C165 (1/2)
After a day's galloping on the road, the party finally settled down in Qingping Town, a hundred miles away from Sichuan. The yellow sand in the sky made people unable to open their eyes, the sun above their heads made people dry, and there was no grass on the road. There was only a river in this Town, which allowed people to enjoy a moment's coolness.
The next morning, when she woke up from her room, she felt the heat and desolation of the town. Looking around, only a few small buildings stood firm in the hot sun.
She has an impression of this place, which is the throat of entering Bashu. Business travelers and passers-by have to stay here.
Although it is a desert land, it still has a prosperous business and a continuous source of customers.
The room was simple and crude, with only a bed and a table with several chairs. A curtain was pulled between the bed and the tables and chairs to separate them into two spaces.
Looking at the people who come and go, Xia Li's eyes are confused. There are Hu people, southern Xinjiang people, Persians and Han people living together. There are endless struggles among various forces. It's a arena. She runs away alone. There is a great risk of being sold. She doesn't have the courage to escape.
However, she also does not want to see sun Chun, she has not thought about how to face him.
Xia Li is still in a trance. Hearing the footsteps behind her, she turns around and looks over. Sun Chun comes over with a plate of Tizi and sends it to her.
”It's said that all the girls here love this. Try it. It's very sweet.”
As Xia Li didn't see it, she turned and left. Sun Chun came forward and held her arm.
”Let go!”
With a wave of her sleeve, the plate in front of her fell to the ground and fell in half. The handle also fell to the ground.
In her heart, a burst of guilt, back two steps, ran back to the room, closed the door, sliding down the door to the ground, heart beating, eyes flustered, helpless embrace his arms.
Sun Chun looks at the Tizi that has been patted on the ground. He squats down and picks it up. He is ready to pick up the broken plate. Rushuang, who is not far away, runs over and squats on the ground. He picks up the broken plate and says in a loud voice.
”Young master, you have been driving the carriage for more than ten days. You must be tired. Let Rushun pick up the broken plate.”
”Well, I'll do it.”
With a faint smile, sun Chun pushes away Rusheng, picks up the pieces of broken porcelain in person, and sends them to Rusheng. He raises his hand and makes a gesture of retreating.
Rushuang nods, takes the broken porcelain and goes back to the room. Leike stands in the distance, anxious for the master. He rushes up to explain for sun Chun several times, but is pulled back by Rushuang.
In just half an hour, Xia Li has been sitting on the ground, holding her hands together, lips tightly, listening to the silence outside the room, standing up, opening the door, looking out, unexpectedly bumping into sun Chun's eyes, nervously closing the door, and being stopped by him.
”Lady, when are you going to hide for your husband? Can we have a talk?”
”Joke! Why should I hide? I just don't want to see people I hate again. ”
”What are you doing?” As soon as Xia Li's voice is over, sun Chun pushes the door in, takes her into the room, controls her hands, and presses her on the table.
”I just want to have a quiet conversation with my wife.”
Sun Chun stares at Xia Li's eyes and says.
”What? Are you going to divorce me from my wife and get together with your lover? ”
Xia Li picks eyebrows and says with a smile, ”have you brought the divorce letter? Take it out, and I'll sign it immediately. In the future, we'll be one and two wide. ”
Xia Li's words, merciless, calm, like a heavy hammer, mercilessly hit in his heart, at first feel nothing, a long time, it is dull pain.
He closed his eyes deeply and opened them again. ”Are you really going to leave for your husband?”
”Yes, at first, when I realized that you had a new love, I really wanted to kill you. I wanted to die with you. I also thought that if that night, you came to me and explained to me, saying that I was the only one in my heart. You were forced by your parents, not by your own volition. It was not impossible for me to be aggrieved and seek perfection.”
”After all, we are husband and wife, and we care about you so much that we don't understand your difficulties? For you, I'm even willing to be a concubine, as long as I can stay with you. ”
”As long as you come over that night and explain to me, hold me and coax me, I'll take the whip and beat you several times, and my anger will be gone.”
”Do you know that in my world, a man or a woman who is only allowed to be monogamous will be despised by thousands of people if he or she touches other people during the duration of the relationship between husband and wife?”
”I'm willing to give up the husband wife concept and system that I've stuck to for so many years for you, but you didn't come back all night. Is my step-by-step concession worthless in front of you? Dignity makes you trample on the bottom of your feet. The result of step-by-step concession is the miserable experience of your wife? ”
”Without you, sun Chun, I have no chance to survive?”
Xia Li's tears flashed in her eyes and a smile bloomed on her lips. ”You're wrong. I've grown up in my twenties. I've already got rid of the decadent thoughts of your ancients. I'm tired. I'm too lazy to drag you. You've already said that. What do you want to do? Come to me this time?”Sun Chun looked at the calm Xia Li in front of him, as if he was looking at another person. He was silent for a moment and returned.
”My husband didn't understand what she said. We ancients were monogamous? What's the reason? You and I are in the same era. This time for my husband, I want to take my wife back. Leyi has brought her own personal guard, which may be harmful to you at any time. I can't ignore it. After tonight, you go back with me. In the future, I will protect you well and never let you feel aggrieved again. ”
Sun Chun said, holding Xia Li's hand, sincerely said.
”Joy? That night, is the woman in red lying in your arms her? It's so beautiful. It's much more noble than a country girl like me. You're really a couple. ”
Xia Li said and pushed sun Chun's hand away.
”We'd better leave. I beg you, so that the person you like will not come to me again. You said that you are a rich family in the capital, and the girl has a close guard. It must be an extraordinary family. My family and I are just ordinary people. We have no power or support.”
”Now, I just want to rely on my own hands to fight for a comfortable life. I also want to ask Mr. Sun to hold high his hand and let our family go.”
Xia Li said, and knelt down in front of sun Chun. Her face was serious. She lost her usual playful face and the wayward side of the past, and sun Chun didn't know her any more.
Sun Chun's heart felt the pain of falling. He took two deep breaths and took a deep look at Xia Li.
”Are you in such a hurry to leave? Really, is there no emotion left? ”
”All the way, I've been working hard from a homeless, poor girl with no rice to the present. I've stumbled and offended a lot of people. I've seen a lot of things, suffered a lot, and I've been fierce, selfish and willful. I've lived through life and death, and I haven't become a rich and powerful man. I still have a few hospitals and live in peace.”
”If you have no ambition, you can eat and drink together. You just want to have a long life for your family. You just want to have one heart. You can't be separated from each other. You can't be afraid of any hardship if you work together.”
”You know, you and I have experienced so many difficulties, I am not afraid, because with you by my side, I feel that no matter how bitter the day is, it is sweet. With you, you are my reliance for the survival of quinoa.”
”Now, I have a reward of 100 hospitals. I'm not worried about survival any more, but my love between husband and wife is getting weaker and weaker. I'm not a miserable woman. There are moments when I want to commit suicide. But it's just a moment. After a while, I'm still a Xia Li who has no heart, no lung and only knows money.”
”It's not rare to rob men with other women. It's not rare to waste my life on empty feelings. I care more about the silver in my hand. At least, it won't betray me.”
Xia Li stood up, went to the window, opened the window, looked out at the scorching sun, and said again.
”We are away from each other.”
”Let's think about it for a while, madam. You look bad. Take a night off first.”
Sun Chun said, got up and left the room. It was too late for Xia Li to catch up. She clearly heard the sound of locking from outside.
”You are a liar!”
The voice of Chardonnay trembled.
”I'm afraid you'll leave me suddenly.” Sun Chun stood outside the door and said in a deep voice.
As he walked farther and farther, he went downstairs to the hall on the first floor, where business travelers and passers-by from all walks of life were drinking and enjoying themselves. On the simple platform, a Hu woman was dancing in a dark embroidered skirt, with exotic beauty, soft waist, flexible eyes, a smile on her lips, a thousand coquettishes and a dozen turns of dancing, and her skirt was layered Turn around and cause the audience to applaud.
The shopkeeper's is a landlady, is warmly holding the wine pot to greet the visitors, shouting.
”Ladies and gentlemen, we bought this dancer at a high price. If you like, you can reward the girl some rouge powder money in the flower basket on the stage. It's not a waste of the girl's hard work of practicing dance for more than ten hours a day!”