Chapter 108: The Willow Smoke Girl
The breeze pushed the white clouds to drift slowly, a few birds soared happily in the clouds, the green grass on the ground was endless, and several green hills were erected on the edge of the grass, which seemed peaceful.
A wisp of black smoke floated up from the mountain, faintly emitting the faint fragrance of grains, and then looking at the basin between the mountains, I saw two simple houses built of thatch in the middle, surrounded by several acres of fields.
A bamboo fence encloses the fields and houses, and chickens and ducks peck happily at the sand and gravel on the ground.
A big yellow dog was leisurely lying on a stone table sunbathing, a fragrance of grains came into the yellow dog's nose, and suddenly his eyes flashed with excitement, and he wagged his tail and rushed to the hut.
And the faint fragrance wafted from one of the two huts, and the yellow dog did not enter the house, but wagged its tail excitedly outside the house, wandering.
I only heard a delicate voice from the house: "Xiao Huang, give me some rules, and you will have something to eat later." ”
When the yellow dog heard it, he hurriedly made a pitiful appearance, and lay motionless at the door of the house with his tail between his legs.
A moment later, another call came from the house: "Father, it's time to eat, come and eat." ”
"Hey, wait a while, let me finish settling the grain harvested this autumn, you can eat the smoke first, Daddy is busy eating." An old voice came from another thatched hut.
"Well, I know, don't forget about it later. Qingxiu's voice replied.
And the old voice did not come out, and then I saw a girl dressed in red carrying a large bowl and walking out of the hut.
This woman has a delicate face, looks extremely well-behaved, two black eyes are clear and watery, cheeks are slightly blushing, and a gray apron is wrapped around her waist. With that, he put a large bowl in his hand on the stone pier in front of the house.
The yellow dog barked twice, raised its tail excitedly, and threw himself into the big bowl on the stone pier, and his whole face was buried in the bowl.
"Slow down, don't choke. The girl in red looked at the yellow dog and smiled slightly, and that smile did not carry a trace of human fireworks.
Then the girl went into the hut again and got busy, I don't know how long it took, the girl also finished eating, and cleaned up the things in the house, and saw that her father had not yet come to eat, so she picked up a bowl and chopsticks, and slowly went out of the house, the bowl was filled with white rice gruel, with some pickles, from this point of view, the girl's life was very frugal.
"Dad, let's eat first, and then count after eating. The girl in red walked into another room, and spoke as she entered.
I saw an old man with white hair in the room, dressed in plain clothes, sitting at the wooden table with one hand rubbing his temples, while the other hand was comparing back and forth with a booklet on the table, and when he heard the girl in red speak, he sighed and said: "Alas, Yan'er, there is not much money in the accounts this year, and the harvest is calculated, and in addition, I have to go to the city to buy some fertilizer and new seeds, and now it is the autumn harvest season, and those bandits are about the same, and they will come to collect money and grain again." ”
"Don't worry about my father, my body is important, and people have to bow their heads under the eaves, although it is enough to have food to eat and a stable place to live. The woman, known as Yan'er, put the dishes and chopsticks in her hand on the table, and then spoke to persuade her father.
The old face slowly raised and threw it over, and with a deep gaze, he looked at the girl in front of him with endless vicissitudes and sighed: "Yan'er, I'm bitter for you." If it weren't for the corrupt official, you wouldn't have fled here, your mother died early, and you are much more sensible than other children, and you are kind-hearted, alas, ......" said the old man, and there were tears in his eyes.
"Dad! Yan'er is not bitter, but he is bitter Dad, seeing that Daddy is so hard every day, Yan'er feels cramping, it is better for Yan'er to marry the corrupt official. Yan'er looked at her father with a trace of tears, her heart was extremely uncomfortable, and her eyes were red.
"Nonsense! Dad is just your daughter, your mother died early, how can you hand over your future to the dog official, you don't know that the dog official, there is already an eighth aunt wife at home, Dad doesn't want to ruin your life, otherwise I'll be sorry for your mother." When the old man heard the girl's words, he immediately said angrily.
Yan'er listened to her father's lesson, and did not speak, there were too many tears in her eyes to bear the weight, so they flowed down her cheeks, and then saw the old man and said: "We fled here, although it is a little hard, but it is also considered stable, this is the territory of Wohu Mountain, the dog official does not dare to do anything to us, but every year to hand over food and money, as a protection fee, although they are bandits, but they are also moral, and we are not embarrassed to collect money, our father and daughter, and living here is also considered poor." ”,
"But father, these bandits want to collect more and more food and money, every time they come to collect, it will increase several times, the last time we came to collect, we still owe, two loads of grain and a hundred yuan, if we don't pay it all this time, we will be kicked out of here, but there is no one to protect us, and we will be threatened by the corrupt official. Yan'er wiped the tears on her face and said helplessly.
"Alas, it's useless to blame Dad, it's hard for you. The old man looked at his daughter embarrassed, turned his head out the window and sighed.
It is said that a few years ago, the father and daughter were originally a small trader in Chengyang City outside the mountain, and their original life was neither good nor bad.
The old man originally had a wife, although the husband and wife were doing a small business in the city, their character was also good, and they had a daughter who was very well-behaved, and was named Liu Yan's from careful kindness, and was called Liu Yan's by the locals, and was often praised by people because of her helpfulness.
Later, I didn't know what serious illness the old man's wife had, so she couldn't afford to get sick, and then she was gradually killed by the disease.
At this time, Liu Yannu also grew into a slim girl, helping her father to take care of business affairs, Liu Yannu often helped some poor people in her spare time, and some beggars who wandered in the city also applauded.
As a result, because of Liu Yannu's kindness, the disasters it caused, people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, Zhu Di, the lord of Chengyang City, is a faint official, greedy for money and lustful, and Liu Yannu's deeds came to his ears, Liu Yannu is beautiful and beautiful, and as a result, he was moved by lust, and used a variety of means to force him to marry him, at first he was courteous, but no one in the city knew that this person was lustful and greedy for money, how could Liu Yannu's family comply, of course, it was a refusal.
Later, Zhu Di was forced to use strong means to monopolize the business of the father and daughter, and everyone knew that Zhu Di was powerful, and the people were not looking for death in the official fight, so they didn't do business with the father and daughter.
It didn't take long for the father and daughter to run out of money, and the people around them also saw them take a detour, and at this time Zhu Di acted as a good person to help the father and daughter, of course the two knew Zhu Di's intentions, so they didn't ask him for charity, and finally forced Zhu Di to be anxious, and directly began to force marriage to Liu Yannu, if you don't marry, let your father accompany your mother.
was monitored by Zhu Di every day and night, for fear that the father and daughter would escape, but later, by chance, the father and daughter escaped from the clutches and hid in the territory of Wohu Mountain.
Wohu Mountain is a well-known bandit mountain in this area, however, although they are bandits, these people do not bully the father and daughter, these people only recognize money and do not recognize people, and the father and daughter will hand over all the remaining money to the people of Wohu Mountain, and then they let the father and daughter live here.
Zhu Di knew that the father and daughter had fled into the territory of Wohu Mountain, and he didn't dare to pursue it, although he was the lord of a city, but he didn't have any powerful means, and he knew that he couldn't fight the bandits in Wohu Mountain, so he gave up the pursuit of the father and daughter, but he still didn't give up on it, and sent people to guard outside the territory of Wohu Mountain, he didn't believe that the father and daughter stayed in it for a lifetime and didn't come out.
When the father and daughter arrived here, there was no way to live, so they began to think of a way to remember a certain life, and then the old man had a plan to farm the land, and opened a field and farmed for the location in one of the sites of Wohu Mountain, and this place is called Qingniu Mountain.
As the days passed, and then the farming was not bad, and some food and money were regularly handed over to Wohu Mountain every year, so that you could live here in peace, why not do it.
However, later, the people of Crouching Tiger Mountain collected more and more food and money, and it became more frequent, originally twice a year, but now three or four times a year, so that the father and daughter gradually felt unbearable, and then there was the current scene.
"Dad, it's okay, it'll be fine in the future! Liu Yannu comforted her father and said.
The old man shook his head when he heard this, then picked up the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and when he was about to eat, a dazzling white light shot in from the window, and the white light was only fleeting.
The father and daughter looked at each other suspiciously, and then they both rushed out of the door, and then saw a figure lying in the field not far away.
Liu Yannu quickly ran to the side of the field, and saw a bloody man lying in the field, not moving, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
Then she hurriedly jumped into the field, touched the neck of the bloody man lying in the field, and muttered: "Still alive, not dead!"
"Yan'er, what's the matter?" the old man did not come, but just stood at the door of the house and watched the movements in the field.
"Dad, come over and help, it's a person, it seems that he has been injured very badly. When Liu Yannu heard her father's shout, she hurriedly shouted.
"How did he get here? How can he be injured in our fields, if the people of Crouching Tiger Mountain know, we won't be able to eat and walk around. The old man didn't move when he heard this, and said to Liu Yannu suspiciously.
"Dad, don't worry about this for now, it's important to save people. Liu Yannu felt the faint pulse of the bloody man in the field, and she couldn't see this at all from being careful and kind, and then said hurriedly.
"Alas, I saved this man, I don't know if it's good or bad. The old man said this, but he walked quickly to the field.
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