The breeze is slight, blowing across the surface of the Qinhuai River, rippling in circles. The river is intertwined with boats, including the colorful boats and boats, and the boats of a few people.

The sky was gray, the fine rain was gently fluttering, and a couple of men and women rowed the water waves and rain curtains in a small boat, and went down the Qinhuai River. The woman held an embroidered oil paper umbrella, covering her face, sitting at the bow of the boat, and not far behind her was a man wearing a hat, wearing a lily coat, and driving a small boat in the rain with both hands.

The woman holding the umbrella sitting at the bow of the boat turned her head and said with a smile: "I can let Lord Xiao personally support the boat, but I have to envy others when I say it." ”

The man holding the boat laughed.

The man is Xiao Yu, and the woman is naturally Xie Si, Xie Si continued: "Why didn't the prince let Qu Duwei accompany him this time?"

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Where are two big men in the same boat as swimming with a beautiful woman?"

Xie Si shook his head and said: "Ten miles of Qin Huai, there are countless beauties, what kind of beauty am I." ”

Xiao Yu smiled lightly: "How can a group of dusty women compare with Miss Xie?"

Xie Si asked rhetorically: "They are all women, just because of their different family backgrounds, they can't be compared, today these suffering women can't be compared with me, so if I meet the princess and concubine in the future, won't it be incomparable?"

Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment, and did not answer Xie Si directly, but instead said: "Miss Xie is very different from other women from other families I have seen, and can teach a woman like Miss Xie, Mr. Xie is called the first person in Jiangzuo, and he really lives up to his reputation." ”

The woman glanced at him, and said slightly: "He's not here, what's the use of the prince saying these words, do you still expect me to pass on the word." ”

Xiao Yutian said half-truthfully: "Mr. Xie back then was a first-class madman, even Emperor Zheng didn't take it seriously, Xiao praised a few words, but it was not a boast." ”

Although Xie Si is everyone's best girl, she is not out of the door, where can she not see the hidden meaning of ridicule in Xiao Yu's words, and the rare little daughter snorted softly and ignored Xiao Yu.

On both sides of the riverbank, you can see large and small wharves everywhere, almost every wharf corresponds to a mansion on the bank of the Qinhuai River, some wharves are intertwined, and some wharf doors can be crowded, so you can roughly judge what the current situation of the owner of the mansion behind the wharf is.

As for the Fang family's wharf, it is already completely deserted, not only only are there only a few ruins left on the trestle bridge, but the shore is also overgrown with weeds, which "complement each other" with the abandoned mansion not far away. Since he decided to go to Jiangdu, Xiao Yu made up his mind to come to this old Fang family mansion to take a look, and then put on a stick of incense to pay tribute to the 428 lives who died in that turmoil.

When he arrived at the Fang family's dock, Xiao Yu docked the boat, jumped off the boat first, and stretched out his left hand towards Xie Si. Xie Si first handed the paper umbrella in his hand to Xiao Yu, then held a rosewood box in one hand, held Xiao Yu's outstretched left hand in the other, and jumped down from the boat carefully.

Xiao Yu held a paper umbrella, Xie Siti wooden box, and the two walked side by side.

There was originally a bluestone paved path between the wharf and the Fangfu Gate, but at this time it was already overgrown with weeds, and there was no trace of the path at all. Pushing open the door of the Fang family, what greeted me was also a depressed scene, broken bricks and tiles, dead branches and leaves, I don't know how long the fallen leaves had been accumulated on the ground and turned into black mud-like things, but the overall building was still well preserved, and it could be vaguely seen that the prosperity of the Fang family was at its peak.

Fang Xuan is the daughter of the Fang family, as a son, Xiao Yu can also be regarded as half of the Fang family, in the case that the Fang family is almost extinct, if Xiao Yu wants to say that this mansion is his own, it is okay. However, the situation at this time is that Xiao Yu, the owner of half of the mansion, is completely unfamiliar with this old mansion, but Xie Si, as an outsider, is quite familiar with it, leading Xiao Yu through the hall and corridor, and walking most of the Fang family's old mansion.

Walking into the main hall of the Fang Mansion, Xiao Yu looked around with his hands, but did not speak, but Xie Si spoke: "Back then, every time Fang Ge Lao returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, his father would come to pay a visit. ”

Xiao Yu's gaze suddenly stopped, and said, "This is my first time here. ”

Xie Si sighed, "I came with my father once when I was a child, I don't know why, I remember this place very clearly, as if I had been here many times." ”

Xiao Yu didn't think deeply, and said lightly: "When I was a child, I heard my mother say that there is a big begonia in the back garden, every late spring, red and bright like a splendid paving the ground, the east wind passes, and the sky is flying like a rain of flowers, which is a rare beauty." ”

Xie Si's expression was in a trance, as if he was fascinated and reminiscing.

Xiao Yu said calmly: "The remnants of the flowers are unbearable for the wind and rain, and the people are like flowers. ”

Xie Si opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but finally became speechless.

Xiao Yu handed the flower umbrella in his hand to Xie Si, then took the wooden box from her hand, took out the incense candle from it, and set it up in front of the main hall, putting a stick of incense on the door of Fang's death.

Xiao Yu stood aside, watching the incense turn into ashes little by little, and then spoke: "After I return to Zhongdu, I don't know what year and month it will be if I want to come to Jiangdu again." I don't know if I will be able to come here again in my lifetime to have a stick of incense. ”

Xie Si lowered his head and snorted.

The wind suddenly blows the weeds all over the garden, and the wind is mixed with one or two begonia petals blowing from nowhere, which are bright and dripping.

Xiao Yu's voice was a little gloomy, revealing a cold cold unique to the night wind in the north, "I am now more and more taboo to hear that sentence The higher you climb, the heavier you fall, if ordinary people fall, it is nothing more than a bruised nose and swollen face, but if I fall from my current position, it will fall into the abyss, and there will be no return." So I'm afraid that I will fall down and never get up again, after all, I have been in a short period of time, and I don't have the capital and heritage to make a comeback. ”

Xie Si smiled bitterly: "So you have to keep climbing up until you never fall down again at the top of the mountain?"

Xiao Yu smiled slightly bitterly: "I can't tell if I am interested in the emperor's throne, I can't say that I am not at all, it must be a lie, but if I say that I have, I don't have any obsession, I can only say that I have reached this point, and I can't help myself." ”

Xie Si asked, "Even if you become an emperor, you can't do it?"

Xiao Yu said: "I don't know if the immortals in the sky can be free, but I know that the emperor must be uncomfortable, especially if he wants to be a Ming Jun and a holy monarch, it is not much worse than being an ascetic." ”

Xie Sixiao asked, "In this way, the prince doesn't want to be a good emperor?"

Xiao Yu laughed and said: "Everyone wants to be the emperor, but for most people, they don't necessarily want to be a Ming Jun, but more of a faint Jun of Jiuchi Meat Forest." ”

Accustomed to hearing Xie Gongyi's "great rebellion", Xie Si just laughed at what Xiao Yu said, and didn't know whether to agree or disdain to argue.

Xiao Yu suddenly raised his head and glanced at the main hall, then grabbed Xie Si's cuffs, and threw her out of the Fang Mansion with a false hand, and this powerless Miss Xie landed directly on the Wupeng boat on the Qinhuai River, unscathed.

Xiao Yu shook the robe that had been draped over his body, and sprinkled countless tiny droplets, which hung but did not fall, surrounding him.

Xiao Yu stretched out his hands and pushed forward. The droplets turned into a rain of arrows and shot in the direction of the main hall. However, before this wave of sword rain approached the main hall, it had already disappeared. Because the rain falling in the sky had turned into a sword of smoke and rain at some point, annihilating Xiao Yu's water arrow, and then falling towards him.

After launching a wave of water arrows earlier, Xiao Yu had already reached out and took off the hat on his head, and at this time, he just looked up at the rain sword falling from the sky and took a deep breath.

Then he exhaled a breath of turbid air, and reduced the rain sword to the most rainy silk, and lifted it again above the higher canopy.

This is no longer a pure competition, but the perception of the realm of the unity of heaven and man, you take advantage of the power of heaven and earth, and turn the sword into smoke and rain, then I will break your borrowing momentum and let the sword turn back into smoke and rain.

Xiao Yu withdrew his gaze from the sky, pressed the hilt of the broken sword under his robe, and strode towards the main hall.