Chapter 62: Three Years, See You Again
Xiangshan Bamboo Garden.
Pei Zhouwu returned here alone. The guards outside had been withdrawn, and he could come and go as he pleased.
The place where he was standing at this moment was exactly where he had worshipped heaven and earth that night.
That wedding night seemed like it was just yesterday, but he still began to doubt himself, wondering if he had really gone crazy after being locked up for so long.
Su Yueying, that wife, they were all people he had imagined out of his madness.
Otherwise, how could there be no one to be found in Kyoto?
Since he was imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison, the Queen started looking for someone for him. However, after searching for several days, she couldn't find a person named Su Yueying who matched his description in Shangjing City.
They all said that he had some health problems because he was locked up for too long.
But if everything is fake, everything is his illusion, and Su Yueying is also fake, then what about the firefly hairpin?
He lowered his head, and crystal tears fell on the wooden hairpin in his hand.
Could it be that this wooden hairpin was also carved by him himself when he went crazy?
He doesn't believe it!
Tightening his hairpin, he turned around and strode towards the bedroom. He raised his hand and pushed the door open. The teacups on the table and the quilt on the bed were no different from the day he left. They were still the same as before, with no one having come and no one having touched them.
When he opened the bamboo cabinet again and saw the neatly arranged women's clothes inside, tears fell from his eyes even bigger.
The bitterness of tears spread from the corners of my mouth to my heart.
He stroked his clothes with one hand and stabbed his palm with the sharp end of the hairpin with the other hand.
He wanted to use the pain to prove that what he saw was not an illusion.
In just a moment, drops of blood began to roll down like tears from a broken string.
"They all say you are fake... Ah Ying, I am the only one who knows that you are real. You are my wife, the wife I promised to grow old with."
He turned out the wedding dress that was at the bottom, and its bright red color was particularly eye-catching.
"Yes or no……"
He clutched the wedding dress tightly, blood seeping from his fingers and even the wooden hairpin was stained red.
"I didn't promise to take you to the Firefly Land last time, so you're angry?"
Last time she said she wanted to go back to the firefly field where they had seen the night of their wedding, but he didn't agree because he was worried that she had fallen ill.
"You're mad at me, so you're punishing me, right?"
"Aying..."
"I was wrong. It's all my fault."
"Please..."
"do not leave Me."
“…”
When Pei's mother found Pei Zhouwu, panting, he was kneeling on the ground, holding his wedding dress and crying.
The moonlight shone through the window, making his shadow on the wall look pitiful.
Such a big body, when curled up, it becomes just a small ball.
"A Zhou." Mother Pei came in and squatted beside him, her eyes red as she tried to comfort him, "I promise you, if there really is such a person, I will search the entire Shangjing City to find her. As long as you like her, I will treat her well and won't treat her harshly."
Pei Zhouwu did not respond, and tears fell on the wedding dress she was holding to her chest, staining it deep red.
"Last time, mother said many sad things to you for the sake of the overall situation. It's mother's fault. You are a boy. Mother has been strict with you since childhood, hoping that you can grow up to be a good son with both moral integrity and talent, filial piety and loyalty. You have never disappointed mother, and you have done much better than mother expected. But mother's strictness has never cared about your true needs and feelings. It's too late for mother to regret it, but she still wants to make it up to you."
She hugged Pei Zhouwu and sobbed as she spoke.
"This time, mother will no longer control or oppose you. When you find her, she will definitely help you marry her in style."
"Mother..." Pei Zhouwu gritted his teeth and swallowed the bitterness. "I'm not crazy. What I said is true. Ah Ying is real. I have worshipped the gods and heaven and earth with her. She is my wife. She is real."
His voice sounded like crying blood, and he was as helpless as a child.
"I know. Mother knows."
She stepped back and faced Pei Zhouwu with a sincere expression on her face.
"But Azhou, the people of Zhaoxi are now living in dire straits. The Western Jin army is burning, killing, robbing, raping and pillaging in the border towns. There is widespread grief over there, and the people are displaced and separated from their families. They are waiting for you to save them. Go to the battle tomorrow with peace of mind. Mother swears that no matter what happens in the capital or outside, she will find your beloved wife and she will wait for you at home with her."
"If it's her, she definitely wouldn't want to see you degenerate like this. Just think of it as doing it for her. When you come back with all the military merits, you can be with her openly and without restraint. Nothing will be able to hinder you from now on."
"Azhou, you have to cheer up."
“…”
The moonlight is peaceful and its gentle light always shines upon the world.
No matter whether it is sunny or cloudy, the moon is always hanging in the sky. It may be covered by haze occasionally, but it will eventually fade away and reappear in the world.
Its coolness and its brilliance have never been covered by dust.
"good."
Pei Zhouwu finally agreed.
…
On the day of the expedition, almost the entire city came to see him off, and everyone placed their hopes on him to repel the enemy.
The battle was brutal and protracted.
The First World War lasted for three years.
The defeated Western Jin army withdrew from Zhaoxi and turned to the area under the jurisdiction of Chen Xiunian in Yunnan. After three years of hard defense, Chen Xiunian was already unable to resist. When he was at a loss, Pei Zhouwu's divine soldiers descended from the sky with a large army to support him.
Chen Xiunian originally thought that he would never see Pei Zhouwu again in this life.
Also, I don't want to see him again.
However, the war situation was intense and they would not be able to hold on without Pei Zhouwu's support, so daily contact was unavoidable.
But every time he saw Pei Zhouwu, Chen Xiunian would always think of what Liu Fuying said to him three years ago.
Saying that she was pregnant with Pei Zhouwu's child!
In the final battle, the two worked together to defeat the enemy and won the final battle.
However, Shen Xiunian was seriously injured in this battle while trying to save his subordinates and was in a coma for dozens of days.
"General, leave the rest to us, the general has also suffered a serious injury, so let's go to the rear town with General Shen to see a doctor and have a good rest."
The soldiers under Pei Zhouwu made the proposal sincerely to him.
He put down his pen, blew the ink off the paper, stuffed it into an envelope, and prepared to have someone send it back to Shangjing City by express horse.
At the same time, he said, "I heard that General Shen moved his family to Yunnan. His family, wife and children are all here. Tomorrow I will personally take him back with the car, as a way to repay his kindness in helping me investigate the case and clearing my name in Xiangshan. General Shen is also a rare military talent, and I admire him very much."
Go to Shen's house...
Liu Fuying didn't know that he was coming to the Shen family.
Three years have passed, and she rarely thinks of Pei Zhouwu anymore.
Just as she thought back then, no matter how profound the past is, it will eventually fade away with the passage of time.
At that time, she was sitting in the yard of a neighbor's house at the end of Shenjia Street.
The hostess of this house is a widow named Chen Jie Ling. She has a four-year-old son and a younger brother who depend on each other for survival.
Chen Jieling was kneading dough in front of the kitchen stove in the yard, while under the shade of a tree opposite, her younger brother Shen Yiliang was writing something with his head down, looking very serious.
While Liu Fuying was talking to Chen Jieling, he would occasionally glance at Shen Yilian.
She still remembered how she couldn't hide her excitement when she first met Shen Yilian, and she still remembers it.
Because Shen Yiliang's face and eyebrows... are quite similar to Pei Zhouwu.
Only when she saw Shen Yiliang would she think of Pei Zhouwu who was thousands of miles away.
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