"Phew. The coachman roared, and the carriage slowly stopped, and I heard him turn his head and say, "Childe, we have entered the gate of Kyoto." ”

Chen Yichen naturally knew the meaning of the coachman's words, clasped his hands into fists, and said: "Thank you son, I won't bother you in the future, if you see you again in the future, I will thank you for today's grace." ”

"It doesn't matter. You and I meet is also fate, if there is any difficulty in the future, you can come to Huasheng Palace to find me. Childe looked at the robe that the young man had taken off, waved his hand, and said with a smile: "It's cold outside, I'll give you this robe." ”

The other party was kind, but Chen Yichen misinterpreted his good intentions, mistakenly thinking that the other party disliked this robe for dirty. Fortunately, Chen Yichen was also self-aware, so he accepted this kindness and said, "Thank you, son, I will say goodbye." ”

Chen Yichen always thought that he was sitting in a slightly luxurious carriage and didn't think much about it. When I got out of the car and saw the long queue, I found that the son in the car didn't know which powerful family it was, and there were dozens of people in his entourage alone.

Seeing the convoy go away, Chen Yichen retracted his gaze. The buildings next to the wide streets are towering, and they are many times better than Mocheng in terms of momentum and scale. Now he had lost interest in that, even if the city was more splendid, so what. The life and death of the beloved woman is uncertain, and all this is boring.

Although Kyoto is large, there is no place for him. It's easier said than done to find the Three Princes in Kyoto. As a prince, there will inevitably be many guards around to protect you.

After several years of hunting experience, Chen Yichen knew that if he didn't have a careful plan, he might not even be able to see the face of the third prince. I won't fly the eaves and walk the wall, and I am afraid that it will be futile to attack the palace at night. On his own, the only thing he can do is to inquire about the residence of the third prince and understand his daily life trajectory first, so as to find opportunities from it.

After making up his mind, Chen Yichen had to find a place to settle down. But the huge Kyoto, where to go. If a person's life is a crossroads, then Chen Yichen is standing at a crossroads.

Walking aimlessly through Kyoto, I walked through the crowded streets and through the long, narrow alleys. Finally, stop in front of a yard that has been abandoned for an unknown amount of time.

The doorway is deserted. Even the wooden door was removed by someone, leaving only a threshold, which had become rotten and dilapidated. It's like telling that it once existed in this world.

Stepping through the door, the courtyard was covered in snow, and the starry footprints on the ground proved that someone had been here recently. Chen Yichen followed the traces of footprints into the second-floor courtyard. It was as dilapidated as the outside, the only difference was that there was a little fire coming from the inside.

"Is there anyone here?" Chen Yichen looked around, no matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like it was inhabited.

I'm afraid that people who live on the streets like themselves should live here for the time being. Chen Yichen slowly approached the house, which was decorated except for a pile of straw and broken wood. There was a clay pot on the fire that was lit in the house, and the water was bubbling with bubbles.

Not far away, a worn-out quilt was strewn across the grass, so dirty that it was impossible to see its original color. In an empty room, that's everything.

Sitting on the stone next to the fire, staring at the dancing flames, the familiar face appeared in front of me. Carefully took out the jade hosta in his arms, the past was like a cloud of smoke in the past, ethereal but real, and his chest twitched inexplicably.

"Oops, I'll go. What the hell!"

The sudden shouting from behind made Chen Yichen tremble, and the jade hosta in his hand almost fell to the ground. Hurriedly turned around and looked for the source of the sound.

"Oh, I'm going, it's a person, and I'm still wondering, where is a bear. ”

A head poked out of the shabby quilt, Chen Yichen's body just blocked the firelight, and looking at his back from behind, it was indeed much bigger than a real person. Until he saw Chen Yichen's face after turning around, he let out a long breath and slowly crawled out of the quilt.

"Who are you?" Chen Yichen was also puzzled, he didn't see anyone under the quilt when he came in, he shouted a few times in the yard, but no one answered, and he thought that the person had gone out temporarily, so he had been hiding in the quilt to sleep.

"Who are you?" The man in the quilt sat down in front of the fire, removed the crockpot on the fire, picked up the broken bowl next to it, and poured a bowl of hot water. He said, "When I opened my eyes, I saw a big black shadow, and I thought that a bear was coming, and I was so scared that I was hungry." ”

This is the first time I have heard of this, and people can still be scared and hungry? I didn't know what to say for a while, and my eyes carefully looked at each other a few times.

Look at this man in his sixties, a thin old man. He is not tall, with small eyes and a collapsed nose. There wasn't much hair left, so I didn't bother to comb it. I don't know how long I haven't washed my face, and my beard is blanketed. It was freezing but he was only wearing a shabby robe, his ankles were exposed, and a pair of shoes that were still clean were worn into slippers by him.

"Hey, boy, who are you?" the old man took a few sips of hot water, squinted at Chen Yichen, and said, "It's a novelty today, there are still people who can come to this place, it won't be a special trip to see my old name Hanako." ”

"The younger generation came to Mocheng for the first time, and there is really nowhere to stay, so there are many disturbances, so please forgive me. ”

Chen Yichen was originally quite rich, but Mocheng accidentally killed a secret agent and rewarded him with a hundred taels of silver, which was taken by Li Wanwan for safekeeping. There were some scattered pieces of silver on his body, and most of them were crossed out when he was in Mocheng, and now he has little left. When I first arrived in Kyoto, I thought about finding an inn to live in, but considering many uncertain factors, I finally decided to keep the money on my body for food, and it didn't matter if I lived.

"Hey, interesting. The old man looked him up and down, and finally his eyes twitched, looked at the water in the bowl, and continued: "I thought it was a kind person who came to see the old man called Hanako." ”

"Have you always lived here alone?"

"Boy, I don't think you're blind!"

The old man took out a piece of beef wrapped in an oilcloth from his bosom, and a small wine jug. Delivered a piece of beef to his mouth, hurriedly took a sip of wine, completely ignored Chen Yichen's existence, and ate and drank by himself.

"Just put it in my arms like this, how greasy, but keep warm. "I didn't think about it. Chen Yichen is still a young man who has never been in the world, and great hatred can't stop the fireworks in the world. Seeing that he ate so deliciously, his stomach couldn't help but growl twice.

"What sound?" The old man knew that Chen Yichen didn't speak, and deliberately said, "You still have pigeons on you?"

"No, no. Chen Yichen really didn't know how to respond, and the scream from his stomach again made his face red.

"No?" the old man nodded, picked up a piece of beef and shook it in front of him, and said, "That's hungry? ”

"No, not hungry. Chen Yichen touched the only broken silver left, worried in his heart, this bit of broken silver would not take much time. Don't see Xiao Mingxu yet, starve to death first. I finally know the importance of money, it's a long way, I'm really reluctant to spend it, and I can endure a meal.

"Not hungry, hehe. Whether you are hungry or not, only you know. The old man's hand holding the beef slowly stretched out in front of him, Nunu chin and said, "Eat some." ”

"Thank you. Chen Yichen was not polite, reached out and grabbed a few slices of beef and stuffed them into his mouth.

The old man was not polite when he saw him, and joked: "I'm not afraid of poisoning." ”

Chen Yichen's face instantly stiffened, and he couldn't help but think of those people who tried to kill him in Cui Lingyi, and his expression became stiff.

"Hey, boy, you have such an IQ, let's go out after the age of ten. I don't know why the old man laughed, but he put a piece of beef into his mouth and said, "If you have money to buy poison, you might as well drink two taels of wine." ”

"You're not here to kill me?" Seeing the old man eating Zhenghuan, he suddenly figured out, if it was really poisonous, wouldn't he have been poisoned a long time ago.

"Kill you, boy, don't scare the old Hanako, I can't hold the chicken. Kill your government and kill me, I haven't lived enough. The old man looked at him with disgust and shrank back.

"If you want to kill me, just do it, I'll accept my fate. Chen Yichen was skeptical about what he said, and he was dead both horizontally and vertically, so it was better to be happy and straightforward.

"Bah, except for killing stolen chickens, the old Hanako hasn't killed a life. The old man wiped the corners of his mouth, looked at Chen Yichen with interest, and said, "Boy, didn't you get kicked in the head by a donkey?"

"Nope. Where are the donkeys here? Chen Yichen said with a serious face.

"Oops. The old man couldn't laugh or cry, raised his hand and patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said, "The brain, well, is indeed a good thing." ”

"Boy, you said that you came to Kyoto for the first time, who did you come with and what did you come for?" The old man looked at the young man in front of him, this robe on his body was really good, he didn't look like a down-and-out person, why didn't he even go to the inn, it was difficult to get lost with his family.

"Yourself. Come find someone. Chen Yichen didn't hide it, but he didn't elaborate either.

"Coming by yourself?" The old man looked at him suspiciously, his little black eyes rolled around, and said, "Who are you looking for, I know all the people in Kyoto, maybe I can help you." ”

"The senior's words are true. Hearing the old man's words, Chen Yichen was overjoyed, if he could really get help from this person, he would soon be able to find Xiao Mingxu's traces.

"That's nature. The old man took a sip of wine and said, "But ugly things can be said in front, and I can't help you in vain." ”

"What does this mean?" Seeing the old man's three fingers rubbing back and forth, Chen Yichen frowned slightly.

"Money. The old man smashed his mouth and said, "Who can help you if you don't have money." ”

"How much does it cost?" Chen Yichen realized that the gesture of daring to love meant asking for money.

"Well. Chen Yichen's words stopped the old man, the key is that this is not the main business, he thought about it very seriously, and said: "The more the better, the more you give, the more detailed the clues you want to know." ”

Hearing him say this, Chen Yichen took out all the scattered silver in his arms, and in front of the old man, he said, "Senior, this is all my money, all for you." ”

"That's all, it's too bad. The old man's heart was already happy, but he was still frowning, and his eyes roughly counted, about three or two. looked at Chen Yichen again, looking at the dress, he looked like a mentally handicapped rich boy, and said, "This is too little, this money is not enough to buy your clothes." ”

"Clothes?" If it weren't for his reminder, Chen Yichen seemed to have forgotten that he was wearing a robe given by someone else, took it off easily, and said: "This dress was originally given by a well-wisher, if the seniors like it, give it to the seniors." ”

"A manly man, a man is hard to chase after a word. This sentence is so fluent, Chen Yichen still wondered. This is where the dialect is spoken, and then look at the clothes in your hands, you have long been nested in the arms of the old man, which is called a fast.

"Senior, what about me?"

"Don't worry, it's on me. The old man rubbed his robe and said, "Boy, you are pitiful, you have nowhere to run, and you live here at ease." Eat and live until you find that... By the way, what's that man's name?"

"Xiao Mingxu. ”

"No problem. ”