Chapter 80: Peach Blossom Dock (218/538)
The setting sun hangs on the top of the mountain, and the canyon is dyed a faint golden yellow against the setting sun.
In the kitchen, Xu Buling hung the freshly caught fish in the window, which could be saved for some time in the cold winter, as long as the fish was eaten for ten days, the food problem was solved.
Today I have found a fish nest, tomorrow it is estimated that I can catch a lot of fish, the dry food on my body can only fill my stomach, Xu Buling still took a fish, and took out firewood and a small stool from the kitchen, piled it up near the melon rack in the courtyard dam and lit it, and used a wooden stick to wear the fish to bake on the fire, and then sat in front of him, holding a piece of log, carefully cutting it with a sword, and cutting out a bowl with Xu Buling's martial arts.
The burning bonfire made a soft 'pop' sound, echoing the loom in the house. The aroma of grilled fish quickly wafted away, and the puppy in the house should have smelled it, pulling the wooden door behind the door, making a 'woo~' bark.
As it got dark, the light in the house might have been too dim, and the loom stopped.
After a moment of silence in the main room, the door opened, and the black dog jumped out and ran to the campfire.
Xu Buling thought for a while, and turned his head to look at the main house: "Girl, are you hungry?" I'll catch more fish tomorrow, and the fire is lit, just two more to bake. ”
The little village girl stood inside the door, looked at it a few times, and then walked out slowly:
"I'll bake it myself, and I'll eat one with it."
As he spoke, he walked into the kitchen, took down a fish, dressed it with a stick, walked to the opposite side of the fire, and held the stick in both hands to grill it seriously.
Xu Buling cut the wood, looked up, and felt that it was a little strange to stand so stupidly, so he dragged the chaise longue under the melon rack over:
"Sit and roast."
The little village girl didn't refuse, walked to the chaise longue, turned the chaise longue half a circle, turned the back of the chair to Xu Buling, and then lay on it, stretched out a wooden stick to grill the fish, and swayed quite leisurely.
Xu Buling shook his head and smiled when he saw this. He has always been very accurate in seeing people, and there are traces of people's behaviors and thoughts, and he can basically understand what kind of personality and temper he has in a few words. But this little village girl made him a little puzzled, he always felt like a retard, and he spoke and acted more abnormally, but if he thought about it carefully, there was no problem, anyway, it was weird.
The black dog crouched in the middle, and the two were silent for a moment.
Xu Buling thought for a while and took the lead in speaking:
"Girl, why do you live alone in this deep mountain and old forest?"
The little village girl shook the recliner and said in a very polite tone: "I want to live here, so I live here." ”
"Uh...... Looking at the oil, salt and utensils in the kitchen, should you have lived here since you were a child, and someone from your family brought it to you, or did you go out and buy it yourself? ”
"You talk so much, I don't like to talk."
“……”
Xu Buling nodded, sighed lightly, and shut up silently.
Soon, the red sun completely sank down the mountain, the sky and the earth were completely dark, the sky was clear and snowy, and the sky was full of stars and a crescent moon hanging in the sky.
Xu Buling glanced up, and only then did he realize that the beauty in the canyon was a bit dreamy, so that he secretly pinched himself to make sure that he was not floating in the river and fainted, but had entered the moment of death, and was in a hallucination.
The little village girl was also looking at the starry sky, and after a long time, she suddenly stretched out the grilled fish and pointed to a very bright star in the west:
"Hey, do you know what that star is called?"
Xu Buling looked up: "There is Qiming in the east, and Chang Gung in the west, it should be Chang Gung Xing." ”
The little village girl poked out a pair of eyes from the side of the back of the chair, slightly surprised:
"Have you ever read the Book of Songs?"
Xu Buling has already seen from her words and demeanor that this little village girl is not a country fool, and it seems that she has probably read a lot of books at this time. He nodded: "The Four Books and Five Classics are compulsory courses, so I have naturally read them." ”
"Do you know how to compose poetry?"
Xu Buling blinked, shook his head and chuckled: "I can't compose poems, but I have memorized a lot." ”
The little village girl seemed to be very interested in this, turned her chair half a circle, held the grilled fish in both hands, sat on her elbows on her knees, and tilted her head to look at it seriously:
"Which ones have you memorized? I don't think you're mistaken. ”
Xu Buling was a little amused, thought for a while, and looked at the ten thousand peach trees outside the fence that stretched to the end of the field of vision:
"Hmm...... Peach Blossom Nunnery in Peach Blossom Dock, Peach Blossom Fairy under Peach Blossom Nunnery......"
As soon as she read out two sentences, the little village girl frowned and shook the grilled fish:
"Without this poem, you liar."
Xu Buling naturally knew that there was no such poem, and he explained softly: "In the past two years, the genius over there in the south of the Yangtze River has just written, which is popular all over the country, and is very famous. ”
Xiao Muragu's personality is indeed different from others, and she asks the bottom of the question: "Who wrote it?" ”
"Uh...... Tang Yin and Tang Bohu, a talented son of Wu County, Suzhou. ”
"You're lying, there is no such person in Suzhou."
Xu Buling naturally knew that without such a person, even if there were, it would take hundreds of years to be born. It seems that this girl has not been interested in the world since she was a child, and she knows quite well about the outside. He had to go on to explain:
"It's just famous, and it's normal that the girl hasn't heard of it."
"Who is Tang Yin's father? Who is the teacher? ”
“……”
This question obviously stopped Xu Buling, this world is very particular about respecting teachers, as long as you are a scholar, you will inevitably say 'family teacher so-and-so' when you introduce yourself, in order to see the respect for the teacher, and the famous talent is even more so.
And for others, just like on the rivers and lakes, they feel that a hero is very powerful, and the first thing to inquire about is 'Who taught such a powerful apprentice?' Since he memorized other people's poems, how could he not even know these things.
Xu Buling hesitated, and said with a smile: "Tang Yin was born in a poor family and is self-taught, but his family has never inquired. ”
The little village girl frowned slightly, obviously not believing, and shook her head: "You, like people outside, like lying. Well, you can memorize poems. ”
Xu Buling was a little helpless and continued: "...... The peach blossom fairy planted peach trees, and picked peach blossoms for wine money......"
The stars are like the sea, and the night fire is quiet.
Xu Buling sharpened the wooden bowl and recited the peach blossom poem in a calm voice.
After listening to a few words, the little village girl supported her chin with her hand, rested her elbow on the armrest of the chaise longue, and looked very serious.
After reading a poem, Xu Buling smiled a little:
"How?"
"Very good, why are you reading this poem to me?"
"It's touching the scene."
Xu Buling smiled, turned his head to look at the hundreds of small saplings outside the fence, and asked:
"What is the girl doing with so many peach trees?"
The little village girl thought about it and said seriously: "Picking peach blossoms for wine money." ”
??
Xu Buling looked at the uninhabited mountains and fields within a radius of dozens of miles:
"If you don't go out, how can you change it?"
"It will bloom in February and March next year, just pick it out and change it, and I'm not without long legs."
Xu Buling was speechless, feeling that he was not on the same channel as this little village girl, so he had to change his words and ask:
"What did the girl do when she planted peach trees?"
The little village girl replied very simply: "The peach blossoms are beautiful." ”
"Okay......"
Xu Buling nodded.
The fish is gradually grilled and fragrant. Xu Buling roasted it first, naturally it was better first, and immediately pulled out the wooden stick inserted in the ground and handed it to the little village girl:
"You eat first, I'll cut the bowl first."
The little village girl looked at it twice, took out a handkerchief from her arms, wrapped it with a wooden stick, and then turned the chaise longue around, turned her back to Xu Buling, and began to eat grilled fish, and the little black dog also lay in front of her.
Xu Buling sharpened the wooden bowl, probably because the surroundings were too quiet, and said again:
"There are many beautiful flowers in the world, and this sea of peach blossoms is only beautiful in early spring, and it is average at other times. I know a place, hundreds of kinds of flowers are planted, there are basically flowers everywhere in the world, the scenery is different all year round, and now in the past, it should be a plum blossom, camellia, and junzi orchid ...... endlessly."
The little village girl poked her eyes out from behind the chair, half-convinced: "Is there such a place?" ”
Xu Buling said with a smile: "I definitely didn't lie to the girl this time, I was born somewhere, and I lived there until I was seven or eight years old." ”
The little village girl thought for a moment and shook her head slightly: "I like to grow my own, you must be a mess of what you plant." ”
"It's not messy, it's neat."
"Is there a neat one I planted?"
"Uh......"
Xu Buling turned his head to look at the saplings outside, neatly with a bit of obsessive-compulsive feeling, it really couldn't be compared, and he didn't speak at the moment.
The chaise longue swayed, and soon, a fish was eaten by the little village girl and the black dog.
Xu Buling sharpened the small bowl with a sword that sharpened iron like clay, and handed it to the little village girl:
"Let's see if it's appropriate."
The little village girl still wrapped the small bowl with a handkerchief, took it in her hand and gestured it, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "And chopsticks." ”
Then he got up and went into the kitchen, fetched hot water to wash, and then went back to the side room and bolted the door.
The courtyard was completely silent, Xu Buling hesitated slightly, and finally shook his head and smiled, not knowing what to say......