Chapter 7: The Entanglement of Fate
Yan'er's injury lasted intermittently for half a year, because of the lack of medical treatment, depression, and left the root of the disease, but in rainy and snowy weather, she always had a heartache and often coughed and wheezing. The old abbot worried a lot about this, and went up the mountain to collect medicine every three or five times, but it didn't work.
But this is not a concern for Yan'er, because there is something much more important than that. She doesn't want to live in a mess, she wants to know the truth.
But how can this matter be investigated in the name of justice? She had no clue.
Miao Judge and the abbot went to the city to exchange food, and I am afraid that I will come back very late. The little monk found that there were not many herbs for Chang'er, so he had to carry a bamboo basket to the mountains to collect medicine.
In mid-autumn, the weather is not too cold, and this is the last time to collect medicine. The idiot took his sister-in-law to climb the mountain step by step, although it was difficult, fortunately he gained a lot, and after a morning, both of them were very tired, so they leaned against the tree to rest.
After resting for a while, he stood up and looked into the distance, and said excitedly: "I look at the trees on the opposite hillside that are red and green, maybe they are fruit trees, you wait for me here, I will go back." ”
She may not have eaten the fruit for a long time, and the greedy worm made a fuss, saying, "Go and come back quickly, I will wait for you here." ”
The idiot lowered his body, slid down the small hill, and walked briskly to the opposite hill, with cheerful steps, as if he could fly with a wing. After a while, the little monk was drowned in the green sea.
It was boring to sit and sit down, and it happened that there was a cricket cry in the grass, squeaking, like continuous music. Yan'er was attracted by the sound, and hurriedly rolled up her sleeves to look for crickets. She tiptoed closer, brushed aside the layers of weeds, searched carefully, and soon saw this black "little musician".
She bent her waist, her hands slowly approached the little insect, and with a sudden force, the little insect was caught by her fleshy little hands.
The excitement was transmitted along her hands to her whole body, and all the way to the corners of her eyebrows and eyes. The little bug struggled in the palm of his hand, screaming, but to no avail.
Holding it in both hands all the time was not an option, and Yan'er decided to find a piece of hay to tie up the little worm. She looked up, only to see a leg on the grass not far away!
Yan'er couldn't see the situation clearly, and was startled, but she didn't pay attention and threw the cricket out. She didn't care about this trivial matter, and she sat on the ground for a long time and didn't dare to stand up, and a thin cold sweat broke out in her heart.
But she finally stood up, and slowly approached the leg that lay flat in the grass. When I walked in, it turned out that there was a teenager lying here.
That young man should be two years older than Chang'er, dressed in brocade clothes, with a golden crown and jade belt, and a long and sturdy body, and he knew that his status was noble at a glance. His eyes were closed, and his eyelashes were shining in the sunlight, casting thin shadows on his angular face. His chest heaved with even breathing, there was a little crumb of grass under him, and two large ants swirled around him.
Is he sleeping or is he not feeling well? How can there be people in the wilderness? Chang'er didn't understand, and she approached the boy gently.
Unexpectedly, just when Chang'er walked to the boy's side and squatted down, the originally quiet boy suddenly opened his eyes, accurately pinched Chang'er's neck with one hand, and pressed her to the ground, and a four-edged short dart appeared in the palm of one hand, which was quickly pointed at Yan'er's throat!
Naturally, Chang'er didn't know what was going on, why a young man she didn't know wanted to kill her. Could it be that he was sent by Li Xingzhi? She looked at the boy with a wave of anger between her eyebrows with wide eyes wide open.
The young man looked at Yan'er's frightened look, as if his heart was soft, and the edges and corners of his eyebrows were soothed a lot, but his posture did not change at all.
"Who are you?" The two men spoke in unison.
The young man's guard was loosened a little more, the hand holding Yan'er was released, and the short dart was also put back, and the language was cold: "It turned out to be a little girl." What are you doing here alone in the wilderness? ”
Yan'er was so frightened by the other party's momentum that she couldn't speak, and only timidly pointed to the bamboo basket under the tree and said, "I came with others to collect medicine." ”
"The road is unsteady, and you still collect medicine?" There was disdain in the teenager's language.
Yan'er stood up, took a few steps back, touched her neck and said, "Aren't you also alone?" ”
The boy didn't seem to like the feeling of being looked at condescendingly, so he also stood up, patted the dirt on his body and said, "I'm fleeing, and so are you?" ”
"Fleeing?" Yan'er was a little surprised, "You are also on the run when you dress up like this?" ”
Yes, serious refugees should be like Chang'er, low-key duty, how can there be people who flee in brocade clothes and gorgeous clothes? Seeing that he is outstanding in martial arts, he should be a bully of others. Chang'er couldn't figure out what trouble this arrogant guy would escape.
The young man sighed, his voice was free, he sat down against the tree, and said, "I followed my old man to the capital, and the emperor insisted that I read to those princes, the princes, do you know, the emperor's sons. Uncle Ben is also a good man, how can he be called by those delicate and expensive people? So, Uncle Ben ran out and walked around with those who wanted to chase me. ”
"Can you see the Emperor?" Yan'er asked with wide eyes.
"Is there anything strange about meeting the emperor? He's my uncle. Wow, at first glance, you're an ignorant girl. ”
"I don't know? I ......" Yan'er wanted to argue, but she endured the words again, "In short, we are standing in the same place now, admiring the same sky, who is much stronger than whom!" It's far away from the capital, are you lost? ”
"Am I lost?" The young man was even more annoyed, straightened his waist and shouted, "What road haven't I walked?" I deliberately came here to relax. My emperor's uncle except for advocating Taoism, everything else is a gust of wind. After a few days, maybe he will forget about it, and I can follow my father back to the northwest. ”
A thought suddenly appeared in Yan'er's heart, she took three steps and two steps, sat next to the young man, and asked, "Can you often see the emperor when you read to the prince as a companion?" ”
"yes. What's wrong? ”
"Apart from this, is there any other way to meet the emperor?"
The young man raised his head and thought for a long time, and said: "It is easier for the family to see His Majesty, as long as you wait for the feast in the palace, as for the common people, you have to participate in the imperial examination, and if you become an official, you will have the opportunity to meet the saint." ”
"Imperial examinations?"
The young man thought that Chang'er didn't know anything about it, and he looked disdainful: "You don't even know what the imperial examination is, right?" It is the method of selecting officials through examinations in the imperial court. ”
"Of course I know that my grandfather even won three yuan back then, and my eldest uncle also won Tanhua. Don't look down on me. Yan'er said angrily.
There was a moment of surprise on the young man's face, he didn't expect that the medicine girl in front of him had such a decent relative, it didn't look like bragging, and said, "So you girl still has a little knowledge." ”
"Don't call me girl, I'll call you Yan'er. Who are you? What is your name? ”
The young man casually grabbed a dog's tail grass, wiped it with his hand, held it in his mouth, and tilted his head deeply behind him: "I can't tell you my identity, my family rules are strict, and I am not allowed to make friends with others casually." I think I'm older than you, or you can call me Brother Qing, my mother - that's my mother, she likes to call me Qing'er. ”
When Yan'er heard this, she frowned and turned her face away.
Brother Qing, cut, it sounds like "love brother", weird and numb. In the past, several famous ladies often called her eldest brother Li Chengyu "Brother Yu", Li Chengyu was disgusted, so he simply called Li Yuhan and Ji Heng, and sent crabs, praying mantises, centipedes or something to those eldest ladies a few times, which frightened those boudoir ladies and even pear blossoms with rain, and finally dispelled the idea of pestering him.
This hairy boy is really uninformed, well, he hasn't learned well.
Seeing that Chang'er no longer talked to him, the young man didn't understand the reason, and asked, "Chang'er, did you see a waist knife when you went up the mountain?" ”
Chang'er was silently laughing at the young man, so she didn't think about what it was, and replied casually: "No." ”
"Then forget it." The boy stood up, patted the dirt on his body, and said, "I accidentally lost a valuable waist knife when I went up the mountain, and I must hurry up to find it." Let's go first! ”
Chang'er didn't expect the young man to say that the wind was rain, and wanted to keep him before talking, but after thinking about it, there was really nothing to say, so he had to go.
The young man walked a few steps and turned back to say goodbye: "Sister, no one has been able to say a word to me for so many years, you are the first, and you can be regarded as a friend." My home is in Cannes in the northwest, which is far from here, but I still hope that we will have a date later. ”
Will there be a period later? Such a person who is more domineering and arrogant than a crab, why should there be a period? That's it, my sister-in-law doesn't care about men, and forget it. Thinking like this, Chang'er replied perfunctorily: "Well, there is a period!" ”
The boy lowered his body and slid down the steep dirt slope, quickly disappearing.
After a while, the little monk ran over with a lot of apples and persimmons in his robe, and his eyes lit up with excitement. He put a big red apple in the palm of his hand and urged her to eat it. Yan'er hugged the apple and took a bite of it, ha, it's so sweet. But she couldn't help but look down the hill, and thought, I hope that hairy boy can find what he is looking for.
Many years later, when Yan'er, who had become a Ji Ying, recognized Jiang Yichen, she realized that all fate was fate.