003-Alone and Sorrowful (I)

The geese by Junzi Lake are still asleep, what kind of dreams would they have if they also had their own dreams?

Bailiquan ran over with a wooden barrel like a gust of wind. The soil under the feet is softened by the warmer weather. He felt like an abandoned goose, crying helplessly in a strange place. He ran and jumped, and at last he was tired and lay down in the dry grass that had not yet grown new leaves, listening to the sound of the wind and the sound of the water......

Hongwei led Zao'er and walked towards this side with a heavy heart. Zao'er was born to the mare who carried her here, and although she is now old, her temper is still the same! She was very dissatisfied with the fact that her master took her out early in the morning, so she twisted her neck from time to time and wanted to go back. Hongwei muttered and persuaded it to die, because if she left, she would definitely take the jujube with her!

Bailiquan, who was in the grass, heard the sound and turned over and lay on the ground to look. When he vaguely saw that it was Hongwei, he covered his mouth and let out some strange screams, which frightened Hongwei into nervousness, and looked around against the jujube, thinking that some beast had escaped. Zao'er also snorted impatiently, trying to break free from the horse rope in her hand and run away. Seeing her funny appearance, Baili Quan finally laughed, but quickly endured it, jumped up and shouted, "Hongwei, why did you get up so early?"

Hongwei's heart was overjoyed, and then she was covered by the sorrow in her heart, and with an "oh" sound, she asked, "Why does Childe sleep in the grass? Isn't the new bed soft enough?"

Bailiquan didn't seem to understand, so he jumped up and said, "I'm not here to sleep, I'm here to plant willow trees!"

Hongwei let go of Zao'er and walked over with a resentful face, shook the weeds in her hand and asked, "It's not dawn yet, if it's all planted to death, it's a pity!"

Baili Quan still didn't hear it, he had already rolled up his sleeves, squatted on the ground, picked out the hoe, and said: "When the day dawns, Uncle Bai will definitely pester me again, do this, do that! How can I have time to do my own things?"

Hongwei thought carefully, and indeed she didn't sulk anymore, and said, "I'll help my son dig a pit and water it!"

As they spoke, they immediately started work. Bailiquan had to dig a pit and fill the soil by himself, and only let Hongwei watch and help the saplings from the side. So Hongwei squatted on the side and nagged him why he liked to plant willow trees, why he wanted to plant fifteen willow trees and so on. Baili Quan did not reply, so he dug a pit carefully and carefully, and carefully held the roots of the tree and gently lowered it into the pit. In Hongwei's opinion, even if her son was holding a stack of gold, he would not have such a satisfied and happy look. He would kneel down and treat each sapling like a little child playing with mud and intoxicating and cherishing the toy in his hand. As if they were his children, discreet and loving.

"Have you ever heard the phrase 'the willow beckons yin'?"

"Summoning ghosts?" Hongwei said angrily and funny.

Baili Quan laughed and said, "Do you know that the people in the capital of the old dynasty like to plant a dry willow on the grave?"

"What kind of willow did that boy plant?"

Baili Spring filled the soil and pretended to groan, shook his head and sang: "The one planted by this son is a weeping white willow with veins and feelings!"

Hongwei suddenly laughed, leaned back and smiled together, and said: "The white willow is the white willow, what kind of veins and threads do you add, it's weird to laugh at people!"

Bailiquan didn't pay any attention to it, but only touched the thin waist branch of the willow sapling and said, "After four or five years, it will grow thicker than your arm!"

Hongwei raised her hand and looked at it, and said, "No, it's thicker than your arm!"

"Naturally! Naturally! I heard my father say that the willows of the path can be seen in Miaoshu City! I don't know what the spring is like! I really want to see it!"

"Miao Shucheng?"

"Look at my memory, I have forgotten that our Miss Hongwei has little reading! Isn't Miao Shucheng named the [Heavenly City] by the Martial King?"

Hongwei was full of unhappiness when she heard this, complaining that Bailiquan teased her again. Baili Spring was speechless, Hongwei tilted her head and looked at it, and asked, "Then tell me, why is it called Mai Mai Qing Si...... What willow?"

"It's a weeping white willow!"

"Alas, have you ever heard of 'Provoke a thousand hates, tied to a short and long branch.' Have you ever heard of a green tree sad and a few people who have fallen into hatred. And 'the emerald color is inexhaustible, and there are more lovers.' ......He raised his head, but saw Hongwei covering her ears with a displeased face, and hurriedly asked why. The latter said: "Listening to what Childe said, it is all unpleasant things. ”

Bailiquan tilted his head and smiled, saying that she was stupid, so he clapped his hands and continued to plant his own trees. Hongwei went to carry the water, but she didn't know if it was too heavy or the waterfront was too slippery, and she herself was in danger of falling into the water. Then she was teased by Baili Quan, calling her so angry. The red sun on the horizon rose little by little, and the wild geese on Junzi Lake regained their vitality yesterday. She carried the water and walked to Baili Quan, who was sitting in the grass and resting. His plain clothes were covered with a lot of mud, and his slender and slender fingers were covered with black mud. Hongwei muttered in her heart, Bai Zhi always said her three words. "It's not like that!"

Hongwei knelt at his feet, rolled up his sleeves for him, moistened his hands with a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "You look like this, where do you look like the son of Baili Mountain?"

"Why am I not like me? I am. Bailiquan said with a smile.

Hongwei didn't answer, and after a moment of silence between the two, a few wild geese in the lake flapped their wings. Baili Quan asked in a low voice, "When are you going to Yinghe Mansion?"

Hongwei was stunned for a moment, choked up and said, "Even Gongzi wants to take me away?"

"No...... I mean, Hongwei, you should go see your relatives. ”

She muttered, as if to say that the people of Baili Mountain were her relatives. Bailiquan didn't hear clearly, but he didn't ask deeply. She threw her handkerchief into the bucket and turned away, her eyes already red.

Bailiquan said: "Uncle Bai asked you to practice martial arts, and I will teach you." Okay?"

Hongwei was still angry, and said in a strange manner: "I'm not the material for martial arts practice at all!" Baili Quan looked at her figure and only secretly pinched his palm, he sighed faintly and squatted down and held the little willow tree, wanting to speak and stopping, a sadness.

However, since that day. Hongwei also took it seriously and learned martial arts from Bailiquan. The ancestor of Baili Spring is also a martial artist, and what he is used to is hand-to-hand combat, so Hongwei naturally has to learn this. But the situation is as she herself said, she really has no talent for martial arts. So Bailiquan sighed at her for two days, and finally brought her two flying needles.

Hongwei pinched the two four-inch-long silver needles and said, "How can I learn this?"

Baili Quan also shook his head and sighed, asking for a needle, which was a relic of her mother, which could be used to save her life in times of danger. I don't want Hongwei to hear it, but she is happy in her heart, thinking that Gongzi even gave her the things of her biological mother, doesn't she care what she is? Baili Quan was also staring at the needle, as if he didn't see the emotional changes on her face, only that the needle was silver-plated and could be used to test the poison. Because the needle is long enough, it can stab people to death at critical times to save their lives.

Hongwei heard a lot of rejection, saying that stabbing people to death is not taking people's lives. Baili Quan said "oh" and said to her, "Is your life important or the lives of others?"

Hongwei asked again: "But who wants to harm me?"

Bailiquan stared at her with an unhappy face, and Hongwei didn't know why Bailiquan was angry, so she immediately shut up and obeyed. Baili Quan sighed and stuffed the silver needle into her waist, telling her to keep it and want to leave. Hongwei thought for a moment and hurriedly asked, "This needle is only this...... What is the use of stabbing people's death holes?"

Bailiquan turned around and muttered for a moment, then asked for a silver needle in her hand, and suddenly swept three steps from the ground with her toes, sweeping up a layer of leaves on the ground. I saw that he shook his hand, and the silver needle flew out of the leaf and shot on the birch tree not far away, and its needle was pierced with six yellow leaves.

Seeing this, Hongwei was envious, clapped her hands, and asked how to practice. Bailiquan clapped his hands and said proudly: "But this trick, Hongwei, you will never learn." ”

Hongwei was dissatisfied, and hurriedly asked why. Baili Quan just raised his head and laughed when he heard this, and stomped Hongwei's feet angrily. At this moment, Bai Zhi walked over twenty zhang away and shouted Hongwei's name. But Baili Quan was so frightened that he stuffed all the silver needles to her, telling her to come here again tomorrow, and then teach her some other self-defense techniques, and fled when Bai Zhi approached.

Bai Zhi is serious, and he has really taken Baili Spring a little closer these days. Hongwei thought that all this was because Gongzi was going to marry Miss Xue, and she was a little unhappy in her heart. Bai Zhi came here just to talk about this, and when she thought of this, she was so awkward that she wanted to leave here immediately. But I didn't want Bai Zhi to come and only sighed to her for a long time before saying, "Walk around with Uncle Bai, Hongwei." ”

Hongwei immediately jumped over with a smile and said, "Okay, where are you going?"

He pointed around and said casually. Hongwei was uneasy, so she cried and said with a sad face: "Uncle Bai, it's better for you to scold me a few words, otherwise I won't be able to settle down in my heart." ”

Bai Zhi couldn't cry or laugh when he saw this. Hongwei also smirked twice. In the end, Bai Zhi spoke earnestly as always, and asked, "Do you know why the master wants to teach you martial arts?"

"Know!" Hongwei swore and said: "Childe's father, oh! It's the master who is afraid of Xue Wang, ah! It's the master who is worried that my father, who has never seen before, will provoke the enemy outside, so he asked me to practice martial arts and defend myself." Isn't that right?"

Bai Zhi pretended to be surprised and shouted, "Hey, you still know!"

"Uncle Bai......" she shouted coquettishly.

"It's not Uncle Bai who wants to drive you away. Hongwei, you can't follow Childe anymore. ”

"I know, I know, are you afraid that Miss Xue will see that I have a good relationship with my son...... Phew!Bah!Bah!Bah!......Bah!Bah!T

"You girl......" Bai Zhi shook his head helplessly at her, and seeing Hongwei put on an innocent look again, he had no choice but to say: "I will go with you these days, and I can learn as much as I can with my son." On the day of your son's wedding, you will set off for Yinghe Mansion!"

"Huh?"

"Do you want to watch Gongzi and Miss Xue get married?"