The Misty Rain in the Republic of China: The wind and rain are thick and rouge chaos

Chapter 5 The so-called Yiren (1)
Moxi was led by Li Ma to Second Grandma Bai.

As usual, Second Master Bai was not at home. Second Grandma Bai lived alone in a large courtyard. water.

The Bai family still kept the banner people's rules. After Moxi saw Second Mistress Bai, without anyone's instructions, she automatically knelt down and asked for a squat. Aunt, please be well."

Second Grandma Bai and Moxi don't see each other a few times a year, and every time they meet, Moxi is well-behaved and knows how to behave, so Second Grandma Bai can't find anything picky in person.But it's obvious that something big happened tonight, and Moxi's squatting in safety can't change the good looks of Second Grandma Bai.

"Moxi." Second Grandma Bai opened her mouth, her voice was a little low and sticky, with a drawn-out ending, condescending and majestic, "Is Mr. Peng Kun going to your yard?"

Mo Xi opened her eyes wide, and while suppressing her heartbeat, she made a surprised expression, "Brother? If you go back to Second Aunt, you haven't been to my yard, you've never been there."

Second Grandma Bai's expression remained unchanged, she sat upright and asked again: "Do you know that something happened to Pengkun in your yard just now?"

Mo Xi timidly raised her eyes to look at Second Grandma Bai, "Second Aunt, I heard Mama Li say something happened to my elder brother, but Mama Li didn't say what happened, so I don't know."

Second Grandma Bai said in a deep voice, "Pengkun was injured in your yard."

Moxi opened her mouth and stared, "Ah?!"

Immediately afterwards, she raised her hands in a panic and let out a breath, her voice was almost crying, "I went to play in the big sister's room in the afternoon, and I never went back. It's not my business, I didn't hit the big brother. Really."

Feng Yao also opened her mouth at this time, "Mom, is elder brother seriously injured? What did elder brother say? It is absolutely true that Moxi is in my room, even if she is not in my room, she can't beat elder brother ah!"

Second Mistress Bai gave her daughter a sideways look, and then asked the big girl beside her, "Is Peng Kun feeling better?"

The eldest girl just walked in from the outside, and at this time she replied in a low voice: "Madam, the eldest young master is much better. At first he looked scary because his nosebleeds rubbed against his face. Now after washing his face, there is no serious injury." .”

Second Grandma Bai nodded, and then gave an order: "Then go and call him over. Our family can't tolerate such demonic things. Tonight, I'll break up the case. Since it wasn't Mo Hi, it must be someone else."

As soon as these words came out, Moxi's heart turned somersaults in her chest, and cold sweat seeped down her spine.She could feel like a frightened cat, the hairs all over her body stood on end.

But her frightened expression was all on her body, and the small head protruding from the neckline was not affected by her body.Her hair stood on end while she blinked her eyes innocently.

After a while, Peng Kun came over.

The beautiful Peng Kun held a cold towel in his hand, covered his eyes and walked into the main room.Moxi and Feng Yao turned their heads to look at him together, and saw that his fair face had added color, firstly the right eye was darkened, and secondly the nose was red.Calling Mom in a muffled voice, Peng Kun immediately raised his hand and pointed at Mo Xi, "Okay, you little girl, tell me! Who are you hiding in the house?! You knew you were looking for a wild man when you were fifteen. Let me tell you, the Bai family can't tolerate your tricks!"

When Feng Yao heard this, she blushed immediately, while Moxi was even more straightforward, grinning and crying.While crying, she quickly analyzed what Peng Kun said just now, and came to the conclusion that Peng Kun met the person in her room, but he didn't know who that person was first; see clearly.

"No..." she burst into tears, "Eldest sister testifies, elder sister went to my place in the morning... Eldest brother wronged someone..."

Second Grandma Bai frowned, and sternly stopped Moxi's wail, while Peng Kun didn't wait for his mother to continue the trial, and said loudly, "Good guy, the moment I entered the door, I was punched in the face. After beating him Just run away!"

At this moment, Feng Yao suddenly said, "What are you doing in Moxi's house, you foolish one?"

Feng Yao didn't ask this question, everyone present had question marks in their hearts, Feng Yao asked, the room was silent for a moment, then Second Grandma Bai said: "Go back! Girls, don't meddle in these housework. "

Feng Yao was afraid of her mother, but she was dying and refused to leave, "Then Moxi..."

Second Grandma Bai didn't say a word, she just winked at Mama Li.So Mama Li made a move and sent Feng Yao out with a push and a request.

This time the only main characters in the room were Second Mistress Bai, Mo Xi and Peng Kun, so it was much easier to talk.Second Grandma Bai wanted to deceive Moxi with words, but Peng Kun couldn't understand her mother's painstaking efforts. Once Second Grandma Bai spoke, he followed suit. Second Grandma Bai stopped talking in anger, and he also became dumb.Moxi, on the other hand, was hunchbacked with her chest full of snot, her long hair hanging down her head, and she whistled loudly and loudly. At the end of the horn, she uttered the following sentence: "I want to lie, let the ghosts in the yard eat me up." I."

As soon as this remark came out, Second Grandma Bai was stunned, "A ghost in the yard? What the hell? Children's families, don't talk nonsense!"

Moxi raised her hand to wipe her tears, and said cryingly: "I don't know, anyway, sometimes when I stay in the yard, small stones will fall from the sky and hit me, and sometimes in the middle of the night, there will be people outside the window sigh."

As soon as these words were said, the expressions of everyone in the room changed.Because of the origin of the yard, the people in the house knew it all.And Moxi had just lied casually, but she never expected that her audience would panic together when the lie came out.

Half an hour later, Second Grandma Bai went out in person, led Peng Kun and Moxi with her maid, and went straight to the Lenggong in the corner of the house under the light of four lanterns.

Moxi had a hard time walking all the way, a heart beat out of her throat—I don't know what's going on with Wan Jiagui now, if Second Grandma Bai finds out that she's hiding a man in the house, what will happen? It is unimaginable.Second Grandma Bai had wanted to kick her out a long time ago, and now this is a good excuse.

Approaching the small courtyard step by step, before reaching the courtyard gate, Moxi suddenly slipped and fell a big somersault in front of the people, crying out in pain.This voice was really not low, and it made the second grandma Bai tremble with fright.

Moxi wanted to give Wan Jiagui a few more voices, but the courtyard door had already been pushed open by Li Ma, and everyone rushed into the room, only to see that the room was empty, where was anyone?Squeeze into the back room and see, there is a ball of bedding thrown on the kang in the back room, but there is still no one there, but the air is pungent and has a strong smell of medicinal wine.

Second Grandma Bai raised her hand and slapped her nose, "What kind of smell is this?"

Moxi replied in a low voice, "It's medicinal wine. I knocked over a bottle of medicinal wine this morning."

Second Grandma Bai looked back at her, "What are you doing with medicinal wine?"

Moxi lowered her head, "For the past month, my knees have always hurt at night. The elder sister said that I am growing taller, it's fine. But I couldn't bear the pain, so I ran out this morning and bought a bottle of medicinal wine. It probably won't hurt if you put it on."

Then she timidly said again: "Brother can testify. I went out early, and I met my brother coming back in a big carriage on the way."

Second Grandma Bai turned forward expressionlessly, "Hey, you have quite a few witnesses."

Moxi stared at the ground, but remained silent.Secretly clenching her hands tightly in the sleeves, she saw a big leather shoe thrown on the ground at the corner of the bed—Wan Jiagui's leather shoe.

But no one checked the ground.Seeing that there were indeed no people where there could be people, Second Grandma Bai was noncommittal, and brought all her servants and her son to return to the imperial court.But at this moment, Peng Kun suddenly said: "Wait a minute, I haven't seen the front and back of the house yet!"

Moxi immediately rushed to the door, "I'll go and see!"

Li Ma stretched out her hand without saying a word, and directly grabbed Moxi's back collar, "You just wait, someone will go for you."

Moxi struggled to shake off Mama Li's hand, "The back of the house is full of grass, walking over it will dirty your shoes."

Li Ma didn't let go, at the same time, someone had already gone out to the back of the room.Moxi closed her eyes in a panic, but before she could catch her breath, there was a reply outside the door: "Ma'am, there is no one behind the room."

No one has been found so far, and it seems that there is really no one.A gust of night wind whistled through the window, the sound of the wind was sharp, like a cry.Second Grandma Bai heard this, she felt a little apprehensive, but she really got nothing, so she didn't look back, and really led the crowd away.As for Moxi, she couldn't deal with it for a while, so she had no choice but to ignore her.

As soon as Second Grandma Bai and the others left, Moxi immediately ran to the back of the room.

Tonight was a month of dark and windy weather, she went straight up the wall, leaned on the top of the wall and looked down, but couldn't see anything.Emboldened with courage, she lowered her voice and called softly, "Wan Jiagui!"

no respond.

She didn't dare to call out her first and last name, and called again against the wind: "Hey!"

Still no response.

Moxi searched around the back wall, but couldn't find Wan Jiagui. She continued to climb the tree and climb the wall and stuck her head out of the white house. She looked at the street, but the street was empty, and there was still no one there.

Moxi was dumbfounded, thinking where did Wan Jiagui go wearing a shoe?
Moxi went back to the room in panic, and curled up beside the big leather shoe without turning on the light.Wan Jiagui came suddenly last night and left suddenly tonight, leaving nothing behind except for a big leather shoe and the smell of medicinal wine in the room.Fortunately, there was still such a little smell of medicinal wine, and the big leather shoe beside her, otherwise Moxi would have suspected that she had been dreaming day and night.

Moxi was so empty in her heart that she refused to sleep, and waited quietly for Wan Jiagui to come back.

However, Wan Jiagui never came back.Wan Jiagui, who was limping on one foot and wearing one shoe, seemed to have soared from the ground, and really disappeared completely.

Moxi waited until the wee hours of the morning, feeling cold, tired and sleepy, unable to bear it any longer.

She stood up staggeringly, first went out with the big leather shoe, hid it in a small pile of rubble behind the house, then went back to the back room and picked up the big teapot, trying to pour herself a glass of water.

As soon as the big teapot was picked up, she saw a small note under the teapot.Two lines of black characters were written carelessly on the note, and there was an inscription at the bottom.

Putting down the teapot and picking up the note, Moxi opened her eyes and looked at it again and again. At the end she suddenly raised her hand and slapped herself!

Because she can't read.

She recognized the "ten thousand" at the beginning of the signature, because this word is often found on cards.Except for this regular customer, the rest were all unfamiliar faces, making it impossible for her to guess.

Fengyao taught her for three years, she didn't listen to a word and didn't learn a word, now it's good, she's going to regret it.Live and regret until dawn.

The little girl from Fengyao Court suddenly came over and told her like a parrot, "Miss asked you to go".

I don't know if I go out of the yard, but it turns out that new rumors and topics have been added to the white mansion overnight.Everyone has heard that there are ghosts in the Lenggong courtyard.Who is that ghost? It's hard to say, nine out of ten it is the little concubine who died in the cold palace earlier - she was already an old concubine when she died.There is no crime, and there is no reason. I went to prison from my youth and survived in those two huts until my death. How can I not complain?If you meet someone from the Bai family, can you not take revenge?
Moxi has been living here for several years, but she has been safe and sound, probably because she is not "white" very pure.Her maiden name is Tang, maybe there is more "Tang" in her.Besides, since they all lived in that place, it is obvious that they are not happy with their lives, and that ghost has been lonely all his life, so he must also be sympathetic to the poor and the weak.

The content of the rumors is very rich, and in addition to the fact that the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming recently, it is the season of cat troubles, and the nights are not quiet, so everyone thinks of all the disturbances at night, and the more they think about it, the more frightened they become.Fengyao didn't dare to speak against her mother's anger, so she slept and woke up in her own room all night, and at dawn, she immediately had Moxi called over, wanting to ask what happened.

Facing Feng Yao, Moxi's mouth was still as tight as a copper wall.Feng Yao has no secrets from her, but she never tells Feng Yao the truth.One is that she can't trust Fengyao—it's not that she can't trust Fengyao's character, she is born so that she can't trust anyone; the other is that she is afraid that Fengyao will no longer like her if she knows her own fancy.

Moxi acted like she didn't know anything, Feng Yao firmly believed that Moxi really didn't know.Second Grandma Bai heard that her eldest lady had recruited that wild girl again, she didn't say a word, because she thought about it all night, and suddenly felt that it would be good for Feng Yao to drag Mo Xi, otherwise this heartless bastard son in the family After recovering from the injury, maybe one day at night I will touch that haunted broken yard again.Looking at Moxi's watery hanging eyes, one can see that she is a prostitute, exactly like her opera girl.The more Second Grandma Bai thought about it, the more she hated Moxi for not being two years older, so she couldn't immediately find someone to marry her off.

Second Mistress Bai had something on her mind. Peng Kun, who had been beaten up recently, noticed Moxi's face, chest and waist, and she also had something on her mind. Moxi was holding the little note with unknown content, and her mind was even more serious, while Feng Yao had already begun to blatantly Sighing, because Second Grandma Bai has said a word, and it is hard to follow her. She is really not allowed to go to school anymore.Fengyao went to a foreign girl's school, the tuition fees were expensive, and because the girl's school was full of first-class young ladies, each of them was competing to spend money, so no matter how much Fengyao didn't compare, her savings were limited.Second Mistress Bai couldn't control her husband's expenses, and she couldn't bear to restrain her son, so she had to save money on her daughter.Anyway, in another year, when Fengyao turns eighteen, it's time to get married.After getting married and becoming a young grandmother, it is serious to be in charge of the family, so what books should I read?

When there was no one around, Feng Yao sighed to Moxi, "Actually, let me finish my studies, and I can earn money to support my family like a man. The eldest sister of our class, He Songling, went to middle school after graduating from Tsinghua University. An English teacher earns his own money and is very chic."

While listening, Moxi covered her stomach with one hand. It wasn't a stomachache, but because she had that little note in her pocket. She always clutched it for fear of losing it.

Feng Yao said aggrievedly: "Actually, it won't cost a lot of money to graduate from high school. It's okay if you don't go to college. My English is good, so I can go to Xiehe Nursing School. After graduation, I went to Xiehe Hospital. Earn dozens of dollars."

Having said that, she raised her eyes to look at Moxi, "Why do women have to marry? Can't they not marry? When I get married, you get married too. When we meet again, we will definitely be married."

Moxi shook her head without thinking, "I can't. I'm not the kind of person who forgets friends after seeing sex."

It was rare for Feng Yao to listen to Mo Xi's words, and she thought about her words, but then she couldn't help laughing, picked up a magazine, rolled up a tube, and tapped Mo Xi's shoulder lightly, "You Stop talking nonsense! Is it an idiom that girls can use when you see sex and forget friends?"

Moxi also laughed, looking at the magazine in Feng Yao's hand while laughing, her heart suddenly moved.

In the afternoon, Fengyao was lying on the bed and taking a long nap, while Moxi sat at the table by the window and opened a Chinese dictionary.The words on the note were written horizontally and vertically, clearly. She copied one down carefully, and then worked hard to study how to look it up in a dictionary.She remembered Feng Yao said that there are all kinds of words in the dictionary.

However, it may be true that every word has this, but none of those words have anything to do with Moxi.Moxi seldom sat peacefully for an entire hour, but today she sat from twelve o'clock to two o'clock in the afternoon.After sitting for so long, she didn't get any results at all. Finally, she looked back at Feng Yao who was sleeping soundly on the bed. She quietly got up and slipped out of the room, and returned to her small courtyard all the way without making a sound.

She wanted to see if Wan Jiagui had come back.

The room was silent, not even a mouse.So she walked around to the back of the house and sat down on the weeds beside the rubble.She dug out the big leather shoe from the rubble, and she looked at it again and again.The leather shoes are quite new, the uppers are still shiny, and they are not out of shape at all. I don't know if the shoes are well-made or the feet are well-grown.

At the end, Moxi supported the wall and stood up, bent down and took off her left cloth shoe.Holding her breath, she stretched out her left foot, and tentatively stepped her foot into the big leather shoe.She remembered that she had heard Feng Yao tell a fairy tale, saying that because a girl stepped on the footprints left by the gods with her bare feet, she became pregnant with the child of the gods and gave birth to a hero in the world.Her toes moved in the big leather shoes, and she thought, "Am I going to get pregnant?"

She understands everything about men and women, and she understands everything about how children come and go.But if she understands it, she always feels that Wan Jiagui is the only one in the world, and the only Wan Jiagui in the world is naturally different from ordinary people.

Then she thought, "It would be bad to have a big leather shoe."

(End of this chapter)