I won't do the task of traveling quickly

Chapter 70 I Hate This Face (Part [-])
It's the midsummer time of the year again, the sun is scorching hot outside the house, and the vegetation is also growing wildly.

Uncle Sun was packing up his things. When he saw Pei Hanzhen coming back, he hurried forward and said.

"Overseer, things will be packed right away, and all the servants will be dismissed."

Pei Hanzhen nodded and smiled and said, "Uncle Sun, don't call me the military governor anymore, I am no longer."

Uncle Sun sighed and said, "Hey, old man, I'm used to it, who would know..."

"It's just that the world is impermanent, it has always been like this, you don't have to be sad."

As he spoke, he looked out of the open window, and there was still an empty swing hanging quietly in the garden.

He said with some difficulty, "Uncle Sun, before I leave, I want to visit her again."

Uncle Sun naturally knew who he was talking about, and his heart felt sour.

He hesitated for a while and then said: "Master Du called me this morning. He asked the warlord to burn a stick of incense for him when he had time."

Pei Hanzhen nodded, but said nothing, but a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.

Qingyun Mountain is about two hours' drive away from the Governor's Mansion, and that area is now very desolate, with few people living there.

Pei Hanzhen parked the car at the foot of the mountain and walked slowly up the mountain alone.

The narrow and steep mountain roadside is covered with unknown flowers and plants.After walking like this for about an hour, he stopped directly at a cemetery halfway up the mountain.

Pei Hanzhen put the tulips he brought next to the tombstone, and seeing that the cemetery was covered with weeds again, he sighed and started to clean it up.

While pulling weeds, he was still muttering in his mouth.

"Yueping, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you doing recently? This may be the last time I will see you. It may be retribution. This time Zhejiang City was defeated, and there is no place for me here. But don't worry, Uncle Sun and I are going back to my mother's hometown. It might be a good thing to leave this busy and noisy place."

"That dude Du Chaohong didn't come back this year, so he just asked me to say hello to you. He has stayed abroad for the past few years and never returned home, which made old man Du very angry. But he has improved a lot, I heard that he already has his own business abroad.”

He paused and smiled again: "By the way, do you still remember Adjutant Lu? At the beginning, because he let you go, I just drove him away. I didn't expect that this person has some skills, and he is doing well now. She married Yun Rou in a few months."

After tidying up the weeds, Pei Hanzhen sat down quietly in front of the tombstone.His smile suddenly faded, and he stared straight at the photo on the tombstone.

The woman in the photo is wearing a porcelain blue cheongsam, with dark curly hair falling on her shoulders, and a bright smile on her face, as if nothing in the world can worry her.

He raised his hand and gently stroked the woman's face in the photo, his touch was cold.

Pei Hanzhen said to her gently: "It's good for you. You went away to enjoy your life early, leaving only us."

Then, he sighed deeply again, as if he was a bit reluctant, but he finally spoke.

"Since that day, that person has disappeared. I have also sent people to look for him over the years, but no one has seen him again. Sometimes I think, maybe, he went to accompany you first? I am really not reconciled ah……"

As Pei Hanzhen spoke, his throat seemed to be blocked by something, making him unable to speak anymore.

He just sat there quietly, as if he had become a statue.

It wasn't until a gust of wind blew and the leaves began to rustle that he took one last deep look at her.

Then he stood up and walked slowly down the hill, but his steps faltered slightly.

……

Mother Pei's hometown is a small village called Shashui Township, and there are not many people left in the village.

Pei Hanzhen also took off his military uniform and began to learn to live like an ordinary young man.

After staying in this secluded place for a long time, it seems that even time has begun to slow down.

On this day, Pei Hanzhen was walking along the field ridge when he saw an old woman sitting on the side of the road resting her feet.

The woman only sat for a short while, then got up and left again.She held a cane in one hand and a basket full of fruits in the other.

Seeing her walking unsteadily on a slope, Pei Hanzhen hurried forward to take the basket from her hand.

"Ma'am, let me help you."

The old woman raised her head. She had a kind face, but there was a scar on her face that extended from the corner of her left eye to the right side of her mouth, making her look a bit ferocious.

The old woman bowed her body and thanked him repeatedly.

Pei Hanzhen looked at her face with a little surprise.

"Aunt Tong?"

Hearing this address, the old woman's body shook instantly, and she looked up at him in astonishment.

"You, who are you?"

"Aunt Tong, you don't remember me. I'm the eldest son of the Pei family, Han Zhen."

The woman called Aunt Tong asked: "But you often eat the cloud cake I made, that young master of the Pei family?"

Pei Hanzhen nodded upon hearing this.

Aunt Tong burst into tears immediately.

"God has eyes, and let me see my old friend again."

She hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Pei Hanzhen's hand, and asked anxiously: "How is my wife, how is my young lady?"

Pei Hanzhen shook his head and comforted him, "Aunt Tong, don't worry, let's sit down and talk slowly."

So he helped the old woman all the way to the house, let her sit down first, and the newly hired helper served a cup of tea.

Aunt Tong didn't care about drinking tea at this time, so she asked again.

Pei Hanzhen said: "Not long after my father found her, Aunt Yishuang passed away."

Aunt Tong couldn't help wiping away tears.

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault."

Pei Hanzhen asked suspiciously: "What happened back then? When my father found Aunt Yishuang, why did he only see her and the child?"

Aunt Tong wiped away her tears and said slowly: "Back then, my wife and I were sent away secretly by the master. We fled here until we were ready to go to her hometown. But when we were almost there, my wife was about to start on the way. I had no choice but to help her to a cave in the forest, where the lady then gave birth to the young lady."

Her voice became choked up again as she spoke: "My wife was feeling a little bad at that time, so she sent me to the village to find her natal brother. Unexpectedly, my uncle's family had moved away long ago. I could only ask for some food from the villagers. Walking up the mountain, who knows, but accidentally falls off the cliff."

She stroked the scar on her face and said, "This is the injury I suffered at that time."

Then she got a little excited again.

"It was my fate. At that time, I was rescued by a man at the foot of the mountain. I thought he was a good man, but I didn't realize that the man saved me just to let me give birth to him."

Pei Hanzhen frowned and said, "That person detained you?"

Aunt Tong nodded and said: "I originally wanted to ask him to save Madam first, but I was afraid of Madam's beauty, and now I have evil intentions. So I could only pretend to accept my fate, and then I took the opportunity to escape, but the cave There is no shadow of Madam inside."

"Then why don't you come to Shanghai to find us?"

"It's also my fault that I was caught by that man again, and a leg was broken by him. Although it was cured later, it was still a slope after all."

Pei Hanzhen also sighed for a while.

Aunt Tong calmed down for a while, then cheered up and asked, "How is the young lady?"

Pei Hanzhen curled his lips and said, "Yun Rou is married now, and she is doing well."

"That's good, that's good. At that time, the wife was afraid that she would die, so she would not have time to name the child. So she bit her finger and wrote the name on the child's clothes. Fortunately, you saw it."

Then she asked strangely: "What about Miss Yun Qing?"

"Miss Yunqing?" Pei Hanzhen asked strangely, "Doesn't Auntie Yishuang only have one child?"

Aunt Tong exclaimed: "No, Madam was pregnant with twins at that time. Even the name was based on a poem, it was called 'Quanyan' or something, and the last two words were Qingrou. Madam liked this poem very much , I took those two characters and made them into names. One is called Yun Qing and the other is called Yun Rou."

Pei Hanzhen's heart was shocked, and he quickly asked: "Is it because the spring is silent and cherishes the trickle, and the shade of the tree shines on the water and loves Qingrou?"

"That's right, although my wife has never studied, I still have a little impression when I often hear my wife say this sentence."

Pei Hanzhen asked tentatively: "The Yun Qing you are talking about, does she have any characteristics?"

Aunt Tong thought for a moment before saying: "I only remember that when the child was born, Miss Yunrou was as thin as a kitten. But Miss Yunqing was different, she was born with a tiger head and a tiger brain, and she especially liked to laugh."

"By the way." She said suddenly, "I remember that Miss Yun Qing had a pair of dimples at the corners of her mouth, and she smiled really cutely."

"Pear dimple?" Pei Hanzhen felt as if his heart had been hit hard. Could it be that Yueping was another child from back then?
(End of this chapter)