In the land south of the Yangtze River, when it rains, the dense water vapor permeates the heaven and the earth, just like a bead curtain, slowly opening a new chapter......

Most of the rainy seasons in Jiangnan are continuous, but it is rare for them to pour as hard as they do today. The raindrops the size of beans sprinkled wantonly, poured between the heaven and the earth, smashed on the neat corrugated of Liufu, gathered into a stream, the flowing water passed through the gaps between the corrugated, turned into silver threads and hung on the side of the eaves, under the eaves a neatly dressed white maid walked softly, but always turned his head from time to time to look at the kneeling young man in front of the front hall with a straight waist and a low head.

His hair stuck to his angular face like a twisted sword, and the raindrops fell wantonly on his body, flowing down his forehead, cut in half by the bridge of his sword-like nose, and then falling down his low face, a thin layer of white clothes had been clinging to his body, carving out his streamlined figure, and the biting chill twisted into his body like a small snake, and his knees were already kneeling and aching, as if everything in heaven and earth was forcing him to submit, but he always lowered his head and looked intently at the intricate and disorderly ripples on the puddle in front of him, his eyes were motionless and indifferent。

The voices of some handmaidens were faintly heard, "Alas, the young master is actually a very good person, and he usually helps us slaves and maids, but his temperament is too stubborn." ”

"Yes, the young master has been kneeling here for a day, and he hasn't even eaten a bite of food, and it's really a little unbearable for God to rain so hard. ”

"If it weren't for the strict prohibition of the head of the family from helping the young master, I would definitely go to hold an umbrella for the young master. ”

"Alas, be quiet, we may be punished again if the master of the house hears us. ”

"Alas......"

At this time, I heard an old but soothing voice sound, and the words naturally revealed a calm state, which made people believe that the owner of this voice was absolutely full of poetry and books, and had experienced vicissitudes, "Two young ladies, here, this is my Liufu, please come in." ”

After the maidservants saw the stone screen, they walked out of the three people, led by a middle-aged man in Confucian clothes, his eyes were calm, his eyes were always looking at the ground, and he expressed humility, which made people feel good when they saw him, and felt that he was an approachable gentleman. The maidservants all know that this is the second head of the Liufu, the younger brother of the head of the house, the housekeeper of the Liufu, named Liu Fuqian, who usually treats the subordinates gently and politely, and is deeply loved by the subordinates.

The other two are two young women, the front one is wearing a long green coat, the green clothes are embroidered with flying catkins, as if there are really catkins flying around her, her eyebrows are curved, like a handsome stroke in the hands of a great calligrapher, and the outline of her eyelids is more naturally like a flying willow, just like a few strands of green hair in her waterfall green silk. Her eyes wandered, like a gentle spring breeze, and the corners of her mouth smiled, which naturally gave people a sense of gentleness and made people feel close.

The woman behind the woman in green is a little shorter, a moon-white robe is as bright as the moonlight, as cold as flowing water, there is no other color on the clothes, the willow eyebrows are naturally stretched, giving people a sense of lightness for no reason, the outline of her eyelids is even softer, like a warm and elegant treasure jade, but inside the treasure jade is a clear pool, her gaze is very quiet, very soft, as if looking at everything in the world lightly, like a clear lake quietly reflecting the floating elephants. This girl* is quiet, quiet enough to make the people around her feel a sense of pity.

The girl, dressed in moon-white clothes, looked at the figure that knelt straight in the rain, and for some reason a sense of familiarity and a strong longing arose in her heart, and her heart moved, and there was a little man in her heart who was quietly caressing the wall of her heart, soft and resolute. She walked slowly, gently moved to his side, and the oil-paper umbrella in her hand naturally covered him, blocking the punishment of heaven and earth for him with a small body.

He was quietly watching the continuous ripples on the waterhole in front of him, but there were no ripples in his heart...... Suddenly, the waterhole turned white, the raindrops stopped, and he felt himself suddenly surrounded by a very intimate feeling, as if at that moment, the heavens and the earth had forgiven themselves, and stretched out their broad arms to gently retract themselves, and the string that had not wavered in the heavy rain and harsh reproaches was broken...... Tracing back along the white shadow in the pool, he saw a pair of eyes like water, as if he had experienced a thousand times of gaze, naturally like that, he passed through the endless darkness from the eyes like a clear pool and quietly looked at the soul in the depths of her eyes, strange like this, he quietly felt her soul convey to him her joy, her sorrow, her sorrow, her pity. In an instant, he sank, and the ripples rippled a thousand times.

In a trance, there seemed to be something in my head that was about to break out of the cocoon, my head cracked badly, and my ears vaguely sounded roars, murmurs, sighs, distant vows in the depths of the soul and could not enter, the world in front of me changed, bright as red, chaotic as orange, clear as yellow, green as green, ethereal as cyan, silent as blue, misty as purple, suddenly, "Alas......" Seven overlapping sighs, with different tones, different feelings, and different meanings, sounded in his mind at the same time, and although they were sighs, they were like a big bell being ringed in his head! Everything in front of him was shattered in an instant, and he was turned into darkness......

.................................

In the chaos, consciousness returned, but it was still dark in front of him, and the sound of a muffled conversation could be heard in his ears

"What's wrong with Chen'er, but is there anything serious?"

"Big brother, it's fine, don't worry too much, the doctor said that it's just because of mental overwork, and it will be fine to recuperate for a few days. But, big brother, you too, why did you just let him kneel in the rain for a day?"

“...... If you do something wrong, you have to learn to take it, and now is not the time for him to go out!"

"Alas, big brother, the fate is determined, even if you can't get out of Liucheng under the pressure of Xunchen, however, the fate that belongs to him will still find him after all...... Instead of running away from this so-called life, it is better to let him go and let Xunchen go his own way and write his own article. ”

“..................”

Consciousness fell asleep again, and the boy slowly opened his eyes and looked at everything familiar in front of him. A gentle voice like a breeze sounded, "Xunchen, awake?"

Turning his head, he saw that his second uncle was sitting on his table and chair, the hem of his green bamboo clothes was gently shaking with his hand, and he was slowly pouring the potion in the medicine pot into the water cup, and the amber potion fell into the water cup in a fixed arc in the air, and not a drop was splashed. Liu Fuqian made a gesture of pouring water calmly, his eyes always staring at the waterline in the air, and the corners of his mouth smiled.

Xunchen is his name, his surname is Liu, the Liu family is one of the five major families in the entire human race, and he is the only son of the head of the Liu family, his father, Liu Fuxing.

He immediately called out respectfully: "Second uncle." In this family, Liu Fuqian is more like his bosom friend, he will not be as harsh and harsh as his father, but will quietly listen to himself, help himself analyze the reasons for everything, and help him make the right choice, at the same time, he will also persuade himself and his father to ease the relationship between father and son, and his own reading and literacy are also taught by him, so he also has special respect for him.

Liu Fuqian took the water glass, handed it to him, and said with a smile: "You quarreled with your father again?"

Xun Chen gently took the water cup, lowered his head slightly, and was silent.

Liu Fuqian glanced at him deeply, the young man in front of him lowered his head, but his eyes were still motionless, showing determination.

He sighed and said, "Xunchen, you say...... You want to find your own freedom, then, do you know what freedom is?" Although the young man in front of him still lowered his head, his head was slightly raised. He paused for a moment and continued: "Do you think it is freedom to be a gentleman who wantonly squandered his life and lived a life of luxury? Do you think it is freedom to be a wanderer in the rivers and lakes, who has no fixed place to live, who does not know where to go the next day every day, who does not know what he has done today, and who is so muddy all day long?"

He glanced at Xun Chen again with a little meaning, and said: "Xun Chen, you want to go out, just because you want to go out, even if you go out, what will you do? ”

The door slammed down, and the room was silent, so silent that you could hear the flames on the candles licking the air. After a long time, with the sound of getting out of bed and walking, the door opened......

Xunchen gently raised his head and looked up at the sky, now that the night is dark, yesterday's rainstorm seems to have squandered the water vapor accumulated in the clouds, today's clouds have dispersed, like a long-lost reunion, the stars flashed in the air again, brilliant as the stars read his loneliness, flashes and flashes seem to give him comfort in their way, his heart moved, for a long time...... Didn't go to that place anymore......

Picking the Star Tower, the tallest building in Liucheng, is the most convenient place to look at the stars, whenever there is a lingering sorrow and sadness in their hearts, they will always come to the top of the Star Picking Tower and look at the stars, not only because they will feel their companionship and temporary comfort and tranquility when they look at the stars, but also because they heard that the Star Picking Tower was built by his father for his mother, and he has no mother since he was a child.

The breeze slowly crossed from infinity, and there was a slow coolness between his neck, gently sitting on the wooden board on the top floor of the star-picking building, listening to the low squeak, looking down, he could see thousands of lights, the boundless night swept the city like a tide, the orange red lights that were clearly extinguished were like an island in the waves swaying and flashing, and suddenly, he felt that these lights were inexplicably very warm, and he seemed to be a leaf of duckweed in this universe, after all, there were always so many duckweed wrapped around him, looking up, he saw thousands of starlight, those starlights were sprinkled like a substance, and the cold starlight on the horizon and the warm lights on the ground were mottled and mixed together on the roof of the star-picking building, blue and red complement each other, like a banquet of light and dance, brilliant to the extreme. Xun Chen gently stretched out his hand and spread it out in the air, watching the blue and red in his hand beat, gently soothing his secret heart.

A soft squeak sounded behind him, someone came? Xunchen thought, maybe it was his father, he had met his father many times on the top of this star-picking building, and then he thought, no, his father's footsteps were not so soft.

Turning her head, she found that a pair of clear eyes were looking at her with a little surprise, between her eyebrows, very beautiful, and the light around her seemed to be attracted by it, flowing naturally on her moon-white clothes, and the breeze rose slightly, rolling up thousands of lights, and was full of light.

She didn't expect that there was someone on the top of this building, and she didn't expect that this person was the boy who knelt in the rain yesterday, but she could see the softness and serenity on his face when he had just put his hands to cover the time, and she thought, "He must have spent many nights like this." Her eyebrows were raised lightly again, stirring up a streamer, and she saw that his eyes changed suddenly, and the nature that had been floating in front of her eyes was quickly buried in the depths of her eyes, and her eyes became deep again, and the corners of her mouth that were originally raised lightly sank rapidly, and she quickly turned her head, "He doesn't like others to see him weak." She thought that she was still thinking back to the gaze he had just turned his head away, and he was panicked and disguised, like a frightened little beast.

Xunchen turned his head in a panic, looked down at the thousands of lights, and felt that there was a partition that stood silently and quickly around his heart, cutting off all the prying eyes around him. He looked at the orange and red lights below, but found that he didn't know when, they were so far away from him, so far away that they didn't belong to him, the original flickering fire seemed to be separated from himself by a moat, no matter what, he couldn't warm his soul anymore, he seemed to be wandering in a dark cage, but it was cold everywhere, "It turns out that there is so much warmth, none of them belong to me...... What exactly am I going to do?...... Cold. "There is naturally a cold water flowing in my heart, cooling the warmth that has just risen.

There was silence behind him, and Xun Chen knew that the girl was standing over there, neither far away nor closer, just standing quietly over there, "What is she looking at......?" Me?" My heart began to beat violently and struggled, as if it was trying to use all its strength to break the barrier in it, it had been lonely for too long. He hated this loneliness, hated this discomfort, but he couldn't do anything when they came, so he could only clutch his chest and struggle alone. Now, the opportunity to no longer be lonely has finally come, and he feels that this girl has no malice, and for some reason, there is an indescribable intimacy for himself, "Maybe...... I could get to know her, and she became... Friends, perhaps...... I can share my ...... with her My ......" In an instant, thousands of lights were nothing to him, only the moon-white figure stood quietly in his heart.

Xun Chen turned his head slightly, and found that the moon-white figure was standing there, motionless, red and blue and time flowed quietly on the moon-white robe, the time was quiet, the gaze was like water flowing quietly in his body, and most of the original uneasiness was instantly removed, "Original...... She was just looking at me so quietly. ”

She quietly watched him turn his head, in her eyes, a little timid, a little eager, the corners of her mouth were lightly raised, and she didn't speak quietly, as if the woman in the painting walked out, this shallow smile instantly said the charm of the picturesque landscape, she was waiting for him to speak first.

Xunchen's mouth opened: "I ......" but it was stuck, "What should I say?" His mind was blank, he didn't know what to say at all, he turned to an unspeakable sadness, "What can I say......"

She watched his mouth open and close but couldn't hold back a word, and the watery pool in her heart naturally rippled with a funny ripple, and she could see his anxious mood and helplessness. In turn, several stars in the sky suddenly lit up, and then broke free from the fixed orbit and slid down to the world, dazzling and brilliant! Her eyes were instantly lit up by the stars, and she raised her head slightly, revealing her beautiful and white neck, and said softly: "Meteor ......"

Xun Chen was stunned, and then raised his head, it was really a meteor! The stars broke free from the orbit given by fate, chasing their own light at the cost of burning their lives, the white with red or white with blue light in the sky crossed one after another, the meteors like a cluster of arrows across the sky, the sky was arbitrarily divided and seemed to wave to themselves again and again, those stars came by the wind in the night, stepped on the moon, the faint howling of the wind is their free cheer, they outlined a rain in the sky, washed away the dust, a painting, outlined the brilliance, this is a feast belonging to nature and the stars, and we can only look up and witness。

The squeak in his ears sounded, he was stunned, looked back, and saw the moon-white clothes gently swinging down, she sat gently next to him, her long hair fluttered with the wind and stroked his cheeks, at this moment she was so close to him, she looked at the meteor quietly, he could look at her quietly, the neat eyelashes were blown up and down like a zither by the breeze, the glowing nose, the pale pink lips, the skin that glowed like jade and the eyes that were like ink and water, in the eyes of Xunchen at this moment, were comparable to the meteors in the skyThe moon-white girl sat quietly beside him, countless stars in the sky cut through the silent sky, he felt that this was really the most beautiful scenery in the world, and the separation in his heart had already dissolved unconsciously.

The girl still looked up at the sky, with thousands of stars reflected in her eyes, and said softly, "Make a wish." After speaking, he gently closed the picture scroll in his eyes, slowly closed his hands in front of his chest, and put them together, and the ten fingers silently performed the closing of the flowers. He followed the example of a girl, raised his head slightly, slowly closed his hands, and read in his heart: "What is freedom? Xunchen, I have found a reason to go out, I want to protect those I cherish, I don't want to be lonely anymore!"

Xun Chen slowly opened his eyes, the girls around him were still making wishes, the shoulder-length hair was swept up by the breeze, flying in the starlight, flying like a silver thread connecting the stars, which made him sure that all this was not a Thoreau illusion, looking down, everyone in Liucheng came out, some were pointing to the meteor shower, some were hugging relatives and friends, and some were clasping their hands together in front of their chests to make a wish quietly, suddenly, he felt that the firelight came back in his heart, swaying and flashing in his heart, warm and comforting his heart, making him feel a burst of comfort。

He slowly lay down on the plank, looked at the girl in front of him, looked at the stars in the sky, and couldn't help but sigh, and then the girl also opened her eyes and looked at the stars flowing by staggeredly, and sighed

"It's so beautiful!" the boy and girl said at the same time, their voices overlapping each other, and they were stunned at the same time, looking at each other and smiling at the same time.

The girl also lay down, looked at the meteor, and said softly, "I don't know if they heard my wishes." ”

"Definitely. He replied, and said in his heart, "Even if they don't help you achieve it, I will help you." ”

She smiled lightly, silently, but he knew she had smiled.

"My name is Liu Xunchen, call me Xunchen, what about you?"

"Chu asks the fish, asks the fish ......"

That night, there was no word after that, but the years were quiet and the time was full......

That night, the streamers met each other, and the world was brilliant at first glance......

That night, in the hearts of the two, colorful streamers, endless and beautiful......