Chapter 13: Don't be a lover
The prince of the Sheng Dynasty often came to this mountainous and forested Yucheng in the middle of autumn, and there were many wild things to hunt, and the hunted things were selected and presented to the emperor, and the rest were rewarded to the local officials.
The crown prince and his concubine rode together on a green horse, with personal guards and attendants on the left and right. The woman was so delicate that she had only ridden for half a while, and she was so tired that she had to come down to rest, and the prince clung to her, and finally he could not bear to leave her to be taken care of, and went hunting with his guards.
The deer hunted a lot, but the rest was not seen.
The prince and his guards dismounted, and walked with a bow, and saw a tall mountain farmer walking by the roadside with a rabbit, and the prince hurriedly asked him the origin of the rabbit, and he said that it was not what he hunted, but that he had exchanged it with an old hunter with a homemade bow.
He also deliberately pointed out the direction of the old Orion's house for the crown prince. The prince is also a person who is keen on bows, swords and other weapons, so he wants to chat with him, he is only talented, the skills passed down from the family are not considered the official way, and the bow and arrow have no patriarchal law.
When the prince saw that he had not caught much of his hunt today, he wanted to buy his rabbits.
How could he agree, seeing that the wounded rabbit was pitiful, he exchanged his bow and arrow for the old hunter. He was a first-class archer and archer, and Orion was naturally willing.
He said, no, small things, very restless, dare not alarm adults.
The prince felt that it didn't matter, but the attendant, yin and yang, bluntly said that he was disrespectful, and he was reluctant to give up a beast to the prince.
After hearing that the person in front of him was actually the identity of the prince, he had to bow down in a proper manner, but he resolutely refused to let go of the rabbit. The prince bluntly said that he would not take the favor of the people, so he let him go, but he could not give up his son, so he told him to release the rabbit, if the rabbit was faster than his arrow, it was naturally its fate, on the contrary, if he could hunt the rabbit, the craftsman would receive the reward and return home.
The ending is self-evident, he walked sadly on the mountain road, resentful of these people in his heart, but he could not do anything, he was just a craftsman, and his status was humble.
When he returned to his home at the foot of the mountain, he saw that his mother was entertaining a woman eating bait, and the woman was wearing men's clothes, but she could tell that she was a woman.
He asked his mother who the daughter was, and the mother said that she had come here to play and got lost, a foreigner.
When the woman saw him coming, she felt that his eyebrows were clear, tall and muscular, and she looked like a warrior. They fell in love with each other at first sight, and it was getting late, so he led her back to the city, but met the prince's guard of honor.
The prince also saw her pretending to be a man, and sighed in his heart how could there be such a beautiful and refined woman in the world, elegant and pure, more attractive than the delicate concubines around him, so he wanted to call her back to the palace.
He was already disgusted by the prince's behavior of snatching people's love, but now seeing that the prince violated the woman's original will and acted misbehaps, he no longer cared about the prince's face, and made it clear to him that the woman was his distant cousin, innocent, and he must marry and be a decent person.
The prince was furious and ordered him to be taken down.
But the woman smoked for a while, and suddenly disappeared with the craftsman.
The guards shouted hell, and the prince was also scared stupid, and the attendants hurriedly set off.
She took him to the edge of a high cliff to see the moon, and he couldn't believe that he had arrived here in an instant, and he was a little afraid.
She said, don't be afraid, I am a little fairy in the sky, come to this world to play for a few days.
She asked him where the best fun was in this world, and he didn't know, she regretted that he was born well, but he was an elm who didn't understand the amorous feelings.
They sat on the stone and looked at the moon, and she told him a story: Once upon a time there was an immortal who was very lonely, and liked to lie on the moon and look at the world, and if anyone could look at the moon all the time, she would be very moved, and she would go to the world to find him.
"So you're the fairy on the moon?"
She laughed, and saw that he seemed to know how to humor, "Are you the one who always looks at the moon?"
He nodded seriously, she was a little embarrassed, Fang Cai's so-called story was just made up casually.
"My father was a famous craftsman when he was alive, but because he was jealous of his master, he was assassinated, and my mother took revenge on me, and in order to avoid being arrested by the government, she took me to escape here and bought a house outside the city. ”
"It is said that when a good person dies, he ascends to the heavens and becomes a star next to the moon, so since then, I have often looked at the moon and wondered if my father would look at me as well. I was young when he died, and I was not proficient in the skills he passed on to me, but fortunately I had my mother to guide me. ”
"But my mother's health has been deteriorating recently, and she often talks about me looking for a wife, and asks my matchmaker to say goodbye to me, but no one wants to marry me, and they all think that I am in the mountains and my family is widowed. ”
"Is it fun to get married?"
"Marriage should not be taken lightly, at the beginning, in order to marry the mother, the father used his life's bow and arrow boutique to exchange ten miles of red makeup, and also used the blood of the fingertips of the heart to make this bow as a token. With that, he took the bow from behind him and showed it to her.
The exquisitely crafted bow has wood lines and silk vermilion embellishments, which are simple and elegant, and very solemn.
"The galaxy is not made of mortal souls, and mortals will only wait for reincarnation in the underworld after death, reincarnation, or disappearance. ”
"I see. He smiled wryly, "It's me who has been deceiving myself." ”
"Actually, I have loved a woman in the city who would come to the city to sail outside the city when the apricot blossoms were first blooming, and I never spoke to her. ”
"Why do you care about who you are?"
"Actually, I don't think I'm in the mountains, so why not, it's just ...... My body was strained by the fugitive life when I was young, and my mother knew very little about it, and I was an unfilial son. ”
"Is it incurable?"
"I've been to a lot of hospitals, but no one can treat them. My mother is a strong man, and if I go early in the future, she will be able to bear it, so I will keep some more money. ”
She was very distressed when she saw that he was still young, but he was sick, but she didn't dare to rashly use the immortal method to cure him, just because she was extraordinary, and if she used the magic power on him, she was afraid that it would bring him endless calamity.
If you can use the best osmanthus flowers in this mountain to make bait for me every September, I will return on time. He remembered her words, looked for the best laurel tree in the mountains, and made a bow with the blood of his fingertips, waiting for her to give it to her on the day she returned.
She returned to the Moon Palace and sat under the laurel tree, her heart sour, but very warm.
The marriage spectrum of the clansman Yue Enzi was read by her several times, and there was no man named Heyin, and Yue Enzi told him that this person was not married.
If you are not married, it means that the person died early, or that there was no one to love him in his life.
Yue Enzi asked why Yue Nu cared about this mortal man, and she didn't answer, but he guessed one or two.
He admonished her, "So many stories in this heaven are the result of bad karma, you have to think deeply." ”
She tore off the bell that Yue Enzi pinned to her waist and teased him, "I still have the birthday gift I gave you when I was young." ”
He hurriedly explained, "I got used to it, and I never took it off." ”
"If you go to the world again and change your name, maybe you will be able to marry him. ”
"Well, I haven't told him his name yet, so you can change it for me. ”
"Changle, eternal bliss, okay?"
She rejoiced the name and wondered when she would re-enter the world.
And she didn't know that Yue Enzi used the fairy method to create a marriage buckle for her, and the marriage between the so-called mortal woman Changle and the bow and arrow craftsman Heyin was forcibly tied together.
He touched the bell and whispered, Yue'er, you will live forever.