Passing through the crowd and heading east, I passed a dilapidated courtyard and looked up, where the plaque had already hung diagonally on the door, growing a few weeds.

Although I can't see the handwriting on the plaque, I think it's a small family in the middle of the road. In the final analysis, the rise and fall of honor and disgrace is not what outsiders say, nor is it humane and clear, and what can be seen from the beginning to the end is this plaque.

The sloppy man, who was already familiar with this Beijing, looked up at the plaque, raised his hand and poured another sip of wine, and grinned: "Little rabbit." "A short distance further east, I turned into an alley, which ran from south to north to the east and west street opposite.

The alleys are extremely wide, not like other alleys in the city, just a horse-drawn carriage, this article reads

The key is that the ground is also different from other places where the blue bricks are paved, and there are large bluestone slabs here, which is enough to see that there are more or less rich and noble families living in this alley.

How many rich and noble families have not been checked, and a large part of the reason why this alley, which can be called the main road, is so wide is really not something that the rich and noble people can control, and a small part of the reason is because the original plan here is to give those brigade commanders and soldiers in the military town, and don't generals, all of them are public men with official positions.

Another very important reason is because of an apricot tree. The apricot tree was planted in which year no one knows, some old people said that in the previous dynasty to build this Xi'an City, this was originally an apricot forest, and later because of what feng shui can be seen in the direction of the earth's veins and other physiognomy felled, and some say that it was a thousand years ago when the founder of Confucianism, Confucius, traveled west to preach and receive employment, and transplanted it from the apricot altar outside his hometown Yanzhou, which has the title of the state of etiquette, which is regarded as a holy place by thousands of students.

It is impossible to verify the origin of the city, but from the beginning of the founding of the city to the present, there is a lot of gossip around this almond tree.

For example, in the earliest year of the city's establishment, the Ministry of Industry of the DPRK came to investigate, and after selecting the site, it was necessary to clean up all the trees and stones that were in the way, but this apricot tree, which two people could hug together, was cut down by five people in turn for two days without seeing a crack, which was really harder than a stone.

Later, an old man said that the tree was old and had to burn incense and pay tribute, and Na Cheng thought that everything was in order in the end, and when he went down with an axe, the tree actually shed blood.

This incident was also in an uproar at that time, and the elderly knew that they all alarmed the one in the court.

In the end, I couldn't, so I had to leave this apricot tree. In addition, in recent years, the house under the apricot tree was bought by the lady of the Night King's Mansion on the mountain in the south, and there have been two major events that have caused a sensation in Beijing for several years, and the last time was even more shocking to the government and the opposition.

Now it is a few years ago, and it was said that it was changed to the Su family again, which is another good topic. After all, it was three years ago, in this Beijing city, the Su family, who made a living by selling tea, was tragically cleared overnight by a fire, and more than ten people in the family left only a little girl, but it is unknown why the Su family girl bought this courtyard later.

But every year in February, March and April after the beginning of spring, the girl of the Su family picks apricot blossoms to make porridge, and makes cakes with apricot blossoms.

And the small stall at the door of the house, a few tables, a few small stools, every day when the meal arrives, it is endlessly full of seats.

I don't know if the sloppy man is hungry, or if he wants to find some food and wine, he swayed to the stall.

The stall owner is naturally the girl of the Su family, a yellow dress is also clean, the sleeves are rolled up twice, revealing the snow-white wrists, busy distributing apricot blossom cakes to people, scooping apricot blossom porridge, a group of diners are very particular, and they do not coax, take pastries or porridge, and throw three or two copper plates into the jar on the side.

The girl of the Su family didn't look at it either, more or less, it seemed that it had nothing to do with her. The sloppy man went straight down and took an apricot blossom cake, so unruly naturally caused dissatisfaction among the surrounding diners, which can be described as excited, but before he could open his mouth to curse, he heard the girl of the Su family

"Godfather", those diners are honest. The sloppy man reached out and picked up two more, took a sip of wine, and said vaguely: "You are busy first, you are busy first." I squatted to the side, and took a sip of apricot cake with a sip of wine, and I don't know what kind of way to eat it, which really doesn't make people understand.

The apricot blossom cake was only sold short in the dissatisfaction of the diners, and some people muttered about why it was gone just after the beginning of the morning, and the girl of the Su family in a yellow dress did not explain, but just took care of her own stall and cleaned her hands, scooped up the last bowl of porridge and handed it to the sloppy man.

What's the best to eat? It's just that if you only have the last bite left to eat, it's called the best. The sloppy man was not polite, and said while taking the bowl: "My daughter still has to take the rest of the apricot blossom cake to her mother to eat, what are you Rory talking about?" If you want to eat early, wouldn't the Ming Dynasty come earlier, can you waste your tongue here? "They are very clear about the life experience of this Su family girl, but how she destroyed the door three years ago is just speculation on the streets and alleys, and the details are unknown, and how to buy this house is even more confusing, and even some familiar customers can conclude that the godfather that the Su family girl just called is also the first time to appear, and so on, adding to the mystery.

Therefore, a group of diners dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, so they could only disperse angrily. The girl of the Su family just smiled, and such hospitality was unusual, but she didn't care.

After everyone was almost gone, and after cleaning up the stalls, the girl of the Su family said, "Godfather, how did you get here?" The sloppy man shook the wine jug in his hand and said, "The wine is a little strong, come and ask for a cup of tea to clear your mouth." ”

"Godfather asked people to bring a letter, I will go to the mountain to cook for you after I am done, why bother you to come over in person." The girl of the Su family joked,

"Aren't you afraid that your godmother will blame you for not accompanying her." The sloppy man smiled and said, "I'm afraid your godmother has been annoying me for decades, let her clean herself for a while." As he spoke, the sloppy man walked into the courtyard.

The small courtyard is very clean, and the small red clay stove under the big tree in the courtyard is boiling water.

"It came at the right time." The sloppy man laughed.

"The water has been boiled a little, you go back to the house first and wait, and then I'll burn it." As the girl from the Su family spoke, she took a few steps and lifted the purple sand kettle to pour the water.

"When I go back to the house, I won't see you boiling snow and cooking tea." The sloppy man pinned the flask to his waist, and just squatted under the tree, holding the stove with both hands, and said,

"I really don't understand what that little rabbit cub thought back then, it's best to watch a beauty cook tea, why do you have to avoid you." The sloppy man's words made the Su family's girl's cheeks blush slightly, and she said angrily: "Godfather, you always laugh at me, I don't dare to let my brother watch me make tea every day." As she spoke, the girl of the Su family put the purple sand kettle aside, added a small shovel of charcoal, walked to the corner of the yard and went down to the cellar, took a jar out, and said: "This is the rootless water I saved in the snow after the year, and the tea is the most fragrant." As he spoke, he strained the water from the jar twice and poured it into the pot.

Taking advantage of this, the sloppy man came to the sentence without a head or tail: "The sword spirit has been raised?" The girl of the Su family took a meal in her hand, and then carefully poured snow into the pot.

"According to the method taught by the godfather back then, on the night of the full moon every month, take epimedium weed, aconite, hook kiss, shou wu, fragrant herb, mountain ginger, wolfberry, wolf venom, angelica, ligustrum smoked bath, one year to call buds, two years to cast the fetus, three years to wake up the spirit, now it should be good." The sloppy man stopped talking, lifted the flask and wanted to take a sip, saw the stove, and put the flask down again.

The stove was boiling, the girl of the Su family put the kettle on, silently, stared at the snow water in the pot motionlessly, picked up the fine sieve and filtered it carefully a few times, and then added it back to the pot, and then picked up the small fan and fanned it gently.

The sloppy man thought that he was tired of squatting, so he simply sat on the ground and said, "When your godmother just left, it snowed so heavily that the mountains were closed." Your brother and your second sister went to me one foot at a time and made me a few cups of tea like this. I thought it was your sister who cooked it, but it didn't work out, but that little rabbit cub cooked a pot with me. The girl of the Su family stared straight at the stove with her eyes and did not speak.

The sloppy man also knew that these lorries who made tea were exquisite, and she also knew that she also heard what she said, and continued: "But it's not bad, your second sister said that it was to compensate me for not drinking the tea she brewed, and made the first word for me and your godmother." ”

"I know." The girl of the Su family who played a little good tea was still broken

The rule of "cooking tea without saying a word" said: "I've heard people say it." The scruffy man leaned against the tree, his eyes slightly closed.

The girl of the Su family fanned the fire, lightly opened her lips, and said: "The snow went back to the northwest of the small building and smiled, he didn't know what it was, the eyebrows were tightly locked, the snow was ruined, no one was for you, and then the tea was cooked, and then the cup was refilled, there were a few times, nothing more than wine, no taste, first borrowed the snow to exchange, why do you need to add salary to the east flowing water, and re-boil, mistakenly mottled the cold plum for a year old, just for the next year, and then complained about my ignorance, only groaning, micro-style, micro-style, and micro-carving into the monument" The Su girl's voice was delicate, and a poem was said by her mouth, like a mountain stream, gurgling into her heart and spleen.

The sloppy man opened his eyes, his tone was gloomy, but there was a taste of seeing through the preaching of the old monk in the red dust,

"I don't know if your sister suffered with that little rabbit."

"My sister and brother have a good life, I ask the Bodhisattva to bless me every night, and I will definitely not suffer hardship." As she spoke, the girl of the Su family put away her small fan,

"The water is good." The sloppy man looked at it and said, "Well, that's right." The girl of the Su family wrapped her handkerchief around the handle of the kettle and walked to the stone table on the other side of the tree.

"I don't know if you're coming, the tea leaves have been washed in advance, if you don't like me, I'll wash another piece."

"It's not that much trouble." The sloppy man got up and patted the dust on his pants and walked over to the stone table,

"Even with your eyes closed, you're better than that little rabbit cub." The girl of the Su family smiled at the corner of her mouth and said, "My brother is both civil and military, if he is like me, he can make tea." The girl of the Su family poured three cups in a row, raised her hand and raised her hand to protect the three dragons in front of the sloppy man.

The sloppy man took it, drank it all, and said, "No, no, I still can't learn the posture of your tea, and I can't drink anything." The sloppy man put the cup down, turned around and walked out, and said, "Drink it yourself, let me drink this pot of tea." The girl of the Su family watched the sloppy man walk to the door, and heard him say without looking back: "They seem to be coming back." The woman was stunned.

Coming back? After waiting for three years, I finally have to come back. She had heard the names of this godbrother and godsister since she was very young.

At that time, the elders in the family always said: "Look at other girls, they are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, how can we not teach such a girl." She thinks that too, the tea ceremony that she has studied since she was sensible is now not as good as the tea that others make with their eyes closed.

At that time, when his little sisters got together, someone would always say: "Which son is like him, one person can fight more than 50 people from the six great families without defeat, if he wants to, I will definitely marry him." The unashamed private words have calluses in her ears.

But she thinks that these little sisters, let alone marrying him, I'm afraid they won't have a chance to see him. But God always doesn't act according to common sense, because of fate, she was saved by him, and she can be regarded as saving him, but what is certain is that she can be regarded as helping him.

After that, they felt that they would never see this sister and brother again in this life, but they didn't think about it, God still played a trick.

The sloppy man who had only heard of and never seen before found her, and bowed to her, regardless of the difference in age or age.

She felt that God's joke was too big. Then the sloppy man with unkempt white hair asked her, "There is no one in your house, why don't you be my daughter?" I've been discussing with my family for a long time about giving birth to ten, and I'm afraid I won't be able to do it in this life. I think I'll have to get ten for my family, would you? She felt that God had favored her that year.

The sloppy man didn't wait for her to agree, so he said again: "But I can say it in advance, I want to raise you to be a knife spirit, which will be beneficial to that little rabbit cub with a knife." She felt that it was okay to die for the little rabbit cub in the mouth of a sloppy man, and why was it difficult to become a knife spirit.

Since then, she has had a father again, and she has an older brother and sister who she hasn't seen for three years now.

Now that she was going to see her again, she was happy. The scruffy man paused at the door and said,

"I'll see your brother and sister soon."

"Blank to understand." The girl of the Su family had slightly red eyes and murmured,

"I've been waiting for this day for three years." The sloppy man laughed and walked out. …… The sloppy man went out to the south, went out of the city through the south gate, and walked all the way down the avenue to the southwest.

Crossing the woods, going up the mountain, walking on the mountain road for a while, turning halfway up the mountain to the back of the mountain. Not long after walking, there was a bamboo forest, which was full of steel knives and surrounded a tomb.

The sloppy man stopped, sat on the ground, took out two sugar figures and put them in front of the monument, and said to himself: "Your favorite sugar man." ”

"Our daughter and son are coming back."

"It can't go on like this."

"This time, don't shake Kunlun." The sloppy man put his head on the monument and looked up at the sky, as if he was whispering and babbling.

"It's heaven-shattering." There are four big characters on the side of the stele. Kunlun has been shaken!