Chapter 5 People are in winter, like a spring breeze
At the entrance of South Lane 27, where there are few pedestrians, there are two figures, one large and one small, slowly walking, the big one is strong and has a flat face, and the small one is still thin in a cotton jacket and has a calm face.
The alley was two feet three wide, and the boy gradually approached, as if he had a memory.
The mouth of the alley was crowded with people listening to books, and the storyteller had a table, a chair, a folding fan, and a peach tree behind him.
"Smack~"
As soon as the case was shot, Mr. said, "Today, let's talk about the scholar named Shouyi, and on that day, Shouyi was studying hard at home......
The young man shook his head suddenly, but found that there was no petite plain white figure around him, and there were no peach trees, storytellers and storytellers at the mouth of the alley, only snow everywhere, like pearls, but it looked lifeless in the gloomy sky.
"Something on your mind?" Wang Zhi asked, then lowered his eyebrows slightly and sighed.
This kid was already preoccupied along the way, and he asked such a stupid question, he shouldn't have been!
The young man said, "Brother Wang, can I plant a peach tree at the mouth of the alley?"
Wang Zhi didn't know why, but he thought it wouldn't be a big deal, so he casually agreed, and said: "Tomorrow, when Shen is shi, I will ask someone to take you to the peach orchard outside the city to choose one." ”
"Thank you. ”
"It's a small thing. ”
......
Wang Zhi waited until it was dark and drank a bowl of hot white rice porridge with Zhaoxue and went back, and the young man returned to the courtyard, swept away the snow in the courtyard, and stared at the place where Wang Chong had stood his knife before, but found that there was no damage there.
That is, the knife stood up without damaging the ground.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xue sighed with emotion: "The imperial city is full of legends...... Immortal. ”
Syllable~
He slapped himself in the face and said, "Forget about ...... There is no god in the world. ”
The young man returned to the house, covered with the thick quilt that Wang Zhi bought, but he couldn't sleep for a long time, his eyes were open, he didn't think about anything, he didn't do anything......
The morning in the imperial city is busy and quiet, and countless people get up early, but they rarely talk, and they only nod their heads when they meet.
[The earth is covered with a silver-gray veil, and it is too beautiful to see.
Snow, like a chattering old man, sprinkled the words that were being raised to every corner.
Fell on the weeping willow, like a handsome girl, fell on the house, like a delicate ice sculpture, fell into the streets and alleys, like covered with a thick quilt ......]
Guangyuan Inn.
"Ah~ wood, lewd thief, get out, who let you trespass into this girl's room?" The voice of the little girl in red sounded, but because of the good formation protection of the inn, the room did not make a sound.
Congfang, who was fishing, was kicked by the little girl, flew far away, and landed at the door of the room......
Then the girl saw the thick and excessively clean quilt covered by her body, smiled awkwardly, and said with a smile on her face: "I'm sorry......"
Nangong Tong got up early and swept the snow in Mr. Tong's yard, and the little girl woke up halfway, "occupied" half of the yard, and said that she wanted to play.
He smiled knowingly, put down the broom, and went to cook for the husband.
After coming out, Shuang'er piled up three little people in the yard, a young man covered with a black cloth, a little girl with milky pigtails, and an old-fashioned teenager......
He smiled and took the little girl to the library to clean up.
All three teenagers had a lovely smile.
......
Zhaoxue opened her eyes, got up, habitually patted the quilt, and found it empty, then sighed, grinned, shook her head, and got up to wash.
There was no one to comb his hair, so on the way north, he learned to comb his hair with Yunhai Changhong.
Combed his hair in a simple bun, the boy wrapped it in a rag, and went out.
The snow is still falling, it has been four days in a row, and if it still rains today, it will be five full days.
He picked up an oil umbrella and went to the baked cake shop yesterday.
"Boss, two biscuits. ”
When the boss saw that it was the child that the owner took with him yesterday, he smiled and said, "Wait a minute." ”
Zhao Xue wanted to give money, but the boss refused, Zhao Xue was silent, but insisted on giving, and finally forced it on the table.
The proprietress said: "What a good boy, no wonder the owner will take him." ”
Mr. Ye also went out with a red oil paper umbrella, so weak that he couldn't take too heavy things to smash the wheels, and he was destined to not be able to do any coolies, so he found a job in South Thirteen Lane a year ago to copy books.
The young man came to the Wufu Sword Pavilion Hide, and the old man was already waiting here.
He looked at the young man and smiled, "Coming?"
The boy nodded, silent.
The old man gave the young man a broom and said, "The salary is 200 wen a day, and the day is settled, and I will be in the pavilion outside. ”
The boy nodded again, took the broom and began to clean, in fact, there was nothing possible to hide the dust, but this daily routine cleaning did not stop.
Even so, the boy cleaned up next to the ground, meticulously.
The old man nodded slightly, turned to leave, and left a word.
"The heart is acceptable, suitable for sword practice. ”
About noon, the boy was only half of the cleaning, no way, he couldn't give up halfway through the first day of work, and there was something to do in the afternoon, so he had to bite the bullet and continue to sweep hungry.
By the time he finished sweeping, he had no concept of time, and there were only books in the whole building, and he was dazzled to look at it, and it was not easy to finish sweeping.
He sat on the ground, gasped for breath, and then took the broom step by step down the stairs, the twelfth floor, and it was a nightmare.
When he came to the pavilion, the old man looked at him and said, "Tired or not." ”
The young man nodded and asked, "May I ask the pavilion master, what time is it?"
The old man took out his salary and gave it to Zhao Xue and said, "It's almost time to apply." ”
As soon as Zhao Xue heard that she received the thanks, she didn't have time to run away.
The old man suddenly laughed, "Funny kid. ”
Zhao Xue ran through the streets and alleys as fast as she could, and finally returned to South Twenty-seventh Lane at the beginning of the hour, where several young men and a big carriage were gathered.
Zhao Xue bent down, propped her hands on her knees, panting, and after calming down, she shook her head, shook off the snow on her head, patted her body, and then slowly walked over and asked, "Is it the person invited by Brother Wang Zhi?"
A young man walked out and said, "Yes, you are the child that the owner said?"
Zhaoxue nodded.
Several people looked at Zhao Xue, but their faces were surprised, is this child the legendary double pupil?
Seeing that several people looked at her with strange eyes, Zhao Xue asked tentatively, "You guys...... What are you looking at?"
One of them asked, "Boy, are you a double pupil?"
Zhao Xue's mind was empty, and then he thought for a while, and said in the words that Yunhai Changhong taught him: "The double pupil is two eye pupils, and I am three, and this is called the three-flower pupil in my hometown." ”
"Oh?" a few people suddenly said, and then said to one person, "Let's go, go quickly, we can go back to warm up when we finish things earlier." ”
"Good. Zhao Xue nodded, secretly glad, and followed these people away in the big carriage.
A person on the road patted the snow on his body and said, "Anyway, it's so cold this year, will it be recorded?"
"I don't know, the annals will record this thing?"
"Who knows, most of the historians eat dry rice. ”
......
They went to a peach orchard outside the city, chose a peach tree, then cut off the branches, left the main trunk, wrapped it in a thick straw mat, put it on the carriage, took it back, and planted it at the mouth of the alley.
Zhao Xue and the young adults thanked them, then patted the trunk of the peach tree with a smile and entered the house satisfied.
Starved to death, he didn't eat for a day, everything was prepared, he had to cook a pot of white rice porridge, and it was all right!
While eating, the young man patted his knee and said, "Oh no, the umbrella is left in hiding." ”
The next day, the boy went out on time, and because he didn't have an umbrella, he had to brave the heavy snow and run to the Sword Pavilion.
The old man had also been waiting at the door of Tibet for a long time, and Zhao Xue was already covered in snow when he ran to Tibet.
The old man handed him the umbrella and said, "Don't forget." ”
As he spoke, the old man waved his sleeves at the young man, and all the snow fell off all over his body.
The old man nodded with satisfaction, pushed open the door, and said, "Go in!"
The boy took the umbrella, and then went into the building to clean it, and it was time before he was done.
He took the old man's salary, and the old man grabbed him and said, "Don't run away, I have something to tell you." ”
When Zhao Xue heard this, she said, "Pavilion Master, please speak." ”
He struggled, breaking free from the old man's grasp.
"Have you thought about it......" The old man said three words, but he stopped the words behind him, shook his head, and said, "That's it, it's too early for this matter, I'm too anxious, you go back first."
Zhao Xue was confused, so she had to leave with a little doubt.
Back to the 27th lane of the south of the road, Zhao Xue thought about what the old man was going to say, he didn't know what the old man was going to say, but the excitement in the old man's eyes at that time was so real.
As he walked, he actually bumped into the tree planted yesterday, he smiled, retracted his thoughts, stroked the trunk of the peach tree, and said: "When you grow branches and leaves, and I grow up, I will move a bench and sit here to tell others a story, I still vaguely remember the story of the previous husband." ”
He looked at the new mud that had been buried yesterday, stretched out his foot and stepped on it, and it was hard and completely frozen.
So the boy galloped back to the yard, brought a hoe, and loosened the soil for the peach tree.
There were a few pedestrians on the street outside the alley, and at a glance they stopped caring about the teenager.
In the distance, a poor scholar in an old cotton jacket walked slowly, holding a book in his hand and holding a red oil-paper umbrella.
He came to the mouth of the alley and saw a young man struggling to loosen the soil.
The peach tree that suddenly appeared yesterday was planted by this child?
The snowflakes fell on the boy and did not melt. Gradually, the gray-clothed boy was dyed snow-white.
The scholar couldn't bear it, so he walked over, and the oil-paper umbrella was biased towards the boy, and seeing that he still couldn't cover the boy, he simply took it all to cover the child, but he was exposed to the wind and snow.
After a long time, the boy finally finished loosening the soil, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. The boy stretched out his hand to dry it, and then he was stunned, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, but he was not exposed to the heavy snow.
He turned his head abruptly and saw a poor scholar with a peaceful smile looking at him.
The scholar's face was very white, as if he was sick, his eyebrows were very thin, and his eyes were clear, like the water of the Qujiang River...... He was tall, seven feet tall, covered with snow on his shoulders and head, a little emaciated, holding a book in one hand and a red oil-paper umbrella in the other to cover the boy.
The scholar said gently, "Hello, young man. ”
The scholar saw the boy's eyes...... Heavy pupils, but he won't care.
This statement, although it is in the winter, makes the young man like a spring breeze.
The young man was stunned again, and then said, "Hello!"
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