Still waiting for Zhaoyang

Chapter 11
"Miss is now nineteen, so she was already too old. Now that the master is gone, if you don't find a husband's family for Miss to marry within a hundred days, I'm afraid that if you finish your filial piety, you will really delay your life."

Zijin was very upset when he heard the words, and couldn't find Xia Yue for a while, so he walked around and found her next to the wintersweet tree in front of Master Min's house.I saw her looking up at the moon, the two tear stains on her face under the moonlight made people feel very distressed."Sometimes it really feels like Dad is still in the house," she said.

Chang's mother's words kept turning in his mind, and Zijin couldn't help stretching out his hand, hugging her tightly to his chest, and said, "It's not sad, Dad won't let it go."

Xia Yue burst into tears when she heard this.

"I won't let you leave me." After he finished speaking, his heart ached, his heart moved, and he couldn't help lowering his face and kissing her.

First, he kissed away the tears on her face little by little, then slowly lowered his lips, and finally landed on her lips timidly, pecking lightly, kissing tenderly and tentatively.

Soft as a flower and sweet as honey, it was the taste he had imagined in his dreams.

all of a sudden—

He came back to his senses and let go of Xia Yue.

Xia Yue stood in front of him blankly, raised her hand, slowly covered her mouth, with an expression of disbelief: "Zijin...you!" Then she turned around abruptly and ran out the door.

"Yue'er—" he called her, but she didn't look back.

She ran through the crowd of lantern-watchers in the street.

stumbled.

She ran along the river to the lake outside the city in one breath, and as the crowd gradually became scarce, she slowed down.Then he sat on the stone blankly, not knowing what to do.

She touched her lower lip again with her fingers, and seemed to be able to feel the remaining warmth of Zijin on it.

Distraught.

Not sure how to be good.

There is another wintersweet forest behind, exuding a strong fragrance.

It was under this smell just now that he kissed her.A gentle and shy kiss.

four

For a long time, she has always regarded Zijin as an equally important person in this world as her father.So she loves him and loves him dearly. If he is sad, she will never be happy.However, she has never looked at Zijin like a man, she just thinks that he is a part of her life and body, closer than blood relatives.

Now, it's all too sudden.

She didn't know how long she stayed there, but the wind picked up and the moon was gradually covered by clouds. She felt a little cold.After standing up, he was taken aback, how would he face Zijin and the others when he went back?Xia Yue shook her head, no matter what, she went back first.She sighed faintly and walked into Merlin.

When she was young, she and Zijin had played in this forest many times. When they came here, they were in a confused mood and didn't notice it. Now they are alone in the dark and suddenly become scared.

He vaguely heard a voice behind him, and his heart was raised in his throat, and he didn't dare to look back.But the more I didn't look back, the more frightened I became. In the end, I was too scared to go any further, so I had to turn around tremblingly, squinting my eyes to look at it.

"Pop-plop--" an owl flapped its wings on a branch.

Then she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yue'er!" Zijin's anxious voice came from afar.

She was overjoyed, as if she finally saw light in the dark night, and was about to start following the source of his voice, suddenly, a man covered her mouth from behind and threw her to the ground.

Three men suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, and she couldn't see clearly in the dim night.

"Don't cover her mouth."

"But, Lord, what if the person just now finds out."

"Don't worry, he's deaf. This bitch can't hear even if she screams."

Xia Yue finally remembered when she heard his voice, and said angrily, "Wang Gan?"

"Even if you still have a little memory, I said at the time that I wanted you to pay for it. Today, I finally caught a chance, so I'll be happy."

"Yue'er!" Zijin yelled again, gradually approaching the lake.

Xia Yue struggled to get up, but was held down by two other big men.

Wang Gan leaned down with a lewd smile on his face, and pulled hard on her breast, a piece of clothes was torn off, the light-colored bellyband jumped out, and the breasts were faintly visible.Not only Wang Gan, but also the two men next to him swallowed their saliva.

"See, if you don't make my uncle happy to serve me, if you're not sure, give them a reward to play together."

"Bah!" Xia Yue was terrified, but pretended to be calm and spat at him.

When Wang Gan got angry, he slapped her twice, and then quickly tore off her clothes.

"Yue'er—" the voice approached.

"Zijin! Save me! Save me! Zijin..."

Wang Gan touched her from top to bottom with rough palms, and she cried out Zijin's name over and over in her heart with tears in her eyes: "Zijin! I'm here! Why can't you hear me? Can't you hear me?" arrive!"

Zijin's voice was getting closer and closer, it seemed that the distance was only ten feet away, but the four of them were behind the bushes, so it was difficult to detect in the dark, and his eyesight was not very good at night.

While struggling, Xia Yue took the opportunity to grab a stone by her side.

In the past, as long as Zijin couldn't hear her calling him, he always used this method.

Unexpectedly, this move did not escape Wang Gan's eyes. He grinned and said, "It would be best if you could call him here. He can beat us alone as a deaf man? The little boy in the Yelou is very good-looking, it would be even better if we tie him up and let the three of us play together!" Then the three of them laughed wantonly together.

"Hold her down, sir, let me taste it first." Wang Gan said while unbuttoning his pants.

Xia Yue closed her eyes weakly, she heard Zijin's footsteps, and his almost hoarse voice from calling her name with so much effort, she held the stone tightly in her palm until the edges and corners of the stone sank into the flesh.

At this moment, there was a muffled sound, and one of the attendants was knocked unconscious by a fist behind him.Wang Gan took a look and saw two well-dressed men appearing in front of him, and it was one of them who punched just now.

"What are you guys doing?" Wang Gan asked, pulling the remaining attendants to protect him.

The attendant was also a bully, he stammered and asked, "Do you know who my master is...?"

"It was your father, Wang, who was beating. You will die a terrible death." One of the strong men shouted.

The other person took off his clothes and covered Xia Yue's exposed skin.

When Wang Gan heard the voice, he immediately recognized the speaker, pointed at him and said, "You...you...you are Yao Chuang?"

"That's right. I took my life and came back. I only regret that I didn't kill you bastard at the beginning, and let you hurt people again."

Wang Gan had suffered from him before, so before he could finish speaking, he pulled up his trousers and ran away.

Seeing this, Yao Chuang drew his sword and wanted to give chase.

He Chuyi, who was on the side, held him down: "Second Brother Yao, don't be reckless, you and I have important things to do, it's best not to get involved too much, the most important thing is to save people."

They were ordered by Shang Rui to rush to the southern region overnight, passing through Jinluo.Both of them are martial arts practitioners, with keen ears, they heard a woman crying from a distance, so they followed the sound, but unexpectedly they met.

Yao Chuang had no choice but to listen to the persuasion and take away the sword, then turned around and asked Xia Yue: "Girl, where is your home?"

After asking twice in succession, Xia Yue's eyes were empty and she didn't answer.

He unexpectedly asked: "What should I do?" Jinluo was about to close the city gate, and they still had to hurry.

Yao Chuang recalled the scene of his own woman back then, shook his head and said, "We can't just send her into the city like this, and let other people see her, she won't be able to live with rumors."

"Then let's take her away first and see if anyone stays with her on the way."

Suddenly at this time, another voice came from not far away, shouting "Yueer Yueer" non-stop.

This is the second time Zijin has gone into the woods to look for her.

He asked all the way just now, and he was sure that Xia Yue was out of the city. If she was out of the city, she must be around here.

He thought, maybe she was annoyed with him, so she hid on purpose. He has poor eyesight at night, so naturally he couldn't hide from her.So I borrowed a torch and searched corner by corner.

It's raining.

The rain gradually wet his hair and clothes, and his voice of calling her became smaller and smaller, his throat was almost speechless.

When Xia Yue heard that voice, her original expression suddenly changed.

Yao Chuang quickly asked her: "Girl, is this your family who came to look for you?"

Xia Yue didn't answer, but just let the tears flow down my cheeks.

"That's easy." Yao Chuang asked He Chuyi to light the fire and put it beside Xia Yue. After confirming that the other party had found Xia Yue, the two left quietly.

In the firelight, Zijin saw the slender figure sitting on the ground leaning against a tree trunk behind the grass, and his heart really relaxed, and he went around to her: "Yue'er, let's go back." When Huo Guang saw Xia Yue, it was buried in his throat.

At that moment, he stopped breathing completely and almost lost his heartbeat.

Zijin strongly suppressed the madness of wanting to kill someone, let the torch in his hand fall into the mud with a "bang bang".The torches were extinguished by the rain without even a little effort.

He knelt down and asked in a calm tone as much as possible: "Yue'er, who is it?"

She shed tears and did not answer him.

Facing her face, Zijin asked softly again, "Who is it?"

He saw that Xia Yue's eyes were full of tears, her face was pale, and there were bloodstains at the corner of her mouth.

He wanted to wipe off the stains on her face with his hands, but found that his fingers were trembling uncontrollably.

why?
Why does God always treat the people he cherishes like this, why not punish him directly?

He clenched his trembling hands, and slammed his fist hard on the tree trunk behind Xia Yue. Finally, he couldn't hold back anymore, and buried himself in her neck and cried.

五

On this rainy autumn night, the Zhao family aunt outside Daye Village was suddenly awakened by a knock on the door.

She put on her coat and answered the door.

Opening a slit, I saw a very young man hugging a girl. The man said, "Ma'am, it's raining outside, can we stay overnight?"

The man spoke every word very slowly, with a strange accent, but his voice was hoarse for some reason, and he could hardly hear it. He said it twice in succession before she understood it.

Aunt Zhao hesitated a bit, she took the lamp in her hand and shone it on the man.

His handsome face was dripping with water, he was only wearing a wet white undershirt, and the outer gown covered the body of the woman in his arms.The woman seemed to be asleep, with her head hanging down and buried in front of his chest.

Probably because of the other party's clear eyes, Aunt Zhao's vigilance relaxed: "It's so cold outside, come in quickly. It just so happens that my son and his wife are returning to their mother's house for the holidays, you can sleep in their room."

Zijin said the words of gratitude several times.

Stepping through the door, Zijin looked at Xia Yue in her arms again, and wanted to explain something to the other party, but couldn't open her mouth.

(End of this chapter)