The two chatted for a while, and when the moon arrived in the middle of the sky, Xiao Yiran motioned for Qingwen to bring the piano table, burned incense and cleaned her hands, and sat upright behind the piano table. Xiao Yiran knew that Zhu Zixiu came here mainly to hear him play the piano. Therefore, every time he does not need Zhu Zixiu's request, Xiao Yiran will take the initiative to play a song on the piano.

The piano table happened to be placed in the moonlight in front of the window, and Xiao Yiran sat with his back to the window. Zhu Zixiu sat on the left side of Xiao Yiran's front. As the saying goes, when Xiao Yiran was about to stroke the qin, Zhu Zixiu personally blew out the two red candles in the room that were as thick as children's arms, and the room was suddenly full of light. Looking at Xiao Yiran sitting at the back of the piano table from Zhu Zixiu's position, he could just see most of his face, because it was the backlight, in the haze, Xiao Yiran's silhouette was even more beautiful and outstanding. The pale blue dress almost blends in with the moonlight, like a landscape painting splashed with ink. The black hair hangs down behind the head, and the deliberately modified sideburns on the cheeks are as if they are outlined, elegant and beautiful.

When Xiao Yiran played lightly with his bare hands, the sound of the tinkling piano flowed into the moonlight, filled the room, and flowed into Zhu Zixiu's heart like flowing water.

After the song was played, Xiao Yiran was still sitting behind the piano table, and it seemed that he had not yet come out of the artistic conception. And Zhu Zixiu, who was on the opposite side, looked at most of the silhouette of Xiao Yiran in the moonlight with empty eyes, and he didn't know where his thoughts flew.

After a long time, Zhu Zixiu breathed a sigh of relief, slowly stood up, and bowed deeply to Xiao Yiran. Xiao Yiran also hurriedly got up, curtsied back, and the two glanced at each other and didn't speak for a while.

"Miss, do you want to withdraw?"

Qingwen looked at Xiao Yiran standing behind the piano table, as if it was a little inconvenient, so she broke the silence in the room and asked softly. Seeing Xiao Yiran nodded, he and Musk Yue lifted the piano table down.

"Miss Ran'er's piano skills are really getting more and more exquisite. No wonder the ancients had: This song should only be in heaven, how can the world hear a few times. In fact, it is not how unique the song is, the key is that the person who plays the song, after putting his body and mind into it, will naturally play out the beauty that people can't describe in words. As the saying goes, leisurely heart, it is difficult to say the wonders with you. ”

"Childe is overrated. Ran'er only wants to play the song, and can barely enter the son's law, so it is enough. ”

"If Miss Ran'er's piano music can only be regarded as reluctant, then no one in the entire Qinhuai River dares to say that they can play the piano."

Zhu Zi Xiuzan, Xiao Yiranqian, after the two of them said a few words, they laughed at the same time.

"Hehe, such a praise is suspected of falling into clichés."

Xiao Yiran also smiled and said:

"I shouldn't have been so praised by my son."

As he spoke, Xiao Yiran picked up the hot tea that Musk Yue had just exchanged, and motioned to Zhu Zixiu and said:

"Childe, please use tea."

Zhu Zixiu took a sip of tea, put it on the coffee table, and asked Xiao Yiran:

"Since Miss Ran'er should be 'Willow Smoke Boat' as 'Sun and Moon Boat', although the students can see that Miss Ran'er has the ambition to leave this fireworks land, they just don't know what Miss Ran'er's plans are for the future?"

"After all, Ran'er has always grown up here, although she has the heart to leave this land of fireworks, but because she is still young, she has not thought about what the future will be for the time being."

After speaking, Yu Yu sighed and said:

"After all, this is the painting boat left by my mother, and if I want to say that I will abandon it immediately, it will be difficult to give up in my heart for a while."

"Entertaining people with music and living by chatting, although it is the last stream, it is not a real cheap business. As long as you keep your heart, no matter what you do, you will be respected. Miss Ran'er is bound to be able to get out of the sludge without staining, and stand on the Qinhuai River. ”

"Borrow the good words of the child."

"If there is any difficulty in the future, you may wish to tell us, if you can help, the students will be honored."

Saying that, Zhu Zixiu didn't tell Xiao Yiran where to find him when he was in trouble, but just took off a jade pendant from his waist and put it on the coffee table. At the same time, he stood up and said goodbye to Xiao Yiran:

"It's time for the students to go. Another day, let's listen to Miss Ran'er's fairy music again. ”

Xiao Yiran didn't say much, the guests wanted to leave, and the painting boat would never say anything to keep the guests, especially a painting boat like Xiao Yiran who only sells his art and does not sell his body, even more so. silently followed behind Zhu Zixiu and sent him to the exit of the painting boat. When the painting boat slowly approached the shore, Zhu Zixiu's entourage came over and helped him to the shore, and at the same time, one of them came over and handed Qingwen a money bag behind Xiao Yiran, then turned around and disappeared with Zhu Zixiu in the shade of the trees on the shore.

Back in the painting boat, Qingwen handed over the money bag, Xiao Yiran did not take it, she knew very well in her heart that every time Zhu Zixiu came, she would leave the same money bag, and the amount of money in it was also the same, all of which were four ingots and twenty taels of silver.

"Miss, who is Zhu Gongzi?"

This is almost a question that Qingwen and Musk Yue must have asked since Zhu Zixiu came for the first time last spring.

"That's right, not only is it humanistic and polite, there has never been any rumors, let alone moving hands and feet, but the money left behind is eighty taels every time, which is not something that ordinary children of the family can spend."

Ignoring Qingwen and Musk Yue's cookie-cutter words, Xiao Yiran walked straight to the coffee table, picked up the jade pendant left by Zhu Zixiu, and looked through it carefully by the moonlight. It's nothing special, except that the jade quality is surprisingly good. It is a square hollow jade pendant, and the pattern in the box is auspicious clouds as the base, and a dragon with a curly tail is bent on it. Xiao Yiran is also a person who has seen good things, but he rarely sees such a beautiful carving as the jade pendant in front of him. Not to mention the jade pendant, it is the silk silk of the jade pendant, which is carefully woven, delicate and new and ingenious by hand.

At this time, Qingwen and Musk Yue also came over to watch.

"Miss, I'm afraid this jade pendant is also worth a lot of money, right?"

As she spoke, Qingwen also reached out and stroked the jade pendant in Xiao Yiran's hand.

"Just know the money."

"That's it, every time Qingwen sees silver recently, her eyes are straight."

"Musk Yue, when did you see me with straight eyes when I looked at the silver?"

The two girls laughed for a while, and when they saw that Xiao Yiran was still silently looking at the jade pendant in his hand, they stopped and stood quietly aside.

"Zhu Gongzi is afraid that he is a person with a lot of background, and when Zhu Gongzi comes back in the future, he must be careful to wait."

Xiao Yiran vaguely guessed from the jade pendant that such a jade pendant, such a silk silk, I am afraid that it is only available in the palace, right? It's just that Zhu Zixiu didn't say it explicitly, and Xiao Yiran was not very sure.

"Miss, Zhu Gongzi said that he was looking for him when he was in trouble, but he didn't even tell us his address, where to find it?"

Qingwen pouted and said with some dissatisfaction.

"Didn't you leave the jade pendant?"

Musk Yue's words caused Qingwen's dissatisfaction.

"The capital is so big, you can find someone with just a jade pendant? When the time comes, you can come to me and show me. ”

Unlike Qingwen and Musk Yue, Xiao Yiran understands it in his heart. If your guess is correct, Zhu Zixiu should really be from the palace, then with this jade pendant, if you go to a yamen, someone will always recognize it. This is probably the reason why Zhu Zixiu did not say it explicitly. Xiao Yiran thought of this, and even more convinced that Zhu Zixiu was from the palace. Because, Zhu Zixiu knew that if he really had something to look for, a person like Xiao Yiran would not be able to enter the palace no matter what. It is better to leave a jade pendant that can represent your identity, and when the time comes, there will naturally be people in the yamen, for the sake of Zhu Zixiu's face, who will take care of themselves.

The next day is August 17, this year coincides with the year of the Great Competition, and students from all over the world have come to Yingtianfu, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, to participate in the triennial autumn festival. Following the old historical practice, it is still August 17, 18, and 19. Therefore, in the past three days, the business of the painting boat is relatively light, especially for the painting boat like Sun Moon Fang, which only makes a living by selling art, the business is particularly light. Because she was bored in the painting boat, Qingwen said to Xiao Yiran:

"Miss, I'm afraid there won't be any guests in the past three days, why don't we go to the city for a walk?"

Xiao Yiran also wanted to go into the city to have a look. During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was called Jiangning Mansion, which was the place where the mother's grandmother Sun Mansion was located. Xiao Yiran wanted to see if there was a Sun Mansion in the city, so as to verify whether the more than ten years of the Northern Song Dynasty were real or dream.

"Well, it's a bit big now, I'll go back in the afternoon."

After lunch, Xiao Yiran took a break as usual, and at the end of Shen and the beginning of the first month, when the sun was in the west, the three masters and servants changed into men's clothes, left the painting boat and entered the city. As he walked, Xiao Yiran searched for some of the memories he had added after waking up. Many habits are exactly the same as those of the Northern Song Dynasty. For example, the habit of going out into men's clothes, and the personalities of Qingwen and Musk Yue, etc. The only thing that puzzled Xiao Yiran was why he had the memory of the thirteenth year of the Northern Song Dynasty, but Qingwen and Musk Yue did not? Are the two of them still the Qingwen Musk Moon in the "dream"? Until now, Xiao Yiran has also been a little shaken, and is gradually accepting the saying that the first life of the Northern Song Dynasty is just a dream.

The three of them entered Yingtianfu from the south city gate, and vaguely remembered the location of the City God Temple, so Xiao Yiran said to Qingwen and Musk Yue:

"Let's go to the City God Temple first."

The first time I saw the poplar was in the City God Temple in Jiangning Mansion, which is now Yingtian Mansion, and Xiao Yiran looked forward to seeing the poplar in the City God Temple again. In that case, not only can it prove that the thirteen years of the Northern Song Dynasty were not a dream, but also Xiao Yiran really wants to know what kind of relationship the figure that let him never forget after seeing it once has had with him? How can you make yourself feel so strongly attached?

The pilgrims in the City God Temple are still bustling one after another. Xiao Yiran followed the flow of people, silently prayed with incense, but his eyes roamed around from time to time, hoping to see the figure of a poplar dressed in white.

"Miss, there's someone who always keeps an eye on us."

"Who, where?"

When Xiao Yiran knelt on the futon in front of the statue of the god in the main hall and prayed silently, he just stood up, and Qingwen behind him whispered in his ear to remind him.

When Xiao Yiran turned his head with Qingwen to look for the person Qingwen said had been staring at them, he had already lost his trace.

"Strange, it was still there just now."

"What kind of person is it?"

"Two teenagers, the younger one is sixteen or seventeen years old, and the eldest is no more than seventeen or eighteen years old."

"What are you wearing?"

"The boy who was always staring at us was dressed in white, and the other was wearing a pale cyan robe."

Xiao Yiran wasn't sure if what Qingwen saw was a poplar, but she was still eager to find the two teenagers and see who the person in white was. It's just that in the end, Xiao Yiran was disappointed, and he searched the entire City God Temple, and never saw the two teenagers mentioned by Qingwen again. Qingwen muttered to herself:

"Why is it so strange, it disappeared in the blink of an eye. It can't be a ghost, right? ”

As he spoke, he also looked sideways at Xiao Yiran.