Because my eyes were full of tears, I couldn't see the young man's face clearly for a while. I only felt that he was cold and noble, and at this moment he was standing in front of a cloud of night fog not far away, and the dark silhouette clothes were fluttering, showing a bit of the handsome posture of the breeze and jade dew.

"Where did you come from, stinky boy, it's your turn to meddle!" The gatekeeper was taken aback, looked the young man up and down, and said coldly, "I haven't gone home at this hour, but what are you shaking at the gate of the city!" ”

"Who do you care who I am, I have always ruled the country with courtesy, at the foot of the Son of Heaven in the Imperial City of Kazhou, I saw two big men standing up to the sky and the earth being so aggressive towards a weak female stream, who can't ask?" But I heard the young man's voice like the ice edge melting, and the drops of cold dew were crisp and sound. "Moreover, the gates of this city have not yet been closed, and since they have not been closed, why can't I come and go as I please?"

I stood up quietly, and I couldn't help but feel sorry for the young man—although his words were reasonable, they were too straightforward, and I couldn't help but be frightened when I heard them, but how could the two grumpy gatekeepers not be angry?

I timidly raised my head, but saw that the two people were still looking at the young man in white with hesitant eyes, and they had not even refuted or even captured him as I had imagined.

Puzzled, I took out my sleeves from my cloak and wiped my eyes indiscriminately, and also looked at the young man carefully, only to see that his snow-white flipped mink velvet was covered with dirt and dust, and a pair of white tiger skin boots were dirty and could not distinguish the background color, but there was no more than a purple gold and white jade belt around his waist and a cluster of beads on his temples, which was slightly more luxurious and decent. However, although he is dusty, it is difficult to hide his heroic spirit.

The young man noticed that we were all looking at him in a daze, his shoulders trembled slightly, as if he were laughing, and he straightened up for a moment, and walked slowly towards us.

"What, am I not right?"

Walking to the light, I finally saw the appearance of the young man clearly, only to see that the young man looked playful, a pair of bright eyebrows and eyes are full of indescribable wit and wisdom, the torch danced lightly, more and more his silhouette is delicate and elegant, like a fine brushstroke. is different from Wen Zhao's roughness and Duan Ming's innocence, but seeing him idly looking at the two gatekeepers beside me at the moment, although his face is filthy, he also has an indescribable graceful and agile demeanor.

"What's right or wrong, who wants to listen to your rap!" The gatekeeper retracted his searching gaze and said in a tough voice, "-I only ask you, which family are you in Jiazhou, why did you think about entering the city before closing the city gate in the middle of the night, and what is the relationship with this woman!" ”

"I live in Dongshili Street, this is my wife, I specially waited for her to pick me up before going home with her, what, what's wrong?"

"Hey... You! ”

"- You nonsense! This girl is obviously here to take her brother out of the city, how can she come here to pick you up again! The gatekeeper was suspicious, "Besides, you look like you're only sixteen or seventeen years old, how can you be ......?"

"What about being young, the son of Zhang Yuanwai in my neighborhood accepted a concubine at the age of fifteen, a rich and noble family, and who doesn't want to pass on the lineage earlier, as for the younger brother..."The young man paused slightly, and still said without changing his face, "That is indeed my mother's brother-in-law, who came all the way from the countryside to see his eldest sister." It turned out that I thought that the country boy had never seen the world, and when he entered the house, he made a fuss and annoyed people, so I simply went out of the city to hide in a clean air, just waiting for when my wife sent people out and then went back with her. Speaking of which, I've been sitting by the side of the road all day watching people and cars come and go, why haven't you seen it? ”

The gatekeepers exchanged suspicious looks, but they were all speechless for a while. In addition, listening to this young man's words, he seemed to be from everyone, and he couldn't help but have an extra layer of jealousy and awe.

After a long time, they said in a relaxed tone: "Okay, since they are a small couple, how can life be smooth sailing." If you marry a girl from the country, you should be ready to accept other people's families. As the saying goes, there is a quarrel at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed, and a man who is in charge of the house has absolutely no reason to run away from home because of this trivial matter! ”

"That's exactly what you say, the official really understands people." The young man's teeth were slightly bared, and a smile like melting ice and snow bloomed on his filthy face. "But it's precisely because I'm the man in charge of the house that I can't pull this face and go home by myself. Fortunately, my lady is careful and considerate, otherwise I, who is a father-in-law, would really be on the street tonight! ”

The boy laughed and suddenly grabbed my arm, and I was startled, and I was about to break free, but the two gatekeepers laughed, as if they believed it and would not do anything more. For a while, I had to bite the bullet and squeeze out an embarrassing smile to barely cope.

"It's really a blessing that your kid cultivated in his last life! Look at your little lady's little face, born like a flower... If it were me, I don't know how happy it would be! ”

"—don't you chew maggots," said another gatekeeper, "can't you see that the little lady's face is blushing, let the family go home, let's close the city gate and go back to the house to bake the fire, this ...... the hell"

"Yes, then we won't bother the two officials on errands, this is one step ahead!"

The young man waved his hand, and then he held me tightly and turned around and walked towards Changning Street, the main street of Kazhou.

I still held my heart until I couldn't see the fire on the wall anymore, so I breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and broke the young man's hand away. The young man was only slightly startled, but when he saw that he was far from the gate, he smiled sly again, and winked at me in the darkness like a star.

"Okay, even if they reacted to something, they couldn't arrest us if they wanted to." The young man breathed a sigh of relief, nodded at me and said, "I haven't thanked the girl yet, if it weren't for the stalemate with the sedan chair at the city gate for a long time, I'm afraid that I wouldn't be able to enter the gate and return to the city before five o'clock." ”

"You really came in from outside," I wondered, "why lie to them that we're... Are you from Kaju East City? ”

"Higashi... Of course not! The young man laughed, "If what I say is true, won't you really become my lady?" ”

"I don't look like that," I said, sweeping the clumps of dirt from the toe of his tiger skin boots, "since you're not from Kaju, who are you?" ”

"I only said that I am not from Dongshi, when did I say that I am not from Kazhou?" Shao Young asked rhetorically, and returned to his relaxed appearance, "But I'm naturally not a bad person, otherwise Shicai wouldn't help you get out of trouble." ”

I was powerless to refute, so I hung my head and continued to walk side by side with him. His words were good, if he hadn't helped in time, and I would not have been so clever enough to get rid of those two difficult gatekeepers easily.

In this way, I really owe him a word of thanks.

"Hey, what just happened... Thank you. I was a little embarrassed and said, "My name is Lian Gui Hotaru." You haven't told me your-"

Suddenly, the boy stopped abruptly, looked at the deserted street in front of him with a panicked expression, and in his astonishment, I could vaguely discern the footsteps of a group of men and horses moving quickly towards us. I was secretly shocked in my heart that this young man's ears were more powerful than Wen Ling, who had deep internal strength, but I saw that he had already rushed to the side of the short alley, and was turning around and shaking his arms vigorously at me.

"Come here!" He stared at the front and called out to me in a low voice, "If you really thank me, you can help me this time first!" ”

"What," I asked, but I ran to his side, "who are they, and why are you hiding-"

"—I'll answer your question, but not now." But I saw that the young man squinted his eyes and glanced around at the narrow black alley, and his forehead was actually drenched in a layer of crystal sweat in this snowy night, "Lian Guiying, listen, if I am caught by those people, I will definitely not end well, you help me avoid this time first, and then if you still have questions, I will definitely answer them all!" ”

"But you ......"

I turned my head to look, but I saw a few scattered torches already bursting out from the other side of Changning Street.

When I turned back again, the boy had already run to the end of the alley, and I ran with it, only to see a few broken vegetable baskets full of rotten leaves. The boy casually picked one up, and the leaves were poured all over the ground, and then he straddled his feet and squatted into the thick vegetable basket.

I couldn't help but be surprised again—his stature was indeed not as long and strong as Wen Zhao Duan Ming, but he was wearing heavy clothes in winter, and I didn't even see that he was so soft and thin.

"What are you doing in a daze, don't come to help!"

I was awakened by his urgent call, and before I could think much about it, I hurriedly stepped forward and bent down to pick up the vegetable leaves on the ground, and reached out to stuff them into the basket, only to see the boy curled up like a snowball, and the only thing that was exposed was a white neck.

I couldn't help but be stunned, Shicai only looked at his face as filthy, and didn't want his skin to be ......

"Hey! Not yet! ”

I came back to my senses, knelt down and piled all the leaves in the basket, and repeated this several times, until the last bead on his bun was hastily hidden, and the sound of the soldiers shouting behind me was heard. My heart shrank suddenly, and I tried my best to suppress the tremors in my body and turned back.

The dark alley was suddenly illuminated by torches, but when I saw a column of officers and soldiers in red armor walking in front of me, the general led by me stretched out the torches in his hands to me when he saw someone.

"What the hell are you doing here! The hour is approaching, the curfew is imminent, if you don't go home to rest at this hour, what are you doing alone in this dark alley? ”

"Back to the official's words, little woman... She is a woman from a good family, and she lives in this East City, and she was... I did something wrong, so I had to pick up the leftovers here. ”

It was an illusion, and I seemed to feel the young man's body in the vegetable basket tremble slightly, as if he was extremely dissatisfied with my ability to lie. I looked up at the suspicious officers and soldiers in front of me with a weak heart, and the snowflakes fell in my eyes, and tears swelled up even more.