Chapter 39 - Taoyuan
Ye Xiao and the two walked to the entrance of the village and saw the word "Taoyuan" written on the stone tablet, Ye Xiao glanced at the village where the peach blossoms were in full bloom, and chuckled: "Ha, this name can be regarded as the right time." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" After speaking, I stepped in, and at first glance, a few busy farmers in the fertile farmland on both sides, while shouting happily, while doing the work in hand, the pastoral roads crisscrossed, a few children pulled big dogs to play on the path, and the sound of textile weaving in the house came into the ears, not a stable and calm, as if everyone was not troubled.
"Brother Ye, it's really a paradise. It would be nice if it was the same in Jiangzhou. Ye Xiaoyi looked at everything and sighed.
After speaking, the two continued to walk towards the village, and a few leisurely old men saw that Ye Xiao and the two were dressed a little strangely, so they hurriedly got up and asked, "Where did the two of you come from, we haven't seen outsiders here for many years." ”
"I've seen this old man, we came from Jiangzhou and strayed into this place, I wonder if the old man can tell me where this place is?" Ye Xiao replied.
After hearing this, the old man asked with a confused expression: "Jiangzhou, don't hide it from my little brother, it has been fifty or sixty years since I fled here to escape the war, and I don't know if Emperor Tianyu is still okay." ”
Ye Xiaoyi was surprised when she heard the old man's answer: "This old man, the Kingdom of China has been destroyed for nearly forty years, and the current monarch is the "Wu" King of the Wu Kingdom, and the King of Wu has ended the war twenty years ago, could it be that no one has ever been here for so many years?"
"It's good that the war is over. As long as the common people can live well, the emperor is almost the same, isn't it?" After hearing this, the old man was a little lonely and a little emotional. Then he hurriedly said to Ye Xiao and the two: "The two guests are actually from outside, they must be a little tired, why don't you come to my house as guests and take a rest?"
Ye Xiao and the two looked at the hospitable old man, and just wanted to ask about the news of the dream flower, so they bowed and said, "Then disturb the old man." After the old man said a few words to a few friends next to him, he took Ye Xiao and the two of them towards his house.
The old man took the two to a small courtyard, pushed open the door and yelled twice into the room: "Old woman, there are guests, hurry up and call the baby back, and make a table of delicious entertainment to entertain the guests." ”
Then a reproachful voice came from inside the house: "Guest, stupid old man, no outsiders have come to this place for decades. Are you drunk with the old men in the east again? ”
"Come out and see, there's really a guest coming. The old man's face turned red when he heard this, and he hurriedly replied. After finishing speaking, an old woman came out of the house, but the old woman was holding a feather duster in her hand, and when she looked at her expression, she must have wanted to beat up the old man who usually talked nonsense.
After the old woman went out and saw Ye Xiao and the two, she was surprised, and then laughed awkwardly: "I'm sorry, two guests, this old man is usually confused, you find a place to sit down first." ”
"Auntie, it's okay, it's Ye Xiao who bothered you. After Ye Xiao answered, the old woman tidied up and went out to find her baby.
The old man arranged for Ye Xiao and the two to sit in the small courtyard, and walked towards the house, muttering as he walked: "This old woman is really good, there are guests here, and she won't give me any face." ”
Ye Xiaoyi "giggled" a few times after hearing this, and said softly in Ye Xiao's ear: "Brother Ye, did you say that you will be like this when you are old." ”
"Well, when you slowly accompany me to old age, you will know. Ye Xiao replied with a smile when he heard this.
Ye Xiaoyi listened, and waved her little fist towards Ye Xiao: "Hmph, you know how to bully me." After Ye Xiao saw it, he held his head with both hands: "Ye Nuxia, Ye Nuxia, I was wrong, spare my life." After speaking, while Ye Xiaoyi was not paying attention, he completely hugged Ye Xiaoyi into his arms.
With a few subtle insect chirps, the sunset was already red. The small village shrouded in sunset, with the peach blossoms in the village, is not a scene, the frogs chirp, and there are no people outside, all enjoying the joy of receiving the goods and food for the day.
In a small courtyard, a group of people sat around a table, looking like an elderly couple, a middle-aged couple, a young couple and two children, and the children were pestering the two young couples to tell them stories.
"Come on, come on, you're welcome, we all grow and raise ourselves. I can't imagine that I can still see outsiders in a few decades. As he spoke, the old man kept sandwiching the dishes in Ye Xiao's bowl.
After Ye Xiao ate some of it, he asked, "I don't know if my husband knows the flower of dreams, this time the two of us are here for this thing." “
The old man thought for a while and replied: "I have never heard of such a strange name, but the little brother is in the wrong place." “
After hearing this, Ye Xiao asked unhurriedly: "That old man, I have lived in this paradise for decades, do you feel anything strange." “
"There doesn't seem to be anything weird. The old man replied without even thinking about it.
At this time, the middle-aged man at the dinner table said to Ye Xiao: "Brother Ye, don't listen to my father's nonsense, I know the weirdness." “
"What do you call me nonsense? You say, there's something weird. The old man listened to his son's words and replied with a kick of his nose.
"I said, Dad, you've been living here for so many years, and you're used to it, and you won't feel weird even if there's anything weird. The middle-aged man looked at his father and laughed a few times and replied.
After Ye Xiao heard this, he hurriedly said: "Uncle, I don't know what's weird, please make it clear." ”
The middle-aged man picked up the wine in the bowl and drank it down, coughed a few times, and said in a serious voice: "There are three strange places in this village. One, the peach blossoms in full bloom in the village never wither, and never bear fruit, if it weren't for the flowers and insects collecting nectar on it, I would have thought that the peach blossoms were fake. Second, in my early years, I wanted to go out for a walk, and every time I walked to the end of the trail, I would reappear in the village again, and I couldn't get out at all. The middle-aged man secretly glanced at his mother as he said this.
Sure enough, the old woman yelled at him, "What! You actually want to run out alone without us, and you keep hiding it! “
After hearing this, the middle-aged man muttered, "Isn't it okay, and I haven't succeeded in it." I said that the old lady is a man, and when he was young, he always wanted to travel everywhere. After speaking, he said to Ye Xiao: "This third place, that is, there is a cliff in the back mountain, towering into the clouds, the cliff is not only steep, not to mention, but also particularly slippery, people want to climb on it is simply comparable to climbing the sky, I have always wondered, will I go out is to climb the cliff." “
At this time, the old man listened: "What! You still want to go out!" and he was about to hit the middle-aged man.
"I said Dad, I'm the father of two children! How can I still have this kind of thought, just say it in detail, so that Brother Ye can see if he can find clues. The middle-aged man saw Daddy's fist and quickly jumped back.
"Uncle, thank you. Ye Xiao already has a score in his heart, so he will give it a try tomorrow. Ye Xiao listened to the middle-aged man's words, pondered for a while, and said to the middle-aged man.
"Then tonight, you two little babies will stay at my house, raise your spirits, and do things tomorrow. “
"Then I'm sorry for you. “
"Hahaha, don't bother, if you can't find it, you two can stay here. You see, the two kids like you. “
After the words, a few children's laughter, the almost oval moon was already high in the night sky, and only a few frogs chirped softly in the quiet 'peach orchard'.