Volume 1 Three Thousand Floating Worlds Chapter 3 Chasing Flowers and Dreams
Twenty-two years of Golden Harvest.
In the early spring morning, the fog on the mountain is full of fog, the sun seems to be unable to penetrate the thick white fog, hazy and unclear, the air is clear with some chill, accompanied by a few bird calls that come and go.
Two figures squatted in the bamboo forest, digging a pit.
Ah Yao looked at his dirty soil, and then looked at Zhu'an who was squatting opposite, very angry!
Obviously he was digging a pit, why did Zhu'an look like he was drinking tea and appreciating the flowers, very calm and elegant, and he seemed to have climbed out of the mud, very embarrassed.
After looking at it for a long time, I couldn't help it, and Ah Yao asked, "Why didn't you get mud on your pit planing?"
Hearing this, Zhu'an raised his head, looked at Ah Yao with a smile, and said unhurriedly: "Maybe it's talent." ”
He was dressed in a moon-white robe, his face was like a crown of jade, his smiling eyes were like stars, his eyes were gentle like a pool of slightly drunk wine, warm as jade, and his temperament was dusty. The hand holding the small shovel has well-proportioned knuckles and slender fingers, as if holding a sword.
There is no embarrassment in squatting and digging the pit like this, but it is quite serious and comfortable.
Hearing this, Ah Yao was almost so angry that he vomited blood.
Talent? It's really more human than human beings who can anger people to death. also studied medicine under the door of Forget Worries, when he began to study, Zhu'an was still a baby in swaddling clothes, but as a result, he was gifted, and he was already proficient in medical science in just a few years, and his diagnosis with a pair of wonderful hands was not bad. Sometimes when someone asks Forget Worry to go down the mountain for a visit, Forget Worry directly reassuring to let Zhu'an go alone, and they are all handled properly and very reliable.
Just saying that he has talent in one thing, he doesn't feel so congested. But Zhu'an is not only talented in studying medicine, but also very talented in martial arts! Forget the worries in his spare time also teach some swordsmanship, the teaching is very simple, there are no complicated moves, the children under the door will practice two or three times, but Zhu'an's attainments in martial arts are no less than medical skills, such a simple swordsmanship he does not feel boring, repeated practice, a few simple moves, in his hands, just dance a sense of pleasing to the eye, but also become powerful! The rhythm and the game are also all involved.
However, the most terrible thing is not talented, the most terrible thing is talent and hard work.
Every day, he does his homework seriously, practices swords, reads, rain or shine. Smart and studious, forget the worries and point one point, and he will learn two points. It's too hard to persist day after day, and perhaps this is beyond his reach.
Oh no, the scariest thing is not that you are talented and hardworking, but that you are talented and hardworking and humble.
Not to mention pride, Zhu'an didn't even have a look of pride. If you want him to evaluate Zhu'an, he just wants to describe the state of the old monk's settlement, Zhu'an is gentle and patient to everyone, always with a gentle smile on his face, and there is a kind of indifference that Taishan collapses in front of him and his face does not change, hmm...... Or even indifference.
He had no doubt that Zhu'an might have seen through the red dust and was ready to escape into the empty door at any time.
Is this near-backwater mentality really what a teenager should have?
After arranging a passage in his heart, the corners of Ah Yao's mouth twitched and said, "You really dare to say it!"
But what he said seemed to be irrefutable facts, which was really infuriating.
At this time, a few children ran on the path outside the bamboo forest, and when they saw them, they were chattering around again, carrying many boxes in their hands.
"Brother Zhu'an, Brother Yao!" the children greeted in unison.
Zhu'an also smiled back.
Ah Yao had a straight face, very unhappy, and he said with a lot of resentment: "Your father and mother have come to see you again!"
The children rushed to answer with joy.
"yes, yes, my daddy is here!"
"My aunt is here too!"
"My dad also brought me osmanthus balls, walnut crisp ......"
Ah Yao is an orphan who was picked up by Forget Worry since he was a child. The children on the mountain are all homeless children like him, but there are also a small number of very poor people in the villages near the mountain who can't afford to support the children, so they send the children to the mountain. On weekdays, they grow their own land, provide for food and clothing, and leave on their own if they don't want to stay in the mountains.
Although he was willing to take them in, he still didn't want to be disturbed by the outside world, and made a rule that at the beginning of every three months, he would open the maze on the mountain, and their parents would be allowed to go outside the mountain gate to see their children, and then they would bring some gifts to the children.
No one ever came to see him.
Zhu'an listened to the children chatter about what gifts they had received from their parents, with a gentle smile on their faces, very attentive and serious.
Ah Yao was stunned, and no one came to see him.
His parents are buried in the back mountain.
He remembered that when he was still very young, the first time he saw parents come to see their children, Xiao Zhu'an hid alone behind the bamboo forest at the mountain gate, watching the children reunite with their parents.
When Ah Yao found him, the people had already dispersed, and he sat obediently on the stone steps at the door and asked, "When will your father and mother come to see you?"
Ah Yao shook his head and said, "My father and mother are dead, and no one will come." ”
Zhu'an was silent for a while, and then asked, "What about my father, when will they come to see me?"
Ah Yao was also very young at the time, he didn't know if he could say it, but he had seen Zhu'an's parents, and he pulled Zhu'an to the back mountain, pointing to the grave covered with grass.
That was the only time in Ah Yao's memory that Zhu An lost his temper.
Xiao Zhu'an sadly ran to ask why his parents had died.
Forget Worry's eyes widened in surprise, his expression was very ugly, and for the first time, he said sharply: "What do you know!"
Ah Yao was startled, but fortunately, Zhu'an didn't say that he said it, but just looked at it stubbornly with red eyes.
Forget your worries like a knife, but you don't say anything.
What happened later? Ah Yao thought vaguely, as if from that day on, Zhu'an became what he is now, trying his best to do everything well, and smiling gently at everything.
He didn't know what Zhu'an thought, but Zhu'an didn't mention it again, so he probably put it down, right?
Seeing that Ah Yao was distracted by what he heard, a little boy pounced on him dissatisfiedly, grabbed his sleeve and shook it.
"Brother Yao, did you hear us speak!"
Ah Yao came back to his senses, and he hurriedly said: "Listen to it, what you say is exactly the same every time, it's very boring, I will memorize it!"
The little boy pouted very aggrieved: "How is it possible!"
Seeing that he was about to cry, Zhu'an hurriedly pulled him over and patted him on the back to comfort him: "Your brother Ayao is bluffing you, don't listen to him." ”
The boy was really smiling again.
Seeing this, Ah Yao said angrily: "You little rabbit cub, you still have to coax such a big person, are you ashamed!"
The little boy hugged Zhu'an's arm and grimaced: "Don't be ashamed, I'm still young!"
Ah Yao grinded his teeth viciously.
"Brother, what are you digging holes for?" a child asked curiously when he saw the small shovel they were holding in his hand.
Zhu'an took out a round potato from the side, "Plant potatoes." ”
Ah Yao pinched his waist again and said angrily: "Yes, your ancestor punished us to plant potatoes on this land!"
The little boy said angrily: "It's normal for Brother Ayao to be punished, why should Brother Zhu'an be punished?"
"That's it, Brother Cha An won't be punished!"
“......”
Ah Yao threw away the small shovel in his hand, his face sank, and he was furious: "You little rabbit cubs explain it to me clearly, why is it normal to punish me?"
The children remembered that every time they confessed a wrong medicine, the ancestor would blow his beard and stare at him very angrily, and then punish them for reciting a whole collection of herbs.
If Ah Yao had a beard, he must have been blowing his beard and glaring at his eyes now, which is in the same vein as the angry forgetfulness.
Sure enough, it scared away a group of children.
Ah Yao pretended to be angry and scared the children away, and his heart was finally a little happier, so he clapped his hands and laughed and picked up the small shovel that he threw away, squatted down and continued to dig the pit.
Zhu'an looked at him and apologized sincerely: "I'm sorry Ah Yao, I'm the one who has troubled you." ”
Ah Yao glanced at him and said very seriously: "I'm really sorry, you just acted like I was punished and digging a pit!
said that he was implicated, Ah Yao didn't think so, he even felt that this matter was the unilateral fault of Forget Worry, and he also felt wronged for Zhu'an!
Of course, he didn't dare to say this sentence in front of him if he had ten guts, but according to the posture of Zhu'an's meditation, Zhu'an would not say it.
Zhu'an has been very docile and obedient to forget worries since he was a child, and he has always been respectful and respectful, and he is very thoughtful in his daily life, and there is no disobedience at all.
It's just that half a month ago, the two of them sat quietly by the pool in the courtyard, discussing chess skills, and one fell into a son, and inadvertently mentioned the desire to travel down the mountain and look around.
Ah Yao happened to be sweeping next to him, and when he heard this, he also helped Zhu'an say a few words, not to mention Zhu'an, he wanted to go out and explore the rivers and lakes.
As a result, he forgot his worries and immediately slapped the chess game with his palm, and shouted: "I don't agree!"
Ah Yao had been paying attention to the game on the chess table, and when he saw that the wonderful chess game was ruined casually, he said dissatisfiedly: "Forget about Master, if you lose, you will destroy the chess, you are cheating!"
Forget worry glared at him, and ran back to the dormitory with a huff and closed the door.
The next day, they began to dig pits in the bamboo forest on the mountain to plant vegetables, planting some potatoes today and buds tomorrow.
Is this going to be a famine and preparing for the stockpiling of grain?
Every day he gets muddy, oh no, he's a mud guy.
This is absolutely naked revenge! And only revenge on him!
The corners of Zhu'an's mouth twitched, "Okay, I'll try my best." ”
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After planting potatoes in a small open space in the bamboo forest, the two returned to the bamboo building.
Ah Yao saw that Zhu'an washed his hands, and carefully cut melons and fruits in the kitchen, no need to guess, this must be sent to the Forget Worry House.
He reached out and took a piece of melon, leaned against the kitchen door, took a crisp bite, and said inarticulate while chewing: "I think you are really crazy, Master Forget is angry, and you still come to the door to vent his anger!"
Zhu'an glanced at the melon in his hand, and said unhurriedly: "Don't be scolded, you wait to loosen the soil for the whole mountain." ”
Ah Yao bit the melon and his eyes widened.
Zhu'an took the cut melons and fruits and bypassed the stunned Ayao and walked to the room where he forgot his worries.
"Master, this is a melon and fruit sent by the children's parents, and the children asked me to send it to you to taste. ”
There was no answer in the room.
Zhu'an gently put the fruit plate on the table and sat quietly reading the medical book.
After a while, a hand crept out from behind the curtain on the side of the table, took a piece of melon with great precision, and retracted it into the curtain.
Chase An continued to read as if nothing had happened.
After a while, the hand crept out again, and before it had time to retract, it seemed that there were eyes behind it.
"Master, come out and eat. ”
Forget about the white beard, quickly put his face up, came out from behind the curtain, and sat down at the table.
He secretly looked at Zhu'an with his spare eyes while eating, why didn't this kid react at all, this is really incomprehensible.
If he has emotions such as disappointment and anger, he can still have a way to deal with it, but Zhu'an seems to have forgotten what he said, and even when he pushed the chessboard away that day, Zhu'an just packed up the chessboard carefully without hurrying, and didn't mention it again, and there was no special reaction, and he still waited carefully without missing anything.
This appearance makes people panic even more.
Zhu'an calmly looked at the book in his hand, forgetting his worries but couldn't hold back, "An'er, isn't this mountain good?"
Zhu'an closed the scroll and replied respectfully, "Very good." ”
Forget the worries and asked: "Since the mountain is good, then why do you want to go down the mountain?"
Could it be ...... Did Zhu'an want to go down the mountain to seek revenge? But what happened back then, he still refused to say half a word to Zhu'an, and he definitely didn't know. Could it be that Ah Yao said it? But Ah Yao's little rabbit cub was just an ignorant child back then, and it was certainly not him.
Ah Yao, who was drying herbs in the courtyard, sneezed inexplicably.
No matter how you want to chase An, you should not know the reason for the death of your parents. Forget worries quickly dismissed the speculation of seeking revenge.
Zhu'an's eyes drifted to the pool in the courtyard, just in early spring, only some tender lotus leaves poked out of the tip, but the green dots, full of vitality, very cute, his lips had a gentle smile, "Master, although you live in this small corner, but your heart is filled with heaven and earth, the mood is naturally open, and you can be at ease wherever you are; I was born to stay in this small corner, I have never seen the size of heaven and earth, but the bottom of the well to watch the sky, although there are no trivial things to disturb the dream, but compared with the master, I can understand the freedom, not worth mentioning." I never thought that what I saw in the rivers and lakes was better than in the mountains, but sometimes I was confused and didn't know where to go. ”
Forget the worries and tremble, the words have come to this, and he seems to have no reason to stop Cha An. He loves Zhu'an from the bottom of his heart, and is satisfied with Zhu'an's character, if he is not secluded in the mountains and forests, he must brag with the people on the rivers and lakes that he has a talented apprentice!
Forget the worries about his parents back then, but as long as Zhu'an doesn't know the truth about that year, it seems understandable that he wants to go out for a walk.
Forget Worry nodded, "You go out first." ”
Seeing that he forgot his worries and drove people away, he didn't have the slightest displeasure, and bowed respectfully and went out.
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When he returned to his room at night, he saw a long box on the table.
When he approached, he opened it and saw that a blue sword and scabbard were lying quietly in the box, the sword body was silver and white, and there was a dark green long line in the middle, and the hilt and scabbard were made of fine jasper, exuding a warm luster.
Looking closely, there are two elegant and elegant words engraved on the sword: long love.
There was also a piece of paper pressed under the sword case.
It is a handwritten book that forgets worries.
"This sword is called long-term love, the relic of your father, and now I will give it to you and bring it down the mountain.
I don't know how many years have passed, I hope for peace. ”
Zhu'an lowered his head and couldn't see clearly, carefully folded the paper, and went out of the room to the back mountain.
The moonlight was like water, quietly shining on the tomb, and the people buried in it snuggled tightly and hugged each other for a long time.
Zhu'an sat in front of the tomb and whispered something.
Forget the sorrow sat by the window of the room and drank, looking at the moon and slowly knocking on the table and clapping the clap and whispering: "Where is the bright moon at the end of the world? What year is the night talk at the window? Dongfeng toasted the toast, and calmly. Wake up like a dream, life and death travel together......"
When he wrote a letter to Zhu'an before, he muttered as he wrote: "Long love, tsk, reading it makes people's teeth sour, what to say was originally not named, until I met Forget, this sword has a name." Spring is warm, everything is recovering, mountains and rivers have love, and the bright moon and breeze are full of love...... Such sour words must be sweet nonsense made up by Lin Jingzhi in order to coax her junior sister to please her......!
Although his mouth complained, his eyes were gentle and nostalgic.
He can understand that feeling, because of a person, this world, this world seems to become everywhere lovely, and everything is alive.
But let him go to see An'er down the mountain in person, he really couldn't do it, although he promised to let Zhu'an go down the mountain, but there is still a big difference between agreeing to send it in person, he is old, if he cries a lot, it will be too embarrassing.
I was unwilling not to say anything before leaving, so I had to secretly put the sword box and the letter and ran back to drink alcohol.
After all, in this world, Zhu'an is his only relative.
In the early morning of the second day, Zhu'an carried a sword on his back to say goodbye to his son, but he shouted a few times and refused to come out, so Zhu'an knelt outside the door and kowtowed.
Forget to hide behind the door and peek, tears in my eyes.
didn't alarm the others, and quietly left after saying goodbye.
When they reached the gate of the mountain, there was already a man standing there.
Ah Yao had a bright smile on his face as usual, "I'm leaving." ”
Zhu'an nodded.
Ah Yao said: "It's so good, the master actually agreed." ”
There was a deep reluctance and suppressed yearning in his eyes.
Zhu An said: "Do you want to be together?"
Ah Yao shook his head.
"I won't leave, when you come back, just tell me about this river. ”