Chapter 15: The Bazaar
In the early morning of the next day, Yun Qian had finished washing early, and his spirit was refreshed. As soon as I arrived at the middle hall, I saw that my parents had already started cleaning the courtyard: "Daddy, you got up so early, don't you take a break?" ”
The father replied with a smile: "I can't sleep well at night, get up early, today your mother is going to go to the market to buy some food, and make some good ones at noon." ”
Yun Qian entered the house and asked his mother: "Mother, when will you leave, I will go with you." ”
Mother seemed very interested today: "Okay, let's leave now, and leave the yard for your father to sweep." So saying, he went back to the house and got the basket. Yun Qian ran out of the door with a smile and waited for his mother.
The market here is different from Lushou City, it is a vacant land specially carved out by many villages, and the stalls are few on weekdays, and it is only a good day every 369. And there is a conventional rule, the stall is early to come, so when the mother and son arrived, it was already crowded.
My mother had seen a lot, so she went straight to the place where the vegetables were eaten. But Yunqian hasn't seen the local style for a long time, and he wants to try everything he sees. The mother is willing to accommodate her son and stay for a while. After half an hour of turnover, the fresh vegetables were almost purchased, Yun Qian saw that his mother was a little tired, so he found a step for his mother to rest first, and then put down the vegetable basket and went to wander first.
Yun Qian, who was unabated, found an interesting stall after a while. The back side of the banner stands, and the straight book 'Ten Texts Please Heavenly Machine'. An old fortune teller with gray hair and a rickety body was looking at the woman who was carrying vegetables.
I saw him pointing left and right, and the woman smiled, and happily took out ten cents and left. The old gentleman turned the silver money upside down, continued to shout with a spring breeze on his face, and looked up to find that Yun Qian was looking at this side, so he probed and called: "Do you want to count the little boy, the old man is clear about yin and yang, good at investigating good fortune and evil, and he is not allowed to never collect money." ”
Yun Qian squatted down with a smile: "Old man, people say that the secret of heaven cannot be revealed, why do you dare to count the secret of heaven for ten words?" ”
The fortune teller proudly put away the money: "They are all bluffing, the heavens have their own rules, and the mysteries are always known. Besides, I have inherited a hundred schools, and the so-called hundred virtues are one to inherit the immortal body, and to create sentient beings to be a little maze, how can God bear to punish me. ”
This is not bad, Yun Qian couldn't help admiring Mr. Eloquence: "Can you test anything else here besides good luck and evil?" ”
The fortune teller stood up and pulled up his beard with a tilted head: "Numerology marriage, future fortune, finding people and things, and even family feng shui, the old man can measure it." I look at the little boy's eyebrows and eyes, and the pavilion is slightly rich, presumably he is a person with deep fortune, don't you want to measure the future? ”
Yun Qian touched his eyebrows, looking a little shy: "Then you can help me test my future." ”
"Measuring words, looking at the face or shaking lots," the fortune teller asked with a smile on his face.
Yun Qian had already planned: "Let's measure the words, I recognize a few words." ”
The old gentleman handed over a blank piece of paper: "Please give me a word, I can solve it." "Watching him brush and write the word 'repair', he still has some skills.
The fortune teller took the paper, looked at Yun Qian suspiciously, and then traced it again with his finger as a pen, and said in a deep voice: "The word "little boy" is not simple. It is said that the future has up and down, and the word 'you' on the top of this word is the meaning of water, which means that the son should follow the trend. The following '彡' (Yinshan) word, tsk, presumably there will be many twists and turns in the road ahead, but it will eventually be able to go further. It's just that the last little boy deliberately left a few points longer, although it is a brave image, but if there is no reserve, it will not reach, and the little boy must not be in a hurry. ”
Yun Qian didn't seem to understand it, but he didn't care too much, and was ready to pay the silver after thanking him.
The old man continued: "Although the little boy is not blessed, but the palace is a little inappropriate, there must be a big disaster in the future, it is better to give another word, let the old man light up one or two." ”
At this moment, a woman's voice next to him said: "Old Zhou, I see that your mountain roots are not right, are you fooling my son?" ”
The fortune teller was demolished, and looked at the woman with annoyance, but was startled: "Yo, brother and sister, look at what you said, I am looking at the little boy's face, so I will give a little pointer, I don't know if it is your son-in-law, my class has an axe." ”
Xiaoqian found that her mother was standing beside her with a vegetable basket, and hurriedly got up to take the vegetable basket: "Mother, why are you here, I will go back to you in a while." ”
The mother touched her son's head: "I'm resting, and I'll come along." He turned his head and said to the fortune teller: "Last time, you fooled my neighbors and smashed the wall and didn't ask you to settle accounts, but this time you came to fool my son again, believe it or not, I let Lu Ju cut off your business." ”
The strong mother is like a tiger, and the fortune teller is very aggrieved: "I am really kind, I don't dare to ask for money, it is because the little boy has a good face, so he has itchy hands and solved a word." It's better for you to meet and dismantle the stage, it's no different from breaking my business. ”
The mother also found that her words and deeds were inappropriate, and said perfunctorily: "For the sake of your lack of big fault, this time it's just that, you are busy, I will leave with my son first." After speaking, he pulled Yun Qian away.
Yun Qian smiled and apologized to the fortune teller, followed behind his mother, and when he left, he saw the fortune teller and secretly touched the bridge of his nose: "It's crooked." ”
On the way home, Yun Qian asked his mother: "Mother, why is that Mr. Zhou so flattering to you, you just mentioned Uncle Lu Shi, does he also tell fortunes?" ”
The mother nodded and explained: "Your Uncle Lu Shi learned some skills in divination and reading before, but then he felt that he didn't make money, so he switched to treasure appreciation, and then you also know that the business is losing money, and now he has started to run a pawnshop." That fortune teller had some relationship with your Uncle Lu Shi before, so he had some affection for our family. ”
Yun Qian suddenly said: "No wonder Uncle Lu Shi is so powerful, I can't hide anything from him when I think about it on weekdays." ”
Mother touched Yun Qian's head and said, "Your Uncle Lu Shi is more experienced, when you grow up..." Yun Qian asked his mother worriedly: "Mother, why do you sweat so much, and where is it uncomfortable?" ”
Mother reluctantly waved her hand: "It's okay, it's just that you're weak, just take a break." ”
Yun Qian looked left and right at a loss, trying to find someone to help, but the pedestrians nearby didn't know the situation and avoided it from a distance. Yun Qian said anxiously: "Mother, you have a break here, I'll go to Lang Zhong to come over and help you see a doctor." ”
Mother grabbed Yun Qian with difficulty: "No, it's good for my mother to rest, the old problem is committed, don't worry, accompany my mother here." ”
Yun Qian was a little flustered, but he still sat down with his mother, and he didn't know if it worked, so he began to push his mother's back. The uncle who sold the candy next to him was an old man, boiled some water in the pot, mixed some syrup, and sent it over: "Young man, your mother should be qi deficiency, let her drink some sugar water and pour some hot gas." ”
Yun Qian thanked him again and again, and said to his mother: "Mother, there is a kind uncle who boiled some sugar water for you, you can drink some." ”
The mother closed her eyes and nodded in response. Yun Qian gently handed the bowl to his mother's mouth and fed her a mouthful of it. After a while, the mother exhaled the heat, and her palpitations eased a lot, and she forced her eyes to thank the old man.
Yun Qian saw that his mother was getting better, and trotted in front of the old man, holding a bowl of clothes and bowing: "Thank you for the help of the seniors, the younger generations are grateful." ”
The old man waved his hand casually: "No, ask your mother if you still want it, I have a lot of it." ”
The mother replied softly, "Thank you, old man, I am much better, and I can leave after the meeting." Your sugar water really works. ”
The old man heard the praise and felt that it was very useful, and laughed.
Yun Qian thanked him again and returned to his mother to accompany him. The pedestrians on the side of the road also probably figured out the situation, and gathered around, and the old man shouted impatiently: "What do you see, you should buy vegetables to make soy sauce, you should go home for a walk, and join in the fun." ”
The pedestrians were a little stupid when they were scolded by him, and some of them spitted twice, but they gradually dispersed.
The mother relieved for a moment, thanked the old man again, and began to get up and leave, and found a secluded place on the way to rest for a long time, and met his father from the house to greet him, and the family went home.
In the east house, her mother leaned on the bed to comfort Yun Qian: "It's been a long time to go today, and it won't be like this usually, so don't worry." ”
Yun Qian nodded and said, "Mother, you rest first, Dad is boiling medicine, I'll cook for you." ”
"Be careful, don't burn", looking at Yun Qian's intimate and sensible appearance, her mother covered her face with tears, almost couldn't hold back her sadness, but Yun Qian turned back again, Zheng Ruqi asked: "Do you want to eat spicy or sour." ”
The mother laughed angrily and feigned anger: "Salty." ”
Yun Qian walked to the kitchen with a smile and began to wash and choose vegetables, and his father also followed, began to support firewood and light the fire, and went out from time to time to take care of the medicine pot.
It wasn't until late afternoon that the meal was done. Yun Qian's craftsmanship was immature, but he couldn't bear the likes of his parents, so his father made some wine and drank a few glasses by himself. After lunch, Yun Qian went out under the pretext of fetching water, but instead of going to the well at the corner of the street, he ran to the woods on the side and sat up alone.
After drinking the medicine, my mother slept peacefully, and my father cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and then sat in the courtyard, drinking bitter tea from time to time.
Later, the mother slowly walked out of the house and snuggled up to her husband: "I had a dream just now. ”
The father looked at his wife and asked, "What dream?" ”
The mother's eyes gradually swirled, and she whispered, "I dreamed of immortals." ”
The father gently stroked the mother's long hair: "What kind of immortal? ”
"It's three points like you, and it's a little more beautiful than me." Mother replied.
The father sighed in a low voice: "Qian'er is burdened by you and me, and has delusions of immortality, blindly looking forward to the free and magical powers of those immortals, which is his youthful curiosity, why do you think about it." The future of this road is uncertain, and it is good to be an ordinary person. ”
Mother shook her head in her arms: "In the past, I also ran away from home to seek immortals, and I met you. Qian'er has a fairy fate that ordinary people can't match, so I naturally don't want to waste it recklessly. If we can find a way out with what you and I have learned, let my son choose for himself at that time. Whether it is immortal and rich, ordinary and peaceful, I don't want him to wronged himself. ”
The father looked at his wife dotingly: "You are stubborn." ”
……
Yunxia was born and gone, two days have passed, Yun Qian got up and went back to Lushou City, when he said goodbye, his father said that Uncle Chang Shi might come back in a few days, so he no longer went to Lushou City, only let Yun Qian bring a letter to Uncle Lu Shi.
After returning to Lushou City from afar, Yun Qian first went to Uncle Lu Shi to greet and send a letter. Uncle Lu Shishu inquired about the current situation of his parents, and then carefully instructed Yun Qian: "It has not been peaceful in recent days, you should try not to go out of the city." I have already instructed the men to stock up on the goods first, and wait for the storm to pass. ”
Yun Qian asked the reason, and Uncle Lu Shi said with a solemn face: "The county guard in the city is dead. ”