Chapter 54: The Past (4)
I didn't expect that Senior Brother would be so cunning that he would personally send me back to Xuanji Mountain.
Walking on the road, he complained sullenly to Senior Brother: "Senior Brother, I know the way back to Xuanji Mountain, you don't have to bother to send me in person, besides, the situation in Jialan Mountain Realm is so dangerous, won't you worry about letting Shen Gongzi go there alone?" In my opinion, you better turn back and go to Shen Gongzi. ”
Senior brother carried a sword and lazily followed behind me and said: "Senior sister's words are wrong, no matter how important Shen Gongzi is, he is an outsider after all, you are my junior sister, and the safety of others is always not as important as yours, if you let Master know, I will leave you alone and go to Jialan Mountain to take care of other people's affairs, I will definitely blame me, right?" ”
I suddenly had nothing to say, this senior brother, is really cunning!
He must have discovered my intentions, and after he planned to get rid of them, he sneaked into the Jialan Mountain realm, so he personally escorted me back to Xuanji Mountain, I fought with my senior brother for so long, and rarely had the upper hand, all of them were bullied by his routines.
After saying goodbye to Shen Xingshen, we took a boat and drifted down the river, it was almost evening, the people who went out to fish early happened to come back, and they all supported the boat next to us, singing songs that they didn't understand very well, looking at the fish in the bamboo cage on the bow of their boat, and the smile on their faces, they knew that the people here were brilliant, the materials were rich, and they had gained a lot from this trip.
We sat in the bow of the boat, only to feel the evening breeze, blowing people are very comfortable, because it is late autumn, the wheat on both sides of the river bank is golden, there is a smell of harvest, I took a deep breath, on the vast water, I don't know where to come from the smell of food, greedy people just want to drool.
The boat had come round a thicket of reeds, and at last we had dismounted, and paid the money to the boatman, but we saw a girl's house standing at the crossing of the riverbank, dressed in coarse linen clothes, looking forward to someone, as if waiting for someone.
As soon as the senior brother turned around, he looked at the girl and was stunned, and even stopped his feet in place.
I felt strange, walked to him, followed his line of sight and looked at the girl, although the appearance was delicate, but it was not beautiful, the senior brother should look better than her in the golden hairpin skirt, so as not to make the senior brother stunned for a while.
I thought that my senior brother had walked the rivers and lakes, had been here, and knew the girl, so I came to him, looked at the girl, and said, "Senior brother, do you know her?" ”
Senior brother came back to his senses, glanced at me, and asked, "Who said that?" ”
I was puzzled: "I don't know what you're doing staring at people?" I don't know how to do this, it is easy to be mistaken for a greedy and lustful little man, maybe I will be seen by a hero who has seen an uneven road, and I want to cut you with a knife? ”
Senior brother glanced at me again, tapped my head with his hand, and muttered, "I just thought of one thing." ”
Senior brother rarely mentions the past, looking at his emotional look, it is probably something he cares about very much, I straightened my ears to listen, but he suddenly stopped talking.
This kind of behavior is the most annoying, just like the mangosteen that was peeled with great expectation fell to the ground, and the story of the lively opening ended up with a tiger's tail.
I was unwilling, and followed him to death: "Senior brother, what is the matter?" ”
The senior brother paused again, stood for a moment, lowered his head, and said bitterly for a long time: "What is the point of mentioning the past now, in the end, I am the only one who remembers." ”
He said this very sadly, and I couldn't help but be stunned.
The evening glow quietly dissipated, the light dimmed, and the night crept in, perhaps because of the reeds all around, and the place where we stood seemed to be darker than the other, and at the ferry, a worn-out lantern flickered with a weak firelight, gently swaying in the evening breeze.
His face was hidden in the darkness, as if he was afraid that I would see something, but I could feel that my brother was sad at this time.
This situation made me a little embarrassed, stood in place, was silent for a moment, raised a smile at him, stepped forward and grabbed his arm and said, "But I want to hear it, senior brother, after you tell me, isn't it just the two of us who remember?" ”
Senior Brother was silent for a while, and then sighed slightly: "You......"
He took a few steps forward, and said slowly in an indifferent tone: "Actually, it's nothing, I just remember the past...... When I used to walk the rivers and lakes, I met a person, we traveled together for more than ten days because of some things, when the carriage passed by a fishing village, and saw a fisherman girl who was drying fishing nets by the river, she once said that if she was not the daughter of an official eunuch and nobleman, but an ordinary fisherman's daughter, what would happen. ”
I'm very strange, after all, people in this world are chasing fame and fortune, I only heard that people go to high places, and the fisherman's girl dreams of one day being able to enter the official family and fly on the branches to become a phoenix, but few of the daughters of the official eunuch family imagine becoming a poor fisherwoman.
So, ask, "Why is that?" ”
Senior brother sighed slightly, and said: "She has always been keen on freedom, unwilling to be restrained, so she gave up her official identity and ran to practice, what she likes is the sword to ride the wind, it must be thousands of miles, what she wants is this mountain, river, grass and trees, free and breezy, but it's a pity that ......"
smiled bitterly, and then said: "She didn't expect that the people in the fairy gate seem to be free, but in fact, there are many things that have to be done, and even more, those immortals who watch flying around and go without a trace may not be able to go anywhere more comfortable than the poor people in this fishing village." ”
Senior brother's temperament has always been sparse, and it is rare to have this kind of sour emotion, I thought about it, that girl should be very important to him.
Thinking of what he said just now, he is the only one who remembers the past, and that girl must no longer know her......
I thought about it and comforted him: "Actually, whether it's this eldest lady or a fisherman's girl, everyone has everyone's life, she envies the fisherman's good, and she never thought that this fisherman's girl also has a lot of sorrows, worrying about her livelihood, worrying about tomorrow, maybe she can't figure out why she was born all her life, let alone see the mountains, rivers and plants and trees in her eyes, free and breezy, this person, living in the world, can never be perfect, everything is as expected, If you get the benefits of it, you naturally have to face its disadvantages, so why only see the disadvantages and feel sorry for yourself? ”
The senior brother was speechless for a while, and only after a long time did he smile bitterly: "That's what I said." ”
The girl finally waited for the person she wanted to wait for, it was a fairly handsome fisherman, looking at the affectionate appearance of the two, it should be a young couple who had just become married, seeing that it was getting late, my brother and I caught up with them, and euphemistically offered to spend the night with them, and they agreed without thinking about it.
In the countryside, the chickens and dogs barked, and when they arrived at the house, they saw three thatched huts built on flat ground, surrounded by castor beans, and in front of the houses there were stacks of straw made of rice.
Because of the addition of me and my senior brother, the hostess also deliberately cooked, made a soup with the newly caught fish, added wild vegetables to the soup, smelled very fragrant, I picked up the pottery bowl and was about to drink, but was knocked by the senior brother raised his hand, and said angrily: "Are you the womb of a hungry ghost, this soup has just been served, and it is very hot, besides, the crucian carp is spiny, you gobble it up like this, what if you get stuck later?" ”
"I ......"
I was about to argue, but looking back, what the senior brother said was also right, so he put down the bowl aggrievedly and sat obediently beside him.
Seeing this, the hostess pursed her lips and smiled, and asked, "Are the two of you a young couple who ran away from home and eloped?" ”
"What?"
Hearing her say this, my head immediately exploded, and I hurriedly denied it: "No, no, he is my senior brother, and I am his junior sister, so I don't have that kind of relationship!" ”
The hostess teased, and then covered her lips and smiled: "Before I got married to our family, I was also called brother and sister, don't look at him now silent, he looks honest, when no one is there, he is fierce to me, always let me not do this, can't do that, in fact, I also know, it's all for my good." ”
I let out a sullen sigh, holding the clay bowl and blowing the fish soup hard, always feeling like I was being shown off.
I felt that the fish soup was blowing cold, and when I lowered my head and wanted to take a sip, I heard the hostess add: "Just like this senior brother of yours, he looks fierce on the surface, but in fact, even I can see that your senior brother cares about you very much!" ”
My brother cares about me, and I naturally know this, but if he likes me, it would be too scary.
I've been with my brother for so long, and I've been fighting all day long, but I just regard him as a senior brother, and even more, I've never treated him as a man, maybe it's because I'm too familiar with each other, I think, senior brother roughly, shouldn't treat me as a girl's family, between the two of us, how can there be that kind of private relationship between my children and me?
But...... After being reminded by this hostess, I looked at my senior brother with a different eye.
In fact, Senior Brother's appearance is very good, better than any man I have ever seen, including Shen Xingshen, and his body always makes people feel a kind of nobility, this is not his own deliberate pretending, from his words and deeds, he can inadvertently see that a kind of bearing that seems to be above everyone.
Senior brother is also very careful, big and small, food, clothing, housing and transportation, even when I am thirsty, hungry, stomach bloated, headache knows, although I always say something angry, but always care about me, as long as he is there, I don't have to worry about anything, just leave it to him.
If you stay with your brother like this for a long time in the future......
Seeing that I looked at him strangely, the senior brother touched his face and asked strangely, "What do you see me doing, there are mosquitoes on my face?" ”
I shook my head, and the senior brother cut again, and said disdainfully: "The look in your eyes just now reminds me of those gentlemen in Beijing, looking at the beautiful Oiran in the hook bar." ”
“……”
I really shouldn't think about it!