In the quiet night, a beautiful woman stood in the moonlight, and whispered with crystal tears.

"I decided"

Gentle and soft, meandering and sad, with her answer at this time, Sheng Zijun's thoughts suddenly fell into the torrent of memories.

Some times, for some, are a journey from sweet to bitter.

After Zhu Xishi returned to Taiyuan Mansion, he did not return to his home as Sheng Zijun expected, but stayed with him in a nearby inn.

In the heart of a wanderer who has been wandering for a long time, his hometown is a heart that cannot be touched lightly. The thoughts are triggered in this familiar environment, too turbulent to be suppressed, these wanderers who have suffered from lovesickness, they need time to reintegrate into it.

may be able to understand her current mood of being close to home, Sheng Zijun used his rare gentlemanly attitude to quietly accompany Zhu Xishi, and accompany her to see the mountains and rivers of her hometown, and the bits and pieces of past memories.

In the first two days, this Taiyuan Mansion became a paradise for these two foodies, and they experienced the charm of Zhu Xishi's hometown most intuitively with their mouths.

The familiar taste of hometown has been repeatedly moistened and soaked on the tip of Zhu Xishi's tongue over and over again. At this time, Zhu Xishi seemed to have forgotten the embarrassment between him and Sheng Zijun before, and took the trouble to tell him about the origin and practice of these delicacies, as long as it was about his hometown, Zhu Xishi always couldn't stop praising it.

And Sheng Zijun finally got his wish to be a generous husband by Zhu Xishi's side, contributing people and money, and seemed to be tired of it. looked at Zhu Xishi, who had a bright smile all day long. Sheng Zijun suddenly felt that the money in his money bag had bought the best thing in the world, and it was worth it.

It's hard to smile.

And in the next two days, Sheng Zijun felt that Zhu Xishi seemed to have suddenly changed as a person. The smile gradually decreased, and there was a little more gloomy silence.

There are no twists and turns on the flying street, and Zhu Xishi will walk back and forth dozens of times every day. At first, Sheng Zijun thought that Zhu was tired of it, so he would look for freshness back and forth on this lively street. And gradually, after walking more round-trips, Sheng Zijun realized that Zhu Xishi was not tired. It's addicted, poisoned, and enchanted.

Her smile. It will emerge in the words of the villagers who are talking about it, and listen to what they are happy, troubled, and interesting today in the slow pace. I can't wait to be part of their conversation. Have a good time.

Her smile will gradually wither, become astringent, cold, and darkened between passing by one by one. I don't know each other when we meet, and now Zhu Xishi is just a stranger-like existence in their eyes. Except for praising the appearance of this "strange" woman from time to time, it will not arouse any memories of Zhu Xi's time in the hearts of the villagers.

And the smile went. Followed by tears that wanted to fall, when he reluctantly walked through the closed shop door again and again, Zhu Xishi's tearful eyes gave Sheng Zijun the best answer.

Home, the home that haunted Zhu in the past.

Many times, Sheng Zijun decided to raise his courage and wanted to say to Zhu Xishi beside him: Since you are so reluctant, why can't you muster up the courage to go in and take a look, isn't that the home you have been thinking about for a long time? But when these words came to his lips, he couldn't say anything.

was about distressed by the depressed woman in front of him, Sheng Zijun just silently held her hand and led her away from this sad whirlpool step by step. This is not what Sheng Zijun expected, what he expected was that when he looked at a bright Zhu Xi, he knocked on his door happily.

This sadness seemed to be solidified, pressing on my heart, no matter how brilliant the sunlight was, it could not shine into Zhu Xishi's shivering heart.

On the fifth day, Zhu Xishi, who was plain and pure, stood alone on the river embankment, facing the whistling river wind, blowing away the tears that had been hidden in his eyes for many days in the wind.

"Dad, mother, I was unfilial in the past, and I came back to see you."

The miserable and crying woman slowly knelt down in the face of the rolling river, and the handful of paper money scattered in her hand spread out in the wind like a torrential rain, looking at the endless river with sad eyes.

"Father, mother, do you still recognize your daughter?"

A heart-rending cry echoed by the empty river, and when no one answered Zhu Xi, only the vague and fluttering aftersound sank into the surging river little by little. Suddenly, tears were like beads of broken threads, constantly falling down the corners of his eyes.

The turbulent emptiness in his heart made Zhu Xishi gradually unable to suppress the sorrow in his heart, and cried and shouted by the river embankment with all his heart. What did a hardship get in exchange, Zhu Xishi didn't understand, couldn't understand it, and his heart was full of suffering!! It seems that from the moment he fell into the cliff, he was destined to not be able to go back, as untrue as his past life and present life.

Sheng Zijun, who was standing on the embankment at the other end, could only look at Zhu Xishi, who was crying from afar, and pulled his palms again and again, holding back the steps he wanted to take along.

If people don't understand, they can't reach it, and some things, no matter how much they have the heart, they will eventually be a bystander. Sheng Zijun only hopes that the second elder of the Zhu family, who is sleeping in the river, can comfort Zhu Xi's heart full of holes and bring her a seat of tranquility.

Late at night on the sixth day, Sheng Zijun, who had been tossing and turning in the inn room for a long time, finally couldn't rest assured that Zhu Xishi wanted to have a long talk with her.

He couldn't let Zhu Xishi be depressed anymore, it was not easy for her to get to where she is today.

I knocked on the door outside the room a few times in Zhu Xishi, but I didn't see any movement inside, and when Sheng Zijun was worried about growing up, the shopkeeper who had returned from the watch came up to ask.

"Guest officer, is there any need for not resting so late?"

"Little second brother, have you ever seen the girl in this room, have you ever been out of the house?"

seemed to have met a savior, and Sheng Zijun, who was in a hurry, immediately asked about the second child in this store.

"Oh, the guest is talking about the little lady who is with you, right?"

Don't look at this inn shop, the second child is inconspicuous, but all of them are human spirits. The two of them have been staying in this inn for several days, and they naturally have an impression of going in and out every day; Besides, that lady is a little beauty, how could the second child in this shop not know who Sheng Zijun is asking at this moment?

"Exactly! Has the second brother seen my lady? ”

"About an hour ago, your lady went out, haven't you come back yet?"

"Out?!" This answer also surprised Sheng Zijun, what did Zhu Xishi run out to do at night?

"Hmm. In the evening, I saw that your lady was going out, and I specially reminded her to pay attention to safety; She only said that she couldn't sleep and went out to breathe, and she would be back soon. I don't want to see this hour and never come back."

Sheng Zijun, who was frowning, thought about it carefully. Now in Taiyuan City, where can she go when she had no relatives and no reason? Suddenly, a stirring spirit crossed his mind, and he thought of Zhu Xishi's possible whereabouts.

Did she go to Flying Street, her own home?

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this possibility was greater, so I hurriedly thanked the shopkeeper and rushed downstairs

On the empty street, except for a few dog barks in the yard, the whole Taiyuan City is as quiet as if it has fallen asleep. Not daring to slack off at all, under the bright moonlight, Sheng Zijun, who was worried unabated, sprinted in the direction of Feixu Street.

entered Feixu Street, but where is there a trace of Zhu Xi on this empty street? Sheng Zijun, who was panting, became even more flustered in his footsteps, constantly searching for traces of Zhu Xishi in the silence.

ran back and forth along Feixu Street, but still failed to find Zhu Xishi's whereabouts, Sheng Zijun anxiously turned back to Zhu Xishi's steamed bun shop. When I turned around in a panic, I saw that the door of this shop was exposed!

Suddenly, Sheng Zijun realized something, and hurriedly walked towards the hidden door; With just a slight push of the hand, the door "creaked" open, and the heart inexplicably rose and fell violently.

A voice suddenly burst out of his brain to tell himself, Zhu Xishi must be inside! For a moment of unspeakable joy and sorrow, Sheng Zijun held his breath and walked towards the deeper darkness step by step.

Cautiously groping his way through the darkness for a while, a large piece of light flashed in front of his eyes. Running briskly towards the light, a few steps, under the bright moonlight, a huge courtyard appeared in front of him.

Everywhere the eye looked, there was a cold loneliness, and the pungent smell of dust after a long time of no one had rested was wantonly permeating the air below. Sheng Zijun lowered his head and rubbed his uncomfortable snort, and when he raised his head again, under the moonlight, a beautiful shadow was standing alone under an old laurel tree at the base of the wall.

Who else will look up under the moon besides Zhu Xi? Suddenly, Sheng Zijun's heart also settled.

"Zhu Xishi."

Her name, after hesitating a few times, Sheng Zijun gently called out, for fear of disturbing her thoughts.

In this silent night, when you are thinking deeply, what is it like to suddenly hear someone call your name? When she woke up from her contemplation, she turned around with a shocked face, but when she saw Sheng Zijun walking towards her step by step, the surprise immediately turned into a kind of abrupt loss, and she couldn't hide it even if she wanted to.

Zhu Xishi, who do you think will be the person who comes?!

"You've been drinking?"

Suddenly, a strong smell of osmanthus fragrant wine came, which made Sheng Zijun also look surprised; I was about to ask her where she got the wine, but she saw a cellar under the laurel tree, in which many wine jars were stored.

How to brush away the sense of loss just now, Zhu Xishi instinctively picked up the wine bowl in his hand and sent a sip of mellow osmanthus wine to his mouth.

This wine is even more fragrant, but people are not yesterday or now.

Knowing the sorrow in Zhu Xishi's heart, Sheng Zijun didn't want to persuade anything more about the things in this cup, sometimes people do get drunk.

"It's late at night, Zhu Xishi, or go back to the inn early. If we are seen trespassing into people's houses in the middle of the night, we will definitely cause trouble. ”

In fact, when Sheng Zijun said this reason, he also thought it was ridiculous, this was Zhu Xi's home, how could he be guilty of trespassing on a private house? ! However, in the eyes of the villagers and elders of Taiyuan Mansion, this family is not owned by the current Zhu Xishi, is it?

A wisp of lonely souls and wild ghosts, there is no home to return to.

"Sheng Zijun."

Suddenly, the woman who had been drinking alone for a long time under the moon opened her mouth to call him.

"I've decided, I'll leave for Lin'an soon." (To be continued......)