One day in April, before the masked man entered the village, he was told by the villagers that Mrs. Lin's family was gone.

Left him a letter before leaving.

The letter is very long, but the content is very simple, nothing more than to thank him for his company for so many years. also reassured him, saying that Xiaozhou would definitely forget him.

can also joke, indicating that the news from Kyori did not hit her.

She quickly decided to go back...... It seems to be expected.

The masked man put the letter in his arms and sighed.

"Hero," said the eldest brother, who had been guarding here for several days, "Little lady, are they still back?" ”

"I don't know," he returned, still wondering whether to tell her the news, and rushed back, only to learn that she was gone.

Look blank.

The masked man didn't listen to what the eldest brother said, turned his horse's head and left. A sense of loss that this place was about to be erased from his memory made him turn his horse's head back.

He took out all the money he had with him and told the eldest brother who was passing the message, and told him, "Help me take care of the yard, maybe...... And the day I came back. ”

"Hero—"

A group of chaotic children ran over and scrambled to ask, "Is the capital far away?" Can we go find the boat? ”

“…… Yes," the masked man gave them the delicious food and fun he had brought to Xiaozhou, touching their heads one by one, "you will definitely meet again in the future." I'm going to have to go after them. ”

"Come back early."

There are also children who don't know that this is parting.

Lin Qingqing and the others released the news that they were leaving, and then walked away at night without letting anyone send it.

When you come, you have a carriage for three people, and you need a boat when you leave.

As soon as Xiaozhou woke up, he cried when he saw the top of the boat.

Now a man squatted in the bow of the boat, sullen.

Xiaofu will not persuade people, nor will he coax children, he will stay by the side and follow him to watch the ants.

Lin Qingqing also looked at it for a while, and the realization was still put on his son, "Baby." ”

Xiaozhou doesn't want to pay attention to people.

Lin Qingqing's face was bitter, and he didn't know what to say.

"You know we can't show up in the capital together, right?" She said it anyway.

Xiaozhou didn't know, raised his head to look at her, and the ignorance on his face made Lin Qingqing sad.

She touched Xiaozhou's head, "Mommy and baby have to go separately." ”

Xiaozhou is only three years old and has a small brain, and he doesn't understand everything. But he hasn't been separated from Mommy since he was born, and before he could understand it, the signal to separate made him cry.

It's not that he silently sheds tears, nor does he cry because he is wronged, every time he cries, he cries loudly.

No one can withstand it.

Aunt Yun, who was hiding aside and listening to them, immediately ran over and hugged her.

Xiaozhou closed his wailing mouth, wiped his tears, and spat out two words clearly, "No." ”

Lin Qingqing squatted on the ground and leaned towards him.

Xiaozhou hugged her neck, wiped all the tears in her neck, and said, "No." ”

"Xiao Zhou is good."

"Woo-"

They were never apart, not even for a day.

Xiaozhou fell asleep crying, and her little paws were still clutching her clothes.

Except for the dense pain in her heart, Lin Qingqing didn't think about anything.

"Let them go, don't you want to get involved for a long time? Think about the family, "No child can leave his mother, and no pair of parents want their daughters to turn back."

Aunt Yun didn't understand Lin Qingqing's decision to insist on going back to Beijing alone, and she was resentful.

"It's been three years," Lin Qingqing touched her son's little hand and smiled bitterly, "The reason why I stayed in the small village for three years has long changed. At first, it was to escape, and later it was for fear that the boat would be snatched away. Right now...... Why do you think I want to go back to Beijing? Because Ye Shu wants to get married? ”

Or else?

Aunt Yun really couldn't think of any other reason.

"It's been three years, if he gets married early, he will have a litter, I'm feeling sad that isn't a joke?" Lin Qingqing didn't want to look back on the past unbearable at all.

Her complicated gaze looked out of the cabin, "Don't you know, I went back to Beijing because of the person I wanted to marry Ye Shu...... She is my best confidant. ”

"This ......"

Her best confidant is going to marry her ex-husband!

Aunt Yun's heart was like eating a fly, "Isn't that even more incapable of letting you go back alone?" ”

Lin Qingqing smiled bitterly, "Where do you want to go." …… Let Ya'er tell you later. ”

Aunt Yun frowned, "Do you have to go?" ”

Lin Qingqing: "I have to go." ”

She handed the boat to Aunt Yun, her eyes were sour, as if she had plucked out her own heart.

kissed and kissed the child's face, and she finally wet her eyes and blamed herself for being ruthless.

But he didn't say anything, didn't explain anything, and went on the road alone.

The boat will turn to Jiangnan at the next pier and send the boat to my brother-in-law's house. I believe that when the boat arrived, my sister and they had been waiting for a long time.

Afraid of adding a burden to her when she parted, Ya'er endured not to send her, only hoping that she would hurry into Beijing and join the mountains.

"It's going to be fine," Ya'er comforted Aunt Yun.

Probably knowing that his mother had left him and left, Xiaozhou woke up and cried at the empty position.

Aunt Yun's heart was broken by his crying, and she hugged him in distress and coaxed, "I'll be back soon, your mother's words are the best......"

*

Chen Guodu City, after three years of absence, it does not seem to have changed at all.

The walls of a few zhang high and an arm's width are boxy, framing the streets with nine horizontal and vertical lines.

Lin Qingqing entered from the south gate, and she remembered what was sold in the store along the way, and the things on the street stall were delicious.

Walking from the city gate to the street of the car market, the familiarity and longing that echoed in her heart precipitated little by little.

She took a detour home.

Didn't enter the door though.

It was the middle of the night at this time, and I didn't meet the night patrol because I was familiar with the capital.

It's all because she doesn't want to show her face.

As for the reason for returning to Beijing, it is simple to say that it is simple, and it is complicated to say that it is complicated, Lin Qingqing will leave if she wants to figure it out, she has no nostalgia for this place, and some are just afraid.

After sitting at the door of the house for a while, Lin Qingqing left.

*

Behind Fence Street, a century-old family, the Prime Minister's Mansion after several dynasties is located here.

It is impossible to be bright and bright, Lin Qingqing walked into the Prime Minister's Mansion underground, and found Changle's courtyard with his previous feelings.

Not a single light was on.

Lin Qingqing entered the house from the ground and found that it was not that there was no light, but that there was really no one.

The musty smell is a sign that this place has been closed for a long time.

Lin Qingqing stayed here and didn't leave for a long time.

From the time I heard the news that Ye Shu was going to marry Changle, the doubts that arose seemed to have an answer at this moment.

It all started two years ago.

Two years ago, Lin Qingqing received a letter from Changle, or a suicide note. Changle had a premonition that his time was running out, so he wrote a parting letter and asked the people around him to hand it over to her when they could contact her.

She thought she had no home and no friends. In particular, Changle once pinned his hopes on the Heavenly Master, and looked for the Heavenly Master everywhere.

She left when her best friend needed her most.

Lin Qingqing couldn't let go of this incident in her life, and she still burst into tears when she thought about it now.

Under such a premise, when she learned that Ye Shu and Changle were going to get married, she was shocked in her heart as you can imagine.

It is believed that it is Changle's handwritten letter, and the place where Changle lives is also empty.

Is the person who wants to marry Ye Shu really Changle?

Looking at the stars that have gone through hundreds of millions of years, they are still shining and not extinguishing, and they are not changing due to the joys and sorrows of this world, Lin Qingqing would rather Changle still be alive. To live for the family marriage, to marry Ye Shu alive, to marry anyone, at least ...... Her best friend is still alive.

But as long as her best friend was alive, she wouldn't let this happen.