Chapter VI

Ronan Yue's arrangement

Luo Nanyue was silent for a long time, as if she was thinking about something, and slowly spoke after about a quarter of an hour: "Xiao Zhong, although you are only ten years old this year, I understand your mind, and you are different from ordinary people. Follow me for five years, you can always help me deal with some things that adults may not be able to deal with well, often have whimsical ideas to help me solve some headaches, you often say to other people in Luofu that I am like your reborn parents, you will repay my kindness for a lifetime, I have heard of these slightly, but it is this reborn parents, a lifetime of repayment, there is a layer of estrangement between us, that is the estrangement between the exclusive master and servant. I don't want that. Luo Nanyue paused, sat down on the ground and pointed to his side and motioned for Li Jinzhong to come and sit down, Li Jinzhong thought that it was disrespectful to sit side by side with the young master, but after listening to the words just now, he felt that it seemed that not sitting down would make Luo Nanyue very sad, so after hesitating for a moment, he still sat down, Luo Nanyue nodded with satisfaction and said: "I remember five years ago, the first time I saw you was at the annual meeting of the Guangping Society, you were only half as tall as you are now, your eyes were empty, dull, without a trace of brilliance, And what attracts me is the look in your eyes, very much like a best friend I have lost for many years. Before he died, his eyes were as empty and glazed as you were then. ”

Luo Nanyue took a deep breath, her eyes stared at the sky, Li Jinzhong felt that Luo Nanyue was immersed in deep sadness at this time, he did not interrupt Luo Ershao's deep thought, and after a while, Luo Nanyue continued: "Maybe fifteen years ago, I was not as old as you at that time, and the family arranged a scholar for me, his name is Xiaozhi, which is funny, until the day he died, I didn't know the full name, so that I could only use the name Xiaozhi on the tombstone I erected for him." Ash is an ordinary peasant child, he hasn't experienced a lot of wind and rain like you, and he is not mentally mature, because he is the same age as me, he doesn't regard me as his master, only when there are outsiders, he will call me young master, only when I am two, he will call me by my name. A gentle smile appeared on Luo Nanyue's face, and then he continued: "I read and play with Xiaozhi, his personality is different from yours, he is not as taciturn as you, he likes to talk when there are only the two of us, we have common ideals, common ambitions, we are very yearning for the military life of galloping across the battlefield and killing the enemy, and in this era, it is our dream to fight against the Japanese and win all battles against the Qi family army." We have always hoped that one day we will be able to join the Qi family army and eradicate the plague of Japanese bandits. Saying this, Luo Nanyue showed a wistful look.

"Time passes day by day, because the Guangping Association is a gang, I will be arranged to be a semester martial arts since I was a child, and in private I taught the martial arts to Xiao Zhi, I practiced together, worked hard for my two goals, and lived a full and happy life. Until one day twelve years ago, Ash ran to my room crying and told me that something had happened in his home. It turned out that his father was addicted to gambling and owed a lot of gambling debts in the gambling house owned by Guangping, and now Guangping will go to his house to force debts, Xiaozhi had no choice but to beg me to let me help his father, but I was still a child at the time, and my father would not pay attention to my pleas at all. I secretly went to steal the family's money to help Ash's father pay off his gambling debts, but I didn't have to wait for my money. The debtor came to the door and injured Ash's parents, and the two were bedridden, and I didn't know that I was trying to help his Ash, so he used some of the skills he had learned from me in the past few years to steal the money from a money bank. But what he never expected was that all the money he stole was official silver. When he took the silver to ask his parents for a doctor, he was taken by the shopkeeper to see the official, and at this time I was about to go to Ash's house with the silver stolen from the house, but in front of his house, I saw Ash, who was wearing shackles and covered in wounds. The door of Ash's house was open, and it could be faintly seen that there were two people hanging on the beams of the house, and it turned out that they saw their son stealing money and was arrested and paraded in the street, and the two old men knew that there was no hope, so they both hanged themselves and died. ”

Luo Nanyue's eyes were a little red at this time, and after taking a deep breath, she continued: "At that time, Ash's eyes were exactly the same as your original eyes, empty and dull. It seems that everything around us has become invisible. I understand that Ash is dead at this point. And that was the last time I saw Ash, and that empty look was the last memory he left me. Since stealing official silver is a felony, a few days later, the government sentenced Xiao Zhi to the heinous crime of stealing official silver, and he was immediately executed. ”

Luo Nanyue didn't speak for a long time after finishing telling the story of Xiao Zhi, and Li Jinzhong was also silent, this atmosphere lasted for almost an hour before Luo Nanyue continued to speak: "After I met you five years ago, my intention was actually to treat you as a stand-in for Xiao Zhi, I wanted to make up for my regret to Xiao Zhi back then, but later I found out that you and Xiao Zhi are completely different, Xiao Zhi is more like a younger brother who needs my protection and my help, and you are more like a friend who can help me and understand me." Although you are not very old, although you are usually very silent, you can grasp the thoughts in my heart and silently do everything for me. I don't think you owe me anything, but you help me, and you are grateful to me for making me feel that I owe you something, because you should be my friend, my comrade-in-arms, a brother and not a subordinate I bought, a scholar. ”

After listening to Luo Nanyue's words, Li Jinzhong finally spoke, he said: "Young master, I don't care what your attitude is towards me, you have the grace of reinvention for me, Xiao Zhong has been a hard-working person since he was a child, his parents abused me in every way, the young master rescued me from the sea of suffering, but I lived a life that I couldn't think of before." If it weren't for the young master, Xiao Zhong didn't know if he would be alive and well now. I just want to use my life to help the young master do things and repay the young master's kindness. Xiao Zhong didn't care what the young master thought of me. Xiao Zhong just hopes to stay by the young master's side all the time to take care of the young master and share the young master's worries. ”

Luo Nanyue sighed and said: "Xiaozhong, everyone has their own way to go, you and I are equal in front of the road of life, but I have a lot of help and you don't, I went to join the army this time, with my dream and Xiaozhi." After five years with you, I know this is not the path you want to take. You have your own talent for power, cunning, and you won't like to be in the army and be in the company of killing and dying. And in terms of power and wisdom, Second Uncle Du can provide you with great help, I have already told Second Uncle Du. As long as you can cultivate your eyesight, you will be asked to go to the gambling house to find a deacon's errand. After saying this, Luo Nanyue got up and dusted off her body, and said, "Xiaozhong, you just stay on the mountain, you don't have to go back with me." I don't know when I can see each other this time, I hope that the next time I see you again, you have been reborn, and we don't have to have this master and servant between us, we can become confidants and friends. Then he walked down the mountain. Li Jinzhong threw himself on his knees and shouted to Luo Nanyue: "Young Master, you will always be Xiao Zhong's young master, Xiao Zhong will always be here and wait for you to come back." Luo Nanyue paused, but did not look back, waved her hand lightly and said loudly: "Go and do your own business." After saying that, he continued to walk down the mountain.