Li Yunze came to Hexian Village on a stormy night, and that night, he was soaked with heavy rain, and after a whole day's travel, his strength had already been exhausted, so after falling on the muddy path and spraining his foot and neck, he could not get up anyway.
If it weren't for Zou Min, who returned at night, his life might have been broken on this small road less than half a mile away from the village.
Zou Min dragged this half-dead young scholar home, and asked his mother-in-law to boil a pot of ginger water, and let Li Yunze pour it all into his stomach while it was hot, and then he saw a gratifying blush from the iron blue face.
"Little brother, how are you feeling now?
Is your body still cold?
Zou Min sat down on the edge of the bed, his eyes full of concern.
Li Yunze grinned, "If I hadn't met you today, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to go to Bianliang again, I'm fine now, but there is still some pain in my ankle, and it looks like it's swollen to the touch, so I want to bother my eldest brother for a few more days." ” Zou Min waved his hand, "It's okay, you can live there, it's just me and my mother-in-law and boy, it's convenient to live."
It's just that I just listened to the meaning of the little brother, are you going to rush to Bianliang, I don't know what to do in Kyoto?
” Li Yunze smiled embarrassedly, "Don't hide it from my eldest brother, I haven't passed the imperial examination for three consecutive years, and since I was a child, because of my father's and mother's favor, I have never done work in the fields, my body is not diligent, I can't divide the grains, and I can't engage in farming at home, so I want to go to Bianliang to make a living and find an errand that can support myself." ” Zou Min rubbed his hands and showed reverence, "It turns out that the little brother is a scholar, as soon as I saw you, I felt that you were reasonable, and I was not mistaken." ” Li Yunze's face turned red when he said it, and he hurriedly changed the topic, "Big brother, when I met you just now, I saw that you looked flustered and uncertain, and said that it was not appropriate to stay here for a long time, so he hurriedly brought me to the house, why is this?"
” Zou Min was stunned by his question, and suddenly clenched the soup bowl in his hand, and he lowered his gray head and said softly, "It's an ancient mound, and it's not suitable to linger in that kind of place in the middle of the night."
Li Yunze suddenly, "I see, when I was passing by, I saw a dark shadow, and I thought it was an abandoned house, but it turned out to be an ancient mound."
It's just that I don't know who is buried in this tomb, but the scale is not small. ” Hearing this, Zou Min's body moved slightly, and he was silent for a long time, and suddenly stood up with a blank expression, "Little brother, you have been on the road for a day, and you have been drenched by the rain, you should be tired, so let's rest early."
I'll ask my mother-in-law to bring you some bruising plaster, put it on your ankles, and you should be fine after a few days. ” After speaking, he stood up and hurriedly walked towards the door, leaving Li Yunze alone in this simple but warm room, sitting awkwardly on the bed motionless.
He repeated the conversation with Zou Min just now several times in his mind, but he still couldn't find out the reason why the atmosphere suddenly cooled down, and when he was restless, the door of the house was pushed open again.
A child leaned in the crack of the door and peeked in, looking like he had just reached his prime, his sparse yellow hair tied into a bun on the top of his head.
Li Yunze smiled kindly, stretched out his hand to signal him to come over, and the child then crossed the threshold, picking his nostrils while returning a sincere smile to Li Yunze that was very similar to his father.
"What's your name?"
Li Yunze beckoned him to the bedside, took out a piece of dim sum from the package and stuffed it into his hand.
"Zou Xiaotong."
The child shoved the snack into his mouth and dropped a bed of slag.
"If there is a small same, there should be a big same."
Li Yunze teased him.
The child wiped the corners of his mouth, "Datong is my brother's name, but he was ten years ago" He shrugged his shoulders and made a gesture of spreading his hands.
Seeing that he was so heartless, Li Yunze was not surprised in his heart, ten years ago, he should not have been born yet, since he had never seen this "big brother", naturally he would not have a little more affection for a stranger.
"Just now I heard Childe and my father talking outside the door, don't blame my father, my eldest brother is just in Lian Tizuka, for so many years, no one dares to mention that place in front of him."
After he finished eating the snack, he snorted and explained to Li Yunze.
"You say, that ancient mound still has a name?
What is it called?
Li Yunze suddenly became interested.
He also said that there are two women buried in this ancient mound, they were cousins, singing in the same troupe, who knew that after a long time, there was no distinction between people and plays, and there was a friendship between men and women, and they were later discovered by the class owner and sent the two back to their homeland.
They were afraid that they would not be tolerated by the world, so they committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river on a windy and dark night.
Others took pity on them for dying in the river at a young age, so they salvaged the bodies and buried them next to the village, and called them Lian Ti Mound. ” Li Yunze was taken aback, "It turns out that the two women buried in this ancient mound actually have the friendship of Jinlan?"
After saying that, he suddenly realized that he should not mention such filthy things in front of children, so he coughed a few times and changed the subject, "What does this Lian Tizuka have to do with your brother?"
Could it be that those two women will not be able to live in peace after death, and they will not be able to come back and do evil?
” Zou Xiaotong grabbed the top of his head with few hairs, and sighed lightly, "I have never heard my father and mother say this, but occasionally I learned from others that when my eldest brother was so old, he and his companions went to play near the Lian Ti mound one day, and a group of them ran around the stone monument, running and running, and suddenly found that there was a black hole next to the ancient mound, although the hole was not big, but I couldn't see the head when I looked down, but obviously the day before, it was just a bare hard stone, and there was nothing beside it." ” So the children joked with each other, some said it was a fox cave, and some said it was a cave in Wong Tai Sin, and they couldn't get a result from each other.
At last, they made a bet that whoever could climb into the cave to find out what was going on would be a month's mount.
My eldest brother was the oldest of the children, and he was reluctant to admit defeat, and the others were around to make a fuss, so he had to go to the hole and get the brunt of it. ”