Ink Burns

Chapter 109: Meeting the Good Boy
Those who paint all have a pair of big hands with distinct bones.

At this moment, the pair of big hands decisively stroked He Shuiguang's disheveled cheek.

Shan Yue lowered her head, pursed her lips tightly, her lips turned pale, but her eyes were extremely firm: If Shui Guang can't remember, then it is the best arrangement, she is still the happy and wanton little monkey in Pingning Mountain;

But if you remember it, then face it.

The past is like spilled water, like falling dust, like spoken words, like a signed seal, which cannot be replaced or destroyed.

There is no other way but to face it.

Even if it's difficult and I have to face it with blood dripping from my body.

Shan Yue's pointed jaw was resting loosely on Shui Guang's skull.

The playful strands of hair on the girl's head prickled her sister's skin, again and again, like piercing into a heart that had already dried up.

Shui Guang first sobbed softly, then slowly her voice grew louder, trying to vent all the fear and grievance that was suppressed deep in her heart and could not be touched or felt.

Shanyue hugged her sister tightly, waiting quietly for the water to calm down.

Doctor Wei and Wei Chen looked at each other.

Doctor Wei suddenly understood why the future censor's wife, who had always been cold, was always so amiable whenever she came to the Wei family. She was like a bodhisattva, giving them a house to live in and running errands for them.

Well, he once thought that it was because the lively and happy atmosphere of the Wei family infected Miss He.

Now it seems that he was overthinking it - all because they had Ruchun in their hands.
Doctor Wei made a gesture and left the room with his wife.

After crying for an unknown amount of time, Shui Guang clutched her sister's wide sleeves. Her sobs gradually subsided, and she raised her head with tears in her eyes. Her voice was hoarse, "Mom, Mom died in the end, didn't she?"

Shan Yue lowered her eyes as usual, and in a blink, a tear fell straight down, and as if by fate's coincidence, it touched and merged with Shui Guang's tears.

Shui Guang forced out an ugly smile: "I asked my mother to hide in the water with me, but she turned back to look for you——"

Shui Guang had a splitting headache as he searched through the long-forgotten and dusty memories.

In the firelight, Qiu Erniang's face became clearer and clearer. Her hair was disheveled and the blood coagulated around her mouth was like a musical note that had suddenly stopped.

"Mother! Mother! Don't go! Don't go!" She cried and hugged Qiu Erniang's waist: "Sister wants us to live!"

My mother's tongue was cut and she could no longer speak.

Mother slowly hugged her, held her for a brief moment, and then let go.

Mother patted her shoulder, the corners of her bleeding mouth slightly raised, as if she was smiling, her eyes were gentle, but had never been so firm.

Mother pointed toward the fire.

There were no words, but she understood what her mother wanted to do in an instant.

Mother wants to stay with her sister.

Even if they go to hell, mother and daughter will be together.

Light an even number of candles, with four candles placed in the east, west, south and north directions.

In the blurred light and shadows created by the dim candlelight, Shui Guang raised her head, her snot and tears mixed together. She wanted to laugh, but she didn't have the strength to move the corners of her mouth: "I'm so useless, how could I forget? How could I forget everything? Mother and sister risked their lives to keep me alive, but I forgot everything! How could there be someone as useless as me!"

Shui Guang tilted her head and slapped her head hard with her hands. Her sobs and sobs were like a poem that she had often sung. Only after decades of unconscious murmuring did she finally understand its meaning.

Shanyue grabbed her sister's hand and hugged Shuiguang tightly, tears streaming down her face line by line.

Shui Guang stretched out her hand with tears in her eyes: "Sister, this is what you look like when you grow up."

The cold fingertips lovingly caressed Shan Yue's eyes, nose and mouth inch by inch.

"It was my fault."

Shan Yue's voice trembled: "It's my fault. I have regretted it for ten years, hated it for ten years, and resented it for ten years - why did I act so smart! Why did I take you and mother to another cloth shop to fight for those copper coins!"

The trembling sound was like a broken earthworm struggling in the dark on the ground. If she had not risked her life and honestly exchanged the embroidery for silver and returned to Hetou Village before dark, how could she have been knocked unconscious and tied up in the alley?
She woke up from a dream in the middle of the night, her tears soaking the pillowcase. She went back and reviewed the scene again and again, analyzing and thinking about each action one by one.

She will be trapped in that night for the rest of her life, unable to escape no matter how hard she struggles.

The cause of all the illness lies with her.

In her self-righteousness, in her conceit, in her cleverness.

After her revenge is complete, she will no longer have the face to live.

Shanyue closed her eyes tightly, pressed her forehead against Shuiguang's forehead, and cried with a trembling voice: "I'm sorry Shuiguang, I'm sorry, I'm sorry mom, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And dad, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"You bullshit!"

"You bullshit!"

Shui Guang stopped crying instantly and broke free from her sister's restraints. Her eyes were like two blazing torches: "The one who suffers will never be the one who caused it! We are not wrong and we shouldn't say sorry!"

"The ones who are wrong are those beasts on the frame! Those deformed beasts who don't treat people as human beings and are superior to others!"

"You are right to want to sell more silver! Mother is right to be a coward! I am right to hide to save my life! What have we done wrong? We just want to live, what's wrong with that!"

Her eyes were filled with tears, and the torch in her eyes seemed to be blown by a strong south wind, and the flames spread, vowing to burn all the roads along the way: "I want to find out what happened--"

"no!"

Shan Yue was struck by lightning and immediately spoke, interrupting Shui Guang's next words with a stern voice: "Tomorrow! Tomorrow you will pack your bags and go back to Pingning Mountain!"

Shui Guang looked at her sister in disbelief.

Shan Yue softened her tone, "These things have nothing to do with you. What you should do is go back to Pingning Mountain, continue to be Wei Ruchun, improve your medical skills, help Doctor Wei collect herbs and treat illnesses, live a happy life, and if you meet a good match, settle down. If not, live a free and easy life."

Shui Guang did not say anything. She put away her incredulous look and slowly lowered her head. After a while, she raised her head and said firmly, "The Cheng family, Master Cheng and Master Dalang, were they among those involved that night?"

The sharpness of water light never fades with time.

Shan Yue stopped talking and paused: "I said, this has nothing to do with you."

Shui Guang tilted her chin, her stubbornness was exactly the same as Shan Yue's, but it was diluted by the delicate eyebrows and eyes that belonged to a young girl: "And the Liu family, Master Liu, are they also related to Fu Shou Mountain back then?"

Shan Yue pursed her lips tightly.

Shui Guang continued, "What about the Xue family? What about the Xue family that you are going to marry tomorrow? They are not innocent either, right?"

Shan Yue curled her hands in her sleeves and said after a moment: "If you ask again, I will just pretend that I don't have a sister like you. You are still Wei Ruchun, not He Shuiguang."

Shui Guang’s expression froze.

Shan Yue immediately softened her tone and soothed him gently: "Leave these matters to your sister. You take care of yourself, okay?"

There was even a hint of pleading in the softer tone of voice.

Shui Guang lowered her head, with her small, round chin resting lightly on the collar of her cotton and linen clothes.

After a long time, Shui Guangfang nodded solemnly and replied in a muffled voice: "Okay."

The huge stone in Shanyue's heart suddenly fell to the ground.

Shanyue let out a long breath, and touched Shuiguang's forehead again with hers, just like Qiu Erniang did when they were children and fell asleep.

"Little darling, you have to be good."

When Qiu Erniang was too lazy to call them by their names, she simply called her "Guaiguai" and her sister "Xiaoguai".

Shan Yue's voice was gentle and deep, and he closed his eyes as if relieved from a heavy burden.

She missed it without a doubt. Shui Guang had eyes as cunning and bright as a little fox that grew up in the mountains.

(End of this chapter)