Xu Yuanxuan was pulled by Chen Zhiheng's arm and suddenly stopped, she turned to look at Chen Zhiheng, then shook her head and said, "No, I'd better go back." ”

Chen Zhiheng pulled Xu Yuan over and said softly: "I asked you to accompany me out, if I didn't eat, wouldn't it be my sin?" After eating this meal, we don't owe each other, and the previous kindness is a passing moment, and we will not count it again. ”

Chen Zhiheng's intention was not just to eat with Xu Yuanyuan, he only felt that Xu Yuanyuan only regarded himself as a benefactor and always restrained himself, so he found an excuse to let the two of them not owe each other.

In the alley near the city gate, there is an old man Lin who sells wontons, and the wontons are extremely good, and they are also famous in Yanjing City, where BMW carved cars are full of fragrant roads, and there are often big families who ask him to buy raw wontons and cook them back.

Chen Zhiheng thought of Uncle Lin's wonton, he thought that Xu Yuanyuan was also often, he knew that Xu Yuanyuan didn't often eat outside food, and now that he had the opportunity, he let her often make this Yanjing must--Uncle Lin's wonton.

After turning a few corners, I arrived at Uncle Lin's stall, and there was an empty table next to it. It's not the busiest time yet, otherwise there will never be any vacancies in this stall.

Chen Zhiheng tied the reins to the stakes that supported the shed, then pulled Xu Yuan to sit directly on the bench next to the empty table, and ordered Uncle Lin to cook two bowls of wonton.

They sat opposite each other, just silent, just looking at each other, because the two of them didn't know what to say at the moment, and their hearts were different.

After a while, Limber came up with a bowl of hot wonton, sprinkled with a layer of purple vetch, like a dark cloud before a rainstorm, dotted with some pure white dried shrimp, like a bright star seen through the layers of thick clouds at night, and the hot air that came out was an ethereal cloud.

Chen Zhiheng politely pushed the bowl of wonton that came up first to Xu Yuanxuan, and said, "You eat first." ”

Just as Xu Xuan was about to refuse, he saw Lin Bo bring another bowl of wonton to the table. Chen Zhiheng knew that Xu Yuanyuan just wanted to give the wonton back to him, so he smiled now, pointed to the bowl of wonton that came up later, and said, "Look, isn't the second bowl of wonton coming up, you don't have to let it go." ”

After speaking, the two of them sat there and ate wonton, Xu Yuanxuan ate quickly, because she wanted to go back as soon as possible, and there were many people here, she didn't want to be misunderstood by others, so she ended as soon as possible and returned to the Xu family compound as soon as possible.

After Xu Yuanyuan finished eating, he just sat silently, watching Chen Zhiheng eat, Chen Zhiheng seemed to know that Xu Yuanyuan was waiting for him, so he was embarrassed, so he sped up and quickly finished eating. After eating, Chen Zhiheng went to settle the money.

Xu Yuanyuan recognized the way back, so she was ready to go back to the Xu family's compound by herself, so she left directly, but she never thought that Chen Zhiheng had been following behind her, Xu Yuanyuan didn't know why, turned around, frowned lightly, and asked with some annoyance in her tone: "Why are you following me?" ”

Chen Zhiheng stood behind Xu Xuan, holding the reins of Chixia in his hand, and said: "If I don't follow you and protect you, what if you meet a bad guy like Zheng Dewang again?" In case this time it's no longer a person, do you think you're alone? You are a woman yourself, and it is normal that you can't beat a man, but this night is dark, and no one may save you if something happens. So let me follow you, and I'll be behind you silently. ”

Originally, Xu Yuanxuan was a little annoyed, she was annoyed that Chen Zhiheng followed her behind her like this, but she didn't want Chen Zhiheng to say such a thing, she was also a little tempted in her heart, so she didn't say more, and let Chen Zhiheng follow behind her silently. Chen Zhiheng always takes care of her meticulously, if Chen Zhiheng's care for her is like a spring drizzle moistening all things, and she is a wild chrysanthemum that has been favored by that gentle drizzle.

The two of them walked all the way through the alley full of wine, the Qinglou Chu Pavilion with Zhu Ying and Bi Clothes, the restaurant with the buzzing voice and the music hall with the sheng flute not stopping, but the two walked silently one after the other, in front of them were young girls dressed in plain clothes, green silk like waterfalls, and in the prime of their jasper years, and behind them were young men holding hands and poems and books, like the reflection in the still water.

The Xu family's compound is brightly lit, a group of people gather in the compound, bustling, the originally small courtyard has become a little crowded at the moment, like a lively market, but here is not the sound of street vendors, but the sound of arguments.

Xu Mingyue stood in the middle of the crowd and shouted at the others: "I think that Yu Yu was captured by the remnants of Zheng Dewang to take revenge, we should go to the Yamen to report to the official." ”

Xu Qingfeng directly pushed Xu Mingyue away, and then stood in the middle of the crowd and said: "I don't think it's like it, Zheng Dewang and his party have already subjugated the law, if they do something more, the remnants of the force will also be affected." If I were them, I don't think it's worth it. ”

What Xu Qingfeng said has some truth.

And Xu Yurong, who was standing at the corner of the crowd, seemed to be about to cry, the corners of his eyes seemed to be stained with the evening sunset, and the shallow tear stains were like the Milky Way in the sky, with a faint sound of sobbing.

It turned out that they were now gathered in the courtyard because of Xu Yuanyuan, when they came tonight today, they found that Xu Yuanyuan was not in the courtyard, and she didn't even come back for dinner, some people thought that she went out and got lost, and some people thought that she was taken away by Zheng Dewang's remnants that had not been cleaned up.

The people in the courtyard were anxious, but Xu Huanqing sat under the eaves lightly, fanning the wind slowly with his ink-splashing fan that had been used for more than ten years, looking up at the starry sky, as if nothing had happened.

Xu Yuan, who was outside the hospital, heard it and sneered without sneering.

When she was seven years old, Xu Jiaban was still wandering around at that time, and she hadn't been on stage yet, just watching the brothers and sisters perform on stage backstage in the theater troupe.

One morning, there was a person named Xu Yingyue who went out to wash the clothes that had been piled up, and he didn't come back for a long time, and there was no trace of Xu Yingyue until noon. At that time, some people were afraid that Xu Yingyue would be lost, so they said that they would go out to look for it, but the older ones in Xu's class had a field in the afternoon, and the rest were children.

Until the evening, there was no trace of Xu Yingyue, and Xu Yingyue did not return to the place where Xu Jiaban rested that night.

Those people think that Xu Yingyue escaped while she was washing clothes, after all, she is tired of doing dramas, and she is often looked at by the world, and it is not easy to find her future in-laws, at most, she is just a concubine, and she has to be criticized. If you leave the troupe, you may be able to marry an ordinary family as a wife.

In their opinion, sweating in the fields when the scorching sun is in the sky is bitter, but it is much better than wandering, living without a fixed place, and being resisted by outsiders wherever they go.

And that Xu Yingyue is also fourteen years old and understands this reason, so it is not surprising that they think she escaped.

But they never thought that if Xu Yingyue really escaped, a fourteen-year-old girl would not know anything but sing, and what could she do when she went out. Not to mention livelihood, it is dangerous for a fourteen-year-old girl to go out, in this world is chaotic, or when she encounters a thief, she is either tainted or sold. Although it's not good to be a play, it's not much better to be sold as a maid.

After two days, the yamen side was extremely lively, and the people gathered around the door to watch the excitement, saying that a female corpse was fished up by the river, and her face was a little swollen, just like a bun soaked in soup, and there were bruises on the neck, and there were also a few bruises on other parts of the body, and the clothes were also a little untidy, and the neckline was torn.

After the autopsy of the Yamen, it was said that the woman had been polluted before she was alive, and then she was strangled to death and then thrown into the river, and now she had been soaked for two days, and the corpse was a little stinky, and flies flew around the woman's corpse, like a goshawk that saw its prey hovering in the sky.

Xu Huanqing heard the old woman next door say that there was a female corpse in the yamen, and she was still in her teens, and suddenly felt a chill in her heart, he was afraid that that person was his missing disciple Xu Yingyue.

At this time, Xu Huanqing was struggling in his heart.

If it wasn't his disciple Xu Yingyue, although he was alive, he ran away, and it was in vain that he took care of Xu Yingyue all these years, and he would just think that he had wasted so much effort to train a white-eyed wolf.

If that person was Xu Yingyue, it would definitely be heartbroken, although none of the children in the Xu family's class were Xu Huanqing's own children, but Xu Huanqing treated them like his own children and did his best to treat them well.

Later, Xu Huanqing went to the yamen and recognized the person by looking at the person's clothes, it was Xu Yingyue who went out to wash clothes two days ago and never came back.

Xu Yingyue is really dead, which is tantamount to a white-haired person sending a black-haired person to Xu Huanqing.

The moment he saw the corpse, he was cold, and Xu Huanqing's hand that stretched out to uncover the white cloth of the corpse was trembling. It was also at that moment that he froze, and just stood there, unable to see sadness or joy, and his eyes were a little distracted.

Although Xu Huanqing didn't see any pain on the surface, when he really confirmed that the person was Xu Yingyue, his heart twitched, and then there was a sudden pain, as if he fell from a cliff ten thousand feet high and fell to the ground and shattered.

The sudden pain was incomprehensible to the crowd around him.

Later, Xu Huanqing went to the place where Xu Jiaban was stationed and called a few disciples and carried Xu Yingyue's body back. Those people in Xu's class just cried that night, saying that Xu Yingyue's life was bitter, and her life was in her prime. No one has ever mentioned the bad things that Xu Yingyue said before, such as ruthless and unjust.

Then on the second day, after those people consulted Xu Huanqing, they found a nearby hill and buried it hastily, and they didn't even leave a single piece of the clothes she usually wore, because the junior sisters still had to wear them.

If it weren't for the tearing of the clothes on Xu Yingyue's body, maybe even the clothes on her body would have to be torn off.

The state of affairs in the world is too thin, and the truth and falsehood are finally piled up in a small mound and there is no sound.