By the stream, clear water moistens the pool. The stream has stopped in the flowing rock trough on the solitary wall, and the entire stream has broken into several sections of shallow pools scattered with pebbles.
There were two people by the stream, one was the old woman Ling Zi, and the other was the young girl Qin Shuang.
Ling Zi watched Qin Shuang pick up the stones and throw them into the pool nonchalantly. She also sat on the stone on Qin Shuang's side and asked Qin Shuang with a smile: "Okay, there are only two of us here, Qin Shuang." Miss Shuang, what's on your mind? You can keep things like feelings to yourself with the old lady.
I have been thinking about it for a long time, but it’s not a good feeling. "
Qin Shuang looked at Ling Zi's warm smile, frowned and threw a stone into the pool, saying slowly: "I like my senior brother, but..."
Qin Shuang hesitated until she came here, but she was too embarrassed to speak and stopped talking.
Ling Zi listened and asked with a smile: "Girl, do you think you dare not tell him?"
Hearing this, Qin Shuang shook her head helplessly and replied: "I told him, but he doesn't like me, eh..."
"Then does he have someone he likes?" Ling Zi asked.
Qin Shuang nodded and replied: "Yes, and they are still together. They are children, but the girl's parents don't agree with them being together."
Ling Zi asked: "Then did they get together in the end?"
Qin Shuang nodded and replied: "Senior brother told me that he only likes her and will not like me. However, after so many years, I am still unwilling to let him go. Even if it is me, I am willing to... ." When Qin Shuang came here, the more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She reached out and picked up a vine at her hand, and threw it away heavily.
She walked out, but the vine was like her love, too light and couldn't be thrown far.
When Ling Zi heard this, she understood. It seemed that this girl had unrequited love, and asked again: "Then did your senior brother agree?"
Qin Shuang curled her lips and muttered: "He is a big fool. He has been engaged to her since he was engaged, and he only loves her in his life. And he always treats me as his own sister, and will never marry me... snort!"
Hearing this, Ling Zi comforted her and said, "You are so anxious to detoxify the snake, so you are going to find your senior brother, right?"
Qin Shuang listened and nodded heavily, "Well, I learned from the second senior brother that the master sent the senior senior brother to Yunzhou in the south to provide disaster relief, so he passed by Moyun Mountain, but by some mistake, he fell here. .”
Ling Zi replied: "But, girl, he doesn't like you. It's useless for you to force it. It's better to let it go."
Qin Shuang thought for a while, shook her head, and replied: "I have thought about letting go of this relationship several times, but I have grown up with my senior brother and I can never forget that when we were studying medicine together, I did I can't let it go until..." Qin Shuang said, feeling a little inexplicably aggrieved and almost crying.
Come.
Ling Zi sat beside her and patted her back gently to comfort her.
Qin Shuang thought about the past between herself and her senior brother, and then recalled how many times she saw her senior brother and Peng Yun together. The pain in her heart welled up, and she couldn't help but throw herself into Ling Zi's arms. , burst into tears.
Ling Zi stroked Qin Shuang's long hair and comforted: "Good boy, don't cry. It's always good to love someone with all your heart. But if he doesn't love you, it will be in vain after all. You will meet someone you love in the future." Rao, you will gain a beautiful love.”…
When Qin Shuang heard this, she cried louder and louder.
Ling Zi was helpless. After all, she and Zhou Fan had always been in love, and there had never been a third person. She didn't know how to comfort Qin Shuang for a while, so she had to hold her and let her cry freely. ,
"Good boy, I've been holding it in my heart for a long time. Just cry out."
a long time.
Qin Shuang's crying gradually stopped, and she left Ling Zi's arms and sat upright, like a wronged child, with runny nose and tears. He waved his sleeves and wiped the corners of his eyes, and said to Ling Zi, "Thank you, Aunt Ling Zi."
Ling Zi comforted her with a kind smile: "Good boy, you still have a long way to go, so don't be too obsessed."
"Yes," Qin Shuang smoothed her messy hair and replied softly with a cry.
"Let's go, let me walk with you along the stream. The big-leaf hibiscus flowers in the mountains don't just bloom in spring. They bloom in the valley all year round. They bloom and bear fruit, take root, and then bloom again." As a result, it doesn’t seem to have much to do with the season. Let’s walk along the stream, and we can always see flowers in full bloom. They are so beautiful that they prevent you from thinking about those unhappy things.” Ling Zi stood up , reaching out to Qin Shuang to pull her up.
Qin Shuang stretched out her hand and pulled it, and the two of them walked aimlessly along the stream that was almost drying up in winter.
Summer and winter are dry, which is the normal state of this stream, but it has no impact on the big-leaf hibiscus beside the stream. They are still blooming and falling.
It was past noon, when the sun was in the sky and the sun was shining brightly. There was no wind in the valley and the sun was warm. The two of them loosened their fur coats and passed by a place.
I looked at a hibiscus blooming beautifully. Along the stream more than ten feet away, the flowers were blooming in various colors, mostly red, yellow, and white, with a few blue and indigo.
Qin Shuang happily ran over, picked a blue one, and smelled it. The fragrance of the flower was elegant but not strong, and it was very comfortable.
Ling Zi walked closer and did not reach out to pick flowers. Instead, she bent down to a red flower hanging a few feet from the ground and took a deep breath of the fragrance.
"Well, the fragrance is pleasant!" After Ling Zi finished, she saw a line of ants under the hibiscus tree, lining up to pick stamens from a fallen flower on one side, and moving them into the hole, and said in surprise: "
Dear, this chapter is not finished yet, there is still another page^0^, the color is great, the ants under this hibiscus have also come out. "
Qin Shuang heard this and looked over. The ants here were dark red in color with velvet thorns all over their bodies. Each of them had a large, slightly curved barb on their back that looked like pepper thorns.
"Hey, what kind of ant is this?" Qin Shuang asked curiously.
Ling Zi replied: "I call them red ants. These ants, like the brown poisonous snakes in the valley, seem to be unique animals here."
Qin Shuang dipped one in with a stick and took a closer look. The ant was as big as half the length of a finger. It was red all over, with hard velvet thorns around its waist, and a large ant on its back. There are thorns and horizontal stripes on the feet of ants. Qin Shuang has seen many ants, but Junying has never seen this kind of ant, which is both poisonous and non-venomous. It seems that as Ling Zi said, this kind of ant is a unique species in this valley, just like the brown poisonous snake.
Ling Zi picked one up and analyzed it for Qin Shuang: "The velvet thorns on this red ant's body can hardly hurt people, but they stick to the skin like thorngrass and cocklebur. If bitten, they will stick to the skin." However, red herpes will appear and it will take an hour or two to dissipate.”…
Ling Zi has lived here for about ten years. From time to time, she will pick some flowers of this big-leaf hibiscus to dry and put them in the house for incense. She has come into contact with these ants more often, so she naturally knows this red color. The habits of ants were told to the curious Qin Shuang one by one like a treasure trove of red ants.
Hearing this, Qin Shuang reached out and pinched the back of a red ant, looking at the red ant carefully.
Ling Zi warned from one side: "Heart, don't get bitten."
Qin Shuang nodded and asked doubtfully: "Aunt Ling Zi, are these ants only found around hibiscus?"
Hearing this, Ling Zi thought for a while and replied: "I don't know about this. I haven't seen it anywhere else in the forest. However, there is this kind of hibiscus. As long as the flowers bloom, there will always be ants crawling there. They move the stamens out of the flowers. It seems they like to move them back to their nests for food.”
After listening to this, Qin Shuang always felt that there was something that she should have thought of but couldn't think of. She couldn't think of it for a while. Her mind was a little confused, but she could feel it. She wanted to be specific, but she couldn't correct it.
She frowned, looking at this ant and shaking her head helplessly, with a look of confusion on her face.
"What's wrong?" Ling Zi looked at Qin Shuang's confused expression from one side and asked curiously.
Hearing this, Qin Shuang sighed and said, "I feel like there is something I need to remember. There is some vague connection, but I can't remember it. Aunt Ling Zi, let's go to the woods and see if there are such ants in the woods." Well, maybe I can think of something."
Dear, this chapter is finished, I wish you a happy reading! ^0^
