Datang beauty walk

Danniang hadn't seen Xirong for a while, so when Qiqing was going to ride out on horseback in the morning to discuss the price of buying the house with the owner of a house he had taken a fancy to, she went out with her.Danniang wanted to visit Xirong by the way when she came back.

After Qiqing discussed the approximate price of the house in Datongfang with the owner, it was almost noon.Since Danniang was going to visit Xirong, they returned earlier.When she sent Danniang to the gate of Yanfufang, Danniang said:

"You can just send me here. After entering Fangmen and crossing two streets, you will be sister Xirong's home. You should go back first!"

"I'll wait for you here."

"You go back first, I'm going to sit with Sister Xirong for a while, don't wait here to catch the cold, I will come back by ox cart during dinner."

"Then be careful."

"understood."

Qiqing watched Danniang enter the gate of Yanfufang before riding home.Danniang entered the square gate, crossed two streets, and came to the front of Du's house after a nap.

Danniang thought in her heart that Xirong would be pleasantly surprised when she saw her later.She walked briskly towards the gate of Du's house, but before reaching the gate, she raised her eyes and saw two white paper lanterns hanging on both sides of the Du's gate.Danniang was slightly startled, but she still went up the steps.

The gatekeeper of the Du family's concierge, known by everyone as "Old Badger Head", had seen Danniang earlier, and rushed out, shouting:

"Hey girl!"

Danniang saw that the old badger seemed to be trying to stop her, and said:

"Uncle Badger, I'm here to see Sister Xirong."

"Girl, please go back, our wife is not here." Old Badger said.

"Where did she go?" Tanniang asked.

"Cough!" Old Badger sighed and said, "Let me tell you, our wife died seven days ago!"

"What did you say? Who died?" Tanniang was startled, but she was sure that she had heard wrong.

"Hey, I said our mother, Mrs. Liu is dead!" Old Badger said again.

Danniang heard it clearly this time, she was terrified: "How could it be? No! I'm going to see her, you're lying to me!" Then she walked into the door.

The old badger hurriedly blocked her again and said:

"Girl, don't go in, the lady's body has been buried long ago, you won't be able to see her!"

Danniang still couldn't believe it, but her heart was not calm, and it was beating wildly in her chest.She wanted to try her best to stabilize her trembling heart, but that trembling heart was no longer under her control.She opened her mouth and took two deep breaths before she asked:

"How did sister Xirong die? Good person, how do you say she died?"

"Cough! You hanged yourself for doing that dishonorable thing." Seeing that Tanniang was not leaving, the old badger said, "Girl, you should leave quickly! If our family sees it, we will scold you again. let's go!"

"No, no, how could Sister Xirong die?!" Dan Niang held the gatekeeper, "Let me in, let me go find Sister Xirong!" she begged.

"Didn't I tell you? Our wife is gone!" said the old Badger as he entered the gate and closed it.

Danniang stood there, the closed door of Du's house was darkened in front of her eyes, and the white paper lanterns kept spinning around her; her heart throbbed continuously, making it hard for her to breathe.

Her feet seemed to be nailed in place, and she couldn't move.After a while, she turned around numbly and walked forward unconsciously.

She didn't know how she left the streets of Du's house, how she got out of the workshop, got into the bullock cart, and how she returned home and stood in front of Qiqing.

It wasn't until Qiqing called her several times that she seemed to wake up, seeing Uncle Wang and Mama Sun both looking at her strangely with their eyes open.

"Are you okay?" Qi Qing asked her worriedly.

She numbly shook her head, then walked into the wing.When Qiqing came in, Danniang was already lying on the couch, facing inside.

"Tannie!"

Qiqing walked to the bed and called out softly, she sat beside Danniang and looked at her, and saw that Danniang kept crying.Qiqing had never seen Tanniang like this before, she pressed her shoulder and asked:

"Dan Niang, what's the matter with you? Didn't you say to visit Xi Rong and come back by dinner time? Why did you come back so soon? What happened?"

Tanniang still didn't answer, and her tears kept pouring down on the pillow.Qiqing was anxious, she pulled Tanniang up:

"What's the matter with you, Daniang, are you talking? Are you going to kill me in a hurry?"

Danniang looked at Qiqing with tears in her eyes, and leaned limply on her shoulder, whimpering in pain.Qiqing couldn't help but shed tears.

After crying for a long time, Danniang's crying gradually stopped. She leaned on Qiqing's shoulder and said angrily:

"Why? Why do the relatives around me leave me one by one? Do they want to reject me?"

After she finished speaking, she burst into tears again, and Qi Qing burst into tears after hearing this.

A month later, Qiqing and Danniang went to the street together. They were walking when Danniang suddenly saw a familiar figure in front of her. She walked over quickly and shouted:

"Lianyu!"

Lianyu turned around and saw Danniang, very surprised, she smiled at Danniang and said:

"Tan Niang, long time no see!"

Then, under Lianyu's gesture, Tanniang and the others moved to a secluded corner of the street.

Lianyu stood opposite Danniang, with her head lowered, she glanced at Danniang and said:

"Danniang, you already know, right? My lady, she already..."

Lianyu shed tears as she spoke, and Danniang's eyes soon became moist. She asked:

"Lianyu, how did sister Xirong die?"

Lianyu bit her lip and was silent for a while before she replied:

"It's our fault. We should persuade the lady. The last time you came to visit her at home, two or three days after you left, the lady fell ill and couldn't get out of bed. It's like this every time. When the uncle comes, she always She will be sick for ten days and a half months, and we will accompany her to see you when she recovers. When the lady went to see you, she didn't tell you about her illness.

After seeing you back, she often thinks about you and waits for you to come every day. She said that it has been almost two months and she has not seen you, so she doesn't care about her anymore.

She finally decided to see you in a day or two, and the night before she was going to see you, the gentleman came home suddenly. , After beating and scolding us and arguing with the lady, he slammed the door and left. "

Lianyu wiped her tears with her sleeve, and continued: "We heard the crying of the lady outside, but no one dared to go in to persuade. After about two sticks of incense, there was no sound in the room, and we felt bad , When I went in to see, the lady had already hanged herself." She said while wiping away the tears she shed.

Tanniang wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, and asked:

"Lianyu, where is sister Xirong buried? Can you take me there now?"

Lianyu frowned, lowered her head in thought.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?" Tanniang asked.

"Danniang, I'll take you there tomorrow. I'm going back now. My in-laws will scold me if I'm late!"

"Are you married?" Tanniang asked in surprise.

"After my wife died, our maids in Du's house were expelled back home. Within a few days, my mother married me off."

"What about Lianxiang and the others?"

"I heard that she is also married. Lianxin and Xiaoying have gone to work as maids in a rich family. Danniang, after the sun rises tomorrow, wait for me at the intersection ahead. I'm leaving!" After Lianyu finished speaking, she left in a hurry. go.

The next day, under the guidance of Lianyu, Danniang came to Xirong's grave outside the city.

After Lianyu brought Danniang here, she kowtowed to Xirong a few times in front of the grave, and left in a hurry.Qiqing didn't come to the grave, but waited for Danniang in the distance.

Danniang looked at the pile of graves, and there was a stone tablet in front of the grave, engraved on it: the tomb of my beloved sister Liu Xirong.There is another line of small characters engraved on the side: Brother Liu Chaorong.

Danniang knelt down softly, touched the stone tablet, and called, "Sister Xirong!" Tears welled up in her eyes.

"Sister Xirong, I'm here to see you!" She took out the food and wine offerings from the suitcase, sacrificed them in front of the stele, and burned a few coins.

After pouring out the libation, Tanniang looked at Xirong's earthen tomb and stone tablet, and once again burst into tears, she cried and said:

"Sister Xirong, why did you leave like this? Are you blaming my little sister for not coming to see you for so long? It's all your fault. My little sister should have come to see you earlier, but I never thought that this pile of loess would be Separate you and me from yin and yang...

Sister Xirong, my heart hurts, you know?Why are you so heartless, leaving little sister behind and leaving alone?Why, don't you wait for my little sister for a few more days?

...It's so cold and desolate here, do you feel cold while lying on the ground?

Sister Xirong, I know that your heart has always been lonely.Lonely in life, dead, over there, are you still the same lonely?Little sister wants to be by your side, but I will never see you again...

You go away so easily, leaving us alive to grieve for you!Don't you feel pain when you get there?Won't be alone? ...Here, at least there is me..."

Danniang was weeping and crying, and she thought of the last time she went to Du's house to visit Xirong, Xirong held her face and looked into her eyes, until she looked away, Xirong was no longer like that look at her.

That day, there was a lot of emotion in Xirong's eyes, and Danniang still doesn't know what kind of emotion Xirong has for her.Maybe that look can tell her something, but now she doesn't want to think about it, to delve into the emotion contained in that look.

Tanniang knows that Xirong is smart, smarter than herself.But why would such a smart person end his own life?

Danniang thinks that she doesn't know now, maybe in the future, she will suddenly understand!

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