Chapter 9: Wake Up
I was thirsty when I was looking for you, I drank the river dry, I was disdainful when I made a vow, I knelt down to all the gods and Buddhas, I was shy when I said goodbye, I assumed all the ifs, I endured it when I covered the coffin, and I put on all the pretenses. Don't sing a sacrificial song for me, if you need me, I'll live.
"Who's the winner?"
"Hui Hou Ye, he is the county lord's guard, Shao Qi."
Nanshan Hou called me forward, and I stole a glance at Jin Ling.
"What did you learn marksmanship?"
"Go back to Nanshan, in your dreams, you will wake up."
"Reward, no need to compare."
After two matches, the person I just defeated was Nanhou's swordsman. The other people's competition Nanhou didn't have the heart to look at it anymore, and a soldier came with a silver armor
"General, please take the armor."
"My lord, I'm not a general."
"Shao Qi, take over this silver armor today, and you will be a general in the future."
I took the armor, and the county lord whispered in Nanhou's ear, and left, and Master Han motioned for me to go back first. When I left, I deliberately circled around the offering stage, wanting to take a look at Jin Ling, I just finished dancing, others came on the stage, and the audience was still cheering the same. When I look at it from afar, it feels small, but when I look at it closely, it is so big, maybe its owner is not me.
I walked with my armor in my arms, and when I saw me saluting frequently, I just walked in the door and saw the county lord sitting at the jade table, and I approached and put my armor on the ground, and sat on my knees on my knees
"I'm back, and I'm a general in the future, how do you think you're a little unhappy?"
"Back to the county lord, no, I'm just thinking about that Jin Ling."
She covered her mouth and smiled
"You just want that Jin Ling?"
I didn't speak
"Okay, you wear armor quickly, let me see."
"Master Han is still in the school grounds, how do you wear this armor?"
"Then I'll do it."
The county wanted to pierce my armor, but I really didn't expect it, I repeatedly refused, but she still insisted. Seeing that this silver armor is connected one by one, like the stone path of my hometown, I don't know if it will be so new forever in the future, or it will be worn by the wind and rain.
I took off my shirt, naked upper body, I am afraid that the burns of ice and fire during gun practice will not fade away in this life, my ugly arms hurriedly grabbed the shirt of the new armor, the gun cherry blossom rolled to the ground, I panicked to grab the gun cherry blossom, she held my panicked hand, I trembled and said sorry, my eyes kept looking at the ground, I grabbed the gun cherry and ran outside, found a shady clearing, sat down against the tree, stroked the snow-white gun cherry, although my ugliness was incompatible with it.
It's getting dark, my mind is empty, when I'm in the dark, the spear cherry also has fluorescent, I'm like this dark, it's as white as snow when there is no self, and it's even whiter and more vivid when there is me. Suddenly I seemed to understand something, got up and walked back with the spear cherry blossom in my hand, and saw a sparrow nesting in a hollow in a dead tree, going back and forth countless times by the moonlight.
I walked outside the door and saw Master Han leading a white horse, and the horse's neck was tied to Jin Ling
"Where did you go, boy?"
"Watching a bird build a nest."
"Huh? You are also half a general, and you are still watching birds after being awarded silver armor? Which general would go to see the birds? …”
Master Han was angry, and the county lord walked out
"Stand down, General Han."
Before Master Han finished speaking, the county lord took the reins, and I rushed into the courtyard to put on my shirt.
We walked on the plain where there was no road, and when she was tired I squatted down, and she stepped on my back and got on the horse, and I always looked at the golden Ling when she led the horse
"What, are you still worried about Jin Ling?"
"No, I thought Jin Ling was for me."
"Haha."
She couldn't help but laugh out loud, and so did I
"This horse belongs to you, and when I hear Jin Ling's sound in the future, I will know that it is you."
I looked down and smiled and stroked the horse's mane, and in my hometown, it was enough to have a donkey at home, which was enough to be enviable
"It turns out that this is Jin Ling, her eyes are so big, and she is ringing."
"You really don't understand anything, and then it's called stupid... Haha"
The horse seemed to understand, pouted, and shook it, and we both laughed
She looked sideways at the plain under the moon, Ben Qi and I also tilted our heads to look while walking, we stopped, the wind supported the green grass, leisurely, thoughts followed the end of her hair, our shadow was stretched for a long time, standing faintly for a long time, from time to time the bushes flickered, the hare jumped in it, there were insects chirping, there were tired birds returning to the forest, the heart was clear with the heaven and the earth, and a spit and a na were condensed into one
"Shao Qi, are we here?"
"Here we are."
The moonlight is translucent on her face, her eyes are smart and reflect everything, at the end of the world, we have been yearning for the destination, so the posture is all kind, the insects and birds are quiet, but, the ears listen to the wind, such as the joy of the piano.
She hugged the horse's neck, leaned on the horse's mane, slowly closed her eyes, like the moon falling snow, I walked a few laps with a clumsy loop, and I couldn't bear the end of the world.
On that day, I lost my gun armor and held the white cherry blossoms, and that day you lost your hat and straddled Jin Ling.