Chapter 69 Burning the Firefly Wood Hairpin

"Mother!"

Shen Ximei, who was sitting on the stone steps in front of the mountain gate, suddenly stood up with a joyful smile on her face.

Liu Fuying's carriage returned and slowly stopped outside the inn.

"Mother." Shen Xi ran over

The person who lifted the curtain of the carriage was not Liu Fuying, but Shen Yilian. He smiled at Shen Ximei when he saw her, but his expression changed when he heard Shen Ximei call him by his name.

"Brother Yiliang, why are you..."

"Yes, uncle."

"Okay Uncle Yiliang, where's my mother?"

Hearing her call him uncle, Shen Yiliang smiled again. After getting off the carriage, he made way to indicate that her mother was inside.

The second person to come out was Jin Li.

Jin Li always looked at Shen Yilian with vigilance, not giving him the chance to support Liu Fuying. She got off the carriage and reached out to stand in front of Shen Yilian to prevent him from getting close, fearing that his overly intimate actions would be seen and gossiped about.

"Mother, mother, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Chen Xi'an jumped and jumped, urging Liu Fuying to come out quickly.

"What time is it now? Why haven't you gone to bed yet?" Liu Fuying lifted the curtain and looked at Chen Xi'er in pretended anger.

However, this angle does not allow people hiding in the dark to see her face clearly.

There was a man standing behind a tree outside the side door of the inn.

He stood for as long as Shen Xi'an sat outside.

Of course, it was Pei Zhou Wu.

Shen Xi'er's cry of "Aying" was like a mine buried under the water. As the key fuel lines such as white clothes, iron chains, boats, and fog were ignited one by one, they exploded completely. The small boat in the center of the lake was blown to pieces. He was anxious to immediately push away the thick fog and find the shore to escape.

Su Yueying is his lakeshore.

He waited for a long time and thought about it for a long time.

I thought maybe it was just a coincidence, after all, she was someone else's legally married wife.

He also thought that it might not be just a coincidence. After all, that was the person he had missed for more than three years, the person he wanted to see no matter if she was dead or alive.

It was not until the sound behind the car curtain reached his ears that he was completely confirmed that what he thought was not a coincidence.

That voice that had once rubbed against his ears...

It's her!

"But I want to sleep with mother. I want mother to hold me while I sleep."

As Shen Xi'er's voice fell, the person in the carriage leaned over and got out. Her smiling face was filled with a faint fragrance in the moonlight, and the familiar smell lingered in the wind, bringing back memories as soon as she sniffed it. Years of longing turned into a flood that surged in, making Pei Zhouwu burst into tears.

Su Yueying...it's really you!

He had thought of thousands of possibilities, but he had never thought it would be like this.

What a married woman.

Su Yueying, how can you be so cruel and so mean.

It’s not like he hadn’t thought about the fact that her name, Su Yueying, was fake, but he had never conceived of the idea that she might actually be someone else’s wife!

In which year did Shen Xiunian get married?

After careful calculation, he realized that when he and Su Yueying met, she had been a married woman for more than two years.

No, what Su Yueying? Her name is not Su Yueying.

Pei Zhouwu had no intention of crying, but he had no way of controlling his emotions when he saw that face. He even realized that he was crying when everything in front of his eyes became blurry.

She raised her hand to wipe away her tears, but it only made her face even wetter.

He spread his hands and saw that his fingertips and palms were oozing with blood. He didn't know at what moment his nails dug into his flesh when he clenched his fists and cut out blood.

Perhaps the pain in his heart was so intense that he ignored the pain in his palm.

The two bloodstains on his face were washed away by tears and turned into a light red curtain of water, falling down drop by drop.

The look in his eyes when he looked at Liu Fuying was bitter and resentful, which made him look even more embarrassed and ridiculous, especially when compared with the scene of her happily holding the child.

Look how well she lives, nothing like him...

For so many years, he had endured alone the false happiness she had created for him. She was so cruel.

He flicked his sleeves, turned around and strode away.

When he returned to the guest room where he was staying, he ran into Kong Linyu who was looking for him everywhere.

"General!" Kong Linyu was frightened by the blood on Pei Zhouwu's face, including the tears that blurred his face. "General, are you okay? What happened to you..."

Pei Zhouwu walked past him as if he didn't see him.

When he reached the porch in front of the house, he suddenly stopped and glanced at the stove under the lamp.

Medicine was boiling on the stove, and the smell of charcoal fire was blazing.

"General, the doctor said you need to take the medicine again before going to bed. I am waiting for it. It will be fine in a while."

Kong Linyu followed him and wanted to remind him to just go inside and rest.

Unexpectedly, Pei Zhouwu moved sideways, picked up the medicine stove and threw something into it.

Then he turned around and looked very unrestrained from behind, but finally he stopped just before crossing the threshold.

Pei Zhouwu's eyes turned red, and a line of hot tears slid down along the previous tear marks.

In a moment, he turned around and walked towards the stove again. This time, his movements were more flustered and anxious. When he was lifting the medicine stove, he accidentally knocked it over, and the tiles were broken all over the floor. But what was even more shocking was that he reached into the red-hot charcoal fire with his bare hands.

"General!"

Kong Linyu was horrified, and when he ran forward, Pei Zhouwu had already picked up the things in the coal.

He held it tightly, and Kong Linyu couldn't see clearly.

But Kong Linyu could clearly see the wounds on his right hand fingers that were quickly turning red.

"General, you..."

"No problem."

Pei Zhouwu murmured these two words in reply, and then went straight into the room. Kong Linyu was anxious to follow him to see his injuries, but was stopped outside by the closed door.

Kong Linyu gritted his teeth anxiously, turned around and ran downstairs to find medicine for Pei Zhouwu.

Inside the room, Pei Zhouwu was shaking all over as he held something in his hand.

But he was shaking not because of pain, but because of fear.

He almost burned the firefly wooden hairpin that Aying gave him.

However, the charcoal fire in the furnace was too strong, and the back of the hairpin was burned and turned black.

“Why should I burn it?”

"Su Yueying..."

Burning the wooden hairpin is not the way to write off everything between them, and he doesn't want to write off everything with her. The cruelest thing about her is that he can't even bear to hate her. Just like this wooden hairpin that was thrown into the coal and he picked it up with his bare hands despite the pain, he can't bear to give it up and he's unwilling to do so. He has to settle the accounts with her one by one and ask her why.

"The child is mine."

What else could be the reason why those two children looked so much like him?

Because that was not Shen Xiunian's child at all.

This was the child he and Su Yueying had conceived after they had prayed to heaven and earth and spent a month in the bridal chamber together.

Since he is his child, why should he call Shen Xiunian father?

No wonder, no wonder Shen Xiunian didn't let him into the Shen family. It turned out that he was afraid that he would meet Su Yueying. It turned out that he knew everything.

No matter what happened between her and Shen Xiunian, but...

"Su Yueying, you are mine too."