Chapter 16: Farewell
The difference with An Ge and Yuan 13 was on the next morning.
An Ge and Master arched their hands, and there were no other words, just polite words such as taking care of each other, and Master didn't say anything more.
It's just that in the end, the master stopped An Ge, but the object of his speech was Brother Sword, who was behind An Ge's back.
"Are you going to go to the capital with you?" asked Master.
"I've got to take care of him. Brother Sword replied.
Unexpectedly, An Ge didn't have any opinion on this, and let Brother Sword talk about it, the master was also unusual, just nodded, even if it was goodbye.
Yuan Shisan's side said that he was going to go to his relatives in the capital and practice for a few more years before he came out to travel in the world, An Ge originally joked with a smile that with Yuan Shisan's intelligence, he was only afraid that he would have to practice for decades before he could do that leisurely trip in the world.
It's just that when Yuan 13 said that he wanted to go to the capital with An Ge, An Ge couldn't laugh anymore.
Master fanned the flames and said that the mountains and rivers are far away, I like the two of you very much, but I don't want the next time we meet, one is in the armory store and the other is in the clothing store.
An Ge laughed and didn't care, Yuan Shisan didn't react for a while, and when he figured out why he appeared in the clothing store, he scared himself.
When you come, the ancient Buddha is deserted, and when you go, the temple is noisy, and a good meeting of good mountains and rivers is good.
Yuan 13 followed An Ge to the capital, and it is estimated that there is still a long way to go between the two of them, so they will not be as reluctant as me.
Master and I rode in a donkey cart and went in the opposite direction, which was exactly the opposite direction of An Ge and the others, getting farther and farther away from the capital.
Master sat in front of the creaking little broken car, turned his back to me and said that we are now homeless people, and we don't care about heaven and earth, but if we are caught by the government, we will all be treated as gangsters and sent to the army.
I was a little cowardly, thinking that it was just a big thing to go into the capital to tinker with the dignitaries, and if I did a good job, maybe I could make a few more private money, so I suddenly had the same nature as the rebellious ministers and thieves?
Although I have always wanted to explore the rivers and lakes, I have always firmly believed in my heart that I will never be the same as those gangsters who are wanted by the government, at least in terms of the reasons for being wanted.
Master turned around and said that you are still too young, inexperienced, and have listened to too many messy commentaries, do you really think that the dignitaries and nobles are all gentle and thrifty masters? Those undercurrents in the temples and the flies outside the high threshold of the Zhumen are not as clean as the disputes in the rivers and lakes, and it is luck to give you wages when the time comes.
I was indignant and retorted loudly, the disputes in the rivers and lakes are about being happy and happy, so there are no flies and dogs!
Master stroked his forehead and said you were right.
Not long after leaving the ruined temple, we didn't want to go down the official road anymore.
The main reason is to avoid people's eyes, and the secondary reason is that the groceries in the shops next to the pipes are a cut higher than in other places, and we really can't afford it.
But fortunately, although it is the rainy season now, the rain has been much less than before, the rural dirt road is just right dry and wet, neither staining shoes and socks, nor bringing dust, plus the cool breeze blows on the face, the ridge roadside is full of fine blue purple and white wildflowers, it is a good time to travel.
I once jumped out of the cart when the donkey pulling the cart stopped to drink, ran all the way to the ridge, pulled out a handful of weeds and held it in the palm of my hand, and then ran back to Master, and my clenched hand reached under the tip of Master's nose and smoked his grassy face.
I laughed and enjoyed it.
Master couldn't do anything about it, but after I had done this repeatedly, he often looked at me with pity in his eyes.
I didn't bother to figure out what the complicated eyes of the master meant, whatever he thought, the sky was big, and the old lady was the happiest.
The dilapidated donkey cart just swayed like this, there was always an unfinished road ahead, and there were always strange and new villages waiting to be visited on both sides of the road.
The rivers and lakes that Master said he was going to take me away were different from what I imagined and what I had heard in the storytelling before.
If you have to describe it, the appearance of Master along the way is probably that of a lazy man who sleeps at home all day, and finally got up to step out of the house, obviously it is an ordinary scene, and it looks a little nostalgic.
Such rivers and lakes don't seem to be bad?
Master used to tell me that he had walked many times when he was young, and now looking at Master's back, I occasionally feel stunned: What kind of person was Master when he was young? Where did he go? Did he do some righteous deeds that made people feel angry when he was wandering the rivers and lakes? Although he was sloppy, his skin was not ugly, and would other heroines like him when he was young? I vaguely remember that I had a teacher, where has she gone now?
There are a lot of questions, but I rarely ask them.
There are some questions that he doesn't need to ask, and some questions he doesn't tell me.
Before leaving, An Ge told me that if you don't understand the problem, don't think about it for too long, because you will definitely not be able to think of it, and if you think hard, it will not only be very tiring, but your brain will also become easy to drill into the horns.
I thought to myself, although this guy An Ge seems unreliable, what he says is occasionally quite reasonable.
I don't know where he and Yuan 13 are now, how far away from the capital are, and whether Yuan 13 has found those brothers and sisters who moved out.
The dilapidated ox carts swayed and carried people who did not know sorrow.
The days of idleness and scenery pass quickly, of course, it may also be because these days are not long in the first place.
The road under your feet finally came to an end of your own, and beyond that, there was a mountain covered in snow.
When Master saw this flat-bottomed snow-capped mountain, he was not as surprised as I was, but kept frowning. I guess he was probably worried about whether it would be better to go over the mountains or take a detour.
I don't care about this, anyway, the sky is falling and the master is worried, except for the shop, my ability is very limited, and I have to count on the master to take care of it.
This can also be regarded as a kind of promotion of the old rivers and lakes to the small rivers and lakes. I comforted myself.
In fact, when he vaguely saw the vague shadow of the mountain peak, the master had already begun to frown, so when he met the village along the way, he would ask a few more words about the mountain, and we had a general understanding of the mountain peak after walking all the way to this point.
I heard the villagers in the village at the foot of the mountain say that this peak originally did not have such a large snow, every early summer, when the peach blossoms fall at the bottom of the mountain, the peach blossoms on the mountain have just bloomed, even if the mountain is cold, there is always a time when the snow melts and everything is spring.
The villagers also said that two or three crops can be planted under the mountain every year, and when it is cold in the mountain, they can only plant one crop every year, so the mountain people who live in the mountains are often farming, and they will hunt and cut wood to subsidize their families, and it is inconvenient to enter and exit the mountains due to heavy snow in winter, but every time the snow melts, the mountain people will come down and communicate with other villages, and the unique beech wood in the mountains is also at this time, so that the felled wood flows with the snow water to the hands of the timber merchants under the mountain.
I grew up in a small business in the neighborhood, and although I belonged to a poor family, I never sold my strength to the fields, so it was the first time I had heard of the difference between farming in the mountains and under the mountains, and I was amazed at it.
Master, who was not very attracted to things like planting crops, asked a sharp question: "When did the snow on the mountains stop melting?"
The villager sighed and replied: "More than ten years ago, when the timber merchant saw that the timber of the year did not come down, he was anxious and reported it to the county official. ”
I was a little curious and asked, "What about then?"
"Later, the government also felt that something was wrong, and sent a team of officials to explore the way up the mountain, and guess what?" the villager deliberately paused, and without waiting for us to answer, he continued: "None of them have come back!"
I was shocked, as if there was some man-eating monster living on the mountain.