Nancy walked out of the small garden, feeling so disappointed that she wanted to cry.
What was this? Celestial love? The twists and turns, the ups and downs, the love and hate, the laughter and tears, it was like an old wine that made her dizzy?
Or was he really thinking about her and being loyal to her?
Perhaps, he had gone to buy snacks, and she was immersed in the maze of love, which was why she had such a bad idea.
Before entering the mansion, Nancy looked at the two sculptures on the wall." A painting of pine and bamboo, a painting of pine and plum, carved with a knife and axe, with a cold backbone, Nancy thought, Was his love for her as deep as this pine, bamboo, and plum blossom?
Even on frosty, snowy, and windy days? At the thought of this, she respected him even more, and the grass of love grew a few inches. No matter what, even if he ran away, he would still chase after him.
She forgave him for leaving without saying goodbye, and this understanding increased her love for him, so much so that it bore sweet fruit.
She heard a voice,"Qianmei, what do you want to eat today?" It seemed to come from the sky, or from a small garden, or from a cluster of tourists on a stone field.
She looked around a few times, looking for his handsome figure, but he seemed to be hiding somewhere, playing hide-and-seek with her. Like Fengzi, I like zongzi with red dates in the heart. I want to eat toad meat, five-spice dried tofu, Zhuangyuan cake, a bottle of Shimen yellow wine, and drink cross-cupped wine with you.
Oh, come to Shuntian Lane to drink.
Strange, she only thought about it and didn't say it out loud. Why would he reply? He also thought,"Is this the Chinese style of love?"
She thought, Since he knows my thoughts and I can hear his heart, I'll tell him, Prepare everything!
He asked,"I'm here to pick you up?" She said," I'm not a delicate flower in your greenhouse. I'm like Fengzi. I like to conquer the wind and waves. I even specially sent strawberries."
Shuntian Lane was very auspicious. He said," I've prepared what you like and will come to pick you up." However, at this moment, she could not tell if it was her own thoughts, if she had indeed heard his voice, or if it was a telepathic conversation. Thinking about it again, she felt as if she was in a dream.
Bewildered by love, she couldn't tell if it was reality or a dream. Just like the butterfly in Zhuangzi, did she dream of the butterfly, or did the butterfly dream of her?
It was a difficult problem.
A bird with red eyes and black feathers flew over from the field and danced around her. It perched on a small gingko branch by the door and chirped, Hello, foreign friend! Isn't it a pleasure to come from afar?
The people here were nice, the birds were smart, and they could speak the language of the Ancient Sages. Oh, it was an ancient yet new, mysterious yet magnanimous country, a mysterious and charming country.
An old man with gray hair and silver beard slowly walked over. The bird flew onto his shoulder, followed by a child carrying a birdcage. Nancy felt that he looked like Tolstoy in his later years.
She remembered Mr. Ba Jin's translation of Gorky's literary portrayals: If Tolstoy was a fish, he would swim to the sea. She thought again: If the white calf was a bird, he would fly to the blue sky, carrying his love to the world, to the moon.
" Hello, Rosemary from America, Blue Moon in the sky," the old man said as he looked at her.
Nancy was known as Rosemary, the invention of the Overlord. When they went to the Jinshan Petrifaction Beach in Shanghai, the Overlord's love fell and he was praised. However, after the two of them were in a stalemate, Nancy never praised them.
My dear, do you still remember the passionate kiss I gave you at the beach?
His voice, tone, and eyes were similar to Proust, but he was 1.8 meters tall, had a high nose, and blue eyes, while the old man was only 1.6 meters tall. Nancy smiled in confusion. Sir, I don't know you. I'm Nancy Lee Jackson."
The old man also smiled and said," I am Proust. I didn't get the wrong person. You are the dear Nancy Lee Jackson I have been looking for all the way from Bali."
Nancy was even more confused. The only thing that could be explained was that she was in a dream. If she was really in a dream, his departure just now was fake. Now, she really hoped that she was in a dream.
The child waved at her, and she ran over." Tell me, what happened? Did the Overlord saw off his legs and undergo plastic surgery?"
The child said," Big Sister, he's my grandfather. I often bring him out of the back door to the old street to have tea. The day before yesterday, he had a high fever. He went to the hospital and was unconscious." Just now, he suddenly sat up and told us that his name was Overlord. He came from Bali to look for an American girl called Nancy. He asked me to lead the way, so I led him here. My father went to Donglin Temple to look for a monk. He walked faster than me, completely unlike my grandfather.
Today, Nancy felt like she was in a fog. She believed in Jesus, but not in ghosts, especially those that could possess people from China.
However, for someone who claimed to be the Overlord and knew her own secrets, there must be some unsolved mysteries of the universe. She even wanted to solve this surreal mystery, if she was in the real world now and not in the illusory realm.
She went up to hold the "old grandpa". The myna shook its head and stretched its neck, screaming, It is benevolence and righteousness to regard the old as the old and the young as the young.
The old man, the Overlord, said: I have loved you for so long, but you have never loved to help me; Today, I've received your love. I love you, Nancy!
The old man, the Overlord, also made a move, but he held her waist. The two of them entered the door that was filled with nails as big as pushpins. The old man laughed and said, May our love be as unbreakable as this door; Nancy thought that it would be best if she was in a dream. Such a thing could only happen in a dream.
However, that time at the beach, his kiss was real. He was very bad and pretended not to notice her. He dived into the water and kissed her baby underwater. She used all her strength to break free. Since she loved a Chinese, she had to be responsible for the person she loved and keep her chastity like a Chinese. Therefore, she and the Overlord never went out alone again.
In the front courtyard, there were two stone drums and a stromatolite table in a corner. A osmanthus tree propped up the shade in the courtyard. In a corner, there was a clump of green bamboos, a fake mountain rock, a signal arrow, and a wooden archway in front of it. After the myna flew in, it first climbed up the osmanthus tree. When it saw the two of them looking at the archway, it flew to the ridge of the archway, flapped its wings, combed its mouth, stretched its neck, and screamed at Nancy,
This is the Jinpu Mansion. It was built in the late Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty by Xie Yong in his hometown, Fengxi South Town. It was named Jinpu because Xie Yong was called Jinpu.
Nancy remembered the story told by the white calf. The tourists who came in clapped their hands in wonder when they heard the myna speak so fluently. He saw Nancy with white hair and blue eyes. She was beautiful and slender, and she was tightly hugged by an old man. He guessed that she was his granddaughter.
Myna flew onto the old man's shoulder, shook its wings, and shrieked," Xie Yong, official to the cabinet bachelor, Ministry of Civil Affairs Zuo Lang, Ministry of Works Zuo Lang, equivalent to the current first deputy minister, General Office Secretary.
Everyone burst into laughter. Myna looked at the memorial archway and chirped, From the 59th year of Qianlong to 1794, the 11th son of Qianlong, Prince Aisin Gioro, was nominated as the main hall.
The old man, the Overlord, looked at the memorial archway and said in English," The myna mimicked his words, and there was another round of laughter.
After entering Qixiu Hall, the child pulled Nancy to the side. The old man felt that the antiques were rare and wanted to give Nancy a photo as a memento.
The child's name was Lucy, but Nancy called him Lucy. He brought Nancy to a corner where there was an eight-square table and two old-fashioned chairs. Lucy pulled out the drawer and pulled out two toy wolves and placed them on the table.
Nancy was looking at the poster of " Maple Creek Uprising " on the wall. She saw the red tasseled spear, broadsword, nail rake, old spear, etc. standing by the wall. She thought about the turbulent scene in Maple Creek back then. When she turned around, she saw two wolves jumping from the table to the ground. They had also grown a lot. She was very surprised.
Lucy stretched out her neck and opened her mouth to blow colorful bubbles. She also threw a moon bubble gum. Myna flew over to peck at the bubbles in the air.
Nancy looked at Lucy, who was blowing bubbles on her face. She looked a little like a white calf. Unfortunately, she was only seven or eight years old.
She scared Lucy and said,"Here comes the old man," and happily pulled him away and ran again,"Oh-oh-little brother,""Oh-oh-big sister," and ran to look from the beginning. The two wolves also ran happily.
In Nancy's eyes, Qixiu Hall was a projection of the system that inspired people's imagination and wisdom. The 1500-year history of Maple Creek was a string of heavy and simple copper coins engraved with the emperor's name. It was also a tree. In the year 509, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Renji Monastery was built on Banshan Road in Sichuan Province. It was a bud and the embryonic form of Fengxi Town. It grew into a big tree until the administrative district was divided. The main trunk was the old street, and the branches were the river ditches and alleys.
The white calf was a fruit on this tree. Feng Zi tasted sweet, but she tasted sour.
It was because of the sourness that he had a head to eat.
Here, the art was like a frog in a lotus pond, singing the gentleness and beauty of Jiangnan water towns, such as Bi Dachun's bamboo forest painting, Cheng Shifa's lotus, Lu Jiren's water family, etc. It was also like the wintersweet in the snow, lonely, with joints, not afraid of the cold, such as Xiang Shengmo's big tree wind roar painting, Mei Gong's plum blossom painting, Ding Cong's painting, etc.
There was a historical cabinet that stored pottery bowls and jars from the Warring States Period, pottery jars from the Han Dynasty, wide-handled water bottles from the Tang Dynasty, four-series jars from the Song Dynasty, wine jars from the Yuan Dynasty, Han bottles from the Ming Dynasty, and porcelain inkstones.
There was some movement at the door, and a few people ran in. The leader had a goatee face, white hair tied up in an ancient bun, and was dressed in an eight-trigram robe. He held a horsetail whisk in his hand, and followed closely behind was a young Taoist priest. He held a blue and white porcelain bowl, and water flowed out. Someone recognized him and said, Priest Banshan of Renji Monastery had arrived.
The Taoist priest stared at the old man and said,""Aren't you going to surrender?" He went straight for the old man, and Little Dao followed closely behind, spilling water from the bowl.
Seeing the Taoist priest running over, the old man ran to the back door. The back door was guarded by a Taoist priest with long hair and a sword. There were ghost hunters at all four corners of Qixiu Hall.
Nancy was surprised and happy. She blew colorful bubbles into the air, like a dream flying, but also like the colorful balloons she saw after getting off the car.
Seeing that there was no way out, the old man knelt down and said," Forgive me, I am a foreigner."”
Taoist Priest Banshan took the small porcelain bowl and said,""Evil creature, haven't you heard of the words in Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: Tao---”He drank a mouthful of water and sprayed it on the old man's head and body. The old man fell to the ground. The Taoist priest drew a circle on the ground with his horsetail whisk and placed the bowl in front of his mouth. He spat out white foam at the mouth and let out a long breath. The Taoist priest quickly covered the white cloth covered with the red talisman.
There seemed to be a ghost mouse jumping in the bowl, a cosmic mystery that Nancy had never seen before.
The old man woke up in shock and asked where this was. Someone told him that this was Qixiu Hall. The old man hurriedly sat up and asked, Why here?
It turned out that he knew nothing about what had happened. Someone told Nancy that this was called " decay ", and in Mandarin, it was called resurrection. His soul was hooked to the side by the ghost and lived in the wronged ghost.
Chief Banshan carried the bowl to the back door and was stopped by Nancy." Grandpa Priest, I have a favor to ask."”
"Please speak."
"Give me this bowl and ghost, okay? Grandpa Taoist priest, thank you!" Nancy immediately knelt down and cupped her fists." Grandpa Priest, he came for me and didn't harm anyone. I'm willing to be with his soul forever." As she spoke, tears streamed down Nancy's face. It was hard to tell whether she was sad or happy.
The Taoist priest hesitated for a moment and said,"Foreign girl, our friend is just a precedent of the Central Plains forgiving ghosts to outsiders."”
Lucy also knelt down and cupped her fists."Taoist grandpa, this bowl is for my big sister.”
The Taoist priest thought for a moment and said," Please rise, both of you. I'm Zhe Sha. It's fine, it's also because your love is not over yet." He handed the bowl covered with Taoist talismans to Nancy. Nancy nodded and thanked him profusely. Everyone was amazed.
On the street to Shuntian Square, Nancy was followed by many onlookers. She was thinking about how to get rid of them so that she could meet the white calf. However, she saw Apollo riding on the wooden cow. He was holding a toad tied to a string in his hand. His wooden hoofs and iron paws hit the stone street and made a sharp sound.
" Hello, dear Nancy." The wooden bull blinked its eyes and spoke for Apollo.
His real name was Born, and Nancy called him "Po" in Chinese. Later, he called himself "Apollo", and his friends followed suit. "Apollo, seeing you is like seeing the warm sun.”
Born was from England. She had blonde curly hair like a Greek, and she was beautiful and elegant. Her eyes were shining." Dear Nancy, bring me the famous Maple Creek Stone Gate Bar. I caught a toad from the Moon Palace for you to make a dish with wine. Then, he handed Nancy a piece of colorful paper. Nancy looked at it and saw that it was a local scene.
In the first month of the first lunar month, clams would be eaten in February, peach blossoms would be eaten in March, turtles would be eaten, eels would be eaten at the end of April, may would be eaten, bullies would be eaten in June, Chinese Valentine's Day would be eaten with four gills, eight eels and nine crabs would be eaten with ten wrinkles, and twelve would be eaten with carp.
Nancy looked at it and loved it as if it were jewelry, but Bowen said that he would only give it to her if she sat on his wooden ox, or give him that bowl of yellow wine.
Nancy didn't return the bowl and continued to walk away. Boen was anxious. Nancy raised the bowl and said," You can drink the yellow wine first. Don't open it and drink it first." Boen took the bowl and it became heavier and heavier. What kind of wine was this? Would it get worse?
The attendants winked at Bonn and told Nancy,"We'll keep an eye on him and not let him drink your wine. Don't worry, go ahead."
In fact, they couldn't wait for Bo En to remove the talisman.（、、、）
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