"By the way, your mother was a very powerful chivalrous woman back then. At that time, your father and I were still a sick and poor scholar..."
"At that time, your mother gave me some silver coins, gave me martial arts secrets, and begged me to write a divorce letter to divorce her. But your father, I am not the kind of person who would give up my waist for five buckets of rice, so naturally I flatly refused!"
Lin Nuo suddenly became interested when talking about this past incident. He was talking about being very happy and happy. In his opinion, deceiving Xiu'er as his wife was the most correct decision he had ever made in his life.
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"Stop it!"
Xiu'er suddenly spoke, interrupting Lin Nuo's various boasts, and then said softly with a smile: "Husband, tell the truth, why did you refuse to terminate the engagement with me with a divorce letter? Aren't you afraid that I would really
Are you tempted to kill?"
When Lin Nuo heard this, his heart trembled. This question was not easy to answer.
Xiu'er asked him to tell the truth, but can he tell the truth about this kind of thing?
Do you want to tell her that back then, you just wanted to gamble, get rich and rich, and earn a wife for nothing? If you lose the gamble, you can just give in and write a letter of divorce. Anyway, you will not lose.
This is the truth, but this big truth cannot be said!
"Father, tell me, what were you thinking at that time?" Lin Yan was also full of curiosity. He wanted to know where his father at that time got the courage. A sick man, he dared to talk to the heroine's mother.
bargain.
"Actually, it's nothing. When I opened my eyes and saw your mother for the first time, a voice kept telling myself that this is the person I, Lin Nuo, have been looking for all my life. She is the person I am destined to be. No matter what, she will be
I can’t let her leave my side again!”
At this point, Lin Nuo patted Lin Yan's shoulder with deep meaning and said lightly: "Fate is destined by God. Sometimes even if you want to hide, you can't hide. When you meet the person of destiny in the future,
, you will naturally understand what your father said today!"
While he was talking, Lin Nuo glanced at Xiu'er from the corner of his eye and found that Xiu'er rolled her eyes, as if she only believed you.
But the uncontrollable smile at the corner of her mouth showed her mood at this time. It could be seen that even though Xiu'er didn't believe her husband's nonsense, she was still very satisfied with this answer.
Women are so duplicitous. They say they want to hear the truth, but what they really want to hear most is lies. If you really tell the truth, they will be unhappy!
Even a peerless woman like Xiu'er can't avoid being vulgar sometimes.
.......
In the next nearly three years, Lin Nuo and his wife took Lin Yan over mountains and rivers, over mountains and rivers.
In the past few years, Lin Yan felt that a lot of the theoretical knowledge he learned from books seemed to come alive. With his parents by his side, wandering between heaven and earth, he felt that his soul had been sublimated in the edification of mountains and rivers, and his character
It is much more tenacious than before.
The days continued to pass leisurely. Lin Yan, who had long since grown up, participated in the provincial examination, the joint examination, and the palace examination accompanied by his parents. In the end, he was appreciated by the emperor for his true talent and knowledge, and won the first prize in one fell swoop.
He first entered the Imperial Academy and then the Ministry of Civil Service, and his official positions were promoted in an orderly manner until Lin Yan entered the cabinet at the age of fifty and knew his destiny.
Over the years, Lin Nuo and Xiu'er have been living in their son's mansion in the capital. Their appearance has aged little by little, and they have entered old age from middle age. A sense of old age emanates from them, as if they have a long life.
, not much anymore.
On this day, it was late at night, and the Lin family's mansion was brightly lit. The chief minister, Lin Yan, did not rest. Instead, he sat quietly in a room, looking calmly at his parents who were already very old on the couch opposite.
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Nowadays, after thirty years of official career, Lin Yan has long lost the youthfulness he once had. He is already outstanding in terms of both his city and his mind. In this world, the only thing that can make his mind turbulent is his.
Parents who have not long to live.
"Yan'er, sixteen years of ordinary life, three years of mountain and river experience, thirty years of ups and downs in officialdom, glory and wealth, are you still satisfied with your life?"
Lin Nuo was half lying on the bench, holding Xiu'er's already wrinkled palm, looking at the son opposite who showed no emotion or anger, and asked with a faint smile.
"This kind of life is already perfect for mortals!" Lin Yan nodded lightly.
"No, it's still a little unsatisfactory!" Xiu'er suddenly spoke, with a hint of doubt in her voice, "In these years, you have refused to marry and have no children. What is the reason?"
Lin Yan was silent and had no words for a long time.
Lin Nuo and the other two did not rush. In fact, they were also puzzled about this matter. After all, this was not the real world, but the world of consciousness he had built. Everything was for the sake of his son's happy growth. Since Lin Yan did not want to marry a wife,
They have never urged me.
But now, this life is about to end, Xiu'er finally couldn't hold back and asked the doubts in her heart.
"Father, mother!"
Lin Yan spoke.
"Although I have never mentioned it again in these years, I know very well that this is not my home!"
"The father in my memory is handsome and handsome, and can change the world in a blink of an eye; the mother in my memory is cold and beautiful, as charming as a fairy; the home in my memory is the Holy Land of Yaochi, which is full of fairyland and surrounded by auspicious beasts.
, and there are even a group of young ladies who play with me and have fun with me!”
"You keep telling me that it was a dream, just a figment of my imagination!"
"I have been confused and lost before, and I have even slowly accepted this so-called fact! But over the years, for some reason, whenever I fall asleep, I always dream about my childhood. Among those memories, the most common thing is that of my mother.
The scene where my father forced me to practice qi and took me to catch monsters."
"Gradually, I realized that the so-called dream world in your mouth is my real world, and the world in front of me, where my dreams come true, is really just a dream!"
Lin Nuo took a deep breath, with a trace of curiosity in his eyes, "So, you have always felt that the world you live in is not real, so you have been reluctant to marry and have children, and you don't want to leave any worries here.
Is it right?"
Lin Yan nodded, "Those three years of mountain and river experience have sublimated my mind and gradually given me a strange feeling. I can always feel that everything in front of me seems to be false, except for my father."
Mother is real!"
"Father, mother, I am no longer young and have entered the end of my life. Now, I want to hear the truth... Which one is the dream, the world in my memory or the world in front of me?