Liu Lingzhong's Selected Short Stories Serialized (1148)

Old Dreams to the North (1)

I have always been pampered and accustomed by the whole family in the house, and I have never been angry with him. Let Young Master Tian Wen expose the truth, but he couldn't say half a word, and his face was pale. Besides, my mother had heard the swearing in his own house and immediately understood what was happening. My mom is also a woman who is known for her toughness. Besides, with Mrs. Five, the two of them were incompatible in their hearts, hated each other to death, and they were going to make a fuss at the last card table, but it was the eldest lady who drank it with a straight face. Originally, Tian heard that his mother's fifth wife touched herself, and my mother deliberately set off a cannon to stop the commissioner Miss Chen, and since then, although the two wives of the division commander live in a doorway, they don't bother to say hello when they meet. My mother bypassed the fish pond and the flower platform, and rushed directly into the small courtyard where Mrs. Fifth lived, and scolded in a higher and clearer voice: "Rotten prostitute, you used to be just a singing bitch, what kind of estrus are you!" Your son is not sensible, the master is fighting on the front line, you don't say that you will take care of him and let the family stop a little, just connive at Tian Wen's nonsense, and watch me tear his mouth. ”

The fifth wife was indeed stunned because she was unprepared in advance, and of course she was not a fuel-efficient lamp: "Second wife, you will spew blood, and the man in front of you died before you married the master." Don t think that if you give birth to a crooked and white-eyed son like Tian Sen, the crow will become a phoenix, what's wrong with my son, he just said the facts. Hell, you mother and son are not flustered, and their eyes are crooked. "She never seems to have a brain when she scolds, and she won't spare her if she scolds the eldest lady with me. After all, nominally, I was also under the name of the Tianfu housewife, and the eldest wife who was marrying Ming Media did not have a son.

Everyone in the mansion knows that I will become the head of the Tian Mansion family in the future. "I'm going to die." Wu Niang shouted.

"Born in troubled times, sisters are all equally bitter, you two don't forget our past agreement." The eldest lady was naturally guarded against it, and there was no malice, the wound in her heart was salted, and she almost wanted to bleed again, so she blushed and said, "Fifth wife, you are so vicious." Your own son wishes he were dead. The lady of the Tian Mansion quickly calmed down and resolutely turned around to leave. Wait! The fifth wife, Ouyang Ping, approached slightly, and tried to change to a gentle tone and said, "I'm sorry, eldest sister, I didn't mean to. It is because I am worried about my son all day long, for fear that something will happen to him, that I am so nervous. Especially this morning, I have been restless, and I always feel that there is an ominous premonition that something will happen. The master is not here, the eldest sister wants a bowl of water to be flat. ”

That's what happened the day the news of my father's death on the front came back. "I see." The little hatred for this woman disappeared at once, and the aunt thought to herself, Ouyang Ping still cares about our family after all.

"I don't have time to deal with you!" The old woman said.

I felt lonely somehow, and a newspaper had just been delivered on the table, because I had pricked up my ears to hear the carved wooden lattice window through the blue brick wall—there was a dwarf wolf tree on the eaves, and red pompom flowers were blooming, and a bird was flying on the branches, chirping—I was afraid that I would not like to know what was going on in the street. My wife's distant nephew, Chen Minggan, suddenly came to my room in a white dress and was now standing across from me. "Tian Sen, you haven't read the newspaper."

"Thank you!" I slept until noon, and I didn't have time to read the newspaper.

"The newspapers say your father died in battle." Chen Minggan said.

"It's none of your business, tell me the purpose of your coming to the Tian Mansion."

I regained my usual cold tone. My younger brother Tian Wenren is a big ghost, nicknamed Little Pigeon, he didn't look away, or guessed wrong, Chen Minggan, who is still studying, is indeed my treasure search partner. Tian Wen is not a rumor. He looked at me with a little uneasiness and a little guilt and said:

"I'm so sorry, Tian Sen, I'm getting married. You know, I've been forced at home. I have thought about it for a long time, and I am not suitable for Miss Yang. It's not because I'm selfish, or it's just because of you, I'm not going to marry a daughter-in-law, I hope you don't get it wrong and have other ideas. The children of the person who pursued Miss Yang are older than her, and we have had a marriage contract since we were children, I was afraid that Miss would be bullied, and now that guy has gone up the mountain to become a bandit leader. We all live in troubled times, and as her fiancé, I have to be responsible, and I can't make jokes in front of my neighbors. We are both people of status. Therefore, I have come to you today to make a break with you. I didn't expect your father to have just died in battle, Tian Sen, you also need comfort. You may have to be busy, and it's impossible for us to go to the Adolescent Forest for a while. If you are planning to get married, and you are afraid that I will drag you down, how about you rest assured? Tian Sen, I'm here to discuss with you, if you agree to do so! Mutual understanding. ”

"Chen Minggan, can you wait for me to think about it clearly?" I say.

Then we held hands and continued to stand in silence in front of the window.

The wisteria flowers on the shelf outside the window bloomed, and I didn't feel any mystery, and I wasn't very sad about my father's sudden death.

"We don't need to look at wisteria flowers too romanticly."

I was talking to my partner about the war, and the town of Maguan had fallen. The determination to get married was made, so he left for a long time.

"Chen Minggan is going to be the groom's official." I said sadly.

He replied: "Only by marrying Miss Yang can I feel safe." ”

The newspaper was still sitting flat on the table, and I never reached for it. Chen Minggan sat very gracefully.

"There's no way to count on your father now." He said.

"The whole town will be in chaos when they find out." I say.

"We who are alive should unite and twist into a rope. Not everyone understands that there are no eggs under the nest. ”

"Do you think I can make a fortune and recruit troops?"

"Of course, it doesn't include the old man in your family who bleeds dry."

I smiled bitterly at my partner Treasure: "Even if my dad is still alive, it doesn't matter that much, I know he can't do it." ”

"He's still a big hero in my heart." Chen Minggan said.

Every page of the newspaper is undoubtedly in traditional Chinese characters, and it is printed vertically, so I never find it difficult to read the newspaper. I turned my face to glance and saw the long passage of the magician and his clarinet-playing son Qiu Bokai, and our street magician's apprentice Wei Chengjun in the park circus performance was very popular, and if it weren't for the eerie atmosphere that my father's death brought to the Tian Mansion, I almost applauded. When did the sleeves of Chen Ming's dry white suit get a palm-sized spot, I suspect that it is bloodstains, and I can't be sure. The partner who was going to break off the relationship with me today was very curious, and he also turned his head over and read the newspaper with me head to head.

A few lines down from the circus news, it turned out to be a murder. Suddenly, Du Zhiyang broke into the door:

"Yo, Chen Minggan, you are really here."

"It's early. It hurts Brother Du, you deliberately look all over the world. ”

He always gives people the impression that he is so hot, and there is always an inexhaustible energy in his body. But Du Zhiyang never wears a suit, he is a soldier. In this regard, their personalities are roughly close. Du Zhiyang shouted excitedly.

"You two know that the murderer is hiding in the circus."

"I'm too lazy to worry about this, the Tian family is busy with big things."

"Originally, I didn't even think that Wei Chengjun would dare to kill someone."

"I'm sorry, you're gossiping more than those people in the cold drink shop, it's like chicken blood. The Tian Mansion is chaotic enough, and the death notice has not been officially delivered. I need to go first! ”

"I've just arrived, Chen Ming is too busy with you."

"Fortunately, I left a message at home beforehand, otherwise, you would definitely run in vain. I don't dare to ask what you've been up to lately. ”

"Flying in the air is the norm, and I know that you are looking for Tian Sen without asking. There is one more thing. You two must not have heard that the magician is going to take people into the deep mountains and old forests to fight guerrillas. It's going on outside. ”

"It seems that Qiu Enlian interrupted the performance and announced it in public."

"Question: What are we going to do after the fall of this city?"

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, everyone's resistance is unprecedentedly high, and the situation will gradually improve in the future. What are you two going to do? ”

"We can't save this country on our own." I say.

"It's really weak!" Chen Minggan admitted.

"There's no way to sit still." Du Zhiyang said.

The latest news brought by Du Zhiyang showed that the other party had killed more than 200 soldiers defending the city, and the rest of the people who were alive were terrified when they saw this. The invaders opened fire on the bazaar, but the ambush soldiers of the urban resistance fought bravely and stubbornly against the enemy. With no formal rotation training, the castle guerrillas were all rabble and vulnerable. Under the surprise blow of the invaders, they ran away with their heads and tried to flee for their lives. The bandits who were not captured in the bazaar, including the so-called student death squads that had been improvised together, were even crying for their fathers and mothers, and they had no intention of fighting.

The three of us gritted our teeth and cursed the magician's men.

"His son is the and the head of the."

"Everyone is afraid of death sometimes." I don't think so.

"Qiu Bokai is a shrinking turtle, I don't scold him!"

"Could it be that he intends to surrender openly?" I asked.

The bandits who took advantage of the fire to rob even abandoned the guns they brought with them and threw them on Zhensoul Street, which was everywhere. There is only food in the baggage on his body, and he is reluctant to throw it away, knowing that if he can't find something to fill his stomach when he escapes, he will definitely die on the way. When they reach the moment of life and death, they only hate their father and mother for not pretending to be two legs for themselves, and they can't run fast. Du Zhiyang said that his legs were weak, why he couldn't use his strength, and this was the feeling in his dream. Young students who were wounded because they were still lucky, or still a little bloody, and planned to resist stubbornly, had no choice but to flee with their lives. It turned out that the invaders, who were experienced in warfare, had already learned from the secret agent Li Maode that the bandits had joined forces with the student death squad to attack Maguan Town, and had already made careful arrangements, not only ambushing troops from all directions to prevent the occupation of key points, but also never allowing the adolescent forest guerrillas to snatch the urgently needed medicine. There were even accomplices of the invaders posing as refugees and getting involved in the crowd to spy on bandits and student death squads. Later, when they met in close quarters, they actually had a grudge for a long time, and those traitors also took the opportunity to act.

"The leading party is the most hateful!" Chen Minggan said.