The Sick Beauty in the Republic of China

On Su Xi's originally calm and plain face, a sullen expression emerged.

And maybe because he knew that his death was approaching, Yao Jihui was not afraid of anything. He didn't care about Su Xi's reaction, and said it on his own.

"You don't like me...mother doesn't like me either."

"Obviously I am the big shopkeeper of Tianjinfang!"

"As a result, no one has really taken me seriously over the years!"

His body was trapped in a silk cocoon, and he couldn't move no matter how excited he was. There was only one exposed face, which flushed red with the ups and downs of emotions.

From childhood to adulthood, the piles and piles that had been accumulated in his heart were all tossed out along with his anger.

Since he was sensible, his father, mother, and almost everyone have been telling him that he is the eldest son of the Yao family, and sooner or later he will support the family business, and he must set an example for his younger brother in every word and deed.

So he obediently studied in private school, applying the pedantic frame of Zhiye to himself, but what he got in return was a sentence from his father: "Boss is too well-behaved, so I dare not entrust him with the business in the future."

Not long after, the family sent his younger brother Yao Jifeng abroad, saying that he would let him see more of the world and learn their new culture.

This is not a big deal, even the third child, who also stayed at home and was much younger than him, began to manage the weaving workshop with his father.

But as the eldest brother, he still followed the old gentleman to study step by step in the school!For the first time, Yao Jihui felt uneasy in his heart. He went to find his mother alone, but her mother said to him: "Just read your book well."

Reading...reading... At that time, Yao Jihui still had some thoughts in his heart. If he really became a scholar, he could do a good job in the exam and be a credit to the Yao family.

Unexpectedly, not long after, the imperial court made a decree, and there will be no more imperial examinations since then!

Overnight, Yao Jihui only felt that he had become a joke, and that the books he had read for more than ten years were useless.

From then on, he couldn't even go to the school, and reluctantly followed his father to study business, but found that he really didn't know anything, and he couldn't even compare with the frivolous third brother.

Yao Jihui was depressed all the time, shut himself in the study and refused to go out, but after these few days, no one came to ask him.

Everyone took his dullness for granted, and he became the most dispensable person in the Yao family.

Unreconciled, humiliated, helpless... Yao Jihui plunged into the weaving workshop under a thousand distresses. He didn't know how to weave, but just stared at the squeaking loom in a daze every day.

Until one day, several bolts of newly woven satin accidentally rolled off the table and landed in front of him.Yao Jihui didn't care to glance at it at first, but found that the bamboo leaf pattern just woven on the satin was unusually elegant, which was very suitable for him.

After inquiring, I found out that it was woven by a weaver named "Su Xi" who was new to the workshop.

What a beautiful satin, Yao Jihui thought in his heart, and glanced at Su Xi in the crowd from a distance... What a beautiful girl.

From that day on, Yao Jihui went to the weaving workshop more frequently, looked at Su Xi from a distance every day, and occasionally chatted about trifles, and occasionally Su Xi smiled, which made him feel that all the troubles in his heart were thrown away. up.

Yao Jihui even thought jokingly, let the third younger brother be powerful, anyway, no matter who is in charge, he can't drive him out of the weaving workshop.

But who knows that God would not even give him the idea of ​​security.A few months later, Yao's father passed away, and Yao Jifeng, the second child who had studied abroad, also rushed back to attend the funeral.

During those days, Tianjinfang was very chaotic. Although Yao Jihui was useless everywhere, he still became the big shopkeeper in name, and he was busy with his mother every day, so that he didn't know at all. Getting closer and closer to Yao Jifeng!

Jealousy turned into vicious hatred in his habitual forbearance, and Su Xi's farewell on the pretext of marriage turned into the last straw that broke the camel's back.

"You are a slut, a slut who deserves to be drowned in the clouds!"

Yao Jihui's former gentleness was gone, and he cursed at Su Xi like a lunatic, but Su Xi's expression gradually faded after the initial surprise and anger.

There is nothing to talk about. By now, she and him have nothing to talk about.

Wang Luan leaned against Qi Chensheng and stood beside him, watching Yao Jihui change his face several times, and finally turned into this ridiculous and sad look, and he didn't know whether to sigh or cast aside.

But everything fell into Qi Chensheng's eyes, and he just smiled coldly.

"What are you laughing at?" Yao Jihui suddenly heard Qi Chensheng's laughter, turned his head suddenly, his eyes almost burst out with anger, "Second Young Master Qi, what right do you have to laugh at me!"

"I was cheated by a woman, and I know how to kill her to avenge my shame, what about you?"

"You were deceived by this man, and now you still keep him by your side. Sooner or later, you will rot on him!"

Wang Luan felt that Qi Chensheng's eyes turned cold in an instant, his hands were still around his waist, and the sneer on his lips did not dissipate.

"I just want to rot on Brother Jiu, how about it?"

Yao Jihui was taken aback for a moment, obviously he did not expect Qi Chensheng to have such a frank answer.

But Qi Chensheng's words did not end there. He tapped the gentleman's stick in his hand, walked towards him slowly with Wang Luan in his arms, and said contemptuously: "You also said that you are the eldest son of the Yao family. I didn't owe you half a penny."

"It's obviously because you are cowardly and incompetent, so you can't afford the family business, so you can't pursue Su Xi."

"You ask me, what right do I have to laugh at you?" Qi Chensheng's voice paused, and under Yao Jihui's cannibalistic gaze, he lowered his head and sniffed the faint sandalwood in Wang Luan's hair—

"I, at least, will never be cowardly enough to say that killing a loved one is shame."

Wang Luan was slightly startled, then raised his hand, and lightly clasped Qi Chensheng's shoulder, in exchange for the other party to kiss him lightly on the forehead.

Yao Jihui seemed to be extremely angry, but everything Qi Chensheng said was irrefutable to him, so he could only shout angrily: "Shut up, shut up!"

Of course, Qi Chensheng didn't want to talk to him anymore, his gray broken eyes just looked at Su Xi who had been silent for a long time, and said in a cold voice: "In order to kill such a thing, you really don't want to go to Moon City?"

Hearing this, Wang Luan followed suit and looked over. He could clearly feel that Su Xi's obsession with Yao Jihui, born of hatred, was running out.

In other words, maybe without Wang Mingsheng's involvement, Su Xi would never have turned into the Demon Queen and stayed in the world for so long.

But Su Xi still shook her head, looked at Yao Jihui who was still madly cursing, and murmured, "If he killed me, he must pay with his life."

Wang Luan frowned, even though he didn't know where the Moon City Qi Chensheng was talking about, he felt that it would be worthless if Su Xi disappeared because he wanted to kill Yao Jihui.

He was about to speak to persuade, but Su Xi continued to mutter: "Second Young Master Qi, madam... I know you are doing it for my own good, but Yuecheng... I have no choice but to go."

Her eyes were scattered, and a bitter smile appeared on her pure and beautiful face: "For more than ten years, Wang Mingsheng has consumed many people to support me..."

"Yao Jihui killed me to pay for his life, and I killed them, how can he go to Yuecheng with peace of mind?"

"But the person who killed them was Wang Mingsheng, not you." Wang Luan looked at Su Xi, suppressing the cough that rose in his throat, and persuaded in a low voice.

Su Xi didn't respond, Wang Luan read her mind from her eyebrows.

So this is the difference between good and evil. Wang Mingsheng and Yao Jihui harmed human lives out of selfishness, but tried their best to survive.As for Yu Suxi, even though she never wanted to harm people, those people died because of her, so she couldn't let go of everything and return to Yuecheng Bliss.

Su Xi slowly walked in front of Yun Wei, looked at her lovingly and apologetically, and finally turned her eyes to look at Yao Jifeng who was still in a coma.

When I was young, the first love but bitter love was exhausted in the past ten years.That's why when Yao Jifeng was tricked by Yao Jihui, took the wooden shuttle that had trapped her, and came to Yunwei, she really gave birth to a momentary nightmare, dragging them into the illusion.

"Qi Ershao, Su Xi wants to ask you one more thing..."

"Take them together and take them out."

Qi Chensheng held the gentleman's stick in his hand, nodded slightly, and made a final question: "Are you really not going into Moon City?"

"...No entry."

Su Xi closed her eyes, spit out those two words lightly, and said nothing more.

Wang Luan was in Qi Chensheng's arms, and wanted to say something more, but he knew there was no need to say any more.

This is Su Xi's own decision.

The flames that rose from nowhere ignited everything in front of me, and the illusion woven by thousands of threads began to turn into ashes inch by inch.

Yao Jihui was finally tired of cursing, and he didn't move anymore, his eyes were dull and trapped in the silk cocoon, even though the fire burned to his eyes, he didn't make any movement.

Su Xi sat back at her loom again, skillfully manipulating the wooden shuttle with her dexterous hands, weaving the silk thread together with her black hair in a delicate and brisk manner...

Wang Luan's eyes were gently covered by Qi Chensheng from behind.

He didn't see how the fire engulfed everything in the end, and he didn't see the truly helpless ending of this old incident that lasted for more than ten years.

When he opened his eyes again, he had already returned to the real Tianjinfang. Nianwei, who was anxious to find his sister, finally pushed open the door in front of him completely.

The heavy rain is still falling, but the thunder has gone far——

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After returning from Tianjinfang, Wang Luan stayed in Xiaoyanglou to recuperate, while Qi Chensheng was busy for a while.

The third shopkeeper hanged himself in the middle of the night, and the big shopkeeper disappeared inexplicably. After Yao Jifeng completely took over Tianjinfang, he suddenly decided to move out of the old alley next to Yunshui.

Just as everyone was spreading the word about this matter and discussing it, there were many shops in the streets and alleys, and they moved away one after another...

The afternoon sun in summer was getting hotter, and Wang Luan vomited out all the medicine he drank after dinner due to the heat. He leaned sleepily on the jade mat, until Qi Chensheng hurried back, and he barely regained his energy.

He didn't want to mention his illness, so he deliberately changed the subject and asked in a low voice: "What happened to the street...?"

Qi Chensheng frowned tightly, helped Wang Luan to lean on him, and fanned him: "He Chengdong has found out all the shops that really participated in it back then, and he has recorded them one by one."

"Some things can't be done clearly, so take your time in secret... It's the reincarnation of heaven, and the retribution is not good."

"Hmm..." Wang Luan closed his eyes and responded softly, but finally couldn't hold on to his weakness and illness, and passed out in Qi Chensheng's arms.

And He Chengdong, who was guarding outside the bedroom door, also stepped lightly, came to Qi Chensheng's side, and said in a low voice: "The young master called just now."

"It is said that the old man will have his [-]th birthday next month, so please go back."