Walking in the rain with an umbrella, the rain fell tricklingly.

Ah Yu stopped in the middle of the road and looked back at the small courtyard behind him.

She said to the Xia family sisters beside her: "The rain is starting to fall again, it looks like it will get heavier and heavier, and we haven't gone far left and right, so it's better to turn back!" ”

Even in the spring rain, Ah Yu didn't want to go out.

Not to mention the current summer rain.

The embroidered shoes on her feet are exquisitely crafted by the embroiderers of the house, and if they are worn out to play with the girls on a sunny day, they will surely win a lot of praise.

However, there are also shortcomings that cannot be ignored.

After only a few dozen steps in the rain, the upper of her shoes was already stained with sewage, and the delicate embroidery stained the stain, which was a little difficult to look at.

Embroidered shoes are actually not a big deal.

The oil-paper umbrellas held by the little girls are only a few after all.

More rain was on their clothes, and the swaying skirts were pitifully drooping, not suitable for outsiders.

Xia Yiyun looked at Ah Yu from under the umbrella eaves, and the people who were close at hand were blocked by the rain curtain, and they looked a little hazy.

When I got out, I took two or three steps, and I barely completed Wen Huan's entrustment!

Back in the small courtyard, the three of them called the maid-in-law of the academy again.

I spent money on boiling hot water, freshened up, and put on clean clothes.

In the men's school that several people have never been to, there are also people who miss Ah Yu.

After Mao Mao's Zhou banquet, he learned some new words.

On weekdays, he mutters words that others don't understand, but occasionally he can say a few words clearly.

Words don't make words, words don't connect sentences.

The meaning of the words can only be understood by Mao Mao herself.

When the weather changes, small children need the most care from others, and they will get sick when it is cold or hot.

Before Mao Mao came, Xie Huai'an's yard also had three other classmates.

The four of them haven't been together for a long time, and they're not very familiar with each other's preferences, but they won't be alone in the small courtyard of the school, and they can occasionally chat and relieve each other's boredom.

But after Maomao came, the other three people in the yard all moved away.

Xie Huai'an went back and forth in the academy, and he would take this child with him.

Not all people will like children.

And when Mao Mao makes a fuss, it will really be unbearable, and I can't wait to take a rag and directly plug his mouth.

Xie Huai'an once did this.

Then Xie Huaining chased him with a broom, and such a big broom was directly broken up!

In the current small courtyard, in addition to Xie Huai'an and Mao Mao, it is the grandmother and doctor who come to take care of Mao Mao.

Originally, the doctor was just here to make up the numbers.

After all, Maomao's body is still very good.

The little older person was taken all the way from the border pass to Kyoto, and he was never seen sick, but he didn't eat well on the way and lost some weight.

But there are always exceptions.

Mao Mao lives in the same room with Xie Huai'an.

He also had a small newly made wooden bed.

On rainy days in summer, the weather is unpredictable, and people who are hot during the day can't wait to soak in ice water, and at night they can't help but wrap themselves in a quilt.

The temperature was relatively high in the first two days, and Xie Huai'an did not close the window at night.

A rain fell, and a cool breeze blew through the windows into the house.

Xie Huai'an felt the coldness in his sleep, and he would pull the quilt for himself.

Mao Mao who sleeps on a small wooden bed is different.

When it was hot, he kicked the quilt out of bed.

After the cold wind blew in, Mao Mao rolled on the small wooden bed for a long time, and the little fat hand was pulled from east to west, and he didn't touch anything, so he shrank pitifully into a ball, and continued to sleep with his back to the direction of the window, and he didn't wake up.

If there is a mother to take care of the children, they will definitely remember to get up at night to cover Mao Mao with a quilt.

But Xie Huai'an has always dreamed until dawn, and he will not wake up in the middle of the night at all, let alone cover Mao Mao with a quilt.

The grandmothers woke up in the middle of the night.

But without Xie Huai'an's consent, how dare they run to his room in the middle of the night to cover Mao Mao with a quilt!

They braved the rain to go outside the house and closed the open window in Xie Huai'an's room.

Maomao woke up the next morning with some wilting.

Xie Huai'an held the child in his arms, as if he was holding a small stove.

In the summer, there is enough suffering.

But as soon as he let go, the child cried and made trouble.

It was his negligence that caused the child to get sick, so he had no choice but to continue to hold the child.

The doctor checked the child's pulse and said that he had a cold.

The prescription is also stable.

Except for the fact that it is particularly bitter just by smelling, everything else is fine.

It's just that Mao Mao has been following Xie Huai'an for a while, and he has seen clearly that he is a paper tiger's personality, Xie Huai'an took a spoon to feed him medicine, so he swayed left and right and closed his mouth, refusing to drink medicine. When he was in a hurry, he cried loudly, causing people in the courtyard next to him to come over to protest and ask Xie Huaian not to bully children.

It would be nice if Ah Yu was here.

When Mao Mao overturned the medicine bowl on him again, Xie Huai'an couldn't help but think so.

Mao Mao seems to be more willing to listen to Ah Yu than him.

The last time Mao Mao cried, he coaxed him on the side for a long time and didn't coax it, Ah Yu just said don't cry, and Mao Mao stopped crying immediately.

Xie Huai'an put the turned medicine bowl on the table, and instructed the grandmother on the side to go down and boil another bowl of medicine.

The dirty clothes on his body can be planned later, but the hairy clothes have to be changed immediately.

If it gets worse, it's bad.

"If you are sick, you should take medicine obediently, if you don't take medicine, how can you get better!"

Xie Huai'an was changing Maomao's clothes while reading in pieces.

"Who told you to kick the quilt at night, if you can be obedient when you sleep, then there won't be so many things now."

Mao Mao kicked him, and whispered bad bad in his mouth.

If an adult catches a cold and doesn't want to drink medicine, he can endure it for two days, maybe he will be fine.

Not so with children.

A child like Maomao is delicate and frail, and he must not be sloppy.

Xie Huai'an changed Maomao's clothes and pinched the child's face.

"You're embarrassed to say I'm bad, I've been out of clothes because of how many clothes you've changed in the past two days, and it's raining outside every day, I'm about to run out of clothes to wear, what a little conscienceless ......"

That being said, the medicine still has to be fed.

Xie Huai'an called the grandmother in the courtyard on a whim.

"You go to the girls' academy and have a look......"

He wanted them to find Ah Su, maybe let Ah Su say a word, and Mao Mao would be willing to take the medicine obediently.

On second thought, the summer rain poured outside, and the bluestone path was full of puddles one after another.

I heard that when Ah Yu was in the rain a few years ago, he was sick for several months in a row, and even now, his face occasionally looks very pale, and his body bones don't look very strong.

If she doesn't want to come, that's fine.

If she was willing to brave the rain to persuade Mao Mao to drink medicine, but because of the rain, she contracted the wind cold again, it would be terrible.

Xie Huai'an swallowed the second half of the sentence and turned to think of other ways.

As the saying goes, if the mountain doesn't come, I'll go to the mountain.

Ah Shen can't come in the rain, he may be able to brave the rain to find Ah Yu.

Xie Huai'an looked down at Mao Mao in his arms, thinking about wrapping Mao Mao in cowhide, maybe he could follow Mao Mao to the women's school without a drop of water.

Well, now the question arises.

Should he send someone to talk to Yun Niang first, ask her to be accommodating, and allow him to take Mao Mao to find Ah Yu?

I guess not!

Xie Huai'an thought that when the weather was fine before, he took Maomao to find Ah Yu, and he could only sit on the stone bench under the shade of the tree at the entrance of the girls' school.

Yun Niang didn't mean to be accommodating at all.

On a sunny day, when there were not many people in the girls' school, Yun Niang didn't allow him to enter with Maomao.

Now that it's raining outside, and there are more people living in the girls' school, it's even more unlikely that she will agree.

Xie Huai'an sighed, waved his hand, and let Mama go down again.

He still thinks of other ways to see if he can coax Maomao to be willing to take medicine!

Rain fell through the half-hidden window lattices.

The maid lit a candle in the room early, and Ah Yu looked up at the square table by the window, and there were already some traces of water on the table.

When I went out before, I remembered to bring an umbrella, but I forgot to close the window.

Ah Yu got up and went to the window, raised his hand to remove the wooden bolt from the window, and was about to close the window, but he caught a glimpse of a person standing in the middle of the small courtyard.

The man didn't have an umbrella, his clothes were sticking to his body, his hair was messy, and he looked very pitiful.

It was getting late, and the figure in the rain was blurry, and I didn't know who the other party was.

"Ah, what are you looking at?"

Xia Yiyun went back to the house and changed her clothes, and then came to talk to Ah Yu again.

She and her sister are also very boring in the house, so it would be interesting to get together and talk about anything.

It's just that for some reason, after she and Xia Yiwen knocked on the door and came in, before she could say a few words to Ah Yu, Ah Yu frowned and got up to close the window, and the strange thing was that she stood by the window for a long time, and she didn't see her close the window.

It seemed that a voice from behind him disturbed the people in the small courtyard.

Ah Yu saw the man turn his head to look at her.

The left half of her face was half masked, covering the corners of her eyes and near her cheeks, and the other half of her face was half blue and half white, which did not look like a person in the world from a distance.

When Xia Yiyun's hand pressed on Ah Yu's shoulder, Ah Yu was in a trance.

When I raised my eyes again, the woman in the courtyard was gone.

Ah Yu looked back at Xia Yiyun: "Did you see anything?" ”

"The yard is still the same as usual, and there is nothing special!"

Xia Yiyun was puzzled.

She didn't see the man who had just arrived.

Ah Yu closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead.

Is she dazzled again?

The previous dreams continued, and when Ah Yu was awake during the day, he occasionally saw dream visions.

Could it be that this time it was just an illusion!

But in Ah Yu's memory, there was never a masked woman dressed in black.

She looked out the window again at where the woman had just stood.

There does seem to be a slight difference between it and the surroundings.

"I'll go out and see ......"

Before the words fell, Ah Yu had already bypassed Xia Yiyun and walked towards the door.

Xia Yiwen hurriedly picked up the oil-paper umbrella in the corner: "Wait, Ah Yu, you take the umbrella first!" ”

Just ran straight to the yard, didn't the clothes just now change in vain!

She was still too late.

Ah Yu had already gone out in the rain.

Xia Yiwen looked at the oil-paper umbrella in her hand, and then looked at her sister by the window.

"Shall we go over and have a look?"

Xia Yiyun nodded and came down.

The two of them held umbrellas and also came to the small courtyard.

Ah Yu squatted down, she picked up the wide cuffs with one hand, and rubbed the other hand on the bluestone slab.

There is still a red color in the small puddle that has not faded.

She sniffed her fingertips, a faint smell of blood.

Was the woman injured just now?

That's why where she stood, there would be blood.

When Xia Yiyun and Xia Yiwen came over, some blood stains on the bluestone slab had already been washed by the rain and flowed into the dirt on both sides of the path, and nothing could be seen.

"Ah, what's wrong with you?"

Xia Yiyun tilted the oil-paper umbrella in her hand in the direction of Ah Yu, shielding her from some wind and rain.

I don't know if it's because it's getting late and it's dark outside, but Ah Yu, who is half-squatting on the ground, always has a very strange feeling for her.

It's not a positive hunch anyway.

Ah Yu lowered his sleeves and looked up at the Xia family sisters.

"I just saw a pigeon fall into the yard, and when I came out, it was gone."

You can't say that you saw a person in the yard, and it makes sense to replace a person with a pigeon.

"Is that so?"

Xia Yiyun and Xia Yiwen were skeptical.

The three of them continued to walk towards Ah Yu's room.

Xia Yiyun gave the umbrella to Ah Yu, and she shared an oil-paper umbrella with her sister Xia Yiwen, and the two walked side by side.

Before entering, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the locked room next to her.

"Speaking of which, it seems like we haven't seen Sister Fang for a long time, right?"

Fang Ruyu was much older than the three of them.

The time to go out on weekdays is often staggered with them, and the time when they can meet is at noon or in the evening.

During the period when there was plenty of rain in the summer, Xia Yiyun and the three of them had been living in the small courtyard for several days.

When Xia Yiwen heard this, she also looked at the room on the side.

She said with some confusion: "Sister Fang's room seems to have never been locked before. ”

"Wenwen and I have spent a lot of time in the academy in the past two days, but Ah Yu has been staying in the small courtyard," Xia Yiyun touched her chin, thinking back to what had happened in the past two days, "We don't seem to have met Sister Fang all the time, Ah Yu, you are in the small courtyard, have you seen Sister Fang come back?" ”

Ah Yu shook his head.

"Didn't Sister Fang go home?"

She hadn't seen Fang Ruyu for a long time.

It's just that she knows a little more than the Xia sisters.

For example, Fang Ruyu and Yuan Yingwen have already decided to marry, and the wedding date has been set, which will be in the spring of next year.

"Is that so?" Xia Yiyun muttered in a low voice, "Has Sister Fang finished her course so early?" I thought it would have to wait until the second half of the year! ”

Something flashed through Ah Yu's mind.

When she wanted to pursue it, she couldn't think of anything.

Xia Yiyun turned around: "Why is Ah Yu still standing at the door!" ”

Ayu: "No, it's nothing, I'm here." ”

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