The young man's mind wandered, and he only thought that it was his own question, but he replied casually: "Yes, I don't want to go back to the house." ”

As he spoke, he found that the voice appeared abruptly, startled, and turned back suddenly, and the delicate little girl in front of him unceremoniously jumped on the dead wood and sat next to him, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked and she smiled, "If you don't want to go back, you won't go back, how can you be so troubled?" ”

The young man clenched his fists on his knees, as if he had been suppressed for too long, and he didn't care that the object was just a four-year-old child, and he just wanted to vent the depression in his heart, "The business in the store is not good, and the family laughs at me, it is better to go back to farming, but I don't want to live that kind of mediocre life, it is better to work outside alone and be free." ”

After speaking, he shook his head self-deprecatingly, "Forget it, why are you telling you this, you don't understand." ”

Speaking of business, an idea flashed in Dongfang Yan's mind, and he asked: "If the business is not good, haven't you thought of a way?" ”

The young man was gloomy, "How could you not have thought about it?" I said that when you open a hotel, you should run a small profit, treat customers sincerely, and you should have a lot of food at a reasonable price, and they always think it's ridiculous. Forget it, it's too late to say that. ”

Dongfang Yan thought that this idea was close to the modern business philosophy, but in this era when science and technology are not yet developed in all aspects, it is definitely ahead of its time.

The thought caused you to speak, and in the blink of an eye, a big decision was made: "If I give you a chance, will you want to try?" ”

The young man was stunned, turned his head to look at Dongfang Yan in a daze, knowing in his heart that this idea was too ridiculous, what chance could a four-year-old child give him?

But I saw that Dongfang Yan's eyes were clear like the bright moon, the sky was clear and cloudy, firm and deep, not like a joke, and not like a child's eyes.

The deep eyes make people deeply immersed in it and can't extricate themselves, the voice outlet startles themselves, only to feel dry in the mouth, and the voice seems to be hoarse because of excitement or the absurdity of the heart, only asking: "You... Who are you? ”

Dongfang Yan seemed to have expected this question, but he avoided talking about it and only smiled loudly, and then stood up on the dead wood to look at him.

The moonlight gently stroked the corners of her hair and eyebrows, only to feel that all around was dim, only a bright color in the moonlight remained, and the oriental goose jade cloak swayed in the wind and sprinkled with moonlight, like a drink of aged fragrant mash in the jade cup, setting off a delicate flower with a flying look.

Dongfang Yan smiled confidently, pointed to the sky, and said arrogantly: "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that I can give you a piece of the sky for you to explore by yourself, just like floating for a hundred years, don't be bound by your birth identity, if you are an eagle born in the chicken nest, you can fight in the sky, you are a pearl in the stone pile can also shine, and the prospect I don't promise you, it all depends on your hard work, you, are you willing to try?" ”

The man was stunned, he had never seen a girl with such an opinion and insight, and this bearing alone must not be a child of an ordinary family.

If it were someone else, he would have laughed at him, and Mo Leng actually listened to a little girl say this, but this crazy decision laid the foundation for his life, and it began.

He didn't know when she would leave, but he made up his mind to go to the room immediately and talk to the second elder at night.

That night, Situ Lie was just about to go to bed, but Dongfang Yan rushed in and occupied his bed with an idle attitude, his little feet shook on the side of the bed, and he looked like a scoundrel, Situ Lie couldn't open his mouth crying and laughing: "Yan girl, are you going to turn the sky upside down?" ”

Dongfang Yanbai looked at him with a dark and serious look, "Come on, let's discuss something?" ”

……

In the early morning of the next day, a whistle sounded, and the white dove went away to meet the sunset.

The two carriages waited outside the city all night, and they entered the city early in the morning to wait, Sima Xuan rode one car alone, and the other car was used by Miss Dongfang.

There was a simple boy in the group, everyone was surprised, only to see the young man's expression at ease, in the face of everyone's curious gaze was not cramped, he was free to retract, and said loudly to Dongfang Yan: "I don't go home!" I'm going back with you! ”

Dongfang Yan raised his eyebrows playfully: "You're not afraid that I will sell you?" ”

Everyone looked at the situation and didn't know what agreement the two had reached, and just when the accompanying people were in a fog, they laughed and laughed when they heard this sentence: "Just you, just don't be sold!" Do you still want to sell someone else? There was a burst of laughter.

Dongfang Yan rolled her eyes and stepped into the carriage, and the carriage also briefly told Li'er and Meng Xuan what had happened.

It was also quite interesting to have an extra teenager along the way, and during the conversation, I learned that the boy's name was Chang Ziliang, and his ancestral home was Changzhou.

Along the way, the young man talked freely, and Situ Lie couldn't help but be impressed by the breadth of what he had seen and heard, from astronomy to geography, and everyone could pick up the topic no matter where he spoke.

Not later, the royal capital of Yaori.

The magnificent bluestone city wall, the vermilion lacquer gate of more than ten zhang high is opened, and you can see the endless stream of people coming and going inside from a distance, and the eight lanes are also extraordinarily crowded, and you can feel the lively joy and boiling meaning from afar.

Sima Xuan was silent all the way, and finally showed his face the moment he saw his homeland.

After entering the city, the people along the way were barely a considerable small team in the downtown area, and the Imperial Forest Army secretly picked up the second prince, but they also acted in a low-key manner, wearing ordinary guard casual clothes, and the people around them saw the luxurious carriage from afar.

Go to the middle street, there is a small pool, the pond is not big, the center is similar to an island, the arch bridge comes and goes, there is a peach blossom tree on the island, more than a dozen people hug the thickness.

Middle Street, the center of the Flare King's capital.

The water is brought into the canal from the river at the edge of the city, and divided into four roads in the middle street, which are widened in four directions, east, west, north and south, and are taken by each household, and then finally flows back into the river.

Dongfang Yan probably inquired about the layout of the city along the way: with the century-old peach tree as the center, the northeast is the imperial palace, and there is a main street in each of the four directions, and this street is located in the downtown area.

The four corners are full of shops, and it is very lively, but you can catch a glimpse of a high pavilion building at the east corner of the street. It seems that it was originally a silk village, and the house moved east and west, which seemed to have the intention of moving and housewarming.

Dongfang Yan glanced at it and turned his head silently.

Chang Ziliang went back and forth all the way as the conversation deepened, the more frightened he became, and he knew that a few people were not ordinary identities, but when he saw this shop, he secretly thought about something, and at the end of the team, he was silent and pondering.

The water canal is divided, the northwest direction is the official residence, the northeast is the palace land, there is a small bridge and flowing water separated, the entire south of the city of Yaori, until the suburbs of the city are the people live, or trade exchanges.

With the peach tree as the middle, the four corners are Xianghuang Street, Pintong Street, Qingliu Street, and Cuishuang Street.

The distribution of the whole city of Yaori also has the northern city dignitaries and the southern city Pingyi, because the northern city Xianghuang Street as the name suggests the palace is important, Pintong occupies the northwest, the official residence, and the two streets are collectively referred to as the north of the city.

Qingliu Cuishuang Street occupies the south of the city, which is the home of ordinary people, but the liveliness occupies eight or nine tenths of the city.

The group stood in front of the peach blossom tree, the sun fell through the dense peach leaves, quietly hitting them, Sima Xuan stood still, time passed slowly in silence, and everyone was silent.

After a while, Gao Gong said publicly: "Everyone, say goodbye here, the emperor and the queen are waiting for the second prince."

A shadow happened to hit Sima Xuan's face, blurring the expression in his eyes, pursing his lips slightly, and stopping to speak.

Dongfang Yan Yingying bowed and smiled in line with etiquette: "Yes, send the prince back to the palace."

Sima Xuan looked at her and smiled like a flower, without the slightest gloom or reluctance, silent, and finally sighed lightly. Then he turned and boarded the magnificent carriage that was waiting beside him.

Broke up, I saw Dongfang Yan pulling Li'er from a distance, walking side by side with Meng Xuan on the left, Chang Ziliang on the right pointed to the northeast direction and said something, Situ Lie followed behind and couldn't see the expression clearly, and the group saw that they didn't enter the crowd.

Until he couldn't see a few figures anymore, Sima Xuan lowered the curtain and looked at this empty and gorgeous luxurious carriage with all his eyes, and felt a faint sense of loneliness in his heart.

Sighing lightly, it echoes ethereally in the carriage, and it cannot be concealed in the noise of the street.

Many years later, this is their first parting, and he doesn't know how long he has to go. She didn't know what it was.

The first parting in the ignorance was remembered after many years, and finally a faint melancholy arose in hindsight, hidden in the spring breeze, buried deep in the bottom of my heart.