Sycamore Falls Chapter 61. Silk figure of the tiger
The winter wind moved the window lattice, and the cold breath came from the window again, as if affected by the cold wave, the table lamp in front of the window also began to turn on and off, rubbing the corners of her sour eyes, Gu Fang put down the manuscript in her hand, and began to worry about the father and daughter who had not returned from the door.
She is tired of reading, not the kind of one-glance and ten-line view that she reads online novels now, and when she thinks about the words, she is also a little trance-like, as if she is drawn by words, and then returns to the dream of her youth.
"A-Ning, Tiantian, it's time to go home!" Gu Fang also let go of the lady's reserve, and roared loudly in this wilderness, people were like this a long time ago, in the era when there was no radio and mobile phone communication, if the voice was not loud, it was impossible to transmit the message.
The high-pitched and high-pitched shout attracted the attention of Ah Huang in the firewood house, and it ran and shook its head and tail, looking forward to Gu Fang, as if it was pleasantly surprised to start the meal in advance, at this time, it was dark early, and the white light on the top of the mountain was almost gone.
Although there was no response, but with Ah Huang's company, there was no need to worry about any shadows on the road, he decided to go to Uncle Tang's courtyard and personally invite them home, just because after reading the book, she also had doubts in her heart, and wanted to personally inquire about Yining's details back then.
The years are apart, and there are countless things that have been lost in iterations, but since he is willing to give the answer in the book, it proves that he has made plans and made plans, Gu Fang is smart, she can fully understand his mind, and some things cannot be mentioned even if they are pseudonyms in the book, it is a secret to peel off the heart, and it is scarred.
The snow is still piling up, I don't know how long it will turn into snow water, the breath of breath naturally turns into water vapor into mist, and then dissipates in the air, Ah Huang's mood is very high, the frequency of the tail wagging is faster, he runs far away, and then turns back, as if waiting for the hostess's command.
The courtyard is brightly lit, walking up the long steps, you can see Yining accompanying Tiantian to do the game of jumping room, Xiaohong is also there, and the neighboring children have long been gone, they must be called to go home to keep warm, and then eat.
After sorting out his wind-blown hair for a while, Gu Fang shouted softly to the two people in the courtyard: "Two playful ghosts, it's dark, don't go home yet!" ”
After a pause, the ring string made of beer cover was thrown diagonally, falling outside the white chalk box, he said: "Fangfang, why are you here, the weather is cold and I don't wear a little more to come out, I wanted to wait a few more minutes to call you, tonight Uncle Tang insisted that we stay as companions, his birthday is rarely remembered, our two families have such a good relationship, naturally we can't refuse." ”
"Today he has to cook himself, he fried a lot of dishes by himself, let me take Tiantian to play with Xiaohong outside, if you want to play, go there, our childhood game, it still exists!"
After hearing the original story, Gu Fang, who was going to be angry for a while, also dispelled his thoughts, and said again: "I know, I have also read half of your manuscripts and changed some of them, but I found that there are some things that you seem to write very vaguely, just like digging a pit now, why do you write it like that?" Does it leave a blank space for the reader's imagination? ”
He laughed: "This is no way, my style is like that, why write some nonsense?" Some things are too straightforward and lose their charm, that's not what I want to create, novels are all about love in the final analysis, you know, I have too few readers, and I don't need to cater to them, I'm writing for you! ”
"We missed a lot of years between the two of us, and during that time, I met a lot of nice girls, but I ruthlessly rejected them, and although I regretted it at the time, I have no regrets now. I can't say that I only love you from beginning to end, the little kite is proof, I don't want to be a blank slate, so I will take out my heart to show you! ”
As he said this, his heart seemed to have been injected with a cooling agent, and he became more and more accessible, and Gu Fang held his cold palm and said: "I know your intentions, I don't blame you, you can write your book however you want, I will always support you, but those girls mentioned in your book, I really want to meet them, although some are unfortunately gone, that Chen Yue, no one has gone to worship her for many years, let's go in a few days!" ”
When Chen Yue was mentioned, he naturally remembered the short question at that time, the face of the cold and thin shirt sinking in the shallow water, ice tears dripping from the corners of his eyes, and said slowly: "Okay, I'll take you to see her in a few days, speaking of which, no one has swept her grave for many years, and the weeds there should have been piled up on the hillside!" ”
"A-Ning, don't be sad, if she knows that you still remember her, she will be very happy, if I don't read your manuscript paper, I don't know that you have encountered such a thing at that time, tonight is Uncle Tang's birthday, you are happy, blame me for mentioning these things!"
"I brought Tiantian's favorite skipping rope, I'll go over and play with them in a while, you calm down, I'll go first!"
"Well, have fun, I'll calm down first!"
The name Chen Yue is indeed something he can't forget, that is the first time he saw a familiar person lying on the ground silently, turning into a cold and silent corpse, and there is a great possibility that he died because of him, his guilt has been magnified when he wrote the article, and it is even more difficult to suppress it at this moment, squatting on the stone stairs to hide his face and cry softly, his mind is full of the scene when Chen Yue went.
The clouds cover the mist, the water vapor flows into the spring, the painting paper is paved on the ground, the wild chrysanthemum is fragrant, the fish sinks and the geese disappear, and the crescent moon shines on the shore, it is really a desperate situation in the world.
Looking at the corner of the courtyard again, Tian Tian ended the game of jumping room, happily took the jump rope, one end was put on the bench, and the other end was done by Ah Huang, because of the lack of age, Tian Tian could not learn the advanced rope somersault, at most she could pass the difficulty of the knee joint, but this did not make her depressed, and she still happily repeated the simple and entangled exercise.
"Dad, come over and play with Tiantian!"
"Good, good! Daddy, come here! ”
He has not participated in this activity for many years he was taught by his daughter, clumsy appearance caused everyone to laugh, when he was young, he was agile, but now he can not do the whole work, many times either stepped on the wrong line or did not turn over the flower rope, so he and Ah Huang as a companion, became a stake to maintain the skipping rope.
"Ning Wa'er, Honghong, come into the house for dinner!" Old Donald's majestic thick voice shouted from inside the house.
"Come on! Xiaohong, take your sister into the house first, and your sister-in-law and I will be there later! He commanded.
Tian Tian was taken by Xiaohong, and swayed up the high stone steps, and he still had something to say to Gu Fang, "Fangfang, uncle, he loves to drink very much, I will inevitably let you toast him later, if you really can't drink it, I will block it for you, don't be reckless!" ”
Gu Fang shook his head and smiled: "A-Ning, I'm not a person who gets drunk as soon as I get drunk, today the old man is alive, how can I save his face, except for Xiaohong at home with him, there are no other relatives here, I will ask for warm wine later, maybe the old man has already thought about it, and he won't embarrass me!" ”
"Okay, don't let the old man wait, let's go into the house and see the situation!" Gu Fang took his hand and stepped into the shingle house.
It is still the orange light, the neighboring villages are used to this warm thing, maybe it will take a long time to be able to change, the square table is almost full of dishes, pork balls, vinegared cabbage, sweet and salty sausages, pea tip tofu soup, the roast meat cut in the rush day, and the brown sugar baba that children love to eat, there are roughly more than ten kinds.
He didn't expect that in less than two hours, Uncle Tang had already made such an appearance, and he must have been well-intentioned and prepared for a long time, and specially invited their family to celebrate his birthday.
"Come on, fragrant fish!"
Uncle Tang held a fish-shaped plate, placed it in the center of the dining table, turned around and went to the room, sprinkled a handful of peppercorns, and then scalded with hot oil, and the aroma spread to the room, and the green pepper puff pastry fish was completed.
Gu Fang followed him to the room to get the dishes and chopsticks, Xiaohong and Tiantian had already eaten the brown sugar poop in their hands, and their mouths were full of mush, and Uncle Tang smiled: "Ouch, my little girl, how can you get your new clothes dirty, Ah Ning, you put on the smock hanging on the shelf for Tiantian, what a little gluttonous cat!" ”
"Honghong, you are not sensible, put it in the past, but you can't get on the table, you see your brother Aning, sister-in-law Fangfang knows how to know the rules, go wash your hands first, there is hot water on the fire, go!"
Gu Fang hurriedly changed into a smock for Tian Tian, seeing this, he was about to talk to Uncle Tang, but unexpectedly, the conversation started from the old man first.
Restraining his majesty, Uncle Tang became kind again, and said: "A-Ning, how long have you been back here, it's just that your daughter-in-law has brought the child to play with me, how long have you not come to see me, I thought you had forgotten that I was born on the same day as your grandfather, he has been gone for many years, I am lonely, only you can speak!" ”
"The side where your family lives is originally remote, and there are few families, I discussed with your grandfather at the beginning, let him repair the house to my side, or a companion, but he is always unwilling, not to say that the site chosen by Mr. Feng Shui can bless future generations, now it's okay, I can't go to his grave, this person, old fast!"
"Uncle, you are alive today, don't say anything about being old or not, even if my grandfather hears it, he will laugh at you, he is a hard bone all his life, he hates the sky, you shouldn't serve the old, it's not that you drink every day, drink a few glasses, it's not worse than us young people!"
"Borrow your auspicious words, who knows how long God has left me for a long time, I have to get by, and I can do it, it's far worse than when I was young! In the past, I could drink two catties of wine, but now I have high blood pressure, and I have to be worried about drinking two taels of wine, but today I am happy, but I can still drink three taels, if you are drunk and talk nonsense, don't care! ”
"I won't force you to drink today, after all, Bangguo is also watching, I didn't forget to add a bowl of rice to him, and I want to comfort him when I toast later, so I don't have to burn paper!"
The dishes are extremely delicious, the taste is even better, Xiaohong and Tiantian also ate two more bowls than usual, and the red face was because he accidentally ate the chili, so he drank a lot of water, ate a few pieces of sugar, and then went to the yard to calm down.
The white porcelain bowl is upside down with round rice, and the three-pillar incense on the flattened potatoes is still burning unhurriedly, and after pouring the wine in the cup, Uncle Tang laughed and said: "Bangguo, you see that your grandson has grown up so big, and he has become a talented and a family, I, only Xiaohong is by my side, not alone, work for a few more years, and wait for some way, my old bones will come to accompany you to nag!" ”
"A-Ning, come in with me, Xiaofang come in too, I'll show you a painting, your grandmother painted it for your grandfather herself!"
Uncle Tang took out the long box from the lacquer cabinet, then unfolded the scroll, handed it to him and said: "Back then, Bangguo was our tiger hero in Huanglong Township, and this matter has to start after the two of us joined the army and came back from work!" ”
"At that time, the poverty of the country can be described as the whole people were soldiers, and then the situation was better, and there was a famine, but there was no country and no home, we went out to fight and survived from the battlefield, then we were called heroes, and the dead comrades were called martyrs, but we didn't care about those honors, we died several times and came back to life, we can see everything clearly!"
"Rong returned to his hometown, there were many people who came to go on a blind date, we became fragrant and sweet, at that time I really didn't dislike us who were disabled, where did the tiger come from, fled from the northeast and fled to our side, some people have eaten up the bark and grass roots, the tiger has no place to live, naturally come to our side, just entrenched on the side of Guanshi, eight people were injured in five days, or women and children!"
"How can those of us who have retreated from the battlefield endure it, so we told the people in the commune about the benefits and disadvantages, and when we got permission, we gathered all the young people from all over the country, and the fire egg heads, big knives and other things beckoned to the big worm, and finally forced it to the edge of the cliff."
"The hundred-legged insects are all dead but not stiff, not to mention the fierce insects that eat people and stain blood, we have been facing each other on the edge of the cliff for a long time, and the guns have been exhausted, so we will drain him, your grandfather saw that everyone did not dare to go up, so he drew his knife and rushed to the teeth of the big worm, and the action of the state did not scare me half to death at that time."
"Four or five hundred catties of big insects, just a slap can shoot people fly, Bangguo is also lucky, possessed by Wu Song, it is difficult to ride a tiger, inserted that big insect is very weak, more than five zhang of the cliff, I watched your grandfather fall with my own eyes, that scene is now a little scary when I think about it, it is a man-eating beast!"
"Originally, my mother-in-law didn't take a fancy to me, the so-called beauty loves heroes, she naturally has a good impression of Bangguo, but Bangguo loves ingenuity, and later married the daughter of the village tailor, that is, your grandmother, Miao Axiu."
"I was a little jealous of the country at the time, and it was similar to the polyamorous love you are talking about now, but it was not intrigue, I have hidden this painting for many years, and it is an old object, so I can leave it to you!"
The unquestionable tone between the words made him swallow his throat when he wanted to refuse, and he had to nod in agreement under a clear gaze.
Exhibit his paintings with Gu Fang, see the picture of the fighting beast, the tiger looks back in distress, and the tiger warrior raises his knife and pulls out the stab, the viewer is amazed, indignant, inexplicable, blue gray mountain cliffs, clouds and mist cover each other, adding more courage.
There is a poem titled that says:
The tiger roars in the mountains and forests, and its momentum is really sad
Suddenly, I heard a roar that shook the sky, as if it came from a painting
Vertical and horizontal invincible, through the Shu Road to know the difficulty
There is Lingyunzhi in the sky, and you can't cross the cliff
Touching the yellow silk soft white painting, he felt a heaviness, this was the matter of the year, he can still feel from this painting, the feelings of the family and the country, the sense of pride and honor is impacting his heart, it turns out that his family has such a glorious past.
Just as he was sighing, he suddenly heard a barking sound outside the window.