Chapter 7254 Meeting
She didn’t know what happened to him in the past thirty-four years. Why did he age so fast?
Although his shoulders are still broad, his back is a little heavy.
Time has left deep marks on his face. He was so thin and old that she almost didn't recognize him at first glance.
The man opposite seemed to be irritated by her words. He covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed twice.
As soon as he coughed, footsteps approached outside the cabin, and a low and questioning voice came in: "Master?"
Qi Huan raised his hand.
The figure outside the cabin retreated.
Qi Huan also stopped coughing, put down his handkerchief and looked straight at Tuoba Xian in front of him.
"There is something wrong with my body, but, Xian'er, you are still the same as when we first met."
"You are still so young and beautiful..."
Tuoba Xian shook his head gently, "I am already a grandmother, and youth and beauty have long been missed by me."
Qi Huan But she insisted: "No, in my heart, you will always be the magnificent Princess of Liao Dynasty. She is the woman I love most and the only woman I have ever loved."
Tuoba Xian turned her head. Go, don't want to hear it.
“You have been hiding from me for more than thirty years and suddenly brought me here tonight just to say these love words?”
Tuoba Xian smiled, with a part of self-deprecation and a part of ridicule on the corner of her lips.
"Those love words of yours can deceive me when I was eighteen years old. This year, I am fifty-two."
"In eight years, my son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren will be So we want to celebrate my sixtieth birthday.”
Qi Huan knew he was in the wrong, but he could do nothing but apologize.
"Xian'er, I have owed you thirty-four years. I have committed a heinous crime. If there is an afterlife, I will compensate you again."
The sarcasm on Tuoba Xian's lips became more and more profound.
Compensation?
Afterlife?
As a person who has served in front of the Buddha for more than ten years, she actually does not dare to hope that there will be an afterlife.
"Xian'er, it's been a long time since we met again. Tonight I just want to pick you up and catch up on old times."
Qi Huan glanced at the furnishings in the cabin: "Does everything here look familiar to you?"
"I decorated it according to the first time we met in the Jiangnan water town."
Qi Huan’s flattering reminder was not needed at all. Tuoba Xian understood his intentions the first time she entered the cabin.
"There is also this bowl of cold skin. I remember you said you wanted to eat it before, so I brought it to you. Do you want to try it?"
Tuoba Xian stared at the bowl of hot food in front of him. After a while, the cold skin loses its flavor, which makes me feel a little funny.
This man is still the noble son of the people who only knew how to fight on horseback, King Wu of Daqi.
He is still an outsider when it comes to things like food, clothing, housing and transportation, but he still wants to use this outsider thing to express his concern, but doesn’t he know that it will be self-defeating?
I saw Tuoba Xian staring at the bowl of cold skin, but refused to lift his chopsticks.
Qi Huan was a little uneasy and asked cautiously: "Is it cold? I'll order someone to heat it up..."
Tuoba Xian raised his hand to block it.
"No need."
"Qi Huan, I understand your kindness, but people's appetites will change."
"Xian'er..."
< br>From the inn to the cabin, Qi Huan kept smiling, observing, and carefully trying to please.
But at this moment, he couldn't laugh anymore, and his eyes darkened little by little.
"Xian'er, I'm sorry for you. In fact, I have been very ashamed these years."
Tuoba Xian looked at him quietly, waiting for him to give the answer she had always wanted.
However, Qi Huan was just telling his thoughts about her and his repentance.
The sound of the watch came from the shore.
Bang, bang, bang.
A sound came into the cabin. Other boats nearby have found suitable places to berth one after another. Before, it was quiet amid the commotion, but now it is truly quiet.
It was quiet all around, with occasional waterbirds flitting across the water.
In the cabin, Qi Huan has been talking.
It can be seen that his body is really not as good as before. He speaks very slowly, coughs several times and takes two sips of tea after speaking a few words.
Tuoba Xian was listening patiently, but she could not wait for the words she wanted to hear most.
"Qi Huan, I came with you tonight not because I want to hear your confession and thoughts."
"I am fifty-two years old, and most of my life has passed, and my youth has long gone. "No more."
"I have no desire to rekindle our old relationship with you."
Qi Huan's face turned pale every time Tuoba Xian said another word.
"Qi Huan, I have only one obsession for the rest of my life,"
"That is, I want you to tell me personally why you abandoned me back then?"
"Why haven't you given up on me for so many years? Come to me?”
"When you know my whereabouts, why do you hide your head and show your tail but refuse to meet me?"
Qi Huan sat there, the light of the lamp seemed not to shine through his body, his back stooped little by little, The whole person looked like an old man shrinking into the darkness.
He is also like an eminent monk who has entered concentration.
The cabin suddenly fell into silence.
After a while, just when Tuoba Xian was about to despair again, Qi Huan finally spoke again.
“It was not my intention to abandon you back then.”
“At that time, the war between the two countries was tense and the two countries were incompatible. As the prince of Da Qi, I had no choice!”
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"Xian'er, I'm sorry for you!"
Tuoba Xian frowned, this answer was just as she guessed.
It's nothing more than a man and a woman falling in love. At the last moment, the man's reason prevails, but the woman plunges headlong into it.
In the words of the simple village women in Changping Village, I was a stupid woman back then.
"The reason why you didn't come to see me for so many years was also because of the opposition between the two countries and our embarrassing status, right?" she asked.
Qi Huan nodded.
Tuoba Xian smiled mockingly.
Why do you have to ask so clearly?
Wouldn’t it be better to stay in the belly and be a happy confused person? Do you have to be a sad sober person?
Qi Huan saw Tuoba Xian's lonely look in his eyes, and felt a twinge of pain in his heart, as if ten thousand ants were gnawing at him.
He almost couldn't help but want to tell her the truth, but at the last moment, he held back.
Tuoba Xian raised his drooping eyes again, and the persistence in his eyes made Qi Huan secretly frightened.
"The last question, you must answer truthfully."
"Why have you been so reluctant to show up in recent years despite your obvious acquaintance with me? What are you afraid of? ”
This is what she wants to know most.
Knowing this answer, she will be completely liberated. For the rest of her life, she will devote herself to the green lantern accompanying the ancient Buddha, and there will be no more troubles.
However, Qi Huan fell into silence again.
“Why didn’t you say it?”
“Our lives have reached our twilight years, what secrets do you still want to keep?”
He is the current emperor of Daqi The war between the two countries is no longer as tense as it used to be, and business contacts are common.
What is he still insisting on?
"Xian'er..." Qi Huan called her name in a low voice. His thick eyebrows were tangled together, and his eyes were full of pain.
(End of this chapter)