Chapter 42: The Source
Su Qingwan is a Shui'er girl, and she has no thoughts, she is the Li Gouwa in Shui'er's memory.
Half a year ago, she went back to Wuyi Lane in Yangzhou City, wanting to explore her old friends, hoping to untie her heart knot and get rid of the control of demons. But when she returned to Wuyi Lane, she only saw the deserted grave in the Land Temple, and she only thought that the black and thin boy was dead.
Half a year later, on the Golden Scale Ladder, under the entanglement of all kinds of causes and effects, Su Qingwan finally knew that it turned out that the black and thin boy was not dead. The black and thin boy who was trapped in Wuyi Lane in Yangzhou City and was useless has now come to the bitter end and has become the first disciple of the Qingyun Sect all over the world-Wusizi.
The two lines of cause and effect, which originally had no intersection, were found by Lin Xiuran at the same source.
They taunted each other for a long time before they parted ways.
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"Li Gouwa?"
The girl wrinkled her nose when she heard the black and thin boy's answer.
She didn't like the name very much, but in this troubled year, everyone seemed to believe in the strange custom that cheap names can feed people, and they all liked to give their children a cheap name!
The poor are not entitled to a good name.
She is the same, Shui'er's name was given to her by her grandmother when she was washing clothes by the river.
Now that Miss Shui'er knew his name, she was about to tell him her name, and she said, "My name is Shui'er, and my grandmother gave me it." ”
Probably she had dried her tears just now, and cried out all the grievances in her heart, and she was in a better mood. At least, I'm willing to take care of Li Gouwa.
Li Gouwa carried her on her back and walked like this, chatting with or without a pair.
Before they knew it, they were back in the city.
Miss Shui'er didn't lie to him, she did live in Wuyi Alley.
The people in Wuyi Alley all knew this little girl.
Although they all have indifference written in their eyes, they at least see her as a part of this black alley. She is not like Li Gouwa, Li Gouwa fled here, even if he lives in the nearby land temple, he does not belong here, just an outsider.
The little girl has a home, but Li Gouwa, a lowly species, doesn't even deserve a home.
He said goodbye to her, but for some reason, he was reluctant to leave.
Time flies, and before you know it, months have passed.
The drought is finally over.
The life of the victims gradually improved, and Li Gouwa, a poor seed who ate the last meal but did not eat the next meal, actually survived tenaciously like a weed on the side of the road.
Not only that, but he also piggyback on the water girl.
Relying on the relief of those people in Wuyi Lane, and also relying on Li Gouwa's black steamed buns, Shui'er girl survived the most difficult years with great difficulty, and survived like a dog's tail grass.
In troubled times, it is a kind of luck and a gift to survive.
And the reason why Li Gouwa gave this chance to survive to Miss Shui'er was selfish.
He likes the water girl.
From the first time he saw her, he liked it a little. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to carry her back from that mass grave.
This is the beginning of a teenager's love.
In the turbulent years, this love is very valuable, it is worth a lot of black steamed buns that can fill people's stomachs and survive, and this love is also very cheap, because these black steamed buns are not worth a few dollars in the eyes of some people.
In the turbulent years, those secret prostitutes who split their legs to pick up customers have tempted Li Gouwa countless times.
They were leaning in cramped alleys, scantily clad and unclothed.
Li Gouwa has seen many adults trading with them. He knew that to enjoy their bodies, all he needed was a black steamed bun, and he only needed to give the black steamed bun in his hand to one of them, and the woman who was still charming would toss with him, let him feel comfortable, and let him understand what it was really like to be a man.
The restlessness of the boy tortured his reason all the time as he walked through those deep streets and dark alleys.
But he still held back after all, he tightly guarded the hard-won black steamed bun, held it, and sent it to Wuyi Lane of Suzaku Bridge, and sent it to the young and immature Shui'er girl who couldn't give anything to him, watching her gobble it up, watching her laugh.
That was probably the happiest time since Li Gouwa was born.
It's just that God has always liked to play tricks on people.
The happy time, for a cheap breed like Li Gouwa, is just an illusion that seems to be there or not.
This dream on earth soon came to an end.
This year, in the Wuyi Lane of Suzaku Bridge, a few traffickers came.
With broad shoulders and round waists and covered faces, they broke into the alley and kidnapped the two little girls in the alley.
One of them is Li Gouwa's Shui'er girl.
Li Gouwa went crazy looking for it, but found nothing after all.
Time is like an arrow, and time is like a shuttle.
Half a year later, Li Gouwa, who ran errands and delivered things to the shopkeeper of the shop, finally found the Shui'er girl at a Yapo who domesticated Yangzhou thin horses.
At that time, she was huddled around a group of girls her age, and Ya Po was reprimanding a girl a few years older than them. The woman shoved a white cat into the girl's pants and whipped it with a thin bamboo pole.
Li Gouwa knows that it is a means used by Ya Po to deal with those disobedient girls, the more Ya Po fights, the more the white cat moves, the more fierce the scratch, the more unbearable those girls are, and finally humming and chirping can only be from her training, no longer to be a "fake serious" good family woman, but to be a personal husband, as long as you give money, you can obediently obey the style.
Li Gouwa knew this, he didn't want to see Miss Shui'er's body also tortured by the white cat.
So, he threw down the dozen or so bounties he got from Ya Po and rushed up to save his Shui'er girl.
It was the most irrational madness in his life, and as for the result, he was naturally easily stopped by a few janitors not far away, and then punched and kicked.
The girl was protecting his body when he was beaten, and was kicked twice by those guys, and blood oozed from the corners of her mouth. Ya Po felt sorry for this cash cow and didn't want to kill anyone, so she asked someone to drag the girl away, and then threw Li Gouwa out to be finished.
The girl cried like a tearful person, and Li Gouwa barked like a mad dog.
But to no avail.
Li Gouwa was thrown out like this, and he lay on the ground and gasped for a while before he could get up, but after he stood up, he didn't smash the door of the Ya Po again.
Miss Shui'er stuffed a handkerchief for him.
If she wants to sell her girls for a good price, she must learn to do what she likes and teach them what the dignitaries like.
So, Ya Po taught the girl how to read, read, and even walk.
Miss Shui'er brought a small poem to the handkerchief that Li Gouwa had.
Li Gouwa couldn't understand it horizontally and vertically, and finally asked for the old Xiucai in Wuyi Alley, and the silk was written with a fly-headed Xiaokai that belonged to that girlish charm:
"You should be a rock,
The concubine is regarded as a pampas reed.
The reed is as tough as silk,
There is no transfer of the rock. ”
Lao Xiucai explained, Li Gouwa knew, Miss Shui'er was waiting for him, and asked him to redeem her!
This poem aroused Li Gouwa's fighting spirit, he worked as a helper for the landlord, ran errands for the shop, solicited customers for private prostitutes, and listened to the old Xiucai's private school when he had nothing to do.
He was desperately trying to save money. He thought everything could change.
But after two years like this, Li Gouwa, who was full of joy, waited for a piece of yellow paper from Miss Shui'er.
"The rock is square and thick,
It can die for a thousand years.
Pu Wei is tenacious for a while,
And it was all over the place. ”
Compared with two years ago, this word is not bad, it is more upright and beautiful, but it makes Li Gouwa's heart fall to the bottom all of a sudden, and she is disheartened.
This piece of yellow paper is like a letter of resignation from the Shui'er girl to Li Gouwa, Li Gouwa held the yellow paper, hid under the old tree, howled and cried, and in a few days, there was a beggar in Wuyi Lane of Zhuque Bridge.
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The two entangled lines of cause and effect, when Wu Sizi received Su Qingwan's yellow paper, began to part ways, folded in two completely opposite directions, and gradually drifted apart.
Su Qingwan, who was on the ladder, finally recalled those lost memories of Li Gouwa.
It turned out that when she was panicked every day at Yapo's place, she met Li Gouwa.
It turned out that he not only gave her black steamed buns to eat, but also went crazy and came to save her as if he wanted to die.
It turned out that she had made that agreement with him.
It's just that the agreement turned out to be empty and a dream bubble.
He thought she was treacherous, willing to be a livestock, and willing to be a thin Yangzhou horse driven by people.
But only she knew that she wanted him to forget her, and she didn't want him to do any more useless work, because even if he earned a lifetime of hard money, he couldn't buy himself from Yapo, and the money for a rich and noble family to buy a concubine was something that they poor people couldn't earn in their lives.
So, she decided to escape on her own. And if you choose to escape, once you are discovered, you will inevitably die, and you will be used by Ya Po to kill chickens and monkeys to show those girls, and you will be beaten to death.
She had seen a girl who had escaped, and when she was captured, she was stripped naked, hung in the backyard, and whipped to death by Ya Po.
When he died, he did not have a good piece of meat on his body.
But, even so, she still had to escape.
She thought that if she escaped, she could explain everything to him, and if she failed to escape and was beaten to death, then he could also think that she had never been a person in this world, and forget her "thin lover" with peace of mind.
It's just that she escaped, but for some reason, she can't remember the past anymore, and she can't remember the "Li Dog Baby".
It seems that someone deleted the person "Li Gouwa" in her mind.
Providence makes people, and creation makes people.
"I have not failed anyone. ”
Su Qingwan opened her eyes, untied the knot in her heart, got rid of the entangled control of the demon above her head, and took the step that she hadn't taken for a long time.
She began to move again, and her golden scale test was far from over.
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