In late autumn, the fallen leaves are rustling.
In the Meixiang Garden, the stove has been lit in the study.
In the incense burner, the aroma of medicine is overflowing, and the smoke is curling up.
A sickly girl in a plain white dress was sitting at the table, holding a pen and writing poems.
The clear and graceful small characters, inked on the snow-white rice paper, are as neat and pleasing to the eye as if they were printed.
"When I feel sick and depressed, I lie down and look at the waning moon on the window screen. Cardamom sticks are boiled in water, and I don't want to share the tea. It's a good place to relax with poems and books on the pillow, and the scenery in front of the door is good when the rain comes. Borrowing from people all day long, mignonette."
The girl has a delicate appearance and a frail body. She looks frail, and her face is pale as a result of a long illness.
A maid in a light yellow dress was quietly studying ink beside her.
"Cough... cough cough..."
The girl suddenly coughed and covered her mouth with a snow-white handkerchief, which was soon stained with bright red blood, like plum blossoms blooming in the snow.
The maid named Qiu'er quickly put down the ink stick in her hand and said to the outside: "Zhu'er, has the medicine been cooked yet?"
Another maid's voice came from outside: "Okay, okay, it's a little hot, wait a minute."
The girl raised her head and looked out the window.
A plum branch slanted out from the corridor and decorated the window lattice outside.
In the sky, a group of autumn geese passed by in a queue.
She doesn't like autumn.
Because it is too cold, because after autumn, it is the most difficult winter.
During that season, the family will be very nervous.
Because the doctor always said that she wouldn't survive the winter.
But the year before last, and last year, she got through it all.
Maybe it's because of my sister.
Whenever it gets cold, my sister will come over and take out a pill for her to take.
After taking the pills, she felt her coughs became less frequent.
The cold air hit her, and she no longer coughed up blood and fainted like before.
She knows that her sister is not simple.
But she didn't tell anyone about this.
I don’t know what my sister went through during those years when she disappeared. When she came back, she became like a piece of ice, as if she was a different person.
Even her father and mother didn't dare to talk to her.
Of course, they didn't even dare to ask what happened during the years when she disappeared.
Everyone in the house was silent about her affairs.
But no matter what, she is her sister.
Although she was cold, she still cared about her in her heart.
Winter came early this year.
After a heavy snowfall, the temperature dropped sharply.
Although she took the pills sent by her sister, she still did not dare to go out.
She could only watch the beautiful snow scene from the window.
She also wanted to be like everyone else, going out to get soaked in the snow, blowing in the wind, running around, and even having a snowball fight and eating a bite of cold snowballs.
But she knew that these were all extravagant hopes for her.
That day, after the doctor took her pulse, he sighed quietly outside the door again: "It is estimated that it will take at least a year. If I can survive this winter..."
My mother was crying secretly outside, and my father was sighing outside.
The second brother clenched his fist and wanted to hit the doctor.
She sat in front of the window and looked at the falling snow outside, feeling peaceful in her heart.
She was satisfied to be alive until now.
Birth, old age, illness and death are something everyone will have. She just had it a little earlier.
Why bother anymore.
Cherish the present.
A few days later, her mother came over and told her some news.
My sister is getting married, but she is looking for a son-in-law.
The other party was a concubine of Chengguo Mansion, or perhaps even a fake. His mother had died of illness, and he was the only one left.
He is also a scholar.
When my mother spoke, she was indignant and angry, as if she felt unworthy of her sister.
But to her surprise, her sister didn't object and seemed to acquiesce.
She was very curious about what her future brother-in-law would look like.
The wedding took place very quickly and in a very sloppy way.
The Chengguo Mansion seemed to feel embarrassed and sent the concubine to their Qin Mansion as quickly as possible without notifying other relatives and friends.
She wanted to go out and have a look.
But it was very cold that day, and her mother would not let her go out no matter what.
Fortunately, Qiu'er and Zhu'er said that the brother-in-law was very good-looking and gentle, and seemed like a good person.
Hope he is a good person.
My sister has been suffering for so long, and I hope he can accompany her throughout her life.
Before the wedding, she deliberately asked Bai Ling to test him.
What she didn't expect was that the other party was obviously just a scholar, a bastard abandoned by the Chengguo government, but he had such amazing talents.
At that moment, she became more and more curious about this brother-in-law.
finally.
That day, the weather was nice and she could go out.
When she heard that her second brother was teaching him boxing by the lake, she immediately went there with Qiu'er and Zhu'er.
When she saw him for the first time, she was a little surprised: "He is really handsome."
When Qiu'er and Zhu'er once told her, she didn't take it seriously, thinking that these two girls had never seen any men before, so they said that, but she didn't expect that it turned out to be true.
Moreover, this brother-in-law looks gentle and gentle, and he does seem to be a good person.
In order to get to know him better, she put down her reserve and actively invited him to have dinner at Wangyue Tower. Unexpectedly, he rejected her.
A few days later, her friend came to see her.
This time, she was once again shocked by his talent.
The Four Books and Five Classics can be picked up at your fingertips, and poems and songs can be spoken casually.
Seeing her friend's previous contempt turn into surprise, she felt a little proud.
Also, Xia Chan suddenly fell into the water, and he jumped in without hesitation.
He is indeed a good man.
At that moment, she became more and more curious about this brother-in-law.
In the following days, she would always look for opportunities to talk to him, wanting to see what other abilities he had hidden behind him.
That night, he was pestered by Qingwan and wrote "Snow Plum".
"The plum blossoms are three cents whiter than the snow, but the snow is less fragrant than the plum blossoms."
He also wrote, "It fell into mud and was crushed into dust, but only the fragrance remains the same"...
At that moment, she stood next to him, personally helping him grind the ink, watching him write these poems freely and freely, her heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and she felt suddenly panicked.
My brother-in-law is so talented that he should not be so aggrieved as a son-in-law, and he should not be abandoned by the Chengguo government.
She felt sorry for him, especially every time she saw him depressed.
That day, he stood outside her window and told her "The Romance of the West Chamber".
Snowflakes were falling outside the window, and a winter plum lay leaning on the window lattice, intertwined with his figure.
She listened quietly and watched quietly.
That day, she didn't cough again.
In the days that followed, he told her many wonderful stories.
Finally one day, he entered her room.
It seemed that she noticed that every time she saw him, her mood and body would get better, so her mother did not stop him.
She sat with him in the warm room, on the soft couch.
She looked at him happily.
But he was still respectful and apprehensive, not daring to be disrespectful or even looking at her.
After he left, she sat on the couch in a daze.
For the first time, she felt the beauty of life, and for the first time she began to be nostalgic for life.
She didn't want to leave this world like this.
That winter was very cold, but because of his company, she got through it without even realizing it.
The attitude of the family towards him began to gradually change.
But his sister was still cold towards him, and she never even slept with him.
She felt sorry for him.
That night, they went on a cruise to participate in a poetry meeting.
She was held hostage by her friends.
He suddenly transformed from a weak scholar into a powerful warrior.
It was also from that night that she knew his ambition.
He is hiding his power and biding his time.
He wants to avenge his mother, and he wants Cheng Guofu to pay the price.
She began to help him silently.
I don't know since when, she wanted to see him and talk to him every day.
She knew that he was her brother-in-law and she shouldn't be like this.
At that time, she couldn't help it.
She always told herself that she was just lonely and wanted to find someone to talk to. Her brother-in-law just happened to have the same interests as him, and they just had a normal relationship.
However, everyone in the house seemed to feel that their relationship was abnormal.
Later, she could no longer convince herself.
She knew that she could no longer live without him.
She likes him.
She felt guilty towards her sister and always went to talk to her, wanting to express what was in her heart.
But my sister didn't seem to care, and even wanted to help them.
Father, mother, they all agreed.
In the end, my sister fulfilled them, and divorced him with a letter of divorce.
But she couldn't get over that hurdle.
Moreover, she didn't know how long she could live.
Therefore, she discussed with Bai Ling and then tampered with the divorce letter.
No one sees it, no one thinks of it.
She began to be with him openly, but she always thought of her sister and always asked him to greet her and talk to her.
She didn't know when she started to notice that her sister's attitude towards him seemed to have changed.
He is really powerful, he has saved the Qin family more than once.
After arriving in Kyoto, the Qin family became even more dangerous.
However, every time there was a critical moment, he stood up and saved the Qin family from danger.
Of course, he also has shortcomings.
My sister is right, he is very carefree and always messing around with women outside.
Also, he likes girls' feet and touches her every time he is intimate with her, which makes people laugh and cry.
However, no matter what, he has not forgotten the Qin family, let alone them.
As he became more and more powerful, he always maintained the same attitude towards the Qin family and doted on her as always.
In order to cure her disease, he practiced hard.
That day, he told her embarrassingly that he fell in love with a girl.
That girl is called "Sister Yue".
That was the first girl he fell in love with.
She decided to help him.
But she gradually discovered that Sister Yue didn't seem to be simple.
Father, like son.
She soon discovered something he didn't know.
At that moment, she finally let go of the guilt she felt towards her sister.
Because she played a "trick" and helped her sister.
They are still husband and wife.
Going around and around, he and his sister, who had been indifferent to each other before, actually fell in love without knowing it.
This relationship has gone through twists and turns, making it even more rare.
Her illness began to worsen.
The coughs became more frequent and she often coughed up blood. She could no longer get out of bed.
But she wasn't afraid at all.
She was very satisfied to be able to live until now, to be able to get his company and love, and to be able to see her sister and his lover finally get married.
But he still didn't give up.
That day, when she was coughing so much that she couldn't breathe, and her eyes were filled with tears as she wanted to say goodbye to them, he came back with a doctor.
In the end, she found out that the doctor was a very powerful spiritual master, and she even asked him to call him "father-in-law."
Her soul left her body, but it did not go away.
My sister cast a spell to make the room very warm, making her soul float there like a bird flying in the sky.
The doctor helped her heal her soul.
And he helped her heal her body.
A few days later, she felt like she was in a dream.
She no longer coughs and feels much better.
The doctor left without asking for any payment.
He and his sister continued to help her with treatment.
Finally, she was no longer afraid of the cold wind or the ice and snow.
It was snowing that day.
Wearing a fox fur, she walked out of the house and stood in the corridor.
The cold wind passed by and snowflakes hit my face.
She stood there, feeling the long-lost winter, without coughing or shivering again.
She slowly stretched out her hand from under the eaves and caught a piece of white snowflake.
Lying in the palm of your hand, slowly melting, ice cold, but so charming.
A smile appeared on her face, as beautiful as the snowy scene.
"Sister, Weimo loves you..."
"Brother Qingzhou, Weimo loves you too... Weimo wants to work with my sister to give you a lovely daughter, okay?"
In the corner of the courtyard, there is a winter plum tree planted.
A branch stretched out under the eaves, covered with flower buds.
On this day, a flower bud suddenly bloomed, just like that winter when she first met him and he stood outside the window and told her stories.
The whole courtyard is filled with the fragrance of flowers.
(End of chapter)
