Chapter 19: Silence of Iba (3)
Wang Wan glanced at him and said, "Don't brag about me." My kung fu with these three-legged cats, not to mention the difference between me and my master, is far from my senior sister. ”
Bai Yixue raised her eyebrows and said, "Oh?
Wang Wan said: "Well, her name is Yuan Qian'er, she is my master's daughter, she has been learning art from her master since she was a child, and she is much more powerful than me." ”
Bai Yixue pondered: "Yuan Qian'er, Yuan Qian'er, well, that's the surname of Mrs. Yuan." It turned out that Mrs. Yuan later gave birth to a daughter. He asked, "Why is your senior sister's surname Yuan?"
Wang Wan sighed, "When I met Master, she had been widowed for many years. I heard from Senior Sister Yuan that her father passed away when she was very young. ”
Bai Yixue thought secretly: "In this way, it must be that Mrs. Yuan later remarried and gave birth to a daughter, but her husband died early. If Master and his old man learned the news, they would not know whether they would be sad or happy. He said, "I see." The art is fine but not in the Bo, the swordsmanship of the respected teacher is exquisite, if the girl can learn the three tricks well, it is also very good. ”
Wang Wan said: "Yes, it's just that my qualifications are dull, and many subtleties in the meantime are really difficult to comprehend." He raised his eyes and looked at the starry sky and muttered, "Master, her old man is used to being clean in the valley, and rarely goes out, I don't know if she is willing to help me with this?"
Bai Yixue slapped her forehead and said, "Oh, I understand, you are going to your master for help and ask her to catch the smiling thief." Well, isn't this far from the Valley?"
Wang Wan said: "It's not far away, if you leave early tomorrow morning, you should be able to arrive at noon, but tonight...... Tonight...... We ......"
Seeing that she wanted to speak and stopped, Bai Yixue immediately smiled and said, "We can't catch up with the night tonight, so we have to stay here for one night." As he spoke, he took out a piece of wool felt brought from the snow-capped mountain, spread it on the grass, and said with a smile: "Miss Wang, you can rest in peace." As he spoke, he pointed to a big tree not far downstream, and said, "I'll go to sleep in the tree." ”
After the white clothes and snow left, Wang Wan sat by the bonfire with his knees crossed, and sure enough, he jumped up on the big tree, chose a thick branch, and lay down. Wang Wan's heart was settled for a while, so he laid out the wool felt and lay down to rest. When she was hazy and not asleep, she suddenly heard the white-clothed snow on the tree say, "Miss Wang, are you asleep?"
Wang Wan was drowsy, he shouted like this, he couldn't help but feel a stirred spirit, and most of his sleepiness suddenly disappeared, and he said vigilantly: "What...... What?" she quietly reached out in the darkness and clenched the dagger tightly in her hand. I heard Bai Yixue ask, "I'm hungry, are you hungry?"
Wang Wan smiled dumbly, and when he heard him say this, he suddenly felt hungry and said, "Well, I'm also a little hungry, but I didn't bring dry food." Thinking that the white-clothed snow is heroic and chivalrous, he is really a righteous gentleman, if the other party finds out that he is so vigilant, wouldn't it be extremely embarrassing? ”
Wang Wan secretly shouted: "Ashamed!" He sat up and asked, "What is your plan?" ”
Bai Yixue smiled: "I see that there are a lot of bird nests in this tree, let's take out some bird eggs to eat." ”
When Wang Wan heard this, he felt that his mouth was full of revelry, and he felt even more hungry in his stomach, and said with a smile: "Okay, good, the mountain people have a clever plan." ”
Bai Yixue smiled: "Then you wait for me." In the darkness, I saw a white shadow shuttling through the treetops, and the sound of birds chirping in the forest was loud for a while. After a while, the white-clothed snow happily held a dozen bird eggs and laid down the tree. Wang Wan smiled: "You're tired, rest for a while, I'll go to the stream to wash up." ”
She washed the eggs carefully in the stream, returned to the campfire, and asked, "We don't have Choshi to boil water, what should we do?"
Bai Yixue pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "The mountain people have a lot of clever plans, you wait, I will come when I go." So he got up, came to the stream, picked up more than a dozen round and smooth pebbles, put them in his clothes, and brought them back.
Wang Wan was puzzled and asked, "What's the use of you picking up these pebbles?"
Bai Yixue smiled but did not answer, and put more than ten pebbles into the bonfire one by one. When the pebbles were scorched by the fire, he broke two slender branches and used them as chopsticks, plucked the pebbles from the fire, placed the eggs on the pebbles, and sprinkled some water on them. The pebbles make a soft "snort" sound when they meet the water, and puffs of white smoke come out.
After a while, the two of them smelled a burnt fragrance in their noses, and Bai Yixue smiled: "It's done." ”
The two sat down opposite each other, Bai Yixue picked up a bird egg, peeled off the eggshell, and wanted to hand it to Wang Wan, but saw her clasped her hands, closed her eyes tightly, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and she was chanting words to herself. Seeing her serious appearance, Bai Yixue smiled and said, "Are you reciting the monk's mantra of not killing?"
Wang Wan ignored him, read alone for a while, and then opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Sin, sin! ”
The white-clothed Xue Qi said: "Good and dignified, why do you read the poem?"
Wang Wan said: "When I saw these eggs, I remembered that when I was a child, I went back to dig out the bird's nest, and those chicks left my father, and I was shocked and scared, or it didn't take long for them to be killed by a few of our playmates." My mother saw it, called me into the house, and read me a poem by Bai Lotian. ”
Bai Yixue asked, "Which one of his songs is it?"
Wang Wan said: "'Who is the way of the masses and the life is small? Persuade the king not to hit the branch birds, and the son will return to his mother in the nest. My mother said, you see you have dug out the bird's nest, the birds have no support, and the parents of these birds are also heartbroken when they lose their children. ”
Bai Yixue muttered: "Who is the human being, the life is small, the flesh and bones are the same...... Oh, but we've already cooked all the eggs, and that's ......."
Wang Wan smiled: "Well, in fact, we also eat chicken, duck and fish, but we don't have to stick to this, but next time we are very hungry, we have to endure it, and we can't dig the bird's nest anymore." ”
Bai Yixue thought to herself: "You and I meet in Pingshui, and we will part ways tomorrow morning, where will there be a next time?" and said: "Yes, what the girl said is very true." ”
The two looked at each other and smiled, and sat down to eat. The eggs were very small, and more than a dozen of them were put together, but they both felt that the moon was sitting by the stream, and the eggs were really delicious.
The moon is clear, and the stream is clear. After eating the bird's eggs, the two were still unsatisfied, sat on their knees and talked for a while before they rested separately. Wang Wan tossed and frightened during the day, he was already exhausted, and he was satisfied, and it didn't take long for his eyelids to be heavy, and he fell asleep in a daze.
The white-clothed snow on the tree did not sleep, he pillowed his head on his arm, but when he saw the Milky Way lying above the sky, thousands of miles blue, he thought: "'Yingying is in the water, and the pulse is silent.'" The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the sky, although they weep from afar across the Tianhe, but every year on the seventh day of July, countless black magpies will fly to build a magpie bridge, so that the two of them can meet on the Tianhe. If they have this thought, they must not be very bitter in their hearts. But the master and the master, the two of them are like participating in business, and it is always difficult to see each other after a long separation, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are really much stronger than the two of them. ”
Then he thought: "Although Master has not mentioned Master Yuan in these years, he will practice the Immortal Ape Sword Technique every once in a while, and in his heart, he must never forget Master Yuan." Today, I happen to have a message from Mrs. Yuan, and I should go and meet her, even if I can't recognize her, I will return to the Snow Mountain in the future and tell Master about her current situation, and it would be good if I could relieve his worries a little. Well, it's just how to mention it to Miss Wang tomorrow?"
He stared blankly at the starry sky, and suddenly felt a pang of pain in his heart: "Sister Ling doesn't know where she is now......? When will we be able to see her again?" After thinking about it for a while, from night to midnight, the sleepiness became thicker, and finally I fell asleep in a daze.