Chapter VIII

"Don't worry, you eat slowly." Mei Junxing took Tao Li to the noodle restaurant near the Qingguan and sat down, and began to repeat this sentence constantly, but unfortunately Mei Junxing's exhortation did not get any response.

"Boss, another bowl of noodles." Sighing secretly, Mei Junxing reluctantly ordered another noodle.

"Well...... No, I'll have enough for this bowl. Tao Li saw Xiao Er coming over and hurriedly waved his hand, Mei Junxing blocked Tao Li's arm in time and pointed at himself.

"It's not yours, it's mine."

Considering that he may be able to afford one more person's life in the future, Mei Junxing, who originally planned to go home to cook and eat by himself, saw that Tao Li ate so deliciously, and finally couldn't help but order a bowl of noodles for himself.

When Xiao Er brought the noodles up, Tao Li had already finished eating his share of noodles, and when he saw Mei Junxing picking up the chopsticks and preparing to eat the noodles, he swallowed his saliva slowly.

Originally, it was just polite to say that, but in fact, she didn't mind having another bowl. It's just that...... Why are you embarrassed to speak again......

"Oh, by the way, that ......" Tao Li took out the small cloth bag hanging on her waist and took out the jade pendant that Mei Junxing gave her before, "This, you gave it to me before, and now I will probably eat and drink you for nothing for a while, how embarrassing ......"

Mei Junxing looked at the jade pendant on the table, then put down the chopsticks, and pushed the bowl to Tao Li's side, "Since it was the impulse that made Miss Tao lose her earrings, it is natural to give this compensation to the girl, as for letting Miss Tao stay in the cold house......" Mei Junxing said and picked up a pair of chopsticks again and put them on Tao Li's hand, motioning her to eat noodles, "The so-called mutual acquaintance is not far away, and thousands of miles are still neighbors." The four seas are all brothers, who is the passerby. Now that the girl is down, I should do my own righteous, not to let the girl repay me anything, this piece of jade ......" Mei Junxing pushed the jade pendant forward with both hands, and then smiled, "Miss Tao should take it." ”

"You're such a nice guy." Tao Li came to this place for the first time to feel a feeling that he couldn't feel in his own world, how to say? Tao Li suddenly realized very clearly that the person sitting opposite her was a scholar, but it was different from the reader in the modern world, Mei Junxing on the other side looked poor and sour, and a little frustrated and depressed, but he maintained a special pride very strongly in this situation. Or is it the dignity of the reader?

"Ahem, it's not as good as Miss Tao praised." Mei Junxing tilted his head slightly in shame, and then shook Tao Li again, "It's not a secret, I ran away to avoid the girl before I went down, so ...... I'm still a little ashamed. ”

Tao Li blinked, stuffed the chopsticks back into Mei Junxing's hand, pushed the noodle bowl again, and followed Mei Junxing's example with his head behind his back and his hands together.

"It's not a barbarian son, the contemptible person has also eaten a bowl of noodles before, if you just have another bowl on the street, the contemptible person will feel a little shy."

Mei Junxing was stunned for a moment, then shook his head again and again, and smiled helplessly, "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." ”

"Well, let's eat, let's eat, anyway, didn't you say okay, let me be your sister? How can an older sister make a younger brother hungry? Tao Li propped his cheeks with both hands and began to carefully observe Mei Junxing's appearance.

Kindness...... At first glance, it seems to be just a passerby, but if you look closely, you feel a little unable to move your eyes, Mei Junxing's pupils are very dark, but not very bright, to a kind of vague calm, so when Mei Junxing's face is expressionless, it will always make Tao Li have a feeling of being a cold bystander, but, back to the topic, if you want to say that Mei Junxing's appearance has any fly in the ointment, it is that this face is too white, and the nose shape is also, I always feel that it is too delicate, less manly.

Mei Junxing didn't know that he was being judged, so he just smiled bitterly, "Miss Tao, anyone who looks at you and me will think that I am a weak crown, and you are just a little far-fetched, my sister's words are a bit ......far-fetched."

"Uh, what then? There must always be an identity...... "Tao Li thought of his current small body, well, returning to youth can be met and unwanted, be content.

"That's my sister."

"But, I'm in the same place where you work......"

Tao Li frowned, he knew that he wouldn't talk nonsense.

"Let's just say you're young and naughty." Mei Junxing took a bite of noodles, in fact, that's what he thought.

"......" Tao Li suddenly felt a tingle in his back, and nodded slowly after a while, "Okay, brother......"

She was a young man in her twenties, and she was said to be naughty, ah, naughty...... Tao Li's heart is complicated at the moment, and no one around him can understand it.

However, when Mei Junxing heard Tao Li shouting like this, he laughed happily, nodded frequently, and replied, "Be good." ”

What a ghost! Tao Li silently swallowed the complaint in his heart.

Mei Junxing saw that the sun was shining and seeing the west, so he hurriedly ate noodles, and took Tao Li to rush to the river.

Although the river is subordinate to the city of Xixi, but the two places are not close to each other, Mei Junxing estimated that he might be able to rush back with his own feet before the sun went down, if according to Tao Li...... Mei Junxing glanced at Tao Li worriedly, and roughly told Tao Li about the situation.

"Ah, it's okay. I'm good at walking! I've been gone for a day today, and I'm not bad for that! When Tao Li said this, he remembered a long time ago, when he was pulled to the street by his girlfriend at eight o'clock in the morning and practiced until five o'clock in the afternoon, he didn't go home until he went home, ah...... For the little fear that many gay men have about going shopping with their girlfriends, she just wants to say that she understands!

Mei Junxing was very surprised, but he didn't expect Tao Li to look soft and weak, and he was quite ...... Boldness.

Although before, the imagination was very beautiful, but obviously, Tao Li looked too highly at his existing small body. Although in the end, the two rushed back to Mei's house before dark, but ......

"Tao Li," Mei Junxing wiped the sweat on his face with a free hand from behind his back, "You come down." ”

"Ah...... Oh. Tao Li, who was lying on someone's back, was sleeping in a daze, and after hearing the words, he wiped the corners of his mouth in a low-key manner and came down from someone's back.

Looking at the huge ancient buildings in front of him, which are not inferior to the Tao family, in a sense, Tao Li really understood the concrete meaning of the four in the legendary family road.

The two characters Meifu on the main entrance have been mottled, the original stone steps in front of the door are also overgrown with weeds, and the original red lacquered Huabiao on both sides has lost its original color. And one of the doors of Meifu is half open, it should be in disrepair and cannot be closed, there is a nest of swallows on it, and the door on the other side is okay, it looks like it is often used, and the paint on the handle has been polished.

Tao Li pointed.

"Is this it?"

"Is this it?"

Wan Yi looked at the building that was withering like a flower, and looked at the man who brought the secret report. The appearance of this plum mansion really can't be associated with that unimaginable wealth. However, the more impossible, the more suspicious it is.

"My lord, do you want your subordinates to go in and search?"

Wan Yi sat on his horse, looked through the slightly open door at the faint candlelight leaking from a room far away in the Mei Mansion, smiled and shook his head.

"Let's go back."

The deputy who was about to stand by was stunned for a moment, and looked at Wan Yi inexplicably.

"...... this?"

Note: The ancient women's coming-of-age ceremony was called: Lu Li. [And 笄 pronunciation: jíjī is also known as "both 笄".] It is a kind of ancient Jiali. It is a coming-of-age ceremony for Han women. It is commonly known as "going up" and "going up the head".

In ancient times, when a woman reached the age of 15, she knotted her hair with a flute, because it was called a woman who was 15 years old. It also refers to having reached the age of marriage, such as "the age is over the end of the year".