The last rain before autumn was heavy, dripping and full of fog. The entire Yaobei City is like being in a fairyland of Yunshan.

The cool water on the bluestone street is just over the instep of the foot. Pedestrians are scarce, and occasionally one or two people passing by are in a hurry, and most of them are vendors who are closing their stalls and going home, holding umbrellas in one hand and holding the burden on their shoulders in the other. Xuan Chen occasionally raised his umbrella to look at passers-by, a little curious.

It was his first time going out on a rainy day, and he used to try to avoid it. He used to hate this kind of silence, coldness, and rain that almost penetrated into people's bones.

When I left today, it seemed to be cool and comfortable.

He caught a glimpse of the peddler walking briskly with his trousers rolled up, occasionally reaching out to wipe the water that had splashed on his face from the burden on his shoulders, and the water-soaked straw sandals were lifted lightly and heavily.

I saw a woman holding a child in her hands, probably because the child could not walk fast, and the road was slippery on rainy days, so the woman walked very slowly. The umbrella was not large, and the woman tilted most of the umbrella to the child's side, and she was already half wet. But he lowered his head and paid attention to whether the road surface under the child's feet was flat, and watched the child eat the sugar gourd in his hand with relish, with a loving face.

"Mother, you eat. The child held up the string of sugar gourds in his hand.

"My mother doesn't eat it, my mother doesn't like to eat it. The smile on the woman's face grew.

The child withdrew his hand and continued to eat, "Mother, can I still come out to buy sugar gourds next time?"

"You can't eat sugar gourds every day. The woman replied.

The child rolled his little dark eyes and asked, "Why?"

"Because I ate too much sugar gourd, small insects are about to grow in my teeth, woo~, are you scared?"

"I don't believe it, mother, you must be lying. ”

"When did my mother lie to you?"

......

Xuan Chen retracted his gaze, covered his umbrella, and continued to walk forward through the stagnant water.

When he reached an intersection, Xuanchen turned to the left, but at this moment, he heard a chaotic sound of kicking water from behind.

"Don't run, don't stop obediently, I'll catch you later, I have to break your legs. A vicious boy's voice came.

Xuanchen looked back and saw a seven-year-old boy in the front, clinging to his bulging belly, running in the rain in a panic, and three ten-year-old children in raincoats chasing after him.

Xuan Chen frowned, wasn't the little boy in front of him the little handyman in the teahouse, the child who had fallen into the Far North City?

Suddenly, the boy slipped and fell heavily to the ground. There was a loud bang, and a splash of water was stirred, and a few wisps of bright red slowly floated up from under the stagnant water. The boy still clutched his bulging abdomen tightly and lifted his cheeks, which were covered with blood diluted by the rain, from the stagnant water.

Xiao Tong's fall successfully made the three children chasing him behind him catch up smoothly, and the one who was headed by a bit of the child king's posture kicked Xiao Tong on the shoulder viciously. The child was kicked and fell down again, and the child did not forget to scold: "Little bastard, let you run, let you run, what's the matter, can't run?"

"Big brother, kick his legs, kick him and break him, so that he can't get up. ”

"Yes, we chased all the way, and if we don't teach him a lesson, I'm sorry for the new shoes my mother bought me. ”

The two children next to him fanned the flames one by one.

The little boy who fell to the ground turned his head without showing weakness and glared fiercely at the three condescending children, and the bloodshot on his face made his fair and immature face look extremely hideous. When the child at the head saw it, the annoyance in his heart increased, and he raised his foot, and was ready to stomp down again.

"Alien wild seeds, I have to beat you out of the city today. ”

As he spoke, the child's feet fell. The little boy stared at him without retreating in the slightest, but the hands holding his abdomen tightened.

Just as the child's feet were about to fall, a black shadow broke out and held the child's feet firmly in the air, unable to move.

"Let him go, you have no grievances. ”

Xuanchen appeared next to Xiao Tong, and at this time he was in the independent posture of the golden rooster, and his foot was suspended in the air to control the calf of the child who was about to hurt people.

"Which onion are you, can you manage it?" the child at the head scolded, trying to break free from the restraints, but found that he was stuck by the poor and sour guy's foot, but he wanted to take it back, but the foot did not give up, he suddenly turned red with anger, "Let go of me, bastard, let go of me!"

"If you let him go, I'll let you go. Xuan Chen looked at the angry child in front of him, his tone was kind, but in fact, his heart was already full of resentment. What happened to the child now, he has also experienced it himself. The only difference was that no one could speak up as much as they did to help the children.

Annoyed and angry, the child turned back to the two companions behind him and yelled, "What are you two doing in a daze, don't you help quickly!"

"Oh. The two children were yelled at by the "big brother" who was in a worrying situation, and then they came back to their senses. After looking at Xuanchen, he was a little afraid at first, he didn't have much courage in the end, but he was used to bullying the weak. But because of the "majesty of the boss", they could only bite the bullet and raise their fists and rush towards Xuanchen.

Xuan Chen stretched out his idle left hand and slapped the rain that had slipped down from the umbrella with the back of his hand, popping out two water balls and splashing them on the faces of the two children.

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

The crisp sound of the water balloon popping sounded almost simultaneously, and the two children screamed and sat back into the stagnant water with their faces covered.

One of the children wiped the water on his face, rubbed his hot and painful cheeks, as if he had been awakened by this water balloon, and looked up from the bottom to see the whole picture of Xuanchen hidden under the umbrella, especially the eye-catching white hair. He immediately pointed at Xuanchen and said, "I'm ...... I recognize you, you're that piece of shit!"

When the child at the head heard this, he lowered his head and looked up, and found that his pig teammate did not recognize the wrong person, so he sneered: "It turns out that it is also a wild seed, and it is still an old wild seed that has been raised here for five years." ”

Xuan Chen's eyes lit up, and he grabbed his foot and turned it hard, twisting the foot of the naughty child who was full of unforgiving mouths.

The child at the head suddenly screamed in pain and wailed, "Oops...... Oops, let go, you let me go!"

"Give you a chance, say it again. Xuanchen said coldly.

The child at the head covered the painful foot, still reluctant to bear the pain and said: "If you ask me to say it, I will say it, but I won't say it." ”

Xuan Chen exerted another force, and the child's feet were almost twisted into a right-angled shape.

"Ouch hey...... Big brother spare my life, big brother spare my life, can't I be wrong?"

"Hmph!" Xuan Chen snorted coldly, let go of his foot, and pushed the child forward with a kick

The three children were upside down, and Xuan Chen looked at him, "Listen, my name is Xuan Chen, I beat you today, you can't beat you yet, it's okay, you can find your elders to settle accounts with me." It is not you who have the final say, and if I hear these two words come out of your mouth, I will break your teeth. ”

The three of them supported each other and fled in a hurry from the stagnant water, and the person at the head did not forget to turn around and say ruthlessly: "Don't be complacent, if you look for someone, find someone, wait for me to go back to my eldest brother, and let my eldest brother clean you up." ”

After saying that, he limped away at a faster speed.

Xuanchen retracted his gaze and looked at the little boy, and the umbrella moved forward, shielding him from him.

"Are you alright?" asked Xuanchen.

Xiao Tong wiped the blood from his face casually, and replied expressionlessly after getting up, "Don't worry about it." ”

Xuanchen didn't care, just said, "The rain is so heavy, I'll send you back." ”

"It's all said, don't worry about it!" the little boy glanced at Xuan Chen indifferently, and then plunged headlong into the rain, bent his thin body, and ran forward.

Xuanchen didn't stay, let alone insist on sending him back, he just stood in place, watching his figure in the rain gradually blur.

"I'm not old, but I'm more stubborn than you. A thought came from the ring.

"I'd like to ask you for a favor, or, make a deal with you. Xuan Chen suddenly said with a solemn face.

"Huh?"

Xuanchen said straight to the point: "When necessary, help me, you don't need a lot, three times is enough, to ensure that within the scope of your ability, you will not be allowed to take risks, let alone let you die." As long as you promise, you can do whatever you want me to do in the future, it is my life, and I will give it to you. ”

As soon as he was silent, he could clearly feel the firmness in the young man's words, which was by no means a joke. But this is likely to be a profitable deal for him, but he hesitated.

"I take the liberty of asking, why?" asked Yinian.

Xuanchen squinted into the air, looking at the gap between the rain curtains, and the slender rain lines, like endless arrow rain, shot towards the world from far and near.

"My time in Far North City is short, and before that, I must leave my father and mother a comfortable living environment. The Mu family is powerful, and I can't sleep well. ”

"I can't guess in the depths of the past, is there such a factor in your dedication to help the Mo family?"

Xuanchen was silent, noncommittal.

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In the kitchen of the teahouse, the boy picked up the medicine jar on the stove with a wooden clip and poured the black soup in the medicine jar into the porcelain bowl on the table. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, the boy walked out of the kitchen with a bowl full of soup and medicine, and came to a bedroom through several layers of curtains. Gently open the wooden door with your feet, and a faint fragrance of peach blossoms comes to your face.

"The one surnamed Feng, get up and drink the medicine. The boy came to the bed and said.

The bed curtain was lifted from the corner, and the sickly pale face of Cha Meiniang poked out her gaze, and asked in a soft voice, "You've been out for so long, can't you go to the pharmacy?"

The boy put the decoction on the bedside table, then lifted the curtain, tied it up, and hung it up, and said, "I just went out to breathe, and the house was stuffy, you know, I don't know the way, wandering around." Then I walked to the side of the medicine alley in a daze, and just saw that a pharmacy was still open, so I bought a pair of medicines and came back. ”

Cha Meiniang smiled slightly, "For a person like me who loves to laugh, his luck will not be bad." ”

The boy scoffed, "Are you still sick?"

Cha Meiniang showed a coquettish smile, like a plum blossom full of frost and snow, I don't see the decay of the flower, only I see pity, "Birth, old age, sickness and death, it is human nature, and it has little to do with luck." ”

Xiao Tong didn't want to be entangled with this chattering woman, otherwise she wouldn't be able to see her head for three days and three nights, and she would be sick, but she wouldn't stop talking at all.

"Shut up and drink the pills. The boy said sternly.

Cha Meiniang threw Xiao Tong a resentful look, and slowly sat up, but when she raised her eyes, she saw a small piece of gauze on Xiao Tong's left cheek, "What's wrong with your face?"

The boy brought the decoction to her and replied, "I was accidentally injured by the water vapor while decocting the potion. Didn't I say, don't you have a count of how many old antiques you have in your broken kitchen? I'll tell you, when you're well, throw it away and get some new ones back. This time I have a lot of adults, so I don't care about you, if this happens again next time, hum!"

The little boy wrinkled his nose at Cha Meiniang, dressed in simple miscellaneous clothes, which set off him like an angry little wild cat.

"Well, I'll think about it. Cha Meiniang took the decoction handed over by the child, only took a sip, and immediately frowned and asked, "What, why is it so bitter?"

"It's just ordinary typhoid medicine, haven't you drunk it?" asked the boy.

Cha Meiniang shook her head, Xiao Tong sighed, and then took out a fructose from her pocket, "Eat this after drinking." ”

"Can you not drink it?" asked Cha Meiniang tentatively.

"I've already driven away several waves of customers when the teahouse closes today, and I guess I'll have to lose fifty or sixty gold to say the least, and if I continue to close tomorrow...... I'll do the math......" said the boy pinching his fingers.

When Cha Meiniang heard this, she immediately held the bowl, closed her eyes, and poured it in.

The little boy took the empty bowl in the hand of Cha Mei Niang, handed over the fructose and then turned away, before closing the door, the little boy said to her, "You sleep well first, and there is a pair at night." ”

Squeaked the door shut, the tea girl on the bed stripped off the fructose and sipped it into her mouth, a faint sweetness just spread in the mouth, she didn't have time to taste it, after hearing Xiao Tong's words, she instantly felt tasteless.

The boy went back to his room, sat in front of the bronze mirror and looked into the mirror, his cheek with an ugly gauze sticker, shrugged his face, angry and hateful.

The boy reached out and climbed his fingers to the top of his head to remove the cloth hat, revealing a mass of black and green silk coiled with a silver hairpin. Fingers twisted the hairpin and pulled it gently, and the coiled green silk instantly fell down like a waterfall.

"Dare to hurt my aunt's face, and see if I don't beat you into muggles one by one in the future. There is also the one named Xuanchen, who is nosy. ”

She thought about it again, pursed her lips and changed her words: "Forget it, for the sake of you being an unlucky ghost, I'll let you go this time." Hmph, next time I'm nosy, but I'm not so lucky. ”