Chapter 174: Evening Night's Mind
Yangdongcheng is mostly flat-topped buildings with white walls and ink tiles, and every household is built in square shape. In addition to restaurants and shops, most of the people live in the flat-floor courtyard houses. In this way, the sun and the moon are flying, and all the glory can be enjoyed.
At night, which was moving with the wind, it finally stopped on the back of a three-yard courtyard roof, waiting for them. After Luo Luo led Lin Suqing to catch up, Luo Luo let go of Lin Suqing as soon as he landed.
Her expression was clear, and there was almost no difference between the front and back. Lin Suqing was a little abnormal. He could still clearly see his red ears in the dark night. I guess he had thought a lot of things in his mind along the way, but he never stopped.
Outside the main entrance of this Sanhe Courtyard, a yard is as wide as the wall is surrounded by a fence. There are three or two short trees planted on one side, and straw is piled up on the other side, small wheelbarrows for transport, old baskets woven with bamboo strips, and a small wooden stool that is only one palm higher than the ankle.
The small stool is placed in front of a small car built with bamboo tubes. Although the car has four wooden wheels, the whole car has a tube shape except for the pushing hands behind it, which is a cloth pocket. It looks similar to a stroller. It can put children under two years old or kids inside and push the cart.
There was a long bamboo pole standing in the pile of debris against a shelf. If it was unfolded, it was supposed to be used to dry clothes.
All the pieces are piled together, and it can be seen that I used to be very careful in life, and now everything has been stopped. Just from this pile of miscellaneous things, you can feel some sadness.
Xiye turned around and looked at Lin Suqing, pointed to the bottom of the inner courtyard, and signaled - "Can you go down?"
Lin Suqing hesitated to estimate his skills, but before he could weigh the pros and cons, the sky fell down with a sound. He didn't know that it was a gust of wind that suddenly passed.
Then, before he could react, Lolo put his waist down with a slight sound, fearing that Xiye would be lost.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, he could hear a faint cry in his ears. Lin Suqingdeng immediately tiptoed to the corner and hid behind the corner. It was already gone at night. Luo Luo let go of Lin Suqing and immediately turned into a thin snake and went forward along the wall. Lin Suqing glanced, and immediately lowered his waist and followed closely through the window.
The crying sounds sometimes disappear, sometimes anxious and sometimes hidden, turning around the corner and chasing the source of the sound.
Xiye stood in front of the window and stood straight. Lin Suqing quickly walked over and pulled him down and squatted. Seeing that his face was not very good, he didn't have time to care about him. Lin Suqing appeared above his head, dipped his fingers in saliva and dug a small hole at the bottom of the window, and quietly peeked inside.
I saw a woman with a low bun sitting on the edge of the bed, holding a little baby's clothes tightly in her hand, covering her face and crying. On her legs and around her, she was covered with little baby's clothes, shoes, hats, and some toys, rattles, little tigers with hair, and embroidery stuffed with cotton...
It seemed as if there were so many kinds of sorrow in my heart, but I had to go through all my hardships to suppress it. She pressed her voice and emotions, as if as long as she restrained her crying and did not let the sadness burst out, she would not feel heart-wrenching pain.
But such emotions cannot be restrained by restraining them. Needless to say, the woman's pain was, as a bystander, and was so touched by the grief.
Xiye did not stand up again, nor did he intend to come forward to see it. He squatted against the corner of the wall, as if he had waited for Lin Suqing to finish his look. Luo Luo squatted beside him, with two distances between them to show his superiority. Neither of them seemed to be interested.
There was almost nothing left here. I saw a woman covering her face and crying. The other people in the room had already gone to bed, but most of them were lying on the bed and tossing and turning, and not falling asleep.
Without finding any information, I returned to the Happy Stack as the same way.
The dog was still sleeping heavily, and he didn't care if anyone came back. He and Xiye sat at the table, while Lolo was still standing behind Xiye, as if before he set off.
But there seems to be a little loneliness between Xiye's eyebrows.
"What's wrong with you?" Lin Suqing poured him a cup of herbal tea, and he didn't drink it when he put it on his hand. He wanted to resolve his loneliness, but also wanted to determine whether Xiye was really wrong, so he deliberately joked, "What? Are you tired of herbal tea?"
"I've seen it." Xiye suddenly raised Shuiliang's eyes and stared at Lin Suqing, and said something without any ends, and then looked at his fingers and dazzled.
"What have you seen?" Lin Suqing put down the teapot, thought for a while and asked, "That woman just now?"
"My mother has cried like this before." Xiye put his hands on the table, clasping the edge of his nails with his thumb in a daze.
Lin Suqing felt embarrassed. This topic was not easy to talk about. Perhaps it was Xiye’s thoughts or perhaps it was a knot. Nothing should be judged by him, an outsider. However, there are disadvantages of not chatting.
"Is it convenient to tell me the reason?" Lin Suqing's voice was as light as water. The best concern for the evening night at this time was probably to continue chatting without any emotion.
Xiye pursed his lips tightly, as if he didn't want to say it. Lin Suqing could understand it, and he didn't ask if he didn't say it. He was about to say "get off early", but Xiye suddenly said: "My mother always blames her father for thinking about who he is. She often cried like that in the early years. No one could find out quietly, but I saw it many times."
Parents are the most difficult to reconcile, and Lin Suqing is really not good at illuminating this concern.
"What's the truth?"
Xiye's lips were pursed into a line, and then he said resentfully for his mother: "My mother is the only wife of the father, but there is only a king in the demon world, and he has never established a queen yet."
He paused and said a little hesitantly: "My mother thought I would be able to succeed when I was born, but I was nearly five hundred years old, and she failed to do it. It seemed that because my father had been thinking about someone who died."
"Why don't you ask your father directly?"
“Ask.”
"What did he say?"
"The father said, I will naturally understand when I grow up."
This sentence is very familiar, and it seems that every adult has said this to his children. Lin Suqing's mother also said it to him, and the teacher who taught him to learn calligraphy also said it.
When I heard this when I was a child, I always looked forward to growing up soon and understanding the confusion at that time as soon as possible. However, what I understood after growing up is actually different from what adults think.
Moreover, this kind of understanding as we grow up is gradually. The "understanding" earlier was very superficial, but stubborn, self-righteous, and stubbornly thought that I understood everything. After a few years, I realized that I was all wrong earlier.
"Then do you understand something now?"
Xiye thought for a long time, his face was depressed and lost, and said, "Maybe it's because of grandpa, the source was him. When grandpa was in power, my mother's father was my grandpa. He was the head of the Seventy-Two Caves and was also his good friend. Before his death, my grandpa entrusted his daughter, my mother, to take care of her. Later, my grandpa chose a husband for her mother in the clan, but my mother insisted on marrying the father who was least favored at the time."
Lin Suqing said: "Because of love."
"No." Xiye directly denied, "Although the father was not favored at the time and seemed to be the weakest among the princes, my mother thought that the father was most likely to inherit the throne. The so-called potential."
"What did your mother say?"
"Grandma said." Xiye held the teacup in both hands, looking at the tiny broken tea leaf floating on the brown tea water in the teacup, and said in a leisurely manner, "The father was once the most powerful and favored prince, but later because he did not listen to his grandfather, he was deposed once and deprived of all military power. It was precisely because he became the weakest prince. However, his mother believed that the demotion of his father would not affect his comeback. When he started again, he would only be more powerful than before."
Xiye stretched out his thumb and rubbed the floating broken tea leaf onto the table. It was wrapped in a little water stain left. The broken tea leaf lying on the huge table clearly came out of a narrow cup and went to a wider place, but it was not as comfortable as it was in the cup, but it looked particularly lonely.
"Later everyone knew that the reason why grandfather demoted his father was actually a way to protect the future crown prince."
"Don't think too much. Your father has feelings for your mother. Otherwise, how could he get married and how would you be there?"
"I don't know." Xiye covered his hands and covered the unbreakable tea leaves on the table. When he moved, the broken tea leaves disappeared, leaving only a few black dots like fine sand in the water stains.
"I heard from Uncle Wu that the father was going to marry another person, but the whole world opposed them."
Lin Suqing asked in surprise: "Why do you object?"
"It will break the balance of the world, lose the balance, and may cause the destruction of all things and reincarnation."
“Why break the balance?”
"I don't know, Uncle Wu won't tell me, he said that there is not the time to talk about it." Xiye looked at his palm expressionlessly. Lin Suqing seemed familiar with the helplessness and helplessness and deep understanding.
"What happened later?"
"She is dead." Xiye gently clenched her fists.
It makes people sigh. Lin Suqing didn't know how to answer the conversation. Should he continue chatting and asking? Or should he stop here, but... how should he comfort him?
At this time, the sleeping dog suddenly raised his head and muttered: "If it weren't for your mother, she wouldn't have died."
Xiye didn't speak.
The night suddenly became so quiet that it made people feel panicked. I wanted to sigh but couldn't sigh, and it was held under my throat, causing my chest to feel particularly stuffy. I wanted to take a deep breath to change it out, but I couldn't change it, like the quietness of water, and it shouldn't have any ripples.
Even the candlelight was silent and had not been beaten for a long time.
...
Until a complete candle, half a finger-long flame, burned to a thin layer of candle tears, and the flame was as small as a bean, Lin Suqing said, "In the past, neither of you nor I was the authorities, they were just hearsay. Why bother to investigate it in depth, and you don't have to care."
Xiye thought for a while, looked at the dog and said, "There is a person in charge."
"I won't say one more word." Gouzi glanced at him, "Just as your fifth uncle."
As soon as the dog said, he saw Xiye's expression even more depressed. Lin Suqing couldn't help but reach out and patted Xiye's head, saying, "Okay, one day you will understand everything about your father and your mother."
"I don't know why I said this to you. I usually don't mention it." Xiye murmured.
This may be understood by Lin Suqing. Sometimes the people closest to each other are often the strangest, and sometimes we are more willing to talk to strangers.
"It's okay, I'm not from any world. Whether I listen or not, I can't make any noise." Lin Suqing poured the tea from Xiye's cup into the tea tray and poured him a cup again.
Then he smiled and said, "If you want to be an adult, you must first master the distinction between public and private. Public is public, and private is private. For example, even if the dog you raised since childhood dies, you have to smile and talk to others with a gentle smile."
"..." Dogzi was very upset when he heard this, and rolled his eyes almost turned to heaven.
"Come on, drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat. Next we have to talk about the baby who lost her baby in Yangdongcheng." He put the tea cup in front of Xiye's finger, "Tell me, what did you find?"
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