Chapter 136: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Of course, the world is big, but how big it is, the boy can't tell.
But Da Zhou is a big, big place for boys, because he has never walked out of Da Zhou, well... In fact, he never even walked out of Xuzhou, which was located in the eastern part of the Great Zhou. And this made him realize how big the world really is.
However, unlike many teenagers his age, the boy did not have any desire to fight the sword world or drink white horses. He lived in a small town only a hundred miles away from Heaven Dou City, and his father went early, relying on his mother to pull him up. Although Da Zhou is not a troubled era, there is still a big gap from the so-called prosperous era, and it is not easy for a woman to pull a big child alone.
Therefore, it is the most important thing for a boy to survive. He doesn't have that kind of ambition, but if he really wants anything...
Maybe it's about the pastry shop on the busiest street in town.
Seven cents is not an expensive expense, this is true for most people, and even ordinary people can take out such a sum of money to satisfy their own juniors or their own occasional appetite.
But boys clearly don't belong to that majority.
He understands his mother's hard work very well, and he also understands that Qiwen money is insignificant to most people, but for his mother, it is something that can only be exchanged for washing three or four buckets of clothes for others.
Therefore, he would not make such a request to his mother, but deep down he wanted to taste the taste of the osmanthus cake.
Because he didn't know when, he often saw a girl in front of that shop, she always came in the evening, bought a osmanthus cake, and ate it as she walked, and the corners of her mouth always raised a beautiful smile at that time. The boy thought that it must be the best food in the world, so that he could make such a beautiful smile for such a girl.
From that time on, the boy would come to the shop every night, hide in an inconspicuous corner, wait for the girl to arrive, watch her walk into the shop, and watch the osmanthus cake finish with a satisfied smile. It seemed that the boy could share a little bit of this happiness from the girl's smile, which was what he looked forward to most every day.
Life went on, and the boy hoped that he would grow up sooner, that he could share the burden of his mother, and that he could walk into the pastry shop and buy a piece of osmanthus cake like that earlier.
He is very sensible and competitive, in the triennial recruitment of Heaven Dou City, there are still three months to reach the age of sixteen The boy is valued by the nobles in Heaven Dou City, and recruited into Heaven Dou City, if he can survive three months of training, he can officially become a member of the Heaven Dou Army Reserve, which is an errand that can get at least eight taels of silver every month, which is enough to change the fate of the boy and his mother.
The boy naturally had no reason to refuse, so he put down the osmanthus cake and the girl, and happily went to Heaven Dou City.
It was not easy for a child who had never practiced kendo to excel among countless peers of many extraordinary backgrounds in three months, but the boy did it anyway. Three months later, he was successfully selected into the reserve of the Heaven Dou Army, and in this process, in addition to his mother, who worked hard every day in his own family, the most was about the girl and the osmanthus cake that he had never eaten.
And after waiting for the first settlement fee, the boy also ushered in a five-day vacation, and he hurried back to the town with this heavy amount of silver, and the first thing he did was to go to the shop, and buy an osmanthus cake, which he was to take home and share with his mother, and he was to tell his mother: "Your son is out, you don't have to work so hard again." β
With this thought, he bought the last osmanthus cake before the store closed, and then he thought about buying some more food, so many years of poor life, his family's meals are usually noodles and steamed buns, or porridge with pickles, only during the New Year will his mother buy some meat, now that he has money, he naturally has to prepare a large table of delicious meals for his mother, so thinking that he was about to take a step with the osmanthus cake, but a figure suddenly appeared in front of him at that time.
She tilted her head, revealing her white jade-like neck, and her purple pupils were arrogant and a little unintentionally domineering, she looked at him like this and said, "Give me osmanthus cake, and the money is yours." β
This is a good opportunity, for the boy, he has in his arms the silver that can change his mother's fate, and in his hand he is holding the osmanthus cake that he has been thinking about, and in front of him stands the girl he has secretly looked at for several years. It was as if all the luck had befallen him at that time, and he was in a trance as if he had fallen into a dream.
He could finally look at the girl in front of him, so he looked at it very seriously, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously hooked up a smile.
"If it's not enough, I still have. The girl's voice rang out again.
The boy finally came to his senses, and he could probably guess what had happened, and he could understand why the girl had found him. Over the years, she would come here every day to buy a osmanthus cake, but I don't know why she was late today, but obviously, a daily osmanthus cake is an extremely important thing for a girl, just like a boy will come every day to secretly watch and eat this osmanthus cake.
He understood her feelings, so he didn't think about it, lifted the osmanthus cake, put it in the girl's arms, and said, "Give it to you." β
Then the boy left satisfied, in the center of the girl's stunned gaze.
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Of course, he wanted to say more to the girl, but in his long life, he had never had such contact with a girl, and he inevitably had some drums in his heart, and he was eager to go home and share it with his mother, so he put aside the idea for the time beingβafter all, girls come here every day, and he has time to prepare for the next encounter.
But in fact, many things in this world were so unexpected, and when he returned to his dilapidated but warm home, he called out to his mother, carrying all kinds of meat in his hands, but there was silence in the door, and no one responded to his shouts. He frowned, thinking that maybe his mother was still working as a domestic servant somewhere, after all, this was not an unusual thing for a boy, and a woman who wanted to pull a big child alone did need to put in a lot more effort than ordinary people.
So although he was a little disappointed that he couldn't share his joy with his mother at the first time, he didn't think much about it, he was about to open the door, thinking that he would wait for his mother to come back, but the sound he made before obviously attracted the attention of the surrounding neighbors, and an old woman walked out of the room on the side tremblingly, looked at the boy in front of him and said, "Ah Chen is back?"
The boy knew this woman, a very kind-hearted old man, who had not helped their mother and son all these years. He smiled slightly, then took out some silver taels from his arms and handed them to the woman, and said in his mouth, "Granny Luo, I'm back." β
The woman who was stuffed into a heavy silver tael was stunned, a little puzzled, but even more panicked. The boy didn't realize that he was there, but thought that the other party was surprised by the abundant amount of money, after all, when he had this money, he had also fallen into such a horror. Therefore, he smiled slightly, and said: "Thank you mother-in-law for your help over the years, this money is considered to be Ah Chen's filial piety to you, I estimate that I will have to take Ah Niang to Tiandou City these days, my mother-in-law must take care of her body, if you are empty, Ah Chen will definitely come back to see you." β
The news that the boy was selected into Heaven Dou City was not a secret among the neighbors, and the consciousness he had to say this at the moment had obviously passed the test of Heaven Dou City and become a member of the Heaven Dou Army Reserve, and such an achievement was already a step up to the sky for these ordinary people. The old woman's body trembled slightly at that time, and she sighed: "That's good, Ah Chen has a future, a future." β
At first, he was very excited and happy, but at the end he turned into a sigh. Her eyes were a little red, and there seemed to be tears rolling in her cloudy eyes.
The boy was a little sluggish, not aware of the old man's condition, but as if he was glad for himself, he was about to say something more, but the old woman's next words made him stand still.
In this way, Ah Lian's spirit in heaven can rest in peace. β
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Ah Lian is his mother's name, and his mother died.
In fact, her mother died on the eighth day he went to Heaven Dou City, this was actually not a sudden thing, the long-term accumulation of labor had already become a disease in her mother's body, but she hid it from her son, and she had been struggling to support it, until his son was recruited into Heaven Dou City, the breath that had been held in her heart suddenly relaxed, and the whole person stepped down at that time.
But when she was dying, she took the old woman's people and begged her not to
Telling her son about this, she knew how long she couldn't stand it, and her son still had a long time to go, and he needed to seize this opportunity, otherwise she couldn't let her son, who had a few months to reach adulthood, live alone in this world.
Pity the hearts of the parents in the world, the old woman herself has children and grandchildren, she understands the woman's feelings, so she can only comply with her request, with her own small amount of money, buy a coffin that is not too good, and bury the woman next to the grave of her man who died early.
It took the boy the night to accept the sudden bad news, and the next day he went out alone, and first knelt in front of the old woman's door and kowtowed sixteen times in a row, after all, she had helped him to take care of his mother's funeral, and in the boy's opinion, the old woman's kindness deserved such a reward. Then he took out the money he had paid, secretly placed half of it in the old woman's house, and went to the city to find the best craftsmen to carve the tombstones for his mother and father, who died young, and to make some plausion to the souls of the dead.
Although he didn't really believe in the underworld, his mother had never enjoyed a day of happiness in her life, and if she didn't do anything, he was really uneasy.
In this way, he spent the five-day vacation that Heaven Dou City had given him at the grave of his parents, and then he said goodbye to his parents and returned to Heaven Dou City again. He knew that his mother wanted him to live well, and he had to be worthy of his mother's wishes and his mother's tireless work in the past 16 years.
So in the year he had returned to Heaven Dou City, he had worked harder, believing that if there really was a soul, his mother would be able to see it. And he did get the reward he deserved, the Sword Immortal Yue Fuyao of Heaven Dou City valued him and accepted him as a closed disciple, and he was in the limelight for a while, and on the same day of the second year, he got the permission of his master to return to the town and worship his parents.
And before leaving, he went to the best pastry shop in Heaven Dou City and bought an osmanthus cake.
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"He said he thought he might be able to meet me again, so it was a gift for me. β
The bonfire in the camp was burning, and Ghost Bodhi stopped the story in her mouth, she turned her head to look at Xu Han and asked, "This is the story he told me after handing me the osmanthus cake when I met your bastard master for the second time." β
"Do you think there is really such a stupid person in this world? secretly watching a girl eat osmanthus cake, it is ten years to look at it..."
Faced with Ghost Bodhi's question, Xu Han shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't think Uncle Shi is a person who can make up such a story. β
"Really?" Ghost Bodhi glanced at Xu Han meaningfully, and said with the same meaning: "But people can't be good-looking, maybe your uncle is such an honest bastard on the surface, but his heart is full of thoughts?"
Xu Han shrugged his shoulders again and said casually: "But I think the master at that time should have believed it." β
Ghost Bodhi glanced at Xu Han fiercely: "Nonsense, otherwise how could I fall in love with that bastard." β
Xu Han was also accustomed to the word bastard when his master mentioned Mo Chenzi, and he was about to say something more.
But suddenly the look on Ghost Bodhi's face froze, and he sighed again: "But I don't know if that story is true or not, so..."
"I want to see him again and hear him give me an answer... You say, is it possible?"
The tone of the ghost Bodhi became deep at that time, and a cold aura suddenly spread, hovering in the tent.
Xu Han raised his head vigilantly, and the ghost Bodhi's gaze happened to fall on him at this moment, and that gaze was wrapped in a cold and hideous taste, and under such a thing there was a touch of resolute firmness - she had probably guessed Xu Han's intention, she wanted to tell him, it was useless, she had already made such a decision, she had to go on like this, even if there was an abyss in front of her, she could only go on...
Xu Han also read the determination in her eyes, and he also sighed deeply.
"Master's thoughts, the disciples understand..."
"The promises of the heavenly people are not credible, and the master knows it when she wants to, but she is unwilling to give up that last hope..."
"Shi Niang fought for yesterday, and I fought for tomorrow. β
"I don't know if I'm going to lose, but I know that people who lived yesterday can never win. β
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