Chapter 12: A Dream Within a Dream
The quiet moonlit night can make people relax and fall asleep, disappear their troubles, and extend the way out of people's dreams in all directions, and make people's dreams bloom freely between heaven and earth, and dance in the sky.
On a moonlit night yesterday, Zheng Xiaowen had a very peculiar and beautiful dream. After waking up from the dream, she only felt that she had such an unusually clear dream, which was really rare.
Today, the Zheng family picked pomegranates, Zheng Xiaowen's classmates and colleagues came to help, and the Zheng family got up very early.
After Zheng Xiaowen got up, she was still thinking about her dreams. When she came to the east wing, she couldn't help but tell her mother about the process of this dream, she said:
In the dream, she didn't know where she was, but she saw that the starry sky was bright, and there were many small bright stars. Suddenly, two bright stars rose in front of the sky. She looked at these two different bright stars, feeling both novel and excited.
When the two bright stars rose closer to her, she had no novelty or surprise at the first sight of them.
At this moment, the small bright stars in the starry sky quickly retreated in both directions, and a wide road was vacant in the middle, and the two big bright stars stopped on the road and showed their brilliance.
For a moment, she saw the far edge of the road in the sky, revealing a mountain landscape. A very striking, motionless little bright spot appeared in the mountain landscape.
Ah, that little bright spot is rising!
She saw that the little bright spot was slowly rising along the intersection of the road, and at the same time, it began to slowly enlarge. As it got higher and closer to the ground, and closer and closer to her, it magnified to a much larger size than the two big bright stars, and gradually released a colorful halo on its edge, and the color of this halo was like a rainbow in the blue sky after the rain, which was very gorgeous.
The appearance of this extra-large colorful bright star made her feel that the two big bright stars and the small bright stars in the sky were all inferior in color, bright, and dim in an instant, but this extra-large colorful bright star radiated colorful light to her and to all directions.
In the blink of an eye, this latecomer extraordinarily large bright star, together with the first two great bright stars, approached her from a distance, so close that it staggered around her. She could clearly see the three of them, constantly drifting around her, staggering.
Suddenly, the rising extra-large bright star set aside the two big bright stars and circled around her as fast as he could. Ah, it was close to grazing her clothes!
She opened her eyes and sat up, feeling that the dream picture was too bright, too beautiful, and too strange for her to think about anymore.
Especially the extraordinarily large bright star that rose from the mountain scenery made her think about its appearance, its rise, its brilliance, and its proximity......
Thinking about all this, she couldn't help but feel a feeling in her heart, got up and sat down in front of the desk under the window, took out her diary, and wrote a diary "You are coming" on it:
(1) Quietly you appeared, appearing without a sound, just in the position of the mountain view on the horizon, your figure flashed like a little star.
(2) At that moment, the tiny you stand still in the distance, neither left nor right, neither rising nor descending, what you are observing, what you are searching, I can't relate.
(3) Ah, you have moved, you have begun to rise, you flicker, fluttering, gradually magnifying, radiating light. At that moment, the brilliance, the movement, like the morning sun that sprouts through the horizon and slowly rises into the sky.
(4) Your appearance makes the stars dim, your coming makes the stars dull, your approach makes the stars retreat, and your light obscures the brightness of all the stars.
(5) You, what you want to do, what is in the core, what is behind the appearance, you have never hinted at it, or directly explained it.
(6) I know nothing of you, O you, and all that you have, and I have no way to think of it, and I really have nowhere to think of it, and I really can't let the boat of my thoughts set sail for you in the sea of your coming.
After Zheng Xiaowen wrote these words, she thought about it again, but she felt that it was novel and confusing, and there were many questions, but she didn't think about the desired result.
She was so annoyed that she muttered: "What kind of dream is this? Why haven't I had such a dream before? How can I have such a strange and clear dream now! What does this dream mean, and what does it mean? Cut, I don't want to think of it if I can't think of it, it's not dawn yet, sleep!"
She lay in bed and still didn't fall asleep, still thinking about this particular dream, all the time thinking that it was time to get up at dawn, and she didn't come up with a reason.
When Zheng Xiaowen told her mother about the dream plot, she kept observing her mother's calm face and seemed to be full of joy, and when she finished speaking, she saw that her mother's expression was still happy, and she was also a little excited in her heart, so she urged her mother and said, "Mom, tell me what my dream means and what is its connotation?"
"Isn't it just a dream, what else can it mean, what connotation? Mom smiled and said, "Dreaming is a common thing, so don't think about it anymore." ”
In fact, Zheng's mother listened to her daughter's strange dreams, and she was like many older generations, of course, she had her own thoughts, but she was afraid that saying it would disturb her daughter's calm and happy thoughts, so she didn't say it.
Zheng Xiaowen saw that her mother didn't want to analyze the dream for her, she was a little annoyed, and said, "If you don't say it, it's superstitious anyway, and I won't believe it!" After speaking, she couldn't help but smile at her mother, got up and walked out of the door of the east wing.
Zheng Xiaowen came to the courtyard, she saw the small bamboo in the flower pond outside her bedroom window on the south side of the west wing, she said anxiously: "Ah, this bamboo should be watered, the bamboo is short of water, if the tips of this leaf are dry, it will not look good, how could I forget to water it!"
She quickly took water from the water pipe in the courtyard and poured the bamboo, and when she was at ease, she stood in front of the bamboo and looked at the bamboo she had carefully maintained......
Zheng Xiaowen suddenly heard someone call her: 'Xiaowen, come quickly, I'm here, Gegegege!'
Zheng Xiaowen looked at it and saw that it was the Scattered Flower Lady on the frame of her house, and she said, "Sister Fairy, is there something wrong?"
'I want to take you out to play.' The Scattered Flower Heavenly Maiden said with a smile, stepped forward and grabbed Zheng Xiaowen's arm, and the two of them floated into the sky very lightly.
Zheng Xiaowen looked down at the earth in the air, she was curious about the scenery on the ground, and in a blink of an eye, the feet of the two fell on a mountain.
The Scattered Flower Heavenly Maiden said to Zheng Xiaowen, "You wait for me here first. She pointed not far away, and Zheng Xiaowen saw that on the peak of another mountain, there was a pavilion covered in thin clouds. I'll go there and do some errands, and I'll pick you up in a moment.' ’
After the Scattered Flower Heavenly Maiden finished speaking, in the blink of an eye, Zheng Xiaowen disappeared from her.
Zheng Xiaowen looked around, and then noticed that there was a mountain of bamboo forests in front of him. At this moment, an old man with white hair and white beard came in front of her, and she seemed to see the word 'Yue Lao' appear on the old man's body.
Suddenly, Zheng Xiaowen saw the old man holding a red thread in his hand, the old man looked at her, and shook the hand with the red thread into the distance, and she saw the red thread swishing into a straight line in the distance. When I looked again, the old man and the red thread were gone.
Before she could think further, she saw a young man coming from a distance, and the young man beckoned to her and shouted, "Sister Xiaowen, hello......
Zheng Xiaowen suddenly heard his mother's voice: "Nini, why are you standing there stunned!"
Zheng Xiaowen quickly came back to her senses: Hmm, dreaming, wouldn't you? cough, usually she just dreams in a daze, nothing unusual, but she didn't remember it! She forgot this dream completely.
Ding dong...... The doorbell of the Zheng family rang, and Zheng Xiaowen turned around and walked towards the gate......
Early this morning, Yang Yilin was completely sleepy, he finished breakfast, took out a jacket from the wardrobe, and took out a white shirt, he was dressed neatly with a beautiful expression on his face, standing in front of the dressing mirror, looking up and down, taking photos left and right, feeling that the overall image was okay, so he was ready to go out to Zheng Xiaowen's house to help pick pomegranates.
He went to Zheng's house and looked at the wall clock in the hall, ah, it's too early to go to her house, maybe Xiaowen hasn't gotten up yet.
Hmm? How did Mr. Zheng become Xiaowen? Ahem, you are the only one in the world who understands this!
He looked at the wall clock again, oops, what a hurry, why is this watch going so slowly today!
He looked at his watch again, and hey, the watch and the wall clock were in the same time!
He was so anxious that he rubbed his hands and walked back and forth, then went to the dressing mirror to look at his head, gently combed his hair with his fingertips, and then looked at his face, his body, his shoes, and then he went to look at the wall clock, haha, okay, okay, let's go!
He was happy in his heart, picked up the two bags of fruit he had prepared yesterday, went downstairs and pedaled on his bicycle, facing the cool air of the golden wind, with his heart in mind, crossed the street through the alleys, and came to the west exit of the private school alley.
Yang Yilin took a look into the private school alley: Yo, as Qin Zixi said, the name is Hutong, but it is actually not narrow!
Well, I heard Xiaowen say that in the past, there was a private school alley on this street turning to the side, but because the old house of the private school was old and dilapidated, it was demolished. In commemoration of this private school, this street was changed into a private school alley.
He looked at both sides of the street: wow, this side street is full of high-fashioned houses with mixed bricks to the top and small tiles ridges!
He looked at his watch, and when he saw that it was still early, he got off his bicycle and walked inside to look at it in both directions.
He saw that there was a gatehouse as high as a house not far away, and there were steps in front of each gatehouse, and there were doorways on both sides of the steps, probably because the buildings on this little street were too old, and the bricks on the walls, the doorways, and the steps were a little old.
He looked further into the distance of the side street, and saw the two tall blue brick houses on both sides of the street, with the blue brick doorways on both sides of the street stretching straight forward, such a house scene, street scene, he couldn't help but shout in his heart: Ah!
He looked at the rare scene in front of him, he walked here, admired the ancient buildings, and only felt that he had entered the Qing Dynasty or even the Ming Dynasty through the time tunnel......
Yang Yilin was walking, watching, and enjoying the ancient and beautiful atmosphere of the private school alley, and suddenly, his eyes were a little open, and he saw a section of green brick courtyard wall in the north, hanging a branch of densely knotted pomegranates, and hanging a bunch of thick red dates, his heart lit up: Oh, it's Xiaowen's house!
He set up his bicycle next to the doorway, looked up at the tall gatehouse decorated with carved wood above, and then looked at the closed gate and the doorbell next to it, and he was a little flustered.
He calmed down, walked up the bluestone steps, stood in the gatehouse and raised his hand to straighten his clothes, and then reached out and rang the doorbell.