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Sunset.

The bells and drums were delayed.

Pang Ji stood there fixedly.

His complexion turned gray in an instant.

The cold wind, like a sword, cut through the back.

It was as if the wheel of time had stopped.

Yao Hongyi looked at him puzzled, and also followed his line of sight, looking at a table of coffee tables and two bamboo chairs not far away.

"Teacher......?"

Pang Ji was recalled to his senses by his soft greeting, but he rushed forward like crazy.

- "Shop!"

He ran and shouted.

At the end of the courtyard was a small wooden house with a closed door.

- "Bang bang!"

The hands that slammed the door were full of folds, the nails were yellowish, and the green tendons were fully displayed, which was as vicissitudes as the door panels of the wooden house.

- "Open the door, shopkeeper, open the door quickly!"

Yao Hongyi, who followed, couldn't help but lose his mind when he saw Pang Ji roaring wildly.

"Teacher," he gently patted Pang Ji's shoulder from behind, and persuaded, "Forget it......"

Pang Ji's hand suddenly stopped and hung in the air.

"That's it,"

What came into Yao Hongyi's ears was a long sigh: "That's it, that's it." ”

An endless sense of loneliness.

Just when the two of them were about to go home-

"It's coming, it's coming! Wait a minute, ...... official."

The storekeeper's old voice came from the room.

- "Squeak--yah-"

The wooden door opened.

The moment he looked at his face, the shopkeeper and Pang Ji were stunned.

"Huge man!"

The shopkeeper recognized Pang's nationality.

Pang Ji can barely recognize the store.

The last time we met, the shopkeeper was still a sturdy middle-aged man, and now, his body is rickety, his beard is white, and there are a few deep pits at the corners of his eyes and mouth.

The shopkeeper smiled kindly, but it had lost its former look, like a dry and moldy wrinkled orange.

Pang Ji didn't have the heart to greet and reminisce, pointed straight to the only table and chair in the courtyard, and asked tremblingly, "Is it still open?"

"No, it's not open. The shopkeeper shook his head and waved his hand, and replied, "It's not open for business for a long time." ”

"What ...... is that table and chair?"

"When Chongning was ten years old, An Guohou bought this teahouse and ordered that only one table under the third tree be kept, but it was not allowed to open. ”

"An Guohou?"

"It's the Marquis of An who used to drink tea and talk with you before. ”

"Ten years in Chongning?"

"Yes, ten years of Chongning. ”

Pang Ji stared at the shopkeeper's face, inexplicably puzzled.

Ten years of Chongning......

What happened that year?

"What else did An Guohou tell you?"

He took a soft breath and asked with a thoughtful expectation.

……

"Lelang!"

Wen Yanbo's impatient cry made Le Lin sober up slightly.

Beside her, Chai Jue's gentle eyes made her face still hot. So, she covered her cheeks and said, "The fire seems to be a little hot." ”

Sima Guang stood by the windowsill, pushed the window open, and asked with a smile, "It's not hot now, is it?"

"Hmm...... It's not hot, it's not hot. ”

Le Lin was at a loss again, such an intimate Sima Guang is rare.

"So, are you hungry?"

Wen Yanbo narrowed his eyes and asked "him" with a smile.

"Huh?" Le Lin was even more surprised, how could Wen Yanbo be so thoughtful?

"Do you want to take a sip of tea, eat a bag, and take a break?" Wen Yanbo continued to ask with a smile.

"Huh?"

Le Lin was even more confused about the situation, and hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No, I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry." ”

Wen Yanbo rolled up the notebook in his hand, gently patted "him" on the head, and blamed unceremoniously: "Then why don't you give a lecture soon?"

"Huh?"

"Are you still endless?" Sima Guang rolled up his sleeves and said unhappily: "A few of us don't even eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, waiting for you to teach you how to use the 'line chart', what are you stupid here?"

"Ah-" Le Lin suddenly said: "Yes, yes, the juniors will talk about it and teach it immediately!"

She hurriedly turned around and drew a simple line chart on the rice paper on the wall, and was about to explain......

- "Bang bang!"

- "Smack!"

Two loud bangs came from the window.

"What, what's the sound?"

Lelin stopped writing, only to feel that the sound was so familiar......

Wen Yanbo pursed his lips and frowned, "It's just fireworks." ”

"Ahh

When Le Lin heard this, she was overjoyed, threw down her pen, and when everyone didn't have time to react, she trotted and ran to the courtyard outside the door, as if she liked something.

- "Bang bang bang!"

Immediately afterward, there were several loud bangs in succession.

A cloud of colored light rose rapidly, leaving a trail of gray smoke in its wake.

- "Smack!"

A "flower" blooms in the air, blooming......

In an instant, it split into countless tiny points of light, lighting up the dark gray sky of the evening.

It's fireworks!

- "Bang bang bang!"

This time, it's the big colorful balls that overlap each other,

Colorful and dazzling.

Sparkling.

The night suddenly became a sea of light.

After a while, it turned into gems set in the sky.

Finally, it gradually transformed into a starlight waterfall and slowly fell down.

It's fireworks......

Like thunder and lightning, Le Lin stood in the courtyard outside the Peony Pavilion, motionless, admiring the fireworks fixedly, and was distracted.

This is a bond from the future world.

It's fireworks she hasn't seen in a long time.

"It's just fireworks, what's so rare?" Wen Yanbo, who came to the courtyard later, said very disdainfully.

He asked Chai Jue beside him for the same feeling: "Third Highness, you said yes, right?"

Chai Jue smiled, but his eyes followed Le Lin closely, and he couldn't take his eyes off.

Ambilight.

Like a flashing lantern.

Not fireworks.

It is the light and shadow reflected in "his" ink eyes.

He can understand why "he" is fascinated.

Shining and dazzling, how can you not be fascinated?

Wen Yanbo was puzzled, and stepped forward and patted "Le Lang" on the shoulder: "Okay, let's go back to teaching, you are not a small man, and you are still addicted to this, but it is just a child's thing......"

"It's not just kids' stuff. ”

Lelin didn't look back, and continued to focus on the fireworks in the sky.

"What?"

This time, it was Wen Yanbo's turn to be puzzled.

"If it can be improved, the fireworks may be turned into weapons. ”

Wen Yanbo's contempt for fireworks reminded Le Lin of a passage from Mr. Lu Xun.

-- Foreign countries use gunpowder to make bullets to ward off enemies, but China uses it to make firecrackers to worship the gods; foreign countries use compass needles for navigation, but China uses them to read feng shui; foreign countries use opium to heal diseases, but China uses it as food.

She thought of a sentence in "The Three-Body Problem" again.

-- Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is.

The glory of the Celestial Empire made the ancient Chinese complacent and arrogant.

Is it because of arrogance that ignorance and then weakness?

Or is it because of ignorance of the world that they are arrogant?

No one can tell.

"It's a shame that fireworks and firecrackers are only used as children's toys. ”

Le Lin turned her head sideways, smiled at the corner of her mouth, and said leisurely.

……