The sound of firecrackers in the distance finally stopped, and the entire Yongcheng fell asleep, only the cold wind whistled by, blowing through the bare black branches, whining and screaming, mixed with Shao Sinan's voice, like sandpaper rubbing Jinyu's heart with the flesh of the belt.

He has to be stronger than her so that he can be her dependence.

After a long time, the food on the table lost its last temperature, and Shao Sinan came back from his sadness, Jin Yu's chest was wet, and the blue satin brocade was dyed dark blue by Shao Si Nan's tears.

"I'll draw a few portraits of your father and mother and your eldest brother and younger siblings for you after a while, and you can see them when you want to, but don't let others find out, okay?"

Jin Yu comforted Shao Sinan with gentle words, just like coaxing her sister to sleep many years ago.

Shao Sinan sobered up a little, wiped his face vigorously with his black robe, and then nodded heavily.

"You said my family was killed by bandits?" Shao Sinan's eyes were still red, and he looked at Jinyu seriously and said.

"Yes!" Jinyu hesitated a little, but said it anyway.

"Humph!" Shao Si Nan's eyes were murderous, as if he had suddenly become the cold-blooded and ruthless killer in the past, "Two months ago, I went to Queshan to suppress bandits, and it was still too light to attack those bandits at that time, if I had known that I would have broken them into several pieces!" ”

Jin Yu was stunned when she heard this, and then smiled bitterly: "It's useless for you to kill them, don't worry, I will definitely avenge my clansmen!" ”

With so many truths pressed in her heart like a dead knot, Jinyu didn't know when she would be able to spit it out with her sister.

The moon in the west has turned yellow, and the time is almost up, Jin Yu looked at the night sky in the sky that was steamed into colors by the colorful light of the imperial city and said slowly: "The New Year is here, it's time to go back!" ”

Shao Sinan straightened his clothes and hair and said, "It's time to go back, if the master finds out that I came out to be with you, I'm afraid that I will be punished by a cat in the New Year." ”

Jin Yu's hateful teeth itched: "The pain inflicted on us by those enemies will be doubled one day." ”

"What did you say?" Shao Sinan didn't understand, and didn't know what he was referring to.

"I mean, one day we'll get our revenge!"

Shao Si Nan's face moved, and he hesitated: "The enemy you said is a bandit, and your enemy is Nangong Hou!" But my master and Nangong Hou are both the prince's humerus ministers, you want to seek revenge from Nangong Hou, maybe one day I will meet you with a sword! ”

"There won't be that day!" Jinyu frowned and sighed lightly, "I won't let you get to that point no matter what!" ”

"I don't know!" Shao Sinan lowered her eyes and looked at the two detached figures on the ground, the blush on her face had completely faded, and she had reverted to the cold killer.

"I will put the portrait behind the Buddha statue after I draw it, and you will pick it up in ten days!" Jinyu is too lazy to clean up the rest of the food on the table, there are always stray cats and dogs to take care of it.

"Then I'll go first!" Shao Sinan nodded, said goodbye to Jin Yu and then slowly walked outside the broken temple, walked through the corner of the wall where the paper money was burned, Shao Sinan stopped, rubbed his fingers on his body, squatted down and put a piece of paper money that had not yet burned through on the candle and lit it, and only after the paper money was burned again, he turned around and glanced at Jin Yu, there was sadness, reluctance, and doubts in his eyes, such a complicated look made Jin Yu's heart hurt fiercely, he only remembered that his sister's eyes were as clear as a lake when she was young, how could she have been so distressing as now.

The sound of fluttering clothes pierced the silent night sky, and in the blink of an eye, the dark figure had disappeared.

Jin Yu lingered in the ruined temple for a while before getting up to leave, this time he walked along the West Market to Suzaku Street, and then bypassed the East Market before walking towards Nangong Hou. Jin Yu didn't want to return to the Nangong Marquis Mansion so soon, she just wanted to wander the empty street for a while on this lonely and silent night, so that she could rush back before dawn without a sleep.

Jin Yu kept walking like this, breathing in the smell of fireworks in the air, stepping on the fire paper all over the ground, to his surprise, Jin Yu also met a few people who were drunk late at night on the road, singing and stumbling forward all the way, and the fire paper under his feet was kicked like a dead leaf.

Jin Yu sighed in her heart, she couldn't imagine that there would be someone wandering outside like him on this reunion night.

There is a small river running through the east and west in Yongcheng, along the riverbank of the shops, each mile there is an arched bridge, Jinyu remembers that when he was a child, his mother brought him and his sister here to put river lanterns. The wishes made were probably some prayers for peace and the like.

The lanterns of that year have long been missing, and the wish made back then has not been fulfilled, and more than 200 people have been killed, leaving only themselves and a sister who has lost their memory.

Jin Yu stood alone on an arch bridge, the bluestone of the arch bridge had already formed a layer of dark ice, a white vapor was born in the river, the mist soaked Jin Yu's clothes a little wet, looking at the long river like Bai Lian Jin Yu sighed softly.

Chinese New Year's Eve is also a day to pay tribute to deceased relatives, releasing river lanterns has always been the best way to send mourning, Jinyu walked along the river, both sides of the river are full of burned incense candles and paper money, and there are river lanterns floating in the river that I don't know where, have long been extinguished and fallen crookedly into the water.

Walking along the riverbank, Jin Yu was able to return to Nangong Hou Mansion in less than half an hour, and there were faint human voices from a distance, how could there be someone outside this night It was already late Jin Yu's heart moved, and she shrank behind a wall.

"Sister, why did we come out in the middle of the night?" It sounded like a child's voice.

"There are too many people during the day, and if you come out, you will be seen, and there will be no one. Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and we can pay our respects to our parents. "It sounded like a young woman's voice.

"If it's to worship your parents, why can't you come out during the day?"

The woman's voice paused, and Jinyu peeked to see a woman and a boy about ten years old standing by the river. The woman was wearing a long azure skirt and a small jacket, and a tooth-colored cloak was covered with her back, and she couldn't see her face clearly with her back to Jinyu. And although the boy was wearing a cloak, he was facing this Jinyu, but he could see it clearly, and his eyebrows and eyes were a sign of a villain.

The woman stretched out her hand to straighten the boy's hood, caressed the boy's face with pity, and said, "Because there are some things that cannot be heard, but only at night when no one is around!" ”

The boy nodded as if he understood, and helped the woman remove the basket in her hand and put it on the bluestone by the river.

The two sisters and brothers took out the paper money and paper ingots used for worship one by one, and lit the lotus lamp with a fire fold, and the bright yellow and warm light shone on the child's face, lining his eyes to be even darker and brighter.

The woman's hands are slender and feminine, and Jinyu guessed in her heart that the girl is so filial, she must also be a beautiful girl. Thinking of the few drunk people I met just now, it was so late at night, and it was always wrong for the two sisters and brothers to be outside.

Thinking of this, Jin Yu's foot that she wanted to step away involuntarily retracted.