When I got home full of doubts, my dad was standing at the door anxiously waiting for me.

I walked past him with my head bowed and entered the gate.

"Why didn't Zhiyong take the He family to find Xiaoya, but came to you. Your baby is getting more and more incomprehensible. How did Zhiyong know that Xiaoya was in the valley? "My dad seemed to have forgotten the questions I had asked before I left, and instead of asking them, he asked a new set of questions. But he didn't mean to ask me to answer, but seemed to be talking to himself.

It's Saturday again, and my brother has already eaten and is waiting for me to go up the mountain with me. Seeing me enter the door, he urged me: "Xiao Yuan, eat quickly, eat quickly." ”

On the way up the mountain, my brother jumped from one ridge to another like a happy sparrow, and did not walk on the main road. And I couldn't be happier. I have been trying to find a reasonable explanation for what happened today, but until I walked to the shack, there was no result.

I didn't look at Daddy's shack today, because I knew he wouldn't be going up the hill today.

"Xiao Yuan, let's go, find Daddy to tell a story. "I had just plunged into the shack and lay down when my brother shouted outside.

"He didn't come today. ”

"Nonsense, why is the light in the shack on?"

"No way, you're dazzled!" I affirmed.

"When you get up and see for yourself, not only is the lamp on, but the brazier is still on. ”

I thought to myself that Daddy must have forgotten to turn off the lights and extinguish the fire when he came down the mountain in the morning. I was about to tell my brother to go over and put out the lamp and brazier so that the shack would not burn.

Before I could speak, my brother rushed into the shack, pulled me up, and went straight to my father's shack.

To my surprise, Daddy is on the mountain today. He was sitting in front of the brazier smoking a dry cigarette.

"Two babies, come to the brazier, it's cool at night. Daddy looked up at the two of us and said.

"Daddy, did you tell Xiao Yuan that you won't go up the mountain today?" said my brother who jumped in front of the brazier and sat down.

"If I don't go up the mountain, will I let the mountain people pick all my beans? Daddy said with a smile.

I was about to argue, but my father said, "Xiao Yuan, sit down too." ”

I sat down next to my brother.

"Daddy, did you go to Xiaoxi Mountain just now?" I suddenly remembered that the figure I saw in the valley just now looked like Daddy, and asked.

"What are you doing in Xiaoxi Mountain at night?" replied calmly.

I was silent.

I waited for him to ask about He Xuanya today, so that I could take the opportunity to ask some questions, but he didn't bring up any related topics.

"Today, I will continue to tell you the story of me and your sixth master fleeing. Da Yuan should have heard something from your sixth master. Daddy broke the silence.

"He has talked about something, I only know that in order to avoid the officers and soldiers, you accompanied the sixth master to flee outside for two years, and you didn't talk about the detailed experience outside. My brother said.

"Okay, then I'll start with the town we passed by, and I've talked to Xiao Yuan before.

"You and I passed through a town, and on the night we arrived in the town, a vicious dog bit and killed three members of the butcher's family in the town, the butcher and his two sons. The vicious dog ran into a hill.

"I'll go to that hill with your sixth master and everyone in the town to hunt down the vicious dogs. Later, the two of us found the vicious dog halfway up the mountain and killed it.

"The people in the town regarded your sixth master as a hero, and the next day they set up a big banquet to celebrate him. ”

"Why do you two only regard the sixth master as a hero when everyone only regards the vicious dog you two found?" my brother interrupted Daddy and asked.

"Heroes stand up to the sky, there can only be one person, how can there be so many heroes? Besides, I don't like to be lively. Daddy explained it in a plausible way.

I wonder why Daddy is talking about something completely different from what he told me before. There was a more reasonable answer to my brother's question, but my dad didn't say it.

I don't know why, but I knew in my heart that he had a reason for doing this, so I didn't say anything.

"On the night of the feast," continued Daddy, "you six stood, in a panic, broke through the door of the inn. I saw him drunk and staggering as he walked.

"As soon as he entered the door, he pulled me and said, 'Buddha Dai, it's not good!

"I asked him, 'What's wrong?'

"He didn't answer me, but shook his head and said with a big tongue: 'I don't want to marry a daughter-in-law, I don't want to marry a daughter-in-law.' ’

"When I heard this, I laughed and said to him, 'You are drunk, you are confused, today is the people of the town celebrating your achievement, not to marry you.' As soon as you come to the table, you will be considered to marry a daughter-in-law?'

"He waved his hand and said, 'No—yes! ’

"I said, 'What about your dreams, we are fleeing outside, alone, and there are no parents to call the shots, and there is no matchmaker to match, who is willing to marry you!'

"He was so anxious that he was about to jump up, his face was flushed, and he only said two words: 'Yingzhu!'

"I asked strangely, 'Who is Young-joo?'

He replied, 'It is the woman of the Li butcher.' The daughter of the family where the dog bit the man to death. ’

"Then I remembered the girl who was standing behind the woman last night.

This piqued my curiosity.

"I helped you six masters to the bed, let him lie on the quilt, and then asked him, 'What the hell is going on?

"You sixth master sat up and said, 'Buddha Dai, how can you think that? Today at the banquet, Li Butcher's wife was at home to keep a watch, and she didn't come, so let her woman come and thank me. The head of the town joked that I avenged Yingzhu's Laozi and brothers, and asked Yingzhu to be my daughter-in-law. Yingzhu knelt on the ground, and he must repay my great kindness with his body. I said that I was still young and didn't plan to get married, so she couldn't get up on her knees. I had no choice but to promise her to think about it overnight and reply to her tomorrow. She refused to live or die, and after a while of persuasion, she got up and said that she would come to the store early tomorrow morning to find me. What do you think I can do? ’

"When I heard this, I laughed and said, 'Isn't that a great thing? I think you stay in this town, and after helping her family with the funeral, you will live in her house. After a year, as soon as the mourning period is over, as soon as the matter is done, you will live in peace. That courtyard house, with three shops on the street, is enough for you to live a lifetime. Moreover, if they are orphans and widows, it will not be too miserable for you to take care of them alone. Tomorrow I will go back and tell you and your mother that they will send a dowry gift. Of course, I will let them come here secretly and promise not to let the officers and soldiers know. ’

"After hearing this, your six masters turned red for a while, blue for a while, wanted to cry and laugh, and were so anxious that they couldn't speak.

"I was stunned for a long time before I said, 'Don't make such a thorough arrangement for me, you have to go by yourself.' I have long made up my mind not to marry a daughter-in-law in this life. ’

"I said, 'This is strange, you don't like the women of the Li family, how can you say that you will not marry a daughter-in-law for the rest of your life?'

"He said, 'I mean really. I have long thought that I must go to Shaolin Temple to learn some skills in this life. Do you think, if you want to go to Shaolin Temple to learn kung fu, you have to be a monk first. How to be a monk after marrying a daughter-in-law. ’

"I retorted, 'There are many daughters-in-law who marry and become monks halfway.' ’

"He laughed at me contemptuously and said, 'Cut, why are you so selfish, marrying a daughter-in-law, and then becoming a monk, and then the daughter-in-law must not be widowed?

"I almost fainted when I heard it, but it was my selfishness. I knew that I could not speak of a drunkard no matter what, so I said to him, 'Go to bed first, and talk about it tomorrow.'" ’

"He patted the edge of the kang anxiously and said, 'It's too late tomorrow, let's go.' ’

"I said, 'Where are you going?'

"Without thinking, he said, 'Yan'an!'

"I saw that his eyes rolled twice in his sockets, patted the edge of the kang again, and said, 'Why don't we go to Shaolin Temple?'

"I said coldly: 'Do you know where the Shaolin Temple is?'

He touched the back of his head and didn't speak.

"I had an idea and said, 'Otherwise. Let's go to Yan'an first, and then ask where the Shaolin Temple is. You see, Yan'an and Shaolin Temple are both outside the province, and when you go to Yan'an, isn't it closer to Shaolin Temple? It is also convenient to go to Shaolin Temple from there. ’

"When you heard this, the sixth master got off the kang and began to put on shoes. Put on your shoes and say, 'Let's go!'

"I was stunned for a moment, and then he said, 'Let's leave in the evening, and tomorrow Yingzhu will not be able to leave.' ’

"I can't persuade him. I had to pack my luggage, calculate the room fee, go out, and flee east with him.

"Out of the town, there are two main roads, one to the north and the other to the east.

"Now I know that these two roads, the one to the north leads to the provincial capital, and the one to the east goes to Jingzhou, and to Yan'an, I should take this road to Jingzhou. But at that time, we didn't know where the two roads led, so we had to pick up a big road facing north, because judging by the ruts and horseshoe prints on the road, there should be more people walking on this road than on the east.

"We had been on our way all night, and when it was almost dawn, we saw a city in front of us.

"When we came to the gates, they were closed.

"We were so tired from walking that we fell asleep against the wall in the hole in the gate.

"When we were woken up by the cacophony of noises, we were surrounded by a group of officers and soldiers with guns, and the muzzles of the guns were pointed at us. ”