Brother Donggong

The days these days are like a nice white flour scallion pancake.

The saltiness is right, with a layer of oily sesame seeds floating on it.

I told Cui Bicheng that everything between me and the prince should be over, and he should be relieved, because I finally don't have to implicate him, and he doesn't have to implicate me anymore, Cui Bicheng's mouth almost crooked when he smiled.

That day, after I returned to the courtyard, Cui Bicheng was like a dog.

He got up every morning before the rooster crowed and stood outside looking out. Mother He thought he wanted to go to the ghost market to buy cold food powder, so she watched him for several days, and then found that he was just standing outside the door looking out, so He put his heart back in his stomach, and told Lao Cui to get up in the morning to take out the soaked beans, so that she could use a small millstone to make fresh tofu brains and eat them together, and ignored him at all.

After Cui Bicheng scooped up beans for three days, made bean sprouts for four days, and cooked hot pot noodles for five days, he no longer asked for trouble, and he must sleep until he woke up naturally in the morning.

Chu Qiangsheng wrote a memorial that shocked the government and the public. He listed several crimes against him. Even persuading me to temporarily take over the state affairs while the emperor and the prince were seriously ill became "overstepping power for personal gain"; 'It's all his crime of greed for power and position.

Then, in a state of astonishment, he resigned and retired.

It's hard to believe that Chu Qiangsheng, who has always regarded authority as his life, will walk the same path, just like a dog that can only gnaw bones, suddenly starts to gnaw carrots like a rabbit.He began to live in seclusion, and built a garden wooden building in the countryside for reading. He asked his family's loyal servant, Lao Min, to send me a treat ticket, so that I could go to him when I had nothing to do.

When I arrived in the southern suburbs, Chu's garden, Chu Qiangsheng was repairing a cemetery for himself.

"How did you get so skinny?"

He glanced at me.

"Almost skinny. When I saw you the other day, you were fat like a pig."

Chu Qiangsheng is very busy.He said that he is a person who is going to be a father soon, so he needs to take a good rest in his cemetery, and then he will make a beautiful one for his son. If there is still time, he also wants to make one for his grandson.

The pit must be dug neatly and deep, and surrounded by large, hard stones, which can be waterproof and keep the soil dry, so that no matter what the rainy weather is, the pit will not be filled with water.

"I hate water."

Chu Qiangsheng held a stone in one hand and was building a pit. He raised his body and wiped his sweat with his sleeves. I handed him a clay jar, which contained some medicinal herbs for relieving summer heat. He picked it up and drank it vigorously. Dakou, hand me the pot, and then sit on the edge of the pit, while I sit on the bamboo mat above the pit.

He wrinkled his nose, "As long as I think that when I lie here, my whole body is wet, and even the quilt is damp and stiff, I feel uncomfortable."

I think he seems to have figured it out.He is like a colorful poisonous snake shedding its disguise and turning into a green and simple firewood stick.

He is even more converted to the source than Cui Bicheng squatting on the ground eating noodles.

It seems that in recent years, the President Chu who is in the government and the field in our eyes is just a false shadow.

The sun was burning hot on the top of our heads, Chu Qiangsheng crawled out of the pit, went to the wooden house to get food, a pack of dry noodles and pickles made of coarse salt.He opened the big bowl, took a closer look, and found that the bread was sour.

"You go get something to eat, okay?" he said, pointing at me.

This place is not far from the pipeline. When I came here, I saw a wine shop. Wherever you buy wine, there will probably be meat and fresh bread for sale.

"Why me?" I stood up from the bamboo mat with my numb legs, and he said, "Because I dug the dirt pit for a long time, and you ate groundnuts for a long time. Move it a little, and your stomach will bulge out at night."

"Didn't you say I'm thin? I'm just getting fat now."

"That's different."

Chu Qiangsheng waved his hand casually, and the hand that was originally white and soft like congealed lard became a little rough, but very strong, looking like a lock on a fence.

"You are so thin now, if you have a bulging belly, others will think you are pregnant."

I don't continue to haggle with him, I admit defeat and take the money and leave.I am a poor man now, and he is a local tyrant, and I have come so far to accompany him, so he should invite me.

To be honest, if I am not allowed to continue facing the hole Chu Qiangsheng dug for himself, I would rather run two miles longer.

Under a tall banyan tree under the guise of wine, there is a restaurant with a pot outside. A fat cook in an apron is stewing beef. Beside her is a big bamboo cage as tall as a person, which is steaming.

I went over and said, "Miss Boss, here are six pancakes, two catties of cooked beef, and four jugs of water wine."

"Ten cents!" she yelled.

There are also a few tables of guests here, most of whom are dressed like me.Coarse blouse, hair a little messy, a few big coins in hand, all ordered cooked beef and water wine.

Shuijiu, as the name suggests, is wine mixed with water.

This stuff is cheap.

I paid the money, took out the cloth bag I was carrying, and prepared to pack these things.

A soft voice over there suddenly said, "Miss Boss, have another pot of honey wine."

I looked sideways, a pair of white and slender hands, holding a dice cup in one hand, and slapping a piece of silver on the wooden table with the other hand, the proprietress immediately ignored me, and ran to the wooden table of the customer politely, holding A jug of fragrant mead.The wine looked like good wine, the color of amber, it was full hanging on the mouth of the pot, but it didn't overflow.

The owner of those hands has a round face, with two dimples when he smiles, like the clay doll Xiao Afu in Wuxi. In front of him is a small pile of broken silver, copper coins, and a few worthless jewelry made of gold. .Surrounding him are a group of dejected gamblers with blue faces, like defeated roosters.

It was Tang Xiaoxie?

The proprietress put the piece of silver into her bosom, suddenly, Tang Xiaoxie stretched out her hand to hold the proprietress's hand, and said in a drunken way, "What beautiful hands, unfortunately, they are too plain."

As he spoke, he picked up several rings made of old gold from the table, and put them one by one on the proprietress's thick fingers. Immediately, the proprietress' fingers looked like fried yellow dough sticks.

Tuantuan said, "This is much better! Women should dress themselves up with jewelry."

The proprietress was a little demented.

It was a string of gold, and the person who put the gold on her was a handsome young man.The proprietress has a rosy nose and a ruddy face, like a young girl in love.

A strong man with a blue face knocked off a corner of the wooden table as soon as he slapped it. He said angrily, "Bastard! How dare you give our gold to this stinky woman?"

Tang Xiaoxie hugged the jug, narrowed her eyes and said, "I won, of course I am."

"That's what my grandfather left with you!"

Xiao Tang said nonchalantly, "Haha, don't be ashamed, let's play another game. If you can win, then the scattered coins in front of me are all yours!"

The brawny man blushed and rushed into his eyeballs. His fingers were about to snatch the sieve from Xiaotang's hands as he spoke, but a tall and thin man beside him hurriedly stopped him, "Brother, don't be impulsive. Let's shake the sieve." It's been more than a dozen rounds, and he won this time, this little boy is not that simple, he must be cheating."

"Then what should we do, let's admit it?"

"Is that so..." Ma's face rolled his eyes, "Brother, what Jianghu talks about is that thieves have their own way, and now he doesn't talk about morality, so we brothers don't need to talk about it. Seven of us, fourteen arms, seven Steel knife, are you afraid that you won't be able to subdue him?"

"Brothers, copy the guy, chop him up!"

The strong man shouted loudly at the same time, and the two of them jumped up, and the knife in their hands slashed at Xiao Tang's Tianling Gai!

Tang Xiaoxie didn't hide, she only cared about drinking, when I thought he was about to be sliced ​​like a watermelon, suddenly a red light flashed in front of my eyes, and all the riots froze in an instant, just like water froze into ice.

The red light was extremely thin, even thinner than the red thread.

The strong man, with the face of a horse, fell to the ground with a crackling sound, his eyes were wide open, and he was in bliss.

The proprietress screamed in fright, rolled her eyes and fell to the ground.

I have been standing on the side of the pot, far away from them, I wondered, should I go back with a few catties of beef?

A figure flew down from the thatched roof, as cold as snow in midwinter, as light as a goose feather, and as vague as a ghostly shadow.

He put away the red rapier, expressionless, but said with cold eyes, "Next time you get into such trouble again, I'll chop you up, mix it with lard and feed it to Skyhawk."

Tang Xiaoxie smiled slightly, and took out a dead little red flower from her sleeve, "I can't help it, who made me greedy and drank other people's tea? That girl's parents were killed by these gangsters, she wanted I sold my body to save money to seek revenge from a swordsman, and I happened to meet him, and I drank a pot of green tea from him, so I naturally wanted to do something for him."

He was a smiling little Ah Fu, "Besides, it's not all in vain. You see, your old lover who is so romantic and always avoids you is right in front of you. Why don't you go tenderly?"

When Tang Xiaoxie pointed, I was stealing four pancakes, nine steamed buns, five catties of beef, and two jugs of honey wine. Then I raised my eyes and looked at two people with four pairs of eyes. staring at me.

I smiled awkwardly, "Hey...Xiao Lian, Xiao Tang, long time no see."

"It's such a coincidence that I saw you doing business as soon as I came here. You are busy, don't worry about me, I will take the food and leave."

Xiao Tang laughed loudly, "I said, according to your habits, anyone who sees you killing people will not live anymore. Will you kill this person or not?"

I heard my heart pounding.

Xiaolian and Tang Xiaoxie are all members of Kunlun Sect.

These people who believe in extreme sects and have special depressive and tragic experiences are generally not quite right psychologically.Not to mention moodiness, they all regard human life as nothing.No matter what kind of friendship I've had with them, they don't seem to blink an eye when it's time to strike.

I am really afraid that I will die here for no reason.

So, my little heart is like playing a snare drum, thud, thud, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, and beat non-stop.

Xiao Lian didn't seem to hear what Tang Xiaoxie said, his pale gray eyeballs looked at me like frozen ice, then his fingers curled slightly, and a leaf not far away was sucked into his fingers.Suddenly, the leaf flew over Tang Xiaoxie's cheek, and was nailed to the tree trunk behind Xiao Tang!

Like a piercing nail.

A bright red bloodstain appeared on Xiao Tang's cheek.

He glanced at Xiao Tang, and only said one word from his lips, "Let's go."

Then, with a flash of his waist, he disappeared.

When I looked up, I could only vaguely see his erratic back, like an eagle soaring high.Why is such a person willing to submit to doing flesh and blood business in Guanzhilou?

And Tang Xiaoxie restrained his cynical smile, like a hard-working slave, he dug a hole with a hoe from a wine shop, pulled everyone out and buried them, and sprinkled a lot of powder to clean up the blood and smell, as if he had never As if no murder case had occurred, he took out a stack of paper money from his pocket and threw it high.

"Good luck, no taboos! I pray to the prince, the green mountains will not change, and the green water will flow forever. We will meet again in the future!"

After speaking, he also fled.

I looked at the restaurant that was suddenly clean, and the proprietress who was unconscious holding a pile of scattered silver. I scratched my hair, as if everything that happened before my eyes was me dazzled.

When I returned to Chu Qiangsheng's wooden house with food, I saw Lao Chu crawling on the bed motionless, as if he had been plotted against. I was so frightened that I quickly put down my food, and with a piece of beef in my mouth, I ran to the Before the bed, shake him, "Old Chu! Old Chu! Old Chu!"

"Don't, don't shake me, I'm dizzy. I'm fine. I lie still to fight hunger." Chu Qiangsheng pointed his finger at his mouth, "Give me a steamed bun, I'm fainted from hunger."

My heart returned to my stomach, and I was just about to get him steamed buns when there was a soft knock on the bamboo door outside.

"Who?"

With a creak, the half-hidden door was gently pushed open.

Pei Tan, dressed in fine clothes, stood outside.

like a tree.