Qi Jing laughed and said, "How can you think so? I clearly didn't want to implicate you too much. Just now, some people are still talking about being afraid of their lives, how can they not be afraid of knowing too much in the blink of an eye, and one day they will die because of this? ”

"And if you don't let me know that you know all the things that you know yourself, will you be killed one day?" Qin Xun turned around and asked very seriously, he was half a head shorter than Qi Jing, and he needed to raise his eyes slightly when he looked at him.

Qi Jing was stunned.

It was obviously nonsense to say that he wouldn't, but in the face of Qin Xun's harmless eyes when he looked at him, he couldn't bear to say the word "will".

"I'm not afraid of being implicated, just tell me." Qin Xun pulled his sleeve and lowered his head to rub the gold thread embroidery on the black trim of his cuff, "In case you really die because of this one day, I finally know how you died, right?" Otherwise, how sad I would have been to see you die in vain. ”

Qi Jing pulled his sleeve out of his hand, and with a little force, a crisp sound popped up in his head, and scolded him: "Just after cursing the emperor to die, you came to curse the prince to die, your mouth is really open-mouthed, you dare to say anything." Fortunately, I am the one who heard you talk about these bastard things, so don't talk about it again. ”

"That's nature, that's what I'm talking about to you. Then you tell me too, don't interrupt. ”

Qi Jing looked at the gradual sky at dusk, held his shoulders and pulled him back: "I'll talk to you after seeing someone, I'll tell you about it, okay?" ”

"That's what you say? I thought I was going to grind with you for a long time, but what, finally I'm not afraid of being implicated? Qin Xun let him pull his shoulders and turn his back to him, without struggling at all, and when he said, "I'm not afraid of implicating me", it was obviously happy.

"I don't promise you to lose your temper, it's too easy to promise you, I can't take you." Qi Jing bypassed the second half of his question.

Of course I'm afraid. If it weren't for this person, I wouldn't have easily involved you anyway. It's just that you have to know him, and he must recognize you, whether you are friendly with him or not, if one day you are in trouble, even if he doesn't take the initiative to save you, and you come to find him, he will not stand idly by. I only hope that if you are unfortunate enough to fall into the state of destitude, you can find a way out of what I have done for you now.

He gave in, Qin Xun accepted it when he saw it, and also took a step and said, "Then I won't force you to tell me now, but do you have anything else to remind me?" For example, how do you address someone, and what can you do to please him? ”

"He is very wise, and if I deliberately show you what to do, he will see it, but it will be self-defeating. You can just call him sir, and you can do the rest yourself. ”

"Trouble." Qin Xun snorted and continued to move forward, and stepped on the reed pole that he had just thrown away with his first foot, and the white reed flower was trampled into the damp soil, and it was instantly embedded in mud, black and dirty, and Qin Xun didn't look at it.

Qi Jing lowered his eyes and glanced at the poor Lu Hua, and shook his head at his behavior of playing with it rather strangely one moment ago and abandoning it the next.

The further they went, deeper and deeper into the reeds, the lush reeds had already crossed the bank and penetrated into the river for a little, and the two of them turned to walk through the shoulder-high reeds, and they were already clearly able to tread water under their feet.

"Qi Jing, there won't be snakes here, right?"

"Not necessarily."

"Don't scare me! I'm afraid of snakes! ”

"If I say that I must not have it in order to coax you to peace of mind, if one comes out later, won't it scare you even more."

"Say no more! Don't talk about it! ”

"Don't be afraid, I'm here, and even if I had, I wouldn't let it hurt you."

After walking through the reeds for a short time, they saw a man sitting not far away half-hidden among the reed poles, facing the river, about ten feet away from them, with a dark coat on his back, wearing a hat, and looking like he was fishing.

When the two of them approached, he just took the last rod, and the rod hooked the fish out of the water, splashing in all directions, startling a few egrets at the water's edge not far away.

Don't come to idle fishing rods, the white bird suddenly startled.

The angler put away the rod, sorted out his fishing gear, and was about to finish the work, with a wine gourd at his feet, a small bamboo basket and two fish baskets in front of him, and a few things such as knives and hoes were placed in the bamboo baskets, and the fish baskets were empty and full of fish, and the fish caught in the fish basket were still fluttering very vigorously, trying to fight for a way to survive.

The angler was very neat in his movements, put the fishing rod in his hand to his side, squatted down and rummaged through the basket containing the fish, heard the footsteps of someone approaching, and did not stop in his movements, and he packed up his things without any intention of taking care of people.

He lowered his head, covered his face with a hat, and couldn't see his appearance, Qi Jing said that this person was an elder, and he should be called Mr., Qin Xun guessed that the age of the angler was about his father's generation.

He didn't deliberately cover it up, rolled up his sleeves to reveal his two forearms, and the sinuous scars extended from his hands to his forearms and even submerged into the fabric of the sleeves and further up, according to Qin Xun's six years of medical discrimination, it looked like a burn, and it looked like an old injury.

Qin Xun saw that the anglers knew that they were standing in front of him but didn't pay attention, so he didn't speak, and stood with his hands crossed, Qi Jing's eyes signaled to him several times that he didn't see them at all.

Qi Jing had no choice but to greet the angler first: "Meet sir." ”

The angler was silent, as if he hadn't heard.

Qi Jing opened his mouth, naturally no longer relying on his eyes alone, and bluntly urged Qin Xun: "Ah Xun, this is Mr. Guzhou, you come over and say hello to Mr. ”

Qin Xun obediently followed Qi Jing's example and bowed: "Meet Mr. Guzhou." ”

Gu Zhou kicked the fish basket in his hand, and finally opened his mouth, but he spoke to Qi Jing: "Why did you bring someone else here today?" ”

His voice was obviously rough and hoarse, and it was not pleasant to listen to the sensation of illness in the ears, but it was obviously different from the babbling of the rough people in the market, and it was gentle and slow, not slow or slow, but not annoying.

Just now that he saw the old scar on the burn on his hand, Qin Xun naturally thought that most of the thoughts on Guzhou's throat were also related to it.

Qi Jing said: "The third son of the Qin family, Xun, introduced to Mr. Yu." ”

Gu Zhou made a gesture in his hand: "Which Qin clan?" Without waiting for Qi Jing to answer, he replied to himself, "Oh, confused, which other Qin clan can there be." ”

"Meet the sir." Qin Xun greeted him again.

This time, Guzhou let out a faint "um".

Ignore him. Qin Xun raised his eyebrows silently.

Somehow, he had a thought in his heart, feeling that this Mr. Guzhou didn't ignore him because he didn't dare to offend the Qin family after hearing that he was the Qin family, on the contrary, it seemed that he, Qin Xun, was able to ask Guzhou to give him a handout because of the identity of the Qin family.

"Qin Weizhi, can you get used to staying in Pingzhou?"

Gu Zhou had a hoarse voice, but he didn't raise his head, and his hands kept moving, but he took the initiative to ask Qin Xun what he said.

As soon as Guzhou's "Qin Weizhi" came out, Qin Xun's heart sank, and he almost immediately made a judgment that the elder in front of him was "not easy to fool".

He, Qin Xun and Qin Weizhi, hung his name in Pingzhou for six years, and few people knew his origin. There are many families with the surname Qin in the world, who will care about the surname of the third son of the Qin family in Chang'an, who is thousands of miles away. Now that Qi Jing only said "Qin's three sons" and simply brought his identity, Gu Zhou accurately called out his cousin, and told Qin Xun clearly with a question: I know who you are, I know where you are, and I even know why you came to Pingzhou.

Chang'an people? Qin Xun had this kind of guess inexplicably.

If this is the case, the unheard of name of "Mr. Lonely Boat" is just a false name, and this person must not be an idle person. Qin Xun had a feeling that he had shaken his old bottom to people but couldn't touch the corners of the other party's clothes, and he became more and more curious about Guzhou.

I'll have to ask Qi Jing about it later, he thought.

"Okay." He chose a more compromise answer.

Lone Boat let out a low "huh", unable to tell whether it was a snort or a laugh, as if mocking his obvious caution in the face of himself. He jumped on the basket for a moment, as if he was thinking about something.

"Qi Guicheng, you brought him here and told him to please me, right?"

"Sir, wise." Qi Jing generously admitted.

"Then why didn't he move?" Gu Zhou always spoke in one tone, smooth and waveless, if he was very close to the people, he would not be able to perceive the intimacy and anger in his different words in the same tone, he was at this moment for the unfamiliar Qin Xun, and it was natural to wonder whether he was just asking or blaming him.

Qin Xun is most tired of speculating on his own things that he can't figure out, calling them mediocre people who disturb themselves, as long as the timing is right or there are traces to follow, then he will ask if he has a mouth, and he will check if he has hands and feet, will blind guessing work?

Of course, Chu Tianwen's broken sleeve incident was a special case, he didn't figure it out, but he didn't think of this layer at all, otherwise it would have been extinguished when the sprouts first sprouted.

Qin Xun asked Gu Zhou directly: "Then how can I coax Mr. to be happy?" ”

Lonely boat paused: "This is also what you taught?" Qi Jing asked.

When the white-clothed young man first saw him two years ago, he politely arched his hand a few feet away and said: "Mr. has been looking up for a long time, Mr. Wen should not be a person who is not in love, and the younger generation is not sensitive, can Mr. Lao make it clear?" ”

The wording is very different, but the meaning is very different.

"Not really." Qi Jing replied.

Qin Xun felt that Qi Jing seemed to be in a good mood.

Well, he hasn't been in a bad mood all the time, but at the moment it seems to be a little more pleasant.

Gu Zhou didn't deliberately make things difficult, after listening to Qin Xun's question, he put the two fish baskets in front of him with one in one hand, stood up and helped the hat on his head, and raised his eyes to look at him: "You two pick these two baskets of fish, put one basket of three big ones, and put the other one, and your hands and feet are sharp." I'm too old to toss on my own. ”

As soon as he looked up, Qin Xun saw his appearance.

Seeing the scar on his arm, Qin Xun was somewhat mentally prepared. The first impression of Gu Zhou's face at a glance is that half of the face is covered with hideous burn scars, and even one eye is blind. If you look closely, you can see that he has a short beard on his chin, and I don't know if it is because he is blind in one eye, but his other intact eye is extremely sharp, and when he stares straight at people, he seems to shoot people through with his gaze, and he is not angry and arrogant. He looked at the delicate and beautiful face of the young man in red, stared at the pair of exotic blue eyes, the only remaining eyebrow was lowered a little, and his sharp eyes were a little colder, looking a little fierce.

"Not afraid of me?" Seeing that Qin Xun's expression was calm and unmoved, Gu Zhou deliberately asked him.

"All living beings have a hundred faces, and only when they are rare will they be weird." Qin Xun rolled up his sleeves, squatted down and poked the fish's tail twice at the mouth of the basket.

The lonely boat didn't say a word, picked up the wine gourd and sat back on the stone where Fang Fishing was sitting, and drank it in small sips.