84. Someone from the house
I thought about all kinds of possibilities, but I never thought that this person would wake up and forget who he was. [I have no way of knowing if he is Lu Feng, and if so, I can't ask him how he came to this era, in fact, there is a faint answer in my heart, and I have it after I take the medicine for him, which is why I can hold it for a week before looking for a chance to come over for further confirmation.]
But when he learned that he had forgotten everything, the ghost blurted out the name of "Lu Feng" like a god, and he didn't understand what kind of mentality he had, did he subconsciously hope that this person was Lu Feng? Or is it self-deluded that you want to find a hint of your own familiarity in this era? There is no way to tell.
When I returned to the village with a basket of firewood, I saw Ah Ping sitting on the threshold of the door of my house from a distance, and when he saw me coming back, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he got up and strode towards me. He had already changed out of the short shirt and back into a dark robe, and he walked with a little more elegance.
But when he came to me, I didn't feel it so much, the eyebrows were frowned, the face was full of displeasure, and the eyes were still staring at me, which had nothing to do with elegance.
"Why don't you wait for me in the yard?" After hearing him ask unhappily, I showed him the basket on my back, "Well, my mother-in-law said that there is not much firewood at home, so let me go out and pick up some and come back." ”
Seeing this, he reached out and untied the basket from my back and carried it behind him, "Wait for me next time." ”
I smiled and nodded.
I thought that there would be no chance to go out alone, but I didn't think that one afternoon half a month later, Widow Liu asked me to go out to pick up timber again. The firewood at home is indeed used up, including the previous stock and the basket I picked up last time, but what I can't figure out is why I didn't ask Uncle Mu to buy it? Could it be that the family is struggling?
Widow Liu's eyes were sharp, she saw through my thoughts, and said expressionlessly: "Lao Mu has not returned from going out recently, so there is nowhere to supply firewood, so you go and pick up a basket to come back." ”
I see, it is true that the door of Uncle Mu's house has been closed every day for a while. I had no choice but to carry the basket on my back and walk out of the door again, thinking that my mother-in-law was really flexible as she walked, and deliberately took advantage of Ah Ping to send me during the nap.
I didn't want to go too far, but it was really difficult to find dry firewood from a close distance, so I had to look far away. Before I knew it, I was in the hot spring again, and to my surprise, the person who was supposed to leave was still there, and he was still naked.
He saw me too, and even though I turned around and walked away in time, I heard him raise his voice and call: "Wait a minute, Xu ...... Orchid! ”
I froze, and when my footsteps approached, I hurriedly said, "You put on your clothes first." ”
After a moment of silence, I heard the sound of the rope, and after a while, I heard the other party's deep voice say, "Okay." Then I turned my head, and sure enough, he had put on his coat, but it was tattered, and his face looked a little vicissitudes because he had not shaved for a long time.
"Why haven't you left yet?" After staring at it for a while, he looked away awkwardly, and secretly said in his heart that he was less and less like Lu Feng, and the person in his impression was always neat and clean, how could he be as depressed as he is now.
"I said I had nowhere to go."
So he's just staying here? That ...... "What do you eat?" "The people live on food, and if you stay here, you have to have food to get by, and the hot spring water should not be drinkable. The little food I left behind should have been eaten long ago, and it would not have been possible to survive to this day.
But he saw that the corners of his mouth were raised: "There are many edible things in the mountains and fields. ”
Seeing that my eyes widened in astonishment, he pursed his lips and smiled: "Come and hunt an animal and roast it, and if you can't hunt it, you can find some wild vegetables, so you won't starve to death." I just caught a hare just before you came, and I was about to start a fire to roast it, would you like to eat some of it? ”
When I heard this, I turned my head to look at the hot spring pool, and sure enough, I saw a shelf standing there, and the fire was bursting out.
Suddenly a voice approached in my ear: "You came out to pick firewood again?" I'll pick it for you. When the words fell, he came to unload the basket on the back of my shoulder, but he said again: "You can roast the hare for me, just turn it over, and I will be back soon." ”
When he came back from his shock, he saw that he had already walked away, and it was too late to stop him. After hesitating, I walked over to the stand and looked at it, and I almost jumped in fright. A skinned hare was drenched in a sharpened branch, bloody, and even gray fur remained on the ground. Let me roast a hare? You really look down on me.
So when Lu Feng came back, he saw that I was far away from the hare bracket, and the fire had always been on that side, and it was already a little burnt. He didn't say anything, but strode over and turned the hare over before he came and put the basket at my feet, and in a short time there was already a basket full of dead branches. By the way, I found that there were two fish on it, and I couldn't help but be surprised and asked, "Why are there still fish?" ”
He replied, "There is a freshwater river over there, and I am afraid that you will not be accustomed to eating hares, so you forked two more fish." ”
Then he neatly killed the fish and took the entrails, washed them, and then forked them with two other sharpened branches and roasted them on the fire. I watched him do this in silence, and suddenly I panicked for no reason, got up and picked up the basket and said, "I'm going back." ”
He was stunned, "The fish will be grilled quickly." ”
It seems a little rude to walk with my feet, after all, people helped me get a basket of dead branches, shook my head and said, "Don't eat it, I'm waiting for firewood at home." After a pause, he remembered one thing and couldn't help but remind: "If you want to live here for the time being, it is best to pay attention to the fact that there may be wolves in this deep mountain, you have to be careful." ”
When he walked out of a section, he heard footsteps following him, and when he turned his head, he saw him following, "Is there anything else?" ”
He said calmly, "Give you a ride." ”
After being stunned, he hurriedly replied: "No need, I am familiar with this road." But just as he turned around, he whispered: "Don't move! I didn't react, why did this person suddenly shout at himself, only to feel that his figure flashed in front of me, and I looked closely, scared into a cold sweat. I saw a thin snake still expanding under his feet, and the head of the snake was firmly trampled on the bottom of his feet, less than two feet in front of me, and I didn't realize it.
I don't dare to think that if I walked through the numb scalp of being wrapped around the ankle of a snake just now, the most feared thing in my life is nothing more than snakes and rats and other animals. Of course, if it's a wolf, it also scares me.
He turned around and said, "Take me a branch." ”
I immediately took one out of the basket and handed it to him, and I saw him quickly remove his foot and struck the snake seven inches, and soon the thin snake did not move, and then he picked out the snake with the branch.
Frightened, I took three steps back, he didn't seem to think that I reacted so much, he was stunned for a moment and hurriedly turned the branch in another direction, "Actually, you don't have to be afraid, this snake is not poisonous, you can make a snake soup after peeling the skin." ”
Peel! Snake soup!
I felt bad all over, and finally the other party saw that my face was not right, and walked away and threw the dead snake aside. Later, he continued to follow me and didn't raise any more objections, and I really didn't know that there were snakes in this area after a few trips to the hot spring pool.
On this part of the way, I have been thinking about when to politely refuse him to send it again, but I didn't wait for the time to come, but I saw a vague figure walking on the road from a distance. Without thinking about it, he said to the person behind him, "It's okay to send it here, thank you." ”
Regardless of the other party's reaction, he strode towards the figure in the distance. Almost the first time I saw it, even from a long distance, I recognized the person as Ah Ping. When I got closer, I noticed that my eyes were right, Ah Ping had already strode towards me, but his eyes fell behind him, "Who is that?" ”
Turn your head and see ...... Lu Feng was still standing in the distance and didn't leave, and he couldn't see his face clearly from such a distance, obviously Ah Ping saw me walking with him when he just came over.
He groaned and replied, "I encountered a snake while collecting firewood, and it was the woodcutter who passed by to relieve the siege. ”
It's not that I deliberately concealed it, in fact, I also told part of the facts, but I didn't tell the truth about Lu Feng's identity. But Lu Feng, the name itself is taboo, including my unknown past, which cannot be recognized by this world, how can I say it?
Fortunately, Ah Ping only glanced at it twice, then took my basket and took the initiative to carry it on his back, and lowered his head and complained: "Why don't you wait for me to wake up?" "I'm speechless, can your mother's posture make me wait? didn't want to deepen the conflict between their mother and son, so they changed the topic: "How do you know that you're looking for me this way?" ”
But Ah Ping replied unanswered: "It's stuffy in the house." ”
Sneaking a glance at him from time to time along the road, his inexplicable heart was troubled, and he didn't secretly breathe a sigh of relief until he got home. But when I entered the door, I found that the atmosphere in the house was abnormal, although no one in the hall was silent, but I saw that Ah Ping unloaded the basket and put it on the side of the door, so he didn't want to go inside. As her steps approached, Widow Liu walked out quickly, and without looking at me, her eyes fell directly on Ah Ping, "Where have you been?" But Ah Ping ignored it and pulled a bench and sat down.
Looking at this situation, when I went out to collect firewood, the mother and son quarreled again?
As soon as Nian turned around, he heard another footstep coming from inside, and soon two middle-aged men in dark robes walked out. I'm pretty sure the two weren't from the village, and they didn't look like villagers in their clothes.
When their gaze swept over me, I felt a chill inexplicably, because the gaze of these two people was too cold, as if it had been quenched ice. But it was just for a moment, and then both of them looked at Ah Ping, but Ah Ping looked down like a nobody, and he lowered his head and didn't look at anyone.
Suddenly remembered that on the way back just now, Ah Ping said "stuffy in the house", could it mean that there were unpleasant people at home? But who are these two? I was puzzled when I heard Widow Liu say in a rare and humble tone: "Please go back first, what you said will be agreed upon by me after I persuade you, I don't know if it's okay?" ”
One of them spoke: "Aunt Qing's words are serious, let's come back later." ”
Although the words were said to the widow Liu, I observed that the eyes of these two people never left Ah Ping, probably without Ah Ping's reaction, their eyes flashed with disappointment, and finally they walked out of the door and left without saying anything more.