"Even if you have all kinds of difficulties, you should not kill innocent people. You allow the evil thoughts in your heart to flourish and fall into the abyss of unrepentance. By doing these evil things, how can you bring shame to your biological mother and sister?!
"
The great elder was deeply saddened.
Jin Yunchong raised his head and sighed, his eyes ruthlessly passing through the ranks of ancestors, "The grudge has been sown, and I can no longer look back."
The great elder bowed his head helplessly, turned around and walked out of the ancestral hall door, giving an order to the disciples outside: "This boy has gone crazy and is causing great harm to people. Put him in a dungeon and he will not come out without orders!"
"Yes." The young disciple responded solemnly.
The great elder had no choice but to explain this matter to the clan. Of course, he first reported this matter to the clan leader.
When the patriarch learned about this, he stayed up all night. Sometimes he opened the window and looked at the sky, sometimes he looked at the moon in the well. Many images of people flashed through his mind, and strong memories rolled like a tide, sweeping over his mind.
He vaguely saw Li Ying sitting on the blooming cherry tree with her back to him, singing. The pink petals fluttered in the wind, surrounding her graceful figure and falling into her white palms. Suddenly, the pink petals turned into
Beads of blood covered the back of her hand.
He vaguely saw the bloody fingers grasping his hand again.
Everything seemed to be back to that nightmare-like hut.
He sat on the bedside and hugged Li Ying tightly, who had just given birth.
Li Ying weakly nestled in his arms, her urgent whining ringing in his ears.
"I heard the conversation between your brother and you that night. You are quite famous in the clan and you are a member of the clan. If outsiders find out that you have a private life with the Li family and have a child, they will definitely be regarded as
Traitor. You know that you argued hard for me, and they also made a compromise, allowing you to leave the mother and keep the child. I knew that you didn't want to harm me, so you brought me to this hidden and uninhabited place to give birth, trying to cover up others' ears. Why didn't I want to?
I will stay with you in paradise for the rest of my life. But after all, you and I are filthy things in this world and cannot be transcendent. Look! Your tribe is here to capture me. Let me go! Let me go!"
There was the sound of chaotic footsteps outside the door.
Li Ying put the infant baby into his hands, grabbed the scissors on the bed that had been used to cut the umbilical cord, and pressed them against her bony chest. She looked at him deeply with tears in her eyes.
"Yunchi, this child is entrusted to you, and the Li family is entrusted to you. We must become the clan leader of Jinyun and change everything. Don't let this child follow our fate. The Li family and Jinyun depend on you!"
The sharp knife pierced the living heart without hesitation.
Blood splattered, staining his pale and frightened face. His trembling mouth opened wide, and he was so heartbroken that he couldn't say a word. He could only make intermittent sobs uncontrollably in his throat. It wasn't until his brother broke in that he finally
Holding the child in his arms, he burst into tears.
"elder brother."
His brother quickly bent over and hugged him tightly while he was kneeling, calling his nickname heartbreakingly, "Xiaochi, Xiaochi. Everything will pass."
Three days after Li Ying passed away, he returned home dejectedly holding her ashes. His brother, who had always been serious about words, hurriedly held the soft and boneless baby for him. His words of advice were like shapeless catkins floating in the wind.
It passed by his ear without leaving any trace.
The whole world has lost its proper color.
The Jinyun clan will favor their elder brother very much. In addition, the old clan leader is old and intends to abdicate. There is a strong demand for the elder brother to become the new clan leader.
He also understood that he had long lost the trust and support of the elders because of his "rebellious" nature. However, what he did not expect was that his brother actually gave up the campaign for the clan leader and willingly helped him ascend to the throne, only acting as an assistant.
That night he happened to pass by his brother's study and heard him and Yu Qing arguing in the room.
Yuqing grabbed her brother's hand and prevented him from writing the letter of resignation.
The elder brother held Yuqing's hand back, trying to gain his understanding with his firm eyes.
"Yu Qing, I have you and Xiaochi, that's enough."
The next day, my brother came to see Lan'er.
"Why?" He looked dumbly at his brother, who was always serious and rigorous, and did not show favoritism.
The elder brother was holding a rattle to coax the child in the cradle. Seeing her crying, he had to pick her up and put her to sleep. After the girl fell asleep on his shoulder, he turned his back to him, looked out the window and said, "You and Li Ying
You will naturally fulfill the promise, and no one wants to resolve the grudge between Jinyun and Li more than you."
"I look forward to your answer sheet."
He immediately burst into tears, lowered his head and sobbed: "Brother, thank you... thank you."
To achieve this goal, he had to cheer up quickly. In order to successfully assume the position of patriarch, he followed the arrangement and married a girl from a well-known family in Luo City. After giving birth to his eldest son, his "unbearable" "love affair" in the past also disappeared.
Gradually forgotten by people.
In order to allow his eldest daughter with a special status to grow up safely under his wings, he spent a lot of effort and inevitably neglected his eldest son who was just born. His debts to Jialan and Chong'er were later repaid to Xiu Xiu. Waiting for him
When he came back to his senses, Chong'er had already had a rift with him, and also had a lot of differences with Lan'er.
Although he was comforted by his brother, Chong'er would go astray, and he was really to blame.
After so many years, he still made no progress, which ruined Li Ying and Chong'er.
The wind howled and the treetops rustled, covering up the sound of his sobs as dawn approached.
Yuqing's death was ultimately blamed on an unknown bandit. In order to protect his reputation, Jinyun did not admit Jinyunchong's various crimes to the people.
Jin Yunchong needs to be imprisoned in a dark and damp dungeon for ten years to atone for his sins.
After the lady learned about this, she was so heartbroken that she could not sleep or eat well. If Xiuxiu Chenghuan had not been at her knees and comforted her all day long, she thought she would have suffered a nervous breakdown.
Xiu Xiu didn't know where her brother had gone. Her father only told her that her brother was traveling and it would be a long time before he came home.
But she understands that this is a lie. Because she is still young, she can be surrounded by white lies as a matter of course.
She opened the window, lay down on the window, and looked at the unchanging scenery outside. She felt the biting north wind and the absence of her brother and sister, and her heart was desolate. No matter how beautiful the red lantern was, it could not warm the desolate courtyard.
That night, she had a dream that was as vivid as if she were there in person. She came to the dungeon where Jin Yunchong was imprisoned, and saw her brother scarred and covered in blood. He was holding on to the railings of the cell and roaring hysterically, as if he was desperately asking her for help.
What is conveyed.
She woke up from the dream and was sweating profusely.
In the evening, she rarely went to her father's study to say hello. It was approaching the New Year, and the patriarch only thought that his daughter came to ask him for a gift, but he didn't want her to seriously say: "Father, my daughter is now older, and she also wants to enter Jinyun College.
"
She thought it was time for her to be sensible.
The sound of reading aloud can be heard in Jinyun College early in the morning. Li Zhi has been enrolled in school for one month. He travels between Kongshan and Luocheng every day in a hurry.
He was excellent in his studies and entered the school with honors. Very few people in the college did not know his name. But except for the silly young master of the Bai family who dared to treat him as usual, no one else in the Jinyun College dared to
approach him.
It's okay, he doesn't like making noise at all.
That day, in the chess class, he looked out the window at the frosty white ground, waiting for the move of the classmate opposite who had been concentrating for a long time.
Suddenly there was a call in his mind that was enough to make him frightened.
"A Zhi."
He stood up abruptly, escaped from the serious and boring class without any explanation, admitted defeat to his opponent in this win-win situation, and then rushed towards the empty mountain without any hesitation.
Snowflakes slapped his warm cheeks, and his exposed earlobes quickly became cold.
Before he could shake off the snowflakes from his shoulders, he lifted up the newly erected curtain at the door, and a fiery stream of warmth rushed toward him. There was a casserole making a sizzling sound on the small red clay stove, and his mother and brother were sitting there.
Sitting around, the two of them smiled meaningfully when they saw him returning.
"Hot pot is the best thing to eat in winter." A slightly hoarse female voice came from the kitchen, and a red figure froze for a moment behind the lingering fog. With a sigh of joy, the figure broke through the thick fog in front of him, like a
A ball of unrestrained flames flew away and hugged Li Zhi who was stunned on the spot.
"You're back!" The familiar voice was full of longing greetings and ecstatic reunion.
Hearing the voice of his concern day and night, Li Zhi couldn't help but frown, hugging her tightly, and tears suddenly welled up in his eyes.
"Finally, woke up."
Jin Yunlan touched his head soothingly, with tears in his eyes, and smiled without saying a word.
Li Zhi slowly let go of her and looked at her whole body. She had many injuries on her body before she fell into coma. The injuries on her shoulders and hands showed signs of recovery during her sleep, but she didn't know if the internal injuries were still serious.
Over the past two months, her figure had lost some weight, but fortunately the color on her white cheeks had returned. Now she stood in front of him radiantly, wearing a bright red short coat and long skirt, with thick rings on the skirt and sleeves.
The snow-white rabbit fur looks playful and festive, just like the Chinese New Year, full of hope.
Li Zhi nodded reassuringly and muttered happily: "It'll be fine when you wake up, it'll be fine when you wake up." He couldn't help but want to stretch out his arms to hug her.
Jin Yunlan suddenly let go of her hand, turned around and sat by the stove, picked up the rice bowl, and moved her index fingers when facing the aroma of the food.
Poor Li Zhi still kept the hugging posture, standing there blankly, helpless.
When Li Tang saw this, he burst out laughing, "Puff, hahaha."
Li's mother patted him lightly and signaled him not to go too far, "Xiao Zhi is thin-skinned, don't shame him."
Jin Yunlan tucked up the hem of her skirt and turned her face to greet Li Zhi: "A Zhi, come on, sit down." She was the guest, as comfortable and generous as if she were at home.
Li Zhi scratched his neck and sat down next to her obediently. However, he had no appetite at the moment, as if he was full just by looking at her.
After holding on for a while under his hot gaze, Jin Yunlan finally raised her hands and surrendered. She faced his direct gaze with a rare shyness, and said awkwardly: "Azhi, you... don't keep staring at me like this."
Li's mother tugged on Li Zhi's sleeves to relieve her embarrassment, "Xiao Zhi, don't be unreasonable."
Li Zhi restrained herself somewhat.
The four people gathered around the hot pot lively, eating, drinking and chatting.
Jin Yunlan learned about what Li Zhi had done during the days when she was sleeping, and she couldn't help but feel aggrieved for him. He thought that in order to clear her name, he actually lied to the world that she did have other intentions for them, and he was willing to do so.
Fall into her "trap" so that she can regain the trust of the people and earn back her reputation.
Although he had gone through the process of his participation in the college competition, she had no idea about the behavior of the Jinyun Clan Association and the deep-rooted prejudices of the people of Luo City against the Li family, which must have caused him a lot of suffering.
But she understood that Li Zhi didn't want her to be rigid about this, so she didn't mention it and only talked about some fun things. When she mentioned his ride in the sedan chair, she laughed and said, "Did you really sit in that sedan chair? I have never participated in the competition before.
The reason is that I don’t want to sit in that fancy sedan chair.”
Li Tang added: "No, Xiao Zhi covered her face the whole way that day, just like a big girl getting into a sedan chair."
Thinking of the embarrassing incident that day and being talked about so much, Li Zhi couldn't stand it any longer. Unable to bear their ridicule, Li Zhi raised the curtain and went out for some air.
Jin Yunlan was afraid that he would be angry, so she quickly chased him out.
The two stood talking under the porch.
"Azhi, don't be angry."
Li Zhi turned his head, took a deep look at her, and then looked at the green and white snow scene in the distance, a faint smile appeared on his face: "When you wake up, there is nothing in this world that can make me unhappy.
If you find it interesting, then my trip to the sedan chair will not be in vain."
Jin Yunlan trembled and quickly looked away from his face in flattery.
Oops, my heart seemed to be captured by him for a moment.
After not seeing each other for several months, why did he suddenly become so talkative?
She played with her fingers and stared at the snow on the ground uneasily. A biting wind and snow passed through the eaves, blowing the hair on her temples.
Just as she was about to reach out to comb it, the person next to her took the lead, stroking her hair and clamping it behind her cold ears, followed by a subtle kiss that melted on her warm cheek like snowflakes.
It happened that the cold wind blew the wind chimes, and a "dingling" sound resounded in my heart. This chapter has been completed!