Chapter 20 Chapter Twenty

A Bing, who was blind in both eyes, touched and saw the lake.He sat on the rock in a daze, and he wanted to play the piano for the last time for his beloved piano girl... The desolate sound of the piano sounded like weeping and complaining... Just as A Bing was about to jump into the lake, he was suddenly hugged tightly by a man... He finally climbed up Yuantouzhu, which he was most familiar with, and touched the place where he and his sister Qin often practiced piano.A Bing stood there bewildered, with darkness in front of his eyes, he could no longer see the vast Taihu Lake, without the white sails on the blue lake... The sound of the waves hitting the cliff was like the tumbling tide of his heart...

Sister Qin, I'm here, I'm going to see you under the Nine Springs. He sat on the rock by the lake and let the waves hit his feet and wet his shoes.He wants to throw himself into the lake after playing the piano for the last time for his beloved Qinmei. The desolate sound of the piano rang out, like weeping and complaining... Scenes of the past with sister Qin came before my eyes... Sister Qin, I know you are for me, for me. Sister Qin, I want to go with you, let us meet under the Nine Springs. Sister Qin... here I come... Just as A Bing was about to jump into the lake, he was suddenly hugged tightly by a man.

A Bing shouted: "Who are you? Why don't you let me die?" "Bingge, it's me, the little girl Azhen who is setting fire in Lei Zun Palace." "Ah Zhen?...Aren't you missing?" "Bingge..." Ah Zhen burst into tears. "Ah Zhen, don't cry, don't cry." Ah Bing persuaded. Ah Zhen helped Ah Bing to sit on the rock, and said, "I also came to throw myself into the lake. I didn't expect to meet you..." Ah Zhen cried again. "Don't cry, Jane, tell me, what happened to you?" "That year, after you left, I was driven away by Zhang Daohua. He said that I escaped, and I was afraid that I would cause trouble for them in the future. I had no choice. I wanted to go back to my hometown, but I was trafficked to Anhui on the way."

"Then how did you get back here now?" A Bing asked. Ah Zhen cried and said: "I came here by begging along the way. When I arrived at the Lei Zun Palace, I wanted to have a place to live, but the Taoist Zhang refused to take me in. In a fit of anger, I ran to the lake, thinking of dying... ...I didn't expect to meet you..." Hearing this, Ah Bing was very angry, and cursed: "It's so dark, he doesn't even have sympathy for that Zhang Daohua, he deserves to be a Taoist leader, go and reason with him!" "Bingo, your eyes?" "Out of sight."

"You can't see both?" "Oh, the heavens are going to accept me." "Brother Bing, then you can't see. How will you live in the future? I was going to throw myself into the lake today. In fact, you saved me. Then let me serve you. I won't go to Lei Zun Palace." "Ah Zhen, I also want to help you find that trafficker and avenge you." "Bingo, thank you." A Bing decides to live on, to help A Zhenxia to revenge. Ah Zhen helped Ah Bing back to his residence. Ah Zhen saw that the house was too dilapidated, so she immediately helped Ah Bing tidy up the house, unpacking and washing the quilt.

Ah Zhen cooked the rice and ate it with Ah Bing. At night, Ah Bing said, "Ah Zhen, you sleep on my bed, and I sleep on the floor in the kitchen." "No... Bingge, no..." It turns out that Ah Zhen has always been secretly in love with Ah Bing. At this time, she decided to live with Ah Bing. Ah Bing heard what she meant, but Ah Bing only thought of Qin Mei in his heart. I'll stay in the kitchen, Jane." "Bingge... If you are like this, then I will leave." "Ah Zhen, don't go, there is no place for you to live alone when you are alone, just live here."

"Then why do you want to live in the kitchen?" "Then... well, let's build another bed!" From then on, A Zhen and A Bing, two friends in need, lived together. A Bing took A Zhen to find Zhang Daohua in Lei Zun Temple. At this time, they had just finished reciting scriptures.A Bing asked him: "Why didn't you accept A Zhen? She helped us cook at a young age, but you drove her away. She was sold to be a maid by human traffickers. Now she escaped with difficulty. But you turned her away, do you still have a Taoist conscience?" Zhang Daohua was speechless, and said with a gaping mouth: "You..."

Two old Taoist priests rushed over and said, "Ah Zhen, are you still alive?" Ah Zhen cried and said: "I escaped after suffering so much. No one took me in. I went to the lake to throw myself into the lake to die. Unexpectedly, I met A Bingge and I survived." "Come, come, we welcome you." Ah Zhen said: "Thank you, but I can't go back to Lei Zun Temple now, I have to take care of Brother Ah Bing, because he is blind and can't live on his own." After Ah Zhen finished speaking, she wiped her tears and said, "Brother Ah Bing, let's go."

A Zhen helped A Bing to leave the monastery. From then on, A-Zhen helped A-Bing to perform in the streets and teahouses, and lived a hard life with a meager income. One day, Ah Zhen told Ah Bing about her life experience. She said: "I made cattle and horses for their family, burned fire and wood, planted land and vegetables, and served the landlord's wife. If I didn't like it, she would strangle me." , was beaten by her..." Ah Zhen cried: "Her man still has bad intentions for me. He always touches me when his wife is not paying attention. One night he jumped out of the window and entered my room to bully me. I injured him." Then escaped."

A Bing said angrily: "These bullies will settle accounts with them one day." That night, Ah Bing woke up and saw that Ah Zhen was still asleep, so he lifted the quilt and asked, "Ah Zhen, why don't you rest?" Ah Zhen said: "I don't want to sleep yet, I need to do some needlework." A Bing felt and walked over, he went to pull A Zhen and said: "A Zhen, you don't go to bed so late, don't damage your body...Ah yo!" When she cried out, Ah Zhen said, "Ah, it's bleeding." She hurriedly put Ah Bing's finger into her mouth and sucked it, Ah Zhen spat out the sucked blood, and said, "Okay, how about finger It will fester."

A Bing asked: "Ah Zhen, who do you make shoes for?" "Here you are! Your shoes are all torn like this." A Bing said emotionally, "Ah Zhen, tell me, why did you help me? I am blind, what else can you plan on me?" Ah Zhen said: "Abingge, I don't want to do anything, I just want to listen to you playing the piano. Since you rescued me in the Taoist temple, I have listened to you playing the piano every day. Once, because of listening to you playing the piano, I The rice was burnt, I didn’t dare to say it, I just soaked the boiled rice in boiling water and ate it..." A Bing said, "Do you like listening to me play the piano?" Ah Zhen choked up and said: "I like it very much, I like it more than my life, I know, I don't have the life of sister Qin... Even if I find a wife who will never be your wife in the future, as long as I can stay with you forever and listen to you Playing the piano, I have no complaints or regrets." "Ah, Jane, you are so kind, then...then you will be my wife!" "Brother Ah Bing..." Ah Zhen leaned her head against Ah Bing's chest. A Bing hugged her...,. A few days later, in A Bing's hut, the simplest wedding was held. A Bing's brother-in-law came, A Ju and his wife came, and some neighbors and A Bing's poor friends also came. Today, Ah Bing has changed into a pair of sunglasses and a top hat. Although the blue gown is old, Ah Zhen has washed it perfectly for him.Ah Zhen wore a faded red top. Although the clothes were old, they were well washed. On the table are red dates, walnuts, longan, melon seeds, etc. brought by my elder brother and sister-in-law from Xiaosi Village, and Aju brought peanuts, water chestnuts, lotus seeds, and red-dyed boiled eggs from the countryside. "Baitiandi begins." The master of ceremonies shouted. The poor friends blew cheerful suona. "Bride and groom, bow to the heaven and the earth." A Bing and A Zhen kowtowed to the sky. "Second respect to my parents." The two kowtowed to A Bing's elder brother and sister-in-law. "The groom and the bride bow to each other." The two worshiped each other. "Licheng, send it to the bridal chamber." The bridal chamber was the only room, except that the bed was covered with a new sheet from Aju, a pair of new pillows from my brother, and the neighbors helped to paste two Chinese characters of Double Happiness on the door. Everyone started to make trouble in the bridal chamber, and the poor friends shouted for the groom to tell how the two got married. A Bing said: "I met when I reported to the Palace of the King of Hell." Everyone was stunned. A Bing said seriously: "It's true. After I lost my eyesight, I didn't want to live any longer, so I went to throw myself into the lake. Unexpectedly, I was hugged tightly and wouldn't let me jump. They forced me back from the Palace of Hades. The person is her—" Ah Bing pointed to Ah Zhen. "Ah! That's how it turned out, our poor friends bowed to the bride." So all the poor friends bowed to A Zhen, and A Zhen hurriedly stood up and bowed to everyone: "This is what I should, A Bing and the Taoist priest You rescued me from the wicked, I am grateful, and now I want to bow to A Bing." A Zhen bowed to A Bing, and everyone applauded. A Bing's sister-in-law and A Ju served the buns and said, "Come on, everyone eat the buns quickly, it's A Bing's wedding banquet." In the evening, everyone dispersed, and Ah Zhen went to clean up the kitchen.A crescent moon hung on the top of the tree. A Bing leaned against the window, played the huqin, and faced the melting moonlight outside the window, A Bing said to Qin sister in his heart: "Qin sister...I miss you...Qin sister... ...I have to live...you won't blame me..." When Ah Zhen heard the sound of the piano, she came in gently with a pot of hot water, stood and listened, she couldn't stop crying.At the end of the song, Ah Bing felt that Ah Zhen was beside her, so he said, "Ah Zhen, are you done cleaning?" "Ok." "Ah, Jane, are you crying?" "No...no. Pack it up, wash your face!" After Ah Bing finished washing, Ah Zhen said, "Brother Ah Bing, go to bed and rest, I will sleep on the floor." "No, no... Ah Zhen, we are already husband and wife." "Bingge, let's sleep separately." Ah Zhen said with a sob. "No, Ah Zhen, come here!" Ah Bing hugged her, and Ah Zhen buried her head in Ah Bing's arms and cried sadly. A Bing wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and said softly, "Blow out the lamp, let's go to bed..." A Bing asked: "Ah Zhen, tell me, why didn't you let me die that day, why did you hug my leg so tightly?" "Bingo, because you play the violin so well, you can't die, you have to keep playing the violin." "Ah Zhen, thank you!" Ah Bing excitedly hugged Ah Zhen tightly... From then on, Ah Bing and Ah Zhen became a couple in need. With Ah Zhen's care, Ah Bing finally decided to live and continue to play the piano. During the day, Ah Zhen leads the way with a bamboo pole, and Ah Bing, carrying various musical instruments and holding a bamboo pole, follows Ah Zhen to teahouses or street performers. A Bing survived hard... A Bing was ill for a period of time, unable to perform in the street, and his life became more and more difficult. He could only live on a meager income every day, and sometimes he didn't even have money to buy rice. One day, Ah Zhen said, "Brother Ah Bing, I'm going to borrow some rice from Aunt Wang, but there is no rice at home." "Going to borrow from Aunt Wang again, their family is not rich." "then what should we do?" "Oh..." Ah Bing sighed, "Go, go to the teahouse and play the piano." Ah Bing lifted the quilt and got out of bed. "Then your illness?" "It's okay, just a little cough, and now the fever has subsided." With the help of Ah Zhen, A Bing went out to perform art again. A Bing felt that he had nowhere to go, and in depression, he got into bad habits and smoked opium. One day, Mr. Zhang, the boss of Yanguan, saw A Bing sitting on the stone bridge playing the zither, so he came to hold him and said, "A Bing, I'm playing the qin again. Let's go. I'll take you to my kingdom of happiness. I promise to let you go." In a few minutes, you will be as happy as a fairy." A Bing said, "Where are you going?" "You'll know when you get there." When I arrived at the store, I could smell the smell of smoke, and the room was in chaos.Only then did Ah Bing realize that it was a tobacco hall, and the smokers were smoking opium. A Bing turned around and left, but was grabbed by the owner of the tobacco hall. He breathed a big smell of smoke, and said, "Mr. Abing, Come here, just enjoy a sip. Today I will give you free, if this cigarette can't help you relieve your pain, then you just don't come here in the future, why bother to be so serious." As Boss Zhang said, he pressed A Bing to a bunk, and then shouted to the shop assistant beside him: "Hurry up and serve him with cigarettes." The shop assistant brought a foreign bong, filled A Bing with big cigarettes, and burned the bubbles for him. Boss Zhang said: "Hurry up and smoke, and you will enter the happy world with the smoke in a while. Get there , you can meet whoever you want." A Bing inhaled desperately, and with the strong fragrance of poppies, A Bing seemed to float up with the smoke. Suddenly, he felt that all his troubles had been forgotten, and all his pain disappeared. What made him the happiest was that in the confusion, he seemed to see his beloved Qinmei... Ah, Qinmei, don't go...Qinmei... Boss Zhang came over, saw A Bing's expression, and said with a smile: "How about it, Mr. A Bing, I said that smoking opium can help you relieve pain and help you find happiness, am I right?" "Burn me another cigarette, quick—quick!" The shop assistant hurriedly lit a cigarette for him. Boss Zhang smiled cunningly, and ordered: "Take good care of this uncle." That night, A Bing lay on the bed and smoked opium all the time. "A Bing, don't smoke, you will become addicted to opioid cigarettes." Ah Zhen said anxiously. "If I don't smoke, I'll be depressed, I'll feel bad, I'll feel bad..." Ah Bing shouted. Ah Zhen cried: "You don't even have money to buy rice, and you still smoke!" At this time, someone shouted outside the door: "Is A Bing at home?" Ah Zhen went to open the door, and the man came in and shouted: "A Bing, you should pay back my opium money, how long will you owe?" A Bing begged, "A few more days!" The man said viciously: "You owe me too much debt, I tell you, you have to pay me back within three days, otherwise your wife will be used as collateral." The man walked away cursing. A Bing had no choice, he put on his shoes and went out. "Bingo, where are you going?" "Gambling... If you don't gamble, how can you pay him back?" "Oh my God!" Ah Zhen cried.