Chapter 811: Once promised to be the best in the world
There was rain in early spring, and the pattering patter hit the decaying gray tile roofs of the small town.
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The neighbors sat together in twos and threes and talked about Agou and Miss Tweety. This was the only "interesting thing" worth discussing in the town.
Cui'er has been married for three months and has not come back once. The pavilion chief and his wife went to visit, but they were kicked out. The pavilion chief's son Song Yu always had a dark face every time he came back. It is said that His promotion to head catcher has not been finalized yet.
And the young boy Agou, who loved to laugh and make trouble, always comparing himself to the protagonist in Uncle Xin's stories, and showing off everywhere, was gone. He was in a daze all day long and hadn't said a word to anyone in three months.
"Papa..."
Agou Daddy came from a distance and stood at the door of the drug store, hesitant and embarrassed. He was just in his early forties this year, but he was My temples turned white within three months.
“Come in.”
Dr. Xin’s voice suddenly came from inside the room.
Agou dad breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and entered the pharmacy. He looked at Xin Zhuo and smiled awkwardly. "Sit." There was a fishy stench.
Agou Daddy sat on the chair with only half of his buttocks, looking at Xin Zhuo's appearance, he hesitated to speak, and finally sighed heavily.
Xin Zhuo smiled and said: "If you have something to say, you might as well just say it."
"Brother Xin..."
The eye circles of the man in his forties suddenly turned red, and his voice choked up, "Agou, this kid is considered useless, but there is nothing I can do as a father. You tell me, we How can a commoner climb up to the pavilion chief’s house? The pavilion chief oversees an entire town and hundreds of people in ten villages. He eats more meat than we eat. I can’t climb up. I’ve been advising him since I was a child. Dog, he refused to listen, and the result was great...
It has been three months, and he has not said a word to me or his mother. This is the only child for our old couple..."
Xin Zhuo was silent, waiting for him to continue.
After a while, Agou's father said: "Agou said yesterday that he wanted to be a soldier. It happened that the guerrilla general of the imperial court was recruiting troops in the next county. His mother and I discussed it all night and decided to accept his request. I wish, let him go, but I heard that when you join the army, you have to take care of yourself so that you won't be assigned as cannon fodder. Our relatives borrowed it all over the place, but we could only get three taels of silver together, so I thought, I thought... …”
At this point, I really can’t go on. The only person in the town who has more money may be Brother Xin, but Brother Xin is old, childless, and has no one to rely on...
"Pa!"
Xin Zhuo neatly took out twenty taels of silver and put it on the table, "Take all my savings over the years."
"Brother Xin, it's too, too much..."
Agou Daddy stood up in a hurry, at a loss.
Xin Zhuo waved his hand and gave the eviction order: "Take the money and get out!"
"If Agou doesn't provide for Brother Xin until he retires, I'll beat him to death."
Agou's father gritted his teeth in gratitude. Pick up the silver and leave in a hurry.
On the third day, in the early morning, the rain not only did not light up, but became heavier.
Agou rode the only old donkey in the family and carried his luggage straight to the medicine shop. He looked inside and was surprised to find Uncle Xin sitting on an old chair in the door, drinking tea. It seemed like I had been waiting for a while.
He quickly jumped off the old donkey, knelt down in the puddle in front of the drug store, kowtowed three times, and then said with red eyes: "Uncle Xin, I won't thank you for your kindness. Now that Agou is gone, I will leave you alone." If you are promising, I will always treat you as my own father."
Xin Zhuozui. There was a smile on his face, but his eyes were deep, and he asked in a vicissitudes of voice: "What is your purpose of becoming a soldier? Tell me."
Agou immediately said: "Protect your home and country!" Xin Zhuo shook his head: "I'm not sincere!"
Ah The dog was startled for a moment, then lowered his head and let the rain drip down his still green face to his chin, and then hit the ground along his chin. After a while, he gritted his teeth and said: "In order to get ahead and be superior to others, you can only do it if you become a soldier." Climb up step by step, will the prince and general Xiang Ning be willing to be killed? , Dare to bring down the emperor, these are the words of Uncle Xin! I want to carve out a world of my own. I will step on all the pavilion chiefs and Ling Yin. My beloved woman must not be taken away so easily. Let’s go, I don’t want to experience that helplessness and pain again.”
Xin Zhuo looked at him silently and didn't make a sound for a long time.
This child is sixteen years old. He was also sixteen when he became the King of the Mountain. Similar words seem to have been said...
Agou raised his head: "Uncle Xin, did I say something wrong?"
Xin Zhuo still said nothing.
Agou gritted his teeth: "Uncle, do you look down on me? Didn't you have any dreams and wishes when you were young?"
"It should be noted that when I took the clouds in my youth, I was once promised to be the best in the world!"
Xin Zhuo looked at the sky silently, and after a long time he murmured this poem, as if he was talking to Agou, and It seemed that he was speaking to himself, his voice was very slow, and his old eyes were full of fatigue and vicissitudes of life.
Those years of mountain kings, those years of vassal kings, those years of sect elites, those years of being hunted all over the world, and countless old friends of those years, all passed through my mind one by one, in a blink of an eye. It has become the current depletion of heaven and man, suffering every day...
Is the ambition... still there?
Agou didn't know much, and it was all given by Xin Zhuo, so he didn't understand it very well at the moment.
Xin Zhuo finally looked at him: "You should know... life and death, wealth and honor are determined by heaven!"
Agou nodded heavily: "Uncle's stories over the years have taught Agou a lot of truth. Agou understands. Please... uncle, please give me a name. Agou doesn’t have a name yet, so I’ll use uncle’s surname. It was uncle who gave Agou a chance to be reborn!” Said: "Chengzhi!"
"Chengzhi...Xin Chengzhi!"
Agou recited it silently several times, then suddenly raised his head: "Agou likes this name very much!"
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"Wait a minute!"
Xin Zhuo suddenly stood up and went into the back room. When he came out again, he had three more books in his hand, half of "The Art of War", half of "The Analects of Confucius" and half of "The Opening of Martial Arts" Before the ink was dry, he ordered: "Remember to read more!"
"I know Uncle Xin!"
Agou solemnly took the book cover He put his backpack in, got up and got on the donkey, slapped the reins, and ran straight into the distance. He only ran for more than ten steps, stopped again, turned around and said with a smile: "Today is the third day of March in the seventeenth year of Taiping in the Dakang Empire. Uncle Xin Wait for the news. Sooner or later, Xin Chengzhi’s name will become famous all over the world. I will take back everything that belongs to me!”
“Da da da…”
The donkey's hooves trampled the water and ran straight into the rain curtain in the distance.
Xin Zhuo watched silently for a long time, until he could see nothing, and then said: "Cause and effect!"
Xiao Huang glanced up at him.
Xin Zhuo said: "Don't you understand? If I hadn't told these stories for so many years, just because he was an illiterate indigenous boy, his beloved woman would never have been married for a long time. The resentment I have enlightened him is the cause, his actions today are the consequences, and the books I gave him about his future are also the consequences!
The theory of cause and effect is by no means a matter of cultivation. Son, it took me two lifetimes to figure it out.”
Xiao Huang tilted his head and peed.
Xin Zhuo shook his head, stood up and walked into the room, continuing to sort out the herbs, as if he had aged a few years.
(End of this chapter)