Chapter 11 Extremely Close

After a long silence, my father's eyes seemed to be looking at me and elsewhere. The eyes are focused on my face, which makes people want to cry. I pulled the corners of my father's clothes and cried. I thought that I would be cowardly once, collect my heart from now on, and go to Yue to make peace three months later.

"If you don't want to go, don't go. Don't be embarrassed." My father finally opened his mouth to speak. Maybe I had a headache crying, and I always felt that my father's voice was a little depressed and hoarse.

Is it difficult? This word makes me feel funny. It suddenly occurred to me that I had already planned to meet Xiu Yuan on the street. Don't you have to go if you don't want to go? How is that possible! My name is so big in the State of Wu, which makes me scared and scared.

The night came in along the window lattice, which was cold and silvery white, and even the bluestone ground reflected the light like frost and snow. My father has a responsibility to the State of Wu, to the Fu family, and to the people of the world. And I have a responsibility for my father and two brothers. Therefore, I also have the responsibility of Wu Guo and the Fu family. Although I can't breathe, I will carry it with my meager strength and move forward steadily.

"It's okay. My daughter will get married sooner or later, but it's not yet." I comforted my father softly, which sounded so unconvinced. Xiaobai crawled over and got into the quilt, leaned his head through my chin and sobbed twice, and his big eyes full of energy were full of worry and inquiry.

I touched Xiaobai's head comfortingly and smiled at my father, "I still have Xiaobai. If there is anything, I can let him do it. Besides, hasn't he said what task to be arranged yet? The prince of Yue dared to come to Wu to marry the princess. How could he not be sure to surrender me? It's just that I can't say it. It's also the trouble of Tu's father and two brothers.

Forbid, Emperor Zongxiao is not too ruthless and allows me to keep filial piety for my mother for three months. Three months later, I will embark on the journey to Yue. This time, maybe I will never have a chance to see my father and two brothers in my life, but as long as they are safe, I will live well in Vietnam.

Since I want to work for Emperor Zongxiao, the premise is that I must keep my father and two brothers safe and rich for the rest of my life. In this way, it's actually good to get to know Xiuyuan first, at least we won't feel strange when we speak.

"My father has resigned. We don't want wealth and glory. I have lost your mother, and I can't lose you again." The corners of my father's eyes were a little wet. As the sky darkened, the moonlight seemed to be brighter than the octagonal palace lamp when it shone in the room. The father's face was hard to see with the moonlight on his back, and there was a desperate sadness from him.

I smiled playfully: "How can it be lost! Sooner or later, his daughter will get married. Maybe he is very good! Father, don't be too pessimistic. However, the daughter means that she doesn't want her eldest brother and second brother to participate in the government again. If the father is worried, he will let his second brother and his daughter go all the way to Vietnam three months later, and they will also take care of each other. The father is also relieved. Our family has a father waiting for one to make the emperor afraid. I paused and said, "If he is really bad, my daughter must find a way to come back alive from Yue."

I held my father's hand hard. I don't know whether I want to draw warmth from him or pass on my father's strength from me. Maybe I want to take the burden of the family and the people all over the world from him. No matter what it is, I feel that I have the responsibility and obligation to carry the rise and fall of the whole family.

The father sat by the bedside for half a night, silent, and the air was dull and depressing. Xiaobai doesn't dare to breathe, and so do I. I don't know when my father left, and I was awakened by Xiaobai in my sleep. The light of the octagonal palace lamp flickered, as if the fox was dancing in the night, spreading a breath of unsteady will.

I put on my clothes and got out of bed, and Xiaobai obediently fell on my shoulder. I took the silk red cloak on the colorful screen and put it on my body, and it was exposed late at night. I didn't want to be infected with the wind and cold to make my father and two brothers worried.

Stepping on the bright moonlight, the white moonlight shone on the green tung leaves, reflecting the dazzling light. The eldest brother sat at the stone table under the yard. On the table, there was tung wine brewed by his mother when she was alive. The fragrance of flower wine floated with the hazy fog in the yard, as if it were around the three of us, with a faint blood. The second brother stood in the middle of the yard, and his whole body was bathed in the moonlight. When he looked over with cold luster, it made me feel like I was in the ice cellar, but it flashed very fast, and there was a faint sadness in an instant.

"Come and taste the mother's wine." The eldest brother greeted me with a smile. The invisible smell of blood in the air seemed to be stronger, but murderous. The second brother has been hidden for many years and has never been revealed in front of people. The fifth master has always said that he has hidden it very well. In fact, I know that there has never been anything that can make the second brother worth getting angry.

I took a look at my second brother. My fear of him since I was a child is now infinitely magnified. If I am ready, I will be swallowed back into my stomach one by one, and I feel extremely uncomfortable. The second brother restrained his breath and sat in front of me and looked at me coldly and said, "When did it happen?"

"The twelfth lunar month..." After thinking about it, I felt that it was not a good idea and said, "I met him in the twelfth lunar month, and then I was entangled by them. I couldn't reveal my identity, so..."

The second brother interrupted me: "So you have been targeted by them for a long time." This is an affirmative sentence. After saying that, he looked at the eldest brother and said, "They may have thought that there would be today. I always thought they would start from you and me, but I ignored it."

The eldest brother's smile followed the imported Tonghua wine and said in a low voice: "Actually, he has been staring at Weiwei for a long time. Since he can marry a queen, even if he doesn't go to Yue, he is also the future imperial concubine."

The second brother closed his eyes painfully. In fact, this is the reality. Everyone sees it clearly, but they try to ignore what may happen without happening. In fact, the eldest brother, the second brother and the father are the three people I know the most well in the world. Because I live clearly, I know that some things are unavoidable and can only face them bravely.

So I have to interrupt the conversation between the two of them today. Needless to say, I have decided on this matter. Instead of working on irreversible things, it's better to think about the future retreat of the Fu family after me and my relatives.

The second brother looked at me with a surprised look and turned to a glass of wine and said, "Sure enough, it's my sister."

The eldest brother also smiled and said, "Tell me what you think, and we will discuss it together."

I nodded and said the ideas that had been sorted out before. After saying that, I looked at my eldest brother and second brother and said, "I think Emperor Zongxiao will definitely come to me in recent days. Then decide."

The second brother drank all the tung wine in the cup in silence and gently put down the cup in his hand as if he were afraid of breaking. I'll go to Vietnam with you.

"That's what I mean, so that my father can rest assured. Xiaobai is still by my side. Since Xiuyuan promised to let me make love, he also made me a princess. He must have discussed it with the prince of the State of Yue, so my background must have been clearly investigated, so there is no need for Xiaobai to be invisible.

The eldest brother pondered, "It's good for Xiaobai not to expose it for the time being. It can also help if there is anything. Or spread the news, or do something else, there is always something that can keep people from grasping the handle.

The second brother shook his head with me, reanalyzed the pros and cons, and said in a low voice, "Let's see what happens first." Turning his head and looking at Xiaobai, Xiaobai trembling when he saw him, and his two small claws arched, as if he begged his second brother to show mercy when he ordered it.

Xiaobai is always our happy fruit. Looking at it like this, my eldest brother and I can't help laughing. The second brother pulled his face and said lightly, "It's not impossible for you to go with Weiwei, but in order to better convey the news to your family, you must communicate with all the animals along the way, so that we can know what's going on as soon as possible."

Little White stared at his second brother suspiciously and didn't seem to believe that the task was so simple. The second brother closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He stretched out his hand and hit it down while Xiaobai and I didn't react. Xiaobai rolled around on the table with his head in pain, stained with tung wine.

If Xiaobai is the most afraid of anyone in the world, he is the eldest brother who is as cold as cold as snow, followed by the fifth master. The second brother will grab Xiaobai rolling on the table in his arms. Xiaobai is really not struggling, but closing his eyes and pretending to be dead.

The second brother said lightly, "This time is at least three months. Don't use the fastest speed. I don't want to be in any danger. If nothing happens in time, I will catch all the foxes all over the world and cook fox soup.

Xiaobai trembling and nodded. It's really superfluous for the second brother to do this. Now even if he asks Xiaobai to take out all the treasures, Xiaobai will not hesitate. Even if you sell me, but you will never betray your second brother. Oh, what a injustice.

The conversation ended, but I didn't feel sleepy when I returned to the room. In the last three months of Liaohua City, day by day, I guarded the mourning hall every day, burning paper money for my deceased mother or cutting some gadgets for my mother. Occasionally, I will recite the scriptures with the master my father invited back.

Two and a half months have passed in a blink of an eye, and I haven't left the house and haven't gone anywhere. Everyone knows what I seem to be avoiding? Sometimes I hold the sandalwood beads in the palm of my hand and look straight ahead for a morning. Sometimes I sit in front of the window and look at the green tung blossoms outside the window. Because I ate fast all day, my face was a little yellow, like a little flower knocked down by the frost in autumn, and there was no trace of anger.

My father and second brother leave early and return late every day, and occasionally someone will visit the house, but it is no longer the same as before. Even though I am now the princess of Zhaoning, I am gradually deserted. I don't know what's going on outside. Xiaobai has often disappeared recently. Every time he comes back, his eyes are full of fatigue. He sleeps in the dark and continues to disappear after waking up. Everyone seems to be very busy, only I stay in the mourning hall every day, counting the days passing day by day.

Time is like water, slipping through the fingers and never coming back in a blink of an eye. The salute to be brought has also been cleaned up, and all the emperor's rewards have been cleaned up in the back house. As long as I wait for another five days, I will embark on the journey to Yue.

The road is very long, and it will take a month to get to the capital of Vietnam. It looks like my life. The road between me and my husband is also very long, and I can't see the light of the future. Because I haven't been out, I haven't seen Xiuyuan for two and a half months.

And this person seems to have never appeared in my life. Subconsciously, I want to forget that I have never met such a person. The heart of the daily chanting gradually calms as water, and in the last morning of the fifth day, the heart lake was thrown into a big stone and could not calm down for a long time.