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The man was dressed in an official uniform, walking leisurely with his hands in his hands, like visiting the mountains and scenery, with two small followers behind him, one with a fine white skin, a cloth bag with his arms crooked, and one with a black dun dun empty-handed

The vendors on both sides of the street were nervous, and they didn't wait to get closer, and they all greeted each other with smiling faces, and said: "Lord Tax Officer, you patrol early today" "Master, do you want to eat some early?"

The tax collector snorted and walked forward step by step The vendors handed over all the tax money in the gray cloth bag behind him, whether it was meat or vegetables, fresh fruit or peanuts Just look at where the old man's eyes stayed for a while All of them were bagged and sent together After walking less than half a street, the cloth bag had become heavy The other little attendant was already full of arms Some can't take it

Coming to the stall of the eldest grandson Xiaochi The tax collector glanced at the neatly stacked fish and laughed The two little attendants saw him laugh and laughed The thin white face carrying the tax bag said with slanted eyes: "My lord, look at his stinky fish and put them so neatly like a baby, isn't it ridiculous" The voice is also milky The eldest grandson smiled and said yes Even the name smiled and sent the tax money into his pocket The tax officer's eyes fell on the biggest fish and said: "Stinky fish and rotten shrimp Send food to the family."

In the past, when I saw them come to collect taxes, as long as my eyes fell on the fish, the eldest grandson smiled and gave it away without hesitation, but today when I looked at the fish, my eyes were like seeing two pairs of embroidered shoes, and my body froze for a while, and I froze for two or three breaths, and the thin white face and eyes became irritable, and I was about to open my mouth, but I saw him rubbing his hands and laughing as if he had just understood: "Oh, this old man seems to be a little unable to take it, how is it good, how is it good?"

The thin white face snorted softly in his nostrils, as if to say, "You know each other" Silencing his nose, he took the fish, followed the tax collector, and continued to move forward, and the tax collector saw that his follower was indeed full of money, and the stalls he passed by only collected tax money, and no longer collected things

The eldest grandson shook his head and smiled as if he was sighing and blaming himself, and slowly squatted back behind the stall

At this time, the tax collector walked by after collecting the money from a noodle stall, but the thin white face seemed to think of something, stopped, turned around and asked: "Are you stewed with this powder?" Looking at the noodle stall, it was an old farmer with a wrinkled face and resolute lines, squatting there and answering: "Why don't you stew it with a good alum stew?" The tax collector heard the answer and stopped and looked back, and the thin white face squatted down and pulled the vermicelli and asked: "What kind of grinding sweet potato is not delicious" The old farmer said: "The yellow of the sweet potato My white strip is a serious potato flour " The fine white face was a little impatient: "The strength is not strong "The old farmer said: "If you don't stew, you won't be strong, if you're not stewed, you're not stewed, it's serious, it's slippery and strong."

A look at the vegetables selling next to him This old man really didn't open his eyes People asked this first sentence It is for you to take the initiative to send it Stewed fish with wide flour Why don't you understand this thing I took a handful of coriander at the moment and wrapped it with a rope Tie it into a small bundle and handed it to the thin white face with a smile and said with a smile: "Stewed fish is indispensable for coriander to go fishy and evil The more you eat, the happier you are hahaha" When he turned around, he looked at the old farmer

The old farmer's lips pursed, his eyes were round and entangled, and it seemed that his heart was as clear as a mirror, but he didn't want to give this powder, and his fine white face couldn't hold back, and he smiled: "Forget it" He stood up suddenly, and with the strength of getting up, he picked up the cloth bag in his hand, and threw it on the old farmer's face, and the bag was full of copper coins, and he picked it up one or two pounds, and the force was extremely heavy, and the old farmer was beaten to a crooked body, and he fell into the mud puddle behind him, and the mud was splashed everywhere

The eldest grandson Xiaochi saw it clearly, stood up suddenly, and clenched the scale pole in his hand

The old farmer had blood gushing out of his mouth, his mandible was crooked to the side, and half of his body was covered with black mud soup These didn't matter When he saw that the good noodles were splashed into mud, he was distressed and angry, and he inhaled violently to support himself to get up, but the blood blocked his throat, and he suddenly choked his eyes, and his head was pushed back, and he plunged into the mud and didn't move, and the people around him watched and no one dared to help him

The fine white face didn't seem to expect this old man to be so unbeaten, and he was also a little scared The old tax officer frowned: "It's very old, I see that the money is open, and the tax bag is also something you can touch indiscriminately" made a look at the thin white face: "Forget it, let's go."

The three of them walked away quickly, and they didn't even collect the rest of the tax money People gathered around Someone probed the old farmer's snort and exclaimed: "It's not done" Before the eldest grandson Xiaochi hesitated in his heart This step can't get out Hearing this at this moment, he hurriedly threw the scale rod and divided the crowd to come in and said: "I'll see" squatted down and put his two fingers on the old farmer's wrist The pulse was still busy moving his body to the side Stretching out his palm on his vest and pressing it lightly, the internal strength penetrated into the old farmer's mouth and nose, and the waste blood gushed out Followed by a long inhale, he opened his eyes

Everyone in the audience shouted happily: "Wake up, wake up, people are not dead, people are not dead" Yu Fourth Sister looked surprised: "Oh, my big show, I didn't expect you to order medicine" The old farmer coughed, spit out two teeth, parted people's legs, and then looked at his own mud noodles, and when he was struggling, he was struggling to find the three tax collectors to settle the account, and people even pulled and persuaded: "It's good to pick up a life, what else to toss?" "It's okay to grab the noodles and give him them early, so why bother?" The old farmer shouted: "My noodles are blown by the wind," the eldest grandson said with a smile: "It's a big injury, you better put out the fire first, you see that this bag of powder is also dirty, and people are also hurt, which is more and less."

"Fart" the old farmer scolded: "I have only a few acres of land in my house, the old couple planted potatoes and turned potatoes, turned over potatoes and leaked vermicelli, and pointed to this point in the autumn of the year.

The eldest grandson smiled and said, "Old man"

The old farmer shook his wrist and scolded: "Don't pretend to be a good person here, if you don't give him fish, how would they think of asking for vermicelli" Yu Fourth Sister said: "Look at it, this is not good for you, isn't he also good for you, and people haven't offended you, if it weren't for the show, you held back this blood in your heart Now you have already seen the king of Hades......" The old farmer's eyes suddenly propped up, and he grabbed the wrist of the eldest grandson Xiaochi: "Yes, you are a showman, you can write" Without waiting for the eldest grandson Xiaochi to answer, the fourth sister Yu laughed first: "But isn't it, don't you look at him selling fish......" The old farmer still has the heart to listen Pulling the eldest grandson, he smiled and said, "Let's go, you write a complaint for me, and I'll go to the county to complain."

As soon as the people heard this, they scattered The dog-mouthed Sun shook his head and said: "Look at that little white face is not good The old man in the yamen loves to top his ditch That is also a person with a foundation Don't be stupid I'd rather endure the wind on the four walls for a while than jump further into the fire pit The drums are beating and buzzing The people can't sue the officials "Shaking his head and leading the little grandson back to see the stall."

The eldest grandson Xiaochi pressed on the old farmer's hand: "Old man, the mud on your vermicelli should be cleaned earlier, and it can still be sold, and it will be soaked in muddy water for a long time, I'm afraid it won't be" Saying that, he went back and smoked wicker and wore two big fish, and came back and handed it to the old farmer: "There are those that can't be washed and don't look good, so I will take this fish and stew it and eat it, endure the calm for a while, take a step back, and ...... the sea and the sky."

The old peasant took half a step back on his feet, and tilted his head to look at him, and his two cloudy and yellowish eyes were suddenly covered with a layer of water, like a dead fish on a wicker, and the autumn wind swept him, and shook him again, and the rags on his body trembled

"The sea and the sky...... Sea Wide ...... The sky ......" the old man repeated in his mouth, and repeated these four words twice, and suddenly raised his head to the sky, as if pouring tears back into his eyes, and the wrinkles on his face were twisted, and his nostrils were "humming, hehe", and he couldn't tell whether he was crying or laughing, and for a while, he glanced at the people who were hiding away, looked down and looked at his vermicelli, and finally felt distressed, and pushed the fish back with his lips, bent down, trembled, and shivered, and turned around and went home

The eldest grandson Xiaochi carried these two fish and looked at them, and when he saw his distant back, he raised his hand from time to time, as if he was covering his cheeks, and as if he was wiping his tears, and his expression was also gloomy, and he sighed silently

It wasn't until the afternoon that a basket of fish was considered short, and the small fish cubs were sold cheaply and cleanly, but there were a few big ones left, and no one moved, and the pedestrians saw that they were sparse, and he asked the people around him to help look at the stall, and he took the money out and chose a thick white and blue cloth in the ready-to-wear shop, wrapped it and clamped it under his armpit, and bought salt and rice, and two jars of water and wine, tied it with a straw rope, and carried it On the way back, he saw that the dim sum shop was putting moon cakes outside, and the pieces were red and shiny, steaming, and talked to the shopkeeper, Only then did I know that tomorrow was the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 At this time, the copper coins in my hand had been spent I discussed with the shopkeeper to exchange the fish The shopkeeper smiled: "Cheng, anyway, my family has to buy fish to eat during the festival" The eldest grandson smiled late and picked up a big one and handed it to the shopkeeper The shopkeeper smiled and said: "Ouch, this is not small" and put it aside and pulled out a piece of yellow straw paper in his hand and said: "Wuren'er, jujube paste, egg puree, chestnuts There are all kinds of you can pick it" The eldest grandson Xiaochi thought: "Xiaoxiang loves to eat sweet" and chose a piece of jujube paste and a piece of chestnut and handed it over The shopkeeper took it and said: "Take another piece of it is not tight" The eldest grandson smiled later: "Enough, enough"

The shopkeeper smiled and wrapped it in straw paper, pulled the paper thread and tied a cross flower and handed it to him, saying: "It's you, or a scholar, pay attention to it."

The eldest grandson Xiaochi came back with the moon cakes in his arms and squatted behind the stall Looking at the grain and rice and wine jars around him, he felt a lot more solid The moon cakes in his hands were hot and hot with the temperature of the oven Baking the warmth between his chest and abdomen There was a little wind in the sky Blowing the leaves rattled He guarded for a while Still not seeing the buyer The street became more and more deserted Look at the sky and see that it is dark I don't bother to wait any longer Pack the basket and go home

All the way upstream, I saw that Muxi Xiaozhu was already in sight A lazy singing voice and the pipa came intermittently with the sound of the water The eldest grandson Xiaochi thought to himself: "Xiaoxiang has not sung for many days There is no wine to drink at home today How can you be in such a good mood When you listen carefully, you are singing:" ...... It's you, rain or shine, let things go with the wind, and bias yourself...... Relatively speechless, open two or three sentences, when the love is strong, the love becomes thinner, and the hero is also boring......"

"Uninteresting ......"

He listened to the dull pain in his heart, only to hear the sound of the man laughing in the grass house again, he couldn't help frowning slightly, hurriedly put a few pennies on the shore, put the bamboo raft on the stone, lifted the fish basket straight to the grass house, and suddenly pushed the door in

The music stopped, and I saw Shui Yanxiang holding the pipa in her arms, kneading her nails, leaning on the edge of the table, and the man opposite heard the sound of the door, and looked at this room, his complexion was chestnut black and translucent, and the smile on his face still lingered

The eldest grandson was stunned for a moment: "Brother Chang, it turned out to be you"

"Ah" Chang Sihao smiled and said: "I'm sorry to disturb your seclusion again" The eldest grandson smiled stiffly and said: "Where is it" Put the fish basket on the ground and sweep it with his eyes I saw that there were several plates of cooked food such as cut beef tongue and pig ears on the table There are also two bamboo cups and an open jar with red letters on it The wine is fragrant and the fragrance is clear I know that the water and the fragrance will not go out Then these drinks and food are brought by Chang Sihao

Chang Sihao came over with a smile: "Ouch, I bought a lot of things, what is delicious, take it out and taste it" said and squatted down unceremoniously Stretched out his hand to rummage in the fish basket He stroked his five fingers and touched the two jars of wine first, raised his face and smiled: "Haha, I know that there are good things" grabbed a jar and opened it and smelled it, and frowned: "Hey, what does it smell like, this wine is bad?"

The eldest grandson smiled and smiled: "This is how the wine in the countryside is" But he shook his head again and again: "What's the matter, it's far from the multigrain wine I drank at your last time I bought it on the road is better than you" and slapped another jar and sniffed it, and immediately looked disgusted and moved his nose away: "This altar is all rancid, you have to find him to change it."

Although the eldest grandson smiled and smelled the wine tasted bad, it was far from the level of "rancid" It is a bit exaggerated to say this When he looked up, Shui Yanxiang held the pipa in one hand and held the bamboo cup in the other hand Looking out of the window, his face was expressionless, and he slowly drank a cup and didn't look at it This way He was speechless for a while, lowered his head, took out the salt, rice and other things, and carried them to the kitchen, and when he came back, he saw Chang Sihao still squatting by the fish basket The oil paper bag in his hand was turned upside down and saw that it was a moon cake Deng Shi smiled: "Okay, okay, the Mid-Autumn Festival will be over August 15 Soon I am in a hurry to take care of this and I didn't buy a moon cake to taste." As he spoke, he stood up and put the paper bag on the table, sat down, picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, munched on two bites, looked at the filling, and said in a loud voice: "Okay, haha, the moon is the beauty of my hometown, and the moon cake is the sweetness of jujube paste Hey, I remember the last time I came to eat spring cakes, and I have already eaten moon cakes this time, and this day is really fast." Grabbed the bamboo cup and poured a big sip of wine The moon cake was originally half a palm's size He ate it in two bites and touched the second piece and found that there was no one underneath He said with a surprised face: "Ouch, why are there only two pieces...... This is what you and your sister-in-law are going to eat during the festival Oh, one piece per person As a result, I was asked to eat this piece How do you say sin, sin, sin, and he carefully put the chestnut back again

The thickness of the moon cake is placed there The quantity is also very easy to distinguish The artificiality of his actions is self-evident to anyone The eldest grandson smiled and said: "Brother, don't make fun of us."

Chang Sihao raised Erlang's legs and arched his hand with a smile: "Don't dare, don't dare, break a piece of moon cake in half and eat it, this is why you husband and wife share weal and woe, and the little brother also wants to fulfill you."

Shui Yanxiang stood up and silently hung the pipa on the wall and turned around and entered the inner room The eldest grandson Xiaochi glanced at her back and didn't make a sound, lowered his head and said: "Last time, my husband and wife were very uneasy when I made the virtuous brother go away in a bad mood" Chang Sihao smiled and said: "Everyone has their own ambitions, and it is the younger brother's fault to be strong, how can you blame the elder brother" The eldest grandson looked at him for a while and said, "It's good if you don't blame you" and sat down in the original position of Shui Yanxiang: "I don't know why the virtuous brother is here."

Chang Sihao raised his knees and hugged him, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I'm passing by here on errands, so I'll see if you're used to it."

The eldest grandson smiled late and saw that his words were insincere and deliberate, but he didn't add a little bit of breaking, let alone ask, and responded: "It's okay" Chang Sihao laughed: "Hey, like you, who is used to being rich and rich, likes to take the poor days as fresh Now I am used to eating white rice and fragrant meat, and then go back to chew the roots and eat yams, I'm afraid I won't be able to swallow it." Now stay by this small river ditch without eating, without playing, dry days can go on day by day This is not simple, especially sister-in-law, a woman's family, marrying a man, dressing and eating, if it is me, do you want to suffer this sin with you?" he said, pushing the full wine glass forward, and pouring it for himself

The eldest grandson smiled and smiled: "People are so clear and their hearts are disturbed, people's hearts are quiet and want to be involved, happiness is not about the rich and poor, but whether there is concern and attachment in the heart, I have been prosperous with Xiaoxiang I have long lost interest in those dogs and horses, and now there are rice and vegetables for three meals, playing and singing, and enjoying the clouds and streams, but I don't feel lonely."

"Beauty" Chang Sihao put down the wine jar and patted his thigh: "My ears don't listen to things outside the window, my wife and children are hot on the kang This is the day of the gods, come, I wish you a noble son as soon as possible, do it" The eldest grandson smiled and raised his glass and smiled: "Borrow your auspicious words" The two chatted casually Chang Sihao seemed to be obedient and deliberately did not mention what happened outside The eldest grandson smiled and did not inquire about it Eat a few glasses without saltiness Seeing that it was getting late Chang Sihao got up to say goodbye He did not keep it and sent it to the door Chang Sihao took out the Sanhe Lihua from the back of the house After saying that he cherished it, he took advantage of the moon to hit the horse and tread the stream The white splashes are strung far away and gradually disappear

The eldest grandson stared at the moonlight for a moment, turned around and went back to the house, opened the curtain in the inner room, and sat sideways on the bed in the darkness of the Aomori Forest, silently

He smiled and asked, "Why don't you light the lamp?"

Shui Yanxiang did not answer

The clouds passed through the moon, and the clear light came through the window, gilding the back of her dress with silver bright lines

The silence creates an invisible tension in the room, expanding the space between the two people

The eldest grandson smiled and remembered the lyrics she had played and sang before, and felt physically and mentally sluggish for a while, and turned around with the curtain and was just about to go to get the lamp, when he heard Shui Yanxiang behind him and said: "Xiao Ai, I have something to say."