Chapter 24 — Schemes
Purple Streets of Chang'an · Page 4 of 4
Dou Huaiying was suddenly overcome with a sense of his own unworthiness, and could scarcely bring himself to meet her gaze.
Since her father said nothing, Dou Yan had no interest in playing the doting child to amuse him.
Her mood was thoroughly glum.
Looking at the newborn Dou Ming, she thought of Dou Xiao, who would be born in a couple of years.
She had already tried her utmost to save her, yet her mother had hanged herself in the end. Could it be that the affairs of this world are foreordained and can never be changed?
In her previous life, her mother had died, and her father had remarried at once, afterward fathering children with Wang Shuying. What, then, had her mother's death been to him?
A breeze drifted past, and the bronze bells hanging beneath the eaves of the little shrine's corridor chimed softly, distant and serene.
Dou Yan thought of what the man beside her had once done, and in that instant could not bear to stay another moment.
She rose in agitation.
Then her father's low voice reached her ear: "Shouyuan, I miss your mother too, so much... so much..."
And then she saw her father bury his face against his knees and weep without a sound.
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Today is Laba. Have you sisters eaten your Laba porridge yet?
O(∩_∩)O~
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