Chapter Ninety-Four: The Taoist Journey of Mrs. Tai's Family (3)
In a place where the spring day is bright and very quiet, two guests come to visit and knock on the door of the host's house.
The man of the master's family opened the door from the inside and welcomed them in.
The host warmly invited them to sit down, and he said, "There is no wine here, but there is good tea, tea, but it can be used for fine wine?" ”
The two richly dressed guests gladly accepted the host's offer to serve a cup of hot tea as a fine wine.
The people sat around the small stove, and as soon as the charcoal fire of the stove was red, the water boiled in the pot.
The sun shone in front of the window, and it seemed to be no different from usual, except that there were a few small unknown blue flowers blooming faintly in the sun.
"The two of you are really nobles, my flowers, they haven't bloomed for three years, I didn't think about it, today, the two of you came, and they actually bloomed new flowers~"
The owner was holding a small fan and quietly fanning the fire, while looking up at his beloved little flower, and then said.
"Master Xianyun didn't take the wrong medicine today, and his speech was so beautiful, if I remember correctly, Master, you once told me that this flower is a seed you found from under the ruins of the Dalin Dynasty, cultivated for many years, before taking root and sprouting, it is a strange flower that only blooms once in ten years......
If I'm not mistaken, I had the privilege of seeing it once ten years ago......," Xie Ruqing said as he sat in the shadows, looking at the white-haired and childlike face of the white-haired man in the sunlight and wearing a white-washed robe.
Hearing this, Xianyun chuckled lightly, and didn't say anything, but threw the fan into the hands of Qi Si, who was sitting on the side, who was rarely very "well-behaved", and he stood up, sat on the bamboo couch not far away, crossed his legs, and sat up.
Qi Si had seen this old Taoist when he was a child...... Bah...... Master Xianyun, but there is a not very good experience, if it weren't for this time, he would have to come to this old man with a big event...... Master, he will never come...... I can't wait as far as I want, so I can hide as far as I want......
Therefore, when Xianyun inexplicably threw the fan to him, Qi Si could only tragically become a tool man and start cooking tea......
But Qi Si hadn't forgotten this serious matter in the end, and while cooking tea, he carefully touched Xie Ruqing with his elbow, and said with his eyes:
"My good uncle, get on it! We all depend on you for our big business! ”
"Uncle rush! For the sake of our Dayong's Jiangshan Sheji! ”
Xie Ruqing finally "lived up to expectations" and said under Qi Si's expectant eyes:
"In your Cloud View Circle, is there a disciple named Yun Zhen?"
"Well, there is one, I think it should be my senior brother, that is, the apprentice of the Lord Wild Crane of the Cloud Observation Pavilion." Xianyun heard Xie Ruqing's words and replied with his eyes closed.
"I was a talented and good boy before, but I heard my senior brother say that this girl seems to be obsessed with it in the past three years, and she is jealous of a little girl, and she has delayed her work in vain."
"You want that little girl to come over, I remember that you have an apprentice under you, and you have also gone out to travel all over the world, many little girls, you are not lonely." Xie Ruqing said.
"Yo, where did this little girl come from with such a big face, she can let you speak for her, you know me, a crane in the clouds, traveling through the mountains and rivers, appreciating exotic customs, is my dream, taking an apprentice, I can't compare to my senior brother......"
"That girl's mother is the late princess of Chu State, Chu Yanyi." Xianyun was about to talk about rejecting Xie Ruqing, but unexpectedly, Xie Ruqing suddenly said such a sentence, which directly interrupted Xianyun's next words.
Xianyun opened his eyes almost immediately, stood up, sat down opposite Xie Ruqing, and asked hesitantly:
"Her mother is the princess of Chu State, how can it be...... That little girl is only twenty-nine years old this year, and when she died wantonly...... She should have just been born, and she died under the encirclement and suppression of the armies of various countries!
That corpse, I have clearly seen, is still the corpse I collected for her with my own hands!
There is no trace of any just production...... Moreover, for many years, it has been known to the world that there is only one surviving child of Chu Princess, Chu Princess...... It is the only king with a different surname in the current Chu State, Han Yue...... How could there be another one! Could it be a mistake! Although Xianyun tried his best to suppress the shock in his heart at the moment, there was inevitably some anxiety in his tone......
"There must have been nothing wrong with the corpse you collected yourself, but the girl's age is not necessarily true......"
"I sent someone to check, before the princess died, there were three full years to stay in the border desert, and that girl lived in the border desert, since she was a child, fatherless and motherless, but raised by wild wolves, until about seven years old, I met your senior brother Wild Crane who went out to travel and accidentally fell into the quicksand.
She saved your brother, and your brother found that this little girl was as thin as a hairy monkey, unclothed, unable to walk, and walking on all fours like a wolf, and did not speak, but only howled wolf, and drank blood, so he moved his heart of compassion and brought the girl back. ”
Xie Ruqing paused slightly, and then said:
"A girl who can only spit beast language will naturally not know how old she is, so your senior brother Yehe, relying on the method of touching the bones, estimated her age, which is understandable."
"Even if she is the right age and place, what else can prove her identity......
"Earlier, King Yin sent someone to find your senior brother, and your senior brother Ye He said that when he picked up the little girl, the little girl had a small lock plate made of brass.
The front and back sides of the small lock piece are clearly engraved with a cloud character and a Chinese character, and there is a simple picture of a milk tiger and a butterfly on it, the source of this picture, I think you are clear......"
When Xianyun heard this, he couldn't help but clench his fist hidden under his sleeve, and asked with red eyes:
"And who is her father...... Who is it...... Tell me, I am the master of Chu Liyi, the princess of Chu State, Chu Liyi's parents, the Emperor of Chu State, are often buried in the imperial mausoleum, and her brother Chu State Emperor is also buried in the ground, I am the closest person she has in the world......
Now that she is dead, I am her master...... Naturally, it is also the responsibility to know who the father of her children is......"
Xie Ruqing didn't care about Xianyun's very far-fetched logic, and said slowly:
"People who have had a lingering relationship with Chu Wanton, the princess of Chu State, should know in your heart that one person was born, one person is dead, and one human rights are all over the world...... These secrets...... Do you think I might have known from someone's mouth? ”
"Good...... I know...... I'm going to take that child under my own door, I'm not going anywhere, I'm going to stay with her for the rest of the day...... Like back then, she grew up with her mother......"
"Three years, the man said, he just wants to entrust people to you for three years, and after three years, he will solve all those bloody storms, and then he will come to take this child home."
"He is ruthless, his hands are full of the blood of his compatriots, he is murderous, how can he raise a good child, now that I know, this child ...... I should raise it......"
"He said that if the child's mother is alive, he must hope that the child can be raised by his parents' side, and since the child has no mother, he will naturally be raised by him, the father, and there is no need for outsiders to raise him."
The sentence "......" made Master Xianyun, who is known for his sophistry and can speak well, dry his throat......
And then, the words brought by Xie Ruqing almost made Xianyun, a person who has been at ease all his life, feel like a big stone in his heart......
"He also asked me to bring you a word, he entrusted the little girl to you, just because he didn't have a better choice, but this doesn't mean that he will forget that the person who commanded the million male division and killed Chu Wanyi back then was the master she trusted the most."
Xianyun suddenly lowered his head guiltily, without saying a word, and in a trance, Yin Wang Qi Si, who had been eating melons silently, seemed to see that there were a few white threads in Xianyun's dark hair......
"I know, he is the father of the child, he can do whatever he wants, this time, I will protect this child well, even if three years have passed, I will protect her ......"
"You guys go first...... Let me be alone for a while......"
After speaking, Xianyun stood up and walked tremblingly towards the inner room......
"Uncle Xie, what's the matter with this old Taoist...... Why do you look so sad, I've known this old man for so many years, and it's the first time I've seen him like this...... Looks...... It's a lot older......" Qi Si said quietly as he looked at Xianyun's departing back.
Xie Ruqing looked at Qi Si, who had almost never tasted any other hardships except for the poverty of his youth, moved his mouth and said:
"Cherish the people in front of you......
In this life, you will always meet a person you love deeply, but when you meet that person, if you don't catch it, it may cause a lifetime of regret......
If you meet the right person at the wrong time, even if you meet again at the right time, you can't be reunited......"
"It's not that people who talk about the family can't ...... Talk about love......" Qi Siyun listened to Xie Ruqing's words in a fog, and finally said even more quietly......
"The most unrestrictive thing about the rules is the people's hearts, and the most uncontrollable things are also the people's hearts......" After Xie Ruqing said this, as if he remembered something, he lifted his sleeves, looked down at the shallow scar left on him, and kept rubbing it......
"Qiji, you go out first." Xianyun, who had already gone to the inner room, suddenly came out of the room again and said in a cold voice.
Qi Si pointed to himself, but in the end, because he was afraid of Xianyun's behavior, he walked out very aggrieved, and when he left, he still said with words in his mouth:
"This old way, really, this mood, if you say it, it will change......"
"I originally wanted this old man to calculate the career marriage of my cheap son and baby daughter......"
"Alas...... Alas......"
Qi Si's long sigh finally dissipated into the wind, and the tea stove in the room made a clattering sound as the boiling water was about to evaporate......
Xianyun took the tea stove with his bare hands, extinguished the fire again, sat in front of Xie Ruqing, and said:
"Thank you for telling me these things, I think, at first, he wanted the child to entrust to you."
"Well, he had that idea, but I had too many children at home, and I refused." Xie Ruqing said bluntly.
"I didn't find out what you asked me a few years ago, but I asked my master, and he told me that your conjecture was right, and there is a precedent for this......
"Whose precedent is that ......"
"Ben didn't want to tell you, that man...... It's my master, and my master also encountered the same situation as you...... Afterward...... It took more than ten years for my wife to recover such ......"
"Then after your master and wife came back, did you still walk by......" Xie Ruqing said a little nervously.
"There shouldn't be, the master has guarded the master for more than ten or twenty years, and he doesn't dare to leave half a step, or even close his eyes to rest, but at least ...... So far...... The master is still facing the master, not the ...... What is the so-called generation according to the will of the teacher...... Flesh double??? ”
"I don't know what this is, but Master and Master said, I told you, you should be able to understand......" Xianyun said while listening to the sudden sound of the music in his ears.
"I know, it's a guy who knows everything...... I know all the things that I do with Gu Gu, and I have the same habits and lifestyles as Gu Gu...... Even the tone of speech is the same......
But I always knew that...... That's not my wife...... Not my Gugu ......."
"I've been waiting for a lot of years, and now it'...... Finally...... There is an answer......" Xie Ruqing suddenly said with great emotion, even with a little sad crying.
"You...... Do you want to go back and ask your wife about the cause and effect of this incident...... Didn't you send me a message to the flying pigeon some time ago, saying that the old man has returned? At this moment, Xianyun seemed to have a trace of resonance with Xie Ruqing, and said in a rare and serious manner.
"My wife doesn't remember anything......"
"Huh!? How's that good...... Wouldn't we never know what happened before and what happened? ”
"What's the matter...... I never cared why I came here and why I was chosen...... I just want to ...... Now she can always be by my side, as long as it's her, it's fine......" Xie Ruqing said while slowly standing up, coming to the window, looking at the small green flowers that were beginning to bloom, and said softly:
"Me and Gu, and the future, are the most contented things in my life......"
When Xianyun heard this, he couldn't help nodding, and drank a cup of astringent tea that had only been boiled before he could be cooked, and with the sour, astringent and dry bitterness, it spread on the tip of his tongue, and Xianyun also said:
"yes...... Cherish the people in front of you...... People with a future...... It's better than someone who doesn't have a future......"
A bitter tear...... Slowly rolled from Xianyun's cheeks to the freshly brewed tea, with a hint of ripple......
Xianyun's tears were bitter and sad tears that had not been expressed for many years, but Xie Ruqing's bitter tears for many years were not shed at this moment...... Just because ...... His sourness...... Such as...... Finally see the end......
A rising sun rose in his heart, slowly evaporating the water called "bitterness......
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(End of chapter)