Chapter 363 Looking Forward to Spring
New Year’s Eve is here in the blink of an eye.
Tong Huaqiong's whole family was busy in the early morning amid the sound of firecrackers.
Snow sweeping, snow removal, and ice removal.
Tong Huaqiong didn't know how the Gu family celebrated the New Year when Tong Da Jiao was around, but this year when she was around, the Gu family was more lively than usual.
In addition to Tong Huaqiong and a group of bad guys, there are also Su Chengmin and Xiaolong, plus Tong Pandi and his mother and daughter. It's hard not to be lively.
In addition, it would be lonely for He Chao and Hong to spend the New Year alone in Qinghe Bay without their children, so without Tong Huaqiong's invitation, the couple decided to celebrate the New Year with Tong Huaqiong's family.
As for the neighbor, Mr. Qian, he naturally wanted to celebrate the New Year at Gu's house, but after putting up the Spring Festival couplets, he was forcibly taken away by his son and daughter-in-law.
The He family's yard is right next to Tong Huaqiong's yard. Hong comes to Tong Huaqiong's yard every day to bring flowers. On New Year's Eve, the couple gets up early in the morning and goes to Tong Huaqiong's house to help.
Gu Jingzhe considered that Master Su would be too lonely spending the New Year alone in the private school, so he invited Master Su to his home.
In the past, when Gu Jingzhe arrived at Wanliu Academy, he abandoned Master Su and his classmates in the town to Yanguan Town and never mentioned them again.
In the past six months, Gu Jingzhe has changed his ways and has formed a deep master-disciple relationship with Master Su.
So as soon as he invited him, Master Su came to Qinghe Bay.
Master Su did not come empty-handed. He brought various small toys for Xiaolong, Maner, Yaozu, Duoer and other children. The two girls, Duoer and Maner, had an extra set of clay dolls than Xiaolong and Yaozu.
Even the flower that was still in its cradle was given a rattle.
Tong Pandi was very touched by this.
Her daughter Duoer had never received any gifts in the Wu family.
"Aunt, is Master Su alone?"
After Tong Pandi poured tea for Master Su, she found that Master Su was wearing a long gown that she had sewn for him. She secretly asked Tong Huaqiong about Master Su's situation.
Tong Huaqiong said: "That's right, he's not young anymore and he's still not married."
Tong Pandi asked, "Master Su's accent doesn't sound like someone from here. Where is he from?"
This question stumped Tong Huaqiong. She thought for a moment and said, "You'd better ask Jingzhe about this. I don't know where he is from."
Tong Pandi naturally would not ask Gu Jingzhe.
It can be counted that Master Su helped her twice.
The first time was in her previous life, when she was demoted to a concubine by the Wu family and then trampled upon by them. She went out in the wind and snow to pay tribute to Huaer, and the fire from the burning paper almost caused a disaster.
The Wu family rushed out and wanted to hang her in the Wu family ancestral hall.
It was Master Su who passed by and saved him.
Master Su denounced the Wu family's ugly behavior, gave her silver, and asked her to leave with Duo'er.
Of course, she did not leave the Wu family.
But if it weren't for Master Su, she would have been hanged on that snowy night and might not have had a chance to live again in this life.
The second chapter is about the separation in this life.
"Brother Pan, what's wrong with you?"
Tong Huaqiong saw Tong Pandidi helping her light the charcoal stove, and she was unaware that the charcoal fire was about to burn her hands.
Tong Pandi carefully placed the charcoal fire in the stove, raised his head and said, "Aunt, my third cousin will have a great future. I will listen to you. Please tell me to be nicer to Master Su in the future."
Tong Pandi never saw Master Su again in his previous life.
All we know is that later on Master Su left Yanguan Town.
How could someone like her, who had been trapped in the Wu family all her life, know the whereabouts of Master Su?
Tong Huaqiong asked: "Why did you bring this up for no reason? How did you know that your third cousin would have a great future?"
Tong Pandi was startled, and covered it up by saying, "My cousin studies so hard, Master Su is a very learned man, and even Master Su praised my cousin, so my cousin will definitely have a great future."
Laughter came from the cubicle.
Tong Huaqiong and Tong Pandi saw through the stained glass window that Master Su was teasing Hua'er with a rattle in his hand. Hua'er was in Hong's arms, staring at the tassel of the rattle with her eyes rolling around and making crisp laughter.
Tong Pandi's eyes became wet as he watched.
Tong Pandi said to Tong Huaqiong, "Aunt, believe it or not, I had a dream before. In the dream, I lived in the Wu family for a very miserable life. Huaer was drowned as soon as she was born, and I didn't give birth to a son. Wu Musheng demoted me to a concubine and married another woman, who also didn't give birth to a son. The Wu family believed that it was because of my bad luck that the Wu family had no son, so the new woman and the Wu family bullied me together. I went to my mother's family for help, but they ignored me. My parents took Tong Zhijie away from Heilongtan. Later, Wu Musheng adopted a son. When the son grew up, Wu Musheng and the son wanted to send Duoer to a wealthy family in the city as a concubine. I stopped Duoer from going..."
This is the life of Tong Pandi in his previous life that Tong Da Jiao had no memory of after going to Shengjing.
Tong Huaqiong asked: "Then what?"
Tong Pandi said: "I was pushed down by Wu Musheng and almost fell to death, and then I woke up. This dream seemed real, so scary."
Tong Huaqiong said, "After you woke up, you were so scared that you started to become aggressive and brave for yourself and your two daughters?"
Tong Pandi breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that her aunt had no doubt that she was reborn.
Yes, such a bizarre thing is really hard to imagine, even someone as smart as my aunt couldn't think of it.
The reason why she said all this was that the sufferings of the past were weighing on her heart and she needed to talk it out to feel better.
Tong Pandi said, "That's right. This dream reminds me that if I am still timid and still listen to my parents and the Wu family, Duoer and Huaer will really be like in the dream. As their mother, I have to protect them."
"The first time I disobeyed my parents-in-law was the day after I woke up from a dream. My parents-in-law asked me to sleep on the floor next to their bed and empty their chamber pot at night. I peed on their bed in anger. They beat me, so I smashed all the valuables in their room. Wu Musheng scolded me, so I tied him up and hung a knife in front of him while he was sleeping. The Wu family asked me to cook, so I threatened to poison the whole family with rat poison. I used to obey them in everything, but they beat and scolded me. Later, I didn't obey them and threw a tantrum like you did before, and they were afraid of me instead."
Tong Pandi listened to Duo'er's laughter coming from the cubicle, and wondered why he hadn't thought of resisting or escaping before.
"The Wu family thought I was possessed, so they called a witch to perform a shaman ritual. I burned the shaman's tools. Anyway, I had already died once in a dream, so who should I be afraid of? From then on, I had good food and clothes in the Wu family. I would quarrel with Wu Ren and his wife, and fight with Wu Musheng at any time. From then on, they were afraid of me and would avoid me. I was not only like this to the Wu family, I was even more ruthless to the Tong family."
"My parents taught me since I was little that I was a girl and a money-loser, and Zhijie was the gold nugget of the Tong family. When I was in the Tong family, I raised Zhijie by myself, but Zhijie never understood me as a sister. My father said that he loved me, but he sold me to the Wu family for fifty taels of silver. When he found out what I did in the Wu family, he ran to the Wu family and scolded me, but I beat him out with a stick. Aunt, why was I so cowardly before? I listened to my parents at home, listened to my parents-in-law and my husband after I got married, but why didn't I think about living for myself?"
Tong Huaqiong said: "You have woken up from your nightmare and you will never have such a nightmare again."
The sound of rattles and the laughter of flowers came from the compartment again.
Tong Pandi couldn't help but smile.
Her aunt was right. She would never have such nightmares again.
Spring will come after this winter, and she is looking forward to the spring when flowers are in full bloom.