"Brother, they all said you were leaving." Yan Bailu said suddenly.

"Hmm." Su Jingchen was also straightforward and generously admitted.

Yan Bailu raised his head and looked at Su Jingchen, "Then, where is my brother going?" Can you bring me with you? ”

"No," Su Jingchen rubbed her little head and whispered, "It's too dangerous, I don't worry about taking you there." ”

"Then why did my brother go if he knew the danger?" The little girl's eyes filled with tears again, "I'm here alone...... I'm scared. ”

"In this life, there are always a few things that will make you desperate, besides, isn't there still Grandpa Tang? and Lou Qi, Xiaomei, plus you, there are four people. ”

She blinked, as if she didn't understand Su Jingchen's first words, and then raised her head a little higher, not letting the tears flow, "That's different, they're not brothers." ”

When she arrived at the gate of the courtyard again, Su Jingchen put Yan Bailu down carefully, gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, took out a small handkerchief, wiped off her snot, and then pinched her nose with a smile, "Why is it different?" ”

"It's different!" Yan Bailu shook his head stubbornly, but he couldn't say why.

"Okay, okay, that's different," Su Jingchen smiled, "Don't cry casually in the future, my little white deer is such a good-looking girl, and she will become ugly when she cries." ”

"Hmm!" Yan Bailu quickly sniffed and grinned.

"Be sure." Su Jingchen said again.

"Guaranteed!" Yan Bailu raised a hand decently, "If I cry again in the future, I will ...... I'll never eat pancakes again! ”

"Okay, that's what you said," Su Jingchen stretched out a hand and cocked his little thumb, "Pull the hook." ”

Yan Bailu put down the raised hand, and also raised a little thumb, hooked Su Jingchen's little thumb, and muttered in his mouth, "Hook and hang, it will not change for a hundred years." ”

"Alright." Su Jingchen smiled and was about to withdraw his hand.

Yan Bailu grabbed Su Jingchen's hand with another thin little hand, and said loudly, "It hasn't been stamped yet!" ”

Su was stunned, "Stamped?" ”

"That's it." As he spoke, Yan Bailu cocked his thumb again, and then pulled Su Jingchen's thumb up, and the two fingers were gently put together, and after pressing it for a long time, Yan Bailu slowly let go, and said with a smile, "That's good." ”

"Then let's go back." Su Jingchen slowly stood up and took Yan Bailu's hand.

In the courtyard, Old Man Tang, Lou Qi, and Xiaomei scattered all at once, Old Man Tang walked back to the middle hall, picked up a cup of tea, Lou Qi jumped to the middle of the courtyard, pretending to practice the knife, Xiaomei picked up a broom, and swept the yard that had already been swept clean again, but the three of them all had smiles on their faces.

......

After eating, Su Jingchen rarely said that he wanted to take Yan Bailu out for a walk, and when eating, including earlier, Yan Bailu had been close to Su Jingchen, probably because he didn't feel at ease, and grabbed one of Su Jingchen's hands, but when he saw that it was inconvenient for Su Jingchen to do things by grabbing his hand, he turned to grab the corner of his clothes, even when he was eating, as if he was afraid that Su Jingchen would suddenly run away again.

"Say, what do you want to do today, brother will accompany you." Su Jingchen squatted down and pinched Yan Bailu's face with a smile.

"All day?" Hearing this, Yan Bailu was very happy, her joyful expression was written on her face, she thought for a while, and said with a smile, "Then I'm going to eat sugar gourd first!" ”

"Just after eating, you want to eat sugar gourd?" Su Jingchen glanced at the little girl in the blue dress with a smile on her face.

"That'...... Then you still don't eat it, right? Yan Bailu was a little weak-hearted and didn't dare to look at Su Jingchen's eyes.

"Let's go buy sugar gourds." Su Jingchen took Yan Bailu's hand, "But only today, you can't eat sugar gourds after eating in the future." ”

"Got it, got it!" Yan Bailu was bouncing around Su Jingchen, unprecedentedly happy.

A moment later, both of them were holding a string of sugar gourds in their hands, looking at each other, laughing and eating.

"Fawn." Su Jingchen suddenly called her,

"Huh?" Yan Bailu chewed a sugar gourd in his mouth and replied vaguely.

"You haven't really been in Huaiyang City yet, have you?"

Yan Bailu swallowed the sugar gourd, licked the corners of his mouth, and said, "I've been to many places!" I've been to almost every house in our Aquarius Alley, those uncles and aunts like me, and there are some little kids who want to play with me, and I don't play with them! ”

Su Jingchen smiled bitterly, and said in his heart that this is not a good habit.

"And more!" Yan Bailu continued, his eyes staring at the sugar gourd in Su Jingchen's hand, "There is also the stall that sells baked cakes, the shop that sells delicious pastries, and the Thunder Tower that I went to during the New Year...... I've been to a lot of places! ”

Su Jingchen bent down, handed her half a string of sugar gourds in his hand, nodded and said, "It's a lot." ”

"Won't my brother eat it?" Yan Bailu just stretched out his hand, but retracted it again.

"I just ate too much to eat." Su Jingchen handed the sugar gourd to her, Yan Bailu took it, then thought about it, took one from it and handed it to Su Jingchen.

"I can't eat it." Su Jingchen waved his hand.

But Yan Bailu still held the sugar gourd, just laughing, and didn't speak.

"Okay, okay." Su Jingchen smiled, took the sugar gourd, put it in his mouth and chewed it gently.

Yan Bailu grinned at this time, and then raised the remaining sugar gourd and began to eat.

"Xiaolu, I'll take you to Huaiyang City for a good walk today."

"Okay, okay."

So a young man in a green shirt with a girl in a blue skirt, wandering in the streets and alleys of Huaiyang, the girl held half a string of sugar gourds, tightly holding the hand of the young man in green shirts, they walked through the narrow and dilapidated, almost uninhabited remote alleys, and then to the busy and bustling streets, from the blue bricks and black tiles to the Zhumen jade bricks, they have seen the thin young man with patches on his clothes, the smiling little two in the restaurant, the arrogant and domineering burly man on the road, and the white-clothed man in gorgeous clothes and a hand-cranked white fan. The slim girl in the pink skirt, a person, seems to be very close to herself, but far away.

When they passed by those good-looking girls in pink skirts, they looked at Su Jingchen, suddenly lowered their heads to whisper, laughed in a low voice, Yan Bailu glared at them angrily, and pulled Su Jingchen to walk forward, how can these people like to talk about people behind their backs? Not good at all!

All kinds of shops, restaurants, City God Temple, and a temple called Quanhuai, Yan Bailu opened his eyes all the way, holding Su Jingchen's hand and looking around, as if it was the first time he knew Huaiyang City.

"It turns out that Huaiyang City is so big." She admired softly.

Later, when the sugar gourd was finished, she held two sticks of sugar gourd in her hand, and she was reluctant to throw them. When she saw something she liked, she couldn't help but stand in place and take a few more looks, Su Jingchen said that she wanted to buy it for her, she said, just take a look, my brother has to go far away, I can't do it if I don't have money, I just have that rag doll, and then without waiting for Su Jingchen to say anything, I took him and walked forward.

Finally, they came to Qingpu Port, climbed a tower built on a hill, and watched the sun set.

The arc-shaped harbor is full of large and small ships, only half of the sun is left in the sky, the afterglow of the sun is sprinkled on the water, with the water waves gently swaying, like a layer of golden tulle, and like a sky full of stars, quietly falling to the earth, vaguely visible port figures swaying, they gather together in twos and threes to talk and laugh, and tell the story that they have told countless times; The sun was finally swallowed up by the sea, but its light refused to disperse in the sky, and the ships on the sea began to light lanterns and light up sporadic fires.

"Look over there." Su Jingchen pointed in the opposite direction to the port, Yan Bailu recognized it, it was the street called "Huayan", the lights were light there, large and small lanterns were hung together in pieces, and the light reflected the red mansion, black tiles and green trees, which was even more beautiful than during the day, Yan Bailu could even vaguely see other colors, probably because the lights passed through the veil, and they became beautiful.

"What's that!" Yan Bailu pointed to the red paper lamps that suddenly floated up and shouted excitedly.

"That's called the Prayer Sky Lantern," Su Jingchen rubbed Yan Bailu's little head and said with a smile, "You can write what you hope for on the lamp, and then release it, and it will soon come true." ”

Yan Bailu nodded lightly and wrote down Su Jingchen's words in his heart.

"Xiaolu," Su Jingchen suddenly called her again, "Tomorrow morning, I will leave." ”

"Hmm." Yan Bailu agreed softly, trying to hold back her tears from falling.

Su Jingchen turned his head to look at Qingpu Port, and said, "I will leave here tomorrow, and I will come back from here in the future." ”

"Well," Yan Bailu nodded vigorously and asked him, "Well, brother...... When are you coming back? ”

Su Jingchen squatted down, looked at Yan Bailu's eyes, helped her wipe away the tears that sneaked out of the corners of her eyes, and said, "When you grow as tall as the first branch of the old locust tree in the yard, I will come back." ”

"I didn't cry, I didn't cry!" Yan Bailu suddenly shook his head, looked at Su Jingchen, and looked serious, "Brother, what you said!" When I have the height of the first branch of the old locust tree, you will be back! Don't cheat! ”

"Do you want to pull the hook?" Su Jingchen smiled.

"Okay, retractor!" Yan Bailu stretched out his thin little hand and hooked Su Jingchen's little thumb with his little thumb, "Hang yourself on the hook, for a hundred years, don't change ......"

That night, the young man in the green shirt carried a girl in a blue skirt on his back, the corner of the boy's mouth was smiling, the girl was holding two small wooden sticks in her hand, on the back of the young man, sleeping soundly, the wind blew the clouds away, and the moonlight fell on the earth, dragging their backs for a long time.

Early the next morning, a ferry to Yunzhou quietly set sail, Su Jingchen stood at the bow of the boat, the morning breeze gently swayed his forehead, he looked at the people on the shore, waved his hands vigorously, and whispered softly in his mouth, but his words were blown away by the sea breeze.