Volume 1 The Wind Will Rise and the Clouds Will Be Treacherous Chapter 25 Willing to Be a Deep Mountain Tree (1)
All kinds of stories about scholars, female ghosts, talented and beautiful women have been told over and over again, and the novelty has become a rotten stalk in the repetition over and over again.
However, from another point of view, the reason why a meme will be used badly is precisely because everyone loves to watch it.
Therefore, this story will also use such a stalk, but try not to tell it too badly.
On this day, it was cold and the first snow of the year fell in Shunde City, the snow was covered, the grass and trees withered, and the vitality seemed to be covered by the snow.
Xu Guan, a young man in thin clothes, walked in the snow with his arms crossed, there were no people on the street for a long time, and many shops were closed, after all, in such a cold weather, very few people went shopping. Therefore, instead of leaving the door open and facing the wind, it is better to close the business for a day, or meet with family members or friends, cook a few dishes, warm a pot of wine, drink a few glasses, and fall asleep.
The city has become a gray and white world, gray walls, white snow, Xu Guan trudging alone in this world. Until he saw a fat powder shop at the corner of the street, the gray world suddenly had a color.
The owner of the fat powder shop is a woman in her twenties, and she was about to close the door, but she casually glanced at Xu Guan who was walking in the snow. I don't know whose family this is, his teeth are shaking in the wind and snow, his hands are hugging each other, and he keeps rubbing his arms to keep warm.
Xu Guan didn't know if he was dazzled, the sister in fresh clothes stood in the door of the fat powder shop, beckoning to him, and a voice like wind chimes was calling him.
Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's destiny, in short, just this glance, Xu Guan fell into it.
This eye of Xianglin gives Xu Guan the feeling of warm sunshine in winter and a candle flame in the dark night. A glance of ten thousand years, an instant of beauty. Xu Guan had no reason to resist, he gladly accepted her call, forgetting the wind and snow, and forgetting the severe cold.
"Little brother, is it cold?" Xianglin took the handkerchief and chuckled to help Xu Guan wipe the snow from his hair and face.
"It's not cold. Xu Guan looked at her blankly.
Seeing Xu Guan's stupid appearance, Xianglin stretched out her fingers like onions and jade with some anger and tapped Xu Guan twice on his forehead.
"Ahh Xu Guan came back to his senses, was greatly embarrassed, and gave up his hand again and again, and said apologetically: "Xiao Ke was in a trance for a while, and he abruptly surprised the girl, so don't blame it." ”
"Yo, listening to you, Zou Zou is still a little scholar?" Xianglin wrung off the snow in her handkerchief, turned around and found a long-sleeved dress of her own for Xu Guan.
"A dignified man, how can you wear women's clothes?" Xu Guan shook his head again and again.
"What's wrong with the woman? Xianglin puffed up angrily, and put it on Xu Guan without saying anything. Xu Guan's face was embarrassed, but because of the difference between men and women, it was not good to resist too much, so she put on this pear blossom white women's dress.
"This, this ......" Xu Guan waved his wide sleeves as if singing, hiding his face and being ashamed.
"Hahaha. Xianglin smiled and leaned back. She boiled a pot of water on the small stove in the inner room and gave Xu Guan a drink to warm her body.
The winter days are short, and there have been winds and snows recently, so it will be dark before evening.
"It's warm now. Xianglin looked out the window that was gradually darkening, and then turned back to look at Xu Guan with a smile. "My sister is going to sleep with the door closed, if you are a female doll, I can still take you here and wait for the snow to stop, but unfortunately you are a boy, go home quickly." Just remember to send your clothes back another day. ”
Xu Guan was holding a porcelain cup in his hand, and was shocked when he heard this: "Although Xiao Ke is not yet the crown, he is a man, how can he wear this long skirt to swagger across the street?"
"On a snowy day, no one is afraid of anything outside. Xiang Lin pulled him out of the door without saying anything, and pointed to the open street where there was only wind and snow: "Look, where are there people." ”
Xu Guan saw that there was indeed no one on the street, but just in case, he still covered his face with his sleeves, rushed into the wind and snow, and ran out all the way.
"Hey, don't block your eyes, look at the road. Xianglin reminded him loudly in the back.
Xu Guan ran away, and Xianglin whispered to a dark corner of the house: "You go up and protect the point." ”
Someone in the corner seemed to muffle.
On a snowy day this year when they first met, Xu Guan was nineteen years old, and the story about these two people began a chapter.
His parents died early, his family was poor, Xu Guan worked hard to borrow books and study day and night, and lived by cutting wood and selling firewood, doing some odd jobs to live, and occasionally selling words to earn a few meager money if he was lucky.
At the age of nineteen, he passed the college examination and became a student, that is, Xiucai.
"So you're still a talented man! You must know a lot, you're very powerful. Xianglin put away the pear-white dress that Xu Guan had returned, and took out a box of snacks to entertain him.
"Where. Xiao Ke felt that the more books he read, the more he understood his shallowness. It's still far from it. Xu Guan picked up a small piece of almond crisp and took a bite of it and felt delicious, he had never tasted such a delicacy.
Speaking of which, Xu Guan should be grateful to Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding ancestor of the People's Republic of China, in order to encourage people in the world to read and write, he issued a decree: those who are admitted to Xiucai and above the Xiucai level can be exempted from a certain amount of forced labor. Now Xu Guan has no pressure of forced labor, and the pressure of survival is much less.
Xianglin looked at Xu Guan with a smile on her face, eating snacks: "Then you have to continue to work hard, and you will be a big champion in the future and become a big official." ”
"Of course. Xu Guan was full of confidence, and his mouth was stuffed with snacks.
"After becoming a big official, you don't have to endure hardships anymore, eat delicious food, and dress well. Xianglin smiled and took the compartment of the snack box, revealing the next layer of dim sum.
"Woman's opinion!" Xu Guan was suddenly unhappy, frowning and swallowing the snack hard, he didn't swallow it for a long time, but choked his face was flushed, and he stuttered indistinctly: "I wait for four things in my life: I set my heart for heaven and earth, establish my life for life, continue to study for the saints, and open peace for all generations! How can I study for my own enjoyment?"
"What's the hurry? Xianglin brought a cup of hot water and handed it to him: "You swallow it first and then speak slowly." ”
"If a scholar doesn't work hard for these four things in his life, then he is not worthy of being a scholar!" Xu Guan finally swallowed the dim sum into his stomach with hot water.
"Uh-huh, I see. Xianglin felt that Xu Guan's serious appearance was very funny.
Xu Guan looked at her and saw her own shadow reflected in her clear eyes, only to realize how incompatible her cold clothes were with this exquisitely decorated fat powder shop.
"Thank you girl for the clothes and snacks. Xiao Ke said goodbye. Xu Guan saw that Xianglin was wearing fresh clothes and became more and more inferior, so he turned around and left.
"Hey, there's no hurry. I haven't finished the snacks yet. No matter how Xianglin shouted, Xu Guan just didn't look back, but walked faster and faster.
Xianglin returned to the counter full of doubts, not knowing what Xu Guan said to leave. While thinking about it, two or three young women came to the store and tried to choose rouge, and Xianglin stopped thinking about Xu Guan and concentrated on explaining various categories of rouge to these women.
For a few months, Xianglin never saw Xu Guan again, in the cold spring after the year, the city rose up the atmosphere of sachet inscription, the sachets of the women who came to the fat powder shop carried the words, "slender", "Luoren", "Jinghong" and other gentle words, very beautiful.
Xianglin rarely goes out, envying those women's sachets with words, so she asked a regular customer for one, holding it in the palm of her hand and loving it.
She looked at the words on the sachet and remembered Xu Guan for no reason: The words of Xiao Xiucai must be more beautiful than this one.
Just thinking like this, a man came in at the door, Xianglin looked up, and it turned out to be Xu Guan.
is different from the winter days ago, Xu Guan is wearing a brand-new robe, it can be seen that his hair is also carefully groomed, his little face is also clean, his eyebrows are stretched, his sword eyes are smiling, he is also handsome, and he looks a bit of a young man.
It turned out that he left the fat powder shop angrily, only that Xianglin was afraid that he would look down on him, and after that anger, he recalled that Xianglin did not despise him at all, so thinking about it, he began to be angry with himself again, and he couldn't eat well and sleep for several days. I often can't help but think of Xianglin, but I really feel that I am shabby, so I want to earn some money and clean up for myself decently.
"Who am I, it turns out to be a floating boy. Xianglin pouted lightly.
"How can it be a floating wave boy?" Xu Guan didn't expect Xianglin to say this about himself, he lowered his head and fiddled with his robe, and said in his heart that he really looked like a floating wave boy dressed like this? He worked hard for several months to save enough money to buy clothes, and he entered the clothing store and chose left and right for a long time, and he was impatient to choose this gray robe when he arrived at the store.
"If you dress up so handsomely, you must be going to seduce a little girl from a certain family, what is it if you are not a floating boy?"
Xu Guan knew that he was complimenting him on his good looks, so he couldn't help but smirk, took out a pink sachet from his arms, and handed it to Xianglin: "Give it to you." ”
Xianglin took the sachet and saw two lines of small characters written in small block letters on the sachet: I am willing to be a deep mountain wood, and the branches are connected with the life.
I would like to be a tree in the deep mountains with you, nestling and growing, and the branches are connected.