Ninefold Purple

After that day, my mother became ill.

Dou Zhao was very worried and stayed with his mother every day.

The mother smiled and touched her head: "Mother is fine, she will be fine soon. Go and play by yourself!" But her face became paler every day.

Father came to see her.

Mother took the initiative to shake father's hand. [

Father's fingers are slender, fair, with distinct joints, tall and straight like jade bamboo.

"I like the way you smile the most." Mother put her father's hand on her face, "Every time you look at me and smile, I think, how can someone smile so happily and worry? As if The spring sunshine warms people's hearts."

"The doctor said that your pulse condition is peaceful, you should take a good rest and you will recover soon." My father's eyes turned red, "When you recover, I will show you a smile every day."

"Fool!" The mother pursed her lips and smiled, looking at him as if she was looking at a naughty child, with a bit of doting, "When two people are together, they laugh because they are happy. If you are not happy, naturally you can't laugh." Come out. Don't push yourself."

Father was taken aback.

The mother laughed and said, "I just want you to come and apologize to me, saying that I don't live well after you left."

The father was stunned, and then smiled embarrassingly: "I'm not used to you ignoring me."

"I'm not by your side, you're just not used to it!" Mother smiled and teased father, her eyes were very tolerant and peaceful, but her voice gradually lowered, "I thought you would smile so happily only when I was by your side It turns out that other people can make you laugh like me...

The father didn't hear what the mother said clearly, he leaned on the bedside of the mother, and asked the mother in a warm voice: "What did you say?"

"Nothing!" Mother laughed, "I'm just a little tired!"

"Then you don't talk much." Father held his mother's hand, "I'll stay with you here, and leave when you fall asleep."

Mother nodded, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Hearing that Dou Zhao from the corner ran out and smashed the small sandbag on the heated kang to the ground.

What is this?

reconcile?

A thought flashed, and I felt discouraged.

So what if it's not good?

She still lacks a younger brother!

But why did it make her feel tight in her chest, as if her heart was grasped by both hands? [

Dou Zhao sat on the edge of the Kang in a daze.

Father came out from the inner room, saw Dou Zhao, he paused slightly, turned around and sat beside her: "Shou Gu, everyone praises you for being smart, saying that you can speak very long sentences in one breath, tell me something listen?"

Dou Zhao glanced at his father, lowered his head and played with the sandbag in his hand.

The father smiled and said, "This sandbag is very delicate, who made it for you?"

Dou Zhao still ignored him.

The father didn't think it was disobedient, he smiled and hugged Dou Zhao: "Go, Daddy told you to write!"

"I don't like writing." Dou Zhao said rebelliously, "I'm going to play on a swing!"

"Okay!" Father laughed, "Let's go play on the swing."

In the back garden, there are still beautiful plants and trees.

Dou Zhao and his father played on the swing, and his mood gradually improved.

Mother may be right.

He took the initiative to bow his head and enclose his father in his own room... It was better than going on in this cold war, and he couldn't even find a step to go down.

She took a better look at her father.

"Daddy, swing higher!"

"it is good!"

Father swings her into the air.

She gallops like the wind, and every plant and tree in Dou Zhai enlarges and shrinks under her feet.She saw someone washing clothes by the well in the side courtyard, saw Aunt Ding standing under the eaves scolding the little maid, and saw the silence and no one in her mother's yard... as if she was seeing everything around her.That feeling is very wonderful and interesting.

Dou Zhao's laughter fell on the jade plate like pearls, crisp and sweet.

Father also raised his eyebrows and smiled.

Only Tuo Niang jumped out foolishly and stopped in front of Dou Shiying: "Master Qi, it's too high, Miss Si will fall, please put her down quickly!"

Dou Shiying recognized Tuoniang, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be so loyal!" Instead of scolding her, she bypassed her and pushed Dou Zhao, who was sitting on the swing, out again.

Tuo Niang was so anxious that she was sweating profusely. [

Dou Shao enjoyed Tuo Niang's care and smiled happily.

She saw Nanny Yu running out of her mother's room in a hurry, standing on the steps of the eaves and shouting. The maids and daughters-in-law who had disappeared rushed over and fled in all directions. The scene seemed a bit chaotic.

What happened?

When the swing started to swing again, Dou Zhao stretched his neck and looked towards the main courtyard.

The little maids were still in disarray, but Nanny Yu had disappeared.

Dou Zhao was puzzled, and told his father: "Stop, stop."

The father dragged the swing to the swing, and said with a smile, "It turns out our Shougu is a coward."

Dou Zhao didn't argue with him, but as soon as her feet hit the ground, Madam Yu ran over pale and panting.

"Master Qi," she said with tears in her eyes, her eyes were red, and she looked like she was about to cry, "Grandma Qi, Grandma Qi... hanged herself!"

"What did you say?" Father's eyes widened, the smile froze on his face, "Who are you talking about? Who hanged himself!"

"Grandma Seven, Grandma Seven..." Nanny Yu cried, her legs softened and she knelt on the ground, "Grandma Seven hanged herself..."

Dou Shiying looked around in a daze.

Seeing his daughter standing motionless beside him as if he had been immobilized, it gave him a little sense of reality.

"How could it be...it was fine just now..." He murmured, his tall body suddenly became a little shorter, his face was like gold paper, his lips were white and trembling.

Dou Zhao has already lost his ability to speak, and his mind is like a galloping horse, rumbling non-stop.

Why did the mother still die?

Didn't Wang Yingxue become a concubine?

Even if she gave birth to a son, she would still be the eldest son...

Why did the mother still die?

So what's the point of her coming back?

Dou Zhao pursed his lips stubbornly, and clenched his small hands into fists.

The spring sun is warm and warm, and quietly shines on the two clay sculpture-like figures, one big and one small, only the swing is still shaking, attracting several colorful butterflies to dance around it, competing for fragrance.

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Dou Zhao wore a rough linen filial piety robe, knelt before the coffin with a dull expression, and kowtowed in return to the singing and drinking.

The mother hanged herself to death, so it is not considered the return of good fortune, and there are elders in the church, so she can only do rituals for five or seven days at most.

There was no one in charge in the family, so my grandfather invited the third uncle and third aunt to help with the funeral of the mother, and also took out the nanmu coffin prepared for him to the mother.

Those who came to express their condolences offered incense and inevitably asked about the cause of death.

The members of the Dou family all said that they died of a sudden illness, and the listeners did not shed tears: "...you are not yet 20 years old!"

Dou Zhao's eye circles turned red.

That's right, why did she forget that although her mother is her mother, she is not yet 20 years old!

How can she expect her 30-year-old mother to understand the truth she didn't understand until she was 20?

There are some wounds buried in the bottom of my heart, even if they are bloody, there is no trace of them on the surface.

Mother, never really relieved, never really let go, right?

Dou Zhao looked across.

The father, who was all in white, had a blue complexion and sunken eye sockets, making him look very haggard.

He was kneeling in front of the filial basin, burning paper money for his mother one by one, with a serious and pious expression, as if holding amulets in his hands.

Wang Yingxue, with red eyes, came over. She knelt beside her father, silently picked up a stack of paper money from the side, tore them open one by one, and threw them into the filial basin together with her father.

"Qi Ye!" Her voice was hoarse and choked with sobs, "You have been kneeling here for a day and a night, if you continue like this, your body will wear down...I still count on you to handle my sister's funeral!"

Without saying a word, the father gently took the paper money away from Wang Yingxue's hand, and continued to burn the paper money.

A look of embarrassment flashed across Wang Yingxue's face, she knelt there for a long time, her father didn't even look at her, her eyes dimmed slightly, and she quietly backed away.

The sixth uncle came over and took his father's arm: "Wan Wan, don't be like this. The dead are gone, and the living should take care of themselves."

Father refused to get up.

In front of his good friend and brother Cong, he began to cry in a low voice: "I have agreed with Gu Qiu that we will have five boys and three girls... She is gone now, but there is not even a soul-wrestling person... You Just let me burn a few more pieces of paper money for her...I really feel bad..."

The sixth uncle stomped his feet, but his eyes were full of water: "You are sad, and now is not the time!" He said, his voice became lower and lower, "Ruifu is back! He didn't participate in the selection of Shujishi... "

Dou Zhao raised his head.

Ruifu is the nickname of her uncle Zhao Si.

"According to the time, he should be here soon." The sixth uncle said with a bitter voice, "When we meet Ruifu, have you thought about what to say? The third brother and the others are all in my uncle's study. We have to discuss this matter in advance Just a word..."

"Explanation? What explanation?" Father murmured, his mind obviously still wandering too empty, "It's all my fault... That time Yu Yu said she was going to hang herself, I thought she was trying to blackmail me... So she was Really sad and desperate for me... But I didn't know it, and I was complacent thinking that I had won... She said, wait for me to pay her back, and she wants me to admit that my life is not good when I leave her ..." He fell down in front of his wife's spirit and burst into tears, "I didn't know this would happen, I really didn't know this would happen... I promised my uncle that I would take good care of Gu Qiu and treat Gu Qiu well for the rest of my life ...I believe what I say...she said I was dirty...it was not wrong at all..."

"[-] yuan, [-] yuan!" The sixth uncle wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand, and dragged his father up vigorously, "I'll talk about this later. The most urgent thing now is to give Ruifu an explanation. You can't be arrogant."

My father shook his head, heartbroken, and said: "I'm the one who's sorry for Gu Qiu. After I finish Gu Qiu's funeral, he can deal with me as he wants!"

The sixth uncle was so angry that he called two servants in and took his father to the Crane Hall.

Dou Zhao ran out.

Wang Yingxue was standing under the magnolia tree outside the mourning hall, staring at the backs of her father and sixth uncle in a daze.

Dou Zhao called her: "Aunt Wang!"

Wang Yingxue turned her head, glanced at the maid outside the mourning hall out of the corner of her eye, and walked over with a decent smile: "Shougu, what's the matter?" Her tone was gentle.

"You really want to have a son, don't you?" Dou Zhao raised his head, fixed his black eyes on hers, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "However, it's a pity that your birth is Daughter! When the filial piety is over and the new mistress enters the door, will she be as talkative as my mother?"

"You..." Terrified, Wang Yingxue backed away again and again in horror, looking at her as if seeing a monster.

Dou Zhao is very satisfied.

He curled his lips coldly, and walked past her with a relaxed posture.

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