Chapter 11 (It's Raining)
(The armies of the Great Tang Kingdom Alliance went north to suppress it, and at the same time, Takeda Nobuwa had not yet completed his cultivation path...... )
"Does the old man still ferry?"
"Hmm... No ferry today. ”
"Why?"
"Because I'm going to see my wife~"
As soon as he finished speaking, the old man who supported the boat got up and left slowly, and disappeared into the morning mist little by little, very strange, this barren mountain range, there was no one around, and there was no home, and some were just this death-like silence, very quiet, Takeda Nobukazu called the old man, but the moment he came back to his senses, he didn't say "why" This made Takeda Nobuwa feel that the old man was very strange.
At a moment's notice, the old man's boat disappeared into the lake, and the fog was so great that the sun could not penetrate the fog, and the silence strengthened.
In the early morning, fog and light rain, Takeda Nobukazu walked up along the lakeside, alone, kept walking, Takeda Kazunobu bowed his head and came to a small wooden house, the wooden house was very dilapidated, but the wooden house had a relatively intact roof to shelter from the rain.
While Nobukazu Takeda was standing under the roof to shelter from the rain, a woman's voice came, and the voice was a young girl, "You're coming" Nobukazu Takeda saw the girl through a shabby wooden plank, and said, "Are you?"
The girl covered her mouth and nose with one hand and laughed softly, "You shouldn't have come."
"But I'm here. ”
The girl smiled again, "You're here anyway after all." ”
"Yes, I'm still here after all" The two of them were silent, silent for a long time, like two people carved in clay and wood, staring at the fog in front of them, and the fog blew a little chill.
"What are you doing here?" the girl finally broke silent.
"Sheltering from the rain" Nobukazu Takeda was crisp and neat, word by word, without a trace of hesitation.
The girl whispered, "How long do you plan to avoid the rain?"
"When the rain stops, go" Takeda Nobuwa is still crisp and neat, without a trace of melancholy. The girl's face had changed, and she said, "Don't you know that the rain here won't stop!"
"I don't know. ”
"Really?"
"Seriously!"
Nobukazu Takeda stared at the girl in front of him, the girl was very young, but her eyes would not let anyone see. The rain was very quiet, as heavy as the sea. The girl knew that the young man in front of her was definitely not human.
But the girl knew that the rain would never stop, and she knew that he would not go, and that there was silence around him, a silence like death. The sun gradually rose in the early morning, and the cold fog receded a little, but Takeda Nobukazu looked at the sunlight that passed through the fog in front of him, but his eyes were a little solemn. The girl turned around and whispered, "Do you have to stop this rain before leaving?"
"Definitely!"
"What if this rain doesn't stop!"
"You can try!"
After saying that, Takeda Nobuwa was about to draw his sword, and there was a death-like silence in the air, and Takeda Nobuwa had already noticed that this girl was no longer extraordinary.
The wind blew, the leaves made a slight noise, and the black knife was half unsheathed.
The girl took the initiative to look at the young man in front of her, but her eyes were extraordinarily gentle, she smiled, there was no trace of death in her eyes. Nobukazu Takeda looked into her eyes with some hesitation.
A wind blew through the boy's hair, and at the same time blew the edge of the girl's clothes. The girl was gone...... Along with the disappearance was an endless light rain. The sun shone on Takeda Nobukazu's face, the boy put away the black knife, and the boy looked up at the weather, "The rain has stopped" When the boy was about to leave......
"Hey, boy."
"Huh?"
Nobukazu Takeda looked at the boats rowing not far ahead. It was the old man, who rowed the boat against the shore and asked, "Have you seen a ......?"
"Who?"
"A girl!"
"See, what?"
The old man stepped off the boat, took off his straw hat and was wrinkled, and his hands were already full of thick hands because of long-term rowing. But the old man spoke in a peaceful tone, his eyes were attentive, and he said, "That girl is my wife......"
"Really?"
"yes!"
Seeing his words, Takeda Nobukazu said: "But she is dead!" The old man squatted on the riverbank when he heard his words, and said, "It's all my fault, she died" Takeda Nobuwa saw that his old man's face was very guilty, and he didn't say much, just quietly accompanied the old man, and listened to the old man say slowly: "I know that she has already left me, this is a fact, I can't change it, it's just ......"
"Just what?"
"It's just that the fate of heaven is unbearable, more than 40 years ago, Emperor Shenwu arrested people to fight, I was arrested, poor my lover, she was only sixteen years old that year, I was only seventeen years old was arrested, when I was locked in the car, she chased dozens of miles behind, while chasing and crying, I was very heartbroken, looking at her at that time, I couldn't do anything at that time, until I chased to this lake, I was taken away, she cried on the lakeside for three days and three nights, and waited for three years! In the past three years, I wrote to her to tell her to find someone else, don't wait for me, but she didn't ...... For the past three years, rain or shine, she has been here waiting for me, day after day, year after year. ”
"In the third year, when she heard that I had died in battle, she was so heartbroken that she jumped into the lake and committed suicide, and it rained lightly, incessantly, and the rain took away all my thoughts and concerns, and I was ashamed of her. ”
"So you're here to see her, uncle?"
"yes!"
The old man sighed: "This little wooden house was built by the people of the village to protect her from the wind and rain, but now that the people of the village have moved elsewhere, I will come to see her at this time of year......"
Takeda Nobukazu looked at the lake and didn't speak, but the old man knew the word love, and he didn't know what to do or where to live. I don't know what to do, I don't know what to solve. I don't know where I am, I don't know where I want to go. I don't know what you know, I don't know where I stop.
Takeda Shinwa said, "You say... Will she come today?"
"Yes, she'll come. ”
Takeda Nobukazu promised the old man to stay here, and the two lit a fire.
At the beginning of the night, the sound of birds hovers in the air, and a cold wind blows through the lake. Fishing at the edge of the lake, it looks like a large piece of transparent jadeite.
The bright moon hangs high in the sky like an ice disk, and the moon is full. The old man felt a little chilly, so he asked Takeda Nobuwa to accompany him to drink by the lake, and the old man asked with the strength of the wine
"How old are you, young man?"
"Seventeen!"
"Seventeen years old, what a number. ”
Takeda Nobuwa drank the flask handed over by the old man, bowed his head and said, "Really?"
"Yes, uncle, I was arrested to fight when I was seventeen years old, and I didn't come back until I was twenty-five" The young man did not reply, but took another sip of wine, and the old man said: "I am in my sixties this year, and I am in my sixties!" When the old man was sixteen or seventeen years old, he used to think about marrying the girl and living a simple and happy life.
The old man now thinks that he is in his sixties, and the old man can't believe it, but he can't help but believe that the years are so ruthless......
The old man waited for her unconsciously on the shore of this lake for more than forty years, consistently, day after day, year after year. The old man got up and stood by the lake, and saw his figure looming in the moonlight. The person in the film still looks so young, and he doesn't even have wrinkles on his face when he laughs, but he has to admit that his time is running out.
"Where are you going, young man?"
"East!"
"East, are you going to Datang?"
"No, return the knife!"
"Return the knife?" The old man looked at the knife on the young man's body and said, "What kind of knife is this", "black knife", "black knife", "yes, black knife, black knife!" the young man replied.
As everyone knows, the black knife in the hand of the young man is one of the top ten famous swords in the country of Walai, and it is said that the first generation of the sword master family has a total of ten famous swords, and the black knife and the autumn water silver moon is ranked fourth.
Legend has it that the Musashi family had a total of ten sons, each of whom inherited a famous sword from their ancestors, and the Musashi family ruled for an era and was invincible and invincible.
Even Emperor Shenwu's position is under threat... Seeing that he could not be seized by such a family, Emperor Jimmu ordered the other families of Watarai to join forces to destroy the Musashi family.
Emperor Shenwu seized three of the swords, while the remaining seven swords were taken by the other families. The Takeda family took the fourth-ranked Black Knife Autumn Mercury Moon.
The old man said with a panicked face: "I seem to have seen this knife" Takeda Nobuwa did not speak, and the old man continued: "Yes! On the battlefield," Takeda Nobukazu's face sank when he heard this, as if he didn't particularly want the old man to say it.
But the old man still spoke out with the strength of wine, and said: "I remember that Emperor Shenwu ordered us to attack a city, and our army suffered heavy casualties at that time! Seeing this, the enemy wanted to pursue us in victory and annihilate us in one fell swoop, and the enemy sent thousands of iron horsemen to chase and kill us, and we fled to a cliff, and there was really an abyss below.
And the enemy iron cavalry was in front of us, just when we were desperate, suddenly a man rode a horse and attacked from the side, only to see that person stab, just a knife! The enemy iron cavalry hundreds of people, in the blink of an eye, with the advantage of men and horses fell to the ground, that moment was really terrifying, if that person was the enemy, I am afraid that we would have died in Huangquan, the moment when that man swung the knife, I will never forget it in my life......"
Takeda Nobuwa listened silently, because he knew that the man was his grandfather. At that time, the Takeda family was working for the Shenwu Emperor, fighting in all directions, killing and abusing countless people.
There is simply no one in the rivers and lakes who can afford to mess with the Takeda family, just because his family is known as the "No. 1 swordsman family in the country of Walai"
There was a cold wind blowing the fire in the bamboo forest, the sparks were in the air, the full moon was dusk, both of them were silent, the sparks illuminated the surrounding night and looked so lonely, the sparks from the fire disappeared in the evening breeze little by little, and the sky was floating with an endless light rain.
I don't know if the old man was really drunk, or if he really watched, he saw his beloved girl sitting under the tree, as he saw for the first time when he was young, she was still very young, and the old man rubbed his eyes. It's her!
"It's my love!"
Takeda Nobukazu also saw the girl she was sitting under the tree by the lake, and the old man ran over and ran to his beloved. The girl saw the old man and whispered
"You're here..."
"I'm coming!"
The girl was still as beautiful as before, and the girl smiled at the old man and said, "I've been waiting for you for a long time..."
"I've been waiting for you for a long time..."
It was as if at that moment Nobuwa Takeda saw that both of them were as young as they had seen for the first time, so young and so beautiful... The conversation between the two was so brief, but they were extremely eager to see each other.
The girl did not speak but smiled, and the old man knew that she loved him, and at this moment he thought that silence was better than sound. "I know you hate me, to the core. But I love you, and I'm obsessed. ”
Under the moon, under the tree, the girl saw the old man as young as he was then, he hugged her as if he was married, and the old man's voice was not rough but became very soft.
"Tonight, the bright moon will never sink in the west. Only this sweet dream, no longer wakes up. From now on, life after generation. Look good and swear for you. ”
The girl smiled in his arms and said nothing, so that he was enough, and Takeda Nobuwa sighed when he saw this: "Yiren has red makeup under the tree, I don't know who the Yiren is hurting?"
The girl whispered softly in the old man's arms: "Live well......"
The cold moon in the North Lake, looming, on the boat alone, looking at the Lanlou in the distance, the heart is boundless, how can I turn back to the waning moon in the water.
"She's gone. ”
"yes~ I know, but I just want to see her more, and"
"I know. ”
"You say... Will she come back next year?"
"Yes, because she loves you very much!" Takeda Nobukazu said again, "You love her too, and you will come too, so please live well!"
"The rain stopped. ”
"yes! The rain has stopped..."
"It's time for me to go, too. ”