Hearing Gu Heyan's words, Mu Zhiming was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You are rare to be frank, I am ecstatic, but this Bodhi tree has no relationship with me, I don't know the general, why do you think of me because of this?"
Gu Heyan: "... Missed?"
When he said these two words, his tone was full of undisguised loss and frustration, as if he was being treated with a bad heart.
Mu Zhiming's heart thumped, and he hurriedly smiled to please: "I'm stupid, if the general doesn't dislike it, give me a word or two."
Gu Heyan glanced at him, turned his head to look under the Bodhi tree, Mu Zhiming followed his gaze and saw that there was nothing there, which made him more and more confused.
"When you were young, you always came to this ancient temple to pray." Gu Heyan said softly.
Mu Zhiming nodded: "Yes."
Gu Heyan: "When you were eight years old, you were seriously ill. You had a high fever that didn't go away, and because of this, you contracted a lung disease, hemoptysis all day long, and it took three years to recover your body."
"It's true." Mu Zhiming did not deny it.
But what is the connection between these two sentences
Gu Heyan looked at Mu Zhiming and said, "Do you still remember why you were sick?"
Mu Zhiming thought hard.
He was eight years old and still young, and he had a high fever due to illness. He was so dazed that he even walked before the gate of hell, so he couldn't remember exactly what happened before and after that time.
Although Mu Zhiming doesn't remember, Gu Heyan is here.
Fourteen years ago, in the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, dripping water into ice, at the age of ten, he sat alone under this linden tree, feeling the taste of snow and wind.
Suddenly, a child's voice as crisp as a ring of rings rang in his ears: "What are you doing sitting here?"
Gu Yuyi looked up, and saw a child wearing a heavy blue and white interwoven brocade cloak, carved in pink and jade, looking at him suspiciously.
The jade shards shattered into pieces, and the icy cold wind, for some reason, suddenly eased a lot.
Gu Yuyi replied, "I'm lost."
Mu Lizhu sat down beside him, and his little white hands brushed the snow off his shoulders and hair for him. Seeing that his hands were red from the cold, he took off his cape and covered his hands.
Mu Lizhu asked, "Where are you going?"
Gu Yuyi: "Find my mother."
Mu Lizhu: "You and your mother got lost? Well, I'll take you to the meditation room in front of you. It's warm there, and your mother will definitely come to you."
Gu Yuyi was silent for a while, then said, "She won't come."
Mu Lizhu was puzzled: "Why?"
Gu Yuyi: "She passed away, and I came to find her grave."
Xiaoli Zhu Nuzui, the ignorant child, asked in confusion, "What is death?"
Gu Yuyi: "I just left, I'm gone."
Mu Lizhu: "Can't she accompany you?"
Gu Yuyi nodded: "Well."
Mu Lizhu put himself in his shoes and thought: "If my mother didn't accompany me, I would definitely cry."
He said, stood up, stepped on the snow and ran towards the meditation room. After a while, he disappeared. When Gu Yuyi was at a loss with his cloak, he ran back again.
"This is for you." The panting Mu Lizhu stuffed the thing he was holding into Gu Yuyi's arms.
Gu Yuyi looked down and saw that it was a bag of cakes wrapped squarely in oiled paper.
Mu Lizhu said, "This is sweet-scented osmanthus white sugar cake, it's the pastry from Jiyuezhai. This is my favorite pastry. Try it now, it's delicious."
"Well." Gu Yuyi nodded, "Thank you."
Mu Lizhu sighed with his hips on his hips: "You are so boring, what about your father?"
Gu Yuyi: "My father is in the frontier."
Mu Lizhu: "Then you ran here alone?"
Gu Yuyi: "Well."
Mu Lizhu thought for a while and asked, "Why did you suffer today?"
Gu Yuyi: "..."
Wronged
On New Year's Eve in the capital, firecrackers were heard and every household was lively and reunited. Only that Gu Mansion was deserted, and Gu Yuyi was alone.
Is this a grievance
Mu Lizhu: "If you don't speak, I also know that if you want to find your mother, you must have suffered a great grievance. Don't be sad, you can go to the meditation room in front, and then go to your mother when the snow stops. I have to go back too, or mama should be in a hurry."
Gu Yuyi: "...you..."
Mu Lizhu: "Me?"
Gu Yuyi hesitated, and for a long time he reluctantly said his plea: "You... can you accompany me...?"
Mu Lizhu: "Do you want me to accompany you to find your mother?"
Gu Yuyi nodded slowly: "... um."
Mu Lizhu looked at Gu Yuyi's shoulders wet by the melting snow, and suddenly bent his eyes and smiled: "Well, I'll accompany you! You wait for me, I'll go to the meditation room to borrow pen and ink, write a few words and put it there, take care of my mother. Mammy came to me, and you won't be worried when you see those words."
Speaking of which, Mu Lizhu ran away 'hahahaha', then ran back in a 'huchihuchi', took Gu Yuyi's hand, and said with a smile, "Let's go!"
The two children walked in the snow for half a day, one foot deep and the other shallow, until they found the grave at dusk.
Gu Yuyi knelt in front of the grave and kowtowed, while Mu Li and Zhu Lian shivered a few times: "Ahe, Ahe!"
Gu Yuyi stood up and looked at him: "Let's go back."
Mu Lizhu: "Didn't you just come?"
Gu Yuyi: "Enough is enough."
It was not easy to come here, but it was much quicker to go back because they knew the way. After half an hour, the two returned to the temple.
After half a day of disappearing, the people of Mu's residence were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, looking for people everywhere, when they saw Mu Li and Zhu Ping'an come back, Mammy cried bitterly: "Oh, luckily I'm back, luckily fortunately, my God Ah, young master, why is your body so wet and cold, as if you were just scooped up from that ice hole! This little face is so red from freezing! Young master, you have a congenital deficiency, so you can't be frozen like this! !!"
When Mu Lizhu was picked up, he pulled Gu Yuyi's sleeve reluctantly and said to him, "My name is Mu Lizhu. Come and play with me at Duke Yan's mansion when you are free."
Gu Yuyi: "... Certainly."
After parting with Mu Lizhu, Gu Yuyi was also found by Aunt Liang and returned to the General's Mansion with her.
Later, Gu Yuyi went to look for Mu Lizhu, but what he could get was the news that Mu Lizhu was sick and had a high fever...