Chapter 17 Five Quest.9

Wu Kui couldn't sit still in the house anymore, he walked indiscriminately in the village alleys, seeing nothing pleasing to the eye, seeing chickens chasing chickens, seeing dogs beating dogs, yelling and even fighting when others said a word.The people in Jigongzhai thought he was crazy, complaining that the pulse of this place was not right, and there were some unbelievable people.Just when the villagers were so confused and frightened, one night, the Liu family's three tall piles of fodder grain and grass caught fire on the big field at the entrance of the village.The flames were so bright that the soaring fireworks enveloped Jigong Village, making half of the sky red.The young and the old, the male and female servants of the Liu family cried and called the villagers to put out the fire. Everyone in the Jigong village was busy like ants, but one person slipped into the Liu family compound in the fuss and went straight to the young master's bedroom.

Pushing open the door, the young master noticed it first, he opened his mouth to shout, but someone punched him, and the fleshy lump passed out there.Turning around, the woman was lying on the other bed, and the moon shining through the window sills made her as beautiful as cold jade. He held the edge of the bed and smiled at her, but tears flowed down his face. "Wu Kui, did you set the fire?" The woman was smart, the woman said. Wu Kui nodded. "Are you just here to see me? You really don't want your life!" said the woman, stretching out her hand to touch Wukui's wide forehead and bridge of nose, "Go back quickly, let them find out that you will really disappear Fate."

Wu Kui said, "I'm here to take you away!" The woman said: "It's too late, it's too late, I have become like this, I already think I am dead. Wukui, I can't hurt you anymore, you go away!" Wu Kui straightened up suddenly, and said, "If I want to take you away, I will take you away!" Wrapping the four corners of the quilt with both hands, the woman was wrapped in the quilt, and arched hard, her body was already under the quilt, Taking advantage of the situation, he put his hands back and walked along the door. Wu Kui carried the woman to a deep forest.

The mountain was high and the moon was small, so he turned into a ditch and went straight to the mountain beams on both sides, getting lower and narrower, and finally they almost merged into one. It's noon.Feeling that the birds are flying in the sky and the fish are swimming in the bottom of the sea, the Liu family will not be able to find them. They sat down to rest, and ate a piece of cornmeal pancake that they carried in their arms when they ran away from home. Both of them felt that they had no strength to take another step. up.What is this place?After crossing this dark mountain, where will it be?The woman asked Wu Kui, but Wu Kui was also at a loss for an answer.No matter where you go, where does the loess not support people?Wu Kui put down the woman and wanted to go to a place where he could not see or smell to relieve his hand. He was surprised to find a mountain temple that had almost collapsed with only four walls. The old cypress, the bridge on the stream behind the temple has been broken, leaving a piece of rotten wood along the stream, and a vulture lying on the ground, as dumb as a stone, dropped a stream of white dung very loudly.Wu Kui suddenly gained strength in his limbs, jumping up and down like a child:

"We have a place to live!" The woman's eyes also lit up: "Where is it?" Wukui said: "There is a mountain temple over there! Since there is a temple, there must have been people who lived there before, and there are living people who have lived here. We will not die if we live here!" Carry the woman on her back, and drill through the forest and weeds. The woman's body, quilt, and hair are covered with a small thorny grass fruit.Wu Kui pointed to the ancient temple and said that although there is no roof, some trees are cut to build rafters, and the small curtains made of straw on the thatch are tiles.

Look, isn't it possible to draw water from the stream by going down the path behind the temple?The large piece of weeds that buried the feet must be the land that has been reclaimed before. After reclaiming, isn’t it just planting wheat to reap corn and reaping cobs?The birds in the woods will come to sing to you, you will never be lonely again, the wild flowers will be gathered on the slopes and pinned on your head, and the butterflies can fly to see your beauty.The grass is so soft, when the sun comes out and you sleep here, you will watch how the clouds turn into kittens and puppies from one side of the mountain to the other side of the mountain, and we can raise chickens, sheep and cattle, you Lie down and watch how I yell to plow the field. If yellow sheep and pheasants come, watch how I will knock them down and make broth for you to drink...

Wu Kui spoke very excitedly. In his mind, the image of a quiet life in the future appeared for a while. After leaving Liu's house, his temperament of a diligent woman came back again, saying: "You don't believe it? You just believe it." Well, I have strength, I will never let you die if I won’t die, do you believe it?” The woman said: "I believe you, but I'm hungry, do you have any more cake?" Wu Kui fished out a piece of dry biscuit from his bosom, untied his belt and searched again, but the biscuit was gone, but a small ax fell out.The ax was used by Wu Kui for self-defense when he was preparing to enter Liu's house. He was safe and sound all the way, and he almost forgot to bring the ax with him.

Although Wu Kui was comforting the woman and said so much that it seemed like a peaceful place to live, why didn't he know that all this was just a matter of the future when he said this?Now, he carried her to a remote place, freedom is freedom, but what to eat?How do you sleep at night?It would be fine if he was alone, but with a woman like young mistress who was rescued by him as a hero, could she be allowed to starve to death and freeze to death in the mountains? ! The woman looked at Wu Kui who was in a hurry, and she smiled: "I'm not hungry, really, I'm not hungry!"

Wu Kui didn't answer her words, he felt sour for some reason, he was a little ashamed, but he didn't want her to see his embarrassment, so he tried to look away.He saw white clouds standing over the mountains in the distance.Wu Kui put the ax back on his belt and said, "You sit still, I'll be right back!" He went, and he came back with a huge pile of mountain peaches.Mountain peaches are not big, and their color is very red and tender.Wu Kui couldn't bring more, it was the old trousers worn by Young Master Liu who took off his coat, and tied the trousers with rattan, and Tao put a herringbone on it.Wu Kui didn't know how to read and write, and didn't know the benefits of 人字, but he regarded it as a bag on the donkey's back, and when he came back with it on his neck, he said, "I am the queen mother's donkey, and I will bring you flat peaches!"

There was something to eat, but Wukui didn't eat it. He went to chop trees for rafters amidst the loud sound of the woman chewing.I chose a kind of castanopsis that is not thick but extremely straight, and the ax was chopped down below, and the sparse golden leaves on the top of the tree fell.The leaves fall like butterflies, swirling and swirling countless semi-arcs.The woman remembered the scene of throwing stones into the water in Qingshuitan when she was a child, and shouted: "I want the leaves!" There was a brilliant golden glow. With incredible energy, Wu Kui cut down more than a dozen castan trees and put them on the wall. Because there was no rope, everything was tied with kudzu. He crawled from the top of the wall and the wooden rafters with his hands and feet, and the woman was underneath. Repeatedly reminded to be careful, but Wukui didn't want to walk straight up. Several times his legs swayed and fell off, but when he fell down, his hands finally grabbed the rafters. The woman yelled and even changed her face. To frighten him, Wu Kui said, "I'm teasing you!" Then weaved the branches and thatch into a curtain, and put thatch on it layer by layer, and a small nest house for shelter was formed.The woman asked Wukui to carry her to the house to have a look. Wukui said there was no rush, so he cut down countless thin tree sticks, planted them in rows on the floor of the house, and then put the soft sticks upright and horizontally. The branches were woven up, then covered with thatch and leaves, and Wu Kui carried the woman over and threw her up. The woman jumped a few times when she was bounced, and exclaimed in surprise, "This is a brown bed!"

Wu Kui sang triumphantly, one of which was a nice little tune, then he blinked and said: You should have such a bed.When I was a child, my father told a story about a queen living among the people in ancient times. When the county magistrate searched, there were three women who claimed to be queens. The county magistrate put a pea on the bed, and spread forty-nine quilts for each woman to sleep. , Whoever feels the pain in the body is the queen.Wu Kui also picked up a stone and put it in the thatch. "I'm not a queen!" the woman said with a smile. "But you are young mistress!" Wu Kui said. "I'm not the young mistress! I'm not!" the woman said firmly. Wu Kui was stunned for a moment, and immediately said: "No, it's not the young lady of the Liu family, but you are a Bodhisattva! Can you try out the mat?" The woman said: "My legs are completely paralyzed. You can't even try it with a knife." Wu Kui's heart was stimulated, he lowered his head for a long time and didn't lift it up, so he went out and chopped off the branches fiercely to carry them back, and a boundary wall was erected in the middle of the house. The woman said, "Wu Kui, what are you doing again?" Wu Kui said, "That's your room, and this should be my bedroom." The woman's brows flushed suddenly, and she realized that she was not Wu Kui's wife.Wu Kui is just a poor and lowly shepherd who saved himself, a bachelor.In this barren world, Wu Kui can consciously divide the sleeping nest into two, and the woman is moved by Wu Kui's frankness and sincerity. The red sun fell into the mountain, the crows flew, and the sky soon became dark.Wu Kui arranged for the women to sleep well, lit the turpentine festival, sat beside him and said many heroic words, and told him to sleep peacefully at night, he would be there when the wolf came, he would be there when the bear came, and he would guard the house with an ax On the other side of the boundary wall in the same room, wolves and bears dare not approach.What the woman was worried about was that he didn't have a quilt. Wu Kui said that he would not be cold. He had slept through thatch piles since he was a child, and he had sweet dreams.He also said that he would go down the mountain again tomorrow to get bedding, pots and bowls, and food.The woman looked at the jumping turpentine flames with her big bright eyes, and also at the oily light reflected by the turpentine flames on Wu Kui's black and red face, she said: "Go and rest; Wu Kui!" Brother Que!" Wukui's joints suddenly softened, Ci looked at the woman, and the woman looked at him, Wukui's lips moved, and he stretched out his hands tremblingly, but his hands only tucked the corner of the woman's quilt, and suddenly loosened it. The festival lantern flames were slowly extinguished, and he withdrew lightly to the other side of the boundary wall, and lay down on his own grass. Wu Kui did not light the pine knots in his bedroom, he felt that his world was bigger in the darkness.There is something called poetry in the world that Wu Kui doesn't understand, but Wu Kui feels a kind of excitement and excitement in his heart.The tiredness from working all night and day did not concentrate on his eyelids, and when he sat up, he really felt that falling asleep was too wasteful and let down the night too much.This kind of behavior and thinking has never happened to Wukui. He doesn't understand what happened today. It fulfilled his guilt for a long time, helped the woman relieve the torture, and experienced the protection of the woman for the first time. What about man's abilities? The woman on the other side of the wall murmured for a while, and then all was quiet.The poor woman needs to sleep after a night of terror and fatigue. When she is awake, she is gentle and kind, and when she is asleep, she is as peaceful as a cat, breathing softly.As a bachelor Wukui who loves women, sleeping in the same temple with a beautiful woman at such a night, only a straw wall can hear her breath, smell her breath, Wukui feels very strange and novelty.He slightly twisted his neck and put his head close to the grass wall. As long as he gently moved the knife, he could see Sleeping Beauty in the dim night with the moonlight shining through the gap between the rafters.As soon as this desire arose, Wu Kui was hot all over, stood up in a trance, and moved his feet towards the door, going to the other side of the wall. However, the piece of white light in front of the sleeping nest suddenly disappeared. This white light was transmitted through the grass gaps in the roof. When Wu Kui first fell asleep, he hallucinated that it was a white stone, which was also a white moon that walked in. Now it disappeared, and he was just Putting his body in the white light, he suddenly got a kind of vigilance, thinking that he had received a kind of punishment, and was covered by the light to reveal the evil thoughts in his heart. Wu Kui blamed himself: What is he going to do? ?went Did the other side of the wall hold her down all of a sudden, or knelt beside the bed and begged for alms? Wu Kui decided that the white light was really God's will, and it was an eye of night watching him.What would a woman think of him if he went there?Coercion is completely possible, this woman is his own, but Yingyingxiong rescued her from the Liu family, it turned out to be for himself, this is not like the bandit Tang Jing, Tang Jing and the others rob people and openly say that it is for a Mrs. Yazhai , but I am a rogue who takes advantage of others' distress in the name of saving others! Even if a woman accepts herself happily, what kind of event is this in the rules of the five chiefs? Wu Kui turned around and sat down on the straw shop, and that piece of white light appeared again.The appearance of the white light calmed him down, and he felt that he had landed again from the abyss of crime, and he was thankful that he was a persevering man after all.What followed was Frank Leilei's absurd thought, and his excitement was stronger than before.Just think about it, what kind of role do I have, and now there is a beautiful woman sleeping peacefully under my protection? This is a blessing that all men have never had, even the wealthy Young Master Liu does not have it. A woman sleeps so peacefully and at ease, she is based on absolute trust in herself, so what is more meaningful to be a man than this?A cricket jumped into the white light at some point, fluttering its wings and chirping.This little life in the wilderness, the condensate of the light and aura of the mountains and forests, is full of nectar, what kind of hymns are they singing for him? Wu Kui lay down on his back, and fell into a dream in a daze to the beautiful music of crickets. At some point, he woke up suddenly, feeling an itchy chest, and clapped his hands instinctively, his palms were sticky and smelled fishy, ​​and at the same time he heard a constant buzzing sound.He knew that there were many mosquitoes in the deep mountains and forests. When he fell asleep, the mosquitoes probably didn't know that there were people here, and they didn't know the taste of human blood.Wu Kui smeared the bitten place with his saliva, and immediately thought that the woman on the other side of the wall must have been bullied by mosquitoes too. With her thin and tender flesh, the bitten place might not be a red spot but a pimple as big as a chestnut.Wu Kui finally walked out of the sleeping nest, tiptoed to the other side of the wall and started a fire with a fire chain, and lit a small pile of wet thatch, letting the thick smoke drive away mosquitoes for the woman.All of this was done with great care, but the woman in the dark said, "Brother Wu Kui!" The voice is low but crisp, of course it's not a dream.Wu Kui hurriedly explained: "I, I'm not... I'm here to smoke mosquitoes..." "I know," said the woman, "I have a quilt to cover my head, so the mosquitoes can't get bitten." Wukui said, "Did you wake up early?"' The woman said, "I haven't been able to sleep at all!" Wu Kui couldn't imagine that the woman didn't sleep. What was she thinking when she couldn't sleep?So, did she hear the sound of herself standing up and falling asleep on the other side of the wall?Wu Kui's face turned red again in the darkness. "You... go to sleep." Wu Kui said, and quickly backed out. Everything was quiet again, but Wu Kui didn't fall asleep again, nor did he burn the wet thatch to get smoke. He was still thinking about what the woman was thinking when she was not asleep! Did he have the same idea as himself?As soon as the thought flashed, he blamed himself for being disrespectful again.Don't think about it anymore, don't think about it anymore.However, Wu Kuiyue, who is idle and sleepless, doesn't allow himself to think about women, and he can't get rid of women in his mind.Tonight, she didn't say that they lived in the same bed, nor did she say that they would live in two separate places. In fact, this woman already regarded him as the closest person.Now that there are so many mosquitoes, there are fireworks over there, but his side does not burn, so let the mosquitoes come and bite him.When a mosquito bit his face again, Wukui didn't slap him any more, but instead came up with a strange idea: this mosquito may have bitten the woman on the other side of the wall just now, and now it has bitten himself again. , Although the two live in two places, the blood is fused into one in the mosquito's stomach.Imagine again: if I could become a mosquito, I would fly over and land on her face and bite her. Of course, the bite would not hurt her, that would be great.Maybe, she can turn into a mosquito and come here again, so she can bite and bite as she likes, even if the bite will cause him to be poisoned and suffer from malaria, how happy he is. At dawn, Wu Kui, whose face was covered with small red bumps, came to tell the woman that he was going down the mountain, and the woman cried.Wu Kui comforted the woman and promised to come back soon. The woman said, "I am not here for me, but I am half dead but I want to harm you!" She pulled the hairpin from her head, took off the silver bracelet from her wrist, and said she was going to the foot of the mountain. Where can I change some food and clothes, Wu Kui is crying now.The woman laughed and said, "I don't cry, but you cry, the man is so ashamed!" Wu Kui stopped crying, wiped off the mountain peaches picked yesterday, put them on the bed, and came out with a wooden stick. He tied the chaimen, said: "I'm going", and left.He trotted down the mountain all the way, but didn't return to Jigong Village, he took a shortcut to Gouziping to meet the woman's father.The father was sighing at the parents, because the Liu family sent someone to check whether the young mistress was stolen back to her mother's house.After listening to Wu Kui's narration, the old man became angry and said that if his daughter married the Liu family, if she married a chicken, she would follow the chicken, and if she married a dog, she would follow the dog.Wu Kui left without waiting for the f to finish, but the father stopped him and asked, "Where did you hide her?" Wu Kui said, "I can't say that." The father said, "You don't need to tell me, Since my daughter is a person with a poor life and can’t enjoy great blessings, I can’t help it, so you can bring some food.” There was nothing to eat in the urn of the overturned pot, so I took out a few silver dollars from the cracks in the kang cave and gave it to her. five kuai.Wu Kui rushed to a town in the afternoon, exchanged hairpins and silver bracelets for money, bought some grain, pots and pans of oil and salt, and a handful of shovels.