Half an hour, an hour, I waited on my knees in the north wind.

Ah Yu on the side couldn't stand the cold, and stood up to call the door, but when he heard the woman inside the door crying fiercely, he didn't dare: "Girl, go knock on the door!" If you drag it out any longer, all the children in it will be born! ”

I rubbed my hands and said with a white breath: "If you don't knock, why do you let me knock?" Don't call me girl, be careful so that your housewife hears it and whips me plainly. ”

"Girl, can you be afraid of her? Besides, aren't there two people here, one is going to beat you, and the other is distressed. ”

"Your master can't wait to eat me now, I don't want to be bored with this." I stood up and walked under a plum tree in the courtyard. This plum tree should be an old plum, with a little crimson bud on the ink-colored curved branches like lacquer, lonely and unruly, compared to the plum blossom fragrant snow sea in the Qin Kingdom, it is more sparse and windy.

I'm here to enjoy the plums, and Ah Yu is still rubbing his hands and stomping his feet under the eaves. I was cold, so I couldn't feel cold, and he was afraid that he was really frozen. I sighed lightly, lowered my head and took out my Tao Xun from the pouch I carried, I didn't think about it, as soon as I blew it out, it was the little tune that I hummed when I was drunk and lying on horseback, and went to the country and left my hometown. In the past, I used to be, the willows are still around, now I come to think, the rain and snow are glorious, those who know me say that I am worried, and those who don't know me, what do I ask for......

Before the lament could be blown to the end, the door behind him suddenly opened.

Wuxian stood behind the door, with a black crown and a green coat wrapped in green clothes, with a gloomy face, only the purple embroidered moire jade belt hook belt around his waist was still slightly colored.

I watched him salute and turn around and walk out of the courtyard.

Ah Yu rubbed his hands and hurriedly followed, forgetting that the person standing behind him was his master.

It was cold, the three of them were crammed into a car, no shirt did not speak, I did not speak, Ah Yu licked his mouth and closed his mouth honestly. The driver outside the car shouted, and the two black horses spread their hooves in the cold wind.

At this time, it was not yet the middle of winter, and the river had not yet frozen, so we planned to take a carriage from Xinjiang to Shaoshui Ferry, and then turn to the waterway at the ferry, go south along Shaoshui, and then enter Danshui to the east, directly to Shangqiu.

From Xinjiang to Shaoshui Ferry, it takes at least ten days to drive. I had expected to be in such an awkward situation before I set off, so I prepared something to pass the time for myself early - a dagger and a bundle of bamboo strips. I knit a bamboo basket on the day of driving, and then give the basket to the steward of the post station at night, so that I can ask the people in the post station to send me an extra basin of hot water to soak my feet before going to sleep.

On this day, it was quiet again. I took out the dagger with which I sharpened the bamboo strip as usual, but when I leaned over to draw the bamboo strip, the shirtless stepped on the bamboo strip: "Don't you have anything else to do?" Ah Yu, give her your burden and let her mend all the torn clothes for you! ”

Ah Yu has been really suffocated these days, I don't talk to Wuxian on the road, and he doesn't dare to speak. Therefore, every day when he arrived at the post station, he found someone to drink and play, and everyone else went to sleep, and he practiced swordsmanship in the lobby alone. In this way, as soon as he gets in the car during the day, he can sleep directly to death. Wuxian called him at this time, he was already asleep.

"He's asleep." I pulled out a bamboo stick from under my shirtless feet.

With an iron face, Shirtless punched straight into Ah Yu's chest.

Ah Yu shouted loudly in his sleep, and pulled out the scimitar in his hand in a hurry, and the knife light was bright, and it almost didn't cut the curtain above his head. "There are assassins!" His eyes widened, and he picked up his knife and wanted to rush out of the car.

"Give her your clothes and let her mend them for you." Wuxian grabbed him, dropped a sentence that made Ah Yu stunned, and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

I sighed lightly and stretched out my hand to Ah Yu, who looked confused and handed me the burden sitting under him: "Girl? What do you mean, master? ”

"It's okay, you go back to sleep. When we get to the ferry, let's hire two boats, and when the time comes, you can talk as much as you want, and you don't have to sleep upside down day and night. ”

"Eh, Miss Xie!" Ah Yu breathed a sigh of relief, looking like the suffering had finally come to an end.

I took out the needle and thread from the pouch and carefully examined Ah Yu's clothes with the light of the sky that came in from the curtain.

The weather is freezing, the carriage is bumpy, and sewing clothes is different from basket weaving. When I mended a shirt and a robe, and tried to roll the cuffs of the robe around the smooth edge, the carriage happened to pass through an uneven stone field, and the long needle in his hand pierced into his fingertips fiercely, and beads of blood the size of beans instantly appeared.

"If you want to make it up, will you make it up? The female workers are poor, and the eyes are also poor. "Wuxian had been closing his eyes all the way, but then he suddenly opened his eyes and pulled the robe from my lap and threw it away.

Poor female workers? Poor eyes? When love is there, it is good everywhere, and when love is gone, it is boring everywhere?

I leaned down to pick up the discarded clothes on the ground, and as soon as I looked up, the purple belt embroidered with double moire fell into my eyes.

The old is not as good as the new, and the belt embroidered by this newcomer is the best one.

I turned my head and silently pinched my bleeding fingertips.

Wuxian followed my gaze to the brocade belt around his waist, frowned, and did not speak.

In the afternoon, a light rain fell outside the carriage, and the carriage came to the last post of the trip in a gloomy rain.

If you don't have a bamboo basket to give gifts, you're embarrassed to ask for a basin of hot water before going to bed. That night, I took off my shoes, blew out the lamp and was about to sleep, when Ah Yu suddenly knocked on my door.

"Girl, I'll boil you a pot of hot water." He carried a clay pot with hemp rope piercing ears into the house, "The girl always asks for an extra basin of hot water before going to bed, is this to drink, or to wash her face?" Bathing is not enough. ”

"You let the steward burn it?" I took a clay pot from the shelf and put it on the floor.

"The steward went to bed early, and I chopped wood to burn it myself." Ah Yu poured water into the clay pot, and I found that his face was gray and black, and even his eyebrows were stained with sawdust. Chopping wood and boiling water, he now only has one hand.

"Wash your face first! I just want to soak my feet before going to bed, the problem caused by the outside in the past two years, the day is cold, the feet are not warm at night, and the next day after standing for a long time and sitting for a long time, my legs hurt. You wiped your face, and I'll use it to soak my feet again, it's just right. ”

"Don't, don't, don't! Ah Yu's face is dirty, or the girl soaks her feet first, and when she finishes soaking, I wash my face. ”

Wash your face with foot soaking water? I looked at Ah Yu's very serious face in the steam, and I couldn't help laughing.

Ah Yu scratched his head, touched his face and smiled.

"Girl, what the hell is wrong with you and your master? Why did you say that you would leave in Lu at that time? Ah Yu washed his face with the half jar of water I gave him, and wiped his neck again.

I mistakenly believed a sentence back then, thinking that ......" I took off my socks and soaked my feet in hot water, and when I looked up and saw Ah Yu staring at me curiously, I closed my mouth again.

"Why?"

"It's nothing, it's all gone, don't mention it." Zhao Ying was sick at the beginning, and his illness has risen, so who can say for sure whether he will die or not. Me and Wuxian are now a foregone conclusion, why drag Shi Mo into this old matter again, "Ah Yu, you go to bed early tonight, and we should go to the ferry tomorrow afternoon." When you get to the ferry, you have to hire a boat, buy food, and you must be mentally refreshed. ”

"Got it! The girl also went to bed early. "Ah Yu poured water for me, closed the door and withdrew.

When I warmed my feet, my whole body warmed up, so I turned off the lights and went to bed, and slept peacefully until dawn the next day.

The source of less water is in the north of Jin, where there are a lot of merchant ships coming and going from the south to the north in spring and summer, but at this time it has entered winter, and it has been rainy for the past two days, and there are only a few small boats moored on the ferry. Don't want the shabby hull, don't want the canopy that is too thin, don't want the ugly one, don't have the strength, pick and choose, and only pick a green canopy boat without a shirt.

I promised Ah Yu yesterday that I would hire two boats today, but before I could say anything, I was blocked by a sentence without mercy. He said that he had just bought me charcoal and a stove at the market, and that he did not have the spare money to hire another boat.

When he said this, a large heavy bag of money hung from his waist. Not to mention hiring two boats, even if he bought two boats, it would be enough to buy two rowing slaves, but he would not hire another one. It's a pity that I forgot to bring my money bag when I went out this time, and I was shy in my pocket, so I could only swallow my anger.

When Ah Yu got on the boat, his face was even more ugly than mine. For him, no matter how difficult the car ride is, it will only be ten days. But by boat, it will take at least two months to sit on a boat, and I am so awkward and awkward that Wuxian and I can't get up.

I felt sorry for Ah Yu, and after getting on the boat, I tried to find something to talk to him.

Ah Yu seemed to be very interested in my Tao Xun, and shouted that he wanted to listen to the song under the plum tree again. I saw that Wuxian did not refute, so I took out Tao Xun and played it.

Sailing in winter, the cold sky is dark, and there is only us on the water. Xunyin was already empty and mournful, coupled with the melancholy rain at dusk, a sad song only blew so that the paddlers fell two lines of turbid tears.

At the end of the song, there was silence in the cabin.

The three of them sat opposite each other, each with their own memories in their chests knocking on the door of their hearts.

In the evening, the wind outside the canopy became louder and louder, there was no sunset, no sunset, and the river was as gloomy as a long gray-black belt in the twilight. Winter nights are coming.

"Guest, let's spend the night in the woods tonight!" The captain found a nearby forest and tied the boat, and at this time the boat against the wind was too exhausting, and he was already panting.

Wuxian nodded, and everyone got off the boat.

Ah Yu followed the shirtless and began to build a grass hut to shelter from the wind tonight, and I took out a millet dumpling I bought in the afternoon from my arms and sent it to my mouth.

"Let me eat this dry frozen dumpling! I'll catch fish and make soup for the girl! Ah Yu jumped up and snatched my dumplings and stuffed them into his mouth, "Girl, why don't you go and help my master build a shed?" It's fun to work with two people! He squeezed his eyes at me, turned around and borrowed a pair of fishing gear from his captain, and ran.

I understand Ah Yu's thoughts, but Wuxian won't give me any chance to interfere at all.

"Aren't you and I even pretentious friends now?" I stood beside him with my hands down, frustrated.

Shirtless glanced up at me, still speechless.

It was as if someone had blocked a stone in my heart, and I was so sullen that I couldn't breathe, and I wanted to scream out to shake off the awkward silence, but in front of him, I couldn't even scream.