Before Qin Xun went out, he threw Lu Feng a sentence of "You look like an old mother", and unexpectedly took a few kicks, laughing and going out of the village.

Rubbing the carriage sent by the Pingzhou Post House to pick up Qin Huai to the town, Qin Xun threw a "see you back" to his brother, jumped off the carriage and went in a certain direction without looking back.

The small courtyard is empty, the flowers and trees are sparse, and there is a cluster of red, red, yellow and yellow bright flowers growing against the wall.

The leaves in the canna bush moved imperceptibly, and if there was a movement of a little bit of cool creatures crawling by, the red-clothed young man in the courtyard of the stall who was about to burst out said casually: "Let that thing be ten steps away from me, and I will close it and stew it in a pot half a minute after crossing the line." ”

A girl's delicate voice with a foreign accent came from the room: "Green Bean! Don't mess with him! ”

The slender cyan snake suddenly burst out of the green leaves, but instead of rushing towards Qin Xun, it slipped into the thin bamboo basket in the corner of the courtyard, and then came out with a round head like a bean, and peeked at the young man in the courtyard timidly and curiously.

The curtain in front of the house was lifted, and the interracial girl in the dark blue skirt came out with a bamboo sieve: "What are you doing so fiercely, Qingdou actually likes you a lot." ”

"I'm sorry, I don't like it." Qin Xun replied without hesitation, took out a small medicine bottle from his sleeve and put it on the stone table in the courtyard, "I heard that your hands are hot, and you brought some wound medicine here, I don't know if you need it." ”

After mentioning it, Ah Gu remembered that he had dinner with Liu Beicang in Jinling a few days ago: "It's just that the hot soup splashed a few drops, and it didn't bubble, so it's okay for a long time." After a pause, his face was a little annoyed, "How do you know, won't that guy go back and tell you?" He's ...... How can he say such a thing, and he is not afraid to make people laugh! ”

Qin Xun thought about what Liu Beicang said last night, laughed out loud, and still defended his senior brother very morally: "My senior brother, I am indeed stupid and can't speak, but I am honest and righteous, and I don't have any bad intentions. ”

"I know, didn't I just say anything about him at the time?" Ah Gu came over and sat down at the stone table and placed the bamboo sieve on the table.

The dense dead insects on the bamboo sieve seemed to have just been put on the table to be dried and ground in the sun, Qin Xun glanced at the goosebumps and got up, and hurriedly waved his hand to ask Ah Gu to take it away, Ah Gu glanced at him with disgust, and took down the bamboo sieve and put it at his feet.

Qin Xun and Ah Gu met more than two years ago, not long after Ah Gu first arrived in Pingzhou.

It is also a coincidence, Qin Xun is not in the same place with his senior brother Lu Feng all the time, and occasionally when he walks alone, it happens that he goes to a secluded place alone at dusk that day, and what he heard the woman's words did not reach seemed to be a cry for help, mixed with the man's broken words, climbed the wall and looked a few times, and saw that the shopkeeper of Hehuanlou was desperately pulling an alien girl in Miao clothes, and the Miao girl looked like she was thirteen or fourteen years old, and she was about the same age as Qin Xun at that time, and she was desperately protecting a booklet in her arms and shouting the inaccurate pronunciation of the Central Plains, A small cyan snake tried to protect the Lord, but was thrown to the ground again and again.

Tsk, in broad daylight, forcing good people to become prostitutes.

The shopkeeper of Hehuanlou smiled with thieves on the side, and kept spitting out obscenities such as "The little beauty of the alien race is worth a lot", "Do you have any ancestral aphrodisiac prescriptions on the booklet", and asked the strong men to snatch the booklet and carry it back, and the little green snake that had been disturbing the trouble strangled and pulled down.

"Yo, your Hehuanlou has always had a good reputation outside, doesn't the money shopkeeper often say that Hehuanlou treats girls well and never forces good people to become prostitutes, what is this doing, smashing the signboard by yourself?"

That was the first time Ah Gu saw Qin Xun, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy in red sitting on the wall and dangling his legs idly, with a fancy folding fan in his hand, he sat with his backlight, the sunset was a little dazzling, he couldn't see his face clearly, and guessed that the expression on his face was about the same as the voice of the words.

The shopkeeper of Hehuanlou, surnamed Qian, seemed to be familiar with and jealous of this young man, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to let go of her, flattering and smiling to please the young man, saying that he was joking with a little girl of different races, begging the young man to raise his noble hand and not make a noise.

The young man didn't say he let it go, he didn't say he wouldn't let it go, and it was still the same laugh: "It's not me who you forced prostitutes, why don't you ask the girl if she is willing to raise her noble hand?" ”

The thief-eyed shopkeeper looked at her with an uncomfortable smile on his face, and said something to her very quickly, she couldn't speak the original dialect well, but she could understand it half-understandably, and raise her noble hand? What does that mean? It seems to be begging for mercy, does she want to spare them, she doesn't want to forgive them, if it weren't for the appearance of this young man, she doesn't know what the situation is at this time, but if she doesn't forgive, she is a helpless and incapable alien, what can she do to others? This young man is obviously more familiar with this shopkeeper than her, is he really willing to help her?

She had doubts in her heart, but her body had unconsciously retreated to the wall where the young man was sitting to seek security, and shook her head gently, she didn't know what it meant, but the shopkeeper and the two strong men said "Thank you, girl" as if they had been pardoned.

The boy jumped off the wall and dusted off his clothes: "Aliens? "Brown-haired and deep-eyed, I'm afraid it's not just Nanzhao Miao people.

Ah Gu nodded, only then did he see the young man's appearance clearly, and while marveling at his beauty, he couldn't help but glance at his dark blue pupils a few more times, and said curiously: "You are also ...... Alien? ”

"Of course I'm a Daqi person." The young man replied, saw her staring at his eyes, and said, "The ancestors have mixed up some foreign blood. ”

Ah Gu nodded with wide eyes.

"If you are not familiar with the place, don't easily provoke the people of these troubled places, they cannot be trusted."

Can you be trusted? Is you, who are so familiar with the people in these chaotic places at a young age and make them timid, more credible than them? Ah Gu thought in his heart, but his body seemed to follow him silently uncontrollably.

"What do you follow me?" The young man stopped and turned back, his voice and expression visibly indifferent.

"I didn't ...... Place...... Go. She struggled to get the word straight.

"Then where did you provoke the people from Hehuanlou just now?"

"There are a lot of people...... Sleep...... ...... at night," Gu said, gesturing.

It was dusk, she wanted to find a place to stay, seeing how many people there were there, and there was a group of smiling girls standing at the door, although she was dressed strangely, but she didn't think much about a foreigner, she felt that it was a safe place, and after entering, she felt that something was wrong, and ran out and was chased all the way here by those people.

The young man was very smart, and he heard the meaning from her intermittent words, and sneered: "You are really good at borrowing the night to go to the Qinglou." ”

Good skills? Is it to praise her? It doesn't look like he is boasting.

Ah Gu thought hard, but before he could think of anything, he heard the young man say: "I ignored the situation just now and left, and I can't get over it with my conscience, now that you are safe, I don't plan to care about it, don't follow me." ”

Seeing that he was about to leave with his feet raised, Ah Gu hurriedly reached out and grabbed his sleeve, and when the young man saw her pulling the little green snake that was tired and paralyzed by the toss for the protector on his arm, his face changed, and he suddenly broke free of her hand, and frowned: "I hate snakes, don't let it get close to me." ”

The little green snake seemed to understand his words, and crawled into his master's sleeve to prevent him from seeing, revealing only a round head to peep.

The young man seemed to be interested: "It's quite spiritual, I rarely see a snake like this, with a head as round as a green bean, domestic?" What is it called? ”

“…… Green...... Beans. In fact, this snake has not been named by his side, and Ah Gu calls it "snake" and "snake" in Miao language, and at this moment I heard the word "green bean" in the young man's words, and I thought it was not bad.

"It's really called green beans?" The young man couldn't help laughing, "But it looks non-toxic, and it scares the faint of heart, no wonder it can't deal with those two strong men in Hehuanlou." ”

A Gu gestured: "Miao Snake...... Poison ...... It...... There is no ...... "If the snakes raised by the Miao people have aura, they are all trained, and the characteristic poison on the snake must also be refined in the later stage, and the green beans have not been refined much.

The young man seemed to be in a good mood, and finally responded to her: "If you stay in Pingzhou for a long time, I will give you a courtyard to live in and refine your poison." He nodded his chin to the booklet in her hand, "But I don't help people for nothing, and there may be a time when you can help, if you don't want to, you can leave it at that." ”

Ah Gu nodded vigorously, and lived in this small courtyard for more than two years, without thinking much about where Qin Xun got the money to buy a courtyard, and never asked Qin Xun about his private affairs, only vaguely knowing that his origin was complicated.

The young man taught her to speak the Central Plains dialect, taught her to read and write, told her that medicine and poison were of the same origin, gave her the Central Plains medical book and told her to try refining it with the Gu book left by her grandmother, and said that Qingdou would scare people when she blatantly wrapped her hands around her and went out, so she was told to take a bamboo basket and put it on. She also changed out of the Miao clothes, wore the skirt that the Central Plains girl loved to wear all the year round, and picked the same dark blue as his pupil color, and the young man smiled and praised "good-looking", she was very happy.

Even if he can feel that he is actually weak in nature, he just kept her by his side to teach her because he needed her, but he was the first person to treat her so well after she came to the Central Plains, and she was willing to stay under him to do things.

“…… Gu ...... Gu? The red-clothed boy sitting across from her called her with a smile.

Ah Gu realized that he was distracted, lowered his eyes and said, "You didn't come to me specifically to say goodbye for your senior brother, right?" ”