Chapter 0003: Osmanthus Cake
And in a trance, this geometric wall-creeping tiger leaf is like a group of buildings, all kinds of styles of buildings, classical, modern, Forbidden City style, Western pillar temple style, Tallinn, gardens and even Gothic, Rococo style all-encompassing, Lu Wuji felt that he probably used his brain too much and hallucinated.
When he rubbed his eyes and looked at it again, the illusion disappeared, and the creeper was just an ordinary creeper.
Lu Wuji glanced deeply at Ah Heng beside him, the latter's starry eyes flickered, his expression was solemn, staring closely at the creeper that had stopped or returned to its normal growth rate, frowning slightly, as if Archimedes was thinking about a profound mathematical problem.
Although she knew that Lu Wuji was scrutinizing her, doubting her, or having the intention of asking her to explain, she was calm and silent. It's not because she's reluctant to speak, it's because she can't.
Ah Heng is a mute girl who he picked up on the street shortly after he came to Yangcheng.
At that time, she was in rags, her face was dark, her hair was messy like a chicken nest, and she couldn't tell the difference between a boy and a girl.
There were people coming and going on the street, and when they saw her, they couldn't help but staggered away.
Lu Wuji, as a student, and the economic conditions are not well-off, and his reaction when he sees her is similar to that of others, but it is a little strange that this beggar is a little young and has a little pity, but he is not so sympathetic that he can't help her.
When he walked past her, he felt strangely that someone was watching him behind him, so he turned around, and then he saw the bright starry eyes of the mute girl.
He froze. This kind of feeling, if someone has ever found a crystal gem in coal, or found a clear spring in the desert, or seen a touch of tender green in the snow, they can probably understand Lu Wuji's mood at that time.
There was no begging or pity in the girl's eyes, only star-studded, clear and deep.
For some reason, Lu Wuji's tears quietly slipped down his face, he walked back and stretched out his hand to the girl, he forcibly held back his nose, tried to smile, and said, "I am also an orphan, are you willing to live with me?"
The girl did not hesitate to stretch out her little black hand and put it in his palm, but Lu Wuji felt a warm grip, this feeling was not like he was saving the girl, but like he had finally found a bonfire in this indifferent world.
In fact, Lu Wuji's parents are still alive, but he was swept out of the house, and his father only paid him tuition and miscellaneous fees and monthly living expenses, which were still the lowest standard.
And threatened that even if he did, he would only provide for him until he was eighteen years old, because according to the legal age, eighteen was an adult, and his duties as a father had been completed.
Lu Wuji remembered that since he went to school, his father had never visited him at school, Yangcheng was hundreds of kilometers away from his hometown, and his father, including his mother, did not come to see him off.
Since he was in elementary school, whether he was commuting to and from school or doing homework, Lu Wuji was a lonely trek.
After going to junior high school in the county, he never went back to his hometown Shenlongjia, not that he didn't want to go back, but his father didn't let him go back, once he went back secretly, and was beaten up by his father outside the Shenlongjia, declaring that he would cut off the father-son relationship with him, so that he would never come back, only let people bring him a bank card, and put some money on the card every month.
So Lu Wuji thought he was an orphan, and since then he has a bitter hatred for his parents, especially his father, because he remembers being naughty when he was a child, and his father beat him several times, but his mother stopped him, so he can still feel a little maternal love.
Is there such a heartless father in the world?
No!
Lu Wuji has gritted his teeth and shouted many times in the dead of night: "I didn't ask you to come to this world, you treat me like this, how ruthless you are, I hate you, you are simply beasts!"
So Lu Wuji took back the mute girl, and after renting a house, he made a wooden man, he was very talented in carving, carved the head of the wooden man into the appearance of his father, and then used iron to make his own shuttle dart, drew a red circle on the wooden man's chest, and threw a dart every day to vent his anger.
This set was learned in martial arts novels, but in novels, it is often done like this by killing his father and hating Dai Tiancai, but he is going to share the sky with his father.
Lu Wuji and the mute girl have been in love with each other since then, he taught the girl to read, starting from pinyin a, o, e, to the simple words of 'oral hand', although the girl can't speak, but she is very smart, and she has made rapid progress, and she has known thousands of words in less than two months.
Her name was found from the sentence "Why do you have to get up and sleep on three watches and five watches, the most useless thing is only afraid of being exposed to the cold for ten days a day", when Lu Wuji taught her this sentence, she suddenly pointed to the word "Heng", and then pointed to herself, and so on several times, Lu Wuji understood, her name is "Heng", as for this is her original name, or she temporarily took it herself, Lu Wuji did not delve into it, but from then on, she no longer only called her little sister, but also called her "Ah Heng".
And the girl seems to prefer people to call her Ah Heng, because it echoes the majesty of her nature. If you call Xiaomei, it will be too affectionate, diluting her prestige.
Lu Wuji couldn't figure out where this majesty came from, a little girl, or a beggar? Could it be that she was a princess? Lu Wuji laughed when he thought of this.
What age, even in countries such as Britain and Japan, which preserve the royal family, the royal family only has symbolic meaning, not to mention, the temperament and demeanor of the princess must be cultivated after at least one or two decades.
Ah Heng is only a teenager, and he has experienced a beggar career for an unknown amount of time, even if he is noble, he has long lost his hair and phoenix is not as good as a chicken, and she can have this natural prestige is definitely not because of her background, but because of her personality.
Ah Heng's bright eyes suddenly burst into sparks again, and she circled around Lu Wuji, her nose fluttered, making Lu Wuji inexplicable, and when she turned to the front again, there were more doubts in her eyes, and even some anger. Only the anger quickly vanished, replaced by a hint of indifference.
Lu Wuji understood, she smelled the scent of osmanthus on her body, and suspected that he had contact with some woman, so she felt uncomfortable, but her dignity did not allow her to show anger about it, so she pretended not to care.
She pointed to the white flowers on the magnolia tree next to her, and put her hand to her mouth to eat.
Lu Wuji understood that this was to ask him to buy osmanthus cakes on the street. Lu Wuji smiled, the girl who sold osmanthus cakes on the nearby snack street knew Ah Heng, and was considered friends, and Ah Heng sometimes slept with her as her companion.
She wants to eat osmanthus cake, which is more convenient for her to go by herself, and she doesn't have to spend money. asked Lu Wuji to buy it, which showed that she suspected that Lu Wuji and Miss Osmanthus were secretly having a private meeting with her, and in order to say, 'I don't care', she pretended to be more and more generous to create opportunities for the two parties to meet.
Lu Wuji smiled and understood Ah Heng's intentions, but how should this devouring system be explained to her?
I had to take her hand and smiled: "You are not tired of eating osmanthus cake, let's go, I will make you hot and sour noodles when I go home!"
Unexpectedly, Ah Heng shook his hand, stared at him with his eyes, and resolutely said that he wanted to eat osmanthus cake.
Lu Wuji smiled bitterly, where is this to pick up a beggar, it is simply to invite back a strict mother. So he said to her, "Go back first, and I'll buy it." ”