Happy Little Scholar

"Jin'er, do you think he will come?" The woman who was drawing eyebrows in front of the bronze mirror seemed to be talking to herself.

"The young lady is so beautiful, he will definitely come." The young maid of fifteen or sixteen years old stood beside her and said immediately.

Looking at the woman in front of her, even her face could not help but show a trace of envy.

If she could keep her face young like the young lady in twenty years, how good would that be?

"Is she beautiful..." The woman in the bronze mirror had beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and looked only in her twenties. Only a trace of tail wrinkles at the corner of her eyes could not be erased.

Twenty years, how could there not be some traces left? Even the young girl in her prime back then should have become a "woman" in people's mouths by now.

"He rejected me once twenty years ago. Will he reject me again today..." The woman looked at the sky outside the window, a trace of pain appeared in her eyes, and she murmured.

The girl didn't know how to respond for a moment, and whispered: "Miss, the food is cold, do you want me to take it down and heat it up?"

When the girl walked to the table, there was a knock on the door.

The woman stood up suddenly and looked out through the gauze curtain.

"Come in..." She suppressed her excitement and said in a trembling voice.

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Li Yi still didn't expect that besides Her Royal Highness, he knew someone in the capital------a woman he knew.

What's more, it was a woman who would give him a handkerchief.

Of course, this thing would not be sent by Her Royal Highness. If it was her, Li Yi would definitely take Ruyi and run away overnight, and the old lady's birthday would not be celebrated. Anyone who dared to accept Her Royal Highness's engagement handkerchief must have lived enough...

There was a table in the middle of the room with a few dishes on it. In the curtain opposite, there were two figures that were vaguely visible, but they were not clear.

The curtain was lifted, and a girl of fifteen or sixteen quickly retreated.

Before Li Yi asked, another voice came from inside.

"Are you finally willing to come and see me?"

This time Li Yi heard it clearly, the voice was indeed trembling, and at the same time he was sure of one thing, that the servant had really found the wrong person.

The voice was very unfamiliar, and more importantly, the sentence contained all kinds of complicated emotions, which were definitely not directed at him.

Li Yi put the handkerchief on the table, and when he was about to say goodbye, the woman sighed leisurely and said, "Twenty years ago, you returned the handkerchief I gave you, and now you have to return it for the second time. Since you don't want to see me, why did you come here?"

"Twenty years ago?" Li Yi shook his head. Twenty years ago, twenty years ago he was still in his mother's womb...

"Girl, you recognized the wrong person." Li Yi sighed and said.

I don't know which heartless guy actually made a woman wait for twenty years. What can't be said clearly, but he has to delay the girl's youth. This------this routine, why is it so familiar?

"You are not him!"

The curtain was suddenly opened, and Li Yi saw a strange woman coming out from inside. She seemed to want to speak. She took two steps and looked up at him, but suddenly froze there.

"Auntie, what's wrong with you?" When Li Yi spoke again, he couldn't say the word "girl".

Just now, the other party said that she had been waiting for someone for twenty years. When she first fell in love twenty years ago, she must have been at least fourteen or fifteen years old. Now her age is probably about the same as his aunt, so she can't be called a girl anymore.

However, the other party seemed to have a way to keep her face. A person in his thirties looked like he was in his twenties. If you don't look carefully, you can't tell at all.

"Girl?" The woman looked at Li Yi, laughed bitterly, and said, "So you have forgotten me a long time ago?"

Li Yi felt that he was more wronged than Dou E. Was this auntie shortsighted and didn't even recognize her lover, or did she not only have a common face, but also looked particularly old?

If she wasn't nearsighted, she must be stupid. Such a beautiful woman is stupid. God is really cruel. Li Yi sighed and turned to walk out the door.

"Don't go, please, don't go, don't leave me alone again..." Suddenly, a crying voice came from behind. Then, Li Yi found that he was hugged from behind. He was shocked and was about to separate her hands, but heard her choking voice and continued: "Minghan, don't go. I am willing to be your concubine. I will ask my father and brother. If they don't agree, I will force them to die. They will definitely agree. Don't leave me again..."

"Minghan!"

Li Yi's face changed drastically, and the whole person was struck by lightning.

"You said it, you said it when we were little, you said you would marry me when I grow up..."

"I've waited for a long, long time, ten years, ten years, I finally grew up, but why didn't you keep your word?"

"Do you know, after you left, I was so scared, so scared that you would never come back, I prayed to the Buddha every month..."

"You finally came back, my brothers didn't tell me, but I really want to see you again, the daughter of the Chen family can't be a concubine, it doesn't matter, I'll go and ask them, they will agree, they will definitely agree..."

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The woman spoke with a choked voice. In a short time, Li Yi felt a wet patch on his back. He opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but it seemed that something was stuck in his throat and he couldn't say a word.

After a long time, Li Yi sighed deeply, moved her hand away, turned around, lowered his head and dared not look into her eyes, and whispered: "You recognized the wrong person, I am not Li Minghan."

"How could I not recognize you..." The woman had no time to wipe her tears. When she looked up at Li Yi, her body suddenly shook, and she immediately pushed away several steps, her face pale.

"You are not him, who are you?" She showed an unbelievable expression on her face, and murmured: "Why..."

"My name is Li Yi." Li Yi said in a deep voice: "Li Minghan, my father."

"------"

"Yes, yes..." The woman was silent for a long time, and the look she gave Li Yi became extremely complicated.

The two looked so similar that she didn't recognize him even in her excitement. It was not surprising that her subordinates would make a mistake...

Her eyes regained clarity, and she put the handkerchief on the table in Li Yi's hand and said, "Please give this handkerchief to your father and tell him that I will wait for him here at the same time tomorrow night."

Li Yi shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I can't help you with this matter."

The woman looked up at him and said, "Don't worry, I won't argue with your mother. I just want to see him again."

"I can't help you, not for this reason."

Li Yi was silent for a moment, and spoke with difficulty, "Because he has been dead for more than ten years."

The expression on the woman's face froze, and in an instant it turned pale as paper.

"You, what did you say?" Her voice trembled even more violently.

Li Yi lowered his head and said nothing.

The woman's body was unstable, and she took a few steps back, leaning against the table to avoid falling down.

"No, no, how could it be, how could Minghan..."

She kept shaking her head, muttering to herself, but her face became paler, shaking her lips tightly, a trace of blood slid down the corner of her mouth...

Li Yi stared at this scene blankly, at a loss.

Just moving a step, the woman screamed, "Go, go, I don't want to see you again, you liar, how could Minghan die, Minghan can't die!"

"The sin is great..." Looking at the crazy woman, Li Yi's heart sank.

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Li Yi didn't know how he walked back to the Li family. He ignored the greetings of the servants at home. The fat man wanted to bother him, but was locked outside the door. After knocking on the door for a long time, he had no choice but to leave.

"What's wrong with you?" Liu Ruyi jumped off the wall, looked at Li Yi who was standing in the yard with a dull expression and motionless for an hour, and walked over to ask.

"Damn it!"

Li Yi clenched the handkerchief in his hand and said in great annoyance.

"What did you say?" Liu Ruyi raised her head suddenly and stared at him with unfriendly eyes.