Chapter 102: I Am Not a Lamb
Patches of green mottled hills, under the illumination of the winter sun, are warm.
The white lamb, which could not eat the grass stalks, raised its head and bleated, and handed a handful of grass that had been collected for a long time to its mouth, and the hand holding the blade of grass shone like glazed white porcelain.
Even though the half-worn men's clothes worn by Zhou Manyun were inconspicuous, Xiao Hong seemed to see the pictures he had redrawn in his dreams in a trance.
Everyone's growth carries with them unavoidable regrets, so people live for a lifetime, and all they want is to reunite the unfulfillment in life, even if they pay the price of blood, they will no longer hesitate to do so.
Xiao Hong suddenly remembered the emotion of his father Xiao Rui back then, and his hand couldn't help touching the empty waist, and then put it down. This time, he followed the Zhou family brothers and sisters to Zeting, and he didn't bring the sword he carried, which made him very uncomfortable.
Zhou Manyun's hand was placed on the top of the lamb's head, and he gently touched it again and again, and the sheep enjoyed it very much, not hiding or avoiding, and his mouth was full of green when he kept chewing.
From being taken to a waterhole where a stove was burning, and then being led out of the two boys by the sheep brothers and wandering through the mountains, the little white sheep was afraid, but soon relaxed under the quiet and silent warm sun. The young man who fed the grass next to him was too attentive, and the grass was delicious, and the sheep who relaxed their vigilance ate happily, and even the sheep rope was thrown on the ground, and they didn't think about moving half a step.
Kneeling sheep figure? Man Yun glanced at Xiao Hong, who was standing not far away, curled the corners of his mouth, smiled lightly, and turned to the little lamb's eyes suddenly darkened.
"Do you think it's interesting to me all the time?" , Zhou Manyun seemed to ask the lamb in front of him, and his sweet voice gently broke the silence. Leave from the stele of "no return". She originally just wanted to walk alone, but she went down to Biluo Lake and took a sheep that looked pleasing to the eye, and she was also happy. Of course, this refers to ignoring the fact that there is a hanging boot ghost behind him.
"You can't be left alone in the mountains." , Xiao Hong's response was a little helpless.
"Just worried about my safety?". Zhou Manyun tilted his head, looked at Xiao Hong seriously and asked, "Didn't you want to find an opportunity to explain your deed of sale?" β
Xiao Hong asked with some surprise, "You know?" β
"If it refers to you writing a letter home back to Yunzhou, I know! If it's about you marrying me, I know that. With a desolate sigh, Man Yun said clearly word by word: "It's just that I think it's very naΓ―ve and tiresome for you to do this." β
is not as high as Gao Wei, and now there is a Xue Suyun who is made in heaven with him, in this life. Man Yun thought about matching the two, so that Gao Wei didn't have to see the difference and moved directly. The women who belong to Xiao Hong, who are famous in the top ranks, are now in Jiangbei, and according to his stubborn nature known in his previous life, some things must be explained clearly when they are not bad.
"Do you want to marry, is it weishenme? Do you like me? β
The girl's question was like a flame burning Xiao Hong's ears, but a pair of eyes were staring at her like a frozen cold pool. For example, if he utters a word against his will, he will sink to the bottom of the water and be buried in it forever.
A pair of hands clenched into fists at his sides, knuckles white. Xiao Hong pursed his dry lips. Looking back firmly, he said, "Now, I don't like it." But I think I can take care of you......"
Sure enough! Hearing the expected answer, Man Yun sat down on the grass. His hand gently stroked the lamb's neck and said with a smile: "You don't need it! β
"Have you ever thought about it. Because of sympathy, pity and pity marry me, but if one day you meet the woman you love. What will you do to me when you can't give her a name? Gao Wei in his previous life was like this, he married a wife according to the will of the second uncle, but his heart was given to Xue Sujun, so he couldn't see the painful struggle of his wife in the back house, so the abandonment at the moment of life and death would be so crisp.
"Have you ever thought that if one day you feel tired of the responsibilities you have shouldered, a woman who does not please your family will not only not help you, but will become a stain on your full life, making you gradually bored, and then you will die quickly, so that she will no longer interfere with you and drag you down......"
This is talking about Xiao Hong himself. In the eight years of his previous life, he had pampered Man Yun in the palm of his hand, making her sincerely afraid that she didn't know how to reciprocate, but when she wanted to give birth to children for him, she was in love and spoiled, and what Zuihou was waiting for was the half-dry ink word "death".
"I won't!" , Xiao Hong lowered his eyes and only replied with three words.
Zhou Manyun in front of him had a strange sense of desolation, especially looking at his appearance, it was more like a witch who directly predicted the future. He was sure that he would not be as consistent as Zhou Manyun feared, and if there was a promise, he would definitely do it.
Zhou Manyun chuckled, and his smiling face was like a flower blooming in Ling Han. She was very disdainful of the boy's words.
"That's because you haven't experienced it yet. Xiao Hong, I don't gamble on my future, I won't accept anyone's sympathy, pity and care with peace of mind, because I don't want others to become my dependence, make me paralyzed and sinking, and then I don't even know how to die......"
The young and beautiful girl's voice was still floating in the wind, and a bloody arrow flew up.
"Zhou Manyun!" , Xiao Hong took a step forward, stopped his steps, and stared at the hands that were pressing a sheep's head to the ground. The hand was still like jade, but it was dripping with hot blood.
The sheep, who were still grazing just now, had no time to scream when their throats crossed a cold dagger. Man Yun, who had been kindly feeding it, suddenly burst out and inserted the mist into the throat of the sheep, killing it with a single sword.
The blood kept flowing, and Man Yun waited for the sheep's body to stop twitching before he gradually let go of his hand and stood up. Under the entire robe, a piece of dyed red, and along the xiangshang, there are colorful blood spots one after another.
Zhou Manyun rubbed his two bloody hands against his body disapprovingly, and said softly: "Xiao Hong, my father's death should be as defenseless as this sheep, right?" β
Man Yun's sudden move was too shocking, and after listening to her questioning about the past, Xiao Hong closed his eyes in pain and nodded lightly.
Zhou Manyun said lightly: "But I can protect myself, I don't need your cheap sympathy and pity, and I don't need you to go through marriage." I'm here to make up for your unfulfilled demons. β
"I am not a lamb to be slaughtered!" , a pair of bloody hands that have not been wiped out are very simply wiped on Xiao Hong's clean and tidy clothes. Man Yun smiled and retreated to the dead sheep, crouching down and pumping the haze.
"Sixth sister! Sister Yun! Sister Yun'er ......"
A few anxious cries ran towards the hill with scattered steps. Under the guidance of the servants by the pool. I heard that Sister Yun went to herd sheep, and several teenagers followed the trail and found it.
Man Yun put away his dagger and slowly stood up.
"Yun'er!" , Xu Yu rushed to the front, grabbed Man Yun and looked up and down carefully, immediately turned his head and glared at Xiao Hong with his eyes full of fire, and said, "...... you are this person?"
"Senior brother, I'm fine! Just killed a sheep. Zhou Manyun dragged Xu Yu's arm and explained in a soft voice. She didn't mind Xu Yu beating Xiao Hong. But I'm afraid that if I really do it, Xu Yu will suffer. She made it clear to Xiao Hong about the warning, and she didn't want to make any extraneous trouble.
"This sheep...... Did you kill it? Gao Wei, who had just run over and was breathless, covered his lips in surprise.
Gao Wei's face in front of him turned pale, and he didn't know if he was tired of running or choked on the blood. Man Yun raised his eyebrows proudly and said with a smile: "I killed it." Will you eat the sheep, but will I not kill them? β
"The girl's family does this after all...... After all, ......", Gao Wei Ne, I don't know how to evaluate it. Man Yun, who was covered in blood, looked like he was talking and laughing calmly. Suddenly, his heart was choked.
Man Yun ignored it, and under Xu Yu's low voice, he turned around and walked towards Biluotan.
Gao Wei hurriedly followed the steps of the brother and sister. pressed down on the residual palpitations and dissatisfaction, and carefully prompted: "Don't let Sister Yun show those girls like this." Let the maid who came with her help her change her clothes......"
"Let's go back!" , Zhou Chen, who fell on Zuihou, kicked Xiao Hong angrily. Glancing at him as if he was going to eat someone.
Xiao Hong, who was squatting beside the dead sheep, smiled miserably and responded: "I'll pick up the sheep here first, and then drag it back." β
The lonely hill was no longer silent, and in the fading bloody atmosphere, there was no warmth and comfort before.
Neatly peel off the sheepskin, hang the sheep's heart and sheep's liver on the tree as usual and give it to the carnivorous birds and finches in the mountains and forests, and divide the mutton into several pieces and tie it with a straw rope to carry it...... Xiao Hong mechanically carried out the movements of his hands, and felt a wave of sourness rushing to his nose.
The knife edge I saw just now is ruthless and neat. Zhou Manyun, who has a pair of blood, is not the gentle girl who has been reviewing Zhou Zhe's paintings countless times, and her thoughts of letting her mother teach her in the future and make her gradually become peaceful and demure are pure dreams......
Xiao Hong, who thought about it clearly, exerted all his strength on the hillside and shouted angrily, and only when the tense body was relaxed did he fly down the mountain with a few pieces of meat.
Zhou Manyun, who came back from nowhere, changed his clothes, although it was still men's clothes of the same color and style, but it was obviously two or three percent newer than the previous one, and it was also fatter. Xue Sujun's eyes quickly moved away from Man Yun who was sitting in the corner, smiled at Man Yin, who seemed to be looking at him, and continued to laugh and tell jokes to Man Jing beside him.
Zhou Manyin lowered her head, she understood that unlike the other sisters, the girl surnamed Xue also saw that Man Yun had changed her clothes.
"How? I was addicted to killing sheep, but now I am so disgusted that I can't eat a piece of mutton? I look at you, you just don't have a long brain, you don't have a heart......", Xu Yu, who left all the brothers, sat next to Man Yun and watched her in prison, her mouth kept breaking, looking like a kind old lady.
A black shadow around him enveloped the brother and sister, Xu Yu glared dissatisfiedly, seeing that it was Xiao Hong, and snorted resentfully at the tip of his nose. Although Man Yun didn't talk about it, he instinctively felt that it must be the culprit who instigated Man Yun to kill the sheep.
"Zhou Manyun!" , Xiao Hong lowered his head and said to Man Yun very solemnly: "Actually, there is another way to kill sheep that is better." β
"Get out of here!" , Xu Yu stood up and rolled up his sleeves. He deeply regretted that he had brought this person in the first place, and he had thought that Xiao Hong had instigated him, but he really came again.
Zhou Manyun's eyes dimmed, he pulled Xu Yu's sleeve with a smile, raised his face and said, "Let's listen to it!" βγ
"The next time you kill a sheep, try to pierce it through the chest, through the diaphragm of the chest, and break the large blood vessels in the spine...... That way, the blood won't be spilled. Xiao Hong explained clearly word by word softly.
"xiexie!", Zhou Manyun nodded in thanks, and his eyes were locked with some indescribable mist. After many years of companionship in her previous life, even if Zuihou was a tragic bloody ending, she could still read some emotions in a flash.
"Please cherish it!" When the words fell, Xiao Hong arched his hand towards Man Yun and Xu Yu, and the receding Xuanxi figure immediately jumped into the mountains and forests without looking back. (To be continued......)