Chapter 369
Wang Jiazhi held the kitten in her arms while the little girl flew a kite in the yard. She smiled and said, "Big sister, look, is it high?"
She said to her daughter, "Look, isn't it beautiful? This is the kite your dad made for you."
The kitten exclaimed "Ah" and smiled happily.
This is a pink swallow kite with two large peach branches painted on its chest. The peach tree in the yard is in bloom right now, and the flowers are particularly large. In the bright spring sunshine, above the pink peach tree, blue sky and white clouds rise, and a large, beautiful pink kite, the same color as the blossoms. Not far from the peach tree, a young and beautiful mother holds an equally beautiful little girl in her arms. Beside her sits a large white bear dog, a calico cat, and a white cat, all standing in a row, all smiling and watching the kite. It's a dreamy, warm, and floral postcard.
After watching for a while, Wang Jiazhi asked, "When will your father come back?"
He's on a business trip, having left last night, so he should be here by now. She gets anxious whenever he's out; even if he doesn't come back for a few days, the feeling is completely different when he's in town or on a business trip.
There was already a big apricot tree in the garden, and this time when she came back, there was also a huge peach tree. When was it planted? At this time, she remembered to ask the little girl when the peach tree was planted.
The little girl said, "I planted it last spring. It was so big that it took a lot of effort to move it in."
Wang Jiazhi didn't know why he planted such a tree. Did he think that she would like it?
She had told him that she had always wanted a big yard, half for flowers and half for vegetables. She loved peaches the most and wanted to plant a really big peach tree.
But this was just something I said casually in my previous life. I have never mentioned the peach tree in this life.
In his previous life, he did remember these words. He imagined that after she moved in, he'd plant a large peach tree, the kind that would bloom and bear fruit that very year. He'd even specifically asked someone to do it so it could be planted in the spring. But she died soon after. In this life, he simply believed that planting a peach tree would surely delight her.
Intellectually, he hopes she can leave him and escape from his suffering to start a new life, but emotionally, of course he hopes she can come back.
Wang Jiazhi held her daughter as she went to smell the peach and apricot blossoms. The little girl really loves flowers just like she does, which is only right. Wang Jiazhi thinks people who don't like flowers or are allergic to pollen are really missing out on a lot of fun.
Lao Yi went to a meeting just after noon, and was then called in to discuss something. When he returned, it was already dark. He was holding two boxes in his hands. He opened the box and carefully placed the two boxes at the bottom.
I remembered what I had just said to him: "You've finally found a good person to live with, have a child, and become a father. Now it seems that you have truly grown up."
He saw the paper bag and glass bottle in the box. Before leaving, she said, "Remember to drink tea, it's good for your health. There are also a few cookies, which your girl made for you~"
Wang Jiazhi baked cookies, and the kitten helped knead the dough.
He opened the paper bag and found six large cookies. Three were a large calico, one a small calico, and a plain cat. The other three were portraits of the three of them, each one a perfect likeness. He hadn't expected such a treat; he couldn't bear to eat any of them.
After playing with the biscuits for a while, he picked up the small glass bottle of fruit tea and was suddenly petrified when he saw it.
On the third day he came home and gave her the two boxes. When she opened them she found a white jade bracelet and a small gold bracelet.
She probably knew who had sent it, and knew that he was serious about having a family and a child, so of course she had to show some appreciation.
"I don't want this anymore."
"Then keep it for now. I'll go back when I have the chance."
"Is this how you win people over? I bet you gave one to me when you got married."
"Whether it's genuine or just a show, they mean well after all."
Wang Jiazhi knew he couldn't possibly return them, but she didn't want to embarrass him, so she put them away. She went into the study and put the two things in a hidden box that she rarely opened, out of sight, out of mind.
He was especially like that at night. She thought, how could he be so clingy after only three days of not seeing him? She happily hugged him and played with him.
Whoever said that men are not good after the age of 40, the person who said this is not good himself, but he has to say that everyone is not good.
Finally, she collapsed into a ball and moaned, "I can't do it anymore. I'm so tired."
"Is this okay?"
"Hmm~"
"What's the matter with giving me this to drink?"
"Um?"
Wang Jiazhi regained some strength before picking up the bottle on the bedside table.
"Well!"
When she packed his luggage, she had originally intended to bring snow pear tea, which was good for his lungs and throat, as he smoked too much. She felt sick the moment he left, and in a moment of panic, she packed white peaches and white wolfberries by mistake.
She hurriedly explained the reason to him, and he thought that he had always wanted her to have whatever she wanted, and he didn't think she was dissatisfied with anything. There was nothing he could do. After all, there was a big age gap between them, and he had to know some of the gossip about his colleagues, so he was inevitably sensitive.
The next day, when they went to bed, she took out a sandalwood box from under her pillow. When she opened it, there was an open gold bracelet inside. The pattern was very simple, with only a lotus flower carved in the middle. It was obviously an old thing.
She seemed to have seen it somewhere. After thinking for a while, she realized that in her dream, she was given a bracelet like this at her wedding. Because she was disgusted by it, she put it directly at the bottom of the box, so the impression was not that deep.
"You asked Mrs. Yi for it. What are you doing? What's wrong with you?"
He was very surprised. How did she know that this bracelet was intended to be given to the bride when they got married?
But he never gave it to Mrs. Yi, thinking it didn't suit her. Especially since she was still in the countryside at the time, unsophisticated, he worried she'd melt it down and make something else out of it. Later, when she moved to the city and saw the world, he worried she'd dislike it and throw it away somewhere, losing it. She only cared about its monetary value, not its profound meaning.
For so many years, this bracelet has been in his hand. Although he has kept it all the time, he almost forgot about it until he mentioned it yesterday. When he found it again, this bracelet really fit her perfectly.
"It's not hers, so you can keep it. It's not worth much, but keep it for the future. Don't melt it down, and don't throw it away."
Wang Jiazhi sighed and said, "Other people's things should be given to whomever they belong. I took something that was not good."
"Of course it's yours if I give it to you. She won't cherish it, and I never gave it to her. She won't care about it either."
Wang Jiazhi said, "I wouldn't cherish it even more."
He knew that she was very disgusted with those two people, so he just smiled and said nothing.
Wang Jiazhi took the opportunity to bring up the old matter again and said, "Let's bring Mrs. Yi back. She's suffering too much living in the country."
"She lives a life of luxury and doesn't have to suffer from hunger or cold, so why should she be suffering?"
"You're right. Having food and clothes is good enough."
"What else? How many people are starving to death on the streets every day?"
"Are you comparing your wife to those poor people?" She felt very uncomfortable looking at the bracelet in her hand. She placed the box in front of him, put one of his hands on the box, and her hand on his hand, and said seriously: "I don't deserve this. Take Mrs. Yi back. Everyone has their own destiny. You don't give it to someone who is destined to have it, and you insist on giving it to someone who is not destined to have it. You are putting the status quo upside down. It's not good for you or me. God will find a way for us."
He pulled his hand out and placed it on hers, saying, "You deserve anything good. Stop belittling yourself like this."
Wang Jiazhi said calmly, "Don't always say that I'm young and have wild thoughts. Although I haven't been through as much as you, I have also experienced life and death, and the impermanence of life. In the past, I thought that everything made sense. As long as I worked hard and lived up to my conscience, I would not be too bad. When I was in school, I performed in a play. The lines were terrible, but there was one sentence I agreed with: God will bless honest and kind people. Now think about it. When I was in Hong Kong, I started copying the "Three Officials Sutra". I also heard a respected old scholar say The wicked harm the good people, and the more the good people can't do anything to them, the greater the sin they commit. If people can't do anything to them, God will punish them. It is said that the wicked eat the honest people, the honest people eat God, and God eats the wicked. Novels such as "Sanyan Erpai" and "Jin Ping Mei" also say that evil will be punished, and God will always punish the wicked. But I really don't understand, if God really wants to help good people, why can't he stop the wicked from doing evil from the beginning, but must wait until the good people are hurt and ruined before taking action. The good people are harmed first, and then the wicked also suffer retribution, as if Repaying what is owed is fair. But how can the bad life of the wicked be enough to repay the life of the good? Even if the wicked are doomed to eternal damnation, the good is also dead and ruined. It seems that the heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as straw dogs. Good or evil, they are all puppets of God, performing one puppet show after another of cause and effect to praise God. I think I have figured it out. If God wants you to be good, you will be good. If God wants you to be bad, you will be bad. People have to fight for nine out of ten points of their lives, and they must also have that one point of destiny. Without that one point of destiny, there is nothing. My mother My grandmother and my uncle are both very good and hardworking people, but without that sense of destiny, nothing good could have happened to them. Mrs. Yi is a lucky person. For someone like me, I can no longer ask for anything more. You should take her back. She deserves what she has. With a wife like her, you can also share in her luck. Luck is contagious, or as they say, good luck for the husband brings good luck to the husband. My luck is terrible, horrible. You are always with me, and you don't have a lucky wife by your side. I don't want to burden you."
He hugged her and asked her to rest her head on his legs. He stroked her hair and said, "She is sharing my luck. She is really lucky in marrying a good husband. Would I be in this situation today? Having you by my side is my greatest luck."
"No."
He understood what she meant. She felt that if he wasn't in his current situation, if he were still successful, he wouldn't like her. Only when people have nothing do they strive to grab what they can, especially politicians. Only when they lose power do they care about feelings.
"It's not what you think. It was when I was young, when I was at my best. Meeting you then was also my greatest luck."
"I was even less worthy of you then. That wasn't luck, that was..."
He covered her mouth and said, "Don't say that again. You are very good and deserve all good things. The bad things are in the past. You will get better and better in the future."
"Some things are learned through failure, and learning can always make you feel relieved. But some things can never be let go in a lifetime. When I think about it, I used to be a clean person, and how could those five worthless lives be worthy of me. Those idiots, and my father, my brother, and my aunt. Why are they so bad? They can still live happily without any guilt, and why do people with conscience have to live a life worse than death? I thought I was stupid, but then I thought, they are even stupider than me. If I could be as bad as them, I would never have such a thing happen to me."
"It's not your fault. It's fate, as you said. Not only mortals like us, but even the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, those supreme kings, princes, generals and ministers, were inevitably teased by fate in the end. How can we see clearly what they can't see? No one can understand or comprehend except God. Stop torturing yourself, be yourself, have a clear conscience, and leave the rest to fate. You will definitely be fine, believe me."
"If I could get better, I wouldn't want that luck anymore. I'll give it all to you. Just be good. You keep telling me this, you should think the same way."
"I'll be fine too."
His voice was a little soft, and she knew he didn't believe it.
The next day, she woke up and found the bracelet on her hand. To make him feel uncomfortable, she took it off and put it at the bottom of the box with the other two. Mrs. Yi still refused to take it back.
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