Chapter Twenty-Five: Beauty
In late autumn, the greenery withers, but there are still some stubborn plants and trees struggling to exude the last bit of life, making this slightly sad and gloomy with a little more tenderness.
As soon as the sky was bright, Xiaoji got up from the bed. Knowing that he was about to leave the temple where he had lived for many years, although it was so dilapidated, it also allowed him to live for many years, which was somewhat sentimental. I slept for two or three hours in one night, rubbed my eyes and pushed the door open, and was stunned for a moment, only to see that the outside was covered in silver, and the trees on the ground were shining and crystal clear against the rising sun.
The boy bent down to pick up a handful of snow and muttered, "It's snowing." ”
This year's first snow came earlier than usual, and the thickness of the snow on the ground should have begun to fall three days ago.
In the past, the teenagers didn't like this winter day the most, and they were even a little afraid, it was really cold, and the cold wind that penetrated from the leak in the temple wall skipped through the body and even the bones hurt in the cracks. The most pitiful thing is that during the winter solstice, the creek froze and there were no fish to eat, and when the first snow fell, there would be a girl with a broom to clean up the snow and complain: "Fish, it's gone, love brother, let's catch more for a while to keep it for the winter, hey, hey, I'll talk to you, do you hear, I'll fish for your young lady later, or?"
The young man looked at Chu Xue in a daze, and suddenly a big hand slapped on his shoulder, and then he came back to his senses.
Ah Da stretched out his hand to follow the snowflakes falling slowly from the sky, thought about it, turned around and took two brooms, handed them to the former and said with a smile: "Ertou, let's sweep the snow again." ”
Xiao Er said loudly to the hall: "San'er, it's snowing." ”
The young man took the broom and smiled, and the two began to sweep one left and one right.
Three of the four people don't like to do this snow sweeping guy, Momome Mime thinks that God let the snow fall to the ground naturally has his reasons, we sweep it is not against God, do not sweep, resolutely do not sweep.
After the girl heard these words, she chased the former around the hall with a broom and ran for her life, and said: "Let you be lazy, stop and let me go to clear the snow, today to see if God is powerful, or your young lady's broom is powerful, you stop for me..."
In fact, the girl doesn't like to sweep the snow, and thinks that the world is white and very beautiful, so she sweeps it and does nothing. But when I saw the snow in the city, every family of adults and children cleaned up the yard, and I felt that if I had a home, I had to clear the snow, even if I lived in a broken temple, no matter how bad it was, it was home, grace, home. So every time it snows, the girl will be the first to pick up a broom and go out to clear the snow, and maybe at this time she will feel that she has a home, she really has a home.
With little effort, Sanxiao swept all the way to the outside of the temple and even a few zhang outside, and turned around to go back after dusting off the falling snow, but saw that the swept road had accumulated a shallow layer of snowflakes. They smiled bitterly at each other, looking up to see that the snowflakes in the sky were getting bigger and bigger, and occasionally there was a slight hint of cold wind, and this year's early winter snow was more pleasing to the eye than in previous years, no matter how you looked at it.
The sturdy young man exhaled a mouthful of turbid air in his chest, and suddenly a white mist formed in front of him, and he took a sharp breath and shouted "Ah" for a long time, and the birds around him waved their wings to flee from the branches.
Suddenly, a voice came, "What are you shouting in the morning, don't you say that you come early in the morning?" You apprentice really didn't think about it, you didn't go to cook until you cleared the snow. ”
Hearing the sound, Er Xiao turned his head and saw a group of four people and a donkey walking towards the temple.
The fat man said again: "What are you still doing stupidly, do you still want the master to serve you?"
Ah Da smiled, greeted everyone and ran back to the temple to make a fire and cook.
The hour is not big, the three are small, the medicine is old, the fat man, the cheap nephew, the big shopkeeper and a green skin shouting donkey sit around the stone table and eat breakfast. Although Ah Da is allowed to cook, his skills are too ordinary, and the fat man and Xiaoer are even more unable to take his turn here, so Ah Da just makes a fire and fights.
The heat of the meal slowly rose upward, and the snowflakes in the sky slowly fell downward, but Ah Da, who had a huge amount of eclipses, looked at the temple gate from time to time in a little absent-mindedness.
The sky was bright and the sun was shining, and the donkey ate the last pot of porridge and said to the second child: "It's not early, it's time to go." ”
Xiao Er thought about it and said, "Wait a little bit, the disciple will come when he goes." Then he turned and walked to the back of the hall.
Ah Da looked at the temple gate again, and nodded with some disappointment.
When the little boy saw that he was leaving, his beautiful eyes were already full of tears.
Xiao Er walked to the corner and turned over the bricks that had hidden the secret silver taels, took out the cloth bag, took out a folded note from his arms and stuffed it into it, put the cloth bag back in its place, put the bricks on it, stepped on it a few times with his foot after compacting, and turned away with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Everyone came to the temple gate, and Wu Dongri and the big shopkeeper said goodbye to everyone and wanted to separate. Ah Da still did not give up and looked in the direction of Shou'an City, his heart was full of anticipation.
At this time, two figures appeared on the road in the direction of the city, and a plump woman on the left had a bumpy figure, especially the murder weapon on the upper body, which was really happy for all ages.
When the two of them came closer, everyone except Yao Lao couldn't help but be stunned when they saw the girl on the right.
The girl is wearing a snow-white long jacket and the ice and snow of this world seem to be integrated, a little light makeup is beautiful and glamorous, and a pair of Danfeng beautiful eyes under the eyebrows are full of charm, although she is only twenty-eight years old, but her slender figure is still graceful under the thick winter jacket, and she is the first to come to the medicine old to pay a salute.
When Yao Lao saw this girl, he felt that his own girl had just grown up, so he smiled at the woman and said, "Okay, good, she is worthy of being your daughter, and she will be a beautiful woman in the future." ”
The woman smiled when she heard this: "Where, let your old man laugh." But his words were full of pride, and he was proud of the flesh woman who fell from his body.
The woman turned her eyes to look at the rest of the people, and said with a fierce face: "You old men, what do you stinky boys look at, you are not afraid of your eyeballs falling off, and then look at all of them for you to take out as bubbles, hey, hey, say that you can be fat, what kind of energy is your apprentice and daughter-in-law looking at blindly, ashamed." And you, I usually see you look like a dog when you give people a patient, why do you see the big girl's eyes straight, is it the rules of Danzong that are loose, or are you unproductive. And you look like a tree pole..."
With the woman's crossbow-like words, everyone was shocked, their eyes were taken away from the girl, and they all knew that they were rude, and they all smiled with shame on their faces.
The girl came to Ah Da and was silent for a long time.
When the woman saw this, she said, "What are you doing here?" Let's go forward and make room for my girl and son-in-law to talk. After a ridicule, everyone laughed and walked dozens of feet away with the woman.
Ah Da is most afraid of this future mother-in-law, especially this way of speaking, which makes him always extremely embarrassed, but then I think about what 'mother-in-law' said is right.
The girl saw the embarrassed expression of the young man in front of her again, and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth and smile lightly.
When the young man saw this flower-like smile, the corners of his mouth faintly drooled.
Seeing this, the girl glanced at Danfengmei's eyes lightly, took out a handkerchief from her arms, stood on tiptoe and wiped it off, and said coquettishly: "Look at your unpromising appearance, will anyone who sees a woman be like this in the future?"
The young man suddenly felt that the blood around his body was boiling instantly, and he grabbed the latter's slender hand and said softly: "There are countless stars in the world, but there is only one bright moon in the sky. ”
The girl never thought that the young man who was like wood in the past could say such love words, and she couldn't help but blush instantly and bow her head slightly.
The young man was full of words and wanted to talk to the person in front of him, but suddenly recalled Xiao Er's words in the academy, so he swallowed it back, took out a jade plaque from his arms and handed it over: "Listening to the singing and storytelling, this jade plaque is the most important thing in my body, and I will give it to the most important person in my life today." Do you like it?"
The girl took the Danfeng and looked at it, only to see a lifelike and vivid eight-clawed golden Jiao carved on the jade plate, and the reverse side was looking at the four-character regular script of the book 'Yong Crown the World'. Although he is not a jade expert, he is not an ordinary product when he sees its transparent color, fine carving, and flashing from time to time.
"I like everything you sent, this is for you, if you miss me, open it and take a look. As he spoke, he took out a pink purse from his sleeve and handed it over.
The young man took it and opened it to take a look, and then looked carefully at the girl's bun, and instantly his eyes were slightly red and said, "You, how can you..."
The girl gently raised her hand to cover her mouth, and smiled as if nothing happened: "He will not fail me every day." ”
The young man nodded his head and said, "This jade is not to be shown to outsiders, remember." ”
The girl clenched her little fist and slammed her chest and said, "Remember, go quickly, they are all in a hurry." ”
When the young man heard this, he grabbed the beautiful woman in front of him, and stroked the soft and boneless body with both hands, as if there was something more in his heart, and she was very important.
On the way back to Shoushan City, a woman chattered endlessly: "You girl, my mother has always told you to cry in front of Ah Da when I came, so that I can tie the man's heart, but when you turn around and I start crying, hey, a bargain is a bargain." ”
The girl wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, glanced at me fiercely and said, "He was reluctant to give up on me, how could I still make him sad." ”
The woman didn't think about it and smiled: "I said, big girl, show your mother what kind of rare objects Ah Da gave you, and you didn't see what you hid along the way?"
After hearing this, the girl remembered Ah Da's words, and then thought about it, her mother herself was not an outsider, so she took out the jade plate from her cuff and handed it over: "Be careful, it's a good object." ”
The woman took the jade plaque and pursed her lips and said, "I haven't seen any good things in your mother, I want your father back then..."
After a while, the girl urged: "Have you seen enough, give it back to me." ”
The woman was stunned when she heard this, handed over the jade plaque and said, "Good things, good things, you must keep them, and remember not to show them to others." ”
"Do you hear me, dead girl. ”
"You know, you know, when I'm old in the future, I can't talk like you. ”
"Why?"
"I'm afraid my girl will dislike me. ”
The woman didn't grab the girl's ear and roar as usual, but smiled happily: "Dislike? ”
Pulling the girl's hand and walking towards Shoushan City with a smile on her face, she kept chanting in her heart: Wudang Niubi really has a few brushes, and the two bowls of chaotic fortune-telling money were not spent in vain. ”
On this day, the first snow fell in the sky, and there was a girl in a white brocade jacket since then, combing her hair in a woman's bun, and thinking about her lover.