Chapter 197: The Covenant of the Next World (1)
The silver-haired woman sat in front of the tomb in a daze, looking motionlessly at the thin wooden sign. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
There is only a simple word on the wooden sign.
The woman looked at the tombstone and was silent for a long time.
After a long time, she leaned down and leaned half of her body lightly against the wooden card, and her silver hair fell down and hung down on top of her red clothes.
There were no superfluous words, no superfluous movements, she just leaned lightly on the wooden sign, quietly like a weed that had grown beside her.
1 day, 2 days, 3 days...... A whole month passed, and the woman did not move a step.
The smooth wooden plaques were dyed a faint brown, and the autumn leaves piled up on the ground covered the corners of the woman's skirt.
In the fourth month, the woman stood up and looked eastward.
It was already mid-spring, and there were pleasant birdsong in the mountains and forests. The branches of the tree bloomed with green shoots, and from a distance, it looked like a pale green smoke.
At the end of the smoke is an endless cloud.
The woman took a step, glanced back at the wooden sign, and then walked away without looking back.
The wooden sign is no longer as shiny as it once was, but it is still clean.
Next to the word "night", there is an extra line of clear small words.
The surviving people, wind wine wine.
The wind blew, and the tips of the newly grown grass slowly bent down, as if blowing a pool of lake water.
Three years later, in early autumn, two people came to the mountains.
They were all grown men. One of them was tall and strong, and although he was dressed as an ordinary rich man, he had a faint killing aura. The sleeve of his shirt on his left side was concave, and as he walked, the empty sleeve swayed. Behind him, a weaker man, at this moment, was parked in front of a tree, wiping his sweat with a handkerchief.
"Second brother, I really can't walk, let's rest. ”
The weak man pleaded while wiping his sweat.
"Sanzi, you've only walked a few steps, and you're tired. Think about back then, how many times we ran up and down this mountain, and I didn't see you shout tired once. ”
The tall man complained dissatisfiedly, then turned his face sideways and wiped the hot sweat from his face on his right shoulder.
"Second brother, this time is different from the past, I haven't walked so many roads in many years. ”
The weak man couldn't help but explain embarrassedly.
"Hmph, if you're a master, of course you don't need to walk. I don't think you're walking, but your body has been hollowed out by those banquets and women, right?"
The tall man snorted coldly.
"Second brother, you still don't know me? ”
The weak man said helplessly.
"We are desperately trying to tie our heads to the waistband of our pants on the front line, and you are hugging the beauties behind you, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, not to mention how chic your life is, and acting on the spot? I think you are happy to think about sweet potatoes!!"
If you don't argue, the anger of the tall man is even greater, and he can't help but mock. When he was young, he studied and was mostly squeezing his eyebrows and sleepy, and later he lost the battlefield, and he only thought about surviving and earning work every day, and he had long forgotten the set of words he had learned. At this time, the idiom that was casually said couldn't help but change its taste.
The weak man was amused and laughed: "Second brother, this is called Le Bu Si Shu, not Le Bu Si Sweet Potato." ”
"He's a milky girl, and he can't even think about sweet potatoes when he's happy, isn't he so happy that he doesn't even want sweet potatoes? Why, the old man is wrong? I think you're a kid like this, and when you become a big official, you can't remember the days when the three of us brothers didn't even eat sweet potatoes together. ”
The tall man said indignantly.
He is a person who is free from impulsiveness, and he has been in the barracks for a long time, and the swear words come out of his mouth, and he speaks very smoothly.
The weak man didn't argue when he heard this, but the smile on his face was put away in an instant.
How could he forget? It wasn't a day when they didn't even eat sweet potatoes, they didn't eat anything, they were hungry and thirsty, so they could only grab a handful of snow and pad their stomachs. But it was so cold in winter that the snow fell into the warm belly, and it stabbed into a spasm. At first, the intestines were colic, but then the snow melted, and the shriveled stomach was replenished a little, although I was still hungry, but I had a little more stuff.
The eldest brother didn't have it in that battle.
He did not die on the battlefield, but on the way in search of food. For the sake of a hare that began to rot, the general cut off his right arm holding the hare in the name of violating military orders.
When the second brother found the eldest brother behind his back, the snow there was dyed red and gorgeous.
The eldest brother had his eyes open, his body covered with snowflakes, his left arm stretched long, and his fingers slightly curled, as if he was trying to grasp something.
A bright trail dragged out of the snow.
It's all blood.
At that time, he didn't know what was going on, and after crying with his second brother, he buried his eldest brother.
Until that day when reinforcements were finally received, a drunken soldier shook the matter out at the celebration banquet.
Only then did he know how the eldest brother died.
Others said that they thought it was the recruit's dying nonsense, but he knew it was true when he was thoughtful. At that time, because of his weak body, he fell down with a high fever three days after being trapped, he unconsciously shouted hunger, and the eldest brother sneaked out to find food, and then never came back.
The second brother and he thought that the eldest brother had encountered the enemy army and killed the enemy more bravely, but he never thought that the eldest brother was poisoned by his own people for such a ridiculous reason.
Afterwards, he threatened the soldier, confirming his suspicions. But he didn't tell the second brother, but buried the matter in his heart.
Seeing that he was silent, the tall man also remembered the days when he ate snow, and he didn't speak at the moment, turned around and climbed up silently.
On the hill, the front of the thatched cottage was full of weeds, and the house had collapsed in half.
After looking around, the two sat down silently in the bluestone in the courtyard.
It was the season when the pomegranates were ripe again, and the tall man picked two pomegranates, threw one to the weak man, and then broke the one in his hand and started eating without eating.
"You know, the first time I was in the bronze mirror, I thought of my husband. For some reason, I always feel that she is very similar to the bronze mirror. The first time I saw her, I suddenly didn't know where to put my hands and feet, and I always felt that something was wrong. ”
After eating the pomegranate, the tall man was silent for a while, and said a little melancholy.
"If it weren't for my husband, I think I would still be farming at home, maybe I would marry a mother-in-law, give birth to a few tiger-headed babies, and then work tirelessly for the rest of my life just to fill these mouths. You won't go that far, and you won't see so many new things. ”
The weak man remembered the scene when he first saw the woman, it was many years ago, but as long as he closed his eyes and remembered, he could still feel the temperature covering his head. Dad thinks he is weak and doesn't get close to him, and his mother doesn't like him because of this. It was the first time he had been touched on the head.
But later, several lively brothers were not as weak as him. In those years, I couldn't see his father old and camel, and when he mentioned him, the whole person was frowning.