Chapter 25 Poor Old Wife VS Scholarly Husband (8)
Chen Yushi woke up from his sleep, his body soaked with sweat. He felt around him, but there was no one.
Outside the window, the sky was slightly bright, but still not completely bright.
"Shiyi, Shiyi," he kept calling his old wife.
"What's wrong?" Shiyi, who had gotten up early to make medicine for him, heard his voice and quickly ran back to the room.
Chen Yushi held her hand, like an insecure child, "I had a nightmare."
Shiyi stretched out her hand and gently massaged his back, "You have been too busy with official duties recently, and you have been sleeping lightly and dreaming a lot. It's a sign that you need to rest."
"No." Chen Yushi leaned his head on her shoulder, "No, no."
"What do you mean no?" Shiyi asked.
Chen Yushi remembered the nightmare he had just had. The old wife in the dream was completely different from the one he was holding now.
"I dreamed that you forced me to divorce." Perhaps this dream gave Chen Yushi a bad premonition, so he told her everything.
"So you dreamed that I left you." Shi Yi was a little amused.
"Don't leave me." Chen Yushi hugged her tightly. Thinking of her asking for a divorce letter from him and marrying someone else in the dream, he felt his heart sink.
His Shi Yi would never allow another man in his life.
"Don't worry, my husband is now the governor and the overlord of the government office. He has everything he wants. How can I bear to leave you." Shi Yi was joking to ease his anxiety.
"You are not allowed to leave me." Chen Yushi, who was already a sixty-year-old man, hugged her shoulders like a child, "You can't leave me in this life."
He never asked for the next life. As long as he had no regrets in this life.
"I won't leave you." Shi Yi shook his body like coaxing a child, glanced at the sky outside, and coaxed him to continue sleeping.
It seemed that he always didn't sleep well these days.
"You are not allowed to leave, continue to stay with me." He pulled her hand and pressed it under his body.
"I won't leave, I won't leave." Shi Yi lay beside him and continued to coax him.
Perhaps the nightmare consumed too much energy, and Chen Yushi fell asleep soon.
He continued his nightmare.
In this dream, Chen Yushi dreamed that he was awarded the title of a nobleman for his meritorious service in suppressing the rebellion. When he returned home in glory, he found Shi Yi and her husband lying on the ground repairing the road.
He stretched out his hand, and the carriage stopped immediately. Shi Yi knelt on the side of the road, trembling with fear, not knowing what was going on. After a long time, she couldn't help but look up out of curiosity. The moment their eyes met, he sighed deeply.
Because he pitied her and because of the previous relationship between husband and wife, he specially asked someone to repair a garden, let Shi Yi and her husband live in it, and served them in gorgeous clothes.
However, the sad thing is that Shi Yi, who lived in the yard, drew his sword and committed suicide in the garden, and her current husband also jumped into the river and died.
On the day he learned of Shi Yi's death, he ran to the bamboo forest where she committed suicide, sat there for a long time, and sighed. They had lived together in poverty for 30 years, and they were a loving couple in the past. How could they end up like this?
Now, even though he is a powerful official, he has no one around him who knows him.
From now on, he is the only one left in the world, all alone.
"Wake up." Shi Yi saw that his whole body was shaking on the bed, and knew that he must still be having a nightmare.
"Don't be alone, don't..." Chen Yushi sat up in shock.
"Husband," Shi Yi gently raised his sleeve to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and said with concern: "You are having a nightmare again."
Chen Yushi couldn't tell whether it was reality or a dream, and his eyes were full of panic.
"I'll go get you some medicine." Shi Yi got up early to make a sedative for him. He was called in by him before, and he specifically asked the maid to keep watching. Now he estimated that the time was almost up.
"Don't go." Even though it was still a dream, a dream in which his Shi Yi had separated from him and become someone else's wife, he didn't want her to leave.
Shi Yi saw that his eyes were unfocused, guessing that he must still be immersed in a nightmare, and let him hold her hand tightly.
"Shi Yi, don't leave me." Chen Yu Shi no longer wanted to think about those human ethics, he only knew that he wanted his Shi Yi.
He wasted too much time to get ahead, and he didn't give his Shi Yi a sense of security, nor did he give her enough living foundation. But now he has everything, his Shi Yi, can't leave him anymore.
"I won't leave you." Shi Yi let him hold her and mutter to himself.
"Didn't you say that you wanted to see the azaleas in Nanshan the most? I was poor at that time and had no money to take you there. Now, it's the best time for the azaleas in Nanshan to bloom, we can go and play for a few days and nights."
"Okay." Shi Yi nodded.
"When you married me, you had nothing except a silver hairpin. I'm sorry for wronging you. Now, I'll give you whatever you want."
"Okay." Shi Yi still nodded.
"Do you still remember the wealthy couple we met during the sacrifice? They were the couple who forced us to give alms. What I didn't tell you is that on the first day I became the prefect, I sent people to investigate him and found that he made his fortune by taking ill-gotten gains. I used his power for personal gain and raided his house."
"How could he let you be wronged! My Shi Yi, no one can be wronged except me." Chen Yushi started to cry as he spoke, "Even I can't wrong my Shi Yi."
He gradually woke up from the nightmare, "My wife, why didn't you tell me that you were wronged at home? You didn't tell me a word."
To this day, he still feels uncomfortable when he thinks of his wife carrying a kitchen knife to drive those malicious hooligans out of the house.
Thinking of her growing all kinds of fruits and vegetables all year round, drying them into dried vegetables, and carrying them to the market to sell in town to make a living, my heart aches.
His wife dedicated all her best years to him. But he didn't give her much at all.
Shi Yi reached out and touched his wet hair, with indulgence on his wrinkled face, "Because you are my husband. From the moment I married you, I have decided on you. No matter we are poor or rich."
"You spoiled me." Tears seeped out of Chen Yushi's slightly yellow eyes, "This life is too short, I don't have time to repay you well."
"Silly." Shi Yi wiped the moisture from the corners of his eyes with pity, "You should know that I love you. Loving someone is unrequited."
"My wife," tears rolled out of Chen Yushi's eyes, "If there is an afterlife, I will definitely fall in love with you again without hesitation."
He never asked for an afterlife, but his life with his wife was too short, so he only wished for an afterlife.
[Mission completed, harvest [Selfishness]]
(End of this chapter)
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