Chapter 127 Half a Century of Love
The story begins with an ancient and exquisite wooden hairpin, which involves the old events related to Mr. Du Jiu.
Therefore, the name of this book is "Past Events in the Compound", also known as "The Blood Hairpin".
As you can tell from the two names, this is a heavy and dark story.
The wooden hairpin, which is the key prop at the source of all the turmoil, is the token of love between Mr. Du Jiu and his first love, Miss Qin.
The two met in Bianjing City fifty or sixty years ago. At that time, Mr. Du Jiu was just in his early twenties and was an apprentice carpenter who left his hometown to learn a craft to make a living.
A heavy rain stopped Miss Qin from going out, and Mr. Du Jiu fell in love with Miss Qin at first sight as she was hastily hiding under the rain. Regardless of the guests who were still waiting, he gave Miss Qin his reserved wooden umbrella.
The result is predictable. Master Du Jiu, who failed to deliver the goods on time, was complained by the customers. He was severely beaten by his master for losing the goods and went hungry for two days, but he did not regret it.
I thought that the chance encounter that day was just an extravagant dream given to me by God. When I wake up from the dream, everything will return to reality.
Unexpectedly, on the third day after the incident, Miss Qin appeared in the carpenter's shop and continued the dream.
It turned out that the name of their shop was engraved on the umbrella that day. Miss Qin was grateful for Mr. Du Jiu's help that day and came to thank him in person.
The spoiled rich girl and the poor apprentice with nothing came into contact with each other by chance, and developed feelings for each other after many contacts.
Master Du Jiu worked hard to learn the craft, and spent countless hours and efforts to create his first finished product, a sandalwood hairpin with a lotus pattern. He gave the hairpin to his sweetheart with great trepidation to express his feelings.
Miss Qin had long developed feelings for this handsome and hardworking apprentice. After accepting the hairpin, she gave him a comb engraved with mandarin ducks playing in the water, which made the young boy jump up and down with excitement for the entire evening.
The next day, he promised Miss Qin that he would work hard to learn the craft, save money to gain the approval of Miss Qin's parents, and marry Miss Qin in a grand ceremony in the future. He asked Miss Qin to wait for him for some time.
In this way, the two of them secretly dated for a while without Miss Qin's family's knowledge, but unfortunately they were exposed.
Miss Qin's parents simply could not accept that their daughter was in love with a carpenter's apprentice, so they immediately broke up the couple and quickly arranged a marriage for their daughter, and they got married just after the New Year.
Du Jiuye was heartbroken after being separated from his lover, and suddenly he learned that his lover was engaged. He was even more anxious, but there was nothing he could do.
However, this marriage was destined to fail.
Before the new year came, the world had changed dramatically. Bianjing fell and everyone was fleeing in order to save their lives, and this was also the case for this pair of ill-fated mandarin ducks.
The two were completely separated in the chaos. After that, Master Du Jiu headed north, begged for food, beat people, did small business, rode a horse, repaired cars, and finally joined a special department, where he was promoted all the way and started his legendary life.
But in fact, he has never forgotten Miss Qin in the past forty or fifty years, and has never given up looking for her.
[I can only say that my uncle is truly an infatuated man when it comes to love. Once he sets his mind on a person, he will be with her for his whole life. For so many years, he didn’t know whether Miss Qin was dead or alive, whether she was married, or whether she had any offspring. He just kept waiting until the moment she closed her eyes completely.]
When the Du family heard this, they couldn't help but stand in awe, and there was a bit more admiration and guilt in their eyes when they looked at Du Desheng.
After working hard for half a century, I have seen the flourishing flowers and the decadent life, but I still remain true to my original aspiration.
Putting themselves in his shoes, they asked themselves whether they had the persistence and courage of Du Desheng. It was wrong for them to even suspect that he had an emotional dispute with the nurse just now.
However, wasn't the old man deeply in love with Miss Qin? Why would he love a little nurse and place his feelings on her? This description is also very intriguing.
Fortunately, Duanrao quickly gave the answer to this question.
【This Miss Qiao won the favor of Master Du Jiu when she first appeared, just because her eyes were somewhat similar to those of Miss Qin. With this feature that was very similar to that of the old friend, Qiao Yiting successfully became Master Du Jiu's caregiver. But the real opportunity for Qiao Yiting to gain Master Du Jiu's trust was a very unexpected opportunity. Master Du Jiu accidentally saw the well-preserved lotus wood hairpin that he had given to Miss Qin that year in her room.】
Everyone in the Du family couldn't help but feel their hearts skip a beat when they heard this. Could it be that this Miss Qiao had some relationship with Miss Qin?
Thinking about it again, Du Anrao just mentioned that her eyebrows and eyes are extremely similar to those of Miss Qin. Could it be that this Miss Qiao is her...descendant?
Du Desheng's eyes were slightly cold. He had indeed seen the familiar wooden hairpin in Qiao Yiting's room a week ago.
But he did not give his trust to Qiao Yiting just because of a hairpin as Duanrao said in the so-called plot. Instead, he became suspicious and wary of Qiao Yiting.
It was because he could tell at a glance that the hairpin was deliberately imitated and made to look old, and it was not the one he had given to his lover that year.
Bringing her along to S City this time was also a matter of course, thinking of using her to catch those dark forces hiding in the dark.
Before Du Desheng could think more, Du Anrao had already given the answer.
[But in fact, the hairpin was made by someone who stole the blueprint of his hairpin design and specially asked someone to copy it. This person was Du Gui, the housekeeper of his uncle's family.]
The Du family: “?!!”
Du Desheng finally changed his expression when he heard this. He was unwilling to believe that his good brother, with whom he had been together for more than 30 years, who had suffered hardships and injuries together, and had shared life and death together, would one day betray him.
[Qiao Yiting's current scumbag boyfriend is the illegitimate son of this housekeeper Du. To say that this housekeeper Du is a hateful person is a bit pitiful. Back then, he had a wife and a son, but someone framed him to have an illegitimate son. In order to protect his wife and children, he ruthlessly drove away the peripheral girl who tried to gain status by relying on her son.]
[However, due to the war, his wife and children died one after another, and he also lost his fertility due to an accident. In the end, he was the only one left in the happy family. He seemed normal on the surface, but in fact, he had been mentally distorted for a long time.]
When Du Desheng heard this, his eyelids jumped. Thinking of the miserable experiences of the people around him, he didn't know how to look at this matter for a moment.
[He accidentally learned that he had a living illegitimate son. Even though he knew that the other party had bad character and could not be disciplined, and was a real disaster, Butler Du still could not resist the temptation to continue the family line and have blood relatives again. For this illegitimate son, he embarked on a road of no return and cooperated with a big shot to set his eyes on his uncle's property. ]
(End of this chapter)
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