On this day, when Lu Zhaoling and the three of them were sent away, Niu Da, who had always been at ease and at ease, suddenly had something on his mind, and he kept frowning and sighing when he had dinner, and he didn't pay attention to Niu Er's joke like an old man.

What does the Boss like?

After dinner, Niu Da climbed onto the roof, counting the stars, and racking his brain to think about the first major question in his life.

He is fourteen this year, and he has not yet had time to tie his hair, but he is very tall, and he has been fighting with Uncle Niu since he was a child, and his figure is very strong and majestic. Although Lu Zhaoling is tall, compared to him, he is simply a bird. But this does not prevent Niu Da from sincerely worshipping her. In Niu Da's eyes, Lu Zhaoling, who can punch villains and kick scoundrels, is like a heroine with martial arts, and from the day he became a junior brother, he has been convinced of Lu Zhaoling to death.

Now that he has been messing with Lu Zhaoling for these days, his loyalty is even more visible, in Niu Da's words, it is probably "more desperate".

Niu Da counted the stars for a while, looked at the yellow and clear moon in the sky, and for the first time did not think of gluttonous moon cakes, but thought of Lu Zhaoling's blonde hair.

I've been messing around with the boss for so long, so why do I have to do something for the boss.

He thought so, and before he knew it, he had fallen asleep on the roof. It wasn't until dawn and he was woken up by Niu Er's shout that he got up, washed his face and rinsed his mouth, and greeted his boss at the door as usual.

Uncle Niu prepared sweet and glutinous corn soup today, and a crispy mille-feuille cake, and the corners of Lu Zhaoling's mouth were golden crumbs. After being ridiculed by Li Zhu'er, she licked her lips indifferently, but was ridiculed by Li Zhu'er again for not licking it clean. She was about to say something, when Bai Heng, who was sitting next to her, reached out and wiped the corner of her mouth very naturally.

Lu Zhaoling was stunned and looked at Bai Heng, but the other party just gave her an innocent smile in return.

After eating and practicing knives, Lu Zhaoling occasionally peeked at Bai Heng, who was talking to Li Zhu'er not far away, and was always a little uneasy. Bai Heng's side face was shrouded in the morning light, as if it had been plated with a layer of fluffy edges, and her heart was warm when she saw it.

"Boss!"

"Huh?" Lu Zhaoling, who was in a trance, was startled by Niu Da's shout, and the scimitar in his hand was almost thrown out.

"Boss, you said that we will explore the rivers and lakes in the future, should we be called a bright spot?" Niu Da came over mysteriously and said to Lu Zhaoling with a wink.

"Isn't Lu Daxia still good? You are called Lu Daxia's little brother. Lu Zhaoling pouted.

"That's different!" Niu Da thought about it for a long time, but he didn't think of how to refute it, so he simply went down and said: "Anyway, boss, don't worry, Niu Er and I have been pondering for the past two days, and we must give the boss a well-known name, the kind that is very chic when I hear it." ”

"Okay." Lu Zhaoling sneered, patted Niu Da's sturdy shoulder and said, "My little brother is useful." ”

After a long time, Lu Zhaoling will still remember the name Niu Da gave her at the beginning. I knew that I should have listened to Niu Da in the first place. In any case, the name is much better than the current one.

"Lu Zhaoling! I'm not going to stay in the yard today, I'm going to go out into the street with you. Li Zhu'er shouted.

"You're not playing with cows anymore?"

"Who is going to play with him! Playing suffocated with him! ”

Needless to say, I know that Niu Da said something to anger Miss Li.

"Zhao Ling, you can take us and you to walk around the streets, and nothing will happen." Bai Heng naturally wants to follow the trend and incite at such a time.

"It's okay to go to the street." Lu Zhaoling just came down, and before the two of them showed happy expressions, he continued, "But it's going to be afternoon." You have eaten two meals of Uncle Niu for nothing, and this morning is time to repay. ”

Li Zhu'er pouted, but did not refute it out loud.

When Bai Heng heard this, he looked very eager to try: "What do you want us to do?" ”

"Let's start by chopping wood and burning the stove." Lu Zhaoling was quite satisfied with the reaction of the two and nodded approvingly.

At this time, Uncle Niu hadn't come back yet, and Lu Zhaoling took Bai Heng and Li Zhu'er to the open space behind the house, where Niu Er had already finished chopping half a bundle of firewood.

"Bai Heng left to chop firewood, Li Zhu'er and Niu Da went to make a fire." Lu Zhaoling commanded.

"I'm not going to make a fire!" Li Zhu'er immediately objected.

"Then do you want to chop wood?"

"Uh...... I, I'm going to chop wood! In fact, Li Zhu'er was just quick to talk for a while, and she didn't want to refuse Lu Zhaoling first, but now that she came back to her senses, she had to continue to be stubborn, "I want to be a female general in the future!" Such a trivial matter as chopping wood is not a problem at all! ”

Lu Zhaoling looked at her petite appearance and grinned: "Okay, then you can split it." Niu Da, take the firewood chopped by Niu Er, and take Bai Heng to make a fire. ”

"Okay."

Bai Heng followed Niu Da away, Li Zhuer looked very happy when she saw Lu Zhaoling standing beside her, and vaguely felt that she had fallen into some strategy, but she couldn't think of a clue, she wanted to regret it but didn't know how to regret it, so she was in a dilemma, so she had to stay and chop wood.

But she was still not to be outdone, and asked Lu Zhaoling: "I'm chopping wood with Niu Er, so what are you doing here?" ”

"Wait to see your jokes." Lu Zhaoling hugged his arms and said.

"You're a man! Wait and see! Li Zhu'er rolled her eyes, strode to Niu Er's side in two big strides, picked up the axe and was about to slash down.

"Oops——!" Niu Eryan was quick and grabbed Li Zhu'er's weak arm.

"What!"

"You can't do that." Niu Er snatched the axe from her hand, "Your hand is too close to the axe, so you will be scratched by firewood." Your posture and angle are not right, you look at me first. ”

"Oh." Li Zhu'er replied angrily.

"Stay away." Niu Er chased her.

When she found a good place to stand still, Niu Er picked up a sawn log and put it on the pier, put it down steadily, took a deep breath, picked up the axe and "clicked" and chopped down.

"You see, when chopping wood, you have to be calm and calm, and you can't be as impatient as you just now. And you have to pull it up by your shoulder, but you don't cut it down, you have to twist it like that. And-"

"Oh, you say so much! I'll see this kind of thing once, and give me the axe. ”

"Oh." Niu Er was an honest man, and he obediently handed the axe to Li Zhu'er immediately.

"Look at me! Hey——! ”

The axe "clanged" and smashed on the stone pier, and Li Zhuer was almost planted headlong with it.

"Hahaha! I haven't even touched the firewood, and it's up to you! Look at your momentum is almost groundbreaking, I didn't expect hahaha! Lu Zhaoling burst into tears of laughter.

"You! You, you laugh at me, are you good at splitting! Li Zhu'er was anxious and angry, her little face was red, and she was about to squeeze out water in her eyes.

"I'm just chopping well, you ask Niu Er, am I chopping well?" Lu Zhaoling finally stopped laughing, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, walked towards Li Zhu'er and stretched out his hand, "Give me the axe." ”

"Here you go, you're here!" Li Zhuer stuffed it to Lu Zhaoling.

Then he looked at the firewood chopped out by Lu Zhaoling in amazement, even, smooth, and perfect firewood.

“…… I won't hack anymore! It's so easy that even you can do it so well, it doesn't make any sense for me to learn it! I'm going to make a fire. ”

"I just admire your spirit of not admitting defeat." Lu Zhaoling couldn't help but smile and gave Li Zhu'er a thumbs up, "Come with me." ”

Li Zhu'er no longer had any extra thoughts at the moment to doubt Lu Zhaoling's motive for agreeing to her request, so she only thought about saving face by lighting a fire and burning the stove, and impatiently followed Lu Zhaoling to the blacksmith's house.

In the room, Bai Heng was sitting on a small stool, staring intently at the flames in the stove, slowly pulling the bellows with one hand, picking up a piece of firewood from time to time and throwing it into the stove, it seemed that he was quite proficient.

Lu Zhaoling threw Li Zhu'er to Niu Da's side, and had no intention of continuing to stay to laugh at her, so he led Bai Heng to chop firewood.

About two moments later, Bai Heng had successfully chopped the remaining half of Niu Er's bundle of firewood, and was receiving Lu Zhaoling's strong praise, when he saw Li Zhu'er walking over with a dejected face.

"Pearl, how did you get this way?" Bai Heng looked at Li Zhu'er, who was all black and mushy, and said in surprise.

To be honest, seeing her embarrassed appearance, Lu Zhaoling was also a little incredible.

"Lu Zhaoling, what kind of enmity do I have with you? Why do you keep getting along with me? I admit that I used to think that you were a barbarian in the Western Regions and looked down on you a little, but every time I met you in the palace, you never gave me a good face! We don't like each other, and it's not my one-sided, why do you want to take revenge on me like this? Li Zhuer sat on the stone pier used to chop wood and began to make trouble unreasonably.

“…… When I was a child, I ate stew at my grandmother's house on the street, and I would help her make a fire to burn the stove, I was only four or five years old at that time, I really didn't expect you to not even learn this......" Lu Zhaoling felt aggrieved in his heart.

"But-I-"

Li Zhu'er opened her mouth, she wanted to say that she had never done this kind of rough work and was not used to it, but when she caught a glimpse of Bai Heng's innocent face, she suddenly remembered that the dignified prince of Anping Kingdom was so good at chopping wood and making fires, and she felt that she couldn't stand no matter what she said, so she had to flatten her mouth and swallow her words back.

Bai Heng and Lu Zhaoling looked at each other, and couldn't think of anything to comfort her for a while. She was aggrieved alone for a long time, and simply cried "wow".

"Hey...... Zhu'er, don't cry......" Bai Heng hurriedly stepped forward and coaxed, "Didn't you want to eat candy the day before yesterday and didn't eat it, we'll eat it later, okay?" ”

"Okay." Li Zhu'er agreed quickly, but she still cried with sobs.

"Ugh." Lu Zhaoling sighed when he saw her grievances and couldn't finish venting them, "Don't cry, I'll take you to eat kebabs in a while, do you want to eat it?" ”

"Eat!"

Li Zhu'er agreed as soon as possible, and then choked twice with red eyes, and sure enough, she stopped crying.

"Go wash your face, you're dirty." Lu Zhaoling couldn't hold back a joke on her again.

After Li Zhu'er cried, she became much more well-behaved, and followed Niu Er to wash her face. Bai Heng and Lu Zhaoling were left, bending down together to pick up firewood on the ground.

"Do you go to the chivalrous service every morning?" Bai Heng suddenly asked.

"yes, I used to go in the afternoon when you weren't here."

"What do you do?" Bai Heng said curiously.

"Hmm...... What can be said is generally to help people catch thieves, and I run fast with light skills, so chasing a few small thieves is handy. In fact, Jingyang City is quite peaceful, and it is basically impossible to meet villains who need to know martial arts to be subdued...... If there is nothing to settle on the street, I will go and help my grandmother and grandfather who live alone to do some chores, pulling weeds, picking up water, or something. By the way, I learned to weave straw shoes with a grandfather a while ago, and helped him knit dozens of pairs, which is said to make a lot of money. ”

Lu Zhaoling was sincerely happy when he said that he could weave straw sandals.

Bai Heng's action of picking up firewood stopped, turned his head to stare at Lu Zhaoling for a while, and was a little surprised at first, but quickly laughed out loud with relief.

"Don't laugh, it makes sense to do this." Lu Zhaoling disagreed, "My master said that there is no big or small difference between chivalry. To be a hero, you must always maintain a heart to help the world and save others, do what you can do, and help those you can help. No matter how small, it is a big deal to put it on the person in need. If you only think about making a name for yourself, and you only have unrealistic 'lofty ambitions' in your eyes but you can't see the suffering of the people in the world, then in the final analysis, it is just for your own life, what kind of hero is it? ”

"Your master is right." Bai Heng picked up the firewood and stood face to face with Lu Zhaoling, listening to her babbling for a long time, and there was twelve points of tenderness in his eyes when he looked at her.

Lu Zhaoling grinned: "But it's not enough to just do small things." I will one day go to the rivers and lakes, and when the time comes, I must do a great career and be a veritable hero. ”

When he said this, the two looked at each other in the golden morning sun, and Lu Zhaoling's green eyes were like two clear lakes, and there was a glittering flash in the lake, which flashed into Bai Heng's deep heart.

He suddenly stretched out his hand and slowly helped Lu Zhaoling hang a strand of broken hair behind his ear, his fingers gently ran over Lu Zhaoling's ear with a hint of coolness, and said softly: "You will definitely become the person you dreamed of." ”

I can't help but want to follow that look.

The second half of this sentence was left in Bai Heng's heart.

"You're so nice."

Lu Zhaoling smiled brightly, revealing a mouthful of snow-white thin teeth.

"Boss, boss—"

In the distance, there was the shouting of Niu Da.

"Here we go!"

Lu Zhaoling ran towards the yard with the firewood in his arms.

After a while, Lu Zhaoling appeared in the market with Bai Heng, who looked excited, and Li Zhuer, who had washed her face and her clothes but was still dusty and dirty.

Today, Uncle Niu took an urgent job in his hand, asking Niu Da and Niu Er to help at home, and Bai Heng and Li Zhuer, who seized the opportunity, immediately followed behind Lu Zhaoling's buttocks.

With these two dragging feet, you can't use your hands and feet at all.

Lu Zhaoling complained helplessly in his heart.

At this moment, the morning market was lively, but the three of them did not linger in the market, but walked through the shoulder-to-shoulder streets under the leadership of Lu Zhaoling, and entered an alley far away from the sound of people. This is the first stop of Lu Zhaoling's daily chivalrous deeds.

"It turns out that you do some such things every day, I thought you were so majestic, you are at most happy to help others. Net bragging. After learning about Lu Zhaoling's daily itinerary on the road, Li Zhuer immediately buried him.

"I told you you don't understand, childish." Lu Zhaoling sneered and stuck out his tongue at her.

"You're a childish ghost, you're younger than me!" Li Zhuer expressed dissatisfaction.

"Really? Where can you tell that? Lu Zhaoling looked condescendingly at Li Zhu'er, who was half a head shorter than him, and straightened his chest.

This remote and dilapidated alley is called Yong'an Lane, ironically, it is called "Yong'an", but it is one of the most unstable places in Jingyang City. Deep in the alley, among the bricks and tiles, there are beggars in unclothed clothes and stray cats and dogs.

Not far after the three of them entered the alley, a thin black beggar came out of the side of the road, carrying a dirty broken bowl in his hand. He glanced at the three of them, turned his head and ran into the depths.

"This place is...... Did you bring anything with you? ”

Li Zhu'er saw this situation, and somewhat understood what kind of place this was, guessing that Lu Zhaoling might have come to give money and food to eat, but this person was obviously empty-handed, Li Zhu'er wondered in her heart, and couldn't help asking.

"I didn't bring it." Lu Zhaoling spread his hands.

"And what are you here for?"

"I've got some broken silver with me." Bai Heng interjected.

"No, no, no." Lu Zhaoling waved his hand, "Someone will give things away, today is the right day, he must have arrived at this time." I'm here to do something else. ”

As Lu Zhaoling said this, the three of them just walked around a corner and saw a group of beggars gathering not far away, and a young man in plain clothes and hair was surrounded in the middle.

"Oh, it's him, the one who sent the bun in the middle." Lu Zhaoling pointed at the young man, "His name is Chu Sheng, and he is a luthier in the palace, who specializes in playing the piano for Princess Yuquan." ”

"Chu Sheng? I remember that there was a young pianist in the second sister's palace, and I heard that he was very favored, was he the one who was very favored? Bai Heng asked half-to himself.

"Who? Is it famous? Li Zhu'er hurriedly interjected.

Lu Zhaoling ignored the question.

"How could he come to help these beggars?" Bai Heng stopped outside the crowd with Lu Zhaoling, looking at the young pianist.

"He......" Lu Zhaoling paused, "He was also a beggar when he was a child, and he grew up here, maybe he was abandoned by his parents and picked up by an old beggar to raise him." But when he was six or seven years old, the old beggar who depended on him died. Later, one day he was asking for food on the street, and was favored by a passing Youling, who insisted on taking him back as an apprentice. Later, he was indeed talented and successful, and was recommended to the palace to play the piano for Princess Yuquan. ”

"I see!" Li Zhu'er nodded with a look of sudden realization.

"But that's what I heard them say," Lu Zhaoling bowed his chin at the beggars, "I haven't asked Chu Sheng if it's true." ”

"Since Chu Sheng is helping them, what are you doing here today?" Bai Heng asked.

"I," Lu Zhaoling crossed his hands and hugged him to his chest, "I'm against him." ”