Winter.

The young man was dressed in dark clothes, and the five teenagers behind him followed with their heads bowed, walked through the courtyard, crossed the lake, and stopped outside the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

The young man in Xuanyi bowed respectfully: "The owner." ”

The boys knelt down and kowtowed, and followed in trembling voices, "See the owner." ”

No one responded, there was silence all around, and the teenagers listened to each other's breathing and heartbeats, not daring to look up at the white figure in the pavilion.

Suddenly, a dark shadow popped out of the lake.

Assassin? The boy thought.

The young man in Xuanyi did not move, and the owner did not move, so the teenagers had to resist the curiosity and impulse to turn their heads to look, and continued to count the cracks on the floor tiles.

The black shadow flew into the pavilion, knelt down on one knee behind Heng Qingyue, and the things in his hand fell to the ground with a ding-dong dong, hanging his head and saying nothing.

The man known as the farmer finally turned around and looked at something on the ground.

But it's a few white seeds.

"One less." Icy voice.

The black shadow did not answer, and he had just come out of the icy water, shivering in the cold wind, but he remained motionless.

Heng Qingyue seemed to have only noticed Xuan Mo and the others who had been waiting for a long time at this time, waved his hand, and motioned for them to get up.

Don't dare to look at the owner, he doesn't feel any evasion about that black shadow.

The tassel has always boasted of being bold, and his eyes quickly turned, sweeping everything in the gazebo.

In the pavilion, only the owner of the village and the dark shadow boy, the stone table with the game of Go stood alone in the middle, and no one paid attention. The black shadow boy knelt on the ground with a wet body, and there were a lot of white children scattered at his feet.

What's going on? Could it be that the guy accidentally dropped the chess piece into the lake, so he went into the water to pick it up?

Hey, it's so cold, if it's him, he will definitely freeze to death, and the owner of the village is really not good to serve.

But if he can do things by the owner's side, he can do it.

Tassel straightened his waist and secretly made up his mind.

"Get up." The sound of the clouds and the wind is light.

Only then did the black shadow boy get up and follow Heng Qingyue to a few teenagers.

He looked a little older than several teenagers, but he was a little thin, and he looked very short standing behind Heng Qingyue. Although Tassel hung his head, he only raised his gaze slightly, and it was easy to see his whole picture.

Ugly, this was the first assessment that Tassel gave him.

He looked neat and neat in a gray-black coarse cloth shirt, but there was a struggling knife wound on his face, which stretched from the left corner of his eye to the right side of his face, which was very frightening at first glance. How can such a person, whose appearance is hindered, be worthy of being the owner's servant? No wonder he wanted to pick a few of them, Tassel was a little proud in his heart, and he was still very confident in whether he could be chosen.

Being looked at and sarcastic, how could the black shadow boy not notice it, he glanced at the tassel, the tassel suddenly sweated, and even the young man next to him shivered.

Evil spirits. This is the second evaluation that Tassel gave him.

Tassel hurriedly lowered his head in peace, not daring to make another attempt, but he was vaguely dissatisfied in his heart.

The communication between the two was only a moment, and a few people noticed it slightly, but they didn't perceive it very clearly, but it was colder today.

But how can these be concealed from Heng Qingyue and Xuanmo.

It's just that Heng Qingyue has never paid much attention to these, Xuan Mo frowned, but it was not easy to find out the lesson at this time.

I had to break the air that suddenly became colder: "Owner, carefully selected from the outer hall, I will wait for careful screening, these people are barely qualified, please take a look." ”

"Raise your head."

Several teenagers are eleven or twelve years old, their faces are still immature, and their faces are delicate.

Xuan Mo glanced at the kid behind the owner, but saw that he was expressionless.

Xuan Mo sighed in his heart, this kid's temperament is the same as that of the owner, and it is no wonder that the owner likes him.

For the black shadow boy, on the contrary to Heng Qingyue, Xuan Mo doesn't like it very much, but after the last big purge, there is indeed a shortage of manpower in the village, and the owner of the village is not a person who can get close to anyone. Liu Qingyi is strong in martial arts, and he undertakes the position of protecting the Dharma, but he really can't serve people, and he is busy with affairs, but he didn't expect to let that kid take the opportunity to enter.

I have proposed to recruit new people many times before, but I have been brought by the owner of the village, but this time it was because Liu Qingyi had a private matter to deal with, and he had to leave for a while, so the owner reluctantly agreed to increase the number of people.

Several teenagers did not squint, their expressions were respectful, and they let the owner of the village and the black shadow boy look at them.

"It's much more pleasing to the eye than a dumb one." The owner of the village opened his mouth lightly and looked at the black shadow boy beside him.

I saw the dark shadow boy shrug his shoulders and said, "That's nature."

The expected response, the mute has always been very self-aware.

Crippled, this is the third evaluation that Tassel gave him.

Knowing that he was mute, Tassel and other teenagers were a little surprised, except for Tassel, the teenager began to peek from time to time, and saw his face full of coldness, so he shivered and shrank back.

Tassel couldn't help but want to glance at his eyes, and secretly said in his heart, if he couldn't even compare with such a person, then he really couldn't complain about others.

Heng Qingyue turned around and returned to the pavilion and said, "You came just in time, have a fight with me, and take them down to settle down." ”

Dumb and silent should be.

The two began to play against each other.

He didn't have a name, or rather, they couldn't know his name, so they gave him that name, dumb.

Until he couldn't see their backs, Xuan Mo spoke: "I can't guess what you're thinking anymore." ”

Xu is no one else, his tone is very relaxed, not like a master and servant, but more like an old friend.

"Concentrate on playing chess."

Didn't get the answer I wanted.

Finale...... Xuanmo won.

Mocking: "You can also bully and bully the dumb." ”

"Let's die?"

"No, but curiosity kills."

Heng Qingyue was silent, and only after a long time did he mutter: "He always reminds me of my mother." ”

Xuan Mo was stunned, why did he still get involved with his wife?

frowned and thought for a while, and said, "But he ...... He has nothing to do with his wife, and there are many poor people in the world who are similar to him, but he is only one of ten thousand, why should you ......" The elegant and refined woman unconsciously appeared in my mind, thinking of the tragic decision of her death, and thinking of the embarrassment when I first saw the mute.

The two of them are very different, how did the owner compare them together.

Xuan Mo paused and said, "He is by your side, and we are not at ease." ”

"Maybe we're all about to forget who he is," he continued, "and the more harmless he is, the more suspicious he becomes. I never believed he would be as innocent as he appeared. ”

And he also believes that the owner is not unwary of him.

Because there are never less than three black-clothed guards around the mute......

The mute probably knew it, but he never showed dissatisfaction or resistance.

"Let's give it a try." Xuan Mo picked up a chess piece, landed heavily on the chessboard, and threw this sentence.