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In the early morning, when the sleeping Liu Zixuan was woken up by the sound of magpies again, he couldn't help but feel a fire in his belly again: Listen to these two damn birds, they must have been stimulated by something, otherwise why would they have to run over sooner or later to make noise? The sound of chirping was close to my ears, and I wanted to turn the whole world upside down, and it really upset people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Liu Zixuan sat up straight, stretched his head obliquely and looked out the window, trying to see what kind of hypothesis that ghost thing had, and he had to shout so aggressively endlessly. Although he couldn't find the shadow of the magpie among the branches and leaves, Liu Zixuan saw the locust flowers all over the tree, and only then did he smell a fragrance in the air.

Seeing the acacia flowers at a glance, Liu Zixuan was not surprised, the white strings hanging on the trees seemed to have exploded overnight, why didn't he notice it at all a few days ago? Smelling the faint fragrance of acacia flowers, Liu Zixuan's gloomy heart brightened up a lot for a while. The days are really fast, as soon as the acacia flowers bloom, summer is already approaching.

Why bother yourself, isn't it a good thing to hear magpies in this early summer with the fragrance of flowers? What's more, in this morning when the sun is rising, maybe the old man's illness can slowly improve with the warming of the weather? After some self-comfort, listening to the magpie's voice was much more pleasant to the ear than it had been a moment ago, at least it didn't sound so much more than it sounded like yesterday's sunset. For a long time, people have summarized many rules from animal activities, such as magpies, which are said to have an unusual ability to reach the sky, that is, the morning is always good news, and the evening is always mourning...... There are always people who unconsciously believe that such rumors are true, regardless of whether they are justified or not.

But what other joy could there be in such a remote place far from the people? Liu Zixuan naturally didn't believe it, he didn't believe that the two wild birds could really bring any good news, but in the bottom of his heart, he still had a little more hope, in the past month, the old man's condition was getting worse day by day, for which he had been tense nerves, he was really tired, if something happened, he could slightly improve the current unbearable situation, naturally he burned incense and worshiped the Buddha and couldn't ask for it.

Probably because of my mother's illness, the illness is like a mountain, and the illness is like a thread, God should not always be mean to poor people...... Liu Zixuan thought about it and got out of bed quickly. Coming out of the west room, he took a few steps into the main house separated by a wall, lifted the curtain on the door of the east room, and arrived at the old man's bed. It wasn't until he heard the sound of the old man's gentle breathing that Liu Zixuan was relieved. Since the old man was seriously ill and bedridden, Liu Zixuan was always afraid of the short distance from his room to the old man's bed, he was worried that when he woke up and walked to the bed, he would no longer see the old man's snort and hear her voice. After a long time, this worry deteriorated into panic, and he did not even dare to go back to his bed to sleep, until last night, under the repeated urging of the old man, he went back to his bed and slept a full night.

Approaching the old man's ear, Liu Zixuan said: "Mother, do you smell it, the acacia flowers behind the house are blooming, and summer is coming...... Mother, do you hear it, there are two flower magpies on the treetops, and we have a guest coming today. ”

"Early in the morning, the sun is high, the magpie is calling, and the guests come to ......" This is the song that Liu Zixuan sang when he was ignorant, and his mother coaxed him to sing, but now, he used this ballad to comfort his seriously ill old lady.

Hearing his son's voice, the old man on the hospital bed slowly opened his eyes, as if it was a very laborious thing to open his eyes: "Go back and sleep for a while, my mother is fine......"

"Mother, today happens to be a big gathering, I will go to the town and buy a pheasant and come back to cook a bowl of soup for you."

The old man nodded slightly, closed his eyes and stopped talking. Liu Zixuan could see clearly, and crystal tears oozed from the corners of the old man's eyes. In the past year, the old man has been sick, and two doctors have come to see her illness, and they all said that they were sad and sick, and even if they used more and better medicine, it would not help...... The moment he learned that his only relative would also die soon, Liu Zixuan's heart was completely cold, and he knew best in his heart that if it weren't for his father's premature death, his mother would never have fallen ill so soon.

Like a few days ago, Liu Zixuan wiped the old man's hands and face with a wet towel, and simply combed his hair...... Today, he also specially cooked some rice porridge and brought it to the bedside and carefully fed a few bites...... Looking at the old man's two lines of tears, a ball of qi was forced into his throat, and he couldn't swallow it, let alone spit it out. When he came out of the east room, he looked up at the sky, and saw two magpies in the black locust tree.

The sky is gray, a large black cloud is pressing down from the northwest, and the rainy season in the mountains and forests is getting closer and closer.

"This damn weather, it's getting too fast!" Complaining about the weather in his heart, Liu Zixuan closed the door of the courtyard casually, and let go of his two feet by taking advantage of the downhill slope in front of the courtyard. The Guniu Town Market that I am going to go to today is about twelve or thirteen miles away from Rabbit Gang, and it takes half a day to make a round trip, not to mention that it takes half a day. Liu Zixuan went out early and trotted all the way to Guniu Town, wanting to rush back before the heavy rain landed.

Before the heavy rain fell, people walked much faster than usual. Xingse hurried to Guniu Town, Liu Zixuan's eyes were full of people who were in a hurry like him, driving cattle, leading sheep, killing pigs, shouting and selling, a whole street, full of human voices, men and women, old and young, people now seem to be more and more fond of rushing to the market...... On both sides of the street, there are two-story supply and marketing cooperatives, schools with red flags, state-run canteens, and movie theaters with red five-pointed stars, and there are more small traders and vendors of all kinds than in the previous two years...... This street is not long or short, but it is a completely different world for Liu Zixuan, the east of the street crows early, the west of the street can be heard clearly, the west of the street is a night dog crows, and the east of the street is not quiet. What would it be like for the people who live on this street? Many years ago, Liu Zixuan pondered like this, and many years later, he still didn't know. Such a lively and noisy big place, and the rabbit gang in the field is very different, in the early years to follow his father to this town, Liu Zixuan was still somewhat curious, but now that he has become a person, such a lively place, but more and more he feels uneasy, scared, what is he afraid of, he himself can't say a reason.

In this weather, whether you can buy pheasants is still between the two, Liu Zixuan didn't dare to delay for a moment, and walked through the cracks with his head down. I was just about to lift my feet into the farmer's market, and when I raised my eyes, my heart was cold and I might as well be stabbed. In the crowd not far ahead, Liu Zixuan saw a person, this woman who was one year older than him, had an extraordinary meaning to Liu Zixuan.

When he was nineteen years old, Zixuan's father asked someone to introduce him to an object, who was also a girl from a poor family, and the Liu family was a good match, and the two of them had been together for more than a year, and both parties were satisfied, so the parents of the two families picked a day and began to prepare for the children's marriage. But this good thing was not done, but disasters came one after another. Just a few days before that good day, Liu Zixuan's father died suddenly and unexpectedly, so the marriage between the two was delayed. In the first year of the mourning period, the woman suddenly broke off the marriage, and since then, the two have not seen each other again. Later, I only vaguely heard that she married into Guniu Town, and she thought that she should have lived the life she wanted. So, the meeting between the two people on this day and here seems to be expected.

Although it is simple to say, but the past three years ago left Liu Zixuan with unforgettable damage, but this world is unpredictable, today in the market of Guniu Town, I met my original sweetheart again, seeing her, Liu Zixuan inevitably had a heartache again.

In the crowd, the other party also saw Liu Zixuan, but turned around in a panic, leaving him with only a familiar back. Probably because she was ashamed in her heart and it was inconvenient to look at her old acquaintance, Liu Zixuan saw that she didn't want to pay attention to herself, and she couldn't step forward to talk again, so she lowered her head again and went into the farmers' market by herself. Now that his wife is seriously ill and bedridden, how can he still have the heart to think about those old things? I only remembered what my father said in my heart for no reason: Dealing with people is far more dangerous than dealing with wild beasts in the forest, wild beasts can only hurt your body, but what about people, they will inadvertently break your heart.

Fortunately, after only a short time in the market, Liu Zixuan found a pheasant caught with a sleeve in the hands of an old hunter, and it was still alive. After a simple transaction, Liu Zixuan walked back with the bound pheasant. It has only been half a day away from home, and he is already worried about the old people in the family.

I met the old man by chance, remembered the old things for no reason, and on the way home, Liu Zixuan returned to three years ago, so the old wound in my heart began to ache faintly again. has been with that woman for more than a year, and in retrospect, Liu Zixuan's heart is still not calm. She was like a vine, wrapped around Liu Zixuan's waist, dragging him back to those old days from time to time. What were those days like, how could Liu Zixuan forget? At that time, my father was still alive, my mother was healthy, the sky was so high, the sun was so bright, the clouds were light, and even the wind was kind...... But God doesn't often fulfill people's wishes, like colliding with a certain evil ghost, I don't know from which day, the smooth situation turned sharply, the originally bright world, instantly became narrow, became cold, only three years, came to the difficult situation of living in front of me...... Thinking while hurrying, Liu Zixuan, who was powerless to fight, could only sigh to himself in his heart, sighing at the impermanence of things in this world, just like the current ghost weather.

Overhead, the dull thunder approached step by step, as if the high dragon lord also had a lot of bad emotions and was in a hurry to vent, so he swept towards the mountains and forests with wind and rain. The air before the heavy rain was damp and dull, although Liu Zixuan was sweating profusely, he didn't care about resting, he walked and ran for a while, and rushed all the way under the layers of dark clouds.

Under the foot is a small road in the field, few people often pass, today on the road, did not meet a pedestrian, but when he was about to reach the rabbit gang, he looked up and saw a girl sitting on the side of the road in front, Liu Zixuan was very surprised. Walking east from Rabbit Gang, there is a small village called Yanggongjing about five or six miles away, and to the west is Guniu Town, which is twelve or thirteen miles away. Didn't she want to rush to Yanggongjing before the heavy rain, so she chose this path to take a shortcut?

(To be continued)