Before it was dark on the second day, Nangong Xu sent the attendant beside him to invite Hua Xiangrong to go to Yongjing Mountain to put Kong Ming lanterns, and repeatedly told her that he must call Xiao Gongzi and Miss Xu.

promised not to call, Xiao Zilet let her go, she would naturally go. Although she knew that Nangong Xuhe was impossible, she still couldn't bear to splash him with cold water, and it was useless to splash it anyway.

She wanted to take a detour to find Xiao Zirang and go to Yongjing Mountain together.

But as soon as she came out and walked a few steps, she saw Xiao Zirang already standing not far away waiting for her.

She touched her nose and walked up to him, but before she could open her mouth to ask, she heard him say, "Let's go, the promise is already in Yongjing Mountain." ”

Hua Xiangrong: "......"

She felt more and more that this person wanted to send the promise to Nangong Xu's arms.

The road to Yongjing Mountain was crowded with people, adults on the street were busy working, and children were playing and playing. Many wealthy families opened warehouses to help porridge, and beggars on the streets also had a full meal.

The wealth of the state of Chu can be seen from here. However, it is also possible that Wanzhou is an important town in Chu State, so it is well developed, but in fact, the southeast and southwest regions of Chu State are still very poor, and they are harassed by the Nanban from time to time.

When we arrived at Yongjing Mountain, it was already dark, and there were many people selling Kong Ming lanterns and peace knots at the foot of the mountain, and there were also many beggars sitting on the ground begging, dressed in rags and unkempt.

Hua Xiangrong paused for a moment as she passed by a beggar.

She looked down at the beggar, thinking about something, but did not move.

Just when she was stunned, she suddenly noticed a person squatting down next to her and gently placing a few copper coins in the beggar's tattered porcelain bowl.

The beggar was grateful to Dade and kept shouting, "Thank you, thank you." ”

After he straightened up, Hua Xiangrong was slightly stunned.

It's Xiao Zirang.

Hua Xiangrong admitted that his action moved her a little.

At least in the eight years she had been begging, no one had ever given her copper coins like this.

The occasional person who could throw a few copper coins into her broken bowl was already kind, and more often than not, when she was too hungry to stand it, she pulled the corner of someone else's skirt, only to be kicked away by someone in exchange for a sentence: "Get out of the way." ”

Only the aunt who sold the buns, if the time came for the buns to be sold, would bring two to her and say to her, "Eat quickly, child." ”

Although she doesn't remember how the two buns were eaten in the end, she will never forget what this aunt said to her and the tone of her voice.

Later, the aunt stopped selling steamed buns, and heard from the neighbors that her husband was a gambler and had no money to pay off his debts, so he sold her and became a slave.

Other than that, there is no more.

Xiao Zirang saw that she was stunned, and said with a smile: "You have no money, you can borrow it from me." ”

Hua Xiangrong laughed and said, "No, I'm thinking about something else." ”

Xiao Zirang was puzzled.

She looked at him and smiled wryly, "If only I could meet someone like you when I was begging." ”

Xiao Zirang didn't understand what she meant at first, and was stunned for a while before he realized what she was talking about.

Just as she was about to reply to her words, she heard Nangong Xu's voice coming from not far away: "Why are you here, let me find it!" ”

Hua Xiangrong heard his words, turned around and walked towards him, Nangong Xu saw that there were only two of them, and hurriedly asked, "What about the promise?" Why isn't she there? ”

Hua Xiangrong also wanted to ask this question.

She still thought that Xu Yu was with Nangong Xu now.

Xiao Zirang replied: "I went up the mountain, I'm afraid it's already here at this time." ”

Nangong Xu said happily: "Thank you, Brother Xiao, then let's go up the mountain quickly." ”

Nangong Xu still doesn't know that the "Brother Xiao" in his mouth is the world-famous Xiao Zirang. He has been obsessed with swordsmanship since he was a child, and he also admires masters who are good at using swords, and even takes Xiao Zi as his own example for making this kind of swordsmanship unique.

He has been stalking for so long in order to get Hua Xiangrong's swordsmanship, if he knew that the "Brother Xiao" he kept shouting was the Xiao Zirang he wanted to see day and night, I don't know how he would feel.

It took half an hour to climb the mountain to reach the halfway point of the mountain, and Nangong Xu was tired along the way. But before he promised that she didn't like a pampered person like Nangong Xu, he had to prove to Xu Xu that he was not pampered, and he started to do many things by himself, and after climbing for so long, he didn't shout that he was tired.

Halfway up Yongjing Mountain, there is a flat land, planted with a huge banyan tree, the banyan tree is evergreen all year round, and it is covered with small lanterns and cloth strips for blessings.

And Xu Promise was standing under the banyan tree at the moment, looking up at the lights on the tree.

Xu Promise is beautiful and refined, standing under the tree has attracted the attention of many people, especially the men passing by, and no one does not admire her beauty.

It may be that her expression is too cold, or it may be that her temperament is too super-dusty, and her whole body exudes an aura that no one can approach, so that these people can only look at her, and no one dares to come forward to talk.

"Promise! Promise! Nangong Xu shouted as he ran towards her.

Hearing his voice, Promise withdrew his gaze, glanced at him, and did not speak.

But Nangong Xu had long been accustomed to her appearance, and he didn't care much about it.

When he arrived under the banyan tree, the people around him quickly formed a circle and drove everyone inside. Not only to protect his safety, but also to announce to others that this place was contracted by him.

Hua Xiangrong is used to his style, so it's not strange.

And these ordinary people, just by looking at it, they knew that this person could not be provoked, and they could let the people of the prefect protect him, plus they heard that Jiu Gongzi had come to Wanzhou, and they knew who he was as soon as they guessed, so of course they didn't dare to say anything, so they retreated one after another.

Hua Xiangrong stood aside, watching Nangong Xu talk and laugh at Xu Xu, and Xu Xu only occasionally replied to him with a "Well, yes, good", his attitude was still extremely cold, but Nangong Xu didn't take it seriously, and still spoke very energetically.

She suddenly opened her mouth and asked the people around her: "You say, can love really change a person?" ”

Xiao Zirang thought for a while and said, "Maybe you can, maybe not." ”

"You said that a person like Nangong Xu who has no one in his eyes doesn't have such patience to speak to his mother, but why can he let go of all his shelves and identities when he promises?" "No matter how cold the promise is to him, his enthusiasm for the promise is not diminished in the slightest." ”

Xiao Zi said: "That's just a promise, and it's the same for other people." ”

"It's different," Hua Xiangrong said, "he promised that he wouldn't do what he didn't like, little by little, he wanted to make himself what she liked." ”

Xiao Zirang lowered his head, looked at the folding fan in his hand, chuckled, and said, "Not everyone can." ”

"Not everybody." She repeated.

Not everyone is Nangong Xu, and they can give up everything for the people they love.

Then she asked rhetorically, "What about you?" Can you? ”

She looked up at him, there was no extra emotion in her eyes except curiosity, maybe she just wanted to ask, maybe she just wanted to know what the answer to this question was, or maybe, she just wanted to understand more clearly how rare it was for Nangong Xu to do all this for his promise.

Xiao Zirang didn't answer her question right away, and looked down at her for a while.

After that, he looked away, there was no smile on his face, his voice was a little cold, and he replied to her very seriously: "I can't." ”