Yuque Qiu

It's not yet dawn, and there are no people on the street. The snow under the feet is "creaking" and "creaking".

Yan Yuque ran to the door of Jinlin Buzhuang, looked up at the four words on the plaque, squeezed his fists, rushed up and kicked the door panel.

"Luqi! You bitch! Get out of here! Do you hear that?! Get out of here!"

Congratulations for entering Liu Qi's room and lighting candles for him. Liu Qi has sat up from the bed, as if she hasn't rested all night, her face is a bit haggard, she put on her clothes and got up and walked to the window. She couldn't see what happened below. What happened, but the sound of Yan Yuque scolding and knocking on the door came clearly.

"Grandpa, what are we going to do?"

Liu Qi thought about it with a cold face, then slightly lowered her eyes, "Ask some people to send him away..." After saying that, she walked to the bed again, and when she stepped on the footstool, she turned around and made up for it. He said, "He is not the Yan Yuque he used to be...you can use whatever method you want." Then the person shrank back behind the bed curtain.

"Okay." Congratulations back and stepped out.

Liu Qi was sitting inside the bed tent, clutching the bedding under her body tightly with her fingers, the sound of scolding outside still continued, the next moment, the door opened with a "creak", and Yan Yuque's voice stopped, but what followed was congratulations the sound of.

"It's too early in the morning to make trouble at home, are you impatient?!"

When Yan Yuque saw the door opened, he wanted to rush in, but Gong Xi opened his arms and stopped him.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Yan Yuque glared at him viciously, with murderous intent in his angry red eyes, "Go away!"

Congratulations shook her body, then straightened her thin chest, forcing her aura out, "Don't think that you are still the same Yan Yuque from before, even if it was Yan Yuque from before, if our master didn't stop you, I will also have people break your legs and throw you into the street."

Yan Yuque's gaze moved over again, this time pausing on Gong Xi's face for a moment, making Gong Xi's forced aura disappear instantly under his cold eyes.

Yan Yuque pushed him to the side, and he was about to go upstairs when he got inside. Congratulations was pushed and almost fell to the ground. This time he was completely annoyed, "You're looking for death! Don't blame me for not reminding you!" Then he yelled at the other guys in the store, "Come here, beat this guy out, what is Jinlin Cloth Village, you won't be allowed to intrude."

Previously, Yan Yuque brought people from the Salt and Iron Department to make trouble twice, and then accused them of carrying illegal salt and detained their cargo ship. As a result, the shop was blocked by people who were chasing the goods for several days, and almost closed down. The guys in the house had a grudge against Yan Yuque, but before my father didn't speak up, and even got very close to him, so they all swallowed their anger, and seeing Yan Yuque running here could only give a few words. He has a bad face, but now that the master is unwilling to talk to him, and he is no longer the supervisor of Lingjin Academy, Mr. Yan, the anger that has been simmering in his heart seems to have found an outlet. Congratulations, let this person be beaten out Without saying a word, those people picked up the guys around them and greeted Yan Yuque.

"Kill you stupid bastard!"

"Look at you bullying us little people again!"

"I've always wanted to hit you bastard. If it wasn't for our master's face, I would have done it long ago."

"Now he's not an official anymore, and he doesn't have the support of Mr. Xu. Don't be polite to this kind of person!"

Crackling - all kinds of guys greeted Yan Yuque's body and head mercilessly.

Although Yan Yuque had a bad temper, he was not a Lianjiazi after all, and he was kicked out of the door after a few strokes. None of the guys showed mercy, and some even threw something and punched Yan Yuque until his mouth and nose bleed. Shrunk to the ground motionless before stopping.

The people surrounding Yan Yuque opened a gap, Congratulations came over to see if this person was dead or alive, found that although Yan Yuque was beaten badly, he was still breathing, so he asked the staff to stop and go back to the store, ready to open , before he turned around and left, he kicked Yan Yuque and spat at the same time, "If you want to die, don't die here, we still have to open a shop."

Yan Yuque moved his hands and feet, and he still has some senses. He only hurt his flesh, but his chest felt like it was burning. The cold and hard shell covering my heart like an ice shell cracked and fell apart, and now the exposed part was cut by a knife and burned by fire because it lacked those protections.

What came to my mind was the picture of when I was with Liuqi in Lingjinyuan in the past. I remembered the time when he covered his eyes and served him with his mouth in order to help him overcome the psychological barrier. When he seduced himself to the bed, he confessed piously and affectionately. The thought of stuffing his longan into his place made the gentle and close person with a smile on his face puff up his cheeks for the first time, revealing the suffocation in his heart. At that time, he felt that Liu Qi's appearance was so cute that people couldn't help but want to bully him more.

Later, the two pierced the window paper that blocked the room between the two of them. He was so angry that he was so angry that he also used tricks to make Liu Qi suffer. , and the pleading moan, it still makes me want to burn my body when I think about it.

After Doudou appeared, the two of them got along more harmoniously than ever before, as if they had returned to Lingjinyuan, watching him earnestly weave the flower book, it seemed that even the passage of time had slowed down, and he himself It was the first time he felt the satisfaction in his heart, and the kind of increase made him feel that it was worth it even if he gave everything in exchange.

However, all of this is illusory like a dream, as if after waking up, everything in the dream will no longer exist.

creak... creak...

There were messy footsteps walking towards him, accompanied by profligate laughter and talking.

"Last night was really enjoyable, thank you Brother Yu for entertaining~"

"Where is there, who called us brothers, how can such a good thing not be together?"

"Huh? There seems to be someone sleeping on the floor over there..."

The sound of kicking footsteps approached Yan Yuque, someone stretched out his foot and kicked Yan Yuque, "Hey! Hey! Alive or dead?"

Yan Yuque was kicked to the chest, a mouthful of fishy sweetness poured into his throat, he opened his mouth and sprayed on the ground, "Cough! Cough!" Dots of bright red bloomed on the snow, and some splashed on the hem of one of them.

The man quickly jumped away, cursing, "Damn it, this stinky beggar actually vomited blood on my clothes, do you know that selling you to a quarry to work for a lifetime won't be enough for my clothes?" ?!" As he spoke, he was about to go up and kick him, but was stopped by a person beside him.

"Brother Yu, wait a minute...why does this person look so familiar to me?" He walked up to Yan Yuque and squatted down.

Yan Yuque coughed twice and opened his eyes to see two blurred figures. A strong smell of alcohol wafted through his already drowsy head. One of them squatted in front of him, one He reached out and grabbed his hair bun and turned his head over to look at him.

The man looked at it for a while, then raised one eyebrow suddenly, his face suddenly realized, "I said, why is it so familiar..." He let go of Yan Yuque's hair bun, and the man stood up and clapped his hands, facing Yu Yu The man said: "Brother Yu, you didn't recognize him? Isn't this man the head of the Yan family?"

"Oh?" The man surnamed Yu squinted his eyes to identify it carefully, and then laughed "hehe" "hehe", as if he saw something rare, "Yo, it's really him!" Then he kicked the toe of his boot Kicked Yan Yuque, and said with a smile: "Isn't this Mr. Yan? It's such a coincidence that we met here, but I don't think Mr. Yan will remember who our two brothers are, but you have always heard of the Yu family in the capital. Well, it’s really thanks to you, Master Yan, now our family is old and small, and the shops are gone, and we live on some ancestral property, and we live day by day, hahahahahaha!"

Yan Yuque's bewildered head didn't realize it for a moment, and it was only after hearing it that he remembered who the Yu family was.

Originally, Yu's family also opened a store in the capital to sell fabrics. Originally, the two had nothing to do with each other, but one day they heard that Yu's store was selling fabrics from Lin'an. The seal of Jinlin cloth shop was like stepping on his sore foot. He dared to sell Lianyulou's goods under his nose, so he used some tricks to make the business of the Yu family's shop more and more sluggish. In the end, in order to raise money to repay the purchase price, he gave the shop to him at a low price...

I didn't expect to meet him here, it's really a narrow road...

"Cough! Cough!" Yan Yuque opened his mouth and coughed again. He wanted to get up, but his body hurt everywhere and he couldn't use much strength.

Another man answered the man surnamed Yu, "Brother Yu, how did Lord Yan, who used to be so good, come to such a state?"

"Hehehe!" The man surnamed Yu laughed out loud, "Where is he still Lord Yan now? I heard that Lord Yan offended the big boss behind Jinlin Cloth, and was forced to be unable to continue to be an official, and the daughter of a high-ranking official could not If you can’t get married, the family business and shops have become someone else’s. I didn’t expect, I didn’t expect, Yan Yuque, you have today!” The so-called Huluo Pingyang was bullied by dogs, he said, he stepped on Yan Yuque’s head, and said: Grinding it hard twice, "I'm usually cruel and cruel, you deserve to be in this kind of situation today!"

"Brother Yu, look at him, he looks like a stinky beggar...Hurry up and learn how to beg from those beggars! Otherwise, you won't even have food in the future!"

"That's right, your family is in trouble, and you've been beaten like this. Maybe you don't even have money to see a doctor. For the sake of doing business together in the past, I'll give you some..." He untied the money from his waist Open the bag, loosen the mouth, and turn the money bag upside down, "Yu is a generous person, I have given you all these, so you don't have to pay them back~" In fact, there is not much silver in the money bag, they are all copper coins, which fell all over the floor.

Yan Yuque gathered a handful of snow and held it tightly in his hand, the snow water oozing out between his fingers was slightly red.

Perhaps this is the purpose of Lian Yulou, to experience the treatment and humiliation he endured back then, to experience the despair of life falling to the bottom and never seeing the sun again...

"What are you doing?!"

Yan An shouted loudly, ran up quickly, pushed the two people away, and opened his arms to protect Yan Yuque, "What are you doing? Why did you beat our uncle like this?"

The man surnamed Yu sneered, "We beat him? Hehe...hahaha! He said we beat him?!" The man next to him also laughed together.

Yan An stared at them with wide eyes, and the man surnamed Yu reached out to pat Yan An's shoulder after laughing, "Little brother, you should find a new owner as soon as possible. , take care of yourself.”

"You don't need to worry about it!"

Seeing those two people left, Yan An hurriedly helped Yan Yuque up from the ground, "Master, who dares to do anything to you? Is it Mr. Liu and the others, it's too much..." He wanted to let go of his hands to find Liu Qi's theory But Yan Yuque waved his hand.

"Yan An, don't... let's go back."

"But Grandpa..."

Seeing that Yan Yuque persisted and shook his head, Yan An resentfully gave up the idea of ​​finding Liu Qi to settle the score, and helped Yan Yuque stand up.

The door creaked open behind them, Yan Yuque and Yan An turned around, and saw Liu Qi standing behind the door with her clothes on.

The two people's eyes met, and there were thousands of emotions entangled in each other, and the undercurrent was raging, but they were both silent, but it was Yan An who spoke first to fight for Yan Yuque.

"Mr. Liu, how can you treat our father like this? You have deceived our father over and over again, and brought him down to the present situation. You should be satisfied now, right?"

Liu Qi withdrew her gaze from Yan Yuque, lowered her eyelashes, moved her lips, and then said softly, "Would you like to come in and get some medicine?" But she didn't want Yan Yuque to slightly arch her mouth to reveal There was a bit of a shy smile, his forehead was broken by something, blood flowed down, his hair was messy, his robe was also covered with muddy water, he looked indescribably embarrassed, if he didn't look carefully, he would really be a beggar.

Seeing him limping, walking in front of Liu Qi, reaching out and grabbing the lapel of Liu Qi's chest, dragging him closer to her, tilting his head as if to look at him from head to toe again , the smile became stronger, and the astringency condensed at the corner of the mouth became stronger, "My status is humble... I won't bother Fifth Master..."

After speaking, he pushed his hand forward, as if throwing away all the things he was reluctant to part with, and even pushed Liu Qi away.

Liu Qi didn't use any strength, and was pushed directly against the door by his back, and then stared at Yan Yuque who turned and left, until his figure walked a long way, Liu Qi's body leaned against the door It slid down little by little, and then the whole person sat on the ground, holding his knees with his hands, his face buried between his knees, his shoulders trembling slightly...

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Yan Yuque covered his chest with his hands, limped back, walked for a while, and said softly: "Yan An, I finally know what it's like to be betrayed... I also finally know what it's like to be robbed of everything." What kind of pain..."

Yan An looked at his father from being so beautiful in the past to the point where any ignorant dude can bully him, his nose became sour. Although their father has a bad temper, how have they ever suffered such a big change? He couldn't help comforting him and said: "Master, this is only temporary, you can still make a comeback, Master, and then see how those cold-eyed spectators will bow their knees and scramble to curry favor with you."

"Is that kind of day really happy...?" Yan Yuque said in a low voice.

He had never been so connected with Lian Yulou's mood like this moment, and he finally understood what kind of hatred and hostility would make Lian Yulou into such a person...

that's dignity...

What Lian Yulou lost in the Yan family was not only his mother, his father's care for him, his identity as the young master of the Yan family, but also the dignity of living.

Such a young child, who was bullied and deprived of his father's love, was finally sent back to his mother's house, where his relatives looked down upon him. What kind of helpless and terrified situation should that be?

Yan Yuque rubbed his arms, "Yan An, why do I feel so cold?"

Yan An hurriedly pulled up his outer robe and put it on Yan Yuque, but Yan Yuque was still shivering as if he was cold, his back was slightly bent, and he was walking with a limp step by step. Unexpectedly, the person in front of him is the arrogant and indifferent supervisor Yan Yuque who rarely bows his head in front of others.

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Liu Qi returned to her room, stood at the window and looked at the empty street outside, and after a long time, she was willing to close the window.

Congratulations, calling "Master" and "Master", ran up excitedly, all the way to the door of his room, but seeing Liu Qi's face, immediately put away the excitement just now, and put on a cautious look.

"Grandpa... We gave that bastard a hard lesson, why don't you look very happy about such a relief?"

Liu Qi slumped her shoulders, sighed softly, and said to Congratulations: "Go to Yan's house and bring Doudou back..."

Congratulations looked inexplicable, and he stretched out his hand and scratched his head, "Take Doudou? Why? Didn't Yan Yuque bring their house deed, land deed and shop just to ask Doudou to leave?"

But I didn't want Liu Qi to seem to be irritated, "I told you to go, you go!"

Congratulations were taken aback for a moment, and then responded again and again, "Hey, hey, I'm going right now..." After speaking, he ran away as quickly as if he had oiled the soles of his feet.

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When they returned to Yan's mansion, the chariots and horses were already ready to stop at the door. Yan An wanted to help Yan Yuque go inside to get some medicine, but Yan Yuque refused.

"I just want to get out of this place quickly..." Yan Yuque said as he stepped on the footstool and was about to sit in the carriage. When he saw Doudou sitting on the threshold and staring at himself eagerly, he said to him: " Go back and find your master..."

Doudou shook her head, and the crystal clear tears began to swirl in her eyes again.

Yan Yuque's tone became a little tougher, "Go find your master! I won't take you away!" After speaking, he lifted the car curtain and got in.

"I don't!" But Yan Yuque had already entered the carriage, Doudou held back her mouth, this time she didn't cry "wow", but the tears were still rolling in her eyes, she suddenly turned and ran into the house.

Yan Yuque sat in the carriage, raised the curtain and looked towards the door, and found that Doudou was no longer on the threshold, so he couldn't help but sneered coldly, "No matter who it is, they all want to live a good life..."

But as soon as he thought about it, he heard the sound of footsteps, and then the curtain of the car was pulled open suddenly, and a small figure was trying to climb up, looking at Yan with a little excitement while climbing. Yuque said: "Father, look that I got my face back! Look quickly!" As soon as he climbed up, he threw himself on Yan Yuque.

Yan Yuque was almost taken aback, the human skin mask was trampled into a ball by his anger, but Doudou picked it up and put it on his face again, but there was no special potion, that face was just It is loosely attached to the face, as if wearing a mask with bumps and bumps, it is just like a ghost.

But Doudou didn't care about how scary he looked now. The child had only one thought in his mind, because the face that the master pressed fell off, so his father refused to recognize himself in a rage. Now that the face is pressed back, dad can recognized him.

Looking at Yan Yuque through that mask, the eyes are bright and pure like a deer, full of excitement and expectation, holding Yan Yuque's arm with his small hand, "Look, Dad, although this thing is rotten, but I You can find Master, he can make a new one, and then help Doudou get back to its original appearance, so dad, don’t deny Doudou..." The last words were full of pleading.

Seeing him like this, Yan Yuque did feel soft-hearted for a moment at first, thinking that he has no mother at such a young age, and has been living a life of ups and downs. Finally, Liu Qi gave him a stable residence and taught him how to read and write. Other skills, so I can't blame him for obeying Liu Qi's words, but after hearing his last sentence that he said to go to Liu Qi to help him get his face back, the sullen feeling in his heart came up again, and his face suddenly changed. After Doudou tore his hand off his arm, he pushed him out of the car.

"I'm not your father! Even if you make your master look the same again, he's not my son!"

"Don't...don't...you are my father...you are my father!" Doudou's small body bent hard, not wanting Yan Yuque to push him out, but nothing could match Yan Yuque's strength, When he was pushed to the car door, he could only hold the edge of the car door tightly with his hand, and he couldn't control the tears that he kept holding back, "Don't... Father, don't deny Doudou... Doudou can do anything , don't leave Doudou alone..."

Yan Yuque covered his chest and coughed twice, and pulled Doudou's hand off the car wall, "I said it! I'm not your father!" Bending down, he grabbed Doudou's armpit with both hands, and hugged him down Put it on the ground.

Doudou was a small person, and Yan Yuque was on the carriage again. When Yan Yuque let go, Doudou was still some distance from the ground. His face was flushed with suffocation, and he couldn't get up for a while.

Yan An came out of the house with the last piece of luggage in his arms. Seeing Doudou sitting on the ground crying, he hurried over to put the things down, and wanted to pick up Doudou, but was startled by his face, "Little ancestor, What are you doing? Playing a ghost to scare people?"

Yan Yan'an was about to pick him up from the ground, but he heard Yan Yuque say: "Leave him alone, let's go!" After saying that, he retreated back into the carriage.

Yan An looked at Doudou in his arms, then at the carriage, and put Doudou down, "Little ancestor, go back and find your master, you should be satisfied that you have deceived our master so badly, don't give me any more Our master is feeling blocked, he is... not feeling well right now."

But Doudou grabbed his sleeve, "Yan An, tell Dad, I will do anything, I will be good, I will be obedient, please don't leave Doudou behind..."

Yan An was in a dilemma, and then sighed, "He's not your father, be good, go find your master." Then he abruptly pulled his sleeve out of Doudou's hand, jumped into the carriage, hesitated for a while, and threw He opened the horsewhip and whipped it on the horse's buttocks, "Drive."

The horse kicked and trotted, and Doudou wanted to go up and pull Yan An again, but this time she didn't even touch the corner of her clothes, and watched the carriage leave.

Yan Yuque sat in the car with his back leaning against the car wall and closed his eyes tiredly, Doudou's mournful cry still came from his ears.

"Father, don't deny Doudou! Father, don't leave Doudou behind!"

There are some pictures of the past and the present situation overlapping in my mind.

"Daddy, I'm not leaving! I'm not leaving here, Daddy—!"

Shaking his head, he wanted to shake the image in his mind away, but the voice in his ear was still clear. He suddenly realized something, turned to lift the curtain of the window, and saw a small figure running behind the carriage.

"Father————!"

But the man's calf was short, and there was still snow on the ground, so he fell to the ground without running very far, and could only watch the carriage get farther and farther away from him, "Father—!"

Yan Yuque put down the car curtain and couldn't bear to look any longer. Although the crying voice became farther and farther away, scattered into the sky, and could hardly be heard clearly, another voice in his mind became clearer and clearer.

"Brother, where are we going?"

"Yulou likes brother the most..."

"I didn't! I didn't steal from you! Absolutely not!"

"Why do you treat me and my mother like this? Don't we..."

"Father, don't send me away! Don't send me away!"

"Yan Yuque... I took away my father's love for me, you took away my identity in Yan's family, and you took away the beautiful rivers and mountains that I spent ten years restoring... What do you want to take away from me? What are you going to do?!"

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"Do not!"

Yan Yuque yelled out, in fact, he didn't want to do this, he just wanted to protect what he originally owned, to keep his father's love, to keep his own family business, to keep the original beautiful and peaceful life, but things backfired... …

"Father, don't deny Doudou! Father, don't leave Doudou behind!"

"Daddy, I'm not leaving! I'm not leaving here, Daddy—!"

"Father, don't deny Doudou! Father, don't leave Doudou behind!"

"Daddy, I'm not leaving! I'm not leaving here, Daddy—!"

"father……"

"father……"

The voices of Doudou and Lian Yulou were mixed together in his head, and he couldn't tell who was chasing the carriage behind him?

Doudou?

Or was it the Lianyu Tower back then?

Boom!

Yan Yuque slammed his fist on the wall of the car, big drops of sweat slid down his cheeks, his lips trembled, and he uttered a very soft voice, "Stop..." Then he raised the volume slightly Read it again, "Stop..."

But the horses still ran forward, so Yan Yuque raised his shoulders, as if exhausting all his strength, and shouted to Yan An who was driving in front.

"parking!"

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After such a commotion in the morning, Liu Qi didn't sleep anymore, after Congratulations went to Yan's house to pick up Doudou, he sat in front of the bronze mirror and looked at the scar on his face.

The red mark from the forehead to the cheek closely connected himself and Yan Yuque, two people who should have nothing to do with each other. They were hostile and plotted against each other, but there were countless nights. Indulging in sensuality and turmoil on the bed, I don't know how to explain it.

Obviously, she should hate him to the extreme, but after achieving her goal, she still does that kind of thing with him repeatedly.

I was in the south hall, greeted and sent off, I didn’t know before, but when I was doing business with Lian Erxue, Lian Er told himself that you have to do that kind of thing with someone you like...

the person I like……

What is a person you like?

There was the sound of trampling footsteps outside the door, Liu Qi withdrew her eyes and turned around, seeing Gong Xi walking to the door, so she asked, "Did you take it back?"

But he didn't want to congratulate him and shook his head, "When I went there, Yan's house was empty, there were only messy car wheels and footprints on the ground, Doudou should have been taken away together..."

Liu Qi showed surprise on his face, and frowned as if he couldn't believe it. After a while, he closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then said: "I see, you can do things first..."

The door of the room closed gently with a "crack", and Liu Qi looked sideways at the wooden box containing the land deed of the Yan family on the painting table, and slightly squeezed the palms on her knees.