Chapter 13 Epilogue and Truth

It was getting brighter little by little. This is a sleepless night, but Ziheng and Hongchen are not tired. They walked hand in hand in the garden all night.The hands of the two of them never let go overnight.Not willing to let go. It wasn't until dawn that Zi Heng sent Hong Chen back to his room, but he couldn't help but hugged her and kissed her again. "Go back to your room, otherwise, it would be embarrassing for grandparents to see." Hong Chen pushed him with a smile, "We still have a long time in the future." "We have a lifetime to stay together slowly." Ziheng also smiled, "We will never be apart for a moment."

People in love always like to say some unreasonable and stupid things.It is the happiest moment in life when a shrewd and rational person can become a fool for the one he loves. Suddenly there was a quarrel outside, it was the third sister who was arguing with someone. Hong Chen heard it clearly, and was taken aback: "It's my grandfather!" He hurriedly pulled Zi Heng out. Zhou Gong and Zhou Po were also disturbed by the quarrel, and when they saw the two coming out of a room hand in hand, their expressions changed, and before they had time to ask, they only cared about the chaos in front of them, and told them: "Don't go out, go back to the house!" Stay well, don't make a sound, anyway, they are elders, it's not good to quarrel. You just hide inside and don't come out, let us deal with it."

Thinking about it for a while, he thought it was good, so he hurriedly dragged Hong Chen into the house, and comforted him: "Don't worry. Leave it to my grandfather, he can pinch and calculate, he knows astronomy and geography, and it will be smooth." He still had the heart to talk and laugh at such an urgent moment, Hong Chen couldn't help smiling, and obediently fell in Zi Heng's arms without making a sound. Zhou Gong and Zhou Po greeted them in person, invited Luo Changming and his wife into the living room, persuaded them with good words, and kept explaining: "Miss Hongchen is not here. I have another place to live, why would you bring your girlfriend to our place?"

"What girlfriend?" Luo Changming interrupted irritably, "Our girls from the Luo family have nothing to do with your Zhou family, so don't try to get close! Tell your grandson, hand over my granddaughter, or I will sue him for kidnapping women !" Grandma Zhou was dissatisfied, and coughed, "Ahem, I can't talk, cough, so to speak, your granddaughter has hands and feet, cough cough, she is not a child, cough, abduction is just abduction?" Hongchen looked at Ziheng apologetically, and said in a low voice, "I'm really sorry for causing so much trouble to your family, my grandpa is so unreasonable."

Zi Heng put his finger on his lips and said "shh", "Shut up, let my grandpa find a way." The voice hadn't finished yet, but there was another commotion outside the door. The third sister ran in all the way, out of breath, and reported: "Mr. is back, and a man came. He said it was Mr.!" Zi Heng didn't understand it for a while, but Hong Chen suddenly reacted: "Dad? Why is Dad here?" Then a stranger's voice came from the living room, and he said calmly and forcefully: "Hi everyone, I am Zhou Feng's attending doctor. After Zhou Feng woke up this morning, he insisted on going home to have a look, and he refused to stay here any longer. In the hospital. We respect his intentions, but we are worried that he will come out alone, so we come back with him to have a look. You can talk for a while, and you will go back later. No matter what, you have to stay in the hospital for observation for a few more days before you can confirm your discharge .”

Hongchen rejoiced: "Father is really well!" However, at this time Zhou Feng shouted violently outside the door: "Luo Changming, why are you here?!" Then Luo Changming also yelled: "You surnamed Zhou, you murderer, are you still alive?!" The doctor hurriedly comforted him: "This old gentleman, the patient's condition is still unstable, please don't let him get emotional, so as not to cause a recurrence." "It's better if he's dead!" Luo Changming yelled, "This murderer should have been sentenced to death a long time ago, and it's taking advantage of him to go to the lunatic asylum!"

"You are the real murderer!" Zhou Feng responded with the excitement of the patient who was still not fully awake, "You killed Feiyan, you should pay for her life!" "I want you to pay for my daughter's life!" Luo Changming yelled, as if swinging his crutches again, Zhou Po and Hong Chen's grandma yelled together, Zhou Gong and the doctor pulled hard, and there was a quarrel outside the door group. Hong Chen said nervously: "Let's go out, will they cause trouble?" "If we go out, it will only make the situation more chaotic." He said in annoyance, and suddenly there was a faint fear in his heart, as if something more terrible was about to happen.Luo Changming, Zhou Feng, Feiyan, what kind of enmity is there between them?Are you and Hongchen a couple cursed by God? Why do you have to go through so many ups and downs and tribulations?

There seemed to be faint thunder in the sky, and it was getting closer and closer, and it was suffocating.He felt like he was going to explode.Too many things happened in the past few days, which made him truly feel that the real sorrow and joy in life are unbearable weight.Before the turbulent changes in his life, he had no ability to predict and resist, and he didn't even have enough strength to bear it. He has always been conceited, but the events of the past few days have made him realize how small and weak he is. Luo Changming and Zhou Feng were still arguing fiercely.Zhou Gong was panting to advise, Zhou Po was coughing like she was about to vomit blood, and the doctor was pulling Zhou Feng desperately: "Don't get excited, don't get too excited. You have to rest well, we'll go back right away, hurry back to the hospital!"

"I'm not leaving! I'm not going anywhere! I want to find this wolf to pay for my life! Seek justice for Feiyan!" "You're going to pay for my daughter's life!" Luo Changming shouted in an old voice without showing any weakness, "You killed Xiuxiu, you lunatic, you'd better stay in the mental hospital forever, and die badly! " "Luo Changming, Xiuxiu died for you, it's your retribution! You raped Concubine Yan, persecuted her, and caused her to give birth to a child to death. Xiuxiu was wronged by your daughter, and she paid for your life. !"

"Nonsense!" Luo Changming yelled, "What nonsense are you talking about?" "Don't you know? Feiyan died because of dystocia in giving birth to her son! You forced him to death! You are Ziheng's biological father! You devil!" "Boom!" Like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, Hong Chen's heart was torn apart by this sudden sound. Caught off guard, she screamed sharply, "No!" Pushing Zhou Ziheng away, she jumped up, and suddenly rush out the door. Zi Heng was already stunned by the bad news. Ever since his father entered the door, he had been gripped by an inexplicable fear, and the revelation of the truth finally settled the most terrifying fact and completely stunned him. past.

Zhou Gong, Zhou Po, and Luo Changming and his wife made a fuss, shouting "Hong Chen, where are you going" and chased them out, but outside the gate, the autumn wind was blowing and the bamboo forest was silent, so where could Hong Chen be seen? Zhou Po ran back frantically, kicking her little feet, pushing her stunned grandson, "Oh, cough, cough, hurry up, run after her, and see where that child is, she doesn't even have shoes on, so please don't let anything happen to you!" !" "She didn't wear shoes?" Zhou Ziheng repeated blankly. Suddenly, the scene of seeing Luo Hongchen in the Confucius Temple for the first time came to his eyes vividly. Clear and dazzling, piercing deeply into Ziheng's heart like a needle. She is not wearing shoes. Facing the mischief of fate, the woman who sold embroidered shoes in the Wuzhen Embroidery Workshop of Nanjing Confucius Temple had no choice but to flee in despair without wearing shoes. She escaped from Coral Garden in despair, but everyone in the room was thinking about him, thinking about the role she played in their lives—she was the granddaughter of Luo Changming and his wife The son is the granddaughter of Zhou Gong and Zhou Po. He is Zhou Feng's biological daughter, but Zhou Ziheng's most beloved person, and the real blood relationship between her and Ziheng is uncle and niece! When the Gu was revealed, Luo Changming and his wife, Zhou Gong and Zhou Po, Zhou Feng and Zi Heng, these mustard motes who were toyed with by fate in the palm of their hands, were nailed to the cross of fate at the same time, dumbfounded. Let's turn the clock back thirty years—— More than 30 years ago, in that "unprecedented" era, Luo Changming, the commander-in-chief of the art troupe, led a group of girls with an average age of less than 17 years old to go deep into the hinterland of the grassland, giving tour performances to soldiers far away in the frontier, and bringing them to the party. Warm and caring. It was a specific historical period, with many specific humanity and rules, and numerous inhuman but horrific tragedies occurred.The wind in the prairie and the beasts in the field have brought many disasters and threats to the young female art troupe members, but the most terrible danger comes from people who are tormented by loneliness and desire in the prairie. A man who has lost his mind. Luo Changming is such a man. Concubine Yan is a unique sacrifice in this tragic era. Concubine Yan was originally the most pure and beautiful woman in the world. After entering the grassland, the wind, knife, frost and sword not only did not leave marks on her face, but the essence of the world made her more beautiful.When she dances, the sky, the earth, and the clouds will rotate together; when she sings, the wind in the mountains will stop and listen; wherever she goes, flowers will bloom on the ice and snow, and everyone will have smiles on their faces, warriors They couldn't help but lower their voices when they spoke, and they paid great attention to the rhetoric of the language. Luo Changming was not a sentimental person, but when he saw Feiyan, he understood a word: Yuxiu Zhongling. Like all the male soldiers, he couldn't help but be attracted by Feiyan, his eyes followed her body, his heart beat wildly following her every move, and when talking to her, he couldn't help clearing his throat first, as if there was something in his throat. Stuck with stones. In his life, he has never been so worried about a woman. Even when he went to the battlefield with real swords and guns, and his body was full of hand grenades, he accompanied the chief to negotiate with the Kuomintang army, and he was never so restless. If this matter is not resolved, Luo Changming will never sleep peacefully again for the rest of his life.In front of him, there has never been a mountain that cannot be conquered. It was a provocation that a woman could be so beautiful. The occurrence of rape is almost a matter of course and unavoidable, the only thing that can be discussed is whether it is sooner or later. Everyone does wrong things in their life.A person isn't too bad if that event doesn't do too much harm to someone else. Luo Changming was once a good man, a respected man.Looking back on his life, he thought he had only done one thing wrong. However, things have happened, and it is useless to regret. So he said, "Let's all forget about it. Or, do what you say." Feiyan was too angry and sad to speak. Luo Changming handed the pistol into Feiyan's hand, and said to her: "If you hate me and feel that you can't forgive me, you can kill me with one shot. Don't worry, if you die, you are a ghost, and I will never pester you." She held the pistol to his head, but her hands were too trembling to pull the bolt.Glaring at him, he asked: "You also have a daughter. So you have no heart? The sky has eyes, so you are not afraid of retribution?" He took the gun and pulled it away for her, and handed it back to her again, "Retribution? You don't need to trouble God, you can do it yourself." She was still shaking, tears streaming down silently. He couldn't see this, so he put a gun against his head and asked her: "Do you want me to die? You just have to say a word, and I will do it myself. You stand back, lest you get blood splashed all over your body." She really couldn't speak, and couldn't do anything, so she covered her face and ran away crying.I cried for three days and three nights, and thought about it for three days and three nights, but I still couldn't figure out what to do.In the wilderness, in the very age, with no relatives, who can avenge her? But he couldn't bring himself to face Luo Changming again.So on the fourth night, she secretly left the team and went into the mountain alone. In those days, if you were a deserter, if you were caught, you would have to enforce the military law.She hid in hiding and walked out of the mountain for a month, only to find that she was pregnant. A mistake should be extended to the next generation.She was distraught, and thought of death, but she hesitated after all. She stayed at the mountain people's house, and she missed Zhou Feng day and night, but she dared not see him, only feeling that she was not good enough.She was bleeding heavily during childbirth, and she knew that her life was not long, so she finally made up her mind and asked someone to give Zhou Feng a message, hoping to see her one last time before she died. When Zhou Feng rushed to the farmer's house to find Feiyan, Feiyan had exhausted her last strength and was dying. She held Zhou Feng's hand and only had time to express her love to him and entrusted her son to him. He resigned with regret. She was kind and beautiful all her life, and she never cursed anyone, or even said a single foul or cruel word.However, before she died, her eyes spewed fire, she gritted her teeth, and uttered the only and final poisonous curse in her life: "Whoever rapes a wife and daughter will surely commit adultery. I don't believe that Luo Changming will have no retribution! I hate myself for not I can kill him, but the sky will not let him go!" Zhou Feng was almost going crazy, knelt in front of Feiyan and swore: what she failed to do, he will do for her!He must find Luo Changming and avenge her! Fei Yan died. Death is an irreparable loss. Once this happened, there was no going back. This big rock is destined to follow Luo Changming for the rest of his life. If a person cannot forgive himself, he has no choice but to choose death—such as Mei Qi; or madness—such as Zhou Feng. And Luo Changming is a man with strong self-control. He once commanded thousands of troops and is famous for his strict discipline and selflessness.He also treated himself harshly and rudely—he told himself: If you are wrong, you are wrong, there is no need to justify or regret, just change it; if you make a mistake and cannot change it, just forget it. He spent his whole life trying to forget this incident and gain the moral forgiveness of his conscience. Chairman Mao once said: "There are only two kinds of people in the world who do not make mistakes: those who have not been born, and those who have died. People will make mistakes sometimes, as long as they can correct them, they are still a good person." Comrade." However, "knowing mistakes and being able to correct them" is not only a virtue, but also a kind of luck.Because there are many mistakes in the world that cannot be corrected or remedied, so we can only forget. However, Zhou Feng refused to allow him. In the later days when Zhou Feng was still sane, he had been protractedly fighting against Luo Changming. He contacted the female art troupe members of the year everywhere, hoping that someone inside would come forward and expose Luo Changming.But no one is willing to help him.They survived those terrible years with great difficulty, only wanting to live a safe life in the future, and never want to look back on the past.What's more, it has nothing to do with oneself, who wants to get burned. Unable to bring Luo Changming to justice.This made Zhou Feng almost mad with anger. He wandered downstairs of Luo's house day and night, and decided to take the risk—since the law cannot punish the devil, let him do justice for the sky. Who would have thought that Luo Changming's daughter Luo Xiu would fall in love with him! Whenever he came to Luo's house, Luo Xiu would lightly run downstairs and fly to his side like a bird, smiling shyly, "You're here." It was as if he was here for her date. He looked at her, and countless sinful thoughts flashed through his mind: Can we kidnap her and force Luo Changming to sacrifice his life in exchange?Or just kill her, and the father and daughter will pay back the debt? Seeing him standing with his daughter, Luo Changming yelled and almost went crazy, and threatened him that if he came to Luo Xiu again, he would shoot him dead. This made Zhou Feng finally make up his mind to be with Luo Xiu and take revenge on Luo Changming—not the kind of revenge that kills Luo Changming, but to snatch away his most beloved daughter and torture her forever, so that torture those who love her. It's not that he hesitated, and questioned whether it was unfair for him to do so several times, and felt that Luo Xiu was too innocent. However, Luo Xiu has already made up her mind, forbidding him to hesitate any longer, she wants to be with him wholeheartedly.Even when Luo Changming forcibly locked her in the small building, she did not hesitate to jump down from the upstairs and defect to Zhou Feng, breaking with her father. She told him: "As long as I can be with you, I'm not afraid of death!" In other words, if she couldn't be with him, she would rather die. ——At this point, Zhou Feng had no choice but to marry her. Undoubtedly Zhou Feng came to marry Luo Xiu out of hatred.On the first night of their wedding, he made her stay alone in the empty room. Years of harsh reprimands followed.He picks on her, laughs at her, humiliates her, treats her as Luo Changming's substitute to retaliate against her, which will not make her smooth and at ease for a day.However, she tolerated everything and willingly took care of Feiyan's son Zhou Ziheng on his behalf. How many windy and moonlit nights, he lingered in the tavern, swallowing his hatred for Luo Changming and his growing love for Luo Xiu with wine.And no matter how late he was, she would always cook a cup of tea and wait for him under the lamp. Her calmness and composure sometimes even made him wonder: what is she waiting for? Such a couple has been together for three years. Zhou Feng is not Luo Changming after all, he is a loving person after all, while he can't stop thinking of new tricks to deal with her, but at the same time he can't help falling in love with her more and more day by day. He struggled in this vortex of love and hate, wrestling with himself, the pain and struggle made him almost crazy. Between drunk and sober, he will have rare tenderness for her. After a drink, he impregnated her. Luo Xiu carefully concealed the news, and did not reveal the truth until three or four months later when she could no longer conceal it. Zhou Feng was furious, feeling that this was his betrayal of Feiyan, and at the same time feeling sorry for Luo Xiu.The two poles of contradiction tore his feelings to the point of going crazy.He refused to have intercourse with her, unwilling to share her hard work and joy of being a mother, as if everything had nothing to do with him.However, every now and then, when he passes by a baby product store, he can't help but stop and stare for a long time. Then one day, when they were walking on the street together, a truck drove towards him. He instinctively called out "Xiuxiu" and pushed her away, preferring to bear the violent impact instead of her.They were sent to the hospital at the same time. He only suffered a little trauma and his life was not in danger, but she lost a lot of blood due to premature birth. After giving birth to her daughter, she was exhausted. Luo Xiu, who was lying on the delivery bed, didn't care to look at her newborn daughter, but cried and called Zhou Feng's name.Zhou Feng was pushed to her bed. Luo Xiu grabbed his hand and asked, "Feng, have you ever loved me? In your life, have you ever truly loved me for even one moment?" At that moment, Zhou Feng felt as if thousands of troops were stepping over his mind, and he wished he could be smashed to pieces to repay his beloved one.At the juncture of life and death, he was finally forced to face his own heart, and shouted loudly: "Xiuxiu, I love you, I have always loved you, you must live, you must live, don't leave me!" Luoxiu smiled desolately, with such a beautiful smile and such satisfaction, she said: "This is the first time you shed tears for me. The love of my life is only worth it in exchange for your truth at this moment." He was greatly mourned, the shock in his heart was indescribable, and everything from the past reappeared in his eyes one by one.He suddenly understood: In fact, he has always been true to her.All the harshness and troubles are just because I care too much.He loves her, and his love for her is really unforgettable. Hate may be a misunderstanding sometimes, but love is always true! At that moment, thousands of words came flooding in, and there were countless feelings to repay, but Luo Xiu had already let go, and just smiled and swallowed her last breath. Once again, the beloved woman died in his arms, Zhou Feng hugged his wife tightly, he couldn't tell if she was Xiuxiu or Feiyan.When the nurse forcibly pulled Zhou Feng away from Luo Xiu's side, he found that his eyes had lost their focus. His heart died along with his wife's life.Died for a full twenty-three years. For more than twenty years, no one knew that Zhou Ziheng was actually the son of Luo Changming and Feiyan, and no one knew that Luo Xiu left a daughter, Luo Hongchen, before his death.No one would have thought that the true blood relationship between Zhou Ziheng and Luo Hongchen would be uncle and nephew! This is Luo Changming's sin, it's his retribution; it's also the curse that Feiyan swore with hatred, but it was fulfilled on her own son; it's Zhou Feng who shouldn't have retaliated, and only caused his wife to die tragically, and he was insane for half his life; Ziheng's chaos and abandonment forced Mei Qi to seek help from witchcraft—and with her evil thoughts, many sins were launched in a row—Confucius Temple, Mei Qi brought Zhou Ziheng to Luo Hongchen, and left death behind. Gave it to himself; Zhou Feng was finally released from Solomon's bottle, but handed over the madness to Wei Qing; Luo Changming had to face his own son and remember all the sins he had deliberately forgotten. And when this tragic secret was exposed, Hongchen's heart was completely destroyed. She screamed all the way, barefoot, and rushed out of the coral garden like the wind, so fast that it was too late to stop her. After that, Zhou Ziheng never saw Luo Hongchen again. He searched for her for many years, but he never found a trace of her. From then on, whenever Luo Hongchen was mentioned, Zhou Ziheng would just repeat one sentence blankly: "She didn't wear shoes." She is not wearing shoes. The woman who sold embroidered shoes at the Wuzhen embroidery workshop in the Confucius Temple was running away from her love and pain without wearing shoes... Xiling Snow First draft in Xi'an Xihang Garden on July 12, 2003 Finalized in Xi'an Chrysanthemum Garden on March 22, 2006