Chapter 506 "What will he do?"
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No one in the side hall responded to the lamb's words in a timely manner.
However, he was very perceptive and noticed that the atmosphere at the scene was very strange.
So he walked over to Zheng Meiniang, who was looking down, and said, "Auntie, before Sister-in-law Min left, she took two plates of cakes from the inn's kitchen and left them outside."
There's a charcoal brazier burning by the window over there; it's warm.
Shall I take Pingping and An'an over there to eat some pastries?
Pingping and An'an naturally didn't want to leave Zheng Meiniang and Li Xiatian, but since they were both well-behaved children, they were eventually led away by the lambs, one on each side of their hands.
Thus, only Li Wangtian remained in the side hall, half-reclining on the low couch.
And Zheng Meiniang, who was sitting on a stool beside the low couch;
And now, there are Li Xiatian and the other two, who are standing between Li Wangtian and Zheng Meiniang, holding the letter.
Li Xiatian's fingers almost crushed the letter, her chest heaving violently as if something was rampaging inside her, causing her internal organs to ache terribly.
"It's fake...it's all fake!"
Li Xiatian suddenly gripped the pages of the letter tightly, causing the once-flat paper to twist and become completely distorted, all of it held firmly in her hand.
Her eyes were bloodshot as she glared at Li Wangtian: "Uncle Tian, my father is lying to us, isn't he?"
How could my dad... how could he...
Uncle, what do you say?
Tell me, is my dad lying to us?
Li Wangtian wanted to speak, to explain something to Li Xiatian, but he swallowed the words back down.
What could he say?
He said that Li Wangzheng thought you were all dead, and had no choice but to marry a new woman and have children.
What's the point of saying all this?
What's done is done!
Now, every word spoken in front of Zheng Meiniang and Li Xiatian is like stabbing the mother and daughter in the heart!
Zheng Meiniang finally raised her head. Her eyes were red, but her voice was surprisingly calm: "Xia Tian, stop making a fuss."
"mother!"
Li Xiatian turned her head in disbelief, "He doesn't want us anymore! He..."
He thought we were all dead.
Zheng Meiniang interrupted Li Xiatian. She stood up, walked to Li Xiatian's side, pried open Li Xiatian's fingers that were holding the few pages of letter paper, and "snatched" the few pages of letter paper back from Li Xiatian's hand.
As Zheng Meiniang carefully smoothed out the creases that Li Xiatian had made on the letter, she said, "Your father wrote in the letter that he asked someone to go back to Lijia Village to look for us."
However, at that time, our entire village had fled the famine, and the village was long abandoned; there wasn't a single person left.
Li Xiatian's eyes widened. "Did that person see our bodies? He said we're all dead!"
That man said we're all dead, so does Father think we're all dead?
We're all perfectly fine!
Even if we really die, won't Father come back to collect our bodies?
Li Xiatian's words were like a boulder crashing into a calm lake, causing a huge splash and shattering the surface tranquility.
Zheng Meiniang's face turned deathly pale instantly, "Xia Tian!"
Zheng Meiniang immediately stopped her, saying, "Don't say any more!"
"Faithless man!"
Li Xiatian suddenly broke down, tears streaming down her face, and screamed at Li Wangtian on the low couch: "How much suffering did Mother endure waiting for him?"
We've been looking for him!
Always!
These eight years!
Every year on his birthday, his mother would make his favorite noodle soup!
Li Xiatian's tears flowed like a flood. "Now he's doing well. In Youzhou, he not only gets to be an official and enjoy a life of luxury, but he also has a new wife and children!"
He's a heartless man!
He abandoned his wife and daughter!
He doesn't want the three of us anymore!
"Summer, don't talk about your father like that."
Zheng Meiniang grabbed Li Xiatian's hand, hugged her tightly, and held her firmly in her arms, preventing her from moving.
Then, Zheng Meiniang stroked Li Xiatian's back gently and whispered in her ear, "Your father thought we were all dead, so... so he married a new woman."
Your father is not a heartless man; he waited for us for many years!
It's all written in the letter, didn't you see it?
It's just...fate playing tricks on us.
Summer, your father is a good man, don't speak of him like that.
"Then why doesn't he go back and check on things himself?"
Why don't you check if we're really all dead!
In her anger, Li Xiatian finally broke free from Zheng Meiniang's grasp.
Her face was covered in tears, and she was crying very sadly.
"Mother, why are you still speaking up for him?"
Dad, my dad, my dad doesn't want us anymore!
He doesn't want us anymore!
He has a new wife!
A new baby has been born!
He doesn't want us anymore!
Zheng Meiniang's face turned even paler after hearing Li Xiatian's words.
Ever since she fled famine with the Li clan, Zheng Meiniang has always kept Li Wangzheng in her heart.
She believed that her husband would not abandon her and her two daughters; he must be struggling to survive somewhere, which was why he couldn't come looking for them.
He must be waiting to reunite with them, mother and daughter!
Therefore, even though she had told Li Shiyue that if Li Wangzheng really died, it would be his fate;
But whenever Li Shiyue sought out Yan Jiuniang or the merchants looking for news of Li Wangzheng, Zheng Meiniang always hoped that Li Wangzheng was still alive and well!
But now...
Li Wangzheng not only survived, but he also lived a good life.
With a new wife and a new baby, isn't that living a good life?
"Summer, you don't understand..."
Zheng Meiniang wanted to explain to Li Xiatian.
"I don't understand!"
Li Xiatian interrupted Zheng Meiniang before she could finish speaking.
"I don't understand why you can forgive him so easily, Mother!"
Mother still wants to find excuses for Father!
"It was Father, it was Father who betrayed us!"
"He did not betray us!"
Zheng Meiniang suddenly raised her voice, startling Pingping and An'an, who were quietly eating the cakes given to them by the lamb outside.
The lamb first stroked the heads of the two children, soothingly saying, "It's alright, it's alright, your grandma is just talking."
"Come on, try this. It's fresh from Qingsong Town, and it smells wonderful."
After calming the child down, the lamb turned and looked towards the entrance of the side hall.
He thought we were all dead!
That was war!
Fighting a war is like risking your life!
You might survive the battlefield today, but die tomorrow!
Summer is war, and war has destroyed everything!
Your father, your father, he was helpless!
Your father didn't want to either!
Don't talk about him anymore, don't say anything more.
Zheng Meiniang knew, she understood.
The reason why Li Xiatian found it so hard to accept that Li Wangzheng had remarried was mostly because she felt sorry for her as his mother.
At this moment, Li Xiatian was stunned for a moment by Zheng Meiniang's stern shout;
However, Li Xiatian quickly raised her head stubbornly again: "Then he knows we're all still alive!"
Besides, we wrote him a letter before!
No matter how you calculate the time, the letter should reach my father by now!
What will he do?
Will they abandon their bride and child and come back to us?
Li Xiatian's question was like a sword hanging over everyone's head.
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