Youyou Sanshengyue

Chapter 19

Xuanyue quickly came back to her senses, straightened up and looked at the village owner in a daze.The face of the village owner didn't look very good. Under the candlelight, it looked like a bronze statue, and every line looked cold and hard.Xuanyue was at a loss for words for a moment and didn't know what to say. Seeing that the village owner didn't blame him, and probably didn't doubt herself out of ten, she relaxed a little bit.It's just that the drug has already been sprinkled on the ground, and Xuanyue is already a bird struggling in the thorn bushes at this time, and escape is simply a delusion for him.

"Come here, let me take a good look at you." The village owner said suddenly, turned his face and stared at the bewildered Xuanyue suddenly, his gaze was as sharp as a knife blade, not at all as pampered and gentle as before.Xuanyue hesitated to go over, so the village owner got up and approached him step by step, Xuanyue's feet flinched back in disappointment.He was forced to a corner and knocked over the dishes on the table. The china crumbled and shattered all over the floor, and the cold touch of the wall came from behind. The person who gently hugs him when the snowflakes are flying.For some reason, thinking of that person, Xuanyue felt an inexplicable courage in his heart, and he told himself "he is waiting for me".

So Xuanyue bent down and picked up a piece of broken porcelain on the ground, and held it to his throat resolutely. His hands trembled without fear, and his eyes met the eyes of the village owner, as if a serious and fair negotiation: "Let's go!" I leave."

"I said, why are you so courteous all of a sudden, you want to sing and dance, and you still set up a trick for me to get through." The village owner hung the table and smiled bitterly: "Do you think I will let you out? I can't get it." , no one else can imagine it.”

"Really?" Xuanyue calmed down, with a mocking sneer on the corner of her mouth, and raised her chin to look at him proudly: "If you like this skin, I will give it to you," she said, pushing the tip of the porcelain piece with force with her fingertips. Press it into the flesh of the neck little by little.His fingers turned pale from being squeezed against the tiles, and blood trickled down his fingers like a meandering stream.

Seeing that the sharp weapon was about to be inserted into the blood, the village master picked up the wine glass on the table and flicked it back, hitting Xuanyue's knuckles.Xuanyue let go of her hand in pain, and the porcelain piece fell to the ground together with the wine glass.The village owner took the opportunity to rush forward and clasped his hands against the wall, and shouted anxiously outside the door: "Come quickly, call the doctor!"

The development of the matter was a bit unexpected. Xuanyue thought that the village owner would do whatever he wanted, but "calling the doctor" became his first move. Bandage.The village owner on the side looked more nervous than him, and asked the doctor Xuanyue's injury over and over again, and he was relieved when the doctor said "no serious problem".

"You're serious." After the doctor left, the village master asked Xuanyue in a distressed tone, and regained his previous concern and softness.

"What do you think?" Xuanyue raised her hand and touched the gauze-wrapped neck, feeling shocked and ridiculous, what an absurd farce!

After pondering for a long time, the village owner suddenly sighed and said: "Since you are determined not to stay, then go." He ordered someone to bring Xuanyue's own clothes, "Leave as soon as you have changed, I will have to leave if it is late." I regret it."

Xuanyue stared at him with wide eyes in surprise, and was at a loss for words for a moment, not knowing what to say.Could it be that I am dreaming?The village master is willing to let him go?The line of his beautiful lips trembled slightly, and he said "thank you very much" softly, and then took his clothes.When Xuanyue changed her clothes behind the screen, she suddenly heard the sad voice of the village master outside the screen: "I really fell in love with you." Xuanyue's hands trembled slightly, then she lowered her head and continued to fasten her clothes He didn't want to see the village master's expression at this time, even seeing his shadowy figure through the screen would make people extremely sad.

"You and I have only known each other for a few days, so why talk about true and false friendship." Xuanyue said indifferently, and washed off the makeup on her face before she walked out from behind the screen.When entering the cave, the village owner suddenly grabbed Xuanyue's hand and said solemnly: "Whether you believe my sincerity or not, I just tell you that feelings are not measured by the time of acquaintance. One look is enough."

"I will remember this," Xuanyue pulled the back of her hand behind her back, "I also have a word for you, abandon this village and live an ordinary life, and stop doing evil."

"If I don't want the cottage, will you follow me?" The village owner's eyes lit up.

"Naturally..." Xuanyue turned her face and smiled at him, that smile was like the soft light of April, and even the lantern in the village master's hand was overshadowed in an instant, "Naturally I don't want to. However, you can have another serious friend .”

"Really, then I don't get nothing." The village master replied with a forced smile.

Earlier, those who escaped went back to their homes and scattered.These officials and rich businessmen, when they are rich, sleep outside in flowers and willows every day. No matter how they look at the fans outside, they look better than their wives and daughters at home, and how they eat wine outside is more mellow than the collection at home.Now when I am penniless and in trouble, what I think about is home.Isn't it true that no matter how rich or poor a person is in this life, at the end of the day, the only thing that will accompany him is the coffin prepared by his relatives and relatives?

Boss Qian understood this truth only after suffering these hard days, so he accompanied Ming You at the entrance of the cave and waited for Xuanyue to come out, hoping to use their carriage to take him to the capital by the way.Ming You was naturally happy, Lin Wenfang went to the front inn to rest first, and had an extra antique seller, Qian Boss, waiting with him, so the time would not be so difficult.

The two waited by the carriage from the sun down to the moon in the sky, but there was no movement. Boss Qian saw that Ming You was getting more and more disturbed, so he comforted him and said, "Wait and see, maybe something has delayed it, Mr. Xuanyue is auspicious." God will not let good people suffer." Then he changed the topic: "My wife must be waiting for me in the capital, and I have not returned home for more than a year."

The wind was strong in the suburbs, and the lantern hanging on the carriage was blown flickeringly, illuminating the two lonely men.Ming You listened absent-mindedly, and stared at the lantern swaying in the wind, as if looking at his own heart that was gradually losing hope. "Oh, you were arrested a year ago?" He responded casually.

"No way, I was only arrested in the past few months. It's just that I was busy with business and ran all over the world. I didn't even bother to go home. If I had money, I would stay in a brothel for a few nights." Qian The boss smacked his lips and shook his head helplessly: "Now I know I was wrong, I was really wrong. I was doing coolies in the cottage and thinking at the same time, if I can get out alive, I will definitely put down my business and spend time with my wife and children. I will go back before the festival, and I will accompany them to watch the lantern festival."

Ming You nodded resolutely, as if making an oath: "It must be in time for the Lantern Festival, because I promised to take Xuanyue to see the Lantern Festival," he smiled softly, the corners of his mouth were full of pity, "Xuanyue I haven't had a good life since I was a child, and it's the first time I see him looking forward to something so much, and I want to satisfy him."

Just as they were talking, two figures slowly came out of the cave, one with a burly figure holding a lantern in his hand, and the other with a weak posture was Xuanyue.Boss Qian exclaimed: "It's no good, the village owner is here!" He was so frightened that he hid behind the carriage, while Ming You stared at the two of them, warning the village owner not to touch Xuanyue.However, Xuanyue looked relaxed, she smiled and said a few words with the village owner before walking to the carriage.Before leaving, the village owner looked back at him reluctantly, and then disappeared into the damp darkness of the cave together with the candlelight of the lantern.

It all ended abruptly and unexpectedly.

Ming You worriedly looked at the cloth strip around Xuanyue's neck, and hurriedly asked: "Are you okay? How did you do it?" Xuanyue didn't answer, Yaoyao nodded and said that she was fine, and then got into the carriage, "Should we continue on our way or rest first?"

"There is an inn three miles ahead, Lin Wenfang is already waiting for us there, let's go to the inn to rest first." Ming You greeted Boss Qian to get in the car, then raised his whip and drove the carriage towards the inn.

Tonight is an unusual night, because Xuanyue actually asked to share a room with Mingyou.On the other hand, Ming You couldn't react for a while, she stared at him blankly and said, "You didn't take the wrong medicine, did you?"

"Where are you thinking!" Xuanyue gave him an angry look and explained, "I just escaped from the dead, and I understand a lot of things, and I should take good care of what I have." He opened the window and held his chin to blow the wind, It was the first time he felt that the wind on a winter night could be so comfortable and pleasant, as if a big cool hand gently comforted his scarred heart.When Xuanyue spoke, his eyes were very clear, as if he had grasped the light of life. He said: "After these few days, I feel that I have become stronger. I am no longer a useless person who can only rely on others. I am also capable of helping others. .” He stared at the distant sky, the black night sky inexplicably glowed red, and half of the sky in the distance billowed thick smoke.

"Hehe, interesting," Ming You imitated him, holding his chin to meet his eyes, pretending to be distressed: "Why didn't I realize that you have become stronger?" Xuanyue pouted, climbed onto the bed and settled down in his usual lazy posture Said: "If you don't believe me, I'm going to sleep."

The next day, Ming You, Xuanyue, Lin Wenfang, and Boss Qian were eating in the restaurant downstairs of the inn, and they heard a table of diners chatting on the opposite side: "Did you hear that the cottage three miles away was burned to the ground last night?" Do you know who set the fire?" Xuanyue frowned slightly, stopped her chopsticks by the bowl and listened carefully, "It's their village master! I heard that he sent all the servants away, and he was on the platform of the yard Build firewood, then set fire—it’s gone!”

"Is he crazy?" Another diner put down his bowl and replied, "But that's fine, this cottage is doing a lot of evil, and even the government can't do anything about it. It will be clean if it burns down."

Hearing this, Xuanyue suddenly got up and walked to the next table and asked, "Have you heard how the village master is doing now?"

"God knows! He disappeared after setting the fire. Some people said he was burned to death, and some said he was arrested by the government..."

Xuan Yue lowered her face, gasped, and closed her eyes in pain. Ming You, who was at the side, saw it in her eyes, and felt sour in her heart. She put down her chopsticks and went out of the inn to breathe alone.