Qixiangzi

In the early morning of the next day, the fog in the mountain was still there, and the whole mountain was like a fairyland, with a tranquility that was not allowed to be disturbed.

Qi Lun got up very early, he pushed open the window, and the fragrance of mist brushed Qi Lun's cheeks with the breeze, making it chilly.The mist mixed with white and gray made it difficult to see the scenery clearly.After inhaling the first ray of fragrance in the morning, Qi Lun closed the window again, lit a fire and boiled water to wash his hands. By the way, he heated up the leftovers from last night, added some hot soup and stirred them into porridge.

Just when Qi Lun sat down on his buttocks and was about to open his mouth to eat, there was the sound of footsteps rubbing against the soles of shoes outside the house, and the loud footsteps made the birds scream and fly away.Qi Lun raised his eyebrows and continued to drink the porridge with his head down.

You don't even need to open the door to know who is coming.

"Xiaoqi!" The half-hidden door was pushed open roughly, and the powerful voice made the quiet mountain suddenly quiet.

"Brother Er Niu, how many times have I told you, don't call me 'Xiao Qi', and," Qi Lun held the bowl, glanced at the door that was about to fall, and continued, "Open my door fix it."

"Hey, I have strong hands." The tall and strong man standing at the door was dressed in rough cotton and linen, carrying a bundle of firewood and said in a silly way. His thick eyebrows and big eyes when he smiled gave off the feeling of a knight.

His name is Wang Erniu, Aunt Wang's second son, and he is a rough man.He developed earlier than his peers, and he was eight feet tall when he was only seventeen.This made Qi Lun struggle every time he looked at him.

Wang Erniu smiled brightly and quickly took off the firewood on his back, leaned in front of Qi Lun, and said flatteringly, "I brought you delicious food today."

After finishing speaking, he took out the thing wrapped in oil paper from his clothes.

Qi Lun didn't have much interest in the things in his hands, but just ate his porridge silently.

"Hey, Xiao Qi, why are you so cold?" Wang Erniu complained cheekily, "I finally got time to visit you, so you should give me some feedback."

"What are you doing here all the time?" Qi Lun gave Wang Erniu a blank look, as if to say: I didn't let you come.

Wang Erniu loved to pester him since he was a child, and he would never let him go when he grew up. Even if he moved to this mountain, he couldn't stop Wang Erniu's eagerness to see him.

Qi Lun felt that Wang Erniu loved to pester him because of the fragrance on his body.

Just like butterflies and bees love flowers.

"I'm on the way today, my mother asked me to chop some firewood and go home; you see it's foggy today and the road is not easy to walk, so I said, come here, this is the sesame cake my mother made yesterday, it's hot, eat it quickly " Wang Erniu didn't bother to explain anything, he stretched out his big paw and pulled Qi Lun's hand holding the chopsticks, and put the oiled paper bag in his hand.

Unable to do so, Qi Lun put down the bowl and opened the oil bag.

Although the sesame cakes in this farm are not the best delicacy, they are a delicacy for those farmers who are hungry from work.Wang Erniu liked Aunt Wang's sesame cakes the most, but he resisted the urge to eat them all and brought some to Qi Lun.

Of course Qi Lun knew about it.

This stupid big man is still a caring person.Qi Lun put the three sesame cakes in the oil bag on the table with oil paper, and said to Wang Erniu, "You can eat it too."

"No, no, you eat." Wang Erniu hurriedly waved his hands.

"...I can't eat that much, you can eat a piece too." Qi Lun was telling the truth.He has a small physique, and his stomach is naturally too big, so he can't eat three big cakes.

Wang Erniu licked his lips and rubbed his rough palms, as if hesitating.Qi Lun generously pushed the cake in front of him, then picked up a piece with his chopsticks and put it in the bowl, mixed it with a little porridge and ate it.

Wang Erniu looked at Qi Lun, and finally stretched out his hand.

After a simple breakfast, the fog in the mountains has almost dispersed.The bright sunlight made people's eyes hurt a little, Qi Lun went out the door and stretched, and shouted to Wang Erniu inside the room: "Go back quickly, or Aunt Wang will be in a hurry."

"Understood, you really are. I brought you cakes, but you rushed me away, are you so heartless?" Wang Erniu murmured as he carried the firewood on his back.

Qi Lun smiled at him and said, "Thank you."

Wang Erniu looked at Qi Lun's smile and was immediately taken aback.Why does Qi Lun look better than women when she smiles? With crooked eyes and raised eyebrows, Wang Erniu is more fascinated and likes it the more he looks at it.

This can't be blamed on his lust, it's a man's nature, it's really hard to find someone who is more fragrant and beautiful than Qi Lun in the eighteen corners of the mountain.

Seeing that he was in a daze, Qi Lun quickly suppressed his smile, rolled his eyes at him, and urged: "Go down the mountain soon, your elder brother should go to work in the fields, if I don't see you, I will beat you up."

Wang Erniu came back to his senses in a jerk, said "ah, oh" a few times in a panic, and walked out of the room quickly.When he walked two or three meters, he turned his head again and said to Qi Lun: "I will come to you after I finish my work."

"...What do you want me for?" Qi Lun blinked and asked.

"Study." After finishing speaking, he left quickly without waiting for Qi Lun to refuse.Qi Lun shook his head helplessly, and turned around to take care of the flowers and plants inside and outside the house.

Qi Lun is a book lover, apart from flowers and plants, there are shelves of books in the house.He has read almost all the Four Books and Five Classics, but he thinks it is not enough.

Every time Aunt Wang went to the city to sell rouge, she would bring him new books, pens, ink and paper and other writing tools.Qi Lun's talents are not inferior to those of high officials and nobles. If he goes to Beijing to rush for the exam, he will definitely pass the exam.But Qi Lun didn't want to be an official at all, which made Aunt Wang a little helpless. She kept saying: "It's a pity, it's a pity, if you pass the exam, Qi Lun, you will have to work so hard for the country."

Qi Lun knew that Aunt Wang actually wanted her to go to Beijing to take the exam so that she could gain some official air and save face after he passed the exam; It is recommended to go to the palace, then it will be carried forward for the ancestors, and she can rest easy for the rest of her life.

It's a pity that Qi Lun doesn't have that kind of heart.

Qi Lun buried himself in tidying up the weeds in the flowers and plants, feeling a little unhappy.He is very helpless about his impermanent emotions. Sometimes he doesn't know what he is complaining about, what he is worried about, or what he is angry about.

Maybe he is just complaining about this world, there is no one who understands him.

……

"Xiaoqi, look, my handwriting is beautiful!" Wang Erniu shouted joyfully, shaking the ghost painting talisman in his hand.Qi Lun frowned, apparently unable to stand Wang Erniu's penetrating voice.

Just now, Qi Lun was feeling very melancholy, and wanted to wave his hand to write the long lyrical poem "Shocking the world, weeping ghosts and gods" that he finally came up with; After cutting off the worry point, I couldn't think of a word.

"Why did you finish your work so quickly today?" Qi Lun asked as he put down the brush in his hand, and rubbed the ink with his sleeves.

Wang Erniu irregularly grabbed a brush that was thinner than chopsticks and drew talismans on the rice paper. Without raising his head, he said, "My brother allowed it."

"..." Qi Lun didn't believe it. He raised his eyes and saw Wang Erniu's writing brush.Wang Erniu grasped the barrel of the writing brush as if grasping chopsticks, and waved his hands on the paper with trembling hands, as if he wanted to break the writing brush alive.

Qi Lun really couldn't stand it anymore, he reached out his hand to stop him and said, "You want to break this deal, don't you?"

Wang Erniu raised his head to look at him, and asked in puzzlement, "Isn't it just like you grabbing a pen, isn't it right?"

"Is there anyone who grabs a brush like this? You really are here to trouble me. Why don't you go back and help your brother plant the land." Qi Lun complained and snatched the brush from Wang Erniu's hand, and put the brush in his hand , correctly mentioned, "See, this is how you pick up the pen, not for you to grab it."

Wang Erniu made a foolish "oh", and reached out to hold Qi Lun's brush-holding hand.

Qi Lun was startled, and hurriedly broke away from the opponent's big paw, and asked, "What are you doing?!"

"I'm holding your hand to feel it, why are you blushing." Wang Erniu said with a smile.Qi Lun immediately became ashamed and angry when he said this.

Wang Erniu was thick-skinned, and joked with a puzzled smile: "Xiao Qi, are you really a man? I have never seen such a delicate man like you. Not only is your size so small, but your body also needs to be at any time. Carrying incense, like a girl."

After hearing this, Qi Lun put down his brush with an extremely ugly face, pursed his lips and became angry.

After Wang Erniu laughed, seeing that Qi Lun had stopped talking, his heart sank, and he secretly called out that it was not good, not good.He hurriedly sat upright, looked at Qi Lun with pitiful eyes, and whispered: "I was wrong."

Qi Lun didn't even look at him, but let out a "hum" sound from his nose.He hates people saying he looks like a girl the most.Although he has a natural fragrance on his body, it is not voluntary, so how can he get rid of it.

I still remember the last time Wang Erniu said that to him, he was so angry that he didn't say a word to him for a whole month.This time Wang Er's mouth was a little faster, and what he said was like splashed water, and he couldn't come back.

Wang Erniu blamed himself very much. He tugged on Qi Lun's sleeves, wanting Qi Lun not to be angry, but he couldn't explain.

Qi Lun is very petite, and his thin arms and legs make people feel distressed.Therefore, Wang Erniu is always obsessed with Qi Lun, he likes the fragrance of Qi Lun, and he also likes to protect Qi Lun.He said that Qi Lun is like a woman, but he didn't mean to belittle and ridicule him, he often meant the opposite.

He feels that Qi Lun is as fragrant and delicate as a woman, and never annoying; although she looks very delicate, she still has an unyielding backbone in her bones, which he admires; The more he thinks about it, the more confused he is, why isn't Qi Lun a woman... If there is such a woman in the world, he will definitely marry and go home!

But Wang Erniu thought so, Qi Lun didn't think so.

"Go back, it's getting dark, don't let Aunt Wang worry about it." After Qi Lun finished speaking sullenly, he stood up while supporting the table, and put away the pen and paper on the table.

Wang Erniu lay on the bench, unwilling to get up, "I have already told my mother, I will have dinner here tonight."

Qi Lun continued to chase the guests indifferently.

"I don't have extra bowls and chopsticks, and I don't have enough food to greet you. After dark, the mountain road is difficult to walk. What if you accidentally encounter some wild beast or fall, Aunt Wang will definitely blame you. Go back quickly." .”

"...It's useless for you to scare me. Besides, if the outside is really as dangerous as you said, then I might as well just make do with you for one night." Wang Erniu said cheekily.Qi Lun was so choked that he had nothing to say, he scowled and glared at Wang Erniu.

Wang Erniu did not hesitate, and continued: "You have lived alone in this mountain for so long, so why can't I stay here? I am also worried about your safety. You are alone, and I always I'm afraid that something will happen to you, with me here, at least you are safe."

"You always use my mother to oppress me. I only stay for a while, and you rush to drive me away. Do you hate me so much?" After speaking, Wang Erniu raised his head and looked directly into Qi Lun's eyes.

Qi Lun stood, being looked up at so suddenly and inexplicably, his heart trembled slightly.

Wang Erniu's eyes were piercing, with a trace of begging and grievance.It looks like a dog abandoned by its owner. It's very pitiful. Qi Lun can't help feeling compassionate.

That's right, compassion for bereaved dogs.

After a long while, he sighed, and said, "Just for tonight." The barking ox immediately wagged its tail happily, and was short of two cheerful "woofs".