Chapter 81 Old Stories
Yang Ning thought about it for a long time and felt that he had gone a bit too far. Jun Lan was still pregnant, and it was too stingy for a grown man like him to do this.
He quietly put his hand on Junlan's arm and stroked it gently.
"Junlan, are you asleep?"
Jun Lan twisted her arm and shook his hand off.
"I was wrong, please stop being angry, okay?"
Seeing that Junlan was no longer angry, he quickly moved over and hugged her from behind with his arms.
Junlan slowly turned around.
“Do you know what’s wrong?”
"I said the wrong thing. I knew you were not that kind of person, but I still said that kind of thing to make you angry, especially at this time. I think I really went too far. Come on, hit me. I won't dodge. Let you vent your anger." Then he pulled Jun Lan's hand and hit himself in the face.
"I'm not a violent person. I don't want to abuse you." Jun Lan retracted her hand.
"I knew you wouldn't want to hit me. You've always been the best to me, so I don't want to lose you again." He pulled Jun Lan into his arms and hugged her tightly.
"Now that our identities are different, we will become someone else's parents. I don't want your father-son relationship to affect the father-son relationship of this generation, so I want to improve your relationship with Nangong. Other than that, I really don't have any other intentions."
"Of course I understand. It's just that sometimes I'm too possessive and jealous. When I see you getting along well with other men, I feel uncomfortable. I'm always worried that you'll leave me. I lose control and say things that don't mean anything, which hurts you. I'm sorry."
Jun Lan didn't say anything, but just hugged him tightly with both hands. She knew that Yang Ning's innate inferiority complex was brought from when he was a small tailor. At that time, he was poor and all the villagers looked down on him. Only Lin Sisi, who had a marriage contract, stayed with him until Yang Haoling's family appeared.
Jun Lan slowly fell asleep in Yang Ning's arms. That night she had a very long dream, so long that it seemed like something from her previous life.
In the 1940s, there was a small rural village called Fengde in Shandong.
There was only one tailor shop in the village. The owner was a young man in his twenties. He lost both his parents when he was young. Fortunately, he had a pair of skillful hands and learned the craft from a master for several years before he could make a living. After his master died, he took over the master's shop and started his own business. At that time, everyone knew him as the Little Tailor.
Once, when robbers broke into the village, the little tailor quickly closed the door and hid in his own rice jar.
After a while, there was a cry of grief in the village, and the sounds of chickens and dogs running around could be heard one after another.
After a long time of peace and quiet, the little tailor thought the robbers were chased away. Just as he stuck his head out, the door of his shop was kicked open with a "bang".
The little tailor quickly hid his head.
At this time, the sound of a woman crying was heard. She was heard begging a man who had captured her, saying, "Uncle, I beg you to let me go! I asked my father to give you a lot of money, I beg you to let me go!"
"I have enough food and clothes to eat, but I lack a beauty like you. Let me be happy this time. I will take you up the mountain and you will live a life of luxury like me in the future." He began to tear the woman's clothes frantically. Seeing that he refused to stop, the woman became more panicked and cried even harder.
The little tailor felt very uncomfortable when he heard the crying voice. He recognized that it was the voice of the second daughter of the Lin family.
To save or not to save is always the question.
If I show up now, I might die at the hands of the bandits, so I'll just pretend I don't know! After all, this is about a girl's innocence, and I'll have a guilty conscience for the rest of my life.
The wailing was getting louder and louder. If I hesitated any longer, the person would probably be dead.
He quickly climbed out of the rice jar, took the scissors hidden beside him and stabbed the bandit.
With a tragic howl, the bandit fell on the woman.
She quickly broke free and hid in a corner.
The little tailor said: "Miss, don't be afraid. I am a good person. Don't worry, the bad guy is dead. No one will bully you now."
So the woman still hid in the corner and refused to come out.
"I'm disheveled now, it's inconvenient..."
The young tailor then realized that her cheongsam was in tatters.
He quickly took out a beautiful dress from his newly made clothes and threw it next to her, saying, "This is a dress I just made for a customer. Miss, you can wear it without worry! Then I'll be out for a while."
He walked out of the tailor shop and stood outside the door for a long time, not daring to go in.
Not long after, the woman came out and said, "Thank you."
The little tailor said, "Ms. Lin, please don't say that. You've always taken care of my business and you're such a good person. If someone else were in this situation today, they would have stood up for me too."
"So what happened today..."
"Miss, please rest assured. A girl's reputation is the most important thing. I will never gossip about her."
The woman walked a few steps and turned back to smile at him: "Just call me Sisi from now on." After that, she ran back home like the wind.
It was that smile when she looked back that made the little tailor remember it all his life and he would never forget it.
When the villagers heard that the little tailor had killed a bandit, in order to vent their anger and to intimidate the bandits, they decided to cut off the bandit's head and hang it on the archway at the entrance of the village.
Since then, Lin Sisi has taken a fancy to the young tailor. Every day, whether she has time or not, she would run to the tailor shop to watch him make clothes for her.
The young tailor was not a heartless person, and he had long been interested in Lin Sisi. So, the man and the woman were in love, and after a few interactions, they became a good couple.
As her visits to the tailor shop increased, rumors in the village began to increase.
The Lin family naturally knew what she was thinking, but they only had one precious daughter, so they naturally treated her like the apple of their eye. The little tailor was so poor, how could they bear to hand her over to him? So every time the little tailor came to propose marriage, they would kick him out.
Not long after, Lin Sisi started to quarrel with her family over the little tailor. In order to sever their relationship and make her give up the idea, the Lin family even locked Lin Sisi at home and did not let her go out.
Suffering from homesickness, Sisi fell ill not long after and began to go on a hunger strike to fight against her family.
In the end, the Lin family gave in and had no choice but to accept this little tailor.
The villagers did not enjoy the peace for long before they received the news that the bandits had started recruiting soldiers and horses again and planned to massacre Fengde Village in revenge for the murder of their brothers.
In the ancestral hall, the respected elders were holding a meeting with the village chief.
"I told you to just bury that bandit secretly, but you old fools insisted on trying to scare them. Now, instead of scaring the bandit off, you've brought trouble upon yourself. Now, what should we do?"
"There are still hundreds of people and livestock in the village. There is chaos everywhere. Where can you ask them to escape to and survive?"
The elders in the ancestral hall were all expressing their dissatisfaction with reality, but no one could propose a solution.
At this time, the great elder knocked the cane in his hand, and the whole audience fell silent.
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