Chapter Seventy-Three: Shutter Island
Tomorrow I will go out for a meeting, a dialogue on the development of online literature, and an invitation from the Provincial Writers Association. This year, because of pregnancy, many activities reluctantly gave up participating, fortunately, this only takes one day, but the next day I plan to take Nanjing, because it's time to do regular checkups again, so there may not be updates in these two days, rub your hands, have nothing to do to see Uniqlo, no, there is also a pop.
Finally, I have to finish the ticket and ask for leave hehehehe.
In the end, there is a monthly pass, anyway, I have to have so many tickets, by the way.
Is there any vote for the Weibo online literature rankings?,There's a link on my Weibo homepage.。
Roll around and shout first, is there still a vote for the head. Xiaoxiang computer home page speaker or the head of the seam votes.
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Even if you avoid the world and hide on this isolated island to heal, trouble will still come sooner or later.
She had a bad premonition.
Jing Hengbo had a strong curiosity in his heart, there were many doubts in this place like a leprosy hospital. A person who behaves mysteriously like a patient, a simple but richly decorated courtyard, a group of strange patients who claim to be noble but even want to grab food, and the strange temperament of Qiu Jinfeng, and the location between the falling clouds and floating water where the island in the middle of the lake is located, the confinement and mystery of this island......
This furniture, like the clothes of the "county lord, prince, concubine, and general" she found, was a luxury beyond the reality of this place.
She put down the bowl and spun around. The room is very small, with only one bed, one cabinet and one table. But if you look closely, you can see that something is wrong, the three kinds of furniture, all of which are precious wood, fine workmanship, decorated with flowers and birds, and you can see at a glance that they are not ordinary products from the people's homes.
As she drank the medicine, the sunlight cast on the table, a piece of golden butter shiny, and she was stunned, and recognized that it was a fine rosewood.
Jing Hengbo took the medicinal soup and drank it, and didn't ask Qiu Jinfeng if it was inappropriate to prescribe medicine without cutting her pulse. That guy has clairvoyant eyes, and it's the same whether he cuts it or not. It's just that after drinking the medicine, the bottom of the bowl can see half a centipede's oily black shell, she was nauseous, almost spit it out, and strangled her throat to hold back, knowing in her heart that eighty percent is Qiu Jinfeng's evil wholeness, this thing is really small.
After a while, the "Dingcheng County Lord" knocked on her door, put a bowl of medicinal soup on her table, and left in a hurry, not daring to stay, the bag just beaten out on her head was still there.
She was stunned at the door of the toilet for a long time, and then sighed helplessly, went back lazily, and went to bed stupidly. Sure enough, after a while, Yeluqi airdropped a bamboo tube rice, in which the fresh fish and shrimp were mixed with fragrant rice, the fish meat was actually picked off the thorns, indescribably fat and sweet, she held the hot bamboo tube rice, but felt choked in her throat, and couldn't eat it.
But she felt that she couldn't afford it, and she was ashamed to accept it.
There is a kind of affection that is as deep as a mountain and can be relied on; Delicate as water, always surrounded.
He didn't sleep all night last night, did he?
It's just that she didn't expect that he would even do this kind of work of cleaning the women's toilet.
It is impossible for the toilet to be so clean, and it is impossible for this group of marquis princes and concubines to clean it, only Yeluqi.
Half a bucket of water reflected her slightly haggard face, and she stroked her cheek and smiled bitterly.
Jing Hengbo was stunned for a long time, leaning softly against the wall.
The latrine is still rudimentary, there is only one squatting pit, but it is clean, the cover of the feet is new, the soil has been turned over again, and the wall is lined with a layer of log planks.
She had a low-grade fever and was weak, so she splashed and sprinkled half a bucket of water to the door of the simple latrine, ready to face a dirty and disgusting latrine, but when she pushed open the half of the wooden door, she couldn't help but be stunned.
Looking at the tightly closed door over there, she sighed, washed her face hastily with the well water, found a bucket, carried water, and prepared to clean the toilet.
He came suddenly and went strangely, Jing Hengbo didn't even have a chance to ask what was going on, he only felt that the guy's eyes were not good, but he couldn't figure it out.
Immediately, the black-clothed young man opened his eyes, his face was like frost, he sneered twice, glanced at the bamboo building again, turned around and left.
Jing Hengbo thought that he had an opinion on the bamboo building, which was too high and could overlook most of the courtyard, and was about to explain a few sentences, when he suddenly saw the young man in black closing his eyes and his nose twitching, as if he was smelling the medicine.
Jing Hengbo went to find water to freshen up, and suddenly the door of the main house opened again, and the black-clothed young man walked straight out, Jing Hengbo thought he was going to talk to him, and was thinking about whether to smile, the young man had already brushed her side without squinting, until he walked to the wall of her house, and looked up at the bamboo building.
He's not here now, probably because his breakfast has been ruined and he's gone back to foraging.
Jing Hengbo was stunned for a while at the bamboo building, and shook his head with a smile, where is Yelu Qi a warm man, it is simply Ultraman, and even the bamboo building has been built overnight.
Then she turned around and looked up, there was no Yeluqi's face on the skylight, she walked out of the house, and saw that outside the courtyard wall of the house near her, I don't know when a bamboo building had been built, the bamboo building was very high, high enough to overlook her house, the bamboo building was very simple, but it was exquisitely green, and the only window was open on her side. A medicinal fragrance came out of the bamboo building, the smell was very familiar to her, it was what Yelu Qi had been eating recently, the prescription prescribed by Si Rong Ming, the medicine to control toxicity.
Jing Hengbo was bored, but insisted on laughing half of the smile, not everyone in this world will respond to your kindness, but a good mood is your own.
Jing Hengbo smiled at him, intuition that this was the person who needed to be treated carefully, but the smile was only halfway unfolded, and the black-clothed young man Huo Ran turned around and closed the door with a "squeak".
His problems don't seem to be as serious as others, except that he is very pale, and he has lost a lot of eyebrows, and the whole person looks very special and handsome.
Unlike the group of unobtrusive "aristocrats", this one really looks like a nobleman. He was dressed in a black coarse cloth robe, but his eyes looked like a king in the world. He lived in a room in the center of the compound, and his room was noticeably cleaner than the others.
It's an anomaly, she said to herself.
"Yes, yes, you're new, you're the queen!" The marquis, concubines, and generals ran away wildly, Jing Heng Boge smiled, and was about to close the door, when he suddenly saw the black-clothed young man, standing under the corridor not far away, looking at him coldly.
In the sound of a large group of people hugging their heads and screaming, Jing Hengbo's voice was clear, "According to your sister's qualifications!" Row your eggs! Whoever has the biggest fist sets the rules! I'm late, you have to take care of the newcomers! I am the Queen, and you have to honor Your Majesty! You will serve me from now on! ”
"Really?" Jing Hengbo bent his lips and smiled, the group outside was stunned, Jing Hengbo suddenly waved his hand, crackled, and a large pile of stones smashed down on the face of the group of "nobles".
"Because you're the lowest." The group of people outside who raised their heads and lifted their skirts, brushed the corners of their robes, and some people took out small broken mirrors, looked at their faces full of dandruff, and brushed a wisp of thick bangs with grease to the back of their heads, "Here you are ranked according to seniority, you have the lowest status, and you will come at the latest, everyone will discuss and decide, and you will serve us in the future!" ”
"Why should I serve the?" Jing Hengbo asked.
"The are talking about you!" The outside replied in unison.
She stood up, "Who are the talking about?" ”
Jing Hengbo raised her head, the crystal rice on the wall was mixed with disgusting yellow mud, and the chicken was buried in the charcoal ash of the black Wuwu, she raised her eyebrows, thinking that this was Yelu Qi's hard morning's food, and now it was all ruined by this group of hellish marquis, county lords, concubines, and generals.
Jing Hengbo shrank his head, crackling mud mixed with rice smashed on her window lattice, the group outside was still shouting, the county lord ordered the general, the concubine called the marquis, and the prince called the county king, all asking "Drag this daring and roaring royal out for me and beat him to death!" It's a pity that after shouting for a long time, a pile of mud fell from Jing Hengbo's head, and those generals, princes, and marquis were still fighting to call their subordinates, and no one moved, shouting at the top of their throats. Finally, they said in unison: "The new, come out to serve us!" ”
"Phew! How dare you be so disrespectful to us! ”
The group of ghost-like county lords, generals, Hou Ye and Guifei, widened their eyes, and suddenly raised their hands, and smashed the things in their hands together.
"Yes, yes, Dingcheng County Lord, Auxiliary General, Hou Ye, and Guifei, are you done pretending to be a family? Next time you want to pretend to be a family, can you use grassroots mud? This is my breakfast, thank you. Jing Hengbo held the windowsill with both hands, smiling.
She smiled, and the group immediately stopped grabbing, and Qi Qi turned his head to stare at her, and shouted, "Bah! Where are the grass people, dare to laugh at us and wait! ”
Jing Heng Boge laughed, this group of neurotics pretending to be a family is so fun!
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"This palace is a concubine! This palace is the king, you are the minister, none of them are allowed to eat, all of them are offered to the palace! ”
"The Marquis scores a chicken leg!"
"The general of the auxiliary country has the right to take a bite!"
Several people rushed over, tugging at the trouser legs, pulling the skirts of the skirts, and there was a mess in their mouths.
A big hand suddenly came down from the tree and grabbed her hair, "Ha! Lord Dingcheng, quickly offer the meal to this king! ”
Under the window, several white-robed men and women were grabbing her breakfast, and a woman was jumping around with a bamboo tube of rice, shouting: "Bah! You dare to rob the food of the main palace! ”
Jing Hengbo got out of bed and walked to the window, heh, good guy, a steaming lotus leaf bag, a verdant bamboo tube rice, is now in the hands of others!
Stunned, she sat up, and when she turned her head, the table was leaning against the edge of the bed, now empty and empty. But just now, I clearly smelled the fragrance, and Yeluqi asked her to have breakfast!
But his hand was empty.
She narrowed her eyes and touched the food on the table next to the bed.
When Jing Hengbo opened his eyes, he found that the top of his head was facing the bed, and there was actually a sloping skylight, and half of Yeluqi's face was exposed in the skylight.
The corners of his lips hooked, and he turned his head to look at the scenery in the distance.
However, it was filled, and her life was filled by others, and there was no place for anyone else......
He felt that his heart seemed to be transparent, a complete crystal, and every face only reflected her shadow.
I have always loved her smile, most of the times are charming, and when she is charming, she will feel that the flowers are instantly colored, and the sun is brilliant and gorgeous, which is an almost dazzling and unforgettable beauty, but her soft smile is the most unforgettable for him, a little delicate, a little soft, a little love, the world in such a curved arc, it seems to be suddenly soft and transparent.
Yelu Qi, who was staring at her above, suddenly trembled at the tip of her heart.
This smile is bathed in the golden light of the morning sun, soft, beautiful, the corners of the eyebrows and eyes, full of longing and expectation for happiness, the corners of the lips are slightly upturned, like a happy blooming acacia flower, gorgeous in the transparent golden wind and daylight in the early morning.
I thought it was funny, and I couldn't help but laugh.
Jing Hengbo said "um", his nasal voice was soft, thinking in his heart how good it would be if Gong Yin asked this, and suddenly a Gong Yin wearing an apron and a high hat suddenly appeared in his mind, brandishing a spatula with an expressionless face, putting an omelette that was fried round and rounder than the compass drawn on the plate, shouting, "It's time to eat!" ”
Jing Hengbo immediately said, "It's better to look forward to something." Hearing Ye Luqi sigh with a smile, a ball of feathers floated down and landed on the tip of her nose, tickling, "Get up and have breakfast." ”
"Your statement suddenly made me have some expectations that I don't know if I should have." Above, Yeluqi said thoughtfully.
"It's a ...... like you," Jing Hengbo said lazily, "You can go up to the hall and down to the kitchen, gentle and considerate, meticulous and stable, IKEA and IKEA room, gratifying and hateful, like a warm sunshine, bathed in the whole body of people......"
It seemed that not far overhead, Yeluqi's voice sounded, "What do you mean by a warm man?" ”
She closed her eyes, a smile on the corner of her mouth, and murmured: "Yeluqi, if you go to modern times, you will definitely be a warm man that everyone is fighting for......"
Then she smelled a very refreshing aroma, like fresh and fluffy fish with the aroma of fragrant and crystalline rice, or the astringent aroma of pine needles and the strong aroma of chicken......
The first time she saw a bright room, a ball of golden light shining at the end of the field of vision, as brilliant as a pearl on someone's neckline, she raised her hand to block her eyes, and after a while she remembered that she had slept last night and the door was not closed, and now the sun was shining above the lintel.
Something cracked right next to her ear, and she opened her eyes.
"Smack!"
She exploded with a bang, stepped forward and grabbed the doll and ran, scolding with her ears: "Damn, you crawled out of my belly, you dare to turn your elbow outward......" After scolding for a while, she suddenly remembered an important question, is the doll male or female? Quickly lift that little belly pocket-
In the dream, he stopped talking, and actually looked at her with faint eyes, and saw that her hair stood on end, step by step, and suddenly a flower bloomed between the two, and a little baby crawled out of the flower, and crawled to him without saying a word, babbling and calling Dad.
In the dream, she was so annoyed that she scolded: "Isn't this all what you did before!" Sister is just a report! ”
Running, chasing, fighting and strife, and in the chaos there was a figure in white dangling like a ghost, whispering in her ear: Why didn't you tell me, why did you hide it from me, why did you run away without telling me anything......
I was tired in my dreams.
Dreaming all night.
Thinking like this, she suddenly had no strength at all, tossed for most of the night, still had a low-grade fever, she dragged her steps to find the room, vaguely saw that the bed was very clean, and she didn't care about that much, and fell asleep on the bed.
Then you might as well die!
She touched a few pimples on her forehead, and suddenly she shivered, thinking that if she became like that......
Jing Hengbo touched his face, and he was even more depressed, almost thinking that it was himself who fell off his face full of sores and pus......
It was a group of ghosts who ran, and it was the young and beautiful queen who scared the ghosts......
Jing Hengbo looked at the corners and skirts of these robes, she couldn't move a little, and the curiosity in her heart became stronger and stronger, she pointed to the pearl on the embroidered shoes, and just wanted to talk to the owner of the shoes, but as soon as she raised her head and opened her mouth, the group of "ghosts" who were staring at her silently suddenly ran away with a smoke. For a while, the yard was full of white shadows, and it was really like a group of ghosts running at night.
She even saw a finger-sized pearl on an embroidered shoe at the bottom of a woman's skirt, and if it weren't for the fact that half of the pearl was clean, she would have thought it was a lump of yellow mud.
On a deserted island in the middle of the lake, how could a group of confined patients who seemed to be waiting for death use such fabric?
Even in Jing Hengbo's shop, the clothes made of such fabrics are basically only for high-level VIPs, that is, royal families from all over the world.
The white robes of the group were very long, and they were dragged to the ground at the moment, although they were dirty and shabby, but she, who was very proficient in costumes and makeup, immediately saw that all the clothes were luxurious and exquisite, and the silk brocade with a dark light, the tencel brocade with gorgeous textures, the heavy and heavy feather satin, and the rich and delicate jacquard silk...... Almost all of the fabrics that can only be used by the top nobles of the Great Wilderness, and a considerable part of the Great Wilderness cannot be produced, so they have to be exchanged for gems out of the swamp and surrounding countries, so it is unimaginably expensive.
Jing Hengbo had no choice but to put his eyes on the ground and not look at the faces of those people, so when he looked at the bottom, he suddenly made a new discovery.
If she wants to go to the designated house, she must first pass through a yard of "ghosts" scurrying around, and this scene is really a bit of a test of people's psychological endurance - in the middle of the night, the lonely cliff, the green eyes of the courtyard, the crowd of people like ghosts in the courtyard, the crowd of people like ghosts in the courtyard are flashing green eyes and looking at you without speaking...... There will be an illusion of falling into a group of hungry ghosts being torn apart and eaten raw.
After the black-clothed young man finished explaining, he ignored her and went back to the house with the lamp. Those ghost-like people were still floating in the yard, their bodies seemed to be very light, Jing Hengbo always heard a strange gurgling sound, a little familiar, she looked around, thinking that there was a pond frog chirping nearby, but no.
Jing Hengbo was even more depressed, and he was actually disgusted by a group of people who were like ghosts with rotten sores on their faces!
The expression in his eyes was slightly mocking, and he suddenly said: "Actually, you don't have to be afraid of us, we don't infect people, but we should be afraid of you, you are infected with the epidemic, right?" Looking at this symptom, although it is not serious, it is similar to a black plague that killed 7,000 people in the clouds seven years ago, so you had better stay away from us. ”
Seeing her turn her eyes, the young man in black casually pointed to the easternmost room and said, "There is no one living in that room, you go and live." Three meals a day and medicinal soup were sent by someone, and if Qiu Jinfeng needed it, he would also come to see the doctor. There's a latrine over there, you go and clean it, and then it's all for your own use. Don't disturb us if it's okay, but I don't think you dare to come. ”
No, there was not even care, the door was locked, the atmosphere was like a ghost on all sides, and there was a cold guy in black standing opposite, looking at her expressionlessly.
This is clearly an infectious disease hospice base, right?
Almost immediately, the old family closed the door tightly, listening to the sound of locking one by one, Jing Hengbo felt a little depressed in his heart.
Yelu Qi smiled, took a step back, Jing Hengbo let out a long breath and walked into the door.
The old family thought for a moment and nodded.
"Am I allowed to live wherever I want?" Yeluqi asked the old family.
Looking at this group of people, she always thinks of the neurological hospital or leprosy patients, she herself is infected with the epidemic anyway, and it is okay to smash it in, and it is not good to drag Yeluqi in.
Jing Hengbo also said: "You move in, I'll leave immediately." No one should stay here to be popular. ”
"My son-in-law says yes," said the old man, "if you want to live here, he won't even cure this woman." ”
The former sentence is Yeluqi, and the latter sentence is the old family and Jing Hengbo in unison.
"It's not."
"Yes."
The young man was stunned again, a cold smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he nodded unavoidably, "Cheng." He looked at Yeluqi and said, "He also came?" ”
"Childe's orders." The old family shook their heads.
"She's not sick." The boy said, "You can't stay here. ”
The black-clothed young man nodded and said, "Follow me." Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly paused, and picked up the lamp in front of Jing Hengbo's face, Jing Hengbo raised his hand to block his eyes, and staggered the light fire.
The old family pointed to Jing Hengbo and said, "Live here." ”
The lantern bearer walked up to the old family, and before the old family retreated, he stood still and said, "The newcomer is here?" ”
The ghost-like people in the courtyard all wore white, but he wore black, only one face was white, not as disgusting as others, it was so white that the face was about to be stained by the light, and he couldn't see his facial features clearly.
Suddenly, the light fluttered, went out of the door, and swam for a while, Jing Hengbo saw that it was a young man in black, carrying a lamp, and his steps were steady to meet him.
At second glance, she saw the faces of those people, and when she saw them, she suddenly understood that they were not ghosts, but people. It was a sick person, some people were covered with broken scales, some people had twisted joints, some people had skin shedding, some people had half white faces and half black faces, some people's faces seemed to be gone, only a wriggling mass of reddish knotted flesh was seen, and the dim candlelight in the room spread out a pale yellow background, this scene was like a group of ghosts traveling at night, but those people's noses were spewing pale white gas, so that people could perceive that this was a living person.
At first glance, she thought she had seen a group of ghosts, all of them in empty white robes, all as thin as bamboo poles, with dark green eyes, floating and squatting and hanging under the porch, in the corner of the wall, behind the tree, and beside the stone, staring at people strangely.
But what kind of people are they?
At this time, it was already late at night, and everyone was sleeping peacefully, but at this moment, the courtyard was full of people.
Jing Hengbo glanced at it, stunned on the threshold, and couldn't make a sound.
The door opened.