Chapter seven hundred and eighty Hu Lanyu and Xiaoxiao
There is a mountain village outside Qingshan Town, several hundred miles away from Jinling City.
There are only a few dozen families in the village, who make a living by farming and hunting.
But no one knows that in the mountains near the village, it is the secluded place of the Qingshan Fox Clan, where hundreds of large and small fox spirits of the Hu Han Clan live. Although after the last quarrel between Hu Hei and Li Liangjin,
, many fox spirits were hunted and killed, but after surviving this disaster, the Qingshan Fox Clan recovered again
A peaceful and peaceful life.
After Hu Lanyu left the capital, he returned to the mountain village alone.
He came out to help Li Xiuyuan this time mainly to repay his kindness and not to seek fame or fortune. Now that the situation has been decided, he will retire after his success.
"It's been almost a year since I left the mountain." Hu Lanyu looked at the approaching Qingshan Village in front of her, and for some reason, she thought of a girl from a farmer's family, Xiaoqiao.
I remember that when I left that day, Xiaoqiao still pestered me to teach her how to read and calligraphy.
He only taught part of the Thousand-Character Classic and then stopped teaching it.
Now a year has passed and I don’t know how this girl is doing.
"Perhaps she is already married, after all, she has reached the age of marriage." Hu Lanyu thought.
Dressed in a green shirt, with a tall and straight figure, long hair shawl, handsome as a demon, and with nothing else around, he arrived at the head of the village.
He looked so out of place in Qingshan Village, and the villagers passing nearby showed a bit of fear when they saw him, and did not dare to talk to him, let alone speak.
Maybe the villagers have begun to doubt his identity.
But it doesn't matter.
He has been a fox spirit for thousands of years and has attained Taoism. Even if a cultivator who kills demons and demons passes by, he cannot defeat him. Moreover, he has no harmful actions and is fearless in his heart.
"The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is vast, the sun and the moon are waxing and waning, the stars and constellations are arranged, the cold comes and the summer comes, the autumn harvests and the winter stores."
Just when Hu Lanyu was passing by the village and preparing to go home, she heard three or five village urchins laughing and playing, chanting a thousand-character essay.
When he came to a house, he saw that the courtyard wall and the wooden door had many words carved with stones. There were also thousands of characters on them, and the fonts were messy and scrawled, and there was no aesthetic feeling.
Hu Lanyu knocked on the door.
The person who opened the door was an old woman.
The old woman's eyes lit up when she saw Hu Lanyu, and she said with some joy: "It's Lanyu, you are finally back."
"It took me a long time to go out this time, which made my mother worried." Hu Lanyu bowed respectfully.
This old woman was not his biological mother, but his adoptive mother, whom he had promised Li Xiuyuan to take care of. In order to avoid criticism from the villagers, he worshiped this old woman as his adopted mother and served her until she died.
"It's good to be back, it's good to be back. If you're tired, come in and have a rest." The old woman treated Hu Lanyu as her own son and excitedly grabbed his hand and took him into the house to rest.
Hu Lanyu just sat down and said, "Mother, is there a teacher in the village?"
"The village is not the same as before, so how can we afford a teacher?" the old woman said.
"Why are there urchins in the village reciting the Thousand-Character Essay?" Hu Lanyu said.
Hearing this, the old woman sighed and said: "Then the teacher taught it, it was taught by Xiaoqiao. Ever since he left that day, Xiaoqiao has come here almost every day. She took the book you left for him.
People in the village laughed at her when she carried and recited the Thousand-Character Essay all day long."
"Why are you laughing at her?" Hu Lanyu asked.
"It's a joke that she was deceived by a monster and learned to read and write like other scholars. I'm afraid you don't know. Many people in the village secretly say that you are a monster. Otherwise, there would be no one as handsome as you in this remote valley.
Young Master." The old woman beat her legs and sighed helplessly.
road.
"Actually, I know in my heart that what those villagers said may be true, but you are my child, so how can I doubt my own child? Xiaoqiao also believes that you are not a monster, so she always disputes with the villagers."
Seeing this, Hu Lanyu knelt down beside her and beat the old woman's legs: "What happens next?"
"As time went by, Xiaoqiao stopped talking. Maybe she was convinced by the villagers, but she still came here every day to read and learn. However, her parents couldn't stand it. Half a year ago, they asked a matchmaker to marry her next door.
A family in the village, the child refused and said he would wait for you to come back
I have been waiting for you for more than a month, but you haven't come yet. People in the village said that you will not come, saying that you are rich and powerful outside. How could you fall in love with her, a girl from a poor ravine, and let her give up?
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"Xiaoqiao still didn't believe it, so she had a big fight with her parents, and then she waited for you to come back at the head of the village every day. Later, as time went by, she gradually believed that you really wouldn't come back, so more than two
I went crazy months ago."
At this point, the old woman sighed: "What a good child. Why did he lose his mind and go crazy? Now he is carving random graffiti in the village with broken tiles every day. The words at the door were all carved by her.
The walls of other homes are similar."
She rambled while Hu Lanyu listened quietly.
After hearing this, he fell silent.
Then he asked: "Where is Xiaoqiao now?"
"Perhaps she is hiding somewhere in the village. She is afraid of adults and will run away when she sees them. She probably doesn't want to be caught and taken back to get married. Occasionally she will come here to ask for food. Alas, I have limited legs and feet and have chased her several times.
She couldn't even be chased, and people in the village avoided her, saying she was possessed by an evil spirit.
If you get close to her, you will easily be possessed by evil spirits." The old woman said.
"Is that so?" Hu Lanyu stood up and saluted: "Mother, please sit here first while I go to visit the little girl."
"Since you're here to meet her, maybe she won't go crazy after seeing you. After all, she went crazy because of you. If she can get better, bring her back." The old woman said.
"Yes." Hu Lanyu responded, and then quickly walked out the door.
Somewhere in the village at this moment.
A crazy girl with disheveled hair and dirty face, tattered clothes, bare feet, and hands and feet covered with frostbite was walking on the road. Her eyes were dodged, and she looked left and right as if she was wary of anyone who appeared around her.
As he walked, he kept chanting in his mouth: the sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is vast, the sun and the moon are waxing, and the stars are spread out.
This is the beginning of a thousand-character essay.
She held a broken tile tightly in her hands covered with black mud and frostbite, then she came to a corner and carved on the ground, writing very hard horizontally and vertically.
"It's you crazy girl again. If you don't go away, get away from my door." When a woman from a nearby farmer's house saw Xiaoqiao, she became furious, picked up a broom and hit her.
Xiaoqiao screamed in fear, held her head and ran away.
After the woman beat her away, she was very upset and sighed: "It's really unlucky that this crazy girl actually came to my door today."
After taking a look at the words painted on the ground, the woman hurriedly stepped on them for fear of attracting evil spirits.
"The crazy girl is here, hit her quickly, hit her quickly."
Xiaoqiao was so frightened that she ran into the middle of the village. At this moment, the urchin in the village picked up the stones and mud from the ground and threw them at her. She whined and screamed, with a pair of cloudy eyes full of fear.
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A slightly older naughty boy was very naughty. He deliberately picked up a stick and stretched it towards his small feet.
Xiaoqiao immediately tripped and fell to the ground hard, causing her nose to bleed.
Other urchins nearby praised the kid who did it for being so awesome.
The kid looked triumphant as if he had defeated the bad guy.
Xiaoqiao didn't cry. After getting up from the ground, she held her head with fear in her eyes and tried to leave here tremblingly.
The group of urchins chased after them again, throwing stones and mud, and kept clapping their hands.
But this scene was seen by Hu Lanyu who was looking for him.
Hu Lanyu's eyes were complicated, as if he was ashamed and remorseful. He strode over without hesitation, his tall and slender body blocking Xiaoqiao's face.
The pebbles on his body stained his spotless blue gown, and the dirt hit his face and hair, giving a mundane and tacky look to his handsome appearance.
There was anger in his heart, but he did not express it.
If the humiliation of these urchins made him angry, then what was Xiaoqiao's pain for such a long time?
"Run quickly~!"
Seeing Hu Lanyu's appearance, the group of urchins didn't dare to be reckless anymore, and ran away with a loud shout.
"Sorry to keep you waiting for so long, little girl." Hu Lanyu said slowly.
"Hey, hey." Xiaoqiao giggled. She pointed her dirty fingers at the mud on Hu Lanyu's face, seeming to be laughing at him for being bullied.
Hu Lanyu grabbed her dirty hand and said: "There is no room for you here. Come with me. I will take you to Qingshan, cure your madness, and then marry you. If you don't hate it, I will I will continue to teach you how to read and write, and next time I will teach you the Book of Songs, but next time I won’t
Let’s go again.”
As he spoke, he held Xiaoqiao's hand.
Xiaoqiao seemed scared, screamed, and wanted to run away.
"Don't be afraid, I will recite the text for you, the thousand-character text you are most familiar with."
Hu Lanyu hugged her, and then said: "The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is vast, the sun and the moon are waxing, and the stars are spread out."
Xiaoqiao, who was going crazy, immediately calmed down after hearing the Thousand-Character Essay, and gave a silly smile: "Chuck, cluck."
In this way, a handsome and unearthly young man led a crazy girl with chilblains on her hands, sallow skin, unkempt hair and earthy face, left the village and walked towards Qingshan, carrying a thousand-character inscription on her back. They walked through the fields, disappeared into the dense forest, and finally disappeared deep into the mountains, but
You can vaguely hear the sound of thousands of characters echoing back.
"The clouds cause the rain and dew to turn into frost, gold brings forth beautiful water, and jade comes out of Kungang"
From that day on, there was no longer that crazy girl who was carving on tiles with tiles in Qingshan Village, nor was she seen by Hu Lanyu. I only heard the old woman often mention that Hu Lanyu cured Xiaoqiao and got married to her. , he often came to visit me after that, but no one in the village met him.
I had some doubts about this, but one night, Xiaoqiao's parents suddenly picked up a hundred taels of gold in the yard, with red paper underneath, which was Xiaoqiao's birthday.
Some people say it was left by the gods to compensate Xiaoqiao’s parents.
But the old woman in the village said that this was the betrothal gift left by Hu Lanyu.
The old woman's words were gradually accepted by the villagers.
However, as time went by, the affairs between Hu Lanyu and Xiaoqiao were gradually forgotten.
Until the old woman died of old age more than ten years later, during the funeral, Hu Lanyu brought a young and beautiful woman to the village wearing mourning clothes, saying that he wanted to pay her last respects to the old woman. The woman also held several children in her hands.
The elder is ten years old, and the younger is one or two years old.
Each one of them was very handsome, like a boy or girl in heaven. They returned to Qingshan after performing the funeral for the old man. However, during the Qingming Festival, villagers who burned incense and worshiped their ancestors would meet them to sweep the old woman's grave.
The villagers were afraid of this couple and thought they were ghosts and spirits.
The old people in the village remembered what happened in the past and often said: "Don't be afraid, those couple are Hu Lanyu and Xiaoqiao, the crazy girl from the village before. There is still a thousand-character inscription written by Xiaoqiao on the door of your house. In the past,
When I was in the village, many young people bullied Xiaoqiao. Could it be that
Have you all forgotten?"
Some unbelieving young people went to check, and sure enough, there were shallow traces left on the door of every house. Some clear traces could still be identified. On them were engraved: The sky and the earth are black and yellow, and the universe is prehistoric.
Only after seeing the evidence did the people in the village believe that the story was true.