In the deep night, Ye Xiaotian was lying on the open-air altar of the ruined temple, looking up at the starry sky, with his round belly sticking out, like a toad spirit swallowing the essence of the sun and the moon.
There was a goose in his belly, and he was already full, but he wanted to eat another goose even more. That tall white swan hovering under the laurel tree. Although Shui Wu's misfortune made him sympathize and indignant, it also aroused his confidence in winning the beauty's return.
Ye Xiaotian sent out a grand wish to help him prepare a wife to vent his anger: "I will definitely marry her and have a bunch of fat boys with her. I will take my wife and children back to her hometown, and be ashamed of the child as his grandfather." And Uncle, aren’t they afraid of being ashamed, so I will let them be ashamed and throw them to grandma’s house!”
There were low whispers coming from the kang. According to the habit, Le Yao was pestering her mother to tell her stories to lull her to sleep. This was the only joy in her barren and boring childhood.
Ye Xiaotian was lying on the earthen platform, and vaguely heard that Shui Wu was talking about "The Legend of Journey to the West". This story was not long after it was written, but it has become popular for a while. Ye Xiaotian also heard about it when he was in the capital, and he didn't want it to be spread here open.
Gradually, Shui Wu's voice of telling stories became smaller and smaller, until it could not be heard again. Le Yao fell asleep, and Shui Wu fell asleep while talking. The room suddenly fell silent. , took one last look at the silent night sky with a pair of tired eyes.
In the night sky, there are dots of stars twinkling like a pair of gentle and beautiful eyes. Ye Xiaotian looked at those beautiful stars, and suddenly thought of Xue Shuiwu's soft and water-like eyes. "My wife, she's so handsome." Ye Xiaotian thought, and fell asleep with a satisfied smile.
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"Long, long, long, long, longer, longer, stretch it up to the sky!" The little girl who got up early circled Ye Xiaotian who was lying on her back like a toad, as if she was playing the Monkey King, Dancing and directing her "golden cudgel"...
Xue Shuiwu rushed over from the stove with his butt burning, and yelled at Le Yao with a blushing face: "Go, go, play, don't wake up brother." The high erected part pulled up the ignorant little loli and escaped.
"My old lady is teaching my brother a lesson again, probably Xiaoan is peeing on the kang again, hehe..."
In his sleep, Ye Xiaotian vaguely returned to his home, his childhood home. Early in the morning, while he was still sleeping soundly, he remembered his old lady's voice teaching Xiao An. Very familiar childhood feeling, even the smell of rice is exactly the same...
"Food smell?"
Ye Xiaotian sniffed, then suddenly opened his eyes, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the pale sky, and his consciousness gradually came to his senses. Ye Xiaotian turned over and sat up, and saw Shui Wu who was burning a fire in the stove: "Ah, why are you up so early?"
"Are you awake?" Shui Wu looked up at him, then quickly buried her chin in her chest: "Oh, I'm worried that the villagers will see the smoke from the kitchen after daybreak, so I got up early."
"Brother, brother, you're up, come and play with Yaoyao!" Leyao heard the sound and rushed over, riding the white dragon horse that only existed in her imagination, very happy.
Seeing her happy appearance, Ye Xiaotian immediately became happy too. There is a gentle and virtuous busy figure in the kitchen, and there is a happy child playing in the dilapidated house. It feels very warm. This is the life Ye Xiaotian wants.
"I must take them back to the capital safely!" Ye Xiaotian thought happily, and jumped down from the altar, as if his whole body was full of strength.
There is a Mr. Fei in the West who believes that there is always a driving force in the depths of the human heart that drives all his actions, and this moving force is the original desire of the person, that is, the sexual desire. As a biological instinct, libido needs to be satisfied just like hunger.
The difference is that the satisfaction of hunger only needs to fill the stomach, but to satisfy the libido, due to the limitations of external morality and other reasons, it is not necessarily vented through animal instincts, he will transform the libido into other ways To vent, such as ambition, such as curiosity, such as thirst for knowledge, desire to destroy, aggressiveness, etc., and even transform and sublimate into the creative source of civilization.
For Ye Xiaotian at this moment, the way he wants to satisfy his libido is not simple and rude possession, but through a more tactful way that is more in line with human civilization - courtship. What he has to do is obviously more complicated and more.
When eating in the morning, Ye Xiaotian found that Xue Shuiwu didn't seem to have slept well, her beautiful almond eyes were faintly bloodshot.
"Could it be that it's because a handsome young man like me sleeps in the same room with her, so it's hard for this beauty to fall asleep?" Ye Xiaotian, who has always felt extremely good about himself, thought complacently, and immediately filled with even better visions for the future.
The three of them had breakfast, drained the rest of the meat, picked a few plantain leaves, wrapped them, and put them in the bag with the sweet potatoes, and continued westward through the town. It was still too early, and the villagers did not get up so early. The streets in the village were quiet, and there was a morning mist.
In the yard of a family, a big fat woman with disheveled hair, crossed her fat waist that could be split into three Xue Shuiwu, and yelled at the neighbor's house across the wall: "Don't be a naughty thief. All the big white geese that lay eggs are stolen, so there must be no ass holes in the babies!"
Xue Shuiwu glanced at Ye Xiaotian quietly, and walked quickly with her head buried. Even the ignorant Le Yao was a little guilty, holding his mother's little hand and jogging around, but Ye Xiaotian's face remained the same, with his chest up and his head held high, and his steps were as calm as a stroll in a garden.
When the sun was rising and the farmers were slowly going down to the field with their hoes on their shoulders, someone was standing on the ridge of the field, pointing fingers at the locust tree and scolding a certain suspect for stealing their sweet potatoes wickedly with smoke. Ye Xiaotian's "family of three" had already passed away. Far away from this small village.
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Ye Xiaotian underestimated the complexity of the roads in Huguang. There are many mountains and rivers here, unlike the north where there are so many roads extending in all directions. It is very difficult for them to find a safe passage to the north among the rolling mountains.
When passing through a town, Ye Xiaotian asked the merchants in the city carefully, and learned that if you go west for more than a hundred miles, there is a road going north among the mountains. Bite the bullet all the way west, and move on.
In Ye Xiaotian's heart, he already regards Xue Shuiwu as his own, but he has never found a suitable opportunity to express it to her. Although he is very courageous, in the field of love, he is just a first-timer. Just a young man in love.
Although the relationship between Ye Xiaotian and the lady in his mind didn't develop any further, his relationship with little sister Leyao was growing by leaps and bounds. In front of Ye Xiaotian, Le Yao began to call himself a baby just like in front of his mother.
Ye Xiaotian carried Le Yao on his back and walked on the mountain road to the west, Xue Shui danced by his side, because she was used to walking, her steps were much lighter than before. The red light of the setting sun bathed their trudging figures, coating their bodies with a golden edge.
Le Yao lay on Ye Xiaotian's shoulders, continuing her role-playing game with great enjoyment: "Brother, we are going to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, so who will you play as?"
Ye Xiaotian said with a smile: "I'll play Brother Monkey, I will protect you and drive away all monsters and goblins."
"Brother Monkey? Can you change seventy-two?"
"This... no."
"How can you play Monkey Brother without seventy-two changes?"
"So, you must be the most suitable to play Zhu Bajie."
Yang Leyao touched his nose and mouth, and said in surprise: "Why? The baby's nose is not long, and the ears are not big."
Ye Xiaotian smiled and said: "But you are very good at eating."
Le Yao immediately pouted like a piglet: "Baby don't want to be a pig, baby should be a smart bug."
Ye Xiaotian said: "No, you are Zhu Bajie!"
Le Yao clenched his small fist and beat him on the shoulder, and compromised bitterly: "The baby will be Zhu Bajie, and the elder brother will be a bully."
Ye Xiaotian laughed and said: "Why do you think of Benboerba, why does brother look like Benboerba?"
Le Yao put her arms around his neck, twisted her small body and acted like a baby: "I want to run around, my baby likes it."
Ye Xiaotian said: "Okay, baby likes it, then brother is the boss."
Shui Wu listened to their bickering with a smile, and looked forward happily. Ahead, is the sun that is about to set, like a burning fire, slowly floating on the top of the mountain, and they are like a group of happy moths, rushing towards the flame on the distant mountain, looking for the light in their hearts step by step.
In a small village, an old farmer from Mugui was smiling and greeting neighbors in the street. Suddenly, his smile froze and he looked ahead suspiciously. A dozen or so horses rode fast and rushed into the village like dust flying all the way ahead.
"Hey! Old man, did a couple of young men and women pass by your village with a little girl of three or four years old?"
Yang Sanshou, who reined in the rein, opened a hand-painted portrait with a "wow", and handed it to the old man. The old man leaned forward and squinted his eyes, and laughed haha: Did you draw it? It's really ugly."
Yang Sanshou became angry with embarrassment: "You old bastard, I ask you if you have seen such three people, you don't care if my drawing looks good or not."
The old man was not annoyed, he just laughed at him: "The three people in your painting, the old man has never seen it unless he saw a ghost. The old man has only seen a handsome little lady like a fairy and a delicate and handsome lady. Boy, pass by here with a cute little girl."
Yang Sanshou stared intently, ignored his ridicule, leaned over quickly, and asked anxiously, "Where did they go?"
The old man rolled his eyes and said: "The old man is not a pedant who can't walk when he sees a beautiful woman. If the handsome lady passes by, the old man can catch up to see it? But..." The old man showed A sly smile stared at Yang Sanshou.
Yang Sanshou's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked: "But what?" He put his hand into his bosom anxiously, took out a piece of broken silver and threw it into the old man's bosom. The old man took the money, and immediately pointed to the outside of the village: "But there is only one road ahead."
"Walk!"
Without saying a word, Yang Sanshou lashed the horse's butt with all his strength, and then chased wildly to the road outside the village.