Legend of Xianghuang

Pingyang Village is a small village located in the northwest of Jiaoyang City. The village is backed by mountains and water, the land is fertile, and the harvest is good every year.In addition, they can hunt some wild animals in the forest behind the village as a subsidy. Although the villagers are not rich, they can be considered happy.

On weekdays, if something happens to someone in the village, the villagers will help each other enthusiastically, and the neighbors are happy.

To say that everyone in this village respects the most, apart from the highly respected village head, the female teacher Ouyang Jin who came to settle here a few years ago.

There are not so many rules in the mountain village. Ouyang Jin is easy-going and knowledgeable about the past and the present. Now she brings her cousin to this beautiful place for recuperation. In her spare time, she teaches the children in the village how to read for free. After a long time, the villagers naturally like this gentle and elegant lady. .

But when talking about her cousin who was plagued by stubborn illness, she couldn't help shaking her head and sighing.

A well-meaning villager once asked Ouyang Jin what he meant, if he could talk to a good family, more people could take care of their sisters.It is not easy for two women to live without any support.

But Ouyang Jin just declined with a smile, and replied with sonorous words: "One day my cousin's illness is not good, and Wan Xuan will not be able to have a family."

The villagers couldn't resist Ouyang Jin, so they had no choice but to stop mentioning this matter.

Occasionally mentioning them, at most it is a sigh or two, with a bit of regret in addition to respect.

This is also about her cousin - Ke Sui's serious illness.

No doctor could tell the reason for this disease, only diagnosed that her body was getting weaker and weaker, and there was nothing she could do except to prescribe some nourishing decoction.

However, Ke Sui's problems are not limited to this. Since she was 15 years old, she has been suffering from constant headaches. Later, her memory has gradually deteriorated and her movements have gradually slowed down. In the worst case, she even forgot how to eat with chopsticks.

Ouyang Jin scattered all the family wealth and took Ke Sui to seek medical treatment everywhere, but to no avail.

Only a barefoot doctor in the mountains gave a folk prescription, saying that it is a disease of the brain, which can only be cured by eating the brain.

Ouyang Jin had no choice but to follow what the barefoot doctor said, and tried to find a butcher to buy pig brains and stew them, coaxing Ke Sui to eat them.

It actually worked a little bit.

So far, Ouyang Jin has brought back freshly killed animal brains for Ke Sui every day to supplement his brain.

At that time, Ouyang Jin had already spent most of her money, so she simply found Pingyang Village and settled down.

This stay is four years.

On this day, the genius was slightly bright, and Ouyang Jin walked to the village stepping on the ridge in the countryside.

The early-rising farmers who passed by along the way nodded and smiled at her, and greeted her warmly: "Mr. Ouyang, you bought fresh pig brains from the city."

Jiaoyang City is not far from Pingyang Village, which is more than half an hour's journey. Ouyang Jin gets up early every other day and goes to the city in order to buy fresh pig brains from the butcher.

If it was a moment late and the market opened, let alone whether the pig brain was still there, even the freshness would be different.

However, on this day, Ouyang Jin didn't have the usual warm smile on his face.

She frowned slightly, holding a pack of medicine in her hand, but there was no lotus leaf bag wrapped with pig's brain in the past.

Facing the villagers' inquiries, Ouyang Jin shook her head, a little worried: "The butcher Zhang said that no pigs were slaughtered today. He said that there was a murder case in the city in the past two days. In short, the pork will not sell well in the next few days, and he will simply close down for a few days. day."

The murder case was not involved in their small village, but they heard that they couldn't buy pig brains these days, and the villagers couldn't help worrying about Ouyang Jin.

Especially seeing the melancholy wrinkled on Ouyang Jin's fair face, the slight frown made them even more anxious.

"Mr. Ouyang, let me see this. After a while, we'll finish the armor in the field, and see if we can go hunting in the mountains for a while." Someone suggested enthusiastically, and the people around him also responded.

Although Ouyang Jin was still worried, seeing the enthusiasm of the villagers, she couldn't help laughing and said: "That's really troublesome folks."

"Mr. Ouyang, don't be so polite, our baby can read and write, thanks to you, sir!"

"That's right, our neighbors and folks help each other, so it's not a big deal."

Pass through the farmland and enter the village.Ouyang Jin's house is in the north of the village. It is an ordinary farm house with a courtyard. The courtyard is surrounded by a low wall, and usually you don't pay attention to it and can't see what's inside the wall.

Such a low wall is rare in Pingyang Village, but the villagers also expressed their understanding when they thought that there were two big girls living in the house, and they all came to help when the courtyard wall was erected.

Of course, Ouyang Jin's thanks and gifts afterwards made the villagers feel a little more fond of the two new girls.

After entering the yard, Ouyang Jin closed the door before walking towards the house.

Pushing open the door and entering, Ke Sui had already got up and was sitting by the window looking out the window.

Ouyang Jin walked over, and happened to be able to see the little chickens bought a few days ago chirping and pecking at the open space outside the window, their chubby bodies bouncing around, really cute.

"Xiaosui, I'm back." Ouyang Jin said with a smile.

Ke Sui turned his head, opened his mouth, frowned slightly, and then relaxed, "Xiao Jin!" That smile, like the first melting spring snow, was so bright that it made people's eyes shine.

"Yeah." Ouyang Jin smiled, but felt dull pain in her heart.

She knew very well that Ke Sui had such an expression because he couldn't remember his name just now.

Ke Sui seemed to sense Ouyang Jin's emotions, and opened his hands towards her: "Xiao Jin, I will, try my best to remember you. Even, even if I forget my own name."

Ouyang Jin's heart warmed, she hugged Ke Sui, and stretched out her hand to massage the Tianzhu point on the back of her neck: "Well, do you have a headache today?"

"Well, it's okay." Ke Sui smiled and said simply.

Ouyang Jin nodded, yes, it's okay, the pain has never stopped, because I'm used to it, so it's okay.

Ouyang Jin massaged and kneaded Ke Sui for many years, and the strength has already been mastered. After a while, the heat from the kneading and kneading relieved the pain that Ke Sui had been haunting. She squinted her eyes and hummed in comfort, like a small animal. .

After a while, Ouyang Jin let go of Ke Sui, and picked up the medicine bag that was put aside: "I'll make the medicine."

"Oh." Ke Sui's eyes fell on the palm of his hand, and then he said, "Hey, I just said, I seem to have forgotten something."

In the palm of her hand is a handful of rice.

"You want to feed the chicken?" Ouyang Jin took a look and smiled.

"Yeah." Ke Sui smiled and stood up, leaning on the edge of the table and leaning against the window sill, "It's impossible to make these little guys thinner."

"Be careful yourself." Ouyang Jin confessed, went to the stove to get the medicine pot, and lit a fire.

She sold all the property of Ouyang's family back then, and took Ke Sui to seek medical treatment everywhere.Ke Sui was the happiest during the past few years, the few years he lived in this Pingyang village.

There are no weird and bad drugs, no doctors of all kinds looking at her with helpless eyes and shaking their heads, but some simple life and friendly villagers.

Thinking of this, Ouyang Jin couldn't help laughing, probably for Ke Sui, it was the pig brains that she had to eat every day that made her tangled up.

However, Ke Sui drank it without complaining, no matter how bitter the medicine was, every time Ouyang Jin served the pig's brain, Ke Sui ate it all.

Just like what Ke Sui promised to Ouyang Jin.

She will try to remember her.

There was a chattering sound in the yard, Ouyang Jin saw that the medicine had been loaded, so she came out to check the situation.

Ke Sui was no longer at the window, Ouyang Jin hurried to the door, and saw Ke Sui squatting in the yard with a little chicken in her palm, happily pecking at her palm.

No matter how painful the illness is, Ke Sui's smile is still the same as before, as clean and clear as a child.

"Xiao Jin, look at it, how cute it is." Seeing Ouyang Jin coming out, Ke Sui waved to her with a smile.

Ouyang Jin walked to the side, squatted down with him, looked at the little chickens happily pecking on the ground, and nodded: "It's very cute."

I bought these little chickens a few days ago because I was worried about Ke Sui's loneliness.In the past, Ke Sui could follow her a book for a day, but now she can't read many words.

"But, I forgot what I named it yesterday." Ke Sui said regretfully, frowning.

Ouyang Jin smiled: "They all look the same, how can you tell who is who?"

"Hmm..." Ke Sui stared at it for a while, and had to admit that it was true, "Xiao Jin, you are right."

Seeing that Ke Sui seemed unhappy, Ouyang Jin thought for a while: "Why don't I go to Aunt Li in the village and ask her how many dyed cotton threads to tie them with, and the name is simple. Red cotton thread His name is Xiaohong, what do you think?"

"That's good!" Ke Sui smiled happily, turned around and put his arms around Ouyang Jin's neck, "Xiao Jin, you are so smart!"

Drinking medicine, cooking, and in the afternoon, the children came to Ouyang Jin's yard to learn how to read.

This literacy is also simple, each person has a branch, writes and scratches on the ground, and wipes out any mistakes.

Ouyang Jin was serious about teaching, the children were serious about learning, and Ke Sui was watching seriously.

After seeing off the child, Ouyang Jin put the branch in a corner of the yard, turned around and saw Ke Sui had fallen asleep next to the door of the house.

The sun was not strong at this time, but it shone warmly on Ke Sui's body, casting a faint light on her fair face.

Ouyang Jin couldn't help smiling, walked to Ke Sui, sat down beside her without waking her up, so that she could lean on herself and bask in the warm sunshine.

After sitting down, Ouyang Jin gradually fell asleep, until the knock on the door woke them up.

"Oh Xiaojin, someone knocked on the door." Ouyang Jin opened his eyes, and saw Ke Sui sitting up straight, rubbing his eyes and saying in a daze.

Ouyang Jin smiled: "I'll go and open the door."

The person who came was Li Dazhuang, the most skilled in the village, carrying a lotus leaf bag.

"Mr. Ouyang, this is the deer we just hunted on the mountain. It's a bit small, but we will go up the mountain tomorrow!" Li Dazhuang smiled and handed the things in his hand to Ouyang Jin.

"Thank you so much." Ouyang Jin thanked, and took the deer brain, which was obviously just killed.

The folk customs in the village are simple and simple, the men are in front of the sky, and women and children are never allowed to see the scene of slaughter.

"You're welcome, my brother Xiaohu is thanks to Mr. Ouyang's teaching. No, we were almost cheated when we went to sell things in the city not long ago. It was Xiaohu who helped us a lot." Li Dazhuang scratched his head naively, and handed it over with some embarrassment. A package of things, "This is the meat from the deer leg. My mother asked me to send it. She said that you two girls should also eat some meat."

Seeing this, Ouyang Jin didn't refuse, but when he took the meat, he stuffed some broken silver into his palm.

"Hey, I can't accept this!" Li Dazhuang blushed anxiously when he saw Yinzi.

Ouyang Jin pressed his hand, watching with dark eyes: "Brother Li, if you don't accept these things, then I won't be able to accept these things. Isn't there a saying, brothers have to settle accounts clearly."

Ouyang Jin's voice was quiet, but she had a persuasive force, which made Li Dazhuang open his mouth and couldn't say any other reason, let alone push hard, so he had no choice but to accept it.

After seeing off Li Dazhuang, Ouyang Jin put away that kind smile and closed the door.

"Xiao Jin, are you from the village?" Ke Sui couldn't remember who was in the village, but the voice should be right.

"Well, I asked them to buy some brains. Eat once a day." Ouyang Jin smiled, only giving Ke Sui's unique smile a hint of doting.

"...Mmm." Ke Sui nodded obediently.

The author has something to say: The second volume begins, and Bai Ye's notice: Just looking at the title, you can tell that this short story will be more... Miserable?Well, it’s an abuse text, although the two young protagonists are still together in the end; the scene may be a little bloody. As for the final effect of writing, Bai Ye doesn’t know why... Then, the little bamboo will appear, and Wanwan is still a stone [a lot of spoilers ...