The wind in early spring is always a bit cool, and there is the sound of gurgling water not far away. However, when you get closer, the sound of water turns into an ear-splitting rumble. I thought it was a soft and long stream of water, but in fact it was a magnificent flying waterfall. Only this wooden house
It is still and motionless. No matter whether there is anyone or not, it stands firmly in its place and will not leave.
I sat on the steps below the wooden house, thinking about handing the envelope to Meng Yunzhong for a while, but I still had a faint worry in my heart. Would he recognize the sweat towel? Even if he did, he could understand the sweat towel passing
What do you mean? Will he come?
I turned my head again and again and stared at the path winding up from the bottom of the mountain, wondering how he would react after getting the sweat towel, or whether there were other people around him? Maybe You Ruojun's illness has recovered, she
Could it be that he has been asked to get married? Has he agreed? Although I don’t know what happened between him and You Ruojun, what agreement they had, and where their marriage contract came from, but after all, they
Living under the same roof, even if he doesn't want to, he can't avoid meeting or talking to that woman. Is my bet a bit far-fetched? I may have been wishful thinking. It seems that I shouldn't be alone because of myself.
The physical contact with Meng Yunzhong on the other hand makes it certain that he is willing to violate the worldly agreement and choose me. What's more, the time he spent with You Ruojun was more than just the few months I spent with him on this cliff?
A series of questions and answers made the waiting even more worrying and anxious. I couldn't sit still anymore, so I walked back and forth between the wooden house and the path. My heartbeat was as fast and uneasy as my steps.
, I am indeed confused. Could it be that this feeling I have for Meng Yunzhong was imposed on myself? Then why should I think that he feels the same way as me?
The sudden sense of loss caused my legs to suddenly lose strength. I stood at the exit of the path and took another deep look into the distance. I suddenly felt that the road was too long and tortuous, and I couldn't see the end. It was a bend.
, has isolated me in another world. I felt hot in my eyes, so I turned around, took an extremely heavy and weak step, and walked in the direction of the wooden house, never wanting to look back.
"Yinluo, is that you?"
The air around me suddenly solidified, and my steps froze in place. I smiled, a little proud, but my back was to the direction of the sound. When I really turned around, my expression was completely different. It felt a bit surprising.
, a little surprised, and a little moved. But when I actually saw the person standing in the middle of the path surrounded by green grass, wearing a gray-blue robe, holding a sword in one hand, and holding the person I just entrusted with the blessing envelope, I was confirmed.
The voice indeed came from Meng Yunzhong, who I had been a little anxious about waiting for. I couldn't help but feel a twitch in my heart, but this twitch made me regain my strength in an instant.
"Brother Yunzhong..."
When he saw me, there was some pity, some hesitation, some worry, some heaviness in his expression. He even frowned slightly, but I still noticed the joy and excitement deep in his eyes, and that was enough.
If he hadn't been walking towards me quickly, I wouldn't have been able to bear it and jumped in his direction.
He walked in front of me but stopped. My shoulders twitched slightly, as if I thought he would hold my shoulders with his strong arms when he came over, but he didn't. He just stood very close to me.
He was looking directly at me from there, so close that I could clearly feel the warm breath he exhaled, which made my whole face heat up, and this heat immediately spread throughout my body.
He and I stared at each other like this for a long time, at least I felt like it was a long time. It wasn't until he moved his eyes away from mine and looked at my whole body carefully that he suddenly came back to his senses and returned to his normal state.
He looked a little melancholy, a little cold but quite steady, but I seemed to still be savoring the message conveyed in his eyes just now. It was clearly gentleness, joy, or love.
"You're back..."
His first sentence didn't even ask about my sudden departure. It seemed that he was just mumbling to himself without any question.
"Well... I was... a few days ago..."
When I came back to my senses, I knew I should insert an explanation at this time anyway, but he interrupted.
"Are you injured?"
Even though he was sure that there was nothing strange about me at this time, he still asked with concern, but this question seemed a bit deliberate, as if he was deliberately avoiding my explanation. Didn't he need an explanation?
I shook my head and said, "I heard that Sister You was sick, but I didn't dare to go see her... I wonder if she is feeling better now?"
Since he didn't care about those so-called explanations, I wisely changed the topic. I still looked into his eyes, as if I was looking for some concern for You Ruojun, but I didn't want to find it. But in the end I chose to avoid it.
I caught his gaze because the meaning contained in that gaze seemed too complicated.
"It's nothing serious, it's just an old problem."
I raised my head and looked at him in surprise. I was indeed surprised. Did You Ruojun still have an old illness?
"Yinluo..." He called out my name, but hesitated.
"Um?"
After a moment of thinking, he still didn't say anything. He just said lightly: "Let's go back to the cabin first."
I walked side by side with him and unknowingly closed the distance, but he seemed to be speechless suddenly, but I didn't know what to say.
The silence made me even more confused. I had some impulses in my heart, but I still didn't have the courage.
Until he followed him into the wooden house, he stopped in the middle of the hall.
"Have you been back for a while?"
He turned his back to me, put the envelope on the table, and then looked at his clean right hand that had just touched the table.
"Yeah..." How have I ever really left here?
"I have no home to go back to now. If I don't come back here, where can I go?" Some sadness crept into my heart, but these words truly came from my heart. My eyes were warm. I lowered my head and couldn't help but fall.
A tear comes.
But I didn't know when Meng Yunzhong had walked in front of me. I raised my head, and only half of my sight was blocked by his broad shoulders. I didn't know when his right hand came to my eyes, brushing away the tears flowing to the corners of my eyes.
, I suddenly felt very warm and at ease.
"If that's the case, then stay."
I shook my head and turned my back to him, but this time, I felt more than simple warmth and affection. I thought of the bet I made with You Ruojun. This bet also became real because of the appearance of Meng Yunzhong.
here we go.
"Brother Yunzhong, I can't stay."
"Why?" He was obviously a little surprised.
"Because of Sister You." I cried, as if I would burst into tears if I continued.
"..."
Silent, he seemed speechless. I turned around to face him again, just widening the distance between us. My eyes were filled with tears, and through the water curtain in front of me, the way he looked at me also changed.
It has to be a little blurry.
"I didn't know until I got to town that your engagement with Sister You is known to everyone. If I stay, then... how will others see you? How will they see Sister You?"
His brows wrinkled slightly again, but he remained silent.
"Or, don't come to the wooden house again from now on, give this place to me, just treat it like... a woman in distress accidentally found an abandoned wooden house as a place to live, you... just...
Don't come again..." The curtain of water in front of me was like a pouring waterfall, instantly flowing into a line and streaking deeply across my cheeks.
"Yinluo..." His expression changed from tangled and dignified to endless pity and sadness, "Why do you care about the prejudices of the world? Do you still mind Ruojun's attitude towards you? She is nothing but impatient, as long as we are
…”
"Brother Yunzhong!" I interrupted him, because I knew what he would say next, "I know that if there is nothing else between us, there is nothing wrong with others, but...but...I am...to you...
I can't do 'nothing else'... Otherwise, why would I leave suddenly, and now I can't help but come back..."
For a moment, I avoided his gaze, but soon I looked straight at him again, with a gaze that seemed to have lasted for several lifetimes. I realized that even though I was acting, I was still pretending to be real.
At this point, all my thoughts condensed into this deep gaze. This gaze has melted my whole body and heart into his body. Can he feel such engraved feelings?
"Yinluo, you..."
"Brother Yunzhong... I'm sorry... maybe I shouldn't have appeared at all, let alone come back, and you shouldn't have saved my life in the first place! If I died, you wouldn't..."
He sighed, a very long sigh... Just when I really couldn't control my emotions, a pair of warm and strong arms embraced me, and my breathing stopped for a moment.
The words came to an abrupt end, and even I never thought that this scene would happen so quickly. The warm breath from his chest continued to flow into my body, making my heart hang in the air, as if my whole body was in a state of joy.
Broken.
"Yinluo, don't say such words again. No matter how many times I repeat it, I will still save you." He said it firmly, but the words were too metaphorical, and I couldn't tell what he meant.
I broke free from his arms, walked around him, and retreated to the other side of the room.
"I'm sorry...I just..." He obviously thought he had violated me, so he seemed a little guilty.
I wiped away the tears in my eyes and said: "Brother Yunzhong, you should go back. I am very satisfied to be able to see you again. From now on, you will treat this place as deserted and don't come again. You should have a good relationship with me."
Just live your life with Sister You...she is your legitimate wife in the future."
The words fell silent, perhaps because I understood his character so well that I had to use this method to force him to reveal his true thoughts to me. He had many feelings hidden in his heart, but he never told anyone about his feelings.
I don’t seem to want to share my joys, sorrows, and sorrows with others. So, whether it’s for the bet I made with You Ruojun, or for him to try to open up his heart, or to give myself an answer, I can’t wait to share it with others.
Know exactly how he will choose.
Speechless, sighing. He stood there, but I could see that his body was extremely heavy, as if the floor of the room would collapse. He seemed to have too many words in his mouth, but he couldn't say them out.
"Brother Yunzhong...you go back."
After waiting for a long time, I was inevitably a little disappointed. I still couldn't figure out the answer in his heart. Even though I vaguely felt that the distance between him and me was not far, there was always such a layer of paper that couldn't be pierced.
A world apart.
He still didn't move, he just looked at me deeply, as if his gaze had entered my body.
"It doesn't matter. If Brother Yunzhong is too embarrassed, it's better for me to leave."
I took a step with difficulty and walked to the table where he had placed the envelope before, keeping my eyes on the split envelope.
"Can I take this away? I just want to take it out and have a look if I think of my days in the cabin in the future. At least, it still smells like Brother Yunzhong..."
After saying that, without his permission, I picked up the envelope, took off the paper cover, took out the neatly folded sweat towels inside, and held them tightly in my hands. The hot tears in my eyes kept dripping away.
The towel is stained with sweat.
"Yinluo! Don't leave..."
In the end, he couldn't help but walked over to me and held my hand holding the sweat towel. He held it so hard that I even felt a little pain. Suddenly, my heart felt warm, no matter what he had
I didn't express my inner choice, but at least I knew that he couldn't let me go. I deliberately wanted to take my hand out, but he held it tighter.
"Brother Yunzhong..." I raised my head and looked at him helplessly, but he still didn't let go. Maybe this was his way of expressing his feelings.
"Stay here. When Ruojun recovers, I will come to find you."
I looked at him with some surprise. Is this considered a choice that has been made?
"But Sister You..."
"I've never been used to the kind of days where the courtyard is locked up, so I asked my adopted brother to build a wooden house here just to make it quieter. As for Ruojun..." At this point, he sighed deeply,
He shook his head slightly and said, "As long as she is good, I will feel at ease. Apart from that, there is nothing else."
He said it a little sadly, as if he had always hidden many memories, but this answer was enough for me.
He wiped away the tears on my cheeks again and took the sweat towel from my hand.
"From now on, don't say anything about leaving. Since you have nowhere to go, just treat this place as home."
I looked at his finally relieved expression, and suddenly felt very at ease, as if we were going back to those simple and comfortable days. But deep in my heart, another voice reminded me that today's comfort is far different from the past.