The dust settles

Chapter 35

She said: "No one in this world believes that a beautiful woman like me can't have a man around for a day."

The wind blows on the river and the river is warm.The wind blows the water spray from the warm mother body, and the water spray immediately becomes icy cold.This is how the water gets cooler day by day.Until one night, when they flew up, they were still a drop of water, and when they fell, they became a grain of ice, which means that winter has come.

"Your brother talked to me for a while, he is still an interesting man, although he has lost battles."

Tana was still looking around at herself in the mirror.I lie in bed, and the vision of winter comes before my eyes.The fields are cleared.Black crows and white pigeons are flying in groups, circling and whining in the sky.That's it, the winter still doesn't look lively.Because of the river, the river that makes everything alive because of its flow is frozen and lies under the ice.

Tana smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to stop talking."

She finally got away from the mirror, sat on the edge of the bed, and said, "My God, there is a fool in the world who doesn't talk, what's wrong!"

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Tana covered her skirt and sat back in front of the mirror.

My brother opened the door and came in and sat by my bed.He sat on the edge of the bed with his back to me, and Tana sat in front of the mirror with his back to our two brothers. The elder brother looked at the woman in the mirror and said, "I'm here to see Brother Chuang."

So, the two of them talked in the mirror.

"It's no use coming, he doesn't talk anymore," said Tana.

"Is it because you don't want him to say it, or he didn't say it himself?"

"What's in the minds of the men in the Maggie family?" "I'm different from him."

The two of them must have talked a lot. I fell asleep for a while, and when I woke up, they were saying goodbye.Tana was still facing the mirror, with her back to the young master.The young master had already walked to the door, and he turned around and said, "I will visit my brother often. When I was young, I loved him very much. Later, because he wanted to be a chieftain, he began to hate me. But I still want to come Watch him."

Tana had braided her tangled hair, and now she was undoing it, strand by strand, in front of the mirror.

The young master said outside the window: "Go to sleep, such a big official village, you are so beautiful, don't worry that no one will talk."

Tana smiled.

The elder brother also laughed outside the window, and said: "I am really a fool, there can be no girl more beautiful than you in the world, but he doesn't talk to you." In the slow footsteps of him leaving, Tana blew out the blower. Light, the moonlight leaked into the room at once.In the late autumn night, it was already a bit chilly, but Tana was not afraid. She stood in front of the bed, took off her clothes one by one, and stood there for a while until the sound of footsteps outside the window disappeared, before she went to bed and lay down.She said: "Fool, I know you are not asleep, don't pretend to be asleep."

I lay still.

She smiled: "When you don't talk tomorrow morning, you will be truly silent."

In the morning, I woke up later than usual, and when I opened my eyes, Tana was already dressed, dressed in bright red, sitting in a pool of bright sunlight streaming in from the door.God, she is so beautiful, sitting there, like a flower that blooms in a dream.When she saw me awake, she went to the bed, leaned over and said, "I've been waiting for you to wake up. They say wives are supposed to wait for men to wake up. Besides, you still have the same old questions, don't you?" Otherwise, you will look even more stupid."

The beautiful woman leaned over me, but I kept my mouth shut.

She said: "If you don't talk anymore, you really want to become a complete fool, a fool who doesn't know who you are or where you are, so you should talk."

Because I slept all night, and because I refused to talk, my mouth that had been closed all the time began to stink.I let out a bad breath, and she covered her nose and went out.Like a dying animal, I opened my mouth and let out the stench in my mouth.It wasn't until the stench was gone that I started thinking about myself: Who am I?Where am I?I lay in bed thinking, thinking, looking at the dust and smoke-colored cobwebs hanging in the corner, and then all those things came into my head.

This day, I walk around with a dreamy smile on my face, trying to find a place to remind myself of where I am.But all the scenes in front of me seem to be a world away, familiar and strange.The chieftain's official village is tall and majestic. When you go to a distance, you can look at it a bit tilted. When you get close, the place close to the ground is basically even the stones are a little bit rotten.

I am reminded of the story of the wise man Agudenba.One day he walked to a holy place, which was also in a square, and he wanted to make a joke with a serious monk, so he asked the guy to hug the flagpole in the center of the square.The monk didn't believe that the flagpole would fall, but he still went up to hold the flagpole.The flagpole was very high, and the wise monk held it and looked up to the sky. He saw clouds floating in the depths of the sky, like a flag.Finally, the flagpole started to move.He used all his strength to keep the flagpole from falling.If the cloud hadn't passed by later, the monk would have exhausted himself to death under the flagpole.Now, I look at the sky, and the stone wall of Guanzhai is also pressing down on my head.But I don't help it, because I'm not a wise man, but a fool.

The clouds in the sky floated and floated, the stone wall above us fell and fell, and in the end, we were all safe and sound.So, I laughed out loud at the sky.

The enemy of the Maiqi family, the enemy who tried to attack me on the border, poked his head out from the corner again, and his mysterious expression did not help me to clear my mind.He lingered, walked over to me and sat down, lifted his clothes, showed me the long sword and short knife he had swung at me, and said, "I'm going to kill your father and your brother."

I smile.

The killer gritted his teeth and disappeared without anyone noticing.

Mother led me into her room and gave me a few puffs of opium.My confused mind cleared up a bit.The mother shed tears and said: "Don't be afraid, you are with the mother, my foolish son."

She puffed on me a few more times, opium is such a good thing, and I fell asleep after a while.Moreover, in my sleep, I have been flying leisurely and flickering.When I woke up, it was another morning.My mother said to me: "Son, if you don't want to talk to others, just talk to me."

I smirked at her.

Mrs. Tusi burst into tears: "If you don't want to talk to them, just tell me, I am your mother.

I got dressed and walked out of her room.Behind her, the mother sat on the ground clutching her chest.There was a pain in my chest too, and I stood up and waited for the pain to pass.There is no pain that will not pass, and the same is true for the pain in front of you.The pain pierced into my chest like a sharp arrow, stopped for a while at the beating heart, pierced out from the back, and flew away like a bird.One floor down from Mrs. Toast's room, turning a corner, is my own room.At this time, two young servants stood behind me, and they made a sudden noise, which startled me.At this time, the sun was rising from the east, I jumped up, and when I fell, I almost stepped on my shadow under my feet.

Solan Zelang said to me: "Young Master, why don't you sleep with Tana? Last night, Eldest Young Master went to see her and she sang."

Eryi raised her finger up: "Shh—"

The sound of Tana getting up with her clothes on, the sound of silk rubbing against her skin, and the sound of her bare feet stepping on the carpet could be heard in the room.When the cough of an ivory comb slid through her hair, Tana began to sing again.I have never heard her sing.

I took the two boys and went downstairs.When he got to the square, he didn't stop, and walked towards the small hill where the executioner lived.The smell of medicinal herbs in the executioner's yard is very pleasant.My mind is clearer.Reminds me of being here once.Remember to visit the room where the clothes of the dead are stored.Walking to the bottom of the lonely room, two young men brought a ladder.Eryi said that he often came here and became friends with several clothes here.

Solan Zelang laughed, and his voice had grown thicker these days, quacking like a giant woodland night bird.He said: "Is your brain as faulty as the young master? How can clothes be friends?"

Eryi was very angry, and his usual hesitant tone became very firm. He said: "My brain is as sound as the young master's. These clothes are not ordinary clothes. These clothes are left by the tortured dead. their souls."

Suo Lang Zelang wanted to reach out to touch it, but his hand stopped in mid-air, panting heavily.

Eryi smiled and said, "You're scared."

Solang Zelang grabbed a purple-red dress in his hand.A lot of dust flew up in the room immediately, who would have thought that there would be so much dust on a piece of clothing.We bent over and coughed violently, and the clothes in the room with purple-black bloodstains around their necks were all dangling in the air, as if there were souls living in them.Eryi said: "They blamed me for bringing strangers, let's go."

We emerged from a room full of flying dust and stood under the sun.Solan Zelang still held the dress in his hand. It was really a beautiful dress. I don't remember seeing such a pure purple there.The clothes look like they were made yesterday, and the colors are so bright.Before we have time to remember what a purple it is, it dims in the sun, fades, and becomes another purple before our eyes.This purple is even more wonderful, it is the same color as the old blood on the collar.

I can't resist the urge to wear this dress.Even Eryi kneeling and begging couldn't change my mind.Putting on this dress, my whole body felt tight, as if someone was hugging me hard.That's it, I don't want to take this dress off either.Eryi grabbed some herbs and boiled them, then gave me a burst of drinking, and the feeling of being tightly bound disappeared from my body.People and clothes really become one.

The garment also refuses to speak, or rather, as I grant its desire to walk around the world again, it obeys my desire to remain silent.

Now, the scene in front of me is a little bit dark or light purple.Rivers, mountains, official villages, trees, and withered grass are all covered with a layer of purple veil, with a little color of blood that is fading and becoming stale.

Mrs. Toast lay on the cigarette and said, "What strange clothes, I don't remember when you bought such clothes."

When Tanuo saw me, the radiant expression on his face drifted away like the fog that saw the sun.She wanted me to change the clothes on my body.She rummaged through a large wardrobe, but every piece of clothing she took out was trampled under my feet.She fell down in the middle of a pile of colorful clothes, her face was as ugly as a sun-dried stone protruding from the bottom of the river.She kept saying, "I can't take it, I can't take it," and slipped out of the room.

I was sitting in my room dressed in purple, looking at the center of a golden flower on the carpet, when suddenly I saw Tana walking through the quiet and deserted corridor into the young master's house.The young master was sitting cross-legged on the carpet just like me, when his younger brother's beautiful wife wobbled in front of him and plunged into his arms.She could hardly stand and fell down, hitting the young chieftain's nose hard with her elbow.When the beautiful woman fell into his arms, his nosebleeds dripped down too.Young Chieftain is a romantic figure, but he never expected to start his romantic history with the most beautiful woman in the world like this.

"You made me bleed."

"Hold me tight, hold me tight. Don't scare me."

The young chieftain hugged her tightly, and the blood from his nose dripped onto her face.But Tana didn't care.The young chieftain said, "You touched me and bled."

"You're bleeding? You're really bleeding. You're real, I'm not scared anymore."

"Who's not real?"

"your brother."

"He's a fool."

"He's frightening."

"Do not be afraid."

"Hold me tight."

At this time, the old chieftain was also sitting in the room.These days, he was thinking about when he would formally pass the throne to his elder son who had lost the battle.When I think about it and don't want to think about it anymore, I get drunk and my eyes are hazy.Suddenly, he was overwhelmed by unsolicited lust.These days, he will be alone, and no one will come to see him.So, with an uncontrollable desire, perhaps the last burst of desire in his life, he went to his wife's room.The wife was lying on the cigarette couch, puffing on the clouds, her face was like a name cut out of paper behind the wispy smoke.The face smiled at him.The old chieftain couldn't stand still, and knelt down in front of the cigarette couch with a painful expression on his face.The wife thought that the chieftain was about to change his mind, so she said, "Do you regret it?"

The old chieftain lifted his wife's skirt with his hand, making a sound like a beast.The sound and the smell of alcohol in Toast's mouth awakened painful memories in her. She pushed the old thing off her body and said, "Old beast, that's how you told me to give birth to a son! Get out of here!"

The chieftain didn't want to say anything, the burning desire made him very uncomfortable.So, he went to Yang Zong's room.Yang Zong was meditating, taking deeper and longer breaths.The old chieftain jumped on it.

At this time, my wife was also pressed under the body by my brother.

The pain hit me again.Like an arrow piercing through the chest, it stays in the heart for a while, and then a bird pierces through the back, screaming and flying away.

Two pairs of men and women, in broad daylight, tore at each other, making the official village shake.

I closed my eyes and swayed with the shaking.Thunder rumbled from far away.Guanzhai shook even more violently.I sat there, first swaying from side to side like a tree in the wind, then bouncing up and down like grains of wheat in a sieve.

When the beating stopped, Sangye Dolma and her silversmith rushed in.The silversmith is so strong, somehow I was on his back.Soon, we were all out on the square.Under the watchful eyes of everyone, my father, the third wife, my brother and my wife rushed out of the house almost naked.As if to announce to everyone that the earthquake was caused by their crazy actions in broad daylight.A large group of people shouted from below: "Heh..." It was like the voice from the inside of the earth before the earthquake came. It was low, but it made people feel its incomparable power.

The two couples were blocked by the sound and dared not come down the stairs.Only then did they realize that they were almost naked standing in front of the crowd.There is nothing wrong with the chieftain, he is with his third wife, but my elder brother is different, he is with his younger brother's beautiful wife.Just when they were not sure whether to go back and put on their clothes first, or to go downstairs to escape for their lives, there was another stronger shock in the depths of the earth.

The ground shook again.Dust was flying everywhere on the ground.The two couples upstairs were shaken to the ground.At this time, there was a crash, like a waterfall cascading down from the top of the head, and a corner of the tall watchtower in Maiqi's official village collapsed.Stones, wood, whoever is like a collapsed dream, fell from a high place, making the stone and wood bond together, and the soil that became a strong fortress turned into a column of smoke and dust in the turmoil, rising into the sky.Everyone lay on the ground and watched the column of smoke rise straight into the sky.I think everyone looked at this puff of smoke, as if they saw something from the McGee family dissipate in the sky.

The smoke and dust cleared away, and a corner of the bunker was gone, but it still stood under the blue cloud, revealing the smoky inner wall.As long as the ground shakes one or two more times, it will surely fall.

But the shaking of the earth was fixed in the distance.

The dust flying on the ground also settled.

Chieftain Maiqi and the eldest young master stood in front of us again, but the two women were gone.They came to the official village and said to the crowd lying on the ground, get up, the earthquake has passed.When I got up, my brother helped me and said, "Look at you, you've been mingling with the servants all the time, and your face is covered with dirt." He took out a silk towel from his arms and wiped the idiot's face clean. face, and unfolded the silk scarf in front of me, yes, there was indeed a lot of dust on it.

The idiot raised his hand and slapped him.

A purple palm print slowly appeared on his wise face.He took in a hiss of cool air, covered the sore spot on his face, and said, "Fool, I was pitying you just now because your wife was unfaithful, but I am happy now, I am happy now, I will take your The woman did it!"

He wanted to hurt his younger brother who had once posed a huge threat to him.Generally speaking, this kind of injury would make a smart person stupid, let alone me.But today is different.I put on a purple dress.Now, feeling the power of the dress, it told me to turn around, ignore this crazy guy, and go upstairs.I kept going into my house.Tana was still sitting in front of the mirror, but her expression was no longer as dreamlike as it was before the earthquake.She said shabbyly: "Oh my god, where is a cold wind coming from?"

I heard myself say, "Get out of my house, you're not my wife anymore. Go to him."

Tana turned around, and I was glad to see the startled look on her face.But she still pretended to be calm, she said with a smile: "Why are you still wearing this weird dress, let's change it."

"Get out of here."

Now, she cried: "Take off your clothes, it scares me."

"Aren't you afraid to sleep with your husband's brother?"

She fell on the bed, peeping at me with one eye, crying with only one eye.I don't like this, I want her to cry with both eyes.I said, "Write a letter to your mother and tell me what it was like standing naked in front of the crowd during the earthquake."

She doesn't love me, but she didn't have the guts to go and live with the young master of the chieftain's family.Even if she dares, I'm afraid the smart young master doesn't have the guts.I sent for the clerk, and she was literally crying with both eyes.She said: "You are so cruel, you say such cruel words as soon as you open your mouth!"

Yes, I spoke again!When I speak, I say things that would never have been said before.I am so happy to be able to do this.

(End of this chapter)