Shen Zhou half-knelt down and wrung out Chu Zhixia's rain-soaked skirt. Chu Zhixia wanted to say something to him, but he was choked by the cold wind and coughed violently. Shen Zhou was so coughed by her that his heart tightened, he took off his cloak, wrapped her, and walked back to the bedroom with her in his arms.

Chu Zhixia held an umbrella, and under the umbrella it seemed like another small world, and the sound of rain was muffled.

"You got that cat?" Chu Shixia leaned on his shoulder and looked back, the white cat stepped on the puddle eagerly, and quickly jumped over the two of them to the eaves.

"Pick it up, it's very greedy." Shen Zhou said succinctly and forcefully.

"I bought you a new treasure box, and every month Wen Xinzhai produces new candies and candied fruits, I send someone to buy them home, and they are packed in glass jars, and there is already a full shelf." Chu Zhixia's forehead was pressed against his throat, and he said as if he were homely, "I asked my second brother to fight a new sword, which is similar to the one you used before." ”

"Come home with me."

Shen Zhou didn't speak, and Chu Zhixia threw down the umbrella. Shen Zhou rushed into the eaves with an arrow step, looking at her a little angrily. Chu Zhixia took off his mask and threw it in the rain, slapped him on the chest and jumped to the ground, looking at him disappointed and tired.

"You still won't go with me," Chu Shixia said, "I don't need you to do this kind of thing for me." ”

"Before I become the head of the family, the Nine Shadows will not let me go, and they will not let you go." Shen Zhou shook his head and said, "I can't go." I don't want to drag you down. ”

"What about you?" Chu Shixia said in disbelief, "Have you ever thought about what will happen to you?" The civil strife in the Nine Shadows Division is not a good stubble for you to kill. Are you too confident, aren't you afraid that one day you will miss and die in the hands of others! ”

Shen Zhou looked into her eyes, and there was a cracking pain in the depths of her chest, but she still said, "That's also my own business, it's my own willingness." ”

Chu Zhixia seemed to be stuck in place by the sentence "I was willing to do it myself", unable to move. Li Qingbai once said to Chu Zhixia more than once that Shen Zhou's poison was not in his body, but in his heart. A person who doesn't know where he came from or where he is going is like a duckweed without roots. Even if the Chu family treats him like his own child, the Chu family is not his home, and he will never belong.

The day Shen Zhou knew what he wanted, he was truly healed.

In the twenty-seven years of his previous life, Chu Zhixia did not wait for Shen Zhou to say that he had expressed any "will". Therefore, Chu Zhixia took it upon himself to arrange everything for Shen Zhou, arrange the retreat of the country and the family, and arrange the deception of a desperate letter.

Chu Zhixia never thought that in such a situation, she would hear Shen Zhou resolutely say that she had waited for twenty-seven years without waiting. Li Qingbai's life rowed for the sinking boat is a dead end with no end in sight.

"Okay," Chu Zhixia nodded slowly, stepping back step by step, "It's very good." ”

Shen Zhou subconsciously stepped forward and wanted to hold her hand, but Chu Zhixia had already brushed his sleeves away.

——

The sixth year of auspicious symbols, October.

"Binzhou is rainy, damp and cold places are most prone to the spread of diseases. Most of the houses in Binzhou are built three feet above the ground, but the recent rain has been too heavy, and the foundations of houses in many places have been soaked and rotten, causing the houses to collapse. ”

Chu Zhixia sat behind the bookcase and listened to the report of the disaster, and the medicinal juice in the bowl was so bitter that she frowned. Chu Zhixia listened to Shi Dong Laxi for a long time, but he refused to explain his intention directly, so he raised his hand to signal him to shut up, and said for him: "Lack of money, right?" ”

During the Assassination Period, Ai Aidi smiled and nodded, "It costs money to repair the houses and the medicinal materials needed to provide relief to the victims and quell the plague. Binzhou was not wealthy, and since the spread of the plague, the lower officials have worked hard, and even paid for their furniture, but it is still not enough. ”

Chu Zhixia was clear, "You want me to go to the imperial capital and ask Your Majesty to allocate funds for relief." ”

Assassin Shi said: "If it weren't for the fact that Qin Cha was here, Xia Guan would have been cheeky himself." Lord Qincha is young, and he is quite reused by His Majesty, and the livelihood of the people of Binzhou is tied to Lord Qincha. ”

Chu Zhixia smiled and said, "It's okay to ask for money, don't give me a high hat." But it takes time to listen to the day, and it also takes time for the silver grain to be delivered to Binzhou, during this period, what can the people of Binzhou do? ”

Thorn Shi didn't expect that there would be a follow-up to asking for money, and was stunned by her question.

"The mountains in the clouds are high and the waters are far away, and love can't help." Chu Zhixia put half of his arm on the bookcase, and said seriously and heartbrokenly, "Natural disasters and man-made disasters, people are dying every minute and every second. Lord Assassin Shi loves the people like a son, so he must not sit back and wait for the silver to be delivered, and do nothing, right? ”

"That's nature." Thorn Shi replied stiffly.

Chu Shixia nodded with satisfaction, "I will definitely praise the noble character of the Lord for his selflessness and serving the country and the people." My lord is like this, and he should be a model for the officials of the imperial dynasty. ”

Thorn Shi felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, so he could only get down the donkey and say, "It's all what the lower officials should do." ”

Chu Zhixia sent away the thorn history that he realized later, and reached out to fish out a white-flowered cat from under his robe. This cat gave birth to a pair of blue pupils, which were beautiful and moving, and was carried by Chu Zhixia on the back of the neck in a languishing manner.

"What you raise, it looks like a mess." Chu Zhixia frowned and stared at the cat for a while, and the white cat bared its teeth at her fiercely.

"Miss, are you looking for me?" Yuzhu walked in and asked.

"Tell Shen Zhou to come and bring his cat back." Chu Shixia said in a bad tone.

The two had a big quarrel yesterday, and Yuzhu hesitated a little and said, "Why don't I send him over by the way?" ”

Chu Zhixia said unhappily: "What kind of shelf is he putting on? Let him come and get it himself. ”

Yuzhu went crying and laughing, and Chu Zhixia threw her a long package wrapped in cloth. Yuzhu opened it and looked at it, stunned. Chu Zhixia refused to look at her, and turned his head to look at the gloomy sky outside the window.

——

"Do you know where your cat is?" Yuzhu found Shen Zhou and asked tactfully.

Shen Zhou looked at her strangely and said, "At Changle's." ”

"You know all this?"

"I saw her take the cat away this morning." Shen Zhou said, "What's wrong? ”

Yuzhu sighed secretly in her heart, the eldest lady's mind was really twisted and turned, and said, "The eldest lady asked you to bring the cat back by yourself." ”

Shen Zhou didn't know if he understood the meaning of this superfluous move, so he answered with straight eyebrows, and walked towards Chu Zhixia's courtyard.

Yuzhu stopped him again and handed over the package in his hand. The coarse cloth was unraveled layer by layer, revealing the long sword wrapped in black and blue shark skin, and the lines were condensed and smooth.

"This sword lady has always been with her, and she has been looking forward to meeting you again one day." Yuzhu said, "Are you really not going back with us?" ”

Shen Zhou shook his head, his fingers brushing over the cold scabbard, clenching slowly, as if feeling the heartbeat of the sword—or the heartbeat of someone else.

There was a muffled thunder in the sky, and dark clouds rolled.

It's raining again.