2. The sin of WTO accession
I remembered that I had a big fever when I first started, and Senior Sister Yun said that it was that illness that made me forget everything and burned my brain. I vaguely remember that I was so hot, it was like falling into a hell that I didn't know what level it was, and I couldn't even call for help. I tried to open my eyes, but it was dark, and the occasional figure just left without looking back. I remember that I held Agu's hand, even if my fingers were frozen purple, I would not let go, and I clung to it, the only straw.
Agu's hands are always so warm.
I don't understand what the patriarch is saying, but it must be a big truth. The patriarch rarely appeared, although he sat in a small sedan chair, his voice was still majestic and imposing. I don't wonder about the patriarch, and I don't envy any otherworldly experience, I'm just a very ordinary person, wouldn't it be nice to have a good time.
Staying away from the world, purifying the heart and desires, this is the teachings of the Qing Sect.
Then, after finally getting through this group lecture, the following is the time of worship and toast. The inner disciples and core disciples will bow to the master and talk to each other about their experiences. And we, the miscellaneous disciples, can only eat boxed lunches in the dining room, and it is already close to night, and there are many people, so it is a good opportunity.
Agu and I walked through the ninety-nine steps before we truly entered the WTO. The night was dark, and we had no lights, so we could only stagger by the moonlight.
I finally went down the mountain.
Along the way, Agu walked in a hurry, he pulled me, and we rode the wind to escape fate. Today is not a big day for the people, so there are not many people coming and going on the street. Everything is the same as I thought, everywhere is bright, the wine shops are in the alleys, and there is a chic fireworks. When I really saw the dazzling array of small goods from the vendors, this dream had just begun.
Agubi I am familiar with the environment, and he walks very naturally.
Red lanterns hung on the high-rise buildings of the restaurant next to them, devouring Agu little by little. The crowd passed by me in twos and threes, and I couldn't seem to tell what to do next. I kept my head down, my eyes wide for fear of leaving Agu's footprints, and I followed him like this, and the flowers around me had nothing to do with me, as long as it was us, wherever I went.
"Little girl, let's take a look at the hairpin."
The girl's sweet voice attracted me, and I stopped and walked to the hairpin shop. On the white flannel cloth are hairpins of different shapes and exquisite workmanship. I respect the craftsmen the most, even if it is just a piece of wood, they can engrave thousands of miles of mountains and rivers. I couldn't help but reach out and touch it, but I was afraid that this real chill would stab me.
"Xiao An, those of us who do chores, what are we doing with hairpins?" Agu's voice came from behind me, and he took the hand I wanted to test with a questioning face. Actually, I don't know, but I want to buy something as a souvenir and prove that I can make a decision. "This little girl has not yet reached the age of bundling her hair, her hair is very good, and it is convenient to have a hairpin."
"Yes, Agu, I'll pick one for you too, okay?"
I simply approached him and blew into his ear, Agu had a hard mouth and a soft heart, and it was better to speak. Sure enough, he hurriedly jumped away as if he was on fire, turned his head and didn't snort to agree. I have long taken a fancy to two hairpins, a hollow silver hairpin carved with mountain patterns, and the sound of the bell falling below is crisp, which is the most suitable for me; A solid wood hairpin with fragrant wood maple leaves, low-key and handsome, the most suitable for my Agu.
"Xiao An, I'm not a girl, how can I wear a hairpin in front of my senior brother." "Agu, then I can crown your hair in the future."
"Xiao An, do you understand or not, crown hair is what married couples do. You ......" Agu loves to compete on this, I laugh every time I listen to him scold and scold some crooked reasoning, I don't know what etiquette, I am so good with Agu, I am willing to do anything. "Sugar gourd, sugar man candy skewers." It's night, it's like the casino has just begun, the crowds are crowded, and the sound of sugar gourds beckons Agu and me to keep going. Agu was worried that I would lose my mind and let me stay where I was until he returned. There is a special fragrance on the street, mixed with firewood, rice, oil and salt, and the shadow puppet show is not performed.
In the crowd, there is always someone waiting for you.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd. Everyone crowded into two rows, leaving an empty passage. The carriage trampled on the ground deafeningly, and there was another delightful sound in the sedan chair. The sedan chair is very beautiful, the windows around it are hollowed, the gauze curtains are purple, and even the sedan chair surface is painted with purple eagle patterns. I was suddenly in a hurry, I didn't have time to appreciate the aesthetics of the aristocracy, I tried to push away waves of strangers, but I couldn't find Agu, he disappeared with the sugar gourd!
Don't go, please don't go, save me!
My eyes went dark, and the voice in my ears changed. It's as if life has changed dramatically, and I have fallen back into the memory of sometime. I was disheveled, and there were fragments of something in front of me, and they pierced me all over my body, but I didn't care about anything else, just crawled step by step, chasing an invisible figure.
I was dumb and couldn't call out his name.
The neighing of the fiery horse woke me up, and I fell into the dust, with a figure in front of me. No matter how embarrassed it was, I remembered that figure for the rest of my life. The surrounding villagers only cared about watching the excitement, and the carriage was forced to stop, and the noble son inside sent the butler and the coachman to beat him for a while. Obviously, we are also human beings, but in the eyes of these nobles, our lives are like mustard.
I tried to go up and explain, but my mouth couldn't shout. I could only squint, crawl under a pile of footprints, and then stand in front of him, and be beaten in different ways. The coachman was the hardest of all, and he kicked us both away, and then went back to calm the frightened horses. The carriage grunted mercilessly and laughed at us, and then left haughtily.
My palms were cold, and sure enough, he was bleeding.
Blood stained his white shirt, a little glaring. We were kicked into the corner of the wall behind the crowd, and I realized that he wasn't Agu. He was taller than me, fell harder than me, had whip marks on his chest, and had a dark forehead. I am now in his arms, and I have become a burden.
I listened to the powerful heartbeat in his chest, and I breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, this person is good-looking, his hair is tied with a white cloth belt, his facial features are handsome, he is wearing a simple white shirt with an indescribable righteousness.
But he's not my Agu.
I may have been beaten, and tears stained his wood-colored coat again, only to make us even more embarrassed. His arms are warm, and his arms are strong to protect me, but no matter how good he is, he is not Agu. I tried to find a handkerchief to wipe my tears, but I found that the hairpin in the cuff was missing.
I lost Agu, hurt strangers, and lost hairpins, how much failure does a person have to live like me? It seems that the step of leaving the door is destined for me to no longer be protected by luck.
"What are you crying about? I'm not dead, sir. ”
I turned my head and it turned out that he was awake. I obediently stayed away from him, so as not to touch the wound. Separated by a wall, the joy outside was like the past, and we looked at each other, not knowing what to think. He was a little fierce, but his voice was very good, and I was subconsciously obedient and stopped crying.
"Thank you."
"Little thing, I've long seen that the stinky boy of the scone family is dissatisfied. But you're really stupid, you're tired of crashing into a carriage? He looked at me with disdain. The moonlight poured down, crowning him with holy light, and he leaned against the wall as if far away from my world.
"Sure enough, he was a fool, and he didn't reply when I scolded him. Hey, your thing, you almost didn't murder me, you're responsible for the money. He took the hairpin out of his bosom and threw it in the palm of my hand impartially. It's hard to get back lost, I didn't understand it at that time, and some things were destined to never be recovered. I put it in my bag and stood up slowly against the wall. I've got to go to Agu, I've got to go to him.
"Hey, you still want to escape, what about my compensation?" He didn't know when he came to me, grabbed me by the waist, pushed me sideways against the wall, and looked at me viciously.
"You've been calling Agu's name since just now, who is he? Obviously, I saved you, but it's too ruthless for you to go like this. "He won't let me go, and I won't be able to break free. I was in his arms, and I couldn't even breathe. If it was Agu, he wouldn't be so fierce to me.
"Hey, don't cry, make yourself like a little daughter-in-law. Forget it, today I am chivalrous and righteous, I don't want money, I will accompany you to find Agu. Don't cry, good. He couldn't see me shedding tears, so he hurriedly wiped my cuffs and wiped my blood. It was rare for him to lower his breath, and his temperament was the same, pulling me around the streets and alleys.
"Little daughter-in-law, what does your Agu look like?"
"I'm not a little daughter-in-law, you should call me Yi'an." I was dizzy by him and stopped to catch my breath. This person is really not serious, he can speak nonsense, he is obviously just a beggar, and he has an unruly face. He talks a lot, likes to tell jokes to make me laugh, and he can tell the gossip of this street.
"Yi Xiaoqi, have you always lived on this street?"
"Otherwise, I don't have a father and mother to support, I will live wherever my eldest brother lives, and my life will be happy."
"Don't be discouraged, maybe your father and mother are very good people."
I looked at the back of Yi Xiaoqida walking and felt very familiar. I can't remember my parents, but I don't live as freely as him. He thinks I'm stupid, but no matter how fast or slow I go, he only cares about me one step away, no more, no less, we can see each other.
It was late at night, and there was only a bleak bleak street without lights.
I'm a little anxious, Agu said that I was waiting for him on the spot, I'm running around now, he must be in a hurry. The evening breeze is cool, the neighborhood is closed, and there is no longer the warmth of my dreams. Yi Xiaoqi only cared about drinking the soju that had just been picked up at the door of the inn, and used it to wake up our two sinners.
"I'll send you back."
Yi Xiaoqi was wounded, and his face was already pale. We walked around most of the township, and our legs were bruised. Although Xiao Qi didn't say it, I understood what he meant, it's just that I believe in Agu. I moved to where I had been waiting, curled up in a ball, and prayed in my heart that the wind would bring Agu back.
"Little daughter-in-law, it's too cold this day, I'll send you back. If Agu finds it, I'll go up the mountain to find you, if he's on the mountain, isn't it right? "He was wearing less than I was, and he was shivering from the cold. Yi Xiaoqi couldn't hold back his words, and when he got up, he wanted to pull me, but he didn't understand why I would rather freeze to death than wait for someone stupidly, he didn't understand what I was thinking.
"But Agu said he wanted me to wait for him." I shook off his hand and bowed my head and wept. I got into trouble alone, and I can't drag Yi Xiaoqi down. Senior Sister Yun said that I was like a disobedient child, and no one could hold me back if I was stubborn. Tears dripped from the wound on my arm, but the real pain could not wake me. Time can't be repeated, I have a feeling that Agu has indeed left.
If it's a dream, please wake me up.
I seemed to hear the sound of sugar gourds shattering, surrounded by glittering pools of wine. I was so carefully dressed up, imprisoned in a cage of gold wire, listening to the insults of money. Then he came, like a god, sweet talk, and another shackle.
Don't believe him!
"Lin Yi, it's time for you to wake up." Who's calling whose name in the night? Could it be that everything I have experienced is just a dream? I want to know the answer, I want to see if that person is my Agu. God can take everything from me, but please don't drive him away.
I opened my eyes again, and sure enough, like a dream, I returned to Qingmen.
Senior Sister Sun Yun fell asleep on the desk in the front hall, and I looked at the bandages and medicine bottles scattered on the ground, and I knew that everything yesterday was not a dream. I casually put on a green gown, forgot to put on my shoes, and ran out in a hurry. Running over the small stone road, taking a shortcut over the bamboo wall, I left a blood mark on the ground and ran back to the cabin where I and Agu were.
"Agu, Agu, where are you? I am back. "I rummaged through the cabinets, afraid that he would play hide and seek with me. It's just that Agu's things are gone, there is a jar of daisies missing from the windowsill we arranged together, there is one less burden in the place where we store treasures together, everything is missing, and the whole house is empty. It turned out that there was a curtain separating the two of us in this room, and now, time has pushed the two of us apart.
"Xiao An, you're not okay, don't run around, okay?"
Senior Sister Yun didn't know when she was standing at the door, she held the curtain and looked at me with a smile. Maybe I was making too much noise, and slowly the cabin was surrounded by people trying to spy on me through every gap. Senior Sister Yun walked in lightly, but the wooden board kept wailing. With each step she took, my heart beat faster and faster, suffocating like a suicide.
I can't escape.
"Agu, Agu, help me. Senior Sister Yun, I was wrong, can you give me back Agu? Agu, Agu, woowoo......"
I had no choice but to pull under Senior Sister Yun's navy blue skirt and beg bitterly. She bent over my face, still whispering softly.
"Xiao An, you must have been burned by the wind and cold last night, let's clear the door, there is no such person as Agu."
"No, no, Agu lives with me and he's my best friend. Senior Sister Yun, how can you forget Agu? I watched in disbelief as Senior Sister Yun said such heartless words word by word, she looked at me with a puzzled expression, but her face was hateful and indescribable.
All the brothers and sisters looked at me with puzzled expressions.
"No, no. Senior Brother Qi, you arranged for me and Agu to go to clear the snow; Senior Brother Wang, you are in charge of the chores of Aguna's group, and also, Senior Sister Yun, you have received the letter of apology written by me and Agu, and there are many other things, how can you not remember? "I look forward to the brothers and sisters who will laugh with me in the future, and their eyes are full of longing, even if only one person still remembers Agu, it is enough.
"Xiao An, you have been working with Senior Brother Mu, it is Senior Brother Mu who works with Senior Brother Wang, and I have only received your letter of apology. The words were crooked, and I laughed for a while. Xiao An, you really remember wrong. ”
The sunlight squeezed through the cracks in the windows, but it couldn't shine on the people in the room.
I had thought that Agu hadn't come back, or that he had gotten lost on that street. But I never thought that this clearance with hundreds of people would kill my dream alive. I looked at this group of strangers, who were still so gentle, dressed in the same robes as me, each standing in the shadows, killing me with a knife.
Yes, hairpins, and hairpins.
I took out the silver hairpin from my bag, the bell was crisp, and I saw the sadness flashing in my sister's eyes. I pushed her away, held the hairpin against my throat, and walked to the door tremblingly.
"Agu and I have a hairpin, how do you explain it?"
I have to escape and find Yi Xiaoqi, only he can help me find Agu. I felt the stripe on the door frame where I had recorded my height with Agu, and finally I couldn't stop crying. My Agu, who has been with me for three years, can't be just a dream.
"Xiao An, I shouldn't have taken you down the mountain to play, so that you could have these nonsense thoughts."
Senior Sister Sun Yun got up and looked at me, she frowned, her tone so sincere. It was as if for a moment, everything I knew was fake. They are so natural, and they forget Agu without emotion, as simple as forgetting to eat. I looked at everyone's blank eyes, and I just felt the cold. Yes, I get it, I'm a fool, no matter what I say, no one will believe it.
That's how I lost Agu, for no apparent reason.