Huainan Marquis Mansion, Qinyuan, main house, east room.
Meng Qi's eyes were wide open as she lay on the warm kang.
She was looking at the ceiling, no, to be exact, at the bed curtains, the pink curtains embroidered with golden flowers, rabbits and puppies. She actually discovered that there was a little deer on the curtains, which she had never known before.
Hearing the sound of adding charcoal to the charcoal stove outside the bed curtain, she reached out to touch the little rabbit on the bed curtain, but it was a little far away and she couldn't reach it.
Meng Qi looked at her pink-painted nails, her fingers, like onions, radiating a healthy red and luster. Unlike the three years she had been unable to move, when her veins bulged like dry branches.
She turned over and saw that there was no long scar on the palm of her right hand.
Meng Qi let out a long breath and confirmed once again that this was the east room of the main house in Qinyuan before she got married.
Now, whenever she closed her eyes, she would be standing by the lake, clutching her coat. She looked back in horror at the people dressed in gorgeous attire. She saw the man in white kneeling before her husband, and the woman beside him, with a ferocious expression, saying something and pointing at her from time to time.
She stood there by the lake, only Mother Liu by her side, sobbing. She was freezing, dripping from her hair to her sleeves to the hem of her pants. It was the lake water, a very fishy smell. She could even clearly see some water plants clinging to the hem of her skirt, a yellow-green color, like the little turtle she used to raise, the water plants her third brother had found for her.
Her lips trembled, and she could hear her teeth chattering. Water dripped from her hair, and she wondered if tears were mixed in, but it felt a little salty. Not far away, her husband looked at her with a cold expression, just as he had done during the countless days and nights she had spent together since she married him.
Mother Liu pulled the coat out of her arms with shaking hands, wanting to put it on her, but the woman who rushed over pulled it off and said, "Why are you wearing it? Doesn't she like to take it off for others to see? It would be better to take off this one too." After saying that, she pulled her undercoat hard.
The man in white who had just been kneeling on the ground stood up and came over to hold the woman. "Forget it, forget it. This is someone else's family affair. Let's go. It has nothing to do with us."
"How can it be their family affair? If this gets out, how will my husband explain it? How will he gain a foothold in Beijing in the future?" The woman's eyes were red.
"Don't worry, someone will naturally explain. This matter wasn't our fault in the first place, and with so many people watching, there will definitely be witnesses."
The woman, held tightly in the arms of the man in white, nodded. Just as they turned to leave, the man in white glanced over, his face filled with contempt, disdain, and helplessness. "I never thought you were this kind of person. I've explained this to you time and time again, so why are you still... on such an important day, you're actually dragging a stranger into that greenhouse. What? Did I see wrong? Are you going to drag every man in white into your care today? Can you handle it?"
The woman raised her head and spat at her fiercely, "Shameless! You're still a daughter of a marquisate. If I were you, I wouldn't have come out of the lake just now."
She still stood there, watching the man in white helping his wife and husband say goodbye. At this time, those who had just been watching the fun had left without knowing when.
Only her husband, she, and Mother Liu were left by the lake.
She looked up and watched her husband walking towards her. His face had been expressionless for thousands of years, but even with such a big thing happening, there was no sign of his emotions changing.
Meng Qi's face was tense and she raised her head stubbornly. The late autumn wind blew past, and her newly wet undershirt stuck to her body, feeling colder than the lake water.
"I didn't, I..." Meng Qi looked at the man and shrank into Liu Mama's arms as she spoke. She had a feeling that the man was going to kill her.
The man showed a lost and disappointed expression, gently took off his cloak and handed it to Mother Liu.
"You shouldn't have come up." After the man said this, he looked up at the geese flying across the sky, first gave a self-deprecating smile, and then burst into laughter.
Meng Qi was horrified. In the two years she had been married to him, she had never seen him smile like this. He was a man who showed no emotion at all, never showing his joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness on his face.
She was shaking, not knowing whether it was from the cold or fear. She watched the man reach out his hand to gently wipe the corners of his eyes, then turn around and stride away.
Mother Liu lovingly put the man's cloak on her and helped her walk back. Before she had taken a few steps, two maids came and said the man wanted Mother Liu to come over and question him.
Mother Liu looked at Meng Qi worriedly. Although she was worried about her, she knew that it was more important to explain to the man everything that happened today.
The two maids watched Mama Liu walk away, and each of them carried Meng Qi.
"You, what are you doing?"
"What are you doing? Didn't you hear it just now? You shouldn't have come up here."
Before Meng Qi could react, she fell into the lake again. The icy water instantly submerged her, unlike the first time when she accidentally slipped in panic. This time, two women held her head down tightly. After a while, she felt as if she had been drained out of her body, and then she lost consciousness.
When she woke up again, the people who served her were no longer around her. The unfamiliar old woman said that her limbs were frozen and only her head could move.
She lay like that for another three years like a living dead, able to hear but unable to speak, from spring to summer, from autumn to winter.
She still lived in her yard, her main house, her east room, the place that symbolized the hostess.
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