Chapter 14: The Man in the Painting
Deep in the woods, there are two crumbling thatched huts. A bonfire was lit in front of the door, and many men and women in ragged clothes sat around, laughing and playing.
The firelight laughed, and the night was a little softer.
Ning Yu pinched her fingers, dragged a cub with one hand, and walked towards the bonfire.
"Little baby, why are you here again?" The old beggar sitting by the campfire glanced at Ning Yu, who was dragging the two children over, and asked with a frown.
“……”
With so much money in his pocket, he slept in the wilderness.
Do you think about it?
Ning Yu sat down and said with a shy smile: "Grandpa, the kid really has nowhere to go......"
"Come here with nowhere to go?" The old beggar snorted, "You and I are here as Tzu Chi Village?" ”
"Where, where." Ning Yu hurriedly waved his hand, and then took out a pot of wine like a trick, blinked, and smiled well-behaved and pleasant, "This is a pot of good wine that the kid just came, dedicated to Grandpa, for the accommodation expenses of today and yesterday, can Grandpa see it?" ”
As he spoke, he lifted the lid and shook the flask.
For a while, the aroma of wine overflowed.
Several young beggars looked at it and said, "It smells so good!" ”
The old beggar smelled the wine, and he almost flowed out, he coughed, swallowed his saliva "Goodong", and barely held his face, but his eyes kept glued to the wine jug, "Look you brought the jug...... Ahem, two young sisters, for such a pitiful sake, I'll keep you for another night, not for example. ”
Seeing the old beggar's appearance, Ning Yu couldn't help but smile, "Yes, thank you Grandpa." ”
The old beggar was a heavy drinker, and he had to drink two sips a day, and he felt uncomfortable if he didn't drink it.
Ning Yu smiled and beckoned the junior and the fourth to sit down by the bonfire.
Although the weather is getting warmer now, it is a little cold at night, and there are inevitably some snakes, insects, rats, ants and so on in this forest, and they can't live in shops or see people.
If she were alone, she wouldn't need to beg for a place here with such a face, because she had been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and she had a good physical foundation.
When I was tired of playing, I lay directly on the bluestone of the flowers, or on the wide branches.
With the third and fourth, she has to pay attention.
Ning Yu walked aside, got out of the way by the bonfire, found a tree, sat not far away, rubbed his arms, and watched the group of beggars joke and play.
The old beggar held the wine jug, walked over drunkly, and sat down next to Ning Yu.
"Little baby, are you still coming tomorrow?"
Ning Yu grabbed a piece of grass and held it in a daze, and when she heard the words, she looked at it blankly, "I don't know." ”
"If you come, remember to bring wine, just this wine, remember." The beggar patted the flask, took a few more sips, and laughed.
Ning Yu raised his finger, knowing the meaning.
"Good wine! It's really good wine......" After a few sips, the old beggar collapsed.
The old beggar drank too little, but he liked to drink.
Ning Yu shook his head and smiled, put the wine jug away, took the tattered felt blanket brought by the old beggar's grandson and covered him, and continued to look at the fire in a daze.
Daddy also likes to drink, but Daddy drinks very well, and she and Daddy can't pour him down when they take turns in battle, even Mr. He, who boasts of not pouring a thousand cups.
After Daddy finished drinking, he would always sit quietly in the room. She didn't open the door no matter how she knocked on it, she once leaned on the crack of the window and peeked.
Daddy seems to be looking at a portrait.
What kind of painting is more important than her?
Ning Yu puffed out her cheeks, her face full of unhappiness.
Driven by curiosity, she instigated Sister Ah to sneak in with her to look at the portrait. The portrait is a woman, extremely beautiful, leaning on the carved railing, holding a fan, standing in a pavilion, quiet and elegant like a lotus. Looking back, the ripples are like water.
It's beautiful, isn't it?
Ning Yu looked back at Sister A, the thirteen-year-old Sister already had a somewhat similar temperament, especially her eyebrows and eyes, although she was still immature, she was also clear and moving.
"Sister, it's your mother!" Ning Yu shook Xu Nianyun, pointed to the portrait and shouted: "Look at this eyebrow, look at this eye, and then look at this mouth!" It's carved out of a mold! Daddy is really! I don't show us the portrait of the lady, sister, have you seen it? ”
"Nope." Xu Nianyun shook his head and said slowly: "I haven't seen it, and Daddy has never shown it to me." ”
"What?" Ning Yu was puzzled, "Why?" ”
"I don't know." Xu Nianyun's eyelids were half-drooping, and her crow-like eyelashes drooped, leaving a shadow.
"Daddy this!" Ning Yu slapped the table, "It's too much, I don't show my daughter my mother!" Let's go, ask Daddy for clarification. ”
"Forget it......" Xu Nianyun hesitated, "If Daddy doesn't say it, there is a reason why he doesn't say it." ”
"What's the reason you can't tell us? Even if you can't tell me, what about you? Sister is his own daughter, but the portrait is your own mother. Don't tell me anything about your daughter's aunt, it may be your aunt. Daddy stares at your aunt in a daze all day long, do you believe it? ”
"......" Xu Nianyun pursed her lips and didn't speak.
"Let's go!"
Ning Yu shook her hand and strode out, and as soon as she walked to the door, she bumped into Daddy who came back, Ning Yu crashed into Daddy's chest, and she took several steps back.
Xu Nianyun covered her mouth and snorted softly.
"Yu'er, are you alright?" Xu Nianyun hurriedly stepped forward to support her, and while helping her rub her forehead, she whispered: "You are too anxious to go, I just wanted to remind you that you came and you hit your head, did it hurt?" ”
"It's okay, it's okay."
Ning Yu's eyes were full of gold stars when she was hit, and she was dizzy, and she relied on Sister A for a long time to recover.
The man flattened the wrinkled clothes that had been knocked out, leaned on the door frame, hugged his arms, and looked at Ning Yu, who was supported by Xu Nianyun and swayed in the air, speechlessly, and reprimanded every day: "What are you doing?" In a hurry, is it a bit of a daughter? ”
Ning Yu finally got used to it, shook her head and let go of Sister A's hand, walked over and looked up at the tall and handsome man at the door, and shouted angrily with her hands on her waist: "Daddy, how can you be so high-spirited?" What's so unsightly about A-Niang? You won't even show us a picture? If you don't show it to me, why don't you show it to my sister? It's my sister's mother-in-law......"
"You touched that painting?"
The man's expression changed suddenly, he took a step forward, holding Ning Yu's arm with both hands, Ning Yu, who had a lot of strength, couldn't bear it, grinning his teeth and shaking his arms, "Daddy, let it go, it hurts me!" ”
"Answer me!" The man shouted.
"Yes! Didn't you just look at the portrait of A-Niang! Ning Yu grinned and shouted, "It's not made of gold!" Besides, isn't painting just for people to see? ”
"You!"
"Daddy, it's my fault, can you let go first?" Xu Nianyun stepped forward and pulled the man.
Facing the eyebrows and eyes that were similar to Qinglian, the man came back to his senses, and his strength gradually relaxed.
Ning Yu rubbed her arms and pouted with an unhappy expression.
"I'm sorry Xiao Yu'er, Daddy......" The man wiped his face, he didn't know what to say, he was silent for a long time, raised his hand and gently rubbed Ning Yu's shoulder, then patted it, turned around and entered the house with his hands behind his back.
The back is inexplicably a little sad.
Ning Yu and Xu Nianyun glanced at each other, turned around and followed into the room, standing under the man.
The man sat for a long time, took out the portrait and hung it up, turned to Xu Nianyun, "Nian'er, kneel down and kowtow to your aunt." ”
Ning Yu: "!! "What!
Xu Nianyun also looked at the man with a shocked expression.
"How is that possible?" Ning Yu asked, "It looks like ...... so much."
"How could it be?" The man said, "Don't you know your daughter Suigu?" ”
“……”
Row horn.
Your argument is a bit strong, and I can't argue with it.
Ning Yu knelt down with a mournful body, and followed Xu Nianyun to bow to the portrait three times.
"Okay, after the worship, go back to study, go to study, practice martial arts, I still have something, go first, I may not be able to come back in half a month, there is enough rice and noodles at home, you can do it yourself." The man returned to his usual grinning description.
"Daddy!"
At Ning Yu's roar, the man floated away.