The night breeze brushed past their faces, bringing with it hot steam. The firewood crackled as it burned. Liu Changan and Zhou Dongdong raised their heads to look at the Chinese parasol tree, their cheeks flushed from the reflection of the fire.
Sister Egg sitting on the parasol tree.
Liu Changan thought of a phrase, phoenix perched on the parasol tree.
A long, long time ago in the Common Era, Liu Changan had seen two kinds of colorful birds. At that time, people liked to make a fuss about nothing. When they saw everything in nature, they would have many fantasies in their hearts. They were like stupid children, thinking about all kinds of nonsense. They called one kind of colorful bird a phoenix, and the other kind a phoenix.
But later on, they were called phoenix. Now, if the phoenix was used to refer to the empress, there would always be people who would say that the phoenix was actually a male bird and the phoenix was a female bird.
Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the emperor's power gradually increased. The emperor was called the dragon, and the concubines were referred to as the phoenix.
A good bird chose a tree to perch on, and a phoenix perched on a parasol tree.
The phoenix in this phrase, of course, didn't refer to the empress or the empress dowager on the tree.
But when Liu Changan thought of this phrase, he also thought that there was a girl here who had a grudge against him and was qualified to use the word "phoenix" to refer to her.
"Is it sister Dandan?" Liu Changan lowered his head and twirled Zhou Dongdong's braid around his finger.
"Sister Egg," Zhou Dongdong said with certainty.
"Is it sister Dandan?"
"Oh … I remember, I remember it's sister egg …"
"Was it that you were eating an egg in your hand?"
"It seems so."
"Then it must be sister Dandan," Liu Changan analyzed Zhou Dongdong's impression and memory interference and understood.
That day, Zhou Dongdong took an egg in the morning and happily went downstairs. She saw Shanghai Dandan sitting on the parasol tree and shaking her two little feet.
That was the scene.
"Sister Egg!" Zhou Dongdong frowned and insisted.
"Why would you think that I would cook beans for her?" Liu Changan suspected that Shanghai Dandan hadn't eaten a hot egg for two thousand years and had cheated Zhou Dongdong of her eggs.
That would be difficult … If Zhou Dongdong sensed that someone wanted to eat her food, her first reaction would be to stuff it into her mouth and swallow it.
"You cooked beans, don't you give your mother to eat?" Zhou Dongdong is very strange, Zhou Dongdong often gives delicious food to her mother to eat.
Liu Changan looked calm.
Liu Changan's heart was as still as water.
Liu Changan did not move.
Liu Changan was unperturbed.
"She told you that she's my mother?" Liu Changan's tone was also very gentle.
Zhou Dongdong nodded, "I asked her who she was and why she was sitting on the tree. She said she's your mother."
Liu Changan was completely sure that Sister Egg was Shanghai Dandan. It couldn't be anyone else. Only she kept thinking about the things that happened more than two thousand years ago and insisted that she was Liu Changan's mother.
"What else did she say to you?" Liu Changan continued to ask.
Zhou Dongdong threw the firewood into the stove, but she couldn't remember.
Children's memory is also fragmented. Many times, they need to be guided, given a topic and context, so that they can correctly recall the scene. It was a little difficult for Liu Changan to let Zhou Dongdong think by herself.
"Did she say when she will come to play with you again?"
"She said that when I am alone, she will come to play with me." Zhou Dongdong remembered this. Because Zhou Dongdong had very few friends, there were even fewer people who were willing to take the initiative to play with Zhou Dongdong. Therefore, Zhou Dongdong thought that those who would come to play with her were good friends.
"Did you eat at my house that day?"
"We ate pig trotters that day!"
They ate pig trotters with pickles and braised pig trotters. It was Valentine's Day. Early in the morning, Liu Changan and An Nuan went out, and it was raining. In the afternoon, they came back and drank glutinous rice wine with Qin Yanan and Zhu Juntang. Then, they went to buy the board to make furniture. In the evening, Zhou Dongdong ate three pig trotters.
"She sat on the phoenix tree when it rained?" Zhu Juntang's pet phrase could be used to describe Shanghai Dandan.
Zhou Dongdong nodded, and continued to light the fire.
Liu Changan didn't ask her more. He touched her head and asked her to light the fire. He walked to the transport truck and said to the coffin, "It's boring to stay in the coffin and read novels all day, right? When will you come out for some fresh air again? "
Shanghai Dandan didn't speak, nor did he send him a message.
"You have come out. The flowing wind outside, the dripping water, the clear veins on the leaves, the smell of the bark, the wet soil under your feet, the smooth and comfortable feeling in your mouth and lungs when you breathe … You have experienced it and remembered it. Can you still endure the darkness in the coffin?" Liu Changan was good at temptation. For the vast majority of people, a habitual environment was a great temptation. This was the origin of "homesickness".
Even if Shanghai Dandan was used to the environment in the coffin, in fact, for her, she was forced to enter the coffin or for some special reasons. Her body longed for the world where she could breathe freely and run freely. Otherwise, she wouldn't have sneaked out like this. After her experience of the real world was activated, this desire to run out again would be even stronger.
"I've told Zhou Dongdong not to tell anyone else!"
Liu Changan received such a message.
"First, to Zhou Dongdong, I am her Changan brother, whom she worships, and no one else. Second, you said that you are my mother. In Zhou Dongdong's eyes, a mother and a child are the closest. Telling me is not the same as telling others. " Liu Changan knew Zhou Dongdong very well, "Next time you tell her directly, not to tell Liu Changan, then she will do as you say."
"I won't come out! You want to use me for alchemy again! "
"I didn't use you for alchemy! At that time, using people and human organs for alchemy was already considered as evil, okay? How can people who can't live forever refine the elixir of immortality? Isn't this funny? Am I such a stupid person? "Liu Changan didn't know why she had such an impression.
"I can now live forever and never grow old! I can be used as a material! "Tantai Jing didn't send a message, but her voice came through the bronze coffin.
"You're so loud, are you trying to declare that you're a material for the Elixir of Immortality?" Liu Changan patted the coffin, "You're relying on this coffin, yet you dare to say that you're immortal? I have always used my own essence to refine the elixir. "
"Then I am also your mother."
"That was just a kind of inheritance ceremony at that time, but … You see, you know opera, can the title of opera be taken seriously?"
"Everyone knows that opera is opera. I recognize you as my son and inherit the throne of the Emperor, but it is not opera, it is history. History cannot be changed and cannot be denied. I ask the emperor to recognize this."
"I am not the emperor now!"
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