Mallow walked out along the back alley, and under a locust tree outside, there stood a man in a blue and gray robe, and when he saw Mallow coming out, he stepped forward, looked around with a pair of slippery little eyes, and approached Mallow and said, "My little aunt, you can figure it out." I can't even stand waiting. Why is this hellish place so cold, it's not even August 15, and it's so cold that people's bones tremble. ”

Malallow glanced at him and said, "It's just such a thief bone, what else can I do." ”

The man's eyebrows squeezed, and he sniffled, "It's you who want to do big things, not me." Girl, it's too difficult to find you out for a trip, give a few more money at a time, or I won't even have the money to buy buns next time, and I won't be able to find you. ”

Mallows raised her eyebrows and sneered: "Give me too much, in case you run back to Yangzhou City, who will I go to?"

"How can I do such a thing, and besides, don't you have a big sum for me afterwards? The man leaned up to the mallow face, laughed and asked, "Is that woman pretty?"

Mallow took two steps back in disgust: "Do you care?" said he took out a cloth bag from his cuff and threw it to the man, "The money and things are here, wait for me here for an hour every night in the future, and I will come out to see you before I move." He turned and left.

The man opened the cloth bag and looked at it, it was another ocean, damn, these girls are really picky. also blamed himself for offending the class master, otherwise there was no need to follow her to suffer this sin. The man tucked the cloth bag into his cuffs and strode away.

Mid-Autumn Festival is just around the corner. Although the mansion in Beiping is not as powerful as Yangzhou City, it is also a prosperous family. Early in the morning, someone bought the pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, melons and fruits moon cakes needed for the season. Du Heng also made two new clothes, but they were all measured by a tailor at home, and then sent them after they were ready. The custom of Beiping, the Mid-Autumn Festival will offer a rabbit. Following the customs, Zhao Shinan ordered Dongsang to go to a shop specializing in rabbits in the East Fourth Archway and invited one back.

It was the first time Du Heng had seen the rabbit master, the clay sculpture of a body more than a foot high, draped like a line in a play, with two small flags on his back, a red three-petal mouth, and a few whiskers, full of vividness. Du Heng couldn't help but look back and forth, and stroked the rabbit's beard with his hand, only thinking it was extremely interesting. Zhao Shinan saw that Du Heng's eyebrows and eyes had regained some naughtiness, and his heart was relieved, and he said to Du Heng: "Tomorrow morning, go out and pick out a few pieces of jewelry." It's also a festival anyway. ”

Du Heng responded lightly and turned around to embroider the remaining patterns.

Early the next morning, the carriage was already waiting outside the door, Zhao Shinan and Du Heng finished washing, Zhao Shinan wore a black and silver silk suit, Du Heng wore a light purple Western-style cheongsam, with Shuangye, went out and got into the carriage and walked in the direction of Xicheng. Since the last gunfire in Wangfujing, Zhao Shinan was reluctant to take Du Heng there again. Although the stuff there is the most complete.

Along the way, Zhao Shinan lifted the curtain and looked out, then frowned and groaned for a moment, then looked out again, and instructed the coachman to go around in a circle, turn back to the original place, and run in the opposite direction. Du Heng couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

Zhao Shinan faintly felt that there was always someone following behind, but he was not sure, and said lightly to Du Heng: "It's nothing." "But I also wondered in my heart, who is it? Business has not been peaceful recently, and there are always some ruffians who come to stir up trouble and make trouble. Fortunately, the business in Peking is not a storefront, and the store is only a sample of silk, which has no effect. If you really open a store to sell silk, they will be stirred up. Zhao Shinan looked coldly at what the real intention of these routines was in the end.

The carriage arrived at the Zhuyu Line in Xicheng, Du Heng and Zhao Shinan got off, and the boss liked a pair of men and women to come over, as long as the women liked it, the men were the ones who paid the money. hurriedly greeted him: "Mr. and Mrs., what do you want?"

Zhao Shinan looked at Du Heng and said, "Are there any bracelets or anything like that?"

"Yes, yes. The boss hurriedly took out all kinds of coral jadeite, and saw that Zhao Shinan and Du Heng did not raise their eyelids, understanding that they had encountered a picky person, and hurriedly took out some goods from the box on the second floor.

Zhao Shinan hooked his lips and picked up a string of coral bracelets, compared them to Du Heng's arm, it happened that Du Heng was wearing a purple cheongsam, red with purple, and he couldn't bear to look at it again, Zhao Shinan took it down, picked up a string of tourmalines, and was about to make a gesture, when a crisp voice came from his ear: "It's better to try that string of pearls." Gentleman. ”

Zhao Shinan looked back, Bai Zhi was wearing a silver cheongsam and walked over, she was already white, with an increasingly ethereal fairy-like purity. Zhao Shinan was stunned for a moment, Bai Zhi rarely seemed to wear like this, she had always been dressed in strange clothes, either big flowers and big flowers, or pants and dresses, it was rare to be like this. Zhao Shinan smiled on his lips: "You also come to buy something?"

"I'm wandering around the neighborhood and I'll come in and say hello when I see you. Bai Zhi turned to look at Du Heng, and her eyebrows and eyes were full of expressions of wanting to say goodbye.

Du Heng understood that Bai Zhi had something to say to her, so he walked up to Bai Zhi and grabbed her and smiled: "I haven't seen you for a long time, what have you been doing lately?" As he spoke, the two of them were about to go outside the door and speak. Zhao Shinan followed him inseparably.

Bai Zhi turned her head and smiled, "You don't have to follow her so closely, right? Let's talk something of kindness, and you'll have to come along. ”

"And what I can't hear? Zhao Shinan's voice was joking, but his eyes were full of cold ice, and even a hint of warning. He already knew Bai Zhi's identity, after the gunfire incident in Wangfujing, Bai Zhi's identity had already been exposed, and it stands to reason that she should not appear so swaggeringly, but she still appeared as if nothing happened, which is unusual.

Bai Zhi couldn't get rid of Zhao Shinan, and couldn't help but be a little anxious: "Do you have to make a stumbling block?"

Zhao Shinan looked at Bai Zhi, even colder, and the reluctant smile disappeared: "What stumbling block? ”

Bai Zhi's chest rose and fell, she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say it, she bit her lip and looked at Du Heng for a long time, and smiled bitterly at Zhao Shinan: "That's it, I met you, but in the end, you guarded me like a thief." Zhao Shinan, in fact, you understand everything, but you just won't help me, right?"

Zhao Shinan's voice was cold: "I am a businessman, and it is my duty to do a good job." In this troubled world, it would be good to find a place for my wife and children. So you still don't have to open your mouth. ”

Bai Zhi's expression was a little sad, and her gaze at Zhao Shinan was a little overlooking: "It's sad and lamentable, it doesn't matter if you are a country man or illiterate, but you are a person who reads poetry and books, when you were a child, you were all reciting "The life and death of the country is profitable, how can you avoid it because of misfortune and fortune", but what about you now? Where has your mind gone in the world? Have you become the silver in your eyes?"

Du Heng listened to Bai Zhi's interrogation there, his face was red and white, although what Bai Zhi said was the cry in her heart, which could be said from the mouth of outsiders, after all, it was a little naked and straightforward, Du Heng hurriedly explained: "He's not, what he thinks is-"

Zhao Shinan interrupted Du Heng's words, stared at Bai Zhi and said, "Yes, I am seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, so you don't have to talk to me about your moral mind." Then he said, "But the rise and fall of a country is not enough with blood and fierceness. ”

Bai Zhi sneered twice: "The one who said this is just reluctant to blood." Zhao Shinan, if Chinese men are like you, without responsibility and faith, in another hundred years, they will still be the remnants of the Qing Dynasty and warlords, and they will still be a group of sick men in East Asia. ”

Zhao Shinan's fists clenched, the green tendons on his forehead were jumping suddenly, his lips were pursed very closely, his face was calm, but he didn't say anything, Du Heng's face was almost dripping blood, she looked at Bai Zhi as if pleading, hoping that she wouldn't say anything more. Her husband has always been the person who stands up to the sky in her heart, although she also feels that his attitude towards the revolution is too cold, but Bai Zhi is simply useless. Her heart hurts: "Bai Zhi, don't say that." Everyone has the right to choose their path. ”

Bai Zhi was still panting: "But he is Zhao Shinan, not an ordinary person." You are a weak woman who understands things, and he shouldn't be in the opposite tune. As he spoke, he looked at Du Heng, "Since that's the case, I won't bother you." I'm going to leave in a few days, and I'm afraid I won't be able to see you again in the future. ”

As he spoke, he took off a chain and a peach-hearted pendant from his neck and brought it to Du Heng: "This is for you to keep a thought, after all, you know each other." ”

Du Heng's eyes were a little red, and he only had the handpiece he had just tried on his arm, and handed it to Bai Zhi, who pushed it back: "I hide in Tibet all day, and I don't need it." ”

After speaking, he looked at Du Heng a little sadly, and suddenly hugged Du Heng tightly, then let go again, and pinched her face: "Heng'er, goodbye." ”

turned to look at Zhao Shinan, the look in his eyes was very complicated, and he said thoughtlessly: "Don't mind what you said just now." Good luck with your business. After saying that, he turned his head and walked away quickly.

Zhao Shinan was stunned, and there was a hint of indescribable taste in his heart. I went back and paid the money for Du Heng's hand, and finally picked the string of pearls. Then he returned to the house.

That Mid-Autumn Festival night, after eating, Zhao Shinan and Du Heng waited under the window for a long time, but it turned out that it was always covered by dark clouds, without a trace of light. Zhao Shinan and Du Heng each thought about their thoughts.

After hesitating for a long time, Du Heng opened his mouth: "Shi Nan, Bai Zhi's words, you don't have to mind." ”

"I don't care. Zhao Shinan turned to look at Du Heng, "But what I care about is, what do you think?"

Du Heng bit his lip and looked at Zhao Shinan and replied a little hard: "When you can, you should help." Zhao Shinan didn't say anything more, looking at Du Heng thoughtfully.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside, and a mother-in-law came in and said, "Young master, young grandmother, the mallow girl is not good again, after eating at night, she vomited vigorously." ”