[Full-time Zhou Ye] Shenghua

The young master Zhou who came from the city first met the famous Young Master Ye when he was six years old when he returned to his hometown to escape the summer heat.

The summer of that year was extremely hot, and with the endless calls of cicadas in the woods, the heat wave was rolling and the sound was inspiring.There are many bricks and tiles in the city, which cannot dissipate the heat. On the contrary, there are more rough mountains and rivers in the countryside, and the heat dissipates faster.That year, the summer vacation of the Western-style school was longer than in previous years, and the Zhou family and his wife, who had returned from studying in the south of the city, took the young master to find a house in the countryside to escape the summer heat.

Speaking of which, this township has a name, single-character crossing, because there is a small river on the side of the township, which is not deep and not shallow. If you row south for fifteen miles, you can join the Shoushui rushing to the sea. In addition, the surrounding official roads There are quite a few, so there are always passing tourists here.Year after year, this township and this river have been crossed by hundreds of tourists, and the names of "crossing the river" and "crossing the township" have gradually spread.

Young Master Zhou is only six years old, and he has just learned to write his name crookedly on paper. He seems to understand that the three dots of water are Ze from "Ze Bei Cang Sheng", and the regular script next to the wooden characters is the same as "Zigong Shou Zhi Kai". , but the sound is different, it should be pronounced triumphant triumph.Xiaotuanzi inherited the good looks of his parents, and was nourished by the rain and fog of the mountain city, becoming more and more lovely every year.His primordial knowledge was learned in the city. Although he is young, he acts independently and generously. When he has doubts, he will ask people straightforwardly. It is a stocking attitude, so within two days of going to the countryside, the child dared to explore nature by himself.

In the afternoon of that day, Young Master Zhou was holding a kite and flying it in front of his house, avoiding a flower on the left and a grass on the right. In the depths of the orange forest.He stumbled and stumbled, and the kite flew up and down, finally catching the steady wind and flying into the sky, but fell into the bushes in a blink of an eye.Young master Zhou put away and put away the ball of thread in his hand, but he still couldn't pull back the flower swallow that had grown on the orange tree. Gritting his teeth and stomping his feet, he simply stepped on the knotty tree and sprinted hard, grabbing the disobedient kite above his head.

It's a pity that kites are easy to catch, but trees are hard to get down.In the afternoon, it was the climax of the heat and boredom, and every household was resting behind closed doors, and no one would go into the orange grove.Young master Zhou, who is known for his ability to execute, was helplessly trapped, so he had to pick a thicker branch and sit there, staring at the inedible green oranges that were full of trees.

So when Mr. Ye came to patrol the forest with the grasshopper he had finally obtained, what he saw was such a picture of a "beauty holding a kite and looking at an orange".Mr. Ye was eight years old at the time, and his single name was a repair character. He was the elder brother of the Ye family's twins. When he was four years old, he moved with his parents from the north. Going up the tree to dig out bird eggs is all about skill. At the worst time, a pair of wooden slingshots can make the neighbors fly and dogs jump around day and night.This orange grove is the garden of Ye's family. It is full of vitality in summer. There are trees, grass, birds and insects. The eldest son likes to take his younger brother on patrol every day.

Recently, due to the extremely humid weather, Young Master Ye accidentally suffered from heatstroke and was ordered to recuperate at home, so Young Master Ye was the only one patrolling the forest.He pestered his servant who was going to the market in the morning to order a very delicate grasshopper. The grasshopper was the size of a palm, green and lovely, except for the fact that it was obviously too large, it could almost be mistaken for the real one.The owner of the grasshopper was just at the head of the excitement. He was pawing or rolling, running or jumping in the woods by himself, sometimes squeaking and screaming as insects, and sometimes pretending to be a villain with a wicked smile. At the end, he wiped his face back to the right way , Holding up his new "Love Riding" to drive insects from the left to chase birds from the right, and "guard" his own fruit trees one by one.

Young Master Zhou is sitting on No. 20 eight orange trees he "guards". He is wearing a green coat and holding a swallow kite. Down.

When Mr. Ye saw the person, his eyes were amazed, but there was another air on the top of his mouth: "Hey, where did the orange thief come from!"

Seeing that someone finally came, Young Master Zhou's eyes lit up, dimpled and he answered squarely: "I don't steal, pick up the kite, I can't get down, can you help me?"

Mr. Ye didn't know what "beauty deceives people" at this time, but he was born with a weak bottom line - he just felt that his soul was taken away by this little beauty's smile, and he stood under the tree like a goose, He raised his face half south and half north and replied, "Ah? Cheng... ok."

Two quarters later.

"Hey, you're too timid, Zhou Ze...what's the matter? Don't worry, you're just jumping. I'm wasting energy moving all this firewood." Mr. Ye wiped the sweat off his face, Beauty can only make him more patient for half an hour at most.

"...Zhou Zekai." Young master Zhou looked down at the weeds and branches piled up all over the ground under the trees, but he still couldn't believe that such a low configuration could complete the important task of cushioning: "The clothes...will be hung up?"

Out of the reservedness unique to little boys, he didn't ask what to do if the skin hurts.

Mr. Ye had ashes on his hands, so he wiped himself into a smudged cat, and now his mouth is dry and his tongue is exhausted: "How could it be, this firewood is solid, let's learn how to climb trees It’s all practiced like this! If you still don’t believe it... I, Ye Xiuxing, will not change my name or surname, if I lie to you this time, I will, I will be struck by lightning!"

Mr. Ye's life experience of eight years is too short, and after searching for a long time, he only found out such a sentence of swearing and swearing to fool people.Unexpectedly, before his words fell, there was a series of rolling thunder rumbling in the sky—the two of them realized that the dampness of the past few days was paving the way for this thunderstorm.

There are many thunderstorms in Du Township in summer, and every year there are big-hearted people who hide from the rain under the tree and are killed by lightning.When Ye Xiu heard the muffled thunder, his face turned blue and white from choking, then he clicked his tongue, opened his arms, and said with a serious expression: "I think you must be younger than me, so I'll call you Xiao Zhou." That's right. Xiao Zhou, if it's thundering and raining, you won't have more than a little flesh wound on the tree, so you jump quickly, and I'll follow you below, so I promise you won't hurt at all."

The sound of thunder rolled towards them like a talisman, Zhou Zekai followed Father Zhou to read the newspapers for half a month, and he also knew that Xia Lei in this mountain city is very powerful, so he forced himself to calm down and asked with a pale face, "Really?"

Ye Xiu gritted his teeth, shook off his beloved grasshopper, took a rather unreal horse stance, and shouted at him, "Just jump, you can't fake it!"

"Then I jumped—"

"Boom—"

"What are you laughing at, if it wasn't for picking you up, why would brother leave such a meritorious medal!"

The 14-year-old Ye Xiu made a gesture and flew the stone that the crab had moved into the river, but the stone was too big and sank without a single float.

He had just rolled up his sleeves above his elbows in order to catch crabs, just revealing the scar he had made to catch someone.The scar looked scary at the time, but now the scab has fallen off, leaving only a crescent-shaped mark.The newly grown flesh is a little hypertrophic, crescent white, and it feels a little slippery to the touch.

The 12-year-old Zhou Zekai came over to touch it curiously, and said with a smile, "I'm not mocking you, but I'm happy. Fortunately, you got it right."

Six years ago, when the thunderstorm was overwhelming, Young Master Zhou didn't dare to dawdle any longer, and jumped down as soon as he closed his eyes.Although the orange tree was not tall, it was still big enough for a six-year-old boy like him.Fortunately, Ye Xiu, who was eight years old at the time, was taller and stronger than him. Standing on the pile of firewood, he managed to catch him, and the two of them hugged each other for a few more laps, and finally landed safely.

Mr. Ye kept his word and kept his promises. He picked it up as soon as he said it, and it didn’t hurt if he said it didn’t hurt. Zhou Zekai was tightly protected in his arms, but he didn’t get hurt at all. On the contrary, his elbow cracked when he rolled on the ground by himself. To the gravel under the tree.The two found a shelter before the rain fell, and Zhou Zekai didn't notice the winding blood line on the back of Ye Xiu's hand until the rain and thunder outside the eaves had passed the most violent three stops.The six-year-old child looked up at the red dot, and actually saw two bags of tears just like that.

"Wow-"

"Hey ancestor, don't cry, you just got stuck in the tree for so long, didn't you cry! Hey hey hey, it's okay, just scratched a little bit, you Yexiu brother is really skinny—"

"sorry--"

After all, the little baby's acceptance is limited, no matter how strong she usually looks, she really panics when she sees blood.

"Hey my dear, you are so hoarse from crying, people think I bullied you." Ye Xiutian is not afraid of anyone, but he is afraid of seeing people cry - he usually bullies Ye Qiu at home. Seriously, the latter used this trick to complain in front of Ye's father and Ye's mother.He circled around Zhou Zekai several times, and finally came up with a way to divert his attention: "See if this works, my brother will take you to cross the river tomorrow to touch crabs, how about it? Have you ever seen crabs? On the edge of the river, It is as big as your palm, with eight legs. It likes to hide in the crevices of rocks to enjoy the cool. If you can hold its shell quickly, it will not be able to turn over. If you catch it and keep it in a tank, it can play well For a while!"

Sure enough, Zhou Zekai was distracted by the "crab" that appeared out of nowhere, sobbed a few times, and asked him tentatively: "Really?"

Ye Xiu saw that there was something going on, and hurriedly responded: "Really, did you lie about what Ye Xiu said! Come on, come on, wipe your tears away, let me tell you, touching crabs on the river beach is very important... ..."

How could he have expected at that time that this casual remark would actually become a regular program that the two of them would revisit every year.

……

Zhou Zekai moved a stone away, just in time to bump into a big guy who was eager to eavesdrop and was rushing into the crevice of the stone. He stretched out his thumb and index finger quickly and picked up a fat crab in a blink of an eye.

Not only the two of them were on the shore, but also a bridge repairer hired by the village. Someone saw him not far away and whistled at him: "Ba Shi!"

The lad who was praised just smiled and didn't respond.

Ye Xiu kicked his bucket over, picked up a clean stone and sat down: "There are fewer and fewer crabs here every year, and this time you are the first to open the business. But then again, you are really talking less and less."

"Less words and more actions are the truth." Zhou Zekai took a few steps and threw the crab into his bucket: "You forced it, it's your fault."

Ye Xiu didn't comment on his theory of silence, but he understood the second half of the statement after throwing away the cause and effect: "That's not true, if I didn't go through it one by one first, maybe which one is still in your hand?" Sleeping in the crevice!" The boy paused, then pouted again: "Thank you. I don't know if it will be turned over next year. Well, for the bridge repair, there are probably not a few of these stones left on the beach."

A crossing river separates Du Township from the official road outside. Although the wharf is prosperous, it is inconvenient for boats to come and go.The mountain city and the official road are on the other side of the river. Every time Zhou Zekai comes from the city, he has to pass through the waterway. The muddy road on the bank is difficult to walk. Ye Xiu always runs to the pier to pick him up early when he is free. .

The young man hummed, picked out a well-shaped stone from his hands, and filled in the water float that Ye Xiu hadn't hit just now: "It's fixed, are you still here to pick it up?"

The person being asked stood up and stretched, and angrily crumpled the top of his head into a ball of chicken coop: "Take it——our young master of the Zhou family is so delicate, maybe he's still crying when he catches it securely. Let's go." , I'm so bored today, let's go down to the river to take a bath."

Zhou Zekai already had physiology class in the school schedule this year, he was taken aback when he heard this: "No clothes?"

"Yo, you know you're ashamed?" Ye Xiu turned his head and gave him a narrow look, "It's okay, we're all men, hide in the bamboo forest over there and get out of the water before going into the water. The bamboo is blocking it, so people outside can't see it."

People on the outside can't see it, but people on the inside can't see it more clearly.

The last time the two of them went to the river to take a bath was when Zhou Zekai was nine years old. The little boy was busy all day tangling with endless arithmetic and foreign language, and he had no idea about this aspect.Now that there are classes in the school, I understand everything I need to know, and the taste changes completely when I look at it again.Ye Xiu finished taking it off first, then turned around and saw that he was tangling up at the hem of his trousers, and he chuckled, "No way, why don't you just take a walk, what do you have that I don't have? Why are you so shy! Well, I don't want to look at it." , go down first."

Zhou Zekai didn't say a word, watched him enter the water, then quietly walked to the other end of the bamboo bushes, took off his clothes and swam over.The boy developed early, and his height grew like a bamboo just after he was 12 years old, but no one except himself knew that it was not only his body that was stretched this time, but also the secret thoughts of the boy in the middle of the night.

"How can it be the same." "He stared at the back of the other party, which was whiter than last summer vacation, and he always had an inexplicable premonition in his heart.

The two of them swam halfway, and the gods started to drop water beads again. Fortunately, there was no thunder this time.It was raining moderately, and the bright sun was mostly hidden at first, and then it was exposed for a few moments from time to time. The two tossed and hid for a few times, and finally put on their clothes and waited for the rain under the bamboo shade stop.Ye Xiu has recently become obsessed with shooting guns, and was gesticulating with Zhou Zekai to describe the new love he just got, when he suddenly heard a loud bang and a low bang from the pier not far away. The daughter-in-law of Kun Ren is about to give birth, and it may be a little difficult to give birth. At the moment, she is being carried by more than a dozen people to cross the river to the city.

"Is it a man?" Zhou Zekai was only there for summer vacation, except for the vicinity of his own house, he didn't know the people who came and went in Du Township very well.

In the world, men and women are regarded as yin and yang, and under yin and yang, they are divided into three realms: Qian, Zhong, and Kun. Among them, there are many middle people and few Qiankun people, especially Kun people who are weak and procreate.But Kun's body is yin, and generally there are more women than men, so if a family marries a man, Kun, it is not a big news in the countryside.

Ye Xiu stretched out his head and looked carefully for a while, then frowned and said, "Yeah, I married with gongs and drums the year before last... I haven't seen him go down in the stomach. I heard that this time I'm pregnant with twins, and the Qian family is very precious. But This is too well raised... Tsk, I dare not think about it."

Hearing this, Zhou Zekai looked not far away, just in time to see that Kun from the Qian family almost rolled off the stretcher in pain, and the clothes on his swollen belly were drenched by the rain, outlining a frightening silhouette.

Ye Xiu watched carefully, halfway through, he suddenly grabbed his wrist and sighed, "Tsk, that stomach movement is really not small!"

The world is always novel for the untrained teenagers, and even life and death are covered with a layer of fantasy or curiosity.Zhou Zekai suddenly felt a little annoyed, so he withdrew his hand silently, dug out a piece of clam shell from the mud and played with it for a while, and said in a muffled voice, "People from Kun...do they always have children?"

Ye Xiu withdrew his eyes and turned back to sit upright, looking at him with a half-smile: "Why, are you afraid that you will become a Kunren in a few years?" After saying that, he leaned forward again, pretending to be a street bully molesting a Kunren from a good family Turning Zhou Zekai's face to look carefully: "Don't say, Xiao Zhou, your appearance is becoming more and more refined every year, I think it's interesting."

Zhou Zekai was really annoyed now, he slapped his hand off, and said in a deep voice, "You're the one to play."

"Don't tell me, I don't dare to borrow this auspicious words." Ye Xiu was not angry, he reached out and pulled off a bamboo leaf, put it in his mouth, picked up a sprinkling of water and said, "I'm done, wait two years and you will go abroad to study I'm going to join the army, the world is becoming more and more uneasy, and I need a sharpshooter like my brother."

The self-proclaimed sharpshooter smiled proudly, and made a gesture of firing a gun to the sky, with a clear and clear voice: "So, every day, I hope that I can decompose into a dry person after I sleep, and I don't talk much about guns." Load it, bang, bang, bang, when you come back from graduation, I will just give you peace and prosperity!"

The fact that Zhou Zekai wanted to study abroad was a decision he had made since he first entered a Western-style school, and there was no need to change it.Unlike him, Ye Xiu studied in a traditional private school. The Ye family meant that they didn't want their eldest son to go so far away.Ye Xiu had quarreled with his family before, but in the past two years, he has become obsessed with the military life of carrying guns and defending the country, so he gradually stopped yearning for Western things and started talking about Guotai Minan.

Although Zhou Zekai is two years younger than him, his mind is not lacking at all—he has seen more in Western schools, and he knows well that both peace and troubled times can emerge from the barrel of a gun.Ye Xiu thought about joining the army for the past two years until his ears became callused. At the beginning, he would also ask the other party: What if there is no peace?

Ye Xiu smiled coolly, and replied: That's why I didn't let my brother fight.

Those who are younger brothers no longer question it.

Chinese studies started late in the Western-style school, and he only recently learned a Yuefu tune, which is obviously a very sad tune, but seeing the man in front of him who can't be more airy, the word came to his mind inexplicably: "Gong Wu crossed the river, Gong unexpectedly Crossing the river. What can I do to die by crossing the river?"

Its helpless.

The listeners looked at the ripples left by the ferry in a trance, and it took a long time before they came back to their senses: "There are few people."

"Then...middle people are fine, anyway, they don't have to be locked up at home to have children like Kun people." Ye Xiu's tone was relaxed, as if he had never considered the possibility of becoming Kun people.

Zhou Zekai frowned, and wanted to open his mouth to say something, but he was grabbed by the shoulders, only to hear the other party smile: "What are you frowning for, you can go to study at ease, anyway, no matter what happens in the end, just remember that there are still people waiting to pick you up at the pier That's it-"

"what----!"

A scream suddenly exploded in front, followed by the sound of falling into the water one after another.Both of them turned their gazes over together, and saw that the boat carrying the laboring Kun people was going to the middle of the river. It seemed that someone had fallen into the river right now. The rain and fog were heavy, and people on the shore couldn't see the situation clearly.

The cry was so frightening that the two couldn't help but stand up and wait and see. After half a quarter of an hour, they seized the gap of the fog to see clearly that a group of people carried something ashore.The one being lifted seemed to be a person in extreme pain, with a high abdomen, struggling and urging all the time.Ye Xiu's eyes were familiar, and he recognized it immediately: "Why did the Qian family let that Kun man fall into the river?!"

The yell became sharper, and Zhou Zekai subconsciously grasped Ye Xiu's hand.

The river wind whimpered, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier. Amid the crackling rain, the sound of sex on the other side of the river changed from high to low, and gradually weakened.Fog shrouded the river again.

The innocent teenagers sat in the bamboo forest, holding hands, watching the thrilling rain.After a long time, the sound of the rain gradually subsided, and they finally heard someone shouting loudly in the distance: "Little! Little! Of course it's Baoxiao!"

……

The two remained silent for an unknown amount of time. Ye Xiu felt his neck stiffen, and his voice was so hard that it would break if touched: "Kun people... shouldn't be like this."

Zhou Zekai sat side by side with him, and there was no age difference between the two of them in terms of stature.Hearing the words, the precocious boy lightly pinched the other's palm, and said softly, "Well, I'm here."

Zhou Zekai never imagined that it was easy for him to say "I am here" when he was 12 years old, but it took him 16 years to actually get to Ye Xiu's side.

For 16 years, the Kun people of the Qian family survived the hell of giving birth to twins, but two years later, they died because of dystocia of their daughter.Although Zhou Zekai was two years old, Xiao Yexiu and the latter split up in the same year. Unfortunately, the latter became a Kun person whom he had never expected. Fortunately, he had a high fever for two days after being teased as "Kun Xiang". Hit those who can carry it.

Ye Xiu recognized Kun's identity, but he didn't admit that he couldn't serve in the army.

Since then, Zhou Zekai has sealed the Yuefu poem that came into his mind at an untimely time and kept it in the depths of his memory—what is the difficulty of crossing the river? Since Ye Xiu wants to cross it, he will build the bridge.

Then he took Ye Xiu's gift gun to study abroad, abandoned his literature and parachuted into reincarnation from Wushu, and with his help, the latter concealed his identity as a Kunren, and finally entered the military camp he was thinking of.And then the title of "Cloud Piercer" intimidated the world, and the name of "Ye Qiu" in the army became louder and louder, and then...peace came, "Ye Qiu" died, and Ye Xiu returned home.

They meet again under the orange tree, but this is just the beginning of another karma.After being separated for too long, they don't know a lot about each other, such as positions, such as ideals... They don't even know that someone has been watching everything in the dark.

This marriage is poisonous, and reunion is poisonous.

From the very beginning, they were doomed to stand on opposite sides.

A few months later, at a certain moment when Zhou Zekai raised his gun to aim in Jiangcheng, a fire fell and spread in a mountain city thousands of miles away, until nothing was left.

……

There is nothing left.

The last time Zhou Zekai passed by the Duanhe Wharf was a fine day in late spring.

He stood on the boat and looked up at the familiar orange forest.The water mist obstructed his sight, but he knew that at this time, the clouds and white flowers were blooming enthusiastically on the other side of the water mist, and when the boat moved, all the past events would be scattered along the two sides of the bank.The river wind was still whimpering, he listened carefully, and for a while he heard someone laughing in the wind, and for a while he heard someone singing mournfully:

"The public does not cross the river

The father actually crossed the river!

cross the river and die

What a shame..."

Crossing rivers and villages, crossing hundreds of journeys, it is difficult to cross the dead, and it is even more difficult to cross the survivors.

End

Attachment: first time in this life

Zhou Zekai came out of the large conference room on the first floor, just as Jiang Botao was waiting outside the door. Kong waited outside the door, it was obvious that the regular method was almost chosen.

Samsara is about to start several big projects, and the legal department has been reporting for several days, saying that some non-litigation matters are too professional, and a professional legal service agency should be hired—that means that it is complaining that the company now hires them The permanent legal agency is not professional enough and needs to be replaced.Zhou Zekai, who was in charge of this area, thought about it for a few days, and approved the report of the legal department, but he pointed out that he should find the most professional one - the amount of the new project is so big that it is a matter of life and death, and reincarnation is not bad for this service fee.

The two of them had to go upstairs immediately for this week's high-level meeting, and there was still a corridor away from the elevator. Seeing him go out, Jiang Botao stuffed the report into his hands: "It's almost done, Excellent Era's quotation is higher than expected Be gentle, since the boss has given the order, we will grit our teeth and invite the best."

Zhou Zekai looked down at Excellent Era's report while walking. Both sides of the corridor were made of glass, and there were still a few windows open. He stopped in front of one of them and carefully glanced at the key figures.

The numbers were fine, but the report was splashed by the rain outside the window.

Two elevators are just ahead, and they both stop at this floor at the moment, one has just got off, and the arrow is still going down, it seems that there is still a plan to go to the parking lot; live.

After Zhou Zekai confirmed, he stepped forward.

The door of the elevator that was about to go down opened, but no one came out. Jiang Botao turned his head and glanced at someone he knew inside, so he casually greeted him: "Oh, Lawyer Ye, what a coincidence! Excellent Era, right? Be careful driving!"

The people in the elevator replied a few words, Zhou Zekai stood far away, couldn't hear the specific content clearly, only heard a somewhat hoarse male voice - the kind of low that only smokers have been smoking all year round.

He passed the last open window, subconsciously turned his head and glanced out the window.The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the mighty momentum seemed to have turned the entire river upside down on the sky, a kind of arrogance that would not stop until it drenched the entire world.

After the conversation in front ended, the elevator doors closed slowly. He turned his head and followed the source of the sound at the last second when the elevator doors were fully closed.

At this second, his heart beat suddenly too fast.

……

The elevator doors are fully closed.

Heartbeat returns to normal.

In fact, from Zhou Zekai's perspective, he couldn't see the man's face at all, the only thing he could catch was a shadow of the corner of his clothes.

The upward elevator on this floor stopped for too long and started to call the police. Jiang Botao turned around and urged him: "What are you doing, you're going to be late."

Zhou Zekai closed Excellent Era's report, pointed to the messy row of windows and said, "It's better to close them, the wind is a bit strong."

He casually put away the paper in his hand and prepared to step into the elevator, but stopped again with a "hiss".

"What's wrong?" Jiang Botao asked in the elevator.

"It's okay, paper paddle." Zhou Zekai glanced lightly at the bloody index finger, crushed it casually, and stepped into the elevator.

Today is also an ordinary day.

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There are also two past life episodes that were written by relatives and friends, because I am not the author so I didn't move them here.