Chapter 184

"Come in." Zhen Ping said with a smile again, and turned to guide Yao.

Yao's carriage stopped at the entrance of the alley. She didn't even bring mother Fang.

She stepped into the yard.

If she doesn't come, Zhen Ping is worried. If she does, Zhen Ping is even more worried.

For no other reason, the yard is too simple.

Yao's face is the same.

If he knew that Yao had been to a more humble courtyard, where her own daughter, son-in-law and son had lived, he would understand why Yao was so calm.

Zhen Ping welcomed Yao into the hall, nervously and excitedly said: "there is no hot tea, you wait, I'll let Yue Xiu cook a pot."

"Is her name Yuexiu?" Yao looked at him and asked.

Zhen Ping was stunned. He didn't realize that he had just said his wife's name. He didn't think it was proper, but he couldn't take it back.

He said: "yes, Yuexiu is not from Beijing, but from other places."

"Nice people." Yao said.

Zhen Ping didn't know how to pick up the words. He was embarrassed for a moment. Then he suddenly thought of the right thing and said to Yao: "my mother is in the next room. I'll take you there. It's really shabby at home. I didn't expect you to come... I'm glad you came..."

Zhen Ping is incoherent.

Yao wanted to say that you don't have to be nervous, and then he felt that it might be the same for himself.

Zhen Ping opens the thick curtain and lets Yao enter the house first. Yao bends slightly and walks under the curtain he started fighting.

This is the first time that they are so close after more than ten years. The tip of Zhen Ping's nose is full of her breath, but Zhen Ping doesn't let himself lose his temper. He tries to keep himself high and not touch her.

After Yao entered the house, he also entered the house.

There was a strong smell of medicine in the room.

I had a stroke years ago. It's easy to smell after lying for such a long time, but this room doesn't have one. It can be seen that the husband and wife take good care of the elderly.

Mrs. Zhen was lying on the hospital bed, white haired, pale and haggard.

Yao's memory is suddenly drawn back. More than ten years ago, Mrs. Zhen was a very hot tempered woman. She worked harder than a man. Who could have expected that she would be lying on the hospital bed like this one day.

She groaned with and without a sound, as if suffering from great pain.

Yao did not dare to look at the second eye, but quickly dropped his eyes and his nose was sour.

Zhen Ping came to the bed, leaned over and touched his mother's forehead, and said, "mother, who do you think is coming?"

"Well..." old lady Zhen looked faintly in the direction that Zhen Ping pointed to. In a moment, her turbid eyes burst out with surprise, "Yao er... Yao er..."

Yao took a deep breath, held back his tears, walked over as usual, and said with a smile, "old lady, it's me."

Mrs. Zhen reaches out her hand and wants to sit up and have a good look at Yao.

Yao sat down beside the bed, moved to her and said, "don't get up. It's snowing today. It's very cold."

"Yao'er still loves me." Mrs. Zhen said in a hoarse voice that she couldn't speak clearly after the stroke, but she could hear that she was very happy.

Yao married to Hou Fu at the age of 17, leaving Gu Jiao and Gu Yan at the age of 18. Fifteen years later, he is only thirty-three now.

Years of special treatment for her, did not leave many traces on her face, in addition to her eyes did not have a girl's innocence and green astringency, but these for old lady Zhen are nothing.

Mrs. Zhen took Yao's hand and was as happy as a child: "are you married with your son?"

Yao's a Zheng, turn a head, don't know why ground see to Zhen Ping.

Zhen Ping said in a low voice: "my mother suffered from dementia, many things are confused, or just can't remember clearly."

Yao knows that it's really easy for people to get old.

Yao looked at Mrs. Zhen's expectant eyes and nodded: "yes, we are married."

Zhen Ping's heart burst and her eyes were red.

Mrs. Zhen laughed like a child.

In fact, Mrs. Zhen is not dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law Yuexiu. Yuexiu has been teaching her husband and children, serving her parents-in-law and working hard. She is a bit dull, but she has no conscience to choose.

But Mrs. Zhen knew Yao first. She didn't think that her son's marriage with Yao would be greatly changed. She had already taken Yao as her daughter-in-law in her heart.

In addition, one year, Mrs. Zhen fell down from the ladder and was seriously injured, which happened to coincide with Zhen Ping's next rural examination. In order not to distract him, Yao secretly came out from Yao every day to take care of her.

They are not mother and daughter, but they are better than mother and daughter.

Later, the Yao family came to retire, and Mrs. Zhen was more sad than her son.

This matter has become her long cherished wish. She can't bear to mention it. After she has dementia, she can't help talking about Yao'er all the time. Why haven't you married Yao'er?

"Then you can't call me old lady. It's time to call me Niang instead." Old lady Zhen said like an old child, with a serious face.

Yao choked and nodded: "yes, Niang."

Zhen Ping turned his back and wiped his tears with his sleeve.

"Ah Mrs. Zhen was very happy.

Yao put her thin old hand into the quilt: "be careful, you'll catch cold."

"I'm not cold." Mrs. Zhen said with a smile, thinking of something, she raised her right hand and turned the pillow on her left.

"What do you want? I'll help you. " Yao stood up and said.

"Box, there's... A box under it." Mrs. Zhen said with difficulty.

A simple movement, almost drained all her strength.

Yao leaned over and took out a small flat box from the left end of the pillow.

It's been some years since the box was carved with patterns more than ten years ago, and the paint on the top has also fallen off. It can be seen that old lady Zhen usually takes it out to see.

Mrs. Zhen took the box.

Her hands were shaking, so she insisted on opening it.

Inside is a pair of gold bracelets.

The quality is excellent.

The style is very old.

Old Mrs. Zhen tremblingly picked up the bracelet and took Yao's hand. She didn't take it for a long time because she was too trembling.

Yao saw the sweat on her forehead.

"Mother, I'll do it." She said.

"All right." Mrs. Zhen finally put on the bracelet for Yao, "I told you I gave it to you when I got married. The family condition is not good, I have wronged you."

Zhenping failed in the provincial examination, and since then, he has never been admitted to the examination for many years. Later, he figured it out and gave up the imperial examination.

This headdress was prepared by old lady Zhen more than ten years ago. She took all her dowry headdress to the shop and made a pair of gold bracelets with Yao's maiden name engraved on them.

This bracelet has been lying on Mrs. Zhen's pillow for more than ten years. If it's OK, Mrs. Zhen will take it out and touch it.

Zhen Ping always knew that his mother had a very precious box, but he didn't know it was a wedding gift for Yao.

Of course, when Yuexiu went through the door, Mrs. Zhen didn't treat her badly. She lent money to Yuexiu to buy a pair of golden face.

It's just that the meaning is different.

Yao has been holding back since she came into the room, but she can't help it. She hugs Mrs. Zhen's hand and tears fall down!

Old lady Zhen was frightened: "why is Yao'er crying? Don't you like bracelets? Mother, mother will buy you a new one! "

Yao shook his head tearfully: "no, I like it very much. I really like it. Thank you. I'm so happy."

Old lady Zhen waved her hand: "well, what's the pleasure of a pair of bracelets? Go back to pinger and be the master of Ju Ren. Let you be the lady of Ju Ren and give you a lot of jewelry! "

Yao had a talk with Mrs. Zhen for a while.

Mrs. Zhen was sleepy and took Yao's hand to sleep.

Yao stayed in the room until Mrs. Zhen snored. She gently took out her hand and tucked it in for Mrs. Zhen.

During the whole process, Zhen Ping in the room was ignored by his mother.

"Go out and talk." Yao wiped his tears and said to Zhen Ping.

Zhen Ping played the curtain to let Yao go out first, and then followed him out.

They came to the hall.

There was hot tea in the hall, but no one.

I think it's Yuexiu's tea. I put it down and left.

Zhen Ping took a deep breath and said to Yao, "sit down."

Yao shook his head: "I have to go. I'll give this back to you."

She said, taking off the bracelet from her hand.

Zhen Ping grabs her hand in a hurry. His intention is to stop her, but when he realizes that his action is not right, he releases his hand again: "sorry... I..."

"Nothing." Yao shook his head slightly.

She knew that he was not a frivolous person.

Zhen Ping said: "the bracelet is for you. Take it. My mother will be at ease after taking it. Otherwise, you give it back to me and I'll let her find it at home. She should be stimulated again. "

Yao thought about it and didn't insist.

"I'll see you off." Zhen Ping sees her intention to leave.

"No Yao said.

Zhen Ping said with a smile: "no, the door bolt is broken, the moon embroidery can't open, your strength may not open."

Yao didn't refuse any more.

They walked up the corridor together and went to the front yard.

The house is quiet.

Zhen Ping suddenly said: "actually, I didn't expect that my mother had been longing for my imperial examination in her heart. She told me that if you don't miss it, don't force it. We don't have to study to live. I thought she meant it... "

Today, after listening to her mother's words, I realized that her long cherished wish was not only that she didn't marry Yao's daughter-in-law, but also that she didn't see her son named in the golden list.

He felt guilty.

Yao asked, "what did you do after you didn't study?"

Zhen Ping said with a smile: "I've done everything. I've been a teacher in a private school, a cashier in an inn, and a porter in a dock... Now I'm a small business student of tea."

He said, scratching his head, "in fact, life is not as difficult as you can see. Business has been good in the past two years. I built a house in East Street and moved there next month."

"That's good." Yao said.

After that, there was another silence.

Yao opened his mouth: "my elder brother used to..."

Zhen Ping waved her hand and interrupted her with a smile: "it's all over."

"Sorry," Yao said

Zhen's only son is Zhen Ping. We can imagine what kind of heartache Zhen Ping experienced when she was divorced by Yao family and her legs were broken by Yao yuan.

But when she got dementia, she forgot all about it.

She was forgiven.

Yao's throat was swollen again.

"Here we are." Zhen Ping said that he took a look at Yao and his eyes were red. He quickly lowered his head and said, "I'll open the door."

They didn't say a word that they shouldn't have said.

This may be the last time they meet in their lives.

Some things missed are missed.

There's no chance of a repeat.

However, just as Zhen Ping was about to open the latch, the sound of a carriage came from the door.

"Here?"

"Yes! This is it! I heard that man say it myself

It's Marquis Gu and Gu Chenglin!

Yao's face changed!

Although Zhen Ping didn't know their voices, he couldn't help feeling that they were not good at each other. He stopped pulling the bolt and looked back at Yao.

Yao didn't expect that Gu Chenglin would listen to his conversation with Zhen Ping in the restaurant.

And Gu Chenglin also took Lord Gu to catch his "traitor"!

Yao suddenly realized that things might not be so simple.

She asked Zhen Ping in a low voice, "why did you go to that restaurant today?"

Zhen Ping said thoughtfully, "a guest asked me to talk business there, but it's strange that I didn't wait for him when I went there."

Yao said, "is it a recent acquaintance?"

Zhen Ping said: "yes, what's the matter? Is there something wrong with the guest? "

If Yao can't guess it's aunt Ling's handwriting, it's hard to say.

"I don't have time to explain to you now. Is there a back door?" She asked.

Don't let Marquis Gu see her here. Marquis Gu will kill Zhen Ping!

Zhen Pingwei: "yes, but they're all piled with firewood. You have to move the firewood to open the door..."

"Hello! Open the door! Inside, open the door Gu Chenglin began to beat the door, "Huang Zhong, kick the door open!"

Yao's face changed and he was about to find a room to hide. The door was kicked open with a clatter!