The bright moon hung high, and the disc-sized moon was really like beautiful jade, so white that there was no flaw.

A rain in the evening, to now only the eaves are still dripping water droplets, the bluestone slab in front of the door has a small pit that is not shallow, the area is full of rainwater, the water droplets from the corner of the eaves, splashing a circle of ripples.

In the bright moonlight, a hazy mist hung over the river, which was bordered by a low fence. On the water-stained walls, the blue-black tiles had fallen off, revealing the yellow mud and straw-covered adobe bricks, and the parts near the ground were full of traces of turquoise moss, and some were crawling with evergreen vines.

Inside the wall was a lonely tiled house, some distance from the rest of the building, and several round holes had appeared in the door made of camphor wood, and a few faint candles leaked from the half-hidden door.

The small room was full of bundles of incense and candles wrapped in oiled paper, and in the northwest corner of the house there was a wooden board on two stones, and on a layer of hay lay a young man of fifteen or sixteen, with short hair that looked so out of place, and the young man's eyes looked through the hole in the roof at the white moon in the sky.

"Why? Why is it so white! Isn't there a crater on the moon?

"Dumb brother, dumb brother, I've got something to eat for you. ”

Outside the room, a child's voice was as clear as a nightingale.

The door was pushed open, and the eyes of the young man in the room dimmed again, staring blankly at the roof.

A little girl of about ten years old walked in and shook the candlelight inside the house with the wind outside the door. The little girl has bright eyes and bright teeth, two pigtails are beating happily with her footsteps, and a coarse linen dress still can't hide her natural beauty.

The little girl exhaled a few long breaths and placed the two pieces of Hu Biscuit wrapped in a handkerchief in her arms on the head of the boy's bed.

"She came running, and she seemed to have fallen on the road. ”

The young man looked at the little girl's cloth skirt with a large water stain, and thought to himself.

"Dumb brother, eat it quickly, it won't taste good if it's cold. ”

The little girl looked at the boy with her big bright eyes, and her hands lightly grasped the two pigtails, like a little elf in the moonlight.

The boy looked at it and suddenly smiled knowingly.

"Huh! You're smiling, big brother, you're actually smiling!"

The little girl pounced and grabbed the boy's arm tightly.

"Dumb brother, you are finally smiling, does your head still hurt?

The little girl kept repeating these questions.

"No, I have to tell Brother Sù Hao and Master Huineng quickly. ”

With that, the little girl turned around and prepared to run out the door.

"Wait!"

The young man's voice in the stage of voice change was a little hoarse and a little jerky.

As soon as this sound came out, the little girl's body was startled, and she turned her head stiffly, and her already big eyes widened at the moment, as if she could catch two eyeballs as long as she touched them.

"You... You... You're not dumb??"

The girl's voice trembled slightly.

"Did I ever say I'm mute? It's you yourself who always call me dumb brother, dumb brother. ”

The young man suddenly smiled playfully, and the state of mind that had just calmed down from the confusion suddenly had the idea of playing tricks on the little girl in front of him.

"But... But it's been almost a month since Master Huineng rescued you from the river, why didn't you say a word?"

The little girl had obviously not recovered from her "surprise" tonight, and began to stutter a little when she spoke.

"I wasn't sick yet. ”

The young man half-truthfully said a reason, in fact, the reason why he did not speak for a month was because he had not yet calmed down from the chaos due to the great changes, and his consciousness was a little blurred due to the impact on his head while drifting in the river.

When he woke up, he found himself in a completely unfamiliar environment, and instinctively protected himself, so he simply chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb to silently observe the surrounding environment.

Over the past month, he has gradually realized that this is no longer his original plane.

It is now the fourth year of Datang Tianbao, and this is Yuzhang City in Jiangnan West Road. The room he was in was a hut in the backyard of the Imperial City Temple.

A month ago, he was rescued from the Fuhe River by Master Huineng, the abbot of the Huangcheng Temple, and settled in this utility room after healing, since he was able to get out of bed and walk around, he sat on the stone steps by the door next to the temple every day, watching the boats coming and going on the Fuhe River, and collected a qiē about this strange world from the words of the people on the boat.

Originally, he thought that he should have traveled to the Tang Dynasty, after all, it was not difficult for a history college graduate to draw this conclusion from the key words such as the fourth year of Tianbao, Jiangnan Xidao, Yuzhang County, and the occasional white-shirted scholar on the ship.

However, when he looked up at the starry sky one night, he suddenly found that the moon in the sky was a little too white, and it stands to reason that in this era when there was no air pollution, only human eyes could still see the small black dots on the moon, and he naturally knew that it was a crater on the moon.

However, he didn't find it that time, he thought it was just that day's problem, but in the following month, he watched the moon from the garden to the wane, and he still didn't find the little black dots, and the moon hung high in the sky like a bright jade.

In addition, he found that his body was indeed his own, and even the little birthmark on his ass was still alive, but why was he eight years younger, he was originally a young man who was almost twenty-four years old, and suddenly changed back to a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy.

These made him even more confused.

A fear of the unknown was deeply entangled in his heart, and every time he woke up in the middle of the night, he always hoped that it was just a dream, and when he woke up, it was empty.

However, when he looked around, there were still bundles of incense and candles beside him...

So he began to pretend to be deaf and dumb, he did not dare to speak to anyone, and every day he sat on the stone steps and buried his head deep under his arms.

Gradually, the people around him began to forget about his existence......

Except for the little girl in front of her, the young man didn't even know her name, but the little girl would always come to this utility room with two cakes in her arms every day after dinner, and give them to this strange "dumb brother".

"What's your name?"

The young man spoke again.

"Oh, my name is Lu Ying. ”

The little girl finally recovered from her "surprise".

"Lu Ying, is it the 'Ying' of the jade of stone, or the 'Ying' of the water of Yinghui?"

The young man asked again.

"It's the 'ying' of the water. ”

The little girl replied shyly, her head lowered to hide the blush on her face.

"A good name, sure enough, people are as clear as water. The boy said with some emotion.

The little girl was a little embarrassed, her two little hands were tightly stirred together, her head was lowered, and she looked at her toes.

The boy suddenly realized that his Meng Lang, a girl in ancient times, was considered an adult at the age of fifteen, and at the age of a little girl, I am afraid that she has begun to understand the difference between men and women, and a strange man is a little frivolous about his name.

"Alas... I'm really not used to coming, and this little girl should have called me uncle before. So thought to the young man.

"Miss Lu, don't stand, sit down. So saying, the young man straightened up, pulled over a stool beside him, wiped it carefully with his sleeve, and handed it to the little girl.

"Oh," the little girl sat down with her head down.

Both the young man and the little girl fell silent, and the atmosphere seemed a little stiff.

"Oh, by the way, thank you for bringing me food for so many days. The boy smiled and said to the little girl sincerely, in this strange world, except for the master Huineng who saved him, only the little girl in front of him brought a trace of warmth to the boy.

"No thanks, in fact, these are all left to you by the master in the kitchen, I just helped to bring them, it's nothing. The little girl gradually walked out of the embarrassment just now and became lively again, her bright eyes reflecting that pure heart.

"By the way, big brother, what's your name?"

"Oh, patronizing and eating, my name is Xu Chen, Yanwu 'Xu', the 'Chen' of the stars. The young man put down the cake he was nibbling on and said as he chewed.

"Oh, where is the big brother, and why did he fall into the Fu River?" asked the little girl curiously.

"Me," the boy looked at the girl's beautiful eyes, smiled suddenly, pointed to the bright moon in the sky, and said, "Where do I come from!"

"Big brother is lying again, my mother said that there is only Chang'e on the moon, and Wu Gang has a little jade rabbit. The big brother is so thin, it is definitely not Wu Gang who cut the laurel tree, could it be that the big brother is the little jade rabbit? But the big brother is not a three-petal mouth. As she spoke, the little girl tilted her head and looked at the young man's chewing mouth, accompanied by a laugh like a silver bell.

"Cough, cough," the boy coughed suddenly, hurriedly grabbed the clay pot at the head of the bed, and poured a few mouthfuls of water. The young man shook his head helplessly, looked up at the little girl's clear eyes, and his eyes gradually became confused......

"I don't know where I'm from, I've been an orphan since I was a child, and I've been wandering with an old grandfather, and I've been walking a lot, and last year my grandfather died in the mountains to the south. The world is big, but I don't know where to go......" The boy said in a low voice, a heartfelt loneliness that stopped the girl's laughter.

"Later, I walked north along the Ganshui River, begging for a living along the way. That day, I was probably so hungry that I fainted, and I woke up here after waking up. The young man looked up at the little girl, his bright eyes miserted by a layer of mist.

"My grandfather's surname is Xu, so I followed the surname Xu, probably the name given to me under the starry sky. ”

The young man finished complaining, and the little girl hurriedly wiped her eyes with her sleeve.

"It's okay, big brother, now this is your home, Brother Hao and I, as well as Master Abbot, are your relatives. The little girl said eagerly.

"Actually... My father and mother have also passed away...", the girl was about to tell her story.

"Yingying! Yingying, where are you?" suddenly sounded a young man's voice outside the house.

"Ah, Brother Hao is coming to me, I can't talk to you anymore, big brother, I'll come to see you tomorrow. With that, he got up and prepared to leave.

"Ying... Miss Lu, can you not tell others what I told you just now?" the young man stopped the little girl.

"Ah, why? Can't even Brother Hao say?" the little girl asked with a frown, as if it was a big deal to hide it from "Brother Hao".

"Yes, I can't say, it's our little secret!" the boy looked at her expectantly.

"All right," the little girl thought as if she had made up her mind.

"Alright, let's pull the hook then. As he spoke, the boy stretched out the little finger of his right hand.

The little girl looked at the boy suspiciously.

The boy shook his head, smiled, and reached out to hook the little finger of the little girl's right hand.

"Hang yourself on a hook for a hundred years, and you won't be allowed to change. The young man said as he shook his hands.

"Uh-huh, don't change!" the little girl laughed happily, as if she had learned something new, and she could show off in front of the "all-knowing 'Brother Hao'" in the future.

Turning around, the little girl walked out cheerfully.

"Oh, by the way, Brother Chen, call me Yingying in the future, Miss Lu, Miss Lu's ugly is dead. The little girl turned back to the boy and said with a smile.

"Well, okay, Yingying. "The young man, oh, it should be called Xu Chen, also said with a smile.

"If you come, let it be safe. The world may be wonderful. Xu Chen said to himself silently.

A heart that is turbulent and confused is only at this time truly calmed down.