The Dazhong Bridge in Tongji Gate is an important road in the south of Nanjing. On the east side of Dazhong Bridge are the Imperial Palace and the five mansions and six ministries and other major yamen, and on the west side of Taiping Li, Mafu Street, Changfu Street, etc., are scattered and full of old mansions. At first glance, some of them have lost their brilliance, the roof tiles have changed one stubble after another, and they are no longer neat as before, and there are even green vines climbing on the walls inside, but when it comes to the years of these houses, they can often be traced back to fifty or even hundreds of years.

Compared with Mafu Street and Changfu Street, where many dignitaries still live today, Taipingli is even more prominent. This is not to mean that it is deserted, but because most of the big families who lived here in the group have been transferred because of the relocation of the capital, and although there are still many old families with a long history, they are all out of breath after all. Even if this is still the prime location closest to the imperial city and the major yamen, after the Yongle Dynasty moved the capital to Yanjing, the Nanjing officials did not need to go to the court, but preferred to live in the courtyard garden on the shore of Mochou Lake in Xuanwu Lake.

It was early in the morning, and the five mansions and six ministries in the morning light and other major yamen were silent, but there were already early people coming and going on the streets. There are also many people who come to draw water under the Dazhong Bridge, and the sound of ruts and human voices is quite noisy for a while, and at the bridgehead where few people walk at this time, there is a young man who lies on the railing weakly.

The young man was dressed in an ordinary yellow-brown right-sided diagonal cotton robe, and stepped on a pair of half-worn black-faced white-soled cloth shoes, looking only thirteen or fourteen years old. He lay there and looked intently, his eyes glancing at the tall imperial city not far away from time to time, and only after a long time did he slap his face vigorously, and suddenly muttered: "I'm really not dreaming? ”

"Help!"

"Hey, there's someone in the water!"

"It was a ...... floating from the north side of the moat"

With a faint cry for help and a sudden commotion under the bridge, the boy suddenly came to his senses. Pulling on the railing and looking down, he saw a figure floating in the water, holding something like a wooden plank in his hand, and several men on the shore who were drawing water were shouting and shouting, but none of them went into the water to save people. Faced with this situation, the young man immediately took off his robe and shoes at three moments, climbed the railing in three or two steps, and jumped down one by one.

The river was naturally cold in February, and as soon as he stepped out of the water, he was so cold that his teeth creaked, and then he took a deep breath and swam towards the man who had fallen into the water. Although the wounds on his body were still faintly painful, and he was not used to using these arms and legs, he finally barely managed to reach the man in the water, and then grabbed the guy by the collar.

However, just as he was about to swim back, the man who fell into the water seemed to have been rescued suddenly and panicked, and suddenly hugged him firmly like an octopus. Caught off guard, he drank a few sips of water and struggled a few times, but after all, the strength of the man who fell into the water was too great, and instead of breaking free, the whole person gradually sank down with the guy.

"Sure enough, good people can't do it...... But if you can wake up from a dream if you really die, this good thing is not a loss! ”

This was the last thought that Xu Xun had before the whole person lost consciousness.

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"Young Master, Young Master!"

Is this dream over?

Hearing this burst of calls in a daze, Xu Xun couldn't help but have a ridiculous feeling. When he was young, Xu Xun was once honored as Xu Da Shao, but after his parents were suddenly in a car accident, those parents' former business partners and cronies and subordinates immediately gave him a taste of betrayal and separation. In the eyes of outsiders, he was in a state of collapse, but he tried his best to track down the truth in forbearance and began a long road of struggle.

It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and he has avenged him, but he also experienced the strangest thing in his life after that accidental stumble. No matter who it is, when you wake up and find yourself covered in wounds and sleeping in the clothes of the ancients, sleeping in bed, and more than half younger, where can you still lie down? So he sneaked out early in the morning, but when he arrived at the Dazhong Bridge, he saw the antique style that can only be seen in TV dramas, and he couldn't help but watch it there. When he found someone falling into the water, he might hesitate in reality, but thinking that maybe it was in a dream, he impulsively became a good person.

"Young Master, Young Master!"

Hearing another call in his ears, Xu Xun suddenly felt a cool liquid flowing from his mouth. It wasn't sweet or anything else, and before he could react, the liquid was already running down his throat. As he swallowed involuntarily again and again, he gradually felt some sensation in his hands and feet, and his eyes slowly moved twice. When he finally saw the face that was close at hand, he couldn't help but let out a silent sigh in his heart.

It turns out that this is really not a dream, and it is not something that can be strongly stimulated to return to the original world.

"Young master, you're scared me to death!"

Looking at the black and white face, I don't know if it was because he hadn't washed it in the morning, or because he had just cried and left sequelae, Xu Xun couldn't help laughing, but this smile pulled some wounds, so his smile was a little miserable no matter how he looked at it: "Manly man...... What are you crying about, I'm a river dragon, I can't die! ”

However, instead of working, these words made the young man dressed as a little guy even more excited: "Young master, you still said that if it weren't for Grandpa Liang, how could you still talk here well?" ”

At this moment, another head poked over on the side: "Seventh Young Master, it's not that the old man is too talkative, you are too reckless, you are all injured all over your body, and you jumped into the water to save someone!" If it weren't for the old man, I happened to arrive, and my hands were fast, you would have turned into a water worm! There are so many people who come here to draw water, and none of them are going to save them, why are you jumping down with this water surname? ”

The old man who spoke was full of messy gray hair, and his face was full of wrinkles like knife cuts. At this moment, he was bare-chested and bare-chested, the water droplets on his chest had not yet been dried, a gray-brown single coat was draped over his body, his hair was wet, and he was smiling and twisting a soft towel while talking. Seeing Xu Xun coming over, he smiled and put the soft towel on his shoulder, nodded slightly, and said, "It's not early, I have to hurry to each house to deliver water, go first!" ”

"Thank you......"

Seeing that the old man walked quickly to a water wheel, pushed up the heavy car with a soft drink, Xu Xun in the shade of the tree supported his arm and thanked him, but his voice seemed to be blocked, and he couldn't say the words below. After a while, he helped the young man on the side to slowly get up, and let the little guy wrap his robe around him.

"Young master, don't be so impulsive in the future, thanks to Grandpa Liang today!" The little guy complained angrily while carefully helping people, "Young master, you don't know, you almost took your surname to save the guy who fell into the water, but I didn't find anyone everywhere when I came, according to Grandpa Liang, the man was still dressed quite decently, he didn't pay attention when he saw that guy woke up, but he disappeared in a blink of an eye, and he didn't even have a word of thanks, he really has no conscience!" If only let me know who he is later......"

The little guy's indignation Xu Xun didn't listen to it at all at this time, he covered his eyes and looked at the sun high above his head, and then looked at his arms and legs that were still trembling. Although his head was getting higher and higher at this time, as soon as the cold wind blew, he couldn't help but sneeze several times in a row, and when he arrived at the door of the house, he suddenly felt that countless messy fragments flashed in front of him, and his eyes were black for a while and he fainted.