16 The aftermath of the water
It is estimated that no one guessed that Mu Zheng would not dare to play. This in turn encouraged Ye Ruiyang, and when he was about to walk into the ball, he staggered and jumped down like a person who had been pardoned from the execution ground. After all, he admitted to his brother that he didn't want to play. I saw Ming Ming sitting next to Ah Fang from a distance, and the two clapped their hands. The younger brother was not unhappy that his brother had escaped. Miller stayed by her sister's side, with a non-wavering expression.
The ball reached into the sky. It was just me and Mu Zheng and Boss Ye who stayed in the empty square, holding everyone's belongings, looking up at the metal light whistling and flying among the low-hanging clouds, screams and cheers with the grand movement of steel, sometimes high and sometimes low, sometimes left and sometimes right.
"I'm old, my heart can't stand it, I can't do this thing." Ye Ruiyang put his hands behind his waist, looking like an old principal inspecting the teaching work.
"Really? Are you okay heart? Mu Zheng asked, "If you have any questions, you should check them often." ”
"No, I'm fine. It's just that it's so exciting. You see, it's stopped in mid-air again. I don't dare to hang upside down there, this design is really malicious. ”
"Are you afraid that your seat belt will break and fall from the sky?" I said, "Whoever told you to know what to eat every day?" He looked at me with a frown, and a clear line was written on his face: "Even if it's true, you can't say it."
"The seat belts of this kind of facility are so fast, how can they be broken at once." Mu Zheng helped him out of the siege.
"Anyway, I thought about it before I fell asleep yesterday. It's what you asked me for, and my parents gave me a gift. He looked at the steel ball in the sky that was still spinning wildly, "Actually...... The best gift I've ever received is my cousin. As your sister said today, he's a treasure, my treasure. Without him, I don't know how to live those desperate days. Fortunately, my uncle's family was willing to take me in, and Ah Fang was willing to share half of his cot and desk. Otherwise, I would be homeless. I'm quite dependent on him, so I kind of want to protect him, I'm my brother. But to be honest, it's still him who understands me, he told me just now, don't force it if you don't want to play, don't want me to stick to him......"
"My brother is really good." I say.
"yes, but I'm just cowardly, it's useless."
"Don't think so. Brave people are not unafraid. You don't have to be brave all the time, you can be brave when you need to be brave. Mu Zheng patted Ye Ruiyang's shoulder and quietly gave him a thumbs up.
"So I really want to introduce my brother to everyone. He is smart and has good grades, but unfortunately his family is in Jiangbei, so it is inconvenient to come to No. 1 Middle School to go to school. Next year, it will probably be in 54 middle school, and it will be a good school. And he's playing very well, and he's in the same position as Miller. ”
"Yes, Fifty-Four is also very strong, maybe I can meet your brother in the arena in the future." Mu Zheng said.
We watched the swinging pendulum in the wind for a while. Closer to the clouds, the wind will be stronger. Even if you stop in the air, the wind will continue to blow.
"If it weren't for my brother, I might ...... I mean, maybe, I won't be able to think about it one day in the fourth grade of elementary school. The two of them quarreled so scarily that it wasn't over when the quarrel was over, and every time one was in the living room and the other in the room, just sitting motionless and angry. I didn't even dare to come out of the room, and as soon as I came out, I saw an angry face. ”
As he spoke, the wind blew brittle dead leaves all over the ground, and the leaves cracked into smaller, dusty pieces.
"Do you still think about it now? I mean, have you ever thought about ending your life again? Mu Zheng's hand was still on Ye Ruiyang's shoulder, and his tone was so light that only the three of us could hear it.
"No, no, no." Ye Ruiyang shook his hand again and again, "It's not at all." Oh, I didn't tell you, my parents got divorced and then they were fine. I never thought about killing myself or anything, and I didn't have the courage to kill myself. I'm afraid to die. ”
"That's it. That's nice. Very happy. Mu Zheng smiled, "With dad or mom?" ”
"I live on both sides. Legally, I'm with my dad. ”
"Hello to Dad."
"No, he stares at me every day, saying that I don't study hard, but I still prefer my mother......"
Ye Ruiyang began to complain about his father, and he was getting farther and farther away. But it didn't take long for the ball to come down, and we hurried up to pick everyone up. There was no doubt that everyone was dazed, except for Huang Minxue, who still looked like nothing had happened—after all, I really couldn't tell what the expression was on the skeleton's face. He let Mu Zheng put his hat back on, maybe he was enduring the discomfort, the hat was put on by Mu Zheng, and he didn't reverse it again.
Yue Yin and Xu Mu walked over with their sister in their arms, and Mi Le followed. Her face was pale, and her hair was blown by the wind. I hurriedly asked her if she was uncomfortable, but she didn't have the strength to answer, swallowed her saliva with difficulty, and asked in a very weak voice where the bathroom was. I hurriedly grabbed Ming Ming's arm and pulled him over. After figuring it out, we accompanied her there. She's definitely going to throw up again. I grabbed the candy in my pocket and waited outside the toilet door for Yue Yin and Xu Mu to pick her up. I couldn't do anything but worry. I can't even throw up with her this time. Millet was also standing by, and he still ignored me. Too bad.
When my sister came out, she told me that she was better with a small nod that was too small to be seen. Everyone returned to the small square under the Spitfire Meteor and sat on a row of curved stone chairs to rest. Before you can play other sports, you have to pull yourself back from the dizzy world.
"Guys, if you don't dislike it, I'll sing a cappella for you. It's not good to sit like that. Ye Junfang suddenly jumped up from the chair. In the end, it is the smallest and recovers the fastest.
"Does your brother still sing? Great! Yue Yin said to Ye Ruiyang. The elder brother smiled and said that he had studied Kunqu Opera.
"I'll clear my throat first, sing a song, and then I'll sing a tune later. It's ugly. He bowed to everyone with his hands together, and the applause was not particularly loud, after all, most of us "old people" were still gasping and recovering. And Brother Ye told us even more energetically that what he wanted to sing was the episode of "Zhanwan City" in the old version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Shui Shui Yin". Everyone is a little puzzled, not everyone has read novels or TV series. Boss Ye told his younger brother the background of the story, which is about Cao Cao's surrender of Zhang Xiu, the prince stationed in Wancheng, but insulted Zhang Xiu's aunt Zou because of his lust. Zhang Xiu decided to rebel in a fit of rage, adopted the strategy of the strategist Jia Xu, stole the weapons of Cao Cao's general Dian Wei, and raised troops to attack Cao Cao at night. Dian Wei, who had lost his weapon, fought with his bare hands against the heavily armed enemy in order to protect Cao Cao, and finally died at the gate of the Yuanmen, and no one dared to pass by his corpse for half a day. On the way to escape, Cao Cao's war horse was shot to death. His son Cao Ang gave up his horse to his father, allowing Cao Cao to escape, but Cao Ang never managed to keep up with his father. [1]
"It is said that Cao Cao is a capable minister who rules the world and is a traitor in troubled times, but sometimes he is such a kind and lustful person, very irresponsible. Because of his own selfish desires, he buried both the good general and the eldest son. Ye Ruiyang said, and his younger brother went up and patted him, signaling that the introduction was enough, and the stage should be left to him.
Dressed in clothes between modern and ancient costumes, Ye Junfang began his chanting. Ye Ruiyang just said that the episode in the TV series was sung by Aunt Mao Amin, as far as the few songs I have heard are concerned, I think it is a round and magnificent singing voice, which is very compatible with the long and distant history, and there is still an aftersound after the hollow valley is heard. And Ah Fang's singing voice is immature, not so round, but it also has a deep affection and persistence. It is difficult to distinguish between male and female voices, and the voices seem to be entangled with the resentment in the song, climbing little by little in the fluttering wind.
I was a drifter, and my life was hard,
Away from the chaos, you have to meet you, and you are grateful for your grace.
Jun love for a while, beacon smoke for a good day,
Tears are for Junshou, and wine marks cover the dust.
The lamp is dim, the tent is deep,
Pour shallowly, moan.
A moment of joy, a moment of warmth.
Whoever interprets the piano likes, who pities the people in the song.
Halfway through the song, his sleeves began to swing, and his long hair fluttered with it. It can be seen that he has learned some body acting, even if he is singing an episode of a TV series, he will involuntarily act. From the movement of his fingers to the pinching of his waist and feet, this little boy seems to merge his body with his voice and flow in front of our eyes. The wind blew his sleeves and brought us to the world of a thousand years ago, where the bloody battle of sacrifice outside the tent and the drunken dream of death inside the tent emerged at the same time.
The concubine is a frustrated woman, and the king is a proud minister,
The monarch is determined to be in the four seas, and the concubine dares to look at the eternal relatives.
How can thin wine really be drunk, and your heart is not my heart,
Tonight is a total of pleasure, and the Ming Dynasty is far away.
The world is in turmoil, and many of the four fields are fleeing,
The sword soldier must rise, where to find Jun'en.
Life and death are in an instant, glory and other floating clouds,
When the king returns triumphantly, he can remember the predecessors.
The immaturity of her voice and the lightness of her movements made me suspect that Zou was not a legendary beauty who captivated the country and the city, but a girl who was only a little older than us, thin and weak, singing in a low voice. I seem to believe that the woman who cannot control her own destiny and can only dance and toast with tears in her eyes exists. She has never had any chance to choose, and can only humbly hope that the hero who covets beauty can still remember that there was such a person as her on the day when she took the stage to worship the prime minister and play a triumphant song.
The lamp is dim, the tent is deep,
The king forgets his feelings, and the concubine hurts his gods.
A moment of joy, a moment of warmth,
Tomorrow's water will be watery, and the soul will be buried in the rhyme.
The withered, crumbling leaves were blown to our feet, and then they were scraped helplessly far away, to a place where we could no longer see them.
Vanilla beauty. My sister said. She braced herself up and seemed much better. I understand, this song is sung by Zou, and in fact it is sung by Dian Wei. [2]
What do you mean? Xu Mu asked.
Vanilla beauty. She repeated. The tradition of Chu Cili. Teacher Zhou talked about it in the class of the Literature Club. (She glances at Mu Zheng.) Beauty is used as a metaphor for a courtier. This song is really well written, not only telling the drifting and resentment of the Zou family, but also writing the sorrow of Dian Wei. Loyal ministers and good generals will meet the Lord, and they will willingly bow down and die. Cao Cao can be called a hero, but when he insults other people's aunts for his own selfish desires, he is not even as good as ordinary people. "The eldest husband was born in troubled times, and he should bring a three-foot sword to make immortal achievements; If you don't succeed in what you want to do, you will die." As a military general, it may be inevitable to die on the battlefield, but Dian Wei died of Cao Cao's reckless behavior, and his blood was spilled in a place where he should not have been spilled. Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, and there is inequality between the monarch and the minister, just as there is inequality between men and women. The king was greedy for joy, but the subordinates paid the price of their lives.
That's a good point. Huang Minxue lectured. It's good to sing, but our band lacks a lead singer, are you interested?
Huang Minxue, you dare! Don't spoil my brother. If he paints his face like you, Auntie will kick me out of the house with him!"
All right. He sneered. Damn, I'll talk about something else. When I listened to my brother sing, I also felt that this song was not just about Zou. But what I think of is what Ye Ruiyang said about Cao Ang. Didn't you just say that kings and ministers are not equal, in fact, fathers and sons are not equal - in ancient times. This song can be from the Zou family, it can be from Dian Wei, and of course it can also be from Cao Ang. Cao Ang is not big, right?
Not big, in his twenties. After Cao Ang died, his mother couldn't stand Cao Cao anymore and divorced. Ye Ruiyang said.
Right. I can't stand it for any mother. You can think of Cao Ang's mother's look when she heard the news of Cao Ang's death. The mother looked forward to her son's return, and finally waited for the yin and yang. The son sacrificed himself to save his father, but what kind of father did he save? is not a father who is ambitious and has the world in mind, but a father who is unkind and unkind. Why should a son give his life for such a father? Whether it was Dian Wei or Cao Ang, I felt very sad at the thought of them dying for Cao Cao without thinking. Damn, it's ridiculous. No matter how resourceful Cao Cao was, he didn't expect that he would end up in a moment's time. But I'm not talking for him, he's lucky he didn't die in Wancheng. Why did it be Dian Wei and Cao Ang who died, and not him?
When Cao Cao died, the whole history of China changed. Maybe there won't be us, and we won't be able to sit here and talk. Mingming. The butterfly effect, I read about it in a scientific journal. A lot of things happen by accident.
Yes. Cao Ang is not dead, and he should be the one who ascends the throne. Such a loyal and filial brother is much stronger than Cao Pi, and he will definitely not force Cao Zhi to write "Seven Steps Poem". Ye Ruiyang rubbed Ah Fang's head.
But in that case, we won't see "Seven Steps Poem". Ah Fang said.
That's right. My sister said. Cao Zhi wrote many good poems when he was depressed.
Then I'd rather let Cao Zhi be a happy boy than make him a painful poet. Ye Ruiyang said. Besides, Cao Zhi is only eight years old, and he doesn't have to be pregnant to write something.
Reasonable. My sister said. Mr. Zhou also said that it is not necessary for the writer himself to have a tragic experience in order to have a good work. Cao Zhi is a genius, but he is also an ordinary person, and he has the same helplessness as us. Even if there were no misfortunes, he might still be a good poet.
Yes, geniuses are human beings like ordinary people, and it is inevitable that there will be birth, old age, sickness and death. Mingming. "Tonight is a total of pleasure, and the Ming Dynasty is far away." One thing comes to mind. I used to watch the World Cup in South Africa with my dad and Argentina to play Greece. The last time these two countries were in the World Cup, Maradona also played, and he became the head coach in a flash. Commentator He Wei said that Maradona was found to have taken banned drugs a few days after playing in Greece and Nigeria and was expelled from the national team. He thought Maradona would be able to return to the Argentine team one day, but he never came back. I can memorize the passage he explained, "Life is often like this, a seemingly casual little thing is often a turn of fate." A seemingly ordinary goodbye is actually a farewell. Fate came to an abrupt end at that moment......"
Alas, obviously, when you say that, I think of Chapecoense again......
That's enough! Are you finished? One by one, have you considered what others will think?
I seemed to hear someone suddenly stand up and yell. I don't know who it is, it could be Miller (but he's ignored me anymore), or maybe it was me (do I have the face to say that). Maybe no one says that. Actually, everyone just chatted normally, just like the most ordinary student discussions, although there were many wonderful points. It's just, just that I listened, and my stomach was lifted up like something, and it was dead under a pipe. It couldn't be sucked into that tube, so it rubbed, squeezed, and struggled helplessly. The wind was not strong, but my body had a chill that made me want to vomit and cry. I don't know, sometimes I get sick and I vomit and I cry. When I get motion sickness, I just get out of the gasoline-smelling car. But I can't get out of the car right now, and I don't know how long it will be. The smell of the car poured in from every pore of my body, and it seemed like the disgusting smell was holding my shrinking stomach.
"I'm sorry, I'm not feeling well and want to go to the bathroom and throw up......"
I almost ran away from everyone with my mouth covered. I heard footsteps coming after me, which pushed me to run faster.
[1] The Battle of Wancheng, also known as the "Battle of Shuishui", was a battle fought between the warlords Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu before the Three Kingdoms in the late Han Dynasty in 197. Zhang Xiu won, and Cao Cao was defeated and fled. Cao Cao suffered heavy losses, and his eldest son Cao Ang, nephew Cao Anmin, and general Dian Wei were all killed by Zhang Xiu. "The Yin of the Water" was written by Wang Jian, composed by Gu Jianfen, and sung by Mao Amin. The song is an episode in the TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
[2] Vanilla Beauty: Vanilla Beauty is used in old poems to symbolize the idea of loyalty and patriotism. This tradition comes from Qu Yuan, who uses vanilla beauties as a metaphor for the noble, loyal and patriotic thoughts of virtue and personality. In his work, "Lisao" is well reflected, "but the grass and trees are scattered, and the twilight of the beauty is afraid". The Divorce is filled with a wide variety of herbs that serve as decorations, supporting and enriching the image of beauty.