Su Jingchen quietly drilled out of the crowd, as if all the fear and sadness had disappeared with the arrow just shot, and his body and mind suddenly became very relaxed, and people were still looking towards the center of the school field, except for those few words "What squeeze?" Except for him, no one spoke to him, because people didn't seem to remember the second place, either in appearance or ability. He crossed the road, trying to fix the corners of his mouth, but he still couldn't smile. He walked forward with his head down, and even the bustling streets he had never seen before could not stop him, and soon, the crowd was left behind him.

Yao Ke suddenly bent down and whispered something to Xie Anyuan, Xie Anyuan stood up, bowed slightly to the crowd, then looked at Xu Fuan, and left without looking back.

And Xu Fuan just stood in place, not saying anything, just now he has been relying on a gambler's madness, but now that he has taken that breath, he is like a persimmon, without a little spirit.

"Where did he go?" Xie An asked as he walked away, but he regretted it in his heart, and said that to Xu Fu'an's stupidity.

"There were too many people, and I only saw him squeezing into the crowd, but I didn't see which way he went." Yao Ke followed behind Xie Anyuan and replied softly.

"Then you go to the east of the city, and I go to the west of the city, and after an hour you can't find it, then you will meet here, and if I am not there, then go to the west gate to find me." As soon as Xie Anyuan came out of the school field, someone immediately led a horse, he turned over on the horse, and rode towards the west of the city.

"Yes, sir." Yao Ke got on another horse and left in the opposite direction.

......

Out of the city, the dark clouds gathered over Yingzhou City at some point, it was still April, but the wind was also biting cold, Su Jingchen tightened the torn robe on his body, sat on a big stone, in front of him was a small pond, the shore was full of greenery, an elderly willow tree gently swayed its branches, willow leaves and catkins fell to the ground, a lotus flower in the pond was in full bloom, through the clear pool water, Su Jingchen could also see the pebbles and swimming fish at the bottom of the pool.

"What a great place." He admired softly, then got up, and let his whole body fall towards the surface of the water with open hands, like a child about to be thrown into his mother's arms.

The water instantly blocked his mouth and nose, and he remained motionless, waiting for death to get closer and closer to him, close at hand, but he couldn't help but recall their appearance, their voices, their laughter, everything seemed to be close at hand, he stretched out his hand and grabbed into the void, but it only stirred the current, startling the fish at the bottom of the pool. It was at this time that tears flowed out, mingling with the pool water, and then he suddenly opened his mouth, and bubbles came out of the corners of his mouth one by one.

"It's good to see you again."

A hand suddenly grabbed him by the collar, lifted him out of the water, and threw him to the shore, "Yo, the place you chose is very good, the scenery is quite good." Xie Anyuan's forehead was bruised, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I've worked so hard, but I can't just let you die like this." ”

Su Jingchen lay on the ground and coughed violently, spit out several mouthfuls of water, embarrassed, but he still raised his head, glared at Xie Anyuan, and didn't speak.

Xie Anyuan ignored Su Jingchen's eyes, and ignored his expensive clothes, sat on the boulder that had just been wetted and said, "Tell me first, why do you want to die." ”

Su Jingchen glared at Xie Anyuan viciously, and said hoarsely, "You pulled me up just to say this?!" Just to uncover my scars?! ”

"Why don't you want to live?" Xie Anyuan asked again.

"I have nothing left!" Su Jingchen roared, his eyes were red, but he was holding back tears.

"If you have nothing, you want to die?"

"Why live if you have nothing?"

"So you think that since you are alive, you have to find a reason for yourself to live?" Xie Anyuan paused and said slowly, "Only by living can we miss the dead, is this reason enough?" ”

Su Jingchen didn't speak, the water on his forehead fell to the ground drop by drop, the air was surprisingly quiet, Xie Anyuan also turned his head to look at Su Jingchen, and the two of them looked at each other like this.

Xie Anyuan suddenly sighed, "Shouldn't anger and hatred bring people endless courage?" But I can't see it in your eyes, and I don't have any anger, hatred, or courage. ”

"Don't you hate? Those who take everything from you. Xie Anyuan said again, when he said this, his eyes suddenly became ethereal, as if he had fallen into some long-term memory, he didn't care about Su Jingchen, and said to himself, "It is said that everything is fate, and it is not up to anyone at all, but I don't believe in fate, if fate wants me to die today, then I want to live, even if I try everything and have nothing." ”

"I'm so tired, just to live, I'm trying my best." Su Jingchen fell down completely, he was lying on the grass, the green grass gently rubbed his ears, as if whispering to him, "I don't even have the slightest chance to breathe, I obviously didn't do anything wrong, but why are even the people I cherish leaving me one by one." ”

"So don't you hate?"

"Hate the injustice of this destiny? So what, I can't resist the destiny of heaven. ”

"Then hate those who have brought you pain, and take revenge on them."

"Then what if, what if I hate this troubled world." Su Jingchen asked.

"Then, put an end to this troubled world." Xie Anyuan stood up, "Go south, keep going south, and you will find a reason to live." After speaking, he suddenly threw a money bag at Su Jingchen, Su Jingchen raised his hand to catch it, and it was still a little heavy.

"Travel expenses." Xie Anyuan turned around and said, after not taking a few steps, his voice came again, "By the way, you have to pay it back, this should also be used as a reason for you to live, don't die without permission until you return the money to me." ”

"Is this troubled world end?" Su Jingchen muttered.

"You're not the one who deserves to die in this shitty place." Xie Anyuan suddenly patted Su Jingchen's shoulder heavily, turned around and walked away.

......

"What?! Fake?! Xu Fuan jumped up from his seat all of a sudden, his eyes widened like copper bells.

Xie Anyuan's golden ticket was fake.

Compared with the golden ticket, Xu Fuan still likes genuine gold, he had long wanted to go to the Chamber of Commerce to redeem the golden ticket, but in the past few days, he sent several groups of people just to visit Sun He, and he was busy before and after, until the end of the competition, he remembered to let his subordinates redeem the golden ticket, but he didn't expect the golden ticket to be fake.

"Right...... The people of the Chamber of Commerce said that the materials used for the seal on the golden ticket were different from theirs. Hu Yu lowered his head and only dared to look at Xu Fuan from the corner of his eye.

"How so? How so?! Xu Fuan sat back in his chair weakly, but suddenly stood up again, "Quick, go and bring me that gem!" ”

"Oh......" Hu Yu agreed, trotted to get the heartless, Xu Fuan took the gem, walked to the yard, raised his hand to face it to the sun, looked at it unwillingly for a while, and finally lowered his hand, threw the gem aside, and sighed deeply.

"Master, do you want me to send someone to chase after you?" Hu Yu asked.

"Can the people who can deceive me send you wine bags and rice bags to chase them?" Xu Fuan scolded angrily, turned around and left with his sleeves brushed.

......

In the evening, a refugee camp outside the city of Yingzhou.

When he saw someone coming, Lao Liu was stunned for a moment, then took out Su Jingchen's sign from his chest, and handed it to him with a smile, "Don't lose it next time." ”

Su Jingchen didn't answer, he sat down slowly and said, "I'm leaving."

"Let's go, where are we going?" Lao Liu was a little confused.

"Go south, all the way south."

"Also, there are fewer dead people in the south." Lao Liu suddenly grinned, "Then I wish you a smooth journey!"

"What about you?"

"Me? I'm here, this kind of world, as long as I have something to eat while I live, it's not a death to run around and come to the end, whether I'm doing well or not, the difference is just whether someone is buried when I die. ”

When he said this, Su Jingchen suddenly remembered that the man in front of him had already reached the age of not being confused, and he had experienced so many things, and he seemed to be living so easily, but he was so heavy.

"Sometimes I think about it, if I die, there is nothing, and I still have this life when I am alive." After being silent for a while, he said again, "Brother Chen, if you want to live, if you meet me again in the future, I will definitely invite you to drink." ”

"Okay," Su Jingchen showed a rare smile, "I should go, there will be a date later." ”

"There will be a date later."

......

At night, the state governor's house.

It was rare that the clouds did not come together, which made the night sky a little brighter, and the moonlight passed through the thin veil woven by the clouds, and sprinkled on every inch of Yingzhou. The feast was full of light and light, everyone drank heartily, their faces flushed, their faces were smiling, the flasks and glasses were staggered, and the ground was full of stains, but these did not affect their good mood in the slightest.

It's like a real banquet.

The kitchen door suddenly opened, and a small figure entered the kitchen, skillfully shuttling between the ingredients, and then she suddenly stood still, lifted the hem of her skirt, poured the last plate of osmanthus cakes into it, and tiptoed away.

Ye Yuhuan grabbed the hem of the skirt tightly with both hands, there was no expression on her delicate little face, she didn't like Xu Muzhi's banquet, she couldn't say why, although everyone was smiling, she always made herself feel very depressed, so she slipped out early, found the kitchen in search of the taste, and took away the last plate of osmanthus cake.

She put a piece of osmanthus cake in her mouth, chewing it while walking, the sweet taste made her smile on her face, this is a delicacy that is not often eaten in the palace, the kitchen in the palace will only have leftover steamed buns at most, and there have never been delicious pastries.

Turning a corner, there was an extra guard in front of the door, Ye Yuhuan was choked, coughed lightly twice, and her face turned red, she didn't know how to explain these osmanthus cakes she was carrying.

"The little princess is back." Instead, the guard greeted her first, "I am the guard specially sent by Lord Xu to protect you, my name is Wang Zhi." ”

"Hmm." Ye Yuhuan didn't know how to answer him, and she was afraid that she would be choked again when she suddenly spoke, so she had to simply agree and go straight past him into the room.

Wang Zhi touched his nose embarrassedly, and he didn't know why he spoke, maybe it was because the little princess looked like his sister, right? He hadn't seen the naughty bag in a few days.

"Ah...... My lord!" The man who suddenly came in front of him startled Wang Zhi.

"Shh The man in front of him made a gesture, he patted Wang Zhi on the shoulder, and turned to leave.

He has been following Ye Yuhuan from beginning to end, how could Xu Muzhi easily let her go if he caught the bird with great difficulty.

Ye Yuhuan closed the door, found a piece of cloth to wrap the osmanthus cake, put it by the window, turned around and dragged a stool with one hand, and climbed up.

Bai Jiujiu leaned against the window, looked at the villain who slowly climbed up, and didn't speak, as if the two of them were just passers-by, but this was outside the window on the second floor of a small building in the State Pastoral Mansion.

Ye Yuhuan was stunned for a moment, looked at the person next to her, didn't stop, climbed up and sat on the other side of the window, carefully opened the cloth bag, picked left and right and took out a piece of osmanthus cake, and suddenly asked, "Do you want to eat?" ”

This time it was Bai Jiuyue's turn to be stunned, and he usually saw a stranger sitting outside the window of his room, shouldn't he scream in horror? What's more, she still has a knife, but this girl actually asked herself if she wanted to eat.

Seeing that Bai Jiujiu didn't speak, and she didn't mean to reach out to pick it up, she said again, "Osmanthus cake, it's delicious." Then he reached out and handed him a piece through the window.

Bai Jiujiu suddenly smiled, stretched out his hand to take it, put it to his mouth and bit most of it, "Well, it's delicious." ”

"Hmmm! It's delicious. Ye Yuhuan also smiled, then took out a piece and ate it in small bites by the moonlight.

The two were silent, only the wind whispering softly in their respective ears.

Bai Jiu suddenly became a little curious about this girl, he turned his head to look at her, but she didn't pay attention at all, still immersed in the delicious osmanthus cake.

The moonlight gently sprinkled on Ye Yuhuan's body, coating her with a layer of silver-white light, she took a bite and slowly bit the osmanthus cake in her hand, and muttered something vaguely in her mouth, as if she was talking to herself, Bai Jiu suddenly noticed her eyes, her eyes were different from everyone she had ever met, those smart and good-looking eyes were shining, inside, as if there was a sea of stars hidden.

"Do you still want it?" She suddenly turned her head and asked, but there was no longer Bai Jiu's figure beside her, and his breath was also taken away by the wind, "What a strange person." She muttered softly.

Bai Jiujiu stepped on the roof tiles, but did not make any sound, his steps were extremely brisk, and the uneven roofs that were far away were like walking on the ground here for him. I don't know why, he didn't have a slumped face as usual, and when he looked closely, there was actually a little more smile between his eyebrows.