Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 7239
She didn't know what happened to him in the past 34 years, why did he age so fast?

Although his shoulders are still broad, his back is somewhat burdened.

The years had left deep marks on his face, he was so thin and old that she almost didn't recognize him at first sight.

The man opposite seemed to be irritated by her words, covered his mouth with a veil and coughed twice.

As soon as he coughed, footsteps approached from outside the cabin, and a low and questioning voice came in: "Master?"

Qi Huan raised his hand.

The figure outside the cabin retreated.

Qi Huan also stopped coughing, put down his veil and looked straight at Tuobaxian in front of him.

"I have some physical problems, but, Xian'er, you are still the same as when we first met."

"Still so young and beautiful..."

Tuobaxian shook her head lightly, "I am already a grandmother, young and beautiful have long been out of my reach."

But Qi Huan insisted: "No, in my heart, you will always be the grand princess of Daliao, the woman I admire the most, and the only woman I ever admired."

Tuoba Xian turned her head away, not wanting to listen.

"You have been hiding from me for more than thirty years, and you suddenly kidnapped me here tonight, just to say these love words?"

Tuobaxian smiled, with three parts of self-deprecation and two parts of sarcasm on the corners of her lips.

"Your love words can fool me back then. This year, I'm 52."

"In eight years, my son, wife, and grandchildren will celebrate my [-]th birthday."

Qi Huan knew he was wrong, but he couldn't do anything except apologize.

"Xian'er, I owe you 34 years. I have committed a heinous crime. If there is another life, I will make it up to you."

The sarcasm on Tuobaxian's lips became more profound.

compensate?

afterlife?

She, who has served the Buddha for more than ten years, actually dare not hope for an afterlife in her heart.

"Xian'er, we haven't seen each other for a long time, I just want to pick you up tonight to catch up."

Qi Huan glanced at the furnishings in the cabin: "You look at everything here, doesn't it look familiar?"

"I arranged it according to the first time we met in Jiangnan water town."

There was no need for Qi Huan's flattering reminder, Tuobaxian understood his intentions at the first sight when he entered the cabin.

"And this bowl of Liangpi. I remember you said you wanted to eat it before. I brought it to you. Would you like to try it?"

Tuobaxian stared at the bowl of Liangpi in front of her that had lost its flavor when it was overheated, feeling a little funny in her heart.

This person is still the noble son of the man who only knew how to ride horses to fight, King Wu of Great Qi.

He is still an outsider in matters of food, clothing, housing and transportation, but he wants to express his concern with this outsider's matter, but he doesn't know if it will be self-defeating?
Seeing Tuobaxian staring at the bowl of Liangpi all the time, she still refused to lift the chopsticks.

Qi Huan was a little apprehensive, and asked cautiously: "Is it cold? I'll order someone to warm it up..."

Tuoba Xian raised her hand to block it.

"No need."

"Qi Huan, I appreciate your kindness, but people's appetites change."

"Xian'er..."

From the inn to the cabin, Qi Huan has been laughing, observing, and carefully flattering him all the way.

But at this moment, he couldn't laugh anymore, and his eyes darkened a little bit.

"Xian'er, I'm sorry for you. In fact, I've been ashamed all these years."

Tuoba looked at him quietly, waiting for him to give the answer she always wanted.

However, Qi Huan was just telling how he missed her, his confession.

There was the sound of a watch on the shore.

Bang, bang, bang.

A sound came into the cabin.

The other boats nearby have found suitable places to berth one after another. Before, they were quiet amidst the noise, but now they are really quiet.

There was a silence all around, with occasional waterfowl flitting across the water.

In the cabin, Qi Huan was always talking.

It can be seen that his body is really not as good as before, and he speaks very slowly. He coughs a few times and drinks two sips of tea when he speaks a few words.

Tuobaxian was listening patiently, but she couldn't wait for the sentence she wanted to hear the most.

"Qi Huan, I came here with you tonight, not to hear your confession and longing."

"I'm 52 years old, most of my life has passed, and my youth is long gone."

"I have no intention of reconnecting with you."

Every time Tuoba Xian said a word, Qi Huan's face turned paler.

"Qi Huan, there is only one obsession for the rest of my life,"

"That is, I want you to tell me yourself, why did you abandon me back then?"

"Why haven't you come to me for so many years?"

"When you know my whereabouts, why do you hide your head and show your tail but refuse to meet?"

Qi Huan sat there, the light from the lamp seemed to be unable to shine on his body, his back slumped a little bit, and his whole body was like an old man shrunk into the darkness.

It's like an eminent monk who has settled down.

There was a sudden silence in the cabin.

After a while, when Tuobaxian was about to despair again, Qi Huan finally spoke again.

"Abandoning you back then was not my original intention."

"At that time, the war between the two countries was tense, and fire and water were incompatible. As the prince of Daqi, I had no choice!"

"Xian'er, I'm sorry for you!"

Tuobaxian frowned, the answer was just as she had guessed.

It's nothing more than a man and a woman falling in love. At the last moment, the man's rationality has the upper hand, while the woman plunges into it.

In the words of the simple village women in Changping Village, I was a stupid woman back then.

"After so many years, you didn't come to me because of the confrontation between the two countries and our embarrassing status, right?" she asked.

Qi Huan nodded.

Tuoba Xian laughed at herself.

Why do you have to ask so clearly?

Wouldn't it be nice to stay in the stomach and be a happy fool?Do you have to be a sad sober person?

Qi Huan saw Tuoba Xian's lonely look in his eyes, and felt a pain in his heart, as if ten thousand ants were gnawing on him.

He almost couldn't help but wanted to tell her the truth, but at the last moment, he held back.

Tuobaxian raised her drooping eyes again, the persistence in her eyes made Qi Huan secretly startled.

"The last question, you have to answer truthfully."

"Why have you clearly recognized me in the past few years, but you have been refusing to show up? What are you afraid of?"

This is what she wants to know the most.

Knowing this answer, she will be completely liberated. For the rest of her life, she will spend the rest of her life with the blue lantern and the ancient Buddha wholeheartedly, and there will be no more disturbances.

However, Qi Huan fell into silence again.

"Why do not you say it?"

"Our lives have reached the twilight years, what secret do you want to keep?"

Daqi's current emperor is his nephew, and the war between the two countries is no longer as tense as before, and business contacts are also common.

What is he still insisting on?
"Xian'er..." Qi Huan called her name in a low voice, his thick eyebrows were tangled together, and there was pain in those eyes.

(End of this chapter)