Facing the old man's excited questioning, Xu Wanning didn't know whether to sigh or be moved.
Leng Xu wrote down all his unrequited love for Haitang for decades on paper.
From their acquaintance, love, and acquaintance, to their secret tasting of forbidden fruits, and the flowers before the moon and under the moon, every memory is recorded in detail.
After Miss Haitang got married, he wrote down his profound lovesickness. As well as the several scenes where he secretly ran to see her, and after Haitang died, Leng Xu would go to her grave every month to live for a month. His lovesickness at that time was recorded.
He has a lover he can't get, and he can only survive by remembering.
Memories fade easily, but words can make them last forever.
Leng Xu wrote dozens of thick memoirs and lovesickness collections, relying on these to survive the decades of loneliness.
After his death, his memoirs and collection of lovesickness were dug out and widely circulated. When everyone was lamenting the love between Leng Xu and Haitang, another different voice rose up.
They are Haitang's husband's family.
It was learned that Haitang had an affair with Leng Xu before marriage, and even met Leng Xu in private when she became pregnant after marriage. The two even agreed that the child they gave birth to would recognize Leng Xu as his godfather. They also agreed to be buried in the Leng family's ancestral tomb after death, and the two agreed to be husband and wife in the next life.
This love, which is earth-shattering in the eyes of others, is a great humiliation in the eyes of Mrs. Haitang's family.
A green hat has been worn on the head for decades without knowing it.
They were angry.
Haitang's grave was dug up, and the bones were crushed and ashes were thrown away. Leng Xu also suffered the same fate. He had no descendants, and his neighbors arranged the funeral for him at will. He was buried in the Leng family's ancestral grave. But one night, the Leng family's The ancestral tomb mountain was disturbed.
Leng Xu's grave was dug up and his body was burned in a fire. The graves of several ancestors of the Leng family were also damaged.
At that time, the incident was a big deal. Mr. Haitang's family arrested several people and imprisoned them for a few days, then let it go.
The ashes of Haitang and Leng Xu were thrown down the mountain and into the sea. They were thousands of miles away. Can they meet each other in the next life? I'm afraid I can't.
Since then, the love between Leng Xu and Haitang has become a topic of conversation for everyone after dinner.
No one can envy and appreciate their unattainable love anymore.
Some are just full of sarcasm and ridicule.
A love that should have been earth-shattering has become mud that everyone can trample on because of Leng Xu's memoirs and lovesickness collection.
Was Leng Xu wrong?
No, he's not wrong.
Begonia is not wrong either.
Haitang's husband's family is also right.
It’s just that if these three parties are entangled together, that’s wrong.
Love can only be between two people and cannot allow a third person to intervene.
Leng Xu was so surprised that he backed away repeatedly, his wrinkled old face full of disbelief, "You, everything you said is true!"
He didn't ask rhetorically, but confirmed.
Because of his memoirs and lovesickness collection, Leng Xu was sure that he was the only one in the world who knew about it, and not even Haitang knew about it. But the woman in front of him knew about it and told him that after his death, his After the memoirs and lovesickness collection were discovered, he and Haitang met their sad end.
Xu Wanning did not answer directly, but asked him: "Have you ever dreamed about Haitang in your dreams? Have you dreamed about your past?"
"Of course." Leng Xu replied: "I miss her almost every day and every night. I think about her all the time and our happy days in the past."
"If you can dream about the past, naturally some people will dream about the future." Xu Wanning sighed quietly: "Whether Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming of Zhuang Zhou is a mystery that will never be solved."
Just like why Xu Wanning was reborn? No one can explain it.
Leng Xu didn't say anything, he already believed Xu Wanning.
"So, I don't have many days to live, right?"
"Only one month left."
A month later, Leng Xu died, and his love came to light again, which also brought a devastating blow.
"Yes, if these things I wrote were seen by others, people all over the world would call us two bitches. But after Haitang got married, she and I were in love but not polite, and there was no overstep. But who would believe it!" Leng Xu shook his head and smiled bitterly. He raised his head and looked at the crabapple that had been with him for decades, with tears streaming down his face: "I regret it. I regret that I was young and weak and useless. She was crushed to ashes."
"You still have a chance."
"I will burn those things now." Leng Xu said.
Don't embarrass Haitang behind you.
"I can bring Haitang back to you." Xu Wanning said quietly.
Leng Xu's cloudy eyes lit up, "What do you want? All my property can be given to you." He had no descendants, and what he left behind was a pile of waste.
"I don't want your gold and silver, I just want Lihua Zui's prescription."
Leng Xu originally wanted to take it to the coffin, "Can I ask, what do you want it for?"
Xu Wanning was silent for a moment.
She remembered what Pei Heng said last time while drinking.
"If this pear blossom drunkenness disappears, it will be a great regret in life."
After a month, Lihua Zui will be gone, and no one will be able to brew the same taste as Lengxu from now on.
"I have a friend who likes to drink pear blossom drunk..."
After leaving Lihua Tower, Chen Wang was waiting for her at the door.
Chen Wang immediately said: "Miss, my sister-in-law said he would bring braised chicken back, so Chen Yuan should have gone to Suzhou."
Braised chicken is a specialty of Suzhou.
Suzhou?
Xu Wanning said nothing.
"How about I go to Suzhou?" Chen Wang asked again.
Xu Wanning nodded: "I'm going to Suzhou, but I want to go with you."
What a coincidence, Miss Haitang's husband's family is also in Suzhou.
When the two returned to the house, Xu Wanning reported to Du that there was something wrong with the shops in Qingxian County. Yancheng was close to Qingxian County, and the Xu family sent a letter asking Xu Wanning to deal with it.
This kind of thing has always happened before, and Du Shi didn't doubt it, so she gave Xu Wanning two days to let her go.
Xu Wanning took Hongmeiqingxing and Chang'an with her, leaving Aunt Qiu to guard Ningyuan.
There are only two days left, and there are still many things waiting for her in Yancheng, and Xu Wanning must solve them quickly.
The driver of the carriage was Chen Wang, a veteran. After leaving Yancheng, the carriage that was supposed to go to Qingxian was turned around and went to Suzhou.
After a bumpy journey, Xu Wanning arrived in Suzhou in the afternoon.
Arriving in Suzhou, Xu Wanning and Chen Wang acted separately.
Haitang's husband's family name is Cheng, and his name is Cheng Yi. In his sixties, after Haitang died, he married another and gave birth to a son with his second wife. The son also gave birth to grandchildren, and the grandchildren also married and had children. Now they are four generations living under the same roof.
The great-grandson and great-granddaughter are also three or four years old. When Xu Wanning knocked on the door, she heard childish laughter coming from the yard, and an old man's concerned voice: "Run slowly, don't fall."
"Grandpa, look how high my bamboo dragonfly flies."
A woman in her forties came to open the door and saw a strange young and beautiful lady. She asked doubtfully: "Who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for Mr. Cheng Yicheng." Xu Wanning replied respectfully.
The woman turned back and shouted to the old man sitting in the recliner: "Father-in-law, I'm here to see you."
Cheng Yi sat up.
He was already very old, and time had not treated this man who was already over sixty years old favorably. He stared at his dim eyes and tried hard to distinguish Xu Wanning: "Who are you?"
