face slept peacefully, as if it were the same little girl who called him “little brother” in those days, but he could no longer eat her candy.
“Goodbye, Yue Wan. Forget me, good or bad. May the rest of your life be peaceful and happy, and have no worries..” I’m leaving. This time, I’ll probably never see you again.
“Thank you for giving me a home.” With
a patter, the tears fell and the smoke disappeared, the white fog dissipated, Yangshou had crossed, the fluorescence drifted, and Xuemingchuan gently sang farewell.
“Give you a promise, and you will not fail. Go well.”
He turned his head and stared at the sleeping figure in the cave. Her long hair and eyelashes were turning black, her breathing was getting even, and her cheeks were a little warm.
“The cause and effect of fate is like this. May you have no worries or worries in this life, as he wishes.”
For a long time, Xue Mingchuan murmured, but the sleeping figure would not hear, let alone know what in her life had disappeared forever. Epilogue:
Anti-king extermination, the world is settled, and many years have passed in a flash. In
the imperial city, General Fan, who had rendered meritorious service in putting down the rebellion, rose rapidly. He was not only in a high position, but also
accompanied by a beautiful wife. It was rumored that he was devoted to his wife. He was a rare good
husband. I don’t know how many people envied him.
Outside the window, the spring is beautiful, the room is filled with light smoke, in the bronze mirror, a beautiful and gentle
face, dark eyebrows, bright red lips, white as jade skin, as if the most touching
colors in the world are dyed on this face. When
Fan Pingsheng came back, he saw Mei Yue Wan dressing in front of the mirror. He approached, smiled, and
naturally picked up an eyebrow pencil on the dressing table to draw her eyebrows carefully.
“Is it beautiful, madam?” With a smile on his lips, the man
in the mirror winked and murmured, “Beautiful, but I always feel..”
I seem to have forgotten something. A plum blossom hairpin on
her head was reflected in the bronze mirror, which made her face more beautiful, and her eyebrows were
black and long, as beautiful as the distant mountains.
She could not help but stare at that pair of eyebrows in a trance, trance, the mirror seems to overlap with another pair of eyebrows and eyes
, there is a handsome figure swaying through the mirror, familiar and inexplicable.
It was clearly spring, but the sound of wind and snow seemed to pass by my ears. Out of my vague memory
came the sound of a young child’s laughter:
“Dad, look, that little brother’s eyebrows are so beautiful.”
