Ruan Wan, who rushed out, didn't hear Song Ting and Yu Qiaoqiao's words at all, and she was now full of only one thought-

Go there!

She was wearing slippers from the hotel, and she had just taken a shower, and the soles of her shoes were just water. So when she ran to the staircase, she slipped and fell to the ground without surprise, and the "poof" sound startled everyone around her. Someone wanted to help Ruan Wan, but she stood up first, didn't look at the situation on her body at all, and staggered down the stairs and ran downstairs.

One floor!

Two floors!

Corridor!

Hall!

Gate!

Laneway!

Ruan Wan ran so eagerly that she almost left the wind behind her. She may have never run so fast in her lifetime, but she still felt that she was too slow, too slow! too slow......

There was no one in front of the jelly stall.

She watched this scene from afar, and her steps were sudden, and when she came to a sudden stop, she almost fell again, but soon ran again.

"May I ask where the person who just bought the jelly is going?" Ruan Wan asked in a hurried voice as she ran to the stall.

The owner of the jelly stall was stunned, and he didn't understand what the situation was for a while. Perhaps shocked by the expression of the girl in front of him, the boss subconsciously raised his finger: "...... Over there. ”

"Thank you!"

Ruan Wan stumbled up again, through the bustling flow of people, stepping through the hot streets, and in her big gulps of rapid breath, she kept looking left and right.

No!

No!

Or not!

Where is it?

Where is it?

Where exactly?

After a long time, Ruan Wan finally slowed down, and her eyes changed from eagerness to eagerness in her messy steps...... Gradually became confused. At last, she finally stopped completely, stood in the middle of the road, and did not move for a long time.

The people around looked at Ruan Wan curiously.

She must not have known how wolf she seemed at this moment, or rather, she was not aware of her wolf at all.

And almost at the same time......

The second floor of a teahouse she once ran.

Two men sat opposite each other by the window, one of whom was a young man and the other a young man who appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years of age. After ordering a few things familiarly, the former picked up the hot tea on the table and poured a cup for the person opposite, while the latter was eating the cold powder in front of him in one bite, and his expression seemed quite satisfied and comfortable.

The young man was speechless, "What's so good about this?" I remember you didn't like to eat this before. ”

The boy smiled and replied, "I don't know why, but suddenly I think it's very palatable." ”

The young man shook his head: "It's rare for you to go back to China with your uncle, why did you suddenly come to me?" The young man asked again, "My parents have called me to ask what is the matter." He himself wondered what was going on - so he was wronged by this pot!

"Just to see you, cousin. The boy stirred the cold powder in the bowl and replied calmly, "By the way, I will travel again." ”

"Come on. The young man scoffed at this answer, he didn't come when he returned to China before, but now he suddenly came, and the fool believes it! But since his cousin didn't want to say it, he didn't bother to ask, so he just followed the other party's topic and said, "Speaking of which, there happened to be a special town next to Lianhu Lake recently, do you want to go and see it together tomorrow?"

......When the young man heard this, he didn't know why he was in a trance.

[My hometown is a small town near the water, and it ...... every summer]

[I sometimes row a boat to ......]

[Do you want to eat the jelly? Come, I'll give you a bite.] Ahh......h

……

"Jin Nian, Jin Nian, Jin Nian!"

A hand on his shoulder made Du Jinnian suddenly come back to his senses from the "woman's chuckle", and his eyes were like the sky after the fog, gradually returning to clarity.

"Jin Nian, are you alright?" the young man asked with a slight frown and some concern.

Du Jinnian rubbed his eyebrows, shook his head, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's just that I haven't slept well recently because of jet lag." ”

"Then I'll send you back to rest now. ”

“…… We haven't had dinner yet. ”

The young man immediately raised his hand, "Waiter, please make a bag!"

Du Jinnian: "......"

While waiting for the packing, Du Jinnian looked down at the cold powder in front of him - what his cousin said was right, he really didn't eat this thing much before. It's just that...... Beginning about a year ago, he would sometimes fall into a strange hallucination. The hallucinations were mostly about a strange woman, whose face was forever hidden in layers of fog that he couldn't see no matter how much he tried to dispel it. He felt familiar with her, but he was sure he had never seen her—

Never.

And this hallucination, unconsciously, also affected his life.

For example, the food in front of you, for example, you suddenly decided to go back to China with your father, for example, ......

"Jinnian, why are you in a daze again?"

Du Jinnian raised his head, looked at the young man in front of him, and asked, "Cousin." ”

"What?"

"Have you ever tried to dream about the same person again and again?"

The young man raised his eyebrows: "Girl?"

"......" Du Jinnian hesitated and nodded.

The young man immediately showed a knowing smile: "Jin Nian, you are also at this age." He lowered his voice and laughed more and more obscenely, "Cousin, I have a lot of treasured magazines here, cough cough, I'll show it to you when I go back, I can dream of whoever you want!" No wonder he felt that his cousin, who had been in parts for more than a year, had suddenly become a little mature and excessive, and it turned out that he had grown ♂ up ♂.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh "hey, hey, hey" again.

Du Jinnian: "......" It was really a mistake to discuss this kind of thing with my cousin, "when I didn't say it." ”

"Don't. The young man became interested in the subject, "What kind of girl is the girl in your dreams? Oriental or Yanma?"

Du Jinnian was speechless for a moment, but he couldn't stand the young man's constant questioning, so he could only say: "You should be a Chinese like me." ”

The young man muttered to himself: yes, no, no, no, what the hell is "should"?

Then he asked, "How is it?"

Listening to this question, Du Jinnian, who recalled the short-term hallucinations, unconsciously fell into contemplation again.

What is she like?

"She's a lovely ...... Wolf bèi...... It's endearing......" he murmured unconsciously.

That's right.

"A girl who can't help but want to protect. “

It's just that......

Maybe not just a good girl.

He didn't know why he had such thoughts, but such a sentence popped into his head. Who was she? Why did he know so much? The questions that had accumulated every day had almost pushed him to the extreme, and he was desperate to find the answers, but he didn't know if he could find them.

Of course, the young man didn't know Du Jinnian's true thoughts, he just secretly said to himself, "The wolf is still cute, isn't it that I have read too many novels!", he looked at his cousin who was obviously not in his mind, and secretly laughed, and inadvertently looked downstairs, his expression instantly froze.

Not far downstairs, a girl in a white dress was standing.

She looked really wolf-like—her white skirt was dusty, she wore only one shoe on her foot, and there were visible wounds on her arms and knees.

From this angle, you can clearly see the side of her face. Her eyebrows were like willow leaves washed by the light smoke of the early morning, and there was an ethereal smell of her own, and although she could not see all of them, she could clearly see the thick eyelashes like a fan and a butterfly, and her nose was high and small, and her lips were not self-pointed. Her complexion was the fairness of a water-country woman, smooth and smooth, and from a distance it looked like a light-glowing porcelain - even the tips of her ears peeking out between her satin-like black hair.

Her long satin black hair seemed to have been washed not long ago, and it was faintly damp, obediently clinging to her back. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but when he looked over, the girl had just turned around, and the ends of her hair were swinging in a thrilling arc between the movements.

At this moment, a tear slid down her porcelain-like face and fell onto her bare snow-white feet, smashed into pieces.

The young man looked at this scene in a daze, and suddenly understood the meaning of his cousin's words just now-it turns out that wolf bèi can really be pitiable sometimes.

"Cousin, what are you looking at?"

The young man suddenly came back to his senses, and immediately stretched out his hand and pointed downstairs: "Jin Nian, I just saw the lover of your dreams!"

Du Jinnian was speechless.

"Look!" the young man dragged his cousin downstairs, but was surprised to find that the street was still bustling, but the girl had disappeared without a trace.

"Huh?" he let go of Du Jinnian, pulled up and down on the windowsill, and carefully looked at the street scene below, "There is really no ......" Could it be that "is an illusion?"

“…… Cousin, don't make a fuss. ”

The young man was tempted to say, "I really didn't make a fuss!", but the waiter who packed the room came back at this time.

The young man then asked, "Did you just see a girl?

The waiter was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously replied, "You won't see Lianniang, right?"

Du Jinnian asked suspiciously, "...... Who is Lian Niang?" This name doesn't sound like a modern person, does it?

Needless to say, a young man who has lived in the area for a long time has already said, "This is a local legend." It is said that Lianniang was a smash hit courtesan in the lake painting boat in ancient times, she fell in love with a scholar but was betrayed, and she was sad and unwilling to jump into the lake in white clothes and died. Since then, she has often been seen by the lake. Huh? I didn't really see Lian Niang just now, did I? Will I get entangled? But Jin Nian, I really think she is actually more to your taste, do you want to go to the lake at night?"

"......" Du Jinnian was helpless, "Cousin, I think you are thinking too much." ”