Shaojun riding the sea

When Shi Zhongqing carried the food box, opened the copper lock on the door with the key, and walked slowly in, the fragrance of white sandalwood in the room came to him. Behind the lightly fluttering curtain, a spiteful and unwilling voice suddenly sounded in his ears - —

"Shi Zhongqing, you are finally willing to come see me. How long are you going to keep me under house arrest here?"

"It's not house arrest, I'm just letting you stay here for a while to cultivate your moral character."

Shi Zhongqing looked indifferent, dusted his sleeves, put down the food box, and said calmly to the figure behind the curtain: "It's best that you and Xuan Ling don't meet each other for the time being. Just copy some Buddhist scriptures here, meditate on your past, and be good." Think about the sins you have committed over the years, sincerely repent in front of the Buddha, and stop doing things that harm others and yourself, and are unconscionable."

"Who did I harm? My wild daughter of yours?" A voice full of hatred suddenly sounded from behind the curtain, and a hand suddenly opened the curtain, revealing a picture of a woman with no makeup and stern eyebrows. Human faces.

Her hair is disheveled and she looks haggard. She has been stuck here eating fast and chanting Buddha for half a month, but she still carries a ferocious aura that cannot be overcome, and her demeanor is full of shrewdness and strength. She is Shi Zhongqing's wife. The head mistress of the Shi Mansion, the eldest lady.

Ever since the last time she and Shi Xuanling completely broke up in the Shi family cemetery and caused a fierce head-on conflict, she still couldn't swallow that breath. She wanted to punish Shi Xuanling severely and wanted to invite the Shi family. Several prestigious uncles came out to seek justice, and she had already thought of the charges——

Bringing outsiders into the Shi family cemetery without permission, digging graves to disturb the Shi family ancestors, fighting swords against sisters and aunts, hurting people, and even trying to kill people. This is simply extremely vicious and treasonous. He is not worthy of being a descendant of the Shi family. He must be followed. Just remove the name from the Shi family tree!

The eldest lady has endured it for so many years, but this time she can no longer bear it. Not only does she want to drive this "bastard" Shi Xuanling out of the Shi Mansion and completely remove her name from the family tree, she also wants to punish her severely. She even planned More vicious things, wanting to put that bitch to death.

Unfortunately, before these tricks could be used, Shi Zhongqing had already seen through her as a "haired wife", and without saying a word, without giving her a chance to act like a monster, he locked her up in this place in the mansion. In a small Buddhist hall that has been abandoned for a long time.

Shi Zhongqing acted swiftly and neatly. He placed the eldest lady under house arrest, and gave everyone in the house an excuse. The eldest lady was ill, troubled by nightmares, and had difficulty sleeping at night. He wanted to go to the Buddhist temple to copy some sutras. Wen, quiet your body and mind, stay away from the hustle and bustle of the house. When your body and mind are well recuperated, you will naturally move out of the small Buddhist hall.

In this way, even Shi Xuanqin didn't know that his mother did not voluntarily move to the small Buddhist hall to the west temporarily, but was placed under house arrest by her father, and was forced to copy scriptures and repent in front of the Buddha every day.

"Shi Zhongqing, how long are you going to lock me up? I thought you would let me out today. After all, your wild daughter is getting married, but I, the head mother of the house, are locked up here without even a face. If you don’t even show it, how can you behave properly? You have broken the rules of our ancestors, do you know?”

"What do you need to show up?"

Shi Zhongqing looked at the eldest lady with a twisted face, without even raising his eyelids, he just stood with his hands behind his back and said coldly to her:

"Are you her biological mother? Have you ever regarded her as your biological daughter? Have you ever cared about her in the slightest? What does her marriage have to do with you? You may not want her husband to kneel in front of you and worship you. Let’s take a tea ceremony and call you ‘mother-in-law’ respectfully, right?”

Although Shi Zhongqing usually has an old-fashioned temperament and is taciturn, when he really makes others choke, his words are so cold and sharp that they are speechless and irrefutable.

The eldest lady's chest heaved with anger, but she couldn't reply with a word. Shi Zhongqing glanced at her expressionlessly, as if he didn't want to talk to her anymore.

"Just stay here honestly. When Xuanling leaves Shi Mansion, leaves the imperial city and returns to Yunzhou Island, I will let you out again. Remember, don't try to play any dirty tricks on her again. Just like What she said is that she is no longer the nine-year-old girl who was unable to protect herself and was poisoned and murdered by you. It is hard to say who I am protecting by locking you here."

These sarcastic words were like a slap in the face to the eldest lady. When she saw Shi Zhongqing turning around to leave, her expression changed and she immediately shouted regardless:

"Shi Zhongqing, don't leave. Come back. You will be punished by God if you treat me like this!"

"God's punishment?" Shi Zhongqing really stopped when he heard these words. He turned around and looked under the Buddha statue at the woman with disheveled hair and a ferocious face, who looked like a ghost, and suddenly smiled:

"If there is really a divine punishment, why are you still standing here?" "You, you have long wished that I would be struck by lightning and die in front of you, right?"

The eldest lady's whole body trembled violently, and the resentful light in her eyes became more intense. She had never hated Shi Xuanling like this before!

"I, I really regret it. I shouldn't have kept this bitch in the first place. It was because I was soft-hearted and because I listened to you too much. You didn't hesitate to warn me for her sake and wanted to sever our relationship as husband and wife. Let me promise I only tolerated her living until now because I stopped attacking her, but I was really wrong. I should have sent this bitch to see her mother long ago..."

"That's enough, stop talking. Haven't you killed enough people?"

Shi Zhongqing interrupted the eldest lady with a sharp shout. His face was livid, as if he couldn't bear it anymore.

It happened that another firework exploded in the sky outside, and the extremely gorgeous light and shadow passed through the window lattice and caught the eldest lady's eyes. She turned her head. When she could see clearly and recognized the daytime fireworks, her pupils suddenly shrank. , in disbelief, suddenly raised his head and laughed, laughing until tears flowed out:

"Recalling the past, actually remembering the past, Shi Zhongqing, Shi Zhongqing, it's just your wild daughter and hairpin married woman. You actually even set off the fireworks that have been treasured for decades for her. I thought you would never use them in your life. Come out, after all, this is the only relic left by Mu Nanzhi to you. Don’t you think it is more important than your eyes? Why are you willing to take it out and let it go? "

"Shut up, you don't deserve to mention this name! You don't deserve it!"

Shi Zhongqing suddenly clenched the hand in his sleeve, and his emotions suddenly aroused. His eyes stared at the eldest lady, and his eye sockets turned slightly red for a moment.

When the eldest lady saw him reacting so violently, looking like her heart was being cut by a knife, she couldn't help but feel jealous and resentful, and the distortion and madness in her eyes became even worse:
"Mu Nanzhi, Mu Nanzhi, I am going to mention this name, I am going to dig open your wounds, and I am going to tell you clearly that this woman has been dead for decades, and there was still something in her stomach when she died. Pregnant with your child, one dead and two lives, how miserable. What were you doing at that time, were you asking me to marry you? But she was alone in the small courtyard in the bamboo forest, and she had been made a slave of her whole life. The fireworks exploded into mincemeat and changed beyond recognition, don't you think it's ridiculous..."

Couples who have been facing each other day and night under the same roof for decades, even if they are seemingly inseparable, know how to plunge a knife into each other's heart, and then watch the other person bleed, it is so painful that they can't help themselves!
Sure enough, Shi Zhongqing, who had been trying to calm down his emotions, was so stimulated that he completely lost his composure after hearing what the eldest lady said. He kicked over the food box on the ground, and his eyes were almost splitting:
"Shut up, shut up, you crazy woman! Nanzhi was indirectly killed by you, you killed her, and you dare to mention her in front of me! Do you know that I How many times have I wanted to cut you into pieces and send you down to the underworld to atone for Nanzhi's sins!"

"What does it have to do with me? Why should you blame me? Did I kill her?" The eldest lady, with her long hair disheveled, looked at Shi Zhongqing's miserable state with satisfaction, and laughed more and more crazily and twistedly:

"I just ran to tell that stupid woman that you were getting married to me and you couldn't marry her, so she lost her mind, got drunk, and played with her pile of fireworks in the middle of the night. As a result, it caught fire and exploded, including her stomach. The evil bastard inside was blown into a pile of bloody mud. It was really God’s will. It was so satisfying. I didn’t even have a chance to attack her..."

Decades ago, on the night when she and Shi Zhongqing went to the church to get married, she sent people to watch outside the small courtyard in Zhulin. The intention was just in case, to keep an eye on the woman Mu Nanzhi and prevent her from running out of the small courtyard. Going to Shi Mansion ruined her wedding.

She really didn't plan to kill the bitch at that time. After all, she was the winner. She hadn't humiliated the bitch enough as a winner. She wanted to make her live a life worse than death and watch with her own eyes how she took possession of her. The man I love the most, be that man’s matchmaker and his legitimate wife!

But she didn't expect that if she didn't kill Mu Nanzhi, Mu Nanzhi would still die that night, along with the evil seed in her belly.

The child was discovered after Mu Nanzhi died and Shi Zhongqing insisted on conducting an autopsy to find out the truth about her death. The autopsy results revealed the truth. Mu Nanzhi was indeed not murdered by the eldest lady. She died in the fireworks explosion. An unexpected incident, but it also brought Shi Zhongqing an even more heart-wrenching news——

Nanzhi was actually pregnant with his child, and she was killed in two lives. The child she was pregnant with died in a pile of fireworks, and died in the extremely miserable cold middle of the night!
Unable to imagine her painful and desperate mood at that time, Shi Zhongqing's heart suddenly turned into a bloody hole. As soon as he closed his eyes, he could remember that he and Nanzhi stood side by side in the small courtyard in the bamboo forest, looking at With fireworks filling the sky, she put her hands behind her back and said to him with a smile:
"Brother Zhongqing, this daytime fireworks is called 'Remembering the Past'. I made it for you with my own hands. We met at the beginning of autumn. From now on, every year at the beginning of autumn, I will set off a daytime fireworks for you. No matter what you do in the future, Wherever you go, wherever you are, as long as you think of these fireworks, you will think of me..."

At midnight when he woke up from the nightmare, there was no Nanzhi, no memories of the past, no small home they had lived together in the bamboo forest. He had lost his love forever, and there was nothing left. No, there was only the tide. The overwhelming regret left behind was boundless loneliness and pain.

Seeing Shi Zhongqing trapped in the past and miserable, the eldest lady smiled more and more happily, but it was also clearly full of twisted reluctance.

"Shi Zhongqing, stop pretending to be infatuated here. If you really can't let go of Mu Nanzhi, why would a wild daughter come to the Shi family to recognize her father after so many years?"