Yanhuashui is a small mountain village in the deep mountains of Taihang Mountain, there are only dozens of households in the village, there is an old locust tree at the entrance of the village that can be hugged by more than ten people, and I don't know how many years it has lived.

There is a pond of half an acre under the tree, every year when the tree blooms, a rare plant called sheep rhinoceros grass will grow at the water's edge, this grass turns red when it encounters water, exudes fragrance, and even the shadow of the old locust tree reflected in the water is red.

Although the sheep rhinoceros is fragrant, it is a highly poisonous thing, if you accidentally eat one and a half trees, you will be paralyzed, blind and lie down for three or four days to recover, if you use more than three trees, you will lose your life. If the sheep or mules in the village, the donkeys, and the domestic animals accidentally eat this grass, they will convulsed and fall to the ground in an instant, and it will take a day to recover, and there is no chance to eat much at all.

Therefore, although this grass is poisonous, it has not inadvertently caused any casualties in the village, but there is the kind of two people who quarrel, and the wife can't think of it, so she goes to the lake and picks this grass and pounds it into juice and swallows it to death.

The doctor in the village is also a native barefoot doctor, who does not have too good medical skills, and is not good at detoxification, so there is nothing he can do about sheep rhinoceros.

For generations, I don't know how many generations have been plagued by this grass, and the villagers were mobilized to burn and dig and not be able to cut the grass to the roots, but the next year it grew more and more vigorous, so the villagers all rumored that this was a cursed grass, and it would be more and more prosperous if it was removed by man.

Thanks to June of that year, a stranger came to the village and turned this evil into a treasure.

At that time, guarding the lake was Yang Zhuyue, the daughter of the village chief, a girl with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

At noon that day, she was climbing on the branch of the big locust tree, chewing grass roots in her mouth and taking a nap, the cicadas on the tree were noisy, and the birds always came to peck the straw hat on her face, Yang Zhuyue didn't sleep well, so she simply sat up and leaned on the trunk of the tree to pull a leaf and whistle.

"Girl, girl." Someone shouted over and over again, and she looked down and saw a young man with a bag in the thick shade and green leaves, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, squinting and looking up at herself.

A strange face, a stranger? It was rare to see a foreigner in their village once in his life, Zhu Yue was curious, and hurriedly slid down the tree a few times, looking at this person whose clothes were very different from their village.

"Did you call me? My name is Yang Zhuyue, who are you? Why did you come to our village? She threw out a series of questions with a series of crackling cannons, and the young man smiled, "My name is Xing Xiaotian, and I like to visit famous mountains and rivers in the south and north of the world, and I passed by this place unintentionally." ”

"It turned out that I was passing by accident, so do you want to eat? Still hungry? My house is not far away, I can give you something to eat and drink. "The people in the mountains are simple, and Zhu Yue is even more enthusiastic about him because he has seen strangers in his life.

The girl in front of the meeting was friendly and kind, Xing Xiaotian was embarrassed to take people's food and drink for nothing, so he took out the silver to thank him, who knew that Yang Zhuyue was angry, and snorted angrily, "Who can't carry the house when they go out?" Where do you need money for a bite to eat, we don't have this rule in inkstone water. ”

Xing Xiaotian thought about it, put away the silver, unwrapped the package behind him, and turned it over for a long time and turned out a small silver peony hairpin to give it to Yang Zhuyue, "It's our city's wit, I apologize to the girl, this gadget was originally bought casually because it was interesting to look at, it's not worth much, give it to the girl to express your gratitude." ”

Yang Zhuyue tilted his head and thought for a long time, does this count as collecting money? I couldn't figure it out, so I asked Xing Xiaotian, "Is this the money you gave?" ”

Xing Xiaotian smiled dumbly, "No, it's just to express my gratitude, thank you girl for your hospitality." ”

Yang Zhuyue happily accepted the silver hairpin, and then the two sat down under the big locust tree, the more they chatted, the more speculative, Yang Zhuyue told him the legend of Yanhuashui Village, pointing to the red lake and repeatedly warned him not to touch the grass, "The sheep rhinoceros grass really fainted when it was touched, and if you eat more than three trees, you will die, and even the livestock will faint if you chew it. ”

Xing Xiaotian responded with a smile, then took a pair of thin gloves from the package, and said to Yang Zhuyue, "I have this, it's the first time I've seen such a magical thing after walking so many places, and it's fragrant, I will study it, maybe it can be used to make rouge." ”

Yang Zhuyue watched curiously as he pulled up the grass, sniffed and pulled the hosta on his head and looked back and forth, and asked, "Are you making rouge?" Then why don't you give me rouge and give me a hairpin? ”

Xing Xiaotian, who was made to cry and laugh by her straightforward question, said helplessly, "Rouge is something that I can make at my fingertips, I'm afraid that you will say that I am not sincere, I didn't carry it with me, and I will go back and make you many boxes for various purposes, enough for you to use for one year or two of inventory." ”

Zhu Yue blinked his eyes, "You want to live in our village?" ”

Xing Xiaotian's face flushed, he was speechless at this girl's outspokenness, he said a little embarrassed, "I want to live for a while, and then go to the south in late autumn, I don't know if it's okay," for fear that people would dislike him, he quickly added, "Not only can I make rouge, but I will also do something else!" I also did the hardships of farm work. ”

"You can't." Yang Zhuyue directly glanced at him with disdain, "I can't see if I can work?" The men in our village are the thinnest and stronger than you, you see that your little arms and legs are not as strong as mine, you just do your rouge, the village lacks this, every time it is changed to the separate village across a mountain, their village merchants go down the mountain to buy, we go to get food in exchange, rouge we need it very much. ”

So Xing Xiaotian stayed in the village. Yang Zhuyue is a very curious girl, and Xing Xiaotian lives in their house, so every day Yang Zhuyue will run to help make rouge, from picking flowers to pounding flowers to the final filtration and bottling, every process will be completed for him, but in half a month, Yang Zhuyue has become Xing Xiaotian's right-hand man.

The mountain where the inkstone water is located, there are many varieties of wildflowers, and the summer is the time when the mountain flowers are at their peak, Xing Xiaotian wants to make enough rouge for the sisters-in-law and girls in the village, so he takes advantage of the time when the flowers are flourishing to go up the mountain to pick flowers every day, and is busy at night to pound the flowers and filter the juice into boxes, and he is very busy, thanks to Yang Zhuyue's help, otherwise he really can't get it himself.

Young men and women stay together inseparably every day, how can there be a long-lasting relationship.

The two of them worked hard every day, and gradually the girl secretly promised Xing Xiaotianfang. The girl who is pregnant with spring is always amorous, these days I heard Xiaotian say that those drama stories in the world outside the mountain, hairpins, sachets, jade pendants, rings, bracelets and everything are love tokens, Yang Zhuyue began to think crankily in his heart.

A careful person like Brother Xing would definitely not know that this was a love thing and gave it to a girl's family.

When I first saw Brother Xing, I gave myself a hairpin, could it be that I was already ...... to myself at that time?