Chapter 109: The Young Widow Choosing a Concubine
"All three of you, come down. I have something to say to you."
Meng Shuyue put down her chopsticks. She didn't need to look back to know that the three brothers were secretly lying on the wall watching her.
She opened the small door to the backyard and looked at the three brothers of different heights standing at the door. She walked out sideways and closed the door.
She didn't want them to come into the house and spread gossip.
She doesn't care about other people's gossip.
But she didn't want her children to be pointed at and criticized when they went out, saying that their mother brought men home and called them wild children with unknown fathers.
She had been raising the children alone for more than three years, causing them to suffer many injustices. She also had to endure the disturbance and insults from Shen Ting and others who came to her house from time to time. She was already exhausted physically and mentally.
It's time to step out and let the children have a complete family and grow up healthily.
Especially Big Head, thinking of how he would play in the streets and alleys, being bullied by little kids, but still smiling happily.
Thinking back to when she protected her three children behind her and questioned the mothers of other children, those women took advantage of the men behind them to mock her unscrupulously.
Every time, even though she would fight back without showing any weakness, she would always cry in the attic late at night, hugging Jin Xiao's clothes.
Meng Shuyue looked at the three people in front of him one by one.
Song Shijing looks most like him with his thin lips and obvious lip peak.
Song Shixuan's tall, hooked nose looks most like him.
Song Shiyu's curved peach blossom eyes when smiling are most like him.
Her eyes were red and her vision was blurred. She seemed to see Shen Jinxiao's face again, the face he dreamed of every night.
In an ancient alley with red bricks and white walls, gorgeous fireworks bloomed on a tall building not far away.
The sound of fireworks exploded in my ears, illuminating the three people's faces that were similar yet not identical.
In that illusion, Meng Shuyue stared into Song Shiyu's eyes and could no longer hold back her tears.
The sound of fireworks faded and there was a sudden silence. Her sobbing voice suddenly rang out, breaking the quiet night.
"I want to forget your uncle and find a new father for the children."
After a moment of silence, the eyes of the three of them all lit up, and they looked at her with piercing eyes that shone like obsidian, the light almost covering the bright North Star in the sky.
Seeing several people eager to try and shouting "Choose me", Meng Shuyue turned his gaze and met Song Shijing's expectant eyes first.
Song Shijing could not hide his excitement and for the first time he lost his composure. In front of his two younger brothers, he reached out to wipe the tears from Meng Shuyue's face, but she dodged him without leaving a trace.
He curled up his hands that were frozen in mid-air as if he was hurt, and tears began to fall, but his tone was more sincere and serious than ever before.
"Shuyue, I failed you back then. In fact, after returning to the city from the countryside in Haishi, I knew that I had always liked you. I was only tolerant of Su Yanyan because she saved me by the lake that year, and I hurt you again and again."
Song Shijing was already sobbing as he spoke, "I...I was wrong, Shuyue. Su Yanyan has been away from our home for so long, can you please forgive me? In the future...I will definitely treat you well in the future."
His eyes were full of earnestness, and every word he said contained the endless regret of the past few years.
She was afraid that if she didn't give her true heart to him, he would really lose her again and watch her being snatched away by her closest brother.
But all this sounded extremely ironic to Meng Shu's pleasant ears.
Meng Shuyue took a step back and kept a distance from the three of them. Looking at Song Shijing, who was full of regret, she felt that everything was ridiculous.
It turned out that he protected Su Yanyan again and again just because she saved him.
This is the first time they have spoken openly about the past in three years.
She stared at him, and the hatred she had at the beginning was no longer there.
Without love, where does hate come from?
But the tragic death in her previous life was still vivid in her mind. If it weren't for Shen Jinxiao, she would still want him to die immediately.
Thinking so, she said so.
"Song Shijing, I often wonder why it wasn't you who died, but my Jin Xiao who died?"
Song Shijing's face turned completely pale the next moment.
However, Meng Shuyue had no intention of letting him go and continued to stab him in the heart.
"Have you forgotten how you treated me in the beginning, Song Shijing?"
"Back in the countryside, you and Su Yanyan were blocked by the villagers in the examination room and were found to be having an affair. You were afraid that Su Yanyan would be beaten up by her husband, so you made me admit that it was me who was fooling around with you. You also conspired with Su Yanyan to send me to Zhou Dajun. Have you forgotten all these things?"
Hearing these words, Song Shixuan and Song Shiyu looked at Song Shijing in shock. They didn't expect that what happened in the countryside was completely different from what he told them when he returned home.
The two of them were about to start cursing, but Meng Shuyue was the first to curse, every word of which was heart-wrenching.
"Song Shijing, you have done so many disgusting things in the past. You are even dirtier than a public toilet. How can you still have the nerve to appear in front of me all these years and ask me to forgive you again and again?"
"Public toilet!"
These two words were like two steel nails piercing into Song Shijing's heart. The pain made him gasp and his whole body shook.
He didn't expect Meng Shuyue to scold her so harshly. When he was about to argue that he had never intended to give her to Zhou Dajun, his brain seemed to freeze for a moment and he broke out in a cold sweat.
Song Shijing stared at Meng Shuyue with wide eyes, and the blood color on his lips faded completely.
Because he had no memory of the things Meng Shuyue said, they had only appeared in his dreams.
Song Shijing seemed to understand something. He covered his chest and gasped for breath, unable to believe that these things actually happened.
His Shuyue was once really killed by him!
Tears rolled down like a dam bursting. He bit his lips tightly and whimpered, but still couldn't stop the tidal blade of regret from cutting into his heart bit by bit.
But Meng Shuyue still didn't intend to let him go, and continued to rub salt into his bloody wounds without hesitation.
"Song Shijing, do you know who saved you by the lake that year?"
"It's me, actually!"
"If you don't believe me, you can go back to the lake and look for those families. After I saved you, I went to call for help, but you disappeared. It turned out that Su Yanyan took you away and claimed to have saved your life!"
"You are not only stupid, but also blind. How can I forgive you and choose you, a man with flaws all over his body and no good at all!"
With just a few words, Song Shijing's already shaky but strong belief in not giving up suddenly collapsed.
Guilt turned into dense, poisonous arrows that came from all directions, piercing through his body, tearing his soul into pieces, and completely destroying him.
"puff……"
Song Shijing couldn't hold back any longer and spat out a mouthful of blood. His eyes went dark and he fell to the ground in front of several people.
Song Shixuan, who was standing by, kicked away Song Shijing's hand that was between them with disgust, stood in front of Meng Shuyue, took a deep breath and said, "Shuyue, I'm not as fickle as my elder brother. I have always been a single-minded person. Growing up... I only..."
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