There is still light snow falling in Peiping and a biting north wind is blowing. Shanghai City in the south is much better. There have been several sunny days in succession in the past few days. In the front yard of "Li Mansion", He Qi is lying on a deck chair and basking in the sun.
, Doctor Tang finished examining He Qi’s neck and packed up the medical equipment to leave.
"Mr. Yubai, in less than half a month, your bracket will be removed. I guarantee that the wedding will not be delayed."
He Qi couldn't move his neck yet, so he could only glance at it and said with a smile: "The foreign doctor at Faguo Hospital said that my neck needs to be cured for at least three months, but it won't take half a month when I get to you. It seems that foreign doctors are not necessarily good at it either."
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Li Yu came over with a cup of hot tea: "Thank you, Doctor Tang. Let's have a cup of wedding wine then."
Doctor Tang said: "Definitely, definitely."
In the Ming Dynasty, Li Chengliang held great power and raised the bandits with self-respect. Various industries had their own activities. He Qi's careless words inadvertently opened up Li Yu's chat box.
After Dr. Tang left, Li Yu sat next to He Qi and said, "Yubai! It's been a few days since you and Wanwan came back. I asked Wanwan some things, but she was afraid she wouldn't tell me the truth.
Wanwan has grown up, and I am very happy to be with you, but I am just a daughter, and there are some things that I can’t worry about. I don’t want to ask more about the rest of the things, but there is one thing I must know. What’s going on in the north?
Very fierce, you”
Li Yu held the teacup, paused, then slowly put it down and said, "Do you have any contact with Wanwan's eldest brother?"
He Qi said truthfully: "No."
They were about to get married, but it turned out that this matter was not simple. This made He Qi very entangled. He was afraid that if the window paper was broken and something bad happened, the marriage would be ruined. So He Qi stared at the ceiling.
After a long time, I didn’t know whether to ask or not.
"Even if you regret it, it's too late, just so-so." He Qi joked.
Li Yu was very satisfied: "Hey, that's right. The thing is there. You can't hide it, so why not continue boldly. I originally felt that cultural people always hide this and that, coyly, even
Deqian also has this smell in his body, but Yubai, you don't have it, and you shouldn't have it in the future. This is the temperament that will lead to great things."
He Qi's heart was touched and she closed her eyes tightly: "Don't think blindly. What should come will always come, and what shouldn't come will definitely not come. It's like I have lived two lives and finally want to marry you.
It's all destiny."
Li Yudao: "You are 26 years old this year, and your father is over 40. You were born in Nanyang. Based on this calculation, your father's generation should have gone to Nanyang during the Guangxu period. At that time, Jiuzi was the rice market in Wanjiang, Anhui.
There are many large ships going out to sea, so it is not difficult to find out."
Only then did He Qi realize that there was something hidden in his words again. The old man was urging him to have a grandson at the end of the year!
Li Wan turned around, faced He Qi, and revealed: "My eldest brother joined the Tongmenghui when he was studying in Dongyi. Mr. Sun, who followed him, has been away for four or five years. We can't find him.
Unless he wants to contact us. However, I am very sure that he is in Peiping now. On the third day of junior high school, you are not awake yet
, I was in the hospital, and he came to me and wanted to see you, but I stopped him and refused to let him go. On the tenth day of the lunar month, you have been discharged from the hospital. I went to the street to buy grain and oil, and he came to me again and wanted me to help him.
I didn’t agree to hide several people. He also wrote you a letter and asked me to pass it on to you. I. I didn’t dare to let you know.”
Without waiting for He Qi to speak, Li Wan rushed to say: "Dad, it's me getting married, not my second brother, so there's no need for so many people to come. Before we came back, we discussed it, and it was about family members and people from Peking.
Just have a meal together."
He Qidao: "What's written in the letter?"
Li Wan smiled knowingly, gave He Qi a peck on the lips, and said shyly: "Sir, let me tell you everything about our family. It will be easier for you to deal with it if you know it in advance."
He Qi said: "Forget it, I'm afraid it will be inconvenient for such a long journey."
Li Wan burst into tears and choked up: "Why are you like this? I'm just afraid, so I don't want him to get close to you. Whether it's the south or the north, can't we just leave it alone? You once talked to Mr. Deqian about the country.
The root of the weakness lies in the people, not politics. We need to popularize vernacular, promote new culture, and emancipate our minds. If this is the case, why should we care about their affairs?"
"I hate it!" Li Wan screamed, and moved closer. Suddenly she felt something, and Jiao Didi whispered: "I can't do it now, the injury hasn't healed yet."
Li Wan raised her head, stared at He Qi and said: "I don't ask for anything else. I just hope that I can walk in front of you like my mother. Don't let me walk behind you. I'm afraid of being like my dad.
I cried over an old piece of my mother’s clothes, stared at an old photo of my mother for a long time, and pretended to be fine in front of my children.”
Li Wan put her head against He Qi's chest, feeling the warmth, and pouted: "Just think that I'm talking nonsense and you are talking nonsense too. Don't say anything unlucky."
He Qi felt something was very wrong. This matter had not been discussed at all. What was even more wrong was that whenever Li Yu said something irrelevant, Li Wan would definitely interrupt. In the past few days, Li Wan rarely even let He Qi and Li Yu alone.
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Li Yudao: "Six out of seventy."
He Qi said: "Yeah!"
He Qidao: "We will definitely work hard."
He Qi hugged her tightly and said, "Burn it if you want." Then he sighed, "If I read that letter, I'm afraid Brother Ziguo won't be able to do anything about it, and we won't be able to come back now."
He Qi said: "I'm not so good at this? Haven't I just lived two lives?"
He Qi frowned, somewhat confused.
Li Wan pursed her lips, tangled her ten fingers, and felt very tormented inside. She was afraid, afraid that He Qi would find out about this about her family, and afraid that He Qi, a cultured person, would not be able to accept it.
Li Wan hissed: "Mr. Deqian doesn't know either. He only knows that my family is in business."
Li Wan came over with a blushing face and said coquettishly to her father: "Dad, what did you say?"
A six-year-old girl saw her mother die tragically with her own eyes. The trauma in her heart was too great. He Qi felt a little distressed. She covered Li Wan with the quilt, hugged her slim body tightly, and comforted her: "Okay! Listen to you.
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Li Wan sobbed: "My mother died when I was six years old. It was said that she died of illness, but it was not true at all. I saw my mother being killed with my own eyes, and my eldest brother hid me in a haystack.
He jumped into the river and lured those people away. My eldest brother was very interested in this bloody family business and decided that only Mr. Sun could save it.
Hua Xia devoted himself without hesitation, but he didn’t want to think about it, how did my mother die in the first place? Isn’t what he is doing now bloody? A few years ago, someone came to marry him, but they were all boiled in the same pot.
Yes, my mother’s tragic death was still vivid in my mind, and I didn’t want to live like that, so I went to Peking to study and didn’t want to stay in Shanghai anymore.”
At this point, He Qi also fully understood the specious words Li Yu said during the day, but He Qi did not resist. This is the survival rule of Li Yu and his generation. If you are not able to eat people, you will be eaten by others. From the moral point of view,
To condemn them from the commanding heights is like eating minced meat.
Li Yu shook her hand, obviously not wanting to mention anything about Brother Li Wan. She looked at the courtyard in front of her and said, "The ancients said that a family is prosperous, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and a tendency to grow green. There used to be a lot of flowers planted in this courtyard.
In a month, the flowers will bloom until the end of autumn, but in winter, they will disappear. As I get older,
Over the years, I have stopped taking care of many things and left them all to Li Li. I felt that the yard was too monotonous in winter, so I planted bamboo, but I always felt that something was missing. Last time you and De Qian came here
, I asked Deqian, he is a scholar and is more particular about things than me. At that time, he said that there are no flowers in winter, so we should plant wintersweet."
Li Wan explained: "My father came to Shanghai when he was seventeen years old and engaged in a business left over from the older generation - selling raw paper. My hometown, Xuancheng, produced paper, and they transported the paper to Shanghai.
They are sold in the market, but there are few of them and they are often bullied. Most of the money they earn is handed over to various intersections, and there is not much left when we go back. My dad was so angry that he organized a group with fellow villagers, and then gradually started to work in Shanghai.
Even though I was living a life of licking blood from the tip of a knife, I was often beaten and killed. When I was a child, I often saw my dad being slashed and coming home covered in blood, and my mom would shed tears.
While wiping his wounds, there were scars all over his back, arms, and legs. My mother persuaded my father to stop doing this. My father said that he was followed by a large group of fellow villagers and he couldn't stop."
Li Wan really changed her words and said to He Qi: "Several gentlemen from Peking have already left for Shanghai today."
The lights in the room were dim and the two of them were silent. Suddenly He Qi stretched out his hand and put his arm around Li Wan's waist, and Li Wan lay in He Qi's arms.
Li Yu breathed a long sigh of relief: "It would be nice if he didn't!" He added: "My son is very capable and has more potential than me. I hope he can do great things, but I am worried that he will break the news.
Fapang. There was a lot of trouble in the north, and you returned to Shanghai with an injury. Wanwan told me that you came back to get married, but how could you not wait until you recovered from your injury? I actually understand that you are
I'm just trying to avoid trouble. I don't worry about anything else. In the world of Shanghai, my words, Li Yu's, still have some effect. What I'm worried about is that you'll get involved and you won't be able to get away from it in the future. Yubai, a son-in-law
Ban'er, you are not an outsider. I have told Li Li this before, and I will tell you again today. Our family has already given away half of its property, and adding one more person is enough."
Li Wan said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide it from you. I just thought that from now on we live in Peking, these things will have nothing to do with it."
"Do you regret it?" Li Wan asked timidly, with worry in his eyes.
He Qi wanted to know more: "Brother, he."
Li Wan looked at her delicately: "When the injury is healed and the wind in Peiping stops blowing, we will go back to Peking immediately to run the chess hall and write articles. Let's not worry about other things, okay?"
He Qi finally understood that her father-in-law was also a man with a story, and not just any ordinary story. Thinking about it carefully, in the huge Shanghai stock market, where fish and dragons are mixed together, and swords and swords lick blood, how could he get into such a big business?
It’s really hard to play with without a few brushes.
He Qi said: "I don't care, I just refuse to save him and my conscience can't bear it."
This made Li Wan burst into laughter: "Hmph, when you were in a coma in Peking, I was the one who wiped your body every day. I saw everything you should and shouldn't see, so don't fool me.
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He Qi felt reassured and continued: "Is your eldest brother following Mr. Sun? Are you still in contact with you?"
Li Yu drank tea and said with a cheerful smile: "Isn't what I said right? How old am I? I raised three of you, and all of them failed to live up to expectations. It's okay if your eldest brother fails to live up to your expectations, and your second brother doesn't live up to his expectations all day long.
Home, he is deliberately avoiding me. So, this task is left to you two."
Seeing his daughter's resistance, Li Yu couldn't say what he said next, and said: "Yu Bai, you only have a distant uncle in your hometown. I'm afraid he's going to be married. But getting married is a big event. Do you think you should invite him here?"
One trip?”
Li Yu continued: "There is one more thing I want to discuss with you. Nowadays, many people know about your marriage. I am afraid they will all come by then. What are your plans?"
Li Yu pointed to a place in the northeast corner and said: "Look over there. The land I just prepared can be used to plant a few wintersweet flowers. I asked people and they said that we have to wait until spring when the snow melts.
The best time is. After you and Wanwan get married, you happen to be planting wintersweet, so go buy six wintersweet trees and plant them there. Next winter, when it snows, the fragrance will fill the yard."
Li Yu said with a smile: "Then I will notify someone and record a genealogy. In this way, I can also tell you about the He family."
He Qi said: "Okay, you can tell me."
Li Yudao: "The wind from the north cannot blow from the south, and writing an article does not mean breaking the news. There are many people writing articles in Shanghai and the city, so what's the problem? Peking is not necessarily better than Shanghai.
You two are both from the south, and the soil and water support each other. Besides, I am also old, so I can help you take care of your children. Wouldn't it be a good idea?"
He Qi was stunned.
Li Wan said: "I am a woman. If you want to be happy with the water thrown by your married daughter, go and teach the second brother a lesson and let him marry that woman. If it doesn't work, just drag the eldest brother back. No matter what happens,
It’s not my turn?”
He Qi changed her words and said: "Okay! Okay! Where did the two lives come from? It's just me taking advantage of sex."
"It is it, I am me, it is restless, what does it have to do with me?" He Qi said forcefully.
Li Wan joked: "You knew what happened in this life in your last life?"
Li Wan seemed to have made a mistake and said softly: "I don't know either. I burned it when I came back."
Just like what Li Yu said during the day, the matter is there and cannot be avoided, so it is better to accept it frankly. Li Wan knew that He Qi was finally going to ask, so she slowly returned to the bed and sat down, with a look of anxiety on her face.
At night, Li Wan served He Qi to bed. Logically, this kind of thing could be done by a servant, but Li Wan insisted on doing it herself. However, the atmosphere at this time was a bit strange. Li Wan wanted to avoid it, but was stopped.
He Qi stopped.
"So, I am marrying the black boss's daughter?" He Qi said.
He Qi frowned, nodded and said, "Okay."
It was the first time for He Qi to lie together with Li Wan, smelling the fragrance of lilies in her hair, feeling indescribably at ease in her heart. She just whispered in Li Wan's ear: "Deqian, do you know?"
Li Wan pursed her lips: "Dad, you're talking nonsense again. He just wrote an article, and it's already like this, how can it become a big deal? It's not like you don't know how the two of us came back. Wait until the wind in Peiping passes.
, we have to go back to Peking."
He Qi said: "How old is my distant uncle this year?"
Li Wan's face was close to He Qi's chest, becoming melancholy: "Actually, I understand that just like my dad came to Shanghai from his hometown, my eldest brother followed Mr. Sun, and my second brother wanted to be a painter, but
Forced to fight and kill. Every era has its ideals, and a person
There is one person's ideal, one era has one's helplessness, one person has one's own helplessness. Sir, you are the same, just like Fat Ju Chang who came to our house that night said, you are a restless person, and you will be the same in the future.
I will go further than my elder brother, and the ending is unpredictable. I now
You can see it now, but I don’t regret marrying you. Did you know that when my mother was killed, she didn’t feel pain, but a kind of relief. She was tired of worrying about the days of fear. Not only did she worry every day
Whether my dad can come back alive, I still have to worry about the safety of our three siblings.
.Every time a delivery man, a walker, a beggar, or a stranger appeared in front of our house, my mother would be extremely frightened and would quickly hide the three of us brothers and sisters in water tanks, rice tanks, and under the bed.
She knew it was useless, but she still did it."
Li Wan laughed loudly and added: "You are not allowed to hang out with Mr. Deqian in the future. Don't think I don't know."
He Qi shouted that he was wronged: "I didn't do it even once. If you don't believe me, why don't you ask Yucai?"
Li Wan said: "Well! Mr. Yucai is still trustworthy."
"The big chapters are not separated, which affects reading."