Jianghu Tired Brigade

The sun was high and it was almost noon.Hong Xiao went to the kitchen, intending to cook two small dishes, but he didn't want to snatch the firewood for Xiangsi, so she asked her to rest aside.

Hong Xiao sighed: "It's not that I'm short-handed. I don't need you to fight for everything." She is used to living alone, so she is not willing to sit on the side as a shopkeeper, so she chooses vegetables and washes them at the side. Lovesickness can't stop her I have to let her live.With the cooperation of the two, they have a tacit understanding, and after a while, a table has been set up.

Hong Xiao walked around the courtyard, raised his voice and called "Jin Mo" a few times, but there was still no sign of the girl.Instead, he went back to the main hall and had dinner with Xiangsi.

Xiangsi asked: "Who were you calling just now?"

Hong Xiao replied: "A girl passing by happened to come here to rest, and she probably left now."

Acacia said "Oh", and stopped asking.The two ate in silence, put away the table, took advantage of the time when Xiangsi was washing the dishes, Hong Xiao walked around the courtyard for a while, took out a lot of coarse cloth from nowhere, and put them on the objects in each room to prevent dust .When I got to the bedroom, I took the dowry from the dressing table and put it in the carriage.

After everything was settled, Hong Xiao pulled the reins and called out, "Xiangsi, let's go."

Hearing Hong Xiao's call, Xiangsi answered "yes" and walked out of the kitchen.Her clothes were stained with oil at some point, which was particularly conspicuous on the burlap.Because she had just finished her homework and was called out by Hong Xiao before she could tidy up in the future, her clothes were still a little messy.

Hong Xiao walked up to her, lowered his head and straightened the front of Xiangsi's clothes.But the oil stain on his chest was hard to ignore, Hong Xiao smiled and said: "It's so good that it insists on robbing me of my work, this is good, I have been oiled for no reason, go and change."

Xiangsi shook her head and said, "It's okay, the clothes are still fit."

Hong Yu spat: "How can the girl's family be so careless, you go quickly."

Acacia had no choice but to take her luggage and go to the bedroom to change, but the clothes she put on were still coarse linen filial piety clothes, which looked exactly the same as the previous one.When he came out, he saw Hong Xiao sitting sideways on the car, with his feet dangling in the air, swaying leisurely.Hearing the movement, he smiled at Xiangsi and said, "You sit in the car."

Hong Xiao usually smiles, always pursing his lips lightly, reserved and polite.But right now, she is smiling, the corners of her mouth are curved, revealing a few neat white teeth, and the two pear dimples are deeply embedded in her cheeks, as if they are filled with a century-old wine. Really very happy.This kind of Hong Xiao is as clean and pure as a girl who doesn't know much about the world.

Acacia saw it for a moment, Hong Xiao smiled and said: "How long are you going to stand there stupidly, we have to go."

Acacia was like waking up from a dream, hurriedly responded, walked quickly to the front of the carriage, reached out to take the rein in Hong Xiao's hand.With a move of his hand, Hong Xiao avoided her and said, "Sit inside, I'll drive."

Xiangsi didn't understand what it meant, and said, "Your body..."

Hong Xiao said: "My body is very good, but I don't have internal energy. What's more, such trivial things as driving can be done by ordinary people without internal energy." The dangers I face are unknown, so you don't have to think of me too delicately."

Xiangsi lowered her head, looking obedient and trained.Hong Xiao's heart softened, and his displeased tone became more and more gentle: "You are not proficient in driving, so it's better to keep your energy in the car and rely on you in case of danger."

Xiangsi responded dully, still a little reluctant, jumped onto the car from the other side, but didn't go in, squatted down and asked Hong Xiao: "Next time you will teach me how to drive."

Hong Xiao said: "Okay." After thinking for a while, he added: "Don't talk about driving, as long as I know how to do it, if you want to learn, I will teach you."

Xiangsi got her promise, but she was still worried, and said, "It's a deal."

When Xiangsi was talking, her peach blossom eyes glowed with a bright luster.Hong Xiao was amused by her appearance, ever since she met Xiangsi, she felt that this girl was too serious and obedient, although it was worry-free, she was also too inactive.Now that she looks like this, she finally looks like a little girl acting like a baby.Hong Xiao couldn't help feeling a bit of love and pity in his heart, he reached out and rubbed Xiangsi's hair on his forehead, nodded and said, "Well, it's a deal."

The two gossiped for a while, without wasting much time, they went on the main road.The carriage was rattling, Hong Xiao's proficient words were indeed true, the horse walked briskly, but the carriage was always steady.Xiangsi still couldn't let go of her heart, so she lifted the curtain of the car to look around, and Hong Xiao smiled: "When I was walking at first, I felt that the scenery around me was fresh, but after a while, I got bored easily."

Xiangsi sat cross-legged at the car door and listened to her.

It is rare for Hong Xiao to walk with others in recent years. Seeing Xiangsi's earnest appearance, it suddenly seems to be back in the past. Yizhanghong is standing on the car board, her dress is fluttering, as if riding the wind and waves, majestic , but graceful as a fairy.The raised whip could not help but stagnate in the air, and it took a while before it came down.

Hong Xiao watched the houses on the side of the road keep retreating, the distant scenery gradually approached, and finally left behind, after a while, even when he turned around, he could no longer see it.Can't help sighing: "The world is too big, and there is beauty everywhere. Only the scenery on this road is the same, which makes people tired. But even if you see the new scenery at first, staying for a while will make you tired." People are dull."

Xiangsi asked: "Since you feel tasteless, why do you still have to leave?"

Hong Xiao smiled and said: "Since it's tasteless, why not change places? The world is so big, how can we go as far as we can. I've always been used to wandering, and I've been to many places, so I've become more and more picky and hard to stay." But she didn't say one thing, there are so many cities in the world, but none of them can make her yearn for.Although a foreign land is good, it is a foreign land after all.But even Hong Xiao himself can't figure out what kind of thing can make a person willing to stay in one place, looking at the same street scene every day, facing the same people, talking about the unexciting short stories of his parents. story.

Hong Xiao pointed to a narrow road ahead with his horsewhip, and said, "Going down this road, there is a small village. There is a woman there. When she got married five years ago, I happened to meet the wedding procession." Through memories, She seemed to hear the festive and noisy sound of gongs and drums again.At that time, Yizhanghong had been away for a long time, and Hong Xiao followed the simple rural wedding procession into the auditorium in a daze.The guests on both parties didn't know her, but they saw that she was dressed richly and gave a large silver coin generously, so no one dared to offend her.Hong Xiao said softly: "I lived near Zuo for a while, and one day the woman came to me crying and said that her husband had been drinking heavily since he got married, beating and scolding her frequently, at that time she told me that she wanted to Leave your husband and go wandering with me."

Xiangsi asked earnestly, "You promised?"

Hong Xiao said with a smile: "Her husband's reputation is indeed not very good. To me, taking a person on a trip is just something I can easily help, and it's not that difficult. It's just that I didn't plan to travel far at the time, so I asked her to be patient. wait a while."

Xiangsi said angrily in a low voice: "A bad guy."

Hong Xiao's eyes and ears were clear, and when she heard her tone, she was startled and turned her head suddenly.After staring at Acacia steadily for a while, he sighed softly, secretly feeling a little disappointed.Her mood was up and down, and her interest was not so high when she spoke: "There are so many things in the world, I can't control them, but since she has asked for it, there is no reason to ignore it."

Xiangsi asked, "What happened next?"

Hong Xiao pulled the rein of the horse, and the car gradually slowed down. The horse ran a few steps towards another fork before finally stopping.The two roads are not far apart at this time, and you can see them as soon as you turn your head.Hong Xiao raised his head to look far away, and recalled: "I lived in Zuojin for half a year, and finally... I got bored... One day I made up my mind to leave, and I went to ask that woman a question before I left..."

Hong Xiao recalled that the girl she met at that time had a yellow complexion and a haggard appearance, she really looked physically and mentally exhausted.Her hair was disheveled, and a thin piece of wood was attached to her bun, which was the only accessory on her body.The coarse cloth of the clothes has faded from washing, and has been damaged in many places, which have been repaired meticulously.

Laiduo, embarrassed.I no longer saw the beauty and beauty of the crimson wedding dress half a year ago.

The woman's face struggled and changed, she looked into the room, then looked at Hong Xiao, then looked at the vast world beyond the sky, finally lowered her head, and said: "I, although I took the liberty to ask the girl to leave But, but, I'm gone, who else can take care of this house... The head of the house has drank less wine these days, although he still spends so much money every day, but, it's better... …Yesterday…about the day before yesterday, Doctor Lu said that I was pregnant…so, from now on…”

Hong Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, not knowing whether she was sighing or the ease of fulfilling the promise, she said annoyance, and led the horse on the way.

The wheels rolled slowly again, and the forked roads on both sides gradually diverged. Hong Xiao turned his eyes to the road ahead and said, "After a few years, I happened to pass by here, and I heard that the woman was beaten to death by her husband, and the child was probably never born. Come down. Her husband was taken to prison by the escort, and she was wrapped in a straw mat and thrown into the wilderness."

Acacia said displeasedly: "Her husband is so bad, he should have left with you in the first place."

Hong Xiao smiled and said: "Yeah, her husband is so bad, but why did she still want to stay? The dilapidated house, the poor life, the vulgar husband, even the neighbors are full of nonsense rural villages. Wife, what is there to miss?"

Xiangsi frowned and thought for a while, then finally shook her head and said: "I don't know." After thinking for a while, she said: "Unless I'm with you, there's nothing wrong with a place like this."

Hong Xiao sighed lightly: "You child."

The carriage has gone a long way, and even if I stand on tiptoe and look far away, I can't see another road.There is really nothing to praise about that small village, Hong Xiao usually walks by, and he will definitely not stop there.When she was born, she lived there.

Until now, Hong Xiao still doesn't know the woman's name, but he still remembers that day's beautiful red dress.

He probably suddenly remembered someone.

The author has something to say:

Sleepy, this chapter has been revised for several days, and finally I don’t even know it.