"You ...... Have you eaten it? "I wanted to say something to Ann, but I only asked this sentence for a long time.

"I'm waiting for you, I'm almost hungry." Si'er pinched my waist so hard that I grinned in pain, and she was relieved, and happily took out a black pottery with a lid and put it in front of me.

This black pottery was originally a vessel for the general to hold ripe millet and ripe rice, but because it was cracked a big hole, it was begged for by Si'er from the housekeeper. I know that if she takes out this black pottery, it means that this meal is delicious. Sure enough, the rice with steamed mushroom seeds (2) with chestnut flour actually put two thin slices of sauce-red dried meat on the rice. When was the last time you ate meat, seven months ago at the Summer Festival? I swallowed my saliva and reached out to grab the dried meat, but Si'er coughed lightly, and I quickly raised my head and said to An: "You are a guest, you eat meat." ”

In exchange, he let me know for the first time that in addition to the Qin country, there are also the Yan country with ice and snow, the Chu country with rivers and rivers, the gentlemanly and humble Lu country, and the beautiful Yue country. In the mouth of this strange boy, I discovered for the first time that the outside world was so vast.

The snow outside the door stopped at some point, and the moonlight like water shone the snow all over the ground as if it were day. Si'er happily ran to the door and said that he wanted to pinch a snow rabbit for Yu An, but I encouraged her to go to the courtyard to make a snow figurine. It's not that we are young and playful, we just want to do our best to make this knowledgeable teenager next to us forget his own situation at this time.

Snowballs, snow figurines. Shape a you, mold a me, mold a him. Under the silvery moonlight, the three snowdrift villains were close together, the cold air of the night permeating them, but there were bright smiles on their white faces.

In the middle of the night, the three little people in the house slept next to each other, their heads resting on their heads, shoulder to shoulder, dreaming of their hearts.

In my dream, I became a little bird, with a golden beak and red feet, and fluttering wings standing on the general's shoulder. He rode a horse and galloped in the western frontier of yellow sand and white grass, and I soared into the sky. In that misty place I saw A-Niang, she hugged me in her arms and shook gently, gently shaking, her mouth was close to my ear, she said: "Don't go to the Jin Kingdom, don't go to the Jin Kingdom, my daughter don't go to the Jin Kingdom...... but she said: "Go to the Jin Kingdom, go to the Jin Kingdom, my daughter is going to the Jin Kingdom to find the Quinoa ......"

Who is quinoa, quinoa? I asked in my mother's arms.

A-Niang couldn't hear me, she was holding a bird in her arms.

I woke up from my nightmare with wide eyes, and in the darkness, the young man of the Jin Kingdom was looking at me with starry eyes. He was the first Jin Guo I met, so I asked him, "Where is the Jin Kingdom?" He was stunned, and he said: "The Jin State is in the east of the Qin State, its south is the Chu State, its north has Xianyu and Yan, and the Song State, the Wei State, and the Qi State are in the east of it. ”

"Then is it far away from the Qin State? Is it far from Yongcheng? I asked, as if I didn't understand.

"Far, it may take half a year to walk, take the car faster, when the wind is down, you can take a boat along the Weishui all the way to the muddy water, Jindu Xinjiang is next to the muddy water. What do you ask for, do you want to go to the Jin Kingdom? Yu An leaned towards me.

"No, I'm not going to Jinguo." I looked at the black wooden beams above me and shook my head.

"Then you ......" Yu An stopped talking, he stood up with his arm and looked down at my eyes, pursed his lips and said, "Ah Shi, your eyes, why...... Your eyes ...... in the moonlight."

"I'm not a mountain ghost." I turned my face to stare at him.

He was stunned for a moment, and then saw an indescribable sadness in my eyes, and he hurriedly tried to explain, but I had already turned my face away. My eyes were the deepest and ugliest scars on my body, and he couldn't see them. Yu An lay down helplessly, and I turned my back to him. After a long time, he gently rested his head on my shoulder blade and said like a dream, "Ah Shi, do you know? In the legend of the Chu people, the mountain ghost is a god who lives in the mountains, and she likes to wear a vanilla flower crown and ride a tiger and leopard in the forest. She was lonely, but she was born beautiful, more beautiful than any woman in the world......"

Is there such a beautiful mountain ghost?

I closed my eyes and listened to Yu An whispering behind me.

This Jin man knows so much......

I curled the corners of my mouth, and then fell into a deep sleep.

I didn't dream of anyone this night, I woke up when the sky was slightly bright, and when I looked back and saw that Yu An and Si'er were still sleeping deeply, I tiptoed off the quilt and got out of bed. It was still early, so I took out my needle and thread and leaned against the wall to mend my clothes in the morning light that came in through the window.

It was cold and my fingers were stiff, so I had to stop and rub my hands after a few stitches. My short jacket was torn on the back, and it was okay to make it ugly, but looking at the jagged stitches on Yu An's shoulder, I really felt a little embarrassed, so I embroidered a small hibiscus flower on it.

After folding the clothes and putting them at the head of the bed, the two people on the bed were still curled up and sleeping soundly together. I pulled the quilt for Si'er, turned around and walked out of the house. Outside, the snow was getting thicker and thicker, and there was a creaking sound when you stepped on it. At this time, the sun has just risen, and the faint sunlight is reflected on the snow through the branches of the snow, which is not very bright, but it shines brightly in front of you, and it is very beautiful.

It took me half an hour to clear the snow outside the study, and I started a fire inside the house as usual.

It was late afternoon before the general appeared. He didn't say anything, just took a scroll of bamboo slips and sat behind the desk and read it as if I didn't exist at all. I wanted to talk to him, but I didn't have the courage to do so, so I spent the afternoon torn between speaking and not talking.

When the sun went down, the general finally put down the scroll.

I hurriedly got up and went to look for flint.

A bronze kneeling tree-shaped lamp with seven bowls from bottom to top, and when I tiptoed to light them one by one, the whole room was covered with a faint orange halo. I nodded in satisfaction and shoved the flint back into my arms. When I turned around, I found the general standing behind me.

I held my head up high, almost unsteady.

"Is the child famous?" The general squatted down in front of me with his clothes on his clothes.

"Ah Shi, my name is Ah Shi." I stammered back. His eyebrows, his eyes, he seemed to look better than I had ever dreamed of.

"Ah Shi, it's a good name." The general read my name, and there seemed to be a smile between his eyebrows.

I fell to my knees with a puff, thinking to myself that this time I finally had a chance to thank him for taking him in.

"General, Fu Shu, a retainer of Gongzi's Mansion, asks to see you." Outside the door, the voice of the family leader Qin Gu came.

"Got it." The general pulled me up from the ground and said, "Go down, I'll have a guest for the next three days, and if I don't want to be asked to go, I'll stay in my room honestly." ”

"No!" I nodded vigorously.

"Take this back." Out of nowhere, the general conjured up a small elm black lacquer locket and handed it to me.

I looked up at him suspiciously, he smiled at me, waved his hand and said, "Go!" ”