【089】Sixteen-year-old fireworks
The water in the pot was already boiling, and there were bursts ......of white gas. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Yuan Xiaoguan's heart was boiling and jumping like the water in the pot. Just knock on a door and you can meet Emei Patriarch, although there is a blessing source of 60 points, but this luck is too against the sky!
"Boy, do you want to boil the water dry?" asked Guo Xiang as he sat at the door, without looking back.
"Ahh Looking left and right, I found that there was a basket of wild vegetables-like things in the bamboo building in the corner, and I took it out and smelled it, but it was Houttuynia cordata, and the roots were still carrying fresh soil, which seemed to have just been dug up. The scene of Guo Xiang, who is in his 70s, bending over and digging wild vegetables in the ridges of the field, suddenly came to mind. An inexplicable sadness rushed straight up, his nose was sour, and in just a moment, his eyes turned red.
In the novel, Guo Xiang is kind, innocent, heroic and generous, and is a character that Yuan Xiaoguan likes very much, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the favorite. But the impression in his mind is the innocent and pretty fragrance in Xiangyang City, the boldness of the golden hairpin wine at the Fengling Ferry, the pretty face of the fireworks when he was sixteen years old, and the promise of life and death at the bottom of the valley. But it is not as desolate as it is now, with a red face and an old woman's sideburns.
You're sitting at the door, looking so lonely, are you thinking about that person?
The troubles on your brow and the misery at the corners of your mouth are because of the loneliness that you can't ask for in your life?
You've only lived for sixteen years, and the rest of your time is spent chasing that moment of splendor, is it worth it?
At this time, Guo Xiang's voice came from the door again: "That's Houttuynia cordata, people who are not used to it can't stand the smell, if you don't like it, there are pickles in the jar next to you, take a little out and eat." ”
"It's okay, I've eaten Houttuynia cordata, I like it. Yuan Xiaoguan replied, scooped up a scoop of water, began to wash the vegetables, washed for a while, looked up at Guo Xiang, and saw that the aura between her eyebrows was like a peerless style, and she couldn't help but want to talk to her, "Mother-in-law, are you living here alone?"
Guo Xiang said: "I have just come here, and I will stay here for a few days, and I will leave in a short time." ”
Yuan Xiaoguan asked, "Where are you going?" As soon as the words came out, he regretted it, Guo Xiang had been looking for half her life, if she knew where to go, how could she be depressed all day long, the fireworks sixteen years ago had already blinded her eyes, so that she couldn't see the direction clearly.
Sure enough, when Guo Xiang heard this, his expression became lonely, he took a sip of wine, and did not answer, and for a while there was only the crackling sound of firewood in the room.
Yuan Xiaoguan blamed himself in his heart: "Yuan Xiaoguan, Yuan Xiaoguan, he has more than 90 points of understanding in vain, why don't you open which pot to mention?" He didn't dare to ask some sensitive questions, so he could only find some irrelevant topics, such as mother-in-law, have you eaten, how to eat Houttuynia cordata, do you like to eat chili peppers, how many households are there in the village......
Guo Xiang replied lightly, and finally said impatiently: "Mouthy little guy, cook with peace of mind." ”
Seeing that Guo Xiang didn't want to speak, Yuan Xiaoguan had to stop his mouth. But seeing her sad thoughts, I couldn't bear it, and I thought of ways to distract her, dancing a few times with a spoon, deliberately knocking the iron pot loudly, and spilling chili powder everywhere. Guo Xiang never looked back, and he turned the world upside down. Yuan Xiaoguan had no choice but to speak: "Mother-in-law, where is the kitchen knife?
Guo Xiang didn't look back and said, "Don't you have a knife on your waist?"
"Ahh ”
Guo Xiang was really aroused and asked, "Are you from the martial arts, who is your master?"
Yuan Xiaoguan secretly said that the Blood Knife Ancestor had a bad reputation, but don't say it to anger Guo Xiang, so he said vaguely: "I am a teacher of the Western Regions Tantric Sect. ”
"Western Regions Tantra, what do you and the Golden Wheel Dharma King call you?"
Yuan Xiaoguan remembered that Guo Xiang once knew the Golden Wheel Dharma King, so he said: "If you really want to count, the Golden Wheel Dharma King is under the uncle." ”
The corners of Guo Xiang's mouth twitched, glanced at Yuan Xiaoguan, and said angrily: "Kid is talking nonsense, how old are you, how can you be the nephew of the Golden Wheel Dharma King?"
Yuan Xiaoguan also thought of this, and said with a smile: "Yes! Yes! Mother-in-law is right, boy, I'm talking nonsense." ”
Guo Xiang glanced at him and said angrily: "Your kid's eyes are rolling, full of ghost ideas, which sentence is true and which sentence is false?"
Yuan Xiaoguan thought to himself that Guo Xiang had been heroic and uninhibited since he was a child, daring to love and hate, and I would not like her to hide it like this, so he simply said that he had inherited the Blood Knife Ancestor, as well as the relationship between the Blood Knife Ancestor and the Golden Wheel Dharma King, and finally explained: "I don't know if you have heard of my master's name, to be honest, although he has done a lot of bad things in the past and is not a good person, but now he has reformed himself and is no longer evil." ”
Guo Xiang was surprised when he heard this, and stretched out his crutches to Yuan Xiaoguan's wrist: "Dragon Elephant is like a skill! What you said is true?" She never expected that this little guy was really the same generation as herself, and his personality was very right with herself, so she couldn't help but feel a little close. So he smiled: "I don't know much about your master, but you dare to say that your master is not a good person?
Since the meeting, this is the first time to see Guo Xiangxiao, Yuan Xiaoguan felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart, cut the sweet potatoes with a few knives and poured them into the pot, simply walked to the door and sat with her, and said: "Of course I respect and thank the master! But right is right, wrong is wrong! I can't say good things about him with a clear conscience because of respect and gratitude to the master, I don't agree with his previous practice." ”
"If you don't approve of what he is doing, you will disobey him and go against his will, how can you respect him and be grateful to him? If he asks you to do something bad, do you agree or refuse?"
"I won't refuse or disobey him to his face, but I will find a way to get him to change his mind, or use another way to achieve his wishes. ”
"If your master's will is to do bad things, wouldn't it be abetting the abuse if you help him achieve it?"
Yuan Xiaoguan said: "People's willingness to do something is often not the thing itself. For example, if my master wants to kill someone, then it may be because this person is a threat to him, or because he is bored, then I can solve this threat in other ways, or let the master not feel bored, then the master will not kill people. And there are two sides to everything, there is no absolute good or bad thing, but different processes or means to achieve the end will cause different effects. I will judge according to my own standards, try to avoid the bad influence, and amplify the good influence. ”
"What is your standard for judging good and bad?"
Yuan Xiaoguan thought about it, a flash of inspiration flashed in his heart, he stood up and said loudly: "What I admire the most is Guo Jing Guo Daxia who guarded Xiangyang at the beginning, he once said, 'The great man of chivalry is for the country and the people', so 'for the country and the people' is my standard." ”
When Guo Xiang heard this, he was stunned for a while, and finally smiled slightly and said: "Heroes for the country and the people, the rice in your pot is almost gone." ”
"Huh?" Yuan Xiaoguan didn't keep up with her turn for a while, and it took half a second to react, and hurriedly put the porridge in the pot. Mix the houttuynia with salt, scoop up a few pieces of pickles, serve the rice to the table, and respectfully invite Guo Xiang to sit down and eat.
Guo Xiang ate a small amount, put down the chopsticks after eating a few bites, saw Yuan Xiaoguan eating happily, showed a kind smile on his face, and talked with Yuan Xiaoguan with a pleasant face. She has been alone for so many years, and it has been a long time since she has chatted with someone so pleasantly. She originally loved to make friends and chat, and under this chat, there was a tendency for the Yellow River to flood, and she couldn't stop at all. After asking Yuan Xiaoguan if he was drinking, the two chatted while drinking, and chatted for nearly two hours, and the sense of alienation gradually disappeared, and finally there was a feeling of forgetting the New Year.
“...... I just said that you can persuade your master to change his mind, I have also heard a little about the Blood Knife Ancestor, and I heard that he ...... I heard that he was greedy and lustful...... "Speaking of this, I don't think it's appropriate, this Yuan Xiaoguan is still a child, how can he understand this, so he immediately waved his hand and said, "Forget it, when I didn't say it." ”
Yuan Xiaoguan immediately understood what she meant, scratched his head and said: "I know what you want to ask, mother-in-law, but the master is really, and he has done a lot of angry things in previous years, but after my persuasion, he has reformed himself." ”
Guo Xiang was known as the "Little East Evil" when he was young, and he didn't pay much attention to secular etiquette, but now when he is happy, he has become elf and eccentric again. She winked at Yuan Xiaoguan and smiled narrowly: "Oh, you know so much at a young age, how can you persuade me?"
Yuan Xiaoguan was laughed at like this, his face unconsciously burned, and he said loudly: "Understand is understand, what's the matter? Anyway, I told him, 'It's not that the two are happy, even if you get it, you won't be happy, and you will hurt others and yourself' or something. ”
"It's not that the two are happy, even if you get it, you won't be happy, and you will hurt others and yourself......" Guo Xiang repeated Yuan Xiaoguan's words, and suddenly remembered his own thoughts, and sat on the bench in a daze, as if he was crazy for a while.
Yuan Xiaoguan was shocked to realize that he had touched her, and asked cautiously: "Mother-in-law, what's wrong with you?
Guo Xiang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I'm tired, you clean up and rest." With that, he got up and walked to the bedroom.
Yuan Xiaoguan sighed, of course he knew what Guo Xiang was thinking, and now asking her was just to help her relieve her boredom.
After washing the dishes and chopsticks, I looked around but didn't see a place to sleep, thinking that I wasn't going to sleep tonight anyway, and I had to secretly go back to the city in the middle of the night, so I found some dry straw from the demolished house and spread it on the ground, and sat cross-legged to breathe.
was recuperating in the room, but he heard Guo Xiang's voice from the bedroom: "Boy, what's your name?"
Yuan Xiaoguan thought about it and reported his real name.
"Your name is Yuan Xiaoguan, who does the Murong family want to dispose of quickly?" Guo Xiang's voice was full of surprise.
"yes. ”
"Tell me your name, aren't you afraid that I'll hurt you for the sake of the bounty order?"
Yuan Xiaoguan said: "I know mother-in-law, you are a good person and will not harm me." ”
There was silence in the bedroom for a while, and Guo Xiang said, "It's cold outside, you come in and warm up." ”
Yuan Xiaoguan hesitated: "Mother-in-law, I'm afraid this is not good." ”
I only heard Guo Xiang say angrily: "If you are told to come in, you will come in, what is the taboo of people and ghosts?"
Yuan Xiaoguan opened the curtain at this time, but saw that it was not an imaginary bedroom at all, but an empty room, and there were three rows of lights and candles neatly placed on the ground, four in each row, with a total of 12 lamps and candles. There were several futons placed between the lamps and candles, and Guo Xiang was sitting on one of them, his eyes closed as if he was meditating.
Hearing Yuan Xiaoguan come in, Guo Xiang pointed to the corner of the house and said, "There is no bed in the house, so you can make a bunk over there." ”
Yuan Xiaoguan said: "Since you want to practice, I won't bother, I'll sleep outside." ”
Guo Xiang opened his eyes and frowned: "Since you call me a senior, you should obediently listen to the senior." ”
Yuan Xiaoguan said "oh", found a futon and sat down: "I have to go out tonight, so I won't sleep, I'll sit for a while and leave." ”
Guo Xiang smiled and said, "What are you doing when you go out in the middle of the night?
Yuan Xiaoguan was embarrassed: "Mother-in-law, what do you say? You still ...... to lose?"
"Or what? Little ghost, did you already know my identity? Hmph, as soon as you entered the door, you stared at me for a long time, deliberately making some noise to attract my attention, when I didn't know?
Yuan Xiaoguan saw that Guo Xiang was sure and knew that he couldn't deny it, so he had to confess: "I do know your identity, but I don't have any intention to please you, but ......."
"Huh?" Guo Xiang stared at Yuan Xiaoguan, snorting in question, "And what?"
"Rather...... I don't want to see you preoccupied and depressed. ”
Guo Xiang was stunned and twisted his head to the side: "Little ghost, how old are you, you know what is on my mind, did the Golden Wheel Dharma King tell you something?"
Yuan Xiaoguan didn't answer, went to the firewood room to find a piece of charcoal, walked to Guo Xiang and sat down, bowed his head and wrote on the ground:
The mountains don't speak when you walk through them, and the sea doesn't speak when you pass by the sea.
You sit on the donkey step by step, ticking and ticking, and the one you carry is hoarse.
People say that you are looking for wandering the world and can't find it, so you became a monk in Emei.
Actually, you just like the fog of Emei, like the fireworks that bloomed when you were sixteen.
Guo Xiang looked at it, was stunned for a while, pouted, and his eyes gradually filled with fog.