I stood at the door of the room disappointed, listening to the people below tell me.

"Did he say where he was going?"

I muttered in response.

"Childe didn't say it, but he left a letter for you."

With that, the man who delivered the food box took a letter from his sleeve and handed it to me.

Cui'er went to the stove, and I stayed in the room to open the letter that Yun Chu gave me, and quickly put it away.

When Cui'er came in with tea, I was sitting by the window looking at the street.

She was stunned at the door, approached me, and asked me word by word, "Girl, what did that boy say in the letter?" ”

I didn't answer, my mind was still wandering.

It wasn't until Cui'er asked a few times that I came back to my senses.

I shook my head and said a little depressedly, "Cui'er, do you taste good about the dishes I made before?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Cui'er and the little guy at the door nodded in approval.

"I see that you all said yes, it shouldn't be too bad." I replied in a low voice, my eyes still drifting out the window.

Cui'er opened her eyes wide and said: "Girl, it's not too late now, do you want to go out for a walk, it's been boring in the car for a few days, or it's a mountain road where no one is around, or it's a deserted village and wilderness, don't you feel bored?" ”

"Besides, we also have to buy some things, and we may have to travel for a few days to the southwest this time."

I pointed to the heavenly path outside the window: "The climate in the mountains is indeed unexpected, Cui'er, you see that there was a sunset before, and it was dark in a blink of an eye." The weather was so gloomy that it looked like it was going to rain. ”

"I don't know what the fun of him going out in such weather is?"

Cui'er observed my unrelenting appearance, and laughed, "Since I am so concerned. Why did you hide it from him? Since he was gone, it shouldn't be like this now. ”

"You're getting bolder, and it's all my fault that I'm spoiled." I gave her a blank look and said angrily.

After a while, my voice lowered again: "Actually, what you said is also right, it may be that the authorities are fans, sometimes, I can't sort out my feelings, so I pile up all my troubles together and suppress them in my heart." ”

"It's all because of the annoying weather. I miss the Flame Country. It's always sunny. Unlike when I came here, it rained for two days out of three days. ”

"What's the weather?" As she spoke, Cui'er smiled and walked to the window. Just as he was poking his head out to look at the street scene in the same way, a gust of wind swept down, and the dense raindrops crackled down.

"What the hell is the weather." Cui'er hurriedly retracted her body, her cheeks and shoulders already wet.

I laughed and looked at her, my previous depression swept away.

When it rains, it's a little chilly in the house.

I said to Cui'er: "You go next door and ask, has his son-in-law left a message, and when will he come back?" ”

The little guy had been guarding the door, and I walked over, pushed him, who was about to doze off, and said, "You go to the shopkeeper's place." Ask them if they have charcoal pots in the store, and if they do, ask for two. ”

Cui'er was about to push the door out, but when she heard this, she turned to look at me and said, "Girl feels cold?" “

"No," I shook my head, "the charcoal basin wasn't for me, and the two of us weren't that bad." “

Cui'er gave me a suspicious look, and pushed the door out without saying anything.

I suddenly thought of another stubble and said, "You go cook some ginger soup." “

As soon as the words came out, I shook my head again and said, "No, I can't drink this." “

Cui'er turned back, stood in front of me and looked at me with a smile and said, "The girl is really, what kind of magic does that son have, how can the girl be like a different person as soon as she touches him." “

I looked at her, then pushed her and said, "You go and ask, don't do what you do, and talk so much nonsense." “

I sat by the window and opened a crack, and looked listlessly at the rain outside through the crack, and my heart was a little empty.

It was getting late, but the rain didn't stop at all.

I opened the windows wider so that I could see the people with umbrellas on the street.

Watch them walk past small puddles in the low-lying corners of the streets, and muddy water will splash up and wet their trousers.

The town we live in now is only one-fifth the size of Qibei in terms of area, which is less than a little bigger.

After looking at the map, I had a rough estimate of the size of the town.

Although the place is not large, it is a transit hub for this area.

To the northeast, it is naturally the main road to Qibei, and you will reach the country of lakes all the way.

If the town goes to the southwest, it is to the southwest.

The guests who come and go between these two places may not stay in a place like the deserted village inn where we stayed last night, after all, looking at the surrounding barren mountains and wilderness, it is a bit infiltrating.

But when you come to this part of the town, you will stay without exception.

So it can explain the reason why we didn't meet so many people on the road, and the inn business in the town was very good.

Cui'er pushed the door in and said softly: "Girl, the son next door who said that he would never tell them where to go when he went out, when he came back, and what he was doing." “

The answer was expected, but I just went to verify it again, and I always felt a little unwilling.

Cui'er took a few steps and sat down at the table, her lips moving, but she didn't make a sound.

After a while, Cui'er looked at my face cautiously and said, "Girl, did that son leave a letter for you, but didn't say the specific time?" “

I sighed, took the letter from my bosom, and handed it to Cui'er: "See for yourself." “

Cui'er's breathing tightened, but she didn't dare to answer the letter.

She raised her head, looked at me with embarrassed eyes, and said, "The girl's letter, the slave is not good-looking." ”

"I was at a loss just now, but now it's twisting." I looked at her speechlessly and slapped the letter on the back of her hand.

"What does this mean?" Cui'er looked at the empty envelope and grew her mouth, and then whispered inexplicably.

She grabbed the half-yellow, half-red leaf between the blank letterheads, and looked at me in surprise.

"Girl. This boy is such a weirdo. ”

"Do you read such a letter, will you know the time it says?" I glanced at Cui'er and asked.

"This, slave maid......" Cui'er said vaguely.

After a while. Her eyes lit up and said, "Maybe the meaning of that son is all in plain sight, so there is no need to write, well, it should be the meaning." ”

I couldn't help but be stunned, and in an instant, I looked at Cui'er with a smile and shook my head and said, "The charcoal brazier that I went to ask for in the car has not come back yet, you go down to the inn lobby and ask for me again." ”

The footsteps were far away, and I looked down and picked up the maple leaf on the table. The shape of the leaves is complete. It's just that the season hasn't come yet. Just half red.

One mountain, two mountains,

The mountains are far away, the sky is high, the smoke and water are cold.

Acacia maple leaf pill ......

Standing there, looking thoughtfully like a sculpture, for a long, long time, I didn't ...... Moved.

…… In the corridor, I was relieved to see Cui'er and the little maid send the two charcoal braziers into the room where Yun Chu had stayed, as if completing a ritual.

"Girl, you don't even know when the boy will come back, why do you have to send the brazier in?" Cui'er paused and asked me out loud.

Watch the rain fall on the leaves in the patio. I said in a flat tone: "When you go out in winter, the warmest thing is the cup of hot tea when you come back." ”

"In such a damp and cold weather, if I go out and come back, someone can prepare a brazier for me to keep warm, then my heart will also be warm."

"I am happy with this arrangement, and I will be happy if I think he will come."

There was a hint of sourness in my heart.

Covetous, in fact, it's just that little bit of warmth.

After resting on the re-closed door for a moment, I smiled slightly, "Cui'er, you just told me that it's not too late. “

I duly changed the subject and said, "Well, let's go for a walk in the streets." “

Cui'er didn't make a sound, but listened intently to me.

"This town, at most a day or two to leave, the next time you pass by, I don't know when it will be."

"Or, after we get to the southwest, we don't know if we will change our route."

"Why don't you take this opportunity to go shopping tonight."

I pointed to the luggage placed in the room, and said to the little servant sitting by the door, "You can stay, watch the things for me, and I'll go to the town with Cui'er, it's not too late." ”

He nodded, and I pulled Cui'er down the wooden stairs of the inn.

When we walked to the door and said hello to the shopkeeper, he looked at us quickly.

Holding up the two umbrellas lent to us by the innkeepers, Cui'er and I walked out of the inn one after the other.

When the wind and rain blew, she sneezed a few times and said with a bitter face: "Maybe someone is complaining about the slave." “

"What are you complaining about?"

"Complaining about the weather that shouldn't be like this, encouraging you to come out."

"I'm going out for a walk myself, and it has nothing to do with you."

I didn't want to get into the muddy water on the upper half of my body as soon as I went out, so Cui'er and I deliberately walked close to the eaves and made way in the middle.

The car passes by, so as not to be splashed by the water flying in the pothole.

The luck was not bad, and after walking half a street, the rain began to lighten.

Although the town is not large, when I walked to the main road in the town, I noticed that under the canopy along the street, there were stalls for food intermittently.

The familiar night market in Qibei is unexpectedly visible here.

Cui'er looked around vigilantly, and when she saw that the rain was getting lighter, she put away an umbrella and squeezed under mine.

Now both of them are wearing men's clothes, and in the eyes of outsiders, they are a son who reads and a scholar who reads with him.

How can there be two men holding an umbrella together?

Besides, she had the other one in her hand.

I frowned and looked at Cui'er, about to speak to her.

Cui'er couldn't help but lean over and whispered: "With such ghost weather, coupled with what happened before, Childe is afraid that he will rush in as soon as he sees the restaurant." “

"You have to stop it, what if you get drunk here, you don't have any stewards to connect with it."

"The Lord blames him, but he can't afford to ......"

"Before going out, the stewards in the garden told you that you should never be allowed to drink alcohol along the way."