Chapter 161 Butterfly Lovers (End)(2/2)
Luo Jun was limping and almost reaching the door when Luo Jun spoke.
"Are there any auspicious points with good Feng Shui around here?"
Minister Cao was stunned and said randomly: "Yes, there must be. I know a famous Feng Shui master who can definitely pick a good one." Luo Jun nodded: "That's OK, pick a good auspicious point. In the past two days,
Just bury him."
Luo Jun's calm tone made everyone in the room feel incredible. Even the maid who was supporting Mrs. Cao was surprised. Mrs. Cao glanced at Luo Jun, obviously not believing that there could be such a heartless husband or wife in this world.
The corpse is right in front of you, yet you can say such words so lightly.
Luo Jun took out the eggs from his pocket and put them on the shelf. "Can butterflies eat eggs?" Luo Jun asked.
Minister Cao was so shocked that his eyes widened. He suspected that Luo Jun was a little too unacceptable and went crazy. Luo Jun was very calm, but Mrs. Cao exploded.
"You surnamed Luo are still not human!" Mrs. Cao roared at Luo Jun angrily, "Even if Liu Tao doesn't have children, she is still the wife you are marrying! When your wife died, not only did you not shed a single tear, you were even a little sad.
You don’t even have an expression on your face, yet you still care about whether the butterfly eats the eggs.”
"She was worried that she would be killed when she went out to look for you, but you didn't even want to show off, and didn't even give her the last bit of dignity. You even found a good place to bury her in the past two days. You are simply a beast.
.”
"Hurry up and pull Madam out!" Minister Cao roared angrily, blocking the last two words of Mrs. Cao with his roar, and then looked at Luo Jun with a smile on his face, "Mr. Luo, I'm so sorry, my wife is so sad.
A slip of the tongue."
"I know." Luo Jun said, "So she doesn't like being a butterfly?" Minister Cao thought Luo Jun might really be crazy.
Liu Tao's funeral was organized with the help of Minister Cao and Mr. Ge. Perhaps he was worried that Luo Jun would blame him and wanted to try his best to make up for it. Mr. Ge organized the most beautiful funeral in the shortest time. Not only did he order a good coffin, but he also found Feng Shui
My husband has chosen a lucky acupuncture point. It is in a very remote and uninhabited place. It is said to be a good location.
Luo Jun bought all the land and found someone to build a house there.
For Qin Huai, the subsequent memories are like a movie that accelerates time.
Time passes very quickly, basically in the blink of an eye, a day passes in a daze.
It may also be that the plot of this section is very long and boring. Luo Jun built a small house next to Liu Tao's grave and lived there. He moved a chair to read newspapers and books in front of Liu Tao's grave every day.
At first, many people came to this place to look for Luo Jun.
Some were looking for him to do business, some were looking for connections, some were looking for money, some wanted to do business with him, and of course, most of them wanted to introduce him to a new wife. Luo Jun ignored them and just sat in front of the tomb and read a book every day.
Read the newspaper.
Gradually, no one came to see him.
Time passes faster and faster, the stars move, the sun rises and sets in the east, the trees planted by the tomb grow taller and taller, and the grass needs to be cleared regularly. Luo Jun has not ordered a newspaper for a long time, but just reads the ones he has read before over and over again.
He lived a life isolated from time and knew nothing about the outside world. Time seemed to have stopped for him.
Qin Huai feels like he is waiting for something every day, but what can he wait for? Waiting for the willow peach to turn into a butterfly?
But Butterfly is just the story of Liang Zhuli, a playbook.
Finally, on a quiet afternoon, the fast-moving time pressed the pause button, and someone came to the door. It was Mrs. Cao.
After not seeing each other for several years, Mrs. Cao became very haggard.
She is no longer as jeweled and rich as she was a few years ago. She has no gold or silver jewelry on her body, and the pearl necklace she wears around her neck every day has disappeared. She is not wearing a cheongsam, but an ordinary gray cotton coat. Even
He has also become thinner, his cheeks are slightly sunken, and the corners of his eyes are full of wrinkles, making him look much older.
"Mr. Luo, long time no see." Mrs. Cao's temper has improved a lot and she no longer rolls her eyes at people. "How long has it been?" Luo Jun obviously has no idea about the passage of time.
Mrs. Cao smiled and said, "It's been four or five years. I'm leaving here to go back to the countryside. I wanted to come and see Liu Tao before I left." Luo Jun motioned for her to have a look.
"They all said you were crazy." Mrs. Cao said, "They said you were obsessed with watching plays and reading novels, and you became the infatuated person in the playbook. You could only live a good life of wealth and stay in this ghost place.
Living in the tomb of my late first wife.”
"I was the one who said something bad a few years ago. You and my old Cao colluded to trick Liu Tao into going out to discuss business. I thought you raised her child outside, so I encouraged Liu Tao to let you take her back to Shanghai and here.
The little fairy is dead." Mrs. Cao looked at the tombstone and said, "Now that I think about it, I might as well encourage Liu Tao to let you take her back to Shanghai, so that maybe she is still alive."
"I'm not crazy." Luo Jun said calmly.
Mrs. Cao smiled: "I really like playing mahjong with Liu Tao."
"I am a country wife that my old Cao married in my hometown. I don't know a few Chinese characters. I don't like western clothes, can't wear high heels, and can't drink coffee. I'm a country bumpkin that everyone looks down upon. If it hadn't been for my brother Gaosheng, Lao Cao would have been in trouble for the rest of his life.
They won’t bring me to the city.”
"My old Cao wants to climb up the ladder and asks me to please Liu Tao and fawn over you. I didn't like it at first. I hate fawning over people the most. These young and beautiful ladies rely on their own experience of the world and they all look down on country people like us with their nostrils turned upward."
My original wife, even when playing mahjong, dislikes the way we draw cards."
"But she...forget it, let's not talk about it. I have something for you when I come here this time." As she said that, Mrs. Cao carefully took out a cloth bag from her pocket and opened it. There was still a small cloth bag inside. When she opened it again, it was
An earring.
A small silver earring.
"I'm going back to the countryside. I found it in the jewelry box yesterday when I was sorting things out. It was the one Liu Tao had lost before. She said it was the dowry that Sister Ahong gave her when she got married. Although it's not valuable, it's very valuable.
Meaning. I don’t dare to wear it normally for fear of losing face. I only dare to wear it when I come to my house to play mahjong.”
"She is always so cautious, fearing that she will lose face if she does something wrong. Do you remember that there was a time when my maid often sent stewed pigeons with gastrodia elata to your house? It was stewed with willow peaches, and she didn't learn how to do it.
The pigeons were so stewed that they could only drink the soup. I didn't want you to see the pigeon meat, so I just said it was stewed by my cook."
"How is Minister Cao doing lately?" Luo Jun asked.
"Dead." Mrs. Cao said casually, "My brother is also dead, and all the aunts and wives at home have run away. I don't have a son, I only have a daughter, and I don't have much money in my hands. I really can't live here, so
I plan to take my daughter back to the countryside."
"I'm afraid I'll never come back after leaving this time, so I came to see Liu Tao one last time."
Luo Jun looked at Mrs. Cao's clothes and stretched out his hand to signal Mrs. Cao to hand him the silver earrings. Mrs. Cao handed over the entire cloth bag. Luo Jun took it and got up and went into the house. Within two minutes, Luo Jun took a small box.
He came out and handed it to Mrs. Cao. There were 6 small yellow croakers inside.
"I went back and wrote letters to avoid losing contact. Liu Tao hasn't made many new friends in these years, and I can't let her become a butterfly and lose another one." Mrs. Cao took the wooden box blankly and blurted out: "What butterfly?"
Are you really crazy?"
"Don't lovers turn into butterflies after they die?" Luo Jun asked, "Just like in Butterfly Lovers, although the human form dies, it can continue to live in the form of a butterfly and turn into a yellow butterfly."
Mrs. Cao was stunned for a while, as if she was trying to determine if Luo Jun was joking with her. Seeing that Luo Jun was really serious, she stuttered and said, "But...but that's a story in a play."
"What do you mean?" Luo Jun asked.
"Those are all stories in dramas, they are false."
"Isn't it true that the three sworn brothers in Taoyuan, the beheading of the son in the royal family, and the female consort are all true?"
"That's different." Mrs. Cao regretted it. She didn't know how to explain it for a while, "Some parts of the story in the play are true, and some parts are false. I don't know whether the story of Butterfly Lovers is true or not.
But turning into a butterfly is just a story in the play."
"It's impossible for a human to turn into a butterfly." Luo Jun was stunned.
"When a person dies, he is dead. It is impossible to turn into a butterfly." "You have been...could it be..."
Luo Jun seemed to wake up suddenly. He seemed to have been dreaming for many years. Suddenly one day someone patted him and said to him, hey, stop sleeping, it's time to wake up. "What did you say?" Luo Jun said hoarsely.
asked in a voice.
"I said... turning into a butterfly is just a story in the play, not true." Mrs. Cao pursed her lips, as if she had made some kind of decision, "Mr. Luo, I don't know why you misunderstood like this."
"But... Liu Tao is dead. She has been dead for five years. She will not turn into a butterfly." "It's time for you to wake up."
Qin Huai looked at Luo Jun. This was the first time Luo Jun showed a surprised expression.
There is a sense of shock and confusion, like a child who thinks he has learned the rules of the world, but is suddenly told that the rules you learned are wrong and that you do not understand the world at all.
In the fifth year after Liu Tao's death, Luo Jun found out that his wife was dead. She had long been buried in the dust and turned into white bones.
Really dead.
Chapter completed!