Walking leisurely all the way from the inn to the ferry, with thunder and lightning in my ears and clear water vapor all around, this scene made me feel relaxed and happy, not to mention that I stood at the ferry with an umbrella for only a moment, and the young man Junqing came to pick me up by boat.

I couldn't help but sigh: the young man's eyes are really good, through the vast mist, you can see that there are people at the ferry.

Tonight, he wore a shoulder-width hat, tied with a clean and refreshing robe, in this misty and chaotic mist, his face showed a calm and gentle smile, like spring rain, like autumn spring, like a picturesque poem, like a fairy outside the sky.

I took the umbrella and, with the strength of his hands, hid in his propped up robe, and followed him into the canopy. Close to each other, I could smell the good smell of him, it was a new tea growing in the right time of spring, with a slight bitterness, but also a distant sweetness.

There was a not-so-bright lamp hanging from the canopy, and he handed me a new silk handkerchief, but before I could take it, he approached with a smile and raised his hand to wipe the rain off my cheeks. The canopy was narrow, and he half-knelt in front of me, looking at me seriously, and I felt a flustered for no apparent reason.

I felt that he was not as small as he was when I first met, and he was now half-kneeling in front of me, taller than I was sitting.

In this position, he said to me, "Eleven days and one hours." ”

I hadn't completely shaken off the panic and asked, "What did you say?" ”

"It's been eleven days and one hour before you came to me."

It was only then that I realized what he was talking about, and explained, "I thought you had left the boat. ”

He looked at me with sparkling eyes: "Then why did you come here tonight?" I thought it was one of the first 10 days, but I didn't expect it to be tonight, and it rained so heavily today. ”

I laughed and said, "Aren't you going to wait for me every day?" ”

Originally, he just said this on purpose to make himself less nervous, but his eyes and tone became firm, "Yes, since the separation, I have been waiting for you every hour of the day. ”

This sentence made my old face burn. No wonder I stood at the ferry for a while before he came over, and I thought he had good eyesight, and I didn't think he had been waiting for me.

I don't know if the lamp hanging in the canopy is bright enough, whether he can see my flushed cheeks at the moment.

He finally got up from in front of me with a low chuckle, untied his coat and sat down beside me, and his tone was a little lively: "I said that I would like to thank my son for the reward, and I redeemed myself that night." ”

"No thanks, it's also fate to meet Junqing's little son, otherwise this son's run out on a rainy day, who can hold the boat to pick me up and chat with me."

He chuckled beside him.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Although you are dressed in a jade crown and white robe, I can still see that you are a daughter."

“…… Then why have you called me Childe from beginning to end? ”

"There are different customers on this boat with different preferences, and we can't go against the guests' minds. I thought you liked to disguise yourself as a child, so you didn't dare to debunk it. ”

The corners of my lips twitched: "Then why do you dare to debunk it now?" ”

He turned to look at me, his eyes shining like stars: "Because I am no longer the person who is on the boat." ”

I didn't dare to look him in the eyes, so I simply looked out of the boat, the heavy rain outside the boat was like a waterfall, and the sky and the earth were dim. Have you figured out how you're going to live your life in the future? ”

The tone of the prince behind him was a little darker, not as lively as Fang Cai, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I want to go to the Imperial Capital of Jinguo." ”

"Dijing" once made my heart suddenly startle, and I turned my head and said, "What are you doing there?" Although you are from the south, and Princess Xuanyi is also from the south, as you said before, she has no sympathy for the people of her homeland, not only that, I have heard before that she carried out harsh torture after ascending to the pole, and she is also keen on the art of immortality, listening to the slander of the alchemists, and blatantly arresting people for alchemy. What if you accidentally get caught in that alchemy furnace and turn into a wisp of smoke? ”

He smiled: "Are you concerned about me?" ”

My brow furrowed even deeper: "I'm seriously analyzing the situation in the imperial capital for you, it is the most unstable place in the world right now. ”

Jun Qing smiled and explained to me seriously: "Don't worry, I have a cousin who is an official in the court, and he knew that I had left the painting boat some time ago, so he wrote to me to go to the imperial capital to run a bookstore that he vacated after becoming an official. ”

I couldn't help but mock: "Since your cousin has a spare bookstore that no one runs, why didn't he write to you earlier and ask you to come over?" When you were bullied in the painting boat, why didn't he think of helping you out of the siege and help you out? ”

He smiled helplessly: "He helped me find the livelihood of the painting boat, and the owner of the painting boat is his friend, if he hadn't sent charcoal in the snow to find someone to help me, I would probably starve to death." ”

I was about to tell him that this was not a charcoal in the snow, this was a robbery while the fire was burning, but I heard him smile lightly: "Don't talk about Princess Xuanyi of the Quanjin Kingdom, occasionally a mayfly like me also wants to live forever, if you can really live forever, then everyone can be clean and self-righteous in troubled times, and you won't starve to death on the streets." ”

This sentence made my heart feel uncomfortable, and I was silent for a while.

When he saw that I didn't speak, he regained his gentle and cheerful smile: "Did I scare you tonight?" ”

"Huh?"

"You can see that I'm not the same as the last time I saw you, right? I was still painting the boat at that time, and I disguised myself as an innocent little boy who was ignorant of the world at the request of my boss, and many customers liked this kind of boy, so I needed to be like this, but on this painting boat, even if I was docile and careful, I would still be beaten by some people with a bad temper. ”

He let out a long sigh of relief, as if he wanted to spit out the turbidity in his chest, and then smiled brightly, and said in a clear voice, "I have left now, so I can tell you that I am not ignorant of the world, my name is not Junqing, and I am not nineteen years old." I have read countless people, I am familiar with people's feelings, and I am good at figuring out people's hearts, I am twenty-three years old this year, and my real name is Chen Lanzhou. ”

I listened carefully, and the more I felt that his life was not easy, and the more I felt that he should not go to that unreliable cousin, and Dijing was not without men, what if the bookstore left by his cousin was selling books under the banner of selling books? That Jun Qing, no, didn't Chen Lanzhou's little son just get out of the tiger's den and enter the wolf's den?

At this moment, a gust of wind blew into the canopy, blowing a lot of rain in, and my brain was also awakened by the wind, and suddenly remembered that I was now a rich businessman, so all worries dissipated in the wind, I grabbed his wrist, and said happily: "Do you want to follow me......" paused, felt inappropriate, so changed his words, "Follow me a big brother?" His surname is You, and he is doing business in tea, wine, medicine and salt in various countries, and he is short of manpower, if you can trust me, if you are willing to do business, I will take you to see him tomorrow. ”

He glanced down at my hand, his eyes moved slightly, and the corners of his lips smiled: "It sounds like the girl is willing to support me." ”

I really didn't have any interest, so I quickly retracted my hand, and my cheeks began to heat again: "It's not me who supports you, it's you who supports yourself, rely on your hands, get rich with hard work, cough cough, get rich with hard work." ”

"Working with your eldest brother, can I see you often?" He seemed to be deliberately trying to say it so ambiguously, as if I was shy.

My throat tightened: "I'll probably see you during the New Year's holidays." ”

He nodded in agreement, grabbed my wrist through his sleeve, and said with a smile: "Since we can see you, let's go see that big brother You tomorrow?" Suddenly he caught a glimpse of a faint light out of the corner of his eye, so he raised my sleeve and asked curiously, "What do you have in your sleeve?" It seems to glow. ”

"Oh, it's a jade wrench," I took it out of my sleeve pocket and put it in my palm, and the quiet and indifferent moonlight slowly flowed out of the wrench and fell into my fingers, "This is a special kind of jade, called Yueluo." ”

The light of the wrench reflected his eyes, covering those clear eyes with a layer of quiet moonlight, and he looked down seriously, not knowing that his eyes were as bright as water at the moment, and his cheeks were better than snow, like flying immortals under the moon.

"Do you like this wrench?" I asked in a low voice.

He didn't seem to react for a while, and his expression was relaxed: "Huh? ”

I took his hand and put the wrench on his white thumb: "This wrench is very compatible with you, so I'll give it to you, just take it as mine...... I'll give you a meeting gift for Brother You. ”

His face was calm, and he made a gesture to untie it, "This wrench seems to be something very important to you, and it looks very precious, I can't take it." ”

I pressed the wrench back to his fingertip and said with a smile: "It's not an important thing, if the butler hadn't taken my money bag, I wouldn't have remembered it, I had planned to use it as a way to cover my own expenses tonight." ”

Only then did he accept it with confidence.

Suddenly thinking of something, he looked at the heavy rain outside the boat, approached me and said, "Last time in front of my room in the painting boat, the hand of Hu Gongzi, who had spoken disrespectfully, was cut off. Do you know about this? ”

"I know." And I knew who the murderer might be—and the face of the ink-robed robe came to my mind uncontrollably, and impetuousness grew in my chest, as if a vigorous hatred grew into my heart.

It was then that I suddenly realized that I was ...... Not quite normal. That ink-robed boy had nothing to do with me in the first place, but why did I feel emotionally unstable and even angry when I thought of him?

Chen Lanzhou seemed to see my strangeness: "Why are your brows furrowed so much, but your body is uncomfortable?" Blame me, big night, I shouldn't have mentioned such a thing. ”

I exhaled a turbid breath, trying not to be so excited, and to let myself forget about the figure as soon as possible, so I said to him: "I want to go to the painting boat again, and come out in the wind and rain tonight." ”

He nodded, re-tied his coat, put on his hat, brought me a bowl of boiled and steaming sour plum tea, and stepped out of the canopy.