The two teenagers rushed outside the woman's courtyard in the southern suburbs of the county city in the dusk, but Yan Longyu just stood silently outside the courtyard, not daring to go in.
Dugu Haodang looked in through the fence outside the courtyard. He saw the blind old woman sitting in the courtyard holding a cattail leaf fan, and the little brother named Tao Jingsong who was tending the vegetable field, but only Yan Longyu was missing. He chattered endlessly and mentioned "Sister Tao" no less than dozens of times.
Dugu Haodang patted Yan Longyu's shoulder gently and said, "Go in and take a look, I'll wait for you here."
Yan Longyu's eyes were full of worry. This young man who grew up on the mountain experienced the helplessness of reality for the first time. He smiled bitterly at the young man in black, stepped forward and slowly opened the courtyard door, and walked in.
Yan Longyu waved to the children who were watering the vegetable field, forced a smile and said, "Jingsong, I'm here to see you."
The child who used to always dream of wearing new clothes and new shoes has got his wish, but he can't be happy anymore. He suddenly turned around and looked up, and saw the tall boy in white at dusk, and tears burst into his eyes in an instant.
In the eyes of the child, his sister should be with someone like Brother Long Yu. That would be called a talented man and a beautiful woman, but now her sister has been ruined by that man...
The child put down what he was doing and walked towards the boy with a cry, "Brother Long Yu, my sister said she would wait for you in the house. She hasn't eaten for two days. Go in and see her quickly!"
"Sister, she was..." The child, who had calmed down at this point, burst into tears again.
The blind old man sitting in the yard, who had already heard the noise, was leaning on a cane, hunched over and silent.
At dusk, after Yan Longyu learned that his sister Tao had been forcibly defiled by the son of the county guard, facing the child, he couldn't help but clenched his sleeves and wiped his face hard, then walked towards the house. inside.
The room was dark, but it was filled with loads of valuable betrothal gifts.
The beautiful woman was lightly applying makeup and wearing a wedding dress with a silver hairpin in her hair. She was sitting by the bed with eyes blank. The dim yellow light outside the window shines through the window paper and hits the woman's pale face, and the traces of tears are looming, which is very touching.
Tao Wanqiu glanced at the handsome young man in white who entered the room, smiled sadly, and said softly: "Long Yu is here, look, my sister looks good in her wedding dress."
Yan Longyu looked at the woman in front of him who was so haggard, with red eyes and trembling lips, "She is beautiful. No matter what she wears, sister is the most beautiful woman in the world. So if there is no sister in the picture of national beauty and heavenly fragrance, it cannot be regarded as a true national beauty. .”
The beautiful woman smiled knowingly, "Okay, okay, now that you've grown so tall, don't cry like Jingsong."
Yan Longyu burst into tears involuntarily and asked eagerly: "Is my sister really willing to marry the son of the county governor? If my sister is not willing, I..."
The woman interrupted the young man's words, widened her charming peach blossom eyes, and asked: "What will you do if I don't want to?"
Yan Longyu was stunned on the spot, with his mouth open and speechless. In the end, he was still unable to say what he wanted to say.
yes! What can I, Yan Longyu, do to a person who can't even save his own life and who doesn't know when he will be killed by his enemies?
He couldn't make any promises to her.
The woman who didn't wait for the reply slowly shook her head, stood up with a smile, walked to Yan Longyu, stood on tiptoes and wiped the tears on the young man's face, and said with a bitter smile: "Silly brother, you can marry as soon as you get married. I'm like this How much is it worth! But by marrying that Sun Qian, my aunt will have money to treat her eye disease, and Jingsong will have new clothes to wear. The child's clothes will be too small to hold up, and he will be laughed at when he goes out. …”
At this moment, the woman was laughing and crying, and the boy was crying and laughing. The two looked at each other and were speechless for a long time.
Looking at each other for a long time, Yan Longyu choked like a child: "Sister, you shouldn't have wronged yourself like this!"
The woman shed two lines of tears slowly, but her smile remained the same, "Who makes my sister just a woman?"
Yan Longyu asked: "It's a woman, so what?"
Tao Wanqiu smiled sadly, slowly stepped back and sat on the bedside, and said bitterly: "Because I am a woman, I have to hide at home all day long and dare not go out; because I am a woman, I can't even keep my innocence by hiding at home and not going out. Because I am a woman, my brother Jingsong deserves to be bullied outside; because I am a woman, even being able to read a word or two has become a luxury for me."
"You ask me why? Then tell me, why is this?! They say the world is big, but no matter how big the world is, why can't it tolerate a woman like me?"
Tao Wanqiu breathed a long sigh of relief. This miserable woman who had never read a book seemed to have told Yan Longyu all her grievances and complaints at this moment.
Yan Longyu listened silently. As a man, what could he say?
It’s just that the world is unfair and makes the suffering people miserable.
The woman who was only three years older than Yan Longyu slowly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, stared at the young man in front of her who had attracted her attention, but said firmly: "Yan Longyu, listen to me, the reason why I asked you to come is, I just want to tell you that I gave you food because I sympathized with you and wanted you to work for our family.
Now I am about to become the young lady of the county governor's family. You are beyond your reach. Please never come to me again in the future!
From now on, you are not allowed to call me sister. I only have one younger brother, Jingsong. "
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When the boy walked out of the yard again and left the woman's home, it was already dark.
Yan Longyu walked quickly in front of Dugu Haodang. He didn't want him to see the look on his face at this moment.
Dugu Haodang followed him quietly without saying anything.
Yan Longyu knew that his sister said such words to prevent him from getting into trouble. But he can't do it. He can't even protect the people he cares about right now. How can he talk about fighting for the world with a sword? The young man just wanted to find that Sun Yan and vent his anger on his sister.
There's just one thing that the young man doesn't know - a woman's wedding dress is only for her sweetheart to see.
In the small courtyard.
When the two teenagers walked away, the beautiful woman in the room burst into tears in an extremely miserable manner.
Tao Wanqiu, who was sitting alone by the bed, bit her lip tightly, feeling sad, but in the end she smiled with tears in her eyes, "Silly brother, you have your own future. I know that you should not belong here. Never. Come again, if there is a next life, all I ask is that your sister, who doesn’t do it, can be your wife.”
"This is it, it's fate but not fate!"
In the yard, a child named Tao Jingsong burst into tears listening to the noise in the house, but did not dare to speak out to let her sister in the house hear.
The blind old woman sitting curled up on the ground next to the child was also wiping her tears and kept murmuring, "They are all good children. It was me who hurt you, it was me!"
——Outside the county gate.
Yan Longyu and Dugu Haodang saw Yan Gui, who had been waiting for a long time.
Behind him, there were seven or eight idle men standing in a neat row.
Although Yan Gui didn't know a few words, he was not stupid. Although his young master didn't tell him anything, he had already made a guess, so he specially called these people.
Seeing the people coming, Yan Gui pointed at the two young men walking towards them and said sternly to the gangsters behind him: "Call me Young Master!"
So, the idle men all called Yan Longyu and Dugu Haodang "Young Master".
Dugu Haodang frowned, expressing his approval of Yan Gui.
Yan Longyu, who had calmed down a little, hesitated: How could such a shy person like Yan Gui convince so many street gangsters?
Yan Gui bared his teeth and smiled shyly at the two young men, "The disciples who came down from the mountain to take in this city two years ago are all here today. The second son of the county guard's family, Sun Qian, is now drinking flowers in Yanliu Alley on North Street. Wine, if the young master wants to take action, just give him the order."
In fact, Yan Gui's shyness was only for Yan Longyu.
Yan Longyu looked at the people in front of him with a fierce look on his face, as if he had the urge to kill someone. The young man turned around and looked at the bright lights in the city. He clenched his fists silently and smiled calmly: "Sister Tao, if no one makes the decision for you, I will seek justice for you."
"Go to hell Sun Qian, drink wine, Yanliu Alley, I will make sure you never go to Yanliu Alley tonight.
"You dare to touch the people I, Yan Longyu, care about, let alone the son of the county governor, even if I, the King of Heaven, are here!"
