The old lady is reborn

He Shao looked at the hearty smile, but could not hide a trace of loneliness.

Jing Zhong and He Xian knew something about his past, but they didn't know how to comfort him.

Huai'an and Anyang also noticed something was wrong.

Huai'an felt that it was not appropriate to ask others about such a bad mood, just like Niujiagou would always be an old wound in his heart.

If someone asked him, he wouldn't know how to answer.

But the past always leaves traces, and wounds will inevitably be revealed inadvertently.

Every time at this time, he was very grateful to these friends, and no one ever asked any questions.

So now he didn't ask, but took extra care of He Shao.

Anyang might not know it as well as He Xian and Jing Zhong, but he knows it roughly.

When I got home in the evening, I told Huai'an that He Shao was engaged. He was sad and lonely now because the girl might not get better. I was afraid that all the waiting and anticipation in the past few years would be in vain.

The deceased former Minister of Personnel, Mr. Weng, was loyal to the late emperor. He was in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, which was responsible for the promotion and appointment of officials, as well as the evaluation of their political achievements. He ignored the solicitation of the Six Kings and Nine Kings and was unwilling to become their party, and was eventually assassinated by them.

The Sixth Prince and the Ninth Prince had treated Lord Zeng Chen in the same way before. Fortunately, after what happened with Lord Weng, all the lords have been more careful.

Although Zeng Chen was injured, he did not lose his life.

One was killed and one was injured. The case was investigated and only some small fry were caught. The late emperor was furious and ordered the execution of the Sixth and Ninth Princes' men, but Lord Weng could not come back.

Weng Chuping is the youngest daughter of Lord Weng. She was with her father when Lord Weng was assassinated.

She threw herself on her father who was stabbed by several swords and was also pierced by a sword. In the end, she was protected by her father while struggling behind her.

Weng Chuping did not die, but she was bedridden from then on.

In fact, He Zhen had no personal relationship with Lord Weng. He Zhen used to be at the border, and after returning to Beijing, he did not have much contact with civil servants.

But He Shao and Weng Chuping had known each other since childhood and had always been compatible. Later, the female elders of the two families arranged a marriage for them. He Xian probably knew the most about the two people's acquaintance and understanding.

It was originally a happy event, but since Chu Ping was seriously injured by the sword, this matter has become a hidden pain in the hearts of both families. He Shao insisted on waiting for Weng Chu Ping, waiting for Chu Ping to get better.

This wait lasted for several years, but Weng Chuping became worse and worse every year.

When she was seriously injured and bedridden at first, many people visited her, including her best friend and female classmates.

Although Princess Anyang did not have much contact with him, she also went to see him at the request of the late emperor.

Gradually, Weng Chuping's condition became so bad that she could no longer speak. She was so weak that her wakefulness time became shorter and shorter every day. Even when she was awake, it seemed that all her strength was used to support her weak ability to see the people and things around her.

He was so skinny that he couldn't eat anything. He finally managed to eat something, but it seemed as if the food was not digested at all.

She was no longer as beautiful as she once was. At first, the Weng family saw that she was too tired from work and could not handle all the visits, so they rejected many of them.

Now it doesn't matter whether she refuses or not. She seems to have no response to the outside world. With only one breath left, she doesn't know when the bad news will come.

In recent years, the only "outsider" who could see Weng Chuping in person every time she visited was He Shao, but after each meeting, He Shao could not recover for a long time.

He Shao felt very upset when he saw his beloved girl losing her vitality and energy day by day, and heading towards the seemingly unstoppable ending.

…….Separator

Half a month after Huai'an learned about this from Princess Anyang, the youngest legitimate daughter of the Weng family, Weng Chuping, died.

In addition to attending the funeral, everyone stayed with He Shao. They were afraid that he would feel sad, but they also didn't want to disturb his mood, so a few people just stayed by his side quietly.

He Xian quietly returned to her parents' home. She was the only one who knew about her brother's past with Sister Weng, and her brother's obsession over the years.

There is a box of old things related to Weng Chu in He Shao's room.

Sister Weng passed away. When He Xian went to pay her respects, the Weng family handed her a box of things, saying that they were Weng Chuping's belongings. The family couldn't bear to burn them, so they left them to her as a reminder.

In the end, whatever the solution is is fine.

He Xian took a quick look and found that many of the things in the box matched those in her brother's box. It was like the upper and lower volumes of a storybook.

She didn't want to give it to her brother, fearing that he would be sad because of gambling and become even more sad. But she was also afraid that if she didn't give it to her brother, he would be even more sad one day, because there was a letter that Sister Weng left for him in her last days of consciousness.

I don’t know if the Weng family didn’t look at it carefully and didn’t know, or they felt it was more appropriate to ask her to pass it on in this way.

After all, his daughter had been ill for several years, and He Shao had been waiting. His sister had already gotten married, but he was still waiting. It didn't seem appropriate to drag him forward with these letters.

But after all, these were the last letters of his girl, and they were all related to He Shao. It seemed inappropriate to burn them directly, so he gave them to He Xian to deal with them.

He Xian put the box back in her original room at her mother's house. If her brother knew about it and wanted to see it, he could go to her yard and get it. Or maybe her brother didn't need to see it anymore?

He Xian was very confused. Even after Sister Weng finished writing the letters, she was still hesitant, so she kept them in her hands and did not hand them over until she left.

The ending is already known. Even if I feel reluctant, I don't want to be the one who is unwilling to let go.

He Xian never thought that this box had been placed in her former boudoir for more than a year.

A year after Weng Chu left, He Shao's parents told their son that his marriage could not be delayed any longer. The family was already looking for a partner for him, so what did he want to do?

He Shao only said: "Let the parents decide everything."

He Zhen and his wife arranged a marriage for their son with a girl from another county. He's mother had seen her before and she was lively, cheerful, innocent and lovely, and she loved her very much. She also had a good family background and was the legitimate daughter of the governor of Jinling County.

The marriage was arranged quickly and was also carried out quickly.

After Jinling girl Wenshu got married, she and He Shao seemed to live in harmony and lived a stable life.

All the friends have seen her, and she is indeed a pleasing girl. Princess Anyang also said, "I would like to take her home if I see her."

It seemed that even children liked her. Huai'an and Anyang's one-year-old son Yunxuan, apart from his parents, stretched out his little arms towards Wenshu, asking Wenshu to hold him.

He Xian saw it and smiled, "Sister-in-law, have a baby soon."

Wen Shu teased her instead: "You got married first, so you're the one pushing me."

Only Wenshu herself knew that something was wrong with this marriage, and she couldn’t put her finger on it. Her parents-in-law were nice people, and although her sister-in-law was married, she had the kind of personality she liked, and her husband... was also nice... but something seemed not right.

She saw Huai'an and Anyang, Jingzhong and He Xian, Lin Yindi and Tang Peilin, Yan Hui and Zeng Muwan, and only she and He Shao were not like them.

Wen Shu sighed inwardly: I think too much. It is already good for a woman to meet such a family when she gets married. I am marrying blindly and dumbly, which is different from them.

But at the end of this year, when Wen Shu went to the He family ancestral hall to worship his ancestors, he noticed a small spleen site at the bottom row. It had no name and was placed in a corner in a strange way.

Before the Chinese New Year, the whole family went to the He family’s ancestral tomb in the suburbs to burn paper money and offer sacrifices. After the sacrifice, He Shao said he wanted to stay a little longer.

The family left first, but Wen Shu, who was confused, asked the carriage to turn back. She inexplicably felt that the reason her husband stayed a little longer might be related to the tablet without any words.

He Zhen and his wife, who had just returned from the Chinese New Year some time ago, saw their daughter-in-law's carriage turn around, and they smiled at each other: After all, they are a young couple, thinking about each other, and she is waiting for her husband to come back together.

He Shao built a tomb for Weng Chuping at the He family's ancestral tomb, and inside the tomb was the box of things in his room.

Before his marriage, his mother saw him looking at these old things and advised him to burn them. After all, he was going to get married, and if these things were left in the room, they would inevitably be seen by his wife one day.

He Shao was reluctant to let her go, and he remembered that when he first went to visit Chu Ping, she said with a smile, "I'm afraid I can't marry you and can't be buried in your family's ancestral tomb." That smile looked sad.

He had actually said this before. After they got engaged, they had quarreled and argued. He Shao always bowed his head, but he also wanted to save face, so he liked to say, "Since you will be buried in my ancestral tomb in the future..."

Now that his mother asked him to dispose of the box of things, he quietly took people to his ancestral grave, buried the box of things in the reserved space in his row, and erected a monument on top of it.