Nan Dao looked at the young man in white who came from the path, thought for a moment, and said, "Not yet, but I can learn." ”

When the young man in white heard this, he immediately frowned, thrust his sword into the scabbard behind him, and ran over to pull Nandao into the garden.

"Great, great." The young man held an umbrella in one hand and hugged Nandao affectionately in the other, "It doesn't matter, I can teach you, I'll tell you, it's fun to play cards." ”

Nandao was caught in the crook of the young man's arm and stumbled along, struggling for a while before he could break free, so he had to keep pulling the young man's back.

"Okay, okay, but this senior brother can you let me go a little, my wine is going to be spilled."

When the young man heard this, he let go of Nandao, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "I'm so excited, I'm sorry." ”

Nandao took the flask in his hand, licked the spilled spout, and lifted the lid to take a look. The wine in the pot was almost at the bottom, so he sighed.

The young man stood on the side of the road and looked at Nandao, rubbed his hands and said impatiently: "Okay, let's go find a place to play cards." ”

Nandao hesitated for a moment and said, "Uh, can you .....?"

Before he could finish speaking, he was dragged away by the young man.

"By the way, my name is Zhang Xiaoyu, you can call me Senior Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang, and Old Zhang Xiaozhang. But don't call me Senior Brother Yu, the name sounds unlucky. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu instructed Nandao while walking.

"Okay, Senior Brother Zhang, but why can't you call Senior Brother Yu?"

"Because the fish sounds like foolishness, and the fish sounds like they can be slaughtered, which is unlucky at the table."

Zhang Xiaoyu said very seriously.

Nandao nodded and said, "Taught." ”

Nandao was dragged into the garden by Zhang Xiaoyu, and when he walked out of the woods, the first thing he saw was a pool, in which the fish and aquatic plants sank leisurely at the bottom of the pool; Then there is a red cloister with many lanterns hanging under the corridor, there is a pavilion in the cloister by the water, and the corridor leads to the distance, and then there are various rockeries and trees, and some small red buildings can be seen in the distance.

The two walked up the hallway, and then entered the pavilion, where Nandao found a square table with some mahjong on it, and half of the uneaten sugar and oil baba on the edge of the table. Zhang Xiaoyu pulled Nandao to sit down at the table, then scooped up the sugar and oil poop and put it in his mouth, rolled up his sleeves, and looked at Nandao with a bright look.

"Sit down, let's play for a while."

Nandao put the wine jug on the table, looked at Zhang Xiaoyu on the other table hesitantly, and said, "That..... Senior Brother Zhang, can two people also play? ”

Zhang Xiaoyu nodded affirmatively and said: "Two people have two people to play, when the other senior brothers wake up, we will play with four people, come, I will shuffle the cards first, and then teach you the rules." ”

Nan Dao touched his money bag under the table, hesitated a little, and said, "Okay, Senior Brother Zhang." ”

"Whoa."

......

The spring rain continues, and I don't know how long it will take.

There was some silence in the pavilion.

Zhang Xiaoyu had already stepped on the stool, his hair was scattered in all directions, and his eyes were red staring at Nandao.

Nan Dao looked at the chicken he was touching, hesitated, and said, "I seem to be ...... nonsense again."

Zhang Xiaoyu pushed the card, sat down on the chair, sighed long, threw away his money bag, and said weakly: "It must have been an all-nighter last night, too tired, today is not counted, today is not counted......"

Nan Dao smiled and picked up the money bag, poured out the money inside, put it aside, licked his lips, looked at Zhang Xiaoyu and said, "Senior brother is still here?" ”

Zhang Xiaoyu waved his hand and said lovelessly: "Let's rest first, let's rest." ”

There was some conversation in the forest in the distance, and Nandao turned his head to see a few figures faintly walking over from the rockery path.

"Are other brothers here?"

Nan Dao turned his head and was about to ask Zhang Xiaoyu, but saw that the latter was secretly picking up his pile of money.

"Senior brother, what are you doing?"

Zhang Xiaoyu retracted his hand, hit himself twice, and said curtly: "I want to help you count, haha, count.... It's true..... Just count...."

“......”

"Yo, Zhang Xiaoyu, have you lost money again?"

"Hahaha, looking at his sad face, most of them have lost it again."

Before the senior brothers arrived, the voice had already entered the pavilion.

"I'm not, I don't, I just see that this little brother is a little short of money, and I just show a little kindness."

Zhang Xiaoyu stood up, looked at the person who came and said.

"Tsk, one day the sword of the Sword Grinding Cliff comes, and the entire Sword Sect is gone, just your Zhang Xiaoyu's mouth is still there."

Zhang Xiaoyu glanced at Nandao, his eyes rolled, but he suddenly said with a smile: "I suddenly remembered that I found a part-time job in the city a few days ago, I have to hurry up and take a look, senior brothers let's play with this little brother first." ”

Before the words fell, Zhang Xiaoyu had already slipped out of the pavilion, not even an umbrella.

“......”

The three senior brothers looked at the embarrassed fleeing figure speechlessly, and then turned their heads to look at Nandao in the pavilion.

Nan Dao looked at the three of them, his eyes lit up, he saluted the three of them, and asked, "Do you play cards, senior brothers?" ”

The senior brothers looked at Nandao's appearance, glanced at each other, and looked at each other.

"Why do I feel like he's saying what we're saying?"

The thinner senior brother touched the top of his head and said a little strangely.

"I don't know, why does his outfit look familiar?"

The tall senior brother said, looking Nandao up and down.

Senior Brother Mustache flicked his sleeves and said, "Whatever, play cards first." ”

"Yes, yes, play cards first." The three of them nodded, convinced.

Half an hour later.

"I still have to deliver food to the Chengnan vegetable market."

"Ah, yes, yes, I've got to cross the river."

"Wait for me, I want to find some work."

The three abandoned their umbrellas and left.

Nandao stayed in the pavilion, staring blankly at the large pile of money in front of him, a little overwhelmed.

The voices of the senior brothers could still be heard in the distance: "Is it really an evil sect, how can anyone put the Tianhu in the sky?" ”

"Won't it be out of the old man?"

"Didn't you count?"

"I didn't count."

“......”

Nandao looked around and asked in a loud voice, "Is there anyone else?" Is there any other brother who wants to play cards? ”

There was silence everywhere, only the spring rain.

Seeing that no one answered, Nan Dao looked at the money bag that was already full, thought for a while, raised his hand and swept the mahjong to the ground, then lifted the tablecloth and put the wallet up, tied a knot and carried it on his shoulder.

After wrapping up the money, Nandao went to get the wine jug, intending to take a sip, but he put the wine jug to his mouth and looked up for a long time, but not a drop of wine fell.

The South Island has been waiting for a long time.

Then he put down the flask and watched the spring rain in silence.

Yes, I don't know when the wine ran out.

Nandao lifted the lid and grabbed a few of the decolored peach blossoms inside, and put them in his mouth and chewed them.

After swallowing the bitter peach blossoms, Nandao stood up, covered the jug, and walked out of the pavilion.

Where is that peach tree?

Nandao stood in the rain with an umbrella and looked around.

However, I didn't see anything, so I had to look for it as I went.

The Jianzong Garden is naturally full of rockeries and clear stream bridges, as well as countless cloister paths.

Nandao scurried around like a headless fly.

I clearly heard the faint sound of playing cards everywhere, but I didn't find anything.

After searching for a long time, Nandao stopped next to a rockery a little out of breath, picked up a wine jug and sucked a few drops of wine that had slowly accumulated.

"This flower is so beautiful!"

A childish voice came from behind Nandao, who turned around and saw a little girl in a floral dress standing behind her, holding a small yellow umbrella, tiptoeing to touch her shoulder.

Nandao looked at his shoulder, where he didn't know when a three-inch peach branch had grown, and a peach blossom was trembling and blooming.

After watching in silence for a while, Nandao squatted down and let the little girl stroke the peach blossom on her shoulder.

When the little girl's fingers touched the petals, Nandao's shoulder also felt gently touched.

"How can you have a peach blossom on your shoulder? Are you a peach demon? ”

The little girl looked at Nandao and asked curiously.

Nandao shook his head with a smile and said, "No, it's because I owe a certain peach tree a life, so it bloomed its peach blossoms on me." ”

The little girl seemed to be a little disappointed when she heard this, but she nodded and said, "That's right, but it's really beautiful." ”

Nandao turned his head to look at his shoulder, then reached out and plucked the peach blossom, took the flower to the little girl's eyes, and said, "Then I'll give it to you." ”

The little girl didn't take the peach blossom, but frowned, looked at the blood slowly oozing from the three-inch peach branch on Nandao's shoulder, and asked softly, "Aren't you in pain?" ”

Nandao smiled slightly and said, "It doesn't hurt." ”

"But it's bleeding, why doesn't it hurt?"

"Because it has suffered for me for ten years, and now I have to bear it, and I deserve it."

The little girl didn't say anything more, took the peach blossom, held it in the palm of her hand, looked at it seriously for a long time, then raised her head to look at Nandao, and said, "Are you called Nandao?" ”

Nandao squatted there and was stunned for a moment, looked at the little girl and said, "How do you know?" ”

The little girl tilted her head and thought for a while, and said, "They told me that if there is a man with a black umbrella walking around in the garden today, then take him to a pond, and they say that the person's name is Nandao." ”

Nan Dao nodded and said, "Yes, my name is Nan Dao." ”

The little girl said: "My name is Cong Xin, I have been looking for you for a long time today, but they didn't say that peach blossoms will bloom on your shoulders." ”

“...... I was dragged by Senior Brother Zhang to play cards. ”

"Zhang Xiaoyu, he still owes me twenty-nine dollars!" When the little girl Cong Xin heard Nandao's words, she puffed up her mouth and said angrily.

"......" Nandao was silent.

"Alright, I've found you, let's go." Cong Xin held the peach blossom in his hand, held the umbrella and walked to a small path next to him.

Nandao stood up and followed.

The two walked slowly in the Spring Rain Garden, crossed a dozen or so small bridges, and finally stopped at a pool.

The spring rain has not stopped, but there is not the slightest rain in this place.

Unlike the place where you played cards with the senior brothers before, there is no corridor here, there is a bluestone paved path by the pool, which surrounds the pool until the other end, there are many rockeries on both sides, there is grass everywhere, the view is wide, and there is no other road.

At the end of the trail, there is a small bridge, and the water is bubbling under the bridge.

There is a peach tree at the head of the bridge, and the peach blossoms are flying.

Under the tree, there was a man in white, sleeping on the guardrail at the head of the bridge.