Qin Keyuan didn't stop moving, looking at the shelves full of paper rolls, he didn't know what he was thinking.

After a few moments, he still had no intention of leaving, and once again stood in front of the bed, and then crouched down.

Under the bed was a little girl, not too big, the bed board was less than two feet above the ground, she was curled up with her calves, still not crowded.

The little girl saw that someone had spotted her, and shrank even more into the corner.

"Come out quickly. No one will catch you. ”

Six-year-old Xiao Zhaoning looked at him tremblingly, and Qin Keyuan smiled, "Come out for breakfast." ”

He stretched out his hand inward, Xiao Zhaoning retreated again, forced to retreat to the short side under the bed, and unconsciously leaned back, and the whole villain fell out of the bottom of the bed.

His head slammed to the ground.

Qin Keyuan's expression tightened, and he stood up to go around the head of the bed to see how she was knocking, but she didn't cry or make a fuss and got up in a panic, and quickly jumped to the other side of the room, hiding behind the table, half-hiding and looking at him with a wary face.

He sighed slightly, turned to walk over slowly, stopped half a foot away from the table, squatted down and said, "Don't be afraid, those vicious traffickers are no longer there, grandpa picked you up on the bank of the river." ”

"You're talking nonsense." Xiao Zhao retorted crisply, "I've already gone ashore and entered the city!" ”

Qin Keyuan calculated the time, this should be when she first entered Jiang Yicheng.

"Then do you remember the old master in the academy?" He said with the same expression, "Grandpa is his friend." ”

Xiao Zhaoning blinked, as if he was examining him, and seemed to be struggling with something.

"Really? But he's fierce. ”

Xiao Zhao thought about it, and heard the angry voice in the school in a daze yesterday.

Qin Keyuan smiled, "That's him, not grandpa." As he spoke, he flipped his hand and said, "Look what this is." "It's a small grasshopper woven of bamboo, and a bamboo strip is pulling, and the little grasshopper is swaying up and down, as if it is jumping.

Xiao Zhaoning's gaze couldn't help but lock on it, and his eyes followed up and down.

"Come on." He added, "Whatever you want, grandpa will make it up for you." ”

"Really?"

"Of course."

Xiao Zhaoning pointed to the little grasshopper made of bamboo, "I just want it." ”

"Okay, then you can come and get it."

Six-year-old Xiao Zhaoning was vigilant, but not so deeply guarded.

She hesitated again and again, but she still couldn't resist the temptation of the novelty, and walked in front of Qin Keyuan in small steps.

Until the little hand hooked the little grasshopper, and suddenly Qin Keyuan grabbed her into his arms, and said with a wicked smile, "I caught you." ”

Xiao Zhaoning cried in fright on the spot, but the little grasshopper hooked in his hand had not yet fallen, and his two little hands were desperately against him, struggling to escape.

But obviously he couldn't break free, and deliberately scared her Qin Keyuan hugged Xiao Zhaoning, got up, and coaxed while rubbing the back of her head.

"Well, don't cry, grandpa is teasing you."

Xiao Zhaoning struggled hard, "You and those two...... It's all bad guys! ”

Qin Keyuan was already holding her and standing on the stone table outside the courtyard, picking up a sweet potato that was roasted and soft and stuffed it for her, "Are those two for you to eat delicious?" ”

Xiao Zhaoning's nose moved, and he had fallen into the sweet fragrance.

He sat down with Xiao Zhaoning in his arms, locked the little guy who wanted to run away at any time, peeled the sweet potato piece by piece, and handed it to her.

Xiao Zhaoning held the big half of the sweet potato in his two small hands, staring at him with dark eyes, and there was a tear hanging from the corner of his eye.

Six-year-old Xiao Zhaoning's body was only the size of four or five years old, Qin Keyuan wiped her tears and touched her little head, "There will be no bad people to catch our Xiao Zhaoning." ”

Xiao Zhaoning blinked, blinked again, as if asking "is it really", and carefully went to eat the sweet potato, the more he ate, the happier he became.

He watched her take a small bite and asked, "Is Xiao Zhaoning literate?" ”

She shook her head vaguely.

Even though the scroll of paper used to remind herself was spread out, she didn't know what was written on it.

"Is Grandpa teaching you?"

Xiao Zhaoning swallowed the last bite of sweet potatoes and looked at him expectantly, not knowing whether he was expecting sweet potatoes or learning words.

But Qin Keyuan peeled her another one.

After breakfast, the stone table under the mangrove tree was filled with pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and Xiao Zhaoning sat in his arms, teaching her the pen with one hand and holding her steady with the other.

Stroke by stroke, he led her to write on the paper.

Condensation.

"It's your name."

Xiao Zhaoning looked at it curiously, half-kicked up, pressed it on the paper, as if he wanted to do it himself, Qin Keyuan's hand was only on the side.

The new characters seem to be drawn randomly by the branches.

She was annoyed for a moment, and looked at Qin Keyuan with a pout.

Qin Keyuan smiled, and grabbed her hand again, "Take your time." ”

She asked again, "Is Grandpa's name easy to write?" ”

Qin Keyuan wrote the word "Qin" on the paper.

Xiao Zhaoning frowned, "It's also difficult to write." ”

"Then let's learn your own name first." Qin Keyuan said, and he had already changed a blank piece of paper in his hand.

Six-year-old Xiao Zhaoning took the pen to himself, wrote a horizontal, and wrote a horizontal, each stroke seemed to be deliberate, until finally formed a four-like "Qin" character, and then turned his little head proudly to look at him and smiled, staring at him with round eyes as if expecting praise.

So I got a candy man that came out of nowhere.

Xiao Zhaoning held the sugar man and looked left and right behind him, always feeling that she didn't see where he was just hiding.

"If you don't eat it again, you will melt." As he spoke, the silver light of the hand behind Xiao Zhaoning's back had just converged.

They continued to write, and it took only a few hours for the two characters to become neat from the two words that had been twisted and scattered from the outside.

At the end of the day, Qin Keyuan took her on a road that she had not had before, and between slight fluctuations, she seamlessly and invisibly connected the new realm.

Xiao Zhaoning looked at the name on the city tower, familiar and felt that it was different, the six-year-old Xiao Zhaoning was not as keen as the twelve-year-old Zhao Ning, and he could detect the passage of time on the building.

Her eyes were full of the noise of the city.

As they walked in, the crowd was bustling with shouts and shouts, and they were dazzled by all sorts of strange things.

Only this time, she looked at it randomly, as if there was no dislike or exorcism from others.

There was a new juggling team in the city, and the crowd circled again and again, Qin Keyuan escorted her and squeezed in, and after a while, he saw the strong man in the middle spewing out a mouthful of flames, so frightened that Xiao Zhaoning hugged his thighs tightly and buried his head in it.

"Little girl, I'm so scared that I'm crying!" Suddenly, I heard the sound of a boy's laughter.

Zhao Ning turned out one eye and saw two five or six-year-old children standing next to him, a man and a woman.

She squeezed her little nose, glared at him, and moved to the other side, away from them, and hugged on another leg.

"Old man, I'm sorry." The mother of the two children patted the boy's head and apologized to Qin Keyuan.

Qin Keyuan only bowed slightly, then paused and asked Xiao Zhaoning, "Let's go somewhere else?" ”

"Don't." Xiao Zhaoning said, she cautiously turned her head to look at the juggler, saw that he was no longer spitting fire, relieved, and asked innocently, "He was breathing fire just now, is it because they are immortals?" ”

"Poof." The boy next to him laughed.

But before he could say it this time, he was pulled away by his mother's ears.

"Of course they are immortals. You see. Qin Keyuan squatted behind her, his palm pressed against her eyes, slowly moved down, his gaze returned, and Zhao Ning saw that the person's body was glowing with milky white brilliance, and the brilliance was scattered into stars and passed on everyone, and all the people who could be seen, they were either glowing with milky white brilliance, or they were cloudy with different colors, and when those stars were transmitted to them, those turbidity would become light and insignificant at a certain moment.

"What is this?"

"Joy on earth."

Xiao Zhaoning seemed to understand whether she understood or not, her sight returned to normal, Qin Keyuan took her to other places, and walked to a candy seller's stall, she asked, "Can I ask for another one?" ”

She looked expectantly, and before she was rejected, she added, "I can leave it for tomorrow." ”

"Okay."

Xiao Zhaoning got another candy man wrapped in oiled paper.

Qin Keyuan paid two pieces of silver, and the peddler hesitated, "This ...... Old man, you paid too much. ”

"Nope." He said, "It's before." ”

The peddler had no impression at all, but when he saw that the old and young were gone, he could only scratch the back of his head in confusion.

"That's where I stayed last night...... Well...... Kind of. Xiao Zhaoning hesitated, the school in front of him had changed a lot, and the broken wall had been erected high overnight for some reason, blocking the inward view.

She broke free from Qin Keyuan's hand, ran to the corner, kicked her feet up, but couldn't reach the top again, "There is a gap." ”

"You can't climb it." The voice of the little girl came not far away, Zhao Ning rolled her eyes, and saw the first two children watching not far away, and there were three small children beside her, the girl said, "There are nobles living in the courtyard, you can't disturb them." ”

Zhao Ning rolled his eyes, lowered his head, trotted back to Qin Keyuan's side, he looked at the school, the isolated wall did not block his vision, the residual breath of the years recorded the changes of a hundred years, although the old master died, the peach and plum are all over the world, and the damaged and old school hall will be renovated together, and the courtyard wall will also be high, and now the school is no longer a place for children to enlighten and study in the poor, but a place for nobles to study.

The children didn't know any of this, they only knew that their parents forbade them to disturb them.

The little girl laughed, "Are you new here?" Play with us! ”

The little boy nodded, and then threw off his clothes, "Play with flying immortals!" ”

In fact, the so-called "flying immortals" are just spreading their robes, chasing each other and fighting, and the children are giggling.

Xiao Zhao moved his hand and looked at Qin Keyuan.

"Let's go play. Grandpa is waiting for you. ”

Xiao Zhaoning happily ran in, there is no barrier between the children, and the laughter is pure and infectious, presumably speaking, Xiao Zhaoning is a lot quieter, but the eyebrows and eyes are bent, which is a rare joy.

In the evening, the little friends dispersed, and the woman who was holding the little boy's ears during the day once again pulled the little boy's ears and scolded him for being playful, and the little girl chased after him and snickered, remembering something, and turned her head to Xiao Zhaoning and shouted, "Our family is in that jujube tree, come and play with us." ”

Xiao Zhaoning raised his hand sluggishly and waved at her.

When the others were gone, she looked at the date tree.

Qin Keyuan squatted beside her, "Do you want to go find the crooked neck tree?" ”

Xiao Zhaoning turned his head, but didn't say anything.