Chapter 14 Thirteenth Autumn Lantern Festival

There is only one bed, one stool, and one table in this room. Xiao Shishilang has been in this room for three days, and he hardly took a step out. Shen Bijun has also been in a coma for three days. During these three days, she struggled, shouted, and cried...as if she was wrestling with some invisible demon. Sometimes her whole body shivered with cold, and sometimes she felt hot. Now she finally calmed down gradually. Xiao Shishilang looked at her with indescribable sympathy and pity in his heart. But when she woke up, he would never show this emotion. Although she is beautiful, she is not proud. Although she is smart, she is not cunning. Although she is gentle, she is strong. No matter how much she has been wronged, she will never complain to others.

This is exactly the woman in Xiao Shishilang's dream. All his life he had been waiting to meet such a woman. However, when she woke up, he would still ignore her coldly. Because she is someone else's wife. Even if she is not someone else's wife, the daughter of the "Golden Needle Shen Family" must not have anything to do with the "Big Thief" Xiao Shishilang. Xiao Shishilang understands this very well, he has always been good at controlling his emotions. Because he has to. "People like me may be doomed to be alone forever!" Xiao Shishilang sighed softly, and lit the lamp.

The light gently shone on Shen Bijun's face, and her eyes finally opened... Shen Bijun also saw Xiao Shishilang. The young man with big eyes was sitting beside her, looking at her quietly. Is this another dream? These days, there are too many and too scary dreams. She closed her eyes, hoping that she would never wake up from this dream, but when she opened her eyes again, the young man with big eyes was still sitting there quietly, looking at her. A smile finally appeared on the corner of her mouth, eyes filled with infinite gratitude, and said softly: "This time you saved me again."

Xiao Shishilang said: "I don't have time to take care of myself, how can I save people?" Shen Bijun sighed, and said: "Why do you need to hide it from me again, I know you were the one who rescued me from her last time." Xiao Shishilang said: "She? Who is she?" Shen Bijun said: "Of course you know, it's that...that scary young master." Xiao Shishilang said: "Young masters, big and small, I don't know any of them." Shen Bijun said: "But she definitely recognizes you, and she is also very afraid of you, so even though she knows that I am in that mountain temple, she dare not go there herself."

Xiao Shishilang said: "Why is she afraid of me? Am I scary?" Shen Bijun sighed: "It's just those hypocrites who are terrible. I really misjudged the person, and I also misjudged you." Xiao Shishilang said coldly: "A person like you shouldn't have come out to wander the rivers and lakes." He stood up, opened the window, and continued coldly: "You know too little, but talk too much." It was very quiet outside the window. Within a few hundred miles around, I'm afraid I can't find an inn with a more deserted business than this place - strictly speaking, this place is not qualified to be called an "inn" at all.

There were no lights in the courtyard. Fortunately, there are still stars in the sky. Against the night and starlight outside the window, Xiao Shishilang standing at the window looks even more lonely and lonely. He hummed the song again in a low voice. Shen Bijun looked at his tall back, like a lone goose lost in the flock, suddenly saw a big tree in the wind and rain, and felt suddenly at ease in his heart. Now no matter what he said, she would not be angry. After a long time, she asked in a low voice, "What song are you humming?" Xiao Shishilang didn't speak. After a long time, Shen Bijun suddenly laughed to himself, and said, "Is it strange that someone thinks you are Xiao Shishilang?"

Xiao Shishilang said, "Oh." Shen Bijun said: "But I know that you are definitely not Xiao Shishilang, because you don't seem like a vicious person." Xiao Shishilang didn't look back, and said calmly: "Is Xiao Shishilang a very vicious person?" Shen Bijun said: "Have you never heard of the things he did?" Xiao Shishilang was silent for a while, and said, "Do you know a lot about what he did?" Shen Bijun said bitterly: "I only need to know one thing, no matter what he did, he should be beheaded!" Xiao Shishilang was silent for a long time before he said slowly, "You want to chop off his head too?"

Shen Bijun said: "If I can meet him, I will never let him live to harm others again!" Xiao Shishilang sneered, and said, "If you meet him, you will be the one who can't survive!" Shen Bijun blushed. At this moment, a sound of footsteps was heard suddenly, and the shop waiter carrying a lantern, and an old man dressed as a servant in a green suit and soap hat, came over. The two stopped in the middle of the small courtyard, and the waiter pointed to the window. The old man in Tsing Yi looked at Xiao Shishilang who was standing at the window, and said with an apologetic smile, "Excuse me, brother, the young lady of the Lian family is Do you live here?"

Upon hearing this voice, Shen Bijun's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said loudly, "Is it Shen Yi? I'm right here, come in quickly." This man in Tsing Yi is Ding Shenyi, the old man of Shenjiazhuang. His family has been slaves in Shenjiazhuang for generations. Before Shen Bijun was born, he was already in Shenjiazhuang. Hearing Shen Bijun's voice, he ignored Xiao Shishilang any more, rushed over in three steps and two steps, pushed the door in, and hurriedly bowed down in front of the bed, and said sadly: "I don't know that Miss is suffering here, and the welcome is late." , but I hope Miss will forgive me."

Shen Bijun was surprised and delighted, and said: "It's good that you come, what about Mrs. Tai? Does the old man know?" Shen Yidao: "The news of Miss's death has already spread all over the Jianghu. After Mrs. Tai knew about it, she immediately asked the old servants to inquire everywhere. Today, I just heard the shopkeeper here accidentally say that they have a female customer here who is very ill. But like a fairy, the old slave immediately guessed that he might be talking about Miss." He sighed for a long time, and said: "Fortunately, the heavens have eyes, and the old slave finally found the young lady. If Mrs. Tai found out, she must be very happy..."

As he spoke, he himself seemed about to shed tears of joy. Shen Bijun was so happy that he couldn't even speak. Shen Yi rubbed his eyes and said, "Miss's injury is not serious, is it?" Shen Bijun nodded and said, "It's much better now." Shen Yi said: "Since that's the case, please go back quickly, so that Madam Tai won't worry." Shen Bijun looked at Xiao Shishilang who had been standing there coldly, hesitantly said: "It's... not too late?" Shen Yi said with a smile: "The days in autumn are short, in fact, it's just arrived at Xushi, not to mention that this old slave has already prepared carriages and horses for Miss." Shen Bijun glanced at Xiao Shishilang again. Shen Yi seemed to have discovered that there was someone else in the room, and asked with a smile: "This young master..." Shen Bijun said: "This is my savior, go and thank him for his great kindness." Shen Yi immediately walked over, prostrated himself on the ground, and said: "Thank you for saving me, my lord. Everyone in the Shen family village feels the same way." Xiao Shishilang looked at him coldly and said, "Are you from Shenjiazhuang?" Shen Yi smiled and said: "This old slave has been serving Mrs. Tai for more than forty years, my lord..." Before he finished speaking, Xiao Shishilang suddenly grabbed him from the ground, and slapped him more than a dozen times. Shen Yi's teeth were knocked out all over his mouth, and he couldn't even scream. Shen Bijun was shocked and said: "What are you doing? He is indeed from our family, why do you treat him like this?" Xiao Shishilang ignored her, and threw Shen Yi out of the window, saying coldly: "Go back and tell the person who wants you to come, if he wants to come, come by yourself, I'll wait for him!" Shen Yi covered his mouth and shouted vaguely: "Madam Tai asked me to come, why do you beat someone?" Xiao Shishilang said sharply: "It's not too much to kill a person like you, let alone fight; if you don't hurry up, I will kill you." Only then did Shen Yi escape in a scrambling manner, escaped to the outside of the courtyard and started yelling again. Shen Bijun's face was green and pale, and he was obviously very angry, so he reluctantly said: "Shen Yi has worked in our family for more than 40 years and has always been loyal. Do you think he was also sent by others to harm me?" Xiao Shishilang didn't speak. Shen Bijun said: "You saved me, and I will be grateful all my life, but why did you decide to keep me here?" Xiao Shishilang said coldly: "I didn't mean that." Although his voice was cold, there was already a look of desolation and pain in his eyes. Shen Bijun said: "Then, what do you mean?" Although she was trying her best to control it, and she didn't want to lose her composure, her tone inevitably became sharp. Xiao Shishilang clenched his fists tightly and said, "Do you think I have any malice towards you?" Shen Bijun said: "If you have no ill intentions towards me, please send me back now." Xiao Shishilang was silent for a long time, and let out a long breath: "It's not enough yet." He seemed to want to say something, but held back. Shen Bijun bit his lip and said, "When will you wait to send me back?" Xiao Shishilang said: "Maybe wait another three or five days..." He suddenly opened the door and walked out. Shen Bijun said loudly: "Wait a minute, you haven't finished speaking, you can't leave." But Xiao Shishilang didn't look back, he had gone a long way. Shen Bijun was so angry that his hands shook. She felt a little guilty towards Xiao Shishilang in her heart, and she felt that she should really make up for him and repay him, and she must never hurt him again. But what this man did was too strange and suspicious. The most annoying thing was that he seemed to have many things hidden in his heart, but he refused to say a word. There was still half a pot of wine that Xiao Shishilang drank on the table. Shen Bijun felt that he was full of anger and had nothing to vent, so he picked up the jug and drank it in one gulp. Shen Bijun doesn't drink often. For a lady like her, even if she drank alcohol, she would drink it lightly. She probably didn't drink as much as she had drunk in her entire life. At this moment, after drinking most of the jug of wine, she only felt a rush of hot air rushing down from her throat, as if there was a fire burning in her stomach. But not long after, the fire suddenly moved from the stomach to the top of the head. People who have never drunk will never know how wonderful this "movement" is. Her mind suddenly becomes empty and dizzy. Her thoughts seemed to suddenly become sharper, but she didn't think about anything. She has been trying to control herself and restrain herself as much as possible, don't lose your temper, don't be rude, don't do wrong things, don't say wrong things, don't offend others... But now all the shackles seemed to be loosened at once. Things that she usually thought were unimportant suddenly became very important now. She lay down in a daze for a while, then thought of Xiao Shishilang. "What this person did was too strange, and his attitude was ambiguous. Why did he drive Shen Yi away? Why didn't he send me back?" The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and she couldn't bear it for a moment. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she had to go back sooner, the sooner the better. "He refuses to send me back, can't I let someone else send me back?" She felt that her idea was absolutely correct, and she couldn't even wait for a moment. She struggled to get up from the bed, exhausted all her strength, and shouted: "The store... the waiter... come, come... " She herself had never imagined that she could make such a loud cry. The clerk seemed to appear in front of her suddenly, and was asking her, "What's your order, Miss?" Shen Bijun said: "Go and hire a car for me, I want to go back, hurry, hurry..." The shop assistant hesitated, and said, "I'm afraid I can't hire a car now." Shen Bijun said: "Go and find a way for me, I will pay as much as you want." The clerk was still hesitating, turned around and said, "Guest officer, do you really want to hire a car?" Only then did Shen Bijun realize that Xiao Shishilang was right behind him, so he rushed up again, and said loudly, "It's my business that I want to go back. What does it have to do with him? Why do you ask him?" Xiao Shishilang shook his head and said, "You're drunk." Shen Bijun said: "Who says I'm drunk, will I get drunk after drinking such a little wine?" She waved to the clerk, and said: "Go and hire a car for me, don't pay attention to him, he is drunk himself." The shop assistant looked at her, then at Xiao Shishilang. Xiao Shishilang shook his head. Shen Bijun cried out, and said: "You won't send me back, why don't you let me go back by myself? Who are you to me? Why do you want to meddle in my affairs? Why do you want to keep me?" Xiao Shishilang sighed, and said: "You are really drunk, take a good rest, if you have anything to say, we can talk about it tomorrow, okay?" Mr. Shen Bi said: "No, I have to leave now." Xiao Shishilang said: "You can't leave now." Shen Bijun was furious, and said: "Why do you force me? You saved me, do you want to treat me as yours? Don't think about it anymore, I don't want you to save me at all. If you don't let me go, you might as well kill me." kill me!" She struggled and wanted to pounce on Xiao Shishilang. Just hearing a "plop", she fell off the bed. Xiao Shishilang naturally had to help her, but as soon as his hand touched her, Shen Bijun yelled loudly again, shouting: "Help, this man is a robber, go and call the officers and soldiers to arrest him... ..." Xiao Shishilang's face turned blue with anger, and he was about to let go, but Shen Bijun suddenly bit the back of his hand so hard that blood came out from the bite. Shen Bijun can actually bite people, this is really something that no one can think of. Although this bite was on Xiao Shishilang's hand, it was tantamount to biting on his heart. Shen Bijun gasped and said, "I thought you were a good person, but you are just like those people. You also have an attempt to save me. It turns out that you are worse than them!" Xiao Shishilang slowly closed his eyes, then suddenly turned and walked out. Shen Bijun only felt that she had said these few words so brilliantly that she was able to scold this person away. Of course she couldn't say such things normally, but when she drank wine, her "inspiration" came and her eloquence also came. She decided that she must drink frequently in the future. She naturally thought that what she said was not wrong at all. A drunk person always thinks that he is the most reasonable person in the world. No matter what he does, he is absolutely right, and it must be someone else who is wrong. The clerk had been stunned for a long time, and was still standing there in a daze. Shen Bijun gasped for a while, then suddenly smiled at him. This smile naturally shows how sober and rational she is. The shop assistant also smiled with her inexplicably. Shen Bijun said: "That person is really unreasonable, isn't he?" The clerk coughed twice and said, "Yes, yes, yes." Shen Bijun sighed, and said: "I didn't want to quarrel with this kind of person, but he is really hateful." The shop assistant nodded desperately and said, "Yes, yes." Shen Bijun nodded slowly, feeling very comforted in her heart, because others are still on her side, and there are not too many unreasonable people in this world after all. But the clerk was already moving quietly, ready to run away. Shen Bijun suddenly asked again: "Do you know that there is a Shenjiazhuang next to Daming Lake?" The store clerk smiled and said, "Who in the hundreds of miles around doesn't know about Shenjiazhuang?" Shen Bijun said: "Do you know who I am?" The store clerk shook his head, and still smiled apologetically, "This is the first time for the girl to take care of the business of the store. Next time I come here, I will recognize you." Everyone is afraid of drunken people; although this shopkeeper has long wanted to run away, he dare not deal with it in a perfunctory manner. Shen Bijun smiled, and said: "Tell you, I am Miss Shen from Shenjiazhuang. If you can send me back to Shenjiazhuang tonight, you will definitely be rewarded." The store clerk was suddenly stunned, and couldn't help but secretly looked at Shen Bijun. Shen Bijun said: "You don't believe it?" The store clerk hesitated, and said in a low voice: "If the girl is really from Shenjiazhuang, I'm afraid she won't be able to go back." Shen Bijun said: "Why?" The shopkeeper said: "Shenjiazhuang has been burned to the ground. Some people in the village died, some were injured, and some disappeared. Now there is not even one left." Shen Bijun's heart seemed to be about to crack suddenly, he stayed for a while, and then shouted: "I don't believe it, I don't believe a word you said." The shop assistant smiled and said, "How dare a villain lie to a girl?" Shen Bijun patted the bed with his hands, and hissed: "You colluded with him to lie to me, you are not good people." The shop assistant shook his head and murmured: "If the girl doesn't believe it, I can't help it..." Shen Bijun was lying on the bed, crying bitterly. The shop assistant wanted to leave, but when he heard her crying, he couldn't help but stop. A woman's cry can make a man's heart flutter, not to mention Shen Bijun is so beautiful. The store clerk suddenly let out a long sigh, and said: "Okay, if the girl wants to go to Shenjiazhuang to have a look, the villain can accompany the girl." Xiao Shishilang was drinking alone. He also wanted to get drunk, but the strange thing was that he was always not drunk. In the past few days, he only felt that he had become a different person. It's getting ridiculous. He was originally a very forthright, funny, and free-spirited person; but these days, even he himself feels that he has become a bit of a mother-in-law, awkward. "Why didn't I tell her straightforwardly that Shenjiazhuang was in ruins, why did I have to keep it from her, and whether she was stimulated or not, what did it have to do with me?" Xiao Shishilang sneered and drank another glass of wine. "I'm not related to her, why should I meddle in her business and make myself boring?" As soon as Shen Yi came, Xiao Shishilang knew that he must have been bought by the young master. Since the Shen family village had been burned, how could he take Shen Bijun "back"? Xiao Shishilang didn't explain, because he was afraid that Shen Bijun would not be able to take this blow anymore!In the past few days, the blows she has suffered are indeed beyond human ability. He was afraid that Shen Bijun would go crazy. "I treat her like this, she should at least trust me a little...Since she doesn't trust me at all, why should I care about her?" Xiao Shishilang felt that he really couldn't do it, and he was determined not to care about her affairs in the future, so as not to be wronged by others, and to avoid getting angry. Hearing the sound of carriages and horses outside, he knew that the shopkeeper still sent Shen Bijun away after all. He immediately became worried again: "Young master must still be watching in secret, knowing that she is leaving alone, he will never let her go!" Xiao Shishilang couldn't help standing up, but slowly sat down again! "I said I don't care about her affairs anymore, why worry about her again? Even her husband doesn't care about her, so why should I bother? What am I?" "It's just that she is indeed drunk, and she may not even know what she said. If a drunk person says something, she will regret it when she wakes up. I should forgive her." "Even if I save her again, she may still think that I have other plans and purposes. When she knows that I am Xiao Shishilang, my kindness will turn into malice." "But, to save people to the end, since I have saved her twice, why can't I save her one more time? How can I see her fall into the hands of someone like the young master?" Xiao Shishilang drank mulled wine cup after cup, full of contradictions in his heart. His heart has never been so chaotic. In the end, he made up his mind! "No matter what she does to me, I can't help but save her!" He stood up and strode out! A cold wind blew in front of him, and he felt a surge of heat in his chest. He couldn't help singing loudly, and the loud and clear singing made the windows on all sides rattle. The windows were opened one after another, revealing surprised and angry faces, staring at Xiao Shishilang with sleepy eyes. Some people are even cursing! "This man must be a drunkard, madman!" Not only did Xiao Shishilang not care, but he found it ridiculous. Because he knew he was neither an alcoholic nor a lunatic. "As long as I'm open-minded, it doesn't matter if others think I'm a lunatic? As long as I do the right thing, why should I care what other people think?" The chariots and horses were in a hurry. The dilapidated carriage, walking on the rough gravel road, shook like a ship in a storm. Shen Bijun fell asleep in the carriage. She dreamed that the young man with the big eyes was crying to her and smiling at her so terribly that she hated her so much that she wanted to stab him in the chest. After she stabbed in with a knife, the man suddenly turned into Lian Chengbi. Blood, spring-like blood, continuously flowed from Lian Chengbi's body, so much that it drowned his own body, only one head and one pair of eyes were exposed. These eyes stared at Shen Bijun, it seemed so sad, so painful... Mr. Shen Bi couldn't tell whether these were Lian Chengbi's eyes or the young man's eyes. She was so frightened that she wanted to scream but couldn't. Her body seemed to be gradually drowned in blood. The blood was cold, very cold. Shen Bijun's whole body was trembling, trembling constantly... She seemed to hear someone talking, the voice was far away at first, and then gradually approached, very close, as if someone was yelling in her ear. She woke up suddenly. The carriage stopped at some point. The car door was already open, and the wind was blowing on her body, it was very cold, as cold as blood. Her body was still shaking. The clerk was standing at the car door, looking at her with sympathy, and said loudly: "Miss, wake up, Shenjiazhuang has arrived." Shen Bijun looked at him blankly, as if she still couldn't understand the meaning of his words, she just felt that her head seemed to be filled with lead, so heavy that she couldn't even lift it. "Shenjiazhuang has arrived... The home has arrived..." She couldn't believe it was real. The shop clerk muttered, "This is Shenjiazhuang, girl, do you want to get off the car..." Shen Bijun laughed, and said loudly: "Of course I want to get out of the car. Now that I'm home, why don't I get out of the car?" As soon as the word "home" was mentioned, she couldn't wait for a moment, and immediately struggled to move out of the car door, almost falling heavily to the ground. The shop assistant quickly supported her, and sighed: "Actually...you better not get out of the car." Shen Bijun smiled and said: "Why? Do you want to carry me in with the car..." Her voice suddenly froze, and so did her laughter. She suddenly froze.