Text Chapter 1: The night is as cool as water
In the spring of the 59th year of Zhaoming of the Dahui Dynasty, Emperor Zhaoming, who reigned for nearly 59 years, suddenly fell ill and finally died in Xichun Garden.
Suizhou, which is 500 miles away from the west of the capital Yundu, although it is far away, but the camp of Xizhi outside the city of Suizhou, there are 50,000 troops stationed in Xizhi, and the turmoil in Yundu in Beijing is inevitably more or less affected here, but compared to Yundu, it is naturally much calmer here, and most of the panic is at the level of high-ranking officials and nobles in the state capital.
Outside the city of Suizhou, because of the beautiful scenery, there are several hot springs in the mountains, it has always won the favor of the dignitaries and nobles, so the horse mountain has become a rich and noble place, the huge mountain forest stream, the courtyards are lined up, the access control is criss-crossed, and the back and forth are all decorated with luxurious mantle cloth carriages.
In early spring, the night is as cool as water.
It has come to the second watch, Suizhou is located in Beiling, the forest under the mountain is lush, even if it is hot in July, it is also cool and pleasant here, it is in the current season, here can not get rid of a cold word!
Yi'er took a full basin of clothes to be washed, hurried under her feet, finally the girl just fell asleep, she had to succeed at this opportunity to quickly wash the clothes in the basin, the girl had a night's dream, if she woke up, how could she get someone who was not waiting around?
Yi'er is just eleven years old this year, her nutrition has not kept up on weekdays, her figure is a little petite, her face has not yet grown, and she looks childish, but under a closer look, her facial features are soft, and her eyes are shiny, without a trace of impurities, like a cut of autumn Hong, which is extraordinarily spiritual! What's more, because of the reflection of her eyes, her originally soft facial features surprisingly reveal a heroic spirit, which makes people look like a stunning illusion!
She was wrapped in a thick cotton coat, but the cotton clothes were worn out, and they had long been washed and faded, and they were all dead cotton, hard, where was the warmth?
She walked very fast, thinking about all the heartwarming things that had happened in the past few days, and she was full of worries about the condition of her girl, but she did not care about the chill on her own body, and even walked to the bank of the brook that flowed down from the walking horse, and found that there was a person standing there, and she could not help but be startled.
The man was facing the stream, with his back to her, vaguely looking at it, it should be a teenager, and the clothes on his body were very luxurious, anyway, Yi'er couldn't tell what kind of material it was made of, but it would definitely not be cheap.
The boy stood up straight, and he didn't know why, Yi'er felt a kind of loneliness and sadness at a glance.
This man doesn't look very old, and he is fused with such heart-wrenching sadness, how he looks at it, how he thinks about it, how weird he thinks.
This is at the foot of Zouma Mountain, of course Yi'er knows that in addition to their family has another courtyard here, there are many high-ranking officials and nobles who have private property here, and it is not strange to meet the young master of other mansions here, but Zouma Mountain is a holy place for summer vacation, and now it is early spring, and there are very few noble masters here, not to mention that it is now the second watch, this late midnight, which son-in-law will be bored and run out to blow this cool stream breeze?
Before Yi'er could react, she saw the young man suddenly raise his leg and take another step forward.
The young man was already standing by the stream, and at this time he took a step forward, almost parallel to the bank of the stream, Yi'er remembered the heart-wrenching sadness, and then saw that the young man didn't seem to have the intention of stopping at all, and his heart moved, so he shouted loudly: "Hey! ”
She often came here to wash clothes, although it was only a stream, but the water was not shallow, as soon as the young man raised his legs, she naturally thought of looking for a short view, so she didn't think much about it, so she shouted to stop.
The young man obviously didn't expect that there would be people here at this time, so he couldn't help but turn his head to look.
Yi'er threw away the wooden basin in her hand, stepped forward a few steps, and couldn't help but pull the young man back a few steps, only then did she realize that it seemed inappropriate, and hurriedly threw away her hand, and said: "There is no hurdle in this world that cannot be passed, you are so well dressed, your family must be good, you have to eat and wear, what is not satisfied?" Look at me, I don't have enough food and clothes on weekdays, even if I don't have enough clothes on weekdays, this cold day, I still have to come out to wash clothes, this doesn't count, those of us who are slaves and maids, rewards, punishments, and killings are all things that the master says, but even so, I have to live well, you are a young master, you like a sad spring and a sad autumn, but have you thought about it, that is, if you are unsatisfactory, can you be unsatisfactory to slaves and maids like us? I can figure it out, what else do you have to think of, to seek death and life? ”
The young man couldn't help but smile bitterly, glared at Yi'er, and said angrily: "Do you dare to love you think that the master wants to dive into the water to find a short view?" ”
Yi'er only saw the appearance of the young man clearly at this time, but saw that he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, but the lines of his face were like a knife and axe, with sharp edges and corners, he was really not old, he looked like he was no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, but his face seemed to have faded childishly, giving people a sense of fortitude and precociousness, his eyes were very big, blazing, just a glance, Yi'er still saw a lingering sadness in his eyes!
Yi'er blinked her eyes and said, "It doesn't matter if it's not, the key is that you have to know that it's better to die than to live, no matter what, you have to survive to have hope!" ”
The boy was stunned, "There will be hope if you survive!" He muttered again, and a loving woman's face appeared in front of him, the woman's face was pale, and her anger was like a gossamer, obviously to the point where the oil ran out, but You Zi gently took his hand and said meaningfully: "Rui'er, my mother is not done, you don't want to be sad, you have to live well, only if you survive will there be hope, I know that you hate in your heart, but you must know that hatred can only make you lost, and only let go can you be free!" ”
The young man's heart was bitter, how could he not understand his mother's words before she died, but the hatred of his parents' unjust death, the hatred of the family property being taken away, where is it said that he can let go of it? Now he still clearly remembers that he was only fifteen years old when his mother died, and then he tried his courage in bed, and it took him ten whole years to finally succeed, and a series of actions against the enemy family finally showed results, and the ungrateful shameless villain was suppressed and calculated by him repeatedly, and he no longer had the calmness when he embezzled his family's property.
And he has been planning for ten years, and the last thunderous blow has already been deployed, half a month, only half a month, he can see with his own eyes that beast get the end he deserves, he doesn't even want to kill him all at once, he wants to watch him suffer a thousand kinds of suffering in prison, all kinds of torture, he wants him to live, he can't die, otherwise, what face does he have to face his parents who died unjustly!
It's just that he has calculated everything, but after all, he can't count it as God, he never thought that God would make such a big joke with him.
What is this? Crossing?
The boy was so irritable that he wanted to go crazy, where did he have time to read all kinds of novels before, but as the saying goes, he hasn't eaten pork and hasn't seen a pig run, and not reading it doesn't mean that he hasn't heard of it, but it only takes half a month to go, and his greatest wish in this life will come true, and at this juncture, all of a sudden, everything really disappeared from his eyes, this kind of high lifting, gently putting down the helplessness almost made him crazy, he was unwilling, but after all, he was powerless, That deep sense of powerlessness made him manic, and then a feeling of despair arose.
Yi'er saw that the young man's face was cloudy, but the anger in his eyes was getting heavier and heavier, and he couldn't help but feel scared, but his face was not obvious, and he only said softly: "I read the book and said that there are many helpless things in this world, how many people can really make their wishes come true?" So, laugh when you should laugh, cry when you should cry, laugh and cry, and after you laugh and cry, the days will pass. Well, I don't think you like me saying this, but if you're not feeling comfortable, I'll tell you a story, right? ”
Yi'er's voice was clear, like the crisp sound of a bell, which made the young man's mood calm down for no reason, he didn't say anything, just looked at Yi'er with a strange look.
Yi'er didn't care about him, so she said directly: "I don't know many words, I don't know many stories, I don't know if you have heard the story I told you, if you have heard it, you can tell me, I can tell another one." After a pause, he began to speak, "Once upon a time, there was a little pig, chubby, very cute, and, ah, amazingly, this little pig can speak, but only one word: no." No matter what people ask it, it always says 'no'. One day, there was a beautiful sister who met the piglet, and then the beautiful sister asked... ”
Yi'er wrinkled her delicate nose, stopped talking, and then looked at the young man with an inquiring gaze, and said, "You look weird, have you heard this story, and I won't tell it if you have heard it." ”
The boy shook his head and said, "No! ”
Yi'er blinked her eyes and looked at the young man with a strange expression, and after a while, she really couldn't help it, so she laughed, first covering her mouth and laughing, and then she seemed to be unable to stop it, covering her stomach and squatting down with a smile.
The young man was stunned, gradually came back to his senses, figured out the joints, and couldn't help laughing, laughed twice, and then said: "You girl, you dare to entertain your master." ”
Yi'er chuckled and straightened up, blessed the young man, and said, "Yi'er is presumptuous, and the son forgives the sin." ”
The smile lines at the corners of the young man's mouth have not yet disappeared, after Yi'er's play, I feel that my heart is indeed much more comfortable, and then look at Yi'er's expression, where do I not know that this girl is only afraid that this girl is deliberately doing this to explain to him, and said in his heart This is a smart girl, and looked at the wooden basin and clothes that were thrown aside by Yi'er, and couldn't help but be surprised, and said, "Your name is Yi'er?" Why do you come out so late to do laundry? ”