Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

Before the era of the Republic of China, there were so-called Jingguan in the villages. This kind of Jingguan was specially reserved for students who studied for stereotyped arguments and prepared for the selection of scholars.This kind of students are very naughty, and they will be harassed in whichever village they are in.Their harassment is not robbery, but it is also inseparable from the word traitor.That is, there are fresh vegetables in the nearby vegetable garden, and they want to steal them.People raised fat chickens and ducks, and they wanted to steal them.There are fruit trees in people's homes, and they want to steal them.That's all, there was the young girl, the handsome young woman, and they tried to seduce them too.Therefore, there is a scripture hall in the village, and the residents must be wary.Moreover, there are very few of these children who come from farming families. They are either the sons of gentlemen or the descendants of rich people.As for Yao Tingdong's hall, he was still half-educated, and Mr. Yao regarded himself as Taoist, so the students in this hall were not very harassed in this village.But Qu Yujian, a student, is naughty but has a little reputation. If he goes around the village a few more times, people will pay attention to him.Today he accompanied Xiao Qiu in the orange grove, but someone saw it.Later he said to Xiaoqiu that there was another way, he could think of a way.Xiaoqiu thinks about it carefully, Chunhua is closed in the bedroom and doesn't see the sun at all, so what else can I do? So I just listened to his words casually, and didn't pay much attention to them.Seeing him standing in the room in a daze, Yujian couldn't bear it, so he went back to the room immediately to find some small change, and still walked quietly to the back door.

This was his own business, which was very convenient, so he went out the back door, walked along the avenue in front of Mr., along a row of houses, and walked calmly.At the end of this house, there is a row of semi-circular bamboo fence, with two firewood gates in the middle, and a clump of willow branches protruding from the fence, hiding half of the corner of the house, it seems that this house is a bit poetic.Sure enough, there are a lot of poetry materials in it, especially two girls, one is fifteen or sixteen years old, and the other is eighteen or nineteen years old.Every month, Qu Yujian has almost thirty poems praising and describing them.Naturally, their surnames are also Yao, the older is called Damei, and the younger is called Ermei. She has her parents in the house and a ten-year-old younger brother.Usually I just fry some peanut chips and send them to the street to sell.It was a bright sunny day after continuous cloudy and rainy days, and their family spread out two large baskets of peanuts to dry in the sun at the door.The eldest sister held a white cloth sock in her hand, and sat on the rocks under the willow shade outside the fence, lowered her head, and sewed it together. There was a long-handled broom upside down beside her, which was for chasing sparrows. .Yujian saw her in the orange grove far away, and felt that her leisurely appearance was like a painting. This kind of posture should be appreciated slowly, so as not to disturb her.So after Yujian saw the eldest sister, he was not in a hurry to walk over, he just held the branch and looked at her.

It wasn't until the eldest sister accidentally raised her head and saw him that he nodded from a distance and walked forward.Even though the elder sister rolled her eyes at him, she still lowered her head to work.You can see that she is wearing a dark blue cloth jacket with red strips rolled all over the body, and white patterned blue cloth pants underneath, which are also rolled with red strips on the trousers.Country girls, why don't they love beauty? She is an older girl, she is wearing a bun in a sleek way, and her long bangs can almost reach her eyebrows.So when she lowered her head, she only saw half of her pale face. Is she shy? Or is she ignoring it? It's unknown.

Yujian thought he was a seasoned veteran, and he was very courageous, so he slowly walked towards her.When he got there, he gave a soft "Hello".This sound was sent to her ears.She raised her head to take a look, pushed her mouth into the room, and said softly: "The old man is at home." Yu Jian smiled and said: "Is the restaurant owner afraid of a man with a big stomach? I'm here to buy peanuts. Two Don’t Bo sell me peanuts?” The eldest sister said: “If you buy peanuts, please come in, what are you talking to me here?” Yujian smiled and said: “Look at what you talk, it’s just like this, hey! I have one thing for you, okay?"

The eldest sister paused and said, "I said someone was at home, but you still speak in such a loud voice." Yu Jian stretched out his hand and scratched his hair a few times, then stretched out his head to look through the door, but luckily no one had looked. When she arrived, she smiled and said to the eldest sister: "I invite you to my husband's house to see my junior sister. How is it going to be locked at home?" What a kiss!" Qu Yujian flashed under a clump of hibiscus flowers opposite her, bowed to her again and again, and said with a smile: "I said this casually, don't be suspicious, I'm wrong. I told you too, Li Xiaoqiu It's great to be infatuated with Chunhua. Chunhua hasn't been to school for many days, and I heard that she was angry at home, and there is no news at all. Xiaoqiu is sick in a hurry, please go and see her..."

The eldest sister twisted her neck before she could finish her sentence, and said, "Who cares about you doing things like this? When have I ever done such a boring thing in front of you? You will come looking for me instead." She said this, His face was hardened, and there were no smiles.Yu Jian was stunned when he encountered such a nail again.The eldest sister turned her face to look at him, but smiled again.He whispered: "What does this have to do with you? I want you to come to me." Looking at her like this, Yu Jian knew that the refusal just now was a joke.So he made a messy bow to her, and said with a smile, "You can't accumulate virtue in that place." The eldest sister pouted and said, "Thank you for accumulating such virtue!" Just bow to her.The eldest sister said: "Why do you ask me to visit in a daze? You always have to tell me a few words." Yujian said: "Where you go, just say that Xiaoqiu is sick, just worry, Chunhua will naturally I have something to tell you." The eldest sister said: "The surname Li is sick and worried, how would I know?" Yu Jian laughed and said, "Just say I told you." The eldest sister laughed : "She asked me, how did I know you? Do you treat me like an idiot and let me show my ugliness?" Yu Jian said: "You are a smart person. If you meet someone, you will naturally say something. Why bother?" If you want me to say more, that's what I mean, what should you do, you can decide." Then, he bowed his hands to the eldest sister a few more times.

The eldest sister was also complacent, she stood up and said with a smile: "Leave this trivial matter to me. But for other people's affairs, why do you bother with such trouble?" At this point, someone in the fence interrupted , He said: "Big sister, who are you talking to alone?" Hearing that it was her mother's voice, the big sister stuck out her tongue at Yu Jian twice, and raised her shoulders a few times.At this time, the eldest sister's mother, Mrs. Liu, came to the door.Yu Jian hurriedly said: "I have a friend who was bitten by a mad dog and asked for some evergreen leaves to rub on. I heard that there is such a thing in the house, so I came to ask for some." A handful of copper coins were stuffed into Mrs. Liu's hand.Mrs. Liu followed Qian Qian and said with a smile: "This thing grows a lot in the vegetable garden. It's not worth anything. Why do you have to pay for it. Wait a minute, I'll get you some." Then he turned around and went away. .

The eldest sister pointed at him with her index finger and said, "You are a ghost!" Yu Jian said, "If it weren't for your old man, I could come to your house every day." It was such a coincidence that her father, Yao Erbo, heard about it again.But things in the world happen to be so coincidental that Yao Erbo listened to him. Although Yao Erbo has a staid temperament, he is also very cowardly. Went to the corner of the fence.Outside Yujian continued, "I'll go for a walk outside the Guandi Temple later, and you can go there to answer my letter." The eldest sister said: "Yes, don't shout out like this." Yao Erbo listened After hearing these words, I could only tremble with anger.I thought to myself, I already knew that a big girl like me was a little unreliable, and now that it was broad daylight, she invited the boy to a private meeting, which was even more unreasonable.At that time, he didn't make a sound, and went into the house to peel the peanut kernels.Not long after, the eldest sister came inside and said with a smile, "Father! I'll go to see the eldest girl at the husband's house." The second uncle glared and said, "Let's not do anything, and go to the house in the daytime. "Ms. Liu said on the side: "It doesn't make sense for you to take care of the children. If you go to Xianggong's house one more time, you can learn to be good one more time. If you don't go to this place, where should you go? Sister, you just go, I will Yes, what's the point?" With these words, the eldest sister naturally walked away boldly.

Although Yao Erbo was an old woman who was no match for him, he refused to just let go.He took down the shakuhachi-long tobacco pipe from the wall nail, turned around on purpose, looked around the room, as if looking for kindling, then looked left and right, and walked out slowly.When he left the gate, he no longer hesitated. He saw his elder sister walking in front from a distance, so he fixed his eyes on her back and followed Yao Tingdong outside the gate.Sure enough, she went into the Xianggong's house.What does this have to do with what she said in front of the Guandi Temple? But although he was puzzled, he didn't go away, and continued to wander on the road outside the tree.

Less than a meal later, the eldest sister came out again.The second uncle dodged in the fence of the house, let her pass, and followed closely behind, until he reached the Guandi Temple, where he saw Qu Yujian looking up long ago.The second uncle walked around in a big circle from the orange grove to the back of the temple. He ducked behind a stone tablet and stretched out his head to look at it. When he saw his eldest sister and Yujian standing very close to each other from a distance, his heart skipped a beat. Then, some muscles in his body trembled again.I had no choice but to use twenty-four points of patience, calm my attitude, and continue to listen.

The eldest sister said: "I think that Chunhua was locked up just for the sake of Young Master Li. The husband probably didn't know it, but the teacher told me that it's better to live at home. What's the use of reading? Now men can’t get the first prize in the exam, let alone women? But my wife doesn’t like me when I go to his house, I’ll keep you guys informed.” Hearing this, Uncle Yao was really sweating the size of a broad bean. , rolled down from the forehead.I thought to myself, these two enemies are too courageous, they dared to go to Xianggong's house to seduce Huang Hua's girl, if this matter is known to Xianggong, I won't be able to eat it, so it's okay! Going to stop the eldest sister, he ran home, stared at Liu Shi and said, "You have raised your daughter well, do you want me to go to jail?" When Mrs. Liu heard this suddenly, she was a little stunned. She even asked what was the matter and lost her temper for no reason.The second uncle gasped and said, "This kid surnamed Qu, I always meet him for three or two days, and I know he is not a thing. His father is a master, so what? Can he bully me, a poor man?" ?" Liu knew the reason when he heard his accent.Originally, I could see the situation between my eldest sister and Yujian, but I was greedy for Yujian and was willing to spend a small amount of money. If I didn't let him come, I would be a big loss.Besides, the eldest sister stayed in front of her eyes all day long, and she couldn't do anything bad, so it didn't matter if she let her go.Now the husband shouted out, maybe they went out on a date today, something was wrong.As a result, my face turned red and white for a while, and I couldn't speak.When the eldest sister was reporting the news to Yujian, she was startled when she heard footsteps, and when she turned around, she saw her father running away, jumping and saying, "Amazing! He went home to find someone, You go away quickly." After the eldest sister finished speaking, she ran home, meaning to see how her father behaved, so that she could stop him.Because he stood outside the gate and half-hid his body, he dared not go in.I only heard my mother pleading in a low voice: "What's the matter? Tell me what you said, what are you just yelling, don't you care about face?" Then the second uncle trembled and said in a low voice: "This girl stole someone to raise a man. At most, if I don't want her, it will be over. What do you think she will do?" Speaking of this, the voice became even lower, and the eldest sister couldn't hear what he said.But my parents are fully aware of this matter, that is beyond doubt. So I didn't go in at all, and sat on the original stone by the fence, only to hear the gurgling inside for a long time, and my father suddenly shouted: "It's not too much for me to kill you." There was a loud noise, pots and tubs were thrown out of the door, and then the mother also burst into tears in the room.The elder sister saw that this matter must be publicized, but when the matter became serious, she dared not go in to persuade the fight. When she was in a difficult situation, she already alarmed the neighbors, and rushed in to persuade them to make peace.When everyone asked about the root cause, the old couple was vague and refused to say it directly. The husband said that the woman spoiled the daughter, and the woman said that the husband should not vent his anger on her.The neighbors saw that Qu Yujian had come, and the elder sister was in such an embarrassing situation, everyone understood this matter.From that afternoon onwards, people in the village began to talk about it.The eldest sister thought it was wronged, but she was not wronged when she thought about it, so she slipped into the room quietly, closed the door, and began to cry.Mrs. Liu thought that the girl's family would not be used to such humiliation, and she was always afraid that she would commit suicide, so she invited the little dog's mother-in-law next door, opened the door, sat with her, and let the little dog's mother-in-law go out .She originally said that the eldest sister hanged herself if she hadn't come to accompany her.It was reported to the second person, Sister-in-law Six, that the eldest sister closed the door and the ropes were all set.It was passed on to the third person, Xiao Niu Ziniang, who simply said that the eldest sister had hanged herself and was rescued by Xiaogouzi's mother-in-law.Naturally, Yao Tingdong would also hear this kind of news. In the afternoon, after the afternoon class, his face became stern, without a smile on his face.The students were all sweating, not knowing what happened to Mr., so angry.At night, when everyone turned on the lights and went back to their rooms to read, Tingdong raised his voice and called out, "Where's Yujian?" Yujian said "Hello" and walked into Tingdong's room. go.Tingdong crossed his legs, held a hookah in one hand, lowered his eyelids, and smoked there with a sullen expression.The end of the paper medium was pressed under the hookah, and with his other hand, he swung the paper medium from top to bottom. Yujian could tell that this was the husband who was meditating, and he had a lot of lessons to tell.So he lowered his hands and stood still without making a sound. After a while, Tingdong said: "Your father and I are best friends, so we used the method of the ancients to study with me. I don't Put your books on the plate, how can you be worthy of your father? But people who read books don’t just work hard on books. They must cultivate their minds and self-cultivation before they can talk about governing the family, governing the country and the world. Recently, I see Your appearance is becoming more and more flashy day by day, you are already an adult, can I still beat you? In this way, I will teach you a lesson, and I have a somewhat fair reputation in this village. You can't offend your family members for the sake of your own students. If you are studying now, if you don't go to the school, you have no background. Your father also told me that you will be sent to the provincial capital to enter the school in the second half of the year. I think you should leave earlier Well, tomorrow, you go home, and after two days, come pick up the bookcase and luggage." As he spoke, he blew on the paper media, smoked another pack of cigarettes, and replied: "I have another letter for your father, you are my father. My student, your misbehavior is my fault, and I can't say anything in the letter, I hope you will change your ways from now on, and behave yourself, there is nothing to say, you go." After listening to what the husband said, Yu Jian knew about the eldest sister, so he resigned himself.Mr.'s temper is very strange. Now that he has said it, it will not change, so there is no need to say more.After agreeing, he backed out and went to Li Xiaoqiu's room to bid him farewell.Xiaoqiu put a copy of "Li Yishan Collection" under the lamp, propped her head on one hand, and hummed boredly.Yu Jian smiled bitterly at him and said, "You still read these romantic things? I'm troubled because of you." Xiao Qiu put her hand on the book, stood up and asked, "What troubles you?" Yujian quietly told the turmoil at the eldest sister's house and what the husband said just now, because he asked: "Look, isn't this because of your tiredness?" Xiaoqiu said: "This makes me feel uncomfortable I have really become a disaster. Firstly, Uncle Mao and his wife broke up because of the trouble. Now I have brought you into trouble again." Yu Jian said: "It doesn't matter to me, anyway, I will go to the province in the second half of the year Go. But in this way, you have to be extra cautious.” Picking up the pen on the table, he wrote on the paper, “I’m afraid something will happen in the long run, and that person’s life is in danger.”Xiaoqiu frowned and nodded, and said in a low voice: "I've given up on this. In the second half of the year, we can take the same exam in the same school. But these few months, I will always get through here." Yu Jian said : "That's not what you said. These few days, you've only excused your illness, less studying, less writing, and seeing how your husband is doing. If something goes wrong, you can use the name of being with me to save yourself all the way. Can't you see?" Okay?" When Xiaoqiu heard that he was dismissed by her husband, she felt extremely regretful in her heart.Feeling that Yujian was right, he just sighed. On the next day, Yujian left without a sound, and Xiaoqiu felt even more sad that he had no one to talk to.Although there is no illness, people who are depressed also love to sleep, so they just fall asleep all day long.Although he is isolated from Chunhua's news, Chunhua can still hear the outside news.From her father's mouth, she knew that Yujian had resigned from school.Among many women, they knew that the eldest sister had been hanged by her neck.Only she knew this in her heart. To be honest, both of them were implicated because of their own affairs.Although it is very lucky that he will not be involved, but this can only be avoided this time. If such a thing happens in the future, it will probably happen again.Besides, the way my mother treats me these past few days is really not good, and she will be stern when she sees it. This day is really meaningless.I was both worried and afraid, and sitting in the inner study, there was only a paper window, and a small courtyard with white walls on three sides.There was nothing in the patio, except that the stone slab was wet and sticky, with some moss growing on it. Chunhua leaned on the table in the window, looking up at the whitewashed wall, but looking down at the moss on the slate.Helpless, I closed the door and found some books for entertainment.When a person is bored, he will never read a rational book, but must read an emotional one.What she thought she could entertain was, in fact, these books.Recently Xiaoqiu bought "Scars of Flowers and Moon", and "Red Reef Painting Paddle Record" translated by Lin Qinnan. These Chinese and Western romance novels were secretly given to her one by one.After Chunhua read it, he felt that the children's personal love written in these books was a step further than those legends, as if he was in the same place, hearing and seeing.Just one book, within two months, I watched it three times from beginning to end.At first, I loved watching Lin Daiyu's first admission to the Grand View Garden and Jia Baoyu drinking tea at Yuancui Nunnery, but now I have changed my approach. I only like to read Lin Daiyu's burning of manuscripts and Jia Baoyu's madness.Today, I was very sad when I heard about these two incidents of Yujian's dropout sister who committed suicide. She obeyed the three virtues and did not leave any shadow in her mind at this time.I remember reading in the series of books in the Tang Dynasty that there are those chivalrous men who can fly over the roof and walk over walls to help the reunion of loving people. Maybe there are such people now.Sure enough, if there is such a person, he must have jumped in from the patio. From now on, I will not close the window so that the knights can come in easily.If someone jumped through the window in the middle of the night, I wouldn't make a fuss and let him carry me on his back.Then Xiaoqiu and I went to the foot of the emperor in Beijing together.A few years later, Xiaoqiu did some great things, and came home together as a teenager.I, naturally Mrs. Li, sat in the sedan chair and rushed home to visit my relatives. I thought that if I had that kind of status, my father would not pursue my past.As for the housekeeper, they won't be like that, just wait for me, it must be a girl who has married another family, if I come back, then there will be no entanglements.When she thought of this, it was as if she had come home as a wife, and the depression that had accumulated in her heart for so many days was swept away.However, at this time, the mother beat the door to come in, breaking her sweet fantasy.While throwing the book on the table to the top of the tent, he came to open the door.She said with a card in her mouth: "It's uncomfortable to hide in the room." Mrs. Song came in and said, "I just came in to get some tea, and I will go out immediately, and I won't bother you." Chunhua knew this, very It is a high-class guest, mother will not come here to pick up the tea and make tea.When my mother left, she quietly followed, and in the room next to the main room, I leaned on the back of the chair and eavesdropped.I only heard the visitor say: "The manager of the house is also afraid that the house is not at ease, so he sent me to report. A few days ago, someone recommended an old doctor to our young master. He said, this disease is not serious, he It can be saved well. I wrote a prescription and took three doses of medicine in succession, and the disease is much better. It will be completely cured in about half a month. This is the blessing of Yao Guan's two families." After hearing this, Chunhua understood that it was clearly the housekeeper's dying child who would not die now.This day, it's really abominable, he won't die, what to do to make him suffer from such a serious illness, it makes people happy for a while. She was thinking down blankly, and she had already forgotten where her body was, and leaned on the back of the chair, leaning hard on the back of the chair.It was also because she was leaning too hard, she even took the chair, and with a "coaxing" sound, she threw herself forward.The chair overturned and caught her thigh, and she fell forward all over. She fell into a faint and could hardly get up.Mrs. Song originally accompanied the guests outside, but because the people who came were relatives and friends, and they came to report the news of my aunt, so she reluctantly sat in the main room to accompany the guests, which was actually very embarrassing.Now that she heard such a loud noise in the room, she was relieved of her siege, and immediately walked towards the room, helped her up, and asked, "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?" Chunhua said: " I'm not good, why don't you want me to wrestle? It's just a pity that I didn't fall to death, and I am such a dead person, but I won't die!" When she said the last few words, her voice was very heavy. The guests also heard it.Chunhua didn't ask these questions, turned around and walked into the house.In this way, Mrs. Song was even more embarrassed. Should I go out to meet the guests, or not? The guests just didn’t ask, it was clear that the girl had something to say, and asked him to pass the news to the housekeeper’s ears. Let people say that the family education is not strict, so I sat on the chair in the room for a while.Chunhua heard her coughing in the main room next door, so she obviously didn't go out.So there is no reason to go out, it must be because I said that sentence too harshly, I have been oppressed by my mother for several days, and today I finally got my revenge, although the news I got is not very good, but with this It was a happy thing, this fall was not in vain.So he closed the door and lay down on the bed again. In the past ten days or so, she had held endless hopes in her heart, thinking that if the housekeeper's child was so seriously ill, even if he did not die now, it would not be long before.As long as you get rid of this set of shackles, you will have an unrestricted body in the future, and it will not be difficult to escape.Judging from the current situation, it looks like that person is not only immortal, but also has the hope of recovering from all kinds of miscellaneous diseases. I don’t know where their family found such an old doctor. This person is really abominable! I've been cured, so what's the use of worrying? Now I can only recall the fantasies I made just now, and wait for the knights to rescue me.This idea, followed by recovery.She felt that when everything was hopeless and locked in the boudoir, the only way out was to see the knights come.In "The Legend of Hongjuan Wushuang", only knights are mentioned, what kind of knights are like, that book can't describe them.If he comes here and sees that he has red eyebrows and green beard, like a painted face on stage, don't be afraid.He must have picked me up, put me under his side, jumped out of the wall with a light jump.Well, I have to calm down now, and don't get panicked at that time and freeze up the good things.She was sleeping on the bed, and the more she thought about it, the more realistic it became.Because I think realistically, I am very interested. Mrs. Song didn't invite her to dinner because she was too fussy today and the guests didn't leave. She was afraid that it would cause jokes if she ignored her.As for her, she didn't want to eat either, she felt that fantasizing like this was much more enjoyable than eating.I don't know when I fell asleep, but I heard a slight knocking sound on the window. It was obvious that someone jumped off the wall. Could it be that a knight came? When I opened my eyes and looked, sure enough, there was a burly man standing in the middle of the room. Big guy.The man was wearing a clothes and crown as shown in an ancient painting, with a big circle of curly red beard on his face, a wide belt around his waist, and a sword hung under the belt, and he said to her in high spirits: "Are you Chunhua?" Chunhua knew in his heart that this was someone like Kunlun Nugu Yaya who came to rescue him out of good intentions.It's just strange to say that no matter what, I was so anxious that I couldn't say a word.But the knight did not force her to speak, and said to her: "Li Xiaoqiu is waiting for you on the boat now, you hurry up and get on the boat with me and meet Li Xiaoqiu, I can send you two to Beijing. Don't hesitate, Hurry up and pack your things so you can go with me." After Chunhua heard this, he liked it so much that he could almost jump out of nowhere.But I also like it too much, and I have nothing to answer.The chivalrous man said: "The time has come, we can't wait any longer, let's go." He lifted up his clothes, stuffed them into the straps, and took a step forward to help Chunhua.Chunhua is a girl after all, she can't just go with a stranger casually.Because of this, she twisted her body and said in a low voice: "I won't go." The knight said: "You have been thinking about it for a day, only wanting me to save you, why do you really come to save you now, why don't you go?" Where should I go? My family lives in Mount Emei, and it is not easy to come here. How can I go back empty-handed? Now that things are up to now, it’s up to you, let’s go.” As he said, he stretched out his hand to lift Chunhua up to him. Under the threat of a clip.Chunhua didn't want to resist at first, and at this moment, she didn't allow her to resist, and unknowingly, she leaned against the knight's flank.But it's also strange, even though it's in the flank of the knight, it's like sitting on a chair.I just felt that the knight jumped up and jumped out of the high wall.There was only whirring in the ears.For a long time, the wind in the clouds blew past his face, making his face and body feel a little chilly.Thinking in my heart, it turns out that this is the case when flying in the fog.There really are such good people in the world who are dedicated to saving these poor women.When I saw Xiao Qiu, I would kowtow to this knight a lot with him.Thinking in my heart, I opened my eyes and took a look, oh! I didn’t know that the sky was so high. When I looked down, the village was as small as a beehive, and the river was as small as a ditch. , It's terrible to drop people down.However, with the wind blowing on his face, he continued to move forward.