Envy

Meng Tou went back to Meng's house before going to Zhao's house.

It is summer in Lizhou Changjie, and the heat is still there in the afternoon.The Meng family hides in a deep alley at the end of Qingshiban Street, facing a stream, and there are apricot trees planted on the bank of the stream, with yellow pistils and white flowers blooming in spring.

When he was a child, he followed his second elder brother to swim, and later took Meng Xi to endorse under the apricot tree.Meng Xi stood on the boulder with her hands behind her back.He read a sentence, and Meng Xi followed suit.

"Peng Beihai, Feng Chaoyang..."

"Bringing the book and the sword to the vastness of the road..."

In the blink of an eye, that naive little Douding also grew into a slim girl.

Meng Xi said that she had memorized so many poems, but this was the only sentence imprinted in her heart.She also said that A Niang would often go to his room and look through his old poems on the bamboo frame, thinking about others when seeing things.

He almost forgot how long he hadn't returned to Meng's house.There was a gap between him and his parents.

He also forgot when this gap appeared.Maybe it was when he confessed his affair with Yan Zhaohan, or maybe it was when Zhao Qingyan passed away.His parents looked at him with complicated eyes.

His father scolded him and beat him, made him kneel at the door of the study, and persuaded him to give up.

"As long as I'm alive, you don't want to continue this relationship!"

The stick fell on him, but he refused to give in and said nothing.After that, his mother applied medicine for him, and seeing that his body was blue, purple and bleeding, she secretly wiped her tears.She said: "Tou'er, I beg you, I beg you, I just beg you to live the most ordinary life, don't think about these things."

Then why did he give in.It wasn't because of the heavy rain that night when he was punished to kneel soberly, nor was it because of his father's anger that he retreated.He lost to Zhao Qingyan's life and death.

Because of his refusal of the marriage arranged by his parents, Zhao Qingyan suffered a serious illness and almost walked away from the gate of hell.Meng Tou went to see her at Zhao's house, sat by the bed and fed her a bowl of porridge.Finally, he got up to leave.Her face was pale, and she grabbed his sleeve, with tears in her eyes, begging him not to leave.

Her arms were thin, and she was also thin, her face was pale, and her spirit was pale.She closed her eyes, tears streaming down her face.She hugged him and leaned against his back.

He thought, this life is just like this.

He has seen too many people cry.When he fell asleep alone on a drunken night, he always dreamed of those people's teary eyes.He never understood why those people were crying, nor why they were in so much pain.It's been too long, the pain has been too much, it's all gone, and it's all been forgotten.

When he returned home, A Niang greeted him.She was wearing a fashionable Jinsi Tangli red embroidered dress, and she choked up before she could speak the half-soft words.She touched Meng Xi's face, then walked up to Meng Tou, put her hands on his forearms, and looked at him wordlessly.

With tears in her eyes, she said, "It's good to be back, it's good to be back."

He followed A Niang into the lobby, his father frowned at him, the beard around his lips was gray, he muttered for a while, and said with a serious face: "I'm back."

He used to think that his father would never grow old, but his father had grown many silver threads on his head, which was very dazzling.

While feeding, his parents didn't mention the past.A Niang was busy picking up food for them, sometimes she took Meng Xi's hand and chatted with her.Xue Ye and Huo Zhi are regular customers, so they are not formal.

His youngest brother, Meng Lang, is 17 years old, lively and active, sitting next to Meng Tou, listening to him talk about what he saw and heard during his travels.

The Meng family and Mu Su both said that Meng Tou had gone to travel in the clouds.In half a year, he rode his horse with Yujian and traveled thousands of miles, never daring to stop.

Meng Lang was engrossed in listening, he bit his chopsticks and asked, "Then have you found Shaojun?" After the words fell, he felt something was wrong, and when he turned around, he saw his father's ashen face.

Meng Tou pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled.He tried his best to make his smile look relaxed: "Of course I found it."

The meal was not to my liking.His father said nothing with a cold face, and only swallowed a few mouthfuls of food.

Meng Tou and his party came and went in a hurry, he said that he had to go to the Zhao family's wedding banquet tomorrow, and said that they would go back to Mu Su immediately afterwards.

……

The Zhao family's wedding banquet was very lively, the streets were full of gongs and drums, and the sound of firecrackers continued.Zhao Ce promised Er Shili red makeup.

He remembered that at Twilight, Zhao Ce went back in the dark after offering sacrifices, and Yan Er sat in the waterside pavilion, among the fluttering veils, watching Zhao Ce leave secretly.He ran into it a few times.

At that time, Yan Miao was still looking for Yan Er everywhere on weekdays, and she would often ask him when she saw him, "Where is Er Er?"

In the past, when people mentioned the Yan family, they always talked about the Miao girl of the Yan family, and that girl, Er, who had been gentle and restrained since she was young, had waited for more than ten years, and finally waited for the man of her heart.

Zhao Ce finally lived up to Yan Er.He was a little relieved.After all, Yan Er is Yan Zhaohan's only blood relative in this world.

In fact, Meng Tou beat Zhao Ce, and they both seemed to turn their heads.Because of Yan Miao's death, Zhao Ce was instigated by Su Chuo and hated Yan Zhao deeply.

Zhao Ce once locked Yan Zhaohan on the white jade pillar of Qingjue Terrace, and gave him whiplash and indelible humiliation.

Later, Meng Tou ignored the dissuasion of Elder Mu Mi, pushed Zhao Ceqiang to the ground, and beat him so hard that he was unable to struggle, and turned his head to spit out bloody phlegm.Meng Tou went crazy and almost wanted to kill him.

As long as Meng Tou encounters Yan Zhaohan's matter, his calm posture will collapse.He is overly anxious and has no way to calm down.

When he entered the hall, Zhao Ce greeted him still kindly, dressed in a red wedding dress with gold and embroidered flowers, radiant, put his arms around his shoulders, and told him that he was not allowed to sneak around today, and that he had to stay and drink a few more glasses of wine.

Meng Tou smiled and tapped his fist on his chest, saying that he must, because he was afraid that he would get drunk and go into the bridal chamber drunk.

Before the wedding banquet that day, the Zhao family was also full of guests and there were no empty seats.The servant ran to the courtyard to set off firecrackers, and then retreated to the side.Amidst the crackling sound, confetti splashed and thick smoke rose suddenly.The guests stood in the hall watching, beaming with smiles on their faces.

The smoke gradually cleared.Two soft sedan chairs stopped at the entrance of the Zhao residence, one behind the other, they saw a pair of snow-white brocade boots, their eyes moved up, and their faces changed.

The owner of the brocade boots wore black clothes, ice-blue eyes, and a tear mole under his right eye.His expression was cold and tired, his eyes swept across everyone in front of the hall, and finally stopped on the young man in white beside the red lacquer pillar.The person who came in after him was dressed in dark blue, uninhibited and unrestrained, with a smile on his mouth, but sarcasm and sarcasm in his eyes.

Those were Xiqie Gong Shaojun, who had disappeared for half a year, and Su Chuo, a ghostly talent who had been silent since the first battle of Zhao Lin.