I made a dream
for you. Cardamom has been cooked into porridge
. After dinner, Xu Zhiwan sat in front of the window with an embroidery shed and began to embroider.
I brought the medicine she had just boiled from the kitchen and put it in front of her. She smiled at me, still picked up the spoon and began to drink the medicine with a smile on her face.
… Looking at her contented face, if I hadn’t tasted it myself, I would have thought she was drinking sugar water. Not Coptis chinensis.
I watched her drink the medicine and sit down at the other end of the window. “Wei Ling has gone back. I can go back to the palace for a while in the next few days. Do you have any places you want to go?”
Hsu Chih-wan put down his spoon, thought about it carefully, and said, “No.”
I looked at her, paused, and then said, “You don’t have to be polite to me. I just think you’re dying and I want to fulfill your wish.”
Hsu Chih-wan gently nibbled at the spoon with her teeth. The light from the lamp flickered on the side of her face, pulling out flickering shadows. She looked very cute. It was a little habit of hers. Every time she thought about it, she would bite something in her mouth. After a long time of biting, she said honestly, “No.”
I sighed and said, “Don’t worry. Take your time to think about it. Whenever you think about it, you can say it.”
She nodded cleverly at me.
I took the scissors next to the oil lamp and cut the lantern lightly. The lantern “snapped” and the room looked brighter.
I turned to Hsu Chih-wan and said, “I was afraid that you wouldn’t be able to move easily, or that you might knock over the lamp and make a fire, so I didn’t bring you a few more lamps. It’s late at night, and you don’t have to work so hard. It’s the same if you embroider tomorrow.”
She nodded cleverly at me.
I looked around to make sure there was nothing else to worry about. I nodded to her and said, “Go to bed early.”
“Your Highness, wait a moment.”
Hsu Chih-wan put the embroidery booth on the table, looked at me, and said, “Tomorrow, I want to go somewhere.”
I grew up in the palace, because of the protection of my mother, I know the horror of this palace, but I have long been indifferent.
Xu Zhiwan’s entry is undoubtedly an anomaly.
From her character to behavior, she was out of tune with the whole palace, which made her incur the disgust of her mother, but also brought the love of Wei Ling. The night I
promised Xu Zhiwan to take her out, I had a dream.
I dreamed that Xu Zhiwan was standing in front of a small river in the blue sky and white sun. With her hands on her back, she turned her head and said to me with a smile, “Your Highness, do you think the water is good?” In my
dream, I said, “The river is cold and crystal clear. It’s wonderful.”
Hsu Chih-wan smiled and said, “Why don’t I go down and catch fish for you?” In my
dream, I said, “Can you swim?”
Xu Zhiwan did not speak, she turned over a kite and jumped into the water. I stood by the river waiting for her.
I waited and waited for a long time, but she didn’t climb out of the river. So I jumped down to look for her. After looking for a long time, I finally saw her at the bottom of the river. I excitedly went up and patted her on the shoulder and said, “Xu Zhiwan, let’s go home.”
Hsu Chih-wan turned his head faintly, with two extra ears on his head and a fish in his mouth. He looked at me slowly and said,
“I..” Back to. Nope Go to. “…”
Back to. Nope Go to. “…”
“I can’t go back!”
I opened my eyes suddenly.
Outside the window has been slightly white fish belly, birds chirping outside the window, looking at the time, it is early.
Lao Luo has been punting beside the Luoshui River for almost ten years.
Since the death of his old wife ten years ago, he has ended the business of opening a noodle shop in the town and went to the Luoshui River to support a boat and make a living on the money given by the people crossing the river.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, welcome to send.
In the past ten years, he has crossed many people, including those in the town, old friends, guests who used to eat noodles, and passers-by who did not know each other. I don’t know how many joys and sorrows have been carried on
this little ship. There are wives who have traveled thousands of miles to find their husbands, and after three months they come back in tears. There are men who have gone out for three years, and when they come back, they find that their children are already two years old. There are also teenagers who go out for blind dates, but they don’t like their younger sisters and brothers.
Some people are happy, some people are sad. If someone cries, someone will laugh. Lao Luo boasts that he has seen all kinds of strange people and strange things in
the world.
Like today.
The handsome and extraordinary childe did not know whether he was seasick or not. Since he came to the river, his expression had been hard, staring at the water. But look at his good expression in the wind, and with the good face of the slightly frowning sword eyebrows, it is a bit of a drama book singing what Yushu Linfeng flavor. The little lady
next to him looked very quiet. After getting on the boat, she sat down against the boat and began to embroider. While pushing the boat,
Lao Luo laughed and accosted the young man of Yushu, who was standing at the bow of the boat. “Young man, what are you looking at when you don’t let the water go?”
The young man turned his face sideways and smiled at Old Luo. “I think the water here is particularly clear, and it’s even more different from other places.”
Old Luo laughed and said, “You have a good eye. The Luoshui River is famous for its sweet water. People in the neighborhood like to come here to fetch water and cook. Even the rice they cook is very delicious.”
Then he shook his head and said, “There are a lot of fish here. The meat of the fish is also tight and fine. Whether it’s stewed or braised in brown sauce, it’s all delicious and tight!”! How many tails do you want to come to?
I don’t know if I’m old and my eyes are blooming, but Lao Luo only felt that after he said there were fish in the river, the childe seemed to have a stiff smile. There was a slight breeze on the
river, and the boat swayed slightly with the wind. As he controlled the boat with his ladle, Lao Luo turned with concern to the young lady who was quietly embroidering on the boat and shouted, “Girl, take your time to embroider again. The wind is blowing, and the boat is shaking. It hurts your hand!”
The young lady gently put down the embroidery shed and gently said to Lao Luo, “Thank you, old man.”
Lao Luo smiled and nodded. The little lady was really polite, but her tone of voice was a bit like an endorsement.
Lao Luo shook his ladle and said, “You are really a virtuous girl, old man. This is the first time I’ve seen a girl embroidering on my boat. She is so industrious. I don’t know who is so lucky. If you marry a girl in the future, you will surely live a more prosperous life.”
Talking and laughing, a wave came along the wind, the boat swayed lightly, and the embroidery shed on the little lady’s leg dripped down and turned to Lao Luo’s feet.
Old Luo quickly bent down to pick it up, picked it up and looked at it carefully. Then he said with a smile, “Girl, you are really a real person!”
The young lady took the embroidery shed and asked gently, “Why did you say that, old man?”
Lao Luo said with a smile, “I only see other girls embroidering flowers, butterflies, and Mandarin ducks.”
“This is the first time I’ve seen a man embroider a loofah, old man. Miss, you don’t embroider flowers and grass, but you embroider a loofah. You’re not a real person.” The
breeze blew, and the little lady’s smile stiffened on her face.
Lao Luo touched his mouth. Hey, I remember that I went out after brushing my teeth in the morning. How could I open my mouth? The faces of the young man and the young lady were stiff. He breathed a sigh of relief and smelled it carefully. Was it not clean? The
boat had slowly sailed halfway, and the little lady put down the embroidery shed again, leaned against the side of the boat, and looked thoughtfully at the river. Carrying the
dawn on his back, he looked a little sad. Seeing her staring at the river so worriedly,
the young man standing in the boat suddenly frowned and stepped forward. “What are you looking at?” He asked.
Chunshui Wan Wan, the young lady’s voice is also a sad: “I see this fish, in this river is more comfortable, you say they …” Before
she had finished speaking, the young man next to her interrupted her with a nervous look on his face, saying, “Who says they’re comfortable? If you watch them swim happily, they’ll be fished out later, killed first and then cooked.”
The young lady looked back at him in surprise. Then she slowly turned her head and looked at the water. Her voice was soft. “Then look at the water again. How clear it is. It must be..” “I don’t know how much dirt there is,” said
the young man. “Just now I saw two children standing in the upper reaches of the river to relieve themselves. They may float down the river later.”
The little lady covered her chest and looked at the upstream end with a very complicated expression on her face. “Speaking of this,”
the young man added with a righteous look on his face, “I just saw two farmers carrying a load of fertilizer from over there. When they passed by the river, they accidentally poured half of it in. Can you smell that smell? It doesn’t matter if you don’t smell it, you’ll be able to float over after a while.
The young lady sat down again in the boat with a pale face, and then the young man turned his head with a serious face and asked, “Old man, do you think I’m right?”
Old Luo thought about it carefully and said, “I didn’t see what you said, but I know, old man, that every day some farmers will carry fertilizer through here to water the vegetable fields, and it’s normal to miss occasionally.”. To say that these individuals, ah, are the most careless, see the sky to throw dirty things into the water, country people, this killed the fish intestines, pig urine bubble, ah. Don’t throw it all in.
“Just like a few days ago upstream, Tiezhu nearby got drunk and crossed the river. On the way, the boat flashed, and he vomited into the river. The wine and the food were all floating on the river bank. He vomited all night.”
“Wow!”
The little lady covered her chest and vomited into the river, and her face was pale.
The young man immediately stepped forward to support her and said, “But I don’t feel well. Go and sit inside. Don’t lean against the boat any more.”
The young lady nodded weakly, stood up and let the childe help her back to the cabin step by step.
Another gust of wind blew over and lifted the curtain of the boat. Lao Luo seemed to see a successful smile on his face when the childe picked up the little lady and walked into the boat.
He blinked hard and rubbed again.
What’s the matter? The handsome face in front of me was clearly concerned, and there was no other expression at all.
Oh, I’m getting old! My eyes are really blurred. It seems that I will go ashore later. I have to let Xue Shenyi in the town have a look. There was no danger
along the way, and finally Xu Zhiwan was safely sent to his destination.
I looked at the calm Luoshui River in front of me and breathed a long sigh of relief.
I don’t believe in ghosts and gods, and I don’t take dreams seriously, but when I came to the river this morning, I was really shocked. The
river looks exactly like what I dreamed of yesterday.
The name is also called Luoshui River. Falling water. Combined with the content of last night’s dream, and Xu Zhiwan’s abnormal description of the past few days, she was really afraid that she was taking things too hard for a while and was going to throw herself into the river.
Hsu Chih-wan called to me, “Your Highness?”? Three, Your Highness?
I came to my senses and looked at her. “What’s the matter?” I asked.
She said, “Here you are. Where are you going?” Unexpectedly, she
had already walked halfway up the mountain. She stopped in front of a courtyard, and I walked to the front.
Xu Zhiwan gently pushed open the door of the courtyard.
The wooden door was slightly open, and the courtyard was very tidy. It looked like no one lived there, but there were no flowers and grass. There were stone tables and chairs in the courtyard, and under the shade of the trees, a few peach blossoms were scattered, and the morning sun was printed in the distance. At the back of the
courtyard sat a large piece of bamboo, and when the wind blew, it caused the bamboo branches to crash. “This place is very quiet,”
I said. “How did you find it?”
Xu Zhiwan did not speak. She crossed the threshold, turned into the courtyard, and pushed open the door.
I followed in. The house was made of stones, separated by wood, and there were many windows. After I went in, the wind blew from the back of the mountain, and peach blossoms came in.
Hsu Chih-wan went into the kitchen and took out two coarse porcelain bowls. He smiled at me and said, “The water hasn’t been boiled yet. I’ll sift two bowls of well water for you first. The water from my well is sweet, and it’s much cleaner than that river.”
She led me to the mouth of the well beside the courtyard. The water in the well was faint. She beat it up with a wooden barrel, swung the coarse porcelain bowl three times with water, and then sifted up a bowl and handed it to me.
I picked up the bowl and took a sip. The well water was cold in my mouth, but it was really a little sweet when I tasted it. I smiled at her and said, “It’s really cool.”
Hsu Chih-wan took a sip of water, and with a contented smile on his face, he said, “This is nothing. When summer comes and the watermelons grow, put them in this well and freeze them, and then scoop them up. That will be sweet.”
And in autumn, pick up some dead branches on the mountain, set up a fire, and then you can roast sweet potatoes. There’s a big sweet potato in the back, and it bears sweet fruit every year. It’s so sweet that it’s like pulling out the silk.
“In the winter, the rabbits in the mountains are afraid of the cold, so if you feel them right, you can roast them and eat them.”
She turned her head and looked at me with a smile. “You see, I have a nice place here.”
I nodded my head. Then
she asked me with a smile, “Your Highness, how many days do you think I have to live?”
When I didn’t speak, she smiled again and said, “I want to die here, can I?”
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When she said the word death, I felt a twitch in my heart and asked, “Why?”
Hsu Chih-wan went to the stone table and sat down on a chair. The peach petals rolled up on her nose. She wore a pink nose and said to me, “This was left by my mother when she was alive.”
She took the peach blossom from her nose and put it in the palm of her hand. Her eyes seemed to float far away along my shoulder. She said, “My mother was naughty when she was a child. My grandfather told her to meditate and sent her to the Shujing Nunnery, where the nuns took her to recite the Buddha’s name. But the Buddha didn’t recite it. On the contrary, the days on the mountain made her live more and more cross-country.”
Later, when she left the nunnery, she couldn’t forget the days on the mountain, so she took out her own ladder and asked someone to build this small courtyard on the mountain, and from time to time she came to stay for two days.
My grandfather had a strict family education, and my mother could only sneak in every time, and after she married my father, she couldn’t get out. When I was a kid
, I was naughty, too, so she brought me to this mountain to play. Once she quarreled with my father and brought me to live here for two days. During the day, she and my mother went up the mountain to hunt rabbits, and at night she watched the stars. My mother spread out on a bamboo chair in the courtyard. Here, where you stand, eating a watermelon and spitting seeds. He sighed with emotion and said
to me, “Ah, Nannan, if your mother and I were not a woman but a man, how wonderful it would be! I can live this kind of life as long as I want. It’s not like being a woman who wants to get married, who doesn’t want to go out of the door, who doesn’t want to go out of the door, and who wants to obey the three obediences and the four virtues.”
She blew the peach blossom in the palm of her hand far away and said, “Yes, why does a woman have to be gentle and quiet? A woman can’t be free. A woman can only stay in a deep house with her hands tied.”
I looked at her and said, “According to the standard you said, you don’t look like a qualified woman.”
Xu Zhiwan swept his eyes faintly.
I You go on.
Hsu Chih-wan turned his eyes and asked me, “Your Highness, do you believe in reincarnation?”
I said, “I don’t know much about ghosts and gods.” As soon as the
words came out of his mouth, he thought of the dream he had had yesterday. After a pause, he said, “But everything is possible. Since there is such a saying, there must be some truth in it.”
Hsu Chih-wan leaned back in his chair and murmured, When I was a child, I went to the Temple Fair and a Taoist priest said in front of the stage that everything has a time, and everything has a limit. If you exceed it, you naturally have to make up for it. It’s like those who were cautious in the previous life are bound to be bold in the next, and those who bullied the weak in the previous life are bound to be bullied in the next.
“According to this view, I don’t know if I’ve had enough of being a cautious woman in my previous life, but in my next life, I won’t be a man.” The wind in the
courtyard rustled her bangs in the wind. I asked her, “Are you embroidering every day these days and talking at the top of your voice so that you can be a man instead of a woman in your next life?”
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No one is allowed to bully my Xu Zhiwan
. Cardamom has been cooked into porridge
for a long time
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