Chapter 31: Excess in the Back Mountain
Snoring could be heard from time to time in the cottage at midnight, and after searching the battlefield for a day, everyone felt tired, and after giving half of the harvest to the three family members, the group of bandits had already fallen asleep with their silver coins in their arms. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
With money, you can squander it again.
Zhang He turned over, and he didn't forget to cover the place where the silver money was hidden in his waist in his sleep, he was a little different from other Yuanshan bandits, as long as others grabbed the silver money, they only knew how to squander and be happy, but Zhang He always hid his share of the money and kept it for leaving Yuanshan in the future.
Before joining Yuanshanzhai, he was a bookkeeper, and the cook was just a side job, and calculating how to spend money was his business.
The moonlight shines into the window, Zhang He in his sleep feels his stomach distended, sits up in a daze, and prepares to relieve himself, as soon as his sleepy eyes open, he saw a person standing in front of the bed, which almost scared him to death.
"Who!"
Thinking that it was an evil ghost asking for his life, Zhang He's hairs stood up, and after he saw clearly that it was a little Taoist priest through the moonlight, his soul returned to his place, and he just wanted to scold, but the other party spoke first, and his tone was so cold that it was chilling.
"Dinner, have you eaten pork? ”
"Pork, what pork?" Zhang He shuddered, remembering the soldier that the little Taoist priest slaughtered in the canyon, and the insult he was about to exit was stifled by him.
"Dinner, have you eaten pork? ”
Xu Yan asked again, his tone was calm and weird, in the moonlight, the little Taoist's face was cold and gloomy, the little black pig was gone, the only possibility was to be killed and eat meat, it was indeed a pig, but it was also Xu Yan's playmate and friend since childhood.
In Xu Yan's heart, the little black pig is the same as those playmates of Tiezhu Xiaohua, if the mountain bandits eat his pigs, he will eat this group of Yuanshan bandits!
"The noodles I eat, I'm tired of the day, how can I cook meat for them. Zhang He put on his shoes and walked out, he didn't see Xu Yan's face, and thought that the other party had just come back and didn't eat, and said: "There are still in the cauldron, if you are hungry, you can eat it yourself." ”
Watching Zhang He push the door out, Xu Yan's face improved a lot.
I didn't eat pork for dinner, Xiao Hei should be fine, maybe he ran out of the pigsty.
Xu Yan is not worried about the pig running out of the pigsty, when he is riding the clouds, Xiao Hei will often run away and run wildly, and he will come back in half a day, it is not a domestic pig, even if someone in the town wants to catch it, he can't catch it.
Lying in his clothes, Xu Yan exhaled softly, thinking that if the little black pig escaped into the mountains, it was best not to come back, this is a bandit village, not Linshan Town.
Wild boars should live in the mountains.
There was no word all night, as soon as the sky was bright, Xu Yan got up early, still busy in the back kitchen, what made him happy and helpless was that Xiao Hei had come back by himself at some point, and he was still snoring and begging for food at Xu Yan in the pigsty.
"You're a wild boar, wouldn't it be good to go back to the mountains? ”
Purr!
"Forget it, let's go together in a while. Xu Yan said to himself while feeding the pigs: "Eat more, no matter how you eat, you won't grow strong...... Huh?"
Pouring the trough full, Xu Yan stared at the little black pig curiously, after not seeing him for a day, the little black seemed to have grown up, at least two catties of meat.
Subtle changes, others can't see it, Xu Yan and Xiao Hei stay together every day, the little black pig has gained a few pounds, he can see it at a glance.
"Could it be that the food in Yuanshanzhai is too good?" Xu Yan scratched his head suspiciously, and then smirked: "Then you can eat more, you are strong, and I can ride a pig to the road, hey." ”
Since I went to Qiyuanxia once, there were obviously fewer mountain bandits in Yuanshanzhai, and the mountain bandits went out of the mountains from time to time to go to nearby towns to squander, and when they came back, they were drunk from time to time, and their eyes were bloodshot, which was a loss of money.
The honest little Taoist priest is still busy between the back kitchen and the vegetable garden every day, and the mountain bandits in Yuanshanzhai are also used to this hard-working and silly little Taoist, except for occasionally bewitching this silly half-grown child, most of the work in the back kitchen is pushed to Xu Yan.
Who made him a fool, or a hard-working man.
In the early morning of this day, when Xu Yan was picking vegetables in the vegetable garden, Mei Sanniang appeared in the back kitchen again.
Mrs. Zhuzhai, who comes to pick vegetables by herself every day, has long recognized Xu Yan, a little Taoist priest, and Mei Sanniang usually laughs at the silly Xu Yan when picking vegetables, but this time, her expression looks solemn and gloomy.
"Little Taoist, today is my brother's sacrifice day, what do you need to prepare, you say. ”
Mei Sanniang was wearing plain clothes today, Jingyan did not use any powder, did not carry a basket, but held a white handkerchief, and after coming to the vegetable garden, she asked Xu Yan first.
Knowing that today is the sacrifice day of Mei Sanniang's younger brother, Xu Yan made a joke and said: "If the heart is sincere, the three high incense is enough." ”
"Okay, come with me. Mei Sanniang was a little surprised, she had prepared a lot of paper money and rice wine, since the other party said that three sticks of high incense were enough, she didn't mention it much, turned around and walked towards the back mountain.
After cleaning his hands, Xu Yan glanced at Zhang He, who was pretending to be busy on the other side of the vegetable garden.
"Go ahead, I'll leave today's work to me, and Madame's command is a holy decree. Zhang He hunched over and said, "Madame, go slowly!"
Not to mention that the three-month deadline is coming, even if Xu Yan just came, once the lady spoke, he didn't dare to stop it, in Yuanshanzhai, Mei Sanniang's words were sometimes better than the two or two masters.
Leaving the back kitchen, Xu Yan followed Mei Sanniang to a vacant lot in the back mountain.
There is a tomb in the clearing, there is no stone monument, it looks a little desolate, but there is not half a weed around the tomb, it seems that someone should always clean it up.
Mei Sanniang was silent all the way, Xu Yan couldn't see her face, but she could feel a long-suppressed resentment, and when she arrived at the grave, Xu Yan took the three incense sticks brought by the other party, raised her hand and inserted it in front of the grave, and then dressed her whole body and made a joke, recited the slogan, and began to exceed.
The person in the tomb has been dead for many years, and this kind of transcendence does not need to be too formal, because time can wipe out everything, including the resentment of the dead.
After a long time, Xu Yan always looked solemn, and when he got up, he saw that Mei Sanniang's pair of Danfeng eyes were already crying red, and there was a deep hatred in those beautiful eyes.
Gao Xiang had already burned out, Mei Sanniang seemed to be immersed in painful memories, as if muttering to herself: "Five years ago, I went to Puguo to buy medicinal materials for my family, and the small town pestered me to come with me to see the world, the border between the two countries is not easy to walk, but I have also walked many times, before Qi Yuanshan, there were no mountain bandits at all, I couldn't see him crying, so I took him out behind my family's back, but I didn't expect that he would never go back......"
Mei Sanniang's small city is her younger brother, five years ago when she set off with her sister, she was only eleven years old.
Mei Sanniang whispered in front of the grave, full of deep remorse, Xu Yan stood aside quietly, this kind of comfort to the souls of relatives, he would not interject.
After whispering for a long time, Mei Sanniang's hands had already been buckled into the soil, not only her face was gloomy and terrifying, but her eyes were surging with a touch of ferocity, just like those souls who died on the battlefield, with unwillingness and hatred, lingering on their battlefield for a long time.
"Mercy, mercy. ”
Xu Yan frowned slightly, recited compassion, and said: "People can't be resurrected after death, and the donor mourns." ”
As if awakened by this mercy, Mei Sanniang took a long breath, let go of the soil in her hand, and slowly stood up, when the woman was patting the soil on her hands, Xu Yan could see some small scars on the other party's hands, as if they were stung by mosquitoes.
"If the town is still alive, it's about your age. ”
The woman regained her charming look again, looked at the little Taoist priest in front of her for a long time, and suddenly made a strange move, only to see her open arms and hold Xu Yan in her arms, which shocked the little Taoist priest's eyes wide, and his mouth was blocked by a soft piece, and he couldn't breathe.