Chapter 280: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
The child stood far away, and did not come, as if a big-headed ghost would suddenly come out of it, and exclaimed, "It is the Haunted House, and we all call it the Haunted House." It was often haunted in the daytime, and there were people crying in the middle of the night, and it scared people to death, and none of us dared to go in. With that, he walked away.
Yang Baoer was scared, but when she heard what he said, she grabbed Zhu Kexin's hand and said, "Sister, let's go." ”
Zhu Kexin looked inside, but saw that the weeds were overgrown, a gust of wind passed, and there was a slight noise, and he said in his heart: "This kid likes to talk nonsense, where did the ghost come from in the daytime." Even if there are ghosts, they are also my father's, mother's, sisters', and brothers', so what's so scary, I can't even see them. What's more, where are ghosts in the world, if there are ghosts, my father and mother love me so much, how can they not secretly protect me and let me suffer from this great calamity?" Then he let go of Yang Bao'er's hand and said: "Brother, you are waiting for me outside, I'll go in and take a look." "Step inside.
Yang Bao'er stayed on the threshold for a while, then ran forward, grabbed her palm, and walked in with her.
Zhu Kexin smiled: "Why are you bold again?"
Yang Bao'er said: "I don't feel at ease if you go in alone." With me by your side, I have a companion. Zhu Kexin smiled and patted him on the shoulder to show his gratitude.
Zhu Kexin entered the courtyard and took off the mask, although I don't know if there are ghosts, but since I want to see my father and mother, I can't wear a mask anymore.
Follow the hallway, first to the front yard, then to the inside. In the house I passed, there were only some broken stools and broken beds, and the walls were covered with cobwebs, crisscrossed and crisscrossed. The dust in the house covers the face, and it is no longer the same as it used to be. Some roofs have skylights, and the sunlight is slanting in, reflecting the cobwebs on the walls, swaying in the wind.
Everywhere Zhu Kexin passes, he will carefully touch the pillars and door frames that used to play with each other in the past, recalling all kinds of things when he was a child, mixed with joy and sorrow, and tears flowed non-stop.
And Yang Bao'er was close to her side, staring at the place where she was touching, puzzled in her heart, what is there worth crying about these rotten trees.
Soon, the two came to Zhu Kexin's residence. Zhu Kexin stroked the door frame with her hand, looking at the small bed, which was still in the corner of the wall, and the pink gauze tent was still hanging on the bed, but the pink color had long since faded, and it was pink and white, and there were several big holes in the gauze tent.
Next to the head of the bed is a small dresser, but there is no copper mirror wooden comb on the dresser, but a thick layer of dust. The corners of her mouth showed a wry smile, thinking that back then, she slept in this small bed every day, and every morning when she got up, she stood in front of this small dresser and dressed up, looking at her little face in the mirror, and stroking it.
Her eldest brother often patted her cheek and sneered: "Little girl, she loves stinky beauty." Tell my brother, who is dressed up for?"
She stepped forward and stroked the edge of the bed, and a puff of dust kicked up, revealing the mat on the bed, which was rotten.
There was no stool in front of the dresser, so she sat on the edge of the bed, stroked the head of the bed, pulled up the gauze tent, and stared blankly at the dresser. I remember that at that time, every time her eldest brother asked her, "Tell my brother, who is dressed for?" Her ruddy cheeks would become even more red, and she would naturally think of Zhang Xuanmeng in her heart, but she deliberately pouted, turned her face away, and feigned anger: "Ignore you." Her eldest brother would laugh.
Thinking of this, Zhu Kexin's face showed shame again, it turned out that at that time, she already knew how to dress up to Xuanmeng. There was a sudden pain in his heart, Xuanmeng could never see each other again, and he could no longer dress up to show him.
Yang Bao'er saw her sitting on the bed, motionless, her face was sometimes happy, sometimes ashamed and sometimes sad, stunned, and saw that her tears were about to flow down again, and said, "Sister, you have shed tears for the seventh time." ”
Zhu Kexin was startled, put away her tears, and forced a smile: "This is the seventh time I've shed tears?" Yang Bao'er nodded. Zhu Kexin said: "You see that my sister is such an adult, she still cries like a child." ”
Yang Bao'er suddenly said, "Sister, is this where you live?"
Zhu Kexin nodded and said, "Yes, this is where my sister lives, and my sister has been living here since she was a child." ”
Yang Bao'er said: "Did the elder brother of the Zhang family live here when he was young?"
Zhu Kexin's face turned red for a while, and said, "How could your brother of the Zhang family live here, he had his home at that time." ”
Yang Baoer said: "It turns out that the elder brother of the Zhang family does not live here. Sister, you missed him just now, didn't you?"
Zhu Kexin was stunned and said, "How do you know?"
Yang Baoer said: "I know, my sister is only like that when she thinks about the Zhang family's brother." Sister, Brother Zhang, we can't see each other for a while, or does he not want to see us? Was he really not in Luoyang City last time?"
Zhu Kexin didn't expect him to think so much about such a small child, and after a while, Fang said: "Your brother of the Zhang family is really not in Luoyang, if he is in Luoyang, how can there be no reason not to see us." As he spoke, he felt a knife-like pain in his heart.
After a while, Yang Bao'er said again: "Sister, it turns out that you lived in such a small bed when you were young. ”
Zhu Kexin said with a smile: "At that time, my sister was like you, she was a child, of course she slept in a small bed." With that, he stood up, walked over to the dresser, and pulled the drawer open.
I saw two small clay figurines inside, which were made with red clay when she and Zhang Xuanmeng were herding cattle. Reaching out and picking up one, it was a tall one, and they called it the Cowherd, and the short one in the drawer was called the Weaver Girl. At that time, what she was thinking about and worrying about all day long was the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
Seeing the clay figure and thinking about the scene at that time, Zhang Xuanmeng said: "Kexin, this tall one is called the Cowherd, and I will keep it; ”
But she held the two clay figurines in her hands and said, "No, I will keep both of them." The Queen Mother rowed a heavenly river to separate them from each other, and did not let them meet, but I want to put them together every day and never separate. ”
Zhang Xuanmeng clapped his hands and smiled: "Kexin, it's still your idea." ”
She added: "Xuanmeng, we also want to be like these two clay figures, always together, never separated. ”
Zhang Xuanmeng said: "Okay, this tall one is the Cowherd, it's me, and this short one is the Weaver Girl, it's you, let us be together every day." ”
She said: "Yes, this is the Cowherd is you, and this is the Weaver Girl is me." ”
Thinking of this, Zhu Kexin's heart suddenly trembled, it turned out that they had compared the two of them to the Cowherd and Weaver Girl at that time, and it turned out that they had a premonition of everything in the future. Is this the will of God? This is her Zhu Kexin's life?
The hand trembled, and the cowherd in his hand broke and became fragments. She couldn't help but change her face, staring blankly at the broken soil in her hand, red and red, like blood and Chengcheng.