Chapter 8 Baichun Terrace

They arrived at Baichun Terrace before dark. Baichun Terrace under the moonlight is a luxurious and bright isolated island. On the desolate land of Qingyun County in the autumn night, this isolated island has high cornices, flickering candle shadows, and lingering with the sound of strings and silk bamboos. It looks like the last carnival behemoth .The donkey cart went through a forest and came to the water's edge. The driver reined in the car and stopped. He turned his head and said to Binu, "Go down, go down, take your two knives, I will take you twenty miles north, you should get off the cart!"

Binu didn't hear the coachman's expulsion order. She tried her best to avoid the eyes of the masked passenger along the way, and the mysterious smell of musk and mint wafting from under his robe. The twenty-mile journey on the donkey cart made her exhausted and blind Mian Ke's eyes are like a lamp in the dark night, scanning the surroundings, she just lost her way under his lamp-like gaze.The cold demeanor of the masked man and the gesture of holding the sword under his robe reminded Binu of a Huangdian man she met on Beishan when she was a child. Uncle, what are you tucking into your robe?The man smiled and lifted his robe, revealing a bloody head!When Binu thought of the head, she no longer dared to look at his robe. When the donkey cart bumped, she felt that she was floating in the night with a sword, and she lost her way.

The coachman kicked her rudely, are you deaf or asleep?It's Baichun Terrace, come down quickly for me, don't let anyone see you! After getting off the donkey cart, the ground under her feet was still undulating, and Binu realized that she was a little unsteady, so she squatted down.She squatted in a strange dream-like place.The water separates Baichun Terrace from the woods, and a moat river surrounds Baichun Terrace like a brocade, with shadows flickering on the other side, and a row of leopard emblem lanterns fluttering in the wind.The sound of iron chains and reels intersected, a huge black shadow flashed on the river, a bridge descended from mid-air, and the suspension bridge landed in mid-air startled Binu.

Binu bent down in panic, and the package on her head fell to the ground. When she squatted to pick up the package, she saw that the donkey cart had already boarded the bridge, so she jumped up and shouted to the driver, brother, you can't leave me here , You took my two coins, why did you send me twenty miles of land, brother, you have to return one of the coins to me! Both the coachman and the masked guest turned their heads, and the silent masked guest remained silent, with only his eyes shining in the night.The coachman scolded and said, you look stupid, but you are smart. If you take two of your knives, you want me to take you into Baichun Terrace?Don't stare wide-eyed to see, Baichun Terrace is where you entered?

Binu held his breath and listened to the voice from the other side of the river, and said, brother, you lied to me, who said women can't cross this bridge, I heard a woman's voice! The coachman first got angry and then laughed, and said, that's a girl who sells laughter!Are you going to laugh?Look at your beauty, learn to play, play and sing, you have capital, you throw another knife over here, I will introduce you to Le Fangzhu, let you go in and sell yourself! Before Binu had time to say anything, it was the frog struggling anxiously inside the package. The frog jumped out of the shoe and stayed on the back of Binu's hand for a moment, leaving an abnormally scalding heat mark, and then it jumped out.From Taocun to Baichuntai, the frog had been hiding shyly in Qiliang's shoes, but now it jumped out boldly. Binu was shocked to see the frog jumping, jumping, jumping on the donkey cart under the moonlight, and from Meng Judging from the dodging body of the face guest, the frog jumped into his arms.

Don't go, he is not your son!Binu suddenly understood the frog's heart, she yelled in horror, come back quickly, he doesn't know you, he is not your son! Binu screamed at the frog, but it was too late to stop her, the masked man caught the frog, and she saw his hand waved lightly, a small black shadow drew an arc and fell into the water went. There was a rush of gongs on the other side of the suspension bridge. It was the night watchman urging the donkey cart to cross the bridge. The driver raised his foot and slapped the whip rope. Binu chased the donkey cart in desperation. Pull, it happened to be the belt of the masked guest. Under the moonlight, Binu saw clearly that it was the belt in her hand. Binu's hand subconsciously loosened, loosened and then tightly grasped, in a panic She yelled at the man, that's not a frog, it's your mother's soul, you will be punished, you threw your mother into the water!

The masked man stood up, a cold light flashed where the robe flew, and suddenly, a dagger had broken the entanglement between Binu's hand and belt, and the masked man cut off his own belt with his sword, and he was still like a piece of paper. The rock towered over the car, and the driver's furious voice came from behind him, what mother?What soul?The coachman yelled at Binu, be careful and let him pierce his heart with a sword. He is a great swordsman invited by Heng Mingjun. His sword does not recognize people, relatives, and even ghosts! Binu sat down on the ground, holding a small piece of belt in his hand. Through the moonlight, he could see the leopard pattern on the brocade belt. A black trace stuck to it strangely. Now Binu was sure that it was a puddle. blood.

After the donkey cart crossed the bridge, the opposite bank was busy for a while. The suspension bridge rose heavily and disappeared from the river. The Hao River regained its guard and isolated Binu on the bank.There was no one in the shadow of the lamp on the opposite side, only the red flames were still flickering in the alchemy furnace, and the fireman occasionally came out from behind the wall to fill the furnace with firewood.Binu stood by the river with a masked man's belt in his hand, and saw Baichun Terrace on the opposite side soaked in the moonlight, like a giant beast. There was a mysterious smell in the night sky, maybe it was the smell of alchemy, maybe it was just Breath from the mouth of the giant beast.

Binu walks along the river, looking for her frog.Under the moonlight, the water of the Haohe River was sparkling, and a leaf of duckweed was faintly visible on the water surface, carrying a small black shadow and swimming towards Baichun Terrace, leaving a chain of ripples, which must be the frog.Binu couldn't call back that frog that was looking for a child.From the huts on the other side of the river came the clamor of many young men who might all be the sons of the woman in black, but who would recognize a mother who had turned into a frog, and who would want to be the son of a frog?Binu waited by the river for a while, she knew that the frog would not turn back, the poor ghost smelled the smell of her son, and she lost her only traveling companion, and she had to go alone for the rest of the way.

As soon as the frog left, the parcel was gone, and Qi Liang's shoes were empty.Binu washed Qiliang's shoes in the water, and then she took a look at her face on the water. The water surface under the moonlight was as calm as a mirror, but such a big mirror could not reflect her face, and her face disappeared. In the light of the water, she couldn't see herself, and in an instant, Binu couldn't remember what her face looked like.She tried hard to recall her own appearance, but what she saw was the haggard and old face of the mountain woman on the raft. The face was full of tears, and the eyes were full of ominous shadows.Binu knelt by the water and touched her eyes. She remembered that her eyes were bright and beautiful, but her eyes did not remember her fingers. They used their eyelashes to avoid the touch of her fingers. She touched her nose, Taocun The women all envied her for having a small and exquisite onion nose, but the nose also rejected her touch with a cold attitude, and a little snot flowed out, sticking to her fingers mischievously.She dipped a drop of river water and applied it on her chapped lips. She remembered that Qi Liang loved her lips the most, saying that her lips were red and sweet.But the two lips were tightly clenched, refusing the moisture from the drop of water, they were all acting up their own way, they were blaming Binu, for Wan Qiliang, you failed everything, even failed your own eyes, nose and lips , Live up to your own beauty.Binu finally grabbed her disheveled bun, neither sad nor happy, and greeted her master's fingers with a layer of sticky dust, reminding her how many tears were filled in her hair along the way, so many tears, Bi Nu Slave, you should wash your hair.

Binu couldn't remember whether she had cried or not, she felt tears when she touched her hair.She suddenly remembered that she had never washed her hair since leaving Taocun, so she pulled out the hairpin and soaked her black hair in water.Her face was pressed against the water, so close, she still couldn't see her own face.All the little fishes in the river came, they had never seen a woman dressing up under the moonlight, they thought it was a clump of fresh aquatic plants floating in the water, and the little fishes passionately pecked Binu's long hair under the water.Binu knew it was a group of small fish, she wanted to see the small fish under the water, but Qi Liang's face suddenly jumped out from under the water, and then she felt Qi Liang's dexterous fingers, which were hidden under the water, rubbing them patiently her hair.She has forgotten what she looks like, but Qiliang cannot be forgotten.She remembered that Qi Liang's face was full of sunlight under the nine mulberry trees, cheerful and enthusiastic, but in the dark it looked like a child, childish and shy, with a little sadness that could predict the future.She remembered his hands, which were rough and powerful during the day to handle the farm tools and mulberry trees. When she returned at night, her body became the nine mulberry trees, and the sweeter picking began.When you clap that hand when you are reckless, that hand will become dexterous. When you clap that hand when you are tired, it will be revived, more enthusiastic and unrestrained. Binu misses Qiliang's hand, Qiliang's lips and teeth, misses His toes covered with yellow mud, missing his private parts that are sometimes domineering and sometimes fragile, are her second secret sun, which still rises in the dark night, illuminating her desolate body bit by bit.She remembered that Qiliang's body could emit scorching sunlight even in the dark night, and this firm memory finally illuminated the dark sky in a foreign land and illuminated the road to the north.Finally, Binu stood up from the water's edge and looked to the north. What he saw was a forest, and the only road leading to the north was hidden in that forest. The depths of the woods are full of messy thatched sheds, pitch-black, tall and short, all trembling in the wind, and the night wind blows the stench mixed with human and animal defecation, as well as the sound of someone's tired snoring.There was only a horse lantern hanging under the eaves of a thatched shed, and Binu didn't know if it was Heng Mingjun's horse shed that passersby said, she looked into the shed by the dim light of the horse lantern, the huge shed was empty, Three white horses stood in front of the trough, chewing night grass, their silver-white manes shining with a noble and wet light in the darkness.Binu went to push the gate of the stable, a black shadow flashed behind the gate, and a cold iron object fell on her hand lightly, it turned out to be a sickle.Horrified, she saw clearly that it was an old horseman with a naked upper body, hunched over and lying in ambush in the dark, and it was he who pressed her hand with a sickle hook. I told you that no one is allowed to enter the stables, and I will treat you as a horse thief again.The old horseman put the sickle hook on his neck and gestured, and said in a vicious voice, if he stole the white horse from Baichuntai, he would be beheaded!