Chapter Fifty-Eight: Without a Trace, Without a Border [II]
Cuiwei walked and walked, but her body ran involuntarily.
She was shocked.
I don't know how this happened......
I had to kick the ground with both feet and stop hard.
But as soon as she stabilized her figure, she heard a "creaking" sound of snowy footsteps.
Cuiwei suddenly had a bad feeling, because this voice seemed familiar to her.
There are always memories in life that are saved by the ears and nose.
Sometimes smelling a familiar smell or hearing a familiar voice evokes a piece of the past.
And these are beyond anyone's control, unpredictable.
Cuiwei stood in place and listened quietly to the footsteps, but she couldn't tell where or when she heard it first.
But the sound of "creaking" reminded her of some old things.
When she was a teenager, Cuiwei walked out of Shangshu Mansion for the first time.
This time it wasn't allowed by the elders...... Instead, she sneaked out.
It's the same as Qing Xueqing of the Qingfu of Hongzhou and Wen Qiwen of the Prefecture of the Northern Domain.
It seems that people who became famous as teenagers and became successful in the future had some rebellious personalities when they were children.
At least I won't take the opinions of others or the words of the elders too seriously.
If I go too far, I will inevitably become complacent, and it will be difficult to save in the future.
But if you are too obedient, it will inevitably be completely unassertive.
I can only be a puppet for the rest of my life, and I am carried by others.
Why is Cuiwei so sensitive to the sound of footsteps?
Because people who sneak out of the mansion always don't want to reveal their whereabouts.
If it is exposed, it is better to go to your parents to cry for a while and go out generously.
After Cuiwei sneaked out of the house with her shoes in her hands, she put on her shoes and made a "cluck" sound when she thought she was fine.
Being a thief is inevitably weak-hearted......
What's more, Cuiwei is still a child.
But because she was still a child, she quickly forgot about her previous panic, and with a good mood, she jumped to the long street in front of her to see the excitement.
Walking to the corner of the street, Cuiwei saw another old man in the market with this girl who was about her age, almost tall, almost fat and thin.
But what was much worse was the girl's tattered clothes and already sad look.
The boy doesn't know what it's like to be sad.
The girl didn't know.
Teenagers can only be amorous, and girls have always thought of spring.
Where is there a moment of leisure to worry about?
The young lady in Shangshu Mansion like Cuiwei didn't know it anymore......
So she was very curious about this girl.
The old man next to the girl was playing a shamisen.
The texture of the piano is very poor, and the strings are a little loose, so that it is very out of tune.
But the old man squinted and shook his head in self-absorption.
A look of otherworldliness, I don't know what time it is, the geometry of the world.
It's the opposite of the girl next to him whose face is full of reality.
Perhaps it is such a contrast that attracts a lot of onlookers.
Cuiwei was small, like a needle, rushing left and right to squeeze from the crowd to the front.
But by this time, the old man had finished the song.
Instead of immediately getting up and asking for a reward, he put the tattered shamisen aside, then turned to look at the girl beside him, and then patted the girl's head lightly with his large, rough and swarthy hand.
The girl immediately got up, took a small bamboo basket, and walked towards the crowd of onlookers.
It turned out that the old man only played the violin, but it was the girl who asked for the reward.
But this old man is really calculating......
If he came to ask for a reward in person, perhaps others would only lament that people's hearts do not cry, and their children are not filial.
It is still obedient and can't be eaten as rice, and it can't buy white flour steamed buns and rice.
Therefore, no matter how much you listen to such feelings, it is useless.
It can only make me feel more uncomfortable.
And a poor girl can arouse people's sympathy nine times out of ten.
This is the wisest choice.
Judging by the age, the old man should not be her father.
Maybe it's grandpa, maybe the two are just such a cooperative relationship.
Cuiwei didn't understand.
But the old man's hands really didn't look like a violin-playing ......
The dark skin can also be explained by the discoloration of sitting under the sun every day.
The hands of the violin people are certainly not too rough.
A pair of rough hands, but it will change the touch of pressing the strings.
The song pulled out in this way will inevitably go out of tune.
But even if the girl asked for a reward, the people who were willing to give money still talked.
When the girl walked in front of Cuiwei with the basket, she looked at her in a daze.
Although Cuiwei was young, she still read a strong sense of envy in her eyes.
Perhaps this was the first time she had seen a peer whose life was very different from her own......
The comparison of people has always been close and distant.
This girl and Cuiwei are not acquaintances.
However, at this same age, they have invisibly narrowed the distance between each other.
Cuiwei wears a pale white beaded brocade plain cardigan top, lined with a jacquard plum bamboo chrysanthemum pattern yarn embroidered skirt in slate blue. Originally, this set of clothes had to be dressed in a pea-green bottom embroidered twig flower smoke yarn to look perfect, but Cuiwei left in a hurry, but she didn't have time to ...... Not only that, but he didn't even wear a headdress, only an ordinary cloisonné bracelet on his right wrist.
However, the gold and silver filigree on it flashed in the sun, which was very moving.
Children are interested in shiny things.
This girl is no exception.
She looked at Cuiwei's cheek for a moment, then turned her gaze to her wrist and stared straight at her.
The old man saw that he didn't know what the girl was doing, but he could only see that she had slackened off and did not continue to ask for a reward.
And the spectators are almost gone.
The old man cleared his throat anxiously, but he was deliberately reminding the girl.
As soon as the girl heard this voice, she trembled, hurriedly put away her envious gaze, and continued to beg others for a reward with a bitter face.
But the previous moment of delay has reduced the income a lot......
The girl took the basket back to the old man, and timidly handed it to him, then crouched down and covered her head with both hands.
The old man glanced into the basket, his gaze cold.
Then he picked up the shamisen and struck it on the girl.
The girl patronized and protected her head...... But the back was a solid hit.
The strings and her body struck each other, and there was a muffled sound......
It turned out that this string was so loose.
Cuiwei was very angry when she saw this scene.
Just as the old man was about to strike a second blow, she stepped forward, spread her arms, and protected the girl in front of her.
The old man wanted to reach out and pull Cui Wei aside.
But when I looked at the luxurious clothes on her body, I hesitated.
In the land of Gyeonggi, there are many nobles.
Offending an individual casually is enough to make this old man die without a place to be buried.
What's more, he didn't know which mansion this Cuiwei was, and he had a lot of scruples...... After thinking about it for a long time, I had to put on a flattering face, and smiled lightly at this Cuiwei, who was extremely amiable!
Cuiwei still remembered her fierce expression before, but she didn't expect that people's faces would really change faster than turning a book.
But what he thought of more beautifully was that a girl's large youth and body were not as expensive as a dress......
When the girl saw that there was someone sheltering in front of her, she suddenly burst into tears.
Cuiwei is also a girl, and girls love to cry.
But most of her suffering is coquettish for her own purposes.
But I had never heard such a heart-rending wail......
How could such a cry come from a young girl?
How many years of grievances and unwillingness have accumulated over the years?
Cui Wei was born in Shangshu Mansion, although she is young, she can be regarded as exquisite-minded and well-informed.
It only took a moment to know why the old man was rude to this girl in the street.
Presumably, she felt that the girl was not selling miserably, and the reward she begged for was too small......
Cuiwei then took off her bracelet and threw it into the basket, then picked up the girl behind her, led her and left.
Your old man wanted to stop it, but when he saw the cloisonné bracelet in the bamboo basket, he was overjoyed, let her go!
This bracelet costs dozens of taels of silver, to say the least.
And the girl like before, as long as she went to a remote place, she could take three or four with only one full meal in hundreds of years.
Cuiwei only cared about pulling the girl forward, her heart full of resentment and injustice.
After walking for a while, he gradually slowed down and began to speak to her.
But no matter what Cuiwei was, the girl kept her head down and didn't speak.
It wasn't until she asked the girl what she liked that the girl weakly replied with the word "evening".
Cuiwei was very happy.
One is because the girl has finally spoken to herself, and the other is because she is also very fond of the evening.
Cuiwei has always felt that everything in the evening is the most beautiful.
No matter how peculiar and extraordinary things are, when it comes to evening and dusk, they are generally harmonious and full of rhythm.
In the early morning, Gyeonggi is always a little too hasty and hazy.
Although it is revealed that in addition to being full of vitality, it always makes people a little in a hurry.
And the noon was too clear.
Under the dazzling Yang Valley, the rolling wheels and the smoke and dust raised by the clattering horses' hooves are all so eye-catching, which makes Cuiwei feel like she is exhausted at a glance, which is very boring......
And children always have to sleep after lunch.
So in the afternoon, I usually lazily travel around with Zhou Gong.
When I woke up again, I was refreshed, but evening was approaching.
This period of darkness at night swallows up all the colors of the world, leaving only a few sparse stars and half a moon before the moon, although it is not as deep and quiet as the night, but it is incomparably fascinating, and it is difficult to extricate oneself.
There is clarity in the haze, and there is vitality hidden under the laziness.
The combination of a gorgeous sunset and an ordinary life makes everything just right.
People who have worked all day return home in the evening, and the contradictions and pains together can be relieved with the blooming of the red glow.
In the evening, Cuiwei sits at home and eats obediently.
But every time she saw the layers of twilight clouds outside the window, there was an inexplicable emotion tumbling in her heart.
This is also the root cause of her decision to sneak out of Shangshu Mansion today......
Cuiwei wants to see it with her own eyes and experience this evening in Gyeonggi for herself.
Children have always been honest and honest.
To like is to like, and to be uncomfortable is to be uncomfortable.
If you are an adult, you may also talk at length, saying that this evening is very Zen, very clear and clear, and can make people think silently, meditate, in order to improve their state of mind, and so on.
But in Cuiwei's heart, she just felt that in this evening, she had a lot of experience and was very leisurely.
She thought that this girl thought the same as her.
Unexpectedly, the girl said that she liked the evening because in the evening the old man had taken the stall and drank in the tavern with the basket she had begged for.
As soon as he drinks, his mood improves.
So the girl only had to fill the old man's cup with wine, but she didn't have to worry about being beaten again.
Cuiwei didn't know what to say after listening to the girl's words.
Seeing that the girl was wearing a pair of straw sandals on her feet, she immediately took off her pair of ruscarlet milk cigarette satin beaded shoes and changed them with her.
Immediately, he found a secluded alley and gave the girl all the good clothes she was wearing, but she was wearing the girl's tattered clothes, and she looked like a little flower child.
Cui Wei knew that she had no ability to change the girl's ups and downs, and what she was doing now was her limit.
After the girl left, Cuiwei continued to wander around.
But the straw sandals were very grinding on her feet, which made her very uncomfortable......
In desperation, I had to take it off and throw it on the side of the road, walking barefoot forward.
As soon as she turned around, she was pushed down on the mound by a palanquin man, but fortunately, the mound was soft, but she was not injured, but it looked more like a little Hanako......
Cuiwei got up and looked at it, and saw a certain luxurious dumpling, carried forward by four strong and solid sedan chair men.
Then he stopped in front of a mansion with four stone lions in front of the door.
Cuiwei didn't know who lived here, but there were four stone lions at the door...... You must know that there are only two at the door of Shangshu Mansion where Cuiwei lives.
But it's not as tall and mighty as it is.
Besides, the number "four" is inherently unlucky......
How can it be placed at the gate?
But at this moment, Cuiwei is just like settling accounts with the sedan chair man who pushed her just now.
She was angry and thoughtful, and found that the four palanquin drivers were all sitting on the ground.
There were two of them, and the shirt on the upper body was dragged.
No matter how strong the body is. At this time, it was impossible to hide the exhaustion of these four people.
However, people who can rely on hard work to eat have a good body and a heart full of vicissitudes.
Seeing this scene, Cuiwei relented again.
She wanted to go back and tell her father how difficult it was for these people to live, and ask her father to send them some money to spend.
But she forgot that she had smuggled out.
And now she is in this outfit, even if her mother comes, she may not be able to recognize it!
Cuiwei sighed slightly, turned around with pity in her heart, and continued to walk towards the depths of the market.
She always felt that the more she went inside, the more lively it might become.
Although it was her first time here, Cuiwei had a good idea.
She saw the merchant caught it, and shouted at the comparison.
I also saw a big man who had to clumsily do embroidery work to attract customers in order to carry the needlework in his burden to sell.
When the big girls saw it, they all covered their mouths and chuckled.
They laughed at how the merchant was doing what the woman's family did, but in the merchant's heart, he only thought about his wife, children, and father who had not yet eaten dinner......
All of this makes Cuiwei find it fun.
But it's not fun yet!
Only when she has seen enough of this excitement can it be considered complete, and this can be regarded as a person worthy of her such a risky person to sneak out.
After a while, she really saw a little Hanako!
It was a little man, squatting around the corner, watching a shop that sold red bean dumplings and swallowing his saliva.
Cuiwei followed his gaze, but she also thought that the enthusiastic red bean dumplings were very delicious.
Take a bite in your mouth!
It cannot be chewed or swallowed.
Keep rolling it in your mouth with your tongue, then lift your neck and breathe into the air.
Until he exhales all his hot energy, he closes his mouth, chews hard, and finally swallows.
The red bean dumplings made by Cuiwei's mother are the most delicious.
Every time I see Cuiwei so anxious, I can't help but say a few words about her.
But Cuiwei never listened.
She still uses her own way of eating, although it looks very indecent.
"You want to eat that red bean dumpling too?"
The little beggar asked Cuiwei.
Trivi nodded.
"Where are you from, why haven't I seen you before?"
The little boy asked.
He looked at Cuiwei's dress, but he regarded her as a little flower like himself.
There are music sets for those who sell art, and there are seats for storytellers.
Those who ask for food also have their own organizations.
This little Hanako obviously looked at Cuiwei, but it was difficult to judge for a while, so she asked.
"Just came today!"
Cuiwei rolled her eyes and said.
"I see! Then you can follow me from now on! Follow me and you can have delicious food every day!"
When this little Huazi heard that Cuiwei was a newcomer, she immediately pointed at herself and said.
Although Cuiwei wanted to laugh in her heart, she still nodded sincerely.
"If you want to eat that red bean dumpling, I want to eat it too! But this time you can see how I do it behind me first, remember it carefully, and learn more!"
Hanako said.
After Cuiwei agreed, the little flower child went straight to the stall selling red-headed dumplings.
But he couldn't help but cry.
said vaguely that he and his sister had been hungry for two meals...... Then, in a blink of an eye, he got rid of the big lie that he was not recognized but was driven out.
The seller of red bean dumplings was a very old mother-in-law.
Hunched his back, hearing what this little flower said, but his eyes were full of tears.
I casually added three or four with chopsticks and gave them to him.
After Xiao Yuhua got the red bean dumplings, she didn't bother to thank her, and Fei also pulled Cuiwei to bombard the remote place.
"That's how you're coming?"
Cuiwei asked in surprise.
Xiao Yuhua didn't speak, but quickly stuffed a red bean dumpling into her mouth.
Cuiwei saw that he ate red bean dumplings in exactly the same way as herself, but she was curious, how could this boy's small mouth be stuffed into a whole red bean dumpling?!
"Give!"
After Xiao Yuhua ate one, she handed two to Cuiwei.
"You're new here, we've split it in half for the first three times, but you'll give me one more later!
Xiao Xiaohua said.
Cuiwei turned out to be a red bean dumpling, and when she heard the words of this little flower, she didn't expect him to be so righteous!
But he used such a false story to deceive an old woman, but Cuiwei still didn't dare to agree......
"Aren't you afraid that they'll find out?"
Cuiwei asked.
"What's there to be afraid of? These stalls are set up here every day, and we are wandering around the north and south of the city. Every half a month, the brothers in the south of the city lose their work in the north of the city. In the land of Gyeonggi, people come and go, half a month has passed, who still remembers who!"
Xiao Minghua said with a smile, but she was still a little mocking Cuiwei for being timid.
Looking at the two red bean dumplings, they were held by Xiao Yuhua's hand, and suddenly turned a little black, and Cuiwei really couldn't eat it......
As a last resort, she also lied herself, saying that she was going to the toilet, and the female doll was inconvenient, so she left the little flower.
Walking and walking, Cuiwei came to a restaurant.
From the endless flow of people at the door, I suddenly saw a familiar figure.
It's the girl who swapped clothes with herself.
Cuiwei saw her standing at the table obediently, pouring the old man a glass of wine.
The two talked and laughed again, but they did not have the previous sense of tension.
Cuiwei felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't think of a reason.
I had to walk back and forth at the door, glancing inside from time to time.
Suddenly, when the girl raised her hand and poured wine, it shone for a moment.
Cuiwei's eyes are excellent!
I recognized it at once, it was the cloisonné bracelet I had given to the old man earlier!
This bracelet, it stands to reason that the old man should have sold it a long time ago......
How can you stay until now and bring it to this girl?
After pacing a few steps in place, Cuiwei suddenly realized!
I should have been put together by these two people!
Although this girl was also beaten, it was the flesh and blood that had been discussed between them a long time ago......
Cuiwei is annoyed and angry!
Is there not a single simple good person in this whole market?
She thought so in her mind.
At this moment, the old man and the girl also saw her.
The moment his gaze came, the relationship between the two gradually distorted, and from the tip of the pen to a large black and deep hole......
Cuiwei didn't dare to look at ...... It's as if you want to be sucked into it when you look at your soul.
But the more she struggled like this, the deeper she sank......
Cuiwei couldn't help but squat down and scream uncomfortably, but this time it pulled him out of his memory.
I just feel a cool breeze in the back of my head.
Turn around and take a look!
A man in white was standing behind him, holding a pitch-black knife and stabbing her in the neck.
If it weren't for the fact that she squatted down and screamed in her memories, causing her body to react in the same way at this moment, then she would have been killed by this knife a long time ago......
The man in white saw that he had missed, but his face did not change.
It's just that the black knife in his hand has gradually disappeared......
From the handle to the tip of the knife, it disappeared into the air little by little.
This scene is exactly the same as when the man in black fought against the man in white before!
Cui Wei felt that the appearance of the man in white here must mean that the man in black was dead......
Just as she was thinking about it, there was suddenly an unscabbarded, silver long sword in her hand.