Chapter 21 <下>Lantern Festival
When this voice was called, she herself was stunned, feeling that something was wrong.
Song Yuanxi's eyes flashed, he seemed to be a little stunned, he didn't know what the expression was under the mask, the roots of his ears seemed to be a little red, and he removed his eyes.
She secretly scolded herself in her heart for not being able to control it, but fortunately she wore a mask to cover her face, and her cheeks under the mask were a little hot, stuffy and hot, but she didn't dare to take off the mask, so she had to say in a muffled voice: "You...... Let go of my hand first......"
Song Yuanxi came back to her senses, quickly let go of her hand, turned her face to the side, and the roots of her ears seemed to be even redder.
Xia Taozhi stood farther away from him, lowered her head, her hands were hidden in her sleeves and twisted, her feet were kicking a small pebble on the bridge deck, and something seemed to be pounding in her heart.
In the middle of the ring, she suddenly felt a chill in front of her, and the mask was taken off. As soon as he looked up, Song Yuanxi had already revealed his true face at some point, holding her rabbit mask in one hand, squinting at her, and said disdainfully: "Are you going to suffocate yourself to death?" ”
She reached out and touched it, only to find that her forehead was full of fine beads of sweat, which was blown by the cold wind, and the sweat was immediately collected.
Song Yuanxi took a step forward, blocked the outlet, and scolded: "Idiot, forget it if you are stupid." ”
Xia Taozhi was a little aggrieved, why did she scold her again...... Why do you always scold her......
"Drinking?" Song Yuanxi stretched out his hand and touched his waist, and pulled out two pots of wine like a trick. When she saw it, it was still Chu Jing's famous wine, Fengqu Brew. Fengqu brewing is a kind of fruit wine, the wine is fragrant, the taste is sweet and pleasant, it is a common wine on the dinner table of the people of Chujing. The entrance is sweet, but the stamina is very strong, just drink, if you drink too much, the strong man can get drunk.
"Where did you come from?"
"Stole, do you want to drink it?"
"Drink."
Song Yuanxi smiled, crossed his long legs, sat on the bridge railing, opened the wine seal, and the aroma of wine suddenly overflowed, refreshing. He reached out and handed her a jug and asked, "How much do you drink?" ”
"It's okay." She took it, followed Song Yuanxi's example, stepped over to the bridge railing, raised her head, and took a sip. The sweet liquor slides from the throat into the abdomen, and a warmth melts away, and the sweet aroma lingers in the mouth for a long time.
This is really good wine, it tastes much better than the burning knife wine she secretly drank with her senior brother on the mountain, with a faint fruity taste, fragrant and sweet, and she can't help but drink it one sip after another, and she can't stop at all.
Slowly, my head became a little dizzy.
Song Yuanxi's hand stretched out, his white and wide palm covered the mouth of the pot, and he frowned: "Don't drink so fiercely, this wine is fierce." ”
Xia Taozhi opened his hand with a "snap", "...... What the? I'm drinking well......"
Song Yuanxi looked at the red marks slowly floating on the back of her white hand, and said in her heart that this girl was more fierce than usual after drinking......
"How about we play a game?"
"What game to play?"
"Ask each other a question, and only when you answer it can you drink, but if you answer it incorrectly or can't answer it, you are not allowed to drink."
Xia Taozhi nodded dizzily, "Okay." ”
Song Yuanxi said: "Then I'll ask first." ”
"Okay."
"Don't lie."
"Okay."
“……”
This girl is very talkative now.
After thinking about it, he asked, "Where did the peony and begonia go?" ”
Xia Taozhi: "......" She couldn't answer, she didn't have to drink, and glanced at Song Yuanxi hatefully, this person definitely did it on purpose, knowing that she was separated from Peony Begonia, and deliberately asked this question.
The corners of Song Yuanxi's lips rose shallowly, there was a clear banter in his eyes, and he raised his head and took a sip of wine.
"Where's the little mud?" Xia Taozhi asked rhetorically, hoping that they would also be separated in the crowd of lanterns.
Song Yuanxi raised his eyebrows at her, took another sip of wine, and replied, "I let him play by himself, and when he has had enough, he will go home by himself." ”
Xia Taozhi: "......"
Still didn't drink the wine, she was very unhappy in her heart, smacked her lips, there was still a sweet aroma of wine between her lips and teeth, she really wanted to drink it, and urged: "It's your turn, ask quickly!" ”
Song Yuanxi pretended to look up at the sky inadvertently, and asked casually, "What is the relationship between you and Gu Ziyi?" ”
Xia Taozhi was worried about drinking, and felt that this question was very boring, so she replied without thinking: "The relationship between master and servant in the past." ”
"That's it?"
"That's it......" she said impatiently, taking a sip of her wine, "it's my turn." Stretching out two green jade fingers, "You just asked two, and I'm going to ask two too." ”
Song Yuanxi paused for a moment, isn't he stupid......
Xia Taozhi's face gradually flushed, and she smiled at him, revealing two small teeth, as if she was prepared: "Why did you come all the way to Dongchu to marry Xia Xiang's daughter." ”
Song Yuanxi surrendered directly and made a gesture of please: "You drink." ”
Xia Taozhi took a sip proudly, and asked a second question: "Why did you send Ling Yao to rob and kill your son at that time?" ”
As soon as Song Yuanxi heard the word "childe", an unhappy look appeared on his face. Xia Taozhi didn't care, seeing that he didn't answer, she raised her head and took another sip, her eyes gradually becoming a little confused......
"It's my turn." Song Yuanxi lowered his eyes and stared at her: "The last question ......"
"You...... What kind of revenge is it to get revenge? ”
Xia Taozhi didn't expect him to ask this, the smile on his face disappeared suddenly, and the person seemed to be a little sober, a sad look slowly appeared in his eyes, and he said word by word: "It's a sea of blood and hatred." ”
"It's my father, my mother, the blood feud of the 36 people in our village who were slaughtered......"
The moon disappeared into the clouds, and the stars seemed to dim a little. Her eyes were leveled ahead, her voice was a little desolate, and she slowly spoke of a sad past.
In the easternmost part of Dongchu, there is a village called Yudong Village, which is where she was born. In her childhood memories, Yudong Village is very beautiful, green mountains and green waters, simple mountain villages, simple courtyards, the villagers of Yudong Village are very simple and kind, honest and honest, male farmers and women weaving, comfortable and peaceful. Her aunt is a gentle and virtuous woman, it is said that she was the embroiderer of a large family, and the female celebrity did a very good job, often sewing clothes and shoes for her, and often made embroidery for her father to sell in the town. Her father is an honest man who cooks good food. When she came back from farm work every day, as soon as she entered the yard, she shouted "Daddy" and ran over with her little short legs, and her Daddy picked her up and carried her around in circles on her shoulders.
However, all this beauty stopped when she was six years old.
On the night of that nightmare, a group of masked men in black with torches and long knives broke into their village overnight, searched from house to house, and drove the villagers to the open space of the village one by one, and the adults and children stood in two piles. Several people in black crouched down and carefully compared the appearance of the children with the portraits they were holding, as if they were looking for someone.
Her aunt's face was pale, her whole body trembled, and she hugged her tightly and shrank at the head of the bed and didn't dare to make a sound. Seeing that the man in black was about to search her house, he heard her father shout urgently: "Take Ah Luo and run!" He picked up a stick, opened the door, and rushed out. Her aunt escaped through the back door with her, and before she could run a few steps, she heard her father's screams, and the sound of many swords piercing flesh at the same time. She was so frightened that she almost convulsed, crying out "Daddy...... Daddy...... "I want to run back." Her aunt's face was full of tears, she grabbed her and ran forward with her lifeless.
A shout came from behind him: "Ran through the back door, chase after you!" ”
The dense chasing footsteps followed, and it made her creepy, and she was dragged by his aunt and ran away, so scared that she couldn't even cry.
Her aunt took her to a waterhole, reached out and folded a slender reed pole into her hand, and said to her in a trembling voice: "Hide in the water, no matter what sound you hear, don't come out." ”
This was the last thing her aunt said to her.
After she hid in, she heard her Auntie's footsteps and ran forward again, and at the same time, the man in black behind her chased after her, and caught up with her Auntie in a few steps and killed her.
The night breeze was a little cooler, and the noisy crowd in the distance was still laughing and laughing, and the two people sitting on the white bridge were like two different worlds.
"You know what? Even if I was hiding at the bottom of the pool, I could clearly hear the voices of those people killing my mother......" Xia Taozhi raised her head and took a big sip of wine, looked at the moon in the sky, and said in a calm tone: "Not long after, the village became noisy, I heard the sound of burning houses, and heard people's panicked screams and painful cries for help, it seemed to be in my ears......
"I hid in a pool all night before I dared to climb up...... My mother fell not far from the waterhole, and her body was cold...... The blood on his body has also dried up......"
"I stumbled all the way back to the village...... The village has been burned to the ground...... There was clotted blood and burnt charred corpses everywhere...... Adult's ...... Kids' ......"
"None of them escaped but me...... Thirty-six corpses in total......"
"And my daddy...... My daddy ......"
Her voice was a little choked, as if she remembered some extremely terrible picture, and her whole body trembled.
Song Yuanxi didn't know when he had already sat down beside her, stretched out his hand to hug her into his arms, and said softly: "Idiot...... What do you do with your head up all the time...... Cry if you want to......"
The man in his arms trembled violently, buried his face in his chest, and seemed to be crying silently.
After a long time, the person in his arms calmed down and stopped moving.
"Little Peach?"
Xia Taozhi's wine strength came up, she was a little lightheaded, and her dizziness was very bad, so she had to lean on Song Yuanxi's arms, and responded vaguely: "Hmm......"
Song Yuanxi was a little worried, her body stepped back, she held the soft person in her arms, stretched out her slender fingertips to pick up her chin, and looked at it carefully.
Under the moonlight, the person in his arms had a pink face, his eyes were misty, his eyes were still moist and wet after crying, and there were still a few small tears hanging on his eyelashes that had not yet dried.
"Are you alright?"
Song Yuanxi's voice seemed to come from far away, hazy and unreal, as if he heard it clearly, but it seemed that he didn't hear it clearly. Xia Taozhi felt in a daze that he was right, this wine was indeed very fierce, so fierce that it made her completely dizzy, so fierce that it made her feel light......
The person in his arms snorted, and his delicate lips moved slightly, as if with endless temptation.
After a long silence, he lowered his head as if bewitched and put his lips on hers.
Song Yuanxi's body was rippling with wine, and her lips were soft and moist, which reminded her of the wine-stuffed dumplings made by her father in Yudong Village when she was a child, which were soft and sweet. He unceremoniously opened her lips and teeth with the tip of his tongue, and the aftertaste of the wind music brewed spread in his mouth, and the fragrant and sweet smell was intoxicating.
In the sky behind them, colorful fireworks rushed into the sky, blooming in an instant, reflecting the night as bright as day, and it was extremely gorgeous.