Chapter 14: The Flowers and Smoke Are Exhausted (1)

After the new rain, a seven-colored exercise came through the empty forest, and a beautiful bow was tied over the valley. The bamboo branches of the pen www.biquge.info are full of dewdrops, and occasionally a bird jumps on them, and the dew falls into the soil like a ripe fruit on the branch, and then disappears, and the short life is like a flash in the pan.

In the kitchen, the three girls were busy scooping glutinous rice, washing dumpling leaves, and taking dates. Chu Yunxi and Lin Yueyuan, one sitting uprightly by the side of the vegetable table, carefully cutting cotton threads; A man standing diagonally with a kitchen knife in his hand hurriedly cutting ham. Chu Yunxi neatly arranged the cut cotton threads one by one on the side of the vegetable table, and the white cotton threads hung down like bright tassels on a girl's hairpin.

Lin Yueyuan first cut the ham slices into different thicknesses and twists, but then gradually explored the skills, the more the knife was used, the smoother it was, and the better it was. She couldn't hold back the joy in her heart, put the knife on the vegetable table, pulled Lu Yan and asked repeatedly, "How do you see me cutting?" ”

Lu Yan glanced back and hurriedly glanced at it, and said with a smile: "I said that Miss Lin is smart, she will cut it so well this time, and you can go to the hall and get the kitchen in the morning." ”

Lin Yueyuan laughed happily at the flattery of Lu Yan's kind words. Biyin glanced at her, and the cool words in her mouth hit unceremoniously: "It's embarrassing to laugh like this, shame." I doubt that the food you cook will be eaten. ”

Lin Yueyuan instantly counterattacked: "I often cook for my brother at home, and I have no eyes. ”

Chu Yunxi interjected: "Then our birthday banquet will be handed over to you." ”

Lin Yueyuan walked to the edge of the pool and scooped a handful of water with his hand, splashed it on Chu Yunxi, and said angrily, "Who are you with?" ”

Chu Yunxi's body swirled lightly, flashed to the side, the corners of his skirt staggered, and said with a smile: "I mean the leftovers from the birthday banquet will be handed over to you." She also deliberately read the words "leftovers" heavily.

Lin Yueyuan picked up the kitchen knife and danced wildly in the kitchen, with a hideous expression: "Okay, see if I don't chop them into meat sauce and divide the corpses, ahaha." ”

Lin Yueyuan was crazy to get up, and was hit by a pot of fresh pork, and when she looked at it, Bi Yin stood in front of her and said seriously: Then please chop this pot of pork into meat sauce first, thank you. After speaking, he didn't raise his head, and walked away with his head held high.

Lin Yueyuan raised her eyebrows, "Huh", and yelled: "Who is Miss?!" ”

Biyin pretended not to hear it and left as if nothing happened.

Lu Yan took the washed zongzi leaves to the vegetable table, and Qing Chun brought the glutinous rice to the panning, and the two worked together, one rolled the zongzi leaves, one added rice and put dates into it, and then one person pulled the thread, one person tied the rope, and the two people cooperated seamlessly.

Lin Yueyuan's eyes widened as she watched the movements of the two of them, and said enviously: "I know who the birthday banquet should be handed over, aren't these two ready-made chefs?" ”

Lu Yan wrapped a zongzi with her hands and feet, put it in an empty basin, and when she heard this, she shook her head and smiled: "Say it, laugh and laugh, this birthday banquet must be done." This is the fifteenth birthday of the two young ladies, and it is very significant. The woman is fifteen years old and Xu, this is a big deal, no jokes, I still think it is really not good, so I will go to a nearby restaurant to book a banquet, let's eat out the same. ”

Lin Yueyuan pulled Chu Yunxi and whispered, "Look, it's really a loser." ”

Chu Yunxi pushed Lin Yueyuan, Lin Yueyuan hugged his chest with both hands and snorted.

Speaking of this birthday banquet, it was really a coincidence, Lu Yan originally thought that Chu Yunxi would be fifteenth birthday this year, and it would be enough to put a big one for her. After asking, I learned that this Second Miss Lin is also fifteen years old this year, and the most interesting thing is that the two were actually born on the same day and month of the same year, but Lin Yueyuan was born in the afternoon, and Chu Yunxi was born in the evening.

With a snort, a person approached with a gasp, Lin Yueyuan was startled, and Biyin came in with a big food basket in her hand, and shouted tiredly and breathlessly: "Don't come and help yet." ”

Chu Yunxi and Lin Yueyuan worked together to put the food basket on the board, and Lin Yueyuan hurriedly opened the lid, which contained mixed bean paste, lotus paste, red beans, chestnuts and various colors of nut preserves. Lin Yueyuan smiled and picked up a piece of bayberry and smacked her lips and said: "I know that your young lady is hard, and she specially sent something to satisfy our hunger, okay, the performance is good, and it is worthy of praise." ”

Biyin went up and slapped off the bayberry that Lin Yueyuan was about to put into his mouth, put it back on the plate of the food basket, and scolded: "Who told you to mess around, this is the stuffing used to wrap zongzi." ”

Lin Yueyuan still kept her mouth half open, looked at her with her arms hanging open, laughed dryly, and muttered, "Be careful." ”

Biyin raised her head violently, her eyes widened, and she said sharply: "What did you say?!" ”

Lin Yueyuan was shocked by her words, and put on an arrogant posture of "not knowing as much as you" and said: "It's nothing, less nonsense, make zongzi." As soon as she rolled up her sleeves, she did what she said, unequivocally. Chu Yunxi, who was watching the excitement on the side, also joined the army of making zongzi at this time. It didn't take long for the fragrance of zongzi to spread to every corner of the manor.

When the pot was opened, the white water vapor soared into the sky, and Lu Yan first fished out a few steaming rice dumplings to satisfy everyone's hunger. Biyin rushed to push away everyone, reached out to grab it, and screamed at the hot zongzi. This time it was Lin Yueyuan's turn to say cold words, she spoke sarcastically and thornily, and her angry Biyin jumped straight to her feet, making a gesture to fight, Lin Yueyuan shrank behind Lu Yan, stretched out her head and stretched out her brain, and the sun was shining with laughter, and for a while there were chickens and dogs jumping in the kitchen, so it was not lively.

Chu Yunxi smiled and watched the two of them mess around. Qing Chun silently peeled a zongzi, put it on a porcelain plate, sprinkled layers of fine sugar on it, and pulled a pair of bamboo chopsticks from the chopstick cage, washed it with water, put it on the edge of the plate, and brought it to Chu Yunxi.

Chu Yunxi exclaimed in surprise: "Thank you." Picked up the chopsticks, clamped the corner of the zongzi, did not send it to his mouth but stretched out to the lips of the green ulva, the green ulva chuckled, the small mouth opened slightly, and the soft and sticky zongzi went down. After watching the green ulva swallow it with satisfaction, Chu Yunxi took a small bite and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and said, "Ah, it's pine nut filling." ”

Lin Yueyuan, who was making a lot of noise, suddenly saw Chu Yunxi and Qing Chun eating fragrantly, and quickly rushed to Chu Yunxi, opened his mouth wide, and shouted, "I want to eat too." "It looked like a coquettish child asking her mother for candy. Chu Yunxi pursed his lips and smiled, and fed a large mouthful to Lin Yueyuan, who chewed slowly and methodically, and praised loudly while chewing: "Good, it's delicious." provoked Biyin's saliva to water, and couldn't help shouting: "And me." Lu Yan laughed and picked up the zongzi leaves left by Qingchun peeling the zongzi, and stuffed it into Biyin's mouth, who was staring at the zongzi in Qingwu's hand in a daze, and said with a smile: "Good, I'll feed you." ”

Lin Yueyuan saw that Biyin's mouth was stuffed with dumpling leaves, and she burst into laughter, and the glutinous rice grains in her mouth were scattered and splashed everywhere. Chu Yunxi hurriedly pulled Qing Chun out and muttered, "I won't cook with them next time I kill them." Qing Chun clenched Chu Yunxi's hand and smiled silently.

Before dinner, Chu Yunxi specially picked a few zongzi that had been steamed for a slightly longer time and had a softer taste to be sent to Bai Qiao. The buckwheat only tasted it casually a few times, and then stopped. She ordered Chu Yunxi to accompany her to recite a section of the Guanyin Sutra, and then lit a few pillars of incense, and worshiped the Guanyin statue twice religiously. Chu Yunxi helped Bai Qiao get up, took the incense in Bai Qiao's hand, and inserted it into the lotus three-legged incense burner on the incense case. Chu Yunxi sat down with Bai Qiao, Bai Qiao casually asked about some daily trivial matters, and Chu Yunxi answered respectfully. Bai Qiao paused abruptly as she spoke, looked at the zongzi on the table and was slightly stunned, meditated for a while before continuing: "Ming'er will also send a few zongzi to your eldest brother, your eldest brother is not in good health, you have to care more about him." When it came to Yang Miao, Chu Yunxi felt a pang in her heart, all kinds of forbearance and pain were like a knife to her heart and lungs, she usually forced a smile in front of others, but now in the face of her own mother, she couldn't hide her grief, and her grief turned into silence. She silently wrapped her arms around her mother's waist and threw herself into her mother's arms, she absorbed the warmth of her mother's arms, as if she was a small wave in the arms of the sea, as long as she had her mother's gentle arms, she had the courage to overcome thorns and thorns against the scorching sun and wind. She closed her eyes and recalled the beautiful scene when she was a child by her parents' side, and couldn't help but reveal the posture of a child, and responded in a coquettish voice: "Okay." ”

At dinner, Chu Yunxi said that it was the Dragon Boat Festival soon, and he was going to send some zongzi and home-brewed wine to his eldest brother. Lin Yueyuan naturally wanted to go with her, and Biyin volunteered to go too, she usually had a rare trip out of the valley, and she was about to get sick. Chu Yunxi thought about it for a while, after all, Biyin didn't know martial arts, and it would take two or three days to walk from here to Yang Miao's residence, so he didn't agree for the sake of safety. Biyinqi's little mouth flattened, and she almost didn't cry. Chu Yunxi persuaded him with good words, Lin Yueyuan coaxed and deceived him, and in the end, the two won at the painful price of agreeing to buy a lot of candied snacks for Biyin. Lin Yueyuan was obsessed with this all night, and kept muttering, "It's a big loss, it's a big loss." ”

Early in the morning, a few girls got up early to help clean up things, Lu Yan put the zongzi and two bottles of wine in the food basket, which was held by Lin Yueyuan, and Chu Yunxi and Qing Chun packed a few changes of clothes together, Chu Yunxi and Lin Yueyuan discussed, and accompanied Yang Miao during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Since Yang Miao escaped death and picked up a life from the Ghost Gate, the whole person is as if he really died once, the king of Hades dislikes his broken body, and the impermanence of black and white has taken away his chic and heroic demeanor. Now he is accompanied by wine all day long, borrowing wine to eliminate his sorrows, decadent like Mount Tai will collapse, depressed like a building will fall. One of his right legs was crippled, which was not fatal, and it was the vain death of his wife Liu Yingwei that drained his soul. The reason why he lived secretly was because death was just a form for him to come, a show for others to see, and he disdained to win the sympathy of everyone with death, nor did he want to use death to express his deep affection for his wife. He wants to use his dead soul to pay tribute to his beloved wife, and use his living body to comfort his relatives, and if he lives, the flame of hope in the hearts of his relatives will continue to burn and live endlessly.

The kind-hearted Chu Yunxi really wants to solve problems for her eldest brother, she often finds various reasons to visit Yang Miao, chat with him, talk with him, and even drink with him. Chu Yunxi was sad to find that Yang Miao, who used to love to talk and laugh, and was informal, became silent, often not saying a word for half a day, looking at her in a daze with blank eyes, as if he didn't know her. Sad and angry, she had to hold the wine glass in her hand and keep pouring wine to herself, the wine was bitter in her stomach, she was always reluctant to see her father's figure in the drunken haze, and heard her father's voice, so the nightmare came like a night to devour everything, including her heart. She began to hate him a little, and the vicious thoughts invaded her brain like a tumor, and took away an excuse to escape from her father, maybe one day she would meet her father again, and when she thought of this, a red would appear in front of her eyes, red, what did red represent, a warm red light or dripping blood. I don't know, drinking alcohol, alcohol can paralyze the nerves, dull the mind, and seal the ephemeral memories, but she prefers to let the memories disappear forever.

Before going out, Qing Chun stopped Chu Yunxi and handed her a brown and yellow robe that had just been closed, Chu Yunxi shook off the robe in his hand and looked up and down, it was Yang Miao's body size. The clothes are made by Luo Chun and Qing Chun, the two of them are always like this, silently caring for others, they never show their enthusiasm, they are used to quietly sowing the seeds of love. Chu Yunxi thanked them for Yang Miao. Lin Yueyuan shouted at the door, "Let's go." Chu Yunxi hurriedly took the hat in Luo Chun's hand and rushed over, the thread of the hat strap was loose, and she didn't pay attention to it in a panic.

Out of the valley, all the way to the east, first have to pass through a bamboo forest, the bamboo forest is a hundred miles in radius, the fastest to walk for a day and a night, Chu Yunxi and they dare not delay, walk quickly.

The two of them carried burdens on their backs, carried food baskets, walked on their feet alone, without mounts, and walked for a day, and they were really tired. It was getting late, and Lin Yueyuan proposed to spend the night in the bamboo forest and set off tomorrow morning. Chu Yunxi saw that there was no one around, so he randomly found a vacant space with sparse bamboo, laid a blue cloth, and the two sat on the ground, hugging their knees and looking up, but seeing that the sky was dark blue and dark, the stars were in the sky, and occasionally there was a breeze blowing on his face, sending a burst of bamboo incense, and suddenly felt open-minded and refreshed, Lin Yueyuan was happy, and couldn't help but sing, singing: "Zhao Keman Hu Ying, Wu Hook Frost and Snow Ming." The silver saddle shines on the white horse, like a shooting star. Kill one person in ten steps, and don't stay for a thousand miles. Brushing off the clothes and going away, hiding deep with the name. Idle over the letter tomb drink, take off the sword and kneel forward. will scorch Zhu Hai and persuade Hou Huan. Three cups of Turannuo, Wuyue is light. Before Lin Yueyuan finished singing Chu Yunxi, he stroked his palms and smiled: "Li Bai's "Chivalrous Journey", this poem reads passionately and heroic, chivalrous, but it is rare to be favored by women in the boudoir. And Qing loves this poem alone, which shows that Qing Zhi is comparable to a man. ”

Lin Yueyuan disdained Chu Yunxi's praise, and said with a straight chest: "What about men, although I am a daughter, I can also save the day and make contributions, I liked to read the historical record "The Biography of the Rangers" the most when I was a child, and the ones I admired the most were the red line, the red breeze girl and Nie Yinniang. My greatest wish in this body is to become a chivalrous and courageous generation of heroines. ”

Chu Yunxi straightened his color, and said with admiration on his face: "Yes, I am ashamed of your mind, I am afraid that it is difficult to find a second among women in the world, if you can only compare with you, only Mulan and Hongyu." ”

Lin Yueyuan smiled and said, "You can praise people, you are not bad." ”

Chu Yunxi clasped his hands into fists and said humbly: "I'm still far behind Lady Lin." After saying that, he coughed twice, and then Lin Yueyuan sang where he had just stopped: "After the eyes are dazzled and the ears are hot, the spirit is full of energy." Save Zhao with a golden hammer, Handan was shocked first. Two strong men in Qianqiu, Xuanhe Liang City. The bones of the arson are fragrant, and he is not ashamed of the world. Who can write Your Excellency, the white head is too mystical. The two of them sang the same poem, the poetic melody is the same but the charm is very different, Lin Yueyuan's voice is loud and broad, it sounds surging and agitated, and it has a sense of reverberation, directly expressing her admiration for the pride of chivalry; Chu Yunxi's voice is clear and soft, and the aftermath is faint, wisps, moving, she sings the ambition of the knights for the country and the people, and sees death as home, and the emotion and tragedy are magnificent, like the cuckoo crying blood, and the white ape wailing, there is a bit of desolation, which makes Lin Yueyuan feel a little sentimental for no reason.

After Chu Yunxi finished singing, his eyes were moist, tears were dripping, and he was sad and unbearable. Lin Yueyuan even blamed himself for not being good, he had nothing to sing any poems, Chu Yunxi choked up and said: "I don't blame you, singing and reading this poem in this situation makes me think of my eldest brother." ”

Lin Yueyuan was silent, and the pride of the right talent was thrown out of the clouds, and she, who had always been happy and knew her fate, also sighed.

Lin Yueyuan suddenly felt a heat in her palms, and then saw that Chu Yunxi had put away her sentimental appearance and became sharp and alert, she held Lin Yueyuan's hand, looked around, leaned over to Lin Yueyuan's side and whispered: "I seem to hear the sound of horses' hooves." Lin Yueyuan was calm as usual, his body did not move, he paid attention, listened carefully, and sure enough, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves on the west side of the bamboo forest, and it became clearer and clearer, listening to the sound It seemed that the horse was driving towards this place, the two looked at each other, and jumped up from the ground.