"Where is the temple fair held?" Qin Si'an's eyes lit up.

"East of the street. Ride in a carriage with a stick of incense. Yao Ling'er sent Xiao Er to prepare the carriage.

Although the east of the street does not belong to the downtown area, it is famous for being close to the city gate, the boat shop outside the city gate is like a star, the small bridge and flowing water are picturesque, the beautiful scenery such as the flowers are like a brocade attract many tourists, and because the land temple holds a temple fair every one, eight, eighteen, etc., the temple fair is more than one day, so there are many hawkers gathered there, buying and selling special products, interesting objects and so on are also very cheap.

During the temple fair, there are temporary restaurants, taverns, and teahouses. The roadside stalls are full of masks, theatrical wooden figures, carts, knives and spears, and bamboo dragons.

I heard that there are also empty bamboos, candy blowers, candy people, dough sculptures, nine rings, and rattles.

During the Wanmiao Fair, there will be many special food stalls from all over the world, such as xiaolongbao, fried cold noodles, baby fish noodles, spicy soup, spicy soybean milk, pot stickers, fried buns, wontons, sweet wine and other special delicacies.

As night falls, you can hear the noise in the distance.

"Let's get off here, it's not easy to get in the car. Yao Ling'er lifted the curtain, and when the two got out of the car, they saw a fiery red scene, meaning auspicious Fumen Blessing Pillars, high hanging red lanterns, and bright flags waving in the wind.

"It's hilarious. "Qin Si'an is very novel.

"No, this is a scenery that only exists in Jianglin City, and the outside of the city is even more leisurely. Qin Ling'er said with a smile. He was talking about those boathouses and painting boats, where the literati gathered, and naturally many people were vassals and elegant, and prostitutes were not allowed in the city, so outside the city was their paradise. I heard that prostitutes are not allowed to stay overnight in the city, and it is expressly forbidden, but those in the city can rest in the boat workshop, so the outside of the city can be regarded as singing every night.

"There are a lot of people, wait for you to follow me closely, don't go away, wait until you meet your son, and go shopping together." Qin Ling'er asked.

"Hmm. Qin Si'an nodded obediently.

The two of them walked through the block, Qin Si'an was dazzled, there was an endless stream of people next to him, shouting, selling, and bargaining filled his mind, occasionally crowded, the two figures would stagger one or two steps, Qin Ling'er would squeeze back nervously, try to be closest to Qin Si'an, sometimes the people who were squeezed next to him would complain a few words, Qin Ling'er had to salute solemnly, and Qin Si'an laughed when he saw it.

"You stand still, I'll go. After coming and going, Qin Si'an had no choice but to stop him. She was about to squeeze forward with a smile, when a horizontal thorn on a dough stall next to her stretched out a hand and grabbed Qin Si'an's arm tightly.

Qin Si'an turned his head to see that it was a person with a smiling mask, wearing a crow-blue robe, and the hand that grabbed him was distinct and vigorous.

Xu saw Qin Si'an turn around, his eyes under the mask were nervous and excited, but after seeing Qin Si'an's face, his eyes became cold, he let go of the hand holding Qin Si'an's arm, detached and polite, and the voice seemed to be about to freeze, "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person." ”

Qin Si'an was about to nod and say it didn't matter, when suddenly his eyes were dilated in surprise, his lips opened slightly, and his voice ...... He is-

Qin Si'an was about to reach out to pull him, he had already turned around and walked away coldly, the crowd was circulating, and soon he was nowhere to be seen, she eagerly pushed aside the crowd and wanted to chase in that direction, but one hand grabbed her, "An An, where are you going?"

Qin Si'an turned around, it was his brother Siping, and Yao Muchen and Yao Ling'er were standing next to her, she looked back in that direction in a trance, there were many figures, but there was no figure, as if it was a dream, a brightly lit dream.

"What are you looking for?" Yao Muchen followed her direction and looked at it, looking puzzled.

"It's nothing, it's just that I saw someone with a mask with a smiley face, and I liked it very much, so I looked at it a few more times. Qin Si'an smiled, maybe he was hallucinating or recognizing the wrong person.

"Let's go, go buy a mask, today I'm going to do the East, whatever you want. Yao Muchen shook his fan and smiled triumphantly, the light hit his face, with a faint halo, shining.

Maybe it's really a mistake, Qin Si'an felt a slight pain, so many years have passed, and the entire courtyard has burned down in that night fire. I remember that when she went to look for him, she only saw the ruins of one place. The cautious boy who lived, the boy who couldn't bear it, the boy who still had something to take back, was no longer there. No one knew what happened that night, she asked a lot of people in the neighborhood, and no one knew.

The fire burned suddenly, but cleanly.

Memory is like a kaleidoscopic world, and you can find the scenery you once forgot when you turn around. The glass-like past, reflecting a flash of light, makes it impossible not to remember.

I remember the first time I saw him, he was pushed to the ground, but he stood up without making a sound, and when others pushed him again, he still stood up without making a sound, and went back and forth many times.

"Haha, what young master, I think it's just a little beggar. A tall and chubby child squinted and sneered, while his eyes were dark, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the child who lowered his head and couldn't bear it, he snatched the steamed bun with one hand, kneaded a string of finger prints on it with his dark hand, and then threw it on the ground, spit and said, "Little beggar, come and eat." ”

The five or six children around laughed and laughed.

Qin Si'an looked at the child who was surrounded in the middle, even if he was humiliated like this, he was still standing there, motionless, Qin Si'an followed his gaze and found that his eyes were looking at the dirty steamed bun on the ground without blinking.

Qin Si'an looked at his side face, although he looked very quiet on the surface, his heart was definitely not what appeared on the surface, at least the clenched hands, the back of the hand was already bulging with green tendons.

"Hey, I said-" Qin Si'an frowned and turned out from behind the jujube tree, how old are these bear children, they have already shown such a face, it is really disgusting, she can't help frowning deeper, "A few bullies one, what is it, you go quickly, if you don't leave, I will call the adult, just now I saw a lot of aunts washing in the nearby stream." ”

A few people turned their heads and saw a little girl coming out from behind the tree, looking at Si Swenwen, who looked cute, but spoke with an expression like an adult, full of momentum.

"Don't bluff me, what's the matter, you're also one of this little beggar's gang, and you want to fight with him?" The tall and chubby child had a straight face, looking fierce and vicious. It's like he's the head of a child.

"I'm not afraid of you, since you don't leave-" Qin Si'an lowered his eyes, stopped talking, and just covered his ears with his hands.

Just as the group of children were confused, a scream came out of the girl's mouth like a magic sound, "Ahh

A few children instantly became like vegetables.

The fat man looked around with an ugly face, lowered his head and cursed a few words, waved his hand, and several people ran away quickly, not forgetting to say cruel words before leaving, "You wait for me-"

"Haha. Seeing them go away, Qin Si'an couldn't help laughing, in the end, it was a group of children, and it was easy to get it.

"Why don't you leave?" Qin Si'an saw that the child who was bullied before was still like a wooden pestle, so he asked out loud.

The child still didn't speak, just quietly looked at the steamed buns not far away, his clothes were a little yellow and shabby, and there were a lot of fresh dirt and mouths on them, which must have been a good thing done by the group of children just now.

Qin Si'an frowned and stared at him for a long time, seeing that he didn't move or speak, his eyes rolled and he thought of a good idea. She walked to the steamed bun, bent down to pick it up, and in the afterglow, she saw the child's eyes following the steamed bun, and she quietly tore the skin on the surface of the steamed bun little by little.

Qin Si'an tore the skin, and finally saw that the child's eyes shifted to her, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but he smiled on the surface, "What a good steamed bun, it smells sweet, can you eat it?" She stretched out her hand and handed the steamed bun to him.

The child looked at her in a trance, looked at her in a daze, and then looked at the steamed bun in her hand, and there were slowly ripples in her eyes, and then emotions surged, and finally turned into ridicule and coldness, he pursed his lips, and was about to reach out to take it, but the jade-like arm suddenly retracted, and then the person with the jade-like arm bit the steamed bun, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

“......”

Looking at the child's stiff hand, Qin Si'an finally couldn't control it, laughed, she laughed forward and backwards, her eyes burst into tears, and after a while, she said with tears in her eyes, "Quick, help me, my stomach hurts when I laugh, and my waist can't stand up......"

“......”

The breeze was blowing, and the weather in May was already a little hot, under the jujube tree, the girl leaned on the trunk with a smile, and looked at the person standing not far from her, "As a reward for steamed buns, this is for you." ”

She pulled out of the basket and took out two small paper bags, "Here." ”

He pursed his lips and looked at him coldly, neither answering nor saying no.

“......”

Does he think I'm making fun of him?

"I'm going home", she looked at the sky, it was not early, "the things are here, you don't eat them and you are not allowed to keep them, you can give them to anyone, you are not allowed to waste them, they are very expensive." ”

“......”

There was no girl under the jujube tree, and he stood quietly for a long time before he stepped forward to pick up the paper bag, which was the sweet taste of osmanthus cake and peanut crisp, and this kind of cake had never been broken in his mother's courtyard, so he recognized it as soon as he smelled it.

Looking back now, the years are still the same, things are not people, only to increase sadness, he tightened the paper bag, his eyes were firm and persistent, what he owes me and my mother, I will take it back sooner or later, everything I encounter now, I can bear it, I can wait.

"Yo~~ Hello!" a cheerful voice sounded, and he looked up to find her sitting on the jujube tree outside his yard.

It's been more than half a month since we last met, and I still remember the expression on his mother's face when she saw the pastry that day, crying and laughing. The pastry was scarce, but they ate it for a few days, and most of it went into his stomach.

"Practice calligraphy. The man in the tree shouted again.

"Hmm. ”

Qin Si'an tilted his head and looked at it for a while, he was sitting on the stone table in the courtyard writing words, sitting upright, holding a pen and so on, showing that he had been educated for a long time, thinking of the fat man's words that day, maybe he was really the young master of which family.

But what young master would be so downcast? She had been here once before, and she happened to see a mother-in-law scolding him with mean words. Qin Si'an had no choice but to hide behind the jujube tree again, intuition that he didn't want to let himself see his down-and-out appearance.

Qin Si'an looked at him and let him beat and scold him without saying a word, and then went to fetch water, cut wood, cook, farm, and so on.

After following him for a long time, Qin Si'an found that his experience was not even as good as that of an ordinary peasant child, at least at his age, his brother and the neighbors were all living in the school.

Next, Qin Si'an observed that the mother-in-law who beat and scolded him before seemed to have some relationship with his previous family, and he was theoretically a subordinate, just looking at the arrogant attitude, it was estimated that it was not a matter of one or two days, and the mother-in-law did not come often, about once or twice a month, and it seemed that every time she came to send money and medicinal materials, but the money given each time was pitiful, and even the medicinal materials were a lot of slag.

"My name is Qin Si'an, what's your name?"

"Quan Jing. ”

In the next year, Qin Si'an would come to see him every time he came to the town, at first she couldn't make a few dollars, and she had to buy pen, ink and paper, and she had to pay for the journey, but gradually there was a way, and there was more money, she would give some to Quan Jing, at first he would rather die because of his self-esteem, and then Qin Si'an let him go all the way with him, so that it was safer than her little girl walking alone.

Because Quan Jing has read books again, and the handwriting is fast and good-looking, many of Qin Si'an's scripts are for Quan Jing to transcribe again, and the main purpose is to polish her book. In this way, it is only natural that you will be paid.

During this period, Qin Si'an and Quan Jing's mother also got acquainted, often chatted with her, and said some interesting things, Quan Jing and Qin Si'an worked together, and they also grabbed some money, and the root of Quan Jing's mother's illness in the family slowly improved because of the money to buy good medicine. It's just that when the mother-in-law came, Quan Jing's mother would still pretend to be sick.

Their mother and son were especially guarded against that mother-in-law, so every time Qin Si'an went, she would avoid the days when the mother-in-law came, and in those days, not only Quan Jingniang pretended to be like that, but even Quan Jing was the same. After a year, the two of them obviously had money to buy things, but they still didn't buy anything, and they even behaved even more miserable.

Looks like some people don't want them to have a good time. Now they are in a weak position, which is the best way to cope, try to show that they are weak, not threatening, even low, low, humble, so that they can live.

Quan Jing likes Qin Si'an's story very much, every time he talks about the book, he is very excited, he once said that he likes the pleasure in it, trickery and scheming, love and hatred.

Because of his difficult situation, he couldn't help but act according to people's faces, and the safety aspect was also worrying, so Qin Si'an went back to pick up the lamp and wrote a book, and wrote some paragraphs about ancient classic strategies, regardless of Sun Bin's Art of War, Thirty-six Strategies, Eastern Zhou Dynasty Chronicles, etc., as long as he remembered that he wrote it roughly. It took more than two months to stop writing.

I thought that the other party would be moved, but I didn't expect the other party to smile helplessly and say, "Are you going to the battlefield to fight?"

Yes, he's not going to war, he's fighting a war without gunpowder, just as bloody and cruel, just as intriguing.