Chapter Seventy-Five: The Hunt
A big saffron sedan chair bumps on the loess avenue.
Walking in the front is Huo Huyuan, he is dressed as a groom, but he is not in the mood of a groom, he is undoubtedly the most unlucky groom in the world.
The candles in the cave room, the bride was terminally ill, he worshiped the church alone to get married, and he has not seen the bride so far. This is not counting, he should have been newly married, and he had to send the bride to a small mountain village hundreds of miles away for medical treatment.
The wood has been completed, and Huo Huyuan handed water and urinal all the way, working hard and complaining.
The bride stretched out a pair of hands to catch water outside the sedan car, Huo Huyuan really didn't dare to compliment, this is a pair of hands full of green tendons, no matter from which angle it looks more like a man.
Huo Huyuan didn't doubt the authenticity of the woman in the sedan chair, because Huang Po affirmed from the beginning that the bride had some of the characteristics of a man, with big hands and feet, and rough hair, so he didn't take it to heart.
Huo Huyuan was originally a person who was easy to satisfy, and to have a woman called his wife for him to serve, he even felt that this was a blessing he had cultivated in his previous life.
In front of it is a three-way intersection, and there is a restaurant called "Sitting and Eating Mountain" on the official road on the right.
Seeing this name, Huo Huyuan wanted to laugh, how could there be a restaurant with this name? This area is separated by mountains and rivers, probably taking the meaning of "sitting and eating and not seeing the mountains".
After a day's journey, the patient needs to rest, and the sedan chair driver needs to rest, so Huo Nursing Hospital ordered the big red sedan chair to be parked in front of the restaurant in front of the restaurant.
There was a rush of horses' hooves from behind, dust in the distance, and horses' heads were clustered in the billowing yellow smoke, and it was impossible to see how many horses there were.
The patient in the sedan said*: "Let me come down." ”
Huo Huyuan was overjoyed.
The patient never got off the sedan chair, and along the way, Huo Nursing Home reminded the patient that it was time to drink water, and the patient stretched out his hand out of the curtain, silently took the bowl in Huo Nursing Hospital's hand, and never met Huo Nursing Hospital. took the initiative to come down today, seeing that the husband and wife were about to meet, Huo Huyuan was very excited in his heart.
The patient trembled and got out of the sedan chair, only to see that her body was not her head, it turned out that she was wearing a wedding dress, and her head was covered with a colorful red cloth, and Huo Nursing Home was slightly surprised.
It was close at hand, but he still couldn't see the bride, and Huo Huyuan's chest was uncomfortably blocked. Maybe the patient is afraid of the wind, and Huo Nursing Home makes excuses for himself.
The wedding clothes of the two complement each other, it is really a pair made in heaven and a pair on the ground. Huo Huyuan then straightened his chest and hugged the woman with his waist, and the woman was as heavy as a stone.
Huo Huyuan's heart sank.
Entering the restaurant, Huo Nursing Hospital sat the patient, and the patient lay on the table, panting constantly, looking extremely weak. Seeing that she was uncomfortable, Huo Huyuan's heart softened a little, and he was no longer suspicious, and sat down next to her.
The two palanquin drivers followed in and picked a corner.
When Huang Po sent them out of the official road, she handed them over to Huo Nursing Home for a number of entanglements, and the patients didn't eat much, so Huo Nursing Home naturally saved money. He was accustomed to a hard life, and two baked cakes could satisfy his hunger. It was different now, because there was one more person by his side, a person he called his wife, Huo Huyuan felt that he should celebrate himself, so he rightly shouted at the store.
He asked for half a catty of knife roast, two steamed eels, a mountain treasure old duck pot, and ordered three taels of stir-fried beef and some braised vegetables for the palanquin man. Then he told the store to boil a few large bowls of lotus seed soup, the heat should be just right, the lotus seeds must be stewed to a thin scale, plus good rock sugar. The lotus seed soup was prepared for his wife, and he asked the shopkeeper to do it with his heart.
The stormy sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and stopped abruptly in front ......of the restaurant.
After a while, there was a sound of bamboo canes knocking on the ground outside the door, and there was an uninvited guest in the village.
The uninvited guest had high cheekbones, deep-set eyes, and gray eyes, and looked like a blind man. Others didn't think that the blind man was anything special, but Huo Huyuan was in his heart: This blind man knows the way and must have something extraordinary.
The blind man rolled his eyes, and without waiting for the guy to greet him, he sat opposite the Huo Nursing Courtyard. Huo Huyuan saw that the blind man looked blank and ignored it.
Then walked into a middle-aged knight, dressed in leather shoes, with a horsewhip around his waist, neat and neat. Huo Huyuan saw that there was a sense of pride between this person's eyebrows, and his obscene body was far from this person, and he didn't feel ashamed.
The middle-aged knight looked at Huo Huyuan holding the bride, shook his head and smiled, and chose a table on the right to take a seat.
"Ahh A man rolled in, wheezing for breath.
He is said to roll because he is short and fat, and he walks like a snowball. The fat man is more tired than ordinary people in everything, and at this moment he was so tired that he was lying on the table behind Huo Huyuan and panting: "Next time, I won't ride a horse if I say anything." ”
The middle-aged knight looked at the fat man, with a little more sympathy in his eyes, and said with a smile: "This is the truth, you are not tired to death, the horse is tired to death first." ”
The fat man stomped his feet, becoming more and more self-conscious.
The blind man who came first asked for a pot of oolong tea and poured himself a drink, deaf to the words of the two.
As he was talking, a soft voice like a silver bell sounded outside the door: "Nonsense, nonsense, obviously you stepped on it first, why did you rely on my head." ”
As soon as the words fell, two petite figures blew into the house with a gust of wind, the wind must be clear, everyone's eyes lit up, and the village suddenly became bright.
These are two girls with ice muscles and jade bones, willow and warbler, one in white and one in red and a butterfly.
The girl in white was pursing the corners of her mouth, as if she was still angry, and everyone guessed that the rebuke just now came from her mouth.
The girl in red had a frosty face, obviously angered by the girl in white's confrontation, and her small mouth was unrelenting: "It's you, it's you, it's you who did it on purpose." ”
The girl in white felt very aggrieved and argued: "You ride in front of me, even if you step on it, you will step on it first." ”
The girl in red stared at her apricot eyes and grabbed white: "I remind you to pay attention to forget-me-not under the horse's hooves, but you just stepped on it, just because you can't get along with me!" ”
The girl in red spoke harshly, and the girl in white had crystal clear eyes and tears coming out of her eyes.
The name of "Forget-me-not" is actually an extremely ordinary flower, and two girls who have not opened their love have made a fuss about it, and everyone can't help but feel a lot of regrets.
Huo Huyuan felt the woman next to her twitch, could it be that she was also moved by the words "forget-me-not"? Huo Huyuan's soft intestines are turning: This road depends on each other, I hope we don't forget each other in the future.
The two girls were still angry, the middle-aged knight and Humpty Dumpty persuaded each other with good words, and the two girls calmed down the dispute and sat on the left side of the Huo Nursing Courtyard.
After a few mouthfuls of knives and wine, Huo Huyuan's stomach burned, he usually didn't drink much, and his drunkenness gradually appeared. For some reason, the woman beside him was trembling more and more, what was she afraid of?
Huo Huyuan looked around and was startled: the eyes of the middle-aged knight, Humpty Dumpty, and red and white girls all focused on him and his woman, staring at him.
Even the blind man's eyes glowed with blue.
Huo Huyuan was vigilant: These people are obviously in a group, but they don't sit at the same table, but prefer to choose east, west, north and south to sit separately. On the opposite side is the blind man, on the right is the middle-aged knight, on the left is the red and white girl, and on the back is Humpty Dumpty, and they quietly form a situation of encirclement.
Huo Huyuan and his woman were among them, and these people were obviously coming at the two of them.
Huo Huyuan's head grew bigger, he didn't know these people at all, he couldn't figure out what to offend them. Huo Huyuan's eyes fell on the woman, and his heart moved: Could it be that this woman and the other party are married?
Even if the two sides have a holiday, the middle-aged knight, the short and fat man, the red and white girl, and the blind man don't need to make such a big fuss and ask the teacher about a seriously ill woman. Huo Huyuan was indignant.
Huang Po's advice recalled in his ear: "She is your wife, and you must protect her even if you die to the death." ”
Huo Huyuan's eyes suddenly became firm.
The atmosphere in the village became more and more tense, and the air was full of murderous aura.
The defenseless Huo Huyuan and his wife looked so weak and helpless, like two lambs that had fallen into a hungry wolf, and like a small boat in the stormy waves.
The catastrophe is coming, it stands to reason that a bad old man like Huo Huyuan who is weak and can't help the wind has long been frightened and bloodless, but in fact, on the contrary, Huo Huyuan's right hand holding the wine glass is still so fixed, and the left hand holding the woman is still so powerful. I can't see the word fear in him at all,
Cool as a cucumber! At the moment of life and death, only a master can be calm.
"There's a bride here, why don't you ask her for a glass of wine." A clear voice pierced the terrible silence, and it turned out to be the girl in red who spoke to the girl in white regardless of her previous suspicions.
The girl in white whispered like a nightingale: "This is ...... Not quite right? ”
The girl in red's eyes flowed, and she said happily: "The bride is dressed so beautifully, she is definitely a great beauty, we bless her in the past." ”
The girl in white squeaked.
Huo Huyuan drank wine, carried braised vegetables, and held the woman in his left hand, silently.
The girl in red smiled, and walked lightly towards Huo Nursing Courtyard, which suddenly stopped moving with the pickled vegetable chopstick.
Huo Huyuan and the bride's backs were completely exposed in front of the girl in red, and for the girl in red, this was a good opportunity for a sneak attack.
Of course, the girl in red will seize this opportunity, and of course she will make a move, and her right palm will silently slap several big holes on the bride's back.
Seeing that the palm of the palm could be imprinted on the back of the bride, Huo Huyuan seemed to have a pair of eyes on the back of his head, a backhand, and a poisonous snake spit out the letter, devouring the palm of the girl in red. The girl in red hurriedly withdrew her hand, it was too late, the head of the chopstick pressed against her palm, as long as she sent it forward, the palm was pierced.
The girl in red was frightened and frightened, and she didn't know what to do.
It was too late, it was fast, and a whip swept in with the power of thunder, and the middle-aged knight saw that the situation was in danger and whipped to help. He saw that the whip was entangled in the chopsticks of Huo Huyuan, and he pulled hard, but the chopsticks did not move.
The girl in red wanted to take the opportunity to withdraw her palm, but she was sucked by a pair of chopsticks from Huo Huyuan.
Humpty Dumpty was horrified to watch. Who is Huo Huyuan? There has never been a legend of him on the rivers and lakes.