Volume 1 The First Entry into the Rivers and Lakes Chapter 6 The Past
"Boss, bring me five meat buns!" said the little boy to the boss as he walked to a bun shop on the street.
"Hehe, little Hanako, are you rich?" asked the owner of the steamed bun seller, jokingly.
"Now, that's enough!" said the little boy, pulling out the silver that the woman had originally offered them in the white veil.
"Rich, rich, wait!" The boss saw that the little boy was rich, so he was naturally no longer embarrassed, after all, rich is the uncle.
The little boy held the bun in his left hand and the recovered change in his right hand, and with satisfaction he pulled his sister towards the ruined temple outside the city.
The brother and sister entered the broken temple, eating steamed buns while making trouble, although the brother and sister were mature, but after all, they were still children, and although what happened just now was terrible, it had already been left behind by the two of them.
The little boy looked at the half-eaten meat bun in his hand and said, "This meat bun costs two pennies a piece, and we can buy several boxes of such buns if we take out any of the delicacies we ate a few days ago, but why do I think this meat bun is more delicious." ”
"Uh-huh, I think so too!" the little girl nodded in agreement.
The little boy smiled and shook his head, "Perhaps, we are just the life of beggars! ”
The two were silent for a moment, and the little girl suddenly spoke.
"Brother, I have a question I've always wanted to ask you. The little girl said to her brother.
"Ah, ask me a question, okay, then you ask. The little boy was puzzled.
"How did you become a beggar .......?, and what about your parents?" said the little girl, after a moment's hesitation.
The little boy was stunned, let out a long sigh, as if he had been holding his breath for a long time, and he looked up at the sky as if he were going back to the past.
In this way, he remained motionless in this position, and time seemed to freeze, and after half a pillar of incense, the little boy finally spoke, "I...... I don't know. ”
The little girl was taken aback, she waited for these five words to come out for so long a day?! She thought a lot of answers that her brother would give, but she never expected that she would come to the conclusion that he didn't know this answer himself. Perhaps, my brother has something unspeakable, the little girl guessed secretly. "It's okay, it's okay, forget if you don't know, sometimes it's a kind of happiness to not know anything, eat buns quickly, if you don't eat it, it'll be cold!"
The little boy looked at his sister, knowing that she must have thought that she didn't want to say or couldn't say it, so he smiled and patted his sister's head, and said, "You, you're a big ghost! There is nothing we brother and sister can't say, but I really don't know! My memory seems to be very vague, I remember the things after I met you very clearly, and I can remember some of the things before I met you, but before I met I became more and more blurred, I have a hazy feeling, I seem to have parents!"
"Poof!" the little girl burst out laughing directly, "Brother, you are stupid! As long as you are human, you must have parents! Otherwise, you think you are a god made of mud!"
"Dare you call me stupid!" the little boy feigned anger and pretended to hit the little girl.
The little girl naturally knew that her brother was not really angry, so she made a grimace at her brother and ran away!
"Hey, don't run yet, I want to ask you how you became a little beggar. The little boy asked his sister with a smile.
"Me, alas!" said the little girl's happy face.
"If I don't want to say it, I'm just curious. The little boy saw that his sister was upset and hurriedly said.
The little girl shook her head and said, "I don't want to say it, it's just that I'm not very happy when I think of the past, and if my brother wants to hear it, I'll tell my brother, it's nothing." ”
The little girl sat on the straw pile with her head bowed and her hands on her knees, "I haven't seen my parents either, and when I first remembered, I lived with my grandmother, and my life was very hard, not much better than now." My grandmother made a living by selling some straw sandals that she had knitted, and whenever I asked her about my parents, she would shake her head and say nothing. Originally, I thought that this kind of life could go on forever, but one day when I was selling straw sandals on the street with my grandmother, the crowd suddenly panicked! I was separated from my grandmother, and I had been looking for my grandmother in the crowd, and I didn't notice the surroundings, and suddenly a fierce beast appeared on my side! I still remember the fierce beast vividly, it had a horn, and it was several times larger than an ordinary horse! There was also a man sitting on the beast, and the riot in the crowd was also caused by this man traveling on this beast! It is said that this man is the son of the royal family of Tianluo City, and that day he got this fierce beast out of nowhere, so he drove out into the street to show his majesty!" When she said this, the little girl gritted her teeth and said, and the hatred she showed was unobstructed!
The little boy asked, "The Wang family, I seem to have heard people talk about this Wang family, is the head of the Wang family in the imperial court in front of a first-class scholar?" The little girl nodded affirmatively, "It is the Wang family, and the person who drove the beast that day is Wang Chuan's third grandson, Wang Zhiyu!"
The little girl continued: "I don't know how many people that animal trampled to death that day, and when it rushed towards me, I thought I was going to die, but my grandmother came to me out of nowhere and pushed me away. Afterwards, the emperor was furious, but Wang Chuan, the head of the Wang family, said that it was the beast that was out of control that caused this catastrophe, and it had nothing to do with his grandson!" When she said this, the little girl had already burst into tears.
Even if the younger sister didn't say what happened next, the little boy could guess it, and the grandmother pushed her away, and naturally the grandmother became the ghost of the animal, and the only grandmother who could rely on died, and the sister who had nothing to do became a beggar.
The elder brother gently patted his sister's shoulder, "Eat steamed buns, it won't taste good if it's cold for a while!"
My sister nodded, eating the buns with undried tears.
The little boy's eyes kept looking outside, "Sister, don't you really want to enter the rivers and lakes?"
The little girl shook her head, "If you enter the rivers and lakes, can you destroy the Wang family?"
"I don't know. The boy replied.
"If I become the emperor of the Tongtian Empire, it will be easy to destroy the Wang family. The little girl whispered.
"I still want to be the emperor, you little girl really has a lot of appetite! People say that the prime minister can hold a boat in his belly, you eat these buns first, and I'll see how big your belly is!" said the little boy with a smile.
The younger sister took the bun and stuffed it into her mouth in a big gulp, as if to prove that her belly could support the boat, and the little boy who was full of the funny appearance of the bulging bun was laughing.
The brother and sister frolicked, and the little girl was tired of crying, so she fell asleep.
The little boy looked at the faint mosquito voice in the distance and muttered, "What is this road like in the rivers and lakes!"