"This is it." Qin Luo beckoned Liu Changfeng to come to the street stall, a young man in his twenties was making glutinous rice dumplings, and when he saw a guest coming, he hurriedly greeted: "What are you two going to do?" ”

"Here's a rake for two leaves." Qin Luo ordered familiarly, "Another pot of tea." ”

"This is the specialty?" Liu Changfeng looked suspicious, "He actually used a street stall to send me away." ”

"The delicious food is in the people." Qin Luo said, "Ye Er Rake is a meat filling fried with sprouts and pork, wrapped in glutinous rice flour, wrapped in ginger leaves, steamed and fragrant, and the mouth is glutinous." ”

Soon the leaf rake came up, and as soon as Liu Changfeng ate it, the aroma was strong and the mouth was glutinous. While eating, Qin Luo asked the stall owner, "I remember that a woman was doing it before." ”

"That's my grandmother." The stall owner said, "The guest officer hasn't been here for many years, my nurse is old, and she has long stopped doing it." ”

"yes, it's been many years." Qin Luo sighed, time is in a hurry, things are not people.

"Listen to the guest accent, it's a local." The stall owner asked.

Qin Luo didn't speak in his hometown, but he was still heard. He smiled and said, "Little brother, I grew up here since I was a child, eating leaf rakes. ”

"The guest officer left his hometown because of the war?"

Qin Luo nodded indiscriminately, and the stall owner said sympathetically: "When Xiang Qiang invaded, many people ran away in the county. Those who didn't make it were all ...... In fact, my grandmother, my father and my mother were also in the war......"

The stall owner didn't say it, and Qin Luo also guessed it. It turns out that the old grandmother is not too old to do it, but has gone.

The topic was slightly sad, and the stall owner didn't say anything more, turned around and continued to make a rake. Liu Changfeng also remembered his past, "That year, the whole country was in chaos, and my hometown was the same as yours here. ”

"I've been there, don't mention these sad things." Qin Luo smiled, "After eating, I'll take you to my house to have a look." ”

Qin Luo's hometown is located in Qinjia Village, a small village in the southernmost part of Huai'an County. Qin Luo took Liu Changfeng and walked the trail for a long time, and finally arrived at the village before dark. The village was silent, as if it were uninhabited. Occasionally, in the field, they would meet one or two farmers who were carrying hoes home, and when they saw Qin Luo, they looked at him casually, as if they didn't recognize him, and left without saying a word.

When the children don't know each other, they smile and ask where the guests are from. Qin Luo remembered He Zhizhang's poem, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, it seems that he is also "urging the sideburns without changing the local accent".

"Have there always been very few people in the village?" Liu Changfeng walked for a long time, but he didn't see a few people, and then looked at the dilapidated houses around him, as if no one had lived in them for a long time.

Qin Luo guessed: "After all, this is on the edge of the Lan River, when Xiang Qiang called back then, in order to avoid trouble, they all moved away." ”

"It's better to go." Liu Changfeng said, "Where is your house, are you almost there?" ”

"Over there." Qin Luo pointed to a dilapidated house over there, which looked in disrepair and uninhabited. The gate of the courtyard was hidden and not locked, Qin Luo opened it as soon as he pushed it, and took Liu Changfeng through the courtyard where the weeds were growing, and came to the ancestral house of the Qin family.

The three-room tiled house looks dilapidated but still in good condition. There are still chains hanging on the door of the main house, but they have long been rusted after more than ten years of wind and sun. Liu Changfeng saw that the keyhole was rusty and died, so he cut the chain with a knife. Liu Changfeng pushed open the door, and a puff of dust poured down.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......" Liu Changfeng covered his mouth and coughed a few times. Qin Luo followed behind him, waiting for the dust to fall before stepping into the door with him.

Time was reversed in a trance, Qin Luo was still a child back then, and his infant brother was on the kang, watching his mother weaving and embroidering under the window.

The spiritual seat of his parents was still placed in the hall, and Qin Luo gently wiped and stroked it with his hands, and his eyes were slightly red. When I remember the past, I am young, and I don't know how to be close to each other. Now I have been away from hatred and wiped away tears. At that time, he only wanted to get ahead, so he took his younger brother to leave this poor country and go to Kyoto to seek a future. When he left his hometown with his luggage, he was ambitious and had no nostalgia. It's a pity that he can't predict what will happen in the future, and he doesn't know that he will be exiled to Xiang Qiang and can't return home.

However, this time I will come back, and I am afraid it will be the last.

Liu Changfeng looked at the roof beams and said to Qin Luo: "It's not too damaged, clean and clean, and you can still live in it." ”

Qin Luo remembered that there was another guest here, so he reined in his thoughts and asked, "The house is shabby, why don't you go out and find an inn tonight." ”

"How can there be an inn in the village, and I have to go back to the county to go to the inn, so I'm too lazy to leave." Liu Changfeng sat on a dusty stool, "Besides, I don't pay attention to it, I have lived in a broken temple and slept under the bridge, this place is already very good, let's clean it up, just do it." ”

Seeing that Liu Changfeng didn't mind, Qin Luo didn't say anything more, the two rolled up their sleeves and started cleaning up the house.

Yeleyi took Saren all the way and soon arrived in Huai'an County. She wiped the sweat from her head, and the closer she got to the Lan River, the hotter she felt. This kind of heat is not like the heat of the desert, but it is hot and humid, and Yeleyi, a girl from the north, is very unsuitable for such a climate.

It's a pity that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the boat was late and encountered a head wind. As soon as Ye Leyi arrived in Huai'an County, it suddenly rained. The rain in the south is incessant, and it will rain for several days at a time. What made Ye Leyi even more depressed was that the rainy day did not alleviate the heat of the weather, but added to the humidity and heat, and the washed clothes could not be dried at all.

Ye Leyi sat by the window, watched the heavy rain pouring down, and said to Saren sullenly: "I think it is better for Xiang Qiang now." ”

Saren smiled and didn't speak. No matter where you are, it's not as good as your hometown. But the second lady misses someone, and Baba came in the rain, isn't it to take a look at someone's hometown to relieve lovesickness?

Some things are seen through and not said, Saren lowered his head and continued to fold his clothes. At this time, Xiao Er knocked on the door and came to deliver lunch.

Ye Leyi asked Xiao Er in a stiff Chu language: "Heavy rain, when can it stop?" ”

"It's hard to say, we have a lot of rain here, and it could be next month."

A month, so long! Yeleyi is very depressed, she can only stay for half a month at most, she can't afford this time.

Don't wait for the rain to stop, Ye Leyi thought to herself, and asked Xiao Er: "I'm here, looking for ......."

"Guest, who are you looking for?" Xiao Er looked at Ye Leyi who couldn't speak for a long time, and answered, "We have people here who come and go, and we may know the person you are looking for." ”

Ye Leyi frowned, it was not accurate to say that she was looking for someone, she was actually looking for a place. It's a pity that Ye Leyi only found out that Qin Luo's family was in Huai'an County, but when he came to Huai'an County, he found that this county seat is quite large, and there are several villages below.

Ye Leyi had no choice but to ask, "Do you know Qin Luo?" ”

Qin Luo? Xiao Er heard it in his ears, and felt that the name was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was. He looked at the person in front of him helplessly, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I don't know." However, we have a Qinjia village here, and the guest officer went there to ask, maybe it was someone they saved. ”

"Great." Yereyi jumped up excitedly, and didn't even want to eat lunch. After sending Xiao Er away, Ye Leyi hurriedly said to Saren: "I know where Qin Luo's family is. ”

"Where?" Saren couldn't understand the Chu language again, and she didn't know what Ye Leyi and Xiao Er said just now.

"Qinjia Village." Yeleyi said excitedly, "You're almost ready for dinner, we'll go in the afternoon." ”

Saren looked out the window and wondered, "But...... It's raining outside. ”

Yeleyi said depressedly: "I can't wait for the rain to stop, I heard that this rain can last for another month." ”

"It's been so long, and I've never seen a month of heavy rain." Saren exclaimed.

"This weather, it's really annoying." Of course, Yeleyi hadn't encountered it either, and she urged Saren to say, "Eat quickly, eat quickly, and go early after eating." ”