Chapter 11 Chapter Nine: The Man Selling Mulberry Bows, The Woman Selling Quiver Quivers

Chirping birds echoed in the empty mountains, and the fragrant grass fragrance permeated the blue and green mountains. At noon, on a mountain near Haojing, a man was working hard. The man's forehead was dripping with sweat, his expression was focused, he was holding the sharpening knife in his hand, and was finishing the last finished product. A few days ago, the man found several pine trees with excellent wood on the nearby mountain. The man knew that the wood of pine wood was tough and it was a good material for making bows. The bows made from this batch of pine trees would definitely be sold in Haojing City. good price.

The man's wife also has a pair of dexterous hands. She thought that since her husband was going to sell bows in the capital of pickaxe, she gathered some nearby grasses and wove dozens of grasses quiver, which could be sold with mulberry bows. Both the man and his wife are pure and kind-hearted mountain people, and they have no city in their hearts. A prosperous capital like Haojing is a strange and charming place to them. Therefore, the man decided to go to a good restaurant in Haojing with his wife to have a good meal with this batch of mulberry wood bows if they were sold out. Near noon, the mulberry bows were all sharpened, and the man and his wife carried a dozen longbows on their backs, and went down the mountain with their quiver in their hands, heading for the city of Haojing.

Walking on the mountain road, suddenly, they saw a child on the opposite mountain yelling at them. The first person to see the strange child was the man's wife. The man's name was Si Da. Anyway, the wife was also a rough person in the mountains, so she often called him by his name when talking. "Si Da Si Da, have you seen that child?" The woman asked doubtfully, "Is he talking to us?" Si Da was carrying a heavy mulberry wooden bow on his back, and walking on the mountain road was already very strenuous. At this moment, when he heard his wife calling out from behind, he didn't even want to turn his head. He just kept panting, and said angrily, "What kind of wild child is it?" Huh?" He said impatiently, "Why are you bothering with him?"

The child was still yelling at them, but the mountain road was farther away, so the voice could not be heard clearly. "He seems...seems to be saying..." Si Da's wife listened for a while, then murmured, "What are you talking about... selling that thing will cause... something." Si Da became even more impatient when he heard such words, his face was flushed with the weight, and he was planning to quickly cross this hill and rest on the flat ground ahead. "Boss kid is making trouble, why are you serious with him?" He gasped and said, "Hurry up, hurry up, when it gets dark, no one will buy this bow and quiver!"

Across the mountain road far away, the little boy Yang Tongye yelled at them anxiously at this time, but he saw the man holding a dozen longbows, and continued on the road with the woman without looking back, ignoring him at all. However, these two simple mountain people did not know that at this moment, the city of Haojing had issued a heavy order that no one was allowed to sell straw bags for bows and arrows. Therefore, if they went to Haojing, something might happen... Although the little boy Yang Tongye is young, he is very kind-hearted and has a sense of justice. He decided to leave Haojing because of his unpleasant experience in King Xuan's palace. After a while, he still decided to go and inform the two unsuspecting mountain dwellers.

So he took small steps and walked in the direction of the two couples based on his memory. However, the mountain road on this hill is difficult to recognize. The boy is not familiar with the distance, and he only chases after with a sense of direction, but unconsciously, he has become farther and farther away from them. Na Sida wanted to sell these mulberry wooden bows for a good price, so her feet became much lighter, and she walked to the majestic Haojing City in a short time. After passing through the towering city gate, there was a bustling market place. Si Da and his wife walked in the crowd in a daze, but they didn't notice that the people around them were whispering.

Moreover, in the crowd on the street, some people have already started to avoid them, forming a strange hole in the crowd. But the innocent and simple Mrs. Si didn't notice it at all. After walking for a while, they took a longbow from their backs, and the couple opened their throats and shouted loudly: "Selling berry bows!" "Selling Quiver Quiver!" At this time, it was Zuo Ru, a senior official of the Zhou Dynasty, who was patrolling the city of Haojing.Since King Zhou issued a strict order to ban the sale of bows and arrows and quiver, he led the guards in the city to patrol the streets every day. Within a few days, there were no bows and arrows vendors in the city of Haojing.

On this day, Zuo Ru still didn't dare to be negligent, and he also patrolled the city. When he reached the market at the gate of the city, he suddenly heard the sound of someone selling mulberry bows and quiver bags. Si, who sold the mulberry bow, yelled a few times, feeling that her voice was not loud enough, and was taking a long breath, and when she was about to yell again, she saw a commotion in the crowd, followed by a group of guards like wolves and tigers. I saw an official in front of those guards shouting loudly: "Take down that peddler who sells bows and arrows!" All of a sudden, the crowd became confused.Si Da's wife was relatively close to those guards, and she was arrested by several guards when she was startled. Si Da was a mountain dweller who had never seen the world, and she was scared out of her wits when she saw such a battle. The mulberry bow on the lower back, as soon as he turned around, slipped into the crowd and escaped.

Behind him, his wife still couldn't react for a while, several guards grabbed her tightly, but she was still holding the Jicao quiver in her hand. The next doctor, Zuo Ru, was an upright person. He thought it was inappropriate to ban the sale of wooden bow and quiver bags. This time, he captured Si Da's wife, who was a woman. He was extremely unwilling to arrest these kind-hearted mountain people again, so he stopped pursuing Si Da and took Si Da's wife into the palace. Terrified, Si Da dodged left and right in the crowd, crossed alleys, crossed people's gardens, reached the gate of the city, and fled out of the city without looking back.He didn't dare to stop at all along the way, and he didn't dare to stop to catch his breath until he ran to the foot of the mountain.

I hid near the woods at the foot of the mountain for a long time, and then I met a few merchants who had just come out of the capital, and then I knew that there was a strict order not to sell bows and arrows in the capital. The east of the city was executed, and the confiscated mulberry bow and Jicao quiver were also burned on the spot. Si Da suffered this disaster for no reason, and couldn't help crying loudly. While crying, she walked to her home on the mountain. But because he was restless and often remembered the scene of his wife's sudden death, the familiar mountain road diverged, and he walked farther and farther among the mountains and forests, and later, he came to a river.

Although this river was quite far from Si Da's home, Si Da had visited several times and knew that it was a tributary of the Qingshui River in Haojing City. Walking to the river, Si Da wiped the snot and tears all over his face, but saw a small child standing by the river. Although he has undergone great changes, Si Da's nature is quite kind. At this moment, when he saw the child standing by the river, he seemed to want to jump into the river to play. He seemed to open his eyes wide and shouted: "Children! Don't get too close." water!" He said aloud: "You will drown!" The child turned his head, but waved to him. Si Da didn't understand, but he also got up and walked to the child's side. In fact, he had met this child not long ago, but at that time he was carrying a heavy mulberry bow and had no time to look back at him. Of course, this little boy was Yang Tongye who had warned Si Da and his wife when they went down the mountain. Yang Tongye pointed to the sandbar on the river and murmured, "There's a baby over there." Si Da suspiciously looked in the direction he pointed, but saw a very strange scene on the sandbar. On the sandbar, there are full of birds perched at this time, those birds do not know where they come from, they are strange birds with yellow beaks and white feathers, and they look very mighty. , arranged in a radial shape. Moreover, these birds are not as noisy as ordinary birds, each one is quiet and solemn. Si Da listened carefully, and there was indeed a faint cry of a baby. "I'm too small to walk," Yang Tongye looked at Si Da and said pleadingly, "Please go over and save that baby, okay?" That Si Da was a very kind-hearted person, he looked at the sandbar, then checked the depth of the water, then lifted up his trousers and waded across. Seeing him approaching, those big white birds flew away in a "thumping" manner, leaving only an exquisite rattan basket on the sandbar. Opening the rattan basket, there was indeed a cute girl named Yuxue inside. Looking at the baby girl's delicate and beautiful face, Si Da couldn't help but let out a long sigh. At this moment, beside the calm river, the three lonely people finally got together because of the ingenious arrangement of fate. Thinking of his wife's tragic death, and thinking that he might also be on the government's hunt list.Suddenly, Si Da's chest surged with hot blood. He held the baby girl, turned to Yang Tongye and said, "Son, do you have a home?" Yang Tongye shook his head. "That's just a coincidence!" Si Da said with a absent-minded chuckle, "I don't have a home anymore. There is a Baocheng nearby. I have relatives there. I decided to take this girl there to seek a living. Do you want to go with me?" ?” Yang Tongye looked at him and nodded. During the period, the big rivers and rivers in Haojing flowed and flowed, flowing through the city gate, flowing through the plains, and flowing into the mountains. Disgusted with the dustpan, almost perished in the state of Zhou. The figures of Si Da and Yang Tongye, one big and one small, are reflected on the surface of the endlessly flowing river. King Xuan of the Zhou Dynasty made every effort to eliminate the curse of nursery rhymes. But of course he would never have imagined that the girl in Si Da's arms at this moment would be the culprit who would drag down the great foundation of the Western Zhou Dynasty.