Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven

The day when Ginjo's son was full moon. Early in the morning, when Zhenguan was about to wash rice and cook, she saw her second concubine come in: "Second concubine, are you so early?" Her second concubine smiled and said, "Are you still cooking?! Everyone is waiting for you to go over—" As she spoke, she took her rice washing pot and went to the side. "Hey! Isn't fried rice only available in Chinese medicine?" "If you don't go, how can there be fried rice?" Her second concubine laughed even more: "Oh! You still want to eat the ready-made ones when the time comes? How can that be? The second concubine is waiting for you to come over and help cook the fried rice!"

Zhen Guan said: "Help is right! But what will I do? There are so many chefs in the house, and there is no room for me to stand under the stove, so I have to go and eat fried rice!" "You are serious! Hurry up and change your clothes——" Her second concubine pushed her out of the kitchen while walking into her mother's room: "Your uncle brought more than a dozen catties of fish and raw oysters last night, and ordered them to be cooked for everyone to eat this morning; if you take too long, it will be cold!" Before the conversation was finished, her mother and second aunt had pushed the door out one after another. The sisters both laughed and said, "Not only is it cold, but if you slow down, the bottom of the pot may be scraped!"

It took only ten minutes for Zhenguan to enter the room to change clothes and walk to the door of Grandpa's house, but when she entered the dining room, it was already full of people. The most conspicuous person on the men's table, besides her uncle, is of course Daxin. The uncle is because of the relationship that Zhenguan has rarely seen since childhood, and Daxin is for him to occupy Zhenguan's heart. When she sat down and raised her head at the same time, she met the gaze projected by Daxin, Zhenguan couldn't help laughing inwardly, there was something in this man's eyes!If you don't believe me, just wait and see, in a short time, he must have some problems to trouble others—after the meal, Zhenguan helped his cousins ​​wash the dishes, and picked a big pot of coriander, and stayed there for half a day to see if there was anything left in the kitchen. She could be a substitute, and just now she thought of leaving, but she heard her third concubine stop her, handed her a kitchen knife at the same time, and said: "Grandma ordered, Zhongshi's soup should be lighter, otherwise it will be hot and oily." The rice is stained with oil; if you want to eat more than one bowl, you can go to the back garden to cut vegetables and melons! There are bags here!"

Zhen Guan took the utensils and said with a smile: "How much is enough for such a big bag?" "Whatever—" She turned around three times and went to stir fry the fried rice again. Beads of sweat dripped from her forehead and the tip of her nose: "Anyway, I cut off the big ones, and cooked as many as I had. Your uncle said that he——full thirty years." I’ve never eaten squash, and I’ve never even smelled it!” Zhenguan took the knife and bag, and not far from the kitchen, he saw Daxin's man. "You seem very busy; how about I ask a question?" "Okay, happy to answer!"

Da Xin glanced at the object in her hand, and asked: "In the early morning of the second day after I came, I heard a ecstasy clavicle flute sound passing by in the street outside, and I have to listen to it almost every morning. what?" Zhenguan listened to the question, deliberately avoided the point, and replied with a smile: "Oh, so you got up so early!" Daxin was also laughed at by her: "Every time I think of asking you, every time I meet, but I just talk about the past; I woke up very early this morning, and I was going to run out to find out-" This mentality is what Zhenguan once had, so she can no longer act on the outside: "What is the result?"

"When I chased him out of the street, he had already disappeared in a deep alley, and the sound of the flute was still so clear. At that time, I really wondered where to find him—" "..." "Aren't you going to tell me?" "It's from a barrow!" Probably the answer was too unexpected for him, so Daxin was a little suspicious. "I know you won't lie to me, but—" "But what?" Seeing her eyes roll, Daxin laughed a lot: "I'm not suspicious, I'm thinking: why does it sound so good!" Zhen Guan said with a smile: "The first time I heard this voice, I forgot how old I was. Anyway, when I was young, I heard adults say it was a barrow, and I thought in my heart: Then when I grow up, I will be a barrow—"

Before he finished talking, Daxin had already laughed loudly; Zhen watched him laughing uncontrollably, it was really funny when he thought about it, and finally couldn't hold back his own laughter; Daxin asked again: "Do you know why I want to study chemistry?" Zhen Guan rolled his eyes and tried to guess: "Because——because—" Da Xin laughed and said, "In my three years of high school, I only got 60 points in chemistry. When I was about to go to college, I was determined to figure it out—it was such a pure reason, aha!" After he finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Zhenguan, and the two of them laughed knowingly again.

When I arrived at the back vegetable garden, I saw three or two children laughing and chasing inside and outside the fence; Zhenguan watched for a while, then found the vegetable and melon shed, and began to cut the vines; ;Zhenguan chose the fat one and was about to start, but heard Daxin calling her from behind: "Do you know what I think now?" Zhen Guan didn't even turn his head, he just said: "Thinking of Tao Yuanming!" "wrong!" "You don't think of Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo, do you? Both of them are prime ministers!" Daxin laughed and said, "The prime minister also had his childish childhood! Even if you got half of the answers right; I'm thinking about what you were like when you were young."

Zhenguan snorted at him and continued to cut melons; Daxin said behind his back: "Actually, you are still right. I also thought of Tao Yuanming: Will the barrens return to the garden?" When Zhenguan heard about it, he stopped what he was doing for a while, and looked back eagerly: "Which of his poems do you like?" "'Clothes are not worth pity, but wishes are not violated'—how about you?" "It should be." The two were talking lively, when Daxin suddenly called out: "Hurry up! Come and see!" Zhenguan thought: This person has such a forgetful feeling, it is probably something rare to see in life—so she put down the sharp knife, and approached Daxin with great interest. It is a fruit, a small loofah in the process; its upper body has become the size of a small cucumber, but the lower body still has cucumber petals that have not faded!

Loofahs bloom where the yellow flowers bloom, but this Taipei native has never seen it; Zhen Guan couldn't help laughing at him. "Hey, what are you laughing at?" She hurriedly covered her mouth: "I laugh, I know it myself!" Daxin sighed: "Melon face and flower body—life is really wonderful!" Zhenguan actually thought of the words "the body is in love and the love is always there"; it turns out that the body is in love, and the body is still in love... Although the flower is gone, this young and tender melon is the love it came to the world——Daxin laughs Said: "I know what you think!"

Zhen Guan said nothing, turned back to the original place, picked up the handle of the knife, and knocked the back of the knife twice, then said: "Do you know?! That's better, I don't need to say it!" When she came back, Daxin helped her carry the bag until she was 30 steps away from the kitchen, then stopped and said, "Okay, I'll go back to the handbag." Zhen Guan thanked, took the loofah bag, and carried it straight down into the stove; when she turned her head, she saw that the man hadn't moved a single step; she winked her eyes mischievously before stepping in. In the kitchen, the oily rice was just off the stove. Zhenguan had a job and found a small chair to sit down. Before she could sit still, her third concubine had already packed a small pot of oily rice and held it in front of her. "Where's your nephew?" "It seems to be reaching out!" "Auntie's hand oil, serve it to the guests!" Zhen Guan took the small pot, but asked: "Shouldn't it be given to the side of the house and neighbors?" "Oh, it's hard to care about the future! Before you get home from work, there's another visitor in the front hall; it's someone from your sister-in-law's natal family who brought you a gift. There's nothing you can do about it. You'd better go to Shoushouzi first!" Zhen Guan stood up, looked for the bowls and chopsticks, and said, "I'll deliver them when I come back!" She went out of the kitchen, bent and bent, and arrived at the door of the hand, and Daxin had already jumped out: "Huh! You have such a good nose?" "The nose is also good, and the fried rice is also delicious!" This time Zhen Guan was polite and polite, he brought it straight to the table in the room, put the bowl and chopsticks back, then turned around and walked out, saying: "Please eat slowly, I'm leaving!" "Wait! Wait!" Daxin repeatedly called her to stop: "No! There are so many, and I'm not a diner, so what, do you want to help me eat half of it?" Zhen Guan said with a smile: "I'm so sorry; I have to deal with the neighbors and give them away one by one!" "I'll go too—how?" When Daxin said this, it was purely for fun, and when he saw the expression on Zhenguan's face, he suddenly realized: these days, she was able to walk with him on the seaside, on the street, and it was only because he was a guest; The folk customs, only the guests are supreme!However, today, if he helps, it will undoubtedly change the guest position, which is equivalent to Zhenguan explaining the way to the elders and everyone: This person is my personal friend-she and he may have such a day, but it is definitely not at this time. ... Both of them understood this in their hearts at the same time, so when Zhenguan was still unable to speak, Daxin immediately said: "You go and send it. I stand at the gate here, and I can see it." In Zhenguan's heart, there was some pity and a little touch. She lowered her head slightly, nodded randomly, and then stepped out, never daring to take another look at Daxin; That is to say, it will flow down to the bottom like a turbulence or a waterfall. In the kitchen, trays of oily rice were divided and waiting for her to deliver. Zhenguan took them one by one, and delivered them from house to house according to the front and back of the house. Da Xin saw that every time she came back with a plate, there was half a plate of white rice on it, and he felt strange: "Where did you come from!" "Yes—won't you guess first?" "Well, could it be——really sent back by someone else?" Zhenguan smiled and said: "Exactly! This is their return gift; Chinese people come and go, there is absolutely no empty plate, you bring it back, just say this plate, when I took it, there was only a small plate in the front room. The child is here, they don't know this old custom, they just accept the greasy rice, thank you, I also turn around and come out, who knows that the child's mother is drying clothes in the backyard, and probably heard them report it, she actually rushed to measure a hemi and chased it out. Come and pour me at the door—” After finishing speaking, Daxin put his palms together and said: "Small actions, we can still see that we are a polite and polite nation! There is no distinction between etiquette, big or small, it is a folk, a market, literate or illiterate. present!" Zhen Guan moved his heart and said: "What you said, I want to think even more: when I was young, Yin Chan and I went along the street to deliver fried rice." "Is there any wrong delivery?" "No!" "Then—" He hadn't finished speaking yet, his eyes and the corners of his mouth were full of smiles; seeing this, Zhenguan knew that this person was going to tell a joke again; as expected, he said: "If the person receiving the rice is also a child, I don't know Etiquette, do you remind others: Hurry up and measure some white rice to pour—” Before he finished talking, Zhenguan had found a rubber band, flicked his arm, and said: "I was thinking: how did this custom come into being, and how can it be carried on to this day? It can be seen that it is in line with human nature! The neighbors are here. Apart from the six relatives, however, the seniors and ancestors lived in the streets and alleys for generations, and they have another kind of affection for the people in the village. Therefore, when there is a celebration at home, they can't help but share it with others; In addition to joy, the little rice grains sent back, in addition to the Chinese "reciprocity", also have the enthusiasm of adding grand events and congratulations!" "Say it again—I'm not going to England!" The two were answering one-on-one in the hall, but Daxin suddenly said this sentence. Zhen Guan knew: he had applied for a scholarship to the University of London long ago, and he was about to leave after the two-year pre-official service was completed—the two of them became even more uncomfortable during the silent moment; Zhen Guan thought about it, and still forced a smile Said: "That's not too bad! Anyway, if you know your own good, you also need to know other people's - you can still go out and have a look. As long as you don't forget, what is special about being a Chinese, where are the three mountains and five seas?" can not go?" Although she said so, what really choked her heart was this: Two years later, he will go to the country and leave home. There is still a long way to go, and no one can predict it; Unexpectedly, she can still trust people with great trust, but things in the world are often beyond trust, and there are other things... Isn't her uncle just an example? !Just because of this, so far, she has not gotten better with Daxin obviously; she doesn't want an oath, no covenant, what she wants is a heart bond; if she is good, no matter how long it takes, Daxin only needs to think No matter how far away is the person who loves her, he will rush back - what comes back is hers, and she wants what is hers; but sometimes Zhenguan thinks: Maybe men don't think so, maybe these are just young women The hypocrisy and anger; and the hearts of women and men are not the same after all... Never mind!Zhenguan actually knows herself best: she is not a person who really worries about things, no matter how big it is, she often gets stuck and bored in the first two days, but on the third day, she will throw it into the sky—— Xin couldn't say anything suitable for a while, he just said: "Don't worry about it! Anyway, there are still two years..." "..." "—I will make an answer at that time, and see which way the wind blows the answer!" "Okay - let's rejoice!" "So you have to go to Shenshouzi and help me eat oily rice; there is still a big pot!" Zhenguan took two steps, then stopped and said, "Hey! It's time for dinner, why should I hide to eat?" "Then—what to do?" Seeing his expression, Zhenguan laughed again: "I'll take it back to the kitchen and bake it, you have to hand it over to the public treasury, or take it as a private dish!" "Also!" Back in Shenshouzi, Zhenguan took the pot and wanted to leave, but Daxin said: "What's the hurry, sit down and go!" As he spoke, he took the chair and turned around to pour tea; Zhen Guan couldn't help laughing at him: "Don't be so busy; I can't tell who is the guest?" After he finished speaking, Daxin had already poured the tea and placed it in front of the table; the two of them were sitting together speechless, not knowing what to say for a while. There is a small square clock on the table, with a milky white case and golden copper pillars on the upper and lower sides; her concubine did not know where to turn it out and gave it to Da Xin; It fell to the ground——the rotor rolled straight to Daxin's side, and Zhenguan stood up, but Daxin had already bent over to pick it up; while turning the clock's screw, he asked her: "Have you seen Yuan Haowen's fishing?" son?" Zhen Guan sat back in his seat, paused before saying, "His name seems trivial, but the name of the words is lively and fresh—" "You know how he wrote Fishing?" Zhenguan shook his head; Daxin said with a smile: "Yuan Haowen went to Bingzhou for an examination. On the way, he met a wild goose catcher. The wild goose catcher said that he just caught a wild goose. After killing it, how would he know that he escaped from the net?" The female geese kept whining around the vicinity, but they didn't leave, and finally threw themselves to the ground and died...Yuan then bought them from the wild goose catchers and buried them together on the Fen River—" Before finishing speaking, Zhen Guan shouted injustice: "People's books only say that there are two geese, and there is no difference between male and female. How come you know better than the wild goose catcher!" Da Xin laughed loudly and said, "Who told you to pretend not to know; if I don't say that, would you recruit?" Zhenguan was at a loss for words; Daxin took out a piece of origami from the pages of the book, and said, "I'll write down the first half of it, so you can take it home and read it again! You can't take it apart on the way!" Zhen Guan smiled and said: "Who stipulated this? I want to watch it now!" Daxin clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "It fits my heart! But, will you really watch it here?" "..." Zhenguan didn't say a word, snatched the paper from his hand, and flew out of the hand box; she didn't close the door until she hid in the grandmother's inner room, and saw no one around, and then opened the paper. after dinner. Zhen Guan followed Grandma back to the inner room, the old man just sat down, Zhen Guan asked in a low voice: "Grandma, do you still remember the past?" "yes--" "Then do you remember how I was born when I was young?" "let me see--" The old man took the wet face towel from Mrs. Yinshan to wipe his face, and said, "Your face is extremely round—your eyes are shining—" "Nah……" Zhen Guan whispered in her ear, "I mean: good-looking or bad-looking?" The old man chuckled and said, "You stupid grandson—you were born and born by your parents, how can you look bad? Every child is a flower!" "Grandma—" Zhen Guan stretched out his hand to Yiba's hairpin, and said coquettishly, "Just talk and listen, okay?" "Good! Good! I say—" The old man smiled and said: "You are not really beautiful, but you are popular!" "?..." "People in the past said: You will be born with fate. So smart women are born with fate and not appearance." "why do you say so?" "Auntie—" Mrs. Yinshan replied on behalf of the old man: "The people of the previous generation often said: Life is destined to avoid unripe water, and unripe water has no destiny to go to the wrong side-haven't you heard of it?" "..." After her cousin finished speaking, she took a basin of water to change; Zhenguan sat on the edge of the bed, still thinking about what she just said. How were the ancients so smart?How come these words are so intriguing; it turns out that - born with stunning beauty, if you don't hit it off, that's really the most wronged thing in the world. ... It’s really endless meaning; the words of the predecessors have no intention, they didn’t first think about keeping this sentence, but why is it passed down to this day?It's because generations after generations have been mixed with confirmation of it! "Zhenguan—" Her grandma straightened her hair and mane, and said, "When the time comes, remember to turn on the radio!" "Huh——" Zhenguan remembered, "Grandma, have you forgotten again?! 'Seventh Couples' just finished singing!" "I haven't forgotten! I haven't forgotten! It's the new 'Zheng Yuanhe and Li Yaxian'!" Her grandma was already seventy years old, but when Yi said this, her brows and eyes were filled with inexplicable excitement, like a thirteen-year-old girl who was about to rush to a theater at the entrance of a temple. "You still want to listen to Gezai Opera? My uncle already bought you a color TV." "He just has money and no place to use it! Why buy that item? I don't like to watch it either, it's just a duck listening to thunder!" Speaking of the uncle, Zhen Guan remembered that something was not over, she pulled the white cloud cardigan of the grandmother, and saw that no one was coming, then she leaned close to the old man's ear, and whispered: "Grandma, please persuade the uncle to talk to you." Go to Taipei! Husband and wife are always husband and wife. In the past, it was a last resort, but now they divide the land, what is it? Liu Lizi, Auntie—” Her grandma said: "Do you think I didn't persuade Yi? Grandma couldn't even talk about it. I said: Guofeng has a lot of business in Taipei. Your mother and son, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law should follow suit, so that he won't run around, Liuli." The son is also a bullock cart with a belly, and he is very good at making a pile, and he can discuss everything!" "What did you say?" "Yi said a thousand words, if I don't go, I won't go, and I can't say that I can't turn around!" "—" Zhenguan no longer speaks; when she is seriously thinking about her concubine, she will find it difficult to talk about everything. Her grandma Xiaoxiang said again: "It's okay, anyway, I'll talk about it slowly, but you and Yinchan—" Before finishing speaking, Yinchan had washed up and came in. She came closer, took the old man's hand, and asked with a shake, "Grandma, what do you think about me?" "Say you're Dafang's aunt—you have to take care of everything!" Yin Chan heard what Zhen Guan said about her, but smiled and said: "You mean what happened just now?" Zhen Guan laughed and said, "Otherwise, which one is there?" Just now, when Yincheng returned to his room, he felt that his son's diaper was wet, so he said a few words to his wife, who knew that Yincheng's sister-in-law changed the diaper not long ago-Yi didn't refute half a sentence, and went to change it again in a hurry However, Yinchan knew the details, so he went to Yincheng and told him a lesson—Yinchan laughed and said, "How can I not tell? If I don't talk about it, I will talk to Yincheng in my dreams at night!" As she spoke, she squatted down to light the mosquito coils, and then remembered to call Zhenguan: "I haven't seen you for hundreds of days, sleep well here tonight, I'll go tell Sangu!" "What do you say?" Yin Chan stared wide-eyed and said, "Of course Grandma will keep you!" Daxin will leave early tomorrow morning, and Zhenguan originally intended to stay here tonight, so he can have a few more words with him——after Yinchan left, her grandmother said: "Ah Zhenguan, you and Yinchan are both twenty-two this year. , It's three, people nowadays marry late, according to grandma, why not take advantage of the few years now and go outside to see the world, I told your uncle, and asked him to leave two for your sister in the company in Taipei. lack--" Zhenguan paused for a moment before asking: "Will Yingui not go?" "Yi is, as soon as the end of the year comes, the other party will come to marry someone. Yinchan is still young, so it's not too late to go when she knows it's important!" For Zhenguan, Taipei is a mysterious foreign land; it is the place where Daxin grew up and grew up; Taipei should be a good place, because it has made people as ambitious as Daxin—not to mention, the small town If you stay here, the matchmaker will come to your door sooner or later, Yinyue and Yingui are one example. "Grandma, did uncle say when he's going?" "what do you say?" Zhen Guan thought for a while: "Let's wait for the Mid-Autumn Festival!" Zu and Sun were talking, when they suddenly heard someone shouting at the door: "Is Grandma here?" Zhen Guan heard the sound, looked at it with a probe, it really is a big letter! "Grandma is here! Come in, please!" Her grandmother also said: "It's Daxin! Come in and sit inside!" Daxin didn't stop until he walked to the bed, but the Zhenguan people had already come down, moving a chair for him. Da Xin sat down and said, "Grandma, I'm here to say goodbye to you, and I have to leave tomorrow!" Her grandmother smiled and said, "So fast? Can't you stay a few more days? It's good to wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival is over!" The old man wanted to stay with guests sincerely, but Daxin was stumped. Seeing him looking at him, Zhenguan had to say for him: "Grandma, he is the same as Ah Zhong, and he has to report for duty on the stipulated time; if he is late, he can't do it." !" "oh, I see--" After the old man understood it, he said, "Then—when will you come again?" Daxin glanced at her and said, "If you have a holiday, come!" "That's good—" As her grandmother said, she leaned closer to Daxin's face and looked at it: "Hey! You have a nasal sound when you speak, and your nostrils are blocked?" "It's okay, it will be fine soon!" "How can this work? You must not close the window when you sleep, and the wind is strong when you reach out, and this Ruizi will not go to see—" When the old man said this, he called Zhenguan and said, "Go under the stove and cook a bowl of noodles and peppers for Brother Daxin. It will be very spicy, and it will be good after eating!" Zhenguan responded to the order, and before leaving, he couldn't help but glance at him, thinking: I don't know if this chemist believes in such an ancient folk prescription? Now she looked right at it; it turned out that Daxinsheng had a pair of bull eyes, extremely gentle and honest--Zhen watched the loser, and quickly walked out of the inner room and came to the kitchen; a ladle, a pot, a knife, With a shovel, she looked at it at this time, and then she understood Ah Jin and cousin sister-in-law; even how many women in the old days, they could cook three meals for one person and one family every meal, every meal, every month, ten years, all their lives , What was the original thought in my heart! Five peppers were too many, three were too few, so I added and subtracted, and when I brought them back to the door, I remembered that I didn’t taste it first——Zhen Guan took a sip in his busy schedule, wow!sky!So spicy! As soon as he entered the door, Daxin came forward to receive a cup, because the elders ordered it to be eaten, so there was no other polite words; Zhenguan stood aside, looked at him three or two times, and emptied the big bowl , there is not even a little bit of chili seed skin left. "Wow! So delicious!" When he said this, both Zhenguan and her grandmother laughed; the three talked for a while longer before Zhenguan sent him out of the room.As soon as they left the room, the two stopped immediately. Daxin first asked, "I'll take the bus at six o'clock tomorrow, what time do you get up?" Zhen Guan said with a smile, "I'm going to sleep until half past seven—" After thinking about it, Daxin said, "Okay! It's up to you—" "..." "actually--" Thinking about it, Daxin probably didn't get the meaning out of the words, so he said, "I'm also afraid that you will send me—" "..." When he said this, Zhen Guan bit his lip and began to feel sad; after a pause, the man said again: "When will you go to Taipei?" "Not sure—" "Hope you'll like Taipei—" "--Ok!" "I'm leaving!" "……it is good--" "goodbye--" "……OK, bye!" When he was talking, his feet didn't move, so Zhenguan could only look up at him. Now, the eyes of the two met: "Okay! You go back to the room! Grandma is still waiting for you——" "Well... take care of yourself!" Daxin nodded, took another look at Zhenguan, and then started to walk away; that day, it was the end of summer when the white dew was coming, and the first quarter moon was hanging on the eaves of the five rooms. Zhen Guan stood there, staring at "Shou Hand Boy" not far away, and suddenly thought of Li He's poem. At exactly four o'clock, Zhenguan woke up. She wanted to close her eyes and go back to sleep, but she didn't know that she couldn't close her eyes. Throughout the night, she woke up at one o'clock and two o'clock, and she couldn't sleep well at all! The morning bus leaves on time at six o'clock; Daxin may have to leave at five thirty, and it takes about ten minutes to walk from here to the station. Of course Mrs. Yincheng would cook breakfast for him...or else she would have four concubines too!Yi would even accompany him to the station. Even if Daxin really doesn't want his aunt to see him off, it's impossible for Zhenguan to send a male passenger to the car at four or five o'clock in the early morning!In the eyes of the people in the town, she and him are two people who have nothing to do with each other—so, did she break the routine and wake up very early just to watch him leave the house? How would everyone imagine them then? Zhenguan had already thought of all the reasons why she couldn't see her off, and she even planned: Why not—sleep hard until six or seven o'clock, as long as she doesn't see her, it's fine! Things are not the same, and I don't know what kind of force drives her to wake up in two ends... The human soul sometimes knows the willingness to sacrifice better than the mind and perseverance! ——It's already five fifteen!Maybe Daxin is eating breakfast, maybe talking to her neighbors!Maybe... whatever!No matter! At this time, it is better to say goodbye quietly; it is abrupt and embarrassing to say goodbye! There is a sentence in Chinese poetry that "everything is gone, go and go and resign"; Zhenguan can imagine: at this time-the stars in the sky have disappeared, and the world outside the house is already a scene of dawn; on the street, there are people rushing to and fro. There are students on the train, there are fishmongers returning from catching fish, there are hogmen playing long flutes, and there are watchmen who watch the night watch and are eager to go home... And Daxin; should have picked up his luggage and backpack, walked out of the front hall, walked through the patio, and walked out of the gate. He——Zhen Guan suddenly fell down and buried her face in the pillow. At this time, she realized: the torture in the world, it turned out to be——Easy to let go, difficult to let go, but also to let go! In the extreme sadness, she took a nap, and when she woke up again, there was already chaos all around. The wives of Yinshan and Yinchuan are holding towels and basins, standing and waiting for the old man to wash his face.After the work was over, the two sisters-in-law went out back and forth carrying basins of water, only to see Yincheng's wife coming in right after her; Zhen looked at the small porcelain bowl she was holding in her hand, and knew in her heart: she was here to milk the cows and eat with grandma! Zhen Guan sat down beside her, and said affectionately: "Sister-in-law, Ah Zhan hasn't left his hands and feet yet, sometimes you can't walk away, you can squeeze it first and ask someone to bring it!" When Yincheng's wife heard about it, she leaned over and whispered in Zhenguan's ear: "Auntie, you don't know! I squeezed it out and didn't drink it, and I became cold after a while. The old man has a weak stomach and intestines, and his stomach will be ruined after eating!" " As she spoke, she turned slightly sideways to untie her clothes. When Zhenkan saw this, she couldn't look any further, so she had to shift her gaze to look at grandma in front of the dressing table. The old man was sitting facing the mirror, with three locks of Ina's hair in the old style. The method of combing hair has been rarely passed on to others, and few people know it; so that Mrs. Yinshan, who turned around and came back, could only stand aside and listen to orders. In Zhen Wang's hands, besides the jade hairpin and pearl hairpin, there are also two freshly picked purple red round flowers: "Sister-in-law, why don't you pick magnolia?" When Yinshan's wife heard this, she turned her head and smiled at her, "Magnolia is too tall, wait for you to turn around and take the ladder to pick it up for grandma!" After her grandma combed her hair and washed her hands, Zhen Guan went to help Yi come to sit on the edge of the bed, and saw Yin Cheng's wife milking the milk, the milk in her hand was only half a bowl, so she had to change it Squeeze the other half. Zhen watched as her right hand was squeezing the milk, and a small milky water column sprayed from her head... The milky white juice poured down like a gush; Zhenguan couldn't help but think of herself as a baby—of course she couldn't think of such a distant time, so she added an indescribable love to her mother . After milking, the two sisters-in-law left one after another, while Zhen Guan sat quietly and watched the old man drink milk; her grandmother drank most of it, and kept some to pass to Zhen Guan, saying: "These are for you!" Zhen Guan took the bowl, glanced at it, and said, "It's very dirty! Grandma—" Her grandmother laughed and said, "So Ah Zhan is in good health! You don't know it's Bao—" When Zhenguan heard about it, she raised her head and drank all the milk; her grandmother asked, "How do you feel?" Zhen Guan caressed his heart, only to feel a warm current in his chest. "I won't say, I'll do the dishes first—" When she turned back into the room, she saw the old man sitting in front of the small mirror again. This time she was applying powder. Yi took a kind of powder produced in Hsinchu, rubbed it all over her face lightly, and then rubbed it with the palm of her hand. The wiping was extremely even; Zhen Guanjing stood behind him, watching, watching, and remembered a sentence from Daxin: "I used to think little about girls' makeup; however, after seeing my grandmother, I realized: Women's makeup, it turns out that she is polite to the world—" Her grandmother had seen her in the mirror a long time ago, so she turned her head and smiled and said, "What are you thinking, you're so unfocused?" Zhen Guan felt guilty, and clung to her grandmother from behind, but leaned forward to entangle her.She wrinkled her nose and said mischievously, "I'm thinking—I'm going to ask Grandpa to see it! Hehehe!" Grandfather and grandson were laughing because they saw Yinshan's wife coming in again!The fragrant flower in her hand came up to give the old man a hairpin; Zhen Guan then smiled and said: "Wow! The heart and liver are as big as petals, why don't I have them?" Mrs. Yinshan said with a smile: "The heart and liver are big and small—you still say it; isn't this for you?" As she spoke, she pulled Zhen Guan to sit on the side of the bed; when Zhen Guan's head was held by hand, she was still a little strange, but when she sat down, she realized that her cousin-in-law had something to say to her; When pinning flowers on Zhenguan's skirt, he said in a low voice: "I thought you would pick magnolias! I've been waiting for you not to come—" Of course Zhenguan was surprised and asked, "What's the matter?" Mrs. Yinshan's eyes turned slightly red, and she said: "Grandma Xiaomanyi has been packing up the clothes for the past two days. We just thought it was strange and didn't dare to ask. It was only when we met last night that I stopped and said yes. Yi wants to live in the temple on the top of the mountain—" "why?" Zhenguan's question was so urgent that her cousin choked up her throat, and she was even a little speechless: "Yi only said that she would go to Biyun Temple to fulfill her vows—told us to be filial to the elderly, and to listen to the second uncle, everyone. if--" "Why is that?" "I don't know either! Last night, I couldn't tell you earlier. You haven't left the room; there's another guest here." "..." "Grandma, I'm only talking to you, others don't know about it! You secretly told Grandma and asked Yi to ask. Once Grandma stopped her, Yi didn't dare to go!" No matter what others think, Zhenguan is confident that she understands her concubine. When her uncle and Liulizi concubine were about to leave the day before yesterday, Yi personally cooked rice noodle soup with both of them. Grandma said: "Grandma, call Dajin and ask about her!" "What kind of thing?" "Sister-in-law said: My sister-in-law is going to live in a temple - I don't know the details!" When her grandma heard about it, she called out repeatedly: "Suyun! Suyun—" Her eldest sister came almost at the sound; Zhenguan heard her grandmother ask: "What's the matter with you, don't tell me! I know you also think I'm old!" Before she could finish her sentence, her sister-in-law knelt down with a thud; Zhen Guan was sitting beside her, she was not in the right place, so she had to stand up and pull her. Her eldest sister was kneeling so heavily, Zhenguan couldn't move her, so she had to call for help: "Grandma, tell your eldest sister to get up—" The two mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in front of them were crying with excitement.Zhen Guan thought: Grandmother actually loves this eldest daughter-in-law the most, however, sometimes elderly people become innocent, like now: her grandma is actually acting like a baby with her eldest sister-"Amother, how can a daughter-in-law be like that?" Where is your heart?" "If not—" Her grandmother paused and said, "Why do you want to throw me away!" "Aunt—" "What's the pain, you can't say it?" "If I say so, Auntie will fulfill me!" "You speak first, you speak first!" Her concubine wiped her tears and said: "After the liberation, those who went with me either came back, or there was news, but Guofeng has never been whereabouts; all these years, I burned incense every day, vowing to pray for the blessings of heaven, earth and gods, Guofeng If you come back without incident... the daughter-in-law is willing to go to the pure land, worship the Buddha for a long time, and take this body—" Even Zhenguan was already crying, and her grandma was even more tearful; while wiping away the old man's tears, she said: "——now that his people are back, of course I will go. I made my own wish, how about it?" Deceitful heaven and earth, gods and Buddhas—but, in front of the old man, you can’t show filial piety, Aniang must forgive me!" When her grandma heard about it, she burst into tears. She patted Yi's hand and kept saying, "Ah! You are so stupid! You are so stupid!" A group of people had already crowded into the room, her second concubine, third concubine, fourth concubine, fifth concubine... After a while of persuasion, her grandma got better, but she remembered and said: "No matter what, you can't Go; if you want to go, unless I am old and stretch my legs; now, I would rather not have him as a son than a daughter-in-law, and you have a share in my hardship—" "..." Zhen Guan came out of the room early, and she didn't turn on the faucet until she went to the outside courtyard in front of the kitchen, letting a lot of water wash away her tears; the world is floating, only seeing the human feelings in front of her - Zhen Guan is sitting on the pool, and then she thinks about the big Hey, the tears are falling down again——