Chapter 442 "A Person's Life..."
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Li Wangtian's desire to go find Qin Tao was something Li Shiyue and the others never expected.
However, if Yan Jiuniang's caravan delivers the letter written by Li Qiutian to Li Wangzheng in the future, then Li Wangtian might actually be able to go to Andong.
Meanwhile, in Lijiatun, the holiday was only three days long. Li Shiyue, who was supposed to ride back to the village tomorrow, was now leading his little red horse alone towards the riverbank.
As the sun sets, the earth, which has been scorched all day, is still gently emitting heat.
Standing at the gate of the courtyard, Li Qiutian watched the backs of the man and the horse, but he couldn't help feeling uneasy, so he took a step to follow them.
As soon as Li Qiutian moved, Qin Fen and Shi Tou, who were standing in the yard, also lifted their legs.
"Autumn! Don't go!"
The person who shouted at Li Qiutian was Li's mother.
Hearing the shout, Li Qiutian stopped and turned around, looking at her mother with a worried expression. "Aunt, I... I'll go and see."
Li's mother put down the winnowing basket in her hand, walked up to Li Qiutian, grabbed her hand, and led her to the stone table in the yard.
Li Qiutian was pressed to sit down, and Li's mother also sat down. Then, she raised her hand and waved to Qin Fen and Shi Tou, who were watching her and Li Qiutian come over.
A stone table with four corners.
That's just enough for one person, one corner each.
A gentle breeze occasionally blew by, ruffling the hair by Li Qiutian's ear.
Li Qiutian casually brushed the stray strands of hair that had been blown out of place behind her ear, and a hint of anxiety appeared on her face.
She looked at Li's mother and said, "Aunt, please let me go."
I followed from a distance, not going any closer, I…”
Before Li Qiutian could finish speaking, his mother grasped his hand.
Although Li's mother didn't say anything, the disapproval she conveyed in her eyes made Li Qiutian stop talking, leaving her mouth open but saying nothing more.
Seeing that Li Qiutian was silent, Li's mother raised her hand and gently patted the back of Li Qiutian's hand twice. "I know, Auntie knows."
As she spoke, Li's mother turned to look in the direction where Li Shiyue and Little Red Horse had left, but by now it was getting dark and she could no longer see anything clearly.
Turning her head, Li's mother first looked at Li Qiutian, then she looked at Shi Tou sitting opposite her, and finally looked at Qin Fen sitting opposite Li Shiyue.
"Sigh," Li's mother sighed, and then slowly said, "Autumn, your aunt knows, you've been worried about October."
Although you two are cousins, you've been close since childhood, and you're no different from biological sisters.
From the time we fled the famine until now, my aunt has always felt incredibly fortunate to have you, her older sister, by her side during October.
After saying all that, Li's mother still didn't give Li Qiutian a chance to speak. Then she looked at Shitou and said, "Shitou, I know that even though you don't say it, you care about Shiyue."
You two are siblings, the closest people in the world to each other.
Shi Tou just looked at Li's mother without saying anything. He didn't know what to say, but he knew that his mother was right.
At this moment, Qin Fen looked at Li's mother with great anticipation, thinking that she would say something to him.
To everyone's surprise, Li's mother simply smiled at Qin Fen without saying a word.
“But!” Li’s mother’s tone suddenly became serious and earnest.
"In autumn, even your own parents, your own siblings, and the children you have given birth to—no matter how deep the blood ties are—can never live your life for you."
In this life, there are some hurdles, some fears, and some secret thoughts that you can't tell anyone.
Moreover, no one else can help;
You can only fight for it yourself, struggle on, and swallow that bitter water mixed with blood and tears all by yourself.
No one can help; you can only endure it all alone, bit by bit, until you get through it.
Li Qiutian looked into her mother's eyes and listened to what she was saying. After a while, she nodded gently and responded.
As night fell, Qin Fen familiarly found an oil lamp in the Li family's house and lit it.
Li's mother took the oil lamp that Qin Fen handed her and went inside.
Qin Fen then found the mugwort sticks he had dried last year and lit them on the upwind side of the stone table.
After finishing that, Qin Fen went into the kitchen without stopping, and a little while later he came out carrying a plate of washed fresh fruit.
Sitting down again at the stone table, Qin Fen picked up a round and pretty fruit by the moonlight and handed it to Li Qiutian.
As for the stone sitting there in a daze, he ignored it.
During the year or so he stayed at the Li family's house, he had already figured out Shi Tou's personality.
Stone is someone who will do anything you ask him to do.
But if you don't ask him to do anything, he'll stay quietly by himself, immersed in his own world.
How should I put it?
He's a very easy person to get along with.
Therefore, Qin Fen ignored the stone and only took care of Li Qiutian.
Li Qiutian looked at the fresh fruit offered to her, but she had no appetite to eat it.
"Have one in autumn, it's sweet."
After eating, I'll get some fresh air and then it's time to sleep.
Li Qiutian took the fruit, took a bite, and found it to be very juicy and quite sweet.
Qin Fen, who was eating fruit and looking up at the bright moon, suddenly heard Li Qiutian say, "During this holiday in October, she has been having nightmares every day for the first two days since she returned home."
She had a nightmare, but remained silent.
But when she wakes up, she always breaks out in a cold sweat, as if she has been soaking in water.
Moreover, the other night, she needed to hold a long sword to fall asleep in the middle of the night.
As Li Qiutian spoke, something seemed to come to mind, and her tone suddenly became somber.
“Last night, she had another nightmare, and this time she pulled out a knife.”
Qin Fen naturally knew that Li Qiutian slept on the same kang (heated brick bed) as Li Shiyue. When he heard Li Qiutian mention this, his heart clenched, and he quickly swallowed the chewed fruit in his mouth.
He looked at Li Qiutian with surprise, and then heard Li Qiutian say, "She must have known that I was still sleeping next to her. She didn't hurt me, but she scared herself."
She wouldn't sleep at that moment, took a knife, and sat alone in the yard until dawn.
At this moment, Qin Fen was thinking to himself, "I was wondering why I saw Shi Yue chopping wood when I came over this morning!"
You should know that whenever Li Shiyue returns home on his days off, he sleeps until late morning.
"Ha," Li Qiutian chuckled bitterly, looking at the fruit in her hand that she had taken two bites of. "In October, she was afraid of hurting me, so she suggested that she wouldn't sleep in the same room with me anymore."
She said she'd just spend the night in a small room behind the paper mill.
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