Chapter 184: Returning Home (Fourth Watch)
He ...... He won't be retiring from the marriage, right?" Qin Ke asked hesitantly.
Although the story was fascinating, he was a little smacked to hear the "glorious history" of his master's chaos and abandonment.
Phew...... This can't be regarded as a mess from the beginning to the end, aren't people a doll, and they can't count the things they did when they were young.
But it's really hard to say such a thing.
Zhuge Wanling sighed and said: "Do you think it's the story of those talented and beautiful people in Mr. Storyteller's book? But Wolong has read books like "Astronomical Examination" and "Stars" since he was a child, and he even slept and dreamed of 'Ziweixing', 'Tianshu Xing', 'Xuantian Gossip' or something, and his father also lost his temper about it. It's just that Wolong's studies have never been pulled down, and he can't stop it. ”
Qin Ke nodded, there are several books in Master's collection that talk about these stars, but Master hasn't turned them over much, but often sits in the courtyard or takes him to a high hill, looking at the stars in the sky in a daze.
Sometimes, Master would also tell me some stories about the stars, which were very interesting things.
For example, the stars are actually big balls, and when he said this, the watermelons outside the yard fence were thriving, so he smiled and said, "The stars in the sky are like this watermelon field."
So Qin Ke looked at the stars in the sky, and the corners of his mouth drooled with crystal saliva.
Then the master said that the star was very big, bigger than Daoxiang Village, bigger than Daoxiang Village, a mountain that stretches for hundreds of miles, and even bigger than the entire Mo family, and as a result, Qin Ke's saliva flowed even more.
Of course, Qin Ke also knew that the master was just a metaphor, but he was so hungry that he couldn't help but think about the watermelon that was bigger than the territory of the Mo family, thinking that if there was really such a big watermelon in this world, then he wouldn't have to worry about being hungry in his life.
The master knocked on his head and said with a smile, "Can you finish eating?" Such a big watermelon, it's so rotten, can't it make you faint?"
Qin Ke, who was in a wheelchair, laughed inexplicably, it was really funny to be with Master once.
Zhuge Wanling looked at him, and the softening in his eyes became a little more, perhaps because of the flickering candles, his dark and deep eyes also lit up.
Clearing his throat, Zhuge Wanling continued: "What he wrote in his letter to the girl was: When he returns from school, he will choose an auspicious day to get married. ”
Qin Ke looked at Zhuge Wanling and asked, "That's ...... Did Master go back?"
"To go back is to go back. Zhuge Wanling sighed softly: "But that was five years later. In five years, a girl was in the prime of her youth, even if she really liked Wolong at the beginning, how could she stay in the boudoir and wait for him for five years? Naturally, in the third year after Wolong's disappearance, she made a marriage with another family under the arrangement of her family, and within a few days, she married with gongs and drums. ”
Qin Ke didn't speak, thinking that this was really a dismal ending, but in the five years that the master has been away from home, I don't know if he has ever thought about this woman who is waiting for him in the boudoir?
"At first, the old gentleman and his father were quite patient, thinking that Wolong was just a child's heart, and when he suffered outside, he knew the truth of 'good at home for 100 days, but it is difficult to go out every day', so he naturally came back. But when he waited and waited, he couldn't even see his shadow. Mr. lost his temper, thinking that his father wanted to repent of his marriage and deliberately sent Wolong away, and his father was speechless, and the original harmonious relationship between the two families has not been the same since then. ”
Later, the old man's new son-in-law was valued and got a Beijing official errand, so the whole family moved away, and before leaving, he deliberately blew suona in front of my house. His father got drunk that night and scolded Wolong for being an unfilial son, saying that even if he came back now, he would never let him enter the door of Zhuge 's house. Every night he can't sleep well, and as long as there is a slight knock at the door, he has to get up from the couch and see if Wolong has returned......
Qin Ke nodded, his father is also such a person, when he is greedy to play outside, his father will keep a straight face, saying that he loves to play so much, and it is better to simply die outside in the future, but every time, his father will still let him in silently with a calm face.
At the end of the day, these fathers are just worried about their children.
On the way to escape from the famine, as long as there was a bite to eat, his father would stuff it into his mouth, and he refused to eat it, so his father smiled and said, "Be good, you can grow up if you eat it, and your father is an adult, not hungry."
Perhaps only he knew when his shriveled stomach throbbed...... How uncomfortable it is.
"What happened after Master came back?"
Zhuge Wanling stared at the candle flame, as if looking at the past time.
What had happened seemed to loom before his eyes: "Five years later, he did return home. But the whole family almost didn't recognize him, and when he knocked on the door, the servants thought it was a beggar who came to the door to ask for food...... Yes, he was dressed in dirty rags, his hair was unkempt like a bird's nest, black and thin, and he still had half of his former spirits? But he didn't care at all, laughed, and ran into the house as soon as he smoked, and found the kitchen with ease, and reached out to grab steamed buns from the steamer to eat. That is, when the servants took brooms and tried to drive him out, the father came out, and when Wolong saw his father, he grinned and shouted, 'Daddy.' ’”
When my father saw that he was not a ghost or a ghost, he burst into tears on the spot...... The drunken words that he would not let him enter the house were also forgotten, and he picked up his skinny body as soon as he picked up his skinny body, and only said 'It's good to come back, it's good to come back'. ”
Zhuge Wanling's eyes were confused, and he couldn't help but make movements with his hands, as if he had traveled through time and space, and he played the role of the old father who had been looking forward to his young son's return home, but his eyes dimmed again, and sighed: "But the Wolong people are back, but they seem to have lost their hearts and are crazy, and they talk nonsense that others can't understand all day long." ”
"He said that he had been proven, that all of us had been deceived, that the place where we lived was like a cage, and that there was a wider world outside the cage, which stretched endlessly, even if it was in a carriage, it would not be able to see the edge for 10,000 years, and there was a group of people outside, and they would not grow old or die, and when they coughed, the mountains would shake, and if they whispered, even the sea would set off a monstrous storm......"
Hearing this, Qin Ke became confused, and couldn't help but interrupt Zhuge Wanling and said, "What...... What? the outside world? the people? cough can shake the mountains...... How can there be such a person in this world?"
Zhuge Wanling shook his head: "I didn't understand it at the time, and it was only after so many years that I vaguely felt that what Wolong said at that time may not be a lie." ”
Qin Ke's eyes widened, looking at Zhuge Wanling, what does it mean to vaguely feel that it may not be a lie? Could it be that you really believe these nonsense?
"You ......" Qin Ke didn't know how to ask.
Zhuge Wanling smiled, waved his hand and continued: "Wolong looks like this, of course no one will believe him. The father thought that he had suffered outside, and finally returned home, and his mind was a little unconscious, so he arranged for him to take a bath and eat, and let him sleep well. Subsequently, the most famous doctor in the county was invited by his father to take care of Wolong, but the doctor looked left and right, and he didn't feel anything unusual about Wolong's body, but he had been wandering outside for many years, and his body was a little weak, so he prescribed a recuperation prescription and left. ”
But Wolong didn't change back to his former appearance after all...... At that time, he was very excited, and after waking up, he occupied the study alone, and his father thought at first that he had opened his mind and wanted to read with peace of mind, so happy that he asked his subordinates not to disturb him, but from day to night, Wolong did not come out of the study, he was a little worried, so he personally went in with the food, and what he saw was ...... There are ghost drawings all over the table, some are blurred faces, some are small balls, some are weapons or armor, and some are a vast ocean...... And Wolong, still sitting cross-legged at the desk, tirelessly drawing, drawing. ”
"My father was so frightened that he threw away his food on the spot and ran away, and the next day he invited a 'real person' from the Taoist temple to exorcise evil spirits for him. The real person set up the altar, lit the candles, and recited the mantra all night, and then Wolong stretched his waist and did not continue to paint. But since then, this kind of thing has happened a few times, and the real person was a little stunned later, and he returned the money that his father gave him several times, saying that Wolong must have been possessed by a powerful ghost, and he had to ask those real reclusive masters to be able to rescue him. ”
Speaking of this, Zhuge Wanling looked at Qin Ke and smiled slightly: "But the reason for this, you should know better than me......