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Chapter 161 Butterfly Lovers (End)

In the next few days, Luo Jun went out to read newspapers during the day and went home to read novels at night as usual. His life was very regular.

It's also dangerous.

Qin Huai clearly felt that the enemy's bombing frequency was increasing. When he first entered this memory, the bombing had ended.

The second bombing came three days later.

The fifth day of the third bombing.

The 4th time was on the 6th day.

The third and fourth bombings were both carried out during the day, and the two consecutive days of bombing made the people highly nervous. When Luo Jun walked through the streets looking for a place to read novels, Qin Huai could clearly feel the fear and uneasiness of the poor. There were even fewer vendors selling firewood and vegetables.

The doors of every house did not dare to be closed too tightly, nor did they dare to open them. All their belongings were packed away. When the air raid siren sounded, they would rush to the public air raid shelter with their children and belongings in their arms.

The high-frequency bombings completely destroyed the lives of the people, but did not affect the gentlemen and ladies in the western-style buildings at all.

A gentleman named Ge even had the leisure and elegance to hold a small birthday party for his newly married third wife on the day after the fourth bombing.

Purely Western-style, the guests were all dressed in suits and long skirts, well-dressed and with dazzling jewelry. Champagne and red wine were served at the banquet, as well as all kinds of desserts and snacks. The custom-made 16-inch cake was only cut and served because the focus of the banquet was Mr. Ge's birthday gift to the third concubine.

A custom-made necklace set with rubies, emeralds, emeralds and diamonds.

This necklace was stained with blood.

As for why Qin Huai knew, it was because he saw with his own eyes that Luo Jun dealt with some minor troubles that would affect his daily life between the third and fourth bombings. In order to completely solve the problem, I went straight to Huanglong to solve the problem at the root, and at the same time collected the hard-earned money in his safe.

There were a lot of things in the safe. This necklace fell out when packing it. It was stained with blood. Luo Jun was disgusted and gave it to Mr. Ge for acting fees.

Yes, Mr. Ge is Luo Jun’s new ‘business partner’.

Although Minister Cao used to work overtime as an excuse to raise two wives outside the house all year round, he not only did not go home during the day, but also rarely came home at night. He had plenty of time and was a good co-actor.

But Mrs. Cao has a hot temper and can't keep her mouth shut. She also likes to push herself and others, which is very unpleasant to Luo Jun. Luo Jun feels that Minister Cao is not a good opposite actor.

Of course, Minister Cao as an actor has not completely retired from the stage, and occasionally he still makes guest appearances as a friendly guest. For example, he would discuss business with Mr. Ge during the day and with Minister Cao at night. Occasionally, he would wander back slowly after dark and Liu Tao would not be suspicious.

In addition, after the fourth bombing, the enemy did not conduct bombing for a full week, Liu Tao would not be as nervous as before.

The days were so normal, so dull that Qin Huai couldn't even remember the time. It felt like he spent every day reading novels, reading novels, and reading novels.

Maybe it was because there weren't many newspapers with serialized novels during the war, so Luo Jun had been reading old newspapers during this period. Read it from the beginning organized by date, and follow the serial novels in one go without the worry of broken chapters.

Another good day to read novels.

The sun is shining and the temperature is pleasant. Luo Jun made an excuse to discuss business with Mr. Ge and went out after drinking tangerine peel tea. As usual, he carried a bag of newspapers and walked around to a civilian area with a wide view.

Luo Jun has been reading newspapers in this area during this time. It is a new and good place for him. A woman in a family planted some wild flowers in the yard that were occasionally sold in wealthy areas. During this period, the flowers bloomed, and the faint fragrance of flowers floated in the air, which was very pleasant.

Luo Jun negotiated a price with this family and gave him one silver dollar to rent the open space at the door and a chair. He came over every day to sit and read the newspaper.

Naturally, a woman would not refuse such a good deal. Her husband was a carpenter. He made an exclusive bamboo chair for Luo Jun overnight. He cleaned the door every day and waited for Luo Jun to come.

Luo Jun was very satisfied with this new place. He arrived early every day and found a place with the best light to sit and read the newspaper.

Qin Huai is also looking forward to it. Yesterday's novel just happened to see the wonderful plot of a hero coming out, shocking the world, punishing **** and eliminating evil. Luo Jun could bear it after watching it once, but Qin Huai was watching it for the first time. He couldn't bear the pain of chasing after the update.

If Qin Huai hadn't been able to read the newspaper in his memory, he would have secretly taken out the newspaper at night and read it by himself in the moonlight.

Finally able to see the next plot, Qin Huai stood next to Luo Jun, lowering his head and watching with relish.

Suddenly, the air raid siren sounded.

It had been a long time since he heard the air raid siren. Qin Huai was startled. When he looked up, he found that the people around him were in chaos.

Some people pack up their belongings and wish they could even put the dishes and chopsticks into the bag and run away. Some people hold a child in their left hand and an old hen in their right hand. The hand holding the chicken is tighter than holding the child.

The same was true for the woman's family. The woman was holding the child, and her husband was holding the belongings. When he ran out of the yard, he saw Luo Jun still at the door holding the newspaper in his hand. The woman kindly reminded her.

"Mr. Luo, the air raid siren has gone off. The nearest air raid shelter is far away in the front mountain. Run quickly. If it's too late, you won't be able to squeeze in."

After that, the woman had no time to care about Luo Jun's whereabouts, so she picked up the child and ran away.

Luo Jun did not leave. He walked into the yard with a chair, sat down in the yard and continued to read the newspaper.

Fortunately, Luo Jun's area was not bombed. Two hours later, people came back from the air-raid shelter one after another. They cheered happily when they saw the intact home. The woman's man also took out two small eggs from his bag to celebrate and asked the woman to boil them for the children to eat. At the same time, he divided the eggs. You alone make Luo Jun feel happy.

Luo Jun was not polite and refused anyone who came. He shared the joy and didn't eat it. He probably put it in his pocket with the intention of taking it back to Liu Tao.

As a result, at noon, the air raid siren sounded again.

The air raid sirens sounded twice a day, and no matter how tired people were, they could only curse and pack up their things and run to the air raid shelters again.

The air defense siren sounded very late this time. Within two minutes of the sound, Qin Huai heard the sound of bombing in the distance.

Luo Jun was upset by the two bombings a day and couldn't read the novel. He put away the newspaper and slowly wandered around the city.

After wandering around in the bombing for more than an hour, Luo Jun counted the time and started walking back. There were two bombings a day, and both were carried out during the day. Luo Jun knew that if he did not go back as soon as possible, Liu Tao would definitely be worried and would have to go back as soon as possible.

Hurrying slowly, Luo Jun arrived home a little late and it was getting dark.

The journey was a bit too chaotic. Luo Jun didn't like noisy crowds or chaos and crowds. He deliberately avoided people when walking. He also subdued three gangsters who were planning to rob him, which wasted some time.

If it were normal, Liu Tao would definitely be waiting at the door at this time.

But today, the doorstep of Luo Jun's house was very lively.

There are many people.

Minister Cao who looked nervous, Minister Cao's maid who was in a hurry, Minister Cao's aunt who covered her nose with a handkerchief and didn't know what she was talking about, and Mr. Ge's third aunt who looked frightened, seemed to be rehearsing the cry to the sky. Mr. Ge from the land...

Qin Huai recognized these, and there were many he had seen in the air-raid shelter. He saw the familiar husband, wife, and servants living nearby, gathering here anxiously or gloating about the excitement.

What shocked Qin Huai was that he seemed to see a doctor in a white coat.

Someone saw Luo Jun.

"Mr. Luo is back!"

"Mr. Luo is here!"

"Mr. Luo..."

People shouted, as if a switch was triggered. Mr. Ge, who was still rehearsing and rehearsing, suddenly burst into tears, with tears streaming down his face. He panicked and rolled around. He slapped himself and ran to Luo Jun. I almost knelt down to him.

"Mr. Luo, I'm sorry for you! It's all my fault, it's all me who hurt Mrs. Luo!" Mr. Ge burst into tears and slapped himself so hard that his face soon became red and swollen.

"What did you say?" Luo Jun asked expressionlessly.

Mr. Ge didn't answer, he just kept slapping himself in the mouth, as if he wanted to knock himself out immediately, crying over and over again that it was all his fault.

Qin Huai ran towards the house without any hesitation.

There were many people outside the house, but few inside.

Mrs. Cao cried so much that the makeup on her face was gone. She grabbed the doctor's sleeve and kept shouting: "She was still alive just now, she was talking to me just now. She looks fine, but there are some spots on her feet." There was no bleeding at all, how could she be gone now? Check her again and send her to the hospital for a checkup!"

The doctor wore a mask and could only explain over and over again: "Mrs. Cao, Mrs. Luo's heartbeat and breathing have stopped. Her internal organs have been shattered by the bomb. Even if she is sent to the hospital as soon as possible, it will not help. "

"Mrs. Cao... My condolences."

Qin Huai saw Liu Tao lying on the ground wrapped in white cloth.

Her eyes were closed, her face was wiped clean, and there was no blood on her lips. She looked like she was asleep with her eyes closed, very quiet.

Mrs. Cao collapsed on the ground and cried loudly.

Luo Jun came in, followed by Mr. Ge, whose cheek was swollen and bleeding from the corner of his mouth, and Minister Cao, who was hesitant to speak. Faced with his wife's rude behavior of lying on the ground crying, Minister Cao did not say anything to stop her. He just used his eyes to signal the maid to help Mrs. Cao up.

"What's going on?" Luo Jun asked calmly.

Qin Huai looked at Luo Jun's expression and found that he was as expressionless as before, and his tone did not fluctuate much. He was terrifyingly calm. It seemed that what appeared in front of him was not Liu Tao's body, but Liu Tao who had fallen into a coma due to a strange illness.

Mr. Ge slapped her harder and did not dare to say a word.

"Lao Luo, my condolences." Minister Cao sighed, patted Luo Jun on the shoulder, and stood in front of Mr. Ge to explain to him.

"Didn't the Japanese go crazy and bomb twice today? The one in the morning didn't last long. Lao Ge was unlucky. He fell and hit his head before entering the air raid shelter. The servants sent the news home, and it was reported that Lao Ge had been bombed. He was injured and went to the hospital."

"Your wife thought you were with Lao Ge, and she ran to the hospital worried about your safety. Lao Ge became anxious and made up an excuse that you went to the bookstore to buy books. Your wife went to the bookstore to look for you, and the Japanese bombers came. "

"The two servants of yours are all gone too. I'll have their bodies taken away."

At this point, Minister Cao could only sigh: "Everyone has his or her own destiny. When your wife was just carried back, she was still alive. We thought it was just a minor injury and we called the doctor, but we never thought that the doctor hadn't arrived yet. People just…”

Mr. Ge cried loudly: "Mr. Luo, I'm sorry for you. It was me who harmed Mrs. Luo. If I hadn't told you that you went to the bookstore, Mrs. Luo wouldn't have gone that way. I'm sorry for you!"

After saying that, Mr. Ge took a big breath and fainted.

Minister Cao quickly motioned with his eyes to his servants to carry the person out. Luo Jun quietly looked at Liu Tao, who was lying on the ground and wrapped in white cloth. He said nothing and had no expression. He seemed to be thinking about something.

Minister Cao wisely used his eyes to signal the people in the room to get out again, leaving enough time and space for Luo Jun to calm down and accept the reality. The maid helped Mrs. Cao, who was still crying and staggering, to go out. Mrs. Cao was limping. When she was about to reach the door, Luo Jun spoke.

"Are there any auspicious points with good Feng Shui around here?"

Minister Cao was stunned and said randomly: "Yes, there must be one. I know a famous Feng Shui master and I can definitely pick a good one."

Luo Jun nodded: "That's fine, pick a good auspicious point and bury it in the next two days."

Luo Jun's calm tone made everyone in the room feel incredible. Even the maid who was supporting Mrs. Cao was surprised. Mrs. Cao glanced at Luo Jun, obviously not believing that there could be such a heartless husband or wife in this world. The corpse is right in front of you, yet you can say such words so lightly.

Luo Jun took out the eggs from his pocket and put them on the shelf.

"Can butterflies eat eggs?" Luo Jun asked.

Minister Cao was so shocked that his eyes widened. He suspected that Luo Jun had gone crazy because he was a little too unacceptable for a while.

Luo Jun was calm, but Mrs. Cao exploded.

"You surnamed Luo are still not human!" Mrs. Cao roared at Luo Jun angrily, "Even if Liu Tao doesn't have children, she is still the wife you are marrying! Your wife died, and not only did you not shed a single tear, you were even a little sad. You don’t even have an expression on your face, yet you still care about whether the butterfly eats the eggs.”

"She was worried that she would be killed when she went out to look for you, but you didn't even want to show off, and didn't even give her the last bit of dignity. You even found a good place to bury her in the past two days. You are simply a beast... "

"Hurry up and pull Madam out!" Minister Cao roared angrily, blocking the last two words of Mrs. Cao with his roar, and then looked at Luo Jun with a smile on his face, "Mr. Luo, I'm so sorry, my wife is so sad. A slip of the tongue."

"I know." Luo Jun said, "So she doesn't like being a butterfly?"

Minister Cao felt that Luo Jun might really be crazy.

Liu Tao's funeral was organized with the help of Minister Cao and Mr. Ge. Perhaps he was worried that Luo Jun would blame him and wanted to try his best to make up for it. Mr. Ge held the most beautiful funeral in the shortest time.

Not only did he order a good coffin, but he also asked a Feng Shui master to order an auspicious acupoint. It was in a very remote and uninhabited place, which was said to be a good location.

Luo Jun bought all the land and found someone to build a house there.

For Qin Huai, the subsequent memory is like a movie that accelerates time.

Time passes very quickly, basically in the blink of an eye, a day passes in a daze.

It may also be that the plot of this section is very long and boring. Luo Jun built a small house next to Liu Tao's tomb and lived there. He moved a chair to read newspapers and books in front of Liu Tao's tomb every day.

At first, many people came to this place to look for Luo Jun.

Some are looking for him to do business, some are looking for connections, some are looking for money, some want to do business with him, and of course, most of them want to introduce him to a new wife.

Luo Jun ignored him and just sat in front of the tomb reading books and newspapers every day.

Gradually, no one came to him.

Time passes faster and faster, the stars move, the sun rises in the east and the sun sets, the trees planted beside the tomb grow taller and taller, and the grass needs to be cleared regularly. Luo Jun hasn't ordered a newspaper for a long time. He just reads the ones he has read before over and over again.

He lived a life isolated from time and knew nothing about the outside world.

Time seemed to have stopped for him.

Qin Huai feels as if he is waiting for something every day, but what can he wait for?

Waiting for Liu Tao to turn into a butterfly?

But Butterfly is just the story of Liang Zhuli, a playbook.

Finally, I pressed the pause button on a quiet afternoon and someone came to the door.

It's Mrs. Cao.

After not seeing each other for several years, Mrs. Cao became very haggard.

She is no longer as jeweled and rich as she was a few years ago. She has no gold or silver jewelry on her body, and the pearl necklace she wears around her neck every day has disappeared. She is not wearing a cheongsam, but an ordinary gray cotton coat. Even the man is thinner, his cheeks are slightly sunken, and the corners of his eyes are full of wrinkles, making him look much older.

"Mr. Luo, long time no see." Mrs. Cao's temper has improved a lot and she no longer rolls her eyes at others.

"Was it a long time?" Luo Jun obviously had no idea about the passage of time.

Mrs. Cao smiled: "It's been four or five years. I'm leaving here to go back to the countryside. I wanted to see Liu Tao before leaving."

Luo Jun motioned for her to look around.

"They all said you were crazy." Mrs. Cao said, "They said you were obsessed with watching plays and reading novels, and you became the infatuated person in the playbook. You could only live a good life of wealth and stay in this ghost place. Living in the grave of my late first wife.”

"In the past few years, I was the one who said something bad. You and my old Cao colluded to trick Liu Tao into going out to discuss business. I thought you raised her child outside, so I persuaded Liu Tao to let you take her back to Shanghai and here. The little fairy is dead." Mrs. Cao looked at the tombstone and said, "Now that I think about it, I might as well ask Liu Tao to take her back to Shanghai, so she might still be there."

"I'm not crazy." Luo Jun said calmly.

Mrs. Cao smiled: "I really like playing mahjong with Liu Tao."

"I am the country wife that my old Cao married in my hometown. I don't know a few Chinese characters. I don't like western clothes, can't wear high heels, and can't drink coffee. I'm a country bumpkin that everyone looks down upon. If it hadn't been for my brother Gaosheng, Lao Cao would have been in trouble for the rest of his life. They won’t bring me to the city.”

"My old Cao wants to climb up the ladder and asks me to please Liu Tao and fawn over you. I didn't like it at first. I hate fawning over people the most. These young and beautiful ladies rely on their own experience of the world and they all look down on rural people like us with their nostrils turned upward." The original wife even dislikes the way we draw cards when playing mahjong.”

"But she...forget it, let's not talk about it. I have something for you when I come here this time." As she said that, Mrs. Cao carefully took out a cloth bag from her pocket and opened it. There was still a small cloth bag inside. When she opened it again, it was a small cloth bag. Only earrings.

A small silver earring.

"I'm going back to the countryside. I found it in the jewelry box yesterday when I was sorting things out. It was the one Liu Tao had lost before. She said it was the dowry that Sister Ahong gave her when she got married. Although it was not valuable, it was very valuable. Meaning. I don’t dare to wear it for fear of losing face. I only dare to wear it when I come to my house to play mahjong.”

"She is always so cautious, afraid that she will lose face if she does something wrong. Do you remember that there was a time when my maid often sent pigeon stewed with gastrodia elata to your house? It was stewed with willow peaches, and she didn't learn how to do it. Every time The pigeons are so stewed that they can only be eaten in soup. I don’t want you to see the pigeon meat, so I just say it was stewed by my cook.”

"How is Minister Cao doing lately?" Luo Jun asked.

"Dead." Mrs. Cao said casually, "My brother is also dead, and all the aunts and wives at home have run away. I don't have a son, only a daughter, and the money doesn't get to me very much. I really can't live here, so I plan to take my daughter back to the countryside.”

"I'm afraid I'll never come back after leaving this time, so I came to see Liu Tao for the last time."

Luo Jun looked at Mrs. Cao's clothes and stretched out his hand to signal Mrs. Cao to hand him the silver earrings. Mrs. Cao handed over the entire cloth bag, and Luo Jun took it and got up and went into the house.

Within two minutes, Luo Jun took out a small box and handed it to Mrs. Cao. There were 6 small yellow croakers inside.

"I'm going back and writing letters to avoid losing contact. Liu Tao hasn't made many new friends in these years, and I can't let her lose another butterfly queen."

Mrs. Cao took the wooden box blankly and blurted out: "What are you turning into a butterfly? Are you really crazy?"

"Don't lovers turn into butterflies after they die?" Luo Jun asked, "Just like in Butterfly Lovers, although the human form dies, it can continue to live in the form of a butterfly and turn into a yellow butterfly."

Mrs. Cao was stunned for a while, as if she was trying to determine whether Luo Jun was joking with her. Seeing that Luo Jun was really serious, she stuttered and said, "But...but that's a story in a play."

"What do you mean?" Luo Jun asked.

"Those are all stories in dramas, they are false."

"Isn't it true that the three sworn brothers in Taoyuan, the beheading of the son in the royal family, and the female consort are all true?"

"That's different." Mrs. Cao was confused and didn't know how to explain it for a moment, "Some parts of the story in the play are true, and some parts are false. I don't know whether the story of Liang Zhu is true or not. But turning into a butterfly is just a story in the play."

"It is impossible for a human to turn into a butterfly."

Luo Jun was stunned.

"When a person dies, he or she dies. It is impossible to turn into a butterfly."

"You have been here for so many years...could it be..."

Luo Jun seemed to wake up suddenly. He seemed to have been dreaming for many years. Suddenly one day someone patted him and said to him, hey, don't sleep, it's time to wake up.

"What did you say?" Luo Jun asked in a hoarse voice.

"I said... turning into a butterfly is just a story in the play, not true." Mrs. Cao pursed her lips, as if she had made some kind of decision, "Mr. Luo, I don't know why you misunderstood like this."

"But...Liu Tao is dead. She has been dead for five years. She will not turn into a butterfly."

"It's time for you to wake up."

Qin Huai looked at Luo Jun. This was the first time that Luo Jun showed a surprised expression.

There is a sense of shock and confusion, like a child who thinks he has learned the rules of the world, but is suddenly told that the rules you learned are wrong and that you do not understand the world at all.

In the fifth year after Liu Tao's death, Luo Jun learned that his wife was dead.

It has long been buried in the dust and turned into white bones.

Really dead.

Qin Huai knew that Luo Jun failed to overcome the tribulation.

Qin Huai left his memory.

(End of chapter)