Chapter 9: Plum Blossoms (3)
In just this moment, Mr. Yan's blood was rolling all over her body, and she couldn't believe that the man with a beard and a disheveled hair in front of her was actually the big brother she had been waiting for for ten years.
Her answer was a sob, which could no longer be contained, tears as hot as blood burst out of her eyes, and she hid her face and wept.
At this moment, Xiao Mu seemed to lose all her strength, and tears passed through her fingers, wetting the already dry years.
She is happy, she is sad, she is parting, she is reunited.
He searched for ten years, in the face of this instantaneous reunion, Ye Yu's whole body was as hard as a stone, in this ten years of wandering, he carved the appearance of Xiaomu in his mind every day, he had thought of 10,000 words to say when he reunited with Xiaomu, but now he couldn't say a word.
At this moment, Mr. Yan seems to be no longer a doctor, she is still the girl who loved to cry ten years ago: "Are you really a big brother?"
"I am. After saying these two words, two lines of tears crossed Ye Yu's cheeks like a blade, and then, he also cried.
It was the cry of a man who had experienced a human tragedy and was completely crushed by some force.
Ye Yu has shed a lot of unnecessary blood in his life, but he has never missed a tear. Like many infatuated men, they always leave tears for parting and reunion.
"Big brother, I'm Xiaomu. Xiao Mu grabbed Ye Yu's hand, just as casually as ten years ago, and cried unreservedly like ten years ago.
And Ye Yu also looked at it like ten years ago, the only difference was that he no longer comforted her like before, but cried with Xiao Mu.
Their tears were bitter with remorse, and they hated themselves for not being able to recognize each other.
Xiaomu said: "I hate myself for not being able to recognize my big brother." ”
When Ye Yu shook his head, tears splashed in the air: "It's because I'm old and useless, and I can't recognize you." ”
Even if your life turns to ashes and you fall into Infernal Purgatory, you have to run to the place where you are.
The shadows of the trees are swaying, and the brook is babbling. The autumn wind blew the first leaves of the year off the trees and fell into the stream that had begun to bite.
Ye Yu's soul was redeemed, and when he soaked himself in this cold stream, it was actually a warm feeling.
Even as he got up and the stream ran across his bare chest, there was a warm smile on his face.
Waiting for him was Xiao Mu's soft jade hands, which opened his hair, washed away the lead, and removed the dead leaf that fell on his head.
"Hair should be washed often to look energetic, otherwise the hair will be knotted. ”
A mahogany comb gently brushed through the long hair that had been dried by the autumn wind, which should have been done by a husband to his wife, but now the comb was in Xiaomu's hand.
Her expression was unbearable, and she said in a low voice: "It's only been ten years, and there are so many white hairs." ”
Ye Yu looked very indifferent on the contrary, and said with a smile: "Now that I have found you, I will never grow gray hair again." ”
Xiao Mu said: "I'll help you tie up your hair, so that it looks more powerful." ”
Ye Yu said: "Okay." ”
"How long has it been since you trimmed your beard?" asked Xiao Mu while trimming Ye Yu's beard with scissors.
Ye Yu said: "I forgot how long it was. The satisfaction in his eyes was not because he had trimmed his hair, but because he had someone around to help him do it.
Xiao Mu's bun for Ye Yu is not Xu Guo's, nor is it Wei Guo's, but a Taoist mixed yuan bun. Ye Yu, who had cultivated his beard, seemed to be several years younger, and he was even more powerful than when he was the leader of the replenishment army in Xu State ten years ago.
The sunset, red as a maple leaf, fell, and Xiao Mu returned to her hospital with Ye Yu.
In addition to the smell of medicine in today's medical hall, there is also a smell of oily smoke.
Xiaomu scrambled eggs, stewed a pot of meat, and boiled a large pot of white and tender rice.
She herself eats very little on weekdays, and even eats most of it vegetarian, but today she has meat, and she is very happy.
Ye Yu said: "I'm so happy today, why don't you have some wine?"
Xiao Mu said: "Your body should drink less, besides, I don't have any wine here." ”
Ye Yu was not disappointed because of the lack of wine, on the contrary, he had a good amount of food today, he ate three bowls of rice in one go, and ate like a child, the rice grains stuck to his face.
Xiao Mu smiled and watched him gobble up.
The most delicious meal in the world is not the delicacies of the mountains and seas in the big restaurant, but the simple coarse tea and light rice at home. Xiao Mu is not his wife, but when eating this meal, Ye Yu learned this truth.
"Would you like to add some more food?"
"Enough, eat a little more tomorrow. ”
There is no liquor here, only tea.
It's not a good tea, and it's still warm in the stomach.
Ye Yu said: "In the past few years, have you been doing well. ”
Xiaomu replied calmly: "I live a lonely life. ”
Ye Yu's heart swelled with resonance, why shouldn't he? He could read the determination that Xiao Mu had long been accustomed to being lonely in his eyes.
Xiao Mu knew that the other party was also very lonely, so she gently held Ye Yu's big hand with a pair of small hands, and comforted: "Now that you have found me, in the future, I will follow you wherever you go, just like before." ”
She didn't have to ask Ye Yu if she was willing, because there was no need to ask at all, she saw that Ye Yu was never willing to accept the resoluteness and pain of parting in his eyes, and he had already acquiesced with his eyes.
"So, there's one thing you have to decide. Xiao Mu's expression suddenly became rare and resolute: "Forget the past, don't take revenge, and don't jump into the troubled waters of the Double Ninth Festival again." ”
Ye Yu looked at him and waited for her to continue.
Xiao Mu said: "Actually, you know very well that on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, it may not be difficult to take the life of King Wei, but under the heavy siege of the soldiers of the country, you can't get out alive at all." ”
"I know you're not a man who is afraid of death, but I want you to live well for me. Otherwise, what's the point of these ten years? Did you finally find me just to tell me that you were going to kill someone, that you were going to die?"
Xiaomu has grown up, and she is no longer the ignorant child she used to be.
Ye Yu said movingly: "If we leave, where do you want to go." ”
Xiao Mu thought for a while and said, "Go to the grassland, go to the grassland farther away than your hometown." ”
Ye Yu found that she hadn't actually grown up, because she said that her expression when she went to the grassland was the same as ten years ago.
Outside the plug, herding horses, grazing sheep, milk wine, horse qin.
Ye Yu couldn't help but sketch a picture of the grassland in his mind, this is a road that is easier to follow than the road of revenge.
Ye Yu said: "I can not take revenge, but what about you?"
Xiao Mu said: "If the price of repaying the favor is to lose you again, I would rather be an ungrateful person." ”
Isn't the ingratitude she speaks of another nobler form of gratitude?
Ye Yu said lightly: "I also hope that you can be an ordinary person and not get involved in this dispute." ”
"It's better for us to live poorly, to have a harder life, than to get involved in these rights and wrongs. Xiao Mu said softly: "Besides, you are also kind to me, and I will repay you." ”
Ye Yu said: "No, you are kind to me, it was you who sold yourself to human traffickers back then in exchange for a little silver to buy medicine for me." ”
Xiao Mu said: "You ransomed me from the brothel." If it weren't for you, I'd be in the dust. ”
Ye Yu said: "When you sold yourself, this favor has been repaid, and I owe it to you." ”
Xiao Mu took his arm and said softly: "Big brother, why should we care about who owes whom and who owes whom? I think you are a good person, not just because you are kind to me. ”
Ye Yu said: "I understand." ”
Xiao Mu said: "You won't need to look for me in the future, because I will always follow you." ”
This meaty word came out of her mouth without being ashamed at all, Ye Yu smiled bitterly: "Your skin is really thick." ”
Xiao Mu blinked, and suddenly said, "Now there is still a question, how do we explain to the general?"
Ye Yu didn't have time to think, but then the general suddenly appeared.
The door of the infirmary was hidden, and the general pushed the door directly in.
"I haven't seen you for a long time, and I guessed that you must be here. The general smiled and said, "Let's go, let's go to dinner." ”
The two who had dinner couldn't help but accept it, I don't know if it was because they were ashamed of the general.
The three of them are now sitting at the dinner table in the General's Palace.
A table of delicious food, Ye Yu and Xiaomu didn't have a little appetite, it's not just that they were full.
However, the general ate very happily, and ate two pots of rice in a row, only to find that the two of them did not move a few chopsticks: "Two, not to your appetite?"
The two were silent.
The general finally noticed that something was wrong with them, so he put down his chopsticks and waited for them to speak.
Ye Yu's voice was still very calm, although he couldn't bear it in his heart: "There is something I want to tell you." ”
The general said, "You say." ”
Ye Yu said: "Mr. Yan, this is the person I have been looking for for the past ten years. ”
The General's mouth was wide open, as if he was ready to swallow a big apple, and he couldn't believe that there was such a coincidence in this world.
His mind began to spin rapidly, and he pretended to be calm and tentatively said: "Fate is really wonderful, you can actually meet in the vast sea of people." That's fine, after the Chung Yeung Festival, when we're done with that, you can find a good place to live in peace. ”
Ye Yu said: "The two of us plan to leave before the Double Ninth Festival. ”
This is said simply, and the meaning is very clear.
He thought that the general would jump up and shout, but he didn't expect the other party to be surprisingly quiet, as if he had expected it.
He also thought that the general would directly slap himself, but his outstretched hand did not do so, but poured a large bowl of wine for Ye Yu.
He didn't speak, but Ye Yu knew what he meant. So he didn't say a word, picked up the bowl and raised his head and drank the wine.
Xiao Mu could only watch this scene distressedly from the side.
As soon as the bowl was put down, the general poured him another full bowl.
Ye Yu still didn't speak, and raised his head to finish drinking.
The general poured him a third bowl.
Ye Yu didn't drink it this time, because the third bowl of wine was brought over by Xiao Mu. She drank more simply than Ye Yu.
There was a hint of displeasure in the general's expression, suppressed a trace of anger, and said: "Mr. has always been a drinker, but today is not polite, massive." ”
The general no longer poured wine, but fortunately he put a large jar of wine in front of Xiao Mu, and said word by word: "You drink." ”
Seeing that Xiao Mu did not hesitate, he raised the wine jar and poured it into her cherry mouth, and every sip was filled with a deep debt, and they decided to leave this great enmity to the general and let him bear it alone.
Ye Yu watched her throat stretch and shrink, pouring this fiery liquid into her intestines, and her heart was not a good taste.
The general obviously didn't want to cheapen the two of them today, and when Xiao Mu put down the wine jar that had been drunk, he had already removed the seal of another jar of wine and put it in front of Xiao Mu.
Ye Yu said: "Brother, are you unhappy?"
The general replied to the question, waved his hand, and said, "Drink." ”
Xiao Mu finally spoke, and said, "Isn't it possible that after drinking this jar of wine, we can leave?"
The general snorted coldly, looked at the woman in front of him contemptuously, there was no respect in his eyes, and he didn't want to say a word to her.
He had a feeling that Mr. Yan had not only taken away one of his friends, but also disrupted his dragon slaying plan.
Xiao Mu pushed away Ye Yu's hand that was stretched out to the wine jar, glared at him again, and said, "You can't drink." ”
She doesn't know how to drink, but now, she is willing to do everything for this man named Ye Yu, what is it to drink.
She drank the jar of wine, and felt the tightness in her chest almost explode, and she swore that she would never drink a drop of wine again after she walked out of the door.
She was afraid that the general would force her to drink, and she was afraid that she would fall here, so she took Ye Yu's hand and was about to leave.
Her hot hands seemed to have a kind of power, and she easily pulled Ye Yu, a big man, up from the chair.
They didn't take a few steps before they stopped, and instead of the general calling out to them, it was Xiaomu who suddenly fell.
She's drunk, she's just a woman, a woman who hasn't drunk in her life.
Ye Yu held her, the feeling in his heart was very complicated, and he turned his head to look at the general.
He didn't blame the general, he didn't mean to blame at all, but there was a guilt in his heart that could not be expressed in words. He knew that Kogi had changed himself, just as he had changed himself ten years ago. Once again, he let go of hatred in his heart, more thoroughly than he had been ten years ago.
The general looked at Ye Yu and said coldly, "Have you really decided to leave before the Double Ninth Festival?"
Ye Yu couldn't speak, he avoided the general's blazing glare, and nodded slowly.
Then, he bent down and picked up Xiao Mu and walked out of the general's mansion with steps.
Xiao Mu was in Ye Yu's arms, her whole person exuded the smell of wine, as if she had just been fished out of the wine vat, she closed her eyes and asked stupidly, "Can I touch your knife?"
Ye Yu said: "Yes." ”
White, soft, Xiao Mu's hands like freshly ripe spring bamboo shoots caressed the cold and hard scabbard, but then she smiled, stupidly.
Ye Yu said: "What are you laughing at?"
Xiao Mu Idiot smiled and shook his head: "I don't know, I just think you are still the same as before, and sometimes it's different." Where it's different, I don't know. ”
Ye Yu didn't know where he had changed until a long time later, except for the soul that died under the knife and his own hands, no one had ever touched this knife, even Xiao Mu ten years ago had never touched this knife.
At this moment, Ye Yu didn't know about this small change: "You are also a little different, you never drink." ”
Xiao Mu said: "That's what I owe to the general." ”
Ye Yu said: "I won't drink in the future, if you don't drink, I won't drink either." ”
Xiaomu said: "Don't kill people in the future, you chop firewood and graze." ”
Ye Yu said: "What about you?"
"I can weave cloth and feed the horses, and I can watch you chop wood and graze your herds. Xiao Mu smiled again: "If you want, we can also find a place with better feng shui, dig a pit, and bury this knife, because we don't need it anymore." ”
Ye Yu didn't hesitate, he seemed to have foreseen that he would dig a pit in a vast grassland in the spring when the sun was setting, bury the knife, and then leave without looking back, and after a few days, he would forget where to bury the knife in this vast grassland.
This knife was his life that he could not give up, and it was the only sustenance that could accompany him to go on, and now, he no longer needed this kind of edge.
Ye Yu said: "After burying it, find an axe and a whip." ”
Xiao Mu smiled on his blushing face and said, "Find me a few more embroidery needles." ”
Ye Yu said: "In your spare time, you can also carry the medicine box to the nearby villages to practice medicine. ”
Xiao Mu took Ye Yu's hand: "I want to boil medicine for you every day, you cough worse than before." ”
Ye Yu said: "I'm getting used to it more and more. ”
Xiao Mu said: "No, you want to get rid of this habit, you should live, live to be full of gray hair, live to be full of wrinkles, and live to be a hundred years old." ”
Xiaomu's dream tonight is white, she kneels at the feet of the general, keeps kowtowing, keeps atoning for her sins, she doesn't dare to look up at the general's face, plum blossoms are floating in the sky, plum trees grow around, and soon they wither again.
When Ye Yu woke up, what he saw was a plum branch handed by Xiao Mu: "Every year I send a plum branch to the general, and this year should not be an exception." ”
Ye Yu rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Because we're going to get out of here quickly. Xiao Mu said: "When are we leaving?"
Ye Yu said: "The sooner the better, you pack your luggage, we can leave at any time." ”
Xiao Mu smiled: "I have already put away my luggage. ”
Ye Yu was stunned, looked around, and said, "Why didn't I see it?"
Xiao Mu pointed to a medicine box and a bag on the table, which was her luggage.
Ye Yu said: "That's it, you don't want anything here?"
Xiao Mu shook his head and said, "Don't want it, I just want to leave quickly, while you haven't changed your mind now." ”
Ye Yu said: "Okay, then let's go now." ”
Xiao Mu said: "Before leaving, you must first hand over this plum branch to the general." ”
Ye Yu took Xiao Mu's hand and said, "Okay, let's go, let's go and say goodbye to him, even if he has a knife on my neck this time, I won't stay." ”
Xiao Mu gently pushed Ye Yu's hand away, and said softly: "I owe the general, I don't have the face to see him." ”
Ye Yu said: "Okay, then you wait for me here, and I'll go find him." ”
Xiao Mu said: "Help me tell the general, I am ashamed of him." ”
Ye Yu said: "I'll be back soon, and I won't let him have another chance to leave me." ”
Xiao Mu said: "If the general drinks with you, don't be greedy." ”
Ye Yu said: "I'll just drink one cup and leave after drinking." I just want to get you out of here as quickly as possible. ”
Xiao Mu said: "Have you really thought about it?"
Ye Yu said: "Think about it, there is only hatred here, only swords, let's go to a place where there is only you and me to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival." ”
Xiao Mu's face flushed inexplicably, this was the first time in her life that she had felt this way, she seemed to feel that there was something different between herself and the man in front of her compared to ten years ago.
"Come back soon, I'll wait for you. ”
This was the last thing Xiao Mu said to Ye Yu when he sent him out of the hospital, like the plum branch that Ye Yu was holding.
The general's face was as dark as the plum branch handed by Ye Yu, and he snorted coldly: "What does this mean?"
Ye Yu said: "Mr. Yan said that she will send you a plum branch every year, and this year is no exception. ”
The general sneered: "In previous years, it was sent when the plum blossoms bloomed in the spring, but this year it was too early." ”
Ye Yu said: "She is going to go with me soon, I'm afraid she won't be able to wait for spring." ”
The general said, "Then why didn't she come by herself?"
Ye Yu said: "She feels sorry for you, she has no face to see you." ”
The general said, "What about you?
Ye Yu said: "If I stay here for the Double Ninth Festival, I won't have the face to see her." ”
He was not good at words, and he was afraid that the general would say more, so he hugged his fists and said goodbye: "Farewell." ”
"Brother Ye. The general stopped him: "Brother Tang's revenge, don't you really plan to avenge it?"
Ye Yu's answer was to turn around, stride over the threshold, and turn around to leave here.
It was the warmest sun he had ever seen in ten years, and his whole body was as if he could float up at any moment, through the clouds, and over the mountains and forests.
He has no expression, but in his eyes it is easy to perceive that this is a man who has no concerns.
A man doesn't hate even the deepest enemies, and what else can't he let go.
Only Xiaomu was left in his heart, and only the grassland in the distance remained.
He decided to find a bamboo on the road, make a flute, and play the Xu Guo tune that he had played when he was a child for Xiao Mu to listen to, and he had even let the song echo in his mind.
"I'm back. ”
Ye Yu returned to the medical hall, there was no flute, no Xu Qu, and no Xiaomu.
There was only a table that had fallen to the floor, and a bag scattered on the floor.
Ye Yu's scalp was numb instantly, he shouted Xiao Mu's name, flipped through the small medical hall, and even opened the cabinet to take a look.
The wood is gone.
The mess on the ground told Ye Yu that Xiaomu did not disappear voluntarily.
He subconsciously rushed out of the hospital hall in a crazy way, went straight to the general's mansion, and brought a knife.
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