Not to mention Jiang Qingchi, Mu Yanzhu was even surprised.
"Grandma, what are you doing?"
"Come here!" The old lady changed her kind expression from before and took Mu Yanzhu's arm and pulled her behind her.
"How did you promise me three years ago? Have you forgotten what you said?"
Mu Yanzhu was stunned.
Suddenly, like a cold wind blowing in, the memories of three years ago came as promised, and every word he said came to mind so clearly.
Mu Yanzhu's eyes flickered, her lips pursed tightly, and she held the old lady's hand, "Grandma, listen to my explanation."
"You enter the house and explain to me slowly. As for this kid, I won't let him in!"
Although the old lady is over seventy years old, her strength has not diminished. She has always been gentle, but today she had the fierce aura of Mrs. Xing, which gave Muran a look.
"Mu Ran, close the door, he is not your brother-in-law!"
"Huh? Oh."
What is this and what? Mu Ran was also confused. He glanced at the wet Jiang Qingchi sympathetically, then slowly closed the door. The old lady directly locked the door from the inside, completely shutting out Jiang Qingchi. the meaning of.
…
inside the house.
Mu Ran wisely went to boil water, leaving Mu Yanzhu and the old lady sitting on the worn wooden chairs in the hall.
The old lady took Mu Yanzhu's hand again and patted it twice, her eyes dim, "Three years ago, you said you would never contact him again. You said that even if he came back to you, you would not agree. Yes, you said you wanted to find a mature man to be with, why did you forget?"
"Grandma, just think I was joking at that time. He was immature and neither was I. He was wrong and I was also wrong."
Mu Yanzhu was currently thinking about Jiang Qingchi outside the door, who was splashed with sewage. How was he feeling now? She was so worried about him and wanted to go out and have a look quickly, so she spoke in a very irritable tone.
How could the old lady not see what she was thinking, she just pulled her tight like a kite string, not letting Mu Yanzhu leave even half a step.
"Yan'er, three years ago, you brought him home to show me. I was very happy, because grandma can see that you love him very much, and he also loves you very much. You can go to a woman's house to celebrate the New Year on New Year's Eve. There aren’t many men, and these grandmas can see it!”
"But Yan'er, if he can leave you once, he will leave you a second time. Just listen to grandma. He is very good, but you two are not suitable. Don't get entangled with him, Ang?"
"No, no, no,"
Mu Yanzhu's eyes were red and she assured the old lady, "Grandma, I promise you, Jianghe will never abandon me a second time."
"You are always like this, with a hard mouth but a soft heart, and you like to say good things for him. You forgot that three years ago, you walked home with blisters on your feet, and then you cried for five days, and your eyes were swollen. I tried my best to persuade you every day. You, in the end, you promised me that you would go to Licheng to develop and never contact him again, just think about the asceticism you have endured!"
What was that day like
Three years ago, she and Jiang Qingchi broke up on their graduation day. He turned around and left, and she bought a ticket to go home alone.
She stumbled all the way, and when she reversed the car for the second time, she felt so uncomfortable that she leaned against the car window and cried herself to sleep. When she woke up, she realized that she had been on the bus, but it was already dark and there was no last train.
Mu Yanzhu walked home from her destination, covering a distance of 20 kilometers and walking for two hours.
In the next few days, she felt as if she was dead. She didn't think about food or food, and stayed awake all night. Only the remaining body of her body was left alive in the world. Her soul had long since left, and she was overlooking this miserable and fragile shell.
If grandma hadn't been with her all the time, Mu Yanzhu really felt that she wouldn't be able to survive.
She even said depressing words to the old man, "If you live another life, you will never come back to earth in the next life."
The old lady was startled and burst into tears, and she persuaded her in a good voice that she must think better of it.
"Yan'er, you still have grandma, and Mu Ran. We all love you. Don't think so. Grandma, please think of it."
…
"This is how I persuaded you to come back three years ago. Do you still remember?"
How could you not remember
They are all tears, they are all bitterness, and they are all sad.
"But grandma, Jiang He has been very painful these past three years. We are connected to each other."
"He must not have suffered as much as you. I will not allow you to be together, because from the moment he didn't want you three years ago, he decided that he was not worthy of marrying my granddaughter!"
"grandmother-"
"Stop saying anything! If you insist on marrying him, then don't recognize me as your grandma."
Mu Yanzhu's heart suddenly hurt.
Looking at the old man's hunched back and frost-like face, I could only say nothing.
…
"Brother-in-law, you should go back first. My grandma is so angry right now that she won't treat you well—"
Mu Ran stood at the door. Before he could finish speaking, he was pushed aside by the old lady.
The old lady was leaning on a cane, looking at Jiang Qingchi with a cold face.
Jiang Qingchi didn't clean up the stains on his body, and his hair was wet. He simply wiped his face, his eyebrows trembling slightly like wings, and his voice was apologetic, "Grandma, don't get so angry..."
"I don't need you to pretend here!"
"I used to like you as a young man, and thought you were very sincere, but I have also thought about it. You are sincere, but immature. You and Yan'er are not suitable, and I will not let you be together."
"Also, what that kid Muran just said is wrong. I'm not angry for a moment. I don't want to see you forever. Just leave! You and my granddaughter will never have anything to do with each other again!"
"grandmother,"
Jiang Qingchi said calmly, "I'm sorry. I was immature three years ago. I hurt Yanzhu. This is understandable and I won't argue with it. I have grown up in the past three years. I promise you that I will never want her again. "
"I don't care if you grow up or not. Here, a man only has one chance. My granddaughter deserves better. Go away and don't let me, an old lady, tell you a third time!"
After saying that the old lady was about to close the door, Jiang Qingchi hurriedly reached out and clamped the crack of the door, regardless of the danger of breaking his hand.
"Grandma, I'm here to propose marriage to you today. Please let Yanzhu marry me. If you are worried that I will let her down, I can write a guarantee. All the money I earn in the future will be given to Yanzhu, and my house and car will be given to her. If you don’t feel at ease about transferring the ownership in her name—"
"enough!"
The old lady has lived for eighty years. What words have she not heard and what people have she not seen
"Although our Mu family has no money, we don't want these things from you. You want to propose marriage? You are not qualified!"
Every word is cruel, sharp and ruthless.
Mu Ran, who was standing aside, stamped her feet anxiously. Grandma is usually very gentle and kind, but what happened today.
"Grandma, what my brother-in-law said makes sense. He is sincere to my sister!"
The old lady ignored Mu Ran and said without changing her expression: "My granddaughter has no parents since she was a child. She was brought up by me. I have the right to make the decision for her about her marriage. I have already seen your future. Don't you think so?" will be happy.”
"What do you want grandma to do to give me a chance?"
Although Jiang Qingchi looked embarrassed, his eyes were firm and deep.
He wanted to prove that he was really not the naive and impulsive boy he was three years ago.
He also wants to prove that he really loves and admires Yanzhu!
"Then kneel down in front of the door and kneel until I forgive you."
"Grandma, are you crazy? In what age are you still making people kneel down?" Mu Ran couldn't stand it anymore.
"Okay, okay, I kneel down. As long as grandma marries Yanzhu to me, I can do whatever she wants."
Jiang Qingchi moved the two big stones away from the ground, and then knelt down in front of the threshold of Mu's house with a plop.
Mu Ran stamped his foot hard and couldn't stand it anymore. He hurried back to the house to inform Mu Yanzhu.
The old lady gritted her teeth and closed the door again.
When Mu Yanzhu learned that Jiang Qingchi was kneeling, her head was buzzing and her walking was unsteady. If she hadn't seen Jiang Qingchi kneeling through the crack in the door, she would have even thought that Mu Ran was joking.
"Grandma, why did you make him kneel down? I am your darling, but I am also the darling of the family. What do you think of our Mu family when you let Jiang He's parents see this scene?!"
Mu Yanzhu's words did not hurt the old lady.
"Whatever you think, it's best to think that our family is sinister, so get his son away quickly, so as not to be embarrassed here."
"Grandma, why have you changed? Why?"
Mu Yanzhu's tears flowed down her neck and burned her clothes.
"You were obviously not like this before..."
"Yan'er, this is because I don't want you to make the same mistakes I made!"
The old lady was beating her chest with grief, and her white hair was blown by the wind, looking desolate and regretful. She didn't want to talk about it, but now that it has happened, she can only talk about that unspeakable past...
A long time ago, she also loved a man with so much heart.
The man said he was going to join the army, and she said she could wait for him.
Later, when the war ended and the man came back, she was so excited that she took the green train for 5 hours to find him, and the two of them spent a few days loving each other.
"I originally thought that since he had joined the army and returned, he would definitely marry me..."
"But I didn't expect that in a few days, he would marry a girl who was the right match for him. At that time, I was already pregnant with his child, who is your father."
"I told him about my pregnancy, and he asked me to meet for the last time, gave me a sum of money, and asked me to abort the child and stop disturbing his current life."
The old lady will never forget that figure from behind.
He is more decisive, more indifferent, and more cruel than the first time he joined the army.
It turns out that a man can pretend to be so gentle when he is not in love!
So why give her a second hope
If you climb mountains and seas for love, can they be leveled
All mountains and seas can be leveled, but what is difficult to level is obviously the human heart!
"I didn't abort the child. I gave birth to the child secretly. I took your father and came to Ningcheng alone. I worked as a tailor, a nanny, and sold pancakes on the roadside. I met your grandpa while making pancakes."
"He said that his wife died in a car accident. He doesn't mind me taking care of the child, and I don't mind him being widowed. The two of us reorganized a family, and then we had your uncle."
"But that old man left me behind within two years!"
"When I was sorting through your grandfather's belongings, I discovered that he had never been married at all."
"He was diagnosed with liver cancer and already knew that he would not live for a few years. He felt that it was too hard for me to be exposed to the wind and sun as a woman. He had been paying attention to me for a long time and didn't know how to give me some subsidies, so he thought of this way."
"Your grandfather is a good man. He left all the money he saved in his life to me. Your uncle and your father both know that they are not born to the same father. We have unanimously decided not to tell you and Mu Ran about this."
Say it now.
Mu Ran burst into tears beside him.
He didn't know why he was crying. Obviously, this incident had no impact on him. He remembered that when he was a child, his grandparents would pick up other children when he went to school, but it was Mu Yanzhu who always picked him up.
Neither she nor Mu Yanzhu had ever seen her grandfather. They only burned two pieces of paper at the grave every year.
There is no emotion when burning paper, I just feel like a stranger.
The old lady took out her handkerchief, wiped her tear-filled eyes, and then held Mu Yanzhu's hand again.
"So Yan'er, grandma is here. I don't want you to follow grandma's old path. If a man doesn't want you for the first time, he can really don't want you for the second time. Just listen to grandma and don't want a slap in the face." If I give you a piece of candy, you will be fooled.”
"Grandma..."
Mu Yanzhu hugged the old man tightly.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I never knew your past."
"It's okay. I'm an old man and I've long since let go of the past. Just live a good life."
“…”
At this moment, Mu Yanzhu's voice stopped suddenly, and she could only close her eyes and let her tears burst.
grandmother.
How can I convince you that Jiang He is not that kind of person.
She knew that nothing she said now would be of any use. If it was self-defeating, it would only cause irritation to the old man.
…
Jiang He knelt outside the door for a whole day without eating or drinking.
It has already become dark. It is not winter, but the nights in early autumn are also filled with chill and the north wind is howling.
A strong gust of wind hit Jiang Qingchi, who shivered and got goosebumps from the cold. Because he hadn't eaten, he had no calories, but when he thought about the future between himself and Mu Yanzhu, he didn't feel anything.
Another hour passed, and the door opened from the inside. Mu Yanzhu took the food and a cup of hot water and put them on the ground.
"… Fool."
"It's not stupid, it's worth it." His voice was dry and hoarse.
"Eat some food, my grandma is asleep."
"Don't eat. I have to prove that I love you."
"Then if you're so hungry that you faint, how can you prove it?"
"No, I know it well..."
Jiang Qingchi curled his lips, and at this time he was still in the mood to smile at Mu Yanzhu.
"Leng, come in quickly."
"Then you eat and I'll go in."
"I won't eat, so don't worry about me."
When he is stubborn, he can't pull ten cows back.
Mu Yanzhu sighed, lifted up his coat, and then knelt down with Jiang Qingchi.
"Get up quickly!"
"If you don't eat, I won't get up."
"I'm really fine... I have to make your grandma believe that I'm not a heartless person. If I can't even bear this little hardship, how can I give you a future? What's the difference between me and a heartless person? Huh?"
"Don't blame my grandma, she has been through this before, she just doesn't want me to get hurt." Mu Yanzhu's eyes were complicated.
"I know, I don't blame anyone but myself."
Jiang Qingchi gently rubbed Mu Yanzhu's head.
"Be good, my wife, get up quickly. If you kneel here with me, I will really faint as soon as I close my eyes."
“…”
Mu Yanzhu got up and handed him the water in her hand.
"Then if you don't want to eat, why don't you drink some water?"
"If you don't drink, you can bear it."
"You are such a fool!"
"Idiot, I just ask you not to give up."
Jiang Qingchi stared at her, and his voice carried along the wind to Mu Yanzhu's ears.
"Please believe me and leave everything to me now. Don't give up on me, okay?"
Mu Yanzhu's throat hurt, and her eyes were even more painful, "What if I said I wanted to give up on you..."
She turned around and left. Behind her, Jiang Qingchi shouted heartbreakingly, "Jiang Yan!"
He took her hand with trembling hands, and knelt on the ground, his eyes full of prayer, and a shaky tear solidified in the corner of his eye.
"Jiang Yan, I beg you not to give up on me!"
(End of chapter)