Spring River Flower Moon Night: Set of 2 Volumes

Chapter 33
On a snowy night, with cold stars, the wind is as cold as a knife.

A few young men in cotton-padded clothes and carrying firewood racks hurried on their way in the night, and the leader stopped in front of a house at the end of the alley and slammed on the door.

"Brother Zhou, Brother Zhou, open the door quickly."

There was a rustling cold wind, and then the wooden door was pulled open, revealing a man's honest and simple face through the crack of the dark door.

"Brother Zhou, I found my sister-in-law." The young man's face was flushed from the cold, and he couldn't hide his joy.

"What?" The man in the door opened the door and asked in a trembling voice, "Where did you find it? How is she?"

"It's right in front of the cliff where you two got separated." Seeing that he had done a good deed, the young man expressed his excitement, "Hurry up and take a look with us, my sister-in-law is resting at my house now."

The man hurried back to put on his cotton coat and bamboo hat, and hurriedly followed the footsteps of several young people.The group of people walked faster and faster, turned a few turns, and then disappeared in the chaotic wind and snow.

There are only a few dim lights left, wandering gracefully in the night.

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The snow covered the entire garden, and in this beautiful garden with red plum blossoms, there are two young scholars sitting.

One of them was wearing a blue cotton gown with delicate features; the other was wearing a white brocade gown with gold silk patterns embroidered on the corners and cuffs, which made his face like jade, his eyes like stars, and he was as handsome and beautiful as a woman.

The two looked extremely uncoordinated, but they were talking and laughing while drinking and eating chicken. Of course, these two were Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao who had been playing together for several months.

"My mother wrote me a letter again, urging me to go home..." Wang Zijin sighed, "She must have found a lot of village girls for me, so that I can get married quickly."

"The birds are in pairs, you really should make an appointment." Fei Xiao winked at him, and pointed to the two kingfishers that landed on the plum branch and were eating flower buds.

The kingfisher has bright feathers, and it is more beautiful and lovely when it is reflected by the white snow.

"Today, my prince Jin is going to compose a poem, otherwise, wouldn't he be ashamed of such beautiful scenery?" Wang Zijin was so excited that he wanted to splash ink.

"You're much more sorry, and it's not bad."

The red plums reflect the snow and the green colors are new.

After Wang Zijin wrote this sentence, Shi Xing suddenly became difficult, and he couldn't think of the next sentence anyway, and began to look up at the bird in a daze.

"This bird is really good..." Fei Xiao nodded repeatedly while considering herself.

"It's rare for you to be so discerning." Wang Zijin nodded and smiled.

"It tastes even better!"

Wang Zijin glared at him immediately, and was about to curse when he heard the whistling wind above his head, and a black light flew from outside the wall, instantly bullying Mei Zhi.

And the green kingfisher, the source of Wang Zijin's inspiration, was knocked off the branch with a snap without even making a cry.

"Who did it?" Wang Zijin jumped up in anger, "Why are you so cruel, what's wrong with that bird?"

And Fei Xiao had a smile on her face, as if she was very appreciative of what this person had done.

I saw that the black light knocked down the bird, but it didn't land on the ground. It drew a beautiful arc in mid-air, and flew back along the trajectory when it came.

Wang Zijin had never seen such abnormalities before, he didn't even bother to yell and scold, he just stared at the excitement with his eyes wide open.Fei Xiao had never seen such a strange thing before, and she couldn't stop looking at it.

The two watched helplessly as the black light flew towards the wall, towards a young man sitting on top of the wall.The boy was dressed in commoner clothes, dressed like a villager, stretched out his hand to copy, and grasped the thing firmly.

"Young masters, please throw that bird over for me." The boy smiled at them without avoiding suspicion.

"Who are you? Why do you kill people indiscriminately?" Wang Zijin was upright, as if he wanted to seek justice for this unjustly killed bird no matter what.

"Forget it, Zi Jin, a dead bird can't be brought back to life, so why get so angry?" Fei Xiao bent down to pick up the dead bird, walked to the wall, and said to the boy, "What kind of guy did you use to shoot the bird just now? Can you let me see it?"

The boy originally sneaked in over the wall, intending to catch two birds to go back to satisfy his hunger, but seeing the man under the wall with icy muscles and bones in the white snow, more crystal clear than the snow, like a fairy in a painting, he immediately felt good. Turn over and slide down the wall.

"You want to see this?" He untied a black thing from his waist and handed it to Fei Xiao, "It was made by a carpenter I know."

"Oh? This carpenter is so smart that he can make such things." Fei Xiao played with the tool, and saw that it was curved and arc-shaped, and the two ends were smooth and smooth. It felt warm and comfortable to the touch, and the workmanship was extremely exquisite.

"What is this?" Wang Zijin also poked his head.

"This is called 'returning back'! You can throw it out skillfully and it will fly back by itself. It's the best for hunting birds."

"Go back?" Wang Zijin said with a smile, "The name is quite interesting. I wonder what kind of carpenter makes this tool?"

"I'd like to know about this too." With a smile on the corners of Fei Xiao's eyes, the brows lightly raised, "Why don't we just go and see?"

"Don't go..." The young man's expression darkened suddenly, he thrust the tool into his waist, snatched the dead bird from Fei Xiao's hand, turned and left.

"What's the matter? Why didn't you let us go? Could it be that the carpenter is no longer alive?" Prince Jin lost his temper and kept asking.

"That's not true..." The boy nimbly climbed up the treetop, rode on the wall again, bowed his head and said to the prince, "It's just that Brother Zhou can't do carpentry anymore, he closed his business a year ago. "

"Ah?" Wang Zijin asked in surprise, "What a pity, such a skilled craftsman."

"We said the same thing, and the neighbors around him kept persuading him, but he was always suspicious and panicked. What can others do?"

"Why is he suspicious?" Wang Zijin was even more puzzled.

"I'm not very clear about the reason." The young man scratched his head, waved his hands at the two of them, "I'm leaving now, I can't talk to you two anymore, if caught by the owner of this garden, I won't be able to eat it Walk around."

After saying that, he slid down the wall lightly and deftly, and his vigorous and nimble figure disappeared into the whiteness in a blink of an eye.

"Alas..." the prince started to build a pergola, and sighed, "It's rare to come across such an interesting thing, but it's nothing."

"Who says it's nothing?" Fei Xiao phoenix eyes slanted and said with a slight smile, "Perhaps the real good show has not yet begun."

"What do you mean by that? Is there any mystery hidden in it?"

"I didn't say that, I just wanted to meet this ingenious craftsman."

"Ah? Why didn't you say it earlier? The boy has already gone far away, how are we going to chase him?" Wang Zijin also had the same intention, but he was not good at horoscope and always caused troubles, so he just tried not to open his mouth, now I can't wait to spread my wings and chase after it.

Fei Xiao didn't care, smiled slightly, sat cross-legged at the table, took out the jade flute from her waist, and put it gently on her lips.

A melodious and melodious tune began to flow slowly, like a cool mountain spring, melting the ice and snow in winter in an instant, jumping and rushing in the wind, flowing to the boundless distance.

Wang Zijin hadn't heard the sound of Fei Xiao's flute for a long time, he just felt refreshed, so he simply sat beside him and closed his eyes to enjoy it.

Just listen to the sound of the flute fluctuating up and down, sometimes like climbing a famous mountain and river, sometimes like a waterfall cascading down for nine days, I don't know how long it took, and finally stopped abruptly.

"It's a good song." Wang Zijin said with a smile, "Why haven't I seen you play it before?"

"Because I didn't want to find someone before." Fei Xiao jumped up, thrust the jade flute into her waist, pointed to the sky and said, "Zi Jin, what do you think is that?"

Wang Zijin looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a silvery-white thread in the gray winter sky and the floating cold wind.

The line was dazzlingly white, fluttering in the wind, but leading straight out of the wall.

"What is this?" Prince Jin wondered.

"It's the boy's mind. I used a spell to visualize it. As long as a person is alive, he can't stop thinking. We only need to follow the clues to find him."

"Couple, coup, no wonder you can know my whereabouts every time I go out to relax, that's why."

"Zijin, it's a waste to use this spell on you." Feixiao said with a smile, "Just go to Huajie and Liuxiang, and you will definitely gain something."

Just as Wang Zijin was about to refute, he saw Fei Xiao grabbing himself and rushing past the wall.

The smell of soil immediately filled his mouth and nose, making him extremely uncomfortable.He hurriedly closed his eyes, only to see a slim figure in the darkness, gradually drifting away.

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"Fei Xiao, I seem to have seen a strange sight just now." At this time it was almost dusk, Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao followed the boy's thoughts to the market, and simply found a restaurant to rest and eat chicken.

"What strange sight?" Fei Xiao was grabbing a chicken leg and feasting on it, her ten fingers were covered with oil and water, completely different from her usual appearance.

"I saw a woman." Prince Jin scratched his head and said, "And it's snowing all around. That woman is standing in the snow, wearing heavy clothes, and seems to be going on a long journey."

"When did you see it?" Fei Xiao still buried her head in the chicken and didn't care.

"At the moment when I passed through the wall, as soon as I closed my eyes, I saw that scene."

"It may be that you accidentally caught some of the things that boy experienced." Fei Xiao quickly ate up the chicken legs, then picked up the bowl to drink soup, "But I think the bigger possibility is that you haven't seen each other for too long. It’s the beauty, are you thinking about hysteria?”

"Who said that? I went to the theater to listen to the pipa last night. The singer who plays the music is much more beautiful than her." Wang Zijin desperately tried to prove his innocence, but he accidentally exposed his true nature.

The two of them, one nymphomaniac and the other chicken idiot, unexpectedly had no conflicts and had a very happy conversation.

After a meal, I saw a bright moon in the sky, and the silver-white silk thread was more eye-catching in the night.

"It's almost there, the boy's home must be nearby."

This time I don't need to explain why Wang Zijin knew why, because the thread became thicker and thicker, from the thickness of a silk thread at the beginning to the thickness of an adult's thumb.

Winding and lingering to the distance, there is also a tendency to spread and divert. It seems that every plant, tree, brick and tile here has left traces of the boy's thinking.

The two came out of the market, turned a few corners, and came to a tile-roofed house.Some of the tile-roofed houses are dilapidated and dilapidated, while others are new and tidy. At first glance, they are the places where ordinary people live together.

The silk thread twists and turns, like curved water in a mountain stream, flowing between these old or new houses of different heights, and finally stops outside the courtyard of a family.

I saw that the firewood door of that house was half closed, and a young man was chopping firewood profusely in the yard.

When he saw the two of them, he was startled.

"How did you find it?" The boy tremblingly said, "Could it be that the garden belongs to you? You asked me to pay for that bird?"

"No." Fei Xiao shook her head, raised her hand slightly, and the white line in the sky was swept into the bottom of her sleeve with a whoosh and disappeared.

"Little brother, don't be afraid, we just want to meet the carpenter you mentioned." Wang Zijin said with a smile, "I want to see what kind of person can make that kind of tool."

"It turned out to be like this. It scared me to death..." The boy put down the ax with relief and wiped his hands. "My name is Ayang, and I will take you to Brother Zhou's house."

"Your Majesty, this is my friend, you can call him Feihong. The two of us came here on a study tour, and seeing such strange people and strange things, it is really uneasy not to investigate. Thank you little brother for leading the way."

Wang Zijin babbled a lot, but Ayang probably didn't understand a single word.He scratched his head and led them the way neatly.

"When you arrive at Brother Zhou's house, if you see anything strange, don't tell it." Ayang said as he walked, turning left and right in the alley briskly, although it was night, it was like walking through daylight.

"Oh? There are many strange things in his house?" Fei Xiao also had burning eyes and walked like the wind.Only Wang Zijin stumbled after him, kicking a pot for a while, stumbling over a brick for a while, and couldn't even put his mouth in it.

"There are many strange things, but the main thing is that Brother Zhou's temperament has changed drastically, and he suspects his wife is a ghost every day."

"Is his wife that scary?" Fei Hsi laughed dumbly, "I know someone who accidentally married a shrew and entered the house. It's like a hag in the world. It's really scary."

"Who said that? Sister-in-law Zhou is gentle and virtuous, but ever since she came back, Brother Zhou has never recognized her again. Every day he clamored that the woman who came back was not his wife. In the end, his temperament changed drastically, and he couldn't even continue to do his craft. .”

"After coming back? Has his wife disappeared?"

"Yes, it happened two years ago. The couple wanted to go back to their hometown to visit their relatives. As a result, they just walked into the mountains, but the carriage couldn't move forward because of a sudden heavy snowfall. When the couple planned to turn back the same way, Mrs. Zhou didn't know what to do. Be careful and fall off the cliff."

"Then, isn't that dead? How can you come back alive?" Wang Zijin said tremblingly.

"But she is back!" Ah Yang said loudly, "Last year when I went to the mountains with some brothers to collect firewood, I clearly saw a woman standing on the edge of a cliff. She was wearing a thick cotton coat and a windproof hat. A few of us recognized her right away, she is Mrs. Zhou who has been missing for a year."

"A living person?"

"It's a living person, its hands are very warm, and it bleeds and tears."

"Then does she still recognize you?" Fei Xiao continued to ask.

"Yes, she can recount everything that happened in the past, even she remembers that I like to hunt birds."

"It's really scary. A woman who fell off a cliff and disappeared for a year suddenly came back alive. I would be so scared that I couldn't sleep." Wang Zijin yelled.

"But Mrs. Zhou only said that she seemed to have closed her eyes for a while, and when she opened them again, she was still standing at the same place. It's just that a year has passed." Ayang said with a smile, "We all said that she might have been saved by a god. Otherwise, how could there be such a strange experience?"

The three talked while walking, and Ayang turned into the depths of an alley, pointing to a house at the end.

"We're here, it's here. I don't know if Big Brother Zhou is at home." Ayang knocked on the door with his hands. After a while, the wooden door was opened from the inside. He looks to be in his early twenties, beautiful and virtuous.

"It's Ah Yang, why did you come here suddenly?" She looked at Fei Xiao and Wang Zijin vigilantly, seeming to be hesitant.

"These are two of my friends." A Yang pointed at the two of them, "They saw that I used 'Go Back' to hunt birds, and found it very convenient, so they also wanted to buy two from Big Brother Zhou."

"So that's how it is. Come in first, let me talk to him." The woman let the three of them in with a smile, let them sit in the courtyard, served tea, and then went to the inner room to find someone.

Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao saw that the courtyard was designed in a very unique way. There was a small wooden water wheel in the corner, constantly rolling out chaotic water splashes.

The branches of the tall pine tree stretch out, and a wooden parrot hangs under the tree. As long as the wind blows, the bird will make clear calls, which is extremely fun.

"The owner of this family is really capable. Although he is only a craftsman, he can live a life like a fairy. He is not very rich, but he is a good match for a woman." Wang Zijin looked at it for a while, and whispered to Fei Hong.

"A good match and a bad match, you can't tell by looking at this kind of novelty."

As if to confirm Fei Xiao's words, before he finished speaking, he heard a man shouting and scolding from the room, and seemed very angry.

"Who told you to let people in casually? How many times have I told you? I don't sell anything anymore, why do you still want to do business?"

The man came out angrily while yelling, and saw three people who seemed to have seen the murder of their father and enemy, and tried to push them out with hands and feet.

"Hey, what is this for? If you don't sell it, don't sell it. Are you the one who pushes people away?" Wang Zijin yelled and jumped.

"Brother Wang, let's go. Didn't I say everything, don't make Brother Zhou angry?" Ayang also pulled the two of them out.

The night was dim and the time was short. Before they could see the face of the carpenter surnamed Zhou, the two had already been driven outside the door.

Wang Zijin stared blankly at the closed door in front of him, and only vaguely remembered that he seemed to be a middle-aged man in his 30s, with a straight face and a haggard look, as if he had some depressed mind.

(End of this chapter)