Prologue
After a long time, when the sun was almost sinking into the western mountains, the day of worshiping the gods was over.
On the way home, groups of three and three were discussing today's good luck, and some children were throwing the eaten plum stones to each other.
At this time, Ma Baiyi also dragged his tired figure slowly to the front of the house. His face was particularly ugly. After sighing, he sat on the threshold and held his head without saying anything.
Something the two of them had never thought about until today was about to happen, on the day they thought they would be blessed.
Suddenly, Ma Baiyi looked up and saw that his eyes were blurred. He hit the door with his fist. He jumped up and shouted at Ma Jingqian: "Where have you been? Why are you hiding?"
"I...I feel like nothing will happen without me..." Ma Jingqian also felt uncomfortable, but the reason for the discomfort was still not found even after he came back for so long.
Immediately afterwards, Ma Baiyi slapped himself hard. After the slap, he cried.
"There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about the three of us living a good life. If my mother were still alive, she would agree with me!"
"Brother...I..." At this time, Jingqian didn't know what to say. What made him feel guilty was that the choice lingering in his heart ended up with a sad result.
Then, after a long silence, Jing Qian asked: "Have you told my little sister about this?"
After Ma Baiyi heard Jingqian's words, he was so angry that he laughed on the spot. The helpless and exhausted smile made Jingqian suddenly at a loss. Baiyi continued to point to the door and said: "My little sister mentioned it, I will also mention it. I don’t know how many times I’ve mentioned it, respect me! Do you understand how we, brother and sister, feel?”
"I have been concerned in my heart. Whenever I think of that concern, I feel it all over my body. I'm sorry, brother, I can't forget it!"
"Where is she? Ah? Where is she? Tell me?"
"It's because I'm incompetent, it's because I'm cowardly, it's because I think it's too high to reach... It's because I lost her."
"That's enough for you! You could bear it twice when you came back bruised and bruised. You even made a war with the Japanese people without any worries. Now that you have lost the one you love, why don't you cherish the one who loves you? You want to Until when?"
The words that hit his heart hit Jingqian's weak heart hard. He couldn't look back and think about how Ma Baiyi guessed his emotional cowardice. Dual things appeared in his mind again and again, and he began to lose his opinion.
At this time, Sister Yingyue was walking over from a distance carrying a flower basket. The two of them immediately stopped arguing because Yingyue remained full of tolerance and activity at all times, and they didn't want her to be like this. Feeling uncomfortable during the dispute.
Ma Jingqian couldn't control his mood, so he had to sit in the firewood pile and pretend to chop wood, but Ma Yingyue's smile was like a knife stabbing his most vulnerable place.
She skillfully hid the flower basket back, with a smile on her face, and as soon as she walked up the stone steps, she asked them a riddle, "Brothers, guess what is in the little sister's flower basket?"
Ma Baiyi smiled reluctantly, "Brother, I guess it's my little sister's contribution today. It's a basket of plums?"
"It's so boring!" Yingyue was very unhappy at being guessed all of a sudden. He curled his lips and glared at Baiyi, then turned around and squatted next to the firewood pile, "Second brother, little sister wants you to guess, The ignorant big brother hit the nail on the head!"
"Really? Little sister, you have to stand a little further away. As the saying goes, don't stand where there is a fight or where you are striking firewood. Go inside and have a rest!"
This immediately interrupted the red thread with a hint of warmth. It was the first time in a long time that she saw Ma Jingqian in the ceremony. His eyes were different from before, but now it seemed as if that feeling was her illusion.
All the good moods and closer desires were cut off by this cold attitude. Ma Yingyue still had a smile on her face, "Second brother seems to be tired today, then, the little sister will take care of it now." Cook and eat.”
Things suddenly took a different trajectory. From a certain moment on, the person who knew the most became the person who shouldered the most burdens.
He clearly remembered what his father Ma Quzhen said: grow up in hysteria and gain the true meaning in injury.
As a child at that time, he didn't understand and just regarded that sentence as a stern family lesson. But today he was experiencing this sentence, which dampened all the things he thought he was proud of.
Half a year was coming to an end. Compared with before, he slowly learned to empathize with others. When this family was about to undergo some changes, he was at a loss.
The three brothers and sisters all have their own thoughts on each other, and most of their thoughts are on this place called home.
The girl's longing eyes couldn't understand why Ma Jingqian had two different reactions while eating.
During dinner, Ma Baiyi's extraordinary concern made Yingyue unable to adapt, and Ma Jingqian suddenly shed tears when he saw this scene.
He choked and stuffed a bowl full of new rice into his mouth, because only in this way could he not feel so uncomfortable.
The unusual changes made the little girl more and more uncomfortable. She seemed to have foreseen something. She suddenly put down the chopsticks in her hands and asked: "What's wrong with you? Don't let me know what you are doing."
"No...it's nothing, sister, eat more meat!" Ma Baiyi choked up while answering, and then rubbed his red eyes.
"What on earth is going on? If you don't tell me today, I won't eat! I'll leave tomorrow and won't come back again!"
Ever since Yingyue was little, she had always said the same words every time she got angry, but Baiyi couldn't help it anymore after hearing the same words today.
The chopsticks he was holding tightly in his hand were pinched into two pieces with great force, and he never took another bite of the half-bowl of rice left.
Yingyue thought it was what she said that made Baiyi unhappy, so she hurriedly filled a bowl of hot soup in the pot and sent it to her two brothers. She persuaded Baiyi with a smile on her face: "Brother, if it's inconvenient for you to tell me, I won’t ask any more questions, little sister. Just drink the soup and pretend that you forgive me!”
At this time, Ma Baiyi couldn't bear it anymore and cried loudly, and Yingyue suddenly became nervous.
"Brother, what's going on?"
At this time, Ma Jingqian also put down his bowl, looked at Ma Baiyi's face, and then lowered his head.
"Tell the girl yourself today, I want you to tell the girl personally and let her hear it!" At this time, Ma Baiyi's anger suddenly came out again, and the atmosphere once dropped to the point where it could not be resolved.
"Second brother, what on earth is going on?"
After hearing this, the girl felt sensitive in her heart, and she held Jingqian's arm with both hands.
"Tell me! I'm going to ask you today, what are your plans for my little sister? If you are sure, we will get married tomorrow, and I won't care about anything else!"
Chapter completed!