"My lord, West Sixth Street has arrived." The carriage stopped, and the coachman said outside.

Yu Shu raised his head and looked at Xue Rui: "I'm here, please send me back." ”

Xue Rui was a little helpless, just a little bit away, he apologized, but he couldn't hear her reply, even so, he had no intention of asking, the hour was not early, he should go back if he sent her here, but when he saw her back when he got out of the car, his heart occasionally moved, and he didn't want her to leave like this, and after a little hesitation, he got up and followed her out of the car.

At night, there were few pedestrians on the street, the shops were closed, only one or two taverns were still lit with lanterns in front of them, and the dark road in the distance could not be seen clearly, Xue Rui looked at the surrounding environment and asked:

"Where do you live?"

Yu Shu casually pointed in the direction of Huixing Street, "It's on the back street, and the carriage can't pass." ”

Xue Rui raised his chin: "Let's go, I'll send you." ”

Yu Shu waved his hand and said, "No need, it's very close, I'll just go back by myself." ”

Xue Rui said clearly: "You don't want me to know where you live?" ”

Yu Shu was slightly embarrassed by what he said, and denied it: "No." ”

"How can you be reassuring for a girl walking at night, can I send you to the intersection?" Xue Rui tactfully sought Yu Shu's consent.

Yu Shu is a person who eats soft and not hard, not to mention that she talked to him just now, and then deliberately avoided him so deliberately, it didn't make any sense, so she pointed in the direction:

"Let's go, then."

Xue Rui smiled, turned around and followed her, one step at a time, just maintaining a polite distance of more than three feet, not abrupt, nor distant, and could also use this road to chat with her.

"Your brother and sister are now living in someone else's house?"

"It's not. I bought a private house. ”

"You bought your own house?" Xue Rui turned his head to look at her unexpectedly, and saw her and the young man from a distance outside Chunxiang Building during the day, thinking that she had taken refuge in someone's house, and did not want her to settle in Anling City.

Yu Shu nodded and said, "When I left Yiyang, Aunt Hui gave me a sum of money to settle down. ”

Xue Rui pretended not to know and asked, "How can she have money for you." ”

Yu Shu only thought that he didn't know that Zhao Hui had suffered a series of changes, and said briefly: "Aunt Hui was embezzled from her family property in her early years, and she took the family property back when she won the lawsuit, and she gave it to me with money." ”

Xue Rui didn't know. Listening to her say this, it has nothing to do with her that Zhao Hui will sue for family property, but now that she looks so casual, I appreciate her a little more.

"What are your plans for the future?"

Yu Shuzheng was hesitant to tell him about the fortune teller she had set up in Qiu Kwai Fang. I heard an excited shout on the side of the road:

"Ahh

She turned her head and saw a figure stumbling towards her from the side of the road, and when she was about to pounce on her, there was a force on her elbow, and she was pulled by Xue Rui to the side, just to dodge.

"Ahh Xia Mingming threw himself into the air, fell a few steps forward, and fell to the ground. Let out a cry of pain.

Xue Rui looked at the reckless person on the ground, and he was a little displeased with the young man during the day, and turned his head to ask Yu Shu who this person was, but she glanced at him with a strange look, broke away his hand, and squatted down to help the man.

"Where did you fall, can you stand up?"

"Ah Shu. I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Xia Mingming saw that Yu Shu was safe and sound, and couldn't help it anymore, so he reached out and hugged her neck, and cried.

Yu Shu patted her on the back, hindering the presence of someone. didn't open his mouth to scold her: "Okay, okay, don't cry." ”

Seeing them hugging each other, Xue Rui was stunned, but fortunately, he was cautious and didn't rush forward to pull these two apart unorthodoxically. He looked down at the "young man" and looked at it twice, and suddenly understood, and laughed secretly in his heart: Why is it that this little girl in Anling City has been dressed as a boy recently.

Yu Shu pulled Xia Mingming and asked a few words, and under her incoherent explanation, he figured out why she was waiting for her here.

It turned out that during the day, Xia Mingming saw Yu Shu being escorted away by the official outside Chunxiang Building, and heard passers-by talking, saying that they were easy to be arrested for gambling in private, and they had to suffer hardship, Xia Mingming was scared, worried that Yu Shu would have an accident with her, so he didn't go home according to Yu Shu's instructions, but went to the yamen alone, but didn't hear anything, and was kicked out.

She didn't know how to explain to Yu Xiaoxiu and Jingchen when she went back, so she didn't dare to go home, so she hid near Huixing Street until it was dark, and happened to run into Yu Shu who was sent back by Xue Rui.

Xue Rui listened to the two of them talking, grasped the point, and then said that Yu Shu ran to gamble to help this girl raise money, and he didn't know whether he was angry or laughing more.

"Y-How did you get out, I've heard that you're all in prison." Xia Mingming asked with a snot snort.

Yu Shu pointed at Xue Rui, "I met a friend, helped me say a few words, and let me out." ”

Xia Mingming didn't recognize Xue Rui as the adult who took people to Chunxiang Building to arrest people during the day, so she panicked just now, and only then did she notice Xue Rui, seeing that it was a handsome son in brocade clothes, I don't know who it was, but he had the ability to lead Yu Shu out of prison.

Yu Shu knew that Yu Xiaoxiu and Jing Chen would not be worried when they saw them, so they did not delay any longer, helped Xia Mingming, said goodbye to Xue Rui, and hurried home:

"My house is in front of me, no need to send it, thank you today, you can go back quickly."

"Wait," Xue Rui stopped her, "Ashu, if you are in a hurry to use the money, I can lend it to you first." ”

He knew that Yu Shu was strong, so he didn't say it directly, but borrowed it.

Yu Shu hesitated, although she didn't want to owe Xue Rui any more favors, but the top priority was to raise money for Xia Mingming to enter the exam, and she couldn't let her hopes be disappointed for the sake of her own face, so she wouldn't be busy in vain today.

Thinking about it like this, she was just about to respond to Xue Rui, but Xia Mingming shook her hand first and said, "Ah Shu, no need." ”

Yu Shu tilted his head: "Why don't you use it?" ”

Xia Mingming bit her lip, hugged her arm tightly, and whispered, "I, I won't take the test." ”

After being so frightened today, she regretted that her intestines were blue, and she had no face to ask Yu Shu to embarrass her and go to borrow money from a strange man.

Xia Mingming's heart is still very easy to guess, in fact, she can't take the test or not, Yu Shuzhen doesn't care so much, before she was going to die or live to take the test, she helped her find a way, and now she is discouraged, and she wants her to cheer her up, if so, it's okay not to take the test.

"No need, you can go back quickly." Yu Shu shook his head at Xue Rui, pulled Xia Mingming and walked into the alley in front.

Xue Rui didn't stop her again this time, seeing her disappear, he turned around and walked back, thinking about the months in Yiyang City as he walked, sometimes laughing, sometimes shaking his head, his expression was relaxed, and his mood was that he had never had a good time in the past few days when he returned to Beijing, until he arrived at the place where the carriage stopped, and then he retracted his expression.

"My lord, where are you going now?" The coachman lifted the curtain.

"The Pavilion."

So the carriage drove towards the bustling depths of the north of the city, where the song rose at night.

***

Let's say that Jingchen and Yu Xiaoxiu, when they didn't see Yu Shu and Xia Mingming come back in the evening, they began to be nervous, wanting to go out to find someone, and they were afraid that they would come back halfway, so they had to wait at home anxiously, poor Jinbao was hungry from noon to night, no one paid attention to it, and scratched the wall depressedly.

The two of them were about to sit still and go out to find someone when there was a knock at the door.

"Xiao Xiu, Xiao Xiu open the door, we're back!"

Yu Xiaoxiu rushed to the door, Jing Chen followed him slowly, opened the door and saw them, Yu Xiaoxiu's heart fell, and he couldn't help but raise his voice:

"Why are you only coming back now?"

Although Jing Chen couldn't speak, the concern in his eyes was also obvious.

"Let's go in first," Yu Shu pushed Yu Xiaoxiu into the courtyard first, asked Jingchen to close the door, and the four of them returned to the house, Yu Xiaoxiu sat down next to Yu Shu:

"Is something wrong?"

Yu Shu glanced at Xia Mingming, the two of them didn't have a set of words on the way back, but saying this today would definitely make the two of them worry, and Yu Xiaoxiu inevitably blamed Xia Mingming.

"It's all my fault," Xia Mingming didn't wait for Yu Shu to help her lie, but lowered her head and opened her mouth, and told you a rough overview of what happened today.

Sure enough, when Yu Xiaoxiu heard that Yu Shu was imprisoned, she was so shocked and angry that she forgot to ask who rescued her, and first glared at Xia Mingming, "Fortunately, my sister-my brother has nothing to do, otherwise I won't be done with you." ”

Xia Mingming rarely didn't talk back to Yu Xiaoxiu, his hand grabbed the tablecloth, his eyes were red, he knew that this matter was all because of her, and she didn't need Yu Xiaoxiu to quarrel with her, she was also ashamed to die.

Jing Chen looked at Yu Shu thoughtfully, and didn't notice Yu Xiaoxiu's slip of the tongue just now, nor did he join in the ranks of blaming Xia Mingming, but quietly got up and went outside.

Yu Shu didn't want Yu Xiaoxiu to hold a grudge against Xia Mingming because of this matter, so he slapped Yu Xiaoxiu on the back, and said with a smile: "Who are you not finished with, this matter is useless for me to do by myself, what to blame her, okay, you are a boy, quarreling with the girl's family, there is no shame." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu said angrily: "You just protect her, and I don't know who is your own brother." ”

"Nonsense, I don't just have a brother for you."

Hearing Yu Shu's words, Yu Xiaoxiu was relieved, but Xia Mingming listened to it very unpleasantly, seeing the harmony between their sister and brother, he felt like an outsider, forgetting that she was an outsider in the first place.

Yu Shu saw that Yu Xiaoxiu'an was born, so he patted him on the shoulder: "Go make the bed, I'll go to the kitchen to find something to eat." ”

After that, he and Xia Mingming were left in the room with big eyes and big eyes.

Yu Shu came to the kitchen and found that there were already people inside, there was a pot on the stove, Jingchen was bending down to add firewood to the furnace hole, his movements were not very skilled, Yu Shu looked at Martian Zi and jumped into his hand, and hurriedly stepped forward:

"I'll come, I'll come."

Jingchen was squeezed aside by Yu Shu, standing aside with his hands tied, watching her busy working alone, the back of her clothes was stained with mud and dust, her fists in her sleeves were clenched, and the feeling of powerlessness that suddenly rose in her heart made him never like at this moment, eager to remember who he was, where he came from, and what he could do.