Chapter 26: The Dead
This scholar was in his twenties, wearing a white-washed but clean cyan gown, and he turned his head inadvertently, with upright facial features and a fair complexion.
I asked, "Sir, who are you talking to?" β
The scholar didn't know that there were people in the reeds, so he blushed in embarrassment, and hurriedly said: "It's just chanting poetry indiscriminately, don't blame the girl." β
His eyes were obsessively looking in the direction he was facing.
I was about to go home, but the scholar stopped me again, and said with a red face: "Girl, do you know the young lady over there just now?" β
"Which side?" I looked over and there was no one. Then he said, "Sir, it just so happened that I didn't see the young lady you said." β
The scholar replied disappointedly, and began to chant poetry in a low voice.
Maybe I saw a sister who came out to play, and bypassed the Yanyu Pavilion along the river.
After packing up the basket and going home, today during the Dragon Boat Festival, the family is very busy, and I have to help quickly.
I didn't pay any attention to the scholar anymore, and pinched some mugwort leaves along the way.
Mr. Mo arranged to order 300 zongzi today, but his father and mother were too busy to summon the third son next door.
The little third son has long hands and long feet and long fingers, and he is very neat in his work, and he is tying ropes to zongzi.
I hurriedly greeted, "The third brother is also here!" Is the private school okay today? β
Xiao Sanzi smiled and nodded: "Mr. will take a day off for the holidays."
When my mother heard this, she also threw the wrapped zongzi into the basket, picked up the zongzi leaves again, and said, "Is your gentleman that Gu Sheng?" Is it true that you are over 20 years old and still haven't married?"
Xiao Sanzi Bian Bao nodded: "What Aunt Mei said is that Mr. said that there is Yan Ruyu in the book."
The mother sighed, biting off the thin reed leaves that grew out with her teeth, and said: "Humanity is, there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest, and now his old mother is over sixty years old, and she can't hold her grandson, how can she not be in a hurry?"
I put down the basket and asked while arranging the reeds, "Then how old is Mr. Gu's mother?"
The mother said while filling in the stuffing: "The four sisters above him, he is considered to be the old lady Gu, and the pain is terrible, just this habit, the usual eyebrows and eyes are not right."
I compared the length of the reed leaves, cut them neatly, and asked, "How do you have a habit?"
The mother said while wrapping up: "This Gu Sheng, he has been smart since he was a child, he has won the exam, he has already eaten the imperial grain, and he has some hope for this year's exam, but I heard that he must first establish a career and then start a family, and he must not be a high-ranking official, and he will not let the girl suffer with him."
Xiao Sanzi nodded: "Yes, I have also been to Mr.'s house, it is really a family with four walls, when Mr. Dad was alive, he often planted land and vegetables, and there were melons and fruits at home from time to time, and now the master is gone, Mr. has never been from farming, just relying on some of our tuition, I am afraid that life is really difficult."
The mother smiled: "The third son can see it in every child, not to mention the matchmaker everywhere, although it is a pure white family, the family is poor, and there is no scholarly girl willing to marry, not to mention the village aunt and wild woman, he looks down on himself and looks down on it, but calls it vulgar powder, but I heard that some rich people want him to be rich, but he is an only son, and he has to provide for the old man, it is really difficult to make the trip, high or low, and he will not marry, so he will say that he wants to start a business first and then start a family."
I secretly stuffed a date in my mouth, and my mother knocked it on my head when she saw it, and asked the third son: "Your husband has a holiday today, can you also buy zongzi to eat?"
Xiao Sanzi shook his head: "Yesterday, Dr. Zhou gave Mr. a bag of glutinous rice as an apology because of the child's naughtyness, and I saw Mr. go to the Rouge River to pick reed leaves in the morning, and I think Mr. Xu is his own bag."
Oh? I hurriedly asked, "But you are wearing a blue robe and your face is white?"
Xiao Sanzi nodded: "You went to pick reed leaves, I think you happened to meet it."
I replied, "Xu is the gentleman, talking to himself."
The little third son smiled: "It's the Book of Songs!" Mr. Xu met the so-called Yiren. β
I nodded and said, "He really saw a person, but I didn't see it, and asked me if I could see the young lady he was looking at."
The mother clasped her hands and said: "If you see the sister of the Yanyu Pavilion, you will do evil." The sister of Yanyu Pavilion is worth so much, and when she thinks about it, Mr. Gu can only sigh. Why do you want to start a business first and then start a family, if you can't pass the exam, don't you have to be a bachelor for the rest of your life? β
Dad came out of the back kitchen and said that the water was boiling and it was called boiling zongzi, and we were all busy, so we forgot to mention Mr. Gu.
In the evening, the third son and I delivered zongzi together, but I saw that Gu Sheng was wandering outside the back court of Yanyu Pavilion.
The little third son stepped forward to salute, Gu Sheng saw that it was the little third son, asked where he was going, and when he saw that I was familiar, he also smiled. The third son said the truth, and Gu Sheng smiled: "It's a pity, I want to go in but I can't."
I hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, sir?" I can do it on my behalf. β
Gu Sheng's eyes lit up, and then sank again: "Okay, it's ridiculous, I don't know who the name of the person I want to see is."
I thought about it for a moment, didn't he see that girl in the reeds of the Rouge River? Eighty percent is, with Gu Sheng's family background, he can't think of spending a lot of money here, so he is uncertain and pitiful. said goodbye to him and went straight to the Smoke and Rain Pavilion.
After sending the zongzi out, it was already late at night, and the little third son smiled: "I heard a legend recently, do you want to hear it?" β
I hurriedly said, "What legend?" β
Xiao Sanzi said: "You often walk at night, but I still don't talk about you." β
I smiled and said: "The third brother is deliberately appetizing, this is just a night road, and the plum vegetables are also used to walking, so how can I be afraid." β
Xiao Sanzi said: "If you want to listen, I will tell you that if you are afraid, you dare not walk at night, don't blame me." β
I hurried him to speak. The third son cleared his throat and said, "I heard Grandma Liu, who sells soy milk, that the area around Yanyu Pavilion was originally the Dragon Temple, do you know this?" "I nodded hurriedly, probably talking about the house where Longjing was demolished."
Xiao Sanzi continued: "It is said that the reason why the Dragon Temple was built in this area was only for the haunted and haunted, so that the Dragon Temple was built to pray for the protection of the Dragon God, but a few years ago, there was a high roller who opened up the relationship between the upper and lower levels, demolished the Dragon Temple, and built the Yanyu Pavilion with land. β
When I heard that, I hurriedly asked, "What's the strange thing?" I walk here every day late at night, and I have never seen it. β
The third son said: "Have you been here when you were ugly?" β
I was stunned: "Naturally, no." β
Xiao Sanzi smiled and said: "I think it's the same, this strange thing, but it happened when it was ugly!" β
I hurriedly asked: "What is the strange thing when you are ugly, the third brother will talk about it quickly." β
Xiao Sanzi sneered: "Look at you in a hurry, I heard that when you are ugly, whenever someone walks on this path, I only hear the cry of a woman, but no one is there when I turn around, and then I call: Help me, save meγγγγγγ As long as I turned around at this time, I saw a white woman's arm stretched out from the reeds, and she was also wearing a golden chun. If this person doesn't go, the voice will call: Sir, don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person, but a weak woman was unfortunately taken captive, my family is a solid family, if you save me, you will be grateful, so he took off Jin Chuan and said: If you don't believe it, this is an engagementγγγγγ If this person wants to be heroic and save beauty, he just needs to go over and hold that handγγγγγγγ β
Seeing that I was fascinated by what I heard, the little third son deliberately didn't talk about it, and I hurriedly called the third brother several times before I was able to say with a smile: "This handγγγγγγ Leng unexpectedly tried to choke my neck: "Then pull this man into the river as a stand-in!" β
I jumped up in fright, although the weather was hot, my head was still a layer of cold sweat, and I feigned anger: "The third brother deliberately scared Mei Cai, see if I don't tell Aunt Yang to go!" The third son's surname is Yang, and Aunt Yang is his mother, as soon as he heard about it, he hurriedly said: "Good sister, won't I scare you next time?" Tell my mother, I have to have a meal of chestnuts, and when the time comes, I can't help make zongzi. I laughed too. At this time, I couldn't help but look at the side of the road, how could I really look like a person lying down?
I grabbed the little third son and pointed out the man to him. The moon was obscured by the clouds, and the man was huddled in the grass like a bulge.
The little third son protected me behind him, and with courage, he shouted tremblingly: "Who? Who's there? β
That person shouldn't, I was scared in my heart, and pulled the little third son to leave, although the little third son said that he was fighting two wars, and he wanted to be a hero, he still shouted without giving up: "Who? No more, look at the master to call the messenger to lock you up! β
The man still should not. I whispered, "Third brother, then, don't be a dead man?" β
When the little third son heard this, he also felt that there was some reason, so he walked over on tiptoe and kicked the man, and the man was kicked, "Oops" and groaned, and the little third son who was bluffing jumped three feet high and fled back to me.
The two of us were trembling close together, only to see the man slowly get up, rub his eyes, at this time the moon came out, sprinkling a clear light, that person was Gu Sheng!
The third son was also taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Sir?" What are you doing here in the middle of the night? β
When Gu Sheng heard this, he raised his eyes and saw that it was us, so he raised his forehead with his hand in embarrassment, and said with a smile: "It's a shame now, I was waiting for someone, I didn't want to get tired during the day, and before I knew it, I fell asleep here." It's not like you've been caught. Ha ha.... He laughed.
The third son asked, "Who are you waiting for?" β
That Gu Sheng seemed to blush, and said hesitantly: "I said, you are not allowed to tell others, but I saw a young lady during the day, I really want to get acquainted, I thought to myself, if she comes out at night, I can still see the last side, ask for a name, who knows that I waited and waited, I fell asleep, and I don't know if I missed it, I really should fight." As he spoke, he shook a fist at his head.
I guess it's the beautiful woman who swings the reeds.
The third son smiled and said, "What girl will come out at night, sir, go home quickly!" Isn't it sad that my wife spends the Dragon Boat Festival alone at home? Besides, I heard that this night is haunted, so it is better for Mr. to be careful. β
Gu Sheng hurriedly jumped up: "Isn't it, my mother is still waiting for zongzi!" I'm in a mess today, and you must not publicize it! β
Xiao Sanzi and I nodded with a smile, Gu Sheng hurriedly stood up and dusted off his robe, and went back.
I laughed with my little third son once and went home.
A few days later, Aunt Yang came to visit the house, saw her mother, and hurriedly asked, "The third son's husband Gu Sheng, do you know?" β
The mother nodded: "Naturally, I know." Isn't it the one who starts a business first and then starts a family? β
Aunt Yang pulled her mother and whispered, "I heard that he was fascinated by the fox!" β