Water lanterns and dreams in 1 nights

complain. "Occasionally, I would be amazed by the delicacy of Xiuwen's words, just like at this moment—"To be honest, even now I am thinking about how I survived. "

"After much deliberation, the result is that I rely on my brother. I have always relied on him. Although he treats me badly, he is also my only relative. He saved me and avenged the whole family. He didn't say anything, I know He has paid a great price, so I have to obey him and repay him, right?" Xiuwen looked at the direction where the dislike of martial arts disappeared, lowered his voice, and it sounded like a leak and a confession: "But I really hate him, I expected the opposite As well."

"At least you don't have to be afraid of being alone."

Xiuwen smiled wryly and said: "Sometimes I wish I would be fine without him. But very rarely, he also protects me from bad luck. Just like when I was a child, he bullied those who teased me very badly, Because I am his younger brother, I cannot let others ride on my head; looking back, he teased me with all kinds of tricks, and because I am his younger brother, I must be at his mercy. Until now, I really don’t know if there is no comparison with him good."

One of Xiuwen's characteristics is that emotions come and go quickly. After a while, he cheered up, handed me the sword, broke off a long branch from the tree, and taught decently.

"Practice from the sword pose first." He instructed, posing a pose for me to follow.

I put it out according to his posture, which always feels weird.

He was always laughing, and finally stopped, and started to correct my posture with his hands, quite professionally.

"You look a bit like your brother."

Xiuwen made a serious face.

"However, the way you teach is better."

He is happy again.

People say that you can achieve a career only if you don’t show your emotions. Xiuwen is not that kind of person at all. His emotions change a lot in a day, and each of them is clearly written on his face, making him look unworldly. naivety.This kind of innocence is suitable to appear on the face of any innocent boy, and it is not appropriate for a young man of his age and experience, but this kind of straightforwardness that is insisted on is a rare thing in my opinion.

I know it can't last.There was no denying that it was a pleasant brilliance, but at the same time it was rather shallow, like the sparse reflections on counterfeit jewellery, and his innocence was an embellished, mindless escape, unwilling to contemplate the tragic end, Placing hope in the pity of others, even though he has experienced cruel incidents and knows that the nature of the world is not kind, he still hopes that his brother will not treat him too badly, maintain the superficial peace, and delay in exposing the cruelty of the people who are disgusted with martial arts. What is hidden under urging and teaching.That cowardice is all too familiar to me.

I want him to learn resistance, rebellion, brother-in-law, but it's more likely that I won't be able to stir the flame in his character, because before that, he has been burnt to tin by the sea of ​​​​military misery.

And I won't even have the pleasure of picking up that wreck and being a pretty little tin soldier then.

77. Twins 15

Summer starts with a heavy rain.

This time the rain was very different from the previous ones. Silvery white rain fell from the sky. We looked out from the house and watched it hit the ground ferociously. There was a dense layer of water smoke on the ground, but it was not cold at all. The harder it rained , the more stuffy the house is.After the sky cleared, the sun rose high quickly and shone with unprecedented heat.The ground, roof, and towering trees, the accumulated water quickly dried up, and the moisture in the body was evaporated dry under the scorching.After that, the jungle was dyed green, the cicadas sang like rain, and the heat was so hot.

The weather became hot, and Wu Yan's body was not as good as when it was cold. He coughed more and more, trying to lower his voice so that it became a muffled low sound in his throat.This kind of cover-up is too obvious. The more he wants to show his health, the more we feel that he is afraid that he is seriously ill.Originally, he only coughed a few times during the day, but later when he fell asleep, he could vaguely hear movements coming from his room.

He refused to explain, and he did not allow anyone to ask. The two brothers formed a strange balance.Sometimes I feel that Xiuwen is silently waiting for the exhaustion of martial arts to collapse, and sometimes I feel that he seems to be worried.No matter what the situation is, Xiuwen is gradually gaining the upper hand on the surface. He is not as afraid of Wuwu as he used to be. Excessive repression, he allowed Xiuwen to fight for more autonomy from him, and no one could tell how many messages were hidden in his indulgence.

The martial arts-weary advice tends to be more and more distant, and the matter of teaching me martial arts gradually falls on Xiuwen.He is much better now.

For me, it doesn't matter if I know martial arts or not. I told Xiuwen not to worry about me, but to be his own.Shrouded in a certain silent sense of urgency, the mountain where only three people lived actually felt like a storm was coming.

I was alone, and wandered in the mountains when I was free. One day, I happened to find a clump of wild sugarcane. I broke it and took it back to squeeze the juice. After chilling in the well water, I gave Xiuwen and me a bowl.He was tired from sword practice, and drank quickly to the bottom, leaving only a little bagasse in the bowl, and asked if there was any more.I said that this thing is said to clear away heat and moisten the lungs, and is good for coughing, so I wanted to leave it to those who are tired of martial arts, so he didn't say much, and went back to practice swords again.

I poured the rest into a big bowl and took it to the room of Yanwu. He was leaning against the wall with his clothes on, staring blankly at the speck of light reflected by the leaves outside the window.

I put the sugarcane water carefully on the bedside: "You can drink the juice squeezed from the sugarcane on the mountain, it is good for your body."

He had a very surprised expression, and it took a while to remember to thank me.

I handed the bowl over, he lowered his head and was about to drink it, when he suddenly asked, "Have you drank it yet?" I said yes, before he opened his mouth, holding the bowl in his gentle hands, he looked like a son of an aristocratic family. Xiuwen is completely different.

On the way, for some reason, the bowl slipped to the ground and broke into several pieces. I quickly squatted down and piled up the broken porcelain pieces to throw them away. Wu Wu apologized and said sorry.I signaled him not to care, "If it works."

He cheered up, and said with a smile: "Thanks to your love, I will." I don't know if it's an illusion or real, I really think he seems to be in better condition immediately, but even if it is a magic medicine, it will not have such an immediate effect, let alone Just a bowl of sweet water.

"In a few days, I have to go out for a trip, which may take about two weeks."

"Your body..."

"It's okay, didn't I come back soon after I went out?"

This is true, this is not the first time he has been a distant guest, Xiuwen and I have long been used to it.Especially Xiuwen, as soon as he left his elder brother's control, he climbed trees and folded melons, as happy as a wild monkey on the mountain.

He covered his mouth, coughed twice, and said, "I'll be back this time, and I won't be going out for a while."

"Of course that's the best." I said, "Take care of your body first."

He nodded and smiled again, "You lower your head."

I happened to be squatting in front of him because I was picking up the tiles, and when I heard this, I bent my head, and he twisted a strand of hair from my hair and put it in the palm of my hand.

In his snow-white palm was an extremely small spider that was as clear as green jade. It crawled to the edge of the palm and fell down with a web hanging. I took the silk web and put it on the wall. goodbye.

He pointed to the wardrobe at the side corner of the wall and asked me to take out an antique medicine box from the compartment. I opened it and found a jade bottle the size of a finger inside.

"This elixir has been made into a total of seven pills, except for the four you took, the rest are here."

"Didn't you say that the raw materials are hard to come by?"

"Fortunately, I still have some." Yan Wu said, "This time you go down the mountain, do you need anything I brought back?"

"No." I quickly replied, "It's good that you come back safely." I put away the medicine bottle, and pretended not to care, and brushed his right hand half covered in his sleeve, seeing it trembling slightly.

"Come on." I thought to myself.See you soon.The authority carefully built by Yanwu is collapsing, and Xiuwen has shown unprecedented sharpness. This is the result of his connivance. Soon we will come to an end, and then it will be time for me to leave.

"Okay." He agreed very cautiously, as if he had a great word.

After leaving early the next morning tired of martial arts, Xiuwen was lazy all day and hid in the house to sleep.

It was very hot that day, and the trees on the mountain were densely packed. Although it was much cooler than the bottom of the mountain, it was hard to bear the scorching heat of summer.I went out alone, found a branch of a stream covered by trees, took off only the innermost layer of clothing, and lay down in the water.Filtered by lush green leaves, the sunlight is projected softly under the trees.I lay there, the shallow water was just below my ears, and the sound of gurgling water was next to my ears, which made people feel infinite peace in my heart. My limbs were tired, and I didn't even care about a water snake flowing past softly like a sash. sleep.

I fell asleep for a long time, and was awakened by an annoying itching on the tip of my nose. When I opened my eyes, I saw Xiuwen standing beside me with one hand on his hips, and one hand holding a long blade of grass. I said with a smile: "You can find a good place."

The sun was behind him, giving him infinitely pure radiance, and his face was carefree, unaware of the disaster that was coming.Does he really not know?Still pretending to be innocent, in the hope that the martial weariness and brotherhood will be punished lightly.

I was too lazy to get up or think for a while, so I grabbed his wrist subconsciously and let him sit beside me, "You come too." I said, "It's very cool."

So he also lay down next to me, obediently touching my shoulders and lying on the bottom of the water, like two huge water plants, and his clothes were also tangled together like water plants, I closed my eyes and continued to sleep deeply, Xiuwen did not know when he would sleep I fell asleep, only to know that the stars and the moon were drooping when I woke up.Our clothes are completely wet, and we are walking on the dark way home facing the mountain wind. The cold wind is biting our skin, and we also feel