Chapter 8: The Past of the Locust Tree (1)
I knelt on the ground and smacked my tongue secretly, I didn't think that this old man who pruned flowers and branches was actually the legendary Northern Emperor and Emperor Xudu! It's not what I thought it would be. After a while, the emperor stopped his work, put down the scissors in his hand, and looked at the bonsai in front of him with satisfaction. www.biquge.info In the hands of the Northern Emperor, this pot of plants, which was originally like a chicken, quietly turned into a vivid landscape painting after several prunings, which makes people have to admire the ingenuity of the Northern Emperor.
He nodded, carefully cleaned up the branches scattered on the ground, and walked to the table to take a sip of tea, only then did he notice that we had been waiting for a long time, he set his eyes on me, I was a little overwhelmed, I didn't dare to look into his eyes, I grabbed one end of my clothes and shook it twice from time to time, trying to remind Hei Wuchang to tell me what to do next, but he didn't seem to see me, and kept a half-kneeling movement, without the slightest change.
I saw the Northern Emperor put down the teacup in his hand and walked towards me slowly, I couldn't hear a trace of footsteps, even if there was, it was just the sound of friction between the fabrics, just a few steps he walked in front of me, gently bent down and said to me: "There are not many young people who are so patient with you now." ”
I thought to myself, I was scared to death by you, I can't be honest, who told us to beat the little cowardly.
He added, "You have done a good job, unlike the previous ones, who were dishonest and manipulative, so you had to throw them into hell to suffer for a few days, and let them be honest." ”
When he said this, it was almost close to my ear, and I could feel the bitter and fragrant aroma of the tea coming out of his mouth. I was terrified, and if I had just moved my hands and feet, I might have been thrown into the blistering hell to catch up with them. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but secretly rejoice again.
"Alright, you both get up."
"Emperor Xie." Hei Wuchang said respectfully.
I slowly got up, and said in my mouth: "Emperor Xie." ”
Bei Dijun shook his head helplessly at me, and motioned for me to sit on the stone bench on the side, I was relieved, walked over in a few steps, and sat on it with my ass. Soon Hei Wuchang also came over, sitting mildly and elegantly side by side, in my backdrop he looked more like a personable son, I subconsciously sat upright, I didn't want to be compared to him, but also to leave a good impression on the Northern Emperor.
Seeing that the two of us sat down, Beidijun nodded slightly, brushed his wide clothes to the sides, and sat down straight, I wondered if Beidijun was old and confused, and there was no stool here? But just when his thighs were about to be parallel to the ground, a rattan chair not far away slid over as if it had long legs, no more, no less, not fast, not slow, just right, there was not a trace of scratches on the ground, and there was no sound, I took a breath, thinking that it was really the leader of the Hades, and the strength was really not ordinary.
After sitting firmly, the Northern Emperor looked at me, if my face would be red and hot normally, but unfortunately I am already dead, I only feel at a loss, a little embarrassed. Bei Dijun opened his mouth first and asked, "You are Pu Cong?" "Yes, the Emperor, I am Pu Cong." I replied. Well, he smiled slightly, and then said, "Young man, do you really want to know the purpose of my coming to you?" ”
Of course I want to know, I thought to myself, but I still don't know even a bit about why I'm here. Also, I'm a young ghost now, not a young man. Although he thought so in his heart, he still said: "The little ghost is ignorant, and I hope that the emperor will make it clear." The Emperor nodded again: "Yes, it seems that your conduct is quite dignified." "Of course it's dignified, I thought in my heart, if I wasn't dignified, I wouldn't know what you would become, but I still said politely: "Let the emperor see and laugh." ”
"Well, let me remind you, think about the big locust tree in the village when you were a child, and the little girl, and that car accident, what do you probably remember." Beidijun reminded me. When he said this, my mind went back to that afternoon more than ten years ago.
At that time, I secretly ran out of the house, holding the yellow and white wildflowers that had just been picked from the side of the road, and planned to give this to the little girl, when I happily ran to the big locust tree, I found that there was no shadow of her here at all, probably the reason why I used to wait for me here early every time I came, I had a kind of consciousness, as long as I came to the big locust tree, she would definitely wait for me here, so it took me a long time to determine that she might not have something at home today, Or because I didn't know that I would come here in the afternoon, so she wouldn't come, I threw the flower to the ground in disappointment, walked to the trunk of the big locust tree with my head down, and sat down against it, I don't know if I was looking at the car on the road or the sunset on the other side of the road, in short, I have been sitting there, I don't know how long, in short, the sun has turned into a scarlet light, then I heard a knock on the door from behind me, I turned my head curiously, I saw that the flower I had thrown on the ground ran to the root of the tree at some point, and the branch was stuck in a non-obvious crack in the trunk of the locust tree.
I reached out and touched it, but found that there was a cool wind blowing from the crack, I hurriedly stretched my finger back, I looked inside curiously, but the crack was too small, it was too dark inside I couldn't see anything, I was a little disappointed, and suddenly remembered the silver lock on my chest, which was the silver lock that my mother gave me when I was born and asked for the light from the temple, I couldn't help but giggle when I saw it, I found a position, aimed the silver lock at the sun that was about to set, and entered the crack with the reflected lightI opened my eyes wide and saw a pair of big eyes like me, as well as a pair of small pigtails and a small red jacket that had long been outdated, I was so frightened that I sat on the ground with two lines of hot tears rolling down, whimpering in my throat, but I couldn't shout.
The figure of the little girl seemed to be getting clearer and clearer, she stretched out her little hand and shook it from side to side, and then there was a child's whisper in her ears: "Little brother, you see me, I have always paid attention to you, but you always come in the morning, and I can't come out." The voice was very immature, and a little trembling, lingering in my ears for a long time.