After a while, under the great anticipation of the young man, the first dish of Babao Tongji was finally served, Yu Nian recalled that he used to serve this dish for the drinkers, not to mention how gluttonous, and now he finally became a guest of honor and could feast on it.

It's just that as soon as he lifted the chopsticks, Yu Nian's mind kept coming back to the events of last night, thinking about the old Taoist priest's begging Zhang Fu to drive away evil spirits and avoid trouble, and then worried about whether the old Taoist priest who was not very reliable would be able to do it.

Looking at the young man who was drooping his head and sighing, Yingsleeve's eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of doubt, and said, "What? But they are all the signature dishes of your Taoyuan Building, are they not appetizing? ”

Listening to the tone of Ying Sleeve, there was a bit of a reproach in Ying Sleeve's tone, and the young man hurriedly argued: "It's not, how could I live up to Sister Ying Sleeve's kindness, but there are indeed some bad things in my heart." After speaking, Yu Nian touched his head, and there was a bit of guilt in his words, and he hesitated, so he had to explain to the woman and said: "You also know, the Song family has recently made a monster, and it just so happened that yesterday we came to Taoyuan Building to a Taoist from Sifang Mountain, so I had some crooked ideas, originally I just wanted to earn some follower money, lead the way for him to stick stickers or something, and share a little money, this matter is not bad, but this accidentally provoked the monster, and I was tossed to death last night." No, I'm still thinking about going to the Quartet Mountain Dao Leader for a while to ask for a few talismans to exorcise evil for me. ”

The girl with sleeves on the side listened to Yu Nian's confession at the moment, and her face was pale, and she couldn't imagine that her younger brother, who had known each other for many years, would be so bold, and said in a condensed voice: "I have heard of the Song family monsters that have been in a uproar recently, but I have long heard that Sifang Mountain is the first sect of today, the immortal law is profound and wonderful, everyone respects it, and the disciples in the door are more meticulous, this matter is already very dangerous, how can you agree to let a common person get involved in this matter?" ”

When the woman said this, she took out some of the soft that she carried with her from her waist and placed it in front of the table, her beautiful eyes turned to Yu Nian again, and asked with a serious face: "Since you are short of money, why don't you ask me directly?" Do you have to do such a reckless thing? ”

Yu Nian heard that he neither took the silver nor spoke, lowered his head and lowered his eyebrows, like a child who was blamed by his father and mother for doing something wrong.

Seeing that the young man bowed his head and didn't say anything, he lived like a stuffy gourd, and he was bored for a while, and he wanted to give Yu Nian a chestnut sturdily, but he just thought that now the young man was unlucky, and he was about to say goodbye, so he had to leave a good impression, so his heart couldn't help but soften, and finally asked in a slow tone: "Does your body feel okay?" ”

Yu Nian, who was still looking aggrieved a second ago, saw that the woman softened her words, raised her head ghostly and grinned and said: "Sister Yingsleeve is still considerate of me, and the body is fine, but I just feel that my heart is in response, and it is not practical not to go to the old Taoist." ”

The woman glanced at the flattering young man, and said angrily: "You are too reckless, although you are a little smart and precocious, but you are reckless in what you do, if you are always like this, you will inevitably be deceived, a manly man, you have to be responsible, but you need to think twice about everything in the future, do you hear?" ”

The boy's head nodded like pounded garlic.

Ying sleeves felt quite helpless when he held his forehead, and when he saw that the thin young man he posed out did not move, he frowned, shook his head and continued: "That's it, you are not small, as for what you want Yinliang to do, I don't ask too much, not to mention that I came to say goodbye to you this time, and I don't know when I will see you again after speaking." ”

Yu Nian looked at the gently rippling bowl of wine blankly, and responded absentmindedly, perhaps in the subconscious of the young man, this down-and-out girl who had been with him for many years was the only relative after his deceased father.

Downstairs in Taoyuan, I don't know who urged above: "Miss Yingxiu, it's almost time to leave, we have to rush to Lin'an City before dark!" ”

Yingsleeve just took a sip of wine, two shallow dimples appeared on his white jade cheeks, and said with a light smile: "I still remember the time I met in Yizhuang just now, you were still a seven or eight-year-old little bean ding, and I was a down-and-out girl living on the street, it really passed in a blink of an eye, and now looking back and thinking about the eight years in this Yu County, there are always many things that can't be let go, and many people are reluctant to give up." ”

The woman tilted her head to look at the young man who was careless at this time, squeezed out a smile on her face, stood up and rubbed his head, and scolded with a smile: "Give me a ride." ”

Yu Nianchang sighed and snorted.

Before the carriage left, Yingsleeve finally pinched the young man's face and said with a smile: "I will probably go around Quanyuan Mountain, and I have to say goodbye to your father." ”

The groom in front of the car had already seen too much of the scene of Shrike Feiyan, and when he parted, he always had a thousand words to say, and he urged in a hurry: "Miss Yingsleeve, we have to go." ”

Yingsleeve glanced at the coachman, and finally stretched out his hand to straighten the shirt of the young man, and still said reluctantly: "I am alone, don't wronged myself, don't be hungry and sick, if you say that you are not happy in Taoyuan Building, then come to Ancheng to find me, it is better than being stormy outside." ”

Yu Nian stood in place and grinned: "Okay, Sister Yingsleeve, the mountain road in Quanyuan is rugged, and it takes a lot of time to go up the mountain, and it really won't be able to reach Lin'an City if you delay it any longer." ”

The woman nodded, retracted her hand holding the corner of the young man's clothes, and with the sound of the coachman's "driving", she finally rolled up the thick smoke and dust, rolled up the curtain of the rear compartment with her sleeves rolled up, and waved goodbye to the young man with her head half-exposed.

The young man watched the carriage gradually disappear, and his heart was mixed, although the "sister" with whom he had eaten when he was a child finally left Mianxianglou, and he was happy for her in his heart, but he thought that there were only a few people who treated him in Yu County, and now there was one less, the young man kicked the small gravel at his feet, and there was an indescribable loneliness for more than a year.

The maid in Tsing Yi didn't know when she was already standing beside the young man, chewing the last red fruit in her mouth, and said vaguely: "My father used to say that life has its own ferry, and it is like duckweed, and sometimes it is enough to know that she is safe and sound. ”

Yu Nian turned his head and asked suspiciously, "Did you hear everything?" ”

Xin Qian blinked her rather delicate peach blossom eyes, and said with a sour smile: "I'm not blind, when the time comes, you go to Lin'an City to find her, it's not far from Yu County, almost when you leave Taoyuan Building in the future......"

When the maid in Tsing Yi said this, her voice stopped abruptly, and she lowered her head and whispered: "I'm afraid I won't be able to leave in this life......"

When the young man heard this, he didn't know how to comfort the girl in front of him, so he had to half-hang his hands and his face was at a loss.

According to the guy at that time, the maid in Tsing Yi's surname is Mo, and she can be regarded as a family of scholars for generations in the local area, but what is strange is that except for Mo Xiucai's thin image when he delivered his wife on the wedding night and Wen Po, the people of Yu County have never seen Mrs. Mo again, probably guessing that she died of illness, only saying that she is a very beautiful woman, but she is a sigh of shame.

Fortunately, Xin Qian was influenced by her father, and because of her hard work when she was young, the girl was enlightened early, and at the age of six, she followed her father who was the only talented person in Nayu County to study in a private school.

Of course, most of the people in Yu County are still some rural people, and there are not many silver taels to afford their children to study, and before Xin Qian's father was not admitted to Xiucai, his grandfather was also a Xiucai, until the death of the young grandfather, Mo Xiucai officially inherited his father's business and became this teacher, so for Xin Qian at that time, the family background was really good.

In the impression of the teenager, Mo Xiucai is gentle and elegant, full of Confucianism, and has an excellent reputation in Yu County, mainly allowing those children who can't afford to go to private school to listen outside the door, all of them are treated equally, and teach each other to write, and occasionally teach the children outside the door to write, Yu Nian was one of them at that time, the so-called line is higher than people, and everyone must not, in the eyes of other readers, because they are afraid that there are more and more people who read and write in Yu County, which affects their way to make money, but they smear Mo Xiucai as a hypocrite who pretends to be high and sanctimonious. This kind of mouth, especially after Xin Qian came to Taoyuan Building, was very popular, saying that God can't stand it, after all, it will be retribution. The fashionable and young Xin Qian was angry and cried by the bookkeeper of Taoyuan Building, the young man saw it in his eyes, and was grateful for Mo Xiucai's teachings, and often maintained her, as long as the maid in Tsing Yi was bullied, it would inevitably export evil anger for her.

As for why Xin Qian fell to Taoyuan Building, it is completely a disaster from heaven, although Mo Xiucai pulled the girl to grow up very hard, but fortunately, the family is solid, not to mention the brocade clothes and jade food, but it still makes the girl carefree to grow to the year of the golden hairpin, that is, when the spring snow of that year, every household in Yu County is brightly lit, Mo Xiucai pasted his handwritten Spring Festival couplets on the door, and the difference from previous years is that Mo Xiucai did not have the eyebrows and smiles of the previous "one year old in the sound of firecrackers", but stopped to ponder for a long time, The girl sat on the threshold obediently, happily eating the sugar gourd in her hand, and watching the children of the same age who came and went with firecrackers.

Mo Xiucai looked at the girl with a face full of hope, leaned down and touched her head quite dotingly, and said, "You should have fun during the New Year, go, remember to come back early." ”

Xiao Xinqian wiped the corners of her mouth full of sugar stains, smiled and nodded: "Okay, Daddy!" ”

I don't know who shouted out the dead man heartbreakingly, the girl who originally returned home happily saw the people of Yu County gathering at the door of her house that had been shrouded in firelight, and saw Mo Xiucai and another woman lying on the ground covered in blood, and the innocent smile that had been completely solidified a moment ago. Listening to the neighbors, another woman lying with Mo Xiucai is Mrs. Mo who has not been seen for many years, but I don't know how she suddenly appeared here, and how she died in front of her house with Mo Xiucai.

In the end, after some well-wishers buried Mo Xiucai, the little girl was left to sit pitifully in the snow alone, looking back at the courtyard that had turned into ruins from time to time, staring blankly at the remnants of the Spring Festival couplets that had not been burned, and staying awake all night with red eyes.

It's just that the misfortune is not a single line, the next day the manager of the Mian Xiang Building took out the dowry that was burned clean by the fire to the girl who had nothing to rely on, when the list of notes was listed one by one in front of him, the girl was as stunned as a fawn, the people of Yu County looked at the little girl really pitiful, Mr. Ping Su Limo treated people in the township in the eyes of the villagers, all of them were good words and soft words, I hope that Mian Xianglou will not embarrass a child, how do you know that Mian Xianglou seems to be the heart of the king of the scales, and the little girl has to hand over the dowry, although Mian Xianglou is not close to people, But the rules are like this, the neighbors only scraped together twenty taels of silver in the end, after all, they still have to support their families, and it is not easy to make up for these, but the list of notes clearly writes three hundred taels of silver, and if the remaining two hundred and eighty taels are not paid, the eleven-year-old girl will be arrested and sent to Mianxianglou to be the most lowly prostitute.

Xu is to see the little girl lonely, or the conscience found, unwilling to see the young girl in the second half of her life ruined, has always been like an iron rooster Zhou shopkeeper actually gritted his teeth and spent two hundred and eighty taels of silver to take the girl from the hands of the sleeping Xianglou back to the Taoyuan Building, but the little girl and the people of the Taoyuan Building did not know, people only said that the Mianxianglou changed their minds and sold her to the Taoyuan Building, and now the deed of sale and the note are in the hands of the Zhou shopkeeper, and he must also make up enough two hundred and eighty taels of silver to redeem him, Even if the most valuable pearl flower on the body is far from enough, looking at the moon that only has two or three cents in hand, the maid in Tsing Yi knows that it is far away to replace the more than two hundred taels of silver, and she is completely desperate.

It's just that even in Taoyuan Building, Xinqian's life is not easy, there are many people, and now everyone in Yu County knows that Mrs. Mo is a Fengyue woman who came out of Mianxianglou, and those who are not used to seeing Mo Xiucai and scholars use this to humiliate the maid in Tsing Yi is also a common thing, the little girl who was originally humiliated thought of dying, but fortunately, there is always a young man who is the same age as himself who is stunned to stand out for himself, so that the maid in Tsing Yi feels a trace of warmth and comfort in her heart in the cold Taoyuan Building, and has since dispelled this idea of suicide.

The maid in Tsing Yi looked up at the sun that was gradually higher than Taoyuan Tower, took a deep breath, pretended to be relaxed, and then turned her head to the young man and asked, "Yu Nian, in fact, I have been thinking that if you really leave Taoyuan Building one day, then this place will really become very boring, right?" ”

Yu Nian was quite interested in keeping silent, because the boy did not plan to stay in Taoyuan Building for a lifetime, yesterday the teachings of the old Taoist priest were deeply imprinted in his heart, and suddenly remembered that he had asked his father what he liked most when he was young, when the young father touched the child's head, and replied with a smile: "I like to see the clouds and stars on the top of the mountain the most, if you can, you also want to travel the world with Xiao Yu Nian and your mother to see the prosperity and depression of the world." ”

The young man hugged the back of his head with both hands, and said with a playful smile: "Zhou Papike deducted so many silver taels from me, wouldn't it be cheap for nothing if I didn't ask for some to come back and leave, and besides, it's not now to leave, why do you think so much." ”

The maid in Tsing Yi looked at Yu Nian's unorthodox appearance, and couldn't help but stretch out her hand and gently push it on the young man's shoulder, and said angrily: "I didn't see you coming back a little after so many years, but the copper coins in your pocket are getting less and less." ”