Chapter 4 Birds fall into the dust, wading through the storm without doubt
The moon is like water, and everything is silent, and it was originally a good night for sleep. However, on such a night when the moon was shining and the breeze was blowing, the young man lying on the bamboo bed had insomnia.
Until dawn, the awakening was still half-asleep and half-awake. In a trance, the ecstasy under the bright moon and beside the green bamboo last night was still echoing in his mind repeatedly, just like the faint afterfragrance in the house, which could not be lingered. When the rooster crows three times, and the dark window gradually becomes white, it is like a drunken boy gradually sobering up. At this time, the thought that had long been hidden in his heart quietly surfaced in his heart when he wanted to know in the East: although the four blasphemous goddesses Lingyi were full of affection for him, but he said that he could really unscrupulously absorb this tenderness? After all, she was the noble princess of the Four Desecrated Dragon Clan, and she could not climb high no matter what. Regardless of the others, the barrier between man and god alone is like a world of difference, and it is almost impossible for the two of them to have a common future.
Thinking of this, the young man who tasted love for the first time was a little sad: "...... Why do you want me to be clear about these things? Why do you have to take her into your arms after I understand it?"
So the originally sweet memories now seeped into a hint of bitterness. When the sky was bright outside the window and the birds were singing everywhere, the young man who had not slept well all night continued to think of his life's event: since it is almost impossible for himself and the dragon clan goddess, whose lifelong event will fall on the girl in the future?
Thinking of this great event of passing on the incense, the filial boy combed all the girls he knew. It's a pity that after thinking about it repeatedly, Xingyan helplessly found that in the end, it seemed that only the cold woman in his own hall could barely become the object of his future wife.
Thinking of this, the insomniac, who was already a little dazed, continued to think: "Woo...... Xue Yi is good, people's hearts are good, and they are good to me. It is...... In the eyes of the world, she is a monster elf. Although the dragon girl once helped to prevaricate, when the real one wants to marry a wife, I am afraid that the elders in her sect will oppose it......"
"However, it doesn't matter if you oppose it! Don't let me marry Xueyi, can you help me find a more suitable one?"
Just when my mind was dazed and I was thinking a little unboundedly, I suddenly heard a soft knock on the door, and then there was a soft footsteps.
"Who?"
Hearing that someone had entered the house, the young man with a keen sense immediately opened his eyes and quickly turned over and got up—only to see that the person who pushed the door into the room was none other than Miss Kou Xue Yikou, who was thinking crankily just now. Now she is carrying a basin of water and walking lightly to the desk, gently putting it down, ready to wash herself.
Unlike in the past, seeing this commonplace girl at this moment, the bold young man's face was slightly hot. At this time, Xingyan realized that he didn't feel like it when he closed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes and saw the blue sky and white daylight, he realized how ridiculous some ideas were.
Of course, the pretty woman in front of her, who had just been seriously considered by the teenager, didn't know the many reasons in between. Seeing the hall master get up, he was stunned, and Xue Yi only thought that he had just gotten up, and his sleepiness had not disappeared, and his mind had not yet fully awakened. So, she turned slightly sideways to Xingyan, and then tiptoed and walked out of the door gently.
Seeing her such a gentle and soft posture, the Lord of the Four Seas, who had completely cleared his mind, couldn't help but be in a daze again.
This morning, after walking around Yuping City, I woke up and saw that the county town that had been affected by the disaster was really much less angry. Having mercy on the people in distress, he went to a porridge factory set up by the government and donated all the silver taels he had with the servants. Along the way, I heard that Yuping County, like other counties in the county, has used up all the relief grain that the government can use. At present, in order to help the poor, the government of Yuping County can only buy rice from those grain merchants at a higher price.
After listening to these news, although Xingyan felt that these grain merchants were a little unjust, he also strongly felt that the county governance of these subordinate counties in Yulin County was obviously very clear. It can be seen that as long as those businessmen do not take the opportunity to raise prices and continue to do business normally, the government will not take advantage of the situation to bully others, and will buy from them at market prices.
I saw the scene of the porridge factory soup kitchen, and then I was excited by the Taoist heart of the people of the world, and when I walked out of the porridge factory, I was slightly sobered by the breeze, only to find that I had more than 20 taels of silver on my body, and I had unconsciously donated all the essence.
Holding the empty purse, he knew that he had to plan for the future of the three of them. When I think of making money, my first thought is naturally to return to my old business and draw some town house talismans to sell. Who knows, as soon as the painting talisman was mentioned to sell for money, Xiao Qiongwei immediately remembered the scene when she met her brother, so she suggested that it would be better for everyone to go to the street to perform together, so that she could know why her brother said that she shouldn't splash water to tease the uncle who was selling art.
Awakening is also the heart of a young man, listening to Qiong Wei's proposal, he immediately agreed. For him, although his spells are strong now, since he was a child, he felt that those street performers were particularly capable. Now that Qiong Wei has proposed, let's simply try it for myself, and I have fulfilled a long-cherished wish from my childhood. Immediately, Xingyan explained some necessary matters to Qiong Wei Xueyi, and then led them to find a street with a dense compound of high-rise buildings, and prepared to start performing in this relatively prosperous area.
To say that this Shangqing Hall Master is different from those other reserved high-ranking disciples, doing these market behaviors is just a familiar way for him. When he arrived at the ground, Xingyan borrowed a wide-mouthed iron plate from the owner of the tea shed in a tea shed on the side of the street, and let Xue Yi hold it, ready to beg for money at the end of the show. found an open place on the side of the street, picked up a broken tile randomly, and drew a large circle with a diameter of two or three feet on the bluestone ground, and then imitated the opening remarks of those performing arts, shouting at the top of his throat.
Listening to his dark shout, he soon gathered some people to watch. When the onlookers were almost gathered, Xingyan was ready to start the official performance.
is different from the usual performing arts, Xingyan is not ready to perform any masked flying knives and chest smashing boulders this time. After talking about the cutscenes, he asked Qiong Wei to fight with him. The little girl danced with two small blades, and he greeted him with the ancient sword, and in a blink of an eye, the two brothers and sisters fought together.
For Xingyan, the fight between herself and Qiong Wei is just a move that she often practices when she teases, and the two have a very tacit understanding. But this battle is really a real gun, but it is a different atmosphere in the eyes of others: the smart Jiaona Xiaoyuwa in the field, wearing a flaming red shirt, two round buns on the left and right corners of her head, each tied with a fan tapestry; whenever she points the tip of the boy's arm or sword, she jumps into the air with the help of the force to hit the self-created "Flying Bird Chop", the long hairband will fly left and right, really like a bird with fluttering feathers, and the flowers and willows keep shuttling around the teenager, which is dazzling and dizzying.
Although Yuping is also a big county, the flying sword dance like Qiong Wei is by no means comparable to ordinary children of the rivers and lakes. At the first sight of such a splendid attack, the crowd of onlookers immediately erupted in cheers, and listening to the applause, idlers came from all directions, and more and more people watched around the field.
It's just that as the sound of the brother and sister slashing in the field became faster and faster, the cheers of the crowd gradually subsided. Now all the onlookers are sweating for the cute little girl: although the little girl is flexible, the young man who is against her is obviously strong. Often he just waved casually, and the little girl was hit with a knife and flew into the sky.
"Such a cute little girl, he can do it!"
The teenager who performed didn't know that many people were dissatisfied with him. Contrary to watching street performances in the past, these onlookers of Yuping residents now look forward to the end of this performance when they watch this real performance.
Fortunately, after a chaotic sound of "ding ding", this terrifying fight finally came to an end. Seeing that the little girl landed safely, all the onlookers, including the few ruffians who wanted to extort money, all breathed a sigh of relief. And what made them happy was that the next performances of these young people from other towns were not as thrilling as just now.
According to the pre-agreed program, Qiong Wei danced her pair of Vermilion Bird Blades alone. Rao is now the sun is strong, everyone can still see clearly, the little girl only puffed up her pink cheeks and blew twice, and her two short blades suddenly burst into flames, and the red light shone brightly, which was very distinct.
Seeing this scene, everyone felt quite familiar. In the past, eighty percent of those street performers would also perform this fire-breathing trick. It's just that now it's performed by this jade-like little girl, and it has a different flavor. In the end, when Xiao Qiong cleared his voice and summoned a pair of divine blades into two vermilion birds with brilliant fire feathers, the crowd suddenly erupted in a cheer that shook the sky. Everyone was amazed in their hearts: they had never seen such a realistic trick!
And the scene of these two red-shadowed firebird birds flying around the little girl is so moving, but it makes the real swordsmanship performance of the master of the Four Seas Hall not so brilliant later. When he finished his swordsmanship, the three of them would complete their showmanship. Next, Xue Yi held the iron plate and went around to collect the reward money voluntarily given by the onlookers. To know whether the brother and sister's hard performance just now was successful, when they received the reward, they would immediately know: the sound of money falling on the iron plate was endless, and the young man who was sweating on his sideburns was like hearing the sound of heaven, and he couldn't stop laughing for a while!
When Xue Yi was walking around, holding an iron plate to collect money, the few scoundrels in the crowd who used to blackmail foreigners had a different mind. These bold and reckless snakes are now salivating at the corners of their mouths, smiling all over their faces, thinking about whether they should tease this very beautiful little lady by the way when they extort money later.
Before the crooked idea was finished, the pretty woman in white with a gentle demeanor walked up to him as he spoke. It's just that the next thing made these evil spirits unforgettable: as soon as they put on an evil form, the woman in white in front of her froze for a moment, as if she had some kind of induction; before they could speak, they only felt a burst of cold air coming, and it was cold to the bones in an instant, as if the whole person was frozen!
On a scorching July day, how could there be such a feeling like falling into an ice cave? When his heart was cold, the leading cheeky man raised his eyes and saw a pair of cold and snowy eyes, staring at him coldly.
"Be a long one!"
So I heard only a series of crisp sounds, and a dozen copper coins, which obediently fell from the hands of its stingy owner into the iron plate.
It wasn't until the figure in the white dress walked away and walked to the opposite side to ask for a reward that these splashes woke up like a dream, and moved slightly, and found that the frozen blood and bones seemed to be back to normal. After eating this fright, how dare these few broken green skins think about it again, they glanced at each other, and then desperately retreated and squeezed out of the crowd, hugging their heads and running away!
"Hall Master, all the money you earned just now is here. ”
Bing Xue Mei Ling, who made the strongman frightened, now has a gentle face, hands over the iron plate containing the money, and softly asks his hall master to take a look.
took the iron plate handed by Xue Yi, looked at the pile of money bulging in the plate, and said that he was smiling. Stretched out his hand and dialed it slightly, feeling a lot, and was about to praise it, but suddenly heard a cry of "wow". When he heard the sound, he saw Qiong Wei standing in front of a woman with a child in her hand, not knowing what she was saying, and the child in her hand was crying out.
It turned out that seeing Qiong Wei so cute, this old lady who came to see the excitement with her grandson was very fond of it, and called the little girl to come to her to give a special reward, and after taking a closer look, she couldn't help but snatch the string of sugar gourds from her precious grandson's hand and give it to this little girl like a pink jade to eat. Needless to say, her grandson cried "wow" in response.
Seeing him crying, the sensible little Qiong Wei immediately handed the sugar gourd in his hand back to the sad little brother, although Qiong Wei felt that this string of sugar gourds must be delicious.
When the little boy took the sugar gourd returned by his eldest sister, he was still a little sobbing, and Qiong Wei stood on tiptoe and reached out to stroke the child's soft hair. As soon as her little hand touched her hair, the three or four-year-old boy immediately stopped crying and began to concentrate on sucking the sugar gourd that he had been reluctant to eat.
Seeing him like this, Xiao Qiongwei was very happy, and asked, "Old woman, is such a well-behaved little brother your child?"
Hearing her question, the old woman replied kindly, "He is not my child, but my precious grandson, born to my son and daughter-in-law." ”
"Really, it's so cute!"
Looking at the child in front of him who was sucking a sugar gourd, Qiong Wei was very envious, and muttered to himself: "If I also have such a cute little brother, call me sister every day, it would be nice if I could take care of it......"
When she was talking to herself, the little girl's heart suddenly moved, remembering what her brother said on the street the day before yesterday, she was suddenly overjoyed, and asked seriously: "Old woman, can you tell Qiong Wei that a child daughter-in-law can also have children?"
——Said that it was too late, as soon as the little girl "child daughter-in-law" came out, a person in the middle of the field secretly screamed "not good", cold sweat trickled down, and immediately handed the things in his hand to the woman in front of him, and with a little hello, he separated the crowd, and the royal qi ran away, and ran away without a trace!
And when the innocent girl asked and looked back for her brother happily, she found that her cousin's brother had suddenly disappeared. When she was hurriedly looking for it, her sister Xue Yi told her that the hall master had something to do, so she had already taken a step forward and went to the noodle restaurant that she had passed by on South Street to take a seat for them, and asked them to go later.
The gossip was skimmed, and when Qiong Wei Xueyi rushed to the noodle restaurant and found their hall master, she found that he had a serious face. Seeing her brother's rare serious expression, Xiao Qiongwei didn't know what was going on, and forgot what she was eager to ask just now.
Seeing that she was speechless, she just looked at herself with a confused face, and the young man with a ghost in his heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Maintaining a serious appearance, he said that he divided the money he had just obtained into three stacks, saying that the money was earned by the cooperation of the three people, and now it should be divided equally. After speaking, without waiting for the second daughter to react, he began to concentrate on counting the copper coins.
Seeing the hall master's serious appearance, Xue Yiqiongwei didn't know why, so she had to quietly watch him count the money taels.
At this moment of silence, he suddenly heard the curtain of the noodle restaurant sound, and suddenly rushed into several county soldiers with swords and swords. Look at their posture, they actually came straight to Xingyan and a few people. Feeling the menacing momentum of these uninvited guests, he said that he didn't care about counting the money, so he quickly stood up and stretched out his hand to draw his sword. As soon as his hand was on the hilt of the sword, he saw these healthy soldiers in front of him, and he bowed down and said, "This young man, my master is invited!"