The sun shines on the turquoise water gently blown by the warm south wind, sparkling and dazzling. The big ship moved slowly, all the way north. Although he was promoted to filial piety and went to Beijing to take the test, Shu Yan couldn't say how happy he was, let alone excited. Looking at the familiar scenes on both sides of the Ru River: his home, wheat fields, mulberry gardens, willow trees, meadows, water mills, towering West Mountain, and Ruyin City in the distance, all gradually blurred, until he slowly faded out of his sight, Shu Yan felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart, not only that kind of sorrow, but also a sense of fear, just like the fear that all his relatives and sweethearts have left him - he is afraid that he will also lose his hometown.

The big ship shattered the waves, and the farther and farther it went, the scenery on both sides became more and more unfamiliar. The passenger boat stops at the ferry port every part of the journey for passengers to disembark and disembark the boat. At this time, the ship docked at a ferry port, although it was not too far from Shujiazhuang, but Shu Yan couldn't name it. Some people had already gotten off the boat, Shu Yan took advantage of the time to take out a gourd from his bag, leaned over to the river to get water, filled a gourd of water, opened the package wrapped in peony flowers, and slowly poured some water with the gourd.

At this time, all the tourists who were about to leave the ship had already disembarked, and the tourists who wanted to board the boat flocked to the boat. In the crowd, two men in black shirts were leading their horses, and they were talking to a young man in a white robe with a round neck, the two men in black shirts had their hair scattered and their plackets were open to the left, obviously not like the Central Plains Chinese, but the clothes of the Hu people. The two Hu men stopped the young man from boarding the boat, but they didn't dare to force it, obviously a little afraid of the young man's appearance.

"Little ...... Childe, stop playing, you've been out for a year, something is wrong, come back with us! ”

The young man showed great impatience and said, "Are you bothered, I walked all the way east from Xiqiang to here, and you also chased all the way here!" Where is the danger? Who wants you to follow! Hurry back, I'll go back when I've had enough. After the young man finished speaking, he pushed the two Hu people aside, led a jujube red horse and boarded the boat directly, and came to Shu Yan's side.

Shu Yan ignored it, continued to scoop water from the river with a gourd, and then opened the package wrapped in bluegrass and watered the flowers. The people on the boat looked at Shu Yan's behavior and felt strange, but no one spoke. The young man who was leading the red horse was also looking at Shu Yan, feeling funny, and couldn't help asking, "This big brother, are you also going to Luoyang?" ”

Shu Yan said: "Yes. After speaking, he looked up at the young man, who was about the same age as himself, wearing a white robe, and the white robe was embroidered with a big butterfly before and after, and there were many small butterflies embroidered around the big butterfly. A wide red silk belt was tied around his waist, with a tail hanging from his right, on which hung a flute, and a sword hanging from his left waist. His hair was neither loosened like the Hu people, nor tied up like the Chinese, but tied together and tied up on the top of his head with a half-cylindrical jade pipe hairpin two or three inches long, one fist high, and the tips of the hair hung down at the back of his head. The complexion is delicate, with some redness in the fairness, the bridge of the nose is high, the eyes are slightly sunken, and the black and bright eyes are a little heterochromatic, blazing, but they are a little soft and lacked some masculinity.

"Your two flowers, if I'm not mistaken, are very ordinary orchids and peonies, right?"

"That's right."

"Since they are such two very ordinary flowers, why did you go all the way to Luoyang? Luoyang is the world's famous flower capital, what flowers are not? ”

Shu Yan thought to himself: People say that when you are out of the house, more things are better than less things, but why is this person so self-familiar, heartless, and nosy!

"Really?" Shu Yan just replied politely.

The young man thought that he really didn't know, and thought to himself, this person is really a dirt bun, he has never been out, and he doesn't even know this.

"Of course, when you get to Luoyang, I'll send you a few."

At this time, the boat had already sailed, and the young man in white smiled at the shore and stuck out his tongue again.

The passenger ship sailed to the shore, rowed to the center of the river, and when the rudder turned, the hull of the ship could not help but shake, and the red horse was obviously not used to riding in the boat, and was afraid, unsteady on its feet, and its hooves were moving. Shu Yan had just watered the pot of orchid grass and was about to wrap it, when he suddenly saw the horse's left front hoof raised, and was about to land on the pot of orchid grass, Shu Yan hurriedly grabbed the horse's hoof with his right hand, the horse's hoof couldn't fall, its other front hoof panicked, and stepped towards another pot of peony, Shu Yan was in a hurry, and hurriedly caught the right hoof with his left hand.

The young man was shocked: Although my horse has not yet fully grown, it is 800 catties, although the horse leans back and weighs more on the hind hooves, but the weight of the two front hooves alone must weigh 300 catties. This man is about my age, well-mannered, and like a scholar, but he has the strength to catch the horse's front hooves! How did he know that although Shu Yan looked like a scholar, in addition to reading, he was also a small cultivator and a small businessman, and he had exercised his body quite strong since he was a child. The young man was stunned, but Shu Yan couldn't bear it anymore and shouted, "Help me take the flowers away!" The young man then remembered that he grabbed a pot of flowers with one hand, and just wanted to put it on the side, but suddenly remembered what he had just said, so he said to Shu Yan: "Brother Tai, I told you, in Luoyang, there are many of these two kinds of flowers, how heavy are these two pots of flowers that you have traveled a long distance, it is better to throw them away, and I will buy them for you in Luoyang." ”

As he spoke, he threw the pot of peonies into the river with a flick of his left hand, and then threw the pot of peonies into the river, and then raised his right hand and wanted to throw the pot of orchids into the river as well. Seeing this, Shu Yan was so anxious that he shook off the horse's hooves with both hands, rushed up with an arrow step, pushed the young man with his left hand, pushed the young man to a stagger, and then snatched the pot of orchids from the young man's hand with his right hand. The young man was angry when he pushed him, and just wanted to get angry, but saw Shu Yan make an amazing move: he instantly took off his robe and clogs, jumped into the river, and went to save the peony. The boat was full of people who were stunned, and they all looked down at the high edge of the boat, and the young man hurriedly shouted to the boatman: "Stop the boat, someone has jumped overboard." The big ship immediately stopped, but because of inertia, it still moved forward several kilometers.

The young man saw that Shu Yan had not been in the water for a long time and had not moved, thinking that he had drowned, and desperately shouted to the people on the boat: "Save people, boatman, hurry up and save people!" ”

Although the boat stopped, the boatmen only looked at the side of the boat, but none of them went into the water to save people. The young man shouted that no one cared about him, and in a hurry, he jumped into the river to save Shu Yan. Everyone saw that this young man was agile, and his posture of falling into the water was even more beautiful. Who knew that he couldn't swim at all, and his diving posture was very beautiful, but when he got to the water, he only had to drink soup.

People looked into the water, and suddenly, Shu Yan came out of the water, holding the young man in his right hand and the peony in his left hand. Shu Yan grew up by the river since he was a child and is familiar with water. He did get the peony, but it was just the peony itself. The peony sank to the bottom of the water with the weight of the soil, and the soil around the roots of the flower soaked in water, and all of it went with the water. Shu Yan just wanted to come up with the peony, and suddenly smashed a person on the top of his head, and the person's head hit Shu Yan's head, and with a bang, Shu Yan was smashed cold, his head was buzzing, and he drank a big mouthful of soup. He quickly calmed down, adjusted his breath, and found that the man was only concerned with drinking soup, and he couldn't even call for help. He hurriedly pushed the man out of the water, and found that it was the boy who threw him flowers. This flower was also broken after this toss, and it was saved in vain. Shu Yan was so angry that he threw the flowers into the river and swam to the side of the boat with the young man, and the boatman dragged them up.

Shu Yan jumped on the boat, he was angry, and wanted to vent to the young man, but when he saw that the young man drank water and had a round stomach, his mouth was open, and he couldn't speak, so he couldn't bear to be angry. He hurriedly borrowed a pot from the boatman, buckled the pot over, and helped the young man to lie on the pot with empty water. He shook his head, shook the water out of his ears, took off his underwear again, put on his robe, and squatted beside the young man. At this time, the young man was spitting out water one by one, and Shu Yan also pulled out a green moss from his nose. The young man gradually gained energy, sat up, and looked at Shu Yan's wet appearance with strange eyes, feeling angry and a little cute.

"You idiot, I've traveled so far and I've never seen someone like you! Traveling thousands of miles to go out with two pots of flowers, cough cough," said another stream of water gushing out of his stomach, "and jumped into the water to save this flower, you-really have a problem with your head." ”

"I'm a nerd, huh, I can swim anyway, but what about you? Why did you jump down for soup? ”

"I told you ——,, when you get to Luoyang, I will give you as many flowers as you want!"

"I-" Shu Yan was about to explain, but the words came to his lips and swallowed back. By this time the sun was already in the west, and he saw that the young man was soaked, and was shivering with the wind blowing on his body.

"Take off your wet robe and get a new one." After Shu Yan finished speaking, he was about to reach out and help him undress.

"Don't move!" The young man reflexively pushed away Shu Yan's hand, "I don't need ......" ”

"I also said that I was stupid, I saw you even more stupid, now it's just mid-spring weather, and the sun is about to go down, if you don't change your wet clothes, you'll freeze sick."

"I ...... I'm not used to changing clothes in front of people! The boy looked a little embarrassed, and his head was bowed, completely devoid of the pride he had when he first boarded the ship.

Shu Yan looked at him, and also felt angry, cute, and a little cute, "You are a big man, you often walk the rivers and lakes, and you are still so shy!" After speaking, he said to the boatman, "The boatman, please borrow an inner warehouse and let this brother change his clothes." ”

The boatman agreed, and took the young man to change clothes, and Shu Yan took care of the two people's horse luggage here. Suddenly, the young man came out, still with a bundle of high hair and a white robe. It's just that this robe is not embroidered with butterflies, but with a lot of fish, the same big fish in the front and back, and many small fish surrounding each other. He sat side by side beside Shu Yan and asked, "I haven't asked the eldest brother yet, what do you call it?" ”

"In Xia Shuyan." Shu Yan replied, looked at his outfit and asked, "This robe is interesting, why do you love to wear white robes so much?" ”

"Why, can't you?"

"Of course you can, it's just that the collar of your robe is a little special, neither to the left like the Hu people, nor to the right like the Central Plains people."

The young man smiled: "Central Plains people, Hu people, what's the matter, I'm neutral!" ”

Shu Yan asked strangely, "How do you say this?" ”

"Hmph, I don't want to say it!"

"Not only are you neutral in your robes, but your hair is neutral too! Are you from the Central Plains or from Hu? ”

The boy shook his hair, "Does it matter?" ”

"No, just ask." Shu Yan saw that the other party was reluctant to say, so he no longer asked, but silently looked into the distance in a daze. After a long time, the young man saw that Shu Yan was no longer talking, and couldn't help but speak: "Brother Shu, I want to ask you, why do you have to save that pot of flowers?" ”

"You still mention that pot of flowers, it's all because of you!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you cared so much...... the young man lowered his head, pouted, and continued to ask, "Why?" ”

Shu Yan looked at the person who personally destroyed the flowers that Zhixin gave him, and he was angry, but he remembered that this person stupidly jumped into the water to save himself, that embarrassed look, he really felt that he was naïve, straightforward and kind, and couldn't help but be half angry, and only said lightly: "Hmph, I don't want to say it either!" ”

After being silent for a long time, the young man couldn't help but accost: "Brother Shu, why don't you ask me what my name is?" ”