The summer nights are already a bit cool. Summer has passed and autumn has come, and the harvest time is not far away. During the busy farming season, the school also gives the students a short period of leisure. After all, everyone in the town has more or less more than ten acres of crop land, which delays the good time of the autumn harvest. In the event of strong winds and heavy rains, ordinary people have to weigh the use of lamp oil. , let alone letting the wheat rot in the ground and such a big thing, I really can't bear it.
At this time in previous years, this was the biggest problem for Yun Zhong. After the autumn harvest, let the sun peel off a layer of skin, and the ears of wheat poke into your sweat-soaked face, but it has nothing to do with comfort. It is even more common to cut your hands and legs with a sickle.
Whenever his legs were cut or sweat got into his eyes, Yunzhong would always straighten up and look at the man in his family sweating profusely in the field, and then look at the beads of sweat dripping down his mother's hair, he would feel resentful for no reason. My father is really a hands-off boss. Why are we doing all the work? What are you doing?
The boy's favorite thing to do is to catch two grasshoppers and frogs in the field ridges after the sun goes down every day, or find a long straight wooden stick and add a withered yellow stick. Grass, now you can learn from the knight in the book, pull out the "sword", wear a "coir raincoat", and regard the weeds as villains in the world. With one strike of the sword, the villains will fall in a circle, and your heart will suddenly feel better. The heroic spirit of killing enemies under the moonlight.
Sometimes children from the fields next door would come to join in the fun, imitating Yun Zhong's example and swiping at the weeds that offended someone, euphemistically saying, "With one strike of my sword, the snow will soon turn clear." Since they are people in the world, there are times when they dislike each other, so the dust flew up on both sides. When the fight became fierce, the swords were thrown away, and the two hugged each other, chewing several mouthfuls of dirt and weeds in their mouths, and in the end... The ending usually ends with the child next door running away crying, shouting: "Yun Zhong, I tell your mother to go! Let your mother break all three of your legs!" And the next day, the two knights Also known as brothers, they wish they could become brothers of the opposite sex right away.
At the end of the autumn harvest, Mrs. Yun Zhong was caught in a heavy rain and fell ill.
The doctor from the town, who was carrying a cloth bag, came to see her. He shook his head and said that he had never seen this disease before. It was very strange. The old doctor hesitantly prescribed two doses of medicine, and then advised the young man to hire another skilled doctor and not to delay the opportunity. After entrusting his doctor to send an urgent letter home to his father, Yun Zhong ran to make a bowl of ginger soup for his mother. In a hurry, he burned his arm and got a big blister, but he didn't even know it. The mother looked distressed and hurriedly took a sip of the ginger soup cooked by her son, then got out of bed anxiously to find a needle.
The folk prescription says that if you roast the needle on the fire and remove the blisters, it will be fine. Yun Zhong looked at his mother's pale face and felt that the needle pricked her really painfully. But it doesn't seem to be the arm that hurts the most.
Yunzhong got up early the next day and went to take pictures of the door of neighbor Aunt An's house.
Aunt An is a stocky, dark-skinned, middle-aged woman. A few years ago, the man helped repair a Buddhist temple in Qingchai County. When it was about to be completed, the golden statue of Buddha in the main hall collapsed for no reason, and he and two fellow villagers were buried underground, waiting for someone to come. In the time it took to save him, he had already died. The county magistrate who was in charge of supervising this matter was afraid of causing trouble, so he compensated each of the three family members a hundred taels of silver, and paid for the funeral coffins. He just asked them not to make any noise. If you have any requests in the future, just go to the Yamen to see him. . After hearing the news, Aunt An didn't think about food or tea. She cried for three days and her eyes were so swollen that she couldn't see the road. However, she managed to get through life as she should. She sent her children to a famous school in Qingchai, and the county magistrate paid for their food and accommodation. It's a bit of relief in the misfortune.
Although Aunt An has never studied and cannot read a word, she is quite kind and warm-hearted. Whenever someone's family has an emergency, she will help take care of her. Although she is a bit sarcastic, she is indeed famous for her good-heartedness from all over the country.
Hearing the knock on the door, Aunt An hurriedly opened the door and took Yunzhong to sit down in the house.
"Auntie, I'm going to Qingchai County to invite a doctor back to my mother. I'll have to worry about you for the next two days." Yun Zhong begged before he could sit down.
Aunt An was not tall, short and dumpy, with a dark complexion and deep lines. At first glance, she knew that she was a farmer. She looked at the thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy in front of her, sighed quietly and said: "You are a child who can't live alone." Is it really possible for you to go to Qingchai County? Can you remember the road to Qingchai? Besides, it has just rained heavily these days and the mountain road is rugged. How can you explain to your parents if something goes wrong? I really blame your father. I haven't seen anyone for a year, leaving all the burden of the family to my wife and children, what kind of statement is this?"
The young man pursed his lips, remained silent for a while, and said, "I can do it."
Before leaving Aunt An's house, Yun Zhong gave Aunt An two pairs of medicines prescribed by the old doctor, and carefully explained the various procedures for boiling the medicine, including how long it took to boil the medicine, how long it took to simmer, how big the gap should be in the lid of the medicine jar, etc. Afraid that she wouldn't take it seriously, I handed Aunt An two packets of medicine and secretly stuffed a dozen copper coins inside.
When Yun Zhong returned home, he repeatedly asked his mother to take medicine and recuperate. When he invited the doctor back, the medicine would be enough to eliminate any hidden dangers. Naturally, her mother could see that Yun Zhong was pretending to be relaxed. She also knew that she could not persuade her son, so she could only swallow the words in her stomach. She nodded silently and asked Yun Zhong to be careful along the way and not to rush for that time. . Yunzhong nodded and walked out of the house, looking back three times.
In early October, this time of year is different from early autumn. The wind blows as you walk, and the change of seasons is clear. There are autumn rains and cold. After several autumn rains, the weather cannot be called cool, but it is actually cold. . The young man wrapped himself in his clothes and strode forward.
When leaving the town, the young man carefully inspected his belongings: a pair of trousers with several patches on his body, a pair of rag shoes, a small bag of broken silver hidden in his waist, a bag of dry food and water, two prescriptions, and a small roll of dried hardwood. A straw rope, a meat-picking dagger borrowed from Uncle Liu from the butcher shop, and three firewood sticks left behind by his father when he returned home.
Near noon, Yunzhong left the town and walked towards Qingchai County.
As summer turns to autumn, the days become much shorter. When we reached a grove ten miles away from the town, it was already getting dark. The young man looked at the dark grove in front of him and felt a little panicked. He took out the water bag in his package and took a sip of water, then walked towards the forest. Occasionally, he caught a glimpse of a long and straight wooden stick on a withered yellow leaf. The young man picked it up, played with the sword and sword he learned in the book, and walked into the depths of the forest step by step, humming a silly song.
"One sword after another, and the little devil on the wall was chopped to pieces."
"Mountain after mountain, the rogues are so ugly."
"Look at the blue frost sword in our hand, and look at the universe in my sleeve."
"Sword after sword and sword after sword."
The young man didn't know that his voice was slightly crying.
