Self-denial System [Rebirth]

Outside the window, the sky was full of frost and snow, and the dry branches were covered with crystal icicles, swaying in the bleak north wind.

Xu Mu opened his eyes, turned over and climbed off the bed, opened the door, and greeted a few snowflakes and a gust of wind.After feeling the cold and freezing weather, I felt sober again, and closed the door again.

"Jing Yin... did we... miss something?" Xu Mu turned around and asked.

Hearing the sound, the boy sat up straight from the bed, grabbed the hair at the back of his head with both hands, tied it with a hair tie, and then moved to the side of the bed, looking at him quietly.

Xu Mu knelt down and asked him, "Did you sleep stupidly?"

The young man shook his head.

"Then what day is it?"

The young man thought for a while before answering: "About... the beginning of the first lunar month..." Speaking of this, he suddenly realized something and immediately shut up.

Xu Mu smiled and said, "What should we do, we two are so miserable, we have forgotten about it for years."

The boy still looked at him without blinking, without speaking.

Xu Mu said again: "But it's okay, we are isolated from the world anyway, so let's just treat it as two days later than others! Let me ask you, how did you celebrate the New Year in the past?"

The boy replied: "Help me on the peak..."

"It's not the past, it's the time when you were with your adoptive mother."

As soon as the voice fell, the boy raised his head slightly, then lowered his head again, and stopped talking.

Xu Mu suddenly realized that he had said the wrong thing. There is no reason to mention other people's sad things in the festive first month (although it is not festive at all...).

"Okay, okay," Xu Mu ruffled his hair carelessly, and messed up the hair he just tied up, "Pick it up quickly, and follow me."

"Where are you going?" The boy raised his eyes with his messy hair.

"Go to the Spring Festival temple fair, at home, uh no, what's the point of nesting here? Don't you think it's annoying me, get dressed."

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The town is crowded with people and traffic is busy, there are many stalls in the temple fair, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, antique inscriptions, jewelry and food;

In the market where people come and go, there are night shops with high-hanging guises to attract customers, and hawkers with hand-carrying shoulders. The noisy night echoes with all kinds of hawking.

Xu Mu suddenly remembered that he had seen the description of the ancient night market in a book - "No matter the thoroughfare, the alleys, the stars and the bead hanging, it is as bright as the day, and it is noisy."

The words used here, could not be more accurate.

Xu Mu led the people around him, walked to a stall, bought a bunch of candied haws, and asked, "Where is the most fun in this temple fair?"

The middle-aged man answered while receiving the money: "Fun? Isn't this whole street fun?"

Xu Mu smiled, threw the candied haws in his hand to the person beside him, then turned around and said, "It's true that they are all very interesting, but there will always be one that stands out the most, right?"

The middle-aged man thought for a while, and replied: "There is a new movie theater on Nanwa Street. Everyone here loves to watch it. Why don't you go join in the fun?"

"Thank you."

Xu Mu immediately turned around and pulled the boy over, knelt down and said, "Hey! The movie theater, have you seen it?"

The teenager pulled the top ice puck out of his mouth, looked at him and shook his head.

Xu Mu said: "You are so stupid, why don't you bite and eat? Are you instigating? Think it's a popsicle?"

The boy said: "Bite and eat and it will disappear immediately."

Xu Mu thought that there was some truth to it, so he continued the topic: "Movies! Have you never seen any movies?"

The boy continued to shake his head, very seriously.

Xu Mu thought to himself that although he hadn't seen it before, he thought it looked good when he thought about it!Just holding a few torn paper figures can still tell flowers!It's amazing!

Go and see!Going right now!

Xu Mu said: "Since we haven't seen it yet, then stop talking nonsense and go now."

As soon as the boy put the ice puck into his mouth again, he was staggered by Xu Mu, and followed him stumbling headlong into the sea of ​​people.

The two walked through the dense crowd with difficulty, but they didn't feel uncomfortable at all. Instead, they felt a kind of joy of "finally gaining some popularity".

As soon as he turned into Nanwa Street, he saw a large group of people gathered in the distance.Directly in front of the crowd was a temporary wooden platform with a huge wooden box on it, probably...a legendary... shadow puppet stage?The front of the box is a shadow puppet screen made of a huge white cloth. A bright lantern hangs above the screen, illuminating the screen white in the dark night.

Under the stage, people were standing or sitting, and the stage was tightly surrounded.

The two stepped forward a few steps, but they couldn't get any closer. They could only stand five or six feet away from the stage to watch.Although I could vaguely see a few little figures rolling back and forth on the white screen, I couldn't really hear a word of what those little people "said".The only thing that can be heard is the occasional burst of applause and continuous evaluation and discussion.

Xu Mu frowned slightly, turned around and looked around, and saw that the people were obsessed and focused, their eyes were fixed on the stage, and they didn't feel troubled at all.

Xu Mu:? ? ?

I would like to ask you big brothers, how do you still see stars when you can't hear the sound clearly?

Xu Mu thought to himself: Don't be impetuous, be patient, be calm, and be peaceful.Look at other ancient big brothers?It’s good to watch a play!Want to ask for something as quiet as a movie theater?

Xu Mu managed to maintain a smile on his face, and admired it calmly for a while. After a while, he finally lost his last bit of patience.

Running out of patience, he turned around abruptly.I saw the boy still seriously holding the ice puck in his hand, standing among a group of adults, not even showing his head.Seeing him turn around angrily, she looked at him in surprise.

Xu Mu asked, "Does it look good?"

The boy said: "Yes."

Xu Mu asked, "What are you acting for?"

The boy said: "I don't know..."

"I don't know?!" Xu Mu thought to himself, since you don't know, why do you think it looks good?

"I hug you?" Xu Mu knelt down and said to him.

The boy hurriedly took a step back, stumbled in the crowd, and said, "No, no need..."

Xu Mu grabbed him back and teased, "Why are you running? Where are you going? Then what if you can't see? Yu Jian flies up?"

The boy shook his head: "No, it doesn't matter."

Xu Mu stood up, looked around, and suddenly saw a large tent not far away, with colorful flags hanging outside, colorfully decorated.From time to time, people enter in twos and threes, as if it is also a theater.

Xu Mu thought to himself, the indoor scene must be better than the outdoor environment!After all, there is a big layer of cloth!Even the fee is worth it!So without a word, he pulled up the boy and moved his position.

He just rushed to the door, but was stopped by a woman: "Hey, lord, please wait."

Xu Mu stopped and said, "What's wrong?"

"May I ask who is your wife?"

Xu Mu thought: wtf?Who tm is my wife?

Seeing this, the woman smiled and said: "In this tent, there are seats specially prepared for the couples. Since the young master has no wives and relatives, you can listen under the stage over there."

Xu Mu thought to himself: What the hell?Discriminate against single dogs? ? ?

Why does this sound as irritating to people as receiving "Reminder: This is a seat for couples!" when buying a ticket? ? ?

Xu Mu felt upset at first, and became even more upset after being "discriminated against". He pulled the person behind him, "Why didn't you bring it, he is!"

The woman looked at the person who was pushed forward with a look of surprise - she was dressed in clean white clothes, her beautiful eyes were full of fear, and she was holding a... candied haws in her hand.

"This... this..." After the woman was surprised, she couldn't laugh or cry.

After Xu Mu went crazy for a while, he immediately regained his composure, put his hand on his lips, and cleared his throat: "Uh... so, my lady likes men's clothing, and she would dress up as a man when she goes out on the street, so it's more convenient for her to do things. "

Xu Mu said these nonsense without changing his face and fluently, without any appearance of shame.

Seeing that he was speaking in a serious and logical manner, the woman actually took a step forward, wanting to touch the boy's body, and muttered in a low voice: "Why is there no breasts..."

Xu Mu hurriedly stretched out his hand and pulled the young man back into his arms, saying, "Why did you touch my wife?"

The woman hurriedly withdrew her hand: "Ah, I offended Madam Zun, then... In that case, I will reserve a good seat for the young master first, and ask the young master to take his wife back to change into women's clothes. There are resting places for craftsmen on the left side of the big tent." place, there is no one now..."

Xu Mu said: "Okay."

After finishing speaking, he pulled the terrified boy straight to where the woman pointed, and lifted the curtain, but there was no one there.

Xu Mu hastily pushed the boy into the hut.

The young man stood in the middle of the room with a confused look on his face: "Brother... what are you going to do?"

Xu Mu picked out a purple dress from the hanging costumes, held it in front of him for comparison, found it fit perfectly, raised his head and said excitedly: "Please, be my wife, okay?"

Hearing this, the young man was so frightened that the candied haws almost dropped, he said in a daze, "Okay..."

So Xu Mu snatched the candied haws from his hand and threw it on the table without saying a word, and began to undress him.

"Senior brother... are we... right here..." The boy's face was pale, and his clothes were torn in a mess.

"Of course, don't worry, there is no one here, and no one will see it." Xu Mu said as he took off his coat, "And you are a boy, what are you afraid of, it's not a girl's house."

After taking off his coat, Xu Mu threw the skirt to him and said, "Quick, change into this."

I clapped my hands and stood up, thinking that it is so easy, it will be done in 3 minutes!Is there any rare one that beats me!

The boy flipped the skirt in his hands a few times, as if hesitating.

Seeing this, Xu Mu changed into a gentle and persuasive tone, and said, "That woman doesn't believe me, we can only go in if you wear this dress, and then not only can you see shadow puppetry, maybe there will be juggling or something, do you want to see it?" ?"

The boy nodded.

"Then change it quickly."

The boy had no choice but to put his clothes on, and looked up at him: "Okay."

Xu Mu stared at the little man on the ground the whole time, seeing that he was changed, then squatted down and straightened his clothes, hooked his chin, and said with a smile: "You are so beautiful." After speaking, he touched the boy again With envy on her face, "This skin, tsk tsk, is even better than a woman's."

Reluctantly rubbing back and forth a few times, Xu Mu withdrew his paws, "It's just a little too white."

Xu Mu turned around and rummaged on the table, but he didn't know much about women's toiletry items, so he took a piece of red paper used to lick his lips, and smeared it on the boy's face indiscriminately.

"Okay, this is perfect." Xu Mu clapped his hands, admiring the person in front of him, "The appearance is good enough to be my wife. Let's go."

But the boy hesitated for a moment, and didn't follow him out.

Xu Mu turned around and asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"

The young man's face was smeared with pink powder, not sure whether it was real or fake, and he said, "I... I don't have breasts yet..."

Xu Mu suddenly realized: "Oh yes yes yes! Forget about this important event!"

"But... such things as breasts..." Xu Mu knelt down and touched the boy's flat body, and said worriedly, "It seems hard to say if there is one..."

The young man thought that what he said made sense, and nodded: "Mmm..."

"In that case, it's okay." Xu Mu suddenly got up calmly, stood up again, and pulled the boy out, "If she asks, I'll just say that I like breastless like you... Got it?"

The boy was stunned: "Ah...? Good..."

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The streets are bustling with lights all night long.

But even though it was all night, there was a moment when the play ended and everyone was tired.

It was past Yin time when the two came out of the tent.The sky is no longer the pitch black of night, but dark blue, and the distant mountains seem to be faintly whitish.

At the end of the song, the streets became a little silent, except for the sporadic and indistinct gunfire from afar.

Xu Mu dragged the little man beside him through the stalls, out of the town market, until he walked to the heavy snow at the foot of Yanshan Mountain. There was silence all around him, only the "creaking" sound of the white snow squeezed under his feet could be heard.The hem of their clothes fluttered with the cold wind in the heavy snow, casting two erratic shadows vaguely on the ground.

"go home."