Chapter 1: Shepherding
At the end of the day, the sun is warm, and it is uncomfortable to shine on people. The pen "fun" pavilion www.biquge.info the sparkling river reflects the small city of Qu'a, the city wall made of wood and soil is not more than four zhang high, several wooden poles are obliquely inserted on the battlement, the top of the wooden pole is suspended with a rope and a broken flag, the flag is earthy yellow, and there is a big character on it: "Chu! ”
Under the Chu word, a ball of black rags was piled up, and an old farmer with a face full of vicissitudes led a swarthy buffalo through the wall, and the buffalo was comfortably illuminated by the warm sun, raised his head and barked two or three times, cocked the tail of the cow surrounded by flies, and pulled out several large pieces of with a few pops.
After the laxative comfort, the buffalo was in a happy mood, arched the cow's back and rubbed against the earthen wall, and the breeze blew, taking away a lot of cow hair and dirt ash. The old peasant stood under the earthen wall and yawned a lot, glanced at the riverside with his eyes, and immediately rejoiced: Yo! Under the crooked neck willow tree by the river, a descendant with a grass mark on his head, with a black face, is grinning and rubbing the bark with his back, looking at the monkey jumping, isn't it the same as his own cow?
The old peasant held a small bamboo stick and shouted to that side: "Shepherd! Are you as itchy as my cow! ”
Hearing the sound, Hou Sheng stopped rubbing, raised his head and shouted at the old farmer: "I'm just itchy skin!" Endurance! How? ”
The old peasant laughed, pointed to the sheep by the river with his stick, and said, "If you don't care about your sheep anymore, if you get lost, you will be beaten again!" ”
Hou Sheng snorted, turned his head to look at his sheep, and saw that he had indeed gone far, so he jumped down from the heel of the tree, and after falling down the ridge, he left two deep footprints in the grass and soft mud, and chased after his sheep like the wind.
At the head of the Yangtze River, the water surface is extremely wide, and when you stand on the shore and look at the opposite side, you can only look at the water surface that you are well versed in. The girl with laundry squatted on the bluestone, humming the Yue Ren song of the Danyang realm, and the song gradually drifted away with the breeze. Smelling the grass and listening to the sound of the wind, when the fish jump out of the water, the song in the wind becomes more and more melodious.
"Tonight and night are in the middle of the boat, and today and day are in the same boat with the prince. Shame was so embarrassed and ashamed, and he was annoyed and worried about the prince. The mountains have trees and branches, and the heart is pleasing to the king. ”
The water rippled slightly, the singing became louder and louder, and the sheep on the bank of the river ran more happily. When the latter drove the sheep to the edge of the river, he could no longer run, lying in the soft reeds, looking at the birds flying in the sky from time to time, but the latter life's face showed a blank look.
The dragonfly rested on the bridge of his straight nose, flapping its wings slightly, and staring at his face with two huge eyes: under the two thick eyebrows, there were a pair of black and blue eyes, a whip mark on the left cheek, a slight swelling on the right side of the face, and a cracked and swollen lip like a sausage. Looking downward, even the neck and shoulders can be seen with ugly whip marks.
Housheng gasped, his chest kept rising and falling, the dragonfly was tired of being on the bridge of his nose, and then changed to the top of his head, and Housheng didn't pay attention to it, just secretly thinking about his own things in his heart:
Memories are like broken glass, no matter how you put them together, they will not be complete. It's just that through the fragment of the spirit star, the future life knows that he is not a person of this era, he remembers that he comes from the future, but he doesn't remember where the future is? What is your last name and what is your name? Just think about it, the pain of the skull feels like it's about to tear. And here, he is not very familiar with it, although he can understand what the people around him are saying, can understand what they do, but he can't pay attention to what he is.
In this era, he also did not have a name, only that he herded sheep for many years for Qu Gong, the squire of Qu'a City, and the people around him called him 'shepherd'. Over time, shepherd became his name.
Confused eyes looked at the blue sky, where a few white clouds floated. The sky is clearer than ever, but I don't know what time it is? Where are you?
Thinking about it, the shepherd was already in tears. Tears trickled down his cheeks and soaked into his wounds, and he felt pain. And he didn't know how many times he had experienced such pain, so at this time he just twitched his face.
The breeze faded away, the tears were dry, a white hand swayed in front of his eyes, the shepherd grabbed the hand, then turned over and sat up, heard a soft cry in his ears, the shepherd frowned and looked at the girl squatting in front of him, her face was still twitching unnaturally, and then asked, "What are you doing here?" ”
After saying that, I didn't see an answer, but after a while I came to my senses and muttered, "I forgot that you were a dumb person again!" Touching the wooden basin beside the maiden, where the wrung out clothes and the wooden sticks were struck, the shepherd asked softly, "Have you finished washing your clothes?" ”
The girl smiled and nodded, stretched out her finger and gently pointed at the wound on the shepherd's face, her eyebrows and eyes full of concern. The shepherd shook his head indifferently, pulled the reed next to him, picked up a twig and put it in his mouth, and hummed and said: "This little injury is not in the way, the eldest husband has rough skin and thick meat, and he will be fine in two days." ”
Saying that, by the way, she patted her chest twice, but accidentally touched the wound, and inevitably sighed twice, and the girl laughed, and two red flowers floated on her face. She gestured with her hand and asked, but the shepherd also knew what she was asking, but she pursed her mouth and put on a stinky face and said, "Ask me why I want to run away?" Why don't I run away? To tell you the truth, I'm a traverser, do you know the traverser? I guess you don't know, as a dignified traverser, if I nest here all day long for the stingy old immortal to herd sheep every day, what fun is there in life? ”
When the shepherd had finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the girl, and saw that she was thinking hard about her words in a daze, and could not help but smile. The girl seemed to be even more shy when she saw him laughing, and she lowered her head in silence for a while, then suddenly took the shepherd's hand and held it tightly. The shepherd didn't know what she was going to do, so she stayed there for a while, feeling the hand that held her palm very tightly.
When the sheep had drunk water at the bend and ran up the river under the leadership of the head sheep, the shepherd came back to his senses, and he quickly withdrew his hand, pointed at the flock, and cried out, "The sheep have run upstream, and I must drive them back!" ”
As she spoke, she ran quickly, and the girl looked at him in a daze, until his figure became one with the flock, and then she bent down to pick up the tub. Just as she turned to leave, a shepherd's voice came from behind: "Hey! I don't have a name, but because I raise sheep, I'm called a shepherd. You don't have a name either, or I'll pick one for you? ”
The girl was stunned for a moment, and when she saw the white crane flying out of the reeds, and saw a red carp jumping on the river, and the sunset dyed red on the river, she suddenly turned around and looked closely at the vague shadows in front of her.
"If you don't speak, I'll take you as a promise! You are a laundryman, so why don't you call it Xiyi! Do you think it sounds good? ”
"Lao Tzu once said: Seeing it is not famous and saying Yi, and hearing it is not famous and saying Xi. You see, there are allusions too! ”
"Hey...... Did you hear that? From now on, everyone will call you Xiyi, and they will never call you dumb again! ”
The girl's eyes suddenly turned red, and her hand squeezed the tub tightly, and then nodded vigorously. When tears fell from her eyes, she smiled. The smile reflects the red glow on the river, forming a most beautiful scenery.
When the sun sets and the finches return to their nests, the shepherds drive the flocks to prepare to return home. His shadow was reflected on the river, and it became very long, long, and the breeze stirred his clothes, and lifted the rags that covered his chest, and just above his heart, a small word loomed. That word is extremely complicated, but it is a Chu Wen.
If the shepherd knows, he will know, it is a heart word.