Leaning on the building, listening to the wind and rain, watching the rivers and lakes
【６９书吧-ＷＷＷ-ＷＷＷ.６ＳＨＵＯＭ】Xiao Zun's extra story, this chapter is narrated in the first person.
It was like I had a long dream, in which there were fast currents, collapsed caves, and a blurry face. I tried my best to see her face clearly, but the running water washed my body and swept me away.
Dragging towards the dark hell, before I sank into the hell, I unexpectedly saw the light rolling in.
My shoulder was injured, but I don't remember when it happened.
My head hurt, as if it had just been run over by several trucks. I tried to touch it, and an anxious voice sounded, "Shi Sheng, don't move there."
She looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a plaid shirt that had been washed white, and had short hair that was close to her ears. If it weren't for her bright eyes and pointed chin, at first glance, she would have been thought of as a little boy.
Stone born?
this is my name?
The girl blinked and looked at me with her big eyes, "Shisheng, this is the name given to you by your grandfather. He picked you out from the pile of stones by the river. He said that you have forgotten everything. People can't live without names, so
I’ll name you Shi Sheng.”
Her eyes were crooked, and one hand gently touched the bandage on my forehead, "Shisheng, my name is Xiaomeng, and there is her, her name is Huniu."
She was talking about a white dog, which was lying next to the bed, sticking out its tongue and looking at me.
I looked at all this blankly. I couldn't remember anything except the girl and the dog in front of me. Who am I? Why did I lose my memory?
"I want to go out for a walk."
"Grandpa won't let you move around. He said you are covered in injuries and it's a miracle you survived." Xiao Meng held her two little hands behind her back and blinked a few times, with a mischievous light flashing through her eyes. "But
, Grandpa is not here, I can help you."
The sunshine outside was so beautiful, and it shone warmly on my body. I saw the layers of forests in the distance and the vast blue sky. Although I couldn't remember anything, there was a dazzling beauty like a rebirth.
Xiaomeng kept chattering beside me, saying how bad my situation was at that time. I was buried in the mud and rocks, and I only had half a breath left. She said that Hu Niu found me, and her screams caused her grandfather to scream.
Notice, grandpa carried me back from the river.
"Thank you." When these two words came out of my mouth, they were unexpectedly stiff. It seemed that I was not used to saying these two words before.
"You're welcome." Xiaomeng helped me sit in the yard, where the sky was high and the trees were vast, but they only had one room.
Seemingly sensing my doubts, Xiaomeng explained, "Grandpa is a forest guard. He guards the forest for the owner of this forest. When the trees grow, someone will come to cut them down."
"What about your parents?"
Xiao Meng touched Huniu next to her, and her bright eyes gradually dimmed, "My father used to be a forest guard and lived here with my mother. Later, he was...beaten to death by a drug lord, so my grandfather came to replace him.
work."
Drug lord?
I reached out and rubbed the top of her hair, "I'm sorry."
She shouldn't mention her sadness.
"It doesn't matter. I was still young at that time, only three years old, so I don't remember clearly." Xiaomeng suddenly looked at me, "Shi Sheng, do you think drug lords are all bad guys?"
This question stopped me. I shook my head, I don't know, I couldn't think of anything.
The old man brought back game when he came back from outside. When he saw me sitting outside, he gave Xiao Meng a scolding. I saw her hanging her head like a little quail, and I couldn't help laughing.
Xiaomeng suddenly pointed at me and said happily: "Shi Sheng, you smiled. You should smile more. You look so beautiful when you smile."
I froze for a moment. Could it be that the old me couldn't laugh?
In the evening we had pheasant stewed with potatoes. I ate a big bowl full of it, and Xiaomeng kept picking up vegetables for me, "Shisheng, eat more, your body will get better if you eat more."
I nodded with a smile and tried my best to put rice into my mouth.
The old man looked at me and asked with a smile: "Shi Sheng, what are you going to do in the future?"
I don't know! I can't even remember who I am, let alone where to go.
"I... let me guard the forest with you."
The old man nodded, "That's fine."
Xiao Meng happily came to me and said, "Shi Sheng, come here, eat chicken legs."
My body gradually got better and I recovered quickly, but my memory was still at a blank stage. However, the new life here painted that blank piece of paper colorfully.
I thought that I must not have read many books before, because I couldn't understand the things in Xiaomeng's textbook.
She pointed to a line of poetry and read it to me, "Twenty-Four Bridges on a moonlit night, where can a beautiful woman teach me how to play the flute?"
I asked: "What do you mean?"
She explained: "The bright moonlight reflects on the Twenty-Four Bridge, my passionate friend! Are you still listening to the beauty playing the flute?"
I laughed, "It's quite interesting."
She supported her chin with one hand and looked at me with her big bright eyes, "Shi Sheng, what kind of person did you say you were before?"
What kind of person am I? This is indeed a difficult question.
I went to patrol the mountains with the old man. The old man gave me a shotgun. He said that the activities of drug lords are rampant here, and there are many forest owners nearby. Everyone dislikes each other, and it often happens that you steal from me.
If you are not careful, trees that have just grown into their prime will be secretly sawed away, causing great losses.
"Then it's not very hard for you?"
He smoked dry cigarettes, and wrinkles piled up like terraces on his face. "It won't be hard if you get used to it. Nothing is easy these days."
He handed me the cigarette and said, "Take a puff?"
I didn't know if I could smoke, so I took it boldly. I wasn't used to the smell of dry tobacco, and I choked and coughed after just one puff. The old man smiled, "Oh, young man."
The screams of Huniu came from far away, one after another in rapid succession.
The master said warily: "You wait here, I'll go take a look."
I responded and sat there waiting for him, but I always felt uneasy as I sat there. When I looked over, the old man was rolling on the ground fighting with someone, and Hu Niu was barking at the side.
Without saying a word, I rushed over, pulled the man up, and punched him twice in the face. He tried to resist, but I pushed him directly to the ground.
The old man sat on the side and gasped, "Forget it, let him go."
The man rolled away and crawled away. There were still traces of the electric saw on a big tree. Half of the tree was sawed off and it was about to fall down.
"This tree can't survive." The old man stroked the trunk sadly, with muddy tears flashing in his eyes.
Trees are as precious to him as his own children. Xiaomeng said that every time the forest owner came to cut down trees, he would go to the city. He said that he did not want to hear the sound of these trees crying.
Huniu was playing in the yard, and a big yellow dog played with it. Xiaomeng pointed to it with a smile, "Its name is Dahuang. He is my Huniu's husband and a dog in the army."
"force?"
"Well, the army is on the other side of the mountain. My grandpa said it was a very powerful army. Others call it the pupil bird." She came over and pulled my sleeve, "Shi Sheng, come here, I will teach you how to carry a new one today."
poetry."
On the other side of the mountain, the pupil bird?
"Shi Sheng, grandpa said... he saw your skills today, and he said... you must be no ordinary person." Xiao Meng was halfway through writing when she suddenly put down her pen and said, "Shi Sheng, you will leave us, right?
?”
I looked at her, her eyes were full of reluctance, and being looked at by her was like being loved by a relative. I smiled and rubbed her hair, "Silly girl, what are you thinking about? What does this sentence mean?" I pointed.
Poetry in this book.
The old man met the forest owner yesterday. The forest owner said that this forest has been bought by someone, and he wants to cut down all the trees to plant poppies.
The old man smoked cigarettes all night. I knew that both he and Xiaomeng hated drug lords, not only because they did illegal things, but also because they killed his son and daughter-in-law. I looked at the sky and thought, we are going to
Have you left here?
I sat under the tree and used a branch to write on the dirt. Xiaomeng covered my eyes from behind and asked, "Who do you think I am?"
I laughed and said, "You are a tiger girl."
She immediately pouted and said, "Shi Sheng, you are a bad student."
She came closer, her warm breath flowing on my neck, "What are you writing?"
"Leaning on the building to listen to the wind and rain, smiling at the rivers and lakes." I pointed to the words on the ground.
This is what she taught me.
She said that this is to look down on the world of mortals and wash away the beauty of the world. I don’t know if my past can be washed away, but I like these two sentences.
The big drug lord who traded this forest came to take over the land. The old man suddenly picked up the shotgun in excitement. He wanted to protect this forest. Facing dozens of well-equipped mercenaries, his strength was obviously insignificant.
Xiaomeng ran back in a hurry, and I saw her face turned pale with fright. She called me, "Shi Sheng, save grandpa quickly."
When I arrived, the old man had been shot and fell to the ground. Even if he died, he would have to live and die with this forest.
Xiaomeng rushed forward, crying so hard that he was out of breath. When he saw the old man lying in a pool of blood and the grief-stricken Xiaomeng, a surge of anger rushed to the top of his head. I picked up the gun in the old man's hand and charged at those people.
past.
Xiaomeng shouted behind me, "Shi Sheng, don't..."
No one shot at me. On the contrary, they looked at me with surprise and shock in their eyes, and they all shouted: "Your Majesty."
I held the gun for a moment, then suddenly realized something. I looked back at Xiaomeng, and she looked at me with sad and disappointed eyes.
"Sir, it's great that you're not dead. We almost have to dig out that underground maze."
A group of people surrounded me, but I looked at Xiaomeng and the old man from the gap in the crowd.
The old man was breathing heavily and looked at me with the same despair as Xiaomeng.
How could this be? Could it be that I...was a drug lord before? Someone they hated in their eyes?
But I can't remember it. I don't have any memory in my head. They called me Lord. Is this my real name?
Who am I? Who am I?
My head is about to burst and it hurts.
"Your Majesty..."
People around me were shouting again.
I said: "Take that old man to see a doctor."
"Yes, sir."
They listen to me so much, which shows that I am really their leader.
I have thought about my identity a lot, but I never thought it would be like this.
The old man's gunshot wound was not serious. After the bullet was taken out, he remained unconscious. I saw Xiaomeng guarding him. When I entered, she did not look back at me.
I put my hand on her shoulder, and she shrank. I could feel that she was afraid of me.
"Xiaomeng."
I squatted in front of her and saw her tear-stained face, "No matter who I am, I will always be your stone child. I will not harm you. I will not let them take away that piece of land. I will take it away."
Buy it and give it to the old man, okay?"
Xiaomeng's nose twitched, and after a long while, she suddenly hugged my neck and cried loudly, "Shi Sheng, don't leave us."
I returned to the so-called house before. I was very unfamiliar with this place, and I was not used to seeing respectful people around me.
Sister-in-law Ji was very happy when she saw me coming back. They all thought I was dead.
I walked into the glass room in the yard. There was plenty of sunshine here and Ning Yi was quiet. I picked up a fairy tale book on the table and opened the first page. There was a very delicate handwriting that read, "To my beloved Xiao Xiao."
, why Yi Ning!"
Why Yi Ning?!
My heart suddenly felt like being pricked by a needle. There was some numbness and some pain. I stretched out my fingers and gently touched those three words, as if I was touching someone's face, delicate and sad.
He Yining, do I know her?
"Master, this is the young master's book." Sister-in-law Ji put the coffee on the table.
"Young Master?" I looked at her doubtfully.
She was startled, "Master, you...don't remember?"
I closed the fairy tale book in my hand, "Who is he?"
Sister-in-law Ji seemed to understand something. She heard other people say that there seemed to be something wrong with Mr. Zun's mind. He had forgotten everything in the past and he couldn't remember anyone.
"The young master is Xiao Xiao, your son!"
Do I already have a son? I really can’t believe it.
"Then why is this so peaceful?"
"This is the second young lady, she is..." Sister-in-law Ji hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "She is your sister-in-law."
Is it just like this? Why can't I suppress the pain in my heart when I see this name? It's like this person has been in my life for a long time, and it hurts when I touch him.
I opened the door to a room. It was a small bathroom. The bathtub was built on the floor. No one had used it for a long time, but the water inside was fresh, and there were even pink petals floating on it.
I looked here, as if there were fragments of memories gathering in my mind, but I couldn't connect them together. I squatted down, put my hand into the cold water, and felt the coldness that penetrated my bones, a desire to be hugged.
Bo Liang, have I hugged anyone here?
There is a huge water wheel in the backyard that rotates with the water flow all year round.
I climbed up, sat on it and looked far away. The wind blew past my ears, as if two people were chatting.
One of them said in a melodious voice: "The weather, people, events, and the sun are urging each other, and at the winter solstice the sun brings forth spring again."
He had never read any books and had been in the drug den since he was a child. When he heard her suddenly reciting a poem, he asked like a child: "What does it mean?"
She smiled lightly and said, "I won't tell you."
He also chuckled, "He Yining, you have become bad."
The time at that time was so gentle, as if it was very close at hand. Was it me? Was it me who was speaking?
I stretched out my hand to grab something, but the fragments of memory slipped away again, and only her faint smile was left in my ears, "The weather, people, and the sun are urging each other, and the winter solstice brings spring again."
Suddenly a name came to mind, He Yining!
who is she?
I sat on the waterwheel for a long time, until someone from below shouted, "Sir, a batch of goods has arrived."
During my absence, some of my elders have been taking care of business. When I saw the mountains of drug raw materials in front of me, I didn't feel familiar. On the contrary, they felt strange.
"My lord, don't you remember?" Ah Sheng, my most capable subordinate at the time, looked at me eagerly.
I shook my head, "Sorry, I don't remember."
Ah Sheng looked at me in surprise.
I smiled at him, "What's wrong?"
He sighed, "My lord, you have never said sorry to others before, and you rarely smiled."
"Isn't it good to smile more?"
Xiaomeng said, I should smile more, because when I smile... I look good.
Ah Sheng didn't know what to say, so I patted his shoulder and said, "I'll leave the things here to you."
He was anxious, "Master, where are you going? Are you going to leave us brothers behind?"
I looked at the expectant eyes behind him, and at the same time, I also thought of Xiaomeng Nuonuo's whisper, "Shi Sheng, don't leave us."
I would rather be a stone student than Xiao Zun. I don't like everything here.
"You will run them well. If you don't want to do it, just disband this place."
"Your Majesty..." Ah Sheng was unwilling to persuade him.
I waved my hand to him, "Don't call me Lord, I am Shi Sheng."
I returned to the hut. The old man's injury was almost healed, and it was time for Xiaomeng to start school. She looked at me while packing her schoolbag, "Shi Sheng, are you really not going back?"
I nodded, picked up one of her books and flipped through it, "Does your school accept students of my age?"
She laughed loudly, still just a child, and snuggled close to me, "Just let me teach you."
"I'll see you off."
She blinked her big eyes, "Really?"
"real!"
"That's great." She cheered and hugged my neck.
Xiaomeng's school is in City A. She has just entered her freshman year this year and is still a freshman.
When I came to this city by car, everything about it was unfamiliar to me. It was like a place I had never been to before, but I knew that I must have been here many times...
"Shi Sheng, let's have KFC for lunch. I've been craving for it for a long time."
"good."
Sitting in the KFC she was talking about, she took out a lot of coupons from her schoolbag and said, "Wait a minute, I'll buy them."
I took out the money and handed it to her. She thought about it for a moment and took it, "Okay, you can treat me to this meal as an apology for hurting my grandpa."
I said: "I'm sorry."
I still feel guilty about that incident. I don't want to hurt anyone, especially the old man and her.
She suddenly smiled and kissed me on the face, "Shisheng, you are so cute."
She turned around and went to line up. I touched the spot on my face where she had kissed me, shook my head and laughed, "Child."
The afternoon sun was very warm, floating in the air like gold through the glass window. I propped my chin and watched the people passing by on the street.
In a small jewelry store opposite, there was a girl who was choosing something with her back to me. She was very thin and had a slender back. The most eye-catching thing was her long hair that was almost waist-length.
She finished shopping and turned around slowly, but her profile made my heart beat fast, like a sudden glimpse in the world of mortals.
I rushed out of the door without thinking. When I crossed the road and came to the jewelry store, the girl was no longer there.
I asked the boss what she just bought.
The boss said: "A pendant."
He added, "This girl is very nice and doesn't bargain. She said she bought it to commemorate a friend. By the way, she is pregnant and I heard she has twins."
I was stunned for a moment, "What kind of pendant?"
He picked up a small copper sign and pointed to the blank space in the middle, "Here we can engrave you free of charge."
"What words did she carve?" My voice began to tremble with anxiety.
The boss didn't think twice and said, "Respect."
Respect?!
"Shi Sheng." Xiaomeng found it and asked worriedly: "Why did you come here?"
I suddenly held her shoulders and said excitedly: "Xiaomeng, I want to find someone."
"Ah?" She looked at me in surprise.
"I don't know what she looks like or where she lives, but my heart tells me to find her."
I just want to see that everything is well with her, and I just want to see her smile from a distance.
Xiaomeng's smile was a little bitter, "Are you sure you can find it?"
Finding someone you don't know is like finding a needle in a haystack.
I smiled and shook my head, "I don't know."
But, I must find her!
I got on the city-circling bus and looked at the bustling life outside through the window.
In the vast sea of people, I don’t know where she is. She is just a blurry image, just a beautiful profile, but it makes me willing to abandon the world of mortals and waste half my life to follow her through thousands of mountains and rivers.
I opened the fairy tale book I had always carried with me and gently touched the three glowing words: He Yining!
Suddenly someone sat next to me, and I smelled a familiar fragrance.
Xiaomeng was wearing huge sunglasses and carrying a schoolbag on her shoulders. When she saw me, she greeted me warmly.
I looked at her puzzled.
She said: "Shi Sheng, wherever you go, I will go."
You find the person in your heart, and I will accompany...the person in my heart.
The bus started slowly, and she asked excitedly: "Shi Sheng, which poem I taught you do you like best?"
I looked out the window, seeing the vastness of the world and the endless changes in human relationships, and I faintly recited a sentence from my heart.
Leaning on the building to listen to the wind and rain, watching the rivers and lakes road!
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Tomorrow we will continue to update the story of Gu Xiaoxi and He Yining! The two big chapters of Bage have given away 1,500 words, where is your gold medal!
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