Chapter 37: The Secret of the Old House (2)

Fang Zhan withdrew his gaze from the portrait and took a closer look at the room, where the bamboo ladder corresponded to a simple desk made of wooden planks with a candlestick on it and a bamboo chair placed next to it.

Fang Zhan sat on the bamboo chair for a long time, and then said slowly: "My father is the champion who died many years ago in the mouth of the money shopkeeper. The champion pool that washed hands in the capital also came because of him. It's just that, over the years, except for teaching me to write when I was a child, I have never seen him write by himself, and I have never seen him read a book. ”

Fang Zhan raised his eyes to look at the portrait, his eyes were moist again, and he trembled: "Also, how did the injury on his face come about? Who is my mother? All this...... Why?"

Fang Zhan shook his head slowly, took a deep breath, and then he saw a box placed under the desk.

Reaching out and lifting it out, I opened the lid of the box, only to see that it was full of papers full of words. He took it out with both hands, put it on the table, and looked at it one by one.

"That year, I won the championship in the Golden Palace, set foot in the capital, and saw you in the street full of pear blossoms, and from then on, I am no longer me. You have seen me, and from now on, you will no longer be you.

I thought it was just a meeting, and I felt sad. With a heart full of melancholy, he left the capital and went to Fenghua Prefecture to take up his post.

Passing through Qionghua Prefecture, on the bank of the Zhaoer River, I met bandits.

They robbed me of my salute and killed my men. Kicked me into a ravine, I broke my arms and ankles, and I was badly injured. +

Lying there, waiting to die.

Originally, the time to take office was very tight, and as a result, the time for going to office stipulated by the emperor was exceeded, and the official seal was also snatched away.

At that time, I only felt that there was no place for our Qingru in the vast world.

Lying there for two days, with the last bit of strength, he climbed to the river, jumped into it, and thought about breaking the red dust.

You fished me out of the river and healed me. I was determined to die, but with your company, I dispelled my will to die.

Later, I learned that you came from the capital to find me, and you, like me, have been unable to let go of each other since we saw that side. Later, we became relatives.

It was a time of perfection without any blemishes.

You taught me to weave bamboo baskets that should not belong to this world, and I taught you to write poems and paint. Let's go to sell bamboo baskets and calligraphy and paintings.

When you get the money from the sale, you can buy the dress you like and buy the books you like. Time fades in honey.

Later, our son also came to join in the fun. After nearly eight months of pregnancy, your expression gradually becomes trance-like, and sometimes you secretly cry.

I know, you've got something on your mind. You have secrets.

I asked, you don't say, I know, that's not what I should know.

You named your child Zhan'er, and I gladly agreed.

Time is very fast, and Zhan'er is about to come to this world in a blink of an eye. That day, your heart-rending pain, and now when you think about it, you still have a dull pain in your heart.

Zhan'er was born, and almost your entire life was consumed.

However, just after Zhan'er was born, our house shook violently. You forcibly stuffed Zhan'er to me and told me to leave immediately.

You spit out a dazzling bead from your mouth, and the bead instantly grew larger, enveloping me and Zhan'er inside, and you told me that wherever this bead would fly, it would make its home. Tell me to wait for you.

Zhan'er and I were in the beads, and suddenly flew into the air, and just after flying out, we saw countless heavenly fires in the sky, falling like meteor showers.

Smashed down our house. Smashed the whole land.

It was a devastating blow.

In that situation, I know that you have no chance of surviving.

You said you'd come back to us.

You said that when my basket was woven to nine thousand nine hundred and nine, you would come back.

You said that I should hide Zhan'er and bring Zhan'er up.

You said someone would come and take care of us.

......

In Zhuli Village, Fang Ping didn't know how many bowls of wine he drank. Sanniang looked at him from the other side, looking at him with tears streaming down his face. Sanniang didn't persuade a word. just silently bowed his head.

......

Zhan'er and I flew to the edge of a cliff, and the beads landed at the bottom of the cliff, so this became my and Zhan'er's home. The beads are gone.

Zhan'er was hungry and crying, so I took him to a nearby market to buy the corresponding daily necessities and buy a dairy sheep.

On the way, I took advantage of the boss's inattention, picked up the soldering iron, and imprinted the scars on the lower half of my face.

Well, I know, I'm pretty handsome, and you told me to hide my presence to prove that an enemy will come to us.

They will find out that your husband is a champion who has not gone to work, and they will find out what I look like.

I can't afford to bet!

I can't leave the slightest suspicion behind.

So, I became the white robe you bought for me.

Change into an ordinary ordinary person's clothes.

My name is Fang Ping now!

I built a house at the bottom of the cliff, set up a bamboo fence, and gave goat's milk to Zhan'er to satisfy his hunger.

Within two days, someone passed by here, it was Sanniang.

She came here when she heard Zhan'er's cry.

I know that there is no one in this vicinity for ten miles. She said her husband died, and her one-year-old son died with him.

She's a good person.

She persuaded me to get out of here, and I didn't want to do it.

said that the progress of building the house by myself was too slow, so she found Xun Fuzi, Li Langzhong, and Shang Ji to help me build the house.

After the house was built, I persuaded them to leave. I secretly built a basement under the bed.

After that, they would often come here, and Sanniang would come every day to feed Zhan'er and leave at night.

It's just that at night, I always feel that someone is watching us on the cliff for a long time. After several inspections, no one was found.

Maybe I'm too scared.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Zhan'er can be weaned.

He called me Daddy today.

I was ecstatic.

If you're here, he'll call your mother too.

I went to the market today and bought a little candy man for Zhan'er, and Zhan'er happily spread joy everywhere.

Zhan'er is four years old, he has no one to accompany him, he is unhappy with me all day long.

Today, all four of them are here.

I asked them if they knew me. None of them admit it.

I don't dare to ask them if they know you, I can't afford it!

Although I was suspicious, and even a little sure, I still didn't dare to ask, Zhan'er's life, I didn't dare to bet!

Zhan'er is five years old, he cries every day, and I know that he needs someone to accompany him.

He needs to be accompanied by his peers.

I can't erase his childhood, and neither can you.

We decided to move to Zhuli Village, where the four of them lived. There will be children playing with Zhan'er. Shang Ji has a son Shang Ke, and Li Langzhong has a daughter Li Xuanyi.

They will all become Zhan'er's playmates. When you move there, Zhan'er will be happy.

I hid all our secrets in the basement.

If one day, you do come back, you must find it, isn't there a small underground storage room under the bed in our wedding room?

Zhuli Village is ten and a half miles to the west, by the Zhaoer River.

If you do come back, go find us.

Well, I know, this may never happen.

......

In Zhuli Village, Sanniang, Li Langzhong, Xun Fuzi, and Shang Ji also poured wine and sat opposite Fang Ping. No one spoke, drank together. Drink fast. Li Langzhong changed the big bowl for the first time, and Shang Ji did not quarrel with him for the first time.

......

The four of them helped me build another three-room cottage, where Zhan'er and I will stay for the rest of the day.

Zhan'er is very happy every day, and Shang Ke and Xuanyi come to play with him every day.

I planted a pear tree in the yard, and I will see pear blossoms in the future.

Today, the four of them came to me for a deep talk, and they said that they wanted to learn martial arts. I didn't agree and didn't refuse.

I think all this depends on Zhan'er's own choice.

If you were, you would have decided the same way, wouldn't you?

Zhan'er is obsessed with reading, holding the book every day without losing it, he reads it very quickly, remembers it very quickly, so fast that even I find it incredible.

Shang Ke and Xuanyi, the two little guys, are learning martial arts, and they are learning well, and when Zhan'er sees them, they will always shake their heads and leave with disdain.

The four of them are still persuading Zhan'er to learn martial arts, I don't say no, let Zhan'er decide for himself!

If you were, you would choose it that way, right?

The night before, the four of them brought a dish from the house, and came to drink, cough, over the years, I don't know how many times.

My alcohol consumption skyrocketed. If you come back, I can have a good fight with you.

Before, I couldn't drink you. Now, hehe, not necessarily.

Zhan'er is obsessed with a stone platform by the Tanxia River, and always likes to take steamed buns, sit on the stone platform, and read books all day.

What is Shang Ke saying, I want to ask who is the most handsome in the world, the scholar by the Tanxia River!

Hehe, that's right, right! That's a good thing to say, little guy!