When I heard this, I quickly lowered my head, turned around and ran away.

The person sitting by the window in the room immediately ran to the window and looked outside. Without looking back, I hurriedly turned around the corridor in the backyard, but in a panic, I ran into the front hall.

The shout of the person just now had already startled the people around me. People in the courtyard stood up in panic. Several people in the backyard also noticed me and ran in after me. They were also frightened.

The women in the building thought something big had happened, so they all ran away.

At this moment, someone was so frightened that he shouted: "My wife is coming to the door, run away!"

This sound was so bad that everyone in the brothel was in chaos. The screams were piercing, and the women were all yelling and running around. Countless room doors were suddenly pushed open, and many people even lost their clothes.

I ran out before I had time to put on my clothes, and someone behind me started shouting——

"Hey, give me money, don't run away!"

"Damn it, you don't want me when your wife comes to your door, right? I'll beat you up, you're a worthless and heartless man!"

"Young master, please come again. The slave family is waiting for you!"

The guests ran away, the girls made a fuss, and the whole Xiangyuan suddenly became a mess. The guards had no time to catch me, and they couldn't even protect themselves from the chaos. I took the opportunity to blend in with the crowd and hurried out.

.

Just when I was about to go out of the gate, I turned back amid the chaotic crowd.

In the deepest part of the courtyard, the scholar wearing a foggy shirt stood quietly in the corner. Although there was chaos in front of him, his face remained calm as before, watching everything calmly, his eyes like lightning.

I looked over here.

I panicked, and my steps immediately became disordered. I was pushed by the person behind me, and I stumbled down, but I happened to avoid that gaze.

At this moment, a strong arm stretched out and hugged me.

I opened my eyes wide in fear, looked up, and met Liu Saner's dark eyes.

At this moment, he also had a somewhat surprised expression on his face, as if he couldn't believe that I would appear here, but he hugged me into his arms without any hesitation and pushed away the people around me with all his strength.<

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The moment I threw myself into his arms, I was in a trance.

There is a kind of nightmare that will jump into reality. No matter how far you go or how completely you forget the past, it will still break free from the ashes of time and strangle you by the throat.

Sometimes, even if you risk your life to escape, you will find that it is always behind you, following you like a shadow.

Just now, when I almost thought I was going to be swallowed up by that nightmare again - he appeared.

I suddenly grabbed his clothes and hugged him tightly: "San'er!"

He hugged me. Although his hands were strong, they were a little trembling, and his voice was slightly trembling: "It's okay, light, I'm here."

After saying that, he hugged me hard with one hand, and pushed away the people around me with the other hand to prevent anyone from bumping into me. I stumbled all the way, and finally walked out among the crowd.

The commotion in Pinxiangyuan lasted until the evening, and it is said that it caused many jokes in the town. The brothel women and the wives and concubines who came after hearing the news grabbed the men and started fighting in the street. There were even girls chasing them all the way to the house.

Asking for money.

Half the town is in chaos.

But the initiators of all this, Liu Saner and I, are extremely quiet.

The two of us didn't speak any more along the way. When we got home, he hugged me and put me gently on the bed. I still lowered my head and didn't say a word.

Liu Saner slowly sat on the edge of the bed and kept looking at me. After being silent for an unknown amount of time, he finally spoke and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry."

"..."

I raised my eyes and looked at him.

There was still a trace of shock on his face, and he seemed to be afraid of something. He reached out and grabbed my hand. I tried to pull it away with a little force, but he held it tighter: "I'm sorry."

"..."

"Qingqing, I know I shouldn't lie to you."

"..."

"I also know that you won't agree to go to that kind of place."

"..."

"But I really just go to work, and the wages there are better. Although I didn't want to go to that kind of place in the past, but - I really like to listen to what those people say."

"..."

The fingertips held by him were cold. When I spoke, the cold feeling dyed my voice from the bottom of my heart: "Why?"

"..."

He fell silent, and I didn't ask any more questions, I just kept looking at him.

After a long time, Liu Saner finally seemed to have made up his mind and said to me: "Qingqing, I wanted to learn literacy since I was a child because I didn't want to be blind. Later, after you came, I wanted to learn literature because I wanted to

Make yourself worthy of you. You know so much, and when I'm with you, I feel really - useless."

As he spoke, an embarrassed smile appeared on his face.

My throat suddenly became hoarse and I couldn't speak.

I never thought that Liu Saner would be like this in his heart. After all, the number of scholars in China is only one in ten thousand. There are many people who are illiterate, and there are even more people who are not good at writing. Not many people will be sad because of this. Even if

I have read thousands of books, seen a lot, and understood a lot, but it does not necessarily make me happy, or even make me suffer more than others.

I never knew that this would embarrass him.

"San'er, I——"

I subconsciously wanted to say something, but he gently covered my mouth and said, "But later, it was different."

"..." I was startled and looked at him with wide eyes.

Liu Saner looked at me seriously and said: "Qingqing, you were right before. The more you know, the happier you will not necessarily be. But I didn't learn to make myself happier. Because I found that the more you know, the more talented you will be."

I won’t suffer without realizing it, or make mistakes without reflecting on myself. I don’t want to live my whole life in a muddle.”

"..."

"Even if your life is not very good, at least you know why you are not good."

"..."

When I heard him finish these words, a smile appeared on my face involuntarily.

But at the same time, tears also spread from my heart.

I finally knew that, even though my life had been so plain and happy, I still felt uneasy in my heart. Where did that uneasiness come from?

He...is so much like his father and brother.

The same sobriety and the same persistence, even if they are in the quagmire, their tenacious souls will not be damaged.

Perhaps, all the pain and sorrow I experienced in the first half of my life gave me the best luck in the rest of my life. I picked up a treasure. When I was desperate, I happened to meet the right and very good person.

People.

But this person has resolutely embarked on a path that he doesn’t know about the future.

I am happy but unwilling.

Tears were almost spreading out of my eyes. I held his hand with my backhand, holding it harder than he did, and choked: "Liu San'er, isn't it? Even if I ask you not to go there again, you

You won’t agree?”

"..." His face stiffened slightly.

"Will you still go there and continue to listen to those people preaching?"

"..."

"San'er...?"

I looked at him almost with a hint of begging. Liu Saner's face twitched slightly. In those dark eyes, which were usually the purest and most direct, at this time, it seemed as if they were being torn apart by some force and struggling.

.

After a long time, he opened his lips slightly and said in a hoarse voice: "Light."

"..."

"I want to live a sober life."

As soon as I heard this sentence, some embankment in my heart seemed to collapse at this moment. I closed my eyes almost helplessly, and hot tears immediately poured out of my eyes and wet my cheeks.

Liu Saner suddenly panicked, and hurriedly knelt down, shouting my name, and wiping my tears with his rough thumbs, but the tears seemed to flow continuously, becoming more and more violent as he wiped them, and in the end they almost overflowed.

He was helpless, holding my face and shouting in panic: "Qingqing... Qingqing, don't cry, Qingqing, what's wrong with you... Qingqing...?"

I was speechless, just shaking my head, but the tears never stopped.

Late at night.

Everything is quiet.

I was lying on the bed, listening to such tranquility, as if everything in the world had disappeared, leaving only the person next to me and his faint sigh.

He can't sleep either.

I gently turned my head and looked at Liu San'er on the ground. The moon was as cold as frost, shining on his clear eyes. Even in this night, they were still shining, even brighter than before.

What's wrong with him?

I know that I am not a good wife. I married him with the name of unfaithfulness, which made a simple and straightforward person like him suffer a lot of looks. After the marriage, the marriage was not consummated and I had nothing to do, even some intimacy.

Impossible, but he didn't mind at all. Instead, he obeyed me in everything. Although my life was not rich, it was the happiest time in my life.

What he gave me was much more than what I gave him.

So what do I do, after depriving him of so much, I still want to force him?

"San'er..."

In the quiet night, although my voice was as low as a mosquito's whisper, it was like a thunder. He sat up all of a sudden and hurriedly lay beside the bed: "Light!"

I was still lying on my side, looking at his straight face in the dark light, and said softly: "Go ahead, I won't stop you."

A flash of ecstasy suddenly flashed in his eyes: "Light——!"

"But you have to promise me one thing."

"What did you say?"

I gently stretched out my hand, grabbed his hand, and said, "No matter what they say or do, you should only be a listener and don't have any contact with them."

"..."

"No matter what the world becomes, no matter how much you know, San'er, I hope you will be my husband first, and then other people. Is that okay?"

What I said is not clear, and he is not stupid. What those people preach is not the "right way". Everyone knows what this means.

Liu San'er nodded hurriedly and said: "I promise you."

Just these four words, I didn't say any more, nor did I let him say any more. I smiled lightly, held his hand and slowly closed my eyes.

But it was Liu Saner, who was still a little uneasy in his heart. He lay on the bed and pressed against my cheek. After a long time, he said softly: "Qingqing, are you really not going to stop me anymore?"

I opened my eyes, looked at his close eyes, and smiled.
Chapter completed!