Spring turns to autumn, and after a few months, the large areas of aquatic plants with purple flowers on the shore of the lake have gradually withered, and it is difficult to find a trace. In the distance, the dreary and monotonous woods of summer are dressed in red and yellow under the blowing of the autumn wind. At sunrise, I carried my newly woven rattan basket and hummed a minor tune all the way to the woods.

Half a month ago, I was hunting in the woods and found a few wild pear trees. It was a pear tree that had grown for seven or eight years, and its dense branches were densely packed with clusters of dark green wild pears. Wild pears have little flesh and large kernels, and even if they are ripe, they are still sour. But if you put ** wild pears and stew them with fat wild ducks, the fat but not greasy, crispy duck meat makes people salivate when they think about it now.

The country of Chu is vast and sparsely populated, and I have seen Chu people rowing canoe hunting birds and fishing in the water pool of Yunmengze. But in this grove along the lake, I never met anyone else. Over time, I made this grove my own backyard. Here I collected medicine, practiced swords, and tied stones with hemp rope to hunt. As long as you grab one end of the twine, shake the other end of the stone and throw it out, and the lynx hiding in the tree and stealing the young birds will be planted under the tree. This trick was taught to me by Chen Yi, in fact, he and his friends taught me a lot. When a woman lives alone, there is always a lot to learn.

The lively Fusu Pavilion in the Song Kingdom makes me feel lonely, but the lonely mountains in the Chu Kingdom make me feel lively and comfortable.

I hunted, hunted birds, fished, and when the sun was good, I lay down on the grass by the lake and slept. One sleep is an hour or two. Sometimes, I am woken up by a flock of geese flying in the sky; Sometimes, some stupid rabbits will come and gnaw on the leaves that cover my face; Of course, most of the time I was woken up by the anxious Chu people. The Chu people are still witches, but not every witch is willing to travel dozens of miles for a small bag of rations to treat the Shu people. I'm a shaman, a healer, and most importantly, I have plenty of time to walk. Therefore, the Chu people who live within a radius of 50 miles like to come to me for treatment.

Chu is so hot and humid that in a summer, at least one out of ten people will die of fever or malaria. In the past few months, I have spent most of my time walking between the villages on the banks of Yunmengze, treating people and teaching them how to cook some anti-disease decoctions. Now that the weather is colder and there are fewer sick people, I have to worry about my food.

Before sunset, I went home with a basket full of wild pears, and chose a few larger stewed ducks, and stored the rest in a clay urn to see if I could use it to make new fruit wine. The day, until I fell asleep, was pleasant.

That night, I dreamed of Shirtless. Actually, I was not surprised that I would see him in my dreams, and he has been a regular visitor to my dreams ever since I saw him and his bride in the bamboo garden that day. At first, I rejected and resisted, and when I woke up, I often sat in a daze for the people in my dreams and the things in my dreams. He's forgotten about me, so I'm desperate to forget about him too.

But then, I was relieved. I understand that I can't forget him because I dreamed of him. I dreamed of him because I couldn't forget him. Those memories of the past have become my dreams, and I accept them with ease, but I don't think about them when I wake up.

Tonight, he came to my dream again, and I dreamed that he was sitting on the edge of the bed and gently caressing my eyes. He said, you never believed me, did you? You have the gentlest and most lovable eyes in the world, but you have a mouth that can deceive people and a heart that is as cold as ice. You left me, just like you left the Qin State and that person back then. You know that you made a decision that was best for him, just like you thought you had made a decision that was best for me. But woman, who gave you the power to choose? Why didn't I have a chance to say no? Now, everything is as you expected, are you happy? Satisfied?

In the darkness, I tried desperately to speak, but I couldn't, my soul awoke, but my body was still asleep. He lay down beside me, he hugged me tightly from behind, he kissed me lightly on the cheek, my ears, and his cold fingertips gradually peeled off my bedclothes. I muttered in my dreams, and he kissed all the way down my neck to my shivering shoulder blades. He sighed, his slender fingers reaching into my wide open collar, his hot lips teasing behind me. I wanted to struggle, but my body ignored my will.

Ah Shi, why are you torturing me like this? Why can't I be happy? In the darkness, he flipped me over and pressed me down heavily. His hot, soft lips moved inch by inch against my bare back, and then he opened his mouth to bite the fine flesh of my waist.

He resented me, and his kiss was filled with rebuke and despair, and I couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality, so I simply let myself sink into the storm he had created.

In the early morning, a few loud geese chirped in the reeds woke me up, and I turned over in a daze.

Pain, the body is very real pain. After a moment of stunnedness, I lifted the quilt and rushed out of the room like an arrow.

Is that you? Have you been here?

I called out his name loudly in the reeds of Yunmengze with my bare feet, and the reeds flying in the sky drifted far away with my voice. I ran and shouted all the way, but between heaven and earth, there was still only the sound of water, wind and chirping birds. Compared to the reality of last night, everything in front of me was more like a dream, a melancholy and bewildering dream.

No, he's not here, maybe he hasn't been here at all......

I sat on my knees beside the mighty lake, and the morning mist that permeated the lake was blown by the autumn wind and rushed past me.

On the shore of Luoxing Lake, we got married and had a good time, and it was more than a year ago in a blink of an eye. After leaving him, I had some dreams that could not be communicated with outsiders, but not once were so clear, so real, so real that I suspected that it was not a dream at all. I knelt beside the lake and gently pulled off my bedgown, soaked in the morning mist. Maybe he did, maybe I still have the mark he left on my back from last night...... I struggled to turn around, tilting my head to see my reflection in the lake.

A gust of wind passed, and the lake was slightly wrinkled. I hugged my ** body and couldn't help but shudder.

Oh my God, what the hell am I doing right now! Loosening clothes and untying in the field during the day, just to prove a ridiculous dream?

I cursed myself in my heart as I quickly picked up my clothes on the floor and wrapped myself up. said that I would not think about him anymore, it was just a dream, just a dream. I fastened the straps around my waist, took a deep breath of cold air, and stood up. In the distance, a wisp of green smoke curled up from the snow-white reeds.

That's the direction of the wooden house, isn't it?

I tightened my bedclothes and ran quickly towards the hut.

Outside the hut, a fire was rising from the stove, and a brown clay hanging kettle was bubbling hot. In the green smoke and white fog, someone in green clothes looked into the distance.

"Big brother?" I stopped running and stopped where I was. Disappointed? Maybe a little, but who will come to me now except Chen Wei!

"It's autumn, why don't you go out without wearing a robe and shoes and socks?" Chen turned his head to look at me, and quickly put it aside.

I glanced down at my thin silk bedcoat soaked with morning dew and my bare feet stained with grass clippings and mud, and walked towards him with a smile and clenched my arms: "Big brother forgot that I grew up in Yongcheng, and the autumn of Chu is hotter than the summer of Qin, and it is a pleasant thing to walk barefoot along the shore of the lake in the morning." ”

"Let's get dressed first, I have something to tell you." Chen Yi glanced up at me, and quickly looked away.

"Well, you wait for me for a moment." I trotted into the house, changed into a robe, put on shoes and socks, and my original turmoil due to dreams gradually regained its calm, "Big brother, how many days are you going to stay this time?" I fastened my belt and walked briskly down the steps. On the shore of the lake, Chen Yi cooked a pot of fragrant rice soup from dried rice.

"Don't stop, I'm going to take a boat from Yunmengze to Yingdu today, and I'll come by to see you."

"What are you going to do in Yingdu?" I walked over to the stove and scooped myself a bowl of hot rice soup with a long bamboo spoon.

"The king of Chu sent a large army to Tongcheng of Wu State a month ago, and the nobles in the capital were afraid that once the Chu army was defeated and retreated, they would be retaliated by the Wu State, so they were recruiting swordsmen who could protect them from the Yingdu with a lot of money." Chen Wei said as he sharpened the wooden chopsticks in his hand with a dagger.

"Recruit swordsmen to prepare to escape before the battle is fought? Hmph, the nobles of the Chu State really cherish their lives. Wu Zixu led his troops to attack Yingdu back then, burned the city of the Chu people, and whipped the corpse of the king of Chu. However, this time their worries are superfluous, the battle of Tongcheng, the Chu army will definitely win. ”

"How do you know that the Chu people will win?" Chen Wei put the sharpened wooden chopsticks in the clear water and swung them twice, and handed them to me, "It is said that a hundred-legged insect is not stiff even if it dies." Although the king of Yue took the opportunity of the Huangchi Alliance to attack Gusu City, the national industry of Wu was deeply rooted, and the Yue State could not suppress the Wu State now, and the Wu State was still a strong enemy of the Chu State. ”

"It seems that the eldest brother really regards Ah Shi as the wine lady of the Song Kingdom. Have you forgotten, what did I do in the Jin Kingdom before? I took the spoon and stirred it back and forth in the bowl twice, then tilted my head and drank all the rice soup mixed with the fragrance of cypress into my stomach.

"I haven't forgotten, you are the god son that the Jin people fear."

"I'm not the Son of God, I'm a sorcerer." I put down the pottery bowl and looked up at Chen Wei with a smile, "The fate of all the countries in the world is like the lake in front of us. In the battle of Ailing, the Huangchi Alliance, Fucha had already lost his mandate. Now, the monarch of Chu is wise and virtuous, and the king of Chu may have the opportunity to win the Central Plains again in the future. ”