"Seven Short Stories"

Chapter 10

The drizzle is falling, and the breeze is blowing.The sky was unbelievably heavy, as if something unbearable was about to hang down.The dark clouds are thick and frightening, rolling with teeth and claws.

There were no pedestrians on the road, only Xu Shan was hurrying with a paper umbrella.He just came out of Xiaolai Academy, and Mr. Ma told him that since the second day of his marriage, Yuheng had handed in his resignation and left him a letter.

Xu Shan opened the letter, and inside there was a jade fish that Yuheng carried close to his body. He said that it was his most cherished thing, and it was a small jade fish carved by his grandmother who passed away when he was young.He looked at the small pendant that could be seen in the shape of a fish but couldn't see the lines on its body, and knew that it was worn away by Yu Heng's years of wearing it.The smooth jade surface seemed to still carry his body temperature.Xu Shan held it firmly in the palm of his hand.Read that letter carefully.

"My beloved good brother: I have only been with you for more than a year, and you have never questioned my heart. But apart from this moment of my heart, everything is fake. My parents have not passed away , I am not an orphan, but the situation at home disgusts me so much that I don't want to mention it. I was wrong to hide it from you for a long time. I apologize to you. I said I would wait for you for a year, but it was also false. I broke my promise. I'm gone. Don't look for me, you won't find it. Where I go, no one will find it."

No!Henger!How could you not wait for me! I failed to come to you this month because my father kept me guarded day and night.I managed to gain their trust again and I was able to get out, and the first thing I wanted to do was to come to you!How could you just leave me a pendant and a letter and leave without saying goodbye!

What was the content of the next letter, he couldn't bear to read it anymore, he searched every corner of Linxian City, and made a big fuss with his family.

He cried and said that he knew that Heng'er would leave him, even if he became a rebellious and unfilial son, or a person who was insulted by the whole world who was shameless and disobedient to human relations, and had to bear the heart of a wife who betrayed her fingertips for marriage. Hello Han.He doesn't care, doesn't care, he just wants Heng'er by his side, and he won't let go and do things that make him sad for the rest of his life!

But he couldn't find him, nowhere!

He read the second half of the letter later, except for a large section of the letter, which advised him to live a good life, forget about the past, and forget about Heng'er.He also mentioned a short happy memory between him and his grandmother.

Xu Shan knew that it was his grandma that he never forgot in his heart.When he mentioned grandma, his eyes would turn red and he would lose his mind.I was so depressed that I couldn't recover no matter how much I coaxed it.

Xu Shan also tried every means to find out where his hometown was.

Yannuan Town, west of the small building in the west of the city, he said this is his grandmother's house far away from his own.He lived there for a while when he was a child.He said that there was only one grape seedling planted by his grandmother.Every time at the end of summer, grandma always picks the biggest bunch for herself to eat.

His grandmother likes to plant many unknown flowers.Most of them are tiny wild flowers, trampled by people, spoiled by heavy rain, scratched by wild cats, and run over by carriages.Carefully dug them back, and within a few days, the lush spirits raised by them can be opened to each other.

He also said that grandma was a sharp-tongued person, and every time she used a broom to gesticulate and cursed loudly at her cousin, who also lived in grandma's house for a short period of time, but never beat her.

He said that his grandmother always said he was obedient, and always said that he had a bad temper.But grandma knew that his temper often exploded instantly because his parents made him unable to feel what family is love, what is warmth and what is happiness.

He said that his grandmother knew him best.He loves his grandmother the most.

But then she passed away, and he had to go back to the home he didn't want to go back.This sentence was written by Yuheng in the letter.

You must be in Xiaolouxi!You must have returned to your deceased grandmother's house!He couldn't bear not having Yuheng by his side at all, without Yuheng's face in front of his eyes.

Xu Shan resolutely embarked on the road to Yannuan Town alone.

He had been miserable all the way, with the belief in his heart that he must guard Yuheng and never leave, and he didn't want to stop at all.He thought about how the 19-year-old Yuheng went from the northernmost city to the southernmost country by himself.If it wasn't for the lack of tenderness in that family, how could a man who should be at his most beautiful age choose to leave his hometown without even mentioning his family?

He finally knew why he was so resistant to other people's concerns.Whatever he has never received from his dearest person, no matter who gives it to him, it will make his heart hurt even more.He is not rare.

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After a whole month's journey, Xu Shan finally arrived at Xiaolouxi in the west of Yannuan Town.

It was a dead and lonely courtyard.The surrounding houses were also barren and overgrown with weeds.It looks like no one has lived here for a long time.

He pushed open the courtyard door with the crumbling Xiaolouxi sign, and a cloud of dust fell down.Many wild birds in the yard flew away in a panic.

An empty rocking chair that is about to decay tells of loneliness in the desolation of the deep winter in the north.Under the sunlight that could not penetrate the cold air, Xu Shan seemed to see a white-haired and kind old woman sitting in a rocking chair, watching the young Yuheng eating grapes under the grape arbor, laughing while eating.

In the memory of Yu Heng, he seldom laughed heartily.rare.

There is no breath of Yuheng here, not at all.Xu Shan can't feel the person he loves most in his heart.

But he was not reconciled, he walked into the dusty and dilapidated room.Everything is so hopeless.There is no trace of anyone coming here.

Where will he go?Go back to the home he didn't want to go back to?He claimed to know Yuheng well, and he would not go back.But he wanted to try his luck. What if he went back?

He asked around where his parents lived.Hard work paid off, he inquired about what he wanted to know in a courtyard not too far west of the small building.

"You are Xu Shan?"

"Why do you recognize me?"

The person in front of him frowned and said, "You really came. He really understands you."

"Him? Is it Yuheng? Is it Yuheng?" Xu Shan grabbed his shoulders excitedly and kept asking.

The man nodded: "Yes."

Weeping with joy: "Where is he? Where is he? You tell me!! Tell me quickly!!"

There was a long silence.

Xu Shan was distressed: "Is it because Heng'er is angry with me and refuses to see me? There is a reason why I didn't go to him!"

"He is not angry with you. When he mentioned you to me, he was very satisfied and happy, and his eyes were full of happiness. I played with him for two years when I was a child. At that time, he seldom smiled, except for meeting with his grandmother. He smiles so happily. He rarely communicates with others, but I think his grapes are delicious, so I always pester him to play with them."

"You tell me where he is, and I'm going to find him."

"Yuheng won't let me say that."

"You didn't say he wasn't angry, so why didn't you tell me where he was?"

"He said, once you know where he is, you'll never be happy for the rest of your life."

"No, I know that after he is there, it will be the happiest day in my life and the rest of my life!"

"You will not."

"I will!"

The man sighed deeply and shook his head: "Go back, go back and live a good life, this is what Yuheng asked me to leave to you."

"No! I don't! I don't want to hear him say this to me again! He was the one who persuaded me to stay with the Xu family! I should have rejected him immediately! I should have taken him without thinking about anything. He flies away!"

"I really envy the pure love between the two of you. I am a person who doesn't know what happened to you. Just listening to his memories of you and seeing how true you are now, I am deeply moved. gone."

"Then I beg you to take me to him."

The man hesitated for a long time, then nodded lightly.

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It was a solitary grave, and the bare loess on the grave didn't even have a wilted grass.The stele is simple, only engraved with Yuheng no regrets.Nothing at all.Not even the date of when he died was engraved.

"Yuheng said, as long as he is alive, you will definitely miss him. But when he is dead, you will have nothing to worry about. You will live a normal life. When he left, he drank a big bowl of red bean soup, Everything sweet turns bitter."

"No...no!!!! This is impossible! You said you would wait for me for a year!! How could this be happening!! You broke your promise too cruelly!!!"

""Listen to my voice more, you won't be able to hear it in the future.You don't often say that I don't like to talk, I will say more today, you should remember my voice well, don't forget, it will be remembered for a lifetime. ""

Xu Shan suddenly remembered the words he said on the night of his wedding!He slapped himself hard a few times!Blood oozes from the corners of my nose and mouth, and it doesn't stop!

"I'm a fucking bastard! So what you said at that time was to say goodbye to me!!! Fucking bastard! Yu Heng, you are also a bastard!! Why! Why!"

"What have I done! What have I done! I let the one I love watch me marry someone else! I'm so hateful! Hateful! It's me who pushed you to death! It's you who want me to completely Forget about you, live a good life with that woman! I didn’t consider that your sensitive heart can’t stand any kind of wind and rain! It’s you who can’t bear the pain without my company! I'm selfish! It's me! I'm sorry, my Heng'er! I'm sorry!!"

He knelt on the ground slumped, tears washed away the blood on his face, and fell onto the grave one after another!He planed the loess so hard that no one behind him could stop him!

"Heng'er, this is not true, you must have made a fake grave to anger me, I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong!!"

"Heng'er, I beg you, I beg you, don't torture me like this, okay, you listen to me the most, don't you? I let you come back, do you hear me!!"

His whole body was shaking when he was crying, like a blood stem on the verge of death shaking uncontrollably.With his arms around the stele, he touched it over and over again, pounded it with his fist, and kept knocking on it with his head.Scary eyes.

"I'm a bastard. I can't give you a lifetime promise, and I still want to provoke you. I called your wife, but I can't hold you in my hands. We are the wedding night, and the auspicious day will be rounded up. Husband and wife, but I want to throw you into the cliff of pain alone! Heng'er, my Heng'er, why don't you write and scold me fiercely! Why!"

"The person waiting for you is my Yuheng and not my Yuheng anymore. ""

Xu Shan's mind could not get rid of Yu Heng's words at the time of parting!One was so distressed that the scabs were torn off, the scars were opened, and the bloody one was trampled mercilessly!Your feathers are already buried deep in the bones, but it means that you are both you and not you!

"I didn't think there was anything wrong with your words at all! If I say goodbye to me for the second time, as long as I think about it a little more, I will know what you, a person who can't rub the sand in his eyes, are thinking!"

In the short time of more than a year, the time spent with Yuheng day and night, no matter whether it was good or bad, they all reappeared!He has a splitting headache, and he regrets it too much!

"Heng'er, I haven't boiled red bean soup for you for a long time! Do you want to eat it? You don't like to eat too sweet, but not too light, hard to serve taste! But I am willing to boil it for you repeatedly until You finally said that delicious bowl."

"Heng'er, do you know how your blood loss recovered so quickly? I boiled the medicine prescribed by the doctor with a lot of sugar, and secretly added it to your tea, meals, and red bean soup. I lied to you that the water in the south is sweet, and their taste is sweet. You have been taking this medicine for a year. Didn’t you realize that your face is always white and healthy, with an apricot-like pink color? Is it like you, so that I can't move my eyes."

"Heng'er, do you know how much I miss you? I dream of you every night, but you can't see your face clearly in my dreams. You always tell me repeatedly to let me forget you! I do Can't! Can't do it at all! You are too cruel! You are too cruel! You just leave! You are right, I know where you are, and I will not be happy for the rest of my life! So I decided that I would not let It’s too painful to keep yourself unhappy! You must also not want to be unhappy, so you left first, right?”

"Heng'er, wait for me! I'll go find you, yes, Heng'er, wait for me!"

"don't want!!"

An unstoppable panic yell was not over yet, blood bloomed on the stone tablet engraved with no regrets, and Xu Shan's forehead was also blood-colored flowers in anger.

"Heng'er, my wife, wait for me..."

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A solitary tomb is covered with loess, and a pair of jade men are rare.

The winter snow falls thinly and the wind blows, and the love is long and sad, the world says.

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Yuheng's childhood playmate buried the two of them together and mentioned this poem.Also engraved the day.

Feather Heng Does Not Regret: February 29 of the First Year

Xu Shan Does Not Regret: March 28 of the First Year

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Deep love never lasts, love never regrets...

"Finish"