novelslam Chapter 176 What I Mean to You
Chapter 176 What I Mean to You
Chapter 176 What I Mean to You He asked in a loud voice, "How many people will follow to the hunting ground?"
The man also followed her gaze, his voice was deep and peaceful, and the corners of his lips were elegantly curved, as if in the sky after the rain, a ray of sunshine pierced through the haze that had lingered for many days.
"More than you think."
For hundreds of years, the European soil has been in turmoil, and various countries have been in constant civil strife. Although the rulers of the dynasty are always changing, behind the royal power, the four or five big families that really stand still are the fixed four or five big families, willebrand Because of their close ties with the Holy See, the family has become the most powerful and prestige among them.
No matter in ancient or modern times, at home and abroad, it is the heart disease of the emperors of all dynasties that the subordinates form cliques for private interests.
Many years ago, when the royal families of various countries intended to abolish the aristocratic system, they issued various laws and regulations to restrict the close communication activities of the families.Therefore, in order to deceive the public, the several big families at that time established the custom of hunting together in May every year, and the hunting ground was set in the center of the territory of the several big families, so as to keep the warehouse in the dark.Later, the royal power fell, but the habit of hunting in spring has continued to this day.
The seven or eight cars behind them were only those who set off from Jiang's family, and there were also many sons and young masters from other families, who could only be seen when they arrived at the hunting ground.
Listening to his narration, Duan Zijin couldn't help chuckling and said, "Sure enough, the cultural background is different, and I'm really not used to it."
The man raised his hand and pinned her wind-blown hair behind her ears, "What are you not used to?"
"Our ancestors have made a rule since the Xia and Shang Dynasties that hunting is not allowed in spring." Of course Duan Zijin knew that he would not take it to heart, and did not intend to use this rule to suppress him. He only joked to him Said, "Now is the season for all things to grow, killing is not kind, Professor Jiang!"
The man's black eyes seemed to be blown away by the wind, and a smile hidden deep in the water slowly floated up, as light as someone's illusion.
Duan Zijin blinked, and sure enough, he saw his calm and deep expression again.
But I heard him say calmly: "Okay, don't kill until it is absolutely necessary."
Hunting is their grand festival activity, if he doesn't kill, can he stop others from killing?
Duan Zijin knew that this promise was only a drop in the bucket for the animals killed in the whole hunting activity, but he still raised the corners of his mouth unconsciously.
For his silent tenderness and pampering.
She thought for a while and asked, "Professor Jiang, don't you still want to compete with Mr. Tang? Does this mean you just admit defeat?"
How can you compete without killing?
Jiang Lin's face was obviously stagnant when she mentioned another man, and then he looked at her with a deep displeasure.
He didn't explain much, just said bluntly: "He can't win."
Duan Zijin subconsciously glanced at the person in the wheelchair over there, and met Tang Jichi who was also facing her face.It's just that his black and white eyes were covered by sunglasses, and she couldn't be sure for a while whether he was looking at her.
Just as she was in a daze, another woman came out from the main hall door. Her clothes were very retro, but not European retro, but women's Tang suits, buttons, and embroidered shoes.The flowers and leaves embroidered on the satin surface are exquisite, which brings out the unique temperament of the owner. His long black hair is tied behind his head, which is incompatible with this western-style building no matter how you look at it.
The moment Duan Zijin saw her, for some reason, his eyebrows twitched suddenly.
When the woman got a little closer, she could see her facial features clearly, delicate and elegant, elegant and generous, the years had left many traces on her face, but she could vaguely see the charm of her youth through the lines at the corners of her eyes.
And she... unexpectedly resembles the man next to Duan Zijin!
The moment the woman stepped out of the main hall door and was completely illuminated by the sun, she felt the muscles of the arm that held her tense.At this moment, the woman was walking slowly towards this side, Duan Zijin looked sideways at the man's frozen eyebrows and eyes, full of surprise and doubt.
If she hadn't known that Jiang Lin's mother had passed away long ago, the middle-aged woman in front of him might have been his mother.
Jiang Lin's reaction was even more straightforward. Before the woman came to him, he turned around with his arms around Duan Zijin, stretched out his hand to pull the car door, pushed her in, sat in himself, and then slammed the door shut.
The woman's footsteps stopped a meter away from the car door, and her face, which was slightly covered with foundation, showed an inexplicable embarrassment and paleness.
Duan Zijin pulled off the man's sleeve strangely, "Who is that man?"
Jiang Lin's face was sombre, and he didn't say a word, as if he was very reluctant to bring up this matter.
All the people present looked at this scene with different expressions. Jiang Shan kept silent and did not talk to the man in the wheelchair. One side knocked on the car window.
She knew that Lenn would definitely not open the door and window for her at this time, because the woman he hated was standing outside the door, so she chose to start with Duan Zijin without thinking.As expected, although Duan Zijin hesitated for a moment, he still lowered the car window.
The moment the man sitting next to her reached out to open the window, his expression became obviously colder, his thin lips were pursed into a straight line, and his whole body exuded bursts of chill.
"Thank you." Jiang Shan hurriedly thanked Duan Zijin, looking past her and onto the man's face, "Lenn, you are like this at home, but you can't do it when you are on the hunting ground."
Jiang Lin narrowed his eyes, and after a while he spoke indifferently: "Is it finished?"
"lenn!"
Jiang Shan obviously wanted to persuade him a few more words, but suddenly saw the man holding the woman's hand.
"Don't open your window for anyone who knocks on you in the future, you know?"
His words sounded like he was reprimanding education, but his tone was as calm as water.
Duan Zijin understood that he was upset, but seeing Jiang Shan's worried face, it was difficult for her to be caught in the middle, so she thought about it for a while, smiled apologetically at Jiang Shan, and closed the car window again.
Jiang Lin stretched out his long arm from behind her, locked the car door on her side, then naturally wrapped his arms around her shoulders, and pulled the woman into his arms.
His chin rested on the top of her head, his black eyes were slightly closed, and his face was full of tiredness.
Duan Zijin naturally felt the suddenly gloomy aura on him, and sighed: "Jiang Lin, are you planning to hide it from me again?"
"This is a matter of the Jiang family, and has nothing to do with you and me." The man's handsome, thick black eyebrows were frowned into deep lines, "It won't affect anything."
Duan Zijin understood what he meant.
What he kept from her before was all things that would affect their relationship, for example, he had a fiancée, and the fiancée was nancy.And this matter has nothing to do with their relationship, it will not affect anything, and because it involves the Jiang family, he doesn't want to talk about it.
After being silent for a long time, Jiang Lin heard a woman's calm voice, like a feather passing through his heart, stirring his heavy emotions, "Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and yours is extraordinarily thick. I didn't think about it. I want to inquire about it, but I don’t want me to be unable to do anything but hug you when you’re in a bad mood, and I don’t even know where to start to comfort you.”
Jiang Lin's back stiffened, and he straightened slowly, pulling her away with his hand, and said in a deep voice, "It's not that I don't want to tell you."
Just don't know how to say it.
He never took the initiative to mention this matter to anyone, even Yucheng and Bo Yang didn't know about it.
But after thinking about it, she appeared in front of her eyes carefully copying the scriptures stroke by stroke in the Buddhist hall...
He turned his head to look at the woman outside the window, and said indifferently, "She is Viscount Willebrand's second wife."
Duan Zijin didn't expect him to talk about this suddenly, so she quickly moved closer and followed his gaze. Fortunately, there was a dark film on the car window, so it was difficult for people outside to notice that the people in the car were looking at her.
Viscount Willebrand, isn't that his father?
Duan Zijin frowned, she had never seen anyone address her father in such an unfamiliar way.She knew that Jiang Lin had a bad relationship with his family, but no matter how bad it was, he would still call Jiang Fengli Second Uncle and Old Man Jiang Grandpa.So in fact, the person he feels the most in love with is his father?And the reason is most likely his mother!
Duan Zijin felt that his thoughts became clearer.
In this way, the woman outside the door should be his "stepmother".But if the stepmother...
She frowned and looked at the woman, then looked at Jiang Lin's face that was somewhat similar to her, and said in a low voice, "You are... very similar to her."
"Not like." Jiang Lin interrupted her, "I am like my mother, but she..." His tone was tinged with sarcasm, "She also looks like my mother now."
Duan Zijin suddenly understood something, and asked in shock: "Your father, after your mother passed away, married a woman who was very similar to her?"
So what is it like now?Could it be that she was not like this before?
Jiang Lin's eyes slowly darkened, "He just needs a virtuous and gentle wife, and the Jiang family also needs such a mistress. As for the skin you see now, it was he who asked someone to take care of my mother." It looks like it was made with one knife at a time."
Duan Zijin was speechless.
One knife at a time... the whole thing?
She looked calm on the surface, but her heart was trembling constantly.
Looking at the woman again, she couldn't imagine that that face was really a beauty's painted skin.
Jiang Lin smiled, "Do you think that man is inferior to livestock?"
Duan Zijin took his hand, "Your father, why did he do this?"
"Eight years ago, my mother died for the Willebrand family in a turmoil." When Jiang Lin mentioned this incident, his expression was calm and his tone was calm, but for some reason, Duan Zijin never stopped. A trace of heart-wrenching pain can be heard in the narrative of ups and downs and temperature.
"The man watched her fall in front of him, in a pool of blood, but he didn't do anything."
Duan Zijin imagined the scene at that time, and couldn't help frowning, "At that time... where were you?"
Jiang Lin paused, the carriage was so quiet that there was no sound of breathing.
Instead of answering, Duan Zijin knew the answer.
She understood the pain of the death of her parents, and just getting their bodies made her almost collapse.As for him, he witnessed his mother's tragic death in front of him, how should he feel?
She couldn't put herself in that situation, put herself in that scene.He could only hold his hand with his slender fingers, and his palm was clenched into a fist, as hard as a rock.
"I want to save her." Jiang Lin's voice was so hoarse that it seemed to be torn apart, "I wanted to save her, but his people stopped me, he tied me in the car and slapped me, he said If I get out of the car, the position of the Willebrands will be embarrassing."
Duan Zijin suddenly regretted mentioning this while suffering less than one ten-thousandth of his own.
She didn't want to just hug him when he was sad, and she didn't even know where to start to comfort him.
But when he told these things, didn't she just hug him, at a loss?
"Stop it, Jiang Lin, stop it." She hooked the man's neck, kissed him hastily and chaotically, "I don't want to hear it anymore, you forget it too, forget it! "
The man's body tensed for a moment, and he also pressed the back of her head and kissed her deeply.
The tip of his tongue carried the tantalizing bitterness, easily prying open her unguarded jaws, rolling lingeringly over every inch of the inner wall and teeth in her mouth.It was as hot as a life-saving man, like a person who was about to die grasping at a straw.
When she let go, the woman's lips were as red as soaked in blood, and the dark brown eyes were also shimmering, charming and delicate.
There was a low, hoarse and heavy gasp in the car, even though there were only the two of them in the car, and even though people outside the car couldn't see what was going on inside, she still buried herself in his hot chest in shame.
The man was silent for a moment, and asked, "You don't want to hear it anymore?"
Duan Zijin shook his head, shook his hand again, lowered his eyes and said: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't ask you these things."
It's better for him to keep such a secret than tell it.
The man stared at her dark chestnut hair, and said calmly: "Sooner or later, I will let you know. If I don't tell you personally, if you hear it from Shanshan in the paddock, I'm afraid you will get angry again."
Duan Zijin looked up at him, "Jiang Shan? Why did she tell me?"
"In order for you to persuade me."
"How dare she be sure that I will definitely help her?" Duan Zijin pouted.
"If you don't help her, I will be the one who is imprisoned."
Duan Zijin wondered, "What do you mean?"
"She understands what you mean to me." Jiang Lindao, "Letting you persuade me is the easiest and peaceful solution. If you don't help her, she will directly hold you and threaten me."
Just like in Yucheng, she forced him to choose between Yao Beier and Duan Zijin by stealing the mother belt of "Allure".
After hearing his words, Duan Zijin felt sweet and sad at the same time. She knew that she shouldn't be serious at this time, but she still couldn't help asking: "What do I mean to you?"
Jiang Lin's eyes darkened a little, they were dark and dark, and she could still feel a cluster of scorching flames from them.
Before she could react, she had already fallen into the arms of the man. He pressed down involuntarily, bit her lips again, and tasted her intoxicating fragrance with the tip of his tongue, and the burning flame burned all the way into her mouth. Into his heart, let him realize what it means to be burned by flames.
"What do you think?" The man's rough voice fell in her ear.
Duan Zijin was also kissed so darkly that he held him in his arms like a puddle of water.
She blushed and said stiffly, "How do I know? You never told me what I mean to you."
"It means, as long as I hold you, there is nothing I cannot promise."
His words completely melted the frost that had formed in her heart these days.
She asked emotionally, "Including forcing you to go home?"
The man froze, and it took him a long time to let out a deep "hmm".
The joy in Duan Zijin's heart was about to burst out, but he couldn't help but feel deep sadness for him, "No, Jiang Lin, don't have such thoughts. Don't force yourself to do anything you don't want to do, if I know Your humiliation is for me, and I will not be happy."
The man pecked her lips again, and said in a hoarse voice: "So I ask you to protect yourself, don't give others this opportunity to threaten me with you, understand?"
Duan Zijin nodded, "Understood."
Just like she was willing to give everything for his life, this man's feelings for her are much deeper than she imagined.
She won't give anyone that chance.
Because she has truly experienced the pain of being threatened by someone taking advantage of her weakness.
They cuddled like this for a while, and everyone outside got into the car one by one. Jiang Lin's stepmother saw that he refused to open the door for her for a long time, her eyes darkened, and she walked towards the front car under the guidance of the servant.
Not long after she got in the car, Duan Zijin saw Jiang Lin's father walking out slowly with his grandfather in the main hall's gate, and got into the same car with his stepmother.
The man was also staring at them, with a fleeting gloomy tone flashing across his eyes, Duan Zijin sensed the suddenly condensed air, and couldn't help but clenched his hand.
After a long time, the man calmly looked away, as indifferent as if the gloomy and terrifying person just now was not him.
The warmth from her palm made him block the words in his throat, and he quickly found the exit.
"I really started to reject this family because my mother died for the benefit of the Jiang family, but they didn't give her a funeral. Her body can't go into the ancestral grave, because... the outside world thinks she's still alive."
Duan Zijin's eyes widened suddenly, and he suddenly realized: "That's why your stepmother was made to look like your mother?"
The word "stepmother" made Jiang Lin frowned again, he didn't refute, it was his tacit consent.
Duan Zijin thought of his mother's tombstone far away in the Qimen Buddhist Temple.Expelled from the genealogy by the Chen family, her body was abandoned by her husband after she died in a foreign land.The world is so big, but there is no place for her, so she can only be buried in that nameless monastery after death, accompanied by villains and nameless people who are full of gardens in the back mountain.
She should love Jiang Lin's father very much, otherwise Jiang Lin would not rashly engrave her tombstone as "Mrs. Jiang".
But she should also hate that man very much.I hate his ruthlessness, hate that he was born in such a family that can't help himself, that's why he didn't follow Willebrand's family name.
In that woman's heart, the man she loves is not some supreme viscount, but her husband, Mr. Jiang.
"Is it because of this that you left home?" Duan Zijin asked softly, but he already had the answer in his heart.
Unexpectedly, the man closed his eyes and remained silent for a long time before he said: "They made me forget all the accidents, and pretended that my mother was still alive, standing in front of me."
This is the spark that detonated the explosives.
His father once said that the heir to the title should bear the ups and downs of the whole family.
For the first 24 years he held it to be his supreme rule.
But when he was 24 years old, after such a thing happened, he began to doubt, hesitate, and even resist the status of heir.
Whenever he thought that one day, under the oppression of his family's position, he would become a heartless and indifferent person like his father, he felt that this family made him unable to stay any longer.
So he returned to China with his mother's ashes.
A year before his mother passed away, he took him to her friend's funeral, where he met a boy named Fu Yan who was five years younger than him.
Seeing Fu Yan kneeling in front of his mother's grave for a long time and refusing to get up, Jiang Lin actually didn't feel any so-called compassion.
But just a year later, his own mother passed away.Holding her ashes, he found the declining Chen family, but was almost expelled by the entire ancient town.
In the end, he chose a monastery outside the town in order to fulfill his mother's wish to return to her roots.
He also knelt in the cemetery for a whole night before he really understood the despair of being homeless...
Jiang Lin didn't open his eyes. In the darkness, many past events that he thought were too painful to bear passed by like a revolving lantern.
Recalling the darkest age of 24, he somehow felt a softness and peace in his heart.But when he tried to go deeper, he found that the source of warmth seemed to be covered by layers of fog. He could feel it, but couldn't see it clearly.
Duan Zijin lowered his head and remained silent. After a long time, he heard the man quietly ask: "Do you still remember the year when you just met me? How old was I?"
She replied without thinking: "24 years old."
24 is old.
Jiang Lin opened his eyes.
After a while, he smiled slightly, "Come here."
Duan Zijin glanced at the distance between him and him, almost sticking together, how can he get past?
But she still wanted to follow him, and got closer to him as she said.
Unexpectedly, the man leaned down and kissed her again, deep and shallow kisses, delicate kisses, his big palms caressed her cheeks, as if he was holding some lost and found treasure.
"I'm sorry, Yoyo." He said, there was something deep in his tone that made her breathless.
"what?"
"I actually forgot about you."
I forgot how important you are.
I am sorry.
Duan Zijin's nose soured, "I don't blame you."
It doesn't matter if he has forgotten all about it, but if he recalls what happened six years ago, she doesn't know how to explain her heartless departure.
She said: "Whatever happens to you in the future, don't lie to me again, and we...never separate easily."
Jiang Lin's hand that landed on her face suddenly exerted force, and his tone was firm, "It's not easy or it won't work!"
Duan Zijin was very sad, but laughed at him, "Why are you so overbearing? If I die, will you still be buried for me?"
The man frowned even more displeased, with hints of anger, "What nonsense?"
"I'm not talking nonsense. Birth, old age, sickness and death, natural disasters and people... um."
All the unfinished words were blocked by the man.It took a long time before he let go of her, and said lightly, "Why not."
Duan Zijin's eyes were slightly red, in order not to let him see, he turned his head with a smile and jokingly said: "If I had known nonsense, I would have let you kiss me, and that's what I should have done when I started chasing you."
This woman!Jiang Lin looked at her profile, couldn't get angry for a while, and said: "When I come back from the hunting ground, I will go to Leopold's house to dissolve the engagement, and then I will take you away. We will go to Northern Europe to see the aurora, and then return to China."
Annulus...is it finally over?With mixed feelings, Duan Zijin nodded in response to him: "Okay."
The two were lingering for a while again, when she didn't pay attention to the man's deep eyes, an undercurrent flowed quietly.
In fact, he lied to her.He went to Leopold's house not only to withdraw his marriage, but also to perform the last life-and-death operation.
Take it as the last time to hide from her.