"Mom, please tell me more about what happened between you and dad back then."
"You're a wild girl and you don't help mom with cooking when you come back. You just want to disturb mom from her work. Go and play by yourself."
"Mom, I'll light the fire for you, can you tell me?"
"You are a very old girl. You have time to learn needlework. Be careful not to get married in the future."
"I won't marry, I will just pester my father and mother."
"If you don't feel ashamed, which girl won't get married when she grows up?"
"Mom, please don't change the subject. Let's talk about what happened between you and dad back then."
"I've been telling you this for as long as you can remember. I've told you eighty times if not a hundred times. Whether you're tired of listening or not, I'm tired of talking about it."
"Tell me more, Mom, I just like to hear you talk about how embarrassed my father was after you gave birth to me."
It seems that I really remembered that day that I didn't want to remember. In the days to come, when I thought of it inadvertently, I felt an indescribable sweetness in my heart.
On the watershed that divides the Danxia River into two, there is a very remote courtyard in Dazhaili, which is adjacent to Wudang. It is far away from the hustle and bustle, deep and quiet.
In the kitchen on the west side, the young woman is dressed in coarse cloth clothes that are very inconsistent with her dignified appearance. The corners of her mouth are curved, so beautiful that even the potato slices in her hand are a bit thicker.
Thinking again of her daughter who had never been a girl by her side since she was a child, the dignified young woman frowned slightly and cursed in a low voice: "Go, go, get out of here." There was also a bit of surprise in her feigned anger.
Knowing that her mother, who had a very good temper, was not really angry, the oval-faced girl added a handful of firewood to the stove, made a face, got up and ran outside.
There is a rockery in the yard, and there is a pavilion on the rockery. During the unpredictable seasons like late winter and early spring, the temperature is the most unpredictable. Even when the sun is high at noon, it is still a bit chilly, especially in the mountains. A gust of wind came out, making it even colder.
A middle-aged man in Tsing Yi covered his mouth and coughed lightly. He looked around to see if there was anyone else. He secretly reached into his arms and took out a small white jade pot the size of a palm. He pulled out the cork and sniffed it close to the tip of his nose. A satisfied expression, really intoxicated. Thinking about how I asked them to steal this pot of high-quality bamboo leaf green from the village wine cellar a few days ago, but the key is that I haven't let the two "housekeepers" at home know about it, I can't help but feel proud of my glorious deeds, and the look of satisfaction on my face Unconsciously added a few points.
He inhaled hard again, as if the taste alone could satisfy his craving. The man in green clothes carefully put the wine bottle to his mouth, stretched out the tip of his tongue and dipped the mouth of the pot, and his eyebrows were filled with joy.
Just when he was about to taste what was no different from the Queen Mother's peach banquet, he heard a shout from the east wing next to the courtyard under the rockery outside the pavilion: "What are you doing!" He was frightened. His hand was unsteady and he almost dropped the small white jade pot on the ground.
From the sound of the voice, I knew it was the lawless little housekeeper of my family. Compared to the big housekeeper, if she was at fault first, she could just pretend to be pitiful and get over it, but this little man in green was really having a headache.
"Hmph." Listening to the footsteps approaching from far away and the two strange nasal sounds, the man in green could only watch his eyes, nose and heart, holding the small white jade pot tightly, pretending to be nothing, and looking towards the foot of the mountain outside the courtyard. As the Danxia River rolled by, I silently said to myself that I must not be discovered.
The girl with a baby face that was in no way suitable for her age tightened her short brown fur and walked around the man in green again and again, finally her eyes stopped on the corked hand. , "What did you get?"
"Snuff bottle." The man in Tsing Yi sincerely admired his wit. As long as he fooled this fearless girl, his own daughter would be easy to deal with. "Your mother is very strict. I asked someone to buy a snuff bottle two days ago, but I don't dare to let your mother see it. Don't you believe me?"
The man in Tsing Yi, who knew that his daughter was peeing and didn't like the smell, used the Thirty-Six Strategies clearly. He stretched out his hand and shook the delicate white jade pot, but a series of light coughs made him have to He closed his hand and patted his chest lightly.
The little girl deliberately put on her childish little face with a mature and serious expression. However, her childish little face looked indescribably funny. She stretched out her hand and patted her father's back, pretending to be angry and said: "You See, this is what happens when someone steals something."
Knowing that taking a sip from the snuff bottle was much less sinful than taking a sip of wine, the man in Tsing Yi took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Just take a sip."
"Not even for a moment!" The little girl's eyes widened at that moment, but her face really couldn't match these serious expressions, it would only make people feel funny and funny.
"Didn't you find out before I even started smoking?" The man in Tsing Yi said and started coughing again, which made the little girl roll her eyes. She took off her short fur and let the man in Tsing Yi put it on her body. The man in green raised his hand to push it away, but he couldn't say anything despite a series of slight coughs, so he had to give up. He retracted his hand and stuffed the small white jade pot into his inner pocket without leaving any trace.
The little girl rolled her eyes and said again: "Are you afraid that I will tell mother?"
The man in green who had just stopped coughing looked pained again and said, "I'm very scared."
"Before you make a huge mistake, I won't tell my mother about the faults of others." The little girl had a playful expression, still pretending to be a god, "But you have to Agree to my request."
Naturally knowing the baby in his daughter's belly, the man in Tsing Yi pretended to be embarrassed and reluctantly agreed: "Okay, as long as dad can do it, I will do it."
The little girl's face suddenly turned from gloomy to bright, and she said: "I was helping my mother to light the fire in the kitchen just now. Do you think it would be boring for us to just be busy? I just wanted to ask my mother to tell me about the time when the two of you were together." It’s okay to be idle, right? But my mother didn’t tell me and said I couldn’t get married. Do you think it’s irritating or not?”
Regarding the little girl's jealousy, the man in Tsing Yi could almost guess who his daughter was. As a father, he knew very well, but she still held the handle in her hand, so he could only agree, "Angry. People are indeed irritating.”
"Look, my mother is angry with me, and you are angry with me too. I must be too irritated in this family."
The little girl is pitiful, with that baby face, I really feel pity for her. If I didn't understand her temper, if outsiders saw her, they would really think that she had suffered a great injustice.
"Well, I won't let you talk about you and my mother anymore. Just tell me about that person." The little girl seemed to be particularly reluctant to make this request of herself. It felt like I have really suffered a great injustice.
The man in Tsing Yi was embarrassed again and said: "Ever since your unworthy uncle provoked this person, in the past few years you have only wanted to hear his cool things. Hongyao, I don't know much about him either. , I’ve told you everything that needs to be said, I really can’t think of anything else you don’t know about this man.”
The eyes of the baby-faced girl called Hongyao tightened. She was really wronged this time, "You lied!"
The man in green had a big head, and he felt heartbroken when he saw his daughter like this. He hurriedly said: "Let me think about it, let me think about it."
"Think quickly, think quickly." The little girl Hong Yao, who could change her face faster than turning the pages of a book, sat opposite her father, her face full of anticipation.
"First go and make a pot of good tea for Dad. You, who listens to books, must have the awareness to listen to books." The man in green clothes, who was finally able to "feel proud" in front of his daughter, ordered, "I will remember it when you come back. "
"Go here and go."
Basking in the warm sunshine at noon in late winter, drinking a pot of tea that his daughter had brewed directly with boiling water without any skill, suppressing the itch in his throat, the man in Tsinghua tightly wrapped his short fur with the body temperature of a girl. , eloquently said.
Let me tell you a story from when he was not so powerful. It should be five or six years ago that a girl in her twenties and eighties came out of Loulan in the Western Region, named Zhuang Yuan. This girl is so tight. It is said that she can ride a horse and herd herds at the age of twelve or thirteen. Some untamable horses will be submissive in just a moment when they are in front of her. The riding crop in her hand is really like an arm. As skillful as a finger. In addition, this girl's family is also a wealthy one in the local area, and they have found several martial arts masters to teach her carefully. Before she has hair extensions, five or six men can no longer get close to her.
Not to mention later, she really made a name for herself in Loulan City. In fact, let me tell you, it means that she is only allowed to encounter some trivial things. She is a little girl, and others will not care about her. Otherwise, she will get into trouble with the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions. How could the Mobei horse thief care about whether she was a boy or a girl, her age.
This girl was also born with a restless heart. She actually said goodbye to her parents and said she was going to have a career in the world. Her parents were so angry that they locked the girl up at home and asked a matchmaker to arrange the marriage and plan the marriage. Maybe becoming a wife and a mother will help calm my mind. Unexpectedly, this girl was determined to go against her parents, stole her father's riding crop, which was more than ten feet long, and ran away.
Girl, you have to listen to your parents from now on, the world is not that fun.
The man in green suddenly said this, which made the little girl Hongyao, who had been listening for a long time without hearing the person in her mind, even more angry. Her baby face almost twisted into a ball, and she patted the stone table in front of her chest and urged. : "Hurry up and tell me if it's okay."
Let’s just talk about this girl Zhuang Yuan. After she ran away and became a monk, she traveled in the thirty-six countries of the Western Region for a while. She called herself a heroine and said she wanted to punish evil and promote good. The slogan was loud, but the heroine encountered only petty thieves. She didn't make a name for herself, but she gained a good reputation. Everyone knew that there was a little girl in the Western Region who used a horse whip and liked to help others.
After that, if this girl was unlucky, she really encountered those inhumane horse thieves running rampant in the northwest. At that time, this group of ten horse thieves happened to rob a nomadic tribe on the edge of the Western Region and Dameng, and they happened to be met by this little girl who wanted to punish rape and eliminate evil. This little girl was so focused on being a hero that she just rushed forward without even considering her weight.
Although the number of horse thieves is small, they are still a gang that has been famous for decades. They have committed all kinds of crimes for decades, and the little girl was caught off guard at first. But when she realized what she was doing, she immediately organized a counterattack, and a dozen people surrounded her. To say that this horse thief is something worse than a beast, he saw that the girl Zhuang Yuan had the idea of playing with her at a young age, so he kept beating her up.
Although the gang of horse thieves had not yet killed her, they had been surrounding her for an hour. After all, Zhuang Yuan was still a woman, and her physical strength was gradually failing. She felt like she was going to die on the spot. It was fitting that she should be killed. At this moment, you were thinking about her. That guy showed up.
The man in Tsing Yi had a playful expression when he said this, causing his daughter to give him a big eye roll, "Dad, with your storyteller skills, you will probably be beaten up if you go to the city to set up a stall."
The man in Tsing Yi originally wanted to tease his daughter, but instead he let his daughter make fun of him, and continued the story that finally brought out the protagonist.
At that time, that young man was traveling around the world, and his travels were much more enjoyable than the little girl from Zhuangyuan. He traveled to Changbai in the Nanling Mountains, Kunlun in the East China Sea, and the Zhou Dynasty. He could read thousands of books and thousands of miles. The road is easy to walk, born and reborn in the world, this little brother lives a more understanding life than those virtuous and virtuous scholars.
Speaking of this, looking at the girl whose face was full of expectation, the man in green suddenly had an unexplainable meaning in his eyes.
Five or six years ago, my father, who was still the leader of the village at the time, sent his adopted son Liangwei to establish a branch in the capital. This headstrong guy did his duty when he first arrived, but later he felt that his powerful hands and eyes could reach the sky, and he began to look higher than his head. He is so arrogant and domineering, and he doesn't even think that the capital guarding the capital is also a third-rank official in front of the prime minister. The water is deep. I walked a lot at night, so I did things I shouldn't have done. By chance, I offended the people I shouldn't have messed with. As a result, the branch hall that had just taken shape after hard work was broken up, and the 20 people I took with me were also taken away. Many people were also tortured and killed.
In the view of the man in Tsing Yi, it was his sworn brother who was full of crooked ideas who deserved his punishment. If he could not take the sunny road, he would have to go through the dark and blind alleys. He never expected to offend this person with a monstrous background.
It was at that time that the news coming back from the capital fell on the ears of my daughter. This little girl who had never left the watershed since she was a child had no reason to admire this little brother who was only famous but had never met her. She would pester him whenever she had time. Asking him, a father, to inquire about this "hero" who has become famous all over the world at a young age - a title unique to his daughter.
The man in green didn't know whether Ying was a hero or not, and he didn't have the ability to talk about this world's heroes. Hearing the dignified woman's "dinner" call from the courtyard, the man in green smiled and reached out to pat his daughter on the head.
"Let me tell you, there are millions of words in the world, but the word "love" is the most confusing, difficult to understand, difficult to deal with, difficult to break, unforgettable, difficult to think about, harmful to people, the heart, the body, and the spirit. Lovesick."
I don’t know whether he is talking about the love affair between a man and a woman that will happen in his own story, or whether he is telling it to his daughter who is waiting for the next chapter.
There are 80,000 words in the world, but the word love is the most murderous.
