Chapter 1614 The Long Road Ahead

"So when I heard about this from others, I knew that the day I guessed had come, and it was not surprising.

Although on the surface, he still looked as quiet and peaceful as before, but Malashenko still sensed the fleeting sadness and worry from the brows of his lover whom he had been watching quietly.

Obviously, Natalia was not as strong as she said in her own words.

Malashenko could naturally guess the reason why she wanted to portray herself as a slightly different image in her words. If it weren't for the deep love and inability to extricate herself to the point of sacrificing herself for the sake of her lover, a woman who was three years older than herself would have no reason to do so.

"There is no need to ask again and again about this matter and want to seek any kind of result. I didn't have such an idea from the beginning."

"From childhood to adulthood, I have experienced countless tragedies and pains. I don't even remember how many there are. If I wasn't strong enough, I really wouldn't be able to get to where I am today. But fortunately, you have always been by my side since childhood, my dear. "

"Besides you, I have no one else I can trust. I am even afraid that this country and those people will repeat what they did to my parents. I have dreamed of such a scene more than once in nightmares: soldiers with guns forcibly took my father away, punched and kicked the housekeeper and servants, and cursed.

"I don't even know where my mother went in the end. After being forced to separate, I never saw her again. Even if she is dead, I don't know where she is buried. I can only express my grief through this thing."

Natalia, with tears hanging in the corners of her eyes and crying voice full of words, trembled slightly, took a string of metal pendants out of her clothes, and showed it to Malashenko in her hand.

Malashenko remembered this thing and had seen it more than once in the inherited memory.

It was the only relic left to Natalia by her mother: a pendant with very simple workmanship, far from being luxurious and gorgeous, like an ornament worn by ordinary people, with a small flower carved in relief metal inlaid in it.

This was something Natalia's mother had before she met her father. At that time, the beautiful girl was just an ordinary person, not a noble.

The origin of this pendant today is that a servant who was finally released after being imprisoned for a long time found Natalia and gave it to her after going through a lot of hardships.

It is said that it was a token that Natalia's mother asked the servant to give to her only daughter.

With it, even if she has forgotten her daughter's appearance after many years and the child has grown up, the mother can still find her child with the token and confirm the identity.

Now, Natalia no longer expects to find her mother with this thing, maybe she is no longer in the world.

Keeping this thing until now is more of a thought of mourning for relatives.

Malashenko can understand Natalia's feelings and know how important this small pendant is to his daughter-in-law. Malashenko, who was filled with deep guilt and pity, couldn't help but hold his lover tighter in his arms, close to his chest.

"I know what I have to face, I can bear it all, and I have been prepared for it."

"I just hope this won't separate us, dear. From childhood to adulthood, you are the only person in my world who has never changed and always existed. I lost my parents, my home, and the one who loved me and everything I once loved and had. I really can't bear the pain of losing you anymore!"

"As long as I can always have my place in your heart, I will be satisfied. The only home I have in my childhood memories is as happy and harmonious as ever. I have always believed that you will be a better person than my father. You will do better than him, and I just want to stay by your side to witness all this happening and coming. This is all I want to say."

From smiling and whispering at the beginning to crying now.

Natalia's huge changes in just a few minutes are like her life experience, which is ups and downs and reappears again.

Natalia had the purest and most beautiful happiness in her childhood, but it was torn into pieces and completely lost in a sudden change.

The subsequent stories were full of misfortune and sadness. Fortunately, when Natalia was very young, she had a "same" friend who also lost his biological parents and always stayed with her.

When she was discriminated against and no other children were willing to play with her, it was the same ragged little boy who quietly hid behind the tree and looked at her. After mustering up the courage, he finally came to her, stretched out his hand to take out the wooden toys he had just learned from carpentry, and invited her to share the joy of making toys by hand.

When she was bullied, she was looked down upon because of her poor background and the fact that she had no parents, and was pushed around like a rag doll by the naughty boys in the muddy ground. It was the "giant boy" who was only twelve years old and over 1.7 meters tall. He stood up in the pouring rain, and with his fists as big as sand bowls and his tall and unshakable body, he single-handedly beat up the gang of naughty boys, leaving them with bruises and forced to flee in embarrassment.

That day, the laughter and joy of warming up by the fire and hanging clothes to ward off the cold under the dilapidated wooden shed was probably the happiest thing in Natalia's memory of her girlhood, even though the boy was three years younger than her.

The most ignorant first love and love of the girl was born at that time.

"Do you remember the scene of drying clothes under the dilapidated shed of Uncle Ivan's house? I still remember it."

Just like when Natalia just cut the topic, Malashenko also chose to use the same method to lead the topic to common memories.

"Of course I remember, it was a day I will never forget, why do you suddenly ask this, dear."

It's like the first ray of sunshine has broken through the dark clouds in the sky and sprinkled on the earth after the rain. The important memory that Malashenko was sure of was enough to make Natalia stop crying and sadness, and jump from the unfortunate memory to the memory that was completely opposite.

Looking at the lover who still had tears in his arms but had a smile on his face again.

Malashenko, who was sure that he could accurately retrieve the unique first-born emotion from the memory of that day he inherited, spoke again.

"Maybe many years have passed, but I still remember clearly that it was at that moment that I made the decision to accompany this girl for the rest of her life. I am glad to see that I have not changed today, and I can still stay with her quietly like now."

Between true lovers, there are always some shared memories that are worth remembering forever, which is what people often say is beautiful.

Fortunately and inevitably, there is such an unforgettable memory between Malashenko and Natalia.

There are no vows of love or promises exchanged between each other, but the most ignorant and innocent you looking at me, I looking at your shyness and silly smile, has become a common moment between the two of them in the sound of rain and the warmth of firelight that will never be erased.

"I hope I can always hold your hand and walk on, no matter what happens, to witness our love and your future, which is equally beautiful tomorrow."