beg for chivalry

The green peaks stand tall and the white waterfalls soar.The stone railings of the Diaojiaolou are tied with dense vines like spider webs, intertwined and entangled with each other, spreading densely into the deep forest, entwined on thick and strong branches, and swaying leisurely with the wind.

To escape from the stilted building, the stone steps in front of the main room have been surrounded by Gu people, making it difficult to pass.The only way out is the vines that have been woven into a net. Zuo Sanniang spent half the night last night to tie the vines firmly on the tree, so as to prepare for her escape this morning.She didn't do much rough work, her fingertips were rubbed red and the skin was torn, and she was feeling faint pain at this moment.

Zuo Sanniang passed the rattan rope through the bamboo basket and fastened it firmly to the stone railing, and smiled one last time at the dumbfounded Mu Yagong and Feng Heli: "Goodbye, father, mother."

After finishing speaking, she landed lightly like a tree sparrow, and slid up the tree with the bamboo basket in her hands, only hearing the whistling wind, she jumped among the dense branches in a short while.Last night, she begged Mu Shuang'er to bring her the fragrant glutinous rice balls from the valley, not for food, but for the bamboo basket that could only slide her through the rope.

Mu Yagong recovered from the shock, rushed to the stone fence and shouted: "San'er, wait!"

Sanniang shouted loudly: "Wait! You don't have to give it away!" She grabbed the bamboo basket, and the bamboo basket was hung on the tree vine.The ivy is like a long rope, which is connected to the banyan leaf beside the waterfall, twisting the branches layer by layer.Her figure swayed in the wind, like a lonely withered leaf, which made people tremble with fear.

Feng Heli hurriedly patted Mu Yagong's arm, and said, "Let everyone in the valley chase her!" The mountains and hills in Guzhou can run faster than monkeys.Hearing this, Wooden Yagong yelled under the stone railing, begging the fast-footed young man to catch up with Zuo Sanniang, as expected, a few black shadows shot out like arrows, and rushed towards Sanniang's direction , disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Zuo Sanniang stood on the rock beside the waterfall, the cool wind blew her slightly messy hair and slightly raised the hem of the lotus root skirt.She was standing on tiptoe, stepping on the boulder with her toes, holding the bamboo basket with both hands, and the handle of the bamboo basket was hanging on the ivy.She stared at the other end of the waterfall, behind the deafening sound of water and the magnificent turbulent waves was a steep mountain wall.She wants to go to the other side, through the grass and forest, and out of the Valley of Ten Thousand Doctors.

Behind him came the rustling of crowds pulling leaves through the forest, and more and more people were coming here.Sanniang looked at the furious and roaring water waves, and couldn't help feeling a little apprehensive.Thousands of ferocious beasts seemed to lurk in the gray water, waiting to tear her into pieces with their fangs outstretched.

The valley men caught up, with tiny spots of mud on their faces and tiny scrapes of sawgrass on their fingers.They are connected like a city wall, just like when Zuo Sanniang first saw them.Standing in front were some young men, they were out of breath, and asked Zuo Sanniang eagerly and doubtfully: "San'er, why are you leaving?"

"Didn't you just come back for one night? Yagong and Mistress haven't seen enough of you yet, leaving now will definitely make them sad."

These valley people have stayed in this valley for many years, their minds are simple, and they are overly eager.Even though she knew in her heart that she had made a mistake, she still put a smile on her face at this moment.

Zuo Sanniang looked back at them through the knee-deep weeds. After a long time, a smile appeared on her face: "I'm not going back."

"I stole the return pill, and I stole it when my father and mother were unprepared. Everything is my fault and has nothing to do with them."

Hearing the word "Huan Dan", everyone's expressions changed slightly.Silence hung over them in the deep forest.There were rustling noises in the crowd, maybe they were whispering to each other, discussing what she just said.Soon, the crowd separated from the left and right sides, and an old woman with a dove stick and a brocade headkerchief came out, her face wrinkled like dry bark.

The old woman tremblingly said: "You... really took the pill back?"

Sanniang tilted her head and said, "Yes, I came back to the valley to get the pill back. Father and mother didn't want to give it to me, so I took it myself, that's how it is."

"Huandan can't heal all diseases, nor can it heal all injuries. San'er, I also watched you grow up. Apart from your parents, and the brothers and sisters in Guli, there are more close ones in this world. Do you love your people?" The old woman took a few breaths and said intermittently, "Stay here, we... won't harm you, and we don't want to watch you being deceived by outsiders."

Zuo Sanniang shook her head, said with a sad smile: "It's late, nothing can tell me to turn around."

With a slight push on her toes, she grabbed the bamboo basket and jumped towards the turbulent water waterfall, and her body rose into the air.The wind howled and blew behind her ears, and she skimmed across the water, creating waves of spray.In the field of vision is the scene of Gu people rushing to the shore clamoring, anxious faces surged on the distant stone shore, calling her name one after another.Sanniang stared at them blankly, a sour feeling suddenly appeared in her eyes.She had been away from them for ten years, and it was only a day since she came back to the valley, but they always believed in themselves, and still regarded her as the child who was babbling a long time ago.

The bamboo basket brushed against the vines, and the figures of the valley people were getting closer and closer to her, like a group of ants gathered together.But the shout is still sent along the wind, with hazy sadness and earnestness:

"San'er—come back—"

Zuo Sanniang closed her eyes and clenched her teeth.With her hands on the rim of the basket, she couldn't cover her ears, so the mournful cry flowed into her ears like a trickle.She opened her eyelids a little, and vaguely saw two figures in the crowd.One was a man of forty with a goatee and a crown of vines, and the other was a woman in a black sarong.Mu Yagong and Feng Heli looked at her from a distance, their expressions seemed to be about to shed tears at any moment.

She lied to them and stole Huandan, along with their trust in her.

Her heart was stuffed like a boulder, Zuo Sanniang exhaled, and turned her head to miss their fiery eyes.But at this moment, only the creaking sound of the green vines above the head was heard, the bamboo basket in his hand was loosened suddenly, and the whole person sank down horribly, and the hem of the skirt instantly sank into the icy cold water waterfall!

Sanniang screamed, but saw that the branch tied with the vine on the bank was about to break, and the crack was getting bigger and bigger, showing a hideous fracture.It turned out that she was in a hurry when tying the ivy, so she didn't tie it to death.The branch was infested with beetles and couldn't help pulling it, and now it burst open!If one falls into this rapid waterfall, one might be crushed on rocks by the turbulent waves, or one's limbs will be torn apart by the raging waves and turned into fish bait.

A sharp sense of fear swept over her heart, she might die here, Zuo Sanniang thought, cold sweat pouring down her forehead.When she was planning to escape from the valley last night, she had already thought about several bad situations. The valley people who were furious because the pill was stolen would rush up and cut her into pieces with a scythe.Or when you want to climb the bamboo basket and slide over the long rope, you may feel sore arms on the way, and you can no longer hold on and fall into the deep valley.But she gritted her teeth until this point, even though she had overcome so many hardships, she still couldn't escape in the end.

She fell in the air like a bird with its wings broken.Desperation filled her heart, she thought, the Gu people would definitely not save her.Because she is no longer the Mu San'er who lived intimately with people in the valley ten years ago, but Zuo Sanniang who once had blood on her hands in Houtianlou.She stole the Dan and still refused to listen to dissuasion. She should have been expelled from the valley people long ago.Presumably, the parents who are the owner of the valley are also unwilling to help a bad girl who stole the property of the valley.

But at this moment, her falling body suddenly stopped.

There was no severe pain as imagined, nor the feeling of separation of flesh and blood. The wind in the ear gradually softened, and finally only the soft wind that seemed to be whimpering hovered in the ear.

Zuo Sanniang opened her eyes in a daze, but saw the Gu people on the bank gathered in one place, the wooden duck male leaning his legs against the boulder by the waterfall, with veins in his arms, trying to pull the previously tethered duck with all his strength. On the branch, almost broken tree vines.The people in the valley raised the vine rope with their hands like densely growing branches, and let her slide slowly to the opposite bank.

Sanniang firmly grasped the edge of the bamboo basket, getting further and further away from them.Gradually, the faces of the Gu people were blurred on the distant shore, and Zuo Sanniang could only see their little sesame dots wrapped in black cloth headscarves.

"you……"

Her throat suddenly choked.Perhaps it was because of the glare of the sun, the eye sockets were sore and swollen, and tears rolled down after a while.The Gu people raised the vines high until she landed on the opposite bank, and then slowly retracted their hands one by one.Zuo Sanniang couldn't see their faces clearly anymore, she stood alone in the dense forest, the two banks were separated by a mighty waterfall, and the valley people watched her silently from the other side, the dark figure and the solid body Mountains and rocks merge into one.

Is she forgiven?Zuo Sanniang thought anxiously.If she was in Houtianlou, even a little disobedience to the landlord would be punished with death. Stealing the return pills out of the valley is a heinous crime. She should not be forgiven, and she has made up her mind not to return to the valley in this life.Mu Yagong and Feng Heli, her parents should be extremely disappointed with her, and her name should become a taboo in the valley from now on, and everyone will despise her.

Zuo Sanniang turned her back cruelly, and walked into the shadowy woods, leaving the figures of the Gu people behind.

After taking a step, she couldn't help but turn her head, only to see a dark figure still standing on the opposite bank.The man in the black cloth shirt and the woman in the black cloth skirt are all watching her from afar, like a silent forest.

She took two steps, three steps, four steps, and turned her head every time, but every time she could catch a glimpse of the dim figures of the people in the valley.They were like beacons standing there forever, looking forward to her turning back, but watching her go.

A gust of wind blows, rustling the vegetation in the forest, and the fine leaves are flying all over the sky.The wind brought a distant sound, and when it fell on Zuo Sanniang's ears, it faintly turned into a trembling of the window pane.The Gu people on the other side seemed to start shouting loudly, wanting to tell her something.There is a lot of noise, but it can't be heard clearly.

Zuo Sanniang felt that it should be some kind of resentful scolding, perhaps telling her to get out of the Valley of Ten Thousand Doctors as soon as possible, and never stepping into this clean place again; wagging at their feet.

But that voice gradually turned into a consistent cry, like a well-arranged tune, drifting to her side across the rugged and rugged rocks through the thunder-shaking waterfall.In an instant, Zuo Sanniang vaguely discerned the meaning of the shout, and felt a dull pain in her chest, as if being crushed by a boulder.The valley people of Wanyi Valley gathered on the shore and shouted in the direction of her departure over and over again, with the dialect she had been familiar with in the words, which was the dialect she had heard when she was still a baby.

they said:

"Bon trip, San'er."