One

Three years ago, outside the Qushui Valley...... of a certain day

Just like this valley has been going through for thousands of years – it's calm and unwavering

Looking at the mid-mountain in the distance, the sky outside the valley is clear, the forest is full of greenery and sparkling gold, like a farmland covered with wheat - just a half-green and half-yellow wheat seedling cut by the worst farmer, Lin Yan followed behind Qi An and entered the wheat underground, but it was like entering the underworld, and he really experienced a "polar night" - it is rumored that it is only in the scene by the bridge of Naihe, dark and secluded everywhere, at this time there can be a vicious owl with half-open eyes, and it is a good thing for him to respond to the bad omen sadly, At least let him know that there is a living creature besides the two of them, but even this is difficult to achieve, and when he sees the sunshine of the forest that is about to end, it is like breaking through the eighteen hells, and he is finally reincarnated back into the world

A stream of water twists and turns outside the valley, and a meadow is vacant by the river, but from the patchwork of wooden mounds, it seems that this place was also a part of the forest, and it was only artificially endowed with the light of the earth that it was able to see the light of day in the long night of the past

A flat stone bridge crossed the water, when Qi An led Lin Yan across the bridge, he suddenly stopped at the head of the bridge, Lin Yan only cared about the fresh and enjoyed the beautiful scenery, and almost hit his head, Qi An held on to the railing on the bridge, and said to him, "This is the ...... of the bridge"

"What a bridge?" , Lin Yan trembled in broad daylight, "What are we doing here?" ”

"Look at the canyon in front, it is the Qushui Valley", Qi An decided to let Lin Yan have a general understanding of the situation in the valley before entering the valley, "The peak goes straight into the clouds, the mountains are surrounded by cliffs, and the access can only be through this bridge and that mountain pass, if there is a foreign enemy, you can look at the ...... on the mountain wall", Lin Yan went to see according to what he said, and was surprised to find that on the steep cliff, I don't know how skillful the craftsman built three lookouts, "The platform is prepared with bows, crossbows, wood and stones, so, one husband is the pass, and ten thousand people are not ......"

Lin Yan was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, Qi An was very satisfied with his reaction, and stroked his beard, "What's the matter, worship me as a teacher, right?" ”

"Uh-huh!" , Lin Yan nodded again and again, "Master, what can I learn from you?" ”

"Learn to win more with less, to defeat the strong with the weak, and to overcome the murderous ...... with softness", Qi An is the fortune teller, as soon as the child sat down in front of him, he saw that he was a good seedling of his incense, strong but not thick, thin but not weak, what he valued most was Lin Yan's knuckles, the length was just right, for his martial arts, the fingers were too long and dull, too short and unstable, especially important, in fact, the best practice of martial arts is to practice the child's skill, although Lin Yan has more than 16 years, but a good apprentice who is satisfied, but it is rare in his lifeIn this regard, he was determined to take Lin Yan as a disciple - using all means......

The mud pill that Qi An gave to Lin Yan was the secret medicine of the Nanzhi Hall of Xishu, and at the seventh sword selection meeting before, he and his uncle secretly bet on the age at which this alliance master could live - the previous sword master died after only twenty-five, and the previous sword master barely lived to thirty-two, and the previous sword master was twenty-seven......

In a word, what is the lifespan of these sword masters...... It's terrible......

His uncle said that he would get thirty at most, and he said that he would get thirty-five, and the bet was his uncle's medicine, and a piece of cold water jade given to him by others

As a result, the year before last had passed the fortieth birthday of Wenrenlong, so according to the gambling appointment he got this precious secret medicine from his uncle - forget his worries, he was overjoyed, or gave the jade to his uncle, after all, it is not an important thing, forget worries, also called forget the past, forget the past, forget the antidote, naturally have, the wife and children of Xu Qinyin, the former head of the medicine mountain, had eaten this medicine by mistake, and thus led to a legend, in short, his wife and children died depressed, Xu Qinyin spent decades of painstaking efforts to develop the solution, passed on in the medicine mountain Tibetan volume, The wish has been fulfilled, committed suicide, and left only one sentence when he died, but it is still sung by people

"Forget your worries, it's really the first poison in the world!"

Xu Qinyin is the great-grandson of Han Rongrong, a native of Xishu, thinking of returning to his old hometown, before moving his family back to Yaoshan, known as Xishu "crazy"

Lin Yan also followed Qi An honestly and walked forward, Qi An's words were also the past few days to understand Lin Yan's temperament, knowing that he had an almost blind worship of the rivers and lakes and chivalrous, when passing through the valley, Qi An raised his head and said hello to the disciples guarding the door on the lookout, Lin Yan also craned his neck, looked at the high cliff, like a small village chicken that would not cry when he entered the big village, and was full of admiration, "Wow! ”

Yesterday, there was a big incident in Wenren's house, the head of the family Wenrenlong and the concubine Dongmei died in the Wenren ancestral hall, after the autopsy, he said that according to the size of the wound, the two were probably killed by the same dagger, Wenrenlong's wound was shallow, Dongmei's wound was extremely deep, almost all other parts of the knife handle were stabbed in, clean and neat, it seems that the murderer seems to hate Dongmei, both of them were injured and died of excessive blood loss, Wenrenlong died in the ancestral hall, the nine ghost sword was beside him, but he didn't pull it out, except for a fatal wound in the back, There are also a lot of wounds of all sizes, the most serious is that the palm of the hand was brutally pierced by an unknown rod, Dongmei died by the courtyard gate, the knife was inserted into Dongmei's body, the middle knife part was the anterior abdomen, Dongmei looked peaceful before she died, and even hung a light smile of relief, and could not find a trace of struggle and resistance, and muttered to herself, "Aunt Dong seems to be killed voluntarily......"

At the same time, the knife owner Du Ruosong disappeared, and everyone in the palace suspected that he was the murderer

Wen Renlong was forty-two years old at this time, and he could be called the longest-living Nine Shadows Sword Master

The arrester who investigated the case quickly asked Granny Dong, who was in the inner room at the time, but she said that she had undressed and slept peacefully at that time, did not notice anything unusual, and continued to chant

"If I turn to Shura, disgusted and self-controlled,

If I am born of beasts, and I have great wisdom,

If I go to hell, hell will destroy itself,

If I turn to the hungry ghosts, and the hungry ghosts are full of themselves,

If I go to the mountain of swords, the mountain of swords will break itself,

If I turn to the soup, it will dry up......"

The head catcher was dizzy by her bunch of mysterious Buddhist words, so she had to leave her there to guard the coffin of Wen Renlong

Breaking the wind and listening to the rain can go back to the house once a year, when the tragedy happened, just the two of them returned to the house, and now they are driven out like a lost dog......

Lin Yan stood in the valley and looked back at the small valley mouth - in fact, this valley mouth is not small, and it is more than enough to drive sixteen horses side by side, but after comparing it with the heaven and earth in the valley, he no longer feels that it is wide, only shows its narrowness, and when he was sighing at the strangeness of this valley, he suddenly heard two voices

"Listen! What's wrong with you? The figure of the broken wind appeared at the mouth of the valley, supporting the bloodless and extremely weak listening to the rain

Listening to the rain, he coughed uncontrollably, leaned against the mountain wall, and barely stood up, "It's okay......

Lin Yan stood on this side of the valley, and in the valley behind him, there were layers of wooden buildings, criss-crossing roof bridges, and high pavilions dotted around, connecting into a magnificent and taciturn giant city, which were all miracles that he had imagined thousands of times when he was in the forest village

He forgot about those, and when he heard the casual response, his heart trembled inexplicably, and he watched Breaking Wind and Tingyu walk in in a daze, and the two of them saluted Qi An together, "Senior brother, morning!" ”

Qi An also returned the salute, "Senior sister and junior brother are back, junior sister should be careful about her body, I don't know the ...... of the former alliance leader", he had heard the news when he came back - after all, it was a major event in the rivers and lakes

Although Pofeng said that he gave Dongmei a good face, he was polite to others, bowed, his eyes were lost, sad, and resentful, but he didn't say anything in the end, listening to the rain put the handkerchief into his sleeve, he kept shaking his head, and replied to Qi An on behalf of Pofeng, "Senior brother, we ...... It's hard to put into words......"

Qi An didn't answer—when it comes to such an unspeakable topic, there should be a timely silence to brew the atmosphere

Lin Yan didn't know the tacit rules of these people, he only knew that he couldn't wait to speak, and one stone hit a thousand waves, breaking the oppressive atmosphere, and leaning over to Tingyu, both supportive and outspoken, "This sister, I...... I want to worship you as a teacher! ”

Two

"Ahem, ahem!" , this was caught off guard, and when he heard the rain, he reluctantly pulled out his handkerchief and coughed violently

"Listen!" , breaking the wind to separate him, let Tingyu lean on himself, "Where did you come from, where are you going, our family doesn't accept apprentices!" ”

"Your family?" , Lin Yan pulled up Tingyu's long sleeves, and his tone was inexplicably unkind, "Where did you come from?" ”

Breaking Wind looked at him and the stinky boy who smelled people's breath as if they were carved out of a mold, "This is my sister, what do you care about so much!" ”

Qi An, who was completely ignored, grabbed Lin Yan's back placket, "Didn't you say you wanted to worship me?" ”

"You didn't answer me, what exactly did you teach!" , Lin Yan pondered for a long time, "I want to learn the sword, learn the most powerful sword!" ”

He felt like he had a sword—maybe he still had a little bit of an indistinct memory of it...... Things, like that wooden sword for jokes, like ......

"Then don't listen to it, we learn knives, we can't teach you ......", Breaking Wind didn't give any face, and simply refused neatly

Lin Yan was countered to the army, and suddenly changed his mind, "Huh? That...... Then I'll learn knives too! ”

Qi An was anxious, if he continued like this, his forgetfulness would be wasted, "Your hands are born to learn my skills!" ”

"You're getting fast, aren't you?" , Breaking Wind's eyes glanced at Lin Yan's hand - Senior Brother was talking about hands...... Those hands with mud between their fingernails? "If you can't hold on to yourself, why will you be an adult, and you will inevitably ask for hardship in the future"

"Are you cursing me?" , Lin Yan was dissatisfied

"Brother, it's not me who curses you, it's you who find your own guilt, and you learn our sword? Give it up, ......", breaking the wind and painstakingly persuading, "The Water Jet Law of the Past" is not a good thing...... He and Tingyu must have one of them to jump into the fire pit, and there are only two of them in this generation, eh...... No, if only there was a third ......

"Ahem! Ahem! Listening to the rain coughed even more

"That's right! Learn from me! Qi An finally saw the stitches and said

At that time, Qi An grabbed Lin Yan, Lin Yan led and listened to the rain, and listened to the rain and the wind

This is the first scene that Liu Shiran saw when he entered the valley

"What are you doing...... Are you stringing copper bells? ”

Liu Shiran, a guy who looks like a talented man who went to Beijing at first glance is full of books and anger, but in fact he has nothing to do with pen, ink, paper and inkstone - this is the same as Su Bei, he is a well-known figure in the east and west, there are three knives in the rivers and lakes, pig killing knife, meniscus knife, seal carving knife, he is the third, there are three immortals in the Liu family painting in the rivers and lakes, pen, water, knife, he is still the third, so secretly people call him "Liu Laosan" - always the third, but as long as someone dares to call this nickname in front of him, unless you are a master of the arts, you are not afraid of the sky, Otherwise, it's purely looking for death, and if he can't kill you, he can also haunt you

Liu Shiran is a frequent visitor to the valley, and the disciples on the lookout tower are no longer surprised and will not stop him

"Hello senior!" , Breaking the wind and listening to the rain and saluting together, only Lin Yan was at a loss on the side

"Excuse me, ...... exempt", Liu Shiran couldn't see these twists and turns, and said straightly, "That...... Qi Ya, I'm looking for ......"

"It's Qi An!" , no one can stand being called wrong every time they meet—or back, without exception

But the culprit didn't think so, "Okay, good...... It's the same! That's not what it means! I came to find your little uncle, where did he flee? ”

Qi An's little uncle, that is, the meniscus knife with the same name as Liu Shiran, a big knife is like the moon on the horizon, bent but not broken, to the yang to the rigid and to the yin to the dangerous, you may not understand the second of the three knives, but the master of the Du Hall of Wenren Mansion must be familiar with it

Meniscus – Juniors

The story of Du Tang Master and Liu Laosan can not be told for a few days and nights, let me tell you, this Liu Laosan has always been obsessed with the "three", poor Du Tang Master innocently suffered, so he was entangled, Liu Laosan came to find a duel in three days, even if he was defeated again and again, he also persevered, stalked, and vividly interpreted the "shameless" to the extreme, once once, Du Tang Master could not bear him, simply admit defeat, and was willing to give him the name of the second three knives, but he was unwilling, "The iron-clad man would rather die than the kindness of the plain and unreasonable!" ”

He also has the face to call himself "iron-clad...... No, when did he ever have a cheeky face......

"Huh?" , Liu Shiran leaned over and saw Lin Yan who didn't salute him on the side - he knew at a glance that he was not a Jianghu person, so he picked up his hand and praised him, "This hand is good, you haven't apprenticed yet, right?" Before Lin Yan could answer, he continued to talk to himself, "It's just right, I won't confiscate the apprentice!" How about you as my big apprentice? In the lower seal carving knife - Liu Shiran ......"

Is it tolerable or unbearable, Qi An's brows furrowed, "Senior, this is the apprentice I want to accept!" ”

"He's going to worship me now!" , Liu Shiran is strong - he doesn't know what "cheekiness" is, "Martial arts, the righteous are respected, the benevolent are second, and the capable are third...... No, phew! He found himself a "third" again......

This is a deliberate attempt to find fault and to be solved by force......

Qi An was made angry by Lin Yan just now, and now Liu Shiran's move is even more inflammatory, not caring about dignity and order, he hung down his long sleeves to cover his hands, took a few steps back, and suppressed the anger, "Qi An has offended ......"

"Don't offend, don't offend, if you can be undefeated in three moves, even if I lose to you as a junior, this apprentice belongs to you ......", Liu Shiran was very casual, Lin Yan blinked an eye, he abruptly played with a short knife that was smaller than the ordinary big knife, the tip of the knife has a ring-shaped iron ring, tied to a long hemp rope, the end of the hemp rope is tied to the index finger of Liu Shiran's right hand, it is said that the sharp edge of the knife blows off the hair, cuts the flesh like mud, and the word "fast" in martial arts is on the list...... Third......

"Is this true?" , Qi An thought to himself: Three tricks are too underestimating him

"A gentleman is a word, and a horse is hard to chase!"

As soon as Liu Shiran's words fell, Qi An had already made the first move, and shot out a few small things under his sleeves, he covered it with his sleeves at first, but now he flew too fast, Lin Yan couldn't see what those were clearly, Qi An had obviously taken the lead, but Liu Shiran was unchanged to respond to all changes, full of confidence, a knife like a living creature that could jump, and knock down those hidden weapons one by one between the swing of the knife rope, the knife drew a deep mark on the stone ground, but there was no sense of stagnation, and the seal carving knife prevented the owner in the middle, forming an impermeable thick wall, outside the wall... … Foliage......

Qi An studied under Hua Papaya, Hua Papaya is a nickname, and his real name is ...... I only know that it is probably the surname flower, it is said that it is not good, whether everyone knocks on the side or a single knife straight into him is always tight-lipped like a bottle, and makes good use of flowers and leaves as a weapon, when he debuted, the world ridiculed him for having this nickname in vain, but then gradually found that people's safflower can kill people in an instant, green leaves can hurt people in a moment, can be a weapon, there are swords and halberds everywhere, but the flower papaya has spread, he doesn't seem to mind much, and everyone no longer changes their words

The master of the flower papaya and the master of the juniper are brother and sister

Three

"One move!" , Liu Shiran reported the number

Qi An has taken advantage of the opportunity to quickly go around his rear at this time, Liu Shiran saw all this in his eyes, but his face was silent, just waiting for the other party to fly out of thousands of flowers and leaves from behind him as expected, he didn't look back, the rope slipped out of the index finger, changed his left hand to pull it, the knife swept on the back, and there was another knife mark on the ground, the flowers and leaves were broken, and they were raised, and the knife turned around and headed towards Qi An, Qi An dodged, "Two moves!" ”

The knife was pulled back, Qi An suddenly stretched out his hand, restrained the hemp rope, ignoring the red marks on his hand when the hemp rope was pulled over - he thought about it, no matter how fast Liu Shiran's knife was, he had to rely on this rope to manipulate it quickly, his advantage was the knife not the rope, and this rope was his flaw!

Pulling to the handle of the knife, the seal carving knife was fixed there by Qi An, and he was a little fluttering, "How do you think of me, senior?" ”

"Not bad!" , Liu Shiran praised in his heart, "But there is still something ......missing", he saw the opportunity, pulled and loosened, the sharp knife bounced up like a squirrel, and the blade crossed the half-arc like an arch bridge in the air, and turned to the ground, no! It is the right hand that is facing Qi An and grabbing the handle of the knife, when Qi An has not yet reacted, Liu Shiran has already attacked back with lightning speed, occupying the initiative, the slender craftsman knife at the end of the three knives is about to cut off Qi An's hand, Liu Shiran saw that his skills have appeared, just a move, why hurt people, he doesn't want to tie a big beam with the meniscus knife, and Qi An is a generation younger, this is obviously a fool to do the thing of bullying people and falling into people's handles, and pull it back, the seal carving knife turned around and deflected, just crossed the back of Qi An's hand, A shallow scar didn't even come out of blood, and the tip of the knife then dragged the last stroke on the ground, "Three moves!" You're defeated! ”

Qi An had already seen the gap between the two, and he gave it up with palpitations, "The younger generation sees the ......"

"What is this?" , Lin Yan carefully looked at the scratches of the knife on the ground—it was the seal text, and read it out, "People...... People go to the temple lonely? ”

"Read the word ......", Breaking Wind reminded him lukewarmly

"The temple of people, the temple of people...... Waiting, waiting? Lin Yan looked up at the man wielding the knife: he had to carve his name in such a life-and-death fight, no wonder it was ...... Seal carving knife......

"The little brother wants to worship me as a teacher, and it is too rude to call him by his name......", it is natural for Liu Shiran to be better than Qi An's junior on weekdays, but today he received an apprentice because of this, and he is in a good mood

"Hey, I'll ...... later", Breaking Wind looked at Lin Yan, and then took his hand and looked at it - blame him for not practicing enough, and he really can't see any special fame, but ......, "You elders can't rely on the old to bully us, if you come in advance, you understand?" This guy ...... I'll call the shots, we want it! ”

Lin Yan stayed for a while, and then nodded busily, shaking like a drinking bird

"But you can't worship Ting'er, you have to worship me and Ting'er's master, and be our little junior ......", Pofeng looked at Lin Yan and was still excited, making a senior brother's shelf, coughing twice, "That's how the ...... is decided"

So...... Lin Yan will be the third water knife of the past......

"Boy, you're halfway through, aren't you?" , Liu Shiran was obviously displeased, his wrist exerted force, the carving knife was thrown into the air, and the tip of the knife pointed to the opposite side of the little doll who didn't know what to do - Qi An's senior brother was not his enemy of three moves, this nameless and nameless broken wind on the rivers and lakes dared to spoil his good deeds and face him, he didn't want to see blood, but now he was angry and ruthless, the knife was impartial and went straight to the point, Qi An was stunned for a while, and the broken wind was also a little flustered, but after a while, he quickly pulled out the flying knife on his waist, the flying knife is a hidden weapon, at this moment Liu Shiran suddenly made a difficulty, and it was too late to make the original move, Breaking the wind uses a flying knife as a dagger, holding a knife in his backhand, in the face of complex and varied carving knives, he can only see the tricks - fortunately, the water knife in the past was not only created for the flying knife, the secret weapon of the knife, the long knife and the knife are all covered by it, one and ten, ten and hundred, hundreds and thousands, thousands and thousands, the wind in this hurried response, but also realized some new truths, calm down a little, the matter of dealing with the matter gradually entrusted to the right hand, a turn around the left hand has been discharged five flying knives, swishing out of the air, Liu Shiran was attacked by this trick, It is not to be unprepared to be defeated by the north, Pofeng only felt that the other party calmly withdrew the carving knife, and he finally took a breath, Liu Shiran The knife rope flipped and turned uncertainly, and when he looked up again, the tenacious knife rope that was made of unknown things was entangled with five flying knives in order, and none of them fell

Liu Shiran waved his hand, the five flying knives fell off the rope, and there was a sound of banging on the ground, Pofeng saw that he had no intention of making another move, he was too tired to do it, he knelt on one knee with a knife, and he didn't react when he heard Yu Shicai's urgency, and now he hurried to help Pofeng, and Lin Yan also followed up

"The seniors are extraordinary, worthy of the name of the three swords, and the younger generations are willing to bow to the wind and ......", breaking the wind and bowing their heads to admit defeat

"No...... Boy, you're good! Liu Shiran turned to praise this little kid who he still hated before, "Your talent and understanding are all superior, and you lost today, I can only say that I have a little longer experience, and in time you will become a great weapon, you are a disciple of the Meniscus Knife, right?" ”

"Shame...... The seniors look up to me......", Pofeng knew that there were some things that should not be said, "My master is unknown, and he is in the middle of the rivers and lakes...... Nothing big has been done yet......"

"Really?" , Liu Shiran turned his carving knife around the rope with his index finger, "Then you...... How about being my apprentice? He has to rob an apprentice to go back today......

"Seniors, let the younger generations say a word of ......", listening to the rain first waved his hand a few times, and changed Lin Yan to help break the wind, "The predecessors should know that betraying the door is the villain's move, one day is the teacher and the father is the father for life, the father and son of the ancient monarch and the minister, the father and the son, nothing more than the word loyalty and filial piety, for the son of man as the lifelong adoptive parent, follow the teachings, this is the principle of morality, disobedience, the teacher is the same, how can there be a loyal and filial person to deceive the teacher and forget the ancestors......"

"Little girl, you don't look like a Jianghu person at all when you speak", Liu Shiran interrupted her unceremoniously, "But look at your demeanor...... And those throwing knives that go with it...... There is no doubt that you are a disciple in this valley again, strange! ”

"The younger generation is indeed ......"

"Forget it!" , Before listening to the rain finish speaking, Liu Shiran interrupted again, this is going to change a quick-tempered person, so I have to fight a few back and forth with him, "Why don't you come and be my apprentice?" What kind of suffocation has been made of this small valley, go, the master will lead you to see the real rivers and lakes! ”

"The tutor is not here, and the little girl doesn't dare to assert ......", listening to the rain didn't even move her footsteps

"It's boring!" , The rope of the carving knife in Liu Shiran's hand has been tightened around the index finger, and he holds the handle of the knife in his hand, "I think my seal carving knife is also a famous person in this river and lake, and I want to accept an apprentice today, but I was rejected three times by the three children...... I really didn't look at Huang Li's ...... when I went out", he turned his head to see Qi An on the side, and was about to open his mouth to say something, Qi An took a step ahead of him, for fear that he would pull himself again, "Huang Li said, in the past three years...... No, I shouldn't have another apprenticeship for ten years! ”

"I'm not a flood beast that eats people and doesn't spit out bones, and I scared you so much that I couldn't talk incoherently......"

Qi An responded to him in his heart: You are really ......

Four

Wenren's Mansion

Li Jing asked his subordinates to cut down the branches of oleander, wood, cherry, and even ginkgo biloba and maple that remained in various parts of the house, and put on white chrysanthemum, narcissus, with the winter snow that had just fallen, and the only son of the former alliance leader held the Nine Shadows Sword - this sword was unusual, kneeling in front of the spirit for seven days, mourning and destroying the bones, this child was only seventeen, less than twenty weak crowns, according to the ancestral training can not inherit the position of the head of the family, the alliance leader ordered to be temporarily transferred elsewhere

On the first day, the main sects on the rivers and lakes all sent the people in charge to come, Li Jing and Chunlan received the visitors, busy with the outside, arranging food and lodging, smelling people's breath as if they were demented, one stayed there and talked to himself, someone approached to listen, only to hear clearly that he was saying, "Dad, Dad, Mother, Mother, Lin Yu, Lin Yu......"

Although the previous chapter has been talked about three years later, at this time, that is, the death of Wenrenlong and Dongmei, it is only seven months before Lin Zhongcun disappears from this world

Seven months ago, in the understanding of hearing people's breath, Lin Yu also died in that natural disaster

Qiu Ju was forced by Xia Zhu, took the hot potato that sent rice to the little master, she put the meal - a bowl of small rice, a plate of vegetables outside the mourning hall, tiptoed into the lobby, some of the guests said goodbye to her, she could only stop a few more times and bow down Wanfu, and finally came to the back of Wen Renxi, took a deep breath, stretched out his finger and nodded his back, "Little young master, it's time to eat......"

I don't know if I heard it, I didn't raise my head, and I was already crying in a hoarse voice a few days earlier, "Listen, let me be quiet, okay?" ”

Qiu Ju couldn't care so much, so she said the mistake by mistake, "Little master, keep the spirit fasting, avoid onions, ginger, and garlic, so you can't eat pancakes......"

Sometimes when he hears people's breath and is grounded, he will ask Qiu Ju to buy a few for him to satisfy his hunger

"Well, listen to the rain you eat it......", Wen Renxi probably remembered that Tingyu also likes to eat this

It was rare for him to remember what Tingyu liked, and perhaps in his impression, Tingyu seemed to like everything he gave - everything he gave was

In front of Wen Renlong's tablet, there is a withered red flower in an inconspicuous place, this flower was found from his original sleeve for Wen Renlong to change clothes and bury Chunlan, I don't know how long it has been hidden, this is the only bit of red in the snow

"It's really not time for the head of the family to die ......", Qiu Ju muttered this disrespectful sentence in front of the mourning hall, but she didn't blame her for saying this, the little young master was going to follow the master of the family to learn the sword for three years, who wanted to only learn a start-style work, the master was gone, and he could only slowly understand this sword book alone, I had to say...... Half the effort!

The mourners came and went, and most of the clothes on their bodies were strange, such as the woman who greeted her when Qiu Ju first came in, with a small fake skull hanging on her ears, her face was as pale as a dead corpse, and a string of big skulls hung around her neck - this person is nicknamed Gu Duo'er, every time she kills someone, he will cut off his head, remove the flesh and blood, and string them together, and take them off every ten of them, it is said that the skull necklace she hid can be piled up in a Wenren Mansion, which is very terrifying, but Qiu Ju does not dare to slack off, so she can only laugh back

The second one who greeted her was a monk, you said that she couldn't count the rules and precepts of monks and nuns, but she also knew how to quit drinking and meat, but this bald head was full of alcohol, and she hiccuped when she spoke, "Uh-girl! ”

It's early in the afternoon...... Qiu Ju knew in his heart that he would not break it, and he replied, "Master Xuancuo is early!" ”

She recognized Master Xuancuo of Shanglin Temple, the younger brother of Abbot Xuanyou, nicknamed "Wine and Meat Monk"

The third one is even stranger, wearing a coat and a hat - the sky is high and crisp today, and the rain has not fallen, but this guest is wrapped tightly like a zongzi, maybe it is too tight, and the road can't be seen clearly, Qiu Ju is not as serious as Chunlan, looking at this strange person, the two bumped into each other, and the guy spoke, it was a female voice, "Sorry, madam......"

Madam? Qiu Ju is a good girl who is innocent, and she values her own reputation the most, but "the guest misunderstood, Qiu Ju is just a maid, and the two aunts are ...... in the backyard"

"Two ...... Oh......", the female voice muttered to herself and left, "Three ......"

The fourth one is a charming ...... Bustard's mother, at least Qiu Ju looked like this at a glance, dressed in colorful clothes, twisting her small waist, and coming in with a red sweat scarf, I really don't understand why Sister Chunlan let her in, as soon as she came, a funeral was made into a green building to choose an oiran, and Qiu Ju was a girl in all kinds of style...... threw a wink, "The slave family looks at the son so familiar......"

Qiu Ju suspected for a moment that she was wearing the wrong men's clothes, and later realized that she was used to shouting "Childe" when she saw everyone, Qiu Ju smiled and blessed, and ran away without looking back, and there was a sharp laugh from the old bustard, "Childe is shy......

It's "shame", but it's not the "shame" of "shyness", it's the "shame" of "shame"

Qiu Ju was here to guard Wen Renxi and a group of bizarre guests, and in the back kitchen, Chunlan and Li Jing were talking while staring at the rest of the people who were busy preparing

"On the practice of the knife, the wind is undoubtedly above listening to the rain", Chunlan is the most meticulous person, "Listening to the rain on the flying knife to practice for years and talents, in recent years, because of the ...... and lost most of it, Xi'er Wujian in the past three years, there must be unscrupulous people who want to make Wen people desperate and seek the position of the leader of the alliance, the whereabouts of the master of Du Tang are unknown, from this point of view, Breaking the wind is the best choice of the sword master"

Li Jing didn't know this, "Indeed, according to cultivation, it is reasonable to choose Breaking the Wind, but Sister Lan, you also know that Breaking the Wind often commits crimes, and now that Dongmei is dead, he will inevitably be resentful and listen to the rain...... Maybe not the sharpest knife, but definitely the most loyal knife", her words were met with Chunlan's nod of approval, "Didn't you also say that you are the best to hear?" Now those warblers and Yanyan outside, you and I can't guarantee that they are not the secret sons who inserted them, or it is the safest to choose a wife for the little young master in the house......"

"It's ...... reasonable", Chunlan thought about it, she sold herself to the house since she was a child, and she knew the roots and was of the right age, "only listening to the rain and Qiu Ju......"

"Qiu Ju can't, the childishness has not faded, the heart is simple and a little clever, she can't afford the burden of the wife of the house......", Li Jing has already seen the thoughts of listening to the rain to hearing people's breath, "Listening to the rain is much more stable, and ...... She has that meaning to Xi'er again, we reward her son, she is too late to be happy, and she will definitely do her best to assist the young master."

Chunlan couldn't stop nodding, saying that she really should choose to listen to the rain, "What does Xi'er mean?" ”

"Xi'er must have no objections, after all, I have been with Tingyu for many years, and my childhood sweetheart has no guess......es", Li Jing took it for granted that this was the case, "Xi'er has hardly had much contact with the girls outside, and I am sure that he has the same mind as Tingyu, but ...... Let's not tell Xi'er about this first, so as not to disturb his sword heart, and we will settle this matter...... Come, Xia Zhu, bring the dishes to the guest room......"

Xia Zhu responded, took a dry soup such as fish stewed tofu, cabbage soup, pumpkin porridge, etc., and led a group of maids who also carried food out of the door

In the noisy and chaotic, people come and go, in a few words, the ...... is settled The lifelong event of two people......

Rabbit silk attached to the female dill, lingering in the Qing world

On the second day, there was another murder in the house, and the two aunts died one after another, and the two cases were committed by one person, both of whom cut off their limbs alive and died, and died of blood loss

The Nine Shades that I have been holding by the people...... Pei's jade disappeared mysteriously......

The piece of jade engraved with ugly flowers......

In front of Wen Renlong's tablet, the red flower was gone......

Five

Tea Street

Early in the morning, the little second brother opened the dangling broken wooden door, his eyes narrowed into slits, and his right hand was put to his mouth and yawned - he hadn't woken up yet, looked down, and was suddenly frightened by a package lying next to the door, the thing was covered in a yellow flower rag, he shook his head, and when he was almost sober, he lifted the cloth with a little reverence, and at first it was estimated that the yellow dogs next door were finally dead - it turned out that the big yellow dog hooked up with a nearby female dog and raised a few stray dogs, But he didn't expect a black head to suddenly appear under the cloth, and after a few movements, he fell silent, he panicked and retreated, and said in his heart: Isn't it going to be involved in some murder

Three days ago, there was a tragic murder in Wenren's mansion, which was the first time in Los Angeles, and the dark cloud of terror still lingered above the heads of the people

As soon as this thought flashed through Xiao Er's mind, a baby's cry suddenly sounded under the cloth, uneven and staggered, oh my God...... It's a child, and it seems that there is more than one......

Xiao Er couldn't make up his mind, and ran back to the grass hut in two or three steps, the door was half-closed by the wind, "Boss!" Boss! Someone threw a baby outside...... No, a couple of babies! ”

"Noisy ......and shouting early in the morning", the boss was holding a bowl of porridge - his breakfast, people came out from behind the curtain, and heard Xiao Er say that there was an abandoned baby...... A few abandoned babies, curious, hurriedly stretched their necks to look out of the fence, "Where is it?" ”

He has always wanted a doll to raise children to prevent old age, but his parents didn't let him grow taller, and he couldn't find a girl who was willing to marry him

Brie is Lin Shu and Lin Mo Lin Mo two children, hearing the children crying, Lin Shu immediately woke up for the most part, struggled to reach out, pushed open the half-closed wooden door, Xiao Er and the boss were discussing, at this time the door suddenly opened by itself without warning, in the cold wind, empty early morning, terrified people

Fortunately, Lin Shu then made a human voice - let Xiao Er and them understand that it was not a ghostly ghost, a demon or a monster, but just a young man in distress, "water...... Water? ”

The boss impatiently pulled away Xiao Er's hand that was holding his sleeve tightly, "Don't pull me, go and save people!" ”

The two of them worked together to move Lin Shu and the two children in the bamboo basket, a large jar and package that Lin Shu was holding to the house, and the boss pretended to put his hand on Lin Shu's forehead, "Well, it's a little hot, maybe it's on fire......"

"Eh, boss, this kid can't have killed the people in Wenren's Mansion and fled here, right?" , Xiao Er touched Lin Shu's body and found that he was dragging a piece of jade pendant in his hand, looking at a piece of jade that was quite good, and the owner of Wenren Mansion also lost a piece of jade, right? He felt that it was too much of a coincidence in terms of both the hour and the distance, and it was really unreasonable that there was no connection in it, "Where do I see us...... It's better to be careful......"

He then looked at the big pot, "like a kimchi earthen pot, huh...... Probably poison ......", pull the stopper: nothing......

The boss poured the leftover soup porridge into Lin Shu indiscriminately, and a bunch of it flowed out of his mouth, and there was not much to really eat, and most of Lin Shu's clothes were dirty, "You have too many eyes, how can anyone take a child to kill someone?" ”

"Not really, no one threw down their doll when they ran for their lives, and besides, how do you know that he didn't steal this child?" , Xiao Er picked up Lin Mo while talking, the child was afraid of life, wow wow crying, Xiao Er stupidly learned the appearance of Aunt Chang holding the doll, "Eh, good baby, don't cry, don't cry......"

"Go and get some goat's milk, the boy is hungry!" , The boss knocked the empty broken bowl, quite a bit of majestic posture, Xiao Er was a begging for a living under his hands, and hurriedly put down Lin Mo to the backyard - the ewe was tied there, casually flattering, "Look at this brain, or the boss's top ......"

Lin Shu temporarily lived in the tea shop, he knew some Qihuang techniques, medicine and food were of the same origin, so he helped to prepare the recipes while treating the tea customers who had no money to go to the city to see them, but the boss seemed to be particularly interested in the two children, and he had the potential to take them as his own

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the off-season of the tea shop, Xiao Er went to the city to pick New Year's goods, in addition to a roll of red paper at the end, a little pen and ink, only pulled a car of wet bamboo tube back, the rest of the New Year's goods are made by themselves, save silver, Xiao Er beckoned Lin Shu to spread out the bamboo tube together and spread it out outside the fence, during which Lin Shu could not see, one foot on the head, the fall was not light, the long scar on the forehead that caused him to be disabled faintly had a tendency to re-crack, the boss scolded a few words and let him go back to the house to look at the two babies at home, rolled up his sleeves and went into battle in person, The two of them quickly lined up the bamboo tubes on the side of the street after a while, and it was estimated that the water would be drained before waking up in the afternoon, and the children in the neighborhood would also pick up all of these

Is the bamboo tube thinned to make a "sky-shaking sound", or is it better to do it directly to "bloom"? This is indeed a problem

The boss said that he was still young, and his father took him to do it every year, although they died many years ago, but he still remembered a little

Xiao Er said that "blooming day by day" is good, but the sound is not loud, but he can see it comfortably, not to mention that now is not the old days of "year-driving beasts" - the single picture is loud......

The two argued endlessly, the public said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, and no one could convince anyone

At this time, Lin Shu, who had not seen the fireworks, and Lin Shu, who was holding the doll, spoke, "'Blooming every day'...... It's easy to scare children when it's too loud, and I've been scared by my sister at home a few times before...... In the second year, when I heard the sound of artillery outside, I closed the door and hid in the house, trembling and not daring to come out, and the little sister apologized outside the door and coaxed for a long time......"

"And then?" , Xiao Er doesn't know much about Lin Shu's past

"Later...... Later, a girl took me to listen to 'Blossoming', which was so good that I wasn't afraid......"

The boss is sophisticated, and he knows that Lin Shu has talked about things to this point, and there must be something behind him, "And then?" ”

The shopkeeper in the tea shop waited for Lin Shu to go down, but Lin Shu seemed to be suddenly dumb, and for a while only Lin Mo licked the sucking sound of goat's milk in the courtyard, Lin Shu opened his mouth again, and his throat was a little sobbing, "She married me, we ......"

"Gave birth to Big Mo and Little Mo?" , Xiao Er hurriedly interjected

Lin Shu neither admitted nor denied it......

The boss tinkered with the bamboo tube, stuffed it clumsily, and then asked, "What about your mother-in-law?" ”

She ...... She has a serious illness, and it will take a long time to get ......better", Lin Shu touched Lin Mo's little brain, "Our village has suffered from this disease, my father, my mother, second uncle, little aunt ......"

In these years, the poor family said that they were seriously ill, and they were about to die, and they said that it would take a long time to get better, and ten out of ten were already dead

In this way, the village has been destroyed...... It can't be a plague, right?

Xiao Er was cranky, and the boss was silent

Who knows sorrow, it is impossible to say a thousand words......

He used to be afraid that there would be no voice, but now he felt that this loneliness had come just right......

The boss turned the bamboo tube upside down, as if casually, "There are a few sayings about this well outside my shop, do you want to hear it?" ”

Xiao Er knows these stories - the boss has his ears calloused every day, Lin Shu slowly buried his head in the palm of his hand and gently bowed his head

"This well...... Legend is made of bitter tears...... An unlucky thing, but for those of us, what matters......"

There are always bitter people in the world, and there is only one kind of bitter thing that goes back and forth - life is bitter

That day, Lin Shu wrote the first couplet ever to the boss's tea shop - the one he read from "Little Tales of Liucheng", which Qiao'er said was very well written......

Couplet...... What a festive thing, he couldn't write anything like that anymore

"The water moves, there are ripples on it, the ripples are curved and curly, the flowers are petaled, the petals are semicircular, the trees are about three forest books as high, and the smoke is and ...... Lin Shu reads the same color as the cloth......"

He heard the tinkling of flowing water in the forest village, the flowers of plants and trees, the children playing and chasing, and the smoke curling

The jar was empty, and the piece of jade was hopelessly cold......

Qiao'er leaned into his ear and said, "Lin Shu...... Lin Shu...... Lin Shu ......", originally, if she ...... is still there, he will ask her to change her words, he wants to hear her call, "Lang Jun......"

When he shouted "Mother......", Lin Xian would no longer say, "My good book, what's wrong?" ”

Dad wouldn't say, "Shu'er, can you do it yourself?" ”

told his uncle, "You can't let Qiao'er be so willful anymore......"

All of ...... In the blink of an eye, it was all gone......

He has to wait for Xiaoyan and Xiaomei to come back, and then ......

Six

The winter snow swayed from the roof of the straw hut and fell into the well of stone bricks, where it quickly condensed into solid ice and then slowly melted

"The first one! I don't know how many years ago, it is estimated that it was two or three hundred years, on the day of the sixth and ninth secluded invasion of Los Angeles in early June, he ordered the slaughter of the city and the sword, everyone abandoned the city and fled, and the people were not happy...... What's coming ......?"

Lin Shu, who recovered from his grief, kindly made up for him, which is in "Shi Luo", "Soldiers must not hurt the people, the two armies of Judah do not cut off, jackals chase each other and do not eat cubs, cunning rabbits are hungry and do not touch the cave grass, is it because of the patriarch's momentary interest, ruining the future achievements, breaking the foundation of our clan, this act against the will, insulting the ancestors' teachings, will be punished by God, brother please camp outside the city, order the soldiers not to disturb the people, in order to appease the people's hearts......"

"Yes, yes, that's it, I'm old and forgetful, in fact, I can remember it if I think about it for a while, and then ...... Then the king of Nan'an scolded him...... Uh......"

"When he heard this, he rebuked, 'What is the basis for those who dare to disobey me?' , I'll add, boss, you continue to ......", Lin Shu wanted to say, he could recite this story backwards......

"Anyway...... Anyway, ......", the boss glared at Xiao Er, who was snickering, and said in a big vernacular, "Jiu Youcun has smoked a lot of ...... for the head of the family."

Lin Shu said silently in his heart: Fifty strokes of whipping......

"Right by this well......"

Is it right here? Lin Shu didn't know this......

"The head of the Xun family is upright, but suffered this humiliation, a manly man, should shed blood without tears, and then come here from the well to look at the water, suddenly hide his face tears, tears into the well, my great-grandfather will serve beside the head of the Xun family, ask him why he cried, he said that from the reflection of the well vaguely see his mother, feeling ashamed of his mother's hand before his death, 'your brother is united, life and death do not bear', so crying ......", the boss proudly shook the old yellow paper in his hand to Xiao Er - this is his great-grandfather's notes, of course, the descendants have copied it again......

"Thirty-five years ago, three years ago, I was still a big ......"

Xiao Er couldn't help laughing, and almost laughed out loud, "Dwarf winter melon!" ”

The boss's bamboo tube was not light or heavy, and smashed Xiao Er's big feet, "If you are verbose, you won't have to eat!" He cleared his throat and regrouped, "It's winter, the snow is much bigger than now, you see that there has been almost no snow or only such a thin layer in the past ten years, this year is quite a lot, but in the early years, when it came to winter, the snow was blowing, and there were several times when the accumulated snow blocked the door and couldn't get out, and everyone didn't go out, the farm work had to be put on hold anyway, hugging the wife and children at home, saving enough firewood and rice in advance, saving food, staying up until spring, the Spring Festival was good, it was lively, the snow began to melt, and there was work to do......"

Xiao Er covered his feet and muttered, "Nonsense ...... a lot"

The boss glanced at him, he shrunk his neck and was silent, and the boss continued his speech, "We children don't pay attention to so much, when the weather is warmer, we will go out to play in the snow, and it is also today, Laba, I went to find Lao Luo, and when I went out, I saw a woman lying on the side of the well, the weather was still very cold, but she only wore a single dress, if I had to shake it into a sieve, but she did not at all, numbly stared at the well, like a female ghost, I am also a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and asked her, 'Sister, can this well be seen...... Something, it's just that I'm too short to reach it, what do you see? ’……”

"But the woman did not look at me, but stared at the well and said, 'I see the wedding garment, the red candle, and the wedding feast, in the grave...... I sent them all to the underworld, they have me in the yang world, and now they can become ghost couples, so I don't fulfill their ......', her voice became smaller and smaller, and her tears became more and more, and then she suddenly shouted, "Wen Renyong, Miao Qianli, don't try to escape me wherever you go!" After saying that, she jumped into the well and watched a person commit suicide by throwing herself into the well in front of my eyes, only five years old, it was so terrifying! ”

The boss pretended to be mysterious, "Blind, guess who that woman is?" ”

"Who?" , how could Lin Shu know......

"It's the housewife of Wenren's Mansion at that time!" , The boss looked at Lin Shu with a face, "What is Wenren's Mansion?" "After the corpse was fished out and the red blood was drained from the ground, my father went to the well to look at it, and turned back to my mother and said, 'Good fellow! The water in this well has risen about a foot ......', what do you say this well water is not made of tears?' ”

"Tears are salty ......", Lin Shu tasted it...... a few months ago...... Tears flowed down to the mouth, bitter, as bitter as this life......

"The water in this well is also salty ......", the boss said, the time his mother died - his father was dead, he lay on the side of the well and cried, because in the well he could see his mother and father, holding himself in his infancy when he was a child, and saying back and forth, "Good boy!" Good boy! When my father and mother first died, he cried there all night, and it was really ...... I can think about those three words over and over again......

The boss sniffed, "And seventeen years ago, there was a ...... It's also a woman, and she's so good-looking......"

Xiao Er touched Lin Shu, "Hey! You can hear it, our boss looks at any woman......"

As soon as the words fell, it was replaced by another bamboo tube from the boss, Xiao Er laughed, Lin Shu shook his head, "Mother...... The best look, and then the ...... Qiao'er ......"

There is no better woman in the world......

"What ......do you see as a blind man," muttered the boss, "and she lay on her stomach at the well, like she was looking for something, as if she had thrown it into it before, and I said to her, 'This well is living water, and it leads to the ...... outside,' and I asked her what she threw away." She said it was a bunch of threads, and I went down the well to help her fish it, but think about it...... Large things, the hole in the well is small, maybe it can't flow away, a silk thread? I didn't have much hope, I just wanted to stabilize her, don't jump again, she jumped and she was relieved, I couldn't open this shop for more than ten days, I looked up in the well and wanted to tell her that I couldn't find it, a tear hit my face, and then crackled like rain, I was there, the lower half of my body was immersed in the well water, and the upper half of my body was drenched in the rain of tears, it was too ......", the boss shivered

"Thanks to me, I pulled the boss out and got a chicken alive...... Hee-hee-hee......", Xiao Er was quite proud

Lin Shu also smiled lightly, "What about that woman?" ”

"Gone......", said the boss, "I don't know where I went......"

"Isn't it, just these three?" After listening to it, Lin Shu already felt less depressed

"Blind man, you're in a hurry, aren't you? Do you think I'm not good? Looking at Lin Shu hurriedly waving his hand, the boss nodded, "That's right, I have another one, saying that a man killed a monster to eliminate harm for the people, but his mother-in-law was troubled by this dead soul, died here, the man was grief-stricken, a tear fell, the mountains and rivers were turbulent, smashed open the land, the earth collapsed and the springs gushed, there were nine zhang deep, it was this well......

Xiao Er dismantled the stage in due course, "actually at most nine feet ......"

"Actually...... I seem to have heard of this, our village ......", Lin Shu's eyes were covered with a layer of mist, "Then what do you see in that well, boss?" After such a long time, the boss must have gone to see it after growing taller

"You saw the boss lady, right?" , Xiao Er teased him, "I just see that the boss sometimes fetches water and is stunned there......"

"Fuck off!" , the boss chopped it with a bamboo tube

Lin Mo held the empty bowl and obediently pulled the hem of Lin Shu's clothes, Lin Shu touched her head again, Lin Mo babbled, and suddenly shouted, "Daddy......"

“…… Xiaomo is obedient", Lin Shu should arrive

Seven

Lin Shu thought that the unlucky bad luck might not be the well, but he himself might not be able to say it......

Tea Street, when it snows, most of the people go out

Occasionally, the neighbor often has a temper with his daughter-in-law, and he will come to the tea shop to sit, chatter a few words with the little boss, rub a few plates of snacks, and tease the two children, "This doll smiles at me!" Look at this little face, eh...... It's much more well-behaved than our baby! ”

On the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, Xiao Er got up from the house, did not disturb the boss and Lin Shu - mainly the good dreams of the two children, dragged out two large earthy yellow crockpots under the bed, which contained pickled vegetables, which had been sealed for a small half month, he went to Los Angeles to pick the freshest radish greens, the most flavorful garlic ginger, brought a bucket of salty water from the well, mixed with clear water - the salt ready in the well! Make it into salt water, boil it a few times, fill it in a jar, and keep it for the New Year, and the radish will be prosperous - make more money in the coming year, green vegetables...... Qingyun went straight up - although it had nothing to do with the half-dime of their tea shop

You have to ask why you don't use the well water for other food, as I said earlier, this water is so salty that it is bitter, and the wooden barrels in the hanging well are all floating on the water, and you carry a bowl of water - you have to mix it with a large bucket to barely fill your stomach, and what is the best way to store the extra water? It is time-consuming and laborious, so only use it to make something that consumes a lot of salt, such as cargotic acid

When the fire was lit, Xiao Er was so cold that he squatted on the side of the firewood and rubbed his hands vigorously, rubbing his ten fingers red, calculating the time - the top lid was smoking, he opened the pot, and admired the white rice porridge in the pot with great satisfaction, this is the first meal, the first bowl, and the first bite of the new year, "Hmm...... Fragrant! ”

"What crazy you are! The white porridge doesn't even taste good, the fragrant wood you use? Where does the incense come from? The boss walked into the house angrily, "Xiao Mo made a fuss all night last night, and he was embarrassed to be blind, and he was still a good man - he didn't ......cry much", and yawned after saying that he was also troubled until midnight

"The kid is naughty, the girl is quiet and ......", Xiao Er took a breath of satisfaction again, and used chopsticks to pick up a dish of vegetables from the crockpot, "The fragrance I am talking about is not porridge, but this sour radish ......"

Breakfast is sour radish with porridge, bacon is left until noon, rice cakes are pounded in the afternoon, and then I go to the pit of Lao Chang to paste the Spring Festival couplets - he ate so much in vain that he had to return to the book, and ...... in the evening By the way, hurry up and finish the porridge to go to the city to see the excitement, and bring a few new things, like the little clay figurines - the two dolls have to keep the New Year, and they will definitely close their eyes when they can't stay up at night when they have nothing to amuse

That's all the boss had on his mind at that time

"You look after the house in the shop, I'll go to the city for a walk......"

Xiao Er was naturally unhappy, "The blind man is here!" I want to go to ...... for the Chinese New Year."

"You know he's blind!" , the boss threw down this sentence and went out without looking back, "There must be someone in the shop who can really take care of things......"

Pouting, Xiao Er began to clean up the dishes, then wash the dishes, and then feed the children, cook food, wash old clothes, and clean the house...... There's a lot of stuff waiting for him......

Forget it...... Xiao Er looked at Lin Shu's room, "It's hard to be blind, let him rest for a while......", he left a little porridge

Lin Shu slept until three o'clock, Xiao Mo was tired and didn't cry anymore and slept calmly, Da Mo was very well-behaved - also heartless and heartless - her brother cried all night She still slept sweetly, she woke up early, climbed out of the wooden basket by herself, stayed by Lin Shu's pillow, bit her left finger, and the little hand on her right tentatively touched Lin Shu's face and took it back, smirking, "Huh...... Huh......"

It's not been a day or two since Da Mo has done this kind of thing, and the second brother and the boss have said that they should take care of her, or she will break if she falls

Tie her to a basket with a rope? - She's going to cry, looking at you with big wet eyes, and the two of them always compromise and loosen their mouths in the end, so give her some soothing? - No! The boss is righteous, children will become stupid when they eat this kind of thing......

Lin Shu helplessly picked up Lin Mo, Lin Mo hugged the neck of "Daddy", and kissed him on the face-this is what the boss has taught for a long time, she still smirked, "Daddy......"

The wind shook the paper window, and from the other side of the fence came the sound of a dog barking, and that was it...... Is the sound of snow? Quietly ...... It was very quiet, Lin Shu couldn't help but think of some things again, and he called softly, "Mother......"

It was not Lin Xian's "book" that should answer him outside the house—this was what he knew in his heart......

However, there was a sound of the bowl breaking - what he didn't expect, accompanied by a poignant **, "I...... Blind! Help me! ”

"Help! Help me! ”

What's going on? Lin Shu put down Lin Mo and listened to the voice: It was by the well of tears......

Xiao Er was there, holding the edge of the well with one hand, and grabbing his neck with the other - as if he was going to strangle himself to death, but in fact, he was completely out of breath, and his whole person was twisted into a ball in pain, and his voice gradually became weaker, "Blind! Blind ......"

"Little second brother, what's wrong with you?" , Lin Shu ran over when he heard the sound, and pressed Xiao Er's pulse in a panic, only to feel that he was dying, and one foot had stepped into the ghost gate

Xiao Er grudgingly grabbed Lin Shu's hand, angry as a gossamer, and looked into the room - there were a few round wooden tables in the main lobby, "blind...... That dish, you can't give ...... to the child", the voice gradually faded away

Cuisine? What dish? Lin Shu held Xiao Er's hand and gradually emptied, what happened? What about hands? Sand...... Turning into sand?

"Little second brother! What's going on? What's wrong with it? How is this still the case? Lin Shu looked around—even if he couldn't see it, he fluttered in the air, "Where have you been, where have you been!" ”

That's right...... The dish is the canned radish last month...... The altar is scheduled to be opened today......

Qiu Ju is out of town

The young master told her that she wanted to taste pancakes again—and that's a good thing

Nanzhi Hall changed hands, and sent people to the mansion to invite people to the banquet of the new lord - knowing that there were almost only maids left in the mansion, and no one was in charge...... I don't know what to do...... Sister Lan and Jing's mother were in a hurry

It's been an eventful year......

"Nanzhi Temple, die! Die! Destroy the door! Destroy the door! Qiu Ju muttered to herself, covering her stiff hands, and grabbing the embroidered money bag - the bag was embroidered by Sister Xia Zhu: it was not as good as Ting'er's craftsmanship, but it was also lifelike, it was a snow swallow, "quite a ...... for the occasion", she looked around: she was wrong...... There wasn't even a bird, where did the swallow come from......

"Ah...... There's a living man! Qiu Ju was overjoyed

It was Lao Chang, standing at the door, carrying a wooden barrel with a wall of dry paint like snow

"Boss! I have a lot of stickos left in my house, so I'll let you send you some! Luzi is Aunt Chang's nickname, because on the day she was born, her father saw the antlers for the first time in the city - brought by a foreigner, like a big tree fork cut in half, but he opened an expensive price, and gave birth to a daughter as a dowry, which means euphemistically - the daughter marries a good family, to put it bluntly, - sells the daughter at a good price, but unfortunately Chang does not touch any of them

"Hey, isn't there anybody?" , Lao Chang turned his head to see Qiu Ju, nodded as a greeting, the door of the tea shop was wide open, he called for a long time but no one responded, the wind rolled out a pile of messy paper, blown out of the old firewood house where the blind man lived, he picked up one, and looked horizontally and vertically

You ride to the mountains and seas

The concubine is alone and looks forward to the pavilion road

Come late with a red bean cool

There is no yang soup, like Meng soup

——Lin Shu, "Continuation of Poems IV: Siqiao (6)"

"I guess they took the two children into the city to play......", Lao Chang flattened the paper, "It's just a ghost drawing, what are those things...... Literati ......"

"I like this word so ......much", Qiu Ju leaned in, she couldn't understand the meaning of the poem at all, "The person who wrote this poem must be a ...... Well, it's ...... I don't know how to say it", Qiu Ju's eyes seemed to be on that piece of paper, "If it was written by a son, I would have to marry him in the future......"

Lao Chang glanced at Qiu Ju, "You can't say this casually, you are still young, and there are many people you will meet in the future...... that guy is indeed a man, but unfortunately he is still a cripple, speaking of which, Luzi was young and would be a ten out of ten beauty embryos, and now he ...... Don't mention it

I often looked at the empty tea shop and remembered that the woman was still waiting for me at home...... Maybe you've already made Chinese New Year's Eve meal......

The two walked out of the tea shop, the snow was very big, Qiu Ju was born in the year of the goose feather snow, after more than ten years of winter and spring are almost the same, the plum does not open, a few buds will fall into mud and dust, this year is just the opposite - after the winter does not stop, the spring snow is getting bigger and bigger, the rivers in this area are frozen early - when in previous years, I heard that there is even a river outside the city that froze in more than June, she looked at the messy traces on the snow, I don't know if it was the footprints of people or the traces of chickens dying and struggling in the dirt pecking insects, following those messy marks, she seemed to see a person lying on the edge of the well, reaching for the rotten wooden barrel, several times in a row before pulling the well rope, the wooden barrel fell into the cold water with a "poof", the man fetched the water, with his index finger - the index finger of the right hand dipped a little in his mouth and sucked for a while, suddenly cried, picked up a handful of ordinary snow sand, "My fault...... My fault...... It's all my fault......"

The water was salty, yes, tears salty, but there was also a sweetness—the sweetness of pears—the taste that Qiao'er liked......

Pears and tears, so ...... It's pear blossom tears......

"Then let's 'blossom steadily'......", the corner of the wall was piled with bamboo tubes stuffed with sealed notes, and no shots were fired......

Qiu Ju folded the piece of paper seriously, "I'm not just talking about it......"

The wind and snow cover the door, and the wilderness seems to be inhabited......