In the twilight, in a secluded place called Luoguo Lane in the town, there was the sound of "tapping and tapping" horses' hooves, and a young man in straw sandals jumped off the thin red horse, came to the low courtyard wall, walked back and forth along the wall roots, sighed, the wall roots were dilapidated, and the low courtyard wall of yellow mud and straw was the characteristic of this town. Although the town is full of craftsmen, the carpenter does not have the same good furniture, the mason does not have a decent house, the doctor cannot cure his own illness, and the Taoist priest cannot calculate his fate, which is a portrayal of the life of ordinary people in the town for thousands of years.

The boy in straw sandals opened the courtyard door, tied his horse to the long dead lute tree, went into the house, took up the candle from the candlestick, and sprinkled yellow powder at the base of the courtyard wall.

This is the realgar powder he bought today in the herb shopkeeper, the young man still vaguely remembers that whenever after the Shangyuan Festival, in the early spring, when everything recovers, the mother always sprinkles some realgar powder outside the root of the courtyard wall, saying that it is to prevent insects, ants, snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other unclean things from running into the yard.

Jiang Xiaobai carefully sprinkled along the root of the wall, and even added some powder to the less dense place of the powder line, and then entered the yard with confidence, and then the young man was busy in the stove room, only to hear the sound of chopping vegetables and shabu-shabu in the room, and soon there was no sound in the stove room, about half an hour later, the young man picked up a wooden plate and put it on the small low table in the yard, two dishes in the wooden plate, a large bowl of white rice dry rice, two dishes, a plate of pickled dried cowpeas, a plate of kimchi, this is the teenager's dinner.

The boy ate unhurriedly, and seemed to enjoy this rare tranquility, because he walked back and forth for more than ten miles of mountain roads, and the boy could have bought a bowl of red oil chili noodles at a street food stall to eat, but he felt sorry for the three copper plates, so he insisted on returning home hungry. The teenager didn't eat very well, and the food was chewed in his mouth, and he ate it loudly. As if he thought the food was ugly, or that there was a bottom in his stomach, the boy slowed down the pace of his meal and leisurely enjoyed his dinner.

The alley in the twilight was supposed to be silent, Jiang Xiaobai suddenly heard a few sarcastic laughter that made his eardrums buzz, Jiang Xiaobai raised his head slightly, a brocade-clothed young man of the same age as him was sitting on the wall, his hands were tearing the boiled cured lean shreds, he tore the shredded lean meat very thinly, very long, as if enjoying an exquisite silk drawing. At this moment, he was grinning, unconcealing his disdainful look, as if he was despising Jiang Xiaobai's eating appearance.

It is said that he is the son of a big family in the capital who does business in the Meisuo Continent, and the family has good land and ten thousand tilts, and the owner of the family is well-managed, almost monopolizing the trade of Shu Jin in Jiannan Province and exported to the Meisuo Continent, not only rich and powerful. Although this Qi Donglai is the son of a rich and noble family, he is neither a concubine nor a concubine.

This Qi Donglai's mother is a servant girl, after the old man Qi was drunk one day, it happened that Qi Donglai's mother was waiting on the side, and the strong wine burned all the Qingming of the old man, so there was Qi Donglai, but the old man seemed to be a treasure knife and treasure the old, and after three years, the servant girl gave birth to another girl, named Qi Dongying. But the old man really couldn't stand the stalking of his wife and concubines, no, he sent someone to send the brothers and sisters to the Qi family in Sun Town, where eight hundred poles couldn't beat, and this Qi family was also one of the four major families of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen in the town.

Time flies like electricity, the two brothers and sisters who have become the abandoned sons of the wealthy in this alley, and they have a good life, wandering around inside and outside the sun town all day long, but the brothers and sisters seem to be talented and smart, and they are very familiar with the stories inside and outside the town.

The loess courtyard walls of every household in Luoguo Lane are only half an adult high, and the brocade-clothed young man Genmu does not need to stand on tiptoe, you can completely see Jiang Xiaobai sitting at a low table eating in the courtyard, but every time he talks to Jiang Xiaobai about something, he likes to sit on the wall, you say sit down, and put a soft cushion on the wall.

Suddenly, an immature voice sounded outside the courtyard gate, "Is Jiang Xiaobai at home?"

Jiang Xiaobai looked stunned, but he still put down his rice bowl, stood up, and looked up following the voice, there was a smiling young man standing outside the courtyard wall, the breeze gently brushed his long hair, like a jade tree in the wind, but it was a completely unfamiliar face.

Beside the young man stood a tall and sturdy old man, with a bronze face and a kind smile on his face, gently squinting at the two teenagers in the two adjacent courtyards.

The old man's gaze swept over Jiang Xiaobai's face, and he didn't stay too long, but his gaze fell on Qi Donglai, staring at it for a while, his eyes seemed to be a little shocked, but he quickly regained his calm.

"You are looking for Jiang Xiaobai, he is. In the courtyard next door, a delicate-looking girl came out of the kitchen and pointed at Jiang Xiaobai.

"He~ he's just an elm pimple, what are you looking for him. ”

"You are Jiang Xiaobai, my ancestor has a terminal illness, and he will die in a few months, her only wish now is to be able to eat again before she dies in Sun Zhenjiang Jiang Haiyang personally made silk rabbits, her old man said that she can eat the silk rabbits made by Sun Zhenjiang's family is dead and blind, I inquired in Sun Town for a long time, it was going to be dark, before I found your home, should you let us run all the way away, let us take advantage of the excitement and return home. ”

The young man didn't care whether Jiang Xiaobai was listening or not, so he crackled and said, as if he was eager to explain the reason for the matter clearly and understand.

"I, my father has been dead for eight years, I won't be a silk rabbit, it's not the right time for you to ......come"

Xiao Bai was a little sad, this strange boy mentioned his father's silk rabbit, once upon a time, Xiao Bai secretly decided that he must learn to be a silk rabbit, and even surpass his father one day. But it has backfired, the silk rabbit he made is not as good as the silk rabbit made by ordinary people in the town, thinking of this, the straw sandals boy faintly had a cramping pain in his chest.

"This, Jiang Xiaobai, I already inquired clearly when I came, your father made dozens of silk rabbits before he died, you are all hidden in the cellar in your backyard, I only buy one, you can rest assured, the price, you are satisfied, this time it is a fair deal, if you can sell it to me, keeping it is the most regrettable decision you will make in your life, otherwise, you should think about it." ”

The young man seemed to try his best to persuade Jiang Xiaobai, "Besides, you shouldn't let down an old man who has a terminal illness and can only live for three months in this world." Those of us who are juniors can't even satisfy such a small wish before her death, Jiang Xiaobai, you say, I~ Aren't I in vain. As he spoke, the boy rubbed his eyes, and a few tears seemed to fall from them.

Jiang Xiaobai's chest was extremely painful, and the words of the young man seemed to remind him of his father, mother, and the old man who died in the duck river, as if he had struggled in his heart for a long time, he was at war with heaven and man, but he still said a sentence carefully.

"You~ Is your ancestor really seriously ill?" looked at the tone and didn't seem to believe it.

"Jiang Xiaobai, you ...... If you don't want to sell it to me, you can say it clearly, but you can't wronged me in vain. Saying that, the young man looked aggrieved.

Three feet away, standing motionless outside the courtyard wall, the sturdy old man who looked like a sculpture, as if his fingers were pointing to the void, Jiang Xiaobai felt the sharp pain in his chest even more intense.

"Then you better wait a minute, I'll come when I go, let's talk about it first, for the sake of your ancestors, I will only sell you one, and you won't talk nonsense in the town, I don't want to deal with the trouble of buying silk rabbits." “

Seeing that Jiang Xiaobai finally agreed, the young man nodded again and again, "Of course, of course, we are all legitimate people, who will go to those unpleasant things." ”

The straw sandals boy turned around and entered the room, came to the cellar in the backyard, and after a quarter of an hour of tinkering, he appeared in the front yard again, carrying a silk rabbit that had already been dried in his hand, and handed it to the young man standing outside the courtyard wall.

"Take it, I heard my father say back then, the longer the silk rabbit dries, you can eat it raw, cut it into thin slices, and you can also drink wine, what Jiannan burns spring, Xinghua Village can be. However, it is best to have a wine from the Meso continent, and you can eat rabbit slices and taste wine at the same time, which is the real taste of the world. This time, for the sake of your ancestor's face, I only made an exception, I kept these, mainly because I had a thought, and I thought of my father when I looked at these. ”

Jiang Xiaobai chattered endlessly, and the pain in his chest seemed to be reduced a lot, "Oh, by the way, I won't take your money this time, it's a little bit of my heart for the old man." ”

The girl Dongying was a little anxious, "Jiang Xiaobai, Jiang Xiaobai, this brain is broken, right, he is really a loser, he deserves to be poor for the rest of his life." ”

Qi Donglai, who was sitting on the wall, just looked at Jiang Xiaobai coldly, and then looked back at the two uninvited guests standing outside the courtyard wall.

"Ah Ying, how can we have the leisure to care about such a thing, this is called salty eating radish and worrying about it, he is not angry, and others can't help, hey, dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, I don't want to talk about it later." ”

As he spoke, Qi Donglai yawned, looking like he didn't care about anything, and he hung high.

The young man outside the courtyard wall just glanced at the young man and girl on the courtyard wall next door, and casually took out a bag from his cuff and threw it to Jiang Xiaobai.

"I received the heart, this is a reward, you received the money, we trade fairly, you and I are both invited. The young man seemed to say the words "fair trade" very loudly, as if he was not saying it to Jiang Xiaobai and others.

The old man took the silk rabbit, wrapped it in a long strip of delicate Shu brocade, put it into the baggage he carried, and without waiting for Jiang Xiaobai to react, he pulled the young man away. In the alleys, only two elongated backs, one tall and one short, are left.