Immaculate bluestone slab inner courtyard.

On both sides of the inner courtyard, two large trees are planted......

The trees are of different kinds, but all of them have thick leaves, which create two parts of coolness in this garden.

The two trees are separated by several meters.

A black kitten appeared out of nowhere, jumping back and forth between the two trees.

In the courtyard, there is a wooden table with a few leaves falling on it.

On either side of the table, there are two rattan chairs.

The paper on the doors and windows of the house is brand new, reflecting bright light in the sunlight.

These scenery makes the air exude a fresh breath.

Seeing Ye Bei walk into the courtyard.

The woman lifted her foot and took a step forward.

There are three steps of threshold in the courtyard, which is not very high, but the woman is too old, her hands and feet are not good, and she holds the brand-new wooden door of the courtyard of No. 99 with both hands, leans her head over, and when she sees the scenery in the courtyard again, her body is slightly stunned, and her eyes widen slightly: "It's incredible, after so many years, there is no change here, as if it is exactly the same as eighty years ago, everything is brand new, this environment is really nostalgic." ”

"Actually, there are a lot of changes." Ye Bei opened.

The scenery here does look the same as it once was, but many things are no longer what they used to be.

When the woman heard this, she tilted her head and looked at the courtyard earnestly with cloudy eyes.

Every layout.

Every little detail.

She looked at everything she put on the table carefully.

The memories of decades ago merge with the scenery of the present.

After a long time, the woman spoke again, and her voice was vicissitudes: "I remember that there was also a peach tree in this courtyard before, but it is gone, and now there are two more unknown trees, I saw through the crack in the door a few days ago, and there are weeds inside, and now it is very clean. Their growth is really fast. ”

"Hmm." Ye Bei looked at the changes in the woman, and his mouth was soft.

Those eyes became more and more indifferent.

In his eyes, there is no emotion, no distractions, and it is as deep as the starry sky.

Then he spoke, and his voice floated: "The people have seen it, the trees have been planted, and the cause and effect on this side of the alley can be regarded as all clear." ”

The woman let go of her grip on the door, and stepped on the threshold with difficulty, her brow furrowed at times, sometimes loosened, and when she stood on the third threshold, she spoke earnestly: "I always feel that something is missing from this tree. ”

Ye Bei did not answer.

Carrying his hands on his back.

Dressed in a white shirt.

Walked leisurely to the courtyard, walked to the wooden table, brushed his shirt, sat on the chair elegantly, and then his eyes fell on the woman, and he said softly: "There is a chair in the courtyard, you sit down first!" ”

"Okay."

The woman replied with one word, stepped into the courtyard, and shook one step at a time.

Ye Bei's eyes moved away from the woman again, and through the gate of the No. 99 courtyard, he could just see the bucket of water that the woman brought from the ancient well, quietly placed on the threshold of the No. 98 courtyard, the sun was shining, and the water inside was windless and automatic, reflecting a bright light.

The woman was not polite.

After coming over, he straightened his clothes and sat opposite Ye Bei.

It's just that when she sat down, she immediately turned her head away, and didn't look at Ye Bei at all, but focused her eyes on a tree on the left side of the courtyard, quietly looking at the green leaves swaying in the wind.

Ye Bei didn't speak.

The woman was silent.

In the courtyard, it was very quiet.

The woman looked at it seriously, her eyes sometimes blank, sometimes burning, sometimes thinking about something.

Time passed quietly.

Whoa......

When a breeze blew, and the branches of the tree swayed, and the thick leaves made a rattling sound, the woman sitting in the chair grinned and showed a faint smile.

Ye Bei's eyes were on the bucket of water outside, and when he heard the sound of leaves, he spoke again: "You, what do you see?" ”

The woman nodded, her voice pale, "Well, I see." ”

Ye Bei was silent.

A hand was quietly placed on the wooden table.

With a slight movement of his fingers, a dark brown wooden cup appeared in his hand out of thin air, and a glass of water appeared in it, and it also exuded a cold breath.

Ye Bei picked up the cup, put it at the corner of his mouth, and gently rippled.

"Oh?"

Only then did he faintly spit out a word in his mouth.

The woman's eyes narrowed slightly: "These two trees, although planted in the same yard, are very lonely. ”

"What's the explanation?" Ye Bei's hand stopped, and his voice was indifferent.

The woman's expression was serious: "One is planted on the left and the other is planted on the right, and they are all trying to grow wildly, but the distance is too far, it may take a thousand years for those branches to touch together." ”

When she said this, the woman's voice was a little hoarse, and her expression was slightly moved, as if she had thought of something.

Ye Bei nodded and muttered in a low voice: "After a thousand years, maybe these two trees have already withered!" Even if they do touch it, they will find that it is not the same breed, and they will only regret it in the end. ”

"Yes, some things are destined to be fruitless, because from the beginning, they were doomed." The woman sighed.

"Meow~"

Before the voice fell, the little black cat scurrying back and forth between the two trees let out a faint cry.

The corners of the woman's mouth twitched, and she continued: "However, it is also good to be able to look out alone in a yard, and on these two trees, there is a black cat jumping back and forth, isn't this a connection?" ”

Ye Bei's eyes were gloomy.

Sitting in the chair, the wooden cup that was placed at the corner of his mouth poured slightly.

A glass of water, drink it all.

The water was cold.

Sweet.

It's as if it has just been dug out of an ancient well that doesn't know how many years have passed.

Although the taste is very light.

But it's more evocative than wine.

Click.

After drinking, Ye Bei gently placed the wooden cup on the table, making a faint clicking sound.

Then he spoke: "That cat is like a thread in the long river of years, always like to connect two different lives, but that thread will be broken sooner or later." ”

After hearing this, the woman's eyes slowly closed, and then she turned her head, turned to Ye Bei, and opened her mouth: "Yes, that cat will disappear sooner or later, and even it itself is just a speck of dust in the years." ”

The voice fell, and the courtyard was very quiet.

……

On the other side, Qiao's villa area.

The smell of blood in the air is disappearing little by little, replaced by a strong smell of disinfectant.

A group of men in black suits are cleaning up in earnest.

"Hurry up."

Cheng Shou stood in the middle of this, watching the blood stains quickly washed into the sewer, and when the ground became clean little by little, his voice urged coldly.

At the same time, look up from time to time and look up at the sky.

Just now, Wang An called him......

After letting him clean up the scene, he immediately went to the alley to pick up Ye Bei.

Not a lot of words.

However, Cheng Shou had a hunch that now that Egypt is so unstable, coupled with Ye Bei, it won't be long before something big happens!

Maybe the whole world will change dramatically because of this.