Passing through the lively crowd, heading east, passing by a dilapidated courtyard and looking up, I saw that the plaque had already been hung diagonally on the door, with a few weeds growing out.
Although I couldn't see the writing on the plaque, I thought it belonged to a small and aristocratic family that was in decline. In the final analysis, the rise and fall of honor and disgrace cannot be explained by outsiders, nor can it be clear about human nature. What can be seen from beginning to end is this plaque.
The slovenly man, who was already very familiar with the capital city, looked up at the plaque, raised his hand and took another sip of wine, grinning and saying: "Little bastard." He walked east a short distance and turned into an alley. Directly from south to north to the east-west street on the opposite side.
The alley is very wide, unlike other alleys in the city that can only pass a carriage. This one says
The alleys of "Xinghua Alley" are probably open for two or three carriages side by side. The key is that the ground is different from other places where the blue bricks are paved. It is paved with large bluestone slabs, which is enough to tell. There are more or less wealthy families living in this alley.
There are so many wealthy people that no one has checked. A large part of the reason why this alley, which can be called the main road, is so wide is really beyond the control of the wealthy people. A small part of the reason is because the original planning of this place was to provide The brigade commanders, soldiers, commanders, and generals and captains in the military town are all public servants with official positions. If they are built in a small and stingy way, aren't they a slap in the face?
Another very important reason is because of the apricot tree inside. No one knows when the apricot trees were planted. Some old people said that when the Xibo City was built in the previous dynasty, it was originally an apricot forest. Later, it was cut down due to geomantic omens such as geomantic omen and geological directions. It is said that when Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, traveled west to preach and receive his teachings thousands of years ago, he transplanted it from the apricot altar outside his hometown of Yanzhou, which is known as the land of etiquette, and is regarded as a holy place by thousands of students.
The exact origin has not been verified, but from the beginning of the city to the present, there has been a lot of chatter surrounding this almond tree.
For example, in the first year of the city's founding, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce came to inspect the site. After selecting the site, all obstructing trees and stones had to be cleared away. Only this apricot tree, which could be hugged by two people, was taken turns by five people. After cutting it for two days, no cracks were found. It was really harder than stone.
Later, an old man said that the tree was old and had to be burned with incense. However, he never thought that everything would be in order in the end. When he hit the tree with an ax, the tree actually started to bleed.
This matter was also a big deal at the time, and all the elderly people knew about it, and they all alerted the official in the court.
In the end, I had no choice but to leave the apricot tree. Also, in recent years, the house under the apricot tree was bought by the lady from the Night King's Mansion on the south mountain. In the past few years, there were two major events that shocked Beijing. The last time shocked the government and the public. Isn't this even more shocking? People talking after dinner?
Now a few years ago, it was said that it was transferred to the Su family again, which is another good topic. After all, it was three years ago in this capital city that the Su family, who made a living by selling tea, was wiped out in a fire overnight. There were only a little girl left in the family of more than ten people, but later this Su family It is unknown why the girl bought this villa.
But every year in February, March and April after spring, this girl from the Su family picks apricot flowers to make porridge and pound apricot flowers to make cakes. Not to mention the capital, even the rich and powerful people in the capital come to buy some.
As for the small stall in front of my house, it has a few tables and a few small stools. Every day when it’s time for dinner, there is an endless stream of people and the seats are full.
I don't know if the slovenly man was hungry or wanted to find something to eat and drink, but he staggered to the stall.
The stall owner is of course the girl from the Su family. She is also wearing a yellow dress and her sleeves are rolled up twice, revealing her white wrists. She is busy serving apricot blossom cakes and scooping apricot blossom porridge to people. All the diners are very particular. Without robbing, he took the pastries or porridge and threw three or two copper coins into a jar aside.
The girl from the Su family didn't look at it either. More or less, it seemed that it had nothing to do with her. The sloppy man went straight to get an apricot blossom cake. Being so unruly naturally caused dissatisfaction among the diners around him. It could be said that the crowd was excited. However, before he could curse, the girl from the Su family heard a cry.
"Godfather", those diners are all honest. The sloppy man reached out and picked up two more, took a sip of wine and said vaguely: "You are busy first, you are busy first." He squatted to the side and took a mouthful of apricot blossom cake with a sip of wine. He didn't know what it was. The law is really hard for people to understand.
The Xinghua Cake was quickly sold out due to dissatisfaction among the diners. Some people were mumbling about why it was gone just after the first day of the lunar month. The girl from the Su family in a yellow dress did not explain, but just closed the stall, cleaned her hands, and scooped out the last bowl. The porridge was handed to the sloppy man.
What's the most delicious? It's just the last bite of what you want to eat, and that's the most delicious thing. The sloppy man was not polite. He took the bowl and said at the same time: "My daughter has to take the remaining apricot blossom cake to her mother to eat. What are you talking about? If you want to eat it, you have to eat it early. Can you come early tomorrow morning?" That's enough, why waste your time here?" They knew the life experience of this girl from the Su family, but how the family was wiped out three years ago was just speculation on the streets. The details were unknown, and how they bought this house. It's even more confusing, and some regular customers can even conclude that the godfather that the Su family girl just called him is also the first time he has appeared. All these things make it even more mysterious.
Therefore, the diners dared not speak out in anger, so they could only disperse angrily. The girl from the Su family just smiled. It was unusual to treat guests like this, but she didn't care.
After everyone had left and the stall was being cleaned up, the girl from the Su family said, "Godfather, why are you here?" The sloppy man shook the wine bottle in his hand and said, "The wine is a bit strong. Come and ask for a cup of tea to clear your mouth. "
"My godfather just sent someone a message. I'll go to the mountain to cook for you when I'm done with my work. Why bother you to come over in person?" The girl from the Su family joked,
"Aren't you afraid that your godmother will blame you for not accompanying her?" The sloppy man chuckled and said, "I'm afraid your godmother has become annoyed with me in the past few decades. Let her be alone for a while." As he spoke, the sloppy man left. Enter the courtyard.
The small courtyard is very clean, and water is boiling in a small red clay stove under the big tree in the courtyard.
"You came just in time." The sloppy man smiled.
"The water is overheated. You go back to the house and wait while I boil it." As the girl from the Su family spoke, she took a few steps to pick up the purple clay kettle and pour the water.
"I won't see you boiling snow and making tea when I get back to the house." The sloppy man put the wine pot on his waist, squatted under the tree, held the stove with both hands, and said,
"I really don't understand what that little brat was thinking back then. The best thing is watching a beautiful woman make tea, so why do you have to avoid you?" The sloppy man's words made the girl from the Su family blush slightly, and said angrily: "Daddy, you always make fun of me. What's more, I don't dare to let my brother watch me make tea every day." As she spoke, the girl from the Su family put the purple sand kettle aside, added a small shovel of charcoal, walked to the corner of the yard, went down to the cellar, and came out with a jar. , said: "This is the rootless water I saved during the snowfall after the New Year. It is the most fragrant for making tea." As he spoke, he filtered the water in the jar twice and poured it into the pot.
Taking advantage of this moment, the slovenly man said in a confused tone: "Is the sword spirit raised?" The girl from the Su family paused in her hands, and then carefully poured snow into the pot.
"According to the method taught by my godfather, on the night of the full moon of each month, take epimedium, aconite, gelselum, polygonum multiflorum, sweetgrass, mountain ginger, wolfberry, wolfsbane, angelica, and ligustrum for a fumigation and bathing. The bud takes two years to form a fetus and three years to wake up. It should be fine now." The sloppy man stopped talking and raised the jug to take a sip. When he saw the stove, he put the jug down again.
The stove was burning brightly. The girl from the Su family put the kettle on. She stared at the snow water in the kettle without saying a word. She picked up the fine sieve and filtered it carefully several times, then added it back to the kettle, and then picked up the kettle. A small fan, fanning gently.
The sloppy man thought he was tired from squatting, so he simply sat down on the ground and said, "The year your godmother left, it snowed so heavily that the mountains were closed. Your brother and your second sister had sex. He went to find me and made me a few cups of tea in the same way. I thought it was your sister who cooked it, but instead it was that little brat who used me to cook a pot of tea." The girl from the Su family stared blankly. He stared straight at the stove and said nothing.
The sloppy man also knew that these tea makers were very particular about what they said, and he also knew that what he said was heard by her. He continued: "But it's not bad. Your second sister said it was to compensate for me not drinking the tea she cooked." Tea, made an impromptu song for me and your godmother."
"I know." The girl from the Su family who was making tea was still confused.
According to the rule of "cooking tea without saying anything", he said, "I heard someone say that." The sloppy man leaned against the tree and closed his eyes slightly.
The girl from the Su family fanned the fire, lightly opened her red lips, and chanted: "The heavy snow came back to the northwest of the small building. She smiled. He didn't know why he was frowning. The snow was lush and there was no one to take care of him. He put on his clothes and made tea and refilled the cup. There were a few times where it was nothing but wine. The taste is exchanged for the snow first, why do you need to run water in the east to add fuel and boil it again? I mistakenly made the mottled winter plums one year old just to turn them into mud for the coming year. Then I complained about my ignorance. I just chanted "micro-micro-micro-micro-micro" and carved it into the monument." The Su family girl's voice is delicate, and she has a poem. The words coming out of her mouth were as refreshing as the gurgling water from a mountain stream.
The sloppy man opened his eyes, his tone was solemn, but it also sounded like the preaching of an old monk who had seen through the world of mortals.
"I don't know if your sister suffered from following that little brat."
"My sister and brother are blessed with good fortune. I ask Bodhisattva to bless me every night. I will definitely not endure hardship." As she spoke, the girl from the Su family put away her small fan and
"The water is ready." The sloppy man stretched his head to take a look and said, "Yes, just right." The girl from the Su family wrapped her handkerchief around the handle of the kettle and walked to the stone table on the other side of the big tree.
"I didn't know you were coming. The tea leaves have been washed in advance. If you don't like it, I'll wash another piece."
"It's not that troublesome." The sloppy man stood up and patted the dust on his pants, walked to the stone table,
"Even if you close your eyes, you can still cook better than that little brat." The girl from the Su family said with a smile on her lips: "My brother is both civilized and military, but unlike me, he can make tea." The girl from the Su family poured three cups in a row, raised her hand and Long Huding stood in front of the sloppy man.
The sloppy man took it, drank it all, and said, "No, no, I still can't imitate the way you drink tea, and I can't taste the taste." The sloppy man put the cup down, turned around and walked out, and said: "Drink it yourself. If you let me drink it, this pot of tea will be wasted." The girl from the Su family watched the sloppy man walk to the door, and then heard him say without looking back: "They seem to be coming back." The woman was stunned.
Are you coming back? After waiting for three years, he is finally back. She had heard the names of this godbrother and godsister since she was very young.
At that time, the elders in the family would always say: "Look at this girl, she is proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, why can't we teach such a girl?" She felt the same way, she had studied the tea ceremony since she was young, and now she is probably not as good as Not as good as tea brewed by others with their eyes closed.
At that time, when my little sisters gathered together, someone would always say: "Which young master is like him, who can fight against more than fifty people from six major families without losing. If he is willing, I will definitely marry him." No. The shameless private words were ringing in her ears.
But she felt that these little sisters, let alone marry him, would never have a chance to meet him. But God always doesn't act according to common sense. By chance, she was saved by him, and she could be regarded as saving him, but she can definitely be regarded as helping him.
After they separated, I felt that I would never see the siblings again in this life, but I didn't expect that God still played a trick.
The slovenly man whom she had never seen before approached her and bowed to her regardless of seniority or age difference.
She felt that God was playing such a big joke. Then the slovenly man with messy white hair asked her: "You don't have anyone in your family anymore, why don't you be my daughter? I have long discussed with my family to have ten children. I'm afraid I won't be able to do it in my lifetime. I think I have to raise ten for my family, are you willing?" She felt that God's favor on her that year was too great.
The sloppy man didn't wait for her to agree, so he added: "But we have agreed in advance. I want to train you to be a knife spirit, so that you can be useful to that little bastard." She felt that she could die for the little bastard that the sloppy man called her. , how difficult it is to become a sword spirit.
Since then, she has had a father, as well as brothers and sisters whom she has not seen again for three years.
Now that they were seeing each other again, she felt happy from the bottom of her heart. The sloppy man paused at the door and said,
"I'll see your brother and sister soon."
"Liu Bai understands." The girl from the Su family murmured with slightly red eyes.
"I have been waiting for this day for three years." The sloppy man laughed and walked out. ...The sloppy man went out to the south, left the city through the south gate, and walked southwest along the avenue.
After passing through the woods and going up the mountain, we walked along the mountain path for a while, then turned halfway up the mountain and headed towards the back of the mountain. Not long after walking, there was a bamboo forest filled with steel knives, surrounding a tomb.
The sloppy man stopped, sat on the floor, took out two candy figures and placed them in front of the monument, and said to himself: "Your favorite candy figures."
"Our daughter and son are coming back."
"This can't go on like this."
"This time, Kunlun will not be shaken." The slovenly man leaned on the monument, looked up at the sky, and seemed to be murmuring.
"Can shake the world." There are four big characters on the side of the monument. Kunlun has been shaken!
