At night, Yun Yun goes to bed early, and Fluttershy hears something unusual, so she quietly goes to Zhuang Yuncheng's room to tell her.

"You thought you were thinking too much about it when you said that a few days ago, let's go see what it is." Zhuang Yuncheng carried a lantern and went with Fluttershy, and whispered on the way: "There shouldn't be anyone who is blind in the black light, and if there is someone, he will suddenly jump out, and he will scare us half to death, so let's not go." ”

"Knowing that there is movement and ignoring it, you will be able to sleep well in the future?" Fluttershy complains, "If you go back, I have to take a look." ”

"I'm joking." Zhuang Yuncheng apologized awkwardly, but still felt a little frightened, so he leaned closer to Fluttershy, and the two of them walked through the courtyard gate, facing a cold moonlight covering the courtyard, and the shadows of the trees in the courtyard were swaying, and the atmosphere was cold. They took a few steps forward, and Zhuang Die pulled him by the hand and said, "Look, there are people under the big willow tree by the wall of the courtyard. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng lifted the coat draped over his shoulders, and looked at it, he took the lantern away, and his eyes gradually became clear, and under the light of the silver moonlight, he saw a shadow beside the tree motionless.

"Who is it?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked sharply with courage.

Fluttershy let go of Zhuang Yuncheng's arm and took a few steps forward, Zhuang Yuncheng followed, and when he saw that the people behind the tree were not moving, he said in a trembling voice, "Come out!" ”

Suddenly, a man stumbled out from behind the tree, fell to his knees, and said with a crying voice, "Miss, young master, it's me." ”

"Xi'er?"

"Yes."

Zhuang Yuncheng strode over, and before he reached her side, another person climbed out from behind the tree, also knelt on the ground, and said in a low voice: "Young master." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng took a step back in fright, Fluttershy supported him, Zhuang Yuncheng stood still, and asked, "Jade Window?" ”

Jade Window lowered her head and was silent.

"What are you doing?" Fluttershy asks as she walks over.

The two of them knelt down and didn't speak, the moonlight made their faces like silver plates, and Xi'er's eyes were full of tears.

"Heh......" Zhuang Yuncheng sneered, remembering many strange things recently, it turned out that the two of them were making trouble, and angrily threw the lantern on the ground, scolding: "What else can you do with this beautiful day?" It's not like you're stealing chickens and dogs! ”

Zhuang Yuncheng's voice streaked across the night sky, and was instantly submerged in darkness, at this time, the sound of insects around was inaudible, and the surroundings were extremely quiet.

Xi'er cried and kept wiping away her tears.

Jade Window fell to the ground, trembling.

"Brother, don't do this." Fluttershy picks up the lantern and tugs at his hand and admonishes, "Beware of waking people up." ”

"Fourteen or fifteen years old, why don't you study well, but do this kind of thing!"

"Look at them like this, what do you want to do on this big night? Let them go to bed, and we'll talk about it tomorrow. Fluttershy persuades.

Zhuang Yuncheng looked at them for a while, then turned around and walked away.

"When it's late, get up and go back to your room." Fluttershy advises.

Xi'er, the jade window didn't move, and waited for Zhuang Yuncheng and Fluttershy to leave before slowly getting up and going out through the side door of the courtyard, trembling back to the next room to sleep, but there was no sleep all night.

Zhuang Yuncheng's anger did not subside, and he muttered along the way: "It seems that this is not a day or two, this backyard has become a place for them to cheat!" Yunyun goes to school, you and I haven't been at home during the day recently, the two of them are idle, so they hook up together, if you don't notice it, you don't know what will happen in the future. Our family is not a big family, and we don't need so many people, so let them go out tomorrow. ”

"Don't be so angry, it's not a big evil, although it's not good, but it's also human nature."

Zhuang Yuncheng thought that this was not right from the bottom of his heart, and said angrily: "Fluttershy, don't say that, I don't think this is a love affair, this is cheating." ”

Fluttershy carries a lantern to light the way and doesn't speak.

The next day, Ju An sent Yunyun to school first, and Zhuang Yuncheng began to deal with Xi'er and Yuchuang'er.

Yu Chuang'er admitted that it was her own to use those excuses to pay a lot of money, and these money were all for Xi'er to buy things, Zhuang Yuncheng explained that they wanted them to go out, but they still only cried, begging not to drive themselves out, but this was useless, Zhuang Yuncheng had made up his mind, and he had to do it.

They wept so red that their eyes were red, and they stood discouraged, still sobbing.

Zhuang Yuncheng looked at the fourteen or fifteen-year-old child, although he was a little unbearable, but he remembered that compared to when his father broke a hand to a servant who stole from him, he had already done his duty, and this time in the jade window, Xi'er not only stealed in disguise, but also cheated.

"You-" Zhuang Yuncheng asked, "what will you do when you get out?" ”

They only shook their heads with red eyes, despair in their eyes.

"I mean, you're fifteen years old, and if you really like it, it's better to get engaged, grow up, and kiss each other." Zhuang Yuncheng said, "Yuchuang'er, I naturally don't want the things you bought for Xi'er, and-" As he spoke, he said to Zhuang Die: "Call Zeng Fu over." ”

Fluttershy goes for a moment and arrives with Zeng Fu, who asks Zeng Fu to settle the accounts for the two of them for half a year. They received the money that morning, packed their bags and prepared to go out, and kowtowed to Zhuang Yuncheng three times before leaving, Zhuang Yuncheng felt a trace of pain in his heart, but he didn't show it.

"It's uncomfortable!" Fluttershy asks.

"It's not uncomfortable." Zhuang Yuncheng stared at her.

"Lying," Fluttershy asks, "why do you have to kick them out if they're uncomfortable?" ”

"But they're doing something wrong." Zhuang Yuncheng said coldly.

"Then if I did something wrong, aren't you going to get rid of me?"

"This-" Zhuang Yuncheng was speechless and gave her a blank look. Fluttershy is smiling.

Now, there are only five left in the family: Ju'an, Zeng Fu, Aunt Li, Aunt Qin, and Lotus.

In the past few days, Zhuang Yuncheng resigned from his newspaper job, and Wen Tingyun did not stop him, but only told him a lot, persuading him that "young people need to be determined, and they must not waste time" and so on.

Since then, Zhuang Yuncheng has had a lot of contacts with Xiao Jinyu and Liu Zhen.

One day, Yunyun happened to be at home on vacation, and due to the hot weather, she moved a recliner and placed it in the shade and windy place at the entrance of the hall, and lay down on it to eat a half-green and half-red apple.

Zhuang Die passed by here and smiled behind her: "You are so leisurely, I was busy with water and didn't drink a sip." ”

Yun Yun hurriedly got up, pressed her on the recliner, and said, "Sister, you have worked hard, eat apples first." He said as he shoved the apple he had bitten into her hand and said. I'll pour you cold water. ”

"Hey—" Fluttershy struggled to get up, but Yun Yun pressed back, "Let me serve you for a while, or my brother should tell me again, it's cool here, you can rest." ”

"Okay, good ......" Zhuang Die smiled and lay down, leaned her feet on the stone slab that was just level with the chair, blew the wind through the hall, closed her eyes, and felt very comfortable. She took a bite of the apple, so relaxed that she didn't even want to use the strength to chew.

After a while, someone sent a letter, and Zhuang Die heard that someone in front of her was coping, so she was lazy to move, and from time to time she fell asleep. Yun Yun came over with cold water, and saw that she had her eyes closed, and she didn't know if she was asleep, so she put the water aside, and saw the apple that had been bitten twice, and her sister didn't eat it, she carefully took it from Fluttershy's hand, and ate it herself, while coming forward, Zhuang Yuncheng was reading the letter.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Yun Yun saw Zhuang Yuncheng's sad face and asked, "Who got the letter?" What is written in the letter? ”

Zhuang Yuncheng held his hand, Yun Yun took the letter, and first saw Beiyan's signature, see what it reads:

Receiving your letter is a glimmer of light in the boundless darkness before my eyes.

I received a letter from Katoriko yesterday that I was informed of a terrible change in my family, and that I would be leaving for home tonight...... I'm exhausted, it's hard to write, and I can't go back to it.

Yun Yun's eyes widened, staring at these lines, they were crooked, vague and ethereal, each word seemed to run out of strength, and seemed to be contaminated with an unusually heavy and sad mood.

"Brother Beiyan...... What happened to him? Yun Yun asked in horror.

Zhuang Yuncheng only shook his head blankly.