It’s the dream again. The silent man in purple looked at me quietly from a dark place. I also looked at him for a long time. Finally, I melancholy, said: “Don’t look for me anymore. Even though you’re the person of my dreams, I can take you to reality to be my husband.”
Tomorrow is the day that I’ll get my hairpin. Shifu let the people of Shengling sect organize a big feast for me to choose a husband. His face looks darker each approaching day. Although I don’t know the reason, but I can see that shifu doesn’t like me looking for a husband. So I was very puzzled. If he doesn’t like it, I can just stop looking for a husband. Why did he have to spend time organizing a feast for me to choose a husband and make himself angry?
I sighed and told the man in purple: “My shifu is a weirdo. Although he organized a feast for me to choose a husband, he isn’t happy that I’m choosing a husband. So even though I really want a husband, I still won’t choose. Beside you always only appear in my dreams. You can’t come to the feast. Well…so I thought for a moment and came to the conclusion that you shouldn’t appear in my dreams anymore and making me wish for a better life. I’ll be disappointed if I can’t live a better life later.”
The man in purple listened to my words. I don’t know why he laughed.
“Don’t worry, I’ll do my best to make you live a good life. What do you think?”
My eyes lit up, but thinking about shifu’s sullen face, I shook my head: “If I’ve a good life, shifu will be unhappy…forget it, it’s best if I just stay beside shifu.”
The man in purple was silent for a very long time.
“A Xiang lady, do you like your shifu very much?”
“Very much,”I nodded. “Shifu eats meat, I also eat meat. Shifu is happy, I’m also happy.”
The man in purple didn’t speak again. In my ears I can hear the faint sound of shifu’s voice calling for me. It’s presumably already dawn. I waved at the man in purple and said: “I’m going. Let’s don’t meet each other anymore.”
I opened my eyes and saw that the sun just came up. My heart doesn’t understand where shifu’s energy comes from. He got up even earlier than me. My vision got clearer. I saw shifu standing at my bedside, looking at me with squinted eyes.
“What did you see in your dream? Your mouth was muttering.”
“Well,”I said while rubbing my eyes. “I was saying goodbye to the person of my dreams…”
I didn’t finish talking when I felt something heavy on my body. It was shifu who threw my clothes on the bed with a really bad temper. His face was really dark. He gritted his teeth and breathed for a long time before he said: “Today, when you wake up, you can see him. There’s no need to also be so attached to each other in your dreams!”
I was about to explain that in the future I couldn’t see him anymore, but shifu left the room and just left these angry sentences: “After changing into this dress, come out. Today’s choosing a husband feast will be held at Shengling sect. We’ll go down the mountain together.”
Ai…shifu is making it difficult for himself again.
The clothe that shifu gave me was white. I looked in the bronze mirror. This dress felt like the clothes Shenling sect wore when someone has died. But it’s not ugly. I lifted the skirt and ran out to look for shifu.
When shifu saw me, he hesitated and wrinked his brows.
“You’re not allowed to laugh! Don’t pretend to be charming!”
I obediently closed my mouth.
He frowned.
“Don’t pretend to be mature.”
I felt really wronged: “I’m not pretending.”
“Shut up! You’re not allowed to make a pitiful expression!”
I closed my mouth and looked at him bewildered.
Shifu covered his face and gave a long sigh.
“Forget it…Let’s go down.”
I walked behind shifu. I only heard shifu in front of me saying to himself: “Fucking hell, what’s wrong with me?! What’s wrong with me?! It’s all that person of her dreams fault. Don’t let me know who you are today. See how I’ll deal with you. Deal with you!”
I was behind shifu. I gently pulled his clothes.
“Shifu, if you’re really upset, we shouldn’t go down today. I’ll never mention the words “the person of my dreams” again in front of you.”
Shifu stopped in his tracks. I looked up at him. There was a slightly surprised expression on shifu’s face. He seemed like he didn’t want me to see his expression. He turned around really fast. Without a word, he continued walking. I grabbed his clothes and followed him from behind, like a small tail….
Suddenly a warm hand grabbed my hand that was pulling at his clothes. I heard the sound of shifu’s voice through the cold air.
“I didn’t…mean to get mad at you.”
Holding my hand, he walked down the path to go to Shengling sect.
“You don’t need to be afraid.”
I stared at shifu’s hand. My heart eased down.
Shengling sect has been decorated. When shifu walked in holding my hand, the females came and congratulated me. Passing the yard, I saw a man cleaning the leaves. My foosteps stopped.
“Husband…”