The long winter has finally passed, the snow has melted, the willow branches are green, and there is a scene of spring flowers blooming everywhere.

"Binzi, we...", Nie Xiaohu thought for a moment and said, "It's been more than three years since we've been here, right?" ”

"Isn't it, time flies!" , Tang Yibin nodded and said.

"Are you homesick?"

"I said are you too confused, both of us grew up in an orphanage, where did we come from? If it's home, it's also an orphanage, I don't want it at all, how nice it is here! ”

Tang Yibin pouted and said.

"That's right!" , Nie Xiaohu laughed twice.

"Sister Cao, you're here!" , Tang Yibin shouted with a smile at the gate of the courtyard.

"Hmm", Cao Xiaohui smiled and nodded.

"Brother Tiger, one of my cousins has been seriously ill recently, and I want to go home and see, you... Can you come with me? ”

Cao Xiaohui lowered her head after speaking, the expression on her face seemed to be a little twisted, and a blush flew on her cheeks.

"Huh?" , Nie Xiaohu was stunned.

"Don't hurry up and say yes! Idiot! Tang Yibin slanted his shoulders and bumped Nie Xiaohu.

"Oh! Ok, good, good! Nie Xiaohu was almost stumbled.

"That's good!" , Cao Xiaohui raised her head, with a smile on her face, "I'll wait for you at the gate!" After saying that, he turned around and left briskly.

"Are you going to go to the door to see your father-in-law and mother-in-law so soon?" , Seeing Cao Xiaohui's figure walking away, Tang Yibin said happily.

"Go while it's cool!" , Nie Xiaohu rolled his eyes, turned around and walked towards his room.

"What's the matter? Do you want to go? ”

"I'll go back to the house and clean up!"

"Hahahaha!" , Tang Yibin laughed again.

After explaining the necessary things to Tang Yibin, he changed into civilian clothes, and Nie Xiaohu came to the gate of the fast catching room, in front of the tethered horse stake outside the door, two fast horses had been prepared, and Cao Xiaohui was already waiting there.

"Let's go!" , Nie Xiaohu smiled at Cao Xiaohui.

"Hmm", Cao Xiaohui nodded, the two turned over and got on the horse, and walked forward all the way.

"Xiaohui, I only know that your family lives in Caojiazhuang, and I really don't know where Caojiazhuang is!"

"Caojiazhuang is not far to the east of Fengyu Town, we are a big family, the people living in the village are all surnamed Cao, our people in Caojiazhuang have been practicing martial arts since childhood, and almost everyone can point to fists and feet. People in Zhuangzi rarely go out, but our Caojiazhuang's papermaking technology can be called a must! ”

Cao Xiaohui's face showed a smug look, "Most of the paper sold in Luoyang City is made by our Caojiazhuang!" Listen to my father, Caojiazhuang has been established for more than 200 years! ”

"yes!"

Nie Xiaohu nodded in surprise, "Then aren't there a lot of your cousins and cousins?" ”

"Well, it's a lot, but this is my best cousin, her name is Cao Ling'er, our two families are neighbors, one year younger than me, we have played together since childhood."

"I see! So what serious illness did she have? ”

"I don't know about this, my father only said in the letter that Ling'er is seriously ill and can't even get out of bed recently, I'm really worried about her!"

After speaking, Cao Xiaohui's expression darkened, and her eyes seemed to be a little red.

"Then let's hurry!" , Nie Xiaohu hurriedly said.

"Hmm!"

"Drive!" The two of them each shouted, shook their horsewhips crackling, and galloped away towards the outside of the city.

Near noon, the two came to the town of Wind and Rain.

"Brother Hu, let's have lunch in the town now and rest before leaving, it's only half an hour away from Caojiazhuang, don't worry," Cao Xiaohui said.

"Good!"

The two of them found a casual restaurant in the town, went up to the second floor, found a table by the window and sat down, ordered a few dishes and a pot of wine, and drank it slowly.

The two were eating, and suddenly there was a quarrel next door, Nie Xiaohu's brows were furrowed, and he couldn't help but turn around, and stretched out his hand to remove the simple screen behind him that blocked the table between the tables.

After the screen was removed, the two saw that it turned out to be a family of three at the adjacent table arguing with a shopkeeper.

Nie Xiaohu listened carefully for a while, and finally understood what was going on, it turned out that there was a little boy at the next table, because he was too naughty, he poked three small holes in the screen next to him with his hand during the meal, but was discovered by the shopkeeper, and the two sides were arguing about compensation.

"A hole costs five cents, aren't you robbing money?" , the middle-aged man at the next table said angrily.

"Guest officer, pay five cents for a hole, this is the rule set by the store, I can't help it, it's a total of fifteen cents, take the money!" , The shopkeeper shrugged his shoulders and looked innocent.

"A hole costs five cents, this shop is really a bit dark!" , Cao Xiaohui shook her head, "But then again, who let them break other people's screens, this is unreasonable, and they can only consider themselves unlucky." ”

Nie Xiaohu also shook his head with a smile.

"A hole of five cents, right?" , it seems that the middle-aged man is going to soften.

"That's right!" , the shopkeeper nodded.

"Good!"

The middle-aged man said hello, then stretched out his right hand, inserted the index finger, middle finger and thumb into the three small holes, and then put the three fingers together and gently pulled back, only to hear a soft sound of "stabbing", and the three small holes became a big hole.

"Five cents, here you go!"

The middle-aged man slapped the five cents on the table, and calmly took the woman and the child next to him downstairs, leaving the shopkeeper standing there alone and looking at the messy holes in the screen.

"Poof", Cao Xiaohui covered her mouth and laughed.

"Smart enough!" , Nie Xiaohu also nodded incessantly, and the other guests in the store also laughed.

After eating, the two rode out of Fengyu Town and galloped towards the east, and after about two quarters of an hour, Cao Xiaohui restrained his horse, pointed to a lake in front and said, "It's here, it's in front!" ”

The two of them came to the lake, and Nie Xiaohu looked around, what a quiet place! The blue waves in the lake are rippling, the shore is full of lotus flowers, a small forest on the shore, planted with peach trees, it is the flowering season at this time, from a distance, the forest seems to be a sea of flowers, the breeze blows, the air is fragrant, people are intoxicated.