1. Jiangnan Strange Things
I would like to use this article to commemorate those who died in their dreams and in the years.
They are dead, but they are alive.
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This year's snow came especially late.
Arriving late almost makes people forget that it is only late and never misses the appointment.
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The white plum spring grinds into white snow, and the green silk is dyed into gorgeous hair at dusk.
How melancholy to return, fireworks are like a warm moon and cool.
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The sky is cloudy, the heart is yin, and the wine is bitter.
The heart is sunny and the sky is clear, and the heart is warm and the wine is warm.
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I just survived the first onset of illness in winter, and I received a report of 100,000 urgent strange cases sent by the emperor.
Gangnam? Royal family? Ghost town? A tragic death? Folklore? Demons?!
If you are a ghost town, you should not be afraid. Thinking about what I saw in the underground ghost tomb with Xiao Yueleng back then, it was the real ghost town, which was more terrible than purgatory on earth, I don't think there is anything more terrifying in this world than that.
The emperor is still very worried about my body. But the county magistrate there has already died because of this case, and I heard that the people are still in a very violent uproar. No one seems to be able to take on this strange case except me.
What's more, the emperor and I can faintly feel that this incident is related to the queen mother. Then I can't leave it alone.
As the emperor's most trusted person, I am basically not very busy all year round, only when the emperor is extremely uneasy about a matter will send me out, although I have been trying my best to keep a low profile, but the queen mother has been preaching my "great achievements" and "vast powers" to the outside world, to pick up my old bottom to clean the feeling, so that I have been known all over the city for a while. The emperor saw that the relationship between the Queen Mother and me was so good (all fake), and he also doubted my loyalty. (Breaks my heart)
While reading the confusing facts and clues on the paper, I sighed that I could finally return to my hometown after many years.
Gangnam has always been a flood-prone area, and in recent years, the river has flooded, flooding many houses. In the face of natural disasters, I am naturally small and powerless. I haven't paid much attention to my hometown in Jiangnan over the years, maybe I can just take advantage of this case to go back to my hometown this winter.
Of course, everything is still based on handling cases.
I don't think it will take me more than half the winter to come back. Fang Qing don't want me to cause trouble everywhere. Xiao Yueleng probably didn't have time to care about him. That leather child, although he is a royal hostage of the Wu clan who nominally stayed in Beijing, is actually a stupid child who is unwilling to let go when he is entangled with love. If you want him to say that it is better to let him go back to his hometown, it is better to let him jump into the river.
Fang Qing has grown a lot taller than in previous years, and at the age of fifteen, she is already breast-level with me. …… I won't admit that I'm too short, except for the perverted tall Zilanwei. But Fang Qing is always so lively and innocent like a three-year-old child, and a few days ago she pestered me to go to the market, and it hurts to think about it.
Indeed, he can occasionally see in him the frivolous and fearless appearance of himself when he was fifteen years old. I don't know if maybe when he is old enough to be my age, he will look away and go back to the Wu Clan.
Speaking of which, Xiao Yueleng's old winter melon asked me to bring him a white plum back on this trip back to my hometown. I'm really surprised that such a stupid big man who is dedicated to learning martial arts actually wants a plum blossom???? Oh my God, I almost thought I was hallucinating.
I should have rejected him and sarcastically said a few words, so far away, how can plum blossoms be saved? It's all dried when I come back.
But the look of hope and even pleading in his glasses pierced me with pain, and I couldn't refuse.
This is the second time I've seen him look like that. I still couldn't understand the words in his eyes.
By the time I knew, it was all over. I realized that it was never him who was stupid, but me who was so dull and ignorant.
…… That's already a lot of years later, so let's not mention it.
"Old camel, where are you going? Open the door! "I was thinking about this mystery leisurely, and suddenly heard the noise of Fang Qing banging on the door hard, and seeing that I didn't pay attention to it for a long time, he unceremoniously kicked open my poor door directly. Within seconds, his unhappy bun face appeared in front of me. "Old camel! Where exactly are you going? Why don't you tell me? I immediately put down the scroll in my hand and rubbed my temples. I'm going back to my hometown to handle the case. As for you...... You leave me here, and I'm not allowed to go anywhere. My cold words were non-negotiable.
"No!!" He was at once furious, and with a shout he almost tore the roof of my poor clean room. Gives me a headache.
"Why not? If you say no, you can't? I rolled my eyes a little unpleasantly.
"What do you think you think of yourself as Luo? When a god? Or is it immortal? The humidity in Jiangnan is so heavy, your illness occurs frequently in winter, and if you go, you are looking for death! "Oh, I know what he's here for. My eardrums began to be dissatisfied again, so I had to take a cold sip of tea in order to suppress my irritability, but I found that the tea was already cold and astringent, so I gritted my teeth and swallowed it.
He just came to care about my body, express his dissatisfaction, and tear down the roof of my house.
For him...... I couldn't get rid of it, and I was too lazy to do it, so I let him threaten me with his teeth and claws that I was not allowed to go to Jiangnan, in fact, my thoughts had drifted far away.
"Eh, did you steal that wine from your master before?" My thoughts have already turned a thousand times, automatically blocking his chatter, and at this time I suddenly slapped the table excitedly, scaring him out of consciousness, alike: You have made an old mistake again?? It's scary! expressions.
I realized I was out of shape and coughed lightly: "Ahem...... That, warm up with a drink in winter... Ahem..."
Only then did he react and look at me with raised eyebrows: "I know you have a soft spot for this wine, but I don't think it tastes so good, and Master has already changed to a new wine recipe...... Maybe I can copy the old recipe to you, and you can make it yourself? ”
"Forget it, you don't know what kind of personality I have." I sighed.
"yes, it's so lazy that your bones are rotten, aren't you?" We both laughed.
"If I'm so old that my bones rot, will you carry me out on my back to drink? Haha, you have to give me a pension to the end! You're not going to abandon me so easily that I'm old and shivering, are you? ”
I asked him with a smile.
"Haha, you still expect me to provide for you? I don't think you will live that long. Old camels! Old drunkard! Old belly black! Old sick ghost! Old living corpses! He grimaced as he spoke, calling out the nicknames that outsiders liked to talk about me the most. I don't bother to bother with him.
"Fuck off, don't miss the meal." I burned the paper I had finished reading, and when I looked up, there was no sign of the boy.
Maybe outsiders heard him scolding me, and they might think that we were enemies who shared the sky, but in fact, I, the old camel, the old winter melon (Xiao Yueleng), and the tender cucumber (Fang Qing), were the most reliable friends of life and death in each other's crises.
Well...... Our combination, in the words of Fang Qing a long time ago, is "The old camel carries two melons, what melons?" An old winter melon, a tender cucumber! ”
Then in the beautiful spring light full of catkins in the sky at that time, I beat him up with the old winter melon.
While he was beaten and screamed, he shouted: "Luo Zhi Yaoyao, why don't you be beaten coldly by Xiao Yue?" You took the old winter melon for him! Why am I being beaten!! Just because you're sick??? ”
"You don't need to envy me at all, because you too will soon become a sick number!" I said viciously, with a smile in my voice.
The old winter melon didn't mean to beat me at all, but the tender cucumber turned into a cucumber between the hands and the hands. I laughed so hard that my stomach hurt.
"Xiao Yue is cold, cold, you are ruthless, unjust, and unreasonable! Do you only have Luo Zhiyao in your eyes without me! In vain, I saved you in the ghost tower, you, you, you so many times! "Shooting the cucumber and crying, and covering my heart, I looked like a delicate woman who had been bullied, and I finally burst out laughing.
"Baby cucumbers must taste good." Xiao Yueleng's pretending to be fierce is particularly cute, "So, for the health of the old camel, today's dinner is to shoot cucumbers!" ”
"Hahahaha, it's not a cucumber! And the old camel and the old winter melon do not run as fast as the tender cucumber! "You wait for me! I'm going to peel you and cramp and boil it into soup! "Hahaha, you two living treasures."
The laughter and joy in my ears are like yesterday after two years. I looked up and saw the snowflakes fluttering like catkins, so I smiled involuntarily and walked out of the imperial city under the cold wind.
But yesterday is yesterday, and there will never be anything back.
I can't see how many undercurrents are turbulent in the seemingly calm imperial capital.
I just want to take this opportunity to take a break from the wind and rain that is coming. But I know that Xiao Yueleng will never be able to hide.
He's only going to sink deeper and deeper into the maelstrom. And as his best friend, the most important brother, I can never do anything.
"Always be loyal to the Queen Mother, obey the call of the Queen Mother, and dedicate yourself to the Queen Mother" This is the path he chooses himself. It is destined to be completely opposite to me, Fang Qing, and the emperor's path.
I'm worried about him. I used to worry about him, too. Oh, that ungrateful fool. Fool. Silly winter melon.
"The name of winter melon is very cold, but it is not cold to eat. It's the same as Xiao Yueleng. ”
Moonshine is cold and beautiful.
It's just that no matter whether or not I care about him or how much I care about him, I can't be sure that he will care about me too.
It's been a long time since I've seen each other, and I always feel that way. It's too far. Obviously, they are all in the same imperial city, and I saw them not long ago, but I just feel uncomfortable. Maybe it's because we're all gone in the past, so we're nostalgic.
Every time I think of this, my heart aches again, as if to indicate that some very important conspiracy is slowly pulling open the curtain that it can no longer hide.
I watched the busy crowd and noisy people outside the city, and it turned out that the envoys of the neighboring countries had begun to enter the city.
The Queen Mother is still celebrating her birthday in a month, and I can already imagine the excitement and celebration of the whole city. It's hard for me to rush back, so let Fang Qing play freely by herself.
…… Maybe I will miss a lot of useful information, but maybe it was the emperor who deliberately supported me and let me avoid the limelight and recuperate by the way...... The Queen Mother's attitude towards me recently is really too strange, trying to sow discord? ...... If the emperor doesn't believe me, then let me die with my loyalty.
Queen Mother, heh, the only thing I admire about her is that she is patient enough and never in a hurry.
For example, many years ago, she began to adopt orphans and train them to start laying nets, and she waited patiently for so many years, and finally it was almost time to close the nets.
The wind and snow were still blowing, and in the wilderness, the carriage was running more slowly and cautiously. The snow in Gangnam is probably much lighter. I can only hope that my damn illness will not happen again before I return to Beijing.
White plum. White plum.
I suddenly remembered it in a daze that I couldn't sleep, turned over, and pressed my face with the scroll of poetry irritably.
Calm down. Calm down! Damn old bug!
Recently, I've been so irritable that I can't do anything when I encounter something, although I know it's because of my illness, but I just want to blame myself for not being as calm and restrained as I was back then.
Luo Zhi Yao. Luo Zhibai. Hopefully, you can survive this winter that is destined to be long.
In this world, I'm afraid it's going to be chaotic. What about me? Am I going to wade into this troubled water?
There are so many things in this world that I can't help myself. Perhaps, I will.
At that time, how did I know what a sad road of no return it would be.