In the first two courtyards, there is no such person, is he really here? Xiao Jingyu looked at the words "Imperial Clothing Courtyard" and was in a trance.

Xiyun stood behind Xiao Jingyu, looking at his back, feeling a kind of loneliness that he couldn't say. She wanted to step forward and tell him that she would always be by his side. However, those legs could not take a step, and she was a little annoyed by her hesitation.

"Do you want to go in?" She asked out loud, feeling that Xiao Jingyu didn't seem to be interested in cherry blossom viewing.

Before the person in front could respond, the voice of the man in scarlet clothes sounded from behind, "Why don't you go in." ”

Xiyun looked at the person in front of him and didn't answer, which can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence. She walked to the door and looked at the puzzle on it: "Shrimp playing in the water on all sides of the mountain stream". She pondered for a while, and then blurted out, "'Mountain and Stream' on all sides means that the four 'mountain' characters are combined into one 'Tian' character; 'shrimp' is shaped like a lying hook, and 'playing in the water' means that there are a few points of water around the lying hook, and once combined, it is the word 'Si'." ”

The man in scarlet clothes looked at Xiyun and said eloquently, and the smile in his eyes deepened. Xiyun wrote the note easily, put it in the door and window, knocked on the door, and after a while, footsteps sounded over there, and the footsteps disappeared again, Xiyun guessed that there must be another little monk, and he showed it to the people inside. Sure enough, the door opened a few moments later.

Xiyun and the others followed the little monk into the small courtyard, and the layout of the courtyard was different from the previous two. There is a stone path against the wall at the entrance, and on the left hand side is a banana tree, and the four walls divide this place into an independent plantain courtyard, except for the door, there is only a doorway at the end of the stone road.

Out of the doorway, there is a two-story pavilion diagonally not far away, and in front of the house is an old pine tree, which is higher than the head of the wall, and not very large.

They saw a middle-aged man digging under a tree, digging with a shovel.

"Please take a seat in the house first, and I'll come later." The man's magnetic voice came, and he didn't turn to look at them.

As soon as he heard that familiar voice, Xiao Jingyu was a little shocked, he was really here. Xiao Jingyu just stood there, there was unspeakable pain in his eyes, thinking that at the beginning, he was about to leave the academy without saying a word, and the person who was once like a father, a mother, and a brother was now in front of him, but he didn't know how to speak.

The middle-aged man turned around and said happily, "I finally found it." You're blessed this time. ”

Xiyun saw that he was holding a dark green wine bottle in his hand, and under the pine tree behind him, several holes had been dug, and she felt a little sorry for this pine tree, no wonder it was only so big. Although the man was dressed in plain clothes, he could not hide it, his angular and handsome face, a pair of phoenix eyes, revealing alienated indifference, and a trace of white in his black hair.

The middle-aged man turned around and saw Xiao Jingyu in front of the court, he was stunned for a moment, and then quickly recovered the smile just now. He said to the little monk, "Mile, you bring the wine in and invite the donors to taste it." ”

The little monk who was replaced with Mile took Xiyun and them to the house.

Xiao Jingyu didn't enter the house with them, but still stood there, looking at the middle-aged man. At this time, the middle-aged man turned around, took a shovel, and slowly filled in the excavated soil.

"Uncle Thirteen, are you okay?" A thousand words, and in the end, there is only this one hello.

"Yu'er, you're still here." Xiao Yunhe sighed.

For many years, no one has ever called his name, and everyone in the world only knows that he is Xiao Zhangyuan, but not Xiao Jingyu, except for the one in the palace, who is the person with half-white sideburns in front of him.

"Uncle Thirteen, you can go back with me." Xiao Jingyu thought that before leaving, he was still full of green hair, he hadn't seen him for more than 20 years, his sideburns were half white, he didn't know what had happened, so that he would leave the academy and leave himself.

"Yu'er, you better go, I won't leave here." Xiao Yunhe said lightly.

"Can you tell me why, why you have to leave the academy and leave me behind." Xiao Jingyu said a little excited.

"Some things, in the past, let it pass. I'm like this now, and that's good. Xiao Yunhe stopped what he was doing, his eyes looked ahead, and his thoughts seemed to return to the past.

That year, Xiao Jingyu was only twelve years old, and Xiao Yunhe received a letter from the capital, with only four words in the letter, "Concubine Chen is sick". He couldn't believe it was true, so he hurried back to see her.

However, what awaited him was her cold body, and the girl who once called her brother in charge of the courtyard would never smile at him again. Huanyue, the palace maid beside Concubine Chen, pointed at him and complained, saying that he was not worthy of being here, and Concubine Chen died because of him. He thought that the girl entered the palace voluntarily, he thought that she liked the emperor, and it turned out that he was the initiator of all this, and it was he who pushed her into the abyss.

Since then, he has not returned to the academy, wandering around like a soulless walking corpse, for which he wants to punish himself. Until one day, he came to Cloud City, and by chance, he entered this "Imperial Clothing Courtyard".

Xiao Yunhe came back to his senses from the dusty past. "Let's go in, don't let your two little friends wait." As he spoke, he picked up his shovel and walked into the house.

At this time, in the house, the man in scarlet clothes was asking Xiyun's name, and Xiyun didn't care about him, picked up the wine glass, and tasted the wine. The color of the wine is light yellow, there is a fresh and elegant fragrance, there is no pungent alcohol, she took a small sip, felt that there is a kind of sweet fruit, very delicious, inevitably drank another sip, after a while, a glass has bottomed out.

Xiyun picked up the bottle and poured himself another glass. This time, instead of tasting it, she drank it all.

When Xiao Yunhe and Xiao Jingyu came in, they saw Xiyun sitting there drinking with a ruddy face. Xiao Yunhe stepped forward in a few steps and snatched the wine bottle and wine glass from Xiyun's hand.

"You little girl, you are really greedy, this wine can be intoxicating with a glass, not to mention your drinking method."

Xiyun still wanted to take back the wine bottle in Xiao Yunhe's hand, and muttered in his mouth, "You are really stingy, don't you just have a bottle of wine." ”

Xiao Yunhe shook his head helplessly, and said to Xiao Jingyu, "It's not early, you should send this girl back earlier." ”

Xiao Jingyu wanted to say something, but Xiao Yunhe waved his hand at him and asked him to leave. "Remember, cherish the people in front of you." He didn't want Xiao Jingyu to be like him, but when he thought of something, he closed his eyes helplessly.

Xiao Jingyu knew that it was useless to talk more, and he would come back on a cloudy day. He took Xiyun's hand and walked to the door, and the man in scarlet clothes saw Xiao Jingyu pulling Xiyun, got up and said, "Farewell", and went out with him.

Looking at their disappearing figures, Xiao Yunhe picked up the wine bottle in his hand and drank it himself, but he was more worried in his heart. Just now he knew that this little girl must like Xiao Jingyu, because her eyes have always stayed on him. However, they do not have the right to make people happy, and neither he nor he is destined to die alone in the end.