Yuque Qiu

This year winter came earlier than in previous years, and the first snow fell after the wind blowing on the body changed from cold to biting. It fell for three days and three nights, covering everything with a layer of silver makeup.

"Hahaha, you can't catch~ you can't catch me~"

Doudou and Yan An are playing in the snow in the courtyard. Doudou looks short-handed and short-footed as if he can’t run fast when he wears a lot of clothes, but he is still nimble. He burrows between the branches and leaves, leaving a string of small footprints on the snow. , Yan An was turned around by him, and he missed any of the snowballs in his hand, but was thrown by Doudou with snow all over his face, and finally his feet slipped and his buttocks fell to the ground.

Seeing that scene, Yan Yuque, who has always been serious, couldn't help chuckling.

Hearing that this house was given to Lian Yulou, the servants of the Yan Mansion were worried that the second young master who had been bullied here back then would use them as soon as he came back, so they all chose to use the money to find their own way out.

Father is getting old, he is a little deaf, and his eyes can't see very clearly. Since the death of Erniang, he has been depressed. In recent years, he has even begun to lose consciousness.

"Yulou, have you grown so big in a blink of an eye?"

"Yulou, dad saw that you and your elder brother Yuque really look alike, if you don't look carefully, your dad and I can't tell the difference..."

He knew that his father had always been very guilty because he was always busy outside and neglected to take care of Lian Yulou and his mother, which made them often oppressed by himself and his mother. In order to save the entire Yan family, if the erroneous "Splendid Rivers and Mountains" was presented to the sage, what would be brought to the Yan family was not any glory but the crime of exterminating the nine clans. In the Kesi building, I was trying my best to make up for the mistake in the painting...

Dad thought that if he couldn't see Lian Yulou, the pain in his heart would be less, but in reality it was just the opposite. The more he couldn't see Lian Yulou, the more he couldn't let it go, and he had to force himself not to think about it. It looked like a dementia.

But for Dad, maybe living in this muddle is the best thing for him. In his world, Erniang may not have died at all, and she still sits in front of the loom every day, accompanied by the loom of "哢哢". Sound, humming a gentle tune.And his second son grows up little by little, and looks more and more like the eldest, the two of them can hardly tell each other apart when they stand together, brothers are harmonious, love each other...

It's a pity that it only exists in Dad's confused head.

He sent the old man to the old house in the country, and asked a few servants who had been serving him to go with him, so that his father could continue to live there in his confusion and spend his old age peacefully.

My mother still has the same temper. After knowing that a grandson suddenly appeared, she couldn't believe it. She also learned that in order to take back Doudou, she gave all her family property to Lian Yulou, and she also resigned from Lingjin Academy. He also planned to leave the bustling capital, crying and making noises, even threatening his life.

When I was young, I was ignorant, my father was like heaven, and every sentence my mother said with a violent temper had to be kept in my mind, so that she said that Erniang was a vixen and Lian Yulou was a bastard. I also believe in the Yan family's family business without any doubts, and have been guarding against Lian Yulou, using all kinds of despicable means.

He knew that his mother developed such a domineering personality because of her excellent family background, but she was not wrong, she just wanted to keep her father's heart, and she just hoped that her son's position would not be replaced, but this idea was too persistent To the point of driving myself and others to a dead end...

After crying for a while, mother knew that there was no way to recover, so she stopped and followed father to the old house in the country.

At first, I thought this house was very big, and it was cold and lonely to live here, but now that everyone is gone, I don't think so anymore, maybe it's because of my different state of mind.

Thinking of this, Yan Yuque looked at Doudou who was playing in the courtyard, with a doting smile on his lips.Doudou got out from among the leaves, saw Yan Yuque standing in the corridor, and didn't care about Yan An who was still sitting on the ground, called "Father—" and ran over stompingly, opened his arms and jumped at him. On Yan Yuque's body, he raised his head and looked at Yan Yuque with a pair of bright deer eyes, "Father is also playing with Doudou in the snow~" It was obvious that he had played crazy just now, his cheeks on both sides were flushed, and his breath was still a little panting, The white fluff on the neck and cuffs was wet from the melted snow.

Yan Yuque stretched out his hand to wipe off the snow flakes on Doudou's head, then rubbed his head with his hands, "I'm sweating all over the game, go in and change clothes for dinner, practice calligraphy for me after dinner Go." Yan Yuque didn't know how to be a father yet, so he could only vaguely copy what he learned from Liu Qi at that time, but his words still couldn't hide some bluntness.

Doudou let out a "woo" and rubbed her head against the hem of Yan Yuque's robe for a while, as if acting coquettishly, but Yan Yuque was not moved at all, so she lowered her shoulders discouragedly, "Okay... Who told Daddy and Master to have such a good relationship, if you don't listen to Daddy, I guess Daddy will learn how Master uses a ruler in the future."

Yan Yuque's heart "squeaked" for a moment. He had no contact with Liu Qi since he brought Doudou back. At this moment Doudou suddenly mentioned it, and the thoughts hidden in his heart also came up.

I don't know what Lucy is doing now...

He shook his head lightly, waved away the thoughts in his head, put on a stern face and put on the appearance of a strict father, picked up Doudou's back collar, and lifted him up, "It seems that since you left your master, You are no longer on the board, and your skin is itchy, I will let you have a good aftertaste of that feeling."

"Hmm... don't... woo woo woo... I don't dare anymore... Dad, you have to spare me, you say childish words are innocent, you adults don't want to be as knowledgeable as children..."

Doudou twisted her body and kicked her feet wildly, but she was still being held up like a chicken and couldn't break free. Yan Yuque couldn't help laughing, but she still had to keep her face straight. Hearing Doudou Dou begged for mercy like that, carried him on his shoulder, turned around and went into the house.

"Well, I will punish you for copying the book ten more times."

"Oh, that Doudou would rather suffer from the board..."

"Is copying a book more painful than hitting a board?"

"The board passed by with your eyes closed, copying the book, copying the book, even if the hand is sore and dizzy, it may not be able to finish the copy."

Yan An sat on the ground, tilted his head and looked at the big and small figures walking into the house, his face was full of doubts, "Hey, this is really strange, why does it feel like a different person..."

After eating dinner and grinding for a while, Doudou sat down at the table and began to practice calligraphy, but during the whole process, his eyes were fixed on the ledgers in Yan Yuque's hands, as if the ledgers were more attractive. big.

Yan Yuque is in the middle of liquidation. After removing the house deeds and land deeds and dismissing the servants, how much is left around him? Is it enough for the few of them to find a place to settle down and live a comfortable life? I didn't think that money is useful before, but now I feel it What is stretched.

In addition to the daily expenses, I don’t know if the remaining money is enough to set up a small shop. Why don’t we see what else is valuable and exchange it for cash together...

Yan Yuque looked up and saw that there were not many words written on the paper in front of Doudou, but his eyes were only looking at the ledger in his hand, so he put the ledger in his hand on the table and said : "You like learning how to do business so much?"

Doudou nodded vigorously, "Daddy, can I learn to do business with you in the future? Will we still open a shop? Is it still a cloth shop? If it's not a cloth shop, it's fine, but it's better to be a cloth shop. Doudou will Get to know those fabrics..." Under the candlelight, the sparks in his eyes shone brightly.

Yan Yuque felt that it was not a bad thing for him to be so interested, but he couldn't ignore other things because of this, "You can write decently first, and then Dad will teach you how to do business."

"You are the same as Master, you say this every time..." Doudou pursed her lips and lay down on the table with an unhappy expression on her face, "Your Excellency is the most cunning, who knows if you will fulfill your promise in the future, maybe At that time, it will be another way of saying..."

Yan Yuque frowned, what kind of mess did Liu Qi teach him?How could such a young child have such an idea?He needs to be corrected quickly.

"When did you meet your father? I don't care what I say? A man's words are hard to follow. Dad said that he will let you learn to do business in the future, and he will let you learn in the future."

But Doudou still wasn't happy, and continued to pout her lips, "You said you'd let me see Master, but I haven't seen you go to see Master after coming here for so long..."

This sentence really blocked Yan Yuque. Yan Yuque's eyes flickered for a moment, and then he thought of something, then lowered his expression and said: "Original father can give you a rich life, no worries about food and clothing, and servants to serve you. You like fabrics and you can often go to Lingjin Academy to study, but now all of this is because your master and Lian Yulou are gone, don’t you hate your master because of it? Maybe we will never be able to wear clothes like this when we leave the capital. Clothes made of good fabrics can no longer eat delicacies from mountains and seas, and you have to worry about food and clothing like other ordinary people. You could have been a young master, but ended up as a child of an ordinary family. Don’t you feel sad?”

These words may be too difficult for Doudou to understand, or in the heart of such a young child, hatred does not exist at all, he frowned and thought for a long time, then scratched his head in frustration, " Why do I hate Master, Master helped Doudou find his father, it is too late for Doudou to thank Master..."

yes……

Didn't I answer Lucy that way?

"So what about my lord? Do you remember that there was such a person who made my lord lose everything?"

"No... I will only remember that one person brought back my long-buried conscience..."

In fact, every hatred has an opposite side, but those who are blinded by hatred will never see it.After Doudou finished speaking, she suddenly thought of something, and said, "If Doudou and Master do something that makes Dad angry, will Dad forgive us?"

Yan Yuque came back to his senses, wondering why he would have such a question, but children have a lot of tricks, and they may occasionally be tricked by Liu Qi's influence, but as long as it's harmless, it's not serious, "As long as it's not too much, I don't care about it."

"Really?" Doudou's eyes sparkled, sweeping away the haze on his face because he refused to practice calligraphy.

Seeing him like this, Lianai Yu Yan Yuque once again put on the posture of a strict father, and tapped the table with his fingers, "Hurry up and go to bed after writing, we are leaving tomorrow morning."

"Yes!"

At night, Yan Yuque dreamed that he was back in the Silk Brocade Courtyard, and unknowingly walked back to the room where Liu Qi weaved flower books, opened the door, and the person sitting in front of the cross-stitched frame was That gentle, elegant, kind and peaceful young man would only raise his head after finishing the pattern in his hand, then smile like a spring, and call softly...

"grown ups……"

Yan Yuque in the dream looked at that person, suddenly his heart moved, he stepped forward and grabbed Liu Qi's arm, "Liu Qi, do you want to go with us?" As soon as he said this, Yan Yuque frightened himself I jumped, so surprised that I couldn't believe it.

But Liu Qi in front of her was not surprised at all, she was still calm and indifferent, the smile on the corner of her mouth was as warm and warm as the spring breeze, but the words that blurted out were as cold as ice, "It's a pity that the villain never wants to See you again, my lord..."

Yan Yuque only felt something hit his abdomen, lowered his head, only saw the handle of the dagger exposed outside, and the bright red liquid dripped on the green and old ground, Yan Yuque took two steps back, trembling "Luqi, you...?"

Liu Qi still smiled gently, You Feng stroked his hair, revealing the scar on his left face, against that smile, it suddenly made one's hair stand on end.

"My lord, go all the way..."

"...Don't, let's go!"

Yan Yuque stretched out his arms to catch the fading figure, but the surroundings suddenly sank into darkness. When he opened his eyes again, he saw the familiar top of the bed curtain.

Yan Yuque lay there in a daze for a long time, still unable to figure out why he had such a dream.

It was already daylight outside, and I heard the voices of Yan An and Doudou coming from outside the door.

"Young master, why don't you wash your face?"

"I don't want it, I don't want it!"

"It's so dirty if you don't wash your face, do you want me to grab a cat for you to lick?"

"Just don't!"

Yan Yuque felt a dull pain in the forehead. Although Doudou is cute, but sometimes he has a stubborn temper. I don't know if this is the same as himself, so some bad habits I have developed cannot be changed.

He got up and opened the door, and saw two people, one big and one young, hiding from each other around the rocks in the courtyard. Since Yan An was asked to take care of Doudou, he spent most of the time on Doudou, and he couldn't take care of him. .

Because of having a nightmare and being woken up so early, Yan Yuque's face was not very good-looking, and he frowned and called out to the yard, "Doudou!" There was a bit of irresistible sternness in his tone.

Doudou's footsteps stopped abruptly, and Yan An caught him right away, picked him up and walked towards Yan Yuque, "Look, who told you to be disobedient, let your father discipline you! "

"Let me go... let me go..."

Yan An put Doudou in front of Yan Yuque, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat on his forehead, "Master, look at him, asking him to wash his face is like a cat catching a mouse, and it was the same a few days ago."

Yan Yuque sternly said, "Why don't you wash your face? How dirty is it?"

Doudou was so sternly questioned by his tone that she was so frightened that she hid behind Yan An, poked her head out, blinked her eyes twice, and said in a timid voice, "Do you really have to wash it? "

Yan Yuque was surprised. Isn't washing his face the same as letting him drink poison, "Could it be that your master taught you to develop this habit?"

Doudou shook her head, "It wasn't taught by Master, but Master said... Master said..." He faltered and faltered but dared not speak, his eyes flickered and kept sneaking glances at Yan Yuque.Yan Yuque became impatient, "What did your master say? Say it quickly!"

Being so fierce by Yan Yuque, Doudou's small face wrinkled, as if she was about to cry, and said hesitatingly: "Master said...Master said... If you wash too much, your face will fall off..."

Yan An patted Doudou on the head, "What nonsense? The face will fall off? How could the face fall off?"

But Yan Yuque felt a tightness in his chest, and then the breath he inhaled into his chest was freezing to freezing point, and in an instant it was frosted all the way along the blood vessels until the end, so there was a chill on the back of his hands, feet, and his hairs stood on end with a "squeak".

Yan An couldn't understand, because he had never seen it with his own eyes, but Yan Yuque knew the meaning of these words.

The face will fall... the face will fall...

that is because……

Yan Yuque walked up to Doudou, stretched out his hand, Doudou wanted to hide, Yan Yuque winked at Yan An, Yan An immediately pressed Doudou's shoulder to prevent him from dodging, Yan Yuque's hand stopped On the side of Doudou's face, as expected, she felt some uneven wrinkles, and then pinched the wrinkled skin and tore it forcefully.

"Wow! It hurts!" Doudou cried out in pain, covered her face and crouched down.

Yan Yuque looked at the thin translucent skin-like thing in his hand, shook his head in disbelief, then grabbed Doudou's arm and pulled him up from the ground, looking at Doudou's appearance clearly After that, his eyes widened suddenly, and even Yan An was surprised.

"Master, what's going on here? Why, young master, his face..."

The face under the human skin mask is Doudou's original appearance. Although it is as handsome and cute as the face after the disguise, the eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose are not at all what I imagined...

Yan Yuque's body swayed like fallen leaves in the wind, unable to stand still, the arm holding Doudou slowly loosened, and then stepped back step by step, "No...it's not... No...how did this happen?" I didn't notice the threshold behind me, I almost tripped and fell to the ground, but fortunately I was able to stabilize myself by grabbing the door frame with both hands, and then my eyes fell on the human skin mask in my hand, fingers Trembling, the mask trembled, like a distorted face, and this face was grinning at himself at the moment.

"No!" Yan Yuque roared, threw the human skin mask on the ground, stepped on it hard, as if exhausting all the strength in his body, the human skin mask instantly became unrecognizable It looks like a bunch of things.

He didn't think of it, he really didn't think of it...

Seeing Yan Yuque's appearance, Doudou trembled with fright, and timidly called out "Father...", but in exchange Yan Yuque roared, "I'm not your father!"

So Doudou burst into tears with a "wow", "Master said, if my face falls off, daddy won't recognize me, so Doudou has been so careful, I don't want him to fall off...Don't deny me, daddy." Doudou... don't..."

Yan Yuque turned his head to look at him, and stared fiercely at him, his eyes were bloodshot, revealing a bit of fierceness, "Who is your father?! Don't bark!"

At this moment, Doudou cried extremely terribly, went up and grabbed Yan Yuque's clothes, "Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

But Yan Yuque pulled the hem of the clothes out of his hand in disgust. The action was a bit rough. Doudou was pushed back by him and staggered two steps. The snow was slippery and rolled directly down the steps, making Yan An Also caught off guard.

Doudou was covered in muddy water, and when he got up, his nose and forehead were bleeding, and he sat there helplessly and sadly crying, "Dad, don't deny Doudou..."

But Yan Yuque just looked at him coldly, and after a while, as if he saw something filthy, he turned back into the room and slammed the door behind him with disgust, "Yan An, drive him out, this bastard is not at all Not my son!"

Yan An didn't understand what happened in front of him for a moment, looked at the closed door, then at Doudou, but hugged Doudou, "Don't cry, I'll take you to the medicine first."

"Woo..."

Entering the room, Yan Yuque leaned on the edge of the table with his hands, feeling as if his feet were weak and he was about to stand unsteadily.

Doudou's cries became farther and farther away, and his mind was already in chaos.

A scam... This turned out to be another scam.

He thought that the relationship between himself and Liu Qi, and even with Lian Yulou, had come to an end, but he didn't expect that he would give up everything in exchange for a scam.

Perhaps this is the last move of the chess game they have spent so many years laying out...

"I heard from other children in the school that they slept with their father when they were young. I don't know what it feels like... Doudou doesn't have a father, Doudou only has a master..."

"My mother was still a child when she left. They all said that I was my father's child because I looked very similar to him, but our father said no, he had no children at all..."

"Actually, my lord looks a lot like our grandfather..."

As expected of the child Liu Qi taught, at such a young age, with such pure eyes, he performed such a real deception, deceiving himself into a circle.

What about the singing girl by the Qinhuai River? He should have believed the results of Yan An's investigation at that time. Since several major cloth merchants said that there was no such woman, he should have thought that it was a scam.

And when Liu Qi proposed to recognize Doudou, Liu Qi's hesitation, and the question Doudou asked herself last night, all showed that all this was not true, but she was immersed in it, immersed in her own feelings. In the surprise of getting such a lovely and intelligent son by accident, I was immersed in the excitement of finding my conscience and reuniting with my son.

"Have you thought about the consequences? Are you really willing to give up everything in exchange for Doudou? You haven't even found out about Doudou's background."

"If you really want Doudou... there is no other way."

"If Doudou and Master did something that made Dad angry, will Dad forgive us?"

I can only blame myself for being too careless, or being blinded by the face that is very similar to myself, and the innocent behavior that day. In fact, as long as I confess my relatives with a drop of blood, Liu Qi's deception will be completely exposed. But he couldn't wait to bring this child back.

Because of his innocence and kindness, because he is so like himself, and so much like Lian Yulou when he was a child, he has been feeling empty and lonely all these years, hiding guilt, and he has some comfort.

That's my conscience...

"Go to his conscience..." After Yan Yuque cursed in a low voice, he laughed lowly, the louder he laughed, his shoulders shrugged as if he couldn't stop, and there was madness and sternness in that laughter.

"Hahaha...hehehe...ahhahaha..." At the end of the laugh, he opened his mouth wide and couldn't make a sound. Yan Yuque lowered his body slightly, and pressed his face against the cold tabletop of the huanghuali wood Eight Immortals table. His facial features were distorted, like joy or sadness, anger or sorrow, he clenched his fists and pounded the table.

He felt a pain in his chest, an empty pain as if being sucked dry by something, but on the contrary, the fragments of Liu Qi and him before flashed in his mind.

After Liu Qi admits that she is willing to spend such a long time to set up a situation, even if her heart is full of hatred for herself, she can still show her infinite love for herself, and she can even be tactful under the enemy and share with the enemy. Go to Yunyu.

I have also admitted that Liu Qi has achieved her goals these years, and that she is indeed unable to be emotional with other women except him, and all the words that have humiliated him in the past have been returned to herself, so she thought that Liu Qi had succeeded in revenge, I won't hide anything from myself anymore... But I don't know, that's just the beginning...

Then he remembered the dream he had last night...

It just gets funnier.

The two of them should be like this. He is Lian Yulou's pawn, and he has hatred for himself. He set up a game, and then lurked by his side, turning himself into what he is now. This should be what you want The standpoint of death or death, but in those lingering and tender days, I have completely forgotten it.

No...

The distorted expression on Yan Yuque's face suddenly stopped, and then slowly calmed down.

I should go find Lucy...

How could Yan Yuque be tricked like this! ?

And those who play tricks on themselves will definitely have to pay the price! ! !